SOMETHING ROTTEN
IN THE IDAHO DIRT
by Kathy mc Mahon
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Growing McGuckin petition at
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Last week on PsyOpNews, we reported 'smelling a rat' in the cheap tax-sale
of the McGuckin "siege kids" home in Bonner County, Idaho. That smell is
turning into a stench.

Closer examination reveals a Bonner County that looks like a judicial and
administrative "Wild West" --more reminiscent of the late 1890's than the
21st century.

This week, Don Harkins, the redoutable editor of the local investigative,
Idaho Observer, reminds us that police deputy Bill Tyson, who lured JoAnn
McGuckin from her six children -only to arrest her, is alleged to have shot
and then framed a local man Rex Prewitt in 1999, and is facing a civil suit
in the matter later this year.

"PERJURY"

Only weeks before the recent arrest of JoAnnMcGuckin, in April 2001, Lucy
Prewitt -wife of the now-imprisoned man, told Bonner county Comissioners
that deputy Bill Tilson had "committed perjury repeatedly" in reports,
interviews and court testimony. She said that Tilson and police partner Bill
Skinner told "different stories to other officers, their superiors, the
Review Board and in court."

"They seem to have a difficult time keeping their invented stories straight.
They framed my husband after shooting him unarmed. They can't remember which
lies they've told before."

The officers have maintained their account of events was true, but Mrs.
Prewitt called for an investigation into what Harkin says "appears to be a
conspiracy to throw an innocent man into prison as a cover for the wrongful
shooting".
More http://www.eionews.addr.com/psyops/mcguckinprewitt.htm

PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT

Meanwhile, as JoAnn languishes in Bonner County Jail, her lawyer Bryce
Powell, has agreed to delay the hearing of her case while negociations
continue with Prosecutor Phil Robinson. Unfortunately for JoAnn, that tactic
may leave her devoid of the media spotlight that could be her best
protection.

In her April statement to Bonner County Comissioners, Lucy Prewitt --whose
husband was also prosecuted by Phil Robinson, said that he had
"committed perjury in court and lied to the attorney general's office"
in the handling of her husband's case.

Back in 1994 the Idaho State Bar gave Phil Robinson a public reprimand for
his professional misconduct under "Idaho Rule of Professional Conduct,
8.4(c), conduct involving dishonesty, deceit or misrepresentation in written
statements made to the court".

Phil Robinson might have had a credible opponent in Edgar Stelle, the man
who offered to represent JoAnn mcGuckin -then withdrew following
difficulties with client communications, and a media outcry over his
previous defence of a member of right-wing group. Local public defender,
Bryce Powell replaced Stelle.

Don Harkins the Idaho Observer editor, is very concerned, at her continued
detention for refusal to agree to abide by child welfare decisions on
visitation with her own children.

"We suspect that JoAnn is being drugged. We also believe that she is
becoming inappropriately attached to her public defender--lulled into
feeling as if he is performing in her best interests when we can tell from
the outside that he is not. By the time she is released from custody, she
will be county putty," Harkins wrote in a recent email recieved by
PsyOpNews.com.

ANOTHER MOTHER'S POLICE TROUBLES

Harkins, whose anti-corruption crusade has some supporters fearing for his
life, also recalls that another local mother -Doris Ann Parkison, whom he
describes as "a dedicated wife and mother of four who owned an upholstery
business", was found guilty April 27, 2001, of possessing methamphetamine
that nobody but police have ever seen.

Fearing that a court-mandated drug test would be illegally tampered with,
Doris fled, but was captured along with her husband in Washington State,
where she is awaiting extradition to Idaho for contempt of court.

The Parkison's were owners of 60 acres of forest near Hope. Harkins reports
that, "their property is adjacent to land that seems to be important to
powerful forces".

Parkison and her husband had been researching some of the "curious"
relationships among those in the power structure in Bonner county, says
Harkin, who accepts their claim that they had already experienced several
months of mostly psychological harassment before the arrest incident.

More at http://www.eionews.addr.com/psyops/mcguckinparkison.htm

IDAHO DIRT

Joann McGuckin has about as much chance of a fair deal in all this as a
black in 1990's Los Angeles. None. Zip. Zero.

There is old dirt in Idaho. But it is unlike the dirt they wash off Idaho
potatoes. This old dirt won't wash off at all. We need to protect JoAnn
McGuckin and her children from these people.

Join the petition at
http://www.petitionpetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=1891

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