Michael Kelley Needs Our Help......
"In every city and countryside across America our citizens are being held hostage by unconstitutional laws and the political powers that wield them. Everyone knows this. The fears that now drive the mainstream (aka: our neighbors) keep 90% of our body politic from 'getting involved'; covertly terrorized that by any measure of outspokenness (ie: putting a political endorsement sign in their front yard or signing a petition) they will upset their own apple-cart, making them subject to politically-motivated scrutiny and community/cultural shunning.
And of course they are right. This is a consequence of rallying the flag of liberty when the mainstream is suffering what I would call "Injustice De-sensitivity Syndrome". As you said on http://www.justicefortracy.com/index.html "Many people in his town and even family find it easier to believe the police would not make such a big mistake." And I would post this on Tracy's website along with a link to http://www.gozarks.com/thecommittee"
Free Mike Kelley
FREE MIKE KELLEY (June 22, 2008) sign the petiton to
FREE MIKE KELLEY NOW!!!
First and foremost, remember that Michael C. Kelley has NOT been found guilty of ANY CRIME. He is ALLEGED to have done a misdeed. Yet being innocent until proven guilty in a court of law has put him $20,000 in debt and he's been rotting in jail since May 9. To update those of you who have wondered and suggested, yes... I have it on my list to meet with my political reps. I went to the FBI last week and was told straight-out that they have no intention of getting involved with Mike's case or helping me protect my family against the vile threats against us by the evil Daniel Watts.
This week I will (again) be taking off time from work (God bless my employer who is tremendously supportive) to do legal research requested by Mike's atty and to compile a petition/complaint itemizing the list of allegations that The Committee brings to the table, challenging actions of the people who have trumped-up all this awful stuff against Mike...
And after I have that in writing, I'll be posting it here and sending it out to a long list of folks.
In general, things with Mike remain unchanged. He is still being detained in the Pulaski County Jail. Yesterday I again made the (approx) 200 mile round trip to Little Rock for my weekly 30min visitation with Mike and the conditions he is forced to endure really piss me off.
I note with annoyance on the news that we quibble about whether or not to close Guantanamo and whether non-US citizens are 'entitled' to the protection of habeas corpus, yet we have a bona fide political prisoner -- jailed simply to shut him up, without conviction of any crime -- right here in our own backyard.
As you can tell, I'm on a rant about this as I have been for months and shall continue to be until this unconstitutional injustice is eradicated.. I am weary of everyone just accepting this kind of 'business as usual' (see Email from a friend), taking the 'easy way out' by professing that there is nothing that can be done about it. Poppycock!!!
On related asides, I noted very happily that Jeff Pistole trounced Terry Kirkendol in the June 10 JP runoff election by a margin of nearly 2 to 1, and believe this is emphatically attributable to the bit about the Auditor’s report on the serious problems with our Sheriff's office finally making newsprint before the runoff election took place.
You will recall, I’m sure, that T. Kirkendol was one of the Justices of the Peace who joined with 20th Judicial District Prosecutor Marcus Vaden and others in the ridicule of The Committee at the Quorum Court meeting when Mike insisted on a public review of the State Audit Reports which found the VBC Sheriff's office to be in violation of the law on serious fiduciary matters and the County Judge evicted us under threat of police escort. I am certain the same political fate would have befallen Sheriff Bradley and others had the State Audit info appeared in a more timely manner… most especially had attribution for first and correctly raising the issue been credited to The Committee as should have been done.
Had that happened, this whole mess with Mike would have been history now… and I am f*cking tired of everyone dragging their feet and allowing the evil status quo to stand while Mike Kelley tuffs it out in jail... standing up for everyone's constitutional rights!!!
For another example, consider that the Van Buren County Democrat has, this week, taken to publishing our Sheriff's self-promotional propaganda on the front page, authored by no one other than CID Lt. Wesley Potts, who just happens to be the same Wesley Potts whose little brother, Jason Potts, 26, of Conway, was arrested back on February 1 of this year by Clinton Police for possessing a total of 4.19 grams of a 'white powder substance', a bag with a 'green leafy substance', rubber tubing, baggies, $50 in cash, a pocket knife, etc, etc, so on and so forth, while sitting outside of the baseball field at Clinton Schools.
After being transported to Cleburne County jail for violating the terms of his probation (probation revocation -- same thing Mike is in jail for right now) as the young Mr. Potts had previously been arrested for other drug related offenses, Jason Potts was released from jail within the day because of communications between his older brother (the 'law enforcement officer' <ha>) Wesley Potts and prosecutors, who were able to get a judge to lift Jason's probation hold and get the cop's little brother released 'on his own recognizance' (ie: without a penny of bond) that same afternoon.
To which I can only ditto the words of the person who provided this information: Bullshit. A guy trying to sell smack to kids on a school premise should be locked up, especially after a second offense. Any Joe Blow would surely have had their probation revoked. They would have locked me up and thrown away the key, but then I don't have a brother with the Sheriff's Office.
Isn't it time for YOU to get angry about all of this? ~Christine
FREE MIKE KELLEY NOW!!!
FREE MIKE KELLEY (May 23, 2008) I am deeply grieved to report that Mike Kelley remains in jail. Also that I was supposed to be able to visit with him tomorrow (Saturday) and just now found out that due to my not understanding (or their not explaining) the particulars of 'the rules' for jail visitation, that visit has been denied... was never scheduled, actually... even tho my understanding was that it had been calendared since Tuesday of this week. All of which factually enrages me because this is simply another instance of 'the criminal justice system' NOT working to serve all of the people...
Of course it did serve the jail administrators who scooted out of work at 2pm to get a jump on the long weekend ahead... due to which also the Jail will be closed to visitation on Monday (which is the only other day of the week that Mike may have visitors) -- even tho it is common knowledge that there are insufficient visitation facilities to ensure that every prisoner may be visited on every scheduled visitation day.
But hey, if you're a jail administrator, what does it matter to you?
Yet it should matter... Shouldn't it?
Has everyone on the planet gone nutz....???
And this is a drop in the bucket of 'cruel and unusual punishments' (see May 18, below) in light of the fact that we have here a man ALLEGED to have 'committed a crime' (on the word of a wife-beating drug dealer) who has had to go into debt to the tune of $20,000 to 'defend' himself from said allegations AND HE HASN'T BEEN TO TRIAL YET...
This over the course of 14+ months during which the charges brought against him by the state have been 'dismissed' and then politically manipulated to Federal Jurisdiction because the potato got too hot to handle when Mike pitched a bitch about local law enforcement taking the word of pedophile with a grudge at face value, enabling him -- the snitch -- to tromp all over my teenage daughters' dignity, honor and Constitutionally Guaranteed Human Rights.
I am personally appalled to the degree of being ashamed of being a human that so many people in such great positions of power and authority fail to get what Mike Kelley is doing for them (and all of us) right now.
Remember, Michael C. Kelley has NOT been found guilty of ANY CRIME. He is ALLEGED to have done a misdeed. Yet 'being innocent until proven guilty in a court of law' has put him $20,000 in debt and he's been rotting in jail since May 9. Mike Kelley is right... the corruption is rampant. It seems to go all the way down to the mitochondria of the grass roots...
Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. ~ Romans 15:2
May God have mercy on our souls...
Anyone wanting Mike Kelley's address in jail or to assist with his vindication, contact me at 501-745-4153. ~Christine