FBI Tries to Stop Jury from Reading Constitution

Un-fucking-believable!

Your argument seems to imply that the COINTELPRO tactics of the FBI are somehow not of "major social significance." The investigation of who committed the bombing obviously is. But shouldn't it be equally obvious that the deliberate refusal of the FBI to do so, when they are the very ones legally entrusted with that responsibiity, and their sinister campaign of defamation, is the first question to address? How can we even arrive at the first without passing initially by the second? Furthermore, how can you be unmoved by the gallant persistence of Bari and Cherny, fighting continuously for over a decade in the face of the full unbridled power and arrogance of America's own Staatspolizei?

What would you have had Bari and Cherny do? Don trenchcoats and grab magnifying glasses to become their own gumshoes, and leave the FBI to its devices In spite of the overwhelming evidence of its duplicity?

There are many people, practically the whole political-economic establishment of the Pacific Northwest, who had a motive to assassinate Bari and Cherny. I agree that the impunity they have enjoyed thanks to the FBI's failure to investigate the attacks is horrible, probably the most horrible aspect of the case. But as I see it, that is ALL THE MORE REASON to make the case AGAINST THE FBI, and NOT pursue a Sherlock Holmes private detective act of trying to find the perps independently. The fact that some private individuals have motives to commit political violence to protect their economic interests is in fact far less ominous than the fact that the government is run by people who deliberately aid and encourage such private violence with a wink and a nod by their actions.

Craig, Rather than calling May 24th "Find the Bomber Day" let's be more accurate and name it more correctly (at least in the case of Judi Bari) as Domestic Violence Day! Take a good look at Steve Talbot's piece about Judi Bari and her former spouse Mike Sweeney at Salon magazine's website: <http://www.salon.com>. Ed Gehrman has been right on task with his investigation of this matter. Check with Mary Moore of the Sonoma County Free Press: <http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com>.

For those of us who can't afford a subscription to Salon.com or who don't have their own computer, you can get a hard copy of Steve Talbot's piece about Judi Bari's fears of and disclosures about her one time husband Mike Sweeney. Just take a look at page one of yesterday's , Wednesday, May 29, 2002 edition of the Anderson Valley Advertiser (one dollar at better bookstores throughout the Bay Area). Also on the the same page you'll be able to read Jim Martin's account of the 12th Anniversary rally at the Oakland Federal Building along with Hank Sim's riveting description of another week in Claudia Wilken's courtroom. The letter's to the editor section has a great letter from Andy Caffrey of Earth First! Media Center up in Garberville and on page nine you can peruse editor Bruce Anderson's column which once again deals with the Bari Cherney ecofraud! <http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com> <http://www.counterpunch.org> <efmedia.org> <http://www.salon.com>