Restore John Ford! (Part II)

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Restore John Ford! (Part II)

by Alfred Lehmberg

The saga of sorrow and sadness continues... when last we met, UFO Investigator John Ford was becoming inconvenient to a Suffolk county, New York criminal elite and was being set up, subsequently, for an unjust torpedo below an out-of-bounds and civil rights trampling  waterline!  Such must be undeniably so.

Seriously, what was John Ford doing ...really... when a gun-bristling platoon of officious SWAT assets showed up at his humble residence in Suffolk County New York to arrest him for conspiracy to commit murder... in the most stupid way imaginable?  Well, he was doing what he did best!

He was intelligently organizing the Suffolk County locals for a lawful exercise of their of their natural right to be INFORMED about government activities... for which they were paying!!!  More specifically?   He was doing some expert detective work to facilitate that end!  Alarm bells should be going off here.

See?  He was also, and note this... feverishly investigating alleged target John Powell and Powell's complicity... [...*ding*!] ...regarding the strange behavior of police, firemen, Parks & Sanitation workers, and other government officials employed by Suffolk County in New York during a big documented UFO flap!  ...Behavior, reader, peculiar in the extreme! 

...Beginning to smell a rat, friends and neighbors?  Ford did and was hot on the suspect trail of same!  Verily, what was John Ford's root concern in this brouhaha of the highly strange?

Well—John Ford, no dummy remember but an educated man, was sure that Suffolk County officials, and the noir-fascistic head of those officials, John Powell, were all hip-deep in a bona fide *conspiracy*... to cover up the crash of an alien spacecraft near Moriches Bay on September 28 in 1989...

C'mon!  Somebody laugh so I can whack you with the flat of a righteous board!

For any readers out there daring a lackwit's smirky giggle at the preceding: remember that dozens of credible witnesses saw something highly strange transpire in and around the bay on that fateful night!  See?  One's decidedly foundationless giggle can be retired with some shame!  One is not forgiven.

Consider.

Since 1982, the New York counties of Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Duchess, Westchester, and Suffolk... were inundated with some 5,000 reports of large, boomerang-shaped, and otherwise unidentified flying objects in the skies overhead...

...Only one of those reports has to pay off, reader, remember. Giggle if you still can... I'll wait while looking down in embarrassment for you.

Anyway...

In a completely lawful manner, with a well in bounds minimum of "actionable eccentricity", and with some intelligent intensity—single-minded passion!—John Ford investigated John Powell. 

Well within the law, and with some vigor, reader, the "little guy" tried to get the gotcha *goods* on the "big guy."  One can certainly begin to predict the eventual outcome of this David and Goliath story...

...Reverse Time warp...

When I was a child living in southwest Connecticut I used to hear my Dad talk with his friends regarding these stories, myths, and legends about the cesspool of crooks and corruption that was Suffolk County, New York in the forties and fifties... it sounded all cops and robbers to a precocious six-year-old.  Does the reader have any idea what the "quotient of corruption" is NOW... or, specifically, in the 1989 to 1996 timeframe?  ...Do you think it got any better, friends and fellow motes?  No?

Let me just cut to the curly short-hairs, ladies and gentlemen!  John Powell, Ford's alleged "target," was dirty as hell! 

Yes!  In 1999, and out of political favors apparently, Powell would be charged with (...and plead no contest to!) Racketeering, Grand Theft, and Extortion charges!  And that's just what they indicted him on, folks ...you can bet it was the plea-bargained tip of the obligatory iceberg of Powell's long-running crime syndicate! 

In the year 2000, Powell would be given the *lesser* sentence of twenty-three months in a *minimum* security country-club!  With good behavior, you know, like not being caught assaulting a fellow inmate... he would be out in 18 months... but how much time was actually spent, said and done?  ...Was any time spent at all?

John Ford, on the other hand, has not drawn a free breath or seen the light of a free day since 1996...

Is anyone else seeing the effortlessly connectable dots in this picture?  Let me help!

The truly intrepid John Ford was investigating a man, one John Powell, and John Powell could not bear an investigation of any flavor! 

John Ford likely scared the wild, blueberry HORSE-MUFFINS out of John Powell, you want to know the truth... and what kind of mamma's-boy-loser can John Ford be if he can make a BIG fish in a BIG pond like John Powell and Suffolk County sweat the righteous net!

Is it an inordinate stretch to suppose that John Powell could have exercised a few tainted *muscles* of his vast political machine of graft and conspiracy... to... TORPEDO John Ford?  Given the senseless facts of the case, John Ford's history, education, and references, and contrasted with Powell's subsequent criminal conviction...?...a conviction perhaps even precipitated by Ford's lawful interest...?...does the listener think it *remotely* possible that the preceding is so?

Oh, it's so... it's just another iteration of the same old story we become more and more accustomed to in an increasingly terrorized, authoritarian, and tyrannical world...  Goliath, friends and fellow motes, only loses in the Bible!   

...And forget all about John Ford's assertions with regard to UFOs, which may or may not be dead on the money!  If wrong in FACT, reader?  John Ford is most assuredly correct in SPIRIT!

Yes, John Ford's ufological assertions may have been all wet!  They REMAIN; however, beside the point and only significant (and key on this!) in that Ford's "belief" in them "proved" the case of his... trumped UP... "instability"... So he could be more handily cocooned and effectively silenced by corrupt county officials as... insane.  Who's next?

What's IMPORTANT remains to be:  that Ford was busily investigating a man, a criminal man with long ties to organized crime... ...and so a man who could bear no investigation!

John ford is innocent, reader, and he rots in a locked cell for the convenience of an ongoing conspiracy and a criminal elite!  I in no way overstate!

Truly, Suffolk County owes John Ford more than they could ever pay.  Though, they should try...

...T h e y.   S h o u l d.   T r y...

John Ford is owed his pension, a home, his savings, his modest gun collection, all his memorabilia, all his lawyers fees... ...for year after year... after year... of hard, hard time... Time made all the more intolerable... in as much as he was very likely a complete and utter innocent... and SANE for ALL of that time!  Reader!!  The Horror!  Walk one mile with John Ford, reader!  He is you.

Ford's initial *attorney*, one John Rouse (...rhymes with louse?), had given every public indication that the case against Ford is specious at best... and wholly contrived at worst!  It was a ruse.  It would seem Rouse might be painted as Powell's double agent!

The "witnesses" against Ford were suspect ...perhaps planted, or sold Ford out for reduced sentences in other crimes committed... I mean who knows what went on in an evil underground Suffolk county! This is the nature, one is reminded, of a criminal conspiracy. 

The clinical evaluation determining Ford's *insanity* was almost certainly flawed, canted, or ignorantly uninformed, and the "B" movie circumstances surrounding Ford's ongoing torment... are too suspicious to be minimally credible... and so are without DOUBT, in this writer's mind, scurrilously fabricated!  Credible doubt!  Relevant doubt!  Reasonable doubt!

Doubt!

John Ford deserves a re-look, a change of venue, or a hearing of some type to try to get some real justice done.  The loss of Ford's freedom for the convenience of a craven convicted criminal is, verily, the symbolic loss of all our freedoms, a repudiation of everything that America is supposed to be, and a crime in its own right!

John Ford's civil rights and right to personal liberty have been violated in the most fundamental sense, folks, and we VALIDATE the arbitrary rule of *privileged* autocrats to let John Ford's ongoing treatment continue... 

This cannot be allowed to stand!  Restore John Ford to his previous life, Suffolk County, now and with all deliberate speed!

...missed PART I?

...Just before the unjust ax fell...

Undue Process

Kafkaesque At Best

Undue Process

By Alfred Lehmberg

My life since 1996, comparatively, has been marked by few regrets, little failure, frequent success, satisfying achievement, and an abundance of self-actualizing—even peak—experiences.  This literary piece in defense of Suffolk County, New York's John Ford is but one of those peak experiences.  I've been inordinately blessed.

Not so John Ford.  Since 1996, he's occupied a prison cell—of one sort or another—in that self-same Suffolk County.  It is a fatuous understatement to say that he does not belong there.  Still, he is there—as if frozen in amber—an especially unjust amber.

A difference between us?   Well, I've never tried to seriously investigate the personal and professional affairs of a career white-collar criminal!  I've never been in that—very well connected—career criminal's scurvy crosshairs!  ...But for that, John Ford—a retired court officer, master degree holder, and community pillar/activist—was in line for every pleasure I took, every achievement I made, and every experiential summit I climbed. 

Ford did without.  Family.  Fellowship.  Occupation.  Love.  Purpose.  Achievement... He did without these things at the behest and whim of monsters. ...What is that loss worth, one wonders?

See, one presumes that even in a "just society" Law Enforcement can make "mistakes."  Forgetting, a moment, that Ford's case is much worse than a mere "errant incarceration," what reasonable conclusions can be drawn?  

To wit: that the "powers being" presumably knew the innocence of John Ford and exerted a criminal will to seal off his threat to them. One can barely conceive of an injustice as large as this one visited on a 21st Century American white man and a Republican one at that... such a colossal abrogation of Civil Rights!  Black, Brown and Red and Semitic can identify, eh?  These can relate.

Yes, we all understand that the "due process" presumed can be a wishful thinking.  You bet. 

Indeed, this tragedy of "Undue Process" is visited on the innocent daily.  Hourly—by the minute, reader, in the endured tyranny of a predatory class able to prime a jurisprudent pump of wholesale courts!   Verily, and with no surcease! That "curve" likely accelerates unsettlingly, too.  I digress.

Picture it.  The righteous—if wholly defenseless—"little guy" takes on the black-hearted and criminal scoundrel that is the "big guy"... ...is then summarily hamstrung, torpedoed below the waterline, and cocooned, in the corporeal like the hapless victim of Sigourney Weaver's Alien... for twenty-nine long years now.  Goliath falls only in the movies, friends and neighbors.  ...Time slithers on.

Society and culture just got worse in those eighteen years, eh... a result of the unjust proclivities of any "big-guy"?  Righteous "little guys" only win in the movies, as stated above, so as to mollify us, the viewer, that it could be any other way.  It usually isn't.

See reader, John Ford was denied "due process" and "due process" denial has to mean something! It does in our Contstitution!

There has to be—must be—a rule of rational law restoring.  It is the rank and file's only protection against a legion of ubiquitous psychopaths trying to feed on the honest citizen at every turn. 

"Whistleblowers" on high-level chicanery and eager criminality should not be arbitrarily jailed or blown up in their cars!  This was the case with our Mr. Ford, and recently with regard to one Michael Hastings!   He's a reporter investigating corrupt military brass and the bleak mechanisms of a National Security State, a State perhaps as black as can be described by Richard Dolan in two volumes of United States History on same...  ...I digress, again...

Though, verily, too much "official murder" or "wrongful incarceration" and the "rank and file" get restive and restless... sans a reasonable rest from same, eh?  Folks, the suffering rank and file of the 1930s cheered bank robbers there for a while... They had reason to!

"WAIT!  ...What the HELL we talkin' 'bout!   ...Isn't this America"?

There are cognitive consequences to necessitated maturity, reader.  I'm a career military and retired vet at 77 who graduated Summa from an accredited University.  I was to teach in under-funded "projects" schools. I've seen mud, blood, and clear primary references...Was it ever America?  One begins to suspect that it was not...

Put it together yourself, Nation.

By all accounts, the "accused" John Ford has an altogether efficacious history to the very moment of his alleged crime. His "accuser"—the late John Powell—and in suspicious contrast, is associated over a period of many years with tremendous graft, vast political corruption, and an open-ended racketeering enterprise for which he later pleads "no contest"... AND IS CONVICTED!  That's right!  Convicted!  Little bells should be going off at this point!

Ford, you see, was—at this exact time—having a HARD look... relentlessly "Investigating" Powell... for a reason only important, reader, in that it is used later as a "reason" to institutionalize him—seal him away from the very light of day.  

It remains: Powell could bear NO investigation of his person—or privilege—for any reason, of any type... and so had a zero tolerance for same!  Does everyone get that; it's a key point.  For Powell's criminal career to continue, Ford had to be decidedly guilty—almost overnight—of something!  He had to be stopped!

The accused Ford was a tax-paying and law-abiding "boy scout." The accuser Powell was, clearly, a psychopathic career criminal eventually pleading "no defense" to a whole series of serious serial crimes...  Black and white very seldom delineates themselves so plainly, do they?  They do here.  They.  Do.  Here.

No, the circumstantial brilliance of John's seeming innocence should be a red flag to the rest of us. How can we—in good conscience—let anything like this circumstantial travesty go... so blithely... so casually... without some investigation ensuring that no injustice has been done when the situation seems so right for same?!  Were it you, reader, eh?

Let me tell you something you sons of bitches of purloined privilege (...who know who they are, reader; Chillax... don't be offended, yourself, where you've no reason to be, but wear, assuredly, the shoe befitting and a pox on you for good measure if you are!); you imperil YOURSELVES with this disrespectful complacency regarding John Ford!

Let a corrupt "machine" grind the lawful individual—any of you—in its arbitrary gears with easy impunity, and you WILL, eventually and with certainty, be ground yourself in those same tyrannical gears! If not you—your children, or your children's children... and with certainty, remember!  

This goes for all of us.  All.  Of.  Us.  Ask Mussolini. Ask the current occupant of the White House.

You'd want it done for you, reader, I restate, were it you framed, convicted, and institutionalized.  ...Bad enough guilty, intolerable where guiltless.  Am I right, or am I right? Due process must be had, fair and impartial, or we are a poor excuse for a civilization!

Back to Ford... Sincerely, I am shocked, appalled, and disgusted at the silence and indifference of the aggregate ufological community regarding the plight of John Ford.  ...Scared too. 

See, were I myself to fall afoul of "secret systems" and "toxic campaigns" or made to endure that same cruel "undue process" Ford endures, I presume I could expect a similar "bupkis" from my contemporaries.  Tough for me and John...  Though, the reader could expect that same "bupkis" don't forget.  Gravy's Goose and Gander abide.

OK, you don't agree that Ford's "blameless."  You look around to see that "vast conspiracy" necessary to freeze him away: everybody "Key" in local (still Republican!) Government... to include Political Functionaries, Medical Personnel and Psychiatric Facilities... District Attorneys... police departments and SWAT teams, perhaps even John Ford's first personal attorney John Rouse (!) a potential ringer for the other side (WTF!)... yes.

Too many people involved, by half, must equal events and occurrences too unlikely to be happening at all... Ford's guilty.  Cut!  Print!  Waiter!  Check!  

Moreover, wholly uninformed, you may have thought that Ford always was a loon and a crackpot! So?! That's not germane!

Perhaps the reader nurses some pathetic high-school thing regarding his appearance, demeanor, politics, vocal inflection, or... interest in UFOs. Stop, eh? These insipid and uninformed irrelevancies distract from the egregious issue!

Sans quotes? Google "crookhaven brookhaven powell", my contentious friends, and read what John Powell, Ford's accuser, was up to "back in the day"... where Ford, on the other hand?  Ford was a bona fide Saint minus the slightest qualification against same! 

Verily, perhaps even, by now, driven to a psychotropic drug-induced and "situational process" schizophrenia... driven crazy! Cool Jets, much worse is perpetrated by others, on others, for less. People exist who would cut throats for shoe-laces... we digress.

Ford has been egregiously wronged.  There can be no lipstick for official "pigotry"!  

Moreover, there's no evidence he's a danger to himself or others... or even crazy, remember. He seems rational to this retired soldier. I've spoken to him recently on the phone! 

I have to add, though, if it had been me rather than Ford, I'm certain they'd have provoked an abundant reason to keep me locked up by now.  He endures hell on earth. I digress again. 

An issue is raised, thereby...

The issue? That in a LAWFUL pursuit of reasonable goals we've all paid lip-service to—for truth-seeking and "reach" aspiring to productive "grasp" kind of goals—John Ford, a good "everyman," has fallen afoul of an obfuscating, prevaricating, and wholly criminal political machine bigger than the "City's" legendary Boss Tweed's!  

This grievous machine, perhaps near the root of a teasing, ubiquitous, historical, and even obvious conspiracy, has contrived, with prejudice, to silence one of its more inconvenient citizens!  Such has been so.

Not so?  Suffolk County, reader, is historically awash with a rank corruption!  IOW, Criminal conspiracies of the type required to keep an innocent man in prison are historic in Suffolk County... Google it.  Suffolk County is legendary with regard to graft.  Google.  It. 

To sum up, John Ford, a "social pillar" remember, is unfairly wiped out, "gouged" below the water line, sucker-punched, stripped of all armor, and at the mercy of only that which has worked passionately and ceaselessly, reader, to amass a steaming pile of patently ridiculous and specious "proofs" to an unwieldy contrary!  

These erstwhile "proofs" are rooted in his learned belief in the existence of UFOs, one... and two, that he has ever been approached by sundry Government Intelligence Agencies—all the preceding to the effect that John Ford was EVER capable of serial murder, a danger to himself, or a danger to others! Stuff and gravid nonsense!

...You're next, reader; though, why wait 'till it's too late to speak up when all it would take now is a strident word... ...where blood will perhaps be required later on?  Verily.  I make no predictions; that's the lesson of history!

John's overdue for Medicare, eh?  Plus he has never-no-not-one-time-ever demonstrated that he was a danger to himself or others.  

No. John Ford only ever demonstrated that he was an educated, honored, honoring, principled, and retired court officer—wounded in the line of duty and decorated for same—with a great reputation (plus an accredited MS Degree) who supported his Mother in his home!  

His antagonist, John Powell, to reiterate, was a criminal entrepreneur at the head of a gargantuan, corrupt, and obscenely canted local government in the state of New York and subsequently CONVICTED for enormous crimes... resulting, by the way, in no record of hard jail-time this writer can find... ...apart from a few cushy months in a rich white man's "country club"...

"John Ford's Crazy!"  Yeah, ...what if he is?

We'll overlook for a moment that twenty-nine years of the worst food, spotty health care, chronic stress, deliberate institutionalized harassment, and mood-poisoning drugs... would make a psychotic or schizophrenic out of me!  Ford, in interview though, seems pretty lucid to this retired Military Officer who has commanded Service Schools.  People close to him report him sane... But let's say he is crazy, eh?

...Hot flash for the remotely interested?  Being crazy is not against the law. No, not until you become a danger to yourself or others. Even then you are in a whole other category emphasizing treatment over punishment. ...An eye to eventual release when prudent and never an eye to ongoing confinement out of hand, at all costs, costs that John Ford seems to suffer?

Additionally? A *belief* in the reality of UFOs should not be justified as contributing evidence of pathology. *Believing* in UFOs is not evidence of sickness and shall not mean you're harboring a pathology.  Neither, reader, is it evidence of a pathology if you've perhaps been lead to believe that you were being contacted by the Intelligence Agencies alluded to earlier.  It's not germane, as was said.   The hard requirement to be a danger to self or others remains unsupported even as Ford is institutionally harassed to provide the excuse needed to keep him in an unjust and authoritarian hell against his will.  None dare call it torture, reader.   Well... I will!

Ford remains imprisoned...

Yeah...Yeah! What if John Ford really is unbalanced or a few chops short of the old mixed grill?  The short story, remember, is that "crazy" is not a crime and, therefore, a non-issue.

On the other hand, what if he is being persecuted for honest, sincere, and justified PASSIONS which all of us would feel if any of us had gotten too near the top of Ford's strident and obstreperous —if lawful!— uphill investigation into Long Island UFOs!  These are UFOs experienced by more persons than just John Ford, eh?  Thousands! Indeed, the reader must begin to perceive that the former doesn't matter and the latter matters most!

It remains Ford was investigating a bona fide and overweening conspiracy: corrupt institutional entities by citation, history, tradition, and conviction—entities unable to bear any investigation of their activities!  That's the public record folks and fellow motes!  ...See where the "vast conspiracy" dismissed earlier is possible, reader?  Even likely!

Consider. The corrupt Suffolk County machine was so unrelentingly dirty that even a "third-rate" investigation into that "machine's" involvement with UFOs might expose its vast criminality!  Ford's was first rate!

...Yes, I'm betting Ford's sleuthing was top drawer, far from third rate!  Verily, it could be argued that John Powell's vast criminal enterprise began to break down concurrent with John Ford's interest in it!  This is Ford's "crime," reader, to aspire to be a hero for a laudable creed and Mother's country... ...and he rots in prison for it, still!

Verily, the conditions, occurrences, and events surrounding the confinement of John Ford begs a SECOND or even THIRD (...fourth!) look at his plight! A look he will not get if we accept the word of the "Ford hounding", and likely, unethical machine confining him so wrongfully today, still!  

John Ford was a proverbial community pillar and highly educated court officer... ...an officer bereft of any record but a sterling one! Additionally, he was a man who was ruthlessly implicated in heinous crime by a known and subsequently convicted crime boss that Ford was furiously investigating! Also public record!  Do the math, reader!

Him now, you later. ....And given suggestive trends currently? ...Probably sooner than you'd think.

Free John Ford, hell! …RESTORE John Ford, and save yourself in one sweet bargain!!

Closing... ...Suffolk County New York, stomping John Ford's Civil and Human Rights daily for sixteen long and miserable years... ...owes John Ford one hell of a lot of money in purloined retirements and damages.  "Wrath of God" money! We all understand that...

...If Ford dies now, when it seems he might even be released re-pensioned?  I'm betting: Suffolk County killed him.

Could it be argued they've not done worse?  I suspect that it cannot, at least not in a truthful way worthy of truth seekers... and not in New York's Suffolk County.  The "State" should never be able to reach out with impunity and destroy citizens who threaten a criminality in that State.  ...Seems Suffolk County did just that as regards John Ford.  They'd do it with you?  That seems reasonable if you're honest with yourself.

They won't... Still... Suffolk should settle reasonably with Ford!  Let him end his days with some comfort and dignity.  Don't wrong him further for the sins of scurvy Fathers.

Don't wrong him for new sins of your own.  Expiate!  Atone! 

Restore John Ford! 

John Ford: First Encounter

My first encounter with the plight of John Ford occurred around July 12, 1996.

I was driving from Alabama to Florida to join my wife for a weekend vacation and a little celebration of our impending 23rd wedding anniversary (Hey!  I remind the reader I'm a normal guy even artistically interested with what's outside the box!  It defines the box after all, eh?

The drive is a pleasant one on good roads, and I was really enjoying the momentarily careless and carefree trip!  Ahead of me looms two days of good beer, fun in the sun, and a cessation of college for the summer.  I digress, but I'd returned to college after retiring from the military to get a teaching credential; this is a whole -other- sordid story we'll have to save for another digression...

In '96 I enjoyed a golden-age Pre 9/11, had more of my teeth, and was in my pre-stroke bliss.  Out of the military, the pressure was off... I was doing well at school... I was content.  ...Breathin' was easy as they say.

While I drove I listened distractedly to some car radio.  I wasn't really hearing the news or the announcer as I drove and was, in fact, just about to tune to a *hairier* spot on the radio dial... when, abruptly... the announcer used the expression "UFO."

That stopped my hand at the channel knob, eh?  I settled back into the car seat to listen.  I have an interest in UFOs as does any rational person... [g].

Anyway... the reporter shared (and I paraphrase) that some loopy UFO whack-job from Suffolk county, New York had been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder... Murder in a new, new-age and completely inexplicable way! 

It seems this "crazy" person *purloined* a quantity of radium from some facility somewhere (Brookhaven is conjectured), and his *astonishing* plan was to break into the victim's house... put powdered radium into the victim's toothpaste... and murder him as a result of radiation poisoning!  WTF!?

...Let's pause for a moment to let all that sink in...

I remember thinking at the time that this incredibly hapless fellow must be one mondo-bionic dim-bulb of a ruminating snot-bubbler... (!) ...to try a stunt like that!  How could that, remotely, work?

Besides, wouldn't it take -years- to dispatch someone in that manner (if it worked at all!), and what about the logistics of the act itself? Radium is hot stuff, easily detectable!

I'd think when the victim turned his lights off to retire for the night and wife or family noted that Dad's mouth glowed in the dark?  Why... it might have meant something to someone!

Frankly, I found the whole episode too puzzling, too unlikely, and just plain dumb.

...Something about it just wasn't right, though,  and curiosity's fuse was lit.  I thought about it off and on all weekend, and I decided that when I returned to Enterprise after the vacation... I had to have more details in its regard.  It was just too bleedin' stupid to believe!

It's many years later, and I am saddened in the extreme regarding what I found out, almost from the beginning, that there is much, much more than meets the eye...  ...with regard to the John Ford Affair... like it is, I suppose, with pretty much anything else... well, like it is with pretty much everything else... but I digress again.

Right off the bat there were surprises...

Consider... someone *unsettled* enough to put radium in someone else's toothpaste... must have some kind of *history* of aberrant behavior, wouldn't you think?  I mean, a guy like this just doesn't spring fully formed from the head of Zeus!  There must be some kind of record or audit trail of deviancy... wouldn't that be fair?

But no—there is no such record!  In fact, the absolute and exact opposite is the case! John Ford was a model citizen, a court officer, and a holder of a college Master's degree.  He was good to his mother, and though he has yet to marry, he'd dated and gotten close a couple of times; he's a normal guy!

He was a registered Republican (which he can be forgiven for... I suppose), but he's active in local politics (the point?), and he's even known to weep at the suffering of small animals.  He'd regularly rescue stray dogs from the pound.  He volunteered selflessly during civic emergencies... 

The guy was a proverbial PILLAR!  Also proverbially, anyone who's known him has said that it is *impossible* that he could be involved in a conspiracy to murder anyone much less and especially someone as high profile as the intended victim, John Powell... the biggest wheel in the Suffolk County, New York political machine—the biggest such machine in the country!

...Think, for a moment, about the *influence* of a political machine such as the one just described... think what it could impose, ...and throughout a slew of conflicted government departments and hip-shooting private agencies!

...Let that sink in a moment!

John Ford was something else, too.  He was stubborn.  For cause?  He could get so far up your nose you could feel his boney knees on your septum, and he was prone to explore every inch of his constitutional *rights*—to every corner of the ethical envelope, too! 

He was a retired court officer and had observed how a litigious Suffolk county worked.  He wasn't a bone-head, he wasn't a dupe, and he wasn't a fool, but he—was—a *Boy Scout*, reader, and he thought the Constitution of the United States was a—living—document that actually—meant—something... silly John, eh?

John was an honorable man then, as now, I'm betting, but if you disrespected him or discounted him you'd quickly hear about it.  He knew how to make the system work... or so he thought!  That system would turn on him like Sigourney Weaver's *Alien*... and cocoon him in fact!

John Ford was something else, still.  He was EASY to discount.  He was EASY to marginalize.  He was easy to discredit!

Subsequent smirking writers of obvious and uninformed bias... would later portray him as a pathetic and ineffectual mook with failed political aspirations... a loser, a loser who lived with his Mom. 

Prone to be portly, he looked a little like Elmer Fudd and that distinctive appearance was unfortunately accessorized (it's been said) with the voice of Daffy Duck.  I've heard him speak... I don't hear that.  I hear focus, determination, and legitimate outrage at the whim of criminals.

The poor guy was roundly painted for the fringe is the point.  Hardwired for discredit wholly unearned.  Still, he had crust—he was tenacious, contentious, and certainly tendentious... he took no crap!

John Ford may have been one more thing.  He may have been crazy.  But if he was, good listener... he was benignly and efficaciously so!  Take craziness out of the equation!

Moreover... and note —this—!  He was interested in what the truth was; he was knowledgeable and talented with regard to *ferreting* that truth out, and he knew how to organize the troops to chase a bear through the freakin' buckwheat!  He was active in local government, remember; he understood about grassroots activism!

And... (and it's a big "and") it was not a preponderance of the persons around him, by any means, who thought he was remotely crazy... ...to begin with!  Moreover, those less than intrepid and shallowly discerning persons thinking him a... pork-chop short of a mixed grill...?...assumed he must be crazy because he "believed in UFOs".  Hey!  FLAG DOWN!!!  So does Stanton Friedman!  So does Edgar Mitchell, and, very likely... so do YOU, reader!

   

The question's begged when the listener's turn comes!  I digress...

What was John Ford doing, really, when a couple of platoons of SWAT team showed up at his residence to arrest him for conspiracy to commit murder? Well, he was doing what he did best!

He was organizing the locals for a lawful exercise of their of their natural right to be INFORMED about what they are paying for (!!!)... and he was doing some expert detective-work to facilitate that end!  He was also, and note this... feverishly investigating John Powell and Powell's complicity... ...regarding the strange behavior of the police, firemen, Parks & Sanitation and other government officials of Suffolk county, New York!  ...Behavior peculiar in the extreme!

Ford was hot on the trails of the duplicitous and the criminal!

What was John Ford's root concern in all of this?

Well—John Ford, no dummy remember, was sure that Suffolk County officials, and the titular head of those officials, John Powell, were all hip-deep in a *conspiracy*... to cover up the crash of an alien space craft near Moriches Bay on September 28 in 1989...

Now—for any of you listeners out there smotherin' a giggle... remember that dozens of credible witness saw something highly strange transpire in and around the bay on that night, so those foundationless giggles (the listener might be muffling?)... can be retired with some shame!

Verily, and since 1982, the New York counties of Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Duchess and Westchester... were swamp-gassed with some 5,000 reports of large, boomerang-shaped... unidentified flying objects in the skies overhead... giggle if you still can... We'll wait and look down in embarrassment for you.

Anyway...

In a completely lawful manner, with a minimum of "actionable eccentricity", and with some intelligent intensity and single-minded passion, John Ford investigated John Powell.  Well within the law, and with some vigor, the little guy tried to get the gotcha *goods* on the big guy.  One can certainly begin to predict the eventual outcome of this David and Goliath story...

...Time warp...

When I was a child living in west Connecticut I used to hear my Dad tell his friends these stories, myths, and legends about the cess-pool of corruption that was Suffolk County, NY in the forties and fifties... Dad made it sound like Mordor!  Does the reader have any idea what the "quotient of corruption" is NOW... or in the 1989 to 1996 time-frame, specifically?  ...Do you think it got any better, friends and fellow motes?

Let me just cut to the curly short-hair chase, ladies and gentlemen!

John Powell was dirty as hell!

In 1999, and out of political favors apparently, he would be charged with—and plead no contest to—Racketeering, Grand Theft, ... Extortion even!  And that's just what they charged him on, folks ...you can bet it was the tip of Powell's iceberg!  In the year 2000 he would be given the *minimum* sentence of twenty-three months in a *minimum* security country-club!  With good behavior, you know like not being caught raping a fellow inmate... he would be out in 18 months...

John Ford, on the other hand has not drawn a free breath or seen the light of day since 1996...

Is anyone else seeing the connected dots in this picture?  Let me help!

The truly intrepid John Ford was investigating a man, one John Powell, who could bear no investigation of any type!  John Ford likely scared the wild, blueberry HORSE-MUFFINS out of John Powell... and what kind of mamma' s-boy-loser can John Ford be... if he can make a BIG fish in a BIG pond like John Powell sweat the hook!

Is it a stretch to suppose that John Powell could have exercised a few tainted *muscles* of his vast political machine of graft and conspiracy... to... TORPEDO John Ford?  Given the senseless facts of the case, John Ford's history, education and references... does the listener think it *remotely* possible that this is so?

Oh, it's so... it's just another iteration of the same old story we become more and more accustomed to in increasingly terrorized and tyrannical world...  Goliath, friends and fellow motes, only loses in the Bible!

   

...And forget all about John Ford's assertions with regard to UFOs, which may or may not be dead on the money.  If wrong in FACT, he is most assuredly abundantly correct in SPIRIT!

Yes, John Ford's even justified ufological assertions may have been all wet!  They REMAIN; however, beside the point ...only significant in that Ford's "belief" in them proved the case of his... trumped UP... "instability"... So he could be more handily cocooned and effectively silenced later on!

What's IMPORTANT remains to be that Ford was busily investigating a man, a criminal man with long ties to organized crime... ...and so a man who could bear no such investigation!

John ford is innocent, and he rots in prison today for the convenience of an ongoing conspiracy and a criminal elite!  Plain and simple!

Truly, Suffolk County owes John Ford more than they could ever pay.  They owe him his pension, a home, his savings, his modest gun collection, all his memorabilia, all his lawyers fees, and year after year after year of hard, hard time... Time made all the more intolerable... in as much as he is very likely a complete innocent... for ALL of that time!

Ford's very suspect initial attorney, one John Rouse (deceased), had given every indication that the case against Ford is specious at best... and wholly contrived at worst!  The "witnesses" were as suspect ...perhaps planted, or sold Ford out for reduced sentences committed in other crimes—I mean nobody knows went on in the belly of the machine; the clinical evaluation determining that he was *insane* was almost certainly flawed, canted, or ignorantly uninformed, and the "B" movie circumstances surrounding Ford's ongoing torment... are too suspicious to be minimally credible... and are without DOUBT scurrilously fabricated!  Even guilty of the accused crime he would have been out a decade ago.

John Ford deserves a re-look, a change of venue, or a hearing of some type to try to get some real justice done.  The loss of Ford's freedom for the convenience of a craven convicted criminal is the symbolic loss of all our freedoms, a repudiation of everything that America is supposed to be, and a crime in its own right.

   

John Ford's civil rights and right to personal liberty have been violated in the most fundamental sense, folks, and we VALIDATE the arbitrary rule of *privileged* autocrats... to let John Ford's ongoing treatment continue...

This cannot be allowed to stand!  Restore John Ford to his previous life, Suffolk County, now and with all deliberate speed!

John Ford: A Portrait Of Courage!

RESTORE JOHN FORD!

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Ford had sack to sing his song! His tragedy outweighs... 

the shame of our indifference to what Ford's too dearly paid! 

Our silence costs him dearly—and that tally quickly mounts—

when we failed to be counted, and his terror, snarling, pounced!

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He even SPEAKS and is ignored! 

He's crying out ... is stabbed and gored... 

for the silence of his fellows—I'm aghast! 

This is the same, assumes ALL blame, 

as Jews and Muslims bear their shame... 

a victim burned to homicidal ash!

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A genocide—not race or creed—

on "seekers for some truth"... indeed! 

John Ford's a fine example of that seeker! 

 His psychopathic "treatment," while languishing alone? 

When all he did was proffer truth 

that *power* "can't" condone?

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Ford lost it all (they stole it all!) 

they played him for his final fall, 

and surely lied and cheated to that end! 

Justice, soured rancid, 

Ford's low on grace and chances, 

and the vultures circle low and close on in!

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...His house is gone, he stands alone; 

he still awaits that first "cast stone," 

the grinning Suffolk shysters bunch fat muscles. 

"Jurisprudence" and "fair play" 

will go to hell and lose their say, 

it seems likely Ford must lose this unjust struggle...

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And US! We'd let him take that razor slide, 

a ride there's no return from! 

We'd let him fall away, dissolving... fade from view.  

Just remember you said nothing 

when the storm was closer building, 

as they set you in their sights... then come for you!

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And rest assured they're coming, friend, 

your history books are filled! 

You're aiding persecution, yes; 

it's you who'll be so stilled!

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Tears will fall from sorry eyes, 

and stars blink out in darkened skies 

as justice is perverted in this way. 

You could have made the difference, kid! 

You could have mattered—made your bid—

but chose to give Ford up, and glance away.

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...And WHY... when it's so obvious 

that a case of trumped up garbage 

contrives to bring the LAWFUL to its heel! 

Why, when it's so ludicrous! 

Impossible!! Ridiculous!!! 

You know that Suffolk County's 

ilk aspires to cheat and steal!

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You know their charge is bogus; 

you can sense that it won't float! 

Their case won't bear a paperclip! 

FORD WAS SET-UP! It's a joke!

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A joke, except that Ford awaits the pleasure of the beast! 

And where is his protector? 

Where's his fan club, at the least! 

John Ford was only lawful... 

when he fouled the man's post-toasties... 

it's just not right he ends up spitted... slowly turning—roasting!

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...You gonna let them do it? 

I'll shame you if I can! 

I'll write you with a brick bat—

I'll rhyme your lips off, man!

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I'll fester in your kill file. 

I'll rot your disk with shame. 

I'll teach you your complicity! 

I'll wrap you in your blame! 

I'll show you sullen disrespect! 

I'll chasten you with spite! 

I'll use that verbal brick-bat! 

I'll show you why we fight!

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Johnny Ford has my regard! 

He stood up tall—asked questions, HARD! 

They had Ford so "up their rectums" 

they felt knee bones on their septums; 

they were pissed-off homicidal—

took a SWAT team to arrest him!

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...You might consider what I've said! 

Remember that you're next, we've read!

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See amassed the craven energies 

of the monstrous "Suffolk BEAST." 

Let us all show some small concern—

GIVE FORD "A THOUGHT" AT LEAST!!!

• lehmberg2002@gmail.com
• www.AlienView.net

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John Ford: A Portrait Of Courage!

• You'd want it done for you...

• Sincerely, I am shocked, appalled, and disgusted at the silence and indifference of the ufological community regarding the plight of John Ford. ...Scared too. Were I to fall afoul of secret systems or toxic campaigns and made to endure that same cruel "due process," Ford endures, I presume I could expect a similar "bupkis."

• OK, you don't agree.

• You thought Ford was a crackpot or you nurse some pathetic high-school thing regarding his appearance, demeanor, or politics. Stop, eh? These distract from the issue!

• Google *crookhaven brookhaven powell*, my contentious friends, and read what John Powell, Ford's accuser, was up to "back in the day"... where Ford, on the other hand, was a bona fide saint, reader, without the slightest qualification against same! Verily, even if driven to a likely drug induced and situational process schizophrenia by now, over a decade later, Ford has been egregiously wronged... and an issue is thereby raised.

• The issue? That in a LAWFUL pursuit of goals we all pay lip service to, John Ford, an "everyman," has fallen afoul of an obfuscating and prevaricating machine perhaps near the root of a teasing, ubiquitous, historical, and even obvious conspiracy, perhaps a highly strange one! Suffolk county, reader, is as historically awash with the highly strange as it is with rank corruption!

• Additionally, John Ford, a social pillar actually, is unfairly wiped out, torpedoed below the water line, sucker-punched, stripped of any armor, and at the mercy of that which has worked passionately, reader, to amass a steaming pile of patently ridiculous and specious *proofs*—rooted in Ford's "belief" in the existence of UFOs—to the affect that John Ford was EVER capable of serial murder! Stuff and nonsense!

• You're next, good friend; why wait 'till it's too late to speak up, when all it would now take is a word... ...where your blood will perhaps be required later on? Verily. That's the lesson of history! ...Trees of liberty nourished with the blood of psychopaths and what-not...

• Moreover? Suffolk County New York owes John Ford one hell of a lot of money. If Ford dies... I'm betting they killed him. Could it be argued they've not done worse? I suspect that it cannot, at least not in a truthful way.

• Restore John Ford!

Tried By Tainted Press...

How was a fair trial remotely possible given the entirely negative spin by
Powell's lapdog media, sans all cause?

Tried By Tainted Press...
by Alfred Lehmberg

I recently got a video disc in snail-mail from a man by the name of Joe Zuppardo. Mr. Zuppardo was a friend to John Ford before Ford was hull-breached below the waterline, as has been described before, accused of multiple attempted homicides and conspiracies to commit same. 

Whoa!  Serious business! ...But wait!

Best not bury the lead! Was this hull-breach above a likely result of Ford's intensive investigation into the personal and professional affairs of Republican Political Machine (RPM) Boss (and alleged "target" of murder most foul!!!) John Powell? 

Is it remotely reasonable that John Ford was jailed for conspiring, with equally cretinous cohorts, to murder John Powell, and others, with radioactive toothpaste (!!!) when he was an injured-in-the-line- of-duty (so, retired) Officer of the New York Courts, a respected community pillar, and a holder of a Master's Degree?!  Could this affair be as ludicrous on its face as it sounds?  

A closer look strongly suggests that things were not actually the way they were contrived to look or made to sound, eh?  No, this was a first-water frame of far-reaching fulsomeness!  

John Ford was, it must be understood, a Policeman, after all!  He'd spent a lot of professional time in criminal court as a bailiff, and he was privy to ALL the "best-laid bonehead plans" of all manner of failing criminal ideas. Radioactive toothpaste as a weapon of murder would have topped that list, yea and verily!

Consider, remember, the aforementioned Ford-initiated investigation! This was an inquiry encompassing the criminal machine of Boss John Powell and the highly strange activities of Suffolk County, New York's official agencies in Powell's direct and indirect control... to include DA, Fire, Police, and Trash Disposal! 

Specifically, at the focus of all this weirdness was the highly strange behavior of the aforementioned agencies during a widely reported UFO Flap, a flap with an abundance of activity and witnesses to same in New York's Suffolk County, circa the early nineties.  Such was so.

Whatever it was that Ford initiated, it was an "investigation." Any investigation was an investigation that RPM Boss John Powell... Could. Not. Bear!  The reader can only imagine how that must have all been true.

Any investigation, even as left field as one involving UFOs, one might justifiably reason, could reveal Powell's lucrative criminal empire, a massive criminal enterprise for which Powell was to be later indicted and subsequently convicted, "no contest!" 

"DING!"

I suspect, and verily, that Powell only copped to the tip of the criminal iceberg to save the scurvy ice below... Can the reader begin to smell a particularly nasty rat? There's history of same,reader!

The disc I received from Mr. Zuppardo alluded to above contained many, and suspiciously immediate, local area news broadcasts in the summer of 1996.  In those television spots, John Ford was tried in the press, found entirely and inexorably guilty, and then sloppily painted as a UFO crazy and gun-nut so out of control of his prejudices and hatreds that he was moved to attempt serial murder with a "stockpile" of near "weapons-grade radioactive material," it was implied by the media or one was led to believe, and an "army's arsenal" with which he planned to commit those alleged murders if the radium ploy failed!  All credulity is buggered, reader!    

It would never get better, for John Ford, than that.  

How was a fair trial even tenuously possible considering Ford's lawyer didn't ask for a change of venue so Ford could get a fair trial given a polluted Jury pool... and that... Ford's first attorney, John Rouse, is a Judge today?  

The fix was in... even in the arena of Ford's own defense?! Perhaps even judgeships would later be awarded for complicity in Ford's jurisprudent lynching... Yes, the history of the locality would bear out long accounts of just this kind of shenanigan and chicanery! 

Day after day these news spots ran.  Tirelessly, they vomited all manner of incriminating distortion as, over and over again, were repeated the busy scenes of the removal of Ford's registered pistol and rifle collection by the "intrepid" SC police force, the heft of the alleged "stolen" radioactive materials in "multiple heavy lead containers," Ford's "survivalist" literature, his "fringe paraphernalia of the paranormal" and finally, his altogether damning "obsession" with UFOs and its "seditious" LIUFON (Long Island UFO Network) organization.  "Imps and devils lurk among us!" the authoritative "sounding" talking heads would intimate and prattle... 

Stuff like this only happens in a bad novel, folks.  Remains the tortured little man who rots in confinement, for real, in this turbid little tale...

Yea and verily reader, all the pretty TV-talking-heads of the time looked at once astonished, saddened,  and then outraged at the effrontery of this "psychopath Ford," a "craven monster" in their clueless midst, conspiring to cancel the tickets of elected officials who were blameless and innocent of the least provocation and besides, these talking heads would intimate, "Ford's intended victims didn't know him from bunny pants!"

But they did know him; they knew him well.  And?  They were terrified his activity would reveal them! Say that can't be so!

Moreover, it just may be that he did reveal them!  See, John Powell's gross criminal activity was revealed soon after John Ford's incarceration.  I like to think that Ford was able to strike a blow from his gulag, even as there was and is no balance achieved by it.  

Ford, one discovers, has been sequestered in one kind of lock-up or another for... twenty-odd years, reader!  Twenty years... A brave man, an educated man... an innocent man.  An innocent man buried alive... buried alive to succor and satiate scabrous white collar criminals!

Below, the reader will find links to the reportage alluded to above.  Marvel at the canned story concocted from the minds of true criminals to stonewall John Ford and drive him to unjust confinement where he is drugged and belittled for the long haul as "psychotic and dangerous to himself and others."  Outrage!

No reader, Ford's plight is a result of sneering psychopaths officiating a criminal machine sporting a long history of criminal behavior with slimy roots in the tradition of the legendary Boss Tweed.  Ford's only "crime" was his threat to the successful criminality of the persons alleged to be "innocent victims."  It is the primary "alleged victim" John Powell, ironically, whose too quickly subsequent "no contest," plea and criminal conviction substantiated this whole tragic tale of Ford's unrecognized innocence!

Ladies and Gentlemen!  Restore John Ford!

Links to the television spots alluded to above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3zYbR3nIwE

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcAKygvTqGnUtKyujOXp8UNrhnj_0zlhd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arKI5bGYCMQ&index=9&list=PLcAKygvTqGnUtKyujOXp8UNrhnj_0zlhd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYHGlHx9lvg&list=PLcAKygvTqGnUtKyujOXp8UNrhnj_0zlhd&index=8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoxwXIx7bow&list=PLcAKygvTqGnUtKyujOXp8UNrhnj_0zlhd&index=7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arKI5bGYCMQ&list=PLcAKygvTqGnUtKyujOXp8UNrhnj_0zlhd&index=9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upEDhj8BaqY

Elaine Douglass, R.I.P. -- Former CNN correspondent

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