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Update:
Bollyn was arrested for resisting arrest! What kind of BS is that? What were they arresting him for? He called the police! His wife and daughter were at the door. When he tried to return his daughter to the house they tackled him. His bond was $100 lol.
9/11 INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST
HARASSED AND BEATEN AT HIS HOME
BY UNDERCOVER COPS
It's after 2 a.m. in the morning, my deadline is tomorrow, and I have been beaten up by the local police and my right elbow is sorely hurting, but I need to write down exactly what happened to me today before I go to sleep. Otherwise I will forget important details.
I was harassed, beaten, and shocked with a Tazer-like gun in my front yard before my wife and children, and then abused for 6 hours by the ADL-trained local police. I have every reason to believe it is because of my journalistic investigation into 9/11. I have been threatened before in my career as a journalist, but this is the first time I have been intentionally beaten and abused – by the cops.
I have investigated 9/11 since it happened and looked into the many unanswered questions of the terror attacks. I discovered last year that I had had at least two FBI informants crawling around my house for years. This is the main reason I do not feel safe in the United States. It is also why I spend much of the time in Europe or at safe houses in this country, with fellow 9/11 researchers like Ellen Mariani and Eric Hufschmid. I have two small children.
I have only been at my old home in Hoffman Estates for a couple of weeks, mainly because my road-weary children dearly love this old red house, which is the only home they have ever known. It is just a simple Hoffman-Rosner suburban Chicago tract home that my late parents bought in 1957, but it's home.
I had noticed an unusual amount of police activity around my house since I returned. We live on a quiet side street where one might normally see a police cruiser once or twice a week. Since I returned I have noticed all kinds of police cars and devices in the immediate proximity of my house.
But yesterday there was something very unusual around my house. It was an unmarked car with three armed men with body armor driving around my block as I rode my bike to the store. Who in the heck is that? I thought to myself. It looks like they are going to my house, but I won't be there, I thought.
Then today, the same time and the same car with three men passed slowly by my house where the neighborhood kids were playing. "Hello, FBI," I said from my porch and waved.
The man in the front passenger seat waved back. I immediately alerted my wife and kids. Helje said I should stop them and ask them what they want.
For background, today I was working on two rather big stories and I made a lot of phone calls to the Embassy of Israel, the S.E.C., the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and to an old Israeli living in New York who I have suspicions may be a key player in 9/11. I'd like to discuss this lead but I can't at this point.
All of my calls were about 9/11 related, except for the calls to the Embassy and local consulate of Israel. These were standard journalistic inquiries about Israel casualties and losses in Lebanon. The Embassy press department didn't like my questions, but I told them it's my job. I wanted to know about the number of dead and wounded and if 60 Merkava tanks had been taken out, as Hezbollah claims.
Then I also asked where exactly the two Israeli soldiers had been abducted. I told them that there were at least 15 newswire stories that said the soldiers had been captured in the Lebanese village of Aitaa al-Shaab – inside Lebanon. He was surprised to hear that, too.
Apart from my un-disclosable investigation, the other calls were about how Jacob "Kobi" Alexander was able to flee with more than $60 million dollars last week, several months after it was public knowledge that he and the other Israelis working with Comverse Technology, Ltd. had swindled hundred of millions through fraudulent stock options trades. This has been going on for years, and The Wall Street Journal and Globes (Israel) reported the names and the amounts last March. For crying out loud, my newspaper, American Free Press, reported it in April 2005.
I wanted to know from the SEC and the U.S. Attorney's office how this Kobi Alexander was able to wire $60 million to his account in Israel and flee New York without any body stopping him. "If I wired $5 million to Norway the whole NSA and FBI would be all over me," I said.
The U.S. Attorney's office said they "expect" Kobi will turn himself in. Note to the wise: Don't count on it.
Kobi Alexander was one of the owners and developers of Odigo software which allowed Israelis to communicate instantly on 9/11. It was via the "buddy system" on Odigo software, which allows one to communicate to a large group of people that share a trait, such as the Hebrew language, that thousands of Israelis were warned not to go to the twin towers on 9/11.
Kobi Alexander's Mossad-linked company, Comverse Technology, was a developer and owner of Odigo since early 2000, something The New York Times does not consider to be part of "All the News that's Fit to Print." Comverse makes a black box system called the "Audio Disk" that police, intelligence and security agencies, and governments around the world, have attached to their phone networks. This simple device allows the Israeli employees of Comverse back in Tel Aviv to hear and intercept all the data being exchanged by these naive agencies...everything.
Hello...?
I had finished all of my calls and watched the first part of the Lou Dobb's news program on CNN and was on my way to the store, when I stepped out on the stoop and saw this threatening dark car full of obvious agents of some sort. I immediately warned my wife and kids and rode the bike to the store.
Something is not right, I said to myself, and I stopped at the local wine shop and asked to use the phone. I called 911 and told them that a strange car with armed men is driving around my neighborhood for no apparent reason. I was told that a police car would meet me at my house in 20 minutes.
I was just in my house a few minutes when the very same suspicious car stopped in front of my house and three armor-clad men stood on my driveway. I had just been calling the police department and put down the phone. I was more than a little surprised to see these armor-clad thugs on my driveway.
My wife and 8-year old daughter were already there and I asked these men who they were and why they were harassing my street. Why are you driving around with this unmarked car around my house, I asked? Who are you, anyway? They were not at all willing to identify themselves and were very confrontational, to say the least.
I ran to my front door to call my brother when the three of them tackled me and shocked me with some sort of stun-gun. The three men then sat on me and pushed my face in the dirt, handcuffed me and put me in their car.
Remember, I had called 911 because of a suspicious car in my neighborhood, a neighborhood I have known since 1957, when my parents helped found this town.
I have two small children, after all, and this car looked very threatening to me. This is what I call my normal neighborhood obligations, but I discovered that they are actually watching us. They even joked about it at the station later. "We are watching you," they said.
It should be noted that my neighborhood does not have any crime or gangs or anything of that nature that would warrant an undercover squad to patrol around my house day after day. This is why it is so suspicious. And why are they patrolling around my house?
As they pummeled me, my wife was pleading for me and my daughter was crying. I really wanted my brother, my neighbors, and my son to come help me but before even one minute had passed there were dozens of cops and firemen in my front yard.
Where did they all come from so quickly? How were so many police in my neighborhood at the same time? This is most unusual, as Hoffman Estates is spread out all over northwest Cook County, but there were at least 5 squad cars and at least 10 officers in my front yard within one minute of my being beaten up on my lawn.
Sitting in the squad car with handcuffs on is when the private abuse began. Officer Fitzgerald indulged in offending me, my late mother, a village pioneer, and then threatened to beat me.
When another officer came to the car, he told me that this guy was going to beat the ---- out of me. When I repeated what he said word for word, he would say, "I didn't say that."
He then started to drive me to the station, which is about three miles away from the old village center where I live. Bombarded with continuous verbal abuse, when I would say something from the back-seat he would slam on the brakes so that my head hit the plexi-glass separation window. Typical Chicago cop torture treatment; rough the guy up on the way to the station. This is exactly the kind of thing that I ran against when I ran for mayor of this town in 2001.
I decided to lean back on the seat and not say another word.
When we got to the station, there was a host of white-gloved cops waiting for me in the police garage. When Officer Fitzgerald drove in to the garage, he told the 10-12 waiting cops: "He says cops are a bunch of ……….. You can take care of him now."
When they took me out, I informed them that I am a journalist and will write about their treatment. The verbal abuse now came from all sides. They told me I should get out of town, etc. I told them that my dear parents had founded Hoffman Estates, but they didn't care.
When I was in the station they forcibly stripped off my belt and tore of my shirt leaving me clad only in shorts and undershirt. I asked why I was being detained and they told me that I had resisted arrest and threatened the police with my fists, two complete lies.
I was never the subject of any arrest. I had called to police to report a suspicious vehicle driving around my home!
I was thrown into a cell with no water. I asked for a drink of water and was told, "Drink from the toilet."
Why am I being treated this way, I wondered?
At midnight, an officer came to my cell and asked if I could pay $100 to get out. What I am being charged with, I asked? I called the police and they beat me up in my front yard, I protested.
What did I do to deserve that?
My older brother had posted bail and shortly after midnight, I was pushed out onto the street with a good two-mile walk home.
I am shocked at how I was treated, because although my journalism gets me into trouble with police in many places, I have never been treated so brutally in my life. I honestly believe this brutal treatment is connected to my 9/11 research.
I intend to seek asylum in Norway or Switzerland. I can read the writing on the wall.
Investigative journalists are not safe in Iraq – or the United States.
Photo: Christopher Bollyn, investigative journalist for American Free Press, was beaten and arrested on trumped-up charges at his home in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:20 am
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Interesting. In his write-up, he calls into question the fact that there were so many police and firemen on his lawn so quickly.
I found this on libertyforum:
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I spoke with Christopher Bollyn's editor. Bollyn lives very close to my home, but we have never met.
Police report to Media can be obtained by calling 847-882-1818. Lt. Russo is taking media calls and will respond with faxed Police Media Report. Hoffman Estates Police claim Undercover Officers in Area for Gang Related reasons..LOL This area is one of the most Affluent areas in Hoffman Estates (Multi million Dollar Homes are a Stones Throw), average home sells for $350k + .
I have offered to interview and obtain affidavits from Mr. Bollyn's neighbors and will await for responses from Bollyn's Attorney or Editor.
Yours in Observing America as a Gulag,
Gang-related reasons, eh? Arrested for resisting arrest, eh?
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Hope is fading...
Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:10 pm
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New number to call: 847-781-2604
Ask about these ambiguous statements, and unwarranted use of taser. They should be required to provide video for incidents like this or face being sued.
Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:26 pm
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Whitewraithe wrote:
Michael Collins Piper is reporting further details and interesting background information surrounding Chris' arrest last night. His show, The Piper Report will be on until 7:00 p.m. CST, then will be archived later this evening.
It figures! That's the patriot act that basically undermines our bill of rights for ya!. How the HELL did that thing pass anyway? Did anyone (besides the 1 senator who voted against it) actually read it? Because of this horrible document, we have no rights! Here is my hypothesis:The police were TOLD that Bollyn was a conspiracy theorist and probably connected with a new strain of bio-terrorism or some other foxnews, terror related, whatever. Conspiracy Theorist-a nice label that they affix to anyone who questions any controversial political issues or the ones who try to tell people that there's "something rotten in Washington." All too much the same as incorrect labeling of "terrorists" that are trying to divide the nation and are "only making up stories because they see this as an opportunity to weaken the nation." We are told not to believe "conspiracy theorists" and that we must unite and support our leaders. As I recall, history describes nationalism as the basis for Mussolini's totalitarian nation. I smelled a rat in november of 2000! I was 2 years too young to vote but after reading that II's brother's state, Florida was where the votes had been "miscounted" and then hearing 2 different t.v. stations declaring 2 different victories, I had a feeling that it was rigged in Bush's favor. I do not support the Patriot act. Does this mean I am a terrorist? What about the rest of you? Are you "conspiracy theorists"? Christopher Bollyn certainly is not. They want to submit him to arduous, highly invasive and sometimes painful interrogation sessions just to see how much he knows. Then, more questioning and possibly more arrests of other alternative media journalists. I hate the process of interrogation in that the law almost tries to force you to believe that you are guilty when in fact you are innocent of all alleged crimes. A word of warning: Careful what you write, lest you forget who's bouhgt the net. I really should take my own advice, don't wanna go to "freedom camp". Arresting journalists on suspicion of domestic terrorism, bah! Pure and utter foxnews I say! Foxnews- (noun) pr.(Foks-nooz);A term I use as a synonym for bullshit. Before this becomes a pointless, tangential, rant (maybe it's too late for that) I would like to ask: Who benefits from all of this corruption? and WHY is it alright for our government to sell illegal DU projectiles to Israel but when other countries possess them they are opposed and disarmed by the U.N. immediately? Why are they rigging our elections and dominating our press? Furthermore, Why is nothing being done to stop these crimes? Who's letting them get away with the biggest deception in history? (they've broken the laws of physics with this) The disinformed people is who. We no longer have the right to stop the tyranny.
Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:44 pm
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Please help us let the Zionists gangs realize that some of us are fed up with their abuse.
In 1976 Harold Wallace Rosenthal said "Your people don't have guts." Have you seen Rosenthal's remarks yet:
DarylBradfordSmith_Rosenthal.html
The Americans and Europeans have proven over and over and over that Rosenthal is correct. For just a few examples:
• Most American military personnel who know about the attack on the USS Liberty are afraid to talk about it.
• European nations have passed laws to prohibit investigations of the Holocaust because they are afraid of... of what?
• Most witnesses to the crash at the Pentagon are afraid to talk about it.
When a wolf chases after a sheep, the other sheep run in fear because the sheep don't have the intelligence to realize that they could easily chase the wolf away!
So far, all throughout history, when a Zionist abuses a Goy, the other Goyim run away in fear, even though the Goyim outnumber the Zionists by an incredible amount.
Will Goyim ever stand up to the Zionists?
The abuse that Christopher Bollyn suffered was trivial compared to the abuse suffered by the men on the USS Liberty and the abuse Americans and Arabs are suffering right now in the Middle East.
However, they abused Christopher Bollyn in an American city in front of everybody. If we let them get away with this, they may do it to more of us.
You can help! It doesn't take any money. You can send a link to this article to your own police department, or to the police department in Chicago.
When thousands of people send e-mail messages, the Zionists realize that some of us are not docile sheep.
You should also send this link to fire departments, military bases, and local government offices. They need to grow up and smell the Zionism, also.
Thanks for helping!
Many thanks to Daryl Bradford Smith who when called by Christopher's wife spent a great amount of time and effort calling people like me, the police department, and people he doesn't even like to unsefishly spread the word about this event.
Does he have witnesses as to what he said while the cops were present? It seems he is lucky to be alive, and they're scrambling to concoct a story which justifies their use of force.
Here is a review of Michael Collins Piper's show on RBN tonight -
from: rbnlive.com
On tonight's live broadcast at Republic Broadcasting Network, Michael Collins Piper described the assault on his colleague, Christopher Bollyn who like Piper is both a correspondent for American Free Press newspaper (see americanfreepress.net) and a host on the Republic Broadcasting Network (at rbnlive.com).
Bollyn had spotted a mysterious vehicle constantly passing by his home in a quiet neighborhood in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, and called the police. To his shock, after being told a police car would be coming to his home, he was greeted by the very mysterious vehicle and the three armor-clad individuals who were in that vehicle. They refused to identify themselves and when Bollyn indicated that he was going to go back into his home to have his brother (inside the house) call the police, the armor-clad individuals tackled him to the ground and arrested him.
Bollyn was later released from jail on a bond, following six hours of harassment and interrogation. Word about the attack on Bollyn, in the presence of his wife and 8 year old daughter, spread around the world via the Internet. The police department has claimed that Bollyn's home was under surveillance as part of work by a gang surveillance unit.
In reponse to this, Michael Collins Piper points out that, over the past several years, the Anti-Defamation league (ADL) of B'nai B'ritha private spy organization that masquerades as a "respected Jewish community organization" has been issuing press releases and providing local police departments with "information" attempting to link critics of Israel with "terrorist groups" and "gangs."
This has provoked otherwise decent law enforcement officials into targeting law-abiding citizens (such as Christopher Bollyn), thinking that they (the police) were keeping watch on a potentially dangerous individual with ties to "terrorists" and "gangs" (such as so-called "white racist skinheads").
Piper noted that several years ago, when Bollyn hosted him (Piper) in Chicago, Piper learned froma Shaumburg Illinois police officer that the ADL had tipped off the local police that a "top Nazi" (Piper!) was coming to town and that there could be violence. This prompted the Shaumburg police to add on extra police officers just in case Piper and "his followers" (as the ADL described Shaumburg citizens who were interested in hearing about Piper's writings on the JFK assassination) engaged in any violence.
Piper says that he considers anyone who is associated with or supportive of any pro-Israel jewish organizations such as the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, or the American Jewish Congress to be supporting what Piper calls "criminal organizations" that are creating trouble in American neighborhoods and communities, as evidenced by the violent assault on Christopher Bollyn.
Piper also noted the SWAT team raid on the home of Willis A. Carto, the attack on the late Gordon Kahl, Nebraska farmer Arthur Kirk, the slaughter of the Branch Davidians, and the murder of Randy Weaver's wife and son and their family dog.
Of the attack on Bollyn, Piper noted pointedly:
"The Vatican didn't instigate it.
The Illuminati didn't do it.
The Bohemian Grove gang didn't do it.
The Council on Foreign Relations didn't do it.
Neither did the Trilateral Commission or the Bilderberg group.
Instead, it was the work of some of the most respected Jewish community leaders in Chicago, who've been targeting Christopher Bollyn for years."
