Saturday, September 29, 2007

...nothing left to lose


Op de space van Gregg Savajian speelt nu Hank Snow Me and Bobby McGee. gelukkig - ik kan de bekende hitversie niet uitstaan, ook al verneem ik dat het lied gedeeltelijk over Joplin zelf gaat. Het origineel is van Roger Miller.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Als we toch met liederen bezig zijn in het Engels houd ik het hier bij:

Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all.

Uit de versie van de Internationale van Billy Bragg.
Vrijheid is ondeelbaar. Zolang er een niet vrij is, is niemand vrij.

Freedom is just another word...


Een brief uit een gevangenis in de Verenigde Staten, meer bepaald Colorado:

I am contacting you with this tragic story, a part of this country that is becoming more and more common. The persecution of its own citizens by over zealous, politically motivated, and deviate state employees called prosecutors and judges. Perhaps this story will grab your attention. Maybe, someone would see a story of ultimate sadness, a story of an American family devastated by unfair “Justice”, by the system of government our sons, brothers, fathers and daughters are dying for. This story is true, a recent calamity wrought upon a hardworking, law abiding, tax paying family from Golden, Colorado. Jefferson County District Court, the same county in question for its alleged cover-up of Columbine School fame. The same county that decimated a former (Denver) District Judges life so much so, that he committed suicide. The same county that has the highest inmate suicide rate in the country (per capita). The same county that just sentenced one of its own detention facility psychologists for child abuse, she kept her grandson in a dog kennel, eight hours a day for years. The county seat of Coors Brewery, Colorado School of Mines, Gateway to the Rockies, and former state capital; The county that convicts innocent people, and has sentences so out of proportion that people want to bypass driving through!

This is about a false and fraudulent conviction of a 50 year old grandfather of six. A 45 year resident and taxpayer. Sentenced to 24 years in prison for the crime of “Sollicitation to Commit Murder” against a sheriff’s deputy because he gave himself a bad haircut! How is that for fabricated intent? The story was national on February 9, 2005. The article in the paper was totally inaccurate, except for the sentence. This poor individual lost his freedom because a 4 time convicted felon was “paid” a waiver of a life sentence for this perjurous testimony! A crime with no victim, no weapon, no logical motivation, nothing but one first time jail snitch who was let out on probation only to be arrested AGAIN before he was to testify against, basically, a first time offender. BECAUSE HE WAS ANGRY ABOUT A HAIRCUT HE GAVE TO HIMSELF! If true, this man should have been committed to a mental facility. There was no truth to the state's only witness testimony. Proof of the perjury, motivated by a state deal, lies in the trial transcripts, family members and attorneys present at trial.

The witness who was a habitual felon, didn’t identify the defendant at trial when asked to. Even though the “solicitor” defendant was seated at the “defendants” table. This “reliable” witness testified that he picked this “crazed” man who tried to hire him to “take out” a deputy, out of a photo lineup! But he also testified he never had “face to face” contact with this man! And after not identifying the defendant, the prosecution realized the total fraudulent perjury of the witness. The prosecutor then proceeded to point at the defendant and as recorded in the trial records asked his witness, “If the man sitting at the end of the defendants table was the man that solicited him!” Is this the legal system our country fights for and postulates to other non-democratic countries? This is the state that the National Democratic Convention is going to be held. Fraud to the jury to convict an innocent grandfather of 6, a local man who worked locally and paid taxes diligently. Who do you want back on the streets? Who deserves to be in prison? The prosecutor for one, he let a habitual felon back on the streets, to commit more crimes, for his testimony!

An innocent man, arrested on, but not convicted of, trumped up charges of attempted auto theft, criminal mischief and felony menacing. Who pleaded guilty to possession of burglary tools and misdemeanor menacing and after 3 days in county jail, was accused of sollicitation to commit murder over a bad hair cut!! Is this your democracy, your USA that we are so proud of? A justice system who ruined a man’s life, his family’s life, and caused even more tragedy through a false erroneous charge and conviction of his son. That man is me. Gregg Savajian. This is your country, your state, your county. Mine was fair and just, stood up for the underdog, the little guy. Not the millionaire or politician or the celebrity – the country that protected its citizens, not persecuted them. Freedom is just another word – for the wealthy and privileged.

Please investigate my story – it’s all true. I’m sure you’ll find more, just ask.

Gregg Savajian
Doc#125166
Unit 4-C-208
PO Box 6000
Sterling, CO 80751

email: forumforunderstandingprisons at yahoo dot com

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