MOUSSAOUI AND CARLA MARTIN

3-27-06: She is the prosecutor in that bogus "trial" going on about Moussaoui, the guy that the media used to call the "20th (9-11) hijacker". CNN and other news-sellers are hiring all kinds of lawyers and law professors to try and create some sense out of this nonsense and feed it to the ignorant, copshow-addicted public.

I just finished watching one of these sleazy lawyers branding Moussaoui as "insane, unhinged and nearly chewing on the carpet and barking like a dog." This is how the lawyer describes a man fighting for his life against a corrupt, rotten system of aggravated evil. Most people would gasp at my suggestion that the lawyer's system is on the same plane as a religious fanatic mad bomber, but it is the one that created the other.

But back to the trial: first, imagine what kinds of secret, under-the-table lawyer-lies it would take to get even a mad bomber to ask for a death sentence. Somehow the lawyers got him to say "yes" to one of their famous plea "bargains" that includes the ultimate penalty of death. Somehow this strikes me as not so much a "bargain" but a screwjob. Of course, four years in solitary confinement while mercilessly poked and gouged by lawyers, cops and guards may provide enough incentive for one to wish for death, but not at the hands of the people in charge of the sticking and gigging. So why doesn't Moussaoui kill himself in the privacy of his cage? Because his religion probably yanks away Paradise for suicides and substitutes a version of Hell. Also, his solitary confinement is not private. The cops have every inch of his cage covered by cameras, and if he tries to end his misery, the cops will rush in, revive him, take everything he has, including his underwear and blanket, then turn up the air conditioning to freezing and maybe even turn their high-pressure fire hose on him periodically for a week or two. So: having somehow been duped by "his" lawyers into saving the govt and secret police community the embarrassment of a trial that would expose their incompetence and police state tactics, Moussaoui conveniently accepts a plea "bargain" of the death penalty. Next, he almost is duped by his lawyers into remaining conveniently silent during the sentencing phase of his "trial" in which they actually impose their death penalty. (There are no citizens in the US who could get selected as jurors for this case who wouldn't be ecstatic to be the ones to slap their death penalty buttons without even waiting for the lawyers to puke their propaganda. The sooner the better for their selling their stories to the media.) This sentencing phase is the part of the legal farce where the cop/media alliance gets great PR for themselves by shipping in numerous of Moussaoui's supposed "victims" to rail at him in public for not turning himself in to the cops and snitching off his fellow religious nuts. This is the same crime that Michael Fortier got ten years for in the McVeigh-Nichols bombing.

The lawyers and the talking heads of the media have been publicly wringing their hands and privately chuckling among themselves about how crazy Moussaoui definitely must be to defy his lawyers' desire that he lay down and play dead (again) while they wax eloquent about his insanity to the-judge. Last week they performed this same theatre and acted mystified over the actions of Moussaoui's prosecutor, Carla Martin. Ms Martin was competently doing her job as prosecutor the same way all prosecutors have done for centuries, coach and rehearse every aspect of what they need their witnesses to tell the jurors in order to guarantee a conviction. (By contrast, zero number of public defender-type lawyers engage in this brand of flagrant, evidence-manufacturing corruption.) PD's are limited to much more subtle steering of their client and any witness he may have. Instead Of supplying his client with e-mails, prosecution files, cops' records and lists of phrases to use such as "I’m absolutely positive...". the PD can only fish about blindly when faced with a particularly stupid, honest, ignorant or innocent client. There is no cult of the defense like there is a Cult of the Prosecution. Flagrant corruption, coaching and rehearsing is not winked at in the tiny jail cell where the PD and the accused meet for ten minutes just before trial. That place is often secretly bugged by the cops so that they can feed what is revealed there to a couple of their many eager jailhouse snitches. A lawyer could lose his license for being unsubtle, so he does not coach or rehearse his client except in the most general and innocous of terms. Besides, if he won a case, it would piss off the judge/DA, who are in charge of promotions and pay, and there is no time. Ten minutes is all the PD spares his client before rushing back into the sacred halls of lawyerland, and ten minutes is not enough time for any type of subtlety. The prosecution and cops, on the other hand, have all the time in the world to coach witnesses, rehearse their testimony, coerce evidence out of the recalcitrant, etc, and all with zero danger of getting caught at it because they only do it in the sacred halls of justice, prosecutorland or the secret bowels of the cops' lair, where everyone is united in that one goal of getting the convietion,no matter what.

Yes, the actual mystifying and astonishing thing that is not told is exactly how Carla Martin got caught doing her job same as all prosecutors do their jobs. After many days of listening to the media- and lawyer-blather on this subject, the most likely conclusion is that she bumped up against one of those rarest of persons, a witness who is the opposite of the usual timid, gullible, ignorant and pliable witness that prosecutors shape and mold. One of the secret, un-named, concealed witnesses to Moussaouils crimes must have been a freethinking, intelligent person who had real honesty and integrity that prevented him from winking and nodding at flagrant corruption practiced on a day to day basis. Even better, he was actually galled by it! He must have been so appalled by the usual corruption that he called the judge and told her! His insistence that actual honesty, integrity, fairness and justice prevail, rather than the usual pretense of it, caused the judge to realize that some major damage control and plausible deniability must occur immediately, since anyone who has the courage to call the judge would certainly call the media This points to the concealed, name-withheld witnesses being powerful, well-known men who are respectable: men whom the media would listen to and (gasp!) let talk for five minutes on national TV!

As often happens in such situations, the judge at first plied the men with the usual legal hocus-pocus; pretending to be likewise appalled at A Martin's astonishing behavior, making pat legal excuses/justifications for it, promising to look into it, promising a severe reprimand, if warranted, then quickly giving the men the brush-off.

Most persons fall for this well-practiced, canned speech, which is why these men must be powerful and intelligent. They'd heard this speech before, maybe even given it a few times. They recognized it for what it was, knew that the judge meant to do nothing, and called the media. The media called the judge to confirm this story. This caused the judge to realize that she was holding a cherry bomb that may well blow some truth out about the lawyers' system and its rotten ways that desperately needs to stay in the dark for the benefit of the vast lawyer community.

Like lightening she called every one of her minions involved in the prosecution of Moussaoui, including the PD’s, Together they all bunkered-down into emergency mode. The media calls this "distancing themselves" from the scandalous prosecutor. In actuality it is much more. First, it is the issuance by the judge of an informal, secret gag order, equivalent in every respect to A mob boas warning his co-criminals not to say anything to anyone, or else! Next, the judge orders her minions, (by phone, or by summoning them in person, or by sending a trusted messenger only, NOT by e-mail or on paper or other unsecure method), to pretend to know nothing about anyone or anything about Carla Martin and her actions in the Moussaoui case. Lastly, she demands that they all act appalled at the mere concept of "prosecutorial misconduct", feign astonishment that it may have actually happened, and fake-up some opinions that this, if true, is a one-in-a-billion type of occurrence. (Lawyers hardly need this type of coaching and hand-holding: the judges only do it as a warning and a formality in case someone of their ranks get caught off guard and accidently say too much.)

The news-stalkers take this lawyer-pabulum and slurp it down like a snot-snake, then run to their news rooms to yack it back up for presentation (with straight faces) to the public. Their editors censor it and make sure that none of it rises above concepts easily understood by eighth grade children.

Ninety-nine percent of the public sees this balderdash and hogwash, accepts it subliminally as if it were reality, then swiftly return to their apathetic comas sitting in front of their TV's watching various flavors of cop and lawyer shows.