>--- Original Message ---
>From: Hunter Gray <hunterbadbear at earthlink.net>
>To: Hunter Gray <hunterbadbear at earthlink.net>
>Date: 5/15/01 10:04:41 AM
>
>This is going to a very substantial number of people. This-all
warrants a
>special communication but, increasingly into the future, we
shall be relying
>on people to simply periodically check out our massive and much-visited
>website for up-dated information: www.hunterbear.org
>
>
>On April 26-01, I received an essentially regular mailing from
the
>Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism [CCDS]
-- a
>democratic socialist organization: 20 of its excellent magazine-type
>publications. Mailed in a large, super-strong Priority envelope
from NYC on
>April 19, it should have reached us days before. When I opened
it, I found
>that the 20 publications had been watersoaked and ruined. The
Priority
>envelope, made out of totally waterproof material which a postal
employee
>in another state has assured me is so strong that it's sometimes
used as
>house roofing, had -- judging from the waterstained mailing
label -- been
>submerged in water with the normally super-sealed opening being
every so
>slightly pulled back.
>
>This is simply one of many things -- similar and/or equally
poisonous --
>that's happened to us since we came here four years ago -- not
to Madison
>County, Mississippi in 1961 -- but contemporary Pocatello,
Idaho USA:
>surveillance, phone and postal problems, defamation, and much
more. Our
>mail has often been delayed, poked, and sometimes outrightly
mutilated with
>an almost Neanderthal crudity. Three substantial and very
detailed and
>specific letters of complaint sent by me to regional postal
inspection
>authorities have gone answered -- not even acknowledged. These
letters were
>sent in January, 1999; January, 2000; and March 2000. The bizarre
silence
>from this obviously "appropriate" Federal agency is simply
one of several
>definitive pieces of evidence which indicate the local operation
of one of
>the three dozen or so loose, poorly-trained, "catch-all" Federal/state
>police/local police "task forces" set up by FBI [ the ostensible
managers of
>the "task forces"] around the country to monitor all sorts of
"dissident"
>thought and behaviour -- including, very much, that of the Left.
>
>The Committees of Correspondence has, from its NYC base, now
filed
>complaints regarding this situation with the New York City Postmaster
and
>also with the Postmaster General.
>
>[And it will be interesting to see what the forthcoming wide-ranging
>investigations into the whole sweep of FBI operations will produce.
Urged
>by Chuck Schumer and many other political people, this call
for a very broad
>and deep and intricately searching inquiry is now being carried
by major
>newspapers and other media around the country.]
>
>All of this began for us at Pocatello even before our family
arrived in late
>July, 1997, from our former home at Grand Forks, N.D. [My oldest
son, John,
>and I had come here in early July of that year and, at that
point, I
>purchased our current home on far-up Sandy Lane.] When we returned
to Grand
>Forks, I began to give people our new address. At that point,
a very small
>handful of utterly vicious people in the Grand Forks setting
poured a
>multi-faceted load of defamatory sewage into several channels
located in
>Pocatello.
>
>None of these vile canards had a grain of truth: my health
is excellent
>[haven't needed the services of any physician of any kind since
1988]; I'm
>quite stable!; my gun collection is modest -- limited, by the
way, to
>old-time lever action hunting rifles and one single-barrel shotgun;
my
>commitment to tactical non-violence has been amply demonstrated
in the face
>of constant goading [petty and violent] over decades [although
I'm certainly
>committed to sensible and principled self-defense]; and my long-standing
>political affiliations are three [CCDS and Democratic Socialists
of America
>and Socialist Party of America]; and I belong to three labor
unions: UAW,
>CWA, the contemporary IWW.
>
>Several people in the University of North Dakota/Grand Forks
setting are
>quietly assisting us vis-a-vis on that end of things. Locally,
here at
>Pocatello, we do have friends! We certainly are committed to
staying right
>here and sensibly fighting right on over the long haul. For
those
>interested, here are several of our website links:
>
>1) Our Index [Directory] contains a full listing of our website's
>contents -- with many contemporary announcements in the upper
-- top --
>section http://www.hunterbear.org/directory.htm
>
>2) A basic listing and discussion of our experiences here at
Pocatello is
>carried on http://www.hunterbear.org/camp.htm
>
>3) The excellent little journal, Northwest Ethnic Voice, based
at Salem,
>Oregon but with a broad circulation, has just come out in its
May/June issue
>with a short article by me on our Idaho situation. And that
can be read at
>http://www.hunterbear.org/rattlesnake.htm
>
> 4) In addition, several other publications will be carrying
accounts of
>our Idaho situation -- including a Southern labor paper which
is also well
>aware of my extensive civil rights background. That background
is nicely
>indicated, by the way, in the well done website of Civil Rights
Movement
>Veterans: http://www.crmvet.org/ [I'm listed in the name
section: in the
>H's, Hunter Gray [Hunterbear, John R Salter, Jr]
>
>Hunter Gray
>www.hunterbear.org
>
>