Dear Tom,
I am just an ordinary reader of Information Clearing House who is writing to say how deeply concerned I, and many, many others are about the brutal threats made to you and your family.
Information Clearing House Publisher Threatened
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My friend Tom Feeley is in Big trouble. He runs the web site informationclearinghouse.info which updates "news you won't find in the corporate media" every day. The site is strongly anti-war.
Tom has gotten his share of death threats over the years, but what happened this week is a lot more serious.
Two days ago, Tom's wife found three well dressed men in their kitchen. The man who did all the talking, told Tom's wife (I won't give her name) that Tom must "Stop what he is doing on the Internet, NOW!" As crazy as it sounds, he pulled back his lapel and showed her a gun of some kind which she could not identify. Like I said, Tom has been threatened before, but nothing like this. 4 years ago, he was in a parking lot at Long's Drug store in Southern California and when he tried to open his door to get out, a man in a car next to him opened his door at precisely the same time which prevented Tom from getting out. Then, a 40-ish year old man got out of the passenger side of the vehicle and approached Tom saying, "You need to stop what you are doing on the web".
Tom said the man was overweight and had his shirt untucked. Tom was taken aback, but (after collecting himself said) "What the f*ck? Who do you think you are telling me what I can do?"
The man answered, "Tom, I'm just giving you some good advice. You should take my advice, Tom."
This is all I know about the incident. Since, then, there have been occassional death threats, but nothing like what happened on Sunday. Tom's wife is hysterical and has not returned to the house since the incident. She contacted the FBI but the FBI said their was nothing they could do. Tom and his wife separated recently after a 30 year marraige, so he is publishing from a different location.
The well-dressed man told Tom's wife that he knew where her son lived, what line of work he was in, and how many children he had."
Anti-War Website Operator Threatened By Armed Thugs
http://www.prisonplanet.com/anti-war-website-operator-threatened-by-armed-thugs.html
Thoughts On The Harassment Of Tom Feeley
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=11277
Tom, we are networking this as much as we can- and would like to see this reported by as many of the alternative online news sources as possible.
This is oft-quoted, but it certainly is pertinent:
"In Germany they first came for the Communists, (Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
-Pastor Martin Niemoller
As for me, I AM speaking up! Speaking up on behalf of freedom, not fascism, speaking up on your right to get the truth out, speaking out on all our rights. How DARE they threaten you and your family! How DARE they!
There are people networking about this all over as I write this. We understand that you may have to/want to keep a low profile because of these fascist thugs, but we just want to let you know we are outraged by this and we want to DO something about it.
Please feel free to post this on Information Clearing House if you wish. And thank you, from the heart, for the work you do .
