Reubidium Rb-86

The U.S. Constitution failed to specifically prohibit all government interference and direct involvement with non-violent civilian political activity.

The First Amendment prohibited Congress from making any "law" that would interfere with freedom of the people to speak and assemble, but it did not preclude "administrative" actions by government agencies that could interfere, nor did it stipulate that individuals in government were to be held liable for acts contrary to it. Consequently, government agencies were sometimes reprimanded for unconstitutional acts, but individuals perpetrating them in most cases escaped criminal prosecution.

The FBI admitted in 1967 that it had a counter intelligence program known as "Cointelpro" designed to offensively halt political activism for change, in apparent disregard for its mandate of investigative police work involving interstate or federal crimes. The self-assigned political involvement of Cointelpro was clear;

"...to disrupt, misdirect, isolate and neutralize..."

There were numerous FBI targets, among which were such non-violent groups as Earth First, an environmental organization. The agency compiled the names, addresses, places of employment, physical descriptions and political relationships of hundreds of people who had merely received phone calls from the group.

In 1990, Earth First members Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney were driving through Oakland, California, enroute to recruit people for a campaign to save the Redwood Forests, when a pipe bomb exploded in their car, inflicting serious injuries on them. FBI agents told police at the scene that the couple was dangerous;

"...the types of people who would be involved in carrying a bomb...these people in fact qualified as terrorists."

Bari and Cherney claimed the bomb had been planted in their car. Just one month before the incident, the FBI had conducted a "bomb school" for law enforcement personnel on the forested land where Earth First members had earlier chained themselves to trees. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous ruling;

",,,the FBI agents intended to interfere with Bari and Cherney's First Amendment rights to demonstate and communicate their message about the environment."

But the physical injury and constitutional violation had already occured, and there was no serious investigation by the FBI into the origin of the bomb, or whether law enforcement agents were involved in planting it. Compensation for damages is unlikely when law enforcement agencies don't cooperate in gathering evidence of wrongdoing.

An AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and Democratic Ideals, prohibits harassment or infringement of non-violent civilian political activity, and provides for possible prosecution and personal liability of violators inside government as well as outside.