From Partnership for Civil Justice
The charges against Ray McGovern have been dropped and the government has decided not to proceed with its prosecution. Mr. McGovern, age 71, was subjected to an outrageous and abusive arrest, which left him bruised and bleeding.
He had been standing silently with his back turned to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she delivered her address on Feb. 15 at George Washington University, in which she insisted other governments around the world not stifle free expression.
McGovern was an Army officer and CIA analyst for almost 30 years. He was among the first to expose the corruption of intelligence to “justify” the ongoing wars. He was wearing a Veterans for Peace T-shirt at the time of his arrest.
“The Constitution lives. I am hugely grateful for the widespread condemnation of the brutal treatment I encountered two weeks ago for exercising my First Amendment rights. It strikes me as an empowering example of what we can do together in standing for Justice and against the violence of war. If Defense Secretary Robert Gates is spared arrest when he acknowledges the folly of committing U.S. troops to a land war in Asia, we too should be spared arrest and brutality at the hands of those for whom the Constitution is merely a piece of paper,” stated Mr. McGovern.
“This outrageous arrest laid bare the hypocrisy of Clinton’s presentation about free speech and free expression. While lecturing other governments, she never even paused while Mr. McGovern was brutally hauled out right in front of her and arrested while peacefully and silently expressing dissent,” stated Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, one of Mr. McGovern’s attorneys at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, which is representing Mr. McGovern.
Since Ray McGovern’s arrest, there has been a huge outpouring of support from people of conscience all over the country and widespread coverage in the alternative media in defense of free speech rights.
Mr. McGovern and his attorneys at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund are evaluating his next legal options.
This article first appeared on Partnership for Civil Justice.
Great article, and nice post, Jeanne!
Ray is a TRUE Patriot who often goes on The Alex Jones Radio Show (www.infowars.com) to speak out against the elitist banksters, their puppets, and their pyschopathic dream of a “new world order”. Everybody should REALLY give Alex Jones a chance.
His documentaries are like InfoBombs dropped on the corporate beast-machine, SO MAKE DVD COPIES OF THEM TO HAND OUT TO EVERYBODY, PLEASE!
This is a VERY effective method of manifesting the Great Awakening of Humanity!
We WILL take our Future back!!!
For Truth, Peace, Liberty and Justice…
KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT!!!
When the Patriot’s (PATOOHEY!) Act was passed by a TREASONOUS CONGRESS, THAT WAS THE TIME to bring up the Constitution of the United States of America, signed by every single member of the armed forces, every single member of Congress, the President, and all members of all 3 branches of the American government, SWEARING OATHS TO DEFEND AND PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO HAS SIGNED ITS CONTINUATION, INCLUDING OBAMA, OF THE PATRIOT’S (PATOOHEY) ACT – IS GUILTY OF TREASON. EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF THE ARMED FORCES IS GUILTY OF TREASON BY NOT DEFENDING THE NATION AGAINST A TREASONOUS PRESIDENT (bushbaby WAS THEN/STILL IS NOW an INTERNAL ENEMY) SO WHY DID NOT ALL THESE OATH-TAKERS REMEMBER THAT THEY DID NOT TAKE OATHS TO DEFEND/PROTECT THE PRESIDENT, THEY DID NOT TAKE OATHS TO DEFEND/PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THEY DID NOT TAKE OATHS TO BE THE POLICEMAN OF THE WORLD, THEY DID NOT TAKE OATHS TO ASSIST IN DEMOCRACY EFFORTS ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD. “WE THE PEOPLE” are first and foremost C-I-T-I-Z-E-N-S WHO THEN TAKE AN OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION – NOT THE STATUS QUO! If you want to scream TREASON, look to all of the above and scream it at the top of your lungs but don’t stop screaming until that abominable blight which made OLD GLORY NULL AND VOID AS OF 2003 IS OBLITERATED -BY REPEALING THE ACCURSED PATRIOT’S (PATOOHEY!) ACT! THEN, HOLD THE SUPREME COURT OPEN TO CHARGES ONTO ITSELF FOR INVOLVING ITSELF IN CIRCUMVENTING THE ELECTORAL PROCESS TO PUT bushbaby IN THE WHITE HOUSE – WHICH WAS A PATENTLY ILLEGAL ACT OF THE SUPREME COURT OVER WHICH IT HAD NO LEGAL AUTHORITY WHATSOEVER. When our own Congress (out of despicable fear) commits TREASON OUT OF REPREHENSIBLE 9/11 COWARDICE, then throws out the Constitution “just to protect our sorry asses”, and our own Supreme Court COMMITS A SUPREMELY ILLEGAL ACT – EVERYTHING ELSE WHICH HAS OCCURRED SINCE THEN HAS HINGED UPON — ALLOWED TREASON AND ILLEGALITY to pave the way for every single act of abomination bushbaby has committed against America, including every single atrocity which the illegal and immoral bushbaby war has caused, including myriad abuses of law, seizing oil for his family’s own reserves and destroying every legal protection on the books to protect our own nation from the DOMINO EFFECT OF NOW internal abuse and destruction by-or-of every level of government – which can no longer be denied by anyone.
BACK UP EVERYBODY! ADMIT TO YOURSELVES WHERE TRUE TREASON BEGAN, WHERE IT CONTINUES TO FLOURISH -WHICH- EVERY PISS RED-WHITE-BLUE YAHOO AMERICAN IS STILL OBLIVIOUS TO – whistleblowers just push over your WWII nostalgic applecart image of your nation (with mom and apple pie sitting inside) while you desperately banty-rooster strut … clinging to NAIVETE and INNOCENCE like you did your blankey as a baby. WHISTLEBLOWERS LIKE RAY MCGOVERN ARE THE TRUE PATRIOTS WHO (AFTER SERVING HIS COUNTRY FOR 30 YEARS) HAD ENOUGH COURAGE TO PROTEST WHEN THE GOV/MILITARY CONSPIRE, THEN COMMIT FLAGRANT LIES AND HEINOUS ABUSES NOT ONLY IN FRONT OF FELLOW AMERICANS, BUT THE ENTIRE WORLD. THE WILLFULLY IGNORANT YAHOO AMERICAN DEFINES TRUE PATRIOTISM AS BLIND OBEDIENCE – PERIOD. THIS IS WHY THERE ARE LITERALLY 2 AMERICAS: THE 150 MILLION WILLFULLY IGNORANT AMERICANS AND THE 150 MILLION WHO KNOW THAT TRUE DEMOCRACY ONLY EXISTS WHEN WE THE PEOPLE WATCH OUR GOV LIKE WE DO OUR KIDS – SO THEY DON’T COMMIT MISCHIEF OR DESTRUCTION.