Comments on: Secretive U.S. Prison Units Used to House Muslim, Animal Rights and Environmental Activists

By: stephen doherty

stephen doherty — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:50:14 +0000

Good piece. I'm glad that someone is exposing what our alleged justice system truly consists of. Believe me, I know. I was there. Not in a CMU. I never heard of them before.
But I was in Marion back in the 80s. Back when they were trying to keep me away from the courts.
Which brings me to another element that should be added to any attempts to reform the criminal justice system. That is, how many people are in prison for crimes that they did not commit. And, in some cases, actually framed. I know, because I was one of them.
I was framed for a murder, by Massachusetts' alleged justice system, i.e. a politically ambitious district attorney named William Delahunt, (who's now a United States Congressman), a state trooper who lied and hid evidence, and a judge who not only let them get away with it, but also pitched in and contributed to the aforementioned collaborators underhanded tactics. It took me 20 years to prove this because, every time I discovered new evidence, the Department of Correction shipped me out of state to federal penitentiaries. And, every time the courts ordered me back to Massachusetts, the DOC kept me locked in the hole, without even charging me with any disciplinary violations. I did about ten years in the feds and ten years in the hole, coincidentally, the two most challenging places to be able to do legal work and overturn a wrongful conviction.
This case is a textbook example of how the system can be manipulated and abused through the combined efforts of an ambitious prosecutor/politician, unethical or overzealous police work, a judge who allows them to do anything they want, and certain elements of the media who find it to their advantage to parrot what the prosecutors, or the cops, tell them and report it as fact. Of course, the suppliers of the information are usually identified as “informed sources” and the “facts” are always prefaced with “allegedly”.
My point is, I am far from being the only one who was framed, that taxpayers are spending millions of dollars to keep locked up. I've just written a book in which I detail and document everything stated above. If you want like, you could check my book's website, www.bumbeefed.com, where I name some of the other people who've been framed. In one of those cases, in which the FBI, including J. Edgar Hoover, knew that they framed four guys for a murder, they hid so much evidence that a congressional COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM ordered them to turn it over. Then Bush stepped in and invoked 'Executive Privilege', which let them continue to hide it. I wonder if Congress ordered it again, President Obama would let the truth come out.

By: Will Potter

Will Potter — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:26:55 +0000

@Starchild:

Thanks for the comment. As to the latter part, the name of the blog is an allusion to the Red Scare of the 40s and 50s, and using the term “communist” to demonize groups of people and instill fear. The same thing is going on now, labeling people as “terrorists” in order to attack the environmental movement. (Hence “green” is the new “red”).

By: Starchild

Starchild — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:56:52 +0000

Thanks for publicizing this — one more small but disturbing move in the trend toward the U.S. becoming a police state. And no, I have no faith in Obama stopping these policies; both establishment political parties are complicit in increasing the size, scope, and power of government at the expense of civil liberties and economic freedom.

The title “Communication Management Unit” is troubling enough in itself. Government should not be allowed to restrict media or public access to prisoners beyond the minimum required to maintain security.

Speaking of titles though, what’s up with the title of this blog? Tying the environmental movement to Marxism just gives it a bad name.

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By: Ylanne

Ylanne — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:50:42 +0000

Why is Rafil Dhafir even in prison? Why would America imprison someone for helping those people who might have died without him? What happened to service to others?!

By: stephen doherty

stephen doherty — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:56:35 +0000

Good piece. I’m glad that someone is exposing what our alleged justice system truly consists of. Believe me, I know. I was there. Not in a CMU. I never heard of them before.
But I was in Marion back in the 80s. Back when they were trying to keep me away from the courts.
Which brings me to another element that should be added to any attempts to reform the criminal justice system. That is, how many people are in prison for crimes that they did not commit. And, in some cases, actually framed. I know, because I was one of them.
I was framed for a murder, by Massachusetts’ alleged justice system, i.e. a politically ambitious district attorney named William Delahunt, (who’s now a United States Congressman), a state trooper who lied and hid evidence, and a judge who not only let them get away with it, but also pitched in and contributed to the aforementioned collaborators underhanded tactics. It took me 20 years to prove this because, every time I discovered new evidence, the Department of Correction shipped me out of state to federal penitentiaries. And, every time the courts ordered me back to Massachusetts, the DOC kept me locked in the hole, without even charging me with any disciplinary violations. I did about ten years in the feds and ten years in the hole, coincidentally, the two most challenging places to be able to do legal work and overturn a wrongful conviction.
This case is a textbook example of how the system can be manipulated and abused through the combined efforts of an ambitious prosecutor/politician, unethical or overzealous police work, a judge who allows them to do anything they want, and certain elements of the media who find it to their advantage to parrot what the prosecutors, or the cops, tell them and report it as fact. Of course, the suppliers of the information are usually identified as “informed sources” and the “facts” are always prefaced with “allegedly”.
My point is, I am far from being the only one who was framed, that taxpayers are spending millions of dollars to keep locked up. I’ve just written a book in which I detail and document everything stated above. If you want like, you could check my book’s website, http://www.bumbeefed.com, where I name some of the other people who’ve been framed. In one of those cases, in which the FBI, including J. Edgar Hoover, knew that they framed four guys for a murder, they hid so much evidence that a congressional COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM ordered them to turn it over. Then Bush stepped in and invoked ‘Executive Privilege’, which let them continue to hide it. I wonder if Congress ordered it again, President Obama would let the truth come out.

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Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:16:00 +0000

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By: Will Potter

Will Potter — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:44:24 +0000

Steve:
You’re right, Marion has been there quite a while. However, just to be clear, the CMU is a distinct facility within the larger Marion prison. Best, Will