GOP Primary Challenger John Buchanan detained on way to Nat'l Press Club

[seventhson]

BUSH S GOP CHALLENGER,

DETAINED BY U.S. SECRET SERVICE,

DEMANDS CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY

INTO CONSPIRACY OF HARASSMENT

(Press Release)





WASHINGTON, DC John Buchanan, the Miami Beach journalist who ran as the truth candidate against President George W. Bush in the January 27 New Hampshire GOP primary, has issued a formal demand for a Congressional inquiry into his February 4 detention by the U.S. Secret Service at Baltimore-Washington International Airport.



The incident is now being investigated by Republican staffers of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, with whom Buchanan met February 5.



Buchanan, 53, charges in a detailed written presentation to the Judiciary Committee that his two hours of questioning at the airport, as he was en route to speak at The National Press Club last Wednesday evening, were the culmination of a still-unexplained series of false police reports filed against Buchanan between October 19, 2003 and last week as part of what Buchanan claims is an ongoing program of harassment and political dirty tricks.



Buchanan s deputy campaign manager, Mimi Adams of Albuquerque, NM, agrees that the long-shot candidate is under attack. His campaign has been sabotaged in every way imaginable, including an inappropriately aggressive interrogation by the Secret Service and a veiled threat to go back to Miami and keep his mouth shut, says Adams, who worked on both Texas gubernatorial campaigns of Ann Richards. The Bush administration is in for a shock, because John Buchanan won t quit until justice is done. He feels, and I agree, that everything this country has ever stood for is at stake right now.



Last September, Buchanan became the first journalist in U.S. history to see newly declassified government documents, at the U.S. National Archives and Library of Congress, that prove the 27-year history of Nazi collaboration by Prescott Bush, the grandfather of George W. Bush, and George Herbert Walker, his maternal great-grandfather. In October and November, Buchanan published a series of articles in The New Hampshire Gazette, founded in 1756 and the oldest newspaper in America. Those articles can be read online at <http://www.nhgazette.com/>www.nhgazette<http://www.nhgazette.com/>.com.



In mid-October, Associated Press (AP) ran a story worldwide that credited Buchanan with his scoop.



On October 19, Miami Beach Police knocked on the reporter s apartment door and questioned him based on a tip he was plotting to kill the President. The next day, Miami Beach detectives appeared at Buchanan s door, this time on a complaint from The Miami Herald that Buchanan might be a terror suspect plotting to blow up the Knight-Ridder newspaper s headquarters. Despite a phone complaint by Buchanan to the Washington and Miami offices of the FBI, no action has been taken to look into his allegations.



Miami Beach Police have apparently made no attempt to investigate the sources of the false police complaints, nor has Mayor David Dermer offered any help, according to Buchanan. He has known me and my work for six years, says Buchanan. Ever since this drama began when I found the Bush-Nazi documents, Mayor Dermer has been inexplicably silent. He has shown no courage, and is therefore, in my opinion, unfit for office. Buchanan is now calling for Mayor Dermer s resignation or removal from office by the Florida Attorney General.



While Buchanan campaigned for President in New Hampshire last month, the state chair of the New Hampshire GOP, Jayne Millerick, filed a false police report against him for harassment after eyewitnesses including a Buffalo, NY newspaper reporter, a van driver, and two members of Buchanan s campaign team saw her instruct two thugs to force him from her Concord office. In turn, Buchanan alleges, Concord Police and the FBI refused to investigate.



But then Buchanan found a powerful ally former Berlin, NH mayor Richard Bosa, a wealthy international businessman who beat Buchanan by three votes to end in a dead heat for second place in a 14-member Republican field.



The Bush administration, Karl Rove, the Republican National Committee and the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, led by Jayne Millerick, have obstructed the entire electoral process and broken the law by filing false police reports against Mr. Buchanan and others, says Bosa. Now they are using the U.S. Secret Service and Baltimore-Washington Airport Police to try to intimidate Mr. Buchanan into silence. It will not work. He is more determined than ever to expose the truth about this administration to the American people and the world.



Bosa says he intends to back Buchanan s demand for a full Congressional inquiry and U.S. Department of Justice investigation of recent events. Bosa has already been interviewed by House Judiciary Committee investigator Thad Bingel, who has also interviewed other key sources such as Buchanan s Deputy Campaign Manager Mimi Adams in New Mexico.



Buchanan spent several hours on Thursday, February 5, with Congressional investigator Bingel and Rob Foster, a senior Republican counsel to the House Judiciary Committee.

Bingel has already begun interviewing key witnesses.



I feel that I m in good hands, Buchanan says. I have finally found honorable Republican public servants who will help ensure that justice is done in the name of the American people, in full public view.



Buchanan says he will make a formal presentation to the judiciary committee by Wednesday. After that, he intends to return to Capitol Hill, along with other key witnesses, before formal hearings are held later this spring.



My country has been subverted by a gang of criminals who can have me taken off an airplane as a possible assassin, says Buchanan. History will record that the President was, in fact, assassinated by me, in the name of all honorable Americans but with truth and the facts, not bullets or violence.

[ShimokitaJer]

1. Do you suppose the right wing talking heads...

will take him seriously because he's a Republican?

I doubt it. The fact that he dares to question our noble president on a matter as trivial as personal freedom clearly indicates that he's a whacko, probably a Communist, and possibly even a closet Democrat.

Your Patriot Act in action

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. I don't think he's much of a repug.

He was interviewed by Mike Malloy. He's the journalist who published articles about Grandpoppy Bush's dealing w/ Nazis during WWII. He changed his registration after reading the supposed "true definition" of a republican. He's more like a Green and he just did it to challenge the AWOL Monkey and mess with him during the primary.

[ShimokitaJer]

7. Then what's with this quote?

"I feel that I m in good hands, Buchanan says. I have finally found honorable Republican public servants who will help ensure that justice is done in the name of the American people, in full public view. "

Was he being sarcastic?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. I think he might have been.

I could be wrong but in the interview he said he's been a lifelong progressive. He had to register republican in order to challenge and debate Bush. Of course the debate never happened. He talks about what the republican party is supposed to be with a touch of irony. I think he's doing it to prove a point and to annoy the extreme republican party.

You can check him out here. (The 9/11 truth candidate) http://johnbuchanan.org/

[seventhson]

11. Talking about his primary competitor against Bush

who is backing him up.

His opponent in the NH primary who came in first is supporting him in this effort to expose the corruption

[cosmicdot]

14. "I'm a Patsy"

Maybe he was drawing interest to the process so someone would track and report?

"investigated by Republican staffers" - are these the same mindsets (thugs) who pushed Joan Jett at a Democratic Rally during the Iowa caucus?

[NeonLX]

2. Wow, Hope this gets some traction with the national press...eom

)

[redqueen]

3. Might want to trim that a bit

And a link would be nice.

Thanks for posting this. :)

[Turbineguy]

5. We're all guilty of conspiracy here

Conspiring to vote Bush out of office....

[Eloriel]

6. LINK?

[seventhson]

12. This is from a press release sent out by his campaign

It was sent to me by a political list serve with no link.

It is legit, though it needs an edit to insertt quotes

[LizW]

8. If they can do this to him

they can do it to any of us.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. From his site he calls himself an "Honest Republican" :

A lifetime dedicated to journalism, the pursuit
of truth and resistance to corporate tyranny.

( NOTE: BLUE Titles are CLICKABLE Links.)


Buchanan's Mission



John Buchanan is a man of genuine courage, a truly impassioned patriot, who wants to Take Back America - and the Soul of the Republican Party. He asks you to arise and join him in exposing the truth of 9/11, Iraq, and corporate dominion over our Nation, Democracy, and Party.


Buchanan's Personal Story
Born in the Civil War town of Petersburg, Virginia, John Howard Buchanan is the grandson of a Methodist minister, John Hardy, and the son of a civil service bookkeeper, Edna Hardy Buchanan.

Mr. Buchanan attended Massanutten Military Academy, where he graduated in 1968 as the Salutatorian of his class. He studied journalism and creative writing at New York University, The New School for Social Research (NY) and UCLA.

He began his career as a newspaper reporter in February 1970 as a staff writer for The Hudson Dispatch in Union City, NJ. He later joined the Newark Evening News, and the New York entertainment monthly After Dark

Mr. Buchanan actively protested the Vietnam War until it ended in 1974, and draws upon the painful but essential lessons of that era today in his analysis of the Iraq war and its aftermath.

In 1974, Mr. Buchanan and his wife moved to Mount Desert Island, Maine, where he became a freelance magazine writer. In 1976, he founded Maine Magazine, one of the first statewide regional magazines.

In late 1978, Mr. Buchanan sold the magazine and moved to Los Angeles, where he became a travel writer and editor. In 1985, he formed Buchanan & Associates, an advertising agency and public relations firm whose national clients included Neiman-Marcus, Corona Beer and Paramount Studios.

In the spring of 1993, Mr. Buchanan returned home to Virginia, where he cared for his ill mother for three and a half years. He relocated to Miami Beach in January 1997 and returned to his passion for journalism.

He has been named “Best News Writer” in Miami by the Miami Beach Sun Post, and cited for the economic impact of his reporting by the Downtown Miami Development Authority.

His work has been published in more than 100 newspapers, magazines and Web sites on six continents.

On September 17, 2003, Mr. Buchanan became the first reporter in US history to visit The National Archives and Library of Congress and prove the long-rumored “Nazi past” of the Bush family. His story was sent out all over the world by Associated Press.

[eissa]

13. Honest Republican?

Oxymoron

[drfemoe]

15. Interesting . n/t