The Injustice of Aaron Patterson

I pulled this from Aaron Patterson's Myspace page. Go and check him out at www.myspace.com/freeaaronpatterson. We as a people will never be free until we unite. Our unity is the only strategy that we have not tried yet. Do you really believe things are going to get better for Black people if there is a President Obama? We cannot look to the people, the rich, the established, the agents of state power to protect our rights and our lives.

The case of Aaron Patterson was initially to be utilized as a venue to not only expose the blatant frame-up of Aaron Patterson, but also that of the collaboration between the federal government and the powerful Chicago “Gangster” Daley Machine. This collaboration, which has been repeated, historically provided such results as the bloody Massacre on Monroe in which 21 year old Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. and 22-year-old Defense Captain Mark Clark were left dead. In the same federal court building where then presiding Judge Julius J. Hoffman sanctioned that Chairman Bobby Seale be literally chained and gagged during court proceedings, some thirty-eight years later, this time under the tenure of Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, after being handcuffed and stomped by U.S. Marshals inside courtroom 2119, Aaron Patterson has been denied all access to the same court proceedings that are to supposedly determine his fate. When Aaron Patterson was falsely accused the first time and subsequently served 17 years on death row, immediately upon release he went to work-taking care of the business of and seeing ‘bout the people. Patterson, working in coalition with other groups impacted on every issue affecting the lives of Black and other oppressed people. Once again, falsely accused, Patterson needs the same people to come see ‘bout him . . .

Who I'd like to meet:Unanswered questions from the People about the Aaron Patterson Trial . . . -Why? has the powerful Daley administration targeted Aaron Patterson? -Why? was Aaron Patterson arrested by a collaboration of law enforcement agencies in August 2004; on the same exact day that Chicago’s infamous Lt. Jon “The Torturer” Burge was returned to Chicago to answer a court deposition in reference to his torturing of Aaron Patterson and other Black men?

-Why? would the federal government have jurisdiction in what would under any other circumstances be considered a state case? -Why? were Michael P. Cronin, Joe Gorman Jr., and other special law enforcement officials who are heavily connected to Mayor Richard M. “Gangster” Daley, conducting surveillance, and subsequently arrested Aaron Patterson? -Why? hasn’t the federal government charged “Gangster” Daley, Cook County States Attorney Dick Devine, and former police Lt. Jon “The Torturer” Burge for their roles in the torture, framing and subsequent sentencing of Aaron Patterson, Anthony Porter, Jackie and Andrew Wilson, David Bates, Stanley Howard, The Death Row 10, Madison Hobley, and countless of other African and Latino men? -Why? would Dick Devine, the current Cook County States Attorney, along with Robert Shapiro, employed by the State’s Attorney’s office when Daley was States Attorney, be present at the press conference that announced the federal charges against Aaron Patterson? -Why? shortly after Aaron Patterson ran for State Representative against Daley appointee Patricia Bailey who used a ghost address; shortly after disrupting a February 2004 press conference convened by Mayor Richard M. Daley and attended by U.S. Attorney Peter Fitzgerald, and Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Kline: did Patterson receive threatening phone calls stating that he was a marked man? -Why? would the government allege that Mr.Patterson who 1). put up $100,000 (one hundred thousand dollars) of the money he was to receive from the state for restitution for his 17 years of false incarceration to bond out another death row prisoner; 2) previously turned down several attempts by the city to settle for several million dollars: Why would Mr. Patterson have any interest or need to sell drugs? -Why? would the government go inside the state jail, get a known gang leader and admitted drug dealer Mario “Fox” Maldrona, place a wire on him, pay him $6, 500 (six thousand five hundred dollars) of your hard-earned tax dollars, and tell him to set up Aaron Patterson. -Why? is it that in the same exact Federal Court Building, 219 S. Dearborn in Chicago, Illinois, where Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale was literally chained and gagged under the watch of Federal Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, Aaron Patterson was beat, handcuffed, and kicked by U.S. Marshals. -Why? has Aaron Patterson been denied bond? -Why? would Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer ban Aaron Patterson from his own court proceeding? In his absence, without his permission or knowledge, Pallmeyer dismissed his previous attorney and designated a former FBI agent, and a member of the “Gangster” Daley created Hispanic Democratic Organization, to be Patterson’s legal counsel? -Where? are all the videotape footage and documents that were seized from Aaron Patterson’s home in proof of the counter surveillance that he was engaging in to show how he was being targeted by the powerful “Gangster” Daley machine via the Federal Government? -

Why? would the court appointed defense attorney for Aaron Patterson enter a motion that Patterson’s visitation and phone calls be terminated? -Why? were there no African American males allowed on Mr. Patterson’s jury; in a court that is supposed to provide you with a jury of your own peers? -Why? have the courts allowed there to be dogs, extra ID scans, humiliating searches, and other forms of harassment to deter people from coming to see what is occurring at 219 S. Dearborn, Room 2119? -Why? hasn’t the Chicago press reported the continuous arbitrary beatings and banning from court of the supporters of Aaron Patterson? -Why? have the court designated defense attorneys, turned down evidence in favor of Patterson, and have not even interviewed the countless number of people who want to attest to how Aaron Patterson positively impacted their lives and how Patterson is a true asset to the community? -Why? when in open court, in plain view of court jurors, after a physical altercation between Aaron Patterson and Rebecca Pallmeyer’s personally appointed defense attorneys Tommy Brewer and Paul Camerena then—who are supposed to represent Aaron Patterson—could these court designated attorneys and the court in general proceed with this legal lynching of Aaron Patterson? -Why? have many of Chicago’s Black Ministers as well as a number of progressive white ones, stated in private that although they know Mr. Patterson is being targeted and framed, they fear reprisals if they speak publicly on this blatant miscarriage of justice? -Why? has not one elected official come to 219 S. Dearborn to see what is occurring in courtroom 2119? -Why? did Chicago Sun Times federal court reporter Natasha Korecki ask a U.S. Marshall “How should we report this?” after witnessing the marshals beat Aaron Patterson and a 58 year old African American woman in court? -How? has Judge Pallmeyer deemed Mr. Patterson sane enough to stand trial; but not sane enough to defend himself? -Why? have both Aaron Patterson and former Governor George Ryan who granted the pardon for Patterson and implemented the moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois, be designated to have their cases heard by the same Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer? -Why? did a combination of armed federal agents and U.S. Marshalls, with dogs and bullet-proof vests at 7:00 a.m. surround the home of the widow of slain Black Panther leader Chairman Fred Hampton, and question the family as to why they come to court for Aaron Patterson? -Since being detained at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Why? is Aaron Patterson being isolated and his support mail derailed? However, Patterson continuously receives hate mail similar to that sent to different organizations in the 1960s (see U.S. COINTELPRO program) in order to create dissent and break morale. In addition, Patterson’s co-defendant has received hate mail urging him to turn state against Patterson. -Why? has there been minimal if any press coverage of the attacks that Mr. Patterson has been subjected to, and the recent death of one of his two co-defendants? -Why? on July 27th did Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer designate that only prosecutors and their team, her personally appointed “defense attorneys” Tommy Brewer and Paul Camerena, the press, the U.S. Marshals, and the F.B.I. are the only one allowed in the court? No Aaron Patterson and no Aaron Patterson supporters are allowed. -Why? on Friday, July 29, 2005 was Aaron Patterson given a GUILTY verdict and set to be sentenced on December 4th, the same exact day – 36 years later – of the brutal assassination of Illinois Chapter Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. and Defense Captain Mark Clark? DON’T WAIT THIRTY YEARS TO ASK THESE QUESTION, FOR THEN IT MAY BE TOO LATE! DEMAND ANSWERS! CALL, WRITE, FAX: Mayor Richard M. Daley City Hall 121 N. LaSalle Room 507 Chicago, IL. 60602 FX: (312) 744-8045 U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald 219 S. Dearborn 5th Floor Chicago, IL. 60604 FX: (312) 353-2067 Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer 219 S. Dearborn Court Room #2119 Chicago, IL. 60604 STOP THE LEGAL LYNCHING! FREE AARON PATTERSON! Free Aaron Patterson/Chicago 3 Defense Committee P.O. Box 368255 Chicago, IL. 60636 Voice Mail (773) 250-7229 WANT TO DO MORE? Donations needed? Placards, banners “Free Aaron Patterson” flyer and poster printing’ cost for Aaron to file legal motions, etc. and commissary . . . Write: Aaron Patterson #21664424 USP Big Sandy P.O. Box 2068 Inez, KY 41224

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