=============================================================================== Board: NEWS BB Subject: FREEH AS THUG Posted: May 26,1995 00:57:13 To: ALL From: REVOLUTIONSOLUTION President Bush was so busy berating Chinese Communists for their massacre at Tiananmen he didn't pay attention to what our own jack-booted thugs were doing: Louis Freeh was agent in charge of the investigation into the mail bomb deaths of a civil rights lawyer and Federal judge. A second hand furniture dealer in Alabama, Wayne O'Ferrel, became the chief suspect because he once wrote protest letters to government officials on the same typewriter used in the bombing. In this case Freeh did EXACTLY what Bush claimed he wouldn'd do: Bush's claim in his NRA resignation letter specifically named Freeh and said he would "(n)ever give government's go ahead to harass, intimidate, even murder law abiding citizens." Yet that is what Freeh did in the O'Ferrel investigation. He sought to put pressure on O'Ferrel and intimidate him by publicly naming him as a suspect and setting up a media circus in front of his house that lasted months. The FBI dug up the man's septic tank and slandered him continuously in the hope that he'd break and confess. Turns out O'Ferrel was totally innocent; he merely sold the typewriter to the bomber but couldn't recall to whom or even when the sale occured. He suffered huge legal bills. The true bomber was caught not due to the Freeh "investigation" but because the man's girlfriend got mad at him and turned him in. Freeh and the FBI finally left Mr. O'Ferrel's property (with a gaping hole in the front yard) without even that most basic expression of what Bush would call in his letter, "decency and honor," an apology. A simple apology for putting an innocent, law abiding American needlessly through the mill of government harassment and intimidation would have given the lie to the NRA's criticism of government's "jack-booted thugs," but instead the FBI, following long tradition, refused to acknowledge it had made a mistake. The arrogance of power rears its ugly head yet again! Mr. Bush was foolish and naive in his resignation statement, and we Americans must always remember that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Bulletin ID: EZA950526005713CHHL71A =============================================================================== Board: NEWS BB Subject: FREEH AS THUG Posted: May 27,1995 17:52:44 To: ALL From: REVOLUTIONSOLUTION President Bush was so busy berating the Chinese Communists for the massacre at Tiananmen he did not notice what our own"jack-booted thugs" were doing. Current FBI Director Louis Freeh was the agent in charge of the investigation into the mail bomb deaths of a civil rights lawyer and a Federal judge. A second hand furniture dealer in Alabama, Wayne O'Ferrell, became chief suspect because he once wrote letters of protest to government officials on the same typewriter used in the bombings. In this case Freeh did EXACTLY what Bush claimed he wouldn't do. Bush's assertion in his NRA resignation letter specifically named Freeh and said Freeh would NEVER give "government's go ahead to harass, intimidate, even murder law abiding citizens." Yet this is EXACTLY what Freeh did in the O'Ferrell investigation. Freeh sought to put pressure on O'Ferrell and intimidate him by publicly naming him as a suspect and setting up a media circus in front of his house that lasted for months. The FBI dug up the man's septic tank and slandered him con- tinuously in the hope that he'd break and confess. Turns out O'Ferrell was totally innocent, he merely sold the typewriter to the bomber but couldn't remember to whom or even when the sale occured. He suffered huge legal bills. The true bomber was eventually caught, not due to the Freeh investigation, but because the bomber's girlfriend got mad at him and turned him in. Freeh and the FBI finally left O'Ferrell's property (with a gaping hole in the front yard) without even that most basic expression of what Bush called "decency and honor"," an apology. A simple apology for putting an innocent law abiding American needlessly through the mill of government harassment and intimidation would have given the lie to the NRA's criticisms of government's jack-booted thugs, but instead the FBI, following long tradition, refused to admit it made a mistake. The arrogance of power rears its ugly head yet again. Mr. Bush was foolish and naive in his resignation statement and we Americans must always remember that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Bulletin ID: EZA950527175244CHHL71A