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Whistleblower’s defense league
Published on Apr 4, 2013
As we’ve reported before, the Obama administration has reached new heights when it comes to prosecuting whistleblowers. Under Obama’s presidency, seven people have been convicted in accordance with the Espionage Act of 1917 for leaking governmental information to the public. All previous administrations combined haven’t prosecuted that many whistleblowers. Now, a group of attorneys have come together to form the Whistleblower’s Defense League to protect such individuals from legal action. One of those attorneys, Jay Leiderman, discusses why they felt it was necessary to create this group.
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For more information on the Whistleblower’s Defense League see this post announcing the formation of the #WBDL and this post talking about the first #WBDL case, a challenge to an unconstitutionally issued subpoena in the Barrett Brown case.
We do not have a justice system that controls economics, but an economic system that controls justice. This is the battleground, the front lines of a new civil rights movement where together we fight for the rights that give dignity and meaning to our lives.
The Whistleblower Defense League is a group of experienced attorneys, writers, artists, activists and philosophers come together to face the challenges of The American Night. We are fighting a battle to restore our Constitution against the surveillance state, prison-industrial complex and corporate power when our liberty, personal freedom and democracy are being gutted in the name of greed, war and profit. Through litigation, dissent and creation we seek to relight the flames of freedom.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police – RCMP
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is the Canadian national police service and an agency of the Ministry of Public Safety Canada. The RCMP is unique in the world since it is a national, federal, provincial and municipal policing body, providing a total federal policing service to all Canadians and policing services under contract to the three territories, eight provinces (except Ontario and Quebec), more than 190 municipalities, 184 Aboriginal communities and three international airports.
URL: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/index-eng.htm
The judge decreed it, the clerk he wrote it
The clerk he wrote it down indeed-e
The judge decreed it, the clerk he wrote it down
If you miss jail sentence, you’ll be Nashville bound
Some got six months, some got one solid
Some got one solid year, indeed-e
Some got six months, some got one solid year
But me and my buddy, we got lifetime here
I wrote a letter, mailed it in the
Mailed it in the air, indeed-e
I wrote a letter, mailed it in the air
You may know my brother, I’ve got a friend somewhere
TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime
http://www.talkleft.com/
There are a lot of good articles about the prison population and the drug problem in Reason:
Reason.com
https://reason.com/
There are a lot of resources here for good medical information that might help with whistleblower legal cases
Massachusetts Medical Society Home
http://www.massmed.org/
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. ~Lord Halifax
It’s strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. ~Author unknown, quoted in Sunshine magazine
Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~Edmund Burke
Other suggestions:
1) Springsteen – American Skin (41 shots)
2) Police & Thieves (Junior Murvin for the reggae version or The Clash)
3) Copperhead Road (Steve Earle)
4) Theme from the movie Shaft by Isaac Hayes
5) Bonnie and Clyde (Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot)
1. I Fought The Law – The Clash [ Lyrics│YouTube ]
2. Lawyers, Guns, and Money – Warren Zevon [ Lyrics│YouTube ]
3. 99 Problems – Jay-Z [ Lyrics│YouTube ]
4. Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash [ Lyrics│YouTube ]
5. We’re All Winners, as arranged by Nixon Peabody [ Explanation]
6. Law and Order theme song [ YouTube │Dance Remix ]
7. Hurricane – Bob Dylan [ Lyrics│YouTube ]
8. Alice’s Restaurant – Arlo Guthrie [ Lyrics│YouTube ]
9. I Fought The Law – Bobby Fuller 4 [ Lyrics│YouTube ]
10. The Road Goes on Forever – Robert Earl Keen [ Lyrics│YouTube ]
“Here Comes The Judge” by Shorty Long. A classic.
Stop eatin’ that fudge
Cause here comes the judge
Don’t nobody buzz
Cause here comes the judge
Judge Shorty is presidin’ today
And he don’t take no stuff from nobody
No kind of way