Hello All,

Ed McCabe called us yesterday morning. He sounds weaker and more lonely than we had heard him before. If you would care to write to Ed, I'm sure he would apprecioate it VERY MUCH. The smallest kindness can mean a lot to a person in prison.

In the absence of a more complete address, the following will probably work [webmaster's note: this is an old address; see main page for the current one]:

SUMMARY AND UPDATE:

Edward Joseph McCabe, noted author and lecturer on oxygen therapies, was served on the morning of April 2 with a federal grand jury indictment filed April 1, 1998 in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York, Criminal Action No. 98-CR-118-(RSP), on 12 counts of violations of 26USC and 18 USC.

He went to court for arraignment in Syracuse, NY on April 7 and was taken directly to prison at the Syracuse, NY Onondaga County Justice Center, where he was held for about a month.

From there, he was sent on a grueling sojourn around the US prison system enroute to the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, where he was held for weeks awaiting psychiatric evaluation for competence to stand trial.

At the Federal Medical Center, he was pronounced sane and extremely bright and transferred to the Federal Correctional Institute at Otisville, NY, where he spent about a week before being shipped out again June 30 to Madison County Jail in Wampsville, NY. He is presently in "The Hole" there, has been deprived of writing materials and is not allowed to shower. These are all various forms of the "legal coercion" referred to in the NOTICE OF COMPLAINT detailed on the next page. A HEARING is scheduled for July 6 [9?] in Syracuse, NY on a MOTION TO DISMISS. It is to be a "non-participatory" hearing, which means neither Ed nor anyone else will be present to argue Ed's defense. A judge will sit in her chambers with the MOTION TO DISMISS and decide the issue.

Ed McCabe is in prison on tax issues -- so the charges read. However, consider that oxygen therapy masters past have suffered character assassination, deportation, imprisonment, even death in consequence of their work promoting the life-giving truth of oxygen therapies.

Oxygen therapies are so ACCESSIBLE, INEXPENSIVE and EFFECTIVE that they represent a major threat to the medical/pharmaceutical cartel. Much in lucrative product and procedure would be displaced were oxygen therapies to gain wide acceptance. Itís no coincidence when those who work effectively to promote oxygen therapies meet with major obstacles. The history is there for those who care to look. Truth and the public interest are all too often casualties in the business worldó-when they threaten powerful ruthless vested financial interests.

It's a sad situation when the public interest must lose out to the machinations of vested financial interest; we say it is a crime.

Ed's legal defense team, headed by Howard Griswald, has worked for months to produce a NOTICE OF COMPLAINT against the authorities who have jailed Ed McCabe and violated his legal rights. The charges made by the complaint are serious indeed. It reads, in part:

"This complaint is forwarded to your office to prevent an apparent Breach of the Public Trust, and preserve the due process of law. It is crucial to public confidence in the courts that Judges be seen as enforcing the law and obeying it themselves.

I look forward to your office's prompt reply and I stress to you that it is not so much their rulings but their legally, ethically and morally corrupt use of legal coercion and physical duress to gain the consent of the accused that forms the basis of the complaint. Their actions display to bias so pervasive as to rise to the level of mental instability, rendering them incapable of discharging their duties as United States District Court Judges and Magistrates...."

As one member of Ed's legal defense team has told me:

"These Federal Officials do not like exposure."

"The only way to keep this complaint alive would be by public exposure..."

"Exposure is the only way to push forward any issue with PUBLIC OFFICIALS."

"The logistic here is to embarrass every [official] who touches this complaint."

"You must notify the people involved, how simply corrupt the system of Courts are in this country."

Some people say this fight is none of their business, but when the government operates above the law, it is EVERYBODY'S business. I got involved in this issue because I happen to be working in the field of oxygen therapies and I have become aware of the great benefit they hold for people. Ed McCabe is a close associate of our circle and we know him as a man who has dedicated his life to spreading the truth about oxygen therapies. There isn't any doubt in my mind that Ed is not a criminal and doesn't belong in prison. The choices he has made may not have been prudent in the individual sense, given the political climate in this country, but in fact Ed has broken no law, and that's not something one can rightfully say about the government itself. Ed is a good man in a bad bind, who can do little without compromising his principles to help himself at this point. While it's true he could have avoided his present situation by compromising those principles, it's also true that his work has been oriented toward securing the health and rights of everyone, and he deserves our support.

The court has made a mockery of law in its treatment of Ed McCabe. He is only one of many good people locked away as political prisoners in this country. He just happens to be one I became involved with and in good conscience I have to help him.

Most sincerely,

Green