Prisons ban books over fear of radicals

By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press WriterSun Jun 10, 2:01 PM ET

Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned by what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day — hundreds of books had disappeared from the shelves.

The removal of the books is occurring nationwide, part of a long-delayed, post-Sept. 11 federal directive intended to prevent radical religious texts, specifically Islamic ones, from falling into the hands of violent inmates.

Three inmates at Otisville filed a lawsuit over the policy, saying their Constitutional rights were violated. They say all religions were affected.

"The set of books that have been taken out have been ones that we used to minister to new converts when they come in here," inmate John Okon, speaking on behalf of the prison's Christian population, told a judge last week.

Okon said it was unfortunate because "I have really seen religion turn around the life of some of these men, especially in the Christian community."

The government maintained that that the new rules don't entirely clear the shelves of prison chapel libraries.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Feldman told U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain that prison libraries limited the number of books for each religion to between 100 and 150 under the new rules. He said officials would expand the number after choosing a new list of permitted books.

Feldman said the removal order stemmed from an April 2004 Department of Justice review of the way prisons choose Muslim religious services providers. It is not exactly clear why it took so long for the order to be put into effect, but prison officials said they needed time to examine a long list of books.

Feldman said the study was made out of a concern that prisons "had been radicalized by inmates who were practicing or espousing various extreme forms of religion, specifically Islam, which exposed security risks to the prisons and beyond the prisons to the public at large."

Feldman said the review by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons concluded that prison chapel libraries were not adequately supervised.

"The presence of extremist chaplains, contractors or volunteers in the BOP's correctional facilities can pose a threat to institutional security and could implicate national security if inmates are encouraged to commit terrorist acts against the United States," the bureau's report said.

The review suggested audio and video monitoring of worship areas and chapel classrooms and screening of religious service providers. It also recommended that prisons reduce inmate-led religious services and consider constant staff monitoring of inmate-led services.

A Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman in Washington did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

Feldman said inmates are permitted to order books on their own and bypass the chapel libraries. "So fundamentally this is not a case about what books the inmates have the ability to read," he said.

However, inmates say the rules have had a chilling effect.

Inmate Moshe Milstein told the judge by telephone that the chaplain at Otisville removed about 600 books from the chapel library on Memorial Day, including Harold S. Kushner's best-seller "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," a book that Norman Vincent Peale said was "a book that all humanity needs."

"There is definitely irreparable harm done to us already, and we would like the court to issue the injunction to get the books back as soon as possible," he said.

Inmate Douglas Kelly, who described himself as a representative of the prison's Muslim community, complained of "a denial of our First Amendment rights."

He said books on Islam already were the least represented in the library's collections and were reduced by half in the Memorial Day removal.

"A lot of what we are missing were definitely prayer books or prayer guides and religious laws on the part of the Muslim faith," he said.

The judge said the lawsuit might be premature because the inmates had not yet followed prison administrative complaint procedures. She declined to block the book removals, the remedy sought by the lawsuit.

Ron Kuby, a civil rights lawyer who has represented a former head Islamic chaplain banned from the state prison system after he was accused of making extremist statements, called the prison book removal "a mass Memorial Day book burning."

But he also said there might be limits to relief the prisoners can seek because prisoners' First Amendment rights are severely limited.

"When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is just, yet refuse to defend it--at that moment you begin to die; and I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about justice."

- Mumia Abu-Jamal

As Users Expose Police Brutality
Monopolies seek stranglehold on YouTube
By Greg Butterfield
Published Jun 1, 2007 11:59 PM

YouTube, a popular Web site for free sharing of online videos, is
increasingly being used by communities, youths, progressive movements
and radicals worldwide to expose injustice, protest the horrors of
imperialist war, and promote revolutionary ideas to a global audience.

At the same time, U.S. corporate monopolies–including YouTube's owner,
Google, and rivals like Viacom and NBC Universal–are battling to
exercise control over the site's contents and censor those voices that
interfere with their goal of turning it into a profit-making machine.

Created by three former PayPal employees in 2005, YouTube now streams
more than 200 million videos and adds 200,000 new videos to its
library daily. It is a truly global phenomenon, with viewers outside
the U.S. watching 70 percent of all videos streamed. (Associated
Press, May 20)

According to the Toronto Star, the site has 40 million visitors
monthly, and the number is climbing.

YouTube's creators sold the site last year for $1.65 billion in Google
stock. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, two of the creators who remain
spokespeople for YouTube, seem content to accommodate Google's moves
to introduce aggressive advertising on the site, develop software
capable of censoring material objectionable to advertisers and the
state, and clamp down on posting of so-called copyright-protected
materials, like clips from TV shows and Hollywood films.

But the site, with its millions of users worldwide, has far outgrown
the proprietary claims of any individuals or corporation. It has
become a truly mass, participatory forum and should be the common
property of all.
Police terror exposed

In the U.S., the most dramatic effect of mass YouTube use has been to
expose cases of police brutality—incidents that otherwise would have
been completely covered up by the cops or quickly silenced by the
mainstream media.

And thanks to features allowing users to easily share videos, these
exposures can spread like wildfire.

In November 2006, no fewer than three cases of brutality by the Los
Angeles Police Department were exposed via YouTube videos.

William Cardenas was punched in the face repeatedly by cops, who
accused him of being a "gang member." The FBI was forced to open an
investigation into violations of Cardenas' civil rights after the
video was widely seen. A second video showed cops beating a restrained
prisoner in a police cruiser.

The third—shot on a camera phone in the University of California-Los
Angeles Library—showed police shooting with taser guns Mostafa
Tabatabainejad, a 23-year-old Iranian-born student, because he had
forgotten his ID. The video also shows angry students demanding the
cops' names and protesting the violation of Tabatabainejad's civil
rights. A cop then threatened to attack these students, too. (MoJo
Blog, Nov. 16, 2006)

Based on this video evidence, Tabatabainejad has now brought a lawsuit
against the LAPD.

These exposures have sown fear among cops and concern throughout the
capitalist state. In today's world of high technology combined with
growing repression, every worker is a potential George Holliday—the
amateur videographer who captured the brutal LAPD beating of Rodney
King in 1991.

The phenomenon isn't limited to Los Angeles. From Pennsylvania to
Florida, from Middleport, N.Y., to Denver, YouTube has been used as a
platform to expose cop terror.

After Michigan State University students were arrested protesting a
Minuteman bigot in East Lansing on April 19, organizers posted videos
showing the police use of excessive force, witness statements, and
interviews with university administrators exposing their collaboration
with the racists.

And when police attacked immigrant rights demonstrators in both Los
Angeles and New York on May Day, YouTube was used to rapidly spread
the word.

Outside the U.S., forces fighting back against imperialism have
adopted the medium as well. You can watch videos explaining the views,
methods and aims of the revolutionary movement in Nepal, witness May
Day marches in India and Turkey, or watch subtitled films from
Cultural Revolution-era China that are unlikely to ever see commercial
release on DVD.

Corporate media in the U.S. and Israel reacted with outrage in May
when clips of "Tomorrow's Pioneers" appeared on YouTube. This
children's show, produced by the Palestinian Hamas movement, promotes
resistance to U.S. imperialism and Israeli occupation and is hosted by
a Mickey Mouse-like character called Farfur.
Pentagon hypocrisy

Of course, it's not only anti-imperialists who are using this
technology. The Minutemen and other Klan types use it. And now the
Pentagon has joined in, hoping to exploit YouTube as a recruiting
device by showing clips of U.S. troops triumphant in battles with "the
enemy" in Iraq.

The Pentagon launched the "Multi-National Forces Iraq" channel in
March. The Los Angeles Times reported that the channel was viewed more
than 120,000 times in its first month.

Now–not coincidentally—the Defense Department has put a blanket ban on
the use of YouTube and 12 other popular information-sharing sites by
U.S. military personnel.

CNN reported May 14: "Iraqi insurgents and their supporters have been
posting videos on YouTube at least since last fall. The Army recently
began posting videos on YouTube showing soldiers defeating insurgents
and befriending Iraqis.

"But the new rules mean many military personnel won't be able to watch
those achievements–at least not on military computers. ... Defense
Department computers and networks are the only ones available to many
soldiers and sailors in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Nobody's buying the government's claim that the ban is needed to save
Defense Department bandwidth. It's an obvious ploy to keep angry and
demoralized U.S. troops from exposing the dire quagmire they find
themselves in or posting videos of Pentagon abuses.

Many military families have expressed outrage, since these sites were
one of the few ways soldiers could keep in touch with their loved ones
at home.

Next up is the 2008 presidential election–already dubbed the "YouTube
Election" by some mainstream pundits. Democratic Party candidates
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are making extensive use of the site.

YouTube and MySpace, the social networking Web site owned by Rupert
Murdoch, are both co-sponsoring primary debates of the Democratic and
Republican candidates. (Los Angeles Times, May 20)
Battle for control

The corporate struggle to dominate YouTube and profit from its
popularity has many similarities to the battle over file-sharing
programs like Napster, which peaked a few years ago with
music-industry lawsuits against students (in some cases, minors) for
swapping music files. While free file sharing still exists, much of it
has been co-opted by pay-per-song sites and file-protected CDs.

However, in the case of YouTube, there is a basis for a much broader
struggle based on the mass, participatory character of video file
sharing—of which the exposures of police brutality are powerful
examples.

Again, the public battle lines are being drawn over the issue of
"copyright protection" and "intellectual property" by mammoth media
companies.

But this is really just a smokescreen. It amounts to positioning by
the media monopolies for a bigger cut of the profits once a way is
eventually found to turn free video sharing into a controllable,
profitable business model.

The real action is going on behind the scenes–the moves to introduce a
video advertising component to YouTube and to develop software to
curtail the site's free-for-all contents and make it more "advertiser
friendly."

The posture of the U.S. capitalist political establishment at this
juncture seems to be to let this process of "free market censorship"
play itself out rather than mount a frontal assault on those who use
the site for progressive and revolutionary ends.

Of course, there is no guarantee that this will remain the case.
Who will control new technology?

Workers World wrote about file-sharing: "The controversy over Napster
raises important issues for the international workers' movement. Chief
among them is: Who will control the revolutionary new technology that
allows the free exchange of music, art and all kinds of information?

"Will it be dominated by capitalists seeking profit? Or will workers
and oppressed people control it?" ("Napster and the right to free
music," WW, Aug. 10, 2000)

YouTube is another example of how technology has outgrown the
constraints of private property and capitalism. What could be more
natural than for people to freely share videos with their community,
family or comrades, down the block or across the ocean?

Yet capitalism must find a way to constrain, control and censor so
that the profit system isn't compromised. The genie must be shoved
back into the bottle by any means necessary.

What is needed is an international struggle for control by YouTube
users, along with communities, organizations of workers and oppressed
people, and unions, to ensure the right of the people to use the
service, end corporate domination and rout the apologists for
imperialism and racism.

It's a fight that can't be confined to the computer keyboard. It must
come out into the streets, as exemplified by those who are using the
technology today to expose police brutality.
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THE CHEROKEE NATION, ET AL. v. THE UNITED STATES
Appeal No. 5-66, Ind. Cl. Comm. Docket No. 190, 12 Ind. Cl.
Comm. 570
UNITED STATES COURT OF CLAIMS
180 Ct. Cl. 181; 1967 U.S. Ct. Cl. LEXIS 80
May 12, 1967, Decided
DISPOSITION: [**1]
Affirmed.
SYLLABUS:
ON APPEAL FROM THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION
Indian claims; appeal from Indian Claims Commission. -- The Indian
petitioners appeal from a decision of the Indian Claims Commission (12 Ind.
Cl.
Comm. 570 (1963)) dismissing their suit under the Indian Claims Commission
Act,
25 U.S.C. § 70a, in which appellants had claimed that their Treaty of July 19,
1866, 14 Stat. 799, guaranteeing former Cherokee slaves the rights of native
Cherokees, was procured by duress exerted by agents of the United States,
that
the tribe acted under a unilateral mistake of fact as to the true meaning of
the
treaty, that their concessions to the freedmen were made without
consideration,
and that the United States dealt with them in a manner less than fair and
honorable. It is held that on the basis of the record on appeal the court
concludes that the Commission's decision is supported by substantial evidence
and that the Commission correctly applied the law to the facts of the case.
The
decision of the Commission is affirmed.
COUNSEL:
Paul M. Niebell, attorney of record, for appellants. Earl Boyd Pierce,
George E. Norvell, Robert D. Hudson, and Oscar C. Essman, of counsel. [**2]
Frederick C. Ward, Jr., with whom was Assistant Attorney General Edwin L.
Weisl, Jr., for appellee. Wilma C. Martin, of counsel.
JUDGES:
Cowen, Chief Judge, Laramore, Durfee, Davis, Collins, Skelton, and Nichols,
Judges.
OPINIONBY:
PER CURIAM
OPINION:
[*182] This is an appeal from a decision of the Indian Claims Commission
(12 Ind. Cl. Comm. 570 (1963)) dismissing appellant's suit under Section 2
(3)
and (5) of the Indian Claims Commission Act, 25 U.S.C. § 70a, for revision of
that part of the Treaty of July 19, 1866, 14 Stat. 799, which provided that
former Cherokee slaves (the so-called Cherokee freedmen) should have all the
rights of native Cherokees. The claim was that (a) the Cherokee Nation agreed
to this portion of the treaty as a result of duress exerted by the agents of
the
Federal Government; (b) the Nation acted under a unilateral mistake of fact
as
to the meaning and reach of the treaty; (c) no proper consideration was
provided
by the United States for the tribal property which flowed to the freedmen as
a
result of the treaty; and (d) the dealings of the United States with the
Cherokee Nation with respect to this matter were not fair and honorable.
Recovery [**3] was sought of the value of that portion of the tribal funds
and
lands which had been distributed to the freedmen (as members of the Cherokee
Nation).
A trial was had. In a detailed and exhaustive opinion the Commission
concluded that the appellant had failed to prove a case upon which relief
could
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be granted. More specifically, [*183] the Commission determined that "the
plaintiff [appellant] has failed to prove the 1866 treaty or its antecedent
1865
and 1866 negotiations were attended by duress, fraud, intimidation,
falsehood,
or mistake. The plaintiff has failed to prove that consideration was relevant
to the pertinent portions of that treaty. The plaintiff has failed to prove
that
the 1866 treaty or its antecedent 1865 and 1866 negotiations were tainted by
unfair or dishonorable dealings on the part of the defendant. The plaintiff
has
failed to prove that in the allotment of tribal funds and lands there was any
taking by the defendant which would raise the issue of unconscionable
consideration." [12 Ind. Cl. Comm. at 643.]
Some two years ago when the Seminole Nation appealed a companion ruling by
the Commission involving a comparable treaty with that Nation (12 Ind. [**4]
Cl. Comm. 798 (1963)), we found that the Commission's decision was "supported
by
substantial evidence and that the Commission correctly applied the law to the
facts." Seminole Nation v. United States, 171 Ct. Cl. 477 (1965). We are of
the
same view here. The Commission's findings of fact in this case are sustained
by
substantial evidence in the record as a whole, and its material legal rulings
were correct. There is no need to go over again the ground which the
Commission
has so thoroughly covered in its findings and opinion. We affirm its decision
substantially for the reasons it gave.
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Media Advisory

Press conference

What:

A white Veteran Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Garrett Shah says

mistreatment of African-Americans and minority's are widespread,

His legal team of advisors will make public a lawsuit that has been filed by

Deputy Shah in United States District Court. Shah is suing the county Sheriff’s Department for wrongful retaliatory conduct against him for his refusal to participate in abusive and discriminatory practices against African-Americans.

Shah,33,calls himself a “whistle blower” against an anti-African-American culture that thoroughly pervades the Sheriff’s Department — from the jail cells the deputies control, down to the neighborhood streets they patrol.

In his complaint,Shah states that he has observed sheriff’s deputies plant illegal items on African-Americans, use neighboring law enforcement agencies to make unwarranted arrests of blacks and lie in court proceedings about their wrongful acts.Civil rights activist Najee Ali Director of Project Islamic HOPE

will call for a federal investigation of the Sheriffs Department.

“It doesn't have to be a ‘Rodney King-type’ thing,”“We don't have to lay a

hand on you. It’s in what we write and what we say. All we have to do is

write it down and say it and it’s gospel. We can go anywhere in any city

in this county and do what we want.

“If we don't like somebody or are in a mood for mischief, we write a report on that person that jams them up forever,“And it happens more frequently to African-Americans then to anybody else.

“There are a lot of Deputy Sheriffs who hate black people, all black people: males, females, old, young, rich, poor. They don't have to be gang member, they don't care.“They treat blacks worse than any other people — whites, Latinos, Asians. They treat blacks like they aren't even human. I've seen

some horrible treatment of blacks. And I've had all I'm going to take,

because it makes no sense." Stated Deputy Sheriff Garrett Shah.

" Deputy Shah is only confirming what many Blacks have said for years,

that the LA. County Sheriffs department has rouge deputy's who

are racist,abusive, and corrupt. Now we have a White deputy who has

come forward publicly to help confirm what Black activists has said for

decades" stated Najee Ali,director of Project Islamic HOPE

Press conference Date : Wednesday May 30,2007

Time: Noon

Where: Leimert Park ( Crenshaw and Vernon )

3415 W.43rd Place Los Angeles CA 90043

Confirmed speakers: Deputy Garrett Shah,and his legal advisors.

Najee Ali,CEO Project Islamic HOPE.

Rev K.W.Tulloss,Making A Difference Foundation.

Contact: Project Islamic HOPE Najee Ali

(323) 350-1065 cell

Official Press release from –The International Indigenous Society – Abannaki Aboriginal Nation of Moors

In Response to “Space Alien Diplomats” Issue

The True Story Told

Contact Office 215-917-2096

Voicemail 215 279-6116

Email isisworld19@yahoo.com, webmaster@blacklaws19.4t.com

Chief Executive Minister Abdul Ali Muhammad ©

· The International Society of Indigenous Sovereigns [I.S.I.S.] is an International Confederation of Aboriginal Nations that advocates the Sovereignty of Aboriginal Peoples and the restoration of Indigenous Governments.

· The International Indigenous Society is an Indigenous International Organization that acts on behalf of the International Society of Indigenous Sovereigns advocating the political objectives of the International Society of Indigenous Sovereigns [I.S.I.S.]

· The Abannaki Aboriginal Nation of Moors [Misnomer Delaware/Lenni Lenape/Miqmaq] is the oldest Aboriginal Nation in North America and the Imperial Seat of I.S.I.S.

· The following press release was prepared by the National Headquarters of the International Society of Indigenous Sovereigns for release to the general International media.

· Official Statement from Chief Executive Minister Abdul-Ali Muhammad

“Our International Confederation, International Organization and Aboriginal Nation have been unlawfully violated by the Trenton Police Department and the Trentonian News paper of the City of Trenton. As we are a foreign government in respect to the United States who have a permanent allegiance to the United States expressed through treaties we will pursue Justice in the proper methods according to Treaties, International Law and proper application of laws in the U.S. in respect to the unlawful arrests of our officials and the unlawful confiscation of property of our government and officials. It is my opinion based on communication and interaction with the Trenton Police and the Trentonian newspaper that both entities were unaware of the severity of the situation and the unlawfulness of their actions. Although they may have been unaware of our official status, both entities were given an opportunity to correct their violations of law after meeting with them. We know that Ignorance of the law is no excuse for the Officers and journalists responsible; however we were generous enough to provide all of the appropriate information to both entities to verify that their allegations and statements were bogus Both the Trenton Police and The Trentonian had an opportunity to verify the following:

· Our Status as an Aboriginal government that is foreign to the United States

· Our Documents from the United States Department of State sealed with the great Seal of the United States and signed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that verify that we are an Aboriginal Nation and International Confederation of Aboriginal Nations that has treaties with the United States Federal Government and that our actions, while in full accord with the Treaties of agreement between our Aboriginal Nations and the United States, are not against United States Law or Policy.

· We provided direct contacts to the United States Department of State – Chief Authentications Officer Denitra Hawkins # 202 663-1848- The purpose of the contact was for the verification of our Documents # 06013144-1 which are for the purpose of being used in International correspondence and in Courts as evidence of our status. This exactly what our Ministers were doing while communicating with the foreign venue [State of New Jersey Police Officers]

· Proof that our Ministers were not residents of the State of New Jersey. If they had been then they would have been required to have New Jersey registration, insurance, and a New Jersey Driver’s license in conformity with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Code. Our Official residence is in Poverty Point Louisiana [Washitaw Indigenous Lands, which is in North America on Indigenous Lands and is not considered a part of the United States per land patent release # 923 [1991].

· Title 18 Protections for Foreign officials [foreign to United States] and the protections of their propertiesDue to the rejection of the offer to the Trenton Police to follow the laws of the New Jersey State Motor vehicle code which our Indigenous Ministers were in perfect conformity with, due to the harassment, intimidation, threat, duress, coercion, unlawful arrest and unlawful/illegal seizure of the property of an Aboriginal Government that is foreign to the United States, and due to the slander, libel, and defamation of character of Trenton Police in the Trentonian newspaper and Trentonian Staff [Journalists Jack Knarr] and Editors, the International Society of Indigenous Sovereigns-Abannaki Aboriginal Nation had decided to sue both entities for Federal Tort Claims and Criminal Activity under The United States Constitution, Treaties, and Title 18 [United States Code] violations upon foreign officials.

The following notes are a record of the events that transpired in this case between Our Nation and the Trenton Police, Trentonian News Paper, and Courts of the State of New Jersey

3-12-07 Chief Protocol Minister Born El Bey and Minister Abdul-Amin Ali are unlawfully arrested by Trenton Police for carrying Native American Nationality Cards and traveling in government automobiles of the Abannaki Aboriginal Nation and International Society of Indigenous Sovereigns.

3-13-07 Minister Abdul Amin Ali is released by Judge Lawson McElroy

3-13-07 An Automobile belonging to I.S.I.S. Abannaki Nation is unlawfully stolen by a towing company at around 4:30 am at Anderson and Hewitt Streets. The vehicle was not unlawfully parked, was registered, insured, and in conformity with all laws applicable.

3-14-07 Chief Executive Minister Abdul-Ali Muhammad testifies before Judge Lawson McElroy on behalf of Protocol Minister Born El Bey verifying the Nationality of Minister Born El Bey. Judge McElroy orders the release of Minister Born El Bey. Trenton Police violate the judicial order and unlawfully detain a foreign official of an Aboriginal Government due to allegations of a speeding ticket detainer that is 14 years old.

3-14-07 Chief Executive Minister Abdul-Ali Muhammad communicates with Sergeant Dave McGinnis of the Grand Jury of the Superior Court of New Jersey in order to verify his status as Governmental Head of the International Society of Indigenous Sovereigns – Abannaki Aboriginal Nation of Moors and to provide documents from the United States of State. The purpose of this communication was to insure that the false allegations of false documents and false Government documents [which are indictable offenses] is dealt with speedily [dismissed] and the government property [3 automobiles and various belongings and Money of Ministers] registered with I.S.I.S. is returned upon judicial investigation. Sergeant Dave McGinnis copies the federal documents and the Aboriginal Nation’s documents and records them in the office of the Prosecutor of the Superior Court of New Jersey

3-14-07 Chief Executive Abdul-Ali Muhammad and Assistant Ministers Fareed Ishmael and Anthony Ali Bey meet with Captain Fred Reester, Joseph Juniak, and another Lieutenant of the Trenton Police at Police Headquarters to discuss the status of the unlawful arrest of Ministers of the Abannaki Nation and unlawful seizure of the Property of an Aboriginal Government. The Police are provided with the documents they requested prior to the meeting. They agree to call the United States Department of State to verify the documents and releases all property and Ministers upon verification.

3-14-07 The Trentonian, a local newspaper in the City of Trenton, releases a front page newspaper story directed towards the International Society of Indigenous Sovereigns and Abannaki Nation calling Ministers of the Nation “Space Alien Diplomats”, and taking information from the website of a group called the ‘Universal Zulu Nation’ in order to carry out character assassination and defamation upon I.S.I.S. and the Abannaki Aboriginal National and its Ministers. The newspaper also prints a plate on the front page that is inscribed with the words D-Fraud and issued by the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE. This is not an automobile plate of I.S.I.S. or the Abannaki Nation but is depicted as such. The Trentonian makes many false statements about the Aboriginal Nation.

3-15-07 The International Indigenous Society and Abannaki Nation make an official statement via one of its weekly newsletters called the Real Deal Weekly about the true activity of the Nation’s correspondence with the Trenton Police and in response to the slander libel and defamation of the Trentonian [See Attached Info]

3-16-07 Chief Minister Louis Diaz Ali El was arrested for ownership of a Nationality card of the Aboriginal Nation. His automobile which was registered with the Abannaki Nation was unlawfully seized. Minister Louis Diaz Ali El is released in 3 hours.3-17-07 National Headquarters of the Abannaki Nation provides Captain Joseph Juniak with United States Department of State contact [Chief Authentications Officer Denitra Hawkins] to verify the authenticity of US DOS Document # 06013144-1 of the International Society of Indigenous Sovereigns Chief Executive Minister Abdul Ali Muhammad by Fax.

3-17-07 Ministers of Abannaki Nation go to meet Captain Joseph Juniak in person at Police Headquarters to provide contact information to the U.S. Department of State to verify the authenticity of their Documents from the U.S. Department of State. Although Joseph Juniak was reported as present by the Building Guard he was nowhere to be found.

3-19-07 Ministers of Abannaki Nation go to meet Captain Joseph Juniak in person at Police Headquarters to provide contact information to the U.S. Department of State to verify the authenticity of their Documents from the U.S. Department of State. Chief Executive Minister Abdul-Ali Muhammad provides Captain Joseph Juniak with the proper contact information inside the US DOS [Chief Authentications Officer Denitra Hawkins contact # 202 663-1848]. Captain Juniak refuses to call to verify the documents and tells Chief Executive Minister Abdul-Ali Muhammad that he has been demoted.

3-19-07 Ministers of Abannaki Nation go to Mayor’s Office City of Trenton - Citizens Concerned Unit and makes an official 5 page report to Mayor Douglass Palmer’s staff [Duewa Edwards Dixone and Phyllis Holly-Ward]. In less than 2 hours Duewa Edwards Dixone calls Chief Executive Minister Abdul-Ali Muhammad and communicates that Mayor Douglass Palmer will be unable to meet with the National Ministers and that the matter was being investigated by Federal Agencies. No Federal Agencies have contacted the Abannaki Nation as of 4-11-07 although the matter has been public since 3-13-07.

3-20-07 Minister Abdul-Amin Ali sets 4-11 court date in Superior Court

3-20-07 Minister Born El Bey is finally released after Ministers discharge a 14 year old traffic ticket After 7 days of being detained unlawfully after a judicial order of release by Judge Lawson McElroy on 3-14-07 Minister Born El Bey is the last I.S.I.S. Minister released.4-11-07

Court dates for Minister Abdul Amin-Ali, Minister Born El Bey, and Minster Louis Diaz Ali El, Minister Jabbar Ali El are set for 4-11 – 07 at Superior Court of New Jersey

Article of 3-15-07 from the International Indigenous Society

CONSPIRACY ON INDIGENOUS NATION EXPOSED

Trenton Police Department Meets Secretly with Indigenous Nation to Verify their Federal & International Status DocumentsThen Trentonian Times Jack Knarr Starts Slander Campaign

The International Indigenous Society Chief Executive Abdul-Ali Muhammad along with Assistant Indigenous Ministers met yesterday with Captain of Trenton Police Fred Riester and Joseph Juniak to verify their Status as an Aboriginal Nation. The presiding Official of the Aboriginal National Abdul-Ali Muhammad made these comments to the Real Deal Weekly,” We formally met with the Police Captain Fred Riester and Northwest Captain Joseph Juniak at Police Headquarters. We provided our Federal Documents signed by the Secretary of State of the United States Condoleezza Rice and sealed with the Great Seal of the United States. We also presented our International Protections based on the United Nations Charter which the United States is subject to as a member of the United Nations [see United Nations Permanent forum of Indigenous Issues Website http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/ ]. The Law enforcement officers were not very familiar with the Constitution, International Law, and State Constitutional Law. Despite this the meeting was productive and cleared up a lot of the problems. I expected that officers who oath themselves to support both the state and federal Constitutions would be more knowledgeable of their oath”.

Police Director Joseph Santiago was not present at the Wednesday meeting with the Abannaki Nation however his Captain Fred Riester and Joseph Juniak were. They witnessed the federal paperwork and International Protections of the Aboriginal Nation. They did not make any accusations of fraud at the meeting after witnessing the paperwork. All State Officers pledge to support and defend the United States Constitution which includes all Treaties that protect Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples on the National and International Level. The Aboriginal Nation plans to sue Trentonian Times [Jack Knarr] for slander, libel and defamation of character.

Trenton Police had seized three automobiles that belonged to the Aboriginal Nation and arrested two Nationals/Citizens. The vehicles were registered and insured by the Aboriginal NationChief Minister Abdul-Ali Muhammad was allowed to speak on behalf of Minister Born El Bey on yesterday before Judge Lawson McElroy. Judge McElroy after hearing the Testimony of the Chief released Born El Bey on his own recognizance. Officers of the Trenton Police violated the judicial order and held Minister Born El Bey on faulty charges against judicial Authority.Chief Minister Muhammad stated that he had already communicated the Nation’s documents to the Sergeant of the Grand Jury of the Mercer County Prosecutors office David McGinnis on Tuesday to rectify any problems. The Chief stated, “These local officers and state officers were in direct violation of the New Jersey State Constitution, the New Jersey State Motor Vehicle Code, the U.S. Constitution, and International Law. I am surprised at how ignorant they are. We plan to sue Jack Knarr of the Trentonian for slander, libel, defamation of character, and generally misrepresenting the facts of this case.” Article provided by International Indigenous Society©

Published: December 16, 2005

Washington Post

Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts for White Skin

By Rick Weiss

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Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.

The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races.

Leaders of the study, at Penn State University, warned against interpreting the finding as a discovery of "the race gene." Race is a vaguely defined biological, social and political concept, they noted, and skin color is only part of what race is -- and is not.

In fact, several scientists said, the new work shows just how small a biological difference is reflected by skin color. The newly found mutation involves a change of just one letter of DNA code out of the 3.1 billion letters in the human genome -- the complete instructions for making a human being.

"It's a major finding in a very sensitive area," said Stephen Oppenheimer, an expert in anthropological genetics at Oxford University, who was not involved in the work. "Almost all the differences used to differentiate populations from around the world really are skin deep."

The work raises a raft of new questions -- not least of which is why white skin caught on so thoroughly in northern climes once it arose. Some scientists suggest that lighter skin offered a strong survival advantage for people who migrated out of Africa by boosting their levels of bone-strengthening vitamin D; others have posited that its novelty and showiness simply made it more attractive to those seeking mates.

The work also reveals for the first time that Asians owe their relatively light skin to different mutations. That means that light skin arose independently at least twice in human evolution, in each case affecting populations with the facial and other traits that today are commonly regarded as the hallmarks of Caucasian and Asian races.

Several sociologists and others said they feared that such revelations might wrongly overshadow the prevailing finding of genetics over the past 10 years: that the number of DNA differences between races is tiny compared with the range of genetic diversity found within any single racial group.

Even study leader Keith Cheng said he was at first uncomfortable talking about the new work, fearing that the finding of such a clear genetic difference between people of African and European ancestries might reawaken discredited assertions of other purported inborn differences between races -- the most long-standing and inflammatory of those being intelligence.

"I think human beings are extremely insecure and look to visual cues of sameness to feel better, and people will do bad things to people who look different," Cheng said.

The discovery, described in today's issue of the journal Science, was an unexpected outgrowth of studies Cheng and his colleagues were conducting on inch-long zebra fish, which are popular research tools for geneticists and developmental biologists. Having identified a gene that, when mutated, interferes with its ability to make its characteristic black stripes, the team scanned human DNA databases to see if a similar gene resides in people.

To their surprise, they found virtually identical pigment-building genes in humans, chickens, dogs, cows and many others species, an indication of its biological value.

They got a bigger surprise when they looked in a new database comparing the genomes of four of the world's major racial groups. That showed that whites with northern and western European ancestry have a mutated version of the gene.

Skin color is a reflection of the amount and distribution of the pigment melanin, which in humans protects against damaging ultraviolet rays but in other species is also used for camouflage or other purposes. The mutation that deprives zebra fish of their stripes blocks the creation of a protein whose job is to move charged atoms across cell membranes, an obscure process that is crucial to the accumulation of melanin inside cells.

Humans of European descent, Cheng's team found, bear a slightly different mutation that hobbles the same protein with similar effect. The defect does not affect melanin deposition in other parts of the body, including the hair and eyes, whose tints are under the control of other genes.

A few genes have previously been associated with human pigment disorders -- most notably those that, when mutated, lead to albinism, an extreme form of pigment loss. But the newly found glitch is the first found to play a role in the formation of "normal" white skin. The Penn State team calculates that the gene, known as slc24a5, is responsible for about one-third of the pigment loss that made black skin white. A few other as-yet-unidentified mutated genes apparently account for the rest.

Although precise dating is impossible, several scientists speculated on the basis of its spread and variation that the mutation arose between 20,000 and 50,000 years ago. That would be consistent with research showing that a wave of ancestral humans migrated northward and eastward out of Africa about 50,000 years ago.

Unlike most mutations, this one quickly overwhelmed its ancestral version, at least in Europe, suggesting it had a real benefit. Many scientists suspect that benefit has to do with vitamin D, made in the body with the help of sunlight and critical to proper bone development.

Sun intensity is great enough in equatorial regions that the vitamin can still be made in dark-skinned people despite the ultraviolet shielding effects of melanin. In the north, where sunlight is less intense and cold weather demands that more clothing be worn, melanin's ultraviolet shielding became a liability, the thinking goes.

Today that solar requirement is largely irrelevant because many foods are supplemented with vitamin D.

Some scientists said they suspect that white skin's rapid rise to genetic dominance may also be the product of "sexual selection," a phenomenon of evolutionary biology in which almost any new and showy trait in a healthy individual can become highly prized by those seeking mates, perhaps because it provides evidence of genetic innovativeness.

Cheng and co-worker Victor A. Canfield said their discovery could have practical spinoffs. A gene so crucial to the buildup of melanin in the skin might be a good target for new drugs against melanoma, for example, a cancer of melanin cells in which slc24a5 works overtime.

But they and others agreed that, for better or worse, the finding's most immediate impact may be an escalating debate about the meaning of race.

Recent revelations that all people are more than 99.9 percent genetically identical has proved that race has almost no biological validity. Yet geneticists' claims that race is a phony construct have not rung true to many nonscientists -- and understandably so, said Vivian Ota Wang of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda.

"You may tell people that race isn't real and doesn't matter, but they can't catch a cab," Ota Wang said. "So unless we take that into account it makes us sound crazy."

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Published: December 16, 2005

The New York Times

Gene That Determines Skin Color Is Discovered, Scientists Report

By Nicholas Wade

A gene that is responsible for the pale skin of Europeans and the dark skin of Africans has been discovered by scientists at Pennsylvania State University.

The gene comes in two versions, one of which is found in 99 percent of Europeans and the other in 93 to 100 percent of Africans, the researchers report in today's issue of Science.