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Mary Neal Requests Meeting with USDOJ - updated in comments
What happened to Larry Neal?" Asking that question may get you followed, waylaid in neighborhood businesses while deprived of police assistance, stripped of your First Amendment rights to free speech and free press. If you dare to ask it, here are a link and email address:
Congress: https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
USDOJ eMail: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
Read the comments below for an update on this continuing justice quest and the drama that scares our family as we plunge ahead attempting to find resolution and publicize the unfolding sega to promote safety and justice. To see some of the drama, read the police report at this link: http://my.nowpublic.com/health/finally-heard-police-re-911-emergency-call-when-waylaid
Freedom of speech and freedom of press are constitutionally recognized privileges. However, Mary Neal is being prohibited from using email today. She tried to send a number of messages out via Yahoo carrying the license numbers for her new and interesting neighbors, who took up residence in seven foreclosed homes in her immediate proximity within the past few months, people who used mostly drive-out tags until recently. One example is this article. Last night I added Cochran Firm Atlanta Office video for this article and got the “video loaded” message. However, it is not at the footage tab now and does not appear to be in the NP library. It was substituted with the firm's tractor trailer truck video. As Frederick Douglas said, “To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
Since emails sometimes are inexplicably removed from Mary’s Yahoo email box, she wanted her friends and some family members to also archive the license numbers, just as much relevant information is archived by others. However, she was not allowed to send them from Yahoo or her Care2 email systems. Last week, emails from her account associated with http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com did not reach the intended parties, either.
Things are more intense now, perhaps because the Neal family holds a Court Order issued to dismiss our lawsuit against The Cochran Firm which disclaimed the law firm has any office in Georgia. That may be inconvenient, because on February 17, The Cochran Firm published a YouTube video advertising its Atlanta office to the whole wide world, which it never stopped doing, actually. The VIDEO is at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlcolpUzckU. The Georgia Superior Court's dismissal supported the Atlanta law office's false court claim that the Neals served their lawsuit wrongly, because the widely-advertised Cochran Firm office at 127 Peachtree Street in Atlanta was no part of the Cochran Firm at all. In fact, the Neals were allowed to file suit against The Cochran Firm in federal court in 2007 on the premise that no Atlanta office exists (diversity). It seems to be a case of "Oh what a tangled web we weave."
Meanwhile this writer and her 86-year-old mother get threats via email and live under self-imposed house arrest for safety. Now, we have all of these strange new neighbors. Hopefully, Eric Holder's USDOJ will help untangle the web, because the Neal family does not feel safe even at home any longer despite many thousands of people in America and abroad having visited our website and read articles detailing the Neal family's justice quest. This is thanks to online media like NowPublic and Care2News Network, because mainstream media will not report this news. Many signed our petition for an investigation into the wrongful death of Larry Neal, a severely handicapped American who died after 18 days of secret arrest in Memphis/Shelby County Jail. (See http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1038156.)
So the solution in some people's minds to be free of the tangled web is what? Maybe not good. Tonight the Neal family decided that this is a matter for the federal government to address, and sent the USDOJ an email asking for a meeting. The Neals did not go to the USDOJ before because it is awkward to require assistance upholding one's rights from the very same agency that apparently played a large part in the denial of those rights in the first place. When mentally ill heart patient Larry Neal died in Shelby County Jail in 2003, the USDOJ reneged on its oversight responsibilities. But hopefully, the USDOJ has CHANGED.
Mary has not announced her recent articles as much as she did previous works due largely to the increased activity at her new neighbors’ homes when she publishes. When Mary uploads another article, the new neighbors’ lights come on,people start walking from house to house, and frequently more cars (often with drive-out tags) arrive between 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. Mary usually blogs at night to respond to her mother quickly whenever she has another nightmare about how Larry may have died. We are not allowed to know why/how Larry Neal died. For five years, we have been denied answers, records, and accountability about his secret arrest and death in Shelby County Jail.
Despite the reduction in promoting her articles, Mary always sends a link to her new articles to a number of people and small groups, giving at least 200 people access to her work via a links that she emails. Those emails which should have gone out via Care2 and Yahoo today did not, based Mary's non-receipt of the expected automatic responses from recipients via Yahoo.
Because Mary writes about the wrongful death of Larry Neal, she seems to be the focus of the harassment. Actually, the family agreed not to overwhelm the court process with all 130 of Larry's close relatives, not counting cousins. That was an error. There are considerable advantages in public demonstrations after wrongs, like Larry's jail death under undisclosed circumstances or Oscar Grant's shooting. At least no one hopes to sweep Oscar Grant's death under the rug and victimize his family for making inquiries. Some of Larry's younger family members wanted to do likewise, but Mary and others desisted, not recognizing until recently that protest marches were still necessary for black families in America to get a semblance of justice after such tragedies. So Mary took her elderly, grieving mother to The Cochran Firm instead. Now, the family is living under seige like in a foregone era. "Foregone era" because the only way to get this article to many who might be able to assist is apparently to mail it.
Mary was unable to send her emails from Care2 and NowPublic about 30 minutes ago. This is not unusual. When that happens, Mary sometimes ask Amy to send her news out via email. However, instead of Amy's email that Amy received had only commas, and each email address for the intended recipient had been deleted, and the dividing commas remained.
This writer received several Yahoo emails this week that came from an unknown sender that she has blocked numerous times because she perceives the emails from that sender as being morbid and threatening. However, the emails from this party somehow get through Yahoo spam filter. Repeatedly this week, emails to Mary Neal asked about her plans for the weekend and promised her "surprises." It was sinister. Another one showed a family being sealed in a sardine can, and one alluded to little boy' heads being held down in a toilet bowl.
Mary has been harassed ever since successfully serving suit against The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm, and her USDC Court file has affidavits from a neighborhood business owner and two other persons attesting to the harassment and her being waylaid in her neighborhood. She has other affidavits and a security report issued by guards who saw her safely to her car after work between January 5 and March 1, 2008. The affidavits and security report attest to apparent attempts to waylay Mary Neal after she exited work after 10:30 p.m.
The family feels the incidents are likely related to The Cochran Firm Fraud lawsuit because Mary lives quietly and has never encountered such harassment before. Secondly, The Cochran Firm attorney Angela Mason told USDC the color of the vehicle that followed Mary after work most nights during January and February 2008, although Mary had told no one the color. In fact, the intimidation has gotten so bad that Mary now stays home 24/7 to avoid her stalkers. Her elderly mother hopes that no one storms our house like Ms. Kathryn Johnston endured, the 92 year-old-Atlanta woman whose survivors are/were also being represented by The Cochran Firm - six months after the firm was declared not to exist in Georgia by the very same court where Ms. Johnston's family would need to be represented - Georgia Superior Court in Fulton County. Does this sound like The Matrix?
Calling on police did not bring any satisfactory response - in fact, no response at all to Mary's 911 emergency call to police during the hour while she waited for police in her neighborhood Chevron store on September 27, after being followed there and accosted by multiple vehicles. My terrible experience at the Chevron station happened just one day after the email and NowPublic article link below were published by FourWinds10.com. Mary hoped prior to September 27 that announcing a video would bring relief from her constant stalking, but it apparently had the opposite effect. No longer did people merely follow Mary, but on that fateful night, they did not disappear when she reached a well-lit, heavily populated business like they had done in most previous incidents. Perhaps the USDOT truck that was with the stalkers that night gave them additional boldness.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Neal" <mneal000@yahoo.com>
To: <bellringer@fourwinds10.com>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:06 AM
Subject: Siterun Contact Request from Fourwinds10
Thank you for carrying the story of my brother's euthanasia in Shelby Co. Memphis Jail and The Cochran Firm Fraud. We will RELEASE A VIDEO NEXT WEEK to defeat the censorship around this issue. See the truth on NowPublic.com - Search their "subject" field for "Mary Neal" to see many of my articles. Our video announcement is under this story:
http://www.nowpublic.com/health/another-mental-patient-killed-video-no-more-censorship-protect-prison-profiteers.
. . . NEXT WEEK we will tell America about Larry, The Johnnie Cochran Firm, the USDOJ, that refuses to investigate his death, and the conspiracy of lies and secrecy around his secret arrest and death.
Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
770.651.8413
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On March 7, with electronic communications apparently blocked at Mary Neal's usual sources, this writer contacted the USDOJ to arrange a meeting in person or by phone. Hopefully, the cyberstalkers will let the mail get through. The Neal family does not even use their home phone any longer because it works off the Internet, which seems controlled by the stalkers. Most calls to our home number were rejected by the Controllers, as are emails to the http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com website email boxes..
Mary feels that her Yahoo mail stoppage is the work of cyberstalkers who have controls on her PC, not necessarily the fault of Yahoo, itself. She recently accessed her Yahoo email account from a computer with a different URL, and none of the interference that usually occurs happened. In most cases, the same may be true of Care2 and NowPublic, as well. However, control of control over Mary’s computer would not enable someone to steal the email addresses from Mary’s email to Amy after the email had been sent. .And neither would it enable Mary’s emails to various Yahoo groups to be redirected to the groups’ spam folders. One interesting cyber trick: When Mary posts articles to Care2 groups, she sees them posted when looking at the group posts from her PC when logged in as a member, but when she has a second computer beside her on which she does not log into her Care2 account, her posts do not appear on the group sites. That is elaborate censorship.
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--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Mary Neal wrote:
From: Mary Neal
Subject: USDOJ Comments
To: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
Cc: Undisclosed
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 7:58 PM
I need to make an appointment to speak with someone at the USDOJ about the matters presented in this Petition to the United States Department of Justice and the subsequent endangerment of my person and threats to my family. When I called the USDOJ to speak with someone about these matters last month, I was put on terminal hold. I recognize it was no doubt a very busy time for Washington, several weeks after inauguation.
Please let me know via return email or phone call xyz-xyz-xyzz how I can meet with you or speak with you on at least a 30-min. conference call. Please cc the individuals in this email when you respond. My personal email box suffers attack. Today I was unable to get an email out to my family and close friends that has the license numbers of my new neighbors. Within three months, all of the foreclosed homes on my street are occupied (about six in my immediate vacinity), despite the fact that I saw no For Sale or For Rent signs. This may have a resonable explanation, but the stalking incidents for which I have affidavits and other evidence that have occurred over the past 15 months have no reasonable explanation. And neither is there any reasonable explanation as to why the emails I sent to family members and friends with the license numbers of these new neighbors did not reach them.
(This petition is closed for signatures, but petitioners' signatures and comments can be viewed.) http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/380598497
(This petition is open for signatures and/or viewing petitioners' signatures and comments.)
http://www.petitiononline.com/Neal/petition.html
Thank you for your attention to this request for the opportunity to speak with the USDOJ.
Mary Neal
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Both videos that were made for protection after the Chevron incident are at the first link below. If one consider the YouTube videos, the fact that the family's website averages 2,000 visitors monthly (over 7,000 page hits during the months when data is updated) as well as letters having been sent to most U.S. Senators about Larry in 2006, one will understand why the Neal family felt safe until recently.
Cochran Firm Fraud Continues Unchecked by the Courts
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/cochran-firm-fraud-continues-unchecked-courts
More about our ordeal is at these links:
Terrorism by souces unknown after lawsuit against Johnnie Cochran Firm
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/terrorism-sources-unknown-after-lawsuit-against-johnnie-cochran-firm
American Family Under Seige for Inquiring About Brother Who Died in Government Custody
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/amercan-family-under-siege-inquiring-about-brother-who-died-govt-custody
The circumstance the Neals find themselves in is akin to being a victim of gang rape. Basically every governmental and non-governmental control that should have protected Larry’s rights and his family’s rights after his secret arrest and death participated in the abuse. After inexcusable, repeated abuse by a myriad of parties, it seems expedient to dispose of the victim. But Mary Neal keeps alerting the general public to the abuse and that is inconvenient. So an embargo is placed around her communication - except there is no way to effectively do that. Stalkers should ask senators of the United States of America how they received news of Larry's secret arrest and death in 2007 - not by email. Larry's family immediately shares every bit of information at their disposal with many parties like Mary attempted to do via email with the neighbors' license numbers, which had to be sent via regular mail instead
Those parties would release the films and records immediately if/when Mary's stalkers actually harmed her. So then, instead of just a few publications, there would be a flood, as well as further legal action preceded by demonstrations that we simply did not realize were needed for justice after Larry's secret arrest and death. In fact, if such a thing ever is necessary, you are invited. Hopefully, the USDOJ can/will help untangle the tight web of deceit, censorship, intimidation, and numerous denials of justice that followed Larry’s secret arrest in death.
My family's position in 21st Century America is comparable to the family of Anne Frank in Nazi Germany or runaway slaves holed up in homes along the Underground Railroad in the Old South, because we dare to ask: WHAT HAPPENED TO LARRY NEAL?
Now the public should understand why most of this writer's work centers around prisoners.
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UPDATE
--- On Sat, 3/7/09, ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov> wrote:
From: ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov>
Subject: RE: USDOJ Comments
To: mneal000@yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 7:58 PM
Thank you for contacting the Department of Justice. This is an automatic acknowledgement that your e-mail was received. It will be reviewed in the order it was received.
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When I try to send an email about this matter via Yahoo mail, I get a certain error message immediately after hitting "send." Then, I can call the email’s addressee a little later, and they report non-receipt although the message shows up in my “sent” file as having been sent. Here is the error message I get:
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Sorry for the inconvenience.
You've stumbled upon a temporary problem we're having with Yahoo! Mail. Usually this problem gets resolved quickly, without you doing a thing.
· Try pressing the Reload or Refresh button on your browser, or signing out and back into Yahoo! Mail. Hopefully that will take care of things.
If that doesn't fix the problem, please try again shortly. The fact that you're reading this page means we've been automatically notified of the issue, and chances are we're working on it now.
· If you think you've been more than patient and tried the tricks above, feel free to contact Customer Care about Error Code 2.
Thanks, The Yahoo! Mail Team
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The Neals received the above message when sending the article you are reading. When the Neals persist in trying to send articles after getting that messages, oftentimes, helicoptors used to start circling our home and more cars come to my neighbors’ houses – usually using drive-out tags. The helicoptors have not circled since DeKalb County, Georgia's recent changes in police leadership, although this writer does not know if the two are related. Maybe police were only practicing maneuvers; however, so many strange things occur in addition to the threats and denial of police investigation, that this writer would rather appear paranoid and record the events than not.
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-- March 17, 2009, further updated in comments section below large blank space --
While the Neals await a response from USDOJ, this writer and her 86-year-old mother continue to live under self-imposed house arrest following stalking events that lasted all of 2008, until we learned to stay home, especially after the murder of Duanna Johnson, the transgender person who also planned to sue Shelby County Jail after her abuse there last year was internationally viewed over the news. Her body was found just weeks after this writer was waylaid at Chevron. (Google “Duanna Johnson Transgender.”)
How horrible is it to be concerned because a utility truck worked on your water line? That is what happened yesterday (March 17). There was a water truck on the scene during two events when this writer was waylaid in neighborhood businesses last summer - after 10 p.m. the truck seemingly joined four cars of men at a Ms. Winner's for an hour while this writer sought safety inside (see our STILL UNANSWERED police report at this link: http://my.nowpublic.com/health/finally-heard-police-re-911-emergency-call-when-waylaid). So it was distressing to see a simple and likely harmless water truck working on our water line. When one is suffering as we are, mundane, everyday occurrences like that are causes for concern, especially since we have gotten several death threats about poisoning the family and inducing slow cancers.
Writing on the issue of Larry's secret arrest and wrongful death continues to be censored, i.e., data written for Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill is hard to post and frequently deleted illegally. For an example of our work for the incarcerated mentally ill, see this post, which should make Care2News Network's Front Page by tomorrow: http://www.care2.com/news/member/513396753/1086637
On March 17, a virus was sent to the Neals' computer, probably to force Mary out of the house to go to a computer rental locale to type. This happened before, and this writer was waylaid there by six cars of men and seemingly, one in a white truck (some license numbers are available, but police will not investigate). See the affidavit by the computer store’s owner filed in our USDC case against The Cochran Firm. Interested persons have to get a free PACER account to review those documents, which are public records (thank God!).
But, the stalkers are mistaken if that was the plan. We would not leave home if this computer is destroyed like the five others this year. We would simply send to the pawnshop to get another one.
It is interesting when the very agency you must rely on for safety and justice is itself likely the root of one's problem. But that was during another administration, and the Neals only hope that matters. Hopefully, the USDOJ has CHANGED from these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales
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UPDATE - March 31, 2009
I hope this is not a case of “The King Has No Clothes.” Perhaps electronic communication is particularly bad between Georgia and D.C. The woman I spoke with in USDOJ’s Crime Department in February put me on terminal hold when I gave her the reason for my call, and we have received no response beyond the automatic email confirmations from the USDOJ.
If the Justice Department withholds investigations and corrective action behind murders and other crimes based on the race, health status, and socio-economic class distinctions between the victims and the perpetrators, then those Pennsylvania judges who were channeling hundreds of poor children into detention centers in exchange for kickbacks should be freed, and Johannes Mehserle must be absolved of responsibility for Oscar Grant's murder. Just let the police murder all they want. If The Cochran Firm gets the defense, the lawyers can simply say the officers do not exist. That will settle everything.
Larry was an African American severely handicapped heart patient, a private citizen who died in 2003 under secret arrest in Memphis/Shelby County Jail while the jail was already under USDOJ's supervision. It is the USDOJ's responsibility to investigate his death, even if the culprits are USDOJ officials' lovers, dearest friends, and reliable supporters.
Rather than investigating Larry Neal’s death, his family is targeted by someone for harassment and stalking because we dare ask what happened to Larry, and crimes against his survivors are also allowed to pass without investigation. That is not called “open disclosure” and “equal justice.”
Since we are not "politically correct" enough to quietly agree that the king is appropriately attired when he is not, and I am certainly not cooperative enough to stand still and mute while four cars and a USDOT truck trap me at my neighborhood businesses, we just stay home and let others know that something substantially less than democracy is happening. Because the injustice continues despite having reported these offenses to police, lawyers, the FTC, FCC, BBB, USDOJ, elected officials, media, and civil liberties organizations - all without any change - the entire thing has an orwellien feel. I think it is only fair for the New World Order to formally announce itself if that is the new modus operandi. That way, American families will know not to expect Constitutional protections.
Can you imagine what it must be like for us to hear some official on television say the words "open disclosure" and "equal justice" when it is dangerous for us to go to the store for expecting same? It is enough to make our family wonder if we got dropped off into the Matrix.
While I have your attention, if you or your concern have need of a writer, proofreader, typist, or blogger with 15+ years legal assistant experience (under the former legal system, now apparently defunct), please contact me about a homebased position. Otherwise, I may need to put a sign out with "D.D.S." behind my name and start pulling my neighbors' teeth. Afterall, The Cochran Firm's Atlanta office is allowed to present itself in Georgia Superior Court as a firm called CCGSS, P.C. without being registered as a professional corporation anywhere in State of Georgia records, and I just turned off my television because that law firm was running another commercial as being The Cochran Firm - a changeling.
Question: Did someone decide that African Americans are not entitled to truth in advertising in the New World Order? What is that firm, anyway? Agents?
Pay attention, people: First, they came for . . .
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Arpil 28, 2009
My First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of press continue to suffer illegal interference. Tomorrow, I meet with the FBI in Atlanta, who requested that I bring proof of the interference, of which I have plenty and will collect more throughout tonight. I called the USDOJ and again sent an email. When I called, I was asked to mail my complaint to the USDOJ Civil Rights section, which I will do and post the receipt here (if I am allowed to post it). My first attempt to notify the USDOJ again about the criminal activities of that agency (telling the USDOJ on the USDOJ) went to the DOJ in the District of Columbia government office. So, if their mail is being stopped in the email system by cyberstalkers, hopefully a friend in the D.C. DOJ will tell Mr. Holder I wrote – AGAIN.
I sent them this link: http://my.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/internet-censorship-protects-criminals-government-mary-neal America will either do right by the Neal family or just retire those phrases “equal justice for all” and “citizens’ rights” and put the United States Constitution in a museum where it seems to belong.
RE: URGENT MATTER - CRIMINALS IN GOVERNMENT --Fw: Re: Email from OAG (Intranet Quorum IMA00163155) Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:28 PM From: "ASKDOJ" ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov View contact details To: mneal000@yahoo.com Thank you for contacting the Department of Justice. This is an automatic acknowledgement that your e-mail was received. It will be reviewed in the order it was received.
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Articles: http://my.nowpublic.com/search?fulltext=1&type=story&keys=mary+neal
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and Internet Message phone 770.651.8413 (also censored)
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at 12:00 on April 28th, 2009
NOW PUBLIC. I JUST UPDATED MY ARTICLE AND SAVED IT ON FILM AND ON NOW PUBLIC. I COME TO THIS PAGE AND SEE NOTHING. WHAT IS HAPPENING AT NOW PUBLIC, PLEASE?
"Opinion" is on this piece, but if anyone questions whether any part of these accounts are actual facts, and I can prove same.
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Oh, thank you, Amy. It just occurred to me that you selected the "opinion" designation for me when you had to post this story on my behalf because my cyberstalkers would not allow me to do so. I kept getting the error message saying that I have to select a title, although that was the first thing I did. I also had to ask for your assistance to post numerous other articles in the past, or help posting photos, like my Pennsylvania Judges article. It seems that the more attention my articles might generate, the harder it is for me to overcome the resistence to my publishing same.
For instance, I recall asking for your assistance when posting the first Oscar Grant article, which carried the account of his death, the historic five-member presidential luncheon article, last night's Supreme Court/DNA article, and several others. Sometimes, I am allowed to post immediately after asking for your help or Rhonda's. I apologize again for not telling you last night when the interference eased and I was allowed to post the Supreme Court article! Thanks again for all you do to help me to have freedom of press. It is quite a struggle!
at 12:20 on April 28th, 2009
We are having database issues and there may be things like this popping up. As soon as it is fixed I will let you know.
Tina
at 13:04 on April 28th, 2009
Interesting timing. I just wrote and called the FBI and USDOJ and referred them to this article. Even my response to you is disappearing ink. I hit submit, and it is gone - puff! Really need to see about those technical issues.
at 00:57 on May 5th, 2009
The frequently disappearing NowPublic article entitled "Mary Neal Requests Meeting with USDOJ - Updated in Comments" is also posted here:
http://alarmsforjustice.ning.com/profiles/blogs/equal-justice-where-democracy
and it should also be here:
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1129193
at 23:20 on March 7th, 2009
Somehow, I get the wrong The Cochran Firm video entitled "Tractor Trailer." I chose the "Cochran Firm Atlanta Office" at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlcolpUzckU. The court document where it disclaimed that identity in court to have our righteous lawsuit dismissed is filed under the identity CCGSS, P.C. (not registered with the GA Secretary of State) at http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com - DOCUMENTS tab.
My family is now apparently hated for being victims - or rather, not being quiet about the victimization like good Negroes should.
at 10:14 on March 8th, 2009
The legal system seems like it can be swayed by things other than justice nowdays. Not good
at 11:12 on March 8th, 2009
Thanks for writing. You are right. The love of money is at the root of all evil, my Bible says. Gonzales was the Attorney General when Larry died mysteriously in Shelby County Jail. Last fall he was indicted by a Willacy Co. grand jury for taking kickbacks not to investigate abuses in county jails. He never stood trial.
I appreciate your comments!
Mary
at 21:13 on April 3rd, 2009
Well blow the man down! USDC refused to reconsider its summary judgement in favor of The Cochran Firm on our lawsuit. They did it by taking what was a Breach of Contract case and calling it and treating it as a simple malpractice case. Yes, The Cochran Firm did malpractice. But they did not simply miss an important filing date for a pleading, like some lawyers might do out of accident or negligence. The firm set out to commit fraud, we called it fraud and and paid $350 to sue them for Contract Breach and fraud, but Judge Batten knew that would have to go to the jury. So a few months ago, he and The Cochran Firm started calling it a "malpractice case" on orders and pleadings.
I don't believe all these judges are doing this to protect a law firm, but rather, they are protecting the same folks the law firm started out defrauding us to protect.
In any case, I want to invite you readers to this article to see the announcement of the first annual Human Rights for Prisoners demonstration in Atlanta. There is conversation around having a simultaneous march on the West Coast to help prisoners and honest law officers there, too.
Sick Inmate Beaten to Death by Guard - USDC Denies Justice to the Neals
http://my.nowpublic.com/health/sick-inmate-beaten-death-guard-usdc-denies-justice-neals
Blessings!
Mary
at 11:49 on March 8th, 2009
Mary, You're absolutely right about "money being the root of all evil." And "abuses of power" and greed seem to go hand in hand.
Many years ago, I began to make inquiries about the unsolved homicide of a friend. I can't be 100% certain that there's a link, but my life has been a nightmare for the past couple of years. My home has been vandalized and burglarized on multiple occasions. Personal papers and valuables have been stolen. A threatening note was left tacked to my door. My good name/reputation has taken a dive -- I have been discredited and defamed in my community. The on-going surveillance (when I leave my home) couldn't be more obvious. I learned the hard way that standing up for justice can be very costly.
Your brother was lucky to have you as a sister. I am very sorry for your loss, as well as the many trials (and great pain) you've experienced in the ongoing struggle for justice. I wish you courage and strength as you pursue your goals. God is very powerful, and you are, indeed, on the side of the angels. Godspeed.
-Debrah
at 01:06 on March 9th, 2009
Debrah, I am sorry to read about your friend. Do you have any reason to suspect an authority figure in your friend's homicide?
If so, then your intimidation could certainly be from the same causes as my family's. We have sadly found that the American justice system had not moved away from racism and classism as we thought. Unlike Oscar Grant's family and friends, we did not do any demonstrations after discovering that Shelby Co. Jail had kept Larry secretly arrested, depriving him of his vital psychiatric and heart drugs until death. Instead, we took the matter to The Johnnie Cochran Firm. Who would imagine the Memphis office was headed by a valued member and ex-chairman of the Shelby County Commission, which owns and operates the jail? Who would imagine that the law firm would work against its clients to protect the jail? Who would have thought that the USDOJ would REFUSE to do its job as supervisor of the jail (following suit by the USA after other inmate abuses) and that the USDOJ would actually join in trying to IGNORE Larry's death? Amazing.
at 17:12 on March 9th, 2009
I managed to send this out via Yahoo to some prisoner rights groups, and now all the "new neighbors'" houses are dark, and cars appear to be gone. Do you think they will leave us alone now? See the message I got to the groups:
My family is victimized for asking what happened to Larry Neal and for trying to hold The Cochran Firm responsible for its fraud. What can y'all do to help us? We are literally prisoners! New neighbors moved in seven forclosed properties on my street, and they drive on drive-out tags for the most part. They do not seem to be regular families - don't work but have lovely cars outside. How can folks afford expensive vehicles, homes worth over $100,000, and stay home all day watching our house? I wrote the USDOJ to ask for a meeting. It was the USDOJ under the Bush administration that refused to do its job and investigate Larry Neal's secret arrest and wrongful death. If they will do so now, under Eric Holder, then maybe we will be safe. Otherwise, we must do a demonstration to let the world know about Larry. Then folks won't be plotting against his family to keep this whole thing secret - HOPEFULLY. See our petition to the USDOJ for "Dog Justice." We think that Larry's abuse and secret death in jail deserves the same investigation as Michael Vick's dogs got. : http://my.nowpublic.com/health/petition-u-s-justice-department
--- On Mon, 3/9/09, H wrote:
at 11:37 on May 3rd, 2009
btw Mary- do you REALLY believe the USDOJ is going to set an appointment with you via email?? ummm- no thats not going to happen. Why dont you try calling them, hmmm? Or have you done that as well and no reply of course? LOL oh such drama and shenanigans
at 13:22 on May 3rd, 2009
Apparently you do not read with comprehension. I called. But when I told the woman in USDOJ's Crime Dept. in Washington, D.C. what my call concerned, she put me on permanent hold. I called again last week. The USDOJ does not want to talk about this matter. It was probably decided that jails and prisons could torture and kill inmates INSIDE America without any accountability just like that decision was issued by the USDOJ regarding those who tortured and killed folks in the War on Terror camps. They do not appreciate being called and written about wrong decisions. Avoiding responding to my calls and emails on this matter may be meant to delay having to deal with the agency's illegal activities while those who stalk me keep trying to do whatever they were put in place to do. That's my guess.
Mary Neal
at 20:00 on March 9th, 2009
It is really horrible how inmates are sometimes treated in American prisons INSIDE our borders. Hopefully, we now have a USDOJ which will actually investigate the abuses and deaths. During the time when Gonzales was attorney general, Larry was secretly arrested and died in Shelby Co. Jail, and the USDOJ refused to do what it gets paid to do - protect the rights of institutionalized persons - especially Americans with disabilities. See this film:
Deborah Davies (producer of the film) said, “It’s terrible to watch some of the videos and realize that you’re not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm
The video depicts grossly inhumane treatment, some of which is directed at mentally ill incarcerees. There are many reasons why it is important to society that prisoners are treated humanely. Inhumane treatment is capable of inducing mental illness in inmates who did not previously have that problem. I pray that the USDOJ has really CHANGED, and will now address my brother's secret incarceration and death and bring an end to prisoner abuse INSIDE America.
at 01:08 on March 11th, 2009
Thanks again, NowPublic! This article made Care2News Network's Front Page today in the Politics and Govt. section.
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at 16:32 on March 11th, 2009
CONGRATULATIONS on making front page of C2NN!
at 23:50 on March 11th, 2009
Thank you, Jenny. I don't think any citizens' deaths in government custody (especially SECRET government custody) should be swept under the rug. Thank God for citizens' journalism making it possible for people to have a voice! If the present course of denying my family due process of law continues, we are looking at taking it a step further and publishing the story of our 5-year justice quest in a book. How ambitious! I know it would be a bestseller in the right hands. This is proved by how often we have made the Front Page of online news outlets with just small parts of the story. I wrote an article about the prospect of publishing the manuscript:
What to do with a bestseller manuscript? by Mary Neal
http://my.nowpublic.com/culture/what-do-bestseller-manuscript-mary-neal
I appreciate your comments, Jen!
at 05:19 on March 17th, 2009
5/17/09 ---- Well, it has been ten (10) days today, and I did not hear from the USDOJ. They probably get so many emails. Today or tomorrow I will send a certified letter, return receipt requested.
Lots of business is best handled on paper. I suppose electronic media is not good for requesting meetings as important as this.
Mary
at 23:07 on March 17th, 2009
TODAY, ANOTHER EMAIL. Frankly, I feel that this is the whole reason why I am stalked, censored, and have trouble getting justice in our Justice4Larry quest, not to mention not getting assistance when I called 911 (they said they went to the store where I was waylaid an hour after my call after I had waited the hour in terror. But police never followed up to see if I got home OK or not, and will NOT investigate my stalking, just like no one will investigate Larry Neal's secret arrest and wrongful death. What is going on in America? My goodness.
I have heard nothing back yet from the USDOJ to my request for a meeting as far as I know:From: Mary Neal <mneal000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: CONFIRM RECEIPT, PLS. request
To: mln@wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com, "AskDOJ@usdoj.gov" <AskDOJ@usdoj.gov>
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 2:39 AM
Mary Neal Requests a Meeting with the USDOJ
www.nowpublic.com/world/mary-neal-requests-meeting-usdoj
When I called the USDOJ earlier this year, I spoke with a woman in USDOJ's Crime Dept. When she heard that I wanted to report a crime involving Larry Neal dying in Shelby County Jail under secret arrest and the USDOJ not doing its job, she put me on terminal hold. This happened after President Obama had only been president for a couple of weeks, so I figured maybe they were a little disorganized. So I wrote them online and requested an appointment and received back a response that they got the request and it would be processed in the order recevied. That was on March 7, 2009. I really hope the USDOJ has CHANGED, and that they will write me back with an appointment. Sometimes, emails can get lost in the shuffle at big agencies, so I am sending a certified letter, return receipt requested tomorrow. Last time I wrote the USDOJ, it took 18 months and an act of Senate to get them to write me back. Senator Chambliss (R-GA) influenced that government agency to write back and tell me if they did or did not acknowledge any report regarding the wrongful death of Larry Neal to that agency by Shelby County Jail. They wrote back "no" in Fall of 2007. See the documents at my website.
My concern is that there were hearings by the federal court in Memphis, TN in 2006 (after I contacted the USDOJ to investigate Larry Neal's death). The hearings were to determine whether Memphis/Shelby County Jail should be removed from USDOJ overview AFTER the USDOJ knew about Larry's secret arrest and wrongful death. Larry's family needs to see the transcripts. It seems terrible for the USDOJ to entertain releasing them (and I got a report from an NPR reporter that the jail WAS RELEASED), when the USDOJ knew quite well that Shelby Co. Jail had a death on its hands it had not reported in accordance with the terms of its Agreement with the USA under suit provisions.
While I await a response from the USDOJ, my 86-year-old mother and I are under self-imposed house arrest in Stone Mtn. following several stalking events that lasted all of 2008. My writing on the issue of Larry's secret arrest and wrongful death continues to be censored, i.e., whole strands of information is deleted from our online group at Care2 - Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill. We are tired of living in peril and with our rights ignored. It is scary and illegal.
Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
at 10:46 on March 24th, 2009
I really don't know if it would do any good (and I'm purposely not posing this as a question), but perhaps appealing directly to Obama might help. (He might have been quoting Lincoln, but he once said, "There are things that only a union can do." and this would seem to be one of them. It's bigger than any one of us -- bigger than any small group of us.)
You said, "We are tired of living in peril and with our rights ignored. It is scary and illegal."
Someone needs to listen up. As you've said, it's both terrifying and "illegal." Too many of are living "under seige" in homes all across America.
at 14:21 on March 24th, 2009
I am so late learning about such things. I never knew and probably would not have believed anything like this was happening in America. Never. Of course, I realized there were abuses of power, but not in broad daylight. Maybe the game's up.
at 17:55 on March 24th, 2009
I'm in the same boat, Mary - I would never have guessed that these things were going on either. As you say, yes, "abuses of power", but not what we're seeing. God, I hope "the game's up", as you say but, if it is, you must know something that I don't.
Something has to give -- I can't understand how these operations, for lack of a better word, are allowed to continue. I try to keep in mind how many truly good and decent people, like you, there are in the world. You help to give me the strength and courage to keep going. I hope that we will both see an end to this in our respective lifetimes! Stay strong.
at 08:53 on March 25th, 2009
Thanks for writing. I am sorry that anyone else lives as we do. I never read James Bond books or watched those types of movies, so obviously, I don't like plots like this. Never thought anyone I knew would be in such a real-life drama, especially me. The average citizen only knows to call the police and other authorities when they feel threatened. I'm average.
Mary
at 09:41 on March 25th, 2009
I'm average, too, Mary. But I'll add this. You may consider yourself "average" but, from my vantage point, you're kind, decent and good. And you should not be living "under seige" in America.
at 11:21 on March 25th, 2009
It's pretty pitiful and quite terrifying. But we have a strong Advocate in the LORD. So, we will see what He does with our faith. Here's my favorite song and video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyAMCkHOb8U
In God we trust.
Blessings!
at 12:22 on March 19th, 2009
Just to let you know, the cars are at all of these houses today, and the water trucks came back - three of them. They spread seeds and grass around the meter. I do not know if they opened it or not, but the man must have, because when I went out, he was hammering it in place. I am told they changed the meter. OK. About 30 min. later, the truck came back by our house and blew, seemingly at one of the vehicles or houses belonging to these new and interesting "unemployed but in beautiful homes and cars" neighbors we have. What reason prompted the horn blow, I do not know. The grocery store will get lots of water money from us now. That is for sure. A shame to have this to be concerned about. But the water truck was with those men who surrounded me on two separate occasions AFTER 10:00 P.M. ON WEEKEND NIGHTS. Only emergencies get water trucks out on weekends and late night, as far as I know. And if he was dealing with an emergency, how could he be at Ms. Winners for an hour?
at 15:38 on March 20th, 2009
Thanks for your article and your updates on the strange and menacing behaviour of your 'neighbours'. I'm very concerned for your and your mother. I've been following your articles. As an Australian I can hardly credit that you've been put through such a harrowing ordeal, and for so long...
Forgive me while I recap... One Neal family member died mysteriously while secretly incarcerated in a privately owned prison. Yet years on, the grieving Neal family are still being denied the details of Larry's incarceration. The Neal family still wonder how and why he died.
The world would indeed be interested in knowing why some American citizens aren't getting equal rights, why some American citizens are not permitted freedom of speech, why some American citizens are not permitted freedom of information.
Citizens of a powerful nation like America, we imagine, would automatically expect to be heard and to have access to legal processes. Freedom of speech is what Americans have been taught, passionately, all their lives. This is the image that America projects to the rest of the world.
Mary and her mother are innocent decent members of that society, yet in her pursuit of information about her brother's death, Mary has been constantly thwarted by obstacles, threats, and lies. Attempts are made constantly to silence her 'speech'.
And now the menacing doings of Mary's neighbours, these minions of evil, strongly suggest that someone wants to silence Mary for good.
The wolves in sheep's clothing behaviour of the lawyers who willingly undertook the Neal case is decidedly a product of the Cochran firm's true agenda. The Cochran firm in fact are implicit, being owners of the jail in which Larry Neal disappeared without trace for 18 days, and wherein he, equally mysteriously, died.
I beg of you, American citizens, get involved. Please give support, protection and constructive assistance to Mary Neal - this innocent, brave, and wonderful woman. It's well past the time for mere words.
Or are you telling this Australian that there is no way to help Mary and her mother?
May no more American citizens be denied simple common decency and respect.
May all American citizens be accorded protection and justice.
And at last, let this question be answered- How is it that rich and powerful Americans can so easily thwart the law to suit themselves, at the same time putting innocents at risk?
Perhaps then Larry Neal can rest in peace, and his surviving family can live in peace!
at 00:41 on March 21st, 2009
Thank you for your comments, Jenny. I appreciate you and the thousands of people who visit our website and read my articles and regular email posts. Maybe that is why my mom and I are still here.
It is no more surprising to you than it was for me to learn that it is OK now to Secretly Arrest private citizens in the United States and return them to their families as corpses with no questions ALLOWED.
One point you have wrong is that Larry was not in a private prison facility, but rather, a jail that is owned and operated by county government and supposedly operating under the oversight of the United States Department of Justice. The USDOJ is charged with the responsibility of protecting the civil rights of institutionalized persons in America.
Your attention to this unfolding saga is appreciated. Your concern for my family is invaluable. Your support and that of many other people help us to stay strong, although locked indoors for safety. The fact that this news is reaching the global community and they are surprised to learn that this is happening in America to U.S. citizens, yet no change has occurred in my family's condition should tell you something is happening. Why do authorities not care if the world knows about the loss of civil rights to U.S. citizens? Just how close are we to Revelation?
at 08:41 on March 24th, 2009
Jenny,
I've written to Mary before about her courageous struggle. Many Americans (just how many, I'm not sure) are experiencing similar harassment and abuse, with little recourse. How this will all come to the fore, I'm not sure. We're on a slippery slope towards a fascist state and these types of "operations"/crimes against good American citizens must be curtailed.
Some of the things that are happening to good, law-abiding citizens in America are as follows: 24/7 surveillance; "sneak and peak" (surreptitious) searches of homes/vehicles; vandalism and theft of personal property; psychological harassment; and the list goes on. If one reports these non-evidentiary crimes (there typically isn't any evidence), the police take the easy way out by blaming and/or labelling the victim, rather than investigating aggressively. Some believe that law enforcement organizations are either participating or turning a blind eye, so to speak.
(As Mary has appropriately framed it, one becomes a virtual prisoner in one's own home and, it's a living nightmare for those who are the victims of this abuse/harassment.)
It's an outrage and, yet, if other reports are to be believed (and I think they are), these activities/operations are taking place all over this country. Victims are often called "paranoid" but, as it's been said, "You're not paranoid, if someone's really after you." These things are going on beneath the radar of many/most average Americans and how it will all be exposed, I don't know.
If you haven't already looked at the ACLU's web site, please look at their information on the "Surveillance State" at aclu.org. The rule of law has ceased to exist for some. I am a registered nurse. I could be your sister or your best friend. I have done nothing wrong. If it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone. (Some have speculated that vulnerable political activists, dissidents or the like have been targeted, so as to be discredited, marginalized or worse.)
So we join Mary in speaking up -- for the alternative is to be "complicit", as it's been said. To cower in silence is not an option. Somehow this must be exposed for exactly what it is: domestic terrorism, with the apparent goal of silencing (in some manner) some very good people.
Thank you for your comment which prompted me to speak up, once again. (And as always, my best to Mary for her tremendous courage in the face of what is, truly, tryranny.)
at 14:26 on March 24th, 2009
Thank you. My evidence is a matter of public record. It does not seem to matter.