Monday, June 10, 2013

Humanity in Chaos / a booklet

Humanity in Chaos / a booklet Introduction . Chapters Have you met any human beings recently Have you ever thought of yourself as a ‘human being’? Do you ever reflect on the notion that the individuals living around you could also be human beings? Are you able to grasp the concept that the almost seven billion individuals living on our planet Earth are possibly also human beings just like you? Personally I don’t think some people relate well to the idea that other beings around them are human beings, too. I get the impression some human beings draw lines around groups of individuals and say, “We’re human beings, but they’re not!” Here on planet Earth a lot of human beings are treated worse than dogs. Enculturation Charles T. Tart calls enculturation a ‘consensus trance’: “... the hypnotist [is] personified as the culture [and/or science] ... [and in this trance state we lose] much of our essential vitality. It is ... a state of ... an inability to [intellectually] function, a daze, a stupor. It is also a state of ... abstractions about reality.” This consensus trance, the cultural-scientific entrainment of human beings into a disunited mass, has the uncanny ability to hypnotize people into a consensus to terrorize the dirty Arabs and be terrorized by the dirty Arabs. We need to lower the threshold of the noise that surrounds us Ingo Swann talks about ‘consensus reality’ as a ‘signal-to-noise’ ratio: “Signal is the message or information. Noise is whatever distorts, deforms, prevents, interferes with, disorganizes, changes or aborts the signal down to the point where the signal might not be locatable or received at all.” The quality and strength of any signal is dependent upon the level of noise filtering it. Are there filters in place that distort information or prevent information from ever reaching humanity? The mass media and our governments are the signal or the noise? To what degree is our cultural-scientific entrainment a signal or just noise? I would suggest that our frequent refusal to distinguish between signal and noise, especially in Western society, definitely hasn’t made our world a better place to live in. Too often human beings confuse the noise for the message. Why did I write this booklet Firstly, I’m a human being, and I grieve for the Hell we’ve created here on Paradise, or what we call our home, our planet Earth. Secondly, I believe that as a human being my responsibility at this moment of time is to propagate through the noise a synthesis of signals others have been sending out to their fellow human beings since the beginning of time. I suggest, as millions of others have already done and are still doing, that the time is long overdue to find the signal through the trance and honestly question why we’ve let our life here on Earth become a living Hell. It’s time to move out of our present cultural-scientific entrainment of self-destruction and reclaim our right to be loving human beings here on planet Earth. I didn’t write this booklet for financial profit. The booklet’s free to whomever wants to read it. My hope is that in some small way it will encourage humanity to work together to create a more positive place for us here on Earth and in our Solar System, Galaxy and Cosmos. If you believe the information in this booklet is a signal through the trance, please feel free to share it. Karl F. Stewart Briançon, France . 2008 / a booklet . 0 . Preface . Dedication . Copyright . pdf . 1 . The dreamland of normality . pdf Have you ever reflected on the idea that Western society is similar to a loop film? In the 1970s, Western society was fighting for freedom in Vietnam. Today it’s fighting for freedom in Iraq. Tomorrow it could be fighting in Iran or China. The 1970s had a recession. Now there’s another recession. And do you really believe the economic situation in the future will be different? War and economic dependency seem to be the mainstays of our society. Has this programed loop of destructive chaos become the normality we call life? . 2 . Society is allergic to love . pdf Try mentioning to friends or acquaintances that the guiding principle by which you live your life is to feel love in your heart for humanity. Everyone will look at you and start laughing. They’ll think you’re joking. Instead, if you say to your friends that you hate humanity, they’ll sit there quietly and silently nod their heads in understanding. People can relate to hate. But our society doesn’t relate well to love. Many human beings have trashed love as a global human experience. If you express love for humanity, you are often viewed as living in a fairy tale world, as being unrealistic, as being weak or of even being a religious extremist. . 3 . Love and the theory of evolution . pdf Evolution. What in our life doesn’t appear to evolve from one form to another? Thoughts, children, animals, plants, basically all things in life, seem to move from one stage of evolution into another form of realization. Therefore, it would seem logical, given the obvious fact that everything is in a state of evolution or transformation, that life is an evolutionary process. Consequently, according to many, we all grew out of microbes after a cosmic big bang and then became monkeys and now something that we call human beings. And who knows what we will be tomorrow. It isn’t difficult to accept evolution as a main component of human existence. In every aspect of our lives we experience a continuous evolution, a change from one form into another. The problem, though, is that evolution has taken a very banal concept and has turned it into religious fanaticism. . 4 . Creationist and their monopoly on God . pdf Have you ever taken a minute to think about poor God? Even if you don’t believe in God, try for a moment to be compassionate to the concept of God, because God deserves a moment of compassion. Do you really believe God created all there is and all there will ever be just to be sold as merchandise on some shelf next to cleaning products in some supermarket? But that’s exactly what creationists and evolutionists have done to God. They killed the magnificence of God and then redesigned the corpse as a piece of plastic so they could get rich. . 5 . The poetic awe of doubting our creation . pdf In the introduction to the Penguin Classics translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Juan Mascaró, there is a quote from the Vedas where it is written: Only God sees in highest heaven. He only knows from where comes this universe, and whether it was made or uncreated. He only knows, or perhaps he knows not. What I find beautiful about the thought expressed in this translation is that someone, one of us, a human being, could imagine that even God could possibly have a doubt about the creation or non-creation of the Cosmos, about its existence. The concept expresses very poetically the awe of contemplating the complexity of the origins of all there ever was, all there is and all there will ever be. That awe is the beauty in life we too often fail to acknowledge. . 6 . Our potential in life is to think and create . pdf We have the expression, “You are what you eat”. And could we say, “You eat what you think”? Or could we say, “You feel what you think”? Or “You see what you think”? Or even, “You re-think what you think”? There is not one moment in our lives when we are not thinking. We are constantly conscious of our existence. And though many human beings would love to live the activity of thinking as a default process, the nature of thought’s activity will never allow them to rest in peace. Thought demands attention! . 7 . Imprinting our thoughts on our lives . pdf Is it possible for us to look at the words that dominate our societies today, and then look around us and see the effects these words have had on our environment, our lives? Our planet is dying, and rapidly. We as a humanity are dying, and rapidly. And what are we interested in? The iPhone! Go to Google or You Tube and look up what have been the top search words or most viewed videos in our societies. What are we thinking of? The priorities humanity has chosen for itself are truly astounding. . 8 . The cosmic field of humanity's oneness . pdf Is it possible that the simple thought of “to move or not to move” could have tremendous effects on our environment, on our lives? If much of humanity is constantly moving through life on default, then what effects do mindless behaviors have on life? If you’re creating disinformation, or torturing and killing other human beings, do your actions flap like the wings of a butterfly creating ripples that repeat themselves multiple times throughout our environment and generate massive murder and torture in other parts of our planet? Do your so-called trivial acts of mindlessness and indifference in some remote torture chamber or newspaper office create our Iraqs, East Timors or Cambodias? . 9 . Whites . The new blacks of America . pdf / middle class racists learn what it means to be economically poor Welcome to America – the land of the obese, the undereducated, the poor and the drugged. Not to mention that Americans are being killed uselessly abroad through war; that America is being poisoned through chemtrails and other biological events in its own land; and its territory has been destroyed by nuclear testing and nuclear waste. White America for the past 30 years has been looking more and more like the traditional stereotype of a black American than the mythical white supremacist. 10 . Why use the word 'conspiracy' . pdf The reason many groups are so-called secret is simply because most people refuse to do the research necessary to find out who these people are. And quite honestly, I think most people would say they don’t want to know. And regarding the notion that the actions of these so-called ‘secret’ groups are illegal, well, international banking, as corrupt as it is, is actually legal! The genocide by the Coalition Forces in Iraq was ‘legalized’ by their governments! And in response to the concept that these groups are ‘harmful’, humanity’s willful ignorance about these groups has shown itself to be even more harmful to humanity than these groups could have ever been. 11 . The secret of power is a banality, its consequencies aren't . pdf The banality of the secret to power is that you have to be willing to murder anyone anywhere anytime. That’s the banality of power. And because those groups who hold power don’t want the rest of humanity to know the banal secret of their power, they wrap the concept of power in divinity, secrecy and mysticism. 12 . Preface to present day monetary system Not completed. 13 . Money : An illusion of wealth . pdf Part 1 . Part 2 . Part 3 Everybody talks about money because everybody wants money. Regardless of where you go humanity is there with its hand outstretched groping for money. Governments want money, so they ask their citizens to give it to them. People want money, so they ask their governments to give it to them. God wants money, so God asks the church to go ask governments and people to give the church money. 14 . Globalization . pdf Part 1 . Part 2 . Part 3 . Part 4 Globalization is the internationalization of debt and the consequent acquisition of the world’s natural resources after local economies have been bankrupted. Globalization is the bankrupting of humanity by private financial institutions under the auspices of national governments. Corporations are nothing more than the third leg of this tripartite system. We could call corporations the executors of the bankruptcy. copyright © 2011 karl f. stewart

Friday, June 7, 2013

GIVE BACK THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG << Back to savethemales.ca home

Learn to fear men at The University of Winnipeg
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING
The new face of intolerance: UW President Constance Rooke.
UW Teaches High School Girls Lesbian Masturbation, Winnipeg Sun, June 5.
Reprinted in the Wall Street Journal June 6,2001

"Constance Rooke tried to laugh the whole thing off and seems to think it was hilarious that lesbian teachers were instructing 14-year-olds to abandon traditional roles and accept same-sex lifestyles....the 14-year-old girls were told males were redundant, easily replaced by carrots and other vegetables."
Charles Adler CJOB "Adler Online" in Winnipeg Sun June 9, 2001

"It's time to rein in hardliners... Is the public aware it's funding potential gender-bending?" Dave Brown The Ottawa Citizen, June 14, 2001.

Jena-UofW student wrote on December 6. 2001 in our Guestbook:
"i am a first year U of W student. the majority of my friends go to the U OF M, it is an on going joke that i must be a communist or a lesbian, believe me...i am neither. i think that the U of W has to make some changes and not have such a tunnel vision that is very communist like. you can guarantee that i not attending this university next year, due to it's demeanor. i am not having this. it is a school full of angry, venomous women out to tackle the world. keep the fight alive."

The Feminist (Marxist Gay/Lesbian) Program, in their own words.

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Organizers of "Question Gender" Week at UW had 100 chairs set up Jan. 29, 2003 but no one came to hear their panel discussion
January 31, 2003

Constance Rooke has been fired as UW President. Henry Makow is available.
Dec. 18, 2002

UW: A Lesbian Paradise?
The Women's Center put up posters across campus inviting women to have "breast moulding" (a bust of their bust) made March 22, at Women's Center "Bring $3 and an old towel." Can you imagine the uproar if a "men's center" tried this?
April 3, 2002

Best Sites on the 9-11 Deception
whatreallyhappened.com
AttackOnAmerica.net
emperors-clothes.com
www.copvcia.com
March 26, 2002

Feel duped? Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem was CIA Agent
March 14, 2002

It's 1984 in Massachusetts - And Big Brother Is Gay by John Haskins
December 24

Feminists Prevent Christina Hoff Sommers from finishing speech
December 6

NOW Ex-President Tammy Bruce Confirms Feminist Commie Agenda
November 21

Two "heavy" web sites:
lesbianstudies.com
newtotalitarians.com

November 13

Women's Studies Textbook: Lies and Deceptions by Glenn Sacks
November 6

"The Feminist Con" by Carol Ionnone (Professor, NYU)
October 31

"The Homosexual Roots of Fascism" From 'The Pink Swastika' By Abram and Lively
Oct. 23, 2001

There is No Such Thing as "Moderate" Feminism by Carol Iannone
Sept. 23

How feminists poison women against men (excerpts)
July 23

Feminist Thinkers Talk about their Sad Personal Lives
July 6

"Canada's feminists confuse their lesbian agenda with equality"-Vancouver Province
July 3

A Long Way to go for a Date,
interview with Henry Makow

May 22

“Feminism” part of New World Order

UW's Elite Agenda Prepares
you for Friendly Fascism

By Henry Makow Ph.D.

Feminism has achieved enormous power in society because it serves the long-term elite agenda of destabilizing society and reducing population. The elite's goal is "New World Order" -- a United Nations-based global government that uses the arbitrary power of the state to promote the agenda of monopoly capital. It is the “left” in the service of the “right.” Wake up people! Women's Studies is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation! Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA!

Behind the smoke screen of women's rights, feminists like UW Pres. Constance Rooke are pursuing a radical, Marxist lesbian program designed to spread psychological and social dysfunction. It denigrates heterosexuality-- masculinity, femininity and the nuclear family and promotes a gender-less or homosexual model. They are using publicly funded universities like U.W to indoctrinate young people and to shut out opposing views.

In the 1940's and 1950's, the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) advocated everything feminists advocate. Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique (1963) and founder of modern feminism, hid the fact that she had been a Communist activist for 20 years. (See Feminist historian, Kate Weigand's, Red Feminism: American Communism and the Making of Women's Liberation, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001). The Women's Liberation Movement simply transferred Marxist class analysis to gender. The aim is the same: the "patriarchy" (white men, capitalism) is the source of all evil and must be destroyed ("transformed"). Women (the proletariat) and anyone else deemed "oppressed" (gays, people of colour) must be handed position and power on a silver platter. This is part of an elite "divide and conquer" strategy, which is now government policy.

Feminists pretend to represent women when, in fact, they despise femininity. In typical doublespeak, they practice all the things they impute to men: sexism, racism and intolerance. Self-righteous as they are self-seeking, theirs is the official ideology of the New World Order. Did you know that the expression "politically correct" originated in the Communist Party in the 1920s? We start to glimpse other disturbing signs of Maoist China or Stalinist Russia.

Feminists (consistent with Marxism) actually believe that heterosexuality and the traditional family are not natural. (Do you remember when homosexuality wasn't natural?) Feminists believe our sexual desires are "learned," "socially conditioned," designed by men in order to oppress women, and gays. Marxists whose totalitarian "utopia" failed in Russia and China are now accomplishing their goals in the West. Their Cultural Revolution includes such other attempts to "re-educate" heterosexual men and women as "sensitivity training," "political correctness", "sexual harassment", "zero tolerance" and quotas ("diversity").

These revolutionaries are quietly using Women's Studies Departments to take over universities; and universities to transform society into something gender less. They are teaching the young to see heterosexual sex and marriage as pathological. Women are indoctrinated to pursue power and career as the source of their identity. The roles of wife and mother are belittled. Men, on the other hand, are taught to fill the role abandoned by women and be "more feminine". At the same time as heterosexuality is repressed, homosexuality is presented as an attractive alternative... [Full Text]

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* Lesbianism refers to the rejection by women of heterosexual sex, and the female sex role (wife, mother), along with the adoption of the male sex role. In The New Victorians, 1996, Rene Denfeld writes that "women encountering feminism are frequently told they should become lesbian, an assertion that runs from the subtle to the blatant." p. 45.

Henry Makow is the inventor of the board game Scruples, and the author of A Long Way to go for a Date. He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto and has taught at three other universities. He is not pursuing this cause out of personal grievance, nor does he believe in telling people how to live. Rather, this web site aims to restore the ideals of free speech and inquiry in the university. When a teacher is slandered and removed for encouraging debate, and nothing is done, university and society are corrupt.

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Some Pertinent Statistics:

  • According to a survey by the National Opinion Research Center, the number of women who said they recently had gay sex rose from 0.2% in 1988, to nearly 3% ten years later, a 15-fold increase. (Journal of Sex Research 2001; 37:333-343.)
  • In 1997, the U.S. and Canadian birth rate fell to its lowest point in history, 1.6 children per woman. (The rate necessary to replace the population is 2.1.) In Canada, this figure is a decline of 60% from 1960 when the rate was 3.9 children. The birth rate has declined 15% in the last five years alone.
  • The current Canadian marriage rate (5 per 1000 population) is lower now than in 1931 during the Great Depression. It is down 44% from 1970. The divorce rate is up 35% from 1970. (Canadian Social Trends, Spring 2000)

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    "So long as feminism remains institutionalized it will purvey coercion. Feminists may be beyond rational persuasion. . . But they are in the end asking women to make themselves unattractive to men, and to forego love and children. Feminism will be forgotten, commanding only the loyalty of barren women whose genetic lines are running to extinction."
    -- Michael Levin, Professor of Philosophy, City College of New York in Feminism and Freedom, p.306

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Monday, May 27, 2013

Beatrice Potter Webb

Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society

Students, as part of an advanced seminar, examined and wrote about the lives of these women, their intellectual contributions, and the unique impact and special problems that being female had on their careers.


Beatrice Potter Webb

(1858-1943)

by Nicolle Bettis

Childhood

Born in Gloucester in 1858, Beatrice Potter was the eighth born to a businessman, Richard Potter and Laurencina Heyworth who was a daughter of a Liverpool merchant (Britannica Online). Although her mother died while she was still quite young, Beatrice states that she remained "in the shadow of my baby brother's birth and death" (1998, 278). This major disappointment of loosing a male heir seemed to devastate the family for the rest of their life. Another important note that seemed to play an important part in her life was the fact that Beatrice's mother "regarded her as the only ungifted child in the family" (1998, 278). Even though Beatrice describes her family life as one which "habitually gave orders" (Britannica Online). After the death of her mother she found herself forced to make a decision regarding the course of her life. She had the option to remain with her father and take care of the home, she could have married, community service through the church or to be a "lady novelist" (1998, 280).

The governess in their home schooled Beatrice, along with all of her siblings. Because she was often ill she often did not complete a full term, as a result she began to educate herself by reading material from her father's library and speaking with his friends and acquaintances such as Herbert Spencer and other intellectuals (1998). A significant amount was learned from these conversations which prepared her to be "self-identified as a sociologist, taught sociology, worked as a social investigator on the major empirical study of her age (Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People of London), and did her own independent investigations, leading to the socialist reform classic The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain (1891)" (1998, 5).

As a young woman she worked as an associate for her father for six years. This experience enabled her too to learn about business (1992). It was during this time that she began to "question the assumptions of her father's business world" due to uncertainties about his intentions (Britannica Online). It was during the time she spent with relatives in Lancashire town she was introduced to the working class and the improvements they were trying to make for themselves. The fact that the family was well off financially did not seem to get in the way of her ideas about the classes of individuals (Britannica Online).

Had it not been for the difference in personalities she would have been the third wife of the Liberal statesman, Joseph Chamberlain. It was after this upsetting event that Beatrice began to practice social work in London but soon became upset with the charities and their methods of solving the problem of poverty. Her "charitable work" included the Charity Organization Society, managing the Katherine buildings (1998). When she helped her cousin, Charles, an owner of a ship and a social reformer, research for his book The Life and Labour of the People in London, Beatrice learned a lot about the life of the poor first hand.

After the death of her father Beatrice inherited 1,000 pounds a year which helped her support herself while researching and doing other non-paid work. In 1891 she inquired enough information about the working class from her stay in Lancashire to write The Cooperative Movement in Great Britain (Britannica Online). It was after this research that Beatrice realized that before she could address social problems she must learn more about what she wanted to correct. She began to realize it was not the individual, which was entirely at fault but the structure (1998). She also inquired more about labor unions and the economic conditions of the working class to better understand not only where they were coming from but also how to help them more efficiently.

It was during this time which she was introduced to Sidney James Webb, "later Baron Passfield (1859-1947)", who was a member of the Fabian Society (1996, 679). It is suggested that although looks played a part in their attraction for each other they enjoyed the fact that they had found someone in whom they could share ideas. Because Sidney's political views were very different and extreme compared to Beatrice's family they waited until 1892 to marry (1998). When they married they created a " remarkably complementary partnership" which strictly abided by the Fabian Socialist beliefs which introduced a new way to look at the reforming of societies (1996, 679). Their honeymoon consisted of a trip to both Glasgow and Dublin to look at the records of trade unions (Britannica Online).

After this project was complete, they both decided to return to London and live off of Beatrice's inheritance from her father in order to do more social research, political work, and writings (Britannica Online).

Even though their marriage seemed to be completely egalitarian Beatrice expressed her sense of unhappiness when she wrote, "I never write, except in my diary in my own style", she continues "I have constrained my intellect, forced it to concentrate on one subject after another; on some of the dullest and least illuminating details of social organization . . . I vividly remember the nausea with which, day after day, I went on with this task'" (1998, 283).

It has been suggested that her autobiography,My Apprenticeship, is not only a source for information concerning gender discrimination it is also a source in which one can find information about "women's intellectual journey to a vision of society" (1998, 283). Knowing all this it is hard to understand how Beatrice could believe the she had "never suffered the disabilities assumed to arise from my sex" (1998, 280).

The outcomes of the Webb's efforts included, The History of Trade Unionism and Industrial Democracy (Britannica Online). It has been suggested that Beatrice practiced "permeation" which is "attempting to push through Fabian policies or parts of policies by converting persons of power and influence irrespective of their political affiliations" (Britannica Online).

Accomplishments

In 1887, Beatrice Potter Webb wrote her first book which discussed working conditions. The following year she wrote on the working conditions of the poor in the East End of London, information she had shown to the House of Lords. She had also developed reform laws for which she was acknowledged (1992). She was "interested in the general problem of how to use facts to generate policy-relevant theory" (1998).

Even though she tried to deny the unfair treatment of women, Beatrice does mention in her autobiography a conversation she had with Cambridge professor, Alfred Marshall in which he tries to dishearten her from writing The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain. He said to her that, "A book by you on the Co-operative Movement I may get my wife to read to me in the evening to while away the time, but I shan't pay any attention to it" (1998).

In 1913 in London, along with her husband, Beatrice created the New Statesman, which was an "influential periodical" (1997, 287). Both also created the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1895 (1996). Edith Abbott who was also a well known within the Chicago circle took one of the Webb's classes titled "Methods of Social Investigation"(1998).

It was during this time in which Beatrice was involved with the Poor Law Commission. She was only one of many in Chicago which tried to "measure urban poverty and serve as a guide to reform legislation" (1998). Others, which tried to form a social science, which could be researched and legitimate, were Jane Addams, Edith Abbott, and Kelley. Because the University of Chicago's Department of Sociology looked at empirical studies as "women's work" they did not look at the social sciences in the same way as the Chicago Women's School of Sociology (1998). They also wrote books on the economic history of Britain (1997). Both made a large impact both socially and politically suggesting that "Most of the social and political reforms of the time came about as a result of the Webb's research and political insight" (1996, 679).

Women's Firsts describes Webb as an "English socialist leader"(1997, 287), this may have been to her involvement with socialist political parties such as the Labour Party which she and her husband supported starting in 1914 providing "intellectual leadership" (1996, 679). The Webb's wrote decay of Capitalist Civilisation in 1923. In 1932 they visited the Soviet Union, as a result of their excitement they wrote Soviet Communism: A New Civilization? Which was completed in 1935 (1996). Together, Beatrice and her husband wrote more than 100 books and articles on the conditions which labors had to endure (1992). In 1901, Beatrice wrote Factory Acts (1996).

The Webb's, together, wrote eleven "voluminous works of empirical sociology that formed the blueprint for the British welfare state" (1998, 5).

In 1928 both Beatrice and her husband Sidney retired in Hampshire, where they lived until their deaths Beatrice's sociology has been described in three ways:

  1. The Proposition that any social science claim must be arrived at inductively and grounded in the practice of rigorous empirical investigation (1998, 286).

  2. Empirical investigation shows society to be a system of emergent social structures rather than the by-product of individual action (1998, 288).

  3. The project of sociology is to discover how economic equity can be arrived at through democratic decision-making (1998, 289).

Criticism

Even though Beatrice Potter Webb did a great amount when it comes to the reformation of laws concerning the poor she is criticized "for writing about it as an undifferentiated mass, with little regard for the individuals among the group" (1992).

Unlike other women during this period, Beatrice was not forgotten because she was so intricately intertwined with her husband Sidney in their writings. A result she has been included into "discussions of sociology's empirical tradition" (1998, 277).

On December 12, 1947, the ashes of both Beatrice and Sidney were "ceremoniously interred in Westminster Abbey" (1998, 277). The British Prime Minister Clement Atlee stated, " Millions are living fuller and fuller and freer lives today because of the work of Sidney and Beatrice Webb" (1998, 277).

Publications

  • English and Local Government (10 Vols., 1906-1929)
  • Co-operative Movement in Great Britain
  • History of Trade Unionism (1894)
  • Industry Democracy (1897)

Autobiographical Works

  • My Apprenticeship (1926)
  • Our Partnership (1948)

Biographical Works

  • Deborah Epstein Nord The apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985)
  • Barbara Caine's article "Beatrice Webb and the 'Woman Question'" (1982)

References

  • Golemba, B. E. (1992). Lesser known women: A biographical dictionary. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

  • Lengermann, P. M., & Niebrugge-Brantley, J. (1998). The women founders: Sociology and social theory 1830-1930. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies.

  • Parry, M. (1996). Larousse dictionary of women. New York: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers.

  • Zilboorg, C., & Gall S. B. (1997). Women's firsts. Cleveland, OH: Eastword.

  • Notable American women, 1607-1950: A biographical dictionary. Cambridge, MA: TheBelknap Press of Harvard University Press.

  • Britannica Online


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Thursday, May 9, 2013

On March 24, 2011, a veteran San Francisco Police Department officer sat down at an undisclosed location in the city with a 40-year-old career criminal named Jorge Luis Sandoval. Sandoval wasn't under arrest, even though at the time he had felony charges pending in San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Monterey counties that could have returned him to prison for life. Sandoval wasn't under arrest because he was helping out; he was a confidential informant. This unstable relationship is typical: Informants are essential law enforcement sources for intelligence about criminal activity, but many of the most valuable informants are career criminals themselves. Sandoval fit that bill. A two-strike felon with a rap sheet stretching back to the 1980s, he rose through the ranks of the notorious prison gang Nuestra Familia to become the leader of its San Francisco "street regiment." As Sandoval and the officer made to leave, they were confronted by a team of U.S. Marshals and FBI agents from Stockton. Unbeknownst to the Familiano or his SFPD contact, the feds had an arrest warrant from the Eastern District of California for Sandoval's role in a massive methamphetamine trafficking ring based out of Nuestra Familia's Salinas heartland — part of a sprawling, multi-year federal operation called Operation Valley Star aimed at dismantling the prison gang. SFPD had no knowledge of this operation, according to sources at the office of the U.S. Attorney for Eastern California. But SFPD had known for years about Sandoval's drug trafficking activities, and did nothing about it. There was confusion all around. Because what the feds didn't know as they put Sandoval into cuffs and watched the confused SFPD officer walk out of the room was that Sandoval had been providing information to the police since at least since 2010, when he gave up his stepson Tomas Gutierrez for a 2007 shooting in Potrero Hill which left a woman dead and two men wounded. Sandoval wasn't just playing the Good Samaritan here: Court records reveal Sandoval provided his stepson with the .40-caliber pistol used in the robbery-turned-murder — and that Gutierrez and two others committed the robbery to repay a methamphetamine debt owed to Sandoval. In Sacramento, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gregory G. Hollows ordered Sandoval held without bail. In the detention order, Hollows made several notes explaining his rationale to keep Sandoval in custody; most damningly, that "no condition excuses the safety of the community because of his demonstrated criminal record." SFPD and the federal authorities in Sacramento had very different ideas about acceptable conduct for the Familiano. Sandoval's case illustrates the thornier problems involved in using confidential informants. "CI's are a necessary evil," says Chuck Drago, a Florida private investigator who spent more than three decades in law enforcement. An exchange of information for leniency between criminals and police is part and parcel of law enforcement work. But when does this give-and-take go too far? And who decides that? Sandoval's extensive criminal record and history of violent and drug-related crimes did not escape the notice of federal authorities in Sacramento; even within SFPD there were some who noticed this dangerous oversight. Three years and a day before he was arrested by the feds, Sandoval and an associate were pulled over and found in possession of large amounts of cocaine, crack, and methamphetamine. A scale and .40 caliber ammunition (the same caliber as the bullets that killed Liri Lesku in the robbery a month earlier) were found at Sandoval's Pacifica home, prompting SFPD narcotics Inspector Martin Halloran to request that Sandoval be held without bail, because he was in all likelihood "a major street narcotics trafficker in San Francisco and possibly the East Bay." Yet San Francisco authorities declined to prosecute Sandoval for the 2008 drug charge — or for a 2006 arrest for weapons and drug possession, or for a 2007 multi-agency bust in Richmond where Sandoval was packaging almost 9 ounces of cocaine for sale. All three arrests could have sent Sandoval away for life. But nothing happened. Sandoval remained free to keep committing crimes. The federal case against Sandoval proved Halloran's suspicions, and then some: Sandoval was an integral part of Nuestra Familia's drug trafficking operation — ferrying cocaine, methamphetamine, and cash between the Bay and Salinas. The leniency shown toward him in San Francisco and Contra Costa County astonished a senior member of the Public Defender's felony unit. "There's no way that sort of charge drags on for five years," the attorney says on condition of anonymity. "Not for that weight and that many offenses — it's an open and shut case almost." Sandoval's high-level involvement with Nuestra Familia's crimes and drug trafficking posed such a threat that federal authorities from Sacramento indicted him, something the San Francisco-based U.S. Attorney for Northern California failed to do. The lack of oversight for SFPD's use of confidential informants, the police department's refusal to act, and the recognition by other authorities that these CI's were out of control point to a culture of impunity within certain branches of San Francisco law enforcement that cries out for scrutiny and reform, experts say. Peter Keane is one of these. "When you get in bed with characters like these and give them a pass on crimes they're committing, it's a form of corruption," says Keane, dean emeritus and professor of law at Golden Gate University, and a former San Francisco public defender and police commissioner. So how did local law enforcement in San Francisco let this situation get so out of control? Informants going rogue is a long-standing problem for law enforcement. A 2004 congressional report on the culpability of the Massachusetts FBI and U.S. Attorney in allowing Boston gangsters Whitey Bulger — the inspiration for Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed — and Stephen Flemmi to commit more than a dozen murders while cooperating with the feds found that: "Democracy succeeds in the United States when the rule of law is respected. When the government strays from the rule of law, the harm outweighs the benefit." Bulger and Flemmi's crimes, the report stated, "happened because informants were being protected and some members of the FBI adopted an 'ends justifies the means' approach to law enforcement." In San Francisco, a 2011 federal case against MS-13 in the Mission District was tarnished by the violent activities of the government's key informant, who continued to order and commit assaults while cooperating. The government's key informant in Operation Black Widow, another federal investigation into Nuestra Familia conducted during the late '90s and early '00s, committed and ordered assaults and at least one murder while cooperating with the FBI. Federal prosecutors looked the other way. While informants have been a staple of information-gathering, former Florida cop Drago, who supervised organized crime and narcotics units, says that most informants are usually low-level offenders who are shown leniency for petty crimes in exchange for reporting on more serious criminals. Police regulate the conduct of informants through internal guidelines, which generally prohibit officers from using individuals involved in serious crimes such as murder, rape, and drug trafficking. According to SFPD's own Informant Manual, officers are supposed to cut loose confidential informants if they engage in violent activity: "Individuals with serious crimes of violence, sexual misconduct (other than prostitution), weapons violations and/or perjury convictions should not be considered as potential informants." Such people can only be used with the approval of the unit's officer-in-charge, the commanding officer of the Investigations Bureau, and a member of the District Attorney's Office. Drago says that although guidelines for acceptable conduct are "stretched" in police departments, going so far as to turn a blind eye to violent offenses like Sandoval's crimes crosses the line. "No informant is that good that a police department should compromise themselves where a dangerous criminal goes around committing these crimes," says Drago. Aside from being dangerous, he believes that CI's like Sandoval aren't reliable because, by continuing to commit crimes, they violate their agreement with the police. "These cases tell you that, at a minimum, SFPD has become very irresponsible," says Keane. Rather than the informant being beholden to the police for allowing him to stay on the street in exchange for keeping them in the know, Keane says that when authorities turn a blind eye to serious crimes, it "gives the criminal a view of himself that he's untouchable — and he is." Drago and Keane both believe that the existence of rogue informants for SFPD's specialized Gang Task Force and Narcotics Bureau indicates serious flaws in the department's internal checks and balances. (The SFPD's Narcotics Bureau, Gang Task Force, and Media Relations Office wouldn't comment on the department's handling of violent informants for this story.) "Somebody is dropping the ball in management," says Drago. "SFPD have let loose an unguided missile on the public" by allowing dangerous men like Sandoval (and, as we'll see, at least one other) to stay at large in spite of their offenses, says Keane. "No modern police force with any professionalism engages in that sort of practice anymore." Sandoval rose quickly in Nuestra Familia's ranks after he was discharged from state prison in May 2005, serving nine years for first-degree robbery. Once outside, Sandoval played a critical role in N.F.'s drug trafficking operation, moving cash, cocaine, and dozens of pounds of methamphetamine between Salinas, the Bay Area, and elsewhere. He soon took over cocaine trafficking for N.F.'s Salinas regiment, and also rose to become the head of the San Francisco regiment. According to the testimony of N.F. "associate" Jason Treas, Sandoval and several other high-ranking Familianos would hold regular "juntas" about their drug operations, robberies, and "whatever criminal activities that we could be involved in that would financially benefit the regiments." The mid-2000s were fat years for N.F.: At its peak, the San Francisco regiment took in roughly $500,000 per month and $150,000 in profit after paying tribute to Salinas. N.F. had a direct line to the Jalisco cartel for methamphetamine. Drops were often made at Metro PCS franchises, which N.F. favored as a means for laundering money. Though Sandoval was on parole, he made no attempt to stay out of trouble. On Feb. 10, 2006, he was arrested in Salinas by the local gang task force after trying to evade cops first in a van, then on foot. Police saw Sandoval toss a pair of gloves from the passenger side of the van, and a loaded .38-caliber revolver with a spent casing was found in the van's passenger door. Sandoval was charged with firearms offenses by the Monterey County District Attorney, but made bail twice. His bench warrants are still open. Less than four months later, in May, SFPD arrested and charged Sandoval with a DUI and possession of a loaded gun. Sandoval bailed out on this case as well, and moved to Richmond with Treas. But a new city didn't mean a new start: On Feb. 27, 2007, the Richmond Police Department, SFPD, and Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided the apartment complex where Treas and Sandoval lived. Richmond Police Sgt. Aaron Pomeroy's police report notes that SFPD narcotics Inspector Britt Elmore wrote the search warrants; Elmore would help Sandoval negotiate his cooperation with SFPD years later. Five SFPD officers and two from Richmond broke in the door to Sandoval's apartment at 2601 Hilltop Drive, while 17 other officers burst into nearby apartments where Treas and a woman were living. Sandoval and his girlfriend were also detained. Pomeroy searched Treas' apartment and garage, turning up a digital scale, 27.8 grams of methamphetamine, cocaine, and 9 mm ammunition. The apartment had been set up as a drug mill. Sandoval took responsibility for the drugs and was booked for alleged possession of cocaine with intent to sell. Sitting in his office at the Richmond Police Station that afternoon, Pomeroy got a shock when he glanced out the window and saw Sandoval walking away from the building. After checking with the Richmond City Jail and realizing Sandoval had made bail, Pomeroy had Treas' bail raised. The Contra Costa DA's office filed charges against Sandoval, which, had he been convicted, would have been his third strike. But the DA's office sent the case back to law enforcement for "further investigation," and charges were never pursued. Luis Marin, the supervisor of the Contra Costa County DA's drug unit, says he returned Sandoval's arrest to Richmond police because the bench warrant was issued by a San Francisco judge, but SFPD never provided information that would have allowed the Contra Costa DA to charge the case. "We only know what they tell us," says Marin. "There was ... something needed for prosecution that we didn't have at the time." Three open cases in three different Northern California counties didn't scare Sandoval straight. More perplexing is that the three cases should have led to incarceration. Defense attorneys contacted for this story remark that Sandoval's cases in San Francisco, Salinas, and Contra Costa were enough to secure a long prison sentence, and that such delays in assault and narcotics trafficking cases are atypical. Yet again and again, he was allowed to return to the streets. Meanwhile, the feds in Sacramento were preparing the case that would ultimately lead to his arrest. While it is unclear exactly when Sandoval started cooperating, a Feb. 2, 2010, meeting between Sandoval, his attorney, and three SFPD inspectors makes it abundantly clear that authorities knew the severity of Sandoval's crimes and defied their own guidelines by working with him. Narcotics Inspector Britt Elmore — who was present at his 2007 arrest in Richmond — led the interview, in which Sandoval received immunity from any charges relating to his testimony identifying the killers of Liri Lesku, a 34-year-old meth addict who was murdered during a robbery gone bad on Feb. 13, 2008. Sandoval told the SFPD inspectors that his stepson and one of Sandoval's crank dealers planned to rob another dealer because both owed Sandoval money. The dealer, Sierra Kazarian, tried to convince Sandoval to go in with her on the heist. He was hesitant, but also wanted his money: "So I told her, 'If you're going to go do it ... make sure you pay me my money that you owe me,'" Sandoval told the cops. The trio met at the house of his stepson, Tomas Gutierrez, where Sandoval admitted he kept up to a pound of meth and a .38-caliber pistol. In advance of the robbbery, other pistols traded hands between Gutierrez and Sandoval — a small-caliber Beretta pistol and a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol. Gutierrez agreed to participate after Sandoval helped them plan out the robbery. The plan was for an accomplice to buy some crank, and Kazarian and Gutierrez would come through the open door. Sandoval drove to Potrero Hill behind a van Kazarian had stolen for the occasion, and waited. A short time later, Kazarian called him, swearing frantically. After Gutierrez and Kazarian jumped in the van, Kazarian said, "Man, he just let off the whole clip.'" They drove back to Sandoval's Pacifica home where he told them to dump their clothes. Kazarian hid the gun in the bushes. Medical records say Lesku died from a single .40-caliber bullet wound to the head — the same caliber of ammunition found in Sandoval's house a month later. Two men who were also in the apartment survived the shooting. Gutierrez told Sandoval that one of the men had tried to jump him. "I just popped 'em," Gutierrez said. "I just popped everyone and ran out." Gutierrez gave the .40-caliber pistol back to Sandoval, who sold it a few weeks later — another unpunished crime. Despite Sandoval's admission that he provided the murder weapon and that the robbery was for his benefit, SFPD reassured him that he was in the clear. "This is nothing on you, Mr. Sandoval," Inspector Elmore said. (Melinda Haag and Benjamin Wagner, the United States' Attorneys for Northern and Eastern California, respectively, would not comment on Sandoval's case.) While Sandoval's participation in N.F.'s drug trafficking is not documented past 2007, in his 2010 interview with SFPD, Sandoval admits to dealing meth and other drugs. But SFPD had the opportunity to rein him in before Lesku's murder, notably when he was arrested in Richmond in 2007 — either the trafficking charges or the open bench warrant for assault in Monterey County could have put him away. Instead, Sandoval remained at large, with the complicity of SFPD. And Jorge Sandoval is not alone. Court documents and testimony reveal that SFPD and the District Attorney's office under current California Attorney General Kamala Harris protected another, unrelated, high-ranking gang-member-turned-informant from repercussions for criminal activity including drug trafficking, fraud, extortion, and weapons possession to assault and murder. Abraham H. Guerra Sr., a Norteno lieutenant and career criminal who beat an attempted murder charge because the shooting victim was too frightened to testify against him, also was shielded by San Francisco law enforcement from going back to prison again and again, despite repeated attempts by his parole officer. SFPD denied a Public Records Act request for the department's files on Guerra. The department also refused requests for comment on Sandoval and Guerra's cooperation for this story. But Guerra's cooperation with SFPD, like Sandoval's, is spelled out in court documents, transcripts, and repeated unsuccessful attempts by other California law enforcement agencies to put him behind bars. Guerra's cooperation might have remained obscure had he not continued committing crimes; ironically, his death was the catalyst for a chain of events that revealed his work as an SFPD informant, and the extent to which authorities intervened to prevent him from being incarcerated for numerous crimes — a freedom which directly contributed to his death. Guerra, known on the streets as "Spanky," was a heavyset career criminal whom SFPD first arrested in 1985, when they confirmed his status as a member of the Norteno gang. The San Francisco District Attorney tried Guerra for the attempted murder of Perry Mayorga on July 9, 2001. Mayorga refused to identify Guerra as his assailant during a 2002 hearing and was held in contempt of court. Mayorga said in court he had been approached in the courthouse by an unknown man who "just asked me if bullet holes hurt." Guerra pleaded guilty to assault with a firearm and received a suspended sentence and two years of probation after serving 472 days in SF County Jail before and during the trial. Under SFPD's informant guidelines, Guerra's shooting of Mayorga would have placed him off-limits for use as an informant. Guerra also was sentenced to two stretches in state prison for grand theft auto and repeated property crimes in February 2003. It was after being released, in May 2006, that his parole agent, Jeff Gil, hooked him up with SFPD's Gang Task Force as an informant. But again, this wouldn't come out until after Guerra's death. On July 26, 2007, Jaime Gutierrez and a co-worker were working in Gutierrez's Mission garage when Guerra pulled up in a red Saab. Guerra knew Gutierrez, a one-time Norteno convicted of two shootings, and since his release had learned of Gutierrez's business. Guerra tried to extort business checks from Gutierrez, who rebuffed him. (Earlier that day, Guerra had a court date in Modesto for a similar scam.) Guerra returned 10 minutes later with two other men. All three wore gloves. Guerra pulled out a .38-caliber pistol, asked Gutierrez "if he loved him," and pointed the weapon at the younger man, telling him that the .38 "already had a body on it." Gutierrez reached into his office and pulled out a twelve-gauge shotgun. He stepped to the Saab's passenger door and aimed at Guerra. Guerra fired once, missing Gutierrez. Gutierrez fired twice, tearing into Guerra's face and body. The other two men leaped out of the car and sprinted away. Gutierrez jumped into Guerra's Saab and fled, Guerra's body in tow, turning himself in at Ingleside Station later that afternoon. Gutierrez told inpectors that he was acting in self-defense. One inspector joked during the interview about Gutierrez turning himself in with Guerra in tow: "How many people turn themselves in with a dead body in the front seat of the car they're driving?" he said. When Kamala Harris, then a District Attorney, charged Gutierrez with Guerra's murder, the garage owner turned to Eric Safire, a combative defense attorney who has frequently courted controversy. Safire and his investigator Steve Vender are well-versed in gangs; they're also acquainted with SFPD's Gang Task Force, an insular unit of 20 officers with a direct line to the FBI and limited oversight. Safire dug into Guerra's history, filing subpoenas for the Gang Task Force files on Guerra. Specifically, Safire was looking for indications that Guerra was an informant. Guerra's criminal record was immediately suspect: "No matter what he did, he got away with it," Safire says. The DA's office rebuffed several discovery requests for such material. At one point, Assistant District Attorney Diana Garcia objected to providing Guerra's 700-page rap sheet. Vender and Safire's investigation revealed Guerra's parole agent, Jeff Gil, had unsuccessfully tried to re-incarcerate Guerra on three occasions since his 2006 release from prison. The first violation was for defrauding a Modesto woman; the second violation involved Guerra attacking two women in Fisherman's Wharf and pulling a gun on a third on July 8, 2006; the third time, Guerra was stabbed during a brawl with a rival Sureno gang member in the Mission on June 13, 2007: SFPD arrested but didn't charge him. On all three occasions, Gil recommended Guerra be sentenced. When Vender asked Gil why Guerra wasn't sent back to prison, Gil told him that Guerra's cooperation with the Gang Task Force was "an important factor in the decision to allow Guerra to continue on parole." (This was another irony to Guerra's story: Gil was the one who helped Guerra become an informant in the first place.) Gil told Vender that after the Fisherman's Wharf incident, a member of the Gang Task Force telephoned him to ask for leniency for Guerra. "The fact that he was arrested and cut loose for criminal conduct indicates SFPD knew he was violating his conduct for being a snitch," Safire says. Up to this point, Assistant DA Garcia had filed motions asking the judge to restrict mention of Guerra's standing as a Norteno lieutenant and references to his gang tattoos and prior crimes. After Safire discovered Guerra's relationship with SFPD, Garcia contacted Gang Task Force Inspector Ed Yu, who "confirmed that Mr. Guerra was an informant who had worked with him and that he had a file on Mr. Guerra," according to court documents. Yu met with Garcia on June 11, 2008 and handed over copies of his file on Guerra; however, he requested Garcia withhold Guerra's file to protect ongoing investigations. Garage owner Gutierrez was spared conviction by a hung jury in both August 2008 and a year later, in a separate retrial, when the San Francisco DA's office unsuccessfully tried to use a discredited jailhouse informant to accuse Gutierrez of admitting to Guerra's murder and plotting to kill Garcia. In the cases of Guerra and Sandoval, outside circumstances led to both gang members' removal from society at large. Guerra was killed, and Sandoval was arrested and is currently in Sacramento County Jail while his federal narcotics conspiracy case drags on. But their protection by the San Francisco police department and DA led to a continued threat to public safety in exchange for intelligence which authorities refused to disclose. "This story reflects some of the worst examples of informant policing, which is law enforcement ignoring informant crimes," says Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who has studied confidential informants. San Francisco authorities' decision to allow Guerra and Sandoval to remain at large, Natapoff says, "shows an appalling disregard for public safety, disregard for the potential innocent bystanders, for the safety of people who would come into contact with Sandoval and Guerra, and finally disregard for the safety of the informants themselves." Whatever intelligence SFPD gained from Sandoval and Guerra wasn't worth the risk, she argues. "The ultimate goal is not convictions; the ultimate goal is public safety and the reduction of crime," says Natapoff. "We have to question whether permitting Sandoval and Guerra to stay at large promoted public safety." The three agencies that held the umbrella over Guerra and Sandoval — the Gang Task Force, the Narcotics Bureau, and the DA's office — illustrate the "Faustian bargain" that law enforcement strikes with confidential informants, says Natapoff. While police and prosecutors operate under the theory that flipping the little fish will lead them to the big fish, Sandoval and Guerra both held rank in their respective gangs, and Sandoval was involved in high-level drug trafficking. Allowing both men to remain free despite their repeated violations of SFPD informant guidelines and, more importantly, their threat to public safety, corrupts the function of the justice system, says Natapoff. "It sends a terrible message to criminals, which is: You can continue to do your criminal work as long as you work with the government, as long as you're sufficiently useful," she says. Crucially, because of state laws that allow law enforcement to keep confidential the activity of informants, legislatures have effectively passed the buck on externally regulating the use of CIs. "Because we don't regulate this sort of relationship externally, we rely on police departments and prosecutor's offices to police themselves." And experts say that the insulated, self-reinforcing culture of the specialized units that were using Guerra and Sandoval as informants is responsible in part for allowing these relationships to come into being and continue. "It's a dreadful culture, they live by lies and deceit while living undercover," Keane says of high-risk, independent units like SFPD's Gang Task Force and Narcotics Division. Units with no significant oversight like the Gang Task Force are even more dangerous, because the lack of a formal recruiting structure reinforces the operating logic, modus operandi, and dysfunction of that unit. Drago says that officers given a significant deal of freedom, without the constant supervision that patrol officers receive from their sergeants, can get drawn in too deeply to the criminal world they are charged with disrupting. Such units, he says, "have got to be a tightly run ship," in terms of how money, informants, and interactions with the criminal element are handled. "The average guy who becomes a cop doesn't come from or step into that part of the world anywhere as much as these guys," Drago says. "They're in it every day." Insofar as remedies, both local and state legislatures can intervene. After a young woman arrested for marijuana possession in Florida was coerced into participating in a sting operation that lead to her death in 2008, the state Legislature passed laws limiting the use of confidential informants and structuring guidelines for law enforcement uses of CIs. "Because it's hard to find out who's an informant, there has to be a mandate from the legislature that all informants are documented," says Drago. SFPD's structure also means that the San Francisco Police Commission, which Keane once served on, can conduct its own probe into confidential informants. "The San Francisco Police Commission should investigate," says Keane. The commission has the power to review confidential documentation and institute disciplinary procedures against officers. This sort of behavior, Keane says, is gotten away with because victims like Liri Lesku are not high-profile, middle-class citizens. "It's done to people who no one cares about," he says. "That makes all the difference." This story was produced with the support of the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute, with support from The Puffin Foundation. Reporter Julie Reynolds contributed to this story.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Frank Keating - Oklahoma's Killing Governor

 54A former federal prosecutor, official of the Department of Justice
   and FBI special agent who used to kill people for political gain...
   
 54 Killed - Over a dozen executed prisoners may have been innocent !
    Frank Keating - Oklahoma's Killing Governor
  The Lying Police Chemist Cover up...

  Caught faking evidence in thousands of criminal cases !
     Exposed earlier this year for mishandling evidence and lying under oath in thousands
    of criminal cases, sending at least 23 people to death row and hundreds more to prison.
Oklahoma City police chemist Joyce Gilchrist - 23 death row cases
12 people have already been executed in Oklahoma who were convicted on the basis of testimony by Oklahoma City police chemist Joyce Gilchrist.  Exposed mishandling evidence and lying under oath in thousands of criminal cases over a 25 year period. On September 25, 2001, Joyce Gilchrist was fired due to "laboratory mismanagement, criticism from court challenges and flawed casework analysis''.

           More links and info about Joyce Gilchrist and the Oklahoma Scandal...

      Innocence Proven After 12 Years on Oklahoma's Death Row
              Oklahoma Police Chemist Under Probe - (AP)
      List of Death Row Cases That Involved Chemists Testimony

 These Men Are Still On Death Row, Victims of Joyce Gilchrist:
        Stephen Lynn Abshier,  Randall Eugene Cannon, Ernest Marvin Carter,
               Cyril Wayne Ellis,  John Michael Hooker,  Victor Wayne Hooks,
       Michael Edward Hooper, Curtis Edward McCarthy, Alfred Brian Mitchell,
                            George Ochoa,  Osbaldo Torres, Yancey Douglas

      Oklahoma County District Attorney Robert Macy resigns June 30, 2001
   Macy proudly claims to have tried at least 60 capital cases and is known as
     America's Deadliest DA, often relying on testimony from Joyce Gilchrist.

 Meet some of the men and women he put to death...
                 Below links provided by The Death Penalty Institute Of Oklahoma
                        and The Canadian Coalition Against The Death Penalty...


                   "Recently I had to tell my 10-year-old daughter that daddy may die..."
                "...That was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. How do I explain the
                          logic that daddy's being killed to teach others not to kill?"
                                    - Dion Smallwood - Executed Jan 18, 2001

     Some of the victims of police chemist Joyce Gilchrist that were executed:

     " I'M INNOCENT, and I've got peace in my heart, and I'm ready to go home."
       - Last words uttered by Malcolm Rent Johnson before execution January 6, 2000.


Malcolm Johnson Executed January 6, 2000 - DPIO page
Malcolm Rent Johnson, 41, was executed shortly after midnight on Thursday, January 6, 2000. He
was pronounced dead at 12:13am. More news: http://www.patrickcrusade.org/malcolm_johnson.htm
Michael Roberts Executed February 10, 2000 - DPIO page

Michael Donald Roberts, 42, was executed by lethal injection at Oklahoma State Penitentiary shortly
after midnight on Thursday, February 10, 2000. Roberts was pronounced dead at 12:21am.



James Glenn Robedeaux: Executed June 1, 2000 - DPIO page
James Glenn Robedeaux, 51, was executed by lethal injection on June 1, 2000.
Robedeaux was pronounced dead at 12:34am.

Roger James Berget: Executed June 8, 2000 - DPIO page
Oklahoma executed Roger James Berget, 39, on June 8, 2000.  Berget was
pronounced dead at 12:12am.

William Clifford Bryson: Executed June 15, 2000 - DPIO page
William Clifford Bryson, 29, was executed by the state of Oklahoma on June 15, 2000.
Bryson was pronounced dead at 12:14am.

Eddie Leroy Trice: Executed January 9, 2001 - DPIO page
Eddie Leroy Trice, 48, was executed via lethal injection on Tuesday, January 9, at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.  He was pronounced dead at 9:15pm.

Dion Smallwood - Executed January 18, 2001 in Oklahoma - CCADP page
Dion Athanasius Smallwood, Native American/Hispanic, 31, executed in Oklahoma on 18 January 2001.  He was sentenced to death in 1992. His clemency hearing before the state Pardon and Parole Board took place on December 4 and was denied.  Visit his page for more info.

Mark Fowler Executed January 23, 2001 - DPIO page
Mark Fowler was executed via lethal injection at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
He was pronounced dead at 9:07pm.

Billy Ray Fox: Executed January 25, 2001 - DPIO page
Billy Ray Fox, 35, was executed via lethal injection at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in
McAlester.  He was pronounced dead at 9:06pm.

Loyd Lafevers - Executed January 30, 2001, Oklahoma - CCADP page
The 10th Circuit already gave Lafevers a stay in March, just 32 hours before he was to be executed.
Visit his webpage for information and news articles on his case as well as his pen pal request."I just
want to thank all of you for all the work you do on behalf of death row prisoners. I know it can get
frustrating.  But keep doing what you're doing, 'cause you are making a difference."
Randall Eugene Cannon - Executed July 23, 2002 in Oklahoma - CCADP page

Oklahoma City police chemist Joyce Gilchrist was instrumental in the conviction that sent Randall
Cannon to death row.  Gilchrist was exposed earlier this year for mishandling evidence and lying under
oath in thousands of criminal cases, sending at least 23 people to death row and hundreds more to
prison.  Visit Randall's webpage for his pen pal request and more information on Joyce Gilchrist. 

   The First Woman Executed Since Oklahoma Became A State !

Wanda Jean Allen - 1st woman executed in OK - January 11, 2001 - CCADP page
On Jan. 11, Wanda Jean Allen became the first Black Woman executed in the U.S. since the 1950's
and the first woman to be executed in Oklahoma since at least 1907, making her the first woman
executed in Oklahoma since statehood !   Visit Wanda's webpage for more information on her case,
news articles on her execution status and more...  Visit her webpage for more information

 The Second Woman Executed Since Oklahoma Became A State...
ALSO ANOTHER VICTIM OF POLICE CHEMIST JOYCE GILCHRIST !

Marilyn Plantz - Executed May 1, 2001 - DPIO page
Criminal Defense Trial Lawyers Association (OCDTLA) called for an immediate moratorium
on executions in Oklahoma, beginning with that of Marilyn Plantz.

       More victims of Killer Keating...

Robert Eagle Clayton - Executed February 2, 2001 - CCADP page
Robert received a temporary stay of execution for his January 4 date pending results of DNA testing.
His execution was re-scheduled for February 2, 2001 .Visit Robert's memorial page with information on his case, his complete Writ of Habeas Corpus, news articles and links to other webpages on Robert.
Robert Eagle Clayton, Executed In Oklahoma - From The Other Side
"All the people who are hating me right now and are here waiting to see me die, when you wake up in the morning you aren't going to feel any different.   You are going to hate me as much tomorrow as you do tonight.  When you wake up and nothing has changed inside, reach out to God...He will heal you. Let Him touch your hearts.  Don't hate all your lives."
- Sean's last words

Sean Sellers - Executed Thursday, February 4, 1999
Visit Sean Sellers memorial page set up by friends family and supporters. Page features Sean's inspirational writings and artwork including his comic book Donjonhoefen, an epic Christian comic...
In the days preceding Scotty's execution, Pope John Paul II made

an appeal for his life. Killer Keating ignored the Vatican's Plea...

Scotty Moore - Executed in Oklahoma - June 3, 1999
Executed by Oklahoma June 3rd - Scotty Moore was a friend to all prisoners and an activist while on death row in Oklahoma.  Many people loved and miss Scotty.In his words, " I am a person, not a cause, and my family and friends are real." Despite a plea from the Pope, Killer Keating executed him anyway.
   Oklahoma State Law prevented Catholics from
 having Last Rites administered before execution !
Online Petition to Allow Last Rites To Be Administered to Death Row Inmates In Oklahoma
   (This explains Keating's refusal to hear the Pope's pleas for clemency in the case of Scotty Moore)

There are just too many victims of the killing Governor to list here !
For a complete list visit DPIO at: http://www.dpio.org/executions/Past_Oklahoma_Executions.html

Leonard Peltier - wrongfully convicted A.I.M. Political Prisoner - AIM page
Killer Keating wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal where he condemns Peltier supporters, in a feeble attempt to justify another wrongful conviction, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Keating was a former FBI Special Agent whose investigative targets were known as "new left terrorists".
          Former FBI special agent Killer Keating's smear job on the Peltier case:
    Freeing Peltier Would Stain Clinton’s Legacy
For The Truth about Leonard Peltier's wrongful conviction visit: http://www.freepeltier.org

         KILLER KEATING NEVER ALLOWED THE RE-TESTING OF
                 EVIDENCE FOR THE 12 EXECUTED VICTIMS OF
                            POLICE CHEMIST JOYCE GILCHRIST
                                        DURING HIS TERM IN OFFICE !
 
              Oklahoma Department of Corrections
           DPIC - Complete List of Oklahoma Death Row Inmates

     Oklahoma Anti-Death Penalty Organizations / Advocates

Oklahoma Indigent Defense System
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Death Penalty Information Centre - Oklahoma
Voices From the Inside - Oklahoma Death Row Penpals
Native Prisoners On Death Row In Oklahoma (from Native American Political Issues Site)

Amnesty's Report - Conditions for Death Row Prisoners in H-Unit, Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Capital Punishment in Oklahoma (Oklahoma Department of Corrections)
Birthdays of Oklahoma Death Row Prisoners (from OCADP)
List of Oklahoma Death Row Prisoners (from OCADP)
Resolution on Capital Punishment by the Oklahoma Council Of Churches

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Testimony Of Former Death Row Inmates
Congratulations Oklahomans ! Letter From Death Row
Governor Commutes Death Sentence - from Black Oklahoma Today
A Woman On Death Row - from Metroline
A Matter Of Life And Death - Death Penalty Special Section from Tulsa World
Oklahoma Police Chemist Under Probe - (AP)
List of Death Row Cases That Involved Chemists Testimony
Innocence Proven After 12 Years on Oklahoma's Death Row
Death For Death? A Family Asks Mercy For A Son - From the National Catholic Reporter
An Open Letter To Governor Frank Keating From Oklahoma Amnesty Chapter
Robert Eagle Clayton, Executed In Oklahoma - From The Other Side
Facing Death - Monk Takes Gods Love To Death Row - From Conception Abbey