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     Jan Breidenbach |
Dee, it's me, Jan Please contact me at this e-mail address. I'm still diving. | ||
| ldbelveal |
Due to a dramatic upsurge in my e-mail during the last month, I have concluded that somebody has organized a letter campaign at me. The flow has tapered off now, but it was pretty impressive for a while. The missives arrived in the form of e-mail and snail mail (directed to my post office box) and they all carried quite similar messages to-wit: "Now that Arnold Morris has been thrown out of Honduras, Fernando Azcona has been fired out of his Judge of Letters job and Rita and Emilio Silvestre have had their U. S. Visas canceled, when are you going to shut down your Internet website and stop saying bad things about Honduras?" I can understand a few inquiries like this happening spontaneously, but when the total runs into dozens, I have to think it's an organized effort. My first inclination was to simply ignore them. In fact, most of them didn't even carry authentic names or return addresses. For just a couple of examples, it's hard to respond to "A born Hondureno" or "Loyalista" if they don't provide a return address. So I'm going to answer their questions this way and hope that you who see it will print it and pass it around through the ranks of your kindred spirits. _My reply:_ Putting Arnold Morris back inside the waiting walls of the Florida State Penitentiary, stripping Fernando Azcona of his judgeship and depriving the Silvestres of their access to the United States of America adds up to important progress toward punishing their individual and collective crimes. I wish they had all been locked up, but that was probably too much to hope for, much as it would have been richly deserved. But this is, by no means, the end of the story. I still have not had my properties restored to me, nor have I been reimbursed for them. In spite of whatever may have happened to them individually, the thieves are still sitting on their ill-gotten gains - presumably with the official blessing of the "Sovereign Republica de Honduras" and the colluding political officials and officers of the Court, who supposedly determine whatever it is that currently passes as "Honduran Justice". The extradition of Arnold Morris, the firing of Fernando Azcona and the cancellation of the Silvestre Visas is unarguable proof that the charges I leveled at these scam-artists were absolutely true. They were and are co-conspirators in the crimes involved. Nobody can argue this point any more. Else why would the government agencies have taken the actions that they did? What now remains is to: 1. Either return my stolen properties to me, or, 2: Reimburse me for the capital losses I sustained at the hands of the conspiring thieves and co-conspiring Honduras officials. Which course is followed is a decision to be made in Honduras. I do not care which it is, but I insist that it be either one or the other. I deeply regret that my publicity activities that have brought these criminal/judicial outrages to the attention of a large proportion of the western hemisphere have gone on so long. In the process, my informational activities have certainly cost the Honduras government many, many millions - and perhaps billions - of dollars in private investments, international loans, gifts and development projects. And the losses continue add up according to reliable advisories from well-informed sources. This campaign is intended to teach Honduras - and other sovereign observers - that crime really doesn'tpay. Unless, of course, the victim just rolls over and plays dead -- and which is not my style at all. The unfortunate aspect of all of this is that the blameless Hondurans, who have no culpability in the chain of crooked events, must share in the deprivations that turning off the national "money valve" always precipitates. But while I regret this, it can't be avoided. When government fails to function respectably, it is always the innocent citizens who have to pay for the corruption. So this is my reply to those of you who inquired, as well as the rest of you who also want to know when this vendetta will end. I will "shut down my WebSite and quit saying bad things about Honduras" when I have either regained my properties - or when I have been reimbursed for their values and my direct out-of-pocket expenses for lawyers, investigators, and related expenses involved in my attempts to protect my interests from the gang of thieves who joined forces to defraud me. Until one or the other of these solutions is provided, my efforts will continue and, to the extent possible, will be increased. To fire a crooked Judge of Letters and extradite a well-known international criminal, without ordering a Judicial Review to correct their engineered crimes against people and property is the absolute pits of governmental hypocrisy. The Honduras judges and officials who were part of the cabal that countenanced this rip-off understand their own guilt better than anyone else does. _A final word:_ I have made firm arrangements that will keep my WebSite open on the Internet long after my death, unless these problems have been resolved beforehand. At my attained age of 88 years, this is a crucial consideration. I do not expect to live forever. So now you have it. I hope we can bring these issues to a satisfactory conclusion promptly, and without further rancor. But the decision is not mine to make. The solution lies exclusively in the hands of the same people who allowed the subversions of the Honduras legal system to take place. Only they can decide how they want to end it... if they do. My mind is already made up. Lorenzo Dee Belveal <ldbelveal@terra.com.mx> |