Help Free Dana Beal... Founder of MMM

[DdC]

Help Free Dana Beal - founder Worldwide Marijuana March
KanMan MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2008

There have been many groups in the history of American protest who have made great strides for social justice, but a rarefied few have left a mark an indelible as the Youth International Party(Yippies). A group of anti-Vietnam War activist who used irony, humor, intelligence, and their own blinding belief in peace and love to challenge the establishment on the streets, in the courts, and the halls of Congress itself.


Yippie Flag

Names like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Nancy Kurshan, Paul Krassner, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Ochs, and Judy Collins are all iconic.



A name you might not know, however, is that of Dana Beal. In 1972 Dana founded then edited the Yipster Times (later to become Overthrow) which operated until 1979. He wasn?t in Chicago in 1968 where Hoffman and Rubin passed into legend for being stomped and then persecuted as part of the Chicago Seven. Beal was already underground hiding from the authorities for revolutionary activates in opposition to the Vietnam War, in support of individual rights, and support of Marijuana legalization. He continues to fight for your rights to this day being the primary organizer behind the World Wide Marijuana March through the organization Cures Not Wars. A few days ago in Coles County Illinois, Dana Beal was arrested by the authorities. A man who has sacrificed so much of his life for the civil rights of his fellow human beings now languishes in a rural jail and he needs your help this time.



Dana Beal at this years World Wide Marijuana March
Photo by Tian Scherer

Dana Beal has been involved in every major social justice movement since his introduction to radical politics in the early 1960?s. In 1963 during a left-wing political rally he stated that should a tyrant ever become President of the United States he should be shot. While that seems like a pretty reasonable assertion to anyone he was informed on and there after whenever a sitting President or candidate came to New York City his whereabouts and activities were monitored and verified by the Secret Service. In 1967 before the 1968 Democratic Convention where the Yippies would become famous, Dana was charged with trying to sell acid to an undercover cop. Beal skipped out on the rap remaining on the run with help from various activist around the country including members of the Weather Underground only to later be apprehended by authorities in Wisconsin. He served a year in prison.

Upon his release he became more active than ever not only founding the Yipster Times but he also started Greenwich Villages Community Bail Fund a money collection that bailed out members of the counter culture who were arrested on various drug charges. This fund bailed out dozens of fellow activist and revolutionaries over the years including Beal himself. When he was freed from the jail on Center Street hundreds of fellow hippies gathered then carried him on their shoulders back to his office. Dana has spent the last twenty years focusing on the legalization of marijuana and in an almost Quixotic attempt to have the African hallucinogen Ibogaine legalized as a cure for heroin, cocaine, and alcohol addictions. Howard Lotsof an activist/scientist who has done extensive work with Ibogaine as a cure for addiction stated this afternoon that, ?Dana?s support of Ibogaine has enabled thousands of people to walk away from addiction.?

Several days ago Dana Beal was arrested by local police in Coles County, Illinois after being stopped. According to a Sheriff?s department spokesperson, Beal was in possession of over $100,000.00 cash. Unable to verify where he obtained the money Beal has been incarcerated in the Coles County Jail- bail has been set at $250,000.00 (he has been deemed a flight risk due to his past record), and he is being charged with ?Laundering of criminally derived property with a value of $100,000.00.? Mr. Beal is yet to step into a courtroom, however, as his bail was set by a judge who evaluated his arrest and ruled that it was valid and with cause. Thursday morning (June 12th) at 9:30am Dana will appear in local circuit court, possibly to be formally charged with the offence. Meanwhile he remains incarcerated with bond set at $250,000.00 unable to come up with the 10% ($25,000.00) needed for bail.

Beal has obtained a local attorney, Ronald Tulin, and I spoke one of his representatives today. They do not want to comment on the case before they get into a courtroom but they have verified that they are representing Mr. Beal and further stated that no formal charges have been filed on Dana as of yet.

Over the next few days I will be posting news about the case and writing about who Dana Beal is. He needs our help now, brothers and sisters. Mr. Lotsof stated that Dana?s immediate need is to raise $10,000.00 dollars in order to keep his attorneys on retainer. After that an additional $25,000.00 is needed for his bail. As I have stated before, Dana Beal has given up much for his ideals and to protect your rights. The Community Bail Fund he organized in the 1960?s alone qualifies him as someone at least deserving of our respect and any help we can give him.

You can help financially in two ways:

If you can assist with funds for the attorney fees please email me at Cnance@weird-load.com and I will put you in contact with his lawyers.

If you don?t have money please at least send Dana love, good wishes, and good vibes at freedanabeal@weird-load.com and they will be forwarded to him.

If you wish to send money to Dana directly it will be added to his jail account and can be used for his bond please send it to:

Irvin Beal
Coles County Jail
701 7th Street
Charleston, IL 61920

Organizing has happened and it is the least we owe to a man who has given so much to us. Please stay tuned and let?s help this old warrior once again become a free man!

Res Ipsa Loqitor
Chad Nance
Myrtle Beach, SC
06.09.08

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[Brother Adam]

Yup, I know exactly who Abbie Hoffman and his buddies are. http://judicial-inc.biz/wil_servel_Draft_today.htm
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-Brother Adam (we are all one family)

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face.

[Brother Adam]

Yup, I know exactly who Abbie Hoffman and his buddies are. http://judicial-inc.biz/wil_servel_Draft_today.htm
_________________
-Brother Adam (we are all one family)

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face.

[DdC]

Burning draft offices or villages or entire cities like Hiroshima?Duh? Selective memory's nice.. Korea and Vietnam were Police Actions, not wars. So they weren't returning vets, just returning cops I guess. Same as Iraq since Mission Accomplished. Haliburdon can't profit in wartime activities. Now they get richer each minute..

War Sale



spitting on returning soldiers... Bullshit

Made up story by Life Magazine, then repeated into gullibles travels.
same as the Hell's Angels raiding Hayward or was it Hollister?
Just never happened. Doesn't make sense.
They were us, school mates and neighbors,
and who the hell is gonna blow up babies,
then be afraid of flower children spitting?
I don't think I know a vet that would have taken that...
I don't know any stoners that would have taken that.

Although Nexis overflows with references to protesters gobbing on Vietnam vets, and Bob Greene's 1989 book Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned From Vietnam counts 63 examples of protester spitting, Jerry Lembcke argues that the story is bunk in his 1998 book The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (click here to buy it). Lembcke, a professor of sociology at Holy Cross and a Vietnam vet, investigated hundreds of news accounts of antiwar activists spitting on vets. But every time he pushed for more evidence or corroboration from a witness, the story collapsed--the actual person who was spat on turned out to be a friend of a friend. Or somebody's uncle. He writes that he never met anybody who convinced him that any such clash took place.
Drooling on the Vietnam Vets

Troop admiration is also a good disinfectant for memories of Hanoi Jane and rumors of Vietnam War protesters spitting on returning vets. Old peacenik Bernie Sanders has carved out a politically useful niche standing up for veterans' rights to compensation, health care, education and pensions. (By the way, sociologist and Vietnam veteran Jerry Lembcke put the spitting-on-soldiers myth to rest in 1998, when he combed every newspaper story, oral account and poll and found no evidence of spitting — except a few pro-war goobers aimed at protesters.)
The Volokh Conspiracy

But like the reefer gossip, war mongers love to try and justify their PTSD, blaming the peaceniks and not reality. "Oh you call us babykillers and it makes us depressed...." Bet it ain't as bad as the dead babies mothers depression.

It ain't just a job. It shouldn't be glorified. You don't kill a human for the ticker-tape. You drop bombs from 30,000 feet, buzzing on meth, missing targets, collateral damage, friendly fire. Honor the plastic and degrade the enemy some politician deemed on official papers. In places you couldn't find on a globe before the yellow rags started frothing their hate Op Eds and commercials.

A Conversation With Brian DePalma
While Brian DePalma's new film about the Iraq war is based in the oldest propaganda cliche in the world -- let's show the soldiers on the bad side of the war raping innocent girls! -- what makes him original in the use of this emotionally-charged technique is that the bad guys happen to be us. Still, for an intellectually savvy audience, it is difficult to watch his flat interpretation of soldiers, each acting as if a cardboard cartoon of evil, let alone the predictable and unnuanced scene of rape and torture.

Nixon murdered 40,000 Americans from the Summer of Love to May Day 71. You think they are worse than being spit on? Spit on and yelled at! Oh well then, shoot the bastards. Get over it.

Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1 and Jerry Turd continued it. How many of the 10 million Ganja criminals have been spit on or gang raped in prison?

While Nixon Campaigned, FBI Watched John Lennon

Terrorists, Commies, Potheads, those Irish! Mexicans crazies high on that marihuana. Blacks getting insolent. Propaganda. Serving a purpose. Agenda. Divide and Confuse. Agent Orange brings us untold thousands of cancer victims. Now Vietnam's killing dopers like US sponsored Thailand DEAth Squads. All buddies in the Ganjawar.

When are they going to build a wall for the dead hippies? Redneck neck tie parties and swamping long hairs. Beatings and cagings and service refused. Fire hosing prisoners and marchers. Pouring liquid pepper spray into young girls eyes. Peaceniks shunned and stigmatized as much as Ganja. OK to brag over beers in bars killing gooks and Iraq sand niggers. Shaking the red white and blue rectangled plastic. Made from OPEC crude oil, sold to China for kids to slave labor into a symbol with more protection than sick people using Ganja. Constitutional amendment by wingnut anti-Americans.

For not wanting Americans or Anyone to die for crude oil? Like the assholes fighting Ganja and Hemp. A plant for their and their kids benefit. This info won't be found on cable TV. Yet they try to spread fear and insults and threats. Censorship. For information for everyone. Same media hiding the millions on the streets protesting Boosh Inc saber rattles. TV shamed itself as propaganda ministers. Firing up bulletheads. To send someone elses kids to die for profits most won't see. Stop the fucking gossip, christ!

The Vietnam Amnesty Bill
Ford signed a bill giving these draft dodgers amnesty.

and he pardoned Nexxon...
While draft dodger chickenhawks like Cheney deferred themselves,
and junior attended the National Gaurd, at his own convenience.
Klintoon in London while Gerry Turd buried cancer tumor research...

HE WAS A CROOK by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson



NO Draft is justified for wars based on lies. Though it's true this unemployment is luring kids into believing their propagandists recruiters. I wanna kill like the video games, just sign here son, Oh it ain't the same. They're Universal soldiers and they really need to take responsibility for their actions. Reality bites and it's bad enough we're treating the returning Vets like shit, and losing as many to suicide as to car bombs and drinking. Homeless vet deterrents. Sam stone junkies filling prisons by these Furds and Bushits. Draft Dodgers have more guts than chickenhawks and murderers for hire.

Fuck Nixon, Fuck Vietnam, Fuck Blackwater and Diebold and Boosheny Inc. Fuck Fascism and Fascists hiding behind flags and crosses... and double Fuck the blind believer sheople uninvolved, obedient... blinders guiding without seeing. Like driving to work in the hermetically sealed SUV over the Freeway bridges vets sleep during the heat of the day. Past the screams and smells into the corporate garage away from the sounds and sights of the poor. Back home to pop open a legal cork and get informed by Faux Nazi's ramming another Police Conflict down naive yuppie throats. All we are saying is give Peace a Fucking Chance Damn It!

[DdC]

New York man, Yippie veteran, not charged with money laundering by Dave Fopay
Journal Gazette (Mattoon, IL)13 Jun 2008 CHARLESTON

No money laundering charges were filed during a court hearing Thursday for a New York man accused of trying to hide a bag with a large amount of money from a Mattoon police earlier this month.

Irvin Dale Beal, 61, was charged only with obstructing justice Thursday, though his case's prosecutor said other charges could be filed later. The attorneys in the Beal's case also agreed that his bond will be reduced.

Beal and another man, Jesse Balcom, 30, of Silver Springs, Md., were arrested at the Steak N' Shake restaurant in Mattoon on the morning of June 3 after police initially went there on a report of two women having an argument. According to Mattoon police, bystanders asked officers to question Beal because they said they saw him retrieve a bag from his van and hide it under a car.

Officers found the bags contained about $150,000 and then had a police dog investigate the bags, and the dog reacted as if drugs were present, though no drugs were found, according to police documents in the case. Beal denied any knowledge of the bags, and he was arrested on suspicion of money laundering and obstructing justice.

The Associated Press reported that Beal is also a veteran of the Youth International Party, whose members are commonly known as Yippies, a 1960s-era hippie political movement. The news service also reported that he's also been a longtime advocate in New York City for the legalization of marijuana.

In court Thursday, Assistant State's Attorney Mick McAvoy wouldn't say why he didn't file money laundering charges. McAvoy would only say that the case is still being investigated.

Illinois law defines money laundering as someone moving money from one location to another with the proceeds coming from drug sales, and it can result in a prison sentence of four to 15 years upon conviction.

The charges McAvoy filed against Beal Thursday were two counts of obstructing justice that accuse him of hiding the bags of money and then telling police he didn't do it, both to avoid arrest. The charges can result in a prison sentence of one to six years, with the maximum sentence twice what's usual for the offense because Beal has a prior marijuana possession conviction, according to McAvoy.

Charleston attorney Ron Tulin appeared in court with Beal and indicated that he'll be representing Beal in the case. Tulin wouldn't say if Beal told him what he was doing with the money.

Tulin and McAvoy told Circuit Judge Mitchell Shick that they agreed that Beal's bond be reduced so he would need to post $7,500 to be released instead of $25,000, and Tulin said Beal will be able to post the new amount. Beal will be able to return to New York and signed extradition waiver forms to expedite his return to Coles County if he doesn't show up at any future court dates.

Shick scheduled Beal's next hearing for Aug. 4. That will be his preliminary hearing, when a judge considers some of the prosecution's evidence and decides if it's enough to order a case to trial.

Balcom, who's free on bond, is also charged with obstructing justice and appeared in court Thursday with Mattoon attorney Steve Ryan. Shick also scheduled Balcom's preliminary hearing for Aug. 4.

The two women involved in the argument police investigated at Steak N' Shake, Charlotta D. Lutsche, 52, of New York City, and her mother, Kathradina Lutsche, 85, also of New York, were traveling with Beal and Balcom.



Yippie Veteran Is in Jail Far From the East Village

Reported Yippie arrested in Mattoon for money laundering
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:25 PM CDT

[David]