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06-23-2007

Hello Condo Rice?!?! Any Bets On The Answer???

Vicki Jacobs
Voluntary Legal Services Program of Northern California

Dear Ms. Jacobs,
Thank you very much for the information. Especially the point clarifying the State Departments role which I had been told by State Department officials was almost non-existent and that bottom line authority lies with the County. Do you believe that it would be possible given the current political climate that the State Department may have been more active in seeking such information against me in order to take away my passport, especially given the fact that I have run an "anti-Neo-Con" website for years, and that the sum for which I am refused to even view one document pertaining to it's legality, has been fabricated? Before the site there was no problem with arrears whatsoever.
Mr. John Anthony Robles II

Dear Mr. Robles,

Thank you for your email. You have a situation that is unique to us.....we do very little work in family law and certainly haven't encountered a situation as complex as yours before. I'm afraid that it's beyond the abilities of our small volunteer-based organization to help with.

Coincidentally, I received some information concerning passport denials from a list serve I belong to. The situation being addressed by that list serve involved someone with a child support arreage who wanted to travel out of the country later this year and wanted to know what to do about a passport denial. I thought some of the information would be helpful to you:

Passport denial: While the answer you received from DCSS is
accurate, there is more to it. The federal passport revocation
program is very strict and the State role in the process is very
limited. DCSS is required to report to the State Dept. anyone with
arrears of $2500 or more and, once reported, to make a second report
when the arrears have been paid in full. With very limited
exceptions (eg. a parent dying overseas) the passport will not be
released again until the arrears have been paid in full. Only the
State Dept. can release the passport and a State Court does not have
jurisdiction to order the State Dept. to release the passport. Once
an obligor leaves the country, it is virtually impossible to make
them pay their child support arrears, so the State Dept. is very
reluctant to release a passport absent a very compelling showing of
good cause. Your best advice to your client may well be to pay the
arrears as soon as possible to allow the State Dept. sufficient time
to process the passport release.

Arrears Compromise: DCSS currently has statutory athority to
compromise arrears owed to the State/County, including the interest
owed on those arrears. Each case is considered on an individual
basis, taking into account the payment history and current ability
to pay. The application is a completed Income and Expense
Declaration which should be submitted to the County DCSS office that
is handling the case. The good news is that Sacramento is one of
the more agressive counties in negotiating compromise agreements.
The terms of repayment may involve a lump sum payment or a payment
plan over the course of a year or more. One note of caution,
however: any information provided to DCSS to determine eligibility
for compromise may later be used to enforce the support order.

I'm sorry we cannot be of further help. It would appear that short of hiring a local family law attorney to straighten out the child support dispute, it will be difficult to get the state department to release your passport.

Vicki Jacobs
Voluntary Legal Services Program of Northern California

06-19-2007

I Am Being Harrassed for My Views

06-08-2007 SOURCE

The Neocon Threat to World Peace and American Freedom
by Paul Craig Roberts

Just as Goebbels said, some lies are too big to be disbelieved. It is this disbelief that is so dangerous. The inability of Americans to see through the Big Lie to the secret agenda allows the neoconservatives to escape accountability and continue with their plot.

06-08-2007  FEDS TERRORIZE TOWN

The raids have left children without their fathers, and the Fair Haven community afraid to go outside, community leaders said. Arresting fathers in front of children, "they terrorized the children that were there," said Kica Matos (pictured), City Hall's point person for immigration policy.

In another home, a father and two children were detained until someone else came home, at which point the father was taken away. Since the mother could not be found, the two children remain parentless, DeStefano said.

06-08-2007 BREAKING: Five US Reps Support Cheney Impeachment

"there is more than one Member of Congress willing to entertain real accountability for the Bush Administration, despite the insistence of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) that impeachment is off the table."

"...it was complete abdication of a constitutional mechanism no matter what information comes forward."
 

предложениях британских спецслужб по сбору компромата на руководство РФ  

Doug Saunders
June 2, 2007 at 2:32 PM EDT

In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to target Europe with missiles, including potentially nuclear weapons, in a dramatic escalation of his Cold War-style showdown with the United States.

Mr. Putin, in an interview at his summer residence outside Moscow, said he considers U.S. plans to build an eastern European anti-missile site to shoot down Iranian missiles a provocation aimed at Russia.

He repeatedly described the anti-missile system as a part of the American "strategic nuclear potential," whose existence he said requires Russia to retaliate to maintain the global "strategic balance."

Asked what he might do to retaliate, he said he would return Russia to the Cold War status where missiles were aimed at European targets.

THEY WANT JAR2 SHUT DOWN!!!

If you support jar2 please help by contacting the people below and telling them what you think. I THINK THEY SHOULD ALL GO AND FUCK THEMSELVES

06-08-2007

05-11-2007 UPDATE 12-24-2008 FUCK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU MOTHER FUCKERS

Mary Jane Griffith who had her husband killed and the judge and prosecutor who she claimed were family friends and whose home, car, and personal loans she approved  through her position as the manager of the local bank. Beneficiaries of over $351,684.00 in fraudulent welfare cash grants in the case of my ex-wife alone.. They destroyed my life in 1995. Now they are back.

The woman at Yolo County who was sorry I was in Russia because they could not, "get me" and who demanded I pay $15,000 and told me I was beating a dead horse that nobody cared about.. And that it was my problem they took my passport away in Russia.

Jane Hyatt

503-661-2876

The woman in the California passport program who tried to be helpful but alas there was nothing she could do.

Margarita

916-464-5050

916-845-4604

The man in charge of the COAP program and who cancelled my application to pay money I do not owe.

Preston Metzger

preston.metzger@yolocounty.org

The first person I dealt with in the COAP program who thinks my word is worthless and arrogantly laughed at me and my efforts.

Victoria McKesson

Vicki.mckesson@yolocounty.org

530-661-2884

The Congress Woman I tried to obtain help from but who told me to give up my kids as collateral.

Nancy Pelosi

pelosi@mail.house.gov

The nice woman who told me to give my kids up as collateral and that I deserve to lose my American citizenship because I chose to live and work in Russia.

Harriet Shimoto at the California office of Nancy Pelosi

415-556-4862

The nice man at the state department who told me to contact my senator. There is nothing he can do.

Steve Sena

202-736-4979

The US Embassy Consular Officers who cancelled my passport. Their hands are tied.

Joseph E. Moone and Richard Rosenman

moscowwarden@state.gov

U.S. Embassy in Moscow
Telephone: (7) (495) 728-5577 - 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, weekdays
Telephone: (7) (495) 728-5000 - After 6:00pm, weekends

Citizens Emergency Center
United States Department of State
Telephone: (202) 647-5225 - 24-hours, everyday

Were Yolo County California following the law ...... It is the County of Yolo's way of lining someone's pockets. $351,684.00 worth.

05-06-2007

PAY OR WE DESTROY YOUR FAMILY!!!

"Give up your children as collateral."

        This is what we were told today by a member of the US Government as my negotiations continued. Family values? Honor? Today I have decided to stop being silent

 Mike Smith _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

This will  be a very important week for Mr. Smith. If you can do anything to demand his case gets a just hearing  please help. Good luck to him.

12-15-2006 More SECRET DOCUMENTS ADDED

MIKE SMTIH: "I think any engineer who reads this in association with the files 1 and 2 from the Count 4 evidence will realise that Meirion Lewis is exaggerating his evidence to convince the jury to convict me. "

SEE: Cross-examination Oleg Gordievsky.zip

SEE: Cross-examination Stella Rimington.zip

SEE: Meirion Francis Lewis evidence.zip

SEE: Oleg Gordievsky X-examination.zip

SEE: Stella Rimington X-examination.zip

SEE: Testimony Meirion Francis Lewis.zip

SEE: Witness Statements Meirion Francis Lewis.zip

12-15-2006 More SECRET DOCUMENTS ADDED Actual Count 4 documents

SEE:  COUNT 4 EXHIBITS PART 1

SEE:  COUNT 4 EXHIBITS PART 2

SEE:  COUNT 4 EXHIBITS PART 3

SEE:  COUNT 4 EXHIBITS PART 4

SEE:  COUNT 4 EXHIBITS PART 5

12-07-2006 SECRET MI5 debriefing reports. Reports made by Stella Rimington when she was the Head of Counter-intelligence (i.e. the "Desk")  taken from interviews with Viktor Oshchenko shortly after he defected to the UK in 1992.

SEE:  Oshchenko Zipped PDF FILE

SEE:  Gordievsky Zipped PDF File

SEE:  Witness Statements Zipped PDF File

11-05-2006 Here are two more zipped pdf documents on the Mike Smith case.

 ECHR Decision   Grounds for Appeal

10-16-2006 THESE ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS EXHIBITS TO DATE...

More to come on Mike tonight. Tune in at midnight. SORRY DELAYED 24 hours.

COUNT#3     HTML   ZIPPED PDF  

Defense Analysis     HTML   Zipped PDF

08-30-2006           More Secret Documents on Mike Smith Sent by Mr. X

        I have been following the case of Mike Smith and have obtained some new documents on his trial that implicate an American who was working for the KGB and English Intelligence, and shed more light as to the bias of the prosecution in what appears to be the fabrication of the case against him. The following documents sent to me by Mr. X for publication make interesting reading for anyone interested in the world of spies and I encourage anyone who is able to, to publish them and share them in order to help Mr. Smith whose life has wrongfully been destroyed as a result of the case made against him. The first file has SECRET stamped all over it with several pages marked TOP SECRET as well. It is lightly redacted with several annotations as to the redactions by Mr. X..

SEE: American Recruited by KGB/Mi6   PDF   ZIP   

>Evidence of Mr. E   DOC  ZIP

>Appeal   PDF   ZIP

>About Mike Smith  LINK1   LINK2

08-12-2006 HOLES IN PROSECUTION of MIKE SMITH  More Secret Evidence in Mike Smith Case

More on the Mike Smith case. SEE:PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE RULINGS  DOWNLOAD:DOWNLOAD ZIP FILE 

Anonymous sent me a document on Mike Smith's case.

Hi John,
        Here is the document that has an important place in Mr.Smith's legal case. It shows how the judge decided which evidence would be admissible at the trial, and it reveals how the end result of a trial can be determined by the decisions at these pre-trial hearings. The main point that emerges is how the judge firmly comes down on the side of the prosecution, and he allows in a lot of highly prejudicial evidence - evidence which at best could only be described as speculative. It is apparent from the way these legal arguments developed that both the judge and the prosecution were following the directions of MI5, because the evidence which was ruled admissible followed the story that MI5 had focused on.
        The effect of the judge's rulings was to ensure that there was a strong bias in the trial towards the prosecution case, and this caused the defence team problems because most of the evidence was circumstantial. This imbalance in the trial towards the prosecution also placed pressure on the jury to convict, which is what they did.
        Reading through the arguments the prosecution presented to the judge, it can be seen that there was little or no evidence to support the link to Viktor Oshchenko, which was the crux of the prosecution case. All the defence objections were dismissed by judge Blofeld, who allowed the prosecution to run a case based on assertions for which no evidence existed. Even the MI5 witness Stella Rimington made it clear at the trial: there was no evidence of a link between Oshchenko and Smith.
        The judge can be seen to play down the significance of Smith's holiday in Portugal in 1977, as though this was a side issue. However, this was done to disguise the fact that Portugal was indeed to become the main argument made to connect Smith to KGB tradecraft. It was an innocent tourist map from this holiday that enabled the prosecution to call evidence from a US citizen, referred to as Mr E. Mr E was recruited by Oshchenko in December 1978, while he worked as a salesman in a Hi-Fi shop in Tottenham Court Road, London. Mr E was run by two KGB controllers: Viktor Oshchenko and Yuriy Gennadyevich Pokrovskiy (who was later expelled from Britain).
        Mr E was born in Yorkshire (England) and he was groomed by Oshchenko due to his background in the US Navy and his electronics expertise, he left as a Petty Officer (electronics technician (radar) III class). The KGB were also interested in Mr E's relatives: his father was a retired US Army 0-6, his mother an English nurse, and his father-in-law worked with one of the US House of Representatives subcommittees. The prosecution went to great lengths to conceal the identity of Mr E, and to present him as some kind of friend of the US and British Security Services, but in actual fact it was clear from the evidence that Mr E had accepted significant amounts of money from the KGB, equivalent to the monthly mortgage payments on his home, and he allowed himself to be groomed as an agent for about 15 months or more.
        While working for the KGB, Mr E attempted to procure some sensitive integrated circuits, which were proscribed to the Russians under COCOM. He also undertook KGB training methods and sought to improve his professional position, so he might gain access to information useful to the Russians. One of Mr E's training mission's was a trip to Lisbon (Portugal) on the weekend of 21/22 July 1979, to deliver a package to a KGB contact.
        A major part of the prosecution argument was that Mr E had behaved in the same way as Smith, but on careful study of the history of the 2 people, this is far from being an honest argument by the prosecution.

05-05-06             RE-POST Mike Smith Writes an Article for JAR2 (Exclusive)

        Mike Smith wrote with the following offering on his case. Please read it carefully along with the other files on his case. Only through pressure from the public can he be assured of the fair trail and the re-opening of his case that he is seeking. Like many hundreds of others who have been unfairly tried and punished on the flimsiest of grounds  by governments eager to persecute anyone for political gain, in particular with regard to Russia, his case deserves, in my opinion, to be heard and his vindication finally brought about.

SEE:  The Article   POLICE INTERROGATIONS   SEE: SUMMARY

The Jigsaw Puzzle of my Spy Trial  by Michael John Smith       

SNIPPET Those who remember my case will be aware that in 1992/93 I was portrayed as a major KGB spy, featuring on the front pages of several national newspapers. My name later appeared in the Mitrokhin Archive, as did Melita Norwood - the “Granny Spy” - but unlike her I have been largely ignored by those commentating on the history of espionage in the UK.
        In this article, I would like to familiarise JAR2 readers with some key elements of my case, and to raise questions about the official Prosecution account. I maintain that I did not receive a fair trial, and this is why I am still engaged in legal action to have my case re-opened.