Edgar J. Steele
A coup has taken place – and right under our noses.
Tue Jun 24 23:52:33 2003
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Barnes Review/American Free Press Conference,
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EXCERPTS:

"Bottom line: the politically incorrect are going to jail in record numbers, often for trivial or trumped-up charges...and they quite simply can’t get justice in America today.

"The media is totally under the control of the politically correct today – the 'inner party,' if you will... George Orwell’s fantasy has become the media’s reality.

"A coup has taken place – and right under our noses.
"The Patriot Bill was passed by Congress without even being read by any legislator.
"Tomorrow’s police state already has been established – just go down to your local airport to see it in action.
"Tomorrow’s police state already has been established – just go down to your local airport to see it in action.
"We have a financial system on the verge of collapse and all we hear are lies from our government, Wall Street, corporate America and the media.
" We prohibit the mention of Christ in our schools, yet our children are instructed in Islam and homosexuality.
"American borders are kept wide open to a flood of illegal immigrants, purposely, apparently to dilute the population, thereby making us more easily controlled.
"Movies and TV depict an America that doesn't exist…that never existed, except in the wishful thinking of warped leftists, sexual deviates, cultural communists, globalists, neoconservatives and other assorted control freaks.

"What I advocate is being prepared and awakening others to what is coming.

"It will be up to us to pick up the pieces. For now, we must awaken the others."

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Injustice for All
By Edgar J. Steele

Thank you – it is an honor to be invited to speak to you.

I have become known for taking hopeless cases involving the politically incorrect. Used to be, there weren’t that many, but it has turned into a flood today. I can’t even keep track of all that crop up these days.

These cases bode ill for every single person in this room, indeed, everybody throughout America today, particularly for our ability to speak out as we are doing in this conference.

For example, back in Idaho recently I tried a case I have dubbed Say the N-word, Go to Jail, wherein a black man who assaulted and physically injured a white woman in the presence of her husband was never charged with anything.

But the white woman’s husband was.

He faced five years in prison under a hate crime charge because he hurled the N-word at the back of the black man as he fled.

Convicted of a lesser offense, the husband was sentenced to a week in jail. We are appealing that right now.

The jury convicted because the white couple was politically incorrect: poor, white and on the wrong side of a racial insult.

Another case I tried just this past year involved a young couple whose children were taken from them on an anonymous tip by Child Protective Services while the family was visiting Oregon , allegedly due to criminal mistreatment. The kids were skinny, you see – the family was vegetarian - and one girl had a small cut on her forehead.

They refused to cooperate for several months, because they felt they had done nothing wrong, so CPS said it would adopt out the kids.

Now, these folks were home-schooling Christians. At trial, the state made a big point of having found a copy of the Declaration of Independence taped to the inside wall of the converted bus that served as the family’s home...that this was evidence of the parents being antigovernment.

The parents took their children back from the State at gunpoint and fled the state. Tried for kidnapping, robbery and lesser charges, the wife received 7 ½ years and her husband 12 ½ years. Under state law, those are minimums – without any sort of early release possible.

Again, these folks were politically incorrect: poor, white, vegetarian, home-schooling Christians.

A similar case with which I was briefly involved two years ago saw an Idaho widow jailed, allegedly for mistreating her kids. Again, the kids were home schooled and skinny – again, the family was vegetarian.

The children and the family dogs were in a highly publicized 1-week standoff with sheriff’s deputies in the county where I live in Idaho , after they witnessed their mother’s arrest.

She lost her kids and her home.

She was politically incorrect, of course: poor, white, vegetarian, home schooling and distrustful of government.

Now I see a move to try to declare homes unfit if children are being home schooled.

Next you will see children being taken because the families are Christians. Indeed, that was one of the justifications for Waco , you know.

Two years ago, I tried a case for Richard Butler, founder and head of the Aryan Nations in Hayden , Idaho .

In that case, three borderline derelicts that Butler allowed to stay on his property in exchange for yard work went racing off late one night, chasing after two people they believed had just taken a shot at the compound buildings in the dark.

These fellows shot out a rear tire of the car they were pursuing, running it into a ditch.

Morris Dees and the SPLC came to town for what the judge insisted was “just another personal injury case.” Nothing could have been further from the truth.

This was a free speech case – they were out to silence Butler , pure and simple.

You simply don’t get more politically incorrect than Butler , of course. Because of that, though the two occupants of the car run into the ditch had no medical bills, the jury awarded $6.5 million against Butler , forcing him into bankruptcy and taking his home away from him.

Just last month, the US Supreme Court dealt free speech another mortal blow when it ruled, in Virginia vs. Black, that states may outlaw cross burning.

The Council of Conservative Citizens asked me to submit an “amicus curiae” brief to the US Supreme Court, arguing against the position now adopted. I was happy to oblige.

The court’s ruling flies directly in the face of a long line of flag desecration rulings, which hold that flag burning is symbolic speech, thus deserving of First Amendment protection.

So, too, is cross burning a form of symbolic speech, of course.

Thus the court advances the frontier of American thought crime yet another notch.

Ask yourself: If you don't "hate," can you still burn a cross?

How does one divine your secret intent to intimidate others while you perform your symbolic speech of cross burning in your own back yard?

Is this like saying the N-word, which is okay if you're black, but now a hate crime if you're white?

Can the new law properly be called "Burning While White?"

Talk about racial profiling!

Since what is being punished ostensibly is one’s evil intent, what if I harbor the evilest of intents and burn, say, a lawn chair? Do I still go to jail?

Few will dispute that cross burning is ugly behavior. But, it is just the sort of ugliness in which true beauty resides - the beauty of free speech.

Too bad that, as a society, we have yet to mature to the point where we see real beauty regardless of the context.

And there are lots of other cases, just like these that I have mentioned, going on in America right now – thousands and thousands of them.

Some involve known public figures, always politically incorrect.

Though it isn't being reported as such in the media, there is a roundup taking place of those who dare to speak out against the current Administration, usually on bogus charges.

The most visible arrest lately has been that of Matt Hale, head of the World Church of the Creator, taken down on what appear to be manufactured charges of soliciting the murder of a judge sitting on a copyright case in which his organization has been involved.

A judge who, incredibly enough, has since ordered that the church's bibles be destroyed.

Hardly anybody agrees with or approves of Hale. Most dismiss his church as being no church at all, but merely an excuse to vent racial hatred. That is not the point.

Hale disagrees with and criticises the policies of the American government and that is the point.

Hale is being held in solitary confinement, with nobody, including his father and lawyers, allowed to see him.

All letters to him being returned.

They are treating Matt Hale as a domestic terrorist under the Patriot Act.

Picked up just a few weeks ago was Ernst Zundel, a Canadian expatriate who had been living in Tennessee with his American wife.

Zundel was central to a notable hate speech trial in Canada years ago, which he lost when the court ruled that he was a "Holocaust denier," merely because he took issue, in writing, with many of the claims made by jews concerning the Holocaust.

It didn't matter that Ernst proved his points to be correct.

What mattered was that Ernst Zundel disagreed with the Canadian government.

What matters now is that he disagreed with the American government regarding many things. His crime? He missed a visa hearing of which he swears he never received notice.

We all should have the right to be wrong.

Society needs people who dispute the historical record. After all, some of these people may be right.

If spreading false information is a crime, as Ernst Zundel is accused of doing, shouldn't we also lock up the Administration officials who lied to us about Iraq ’s weapons of mass destruction?

A lady running something called the Aryan Baby Drive , which collected children's clothing for free distribution, solely to needy white people, was recently arrested in Southern California .

Government agents found a couple of things - things that probably are in your garage right now - things they said could be used in the manufacture of a bomb.

What were they doing in her garage in the first place?

Well, she had been openly critical of the government. Worse, she blatantly discriminated in favor of the white race.

Recently, David Duke worked out a plea bargain whereby he just started a year’s worth of hard time, allegedly for embezzling contributions.

The facts literally do not hold water in his case, but he didn't dare go before a jury on any charge, because a conviction was certain, simply because of who he is.

Chester Doles is a state-level organizer for the National Alliance, founded by the late Dr. William Pierce.

Chester is in jail today, awaiting trial on federal gun charges, charged with being a 'felon in possession of a firearm' though he owned no firearms and though he is not a felon.

It's because of an old misdemeanor conviction -- and because one of his family members owned guns -- that the Joint Terrorism Task Force has charged Chester, who now faces up to ten years in prison.

He really was arrested because of his politically-incorrect beliefs, of course.

I had never lost a case at trial until I got involved with politically-incorrect cases like these – they have opened my eyes to the prejudice of judges and juries.

Bottom line: the politically incorrect are going to jail in record numbers, often for trivial or trumped-up charges...and they quite simply can’t get justice in America today.

And they can't afford lawyers, either, which is why I have had to handle the vast majority of mine pro bono...because I believe in the issues involved.

The “Ghosts of Mississippi” was a film about the shooting of black civil rights activist, Medgar Evers, and the ensuing prosecution and conviction in 1994 of Byron De La Beckwith.

De La Beckwith had been tried twice in the 60’s – twice walking free because of hung juries.

It took a change in the times to convict him. A change in political correctness.

The movie would have you believe that, in the time leading up to the trial, the prosecutor’s family members were threatened by white supremacists, so he sent them away.

That never happened. I found that particularly ironic, however, because it did happen to me in the Aryan Nations case.

In the weeks leading up to that trial, my little children received death threats from a woman with a decidedly Jewish accent.

I personally received many death threats, among them one from Mark Wiles, lead henchman for Irv Rubin’s Jewish Defense League.

You can go to my web site and hear some of these threats for yourself, because many were left on my family’s answering machine.

I sent my family away for several weeks prior to that trial and slept with a .45 automatic, which I carried with me at all times I wasn't actually in court.

Any time one of these cases goes to court, the defendants are losers going in, due to media vilification and bias on the part of prosecutors, judges and juries.

Note that these cases always involve political conservatives, usually Christians, often home schoolers, always poor, always white, often outspoken regarding race or the shortcomings of the current Administration.

Is there even one person here today who does not at least partially fit that description?

Freedom of speech and religion are both on their way out, make no mistake.

The Kennedy Federal Hate Crime bill, killed in the Senate last year, will be back.

Bush and Ashcroft have declared their critics to be traitors and warn the rest of us to watch what we say.

The media is totally under the control of the politically correct today – the “inner party,” if you will.

George Orwell’s fantasy has become the media’s reality.

Whites are depicted as stupid and racist, while blacks are both noble and witty.

Homosexuality is a desirable lifestyle, Christians are narrow-minded bigots and Patriots are traitors.

Orwell was right, you know. It was just his timing that was off.

Orwell said, "War is Peace" – Today, we have perpetual war to "keep the peace."

War is peace now.

Orwell said, "Freedom is Slavery" – Today, we yield our civil liberties in the name of domestic security.

Freedom is slavery now.

Orwell said, "Ignorance is Strength" – Today, we accuse those who merely ask questions of being unpatriotic.

Ignorance is strength now.

Orwell's "Ministry of Peace" waged war -- Our Defense Department conducts nonstop wars that we start.

And we have gone beyond even George Orwell with our language of Newspeak.

There is nothing conservative these days about conservatives.

Now, conservative means bigger government and more control (not less, the classic definition of conservative).

Since the Republicans took power in Congress nearly ten years ago, federal spending has gone up 60%. 60%!

And there is nothing liberal about liberals any more - who fall over one another to surrender personal freedom.

Many today do not realize that liberal used to mean favoring personal freedom and liberty.

Racial diversity requires that everyone think the same.

We destroy countries in order to save them – as in Afghanistan .

We kill foreign civilians in order to liberate them – as in Iraq .

We allow the Homeland Security Department to arrest our fellow citizens so that we might feel safe and secure.

It is our Child Protective Services that facilitate wholesale child kidnapping, abuse, rape and murder.

We support and create totalitarianism, then call it democracy, both at home and abroad.

Antisemites, in truth, have become simply those of us who are hated by jews.

A great many Christians have become singularly unChristian toward those with whom they disagree.

There are none so intolerant as those who preach tolerance.

The term “media” used to mean an honest newspaper, truthful reporting on the radio and, especially, books! Everyone read them.

Today, reading is reserved for the tabloids, People magazine, romance novels and TV Guide.

Used to be, Dad worked and mom was