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34 % ton rn Oe. cal ce iM . accorded to a criminal defen-. a) “———~" We, as "Witnesses," are charged with no "crime" and therefore are entitled to none of the rights ~ dent: we have no right to remain silent, to have counsel, to avoid self- fncrimination, to a trial before tmprisonment.. the list goes on. Not that | consider myself to be getting really worse treat~ ment than anyone else who comes before the “criminal justice" systems in my case, they just. aren't prettying ft up with an tn- dictment.. : a -eeeNot that they ‘aren't trying: after _ ,t was jailed, an effort g *got underway by the pro- secutor's office to frame me for a GJB bombing (the © Laurelhurst City Light sub- Station on New Year's Eve). ~ { was dragged by five mar- shals to a lineup, where a ‘ ‘witness"” identified me as "the woman who climbed up a tree"! by the substation the afternoon before. _ No one, including the press, was too convinced: the "witness" had ad- mittedly been shown photos of me before the lineup (as was done with Mark Cook, ‘a black prison activist likewise framed for nonexistent GJB involvement): folks who checked the site say that a) there's no reason to climb a tree to case the substation, and b) the only tree that ‘would hold my weight has no branches for i ten feet up; at 5'6'' and 195 pounds, '{'m not the most athletic, proficient ae “_~ - eee: tree-climber you'll ever meet; Ed Head, a GJB member captured in February, has stated that there were no women = much - less anyone of my description - Involved In that particular action; my position of critical support for the GJB has in- _ cluded some pretty scathing public crit- icism In the past, before they cleaned up thelr act with regard to people's safety; the prosecutor's motives (to scare me to testify, to make me a "warn- ing to other witnesses, and to justify jailing me without charge or trial to the press and public) were all too ob- vious even to the straight media; and -.last (and, considering, probably least where the courts are concerned), | just plain didn't do it. [ am not, nor have ! ever been, a member of the GJB; nor have ! helped or particIpated in any of their actions, And ! couldn't tead the government to them if ! wanted to; any- way, {'d rot in jall the rest of my _ life before helping put anyone in pri- ' $ONne are re Though I'm the only one Jailed here so far, J consider myself In many ways’: ..the most fortunate of the Hwitnesses,". Four years of prison work made jJail.a much less shadowy threat to me, and easier to deal with; and when | start feeling sorry for myself, I'm sus- tained by the courage of folks | love - army