A Threat from MN's Ramsey County Office To Dave Mahoney, RNC arrestee

[annm4peace]

This link leads to a letter we have had sent to us. The letter is from The Office of the Ramsey County Attorney. It is a clear threat to Dave and a horrible scare tactic.


Here is the text of the letter:

Dear Mr. Kolstad ,

I am the prosecutor assigned to this case for trial. From my review of the file, it appears that you insisted that we identify victims in order to charge assault. We've done what you asked but still this case hasn't settled. I'm wondering if cooler heads have prevailed and we are headed for a resolution or if your client continues to insist a trial.

Should we be going to trial, my investigators have continued to identify victims on the bus and we will add additional counts of Terroristic Threats and Assault 2 as necessary. Please keep in mind that this concept of identifying individual victims was your idea and could lead to multiple consecutive sentences.

The tone of your prior correspondence seems to indicate that you don't believe this offense was particularly serious. I am assigned to handle all the felony charges arising from the RNC (other than those involving the conspiracy). Throwing large, heavy objects from an overpass onto an open interstate with the sole purpose of impairing the constitutional rights of busloads of citizens by either injuring or terrorizing them is by far the most serious RNC case I have.


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RNC arrestee Dave Mahoney is currently being charged with 3 counts of terroristic threats and 3 counts of assault. These 6 felony counts translate into the possibility of 21 years in prison. It's become blatantly clear the state prosecution has made Dave a priority in their sick game they play with people's lives on a daily basis. Some Twin Cities folks have decided its about time we make Dave one of our top priorities as well!
Please help in the effort and call Ramsey County office to drop charges:
Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner's(651)266-3222

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About Dave
Dave was riding his bike to the grocery store with his girlfriend on the 4th of September 2008, when an un-marked van pulled up, and two men wearing FBI shirts inexplicably bundled him in, and drove off. Dave was one of the protesters assembled at the Republican National Convention in the City that week, and was there to peacefully remind America and the rest of the world of some of the atrocities, and in-justices millions of people endure everyday across the globe - many of which link directly to the actions & policy of the Republican party. Instead, Dave's become one of the victims...being accused of 'aiding and abetting', he's facing trumped up charges of Assault, and Terroristic threats; if convicted he could get up to 21 years in jail AND a huge fine...

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Below is a critique of this letter from Dave's lawyer


"A few points are in order here.

The author of the letter wonders why the case has not settled but
has never made Mr. Mahoney an offer. He surely is not so deluded as
to think we would entertain entering a plea of guilty in the absence
of an agreement on disposition.

This is clearly an attempt to coerce a guilty plea out of Dave
before he has had a chance to get all the legal issues resolved. For
example, he is accused of pointing while someone else drops a bag of
sand. It is alleged that the bag of sand landed on the back end of a
bus carrying Republicans. The issue that arises from this claim by
the government is whether merely pointing is a sufficiently
substantial act to constitute aiding and abetting. Other issues also
exist that would never get resolved with a plea at this early date.

Mr. Mahoney is not a government actor; it is therefore a fundamental
principle of constitutional law that he cannot violate anyone's
constitutional rights. We all know, however, that constitutional
rights were of little to no concern by the occupying forces during
the RNC.

It was not our idea to identify victims and then pile on charges as
the government has done here. Our point was that a bag of sand is not
normally a weapon and can only be considered a weapon if there is
someone present to be harmed by it. In their initial Complaint the
government never alleged that any such person was present. We pointed
that out to them and the judge agreed that was a problem.

I'm not sure who this writer considers a hot head here. Certainly
the writer of this letter is not a "cooler" head.

The writer of the letter claims this incident is the worst thing
that happened during the RNC. Apparently those persons whose rights
were violated by unlawful arrests and detentions, beatings, chemical
sprays, and rubber projectiles simply do not count. Nor apparently
does the "chill" on speech and protest that currently exists around
here on account of the behavior of the authorities during the RNC.


Robert Kolstad"

Website to help Dave Mahoney: http://helpdavemahoney.blogspot.com/
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Local MAIN stream media is censoring the Arrestee's trials and arrests.. they only give view points from local law-enforcement. But progressive and alternative news is covering some fo the trials, but few cover the individuals. These are people's lives being distrupted as well as our Constitution all for political ego and power (and probably money also).

Please take time to make the calls.. The further the calls made for MN the better. This is a National crisis. What happened in the Twin Cities during the RNC was just a practice session..
We need to tell officials we will not tolerate them destroying our Bill of Rights.

[hlthe2b]

1. K&R

[rocktivity]

2. Maybe the Mahoney was pointing at the guy who dropped the bag of sand on the bus

so the cops could bust him...

:crazy:
rocknation