The Galleys Are In and This Is a Press Release

November 9 is a red-latter day for me. It's the day I first looked my country right in the eye and saw it for was it is. I guess it's just bitter co-indidence that this morning, "bright and early," the galleys of my book cover came in. The book tells the story, as does my press release:


"For immediate Publication

"November 9, 2005


"Should anyone else find Alabama Governor Bob Riley and Alabama State Senator Richard Shelby asking Alabama residents and citizens of the United States to refrain from visiting Aruba cynical hypocritical, so do I.

"Should anyone find effort by “American” media - somehow, the United States always finds it impossible to remember that there are thirty-four other nations in the hemisphere - like Fox News to likewise pressure Aruban authorities and the Netherlands similarly hypocritical, so do I.

"Twenty-eight years ago, at approximately 11:30 in the evening, I had my first streetlight with goons sent to maim or kill me by the federal government of the United States. That was to continue continually until September 11, 2001. Should anyone find that date interesting by implication, so do I.

"You see, I know that the United States of America, my country, is a lying hypocrite. I’ve been aware of that since I was sent to Cuba in January, 1961 with orders to shoot or kill otherwise Fidel Castro. I’ve also been aware of that during all the years that the United States government and its lapdog media have suppressed the story of what the Federal Government and its IRS did me and to my family when I refused to surrender to their tyranny.

"I’ve been made aware of that since a United States District Court ruled in 1987 that to give me access to records that would have corroborated my story “would irreparably damage the tax collection system of the United States.” I’ve was made aware of that during all the years that I sent to U.S. Senators, to Congressmen, and to television and newspaper media incontrovertible evidence in the form of tape-recordings of felony crime by state and federal employees, only to get no result whatever. The crimes included rape, extortion to commit rape, and murder.

"That the United States and its media now choose to make the disappearance of a young woman from Mountain Brook, Alabama a cause celébre and matter of requiring international disputation is, however, not surprising. Not to me. The Bush Administration and its sycophant media desperately need a diversion powerful enough to draw public attention from the mendacious pretenses it used for aggression against Iraq. What could be better than a lurid tale like this one?

"The story of my hot and cold war with the U.S. Government is told in my soon to be published book, 'Letters to Aaron, the Hal Luebbert Story'."

So the book whose publication the government did everything it could to prevent - a US Dictrict Court ruling that information petitioned for in a 1987 FOI suit must be quashed on the grounds of national security - is in book form. It will be on sale soon - as soon as I can get my website back up and running after the latest federal cyber-attack. I seem to owe that to whomever it was that gave us 9-11 and the World Trade Center Attack. It seems the government has better things to do nowadays. Too busy killing Iraqis and whomever else they needed the excuse to get out of their way. It's a wonder they didn't label ME a terrorist - maybe that's still in the works.

Anyway, the "randori" (judo for "scrimmage") in the Cedar Falls, Iowa apartment complex parking lot, 1977, was a long time ago, and it's been a long, long war. Will the public ever wake up to what the "Land of the Free" and the "Nation of Laws" has become? I doubt it. Who, for instance, would ever have thought that we'd have a U.S. President reserve the right to torture prisoners - that while he's already doing it? More important that a girl from Mountain Brooks, Alabama is missing. Can't you just imagine an FDR Fireside Chat? "My fellow Americans, it is my duty to inform you that the Japanese Empire has attacked Pearl Harbor. But that's not the worst of it: a pretty blond girl from Mountain Brook, Alabama is missing in Aruba . . ."

Or JFK: "My fellow Americans, we have learned that the Soviet Union has placed medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba. More about that in a minute, but there is even worse news. A young woman named Natalee Holloway has apparently been kidnapped in Aruba . . ."

Yeah, it's been a long, long time. A lot of things have happened. Especially to our "Free Press."