Five-Fold Today - IMF/DC Demonstrations and Police Brutality - Holy Ghost Baptists
Dear Friends,
I'm forwarding this email I just received in an
effort to bring to
the
attention of as many Americans as I can reach, for I
believe in the
ability
of all people of every country to focus sufficient
attention to areas
of
concern, thus creating a shift in acceptability of
behaviors to and
from the
people. I believe responsibility has no borders. So I
am asking each of
you
to follow up with your conscience guiding you, to
forward this message,
or
to simply intend clearly for the end of all human
abuse to be made a
reality, now!
FUNNY HOW THIS DIDN'T SHOW UP ON TV OR IN THE
NEWSPAPERS
Hey guys, this isnt just a stupid chain letter. This
is an actual
account
from Ty Lilja, a student at Bard University.
Seriously, read this! It
will
shock you. During the DC protests the Washington
police brutalized,
lied
to, and usurped the rights of innocent protesters.
This fact has been
ignored by the press and it is up to us to get the
word out about what
happened. I was arrested at the 12th st protest on
Saturday April 15
and I
witnessed (and experienced) all the events described.
Please take the
time
to read this and call you representatives and the
Washington police to
tell
them what you think of this kind of treatment of law
abiding American
citizens. This is an editorial I wrote for my local
paper describing
the
events. After the editorial are some further accounts
of police
brutality. I
cannot thank you enough for reading this. If everyone
knows what
happened
then the police will be held accountable. Please
forward this to as
many
people as possible.
* Ty Lilja
On the morning of April 15, I arrived in Washington
D.C.-a place I'd
always wanted to visit. I did some sightseeing: I saw
the Capitol
building,
the Supreme Court, the White House. I stopped at the
Lincoln Memorial,
sat
on the steps and savored the view. I could see the
mall stretching
before me
and the great symbols of democracy all around me. In
the museum below
the
monument I came face-to-face with the words of one of
our greatest
presidents and one of the most powerful advocates of
individual rights
who
ever lived. His words were engraved in stone: "I
believe in the people,
and
I believe in the ultimate justice of the people."
That morning I realized I agreed with Lincoln. I
still do. Later
that
day, the Washington, D.C. police violated my most
basic civil rights. I
also
had come to the city to express my concerns over the
growing power of
the
IMF and World Bank, as is my right in a democracy. I
was troubled by
the
lack of public accountability within these two
organizations and
concerned
about the stories I had heard coming from the Third
World. I had
researched
both organizations and determined that I wanted my
country playing no
role
within them. On Saturday afternoon at 4:30 p.m., I
joined a protest
that
was marching peacefully down the sidewalk. Half an
hour later we were
surrounded suddenly by club-wielding police (and not
allowed to
disperse),
pressed together, cuffed, and herded into school
buses, where we
remained
all night with our hands cuffed behind our backs.
I spent the next 13 hours on a school bus unable to
lean back or
move my
arms. Two other adults shared the seat with me, a seat
designed for two
small children. Requests for legal council, a phone
call, food, water,
and
even trips to the bathroom were ignored. Every effort
was made to mock,
humiliate, and punish us for our peaceful attempt to
express our
opinions.
Around 9:00 a.m., as the sun was coming up over
Washington, I was
moved
into a prison where my right hand was taken and cuffed
to my left
ankle,
making it impossible to walk or go to the bathroom. I
was held there an
additional three hours before finally being let go
with a $50 dollar
fine
and a criminal record.
I hadn't slept at all. I walked from the prison in
a daze. The night
before had been my birthday. I was now 19 years old.
The vast majority
of
the people arrested, myself included, trusted the
police. We allowed
ourselves to be arrested passively because we believed
that we had
violated
no laws. We cooperated with the police as best we
could because we
believed
that they would respond in kind. The officer who put
cuffs on me said
it was
the easiest "lock down" he'd ever done. You might
think I was looking
for
trouble; but that was not the case. Arrested with me
was a 31-year-old
doctor who'd just been passing through the
demonstration when he was
trapped
and arrested. He too was stunned by the violations of
his rights. He
expressed shock that his tax money was being used to
pay for this
treatment.
When an unjust act is committed by police anywhere
it chips away at
the
whole society. People grow up believing that their
rights will be
protected
then have to sit upright with hard plastic cuffs
rubbing their skin raw
at
3:00 in the morning and an officer telling them that
"due process" and
a
"speedy trial" means simply that they can't be held
for months on one
charge. Our most basic requests were repeatedly
denied. Every time we
asserted our rights we were mocked for it, and this
damaged my faith in
democracy. Our country cannot exist without the
zealous protection of
individual rights and freedoms. Up until yesterday I
could not
understand
why anyone, much less a police officer, would take it
upon themselves
to
usurp my rights. I am proud to be an Eagle Scout, and
I am a person who
has
always believed in my country. Now I know that only a
lawyer could have
protected my rights.
Now I know that the police didn't care. It has hurt
me beyond words.
Do I
live in a stable country or a battleground? Are my
rights really
guaranteed?
Or are they worthless abstractions? I am sorry to say
this, but after
Saturday night, it is hard to know if they really
exist. I choose to
fight
for my rights. A lawsuit is expected through
theNational Lawyers Guild
and
the International Action Center, and I plan to
participate. But I
believe
it is equally important to tell my story to as many
people as will
listen.
If everyone in this country can know what the police
did that night to
600
innocent demonstrators, then I know that it will never
happen again.
Because
I still believe, like Lincoln, that justice in America
can only come
from
the people.
This is another e-mail I recieved. I can vouch for
the accuracy of
the
facts.
IMF, World Bank Demonstrators Subject to Widespread
Police Abuse
New Accounts Detail Gross Mistreatment in Jail and in
the Streets
New reports of peaceful protesters beaten by police
and U.S. Marshals,
denied food and water and stripped of their basic
constitutional rights
give
the lie to early accounts of police restraint during
massive protests
against
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
(IMF).
Detainees have deen denied food, water, toilets,
medical attention,
and
access to lawyers. One instance was reported of an
interrogator posing
as a
member of the Midnight Special Legal Collective, the
volunteer lawyers
representing the activists. One non-violent protester
had 3 ribs
broken
while he was arrested. Another protester was beaten in
the face and
then
loaded into a patrol wagon, leaving a pool of blood in
the street. A
police
official told the drivers not to offload him at the
jail but to drive
him
around for several hours, and then to drop him off
near a hospital.
At midnight on Monday, many activists still
reported being denied
food and
water. Some were arrested at 4 AM, 20 hours earlier.
Rachel Weber, a
recent
Harvard graduate from Boston, watched as one woman in
her cell, who has
hypoglycemia, began to throw up from lack of food.
Police denied
repeated
requests for food or medical assistance. One group of
men was taken
into a
basement, put into a cage, and told by a U.S.
Marshall, "There are no
cameras here. We can do whatever we want." Anyone who
looked up while
the
Marshall was speaking was punched in the face.
Another activist saw a U.S. Marshalls slam people's
faces into a
wall.
Jennifer Kirby, a housing advocate from Washington
D.C., was part of a
group
of activists who took over an abandoned home to
protest unfair
evictions and
social service cuts in the District of Columbia. "The
police came in
and
dragged us out of the house. As the police dragged the
last person out
of
the house, one officer was kicking him and saying
'stop attacking my
foot'
and then all the police slammed him against a
wall,saying 'stop
attacking
the wall.' They dragged him into a six-inch deep
puddle and left him in
it
for five minutes while they kicked him," said Kirby.
Officers also used a variety of abusive tactics to
pit activists in
Jail
against each other and to break "Jail Solidarity,"
cooperation between
activists designed to ensure fair treatment by police.
Black Echo a
spectator at the arraignment of several hundred
activists, heard the
presiding commissioner Ringelle imply that if
activists did not
cooperate he
would place them with the general jail population,
where they they
would be
raped. "He told us 'For a day or a week or a month
[Jail] is not a
pleasant
place. People get sodomized. The inmates run the D.C.
Prison. . In the
prison, the weak are preyed upon," said Black Echo.
Another group of activists was also threatened with
incarceration
with the
general population, and told "they love to kill white
boys over there,
you
pussy-faggot protesters." Detainees are taken into
solitary
confinement and
lied to, told that they are the last ones in jail,
that they won't be
released before their court date in July, that they
have no rights.
The
Midnight Special Law Collective is asking all
concerned to call as many
of
the following numbers to help them in their efforts to
gain justice for
the
remaining 200 IMF/WB detainees. Giving no names,
express concern that
detainees are being abused, and demand their immediate
release.
All area codes are 202.
DC Mayors office: 727-2980
DC Chief of Staff: 727-2643
DC Public Advocate: 673-4421
Dept. of Correction: 673-7316
DC Chief Judge: 879-2770
DC Executive Officer Ulysses Hammond: 879-1700
Police Academy:
645-0055
(detainees held here) Central Holding: 727-2894
1st Dist. Substation: 727-4655
Superior Court Chief Judge Eugene Hamilton:
879-1600
Clerk of the Court: 879-1401
US Atty. For DC: 514-2000 (insist on an
investigation and
prosecution on
abuses, civil rights violations, and homophobia)
Cell Blocks B & C: 727-2392
To those of you who have gotten this far I express
my deepest
gratitude.
By reading this and by telling people about it you are
preserving the
rights
of every American. It is only when such behavior by
police goes
unoticed
that it becomes acceptable. Thank you for not letting
the police get
away
with this.
My deepest respect, Ty Lilja
PS Anyone with questions or comments feel free to
write me at
HOLY GHOST BAPTISTS
Dear Friends of Revival:
The Word of God states that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
Liberty!!! Liberty from the toils of our day. Liberty from dead works, luke
warmness. Tonight the congregation asked God for "more passion." More
passion for him, for the things of God, and for more passion for the lost.
His presence consumed the sanctuary. His Holy Spirit filled the house like a
fire from heaven. As the Spirit moved about, I could see people getting
liberated in him.
Then in one accord the congregation began to sing "Holy is our Lord." As our
song went up, his presence came down. His love reached down and touched
those that had prepared their hearts to receive. His love satisfies the
deepest hunger for love. His love satisfies the deepest hunger for
affection. His love sets us free from all past hurts and rejection. His
love secures us in him. His love is our key to freedom and joy. His love
takes our brokeness and builds a new heart and life in him. Our eternal
father is up to something at Calvary Baptist Church.
Tonight our father compelled many to come and bow before him. Others came and
just laid before him as he ministered to them. He liberated many from
various things. Many were set free from past hurts as the river of his
presence flowed over them. It was a sweet gentle and comforting presence.
Tonight Jesus showed up to each one that was searching for him. He was to
each "just what I needed."
I invite you to come and enjoy his refreshing presence. Come find us in the
river of his presence. Come and be touched by his awesome love.
In Christ,
Rev. Gary V. Reilly Jr.
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Dear Friends of Revival:
As I sit here pondering the service, I am reminded by the Holy Ghost about
the women with the issue of blood. How she only wanted just one touch. Her
faith was that if she could just touch him, she could be changed. Now, I
understand that most of us have heard numerous messages from that text. But
as I was pondering the happenings of the service. I realized that to the
level that we hunger God satisfies us. That is why we can be in an
incredible service and
leave the same way we came in. Because we were not hungry. What good is a
buffet if you're not hungry?
The service at Calvary Baptist Church in Marshfield, MO was powerful as the
presence of the Holy Ghost filled the sanctuary. The Word of God states that
our father is a strong tower for us. A shelter from the on slaughter of our
adversary. We have VICTORY through our eternal father. As the praise and
worship service progressed the congregation ran to the father. We sought to
be in the place of the most high God. That dwelling place. As we entered I
could see lives being restored emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Some being renewed in strength, some being refreshed. As we worshiped in one
accord our father's love flowed toward us. As we gave him our hearts he
gladly received them and returned them to us renewed. He took brokeness and
pain and made us whole.
As he continued to move a midst the people, many responded of all ages and
races and genders, "you are worthy." A deep atmosphere of worship engulfed
the sanctuary. Children, Teens and adults pressed in to receive "Just one
touch" from our father. What an awesome display of unity to be at the altar
worshiping the father in one accord. The river of God's presence flowed
mightily. Many were drawn to the altar by the Holy Ghost during the worship
time. No one gave "an altar call" but yet many came. They came seeking a
touch from our father. They came hungry, desperate, and thirsty for "more."
Some of those in attendance drove many miles to be touched tonight.
Spontaneous worship filled the house. Our father was in the house. He was
touching everyone at their level of hunger and need.
Brother Wayne ministered from the Word. He shared a good word on the various
forms of healing needed. He concluded the word by asking if you need a
touch, come. The altars were again filled as 98% of the congregation came
forward.
Again, friends, if you need "just one touch" come and be touched. We are
expecting you.
In Christ,
Rev. Gary V. Reilly Jr.
April 27, 2000
Minister
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