It took me two full years to get online here, which finally happened a

few short months ago. I'm quite a techno-dummie, and there was no one to

tell me how to use CompuServe...I couldn't even find a manual or an

instruction book, so I just played it all by ear - a difficult task for

a techno-dummie.



The main reason I wanted to get online is that I'd heard a lot about the

Internet, and I thought that if I could get online, I could get my story

out - the story the U.S. government's been successfully suppressing for

over eight long years, and find an attorney to help me in my struggle

for justice. 



Immediately after going online, I posted a message in the LAWSIG forum

on CompuServe, under "Attorney Wanted". I was contacted by a Harvard

attorney who was all gung-ho about helping me. Even though I'm

impoverished, I managed to raise the funds to retain him to prepare an

appellate brief for me and to file a complaint against George Bush,

Janet Reno, the FBI and the U.S. government. He prepared the appellate

brief quickly, and dragged his feet for months on the complaint. Once it

was filed, on 15. March 1996 in the U.S. District Court in Denver, it

was immediately sealed by federal court order. That's how much the

government wants to keep this case quiet. 



It's very difficult for me to tell you about my case and how I ended up

in Swiss exile in a brief manner, but I'll try. I'll only mention the

most important details.



After resurrecting and managing the 1988 Presidential campaign of my

"friend", Senator Gary Hart, and trying to inform the American people of

George Bush's life of rampant criminal activity, ex-C.I.A. Director,

Bush sought revenge against me. On 18. March 1988, he ordered the FBI to

arrest me (without a warrant or indictment) at my home in Colorado and

(again, without a warrant) illegally seize virtually everything my

family and I owned. The first item that was seized was a file pertaining

to my investigation of Bush's ordering CIA Costa Rica Station Chief, Joe

Hernandes, to blow up a commercial civilian airliner he thought to be

carrying Senators Hart and Cohen to Managua, Nicaragua on an Iran-Contra

fact-finding mission. (Oh, just for good measure, the Managua Airport

was blown up, too). The attempted assassination, unlike others Bush had

ordered or been involved in, (including the JFK assassination), failed,

because the Senators, fearing such action from Bush, had taken an

earlier flight. Note: after eight years of trying to have those files

returned to me, the FBI wrote my attorney, stating that they have been

"destroyed". (Surprised)?



For about eight weeks after my warrantless arrest, I was (to use FBI

jargon), "lost in the system". I was shuttled around the entire federal

prison system (with some state prisons thrown in, for variety, I

suppose), while the FBI went through all of my papers and terrorised

everyone I knew, trying to find something to charge me with, to justify

their illegal arrest.



I was eventually taken to the Metropolitan Correctional Center

(appropriately nicknamed the "Warehouse of Death") in Chicago, and

charged with "fraud". The "fraud": "Presiding over a corporation that

was behind in paying some bills for computer paper". As you and I know,

even if that were true, it isn't fraud; otherwise every corporation in

America would be guilty of fraud. 



The judge assigned to my case was Harry Leinenweber. His wife, Lynn

Martin, (a Reagan-Bush cabinet member), was being considered as Bush's

VP running mate for the upcoming election. (Sound like conflict of

interest)? I later learnt that Bush wanted to see if she could

sufficiently control her federal judge husband. She could. 



William J. Stevens, paternal nephew of Supreme Court Justice John Paul

Stevens, was appointed to represent me, since the FBI had rendered me

penniless. Collaberating with his friends in the FBI and Leinenweber,

virtually all of my rights were violated. I wasn't even given a bail

hearing!



After nearly a year of being subjected to the most brutal, unspeakable

physical and psychological torture, my attorney, (who never filed a

single motion for me), whose only goal in my case had been to get me to

plead guilty, finally accomplished it. He did this by falsely informing

me that my infant daughter, (who was born after my arrest, and whom I

had never even seen), was in a Georgia hospital, dying of spinal

meningitus, and that I would be allowed to visit her death bed only if I

pleaded guilty. Judge George Marovich presided over that hearing,

because Leinenweber was with his wife at the Republican National

Convention, where she hoped to be named as Bush's running mate.

Marovich, the substitute judge, made it clear in court that he smellt a

rat.



Directly after entering the plea, I discovered my daughter really wasn't

in the hospital dying. She was at home with her mother. I've been

attempting to withdraw my plea ever since.



After entering the plea, I didn't get to visit my "dying" daughter. I

was transferred to Marion: the worst prison in the world. I was

sentenced to 2 years incarceration, followed by 5 years consecutive

probation. 



At the time of my sentencing (under the old federal guidelines) I was

already eligible for parole, since I had been imprisoned for so long.

Nevertheless, I was not even allowed to APPLY for parole, exactly as I

had never been allowed to apply for bail. I was forced to serve the

maximum amount of time on my sentence. I served more time on a 2-year

sentence than most other prisoners serve on 6-year sentences. 



After being released from prison in 1989, I went to Georgia to reunite

with my family, who had fled there after the FBI seized all of our

property. They had gone to live with my mother-in-law. As soon as I

arrived there to begin my 5 years of consecutive probation, my U.S.

probation officer, Kenneth D. Harris, ordered me to take the "next bus

out" to San Diego, California, adding "...'cause that's as far as my

finger goes on this here map". I was being sent into exile, 3,000 miles

from my family.



The FBI encouraged and assisted my wife with obtaining an illegal

"quickie" divorce in the Rome, Georgia Superior Court, and then in

kidnapping our two small daughters and going underground in another

state. The FBI and U.S. Probation Department forbade me taking legal

action to have the invalid divorce decree set aside.



My exile in San Diego was, in most ways, far worse than being in prison.

I was not allowed to leave the county for any reason, and there were

several attempts on my life by the FBI and their "unofficial" hit men.



My attorney, William J. Stevens, eventually advised me that the FBI were

going to assassinate me or send me back to Marion on a false, technical

probation violation unless I agreed to leave the country. Bush was

furious that I had gotten off "so easy", he was shocked that I had

survived everything that had been thrown at me, and he wanted to silence

me. Stevens made a quick appearance in Judge Leinenweber's court and

received "permission" from the judge for me to live in Switzerland, and

report to my probation officer by mail on a monthly basis.



About an hour after arriving in Switzerland, on 12. June 1991, I

received a phone call from Stevens. He said he was relaying a message to

me from the FBI and U.S. Attorney that if I were to ever return to the

United States, I would be placing my "life and freedom in the greatest

possible jeopardy". 



Since that time, I have written over 10,000 letters to attorneys,

politicians and organisations, seeking assistance in obtaining a

guarantee of safe passage based on humanitarian grounds to return home.

I have received a small handful of replies. About 90% of those few

replying wrote that they were "terrified" of the FBI and would not dare

assist me. About another 5% were from attorneys asking for retainer fees

that only O.J. Simpson could afford, totally ignoring the fact that I

have remained destitute since the illegal seizure of all of my assets.

The remaining 5% accuse me of being a liar, and saying "things like this

don't happen in America". 



Another of my so-called "friends", Senator George McGovern, met with me

in Germany, and intimated that he had witnessed the power and evil of

the FBI at close range, and was terrified to try to assist me. 



My "friend", famed California attorney, Robert F. Bourne, said his wife

was terrified of the FBI and vowed to divorce him if he decided to

represent me.



Park Avenue attorney Robert S. Meloni, who represents Terry Reed (author

of "Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the C.I.A."), said his wife also

threatened to divorce him if he decided to represent me. This is a clear

indication that my case is far more sensitive to the government even

than Terry Reed's.



Two years ago, the FBI terrorised my 79-year-old aunt, Dorothy, who

lives in Indianapolis with her husband. She raised me after my mother

died when I was a boy. She is like a mother to me. They told her I was

in exile, that I could never return home, and that she'd never see me

again. This terrorist "attack" caused her to suffer a near-fatal stroke,

which left her entire right side permanantly paralyzed and her speech

and memory abilites seriously impaired. I am told that Bill and Hillary

Clinton actually laughed at my request for a guarantee of safe passage

to visit her in the hospital, immediately after she suffered the stroke,

and it did not appear she would live. 



That's as brief as I can explain my situation. If you would like to read

more about it, you can download the williams.zip file, which is located

at:



		http://constitution.org/cs_abuse.htm/mwilliam.htm





If you would like to verify anything I've written, you may contact

attorney Robert F. Bourne at (619) 238-1124. He knows every detail of my

case.



The williams.zip file contains several of the motions, petitions, writs

and affidavits I filed with the courts in pro se. I think you'll find

some of them very interesting. In response to my informing the U.S.

Court of Appeals about the threats made to me by the FBI and others, I

received a "warning" from Chief Judge Richard Posner, of "serious

sanctions" being imposed on me if I continued "to make scandalous

statements about the FBI". Of course, this has not stopped me. After

all, what have I got to lose?



Since going online, the people who have been the most supportive and

sympathetic have been members of the Militia and the Libertarian Party,

including some present Libertarian Party political candidates.



I'm sorry if this is too long. It's hard to put more than eight years of

hell into so few words.



Michael Williams

Patriot in Exile