By now many of you have heard about my arrest on Thursday
evening November 1 and the outrageous, unconstitutional $10,000.00 bond that
was placed on me by corrupt Newaygo County officials in Michigan who executed a
TWENTY-ONE YEAR OLD warrant to
arrest me for “using the telephone to threaten” a right-wing, racist bigot who
punched and shoved my ten-year old son Jeremy because Jeremy was “fishing from
his dock.” This vicious attack by an
adult on my son, a child at the time, left his lip bleeding and swollen with a
black eye and scraped bleeding knees and a badly bruised chest--- all of which
was photographed by the police I called.
The Newaygo County Sheriff and Michigan State Police refused to arrest Scott
Plants for this vicious and brutal attack on my ten year old son which he
carried out against my son in retaliation for my political views. As Scott Plants
viciously attacked my ten-year old son as he kicked our beagle dog who had
tagged along on Jeremy’s fishing adventure, Scott Plants shouted for all neighbors
within hearing distance--- “go fish in Russia.”
This was one of several vicious attacks on my children in
which right-wing bigots attacked my children in retaliation for my political
views expressed through speeches and writings with my two children having been
targeted by shot-gun toting members of the right-wing hate group Michigan
Militia whose members shot at them as they waited for their school bus--- with
the Michigan State Police capturing these vile culprits only to let them go
with the explanation that “they were only dick hunting.” Duck hunting in the
off-season hunting of spring.
The State Police of the Newaygo Post who laughed this vile
attack on my children off as “right-wing versus left-wing violence” even
thought there was no violence at all from the “left.” A few years later one of
the Michigan State co[ps who thought it was so funny my kids were shot at ended
up getting killed in a shoot-out with one of the very same men they apprehended
for shooting at my kids… this wasn’t so funny anymore as these bigoted cops
mourned the death of one of their own ilk.
Grand Rapids, Michigan police arrested me on this bogus twenty-one year old warrant
and I was immediately transferred to the hands and jail of the Newaygo County
Sheriff in White Cloud, Michigan.
Newaygo County
is home to some of the worst poverty in the United
States while being a “wilderness” playground for the
extremely wealthy many of whom own poverty wage-paying sweatshops in Newaygo County
and around the Midwest.
At the present time a national defense committee is being
established to try to prevent my imprisonment on these bogus charges.
This kind of political repression is on the increase all across the United States
and is sure to intensify no matter if Obama is re-elected or Romney is elected.
We have no national committee against political repression which is directed
against those of us fighting for peace, social and economic injustice.
We have agreed to establish a “National Committee to defend
Alan Maki and All Victims of Political Repression.”
We will mount not only a legal but educational campaign intended to expose how
political repression is carried out by the police, the courts, the political
establishment and employers seeking to maintain poverty wages while driving
down the standard of living of all working people.
For many years, every since its creation, the FBI has been used to spin a web
of political repression--- attacking those who dare to struggle against racist
and for the rights of working people.
Politicians created the legislation and “special committees” to enable the FBI
working through its “Red Squads”--- special units led by FBI “Special Agents”
consisting of city, county and state police and now including private
“detective agencies” like Altegrity/USIS and all kinds of union-busting
outfits--- to carry out this political repression.
I, along with tens of thousands of other activists have been targeted by the
FBI and their “Red Squads,” so called because the FBI continues to use the
Communist Control Act to carry out these dirty deeds.
As my 50,000 plus page FBI dossier clearly shows, the perverted Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover
personally assigned the FBI to attack me--- an attack that has been dutifully
carried out by the police and the courts with the permission of both the
Democrats and Republicans with the malicious attack from Minnesota State
Representative Tony Cornish--- who admits to amassing his own personal file on
me--- being the latest and most recent where he designated me in an e-mail he
sent to thousands of politicians across the Midwest, including each and every
state legislator in Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Michigan which obviously emboldened the FBI, Grand Rapids Police Department,
Newaygo County Sheriff, a corrupt prosecutor and judge to execute this
twenty-one year old warrant which was bogus from its very creation with no
other intent than to use the “color of law” to carry out this political
repression which is the government’s response to my outspoken views and activities
for peace, against racism and for social and economic justice.
The terms of this outrageous ten-thousand dollar bond being used to enforce
these fabricated bogus charges against me, restrict me to having to remain in
the State of Michigan--- an obvious attempt to thwart our union organizing
campaign in the Indian Gaming Industry--- which seeks to empower workers
employed in the Indian Gaming Industry at poverty wages forced to work in unhealthy
smoke-filled casinos--- and very conveniently under the terms of the racist
“Compacts”--- intended to use racism to maintain the poverty on Indian
Reservations creating huge pools of cheap labor.
The Indian Gaming Industry created by these “Compacts” arranged by corrupt
tribal politicians, local, state and federal politicians and the mobsters who
own the slot machines and table games and every other profitable venture
associated with the Indian Gaming Industry, is every bosses dream come true:
legislatively created poverty wages imposed on workers who have NO RIGHTS under
state or federal labor laws.
These racist and anti-labor “Compacts” created by the Democrats with
Republicans looking on smiling with bi-partisan approval are now being enforced
by the private and quasi-governmental detective agency which hires a bunch of
thugs which include former FBI and CIA agents as well as state, county and
local police with the FBI and other police agencies sharing their “information
and files” with Altegrity/USIS.
Why did these corrupt Newaygo County
officials acting in collusion with the FBI and Grand Rapids Police Department
decide to execute this twenty-one year old fabricated bogus warrant based on
outright lies after twenty-one years?
Because the complainant whose story two Newaygo County Sheriff Deputies and the
Newaygo County Prosecutor prompted by the FBI testimony could not have been
held up in court. Only weeks after the death of the complainant are these
law-enforcement officials fully backed by the prosecutor and judge now
executing these warrant claiming I used the telephone to intimidate these
violent bigots.
How convenient, the police will now have free reign to further fabricate more
lies without there being a complainant or “witness” to these bogus charges---
another dream come true; this time for the FBI led “Red Squads”, and quite
conveniently for the managements of the Indian Gaming Industry.
The terms and conditions of this outrageous ten-thousand dollar bond include
prohibiting me from participating in demonstrations or entering any establishment
serving alcoholic beverages which means I am prohibited from entering any
casino.
I hope all of you will consider participating in getting involved in our
efforts defending me from these fabricated bogus charges based on lies in
twenty-one year old warrants.
Think about this:
Why would any Judge establish a ten-thousand dollar bond for charges which
carry a maximum penalty of six-months in prison and a $500.00 fine?
Why would any Judge even consider enforcing such twenty-one year old warrants
which could have been served at any time on me?
Something to think about:
Newaygo County Judge Drake was the very the very prosecutor who authorized
these bogus warrants faced on charges he helped to fabricate twenty-one years.
Does anyone think the execution of these warrants with a ten-thousand dollar
bond being imposed with the undemocratic restrictions imposed by the terms of
the bond has anything to do with “justice?”
Plain and simple: This is harassment and political repression taken to the
extreme. But this is what political repression in this country has spun. Like a
snowball rolling down a steep long hill on a warm spring day the campaign of
hate and harassment just keeps getting bigger and bigger--- the intent being to
destroy the lives of living, breathing human beings as was demonstrated by the
violent death of my good friend and fellow activist, Native American trade
unionist and human rights activist, Greg Paquin, last spring. Greg’s death was
the direct result of where these campaigns of hate generated by the FBI’s “Red
Squads” ultimately lead. The FBI and local law enforcement working together
with the judiciary and reactionary politicians collaborated to make Greg
Paquin’s life a living hell as they fabricated charges based on outright lies against
him, too.
There is no legitimate reason why human beings should be subjected to these
kinds of vicious hate campaigns instigated by the FBI and we are going to see
what we can do to put an end to these kinds of politically motivated campaigns
of hate.
I would also note that right-wing bigot Richard Mellon-Scaife has put his
billions of dollars to work in creating several public front groups---
including KeyWiki staffed by a known pedophile working out of a cave in New
Zealand and Accuracy In Media staffed by a pervert in an expensive suit---
being used to “expose” “Communists” and it is not coincidental that I have been
singled out along with Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie whose “crime”
is participating in meetings with Communists--- for outrageous and vicious
attacks by both of these right-wing outfits funded by the nefarious right-wing
bigot Richard Mellon-Scaife. Attacks that just happen to coincide with these
recent attacks by politicians like Minnesota State Representative Tony Cornish
who (retired from law enforcement), instead of apologizing to me for calling me
“a very dangerous person” because I use my constitutionally protected rights to
speak out, write and act in defense of worker’s rights which are human rights;
Cornish has now proceeded to calling me “one of the most dangerous men in the
world.”
Please consider joining with us to put an end to this officially promoted
bigotry where corrupt politicians working in league with law enforcement,
prosecutors and the judiciary are trying to stifle and smother our struggles
for peace, social and economic justice.
Today, Newaygo County
is a burial ground for democracy but as we have seen, this could be, and is,
anyplace U.S.A.---
a country these reactionary sleaze-balls hiding their wicked reactionary agenda
under the “color of law” proclaim to people everywhere to be “the world’s
greatest bastion of democracy.”
A law suit against, and to halt, these ghastly charges and
undemocratic, unconstitutional behavior is being prepared for the federal
courts.
My next court appearance has been scheduled for November 12, 2012 at 8:30 A.M.
in Newaygo County District Court with Judge Drake presiding.
At the arraignment on November 12 I will be asking these charges be dropped
based on the facts:
1.) The complaining witness is now dead;
2.) These warrants should have been dismissed long ago under
statute of limitations;
3.) These warrants were knowingly bogus at the time based on
lies fabricated by Drake, the police and Karen Plants, Scott Plants husband at
the time, from the very time they were issued twenty-one years ago;
4.) The bond is reduced to personal recognizance with no
draconian stipulations;
5.) Judge Drake removes himself from this case for obvious
conflict of interest;
6.) All charges are dropped;
7.) I am fully and completely compensated for this injustice
I am being subjected to.
The Michigan Supreme Court will be asked to intervene by investigating the
judicial misconduct, malfeasance and misfeasance in this case of Judge Drake with
the request that Judge Drake be permanently removed from “the bench” for
participating in this wholly egregious, outrageous judicial misconduct
intentionally carried out to deprive me of my most fundamental and basic
constitutionally protected democratic and human rights.
Anyone who has ever read the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights
along with the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then
considering these bogus warrants can recognize the injustice in progress in
this case.
My Defense Committee will make this case a focus of the upcoming December 10
Anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The foundation-funded outfits whose finances are derived from the donations of
the very “philanthropists” who profit from the injustices of working people
refuse to take on these cases so grassroots efforts like ours are required.
Many people have called to ask me what they can do. As a first step, please
circulate and distribute this as widely as possible since education and
informing a wide circle of friends is the first step.
Your suggestions are encouraged and welcome.
We realize everyone is very busy on a variety of issues but
we request you find a way to fit this into your busy schedule.
Thanking you in advance for you involvement and participation.
I appreciate the concern from everyone--- the calls, visits and e-mails.
Yours in the struggle,
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
