The feds, after refusing for months to allow Jim Bell's host of motions to be filed, are now allowing them in a rush, well short of the required minimum of a month to allow trial preparation. The motions are available on the Court's web site, in TIF format, and we'll have them up in HTML/TXT this weekend. The motions show that since mid-December Jim has repeatedly asked for adequate legal representation and been repeatedly refused. In fact, almost all his motions have been denied by Judge Jack. In particular, the feds aim to prevent Jim or anybody putting discovery materials on the Internet, a goal that must be countered by all means and methods if the stuff can be liberated. Even so, Jim's motions offer vivid descriptions of what has been happening to Jim, not only since his arrest, but well before, even before his first trial, as well as events within prison and after release. If true, and the current federal abuse helps make his story plausible, the feds have been long pursuing Jim and his cohorts, using a variety of illegal methods -- for surveillance, investigation, searches, arrests, evidence tampering, abuse of the federal rules of procedure, treatment of prisoners, denial of legal rights, and more. I've been asked by Jim's current PD to appear as a witness on his behalf and welcome the opportunity to do so if I can get assurance that Jim will get legal representation much superior to what he has gotten so far. How that will mesh with the feds subponea of me as their witness remains to be seen. The feds are being super shitty in this case, moreso than in Bell 1 and with CJ. I think that is because they have been up to greater evil than ever and intend to enhance that method to intimidate dissidents and those interested in such cases. It's clear that Jim Bell is a pretext for this campaign of aggression against dissidence, a poster boy for what is to come in the way of federal law-massaging injustice. Jeff Gordon wrote me to say that to get my grand jury testimony I will need to make a motion to the magistrate in charge of the grand jury -- just in time to leave no time to make that motion and get a response before the trial. Why Robb didn't tell me that in January is now clear: the sonofabitch didn't want me to know I was being stalled by his unresponsiveness and that now surely his selective misuse of my GJ testimony. Should be an educational experience at the trial to learn what the feds got cooked up to dangle Jim as bait for other fishes. What's up with Declan's fighting his subpoena? Is the press rallying to one of their own? ACLU on the case? 60 Minutes still around? Or is the Oregonian gonna spin the terrorism all alone -- well, except for the federal government, christ with all those jihadists coming into the country, providing Libyan money to the locals as if IRA fighting the Royals.