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- More Of The Dark Past Of Janet Reno
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- By Joel Skousen <jskousen@enol.com 4-22-00
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- After this morning's gestapo-like raid on Elian's house
in Miami, I thought all my subscribers ought to have some background on
Janet Reno's law enforcement background. This will tell you something
about the "rule of law" in Amerika and the dark side of Janet
Reno..
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- Joel Skousen
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- From The Laissez Faire City Times Vol 4, No 16 April
17, 2000
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- Brainwashing in Dade County
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- Before assuming the office of Attorney General, Janet
Reno was District Attorney in Miami's Dade County. During her tenure in
office she launched a case to help children she alleged were victims of
sexual abuse. She brought in so-called "experts" who tend to
use typical brainwashing techniques to convince children they are victims
of abuse. In such cases the children typically invent fanciful tales of
abuse and in this case the same scenario played itself out.
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- Reno's victim, however, wasn't some adult pedophile but
a young boy who Reno insisted, be tried as an adult. Bobby Fijnje moved
to Miami with his family in 1981. His father had been a diplomat for the
Dutch government in the Antilles. The family had decided to make the United
States their new home. They joined a local church where Bobby helped work
in the Sunday School.
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- On August 28, 1989 the police arrived at the Fijnje home.
They were given permission to search the house for evidence against young
Bobby. They ripped his room apart looking for pornography but found nothing
incriminating. The police took the boy into custody and put him through
a long, drawn-out interrogation. For the first two hours the boy's father
was allowed to be present but he was then told to leave the room so the
police could talk to Bobby alone.
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- The newsletter Casualties of Sexual Allegations (January
1997) says that young Bobby was an insulin-dependent diabetic who "became
ill and unsteady during 7 hours of questioning during which he had almost
no food. Promised he could leave if he confessed, he made a sort of confession,
but when immediately taken into custody, he reasserted his innocence."
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- That evening the boy was put into state custody at the
Juvenile Detention Center where he was forced to remain for almost two
years while Janet Reno engaged in another one of her crusades to help children.
Bobby's father explains what happened:
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- "During Bobby's imprisonment, we twice asked for
him to be released on bond, the second time in the care of his aunt and
uncle (a retired Connecticut State Supreme Court judge), but this was refused
because 'Bobby was a threat to the community' and because it was said that
our family would flee the country. Bobby pleaded not guilty, and was tried
as an adult on the motion of the Dade County prosecutor's office, headed
by Ms. Reno.
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- "The pre-trial hearings finally began in early August
1990 with Judge Norman Gerstein presiding. Pre-trial hearings lasted until
the middle of January 1991, at which time a jury was selected. Before and
during the trial, we were repeatedly urged to accept a plea-bargain and
warned of the dangers Bobby faced in prison. We were told that he would
have AIDS within a week after entering prison. We were told what a horrible
time he would have in prison, where the jailers are mere administrators
and the prison is actually ruled by the prisoners. But we knew Bobby was
innocent, and we refused to accept a plea bargain.
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- "During the trial, not a single witness ever testified
that he or she had seen anything improper. Over 800 members of the church
stepped forward and offered to testify on Bobby's behalf. At least 14 motions
for mis-trial were filed by Bobby's lawyers, Mr. Mel Black and Mr. Peter
Miller. Over 500 sidebar conferences were held in this case, which cost
the taxpayers well over $3 million, money that could have been used to
feed the poor, improve public health, or shelter the many homeless people
who roam the streets of Miami. Instead, this money was spent on the longest
trial ever held in Dade County, all in an effort to send an innocent boy
to jail for life.
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- "On the morning of 4 May 1991, the jury advised
Judge Gerstein that a verdict had been reached, but we waited an hour and
a half for that verdict to be read. Judge Gerstein advised our lawyer that
we must wait for Ms. Reno's arrival. She wanted to be present when the
verdict was read.
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- "Bobby was acquitted on all counts.
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- "During this period, our family had to endure daily
attacks and lies in the newspapers and on television. My wife and I were
accused of being drug dealers and ringleaders in a child pornography business.
Death threats were sent to us and left on our telephone answering machine.
In addition to local and county police departments, the FBI was also called
in to investigate us. Unmarked police cars cruised through our street,
while a police helicopter with a searchlight flew overhead at night. Television
reporters knocked on every door and window in the house, but we refused
to give interviews because we believed that the media would not truthfully
report them.
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- "Ms. Janet Reno was the Dade County Prosecutor at
the time of the investigation and prosecution of our son, and as such she
must bear the primary responsibility for what was done to him. Is Ms. Reno
the right person to head the United States Justice Department? Is she really
a crusader against child abuse? Is she aware the she abused my son by her
actions and robbed him of one year, eight months, and one week of his life?"
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- According to an article in the Wall Street Journal psychologist
David Raskin said that Reno's treatment of this child was the "most
inhumane and despicable" case he had seen in over twenty years of
practice.
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- Reno Is Here to Help You
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- Typical of accusations obtained through brain washing,
the alleged victims of Bobby Fijnje said that the boy dug up graves. They
reported that one woman turned herself into a witch and that Bobby used
to dance naked on the roof of the church in full public view"which,
of course, no one else noticed. On top of this the boy was accused of eating
a new born infant.
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- When the case was finally over, the Fijnje family decided
to leave the United States. Their attorney told them that Janet Reno was
not finished with them yet and was looking into further charges against
the tormented child. Though they wished to remain in America, the family
left fearing that Reno hadn't finished with her child-saving crusades.
And they were right. Since then she moved on to Waco and now her attention
is focused on young Elian. For years people have laughed at the punch line,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." When it comes
to Janet Reno these words loose their humor and become frightening instead.
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- Half the time I think that Janet Reno doesn't exist,
and couldn't exist, except, perhaps, in the pages of a Stephen King novel.
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- Jim Peron is a South African journalist who was interviewed
by Alberto Mingardi in a recent issue of The Laissez Faire City Times.
He has recently finished a book entitled Two Masters: the Conflict Between
Christianity and Capitalism. Email: peron@global.co.za.
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- from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 4, No 16, April
17, 2000
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