[Ppnews] Letter from Chicano Political Prisoner Ramsey Muniz

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  Letter from Chicano Political Prisoner Ramsey Muniz

Posted on August 12, 2012 
<http://janbtucker.com/blog/2012/08/12/letter-from-chicano-political-prisoner-ramsey-muniz/> 
by Jan Tucker <http://janbtucker.com/blog/author/administrator/>
http://janbtucker.com/blog/2012/08/12/letter-from-chicano-political-prisoner-ramsey-muniz/

After spending more than 15 years confined and imprisoned in one of 
America's hard core prisons (Leavenworth USP), I was also confined in 
the so-called ancient dungeons of Leavenworth for 3 years for advocating 
"human rights" in the prisons of America. I became so ill and close to 
death, so I was taken by emergency ambulance to Springfield Federal 
Hospital. As I have shared with Irma, I had an out of body experience of 
death and life again. Immediately they sent me from Springfield, 
Missouri, to Florence USP --- another hard core penitentiary.

It was there that by the grace of God, after having communicated with 
Dr. Andres Guerrero in Leavenworth,  that Dr. Guerrero personally 
visited with Senator Ken Salazar who made an immediate congressional 
request that I be transferred to Three Rivers Federal Correctional 
Institution.

It was after 15 years --- after the Bureau of Prisons violated the 
federal court order that I be confined in Three Rivers FCI --- that I 
was finally transferred to Three Rivers FCI as the judge had recommended.

The staff at Three Rivers immediately did not like the idea that a so 
called Mexican American, Chicano political prisoner was sent to their 
institution. They claimed that i needed medical attention that they were 
unable to provide, and I was immediately transferred back out to El 
Reno, Oklahoma.  Knowing what had happened, I demanded, upon my arrival, 
a doctor from the free world who would give me a full medical 
examination. I knew that there was nothing wrong with me since I was not 
even taking medication and had never ever gone to the hospital even for 
an aspirin.

The doctor in El Reno, Oklahoma made the medical findings that I was in 
perfect health and had nothing wrong with me. I immediately asked to be 
transferred back to Three Rivers FCI. Instead they transferred me to 
Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution, which is known to be gang 
related.  In this institution we are lock down half the time.

The world needs to know how they have violated every constitutional 
right that I have. They also violated the order of the Federal Court 
that I be confined in Three Rivers FCI. If some doubt my words of truth, 
Irma has a copy of the sentencing transcript where the Federal Judge 
Brown specifically ordered and recommended that I be confined at Three 
Rivers FCI. This is the type of injustice that I speak of and have 
suffered because many refuse to accept the truth as to what they have 
done to my life for the last 20 years.

The time has come to let the world know that enough is enough -- ya 
Basta!!! We must have the heart and the courage to come forward and 
bring justice to a Mexicano who has given his life for freedom, justice, 
and love for our people and for all humanity.

God's greatest gift to us from the time of our creation is freedom!

Amor,
Ramsey Muniz

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Ramsey Muniz was the most successful statewide candidate in the history 
of the La Raza Unida Party (LRUP), ever, period.  In Texas, where he ran 
for Governor in 1972 and 1974, he shook up the powers that be by taking 
just a tad less than 7% of the vote in 1972.

In 1974 I was doing my requisite internship in my Field Work in Barrio 
Studies course at CSU Northridge (CSUN) with LRUP in San Fernando, 
California (a required course to complete my secondary major in Chicano 
Studies and I was getting additional independent studies credit in 
Political Science).  I was also running for State Senator at the time 
against Democrat Alan Robbins.  Ramsey came out to San Fernando, spoke 
to a packed hall, and impressed me to this day as one of the most 
dynamic orators I've ever heard in my life.

Subsequently, he was subjected to federal scrutiny (in those dark days 
of COINTELPRO), first stripped of his attorney's license for supposedly 
conspiring with his criminal defense clients and later convicted and 
jailed in a highly suspect trial, resulting in a life sentence.

Get more information from http://www.freeramsey.com.

You can write Ramsey at:

Ramiro R. Muniz, 40288-115 FCI BEAUMONT MEDIUM
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 26040
BEAUMONT, TX  77720

Write President Obama to demand a sentence commutation for Ramsey at:

The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

*/--Jan B. Tucker, State Director, California League of Latin American 
Citizens/*
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