{"id":7605,"date":"2012-10-30T05:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2012-11-01T05:52:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:52:30","slug":"an-open-letter-to-judge-jones-jenny-durkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/an-open-letter-to-judge-jones-jenny-durkan\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to Judge Jones & Jenny Durkan, esq."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blackbird Singing<\/p><\/div>\n

TO: Hon. Richard A. Jones, Seattle fed. district court judge – (206)370-8870
\nJenny Durkan, esq., Seattle fed. prosecutor – (800)797-6722; (206)553-0882<\/strong><\/p>\n

RE: federal Grand Jury Resisters Leah-Lynn Plante, Matt Duran, Kteeo, Matthew Pfeiffer<\/p>\n

Judge\/Counselor,<\/p>\n

It’s been said (the Greeks) even the gods can’t protect fools from their folly. But the real question today is whether they can protect US? Or can we protect ourselves from said fools? Very few Americans condone street violence, be it on May Day or any other day. Even Leah-Lynn Plante publicly says as much. Yet the vast majority of our countrymen also know and fully support 1st Amendment principles. So why are you confusing Americans by conflating the two?<\/p>\n

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Leah and Dennison Williams<\/p><\/div>\n

These kids (the Grand Jury resisters) are kicking your sorry ass!<\/strong> They’re far better looking than you, idealists, principled, and do more to protect their community than you. They inspire the question whether the dissimilarity between corruption and incompetence is ultimately a distinction without a difference–particularly in your case. Each of you has proven lazy, incompetent, and disdainful of the very laws you’re sworn to uphold. Your qualified\/absolute immunity in your non-elective offices from legal process holding you accountable only adds to the public’s frustration. Was it Franklin who said, “The monarchists will hide in the judiciary”?<\/p>\n

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Courage in Motion<\/p><\/div>\n

Instead of doing the heavy often tedious time consuming job of investigation and intelligence gathering, Jenny Durkan has resorted to judicial theater by subpoenaing youthful resisters in the absence of having something\/evidence with which to indict–a flagrant abuse of the intended use of federal Grand Juries unknown before the Nixon administration. It’s difficult to imagine a lazier more lackluster discharge of duty by a federal prosecutor with such powerful tools\/resources within reach…or a greater loss of credibility. Are you trying to establish flagrant and egregious public vandalism as a cause celeb?…because you’re doing a pretty fair job of it. You’ve created martyrs of your own invention.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Kyle Duran<\/p><\/div>\n

Then there’s federal judge Richard Jones who is supposed to know something about the law and the community. One would think he has read the 6th Amendment–a paradox considering how he closed Matthew Duran’s contempt proceedings to the public. Not only was imprisoning these defiant youthful Grand Jury resisters stupid, Mr. Duran had his civil rights (a public\/open hearing at each step of the legal process where he is at risk of losing his liberty) violated. Though there’s no evidence Matt has violated anybody’s rights, he’s in a federal prison while the judge who DID egregiously violate another’s rights (Matt’s) remains on the bench. The primary function of a judge is to do justice by all the parties. That wasn’t done here. Nor was the process ‘fair’, nor did it have the appearance of fairness. A secret Grand Jury inquisition was held without representation leading to another closed hearing in which Matt was delivered to a dungeon\/isolation cell at the SeaTac federal detention center.<\/p>\n

The two of you took an admittedly mentally\/emotionally challenged vulnerable young woman in an attempt to crush her spirit and sent her to the SeaTac gulag. She was candid enough to admit the experience exacerbated her panic attacks and PTSD symptoms. Your children must be proud. What great Americans you are. Despite her public disavowal of the Seattle May Day street violence, you persisted rather than getting off your butts and doing the hard work of bringing the actual perpetrators to justice. Sometimes the proper investigatory techniques take years, such as the ALF\/ELF prosecutions. The two of you have done more harm to the security Americans have a right to expect than the Anarchist radicals could ever hope for. You have advanced their cause in ways they could never hope to on their own. You’ve accomplished this by transparently affirming their claim our system of government has been hijacked by tyrants and incompetent boobs. Incredibly, you’ve made our justice system look WORSE than the images of the May Day vandals smashing windows in Seattle.<\/p>\n

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A friend (ex-prosecuting attorney) once said it takes more than graduating from a law school and passing the bar to make a lawyer. You have more than proven his point.<\/p>\n

Leah Speaks Out<\/strong>
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