Even In Death, The Late Eco-Activist Judi Bari Is Still Haunting The FBI For Murdering Her
More than 20 years ago the FBI furtively orchestrated the bombing of EarthFirst! activist Judi Bari's car, in efforts to murder her, after a COINTELPRO operation against Judi had failed to result in her indictment as a terrorist.
During the next decade, Judi would attempt to file a lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police in this cover up, when she would be stricken with the breast cancer that ended her life.
In this author's opinion, the FBI's attempts to stonewall Judi's civil lawsuit against the Bureau included subjecting her to satellite deployed directed energy weaponry, which resulted in the cancer which ultimately killed her.
According to a former FBI agent who testified in the case of another target of directed energy weaponry (Jesus Mendoza), the FBI was given the use of this electronic warfare technology in the mid 1990's, just about the time that Judi Bari had publicly stated that she had suddenly developed breast cancer. This agent also testified that the FBI had authorized its agents to utilize directed energy weapons on the U.S. population.
Ironically enough, even though Judi Bari would die before her trial against the FBI took place, this civil suit was eventually tried, and the jury who heard the case awarded Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney (another member of EarthFirst! who was also injured in the bombing) a 4.4 Million Dollar judgment against the FBI, which was later reduced to 4 Million Dollars.
During the time where several of the FBI agents who were being deposed as defendants in this lawsuit had been called to testify, Judi Bari noted that these agents had committed such abject acts of perjury during their testimony, that Judi was quoted as having said:
"These guys are professional liars who've raised selected memory loss to an art form."
So it's only fitting that some of Judi's supporters recently filed a motion in an attempt to prevent the FBI from destroying bomb evidence taken from Judi's vehicle in 1990, which will likely implicate the FBI in the bombing of Judi's car.
The following is excerpted from the Judi Bari Website:
Press conference to follow hearing at 450 Golden Gate
Contact: Darryl Cherney; Ben Rosenfeld or Dennis Cunningham, Attorneys
"Following the 20th anniversary of the 1990 car bombing and attempted frame up of Earth First! organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, civil rights attorneys Dennis Cunningham and Ben Rosenfeld will argue a motion in San Francisco Federal Court, 450 Golden Gate at 9:30 am this Wednesday, Sept. 8 in Courtroom F, 15th Floor before Judge James Larson, to prevent the FBI from destroying two sets of bomb remnants. The motion asks that those remnants and other evidence to be turned over to Cherney or an agreed upon laboratory for DNA and other forensic testing to determine the identity of the bomber. A press conference on the plaza outside the Federal Building will follow the hearing.
The case stems from the FBI and Oakland Police attempts to pin a political bombing on the victims rather than look for the terrorist who tried to kill Judi Bari by hiding a motion-triggered pipe bomb under the driver's seat of her Subaru station wagon. The explosion interrupted Bari and Cherney's musical roadshow in which they traveled to colleges to encourage people to participate in for the Redwood Summer campaign to stop the logging of ancient redwoods. They had pulled out of Oakland just before noon, heading to UC Santa Cruz to perform on that fateful May 24, 1990 when Bari's car exploded on Park Blvd. near MacArthur. Oakland police and FBI agents instantly declared Bari and Cherney the only suspects despite the fact that all of the physical evidence pointed at an assassination attempt and that they provided the FBI on the day of the bombing with a folder full of death threats targeting them.
Bari (posthumously) and Cherney won a successful civil rights trial in 2002, in which the jury agreed that their First and Fourth Amendment rights had been violated when the FBI and OPD falsely arrested them and illegally searched their homes--all in order to discredit and silence them. The events took place in a highly charged year. A ballot initiative--Forests Forever (Proposition 130) on the November ballot-- would have banned clearcutting and preserved ancient forests among other proposed reforms. It was defeated by just over one percentage point in a major setback.
The FBI, intent on framing Bari and Cherney, has never conducted a sincere investigation. It has failed even to analyze lifted fingerprints or to do DNA forensics. Cherney, however, has conducted his own investigation, collecting and analyzing evidence in pursuit of the bomber the FBI appears intent on hiding. "There is a logging truck's load of forensic evidence in this case," said Cherney.
A letter taking credit for two bombings, including the bomb in Bari's car, signed "The Lord's Avenger," provided details on the design of another bomb that barely went off at the Louisiana Pacific sawmill in Cloverdale, CA two weeks before the car bombing, as well as details of the car bomb. The bomb in Cloverdale is nearly intact and could provide DNA and other forensic evidence that could identify the bomber.
A jury awarded the two $4.4 million - in Bari's case, to her estate. Later, the parties settled for a total of $4 million, inclusive of attorney's fees. The parties also agreed that: (1) the FBI would return evidence to Oakland; (2) Oakland would turn over evidence to Cherney; (3) the parties would certify any disputes to the Court; and 4) that May 24, 1990 be proclaimed Judi Bari Day by the city of Oakland, which did, in fact, occur."
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