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<h1 class="entry-title"><small>Letter from Chicano Political Prisoner
Ramsey Muniz</small></h1>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>God’s greatest gift to us from the time of our creation is freedom!</p>
<p>Amor,<br>
Ramsey Muniz</p>
<p>************************************************************************</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Get more information from <a href="http://www.freeramsey.com">http://www.freeramsey.com</a>.</p>
<p>You can write Ramsey at:</p>
<p>Ramiro R. Muniz, 40288-115 FCI BEAUMONT MEDIUM<br>
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION<br>
P.O. BOX 26040<br>
BEAUMONT, TX 77720</p>
<p>Write President Obama to demand a sentence commutation for Ramsey at:</p>
<p>The Honorable Barack Obama<br>
President of the United States<br>
The White House<br>
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW<br>
Washington, DC 20500</p>
<strong><em>–Jan B. Tucker, State Director, California League of Latin
American Citizens</em></strong>
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