Tragic plight of America's Whistleblowers.

<body> American Martyrs A Few Of the Many Whistleblowers, Some Who Became Martyrs, Who Suffered Retaliation For Exposing Corruption In Judicial and Other Government Offices FBI agent Richard Taus Reported CIA drug smuggling in Vietnam, drugging American military personnel, which received the usual cover-up. As an FBI agent in New York, he reported CIA drug smuggling with the American Mafia, some of which funded terrorist cells in the New Jersey and New York areas--the same group that bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 (and possibly the same terrorist cells responsible for the September 11, 2001, terrorist hijackings). For continuing to report the CIA drug smuggling when told not to, government prosecutors filed false charges against him. First, he was charged by Justice Department prosecutors with misusing a government credit card to put fuel in his auto (that was used in place of a non-available government vehicle). Then, he was falsely charged with sex offenses with boys, and sentenced to 80 years in prison. He is now in prison at Dannemora, New York. In Vietnam, he was awarded several medals for heroism as a helicopter pilot, and received national publicity for adopting a Vietnamese orphan who now lives in Baldwyn, New York. (Details in the third edition of Defrauding America and Drugging America.) The case of Richard Taus is one of many examples of how war veterans return to the United States to endure tragedies perpetrated upon them by corrupt personnel in the Justice Department and the courts--while other veterans ignore the plight of their former comrades! Lester Coleman, a former journalist who became an undercover agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency, discovered while assigned to Nicosia and Beirut drug smuggling by the DEA and CIA in collaboration with Lebanese and Syrian drug smugglers, which played a role in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. After he revealed his information in an affidavit given in the Pan Am litigation, Justice Department prosecutors falsely charged him with passport violations. His life and that of his family then began years of tragic events. Stephen Crittenden was falsely charged with a criminal offense after he shut down a CIA airline that he headed. He had protested CIA drug smuggling activities. (Details in the third edition of Defrauding America and in Drugging America.) Michael Riconosciuto CIA asset who was falsely charged with a drug offense after he testified to Congress concerning Justice Department personnel involved with the theft of the Inslaw software. He had been warned that if he testified, he would suffer retaliation. (Details in the third edition of Defrauding America.) John Carman. Former inspector for U.S. Customs and former Secret Service agent, sought to report the corruption of people in U.S. Customs. His web site, www.customscorruption.html appears to have motivated Department of Justice officials to charge him with a federal crime. In May 2007, he was arrested and incarcerated on false charges. More are listed at witness list. Former FAA inspector-investigator and author, Rodney Stich. He progressed from whistle-blowing to fighting a David versus Goliath battle that surpasses any known such attempt to expose corruption in government. Over a period of many years, Stich exposed criminal activities related to a series of airline crashes in his area of federal air safety responsibilities. These exposure activities were followed by internal government harassment, threats, retaliation. (Details in Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries.) As he continued his exposure of the air safety and criminal violations, the number of people involved increased as they participated in a cover-up (obstruction of justice), which included federal judges, members of Congress, and others. His exposure activities used his considerable assets to publish books, appear as guest and expert on hundreds of radio and television shows, and extensive investigations. These activities caused many government whistleblowers to provide him with data, documentation on other areas of corruption involving people in key government positions, including federal judges. These areas of corruption included, for instance, evidence of CIA drug smuggling into the United States and its cover-up by Justice Department personnel, federal judges and members of Congress; widespread judicial corruption in the bankruptcy courts; CIA involvement in the savings and loans and other financial scandals. Publicizing these matters resulted in judicial retaliation against him that continued from 1982 to the present date. Highlights of these judicial attacks, which involved criminal acts, conversion of the courts into corrupt arms of government, included for instance: Unlawful and unconstitutional injunctive orders forever barring Stich from federal court access, which included elimination of the protection of the justice system, elimination of the rights and protections under the laws and constitution of the United States, and much more. Seizing Stich's assets that funded his exposure of corruption, violating the statutory and constitutional requirement for a noticed hearing, for a hearing, for cause, and then rendering orders barring him from filing objections. Reasons for barring Stich from federal court access was to block him from reporting these criminal activities to a federal judge as required by the federal crime reporting statute, Title 18 U.S.C. Section 4. This statute requires anyone who knows of a federal crime to promptly report it to a federal judge (or other federal officer). Stich complied with that statute and was charged with criminal contempt of court on the basis that federal judges had voided for him the statutory and constitutional right to federal court access. In another instance, when a federal judge seized and started liquidating the assets that funded Stich's exposure activities, and issued an order barring him the right to file objections, Stich was again charged with criminal contempt of court for filing objections to the unlawful and unconstitutional seizure of his assets. Another reason for barring access to federal courts was that a San Francisco law firm, a front for the Central Intelligence Agency and a key member of the ACLU, commenced a sham lawsuit against Stich that targeted the same assets that funded his exposure of the criminal activities implicating key government personnel. That lawsuit was barred, and violated, dozens of California and federal statutes, rules of court, Supreme Court decisions, and fundamental constitutional rights and protections. Despite these protections, California judges aided and abetted the law firm carrying out this scheme. Stich then exercised his rights under federal law to file a lawsuit in the federal courts under the Civil Rights Act and Declaratory Judgment Act that specifically addressed these violations of federally protected rights. These federal causes of action guaranteed him federal court access and relief. Instead of providing relief, federal judges then protected those who had been openly and repeatedly violating federally protected rights. By their actions in aiding and abetting the violations of the laws and Constitution they were entrusted to uphold and protect, Stich acquired additional federal causes of action guaranteeing him the right to file other lawsuits. To block Stich from exercising these rights, and to block him from reporting the criminal activities that he and his group of government whistleblowers discovered, federal judges rendered unlawful and unconstitutional injunctive orders voiding for Stich, for the remainder of his life, access to the federal courts and the protections under our democracy form of government. These orders voiding for Stich the due process protections available to every one else, including illegal aliens, were accompanied by judicial acts against Stich that inflicted great and irreparable personal and financial harm upon him, for which he had no access to federal courts or the protections under law. Supreme Court Justices became implicated in these criminal acts that also converted the federal courts into a corrupt arm of government. All of the above, and more, are documented in judicial records and described in the third edition of Defrauding America, with greater details on the early stages described in the third edition of Unfriendly Skies. These documented acts of judicial anarchy could serve as a platform for any responsible group to expose the corruption in the federal courts that have received virtually no publicity, and which are undermining the rights and protections under the laws and Constitution of the United States. As detailed in other pages on this web site, the federal judges involved were guilty of numerous criminal offenses under federal criminal statutes, including for instance, Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2, 3, 4, 241, 1505, 1510, 1512, and others. Evidence supporting these statements are in judicial records, and present an unprecedented opportunity for anyone concerned about corruption in government, including the even less known judicial corruption, to be attacked, and corrupt personnel and judges impeached, prosecuted and removed from their key government positions. These matters are inflicting great harm upon many people, most of whom don't recognize or understand the behind-the-scene events. These corrupt individuals are inflicting great harm upon the internal security of the United States, as described in the various books by Rodney Stich. It is certainly time for anyone with any degree of concern for the country and for others to start helping to expose this corruption and force corruptive actions. The system is too corrupt to do it by itself. It is up to those few people with courage and a sense of responsibility. Who Else Pays the Consequences Of the Retaliation? All America suffers the consequences from the corrupt acts of the people perpetrating the criminal activities described in the books, and from the cover-ups by members of Congress, most of the broadcast and print media, and the cover-ups and retaliation by judges and Justice Department lawyers-prosecutors. And who makes these conditions possible? The American form of Pontius Pilates who hide behind their self-righteousness and act as if these matters are of no concern to them and that they do not have any moral and legal responsibility to help: most of the American public! The success of hijackers on September 11, 2001, was made possible by the corruption which these whistleblowers tried to expose. Plight of Whistleblowers Against High-Level Corruption There should be another name for those foolish people in government who attempt to protect the people and the country who seek to report and expose corruption of those in key government positions who have control of all forms of retaliatory power. What is needed is meaningful legislation that corrupt judges cannot make meaningless. The judges of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a May 30, 2006, decision that government power can be used to retaliate against anyone in government exposing corruption, and that includes corruption subverting the United States. That decision is known as Garcetti v. Ceballos, 128 S.Ct. 1951. In 2007, the Senate was ready to vote on a whistleblower bill to provide protection to government whistleblowers, but Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma raised objections, and the vote was blocked. By a very undemocratic rule, any senator can raise objection to further vote on a bill. (A prior Oklahoma senator, Senator David Boren, chairman of the aviation subcommittee, also blocked actions that would result in many preventable airline tragedies, as detailed in the book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries.) Stich ran into this while he was a federal air safety agent as a vote was about to be taken to investigate the FAA. That one vote kept the lid on the scandal that had already taken many lives, and would take many more in the years ahead. Upon hearing of Senator Coburn's action, Stich sent a letter to him, with copies to the other members of the Senate judiciary committee, objecting to the hold and giving examples of how urgent the legislation was. (MS Word) (Adobe PDF) Are Present or Former Government Agents Agent Fools for Attempting to Protect Americans? The facts show that the answer to that is an obvious "yes!" In instance after instance, and as shown in the books, those government agents knowingly endured great personal and financial harm. For some, their noble efforts resulted in death of life in prison. They foolishly sought to inform the public of the Trojan horse-type of corruption responsible for many forms of human tragedies, and for subverting the country. They faced, by themselves the wrath of those in control of great government power that would be used against them. Each of them thought that the American public would respond, and that at least one of the many government and non-government checks and balances would protect them. If nothing else, they are America's unsung and ignored martyrs. Email address for the author and activist against corruption in government: stich@unfriendlyskies.com. For more information relating to the author and his activities put "Rodney Stich" into a search engine such as Google or yahoo.com. The links run into many tens of thousands. Download DVD videos from amazon to rent or to buy, onto your Windows XP operation system computer. For more information, click here. 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