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Part 21, The Casolaro Murder --> the Feds' Theft of Inslaw Software
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I made the following transcript from a tape recording
of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station
WBAI-FM (99.5)
505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707
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(continuation)
HARRY MARTIN [of the Napa Sentinel, Napa, California]:
If you get any films -- you rent your films each night for your
VCR -- those same themes are there. For instance, police brutality,
or RoboCop is an example of the Wackenhut Corporation as far as
the private companies taking over law enforcement duties. You get
into movies in the C.I.A. [vein] showing that they're getting away
with these things. You see, the public is constantly exposed to
it, and they probably say: "Yeah, but what's it got to do with me?"
....
Right now, I think, as long as the economy is fair, and there's
food on the table, and their individual lives are not threatened,
they can accept scandal in government. That doesn't mean they like
it or want it. But it's like: "Well, I'm powerless to do anything
about it." And it's really the responsibility of the media to get
that out. I think there's been a lot of fault in the main media
for ignoring the "Inslaws" and ignoring the "October Surprises",
and for ignoring a lot of these things. They don't have to agree
with the program, but they can certainly start their own
investigations and let their findings be revealed.
You know, if the October Surprise didn't take place -- fine. Then
these major media should come out and say: "The evidence doesn't
show it. Or, here's what we proved, and we found this guy to be
here instead of there." But they totally ignore it because the
corporate board room is controlling the major media now, saying:
"We don't want to bother with it!" And it's a shame.
PAUL DeRIENZO:
Mr. Martin -- one final question. When the law enforcement officials
seemed to start -- whether in the Justice Department or the C.I.A.
or the F.B.I. or at local levels -- start taking positions,
political positions in support of certain factions that they feel
comfortable with, politically; what does that mean for American
democracy? Does our democracy ....
HARRY MARTIN:
We had a police chief here, for instance, endorsing candidates
for the assembly, and even for district attorney. Now, the district
attorney's office has got to be somewhat neutral from the police
department. We fought those endorsements and got the district
attorney thrown out of office. But basically, it means that when
partisan politics creeps into the law enforcement field, then we
are going to have some real problems because it means that the
politicians are going to be able to dictate more and more, and
they'll be beholding, also, to the support of the police
departments, and therefore, they'll be less ready to correct bad
situations like in Los Angeles with the King case. It's not good!
It taints the system.
PAUL DeRIENZO:
This whole day's programming really started with a desire to look
into a newspaper clip about a reporter who was killed, and it
turned into one of the more interesting and deep stories that I've
encountered in recent years. At least not since WBAI was involved
in uncovering the Iran-Contra drug connection in which we discovered
that cocaine was being shipped back [to the U.S.A.] in the same
planes that were carrying arms down to the Contras. And you
brought up the question of the Cabazon Indians and their being
taken advantage of by these people who are now manufacturing what
-- chemical warfare [agents]?
HARRY MARTIN:
Chemical warfare [agents] are being manufactured there [on the
Cabazon Indian reservation] to be sent down to the Contras. So it
means that that war down there was not just bullets.
The following excerpts are fragments selected from a
lengthy article published October 15, 1991 in
THE VILLAGE VOICE
36 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003
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THE LAST DAYS OF DANNY CASOLARO
by James Ridgeway and Doug Vaughan
MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA --
At about 12:30 in the afternoon of Saturday, August 10, a maid
knocked on the door of room 517 at the Sheraton Martinsburg Inn,
just off Interstate 81 on the outskirts of this old mill town.
Nobody answered, so she used her passkey to open the door; though
it had both a security bolt and a chain lock on the inside,
neither one was attached. The bed didn't appear slept in, though
it was turned down, and clothes had been laid out neatly at it's
foot. Then the maid glanced into the bathroom. She saw a lot of
blood on the tile floor and screamed.
Another hotel maid came rushing in to help. When she peaked inside
the bathroom, she saw a man's nude body lying in the blood-filled
tub. There was blood not only on the tile floor but spattered up
onto the wall above as well; she nearly fainted at the sight. One
of the maids called the desk on the room phone and, after sending
up a maintenance man, the desk immediately dialed 911.
Within five minutes, three Martinsburg city police officers were
threading their way past the horrified maids and maintenance man
clustered in the hallway and into Room 517. A team of paramedics
from the local fire department joined them a few minutes later.
Squeezing into the tiny bathroom, they found a white male in his
early forties with deep cuts on both wrists: three or four wounds
on the right and seven or eight on the left, made with a sharp,
bladed object.
There was no other trauma to the body that would indicate any sort
of struggle; there was a half-empty, corked bottle of red wine on
the floor by the tub and a broken hotel glass beside it. When they
lifted the body out, they found a single-edge razor blade -- the
kind used to scrape windows or slice open packages -- at the
bottom of the bloody water in the bath, along with an empty can
of Milwaukee beer, a paper hotel glass coaster, and two white
plastic garbage bags, the kind used in wastepaper baskets.
On the desk in the bedroom the cops found an empty Mead composition
notebook and a legal pad from which a single page had been removed.
The page lay near a plastic Bic pen, and in its ink there was a note:
To those who I love the most,
Please forgive me for the worst
possible thing I could have done.
Most of all I'm sorry to my son.
I know deep down inside that God
will let me in.
There were no other papers, folders, documents of any sort, nor
any briefcase in the room, only the man's wallet, stuffed with
credit cards. According to the driver's license, the man's name
was J. Daniel Casolaro of Fairfax, Virginia.
(to be continued)
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This is one of countless stories unveiling the deeply corrupted
and subverted state of our theoretically democratic Government.
This story makes disgustingly obvious the fact that patriotism
is not the waving of flags, the tying of yellow ribbons and the
mindless support of the Government, just because it happens to be ours.
You don't support cancer just because you happen to have it.
Patriotism is telling the truth to the people of our country
in order that they may unite to conquer the anti-democratic
cancer that is gradually destroying ours and our children's
freedom. So please post the installments of this ongoing series
to other bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places,
both on and off campus. That would be a truly patriotic deed.
John DiNardo
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If we seriously listen to this "God within us" ["conscience",
if you will], we usually find ourselves being urged to take the
more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less.
... Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold
back from this work. .... Like every one of our ancestors before
us, we are all lazy. So original sin does exist; it is our laziness.
M. Scott Peck
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED
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