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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34443)	6/18/2005 1:38:15 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 93284

The Founding Fathers would be very much against Bushies.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34443)	6/18/2005 2:06:57 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The Democratic Party has is led by liberals who hate America with a passion that burns white hot.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34443)	6/18/2005 2:08:58 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

What was Durbin's opinion of Margaret Hassan’s body when it was found in Fallujah? It was found decapitated with all arms and legs cut off. She was butchered like a lamb to the slaughter and the Senator said not a word!

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34443)	6/18/2005 2:23:08 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Durbin's Gitmo "abuses" vs. Nazi's and Dr. Mengele's experiments Remember.Org ^ \| 6/17/05 An attempt to educate Sen. Durbin and public school students whose education has left them clueless about the Holocaust. Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine Foreword People must remember the Holocaust as a insult to humanity. The lives lost were not only great in number, but offered so much to mankind. How the world would have been different if the millions of souls destroyed could have lived. Doctors have always been thought of as the saviors of mankind, the healers, and caretakers of our utter existence. Even ancient civilizations revered the medicine men as having special power to protect life. The trust of a physician is sacred. This is why the practice of medicine by the doctors of the Third Reich is egregious, outrageous, and shocking. The Nazi doctors violated the trust placed in them by humanity. The most painful truth is for the most part the doctors escaped their crimes against Humanity and lived a life, unlike their victims. Freezing / Hypothermia The freezing / hypothermia experiments were conducted for the Nazi high command. The experiments were conducted on men to simulate the conditions the armies suffered on the Eastern Front. The German forces were ill prepared for the bitter cold. Thousands of German soldiers died of freezing or were debilitated by cold injuries. The experiments were conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sigmund Rascher at Birkenau, Dachau and Auschwitz . Dr. Rascher reported directly to Himmler. Dr. Rascher publicized the results of his freezing experiments at the 1942 medical conference entitled "Medical Problems Arising from Sea and Winter". The freezing experiments were divided into two parts. First, to establish how long it would take to lower the body temperature to death and second how to best resuscitate the frozen victim. The two main methods used to freeze the victim were to put the person in a icy vat of water or to put the victim outside naked in sub-zero temperatures. The icy vat method proved to be the fastest way to drop the body temperature. The selections were made of young healthly Jews or Russians. They were usually stripped naked and prepared for the experiment. A insulated probe which measured the drop in the body temperature was inserted into the rectum. The probe was held in place by a expandable metal ring which was adjusted to open inside the rectum to hold the probe firmly in place. The victim was then placed in the vat of cold water and started to freeze. It was learned that most victims lost consciousness and died when the body temperature dropped to 25 C. Two Russian men were seen by a prisoner doctor in the cold vat. They were very strong men and had said a comment to the SS doctor performing the experiment. The prisoner doctor was shocked at how long the Russian men could take the cold without loosing consciousness. He asked the directing doctor to take them out of the tank. He did not allow this and increased the temperature slightly to prolong their pain. They died after a long painful stay in the tank. The second way to freeze a victim was to strap them to a stretcher and place them outside naked. The extreme winters of Auschwitz made a natural place for this experiment. The resuscitation or warming experiments were just as cruel and painful as the freezing experiments. Sun Lamp The victims were placed under sun lamps which were so hot they would burn the skin. One young homosexual victim was repeatedly cooled to unconsciousness then revived with lamps until he was pouring sweat. He died one evening after several test sessions. Internal Irrigation The frozen victim would have water heated to a near blistering temperature forcefully irrigated into the stomach, bladder, and intestines. All victims appeared to have died from the treatment. Hot Bath The victim was placed in warm water and the temperature was slowly increased. This method proved to be the best. Many victims died do to shock if they were warmed up to quickly. Warming by Body Heat Heinrich Himmler sugested to Dr. Rascher that he try to use women to warm the frozen men. He suggested that the victim and a women copulate. This perverted experiment occured with some success. However it was not as successful as the Warm Bath. Genetic Experiments The Nordic or Aryan Race was the most important goal of the Nazis. It was the largest part of the over all plan. The blonde hair, blue eye, super men were to be the only race. The Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and anyone else that did not meet the race requirements were to by cleansed from society through genocide. Hitler and the German High command made a list rules for the fellow Nazis to follow. The new rules required all SS before marriage must submit to general testing to insure racial purity. The rules for marriage were unbelievably complex. Thousands of marriages were denied. If the laws for marriage were broken it could mean the death penalty. Dr. Sigmund Rascher and his wife learned what not following the marriage laws would hold for their lives. Mrs. Rascher was sterile. They were not illegally married; they adopted two children. They were later investigated by the Gestapo and executed for the crime. In this case, after his medical experimentation, it seems fitting that this killer was caught up by his own party. Early in power the National Science groups were pushed into research of the race and experiments commenced. First the party needed propaganda to prove all other races were inferior. Measurements of heads, eyes, nose, blood were required. The vast majority of the early experiments were a propaganda sham. It was determined Gypsies had different blood and were inclined to criminal behavior. The same type of findings were made of all races other than the Nazis. After the camps were started, vast genetic experiments were undertaken. The range of the testing was broad and specialized. The two major groups of experiments were first to refine the master race and second to determine the cause of defects. Dr. Josef Mengele research on twins and Gypsies exemplifies the quest for the genetic studies. Dr. Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death". He would be at every selection when the new trains would arrive at Auschwitz. After the victims were unloaded off the trains and stripped naked and divided into men, women, and children, he would sort through the thousands of people. Most went straight to the gas chambers and others to hard labor in the camps. The twins, dwarfs, and unique physical specimens were selected to be assigned to the experimental blocks. In many ways the majority who where killed in the gas chambers were much better off than the survivors that had no idea what horrors awaited them. Experiments on Twins The twins were examined from head to toe. Measurements of every inch were taken. Dr. Mengele demanded specific and careful exams. If any detail was missed the staff, usually a prisoner doctor, would be punished. The twins were allowed to keep their hair for the first several days of the examination. After all the living data was taken the twins would be killed by a single injection of chloroform in the heart. Care was taken to insure the twins died at the same time. The twins were then dissected with the organs being sent to research centers. Prisoner doctors tell of the fate of two Hungarian twins who arrived at Auschwitz late in 1943. Dr. Mengele was at the camp selection. The train arrived in the very early morning. Three sets of twins were found. They were taken to the experimental block. Dr. Mengele ordered the two Hungarian twins be placed in the examination room. The two Hungarian twins young men age 18 were described as "extremely athletic and handsome." They had much body hair and were allowed to keep it for the first few weeks. The twins were showered and returned nude to the examination room. The examination started at the head . All parts of their heads were examined. The head examination took almost days. They were then completely X-rayed . The next part of the examination consisted of tubes being forced through their noses and into their lungs. They were then ventilated with a gas which caused them to cough so severely they had to be restrained. The sputum from the lungs was collected for examination. The twins were then photographed for several days . The purpose of the photographs were to show hair patterns. They were each forced to stand, bend, and kneel in many positions to accomplish the photographs. For example, they were required to stand with their arms lifted for many hours so the under arm hair could be photographed. After the photographs were finished they were waked up very early in the morning. They were taken into a room with tables and a hot water vat. The water in the vat was very hot. They were made to sit in the water until they were ready to pass out from the heat. They were then strapped to a table where their hair was plucked out trying to save the hair root. They were put back into the hot vat several times. After enough hair was collected, they were totally shaven of every hair on their body. The twins were then again extensively photographed without hair. The twins then received several two liter enemas which caused them much pain and discomfort. The boys on different days were strapped over a bench table and their rectums were hyper descended after which they received an extensive lower gastric intestinal examination. This extensive procedure was performed without any anesthesia. The young men were crying so loud that Doctor Mengele ordered they be gagged. The next day they received a painful and humiliating urological examination. In this examination tissue samples were taken from the kidneys, prostate, and testicles. Several semen samples were forcefully taken over two days. After this three weeks of tortuous medical examinations they were taken to the dissection laboratory. Using two doctors, each twin was simultaneously given an injection in the heart, taking their lives. They were dissected and their organs were sent to the Institute of Biological Racial and Evolutionary Research Berlin. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34443)	6/18/2005 2:25:01 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Senator Durbin is worried about the temperature at G'itmo, air conditioners being turned on and then turned off. No matter what the temperature gets to at G'itmo, it's definitely cooler than it was at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco when the Clinton administration burned it to the ground. Come to think of it, I don't remember Durbin saying anything about that when it happened. He may have. I just don't remember it, and I think they blasted music for weeks when they tried to get the Branch Davidians to come out of that compound, did they not? And I thought they brought in big lights to shine on the compound during the night, all intended to keep them from sleeping. Didn't they do that at Waco? Where was Dick Durbin when this domestic torture was going on? These were US citizens the Clinton administration was targeting, including women and children and babies -- and they eventually burned them out with tanks.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34443)	6/18/2005 7:28:11 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

If you want to support an honorable Democrat Senator who has earned high military honors and deserved the awards, you need look no further than former Senator Bob Kerry or to John McCain. We can always count on Peter and his "facts". When was it that Senator John McCain became a Democrat? You should stick to vague generalities. "Facts" get you in trouble. You calling anyone else Un-American makes the founding fathers turn over in their graves. The Founding Fathers were real traitors. They just didn't speak out against the Government, they actually took arms up against the Government. Not Jefferson though, when the British came towards Monticello he ran. Would that disqualify him for "hero status"? jttmab

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34443)	6/18/2005 11:58:07 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Hey, Durbin, and the rest of you traitors -- HERE IS THE SOVIET GULAG Paul Mitchinson dot com ^ \| Mitchinson LINK TO FIRST DURBIN ARTICLE: Hey, Durbin, and the rest of you traitors -- HERE IS POL POT =================================================================== The Soviet Gulag's Haunting Legacy Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum Doubleday, 720 pages Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag, by Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson University of California Press, 269 pages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eighteen million men and women were cast into the concentration camps of the Soviet Gulag. They carved canals, highways and railroads through the Russian wilderness, mined gold, uranium and lead, and even designed military aircraft and rockets. Millions of them perished. Russia's modern economy is built, quite literally, on the bones of slaves. But until recently, our knowledge of the Gulag came largely from a handful of survivor accounts smuggled out of the Soviet Union decades ago. They were products of their time. During the Cold War, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, laced with moral outrage and bitter sarcasm, was used more often as an ideological cudgel than a historical resource. Now, more than a decade after the fall of Communism, English-speaking audiences can finally look soberly, if not dispassionately, on the long history of forced labour in the Soviet Union. In Gulag: A History, the accomplished journalist Anne Applebaum writes that she has tried to avoid the "emotions and the politics which have long surrounded the historiography of the Soviet concentration camps." Her book is a major achievement on every level -- in research, in judgment, in style. Soviet prison-labour camps might have been born as an "emergency measure in the heat of the civil war" raging in Russia from 1918 to 1921, but Applebaum admits they had considerable "prior appeal." From their earliest days, Lenin's Bolsheviks took delight in forcing Russia's former "exploiting classes" to work. With the end of the civil war, the brutality of the camps flourished. On the northern Solovetsky Islands, Applebaum observes, between one-quarter and one-half of camp inmates may have died each year throughout the 1920s. Prisoners were deliberately crippled, starved or tortured. Some were tied overnight to posts, where mosquitoes would swarm them for hours. Others, perhaps the lucky ones, were executed, seemingly at random. Soviet authorities were appalled -- not by the suffering of the inmates, though, but by the camps' unprofitability. Throughout the 1930s, economic considerations would transform the camps into the defining symbol of Stalin's rule. Mortality rates in the Gulag probably declined under Stalin. His industrialization campaign could only succeed if its hardest workers -- the swelling ranks of the Gulag -- were fed enough to survive. And yet, even though the Gulag was not an automatic death sentence, its reality was misery enough. Applebaum distills the essence of the camp experience through memoirs, documents and interviews. What kinds of fabricated charges might lead to an arrest? How long might one expect to languish in a Soviet prison? What kinds of assaults and outrages might occur on the journey from prison to work camp? And how did inmates survive the camps' starvation-level rations, the casual brutality of the camp guards, the special hell reserved for women and children? Official plans rarely conformed to lived reality. Though prison inmates regularly wallowed in their own filth, Soviet regulations specified that latrine buckets should be 55-60 centimetres high for men, 30-35 centimetres for women, with a capacity of .75 litres per person. Exactingly detailed formulas governed the feeding of prisoners, but, as Applebaum notes, these rations were "not a reliable guide to what prisoners actually ate." One 1940 camp inspection determined that the entire lunch for a labouring convict consisted of water, 130 grams of grain and 100 grams of black bread. The camp cook reported that there had been no deliveries of fish, meat or vegetables. For many recent historians, the worst depravities of Stalinism were a result of such institutional "chaos," rather than any so-called "master plan." Applebaum neatly dismisses such nonsense. "One can have no doubt that the Gulag bosses in Moscow knew -- really and truly knew -- what life was like in the camps: it is all there [in official reports], in language no less frank than that used by Solzhenitsyn." Camp guards were traditionally the dregs of society, often former convicts themselves, carefully indoctrinated in the Soviet ideology of class hatred. The results were not only foreseeable; they were inevitable. "In the end," Applebaum writes, "nobody forced guards to rescue the young and murder the old. Nobody forced camp commanders to kill off the sick. Nobody forced the Gulag bosses in Moscow to ignore the implications of inspectors' reports. Yet such decisions were made openly, every day, by guards and administrators apparently convinced they had the right to make them." Evil on such a scale inevitably draws comparisons with the Holocaust. Few were better qualified to make this judgment than Janusz Bardach, a plastic surgeon who died last year at the age of 83. In his 1998 memoir, Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag, Bardach told the story of his arrest and imprisonment as a Polish-Jewish draftee in the Red Army during the Second World War. After miraculously escaping a death sentence for rolling a Soviet tank, he spent five years in Kolyma. In Surviving Freedom, which was completed just before his death last August, Bardach tells of how he emerged from the camps only to learn that his entire family, including his wife, had been murdered by the Nazis. He travels back to his home town of Wlodzimierz-Wolynski, now cleansed of its Jews, walks through his family's old home and business, sits in his father's old office chair. In a particularly shattering passage, he visits the field where 24,000 Jews, his family among them, were slaughtered. Gazing upon the waves of trenches where their bodies are buried, Bardach quietly gathers stones to mark his family's burial plot. "Even my worst days in the labor camps weren't as bad as life in the ghetto," he reflects on his family's last days. "Although the labor, hunger, cold, filth, and disease decimated prisoners, everyone knew that if he survived his term, he would be free." But evil is measured in terms broader than life and death. And while Bardach's is a success story (he would eventually emigrate to the United States, where he pioneered a surgical procedure for treating cleft palate), Applebaum shows that the Gulag rarely had happy endings. Tens of thousands of children, for instance, were condemned to life in the camps, where they were subjected to horrific abuse. For once, Applebaum's powers of research fail her. She considers posting a newspaper advertisement to interview survivors. "Don't," a friend advises her. "We all know what such people became." It is a legacy that continues to haunt Russia. Slave labour created one of the most imposing structures of sheer power ever known. Whether freedom can build something equally impressive, though more humane, remains to be seen.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34443)	6/18/2005 12:06:09 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 93284

Mary C. Mahoney, 25, murdered at the Georgetown Starbuck's coffee bar over the 4th of July '97 weekend. DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON alamo-girl.com SECTION: REMEMBERING THE DEAD SUBSECTION: Mary C Mahoney Revised 5/10/00 Mary C. Mahoney and Eric Butera Clinton Body Count Coverage on the Web: Mary C. Mahoney, 25, murdered at the Georgetown Starbuck's coffee bar over the 4th of July '97 weekend. She was a former White House intern who worked with John Huang. Apparently she knew Monica Lewinsky and her sexual encounters with Bill Clinton. Although not verified, it has been said that Lewinsky told Linda Tripp that she did not want to end up like Mahoney. - Gennifer Flowers website - Ether Zone Online White House intern Died July 1997 An attractive 25-year-old woman, Mahoney was a former White House intern for Bill Clinton working as the assistant manager at a Starbuck's Coffee shop in Georgetown. Gunmen entered the Starbuck's while the crew was cleaning up after closing. Mahoney's two associates, Aaron Goodrich, 18 and Emory Evans, 25, were taken to a room and shot. Mary herself had five bullets in her, from at least two different guns, most likely with silencers. A total of 10 shots were fired; none of them heard by neighbors in the densely populated Georgetown section. Mahoney was shot in the chest, her face, and in the back of the head. Even though more than $4,000 remained in the store, the police have categorized the triple murder as a robbery, even as they acknowledge the "execution style" killings. There was no sign of forced entry. One report said the cafe was still locked when the bodies were found the next morning. George Stephanopoulos, Monica Lewinsky and Chelsea Clinton were all regulars at the Starbuck's. WorldNetDaily – Western Journalism Center Eric Butera An informant who came forward offering information regarding the murder of White House intern Mary Mahoney. He was then sent into a known crack house to make an undercover buy for the police and was beaten to death. WorldNetDaily – Western Journalism Center [Rebuttal Former White House intern gunned down in a coffee shop. Nothing was taken. It was suspected that she was about to testify about sexual harassment at the White House. Former White House intern Mary Caitrin Mahoney, 25, manager of a Georgetown Starbucks, was killed along with two co-workers (Emory Allen Evans, 25 and Aaron David Goodrich, 18) on 6 July 1997 during what police continue to investigate as a robbery of the shop. In March 1999 Carl Derek Havord Cooper (29) of Washington was arrested and charged with these murders. Yes, it is unusual that three employees were shot in the course of an alleged robbery, yet nothing was taken. However, no evidence has been uncovered to indicate that Mary Mahoney herself was the target of these killings. Perhaps the robber was scared away before he had a chance to grab the loot. Maybe one of Mary's co-workers was the real target. Why Cooper committed these killings is anybody's guess at this point, but there simply is no evidence that Mary was anything but a random victim of a violent crime. And, right away, we have come to the first big lie of the "Clinton Body Count" list: Any unexplained death can automatically be attributed to President Clinton by inventing a connection between him and the victim. Mary Mahoney did once work as an intern at the White House, but so have hundreds of other people who are all still alive. There is no credible reason why, of all the interns who have served in the Clinton White House, Ms. Mahoney alone would be the target of a Clinton-directed killing. (Contrary to public perception, very few interns work in the West Wing of the White House or have any contact with the President. The closest most interns get to the chief executive is a brief handshake or a group photo.) The putative reason offered for Mahoney's slaying -- that she was about to testify about sexual harrassment in the White House -- is a lie. This absurd justification apparently sprang from a hint dropped by Mike Isikoff of Newsweek just before the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke that a "former White House staffer" with the initial "M" was about to talk about her affair with Clinton. We all know now, of course, that the "staffer" referred to was Monica Lewinsky, not Mary Mahoney. The faithful will maintain, of course, that White House hit men rushed out, willy-nilly, and gunned down the first female ex-intern whose name began with "M" they could find. Urban Legends Reference Pages Barbara and David P. Mikkelson Free Republic – Downside Legacy Coverage: Mary Caity Mahoney interned for Doris Matsui. Doris Matsui was the White House official responsible for liaison with the Asian-American community, headed the Asian Pacific American Working Group (APAWG), which coordinated the activities of the White House, the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton-Gore re- election campaign with regard to Asian-Americans. APAWG, one of whose members was John Huang, came up with the plan to raise $7 million from Asian-Americans. Mary Mahoney was killed at a Starbucks. Eric Butera who was an informant in the case was beaten to death in a sting operation. THE WASHINGTON TIMES 3/2/99 Leslie Koren and Jim Keary Freeper Plummz "…Police were questioning a man last night they believe was one of the shooters in the 1997 triple murder at the Georgetown Starbucks coffee shop, sources close to the investigation said. D.C. police, Prince George's police and the FBI arrested Carl Derrick Cooper, 29, as he returned to his home in the 1200 block of Gallatin Street NE on a warrant related to the 1996 robbery and shooting of an off-duty Prince George's County police of ficer in Avondale. Police were questioning Mr. Cooper last night at the FBI office in the 600 block of Fourth Street NW, seeking any information he might have regarding the Starbucks killings, the sources said. He had not been charged in those slayings…." UPI 3/4/99 Freeper chuck allen "…WTOP radio is reporting that 29-year-old Carl Cooper has confessed (Thursday) to his role in the 1997 triple murder of three Starbucks coffee shop employees. Cooper _ arrested earlier this week for attempting to kill a police officer _ reportedly implicated two others in the crime, and police have begun executing search warrants for the suspects…." AP 8/4/99 Derrill Holly "...A man accused of murdering three workers at a Starbucks coffee shop in the trendy Georgetown section of the nation's capital was charged Wednesday with a host of other crimes, including racketeering. Although the District of Columbia has no death penalty, prosecutors indicated they could seek it against Carl Derick Cooper under the federal racketeering charges. A federal grand jury returned a 48-count indictment against Cooper charging him with six armed robberies, the attempted murder of an off-duty police officer in Maryland, a bank robbery and a total of four murders. ``Today's indictment charges Mr. Cooper with leading a small but violent racketeering enterprise,'' said U.S. Attorney Wilma Lewis....." Richard Gooding (of The Star) was not accurate with his (erroneous) reporting of Monica telling Linda Tripp that she did not want to end up like Mahoney - the testimony ultimately revealed that she said she didn't want to end up like Mary Joe Kopekne (of Kennedy fame). – Freeper Steven W. washingtonpost.com ".....Cooper, who has been in custody since March in the Starbucks case, also is accused of killing a security guard in Northwest Washington in 1993 and attempting to kill an off-duty Prince George's County police officer in 1996. Like the July 1997 slayings of three employees at the coffee shop in Northwest Washington, the other violence took place during robberies, prosecutors said........The other killing cited in the indictment took place in May 1993 at an apartment building in the 1100 block of 11th Street NW. Sandy Griffin, a 39-year-old security officer, was on duty in the lobby when Cooper allegedly shot him. The indictment said that Cooper and "another known to the Grand Jury" took Griffin's pistol. …….Prince George's authorities earlier had linked Cooper to the August 1996 shooting of off-duty police officer Bruce Howard, who was accosted at a park in Hyattsville. Howard was shot in the lower back in a crime that the indictment blamed on Cooper and unnamed others. Charges were filed against Cooper in that case earlier this year in Prince George's County..." 8/4/99 United States Attorney Wilma Lewis "…..Chief Charles H. Ramsey of the Metropolitan Police Department announced today that a federal grand jury today returned a 48-count indictment against Carl Derick Cooper, of 1249 Gallatin Street, NW, charging him with leading a racketeering enterprise that, between 1993 and 1997, was responsible for six armed robberies, the attempted murder of an off-duty Prince George's County Police officer, a bank robbery and four murders, including the murder of the three employees at the upper Georgetown Starbucks Coffee shop in July 1997. This indictment grew out of a joint investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in to the July 6, 1997, triple murder at the Starbucks Coffee shop at 1810 Wisconsin Avenue, NW. On the morning of July 7, 1999, the day-shift manager arrived at the coffee shop and found the bodies of the three employees -- Emory Allen Evans, Aaron David Goodrich and Mary Caitrin Mahoney -- who had been on duty the night before. They were lying in rear of the office, and all three had been shot to death. Detectives from the MPDC and special agents from the FBI teamed up to investigate the murders, and their attention ultimately focused on defendant Carl Cooper. The ensuing investigation revealed that defendant Cooper was allegedly responsible for other crimes in addition to the Starbucks murders. Today's indictment charges Cooper with leading a small racketeering enterprise that was dedicated to enriching its members through robbery. According to the indictment, Cooper participated in eight separate racketeering acts -- robberies, attempted robberies, murders and attempted murders -- in Washington, DC, Maryland and Pennsylvania over the course of his membership in the enterprise. Each of these crimes is charged as a racketeering act under the racketeering statute and as a substantive violation of federal and/or District of Columbia criminal law. Defendant Cooper is charged with participation in the following racketeering acts: Racketeering Act One charges Cooper with the May 10, 1993, murder of Special Police Officer Sandy Griffin as he sat at his desk in the lobby of an apartment building at 1107 11th St., NW. According to the indictment, Cooper shot Mr. Griffin to death in the course of stealing his pistol. Racketeering Act Two charges Cooper with the June 4, 1996, armed robbery of the Pizza Italia restaurant at 6511 New Hampshire Ave., in Takoma Park, Md. In that robbery, Cooper and two others are alleged to have entered the Pizza Italia restaurant wearing masks and gloves, and robbed the three employees as they were closing the business for the night. Racketeering Act Three charges Cooper with the August 12, 1996, armed robbery of Christy Bennett and Bruce Howard, the off-duty Prince George's County Police officer, and the attempted murder of Officer Howard in the course of that robbery. That offense occurred in Avondale Park in Hyattsville, Md. Racketeering Act Four charges Cooper with the September 8, 1996 armed robbery of the employees and patrons of the Velvet Touch Massage Parlor in Harrisburg, Pa. Racketeering Act Five charges Cooper with the conspiring to commit the October 1, 1996, robbery of the Chevy Chase Bank, F.S.B., in Bethesda, Md. Although another member of the enterprise committed the actual robbery, Cooper is charged with assisting in the planning or the robbery. Racketeering Act Six charges Cooper with the June 26, 1997, armed robbery of the Rollingcrest-Chillum Community Center. The indictment charges that Cooper walked into the community center by himself, pointed two handguns at the two employees in the office and forced them to fill a bag with approximately $5,000 in cash that he made off with. Racketeering Act Seven charges Cooper with the July 6, 1997 attempted robbery and triple murder at the Starbucks Coffee Shop in upper Georgetown. Although he is charged with conspiring to rob the coffee shop with another person, he is the only person charged with actually carrying out the crime. Racketeering Act Eight charges Cooper with conspiring and attempting to commit armed robberies at the Tire Town store in Beltsville, Md., and the Salon En Vogue hair salon in Hyattsville, Md. Cooper and his associates allegedly drove to those businesses with the intention of robbing them that day, but were unable to carry out their plans. Under this federal indictment, defendant Cooper faces life imprisonment without parole if found guilty of the charges at trial. If convicted on any of the three counts charging him with murder in the course of using a firearm during a crime of violence -- which correspond to each of the three Starbucks murders -- defendant Cooper could face the death penalty. The defendant was to be arraigned on the indictment at 1:45 pm on August 5, 199, before the Honorable Alan Kay, United States Magistrate-Judge……." thebird.org "…..Let's stop right here and have a more sober look. If this be a gang, where are the gang members? Not a single other person has, as yet, been named. Originally, they were telling us that the botched robbery was Cooper s distinguishing M.O., the big thing that the cop shooting and the Starbucks killing, as they have fashioned it, had in common. Now there s just the sort of man you want leading your gang. And the way Cooper let himself be maneuvered into implicating himself in the Starbucks caper doesn t remind one in the least of the shrewd and worldly Edmond, a man who managed to continue running his large drug operation for some time after he had been sent up the river…..I know it s impertinent to ask, but where is the evidence for this Cooper crime spree? We have been told nothing of any of it except some very unconvincing stuff on the Starbucks murders and the cop shooting. Is it possible that they are withholding that from us because it is even weaker than what we have been told they have on him in those two crimes. Is it possible for evidence to be weaker? The evidence against him in the 4 a.m. shooting of the off-duty policeman in a car with his girlfriend in Hyattsville, Md., in 1996, from what we have been able to gather, is that a pistol was found at the scene with fingerprints on it. Were they Cooper s? No. They belonged to someone else, whom the police were able to trace, and that man, who has not been named or charged with anything, implicated Cooper. Then this guy, who must approach Edmond in IQ, really tossed the cops a juicy bone (if the police can be believed on this; a big if) by telling them that the hapless Cooper had mentioned participating in the Starbucks killings. Yes, it s in the Washington Times of March 5, 1999. …… Just think about this for a minute. Of all the numerous crimes with which Cooper has been charged, we have been told of only one solid piece of tangible evidence, a gun with fingerprints on it, and those fingerprints don t belong to Cooper. Rather, the owner of those prints was somehow able to "implicate" Cooper and take the heat off himself, for a one-man robbery, at that. Maybe he s even smarter than Edmond. ......" thebird.org "…..The FBI? Wouldn t you know that they would find an excuse to get in on the act, although neither the police shooting nor the Starbucks killings violates a federal law. But the FBI is, indeed, very much into frame-ups. You can ask former Black Panther activist Geronimo Pratt in California or security guard Richard Jewell in Georgia about that……… ……" thebird.org "….. For its part, The Washington Post is less cautious about the implicated third man. Their front-page headline, below the fold, reads "Detained Man Names 2 Others in Starbucks Case." …….From this article we learn that police were still questioning Cooper 54 hours after he had been brought in for questioning, and he had still not been brought before any judicial officer of the county. "Under Maryland court rules," we are told, "police are required to present a defendant to a court commissioner without unnecessary delay and in no event later than 24 hours after arrest." ….."It's outrageous. I don t care what spin anybody puts on it. I can t think of a set of circumstances where somebody should be held 54 hours and not talk to a lawyer, said Stephen A. Friedman, legal director of the [Prince George s] county chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. It s going to become an issue in the case. The police know if he talks to a lawyer, the discussion will probably end, and they want to keep it going. People are under psychological coercion to cooperate." ……" thebird.org "……. [Cooper] told detectives he parked his car in the rear of the coffee shop and walked into the store about 9 p.m. while the employees were closing up the shop. He admitted to carrying a .38-caliber snub-nosed revolver and a .380 semiautomatic handgun with him. A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation said the front door of the coffee shop was still unlocked when Mr. Cooper arrived and he walked in and pulled his guns. He made her [Miss Mahoney] lock the door, the source said. Mr. Cooper ordered Miss Mahoney to open the safe in the rear office of the store and, when she refused, he fired a shot into the ceiling from the .38 caliber revolver. Miss Mahoney ran from the office and Mr. Cooper caught her in the hallway and shot her with the .380 handgun and then stood over her and shot her in the face and upper body with both guns. An autopsy showed that Miss Mahoney was shot five times. Police say Mr. Cooper then turned toward Mr. Evans and Mr. Goodrich and shot them. Mr. Evans was still alive, so Mr. Cooper shot him twice in the head. When he [Mr. Evans] continued to move and moan, Cooper shot him twice more in the head to put him out of his pain, the affidavit said. ….. thebird.org "…..What can we possibly make of such a story? In the first place, we have to wonder, whether it be true or not, what on earth would have got into Cooper to tell it. After first holding out and dummying up, he then fingers Covington and perhaps someone else, and when that doesn t pan out, we are told that he starts singing like a canary...against himself. Was the man suddenly smitten with a death, or at least a life imprisonment, wish? If he was, it could hardly be greater than the death wish they first told us that Emory Evans had, and now Caity Mahoney……."Their money or your life," is what a menacing armed robber is, in effect, saying when he points a gun at you and tells you to open the company s safe. What unarmed person in his or her right mind would not in that situation respond, in effect, "I am at your service." Surely no one in the management of the Starbucks company would hold it against any employee responding in that way, and Caity Mahoney surely must have known it. I would not be surprised if they have circulated a policy statement to that effect, although it is hardly necessary. It is no more than common sense. No weekend s worth--even a holiday weekend s worth--of store receipts are worth a life, particularly when it s yours. So first they were trying to sell us on the idea that the black guy was nuts, and now they are asking us to swallow that the young female former White House intern was nuts and precipitated her own slaying and the slaying of her young colleagues. thebird.org "…..Then there is the improbable story of the struggle for the keys to the safe. Didn t they tell us from day one that Mahoney would have been the one to open the safe because she was the only one who knew the combination? Now we are to believe that the safe is opened with Mahoney s keys. Finally, there is the matter of the murder weapons. There are lots of bullets for a thorough ballistics test, but, unfortunately, no guns. Not only does the putative Cooper confession tell a highly implausible tale of mayhem in Starbucks, but no one seems to know what happened to the guns. On April 27, 1999, The Washington Times reported that Cooper told police that he had promptly buried the guns on the grounds of a Catholic home for abused and abandoned children and pregnant teenagers in Hyattsville, Maryland, about two blocks from his Gallatin St. NE home in Washington, DC. In February of 1998, after losing a job, he went back to dig them up to use for more robberies, he said, but he could not find them. Prince George s and D.C. police said they searched several places on the property after Cooper s "confession" and were unable to find them, either…….. "Sgt. Gary Cunningham, a Prince George s County police spokesman, said detectives searched the mostly wooded area around St. Anns immediately after Mr. Cooper told police he had buried the guns on the site. " There were several places [Mr. Cooper] said [the guns] were, but they never found them, Sgt. Cunningham said. ……"Sgt. Cunningham said police did not notify St. Anns administrators because nothing was found on the property. ……" Washington Post 10/21/99 Bill Miller ".....The D.C. police department and four of its officers were ordered yesterday to pay nearly $100 million in damages to a woman whose son was slain while working as an informant on the Starbucks triple slaying investigation, the largest jury verdict ever returned against the D.C. government. Terry Butera cried as the jury announced its decision, ending a two-week trial that exposed a host of police lapses...." Washington Times, Metropolitan Section, Page C3 1/20/2000 Jim Keary "…. A lawyer for Carl D. Cooper, the accused killer of three Starbucks employees, argued that his client's confessions should be suppressed because they were coerced by police officers interrogating Mr. Cooper: ….. Mr. Kirsch said Mr. Cooper's statement to police should not be used as evidence in the trial against his client. The admissibility of the statements, which is the main evidence against Mr. Cooper, will be determined by U.S. District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green, who is still hearing arguments on the admissibility of other evidence prosecutors plan to use in the trial….." Newsmax.com 1/23/2000 "…. "I swear on my father's grave and my son's life that I didn't do Starbucks," [Carl Derek] Cooper told the FBI shortly after he admitted his guilt to local police, according to courtroom testimony reported by the Washington Post last week. Now it emerges that Cooper told police several different stories about the Starbucks murders; once blaming an acquaintance for the killings, another time claiming he was merely a lookout. But after 54 hours of questioning, Cooper's lawyer says he buckled….. " Newsmax.com 1/23/2000 "…. The motive in the Starbuck's massacre was supposedly robbery, though none of the $10,000 cash on hand was taken even after Mahoney and her two co-workers were felled by a fusillade of bullets. Casting further doubt on the robbery theory: five of the ten shots fired hit the former Clinton intern, including an execution bullet fired into the back of her head….. " Newsmax.com 1/23/2000 "…. Author David M. Hoffman, who spent a year investigating Mahoney's murder, tells Globe Magazine's Tom Kuncl that the Starbucks massacre came just three days after Monica told Clinton she was going to tell her parents about their relationship. According to Monica Clinton reacted angrily, telling her, "It's a crime to threaten the President." Hoffman's claim is corroborated by the Starr Report…… Hoffman claims to have uncovered new details about Mary Mahoney's time at the White House, which, if true, suggest the White House alum could have played a key role in the Clinton sex scandal despite her own homosexuality: "For many months, Mary, an outspoken lesbian and good hearted den mother for other young White House interns, had been listening to tearful stories from them about alleged sexual passes made at them by Bill Clinton. She'd begun to tell others she planned to do something to help them." Also, reports Hoffman, "a blockbuster piece of gossip swirling through Washington (at the time of Mahoney's death) was based on a columnist's blind item that a former White House intern whose name began with the letter M was about to reveal news of a sexual relationship with Bill Clinton." …"