From: Eric Bryant 
Subject: SNET: [piml] Fwd: Release: 10 Most Wanted
Date: 10 Jun 1999 02:24:40 -0400
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>NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
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>For release: June 10, 1999
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>For additional information:
>George Getz, Press Secretary
>Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222
>E-Mail: 76214.3676@Compuserve.com
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>Why no government murderers, robbers, or
>perverts on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list?
>
>        WASHINGTON, DC -- The most shocking thing about the FBI's new
>"10 Most Wanted" list is all the dangerous criminals who are not on it:
>The criminals who just happen to work for the federal government, the
>Libertarian Party said today.
>
>        "From murder to kidnapping to sexual assault -- many government
>employees have committed what would be considered heinous crimes if
>perpetrated by ordinary citizens," said Steve Dasbach, the party's
>national director. "But curiously, none of those government desperados
>made it onto the FBI's list."
>
>        On Monday, the FBI released the latest edition of its famous 10
>Most Wanted list, which included a frightful line-up of murderers,
>international terrorists, robbers, and bombers.
>
>        And that's good, said Dasbach: "Every person on that list who
>committed a crime of violence should be punished; justice demands it.
>But justice also demands that everyone who commits a crime of violence
>be treated equally -- even if they happen to be a politician, the head
>of a federal agency, or a government bureaucrat."
>
>        With that in mind, Dasbach offered a Libertarian version of the
>FBI's 10 Most Wanted list: Government criminals who weren't on the
>list, but should be.
>
>        1. U.S. Customs Commissioner Raymond Kelly. Crime: Accessory to
>sexual assault. "Last year, U.S. Customs employees under Kelly's
>command ordered 2,797 international airline passengers to strip off
>their clothes at gunpoint, intimately groped them, and conducted
>humiliating body cavity searches," said Dasbach. "Ordinary Americans
>who behave this way are called sex criminals, but Customs inspectors
>who behave like perverts are given promotions."
>
>        2. Justice Department Asset Forfeiture Division Chief Jerry
>McDowell. Crime: Grand larceny. "Last year, the Justice Department
>confiscated 42,454 cars, boats, houses, and other belongings -- valued
>at over $604 million -- from Americans who were never convicted of any
>crime," said Dasbach. "That's theft on a mind-boggling scale, and makes
>Jerry McDowell one of the criminal masterminds of the century."
>
>        3. Marine Corporal Clemente Banuelos. Crime: Murder. "In 1997,
>Banuelos and three fellow Marines on an anti-drug patrol in Redford,
>Texas, gunned down 18-year-old Ezequiel Hernandez as he was herding
>goats near the Mexican border," noted Dasbach. "Why is cold-blooded
>murder not considered murder when committed by someone wearing a Marine
>Corps insignia?"
>
>        4. President Bill Clinton. Crime: International terrorism.
>"Osama bin Laden made the FBI's list for killing 224 people in embassy
>bombings -- yet Clinton has killed literally thousands of innocent
>civilians during his undeclared and unconstitutional war in
>Yugoslavia," said Dasbach. "That kind of mass murder of innocents
>should not go unpunished by a civilized nation."
>
>        5. Former NHTSA director Joan Claybrook. Crime: Accessory to
>murder. "As head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
>in the 1970s, Claybrook forced automakers to install air bags, many of
>which have malfunctioned and exploded, killing 115 people," said
>Dasbach. "If Death-by-Regulation isn't a crime, it should be -- and
>Claybrook should be the first person prosecuted."
>
>        6. Social Security Commissioner Kenneth S. Apfel. Crime:
>Investment fraud. "If an ordinary American did what Apfel and his
>Social Security co-conspirators do -- run a retirement program where
>the only assets are billions of dollars of IOUs -- they would be in
>jail faster than you can yell 'AARP!' " said Dasbach. "Why is the
>government's Ponzi Scheme, where new investors are paid with money from
>old investors, not shut down like any other criminal pyramid scheme
>would be?"
>
>        7. Attorney General Janet Reno. Crime: Conspiracy to commit
>murder. "Not even the Mafia would do what Janet Reno ordered done on
>April 19, 1993: Assault a religious compound with tanks, military
>helicopters, and poison gas," said Dasbach. "Yet that's what happened
>in Waco, Texas -- killing 69 men, women, and children. Son of Sam is in
>jail for committing serial murder: Why isn't Janet Reno?"
>
>        8. FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi. Crime: Murder. "In 1992, Horiuchi
>used a high-powered rifle to assassinate Vicki Weaver in Ruby Ridge,
>Idaho, as she stood in her kitchen holding her 11-month-old infant
>daughter," said Dasbach. "You may not like the political views of her
>husband, white separatist Randy Weaver, but that shouldn't have given
>government employees the right to declare open season on his family."
>
>        9. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey. Crime: Kidnapping, false
>imprisonment. "Under McCaffrey's direction, 695,200 people were
>arrested in 1997 for marijuana offenses, 87% of whom were accused of
>mere possession," noted Dasbach. "For this victimless crime, these
>people were arrested at gunpoint, dumped into jail cells, and deprived
>of their liberty -- while millions of violent criminals were allowed to
>run free. That's the real crime."
>
>        10. U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum (R-FL). Crime: Illegal telephone
>tapping. "Last year, McCollum inserted a roving wiretap provision into
>the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1998 -- giving federal agents the
>power to eavesdrop on anyone's phone calls without a court order," said
>Dasbach. "Unauthorized eavesdropping is a crime: Let's prosecute Rep.
>McCollum for it."
>
>        So, do Libertarians think any of these government "criminals"
>will ever end up behind bars?
>
>        "Perhaps not," admitted Dasbach. "But it's nice to dream about
>an America where equal justice under the law is a reality. And if
>nothing else, if would be nice if some of these most wanted criminals
>became some of America's least wanted politicians."
>
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