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President John F.Kennedy, The Federal Reserve And Executive Order 11110

by Cedric X

From The Final Call, Vol. 15, No.6, On January 17, 1996

On June 4, 1963, a little known attempt was made to strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the government at interest. On that day President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110 that returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without going through the Federal Reserve. Mr. Kennedy's order gave the Treasury the power "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This meant that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation. In all, Kennedy brought nearly $4.3 billion in U.S. notes into circulation. The ramifications of this bill are enormous.

With the stroke of a pen, Mr. Kennedy was on his way to putting the Federal Reserve Bank of New York out of business. If enough of these silver certificats were to come into circulation they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve notes. This is because the silver certificates are backed by silver and the Federal Reserve notes are not backed by anything. Executive Order 11110 could have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level, because it would have given the gevernment the ability to repay its debt without going to the Federal Reserve and being charged interest in order to create the new money. Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S. the ability to create its own money backed by silver.

After Mr. Kennedy was assassinated just five months later, no more silver certificates were issued. The Final Call has learned that the Executive Order was never repealed by any U.S. President through an Executive Order and is still valid. Why then has no president utilized it? Virtually all of the nearly $6 trillion in debt has been created since 1963, and if a U.S. president had utilized Executive Order 11110 the debt would be nowhere near the current level. Perhaps the assassination of JFK was a warning to future presidents who would think to eliminate the U.S. debt by eliminating the Federal Reserve's control over the creation of money. Mr. Kennedy challenged the government of money by challenging the two most successful vehicles that have ever been used to drive up debt - war and the creation of money by a privately-owned central bank. His efforts to have all troops out of Vietnam by 1965 and Executive Order 11110 would have severely cut into the profits and control of the New York banking establishment. As America's debt reaches unbearable levels and a conflict emerges in Bosnia that will further increase America's debt, one is force to ask, will President Clinton have the courage to consider utilizing Executive Order 11110 and, ifso, is he willing to pay the ultimate price for doing so?

Executive Order 11110 AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10289

AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AFFECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows:

Section 1. Executive Order No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, as amended, is hereby further amended-

By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following subparagraph (j):

(j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43 of the Act of May 12,1933, as amended (31 U.S.C.821(b)), to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury not then held for redemption of any outstanding silver certificates, to prescribe the denomination of such silver certificates, and to coin standard silver dollars and subsidiary silver currency for their redemption

and --

Byrevoking subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 thereof.

Sec. 2. The amendments made by this Order shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal cause prior to the date of this Order but all such liabilities shall continue and may be enforced as if said amendments had not been made.

John F. Kennedy The White House, June 4, 1963.

Of course, the fact that both JFK and Lincoln met the the same end is a mere coincidence.

Abraham Lincoln's Monetary Policy, 1865 (Page 91 of Senate document 23.)

Money is the creature of law and the creation of the original issue of money should be maintained as the exclusive monopoly of national Government.

Money possesses no value to the State other than that given to it by circulation.

Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognised in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money.

No duty is more imperative for the Government than the duty it owes the People to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, and of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labour will be protected from a vicious currency, and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

The available supply of Gold and Silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money of intrinsic value that may come into use.

The monetary needs of increasing numbers of People advancing towards higher standards of living can and should be met by the Government. Such needs can be served by the issue of National Currency and Credit through the operation of a National Banking system .The circulation of a medium of exchange issued and backed by the Government can be properly regulated and redundancy of issue avoided by withdrawing from circulation such amounts as may be necessary by Taxation, Redeposit, and otherwise. Government has the power to regulate the currency and creditof the Nation.

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the Bank deposits of the Nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency or Bank bankruptcy.

Government possessing the power to create and issue currency and creditas money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by Taxation and otherwise need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing Governmental work and public enterprise. The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of the consumers. The privilege of creating and issueing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Governments greatest creative opportunity.

By the adoption of these principles the long felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprise, the maintenance of stable Government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own Government. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Some information on the Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve, a Private Corporation One of the most common concerns among people who engage in any effort to reduce their taxes is, "Will keeping my money hurt the government's ability to pay it's bills?" As explained in the first article in this series, the modern withholding tax does not, and wasn't designed to, pay for government services. What it does do, is pay for the privately-owned Federal Reserve System.

Black's Law Dictionary defines the "Federal Reserve System" as, "Network of twelve central banks to which most national banks belong and to which state chartered banks may belong. Membership rules require investment of stock and minimum reserves."

Privately-owned banks own the stock of the Fed. This was explained in more detail in the case of Lewis v. United States, Federal Reporter, 2nd Series, Vol. 680, Pages 1239, 1241 (1982), where the court said:

Each Federal Reserve Bank is a separate corporation owned by commercial banks in its region. The stock-holding commercial banks elect two thirds of each Bank's nine member board of directors.

Similarly, the Federal Reserve Banks, though heavily regulated, are locally controlled by their member banks. Taking another look at Black's Law Dictionary, we find that these privately owned banks actually issue money:

Federal Reserve Act. Law which created Federal Reserve banks which act as agents in maintaining money reserves, issuing money in the form of bank notes, lending money to banks, and supervising banks. Administered by Federal Reserve Board (q.v.).

The FED banks, which are privately owned, actually issue, that is, create, the money we use. In 1964 the House Committee on Banking and Currency, Subcommittee on Domestic Finance, at the second session of the 88th Congress, put out a study entitled Money Facts which contains a good description of what the FED is:

The Federal Reserve is a total money-making machine.It can issue money or checks. And it never has a problem of making its checks good because it can obtain the $5 and $10 bills necessary to cover its check simply by asking the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving to print them.

As we all know, anyone who has a lot of money has a lot of power. Now imagine a group of people who have the power to create money. Imagine the power these people would have. This is what the Fed is.

No man did more to expose the power of the Fed than Louis T. McFadden, who was the Chairman of the House Banking Committee back in the 1930s. Constantly pointing out that monetary issues shouldn't be partisan, he criticized both the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations. In describing the Fed, he remarked in the Congressional Record, House pages 1295 and 1296 on June 10, 1932, that:

Mr. Chairman,we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government Board, has cheated the Government of the United States and he people of the United States out of enoughmoney to pay the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks acting together have cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the UnitedStates; has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the maladministration of that law by which the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

Some people think the Federal reserve banks are United States Government institutions. They are not Government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man's throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into States to buy votes to control our legislation; and there are those who maintain an international propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us and of wheedling us into the granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime. Those 12 private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this country by bankers who camehere from Europe and who repaid us for our hospitality by undermining our American institutions.

The Fed basically works like this: The government granted its power to create money to the Fed banks. They create money, then loan it back to the government charging interest. The government levies income taxes to pay the interest on the debt. On this point, it's interesting to note that the Federal Reserve act and the sixteenth amendment, which gave congress the power to collect income taxes, were both passed in 1913. The incredible power of the Fed over the economy is universally admitted. Some people, especially in the banking and academic communities, even support it. On the other hand, there are those, both in the past and in the present, that speak out against it. One of these men was President John F. Kennedy. His efforts were detailed in Jim Marrs' 1990 book, Crossfire:

Another overlooked aspect of Kennedy's attempt to reform American society involves money. Kennedy apparently reasoned that by returning to the constitution, which states that only Congress shall coin and regulate money, the soaring national debt could be reduced by not paying interest to the bankers of the Federal Reserve System, who print paper money then loan it to the government at interest. He moved in this area on June 4, 1963, by signing Executive Order 11,110 which called for the issuance of $4,292,893,815 in United States Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the traditional Federal Reserve System. That same day, Kennedy signed a bill changing the backing of one and two dollar bills from silver to gold, adding strength to the weakened U.S. currency.

Kennedy's comptroller of the currency, James J. Saxon, had been at odds with the powerful Federal Reserve Board for some time, encouraging broader investment and lending powers for banks that were not part of the Federal Reserve system. Saxon also had decided that non-Reserve banks could underwrite state and local general obligation bonds, again weakening the dominant Federal Reserve banks.

A number of "Kennedy bills" were indeed issued - the author has a five dollar bill in his possession with the heading "United States Note" - but were quickly withdrawn after Kennedy's death. According to information from the Library of the Comptroller of the Currency, Executive Order 11,110 remains in effect today, although successive administrations beginning with that of President Lyndon Johnson apparently have simply ignored it and instead returned to the practice of paying interest on Federal Reserve notes. Today we continue to use Federal Reserve Notes, and the deficit is at an all-time high.

The point being made is that the IRS taxes you pay aren't used for government services. It won't hurt you, or the nation, to legally reduce or eliminate your tax liability.

Related Articles:

JFK vs Federal Reserve

The JFK Myth
by G. Edward Griffin

NEW TRIAL ORDERED for Tim McKinney

NEW TRIAL ORDERED
MR. MCKINNEY RECEIVED A SHOT IN THE ARM when
 COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT JACKSON, in its June 3, 2008 Session, ordered a new trial.
From the case at

http://tm.martysmith.org/McKinneyCCAOpinion_031010.pdf\
...Petitioner presents the following claims: (1) trial counsel was
ineffective for agreeing to a consent order regarding discovery

materials; (2) trial counsel
was ineffective for failing to confront Debra Kimble with her prior

statement; (3) trial
counsel was ineffective for failing to prepare for trial and present

evidence favorable to the
Petitioner; (4) trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate

mitigating circumstances
adequately; (5) trial counsel was ineffective for failing to introduce

residual doubt evidence;
(6) the prosecution denied the Petitioner a fair trial; (7) the

exclusion of the Petitioner’s
eyewitness expert at trial violated his right to present a defense;

and (8) the death penalty is
unconstitutional and in violation of international treaties. We

conclude that the Petitioner was
deprived of the effective assistance of counsel at both the guilt

and penalty phases of the trial.
Accordingly, the judgment of the post-conviction court is reversed

and the matter is
remanded for a new trial.

I'm very pleased with the outcome so far.
Mr. Tim's plight came to my attention reading the Socialist Worker,
http://socialistworker.org/2010/04/26/tim-mckinneys-fight-for-freed

om
my April 26, 2010 blog entry read:
Tim McKinney is a prisoner on Tennessee's death row, wrongfully

convicted of killing a Memphis off-duty police officer on Christmas

night in 1997.
An African American man accused of killing a white police officer,

Tim's trial was plagued by inadequate representation and

prosecutorial misconduct. He was sentenced to death in 1999 after

a two-day trial, during which the prosecution presented no

physical evidence connecting him to the crime. Over 40 witnesses

testified in Tim's defense at his appeal in 2006.
Last month, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in

favor of Tim's appeal and ordered a new trial. Tim's supporters are

gearing up with a campaign calling on Memphis district attorneys

to drop the charges and grant Tim his freedom. Here, Tim thanks

his supporters and talks about the fight ahead for his freedom.

April 26, 2010

Tim McKinney is a prisoner on Tennessee's death row, wrongfully

convicted of killing a Memphis off-duty police officer on Christmas

night in 1997.

An African American man accused of killing a white police officer,

Tim's trial was plagued by inadequate representation and

prosecutorial misconduct. He was sentenced to death in 1999 after

a two-day trial, during which the prosecution presented no

physical evidence connecting him to the crime. Over 40 witnesses

testified in Tim's defense at his appeal in 2006.

Last month, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in

favor of Tim's appeal and ordered a new trial. Tim's supporters are

gearing up with a campaign calling on Memphis district attorneys

to drop the charges and grant Tim his freedom. Here, Tim thanks

his supporters and talks about the fight ahead for his freedom.

Timothy McKinneyTimothy McKinney

Dear friends and allies,

I am extremely excited to share some good news of our struggle

here in Tennessee. On March 9, 2010, a unanimous panel of the

Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals vacated my conviction and

ordered a new trial.

Being granted a new trial is definitely a huge victory. It's a major

step forward and a taste of the chance of obtaining my freedom.

It's truly a blessing in itself. But the state has the chance to file a

petition for review--meaning, they can appeal the decision of the

Court of Criminal Appeals.

The fight isn't over yet. We are celebrating this victory, but only in

part. We clearly understand that the district attorney's office has

the option to re-try the case.

This is a critical phase, and now is the time to take advantage of

the opportunity to put an end to this horrific experience of

injustice. It's vital that peoples' voices are heard, and that we put

pressure on the DA's office not to re-try this case, but to drop the

charges.

What you can do

For updates on Tim Mckinney's case, or to get involved, visit

www.timmckinney.org.

For information about how you can join the fight against the death

penalty in your area, visit the Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Web site.

I gratefully thank the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and all

the families, friends and supporters for faithfully fighting,

witnessing and continuing to share our voices with the public. I

also want to thank you for allowing me the opportunities to

participate and express my thoughts, views and my struggle during

the "Live From Death Row" speaking tour last year. It introduced

me to new people, new ideas and new communities of faith.

It's very important to continue to produce powerful events like the

tour to uncover the myriad problems within this unjust system. It

has been a true blessing to come to know and learn about so many

incredible men and women faithfully witnessing against this cruel

injustice.

All of your efforts, energy and passion plays a critical role in

helping empower each one of us to continue hammering away at

that wall until, finally, it can no longer stand.

The wall will crumble, it's already beginning to crack. With all of

your relentless strength and courage, it's a must that we hold those

sitting in judgment accountable. Pressure will help bring freedom

and justice toward a better world and a just society.

Again, I thank you! And please continue to keep up the good

fight.

Sincerely, with great respect,

Tim McKinney


Good information can be found at:

http://tm.martysmith.org/

FELIX THE CAT LAND OF FANCY SILENT FILM CARTOON

HALL OF FAME FOR ALEX KARRAS

Once again I must protest the absence of a bronze bust of Alex Karras' likeness in the Football Hall of Fame at Canton OH; oversight? Snub? Blackball?

"Big deal", Karras said amiably on TV.



But the world should know that for us kids growing up in metropolitan Detroit in his era; Alex Karras was football. In the Black and Blue Division of the sixties, Detroit Lions won zero NFL championships—12 teams didn't make the "playoffs", but at home or on the road opponents got an ass-kicking with that line spearheaded by Mr. Karras.

They let Paul Hornung in the Hall...

Jack Benny Program with Guest Bob Hope 1965

Salute to RFK

I was too young to remember when President John

Kennedy was murdered. June 5th, 1968, we were

getting ready for school as the TV poured forth the

news the younger brother was shot, mortally

wounded though he lingered until the 6th at Good

Samaritan Hospital in LA.

Pete Hamill writes two stunning pieces about this

sad epoch


http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/

2010/05/pete_hamills_ey.php


http://nymag.com/news/politics/47041/












My Mother Faye had truly loved the Kennedy's.

Isn't Marriage Just a State of Mind?

Gay marriage continues to stall because of semantics. The property rights of marriage is what homosexual activists insist they seek, to visit a lover in ICU, to receive automatic inheritance, etc. which is what heterosexual marriage has devolved to; when a mate says I Quit it's over, so why insist on words exactly the same as Church Sacraments, there will never be a push for Gay Baptism, it's always about the money. Amounts of money assets the government now seizes from intestate gay people at the hour of death is probably tremendous, I know there are several openly gay RICH PEOPLE, David Geffen, Elton John—these people have money for lawyers to work out arrangements, so their affairs are settled like married folk; those who die intestate service the government, those fuckers that golf on Caribbean Islands for free. If Gay People really want this they must, will accept the lumps popular opinion inflicts on every candidate; each new 'scary' item', otherwise I will heve to listen to newsreaders talk about this as a decoy to the real news for years to come. that is the publishers opinion!

MY FAVORITE SPICE

MY FAVORITE SPICE

scary.

I want to write or dictate life about me.

I go for surgery will Robin call ?

FELIX

Cheap Gasoline?

How Much Are We Willing to Sacrifice to Have Cheap Gasoline?
by James Lee Burke 07-28-2010
http://blog.sojo.net/

Sometimes I think we forget whose country this is. Woody Guthrie said it a long time ago: “This land is your land, this land is my land, from the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters.” But since Woody wrote those lines, we’ve turned our government, our foreign policy, and our natural resources over to corporations and the politicians who work for them.

OK

my lord Said take it easy on people, no Marxism, no trickle down, no John maynard keynes, no beatles, no NBC, no BBC, no nothing except love.

OK.

JAIL AGIN

FUCK THE US JAIL GLUTTONY OF BREAD, PRO SPORTS,NASA, WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (USED REPEATEDLY), GEORGE BUSH 1 & 2, IF CAPITAL IS FINITE AND THE BANKS ARE FEDERAL RESERVE QUASI PUBLIC INSTITUTION— NOT(legally its privately owned by stockholders—meaning U.S. currency bank notes are privately owned)—BUILD FOR OUR CHILDREN NOT THE DETROIT FUCKING LIONS!

SAFETY

EVIDENCE OF REVISION 5

EVIDENCE OF REVISION 4

EVIDENCE OF REVISION 3

EVIDENCE OF REVISION 2

EVIDENCE OF REVISION

so-so/good old flick

ALLEN GINSBERG

BRIGHTMOOR INSTITUTE

website by joe coleman

ENLARGE CONGRESS

The purpose of the web site, the cyber institute is to

examine the conditions of the worker, AND MAKE

THE CASE FOR A LARGER HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES-WHO HOLD THE PURSE

STRINGS.

I will consider the course of events in Brightmoor

(NW Detroit) while I lived there.

Brightmoor is an area that has been destroyed as

a viable neighborhood. Twenty-five years ago it

was like Mayberry.

I am open minded and intellectually honest, if not

too well educated. I will do my best to explain what

happened there. This is a future goal. For now this

page examines the following:

Please browse the page and comment.





YOUR INPUT IS ENCOURAGED my email is:

joecolemanbrightmoor@yahoo.com

my blog is at http://joebearhughes.blogspot.com

have a great rest of the day



PRIVATE OPULENCE-PUBLIC SQUALOR

Above is a phrase from a John Kenneth Galbraith

book. He wrote many books about economics and

advised President Kennedy. he was a Harvard

man and stood about 6'7" tall.

The US is a very rich nation. It is therefore puzzling

why we don't have public, one-payer health

insurance like the established European states.

Germany has used the same cradle-to-grave

medical plan it now has since the Kaiser ruled in

the 19th century. It even survived the 3rd Reich.

What is it about us? I believe politics have

disintegrated to the level of selling chewing gum

and dish soap. When the candidate spends more

time on "gay" marriage than he does the ability of

the system to provide for the sick, aged and infirm;

it is worse than George Orwell 1984 time. It is a

disaster.



I am a loyal American, to my knowledge no other

people live under such a good and liberal

constitution. This is by definition a liberal

democracy. The denigration of the word liberal in

the popular speech is sad. No matter who is in

power the US is a giving nation-in relation to the

contributions of any other nation.

How is it that we seeming cannot offer health care

and we run deficit budgets?
The best thing that could happen is we get more

democracy; or at least a little bit closer to what the

founders and authors and ratifiers of the

Constitution of the United States of America

deemed we should have!

It is not generally talked about that the constitution

calls for a member of the House of Representatives

to sit for no FEWER than 30,000 people.

Presently we have 435 members in the House.

Many states have more senators than

congressmen or congresswomen.

This number is fixed by Public Law number five of

the 62nd Congress (PubL 62-5) a 1913 federal

statute that tailored the final number to what was

deemed then to be the capacity of the Capitol

Building. In this time of building hockey rinks in

Phoenix and a whole city out of thin air like Las

Vegas; harnessing our representation to the size of

any physical structure is unnecessary and gives the

terrorist element the notion that we are so attached

to these symbolic things that we could be damaged

by the loss of them.

We ought to show the world that we can evolve; that

the nature of self government is vital, alive; and that

violence will not have the last word in this world; that

the ability to organize our lives and live together is

stronger than our resort to harm, no matter how

justified it seems.

The worries about campaign finance would be

erased if the elections became so unpredictable

they couldn't be bought or foretold; let the chips fall

where they may.
Mainstream Article on enlarging Congress
Leadership

The loss of our charismatic leaders of the sixties to

bullets is something we have not come to terms

with. Are we to accept that the most popular and

inspired leaders must all meet a similar end? That

is if they make any headway and grasp the ring of

power? Click on image of RFK to access truth

telling about those assassinations.
READ A GOOD SPEECH
home is where the heart is

tv

Real Margarita

Flintstones

JFK

Tim McKinney's fight for freedom

NEW TRIAL ORDERED

MR. MCKINNEY RECEIVED A SHOT IN THE ARM when

 COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT JACKSON, in its June 3, 2008 Session, ordered a new trial.

From the case at http://tm.martysmith.org/McKinneyCCAOpinion_031010.pdf\

...Petitioner presents the following claims: (1) trial counsel was
ineffective for agreeing to a consent order regarding discovery materials; (2) trial counsel
was ineffective for failing to confront Debra Kimble with her prior statement; (3) trial
counsel was ineffective for failing to prepare for trial and present evidence favorable to the
Petitioner; (4) trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate mitigating circumstances
adequately; (5) trial counsel was ineffective for failing to introduce residual doubt evidence;
(6) the prosecution denied the Petitioner a fair trial; (7) the exclusion of the Petitioner’s
eyewitness expert at trial violated his right to present a defense; and (8) the death penalty is
unconstitutional and in violation of international treaties. We conclude that the Petitioner was
deprived of the effective assistance of counsel at both the guilt and penalty phases of the trial.
Accordingly, the judgment of the post-conviction court is reversed and the matter is
remanded for a new trial.

I'm very pleased with the outcome so far. 

Mr. Tim's plight came to my attention reading the Socialist Worker,

http://socialistworker.org/2010/04/26/tim-mckinneys-fight-for-freedom

my April 26, 2010 blog entry read:

Tim McKinney is a prisoner on Tennessee's death row, wrongfully convicted of killing a Memphis off-duty police officer on Christmas night in 1997.
An African American man accused of killing a white police officer, Tim's trial was plagued by inadequate representation and prosecutorial misconduct. He was sentenced to death in 1999 after a two-day trial, during which the prosecution presented no physical evidence connecting him to the crime. Over 40 witnesses testified in Tim's defense at his appeal in 2006.
Last month, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in favor of Tim's appeal and ordered a new trial. Tim's supporters are gearing up with a campaign calling on Memphis district attorneys to drop the charges and grant Tim his freedom. Here, Tim thanks his supporters and talks about the fight ahead for his freedom.

April 26, 2010

Tim McKinney is a prisoner on Tennessee's death row, wrongfully convicted of killing a Memphis off-duty police officer on Christmas night in 1997.
An African American man accused of killing a white police officer, Tim's trial was plagued by inadequate representation and prosecutorial misconduct. He was sentenced to death in 1999 after a two-day trial, during which the prosecution presented no physical evidence connecting him to the crime. Over 40 witnesses testified in Tim's defense at his appeal in 2006.
Last month, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in favor of Tim's appeal and ordered a new trial. Tim's supporters are gearing up with a campaign calling on Memphis district attorneys to drop the charges and grant Tim his freedom. Here, Tim thanks his supporters and talks about the fight ahead for his freedom.

Timothy McKinney
Dear friends and allies,
I am extremely excited to share some good news of our struggle here in Tennessee. On March 9, 2010, a unanimous panel of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals vacated my conviction and ordered a new trial.
Being granted a new trial is definitely a huge victory. It's a major step forward and a taste of the chance of obtaining my freedom. It's truly a blessing in itself. But the state has the chance to file a petition for review--meaning, they can appeal the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals.
The fight isn't over yet. We are celebrating this victory, but only in part. We clearly understand that the district attorney's office has the option to re-try the case.
This is a critical phase, and now is the time to take advantage of the opportunity to put an end to this horrific experience of injustice. It's vital that peoples' voices are heard, and that we put pressure on the DA's office not to re-try this case, but to drop the charges.

What you can do

For updates on Tim Mckinney's case, or to get involved, visit www.timmckinney.org.
For information about how you can join the fight against the death penalty in your area, visit the Campaign to End the Death Penalty Web site.

I gratefully thank the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and all the families, friends and supporters for faithfully fighting, witnessing and continuing to share our voices with the public. I also want to thank you for allowing me the opportunities to participate and express my thoughts, views and my struggle during the "Live From Death Row" speaking tour last year. It introduced me to new people, new ideas and new communities of faith.
It's very important to continue to produce powerful events like the tour to uncover the myriad problems within this unjust system. It has been a true blessing to come to know and learn about so many incredible men and women faithfully witnessing against this cruel injustice.
All of your efforts, energy and passion plays a critical role in helping empower each one of us to continue hammering away at that wall until, finally, it can no longer stand.
The wall will crumble, it's already beginning to crack. With all of your relentless strength and courage, it's a must that we hold those sitting in judgment accountable. Pressure will help bring freedom and justice toward a better world and a just society.
Again, I thank you! And please continue to keep up the good fight.
Sincerely, with great respect,
Tim McKinney

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Precious

Precious

I want to tell you about one of our feral cats I have

named Precious. She was not always precious, just

a face in the crowd—we feed seven wild cats; we

came home from Michigan and she was crippled

walking sideways and we still don't know what

happened to her. Was she sick with fever, a fall

from a tree, hit by a car; she acted like her back

was broke some how.

She was acting like she would check out—but she

has made it so far and shows she is a fighter and is

battling back—I just saw her playing in a pile of

brush practicing her clawing and front paw dexterity

on a twig branch.

I noticed one black kitten has a mustache like little

whitefeets, only smaller—two perfect white dots

under her nose. I named her Stash

Rachel Maddow TV SHOW

Rachel Maddow TV SHOW

Rachel Maddow TV SHOW

Rachel Maddow TV SHOW

THE REAL CITY

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DUDEISM

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I THINK I'M ALL THE WAY FREAKED OUT!