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Is U.S. Navy and Coast Guard Guilty of Piracy, Kidnapping, and the Sinking of Fishing Vessels on the Hight Seas??

This is fact, so say the abductees brought thousands of miles to Tampa, Florida to stand trial for fishing a few hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador.This is according to the Federal inmates who appear to want to talk more about what’s been going on by our U.S. Navy for over a year than everyone in the Federal Government. The Feds are keeping their mouth shut about alleged atrocities committed by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard.

If the public thought Waco, Texas, or Ruby Ridge, were atrocities by a few Government employees leading to a police state, those acts were nothing in comparison to the U.S. Government’s campaign against the innocent and poor under the guise of drugs. Some government higher ups said they learned a lesson from Waco and Ruby Ridge, and those incidents will never be repeated again. Many believe that some higher up government agents speak with a forked tongue. People worry that Waco and Ruby Ridge were just warm ups, as factions in our Government strive to become judge, jury and executioner for the world with the U.S. war on drugs and more. Many worry that the U.S. war on drugs affording these Government employees awesome power is now by design by these employees progressing to all areas of enforcement for political stance. Many fear that groups, or factions, within our Government consider themselves above the laws of our land, i.e., constitutional rights, life and liberty, because they have determined they are the law as they have been afforded the duty to uphold the laws of the land. These certain groups also appear to believe that because they enforce the laws, they can be judge, jury and executioner without repercussions, and, so far, have been right. The real story is sitting in federal jails throughout the country.

ATROCITIES BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT??

One of the thousands of victims of this abusive power is sitting in Morgan Street Federal Jail, in Tampa, Florida, for over three months. His name is Pedro Murillo, Fed. Crim. I.D. 00049077, a citizen of Columbia that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. On July 10, 2000, Pedro went to the fishing harbor in Bueno Ventura, Columbia looking for work fishing on an outbound fishing vessel as he had done most of his adult life.

Many people like Pedro went every day to the harbor looking for work on local boats. Pedro, over the years, knew some of the locals working on fishing vessels. Pedro has 4 children and supports his family from this type of work, mostly on fishing boats, as he is an experienced fisherman. On this day, Pedro was hired with ten other local fisherman to work on an 80' fishing boat that went out fishing for Yellowtail and Tuna.

The owners of these boats hire captains, who in turn, hire locals though an agent that acts similar to Manpower supplying the fisherman for the boats. When people sign on as a fisherman on a fishing vessel they do not return until the boat is full of fish. To fill the boat with fish, it usually takes between two to four weeks out fishing, and up to 5 tons of fish.

The boat left Bueno Ventura and began fishing about 200 miles off the coast of Ecuador, around 2,000 miles from the United States. On the eighth day out, the 10 fisherman contracted to fish on the boat had caught over 1 ton of fish. Around midday of the eighth day, a U.S. Naval ship identified as a Coast Guard ship, pulled along side of Pedro’s fishing vessel. The Coast Guard ship dwarfed the 80 foot fishing vessel and was armed with all sorts of guns on the decks. U.S. Naval officials stated they were going to board and search the fishing vessel. As the fishing boat was unarmed, the people on the boat had no choice but to let the U.S. Naval personnel search the 80 foot boat.

There was no search warrant here. When you’re 200 miles off the coast of Ecuador fishing, and any vessel pulls up next to you with decks arrayed with guns, you let them do what ever they want to. That’s exactly what the captain and the crew of the fishing vessel did. The U.S. Coast Guard allegedly found drugs hidden in the back of a refrigeration unit of the fishing boat. According to Pedro, none of the crew that were fishing knew any drugs were on board. Pedro and many of the on board workers, some being Pedro’s friends, had been signing on fishing boats all their lives or since they were old enough to fish early in their teens. Since the boat was not owned by the captain, the fishing crew had no idea if the captain of the boat knew alleged drugs were on the fishing vessel.

Pedro told this writer that some of his fishing friends had told him about being on boats out fishing when a large high powered yacht would pull up next to them with ten to twelve people on board with automatic weapons. They would come on board the fishing vessel, knowing there were drugs onboard the fishing boat, where the drugs were, take the drugs and leave. The crew would then continue fishing until the boat was full of fish and return to port. In such cases such as those, there was not any way to tell if the captain put the drugs on board, or even if he knew anything about it. Or whether the owner of the boat put the drugs on board. It could even be the agent that was getting the fishing crew together with the captain that put the drugs on board. In any event, on this fishing trip allegedly no one knew who put the drugs on the boat, or had any idea how they got there. They could even have been planted by other boat owners, as competition for fishing revenues was intense and this is one way for boat owners to get rid of their competition. There were even rumors that the U.S. Navy personnel would pay locals to hide drugs on some of the fishing boats late at night that they thought were smuggling drugs, just to arrest the boat’s personnel and destroy their fishing boats. Pedro may never know, nor anyone else, just how those drugs got on board the fishing boat, but a horror story happened that day and the repercussions are still happening to Pedro, his family, his co-workers, and all of their families, today.

Once the Coast Guard found the drugs on the 80 foot fishing vessel, they removed the captain, Pedro, and the other nine fisherman, bound their legs and hands, and attempted to hide them for witnessing what the U.S. Navy did next. The problem was, the crew did see what happened next. The Coast Guard opened fire on the 80 foot fishing boat, both with cannons and deck mounted machine guns, and sank the 80 foot fishing boat with over 1 ton of fish, and all the personal belongings of the captain and the crew. Nothing like certain people in the U.S. Government being judge, jury and executioner without authorization, without a trial, and without any proof, notwithstanding reasonable doubt. The story doesn’t end here. Pedro and his 9 companions are bound in chains for the entire trip on the U.S. Naval ship through the Panama Canal, which took about 15 days to finally arrive in Tampa, Florida.

It appears very odd that the U.S. Navy, after kidnapping the boat’s crew and sinking their vessel, would travel through the Panama Canal, bypass Miami, and every other U.S. port, and bring these people to Tampa, Florida to be incarcerated and stand trial. Especially when the U.S. Government had no idea who put the drugs on board or where the drugs were bound. This writer doubts the fishing boats would travel through the Panama Canal to come to Florida to sell drugs if, in fact, the drugs were destined for the U.S. at all or if in fact there actually were any drugs on board in the first place. After having discussions with many people within the judicial system in Tampa, the rumored reason the U.S. Navy brings their victims all the way to Tampa, Florida from around the world is because the Federal Judges and prosecutors work together and condone what the U.S. Navy is doing to innocent people of the world, and look the other way when it comes to piracy, kidnapping and the sinking of fishing boats, at will, by the U.S. Navy.

Now in a foreign country with a different language, Pedro and his fishing friends are transported to Morgan Street Federal Jail on charges of drug smuggling. They sit in federal jail without a trial, with a court appointed attorney that doesn’t speak their language. Pedro has seen his court appointed attorney every 45 days. Now that’s called American justice promoting humanitarian rights in the land of the free, home of life and liberty, promoting humanitarian issues, while in actuality practicing something else. All Pedro and his friends did was what they had been doing for the last twenty years, try to make a living for their families. He went to sign on to a fishing boat for 2 weeks to a month to support his family as he always did. Only on this day, he ran into certain factions of Big Brother, the U.S. Coast Guard. Big Brother, in a matter of minutes, tried, convicted and destroyed not only a boat, but the lives of at least 10 families. The families back in Columbia are not only missing their husbands and fathers, they are missing the income they need for survival. The fear of U.S. citizens is real as some employees of Big Brother are watching you, always alert, always vigilant, always ready to dole out punishment without any trial that they deem appropriate for the alleged crime they deem may have taken place, or that will take place, at some time in the future.

There are many Pedros that have been brought thousands of miles from home to the United States that are tried and convicted of these alleged crimes, and there is no question many of them were totally innocent, but they were caught up in a very sick system and belief that the United States can police the world, or even itself, when it comes to drugs. It has failed so miserably to do so for the past 30 years. Congress delegated more power to stop drugs. More power is like giving a loaded gun to a ten year-old. Most can handle it while few feel the power, squeeze the trigger, and each time they squeeze the trigger it gets easier to do. Delegating power without consequences leads to destruction. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Now certain factions in our government have stooped to convicting innocent people, destroying private property, and ruining the families of the already indigent from foreign countries. Where will it all end when the United States Government shows no humanity? Evil thrives when good people do nothing.

The conspiratorial ring in Tampa, Florida consisting of certain Government key employees, the U.S. Navy, U.S. Prosecutors and along with federal judges appearing to be making a mockery of life and liberty as well as freedom. Neither are they faring very well of late with convictions. Obviously, some judges can see through the sinister plot of this faction of conspirators. These certain Government employees, even with the help of the U.S. Navy and the sympathy of the local Federal Courts, have only won one case out of three cases it brought into the courtroom. The U.S. Navy, and prosecutors like James Preston, continue to condone piracy and kidnapping, and the wholesale destruction of property and lives on the high seas while some federal judges look the other way regarding piracy, kidnapping and destruction of property. Common sense has told us, and as many experts have, two wrongs will never make a right.

A Tampa jury, after only a few hours of deliberation, on December 1, 2000 acquitted five Colombians. Earlier in the year a federal judge dismissed a case against other kidnapped Colombians. One group of fisherman from Colombia were found guilty earlier this year. It seems a remote chance they really were guilty, just victims of factions of Big Brother. After all, how much chance do you have in a foreign country with a court appointed attorney paid for by the Government, but that’s another horror story in itself. To this writer’s knowledge, neither the U.S. Navy, nor anyone in the U.S. Government, ever paid for the damage they caused to people’s lives, their families or their possessions, or even offered to pay for the false imprisonment they have caused. Nor has this writer even heard a rumor of the U.S. Navy or U.S. Government offering payment for the boats they sunk.

And what of Pedro and his 10 fishing friends? Will the innocent again be found guilty in a foreign country with a court appointed attorney, or will help come somehow for Pedro and his friends as they sit in Morgan Street Jail for months, maybe years, awaiting a trial at sometime in the future? In the months Pedro has been forced to sit in federal jail, he has yet to even speak to his wife, or family in Columbia on the telephone.