[WB-Discuss] Wednesday, Sep 13, 9 AM, Court support and calls needed

[David Rolde]

Subject: Wednesday, Sep 13, 9 AM, Court support and calls needed

Support activist Pete Lowney in court against fabricated charges  
designed to stifle free speech!

Call, Fax and show your support for free speech and against political  
repression.

Pete's Jury Trial
Wednesday, Sep 13, 9 AM
Concord District Court
305 Walden St, Concord, MA
Directions in PDF:
http://www.mass.gov/courts/courtsandjudges/courts/ 
concorddistrictmain.html


On October 23, 2005, during a small peaceful vigil
outside an open to the public event at which the
israeli consul Meir Shlomo was speaking, Pete Lowney
was attacked by Lexington police officer John Frissore
and other Lexington police officers . The Lexington
police officers were on paid detail for the organizers
of the isreali government speaking event.

Pete was standing on a public sidewalk peacefully
demonstrating with two other anti war activists, when
Frissore and other Lexington police officers violently
plucked Pete from the sidewalk, tore away his sign,
beat him up, and arrested him.

The police initially refused to tell us what Pete had
been arrested for. They said the charges would be
determined at the police station. Pete was taken to
the Lexington Police Station where he was booked and
then re-booked again as the police fabricated
additional charges. By the time that Pete was
arraigned in Concord District Court the next morning,
he was charged with  disorderly conduct, trespassing,
resisting arrest and assault & battery on a police
officer.

  The charges against Pete are completely bogus. We
were peacefully vigilling on a public sidewalk and were
not trespassing. Pete did not touch any police officer
in any way and did not physically resist while they
were dragging him off the sidewalk, beating him up and
arresting him.

  The jury trial is going to happen on Wednesday
September 13th at 9AM in Concord District Court, 305
Walden St, Concord, MA and you are invited.

Please come show support in court, and in the meantime
please call  officials and demand that the charges
against Pete be dropped. This is an important case not
for the sake of one activist, but for the sake of free
speech and the right of conscience which are necessary
if we are ever to be able to end oppressive systems on
this planet.

A message from Pete asking for SUPPORT NOW and on
September 13th, 2006 at Concord District Court

“All of the charges against me have been state
repression fabricated against a law abiding citizen
simply because I voiced or demonstrated an opinion
that was counter to the prevailing powers criminal
agenda.

I then report on this so people can see the true
nature of individuals and institutions which cloak
their genocidal programs in otherwise socially
acceptable activities.

The system is a machine that crushes and kills people
who have done nothing wrong so I don’t go into it
without friends and witnesses who care about their
world and understand the importance of speaking out
against the lies, real trespass and mass murder of war
and occupation.

I run out of energy risking my life and my health and
my personal well being doing this for people so far
away so I stay with people who understand the absolute
importance of standing up to the fascism and deception
that rules these lands and has enslaved so many
peoples minds.

It is the court and the police who are making a
political hoopla by working together to destroy the
lives of people who believe that genocide, ethnic
cleansing, rape, torture and military terrorism should
be publicly and verbally opposed. They try and crush
people who do speak out, and others nearby, to send a
message to people not to oppose them.

I want to demonstrate my awareness of this to expose
what they are doing before they try me. I want people
who care to call and complain about what they are
doing. I want people to show up and demonstrate their
concern about the world and the people who live in it.
I want them to know the whole world is watching.

  I  ask everyone to call the local government, police
and D.A’s office to ask the charges be dropped and to
voice concern about the rise of totalitarianism in
America and the fall of bombs on the middle east. “

Thank you, Pete

Lexington Police Department: 781.862.1212.
Commanding Officer Fax: 781.862.6491
E-Mail Policeinfo at ci.lexington.ma.us
Arresting Officers John Frissore and Joe O'Leary
Oct 23.

D.A.’s Office Concord District Court
978.369.0225
978.369.0500 Main Number
305 Walden Street
Concord, MA 01742-3616

Lexington Board of Selectman, Jeanne K. Krieger,
Chairman,  781.862.0500 x208
E-Mail selectmen at ci.lexington.ma.us

Directions to court house:

 From Boston: Take Rt. 2 West past Rt. 128 to Rt. 126
(Walden St.). Make a right onto Walden St. Courthouse
is 0.5 mile on right.

 From West and Central: Take the Mass Pike (I-90) to
Exit 14 (Rt. 128). Take Rt. 128 North to Exit 29 (Rt.
2). Take Rt. 2 West 4.5 miles to Rt. 126. Make a right
onto Rt. 126 North (Walden St.). Courthouse is 0.5
mile on right.

 From North Central: Take Rt. 2 East past I-495 and
continue about 12 miles to Rt. 126 (Walden St.). Make
a left onto Walden St. Courthouse is 0.5 mile on
right.

 From North and North Shore: Take either Rt. 128 South
to Exit 29 (Rt. 2 West) and follow from West and
Central above from Exit 29 (Rt. 2 West) or I-495 South
to Exit 29 (Rt. 2 East) and follow directions from
North Central above.

 From Southeast, South Shore and Cape: Take best route
to I-495 North to Exit 29 (Rt. 2 East) and follow from
North Central above or Take Rt. 128 North to Exit 29
(Rt. 2 West). Follow 2 West approximately 10 miles to
Rt. 126. Make right turn onto Rt. 126 North (Walden
St.). Courthouse is a 0.5 mile on your right.