I am Peter Andrist and I reside in Switzerland. I was so moved, touched and outraged by the false conviction of Sherman D. Manning I told him to write a book. He wrote 12! Most recently "From the Palace to the Prison" at www.cafepress.com/manning . I want you to get it today. I would like your comments on injustice, celebtrity justice and the price of justice in America. We may use your comments in a book. We can/will also use photos. We aim to entertain, inform and inspire. If you know of a Oaris Hilton, Timothy Goebel, Johnny Weir, Oprah, Halle Berry, Anthony Fedorov or Clay Aiken look-a-like send us the photo. My main goal is to tell the stories of injustice in ways the youth will find interesting. You do that by being candid, humorous and inspirational.I would like some of you to drop Sherman a line at Sherman D. Manning J98796, MCSP A2-240, P.O. Box 409020, Ione CA 95640.
Call those talk shows i.e. the Bev. Smith Show, Randi Rhodes, Larry King, Doug Banks and Christine Craft and mention "From the Palace to the Prison" (www.cafepress.com/manning). I need some of you to get a thousand copies of this book for Oprah´s Angel Network in Chicago Illinois, the Montel Williams Show in New York and/or your church. They will give them to people that can not afford.
Please get the books today at www.cafepress.com/manning and email me or leave a comment. Thanks!
posted by hallopeter at 9:45 AM
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Greetings: What Mr. Andrist is doing is awesome! Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails are doing concerts to raise money for Barry Scheck's Innocence Projects. Sherman D. Manning has a lot in his books about Barry Scheck (www.Cafepress.com/Manning)I would suggest "Actual Innocence" by Barry Scheck, "Long Walk to Freedom" by Mandela and "Creating Monsters" (www.Cafepress.com/Creating) for every high school senior and college student. I challenge Angels to go online and purchase books for juveniles! Send books to Ella Baker Human Rights Center, Books Not Bars (San Francisco), The Beat Within (San Francisco -www.The BeatWithin.org) and to Oprah's Angel Network. Send a note with your book or books saying "Forward this to a prison, jail or juvenile inmate.
Go to www.Cafepress.com/Manning and get "From the Palace to the Prison" and Cafepress and/or Amazon.com will send it anywhere in the world.
We didn't know about the philanthrophy and altruism of Peter Jennings til he died! Who knew he was a high school drop out/erudite? Who knew he feed the hungry? The media does not tell us the good til they're gone. Tell us the good! I remain anonymous but I want to read the good. Maybe Mr. Andrist will allow us to post good stories on this blog?? London.
I'm Peter Andrist. Tell us the good, the clean, the pure, powerful and positive. Tell us about high school students, teachers, fraternities, sororities, pastors and people who give, love, lead or follow. Sherman says, "Lead, follow or get out of the way." You can post profiles, photos and poems on this site! Read Justice Denied Magazine! Read Prison Legal News! Support The Innocence Project at Cardoza Law School in New York. And look for a terrific, spellbinding and fast paced book "Blue-Eyed Blonde" by Jeremy Shackelford in four weeks.
We're reserving copies now for Myspace.com, Facebook.com, Friendster.com members and fans. Reserve your copy today. e-mail Hallopeter@freesurf.ch today. If you know of a great lawyer, law student, law professor or journalism student who has helped with a wrongful conviction, let us know.
Put the data on the blog (here), e-mail it to me and smail mail it to S. Diahric Manning, J98796, A-2-240, P.O. Box 409020, Ione,CA 95640. We salute Attorney Alvin S. Michaelson (310-278-4984), Hans Sherrer, Jason Costa, Jason Ritter, Brian Glover (Santa Barbara City College), Andy Bridgewater, Don Broida (Santa Barbara) Wes Kovarik, Kyle Love, Luke Lazzarin, Craig Derosa and Seamus Farrow. If you know any of the above people, please tell them we mentioned them. Also - go to Craigslists, Tribe.net, Yahoo!, MySpace.com, Facebook.com and all the chat rooms and link, expose and shout about this blog. Let's do what ABC, NBC and CBS won't do. Connect people. Thanks. Peter Andrist - Switzerland.
I am Sherman D. Manning. I give thanks and praise to Almighty God. I thank Peter and Katryn. I thank Barry Scheck,Matt Maloney (Green Bay, Wisconsin), Chris Hillman (Arizona State), Daniel Browning (The Rubber Boy) and Alvin S. Michaelson. I get tons of mail and I want you all to post on the blogs. This stuff is new and it's for you. I want all my partners at PushAmerica.org, the models, actors, pastors, students, etc. Chris Austad, Joe Klein, Mike Ciompi, etc. and you to link this blog to yours. Don't just read this and say it's interesting. Pay if forward. E-mail at least 3 of your friends right now and send them to this blog.
It's not just about sales, books, etc. If you are not a big reader, etc. so be it. (But if you are - get ready for a James Patterson, John Grisham and Scott Turow like tome. "Blue-Eyed Blonde" coming soon...Keep checking Amazon.com, Google and www.Cafepress.com/Manning for Jeremy Shackelford's Blue-Eyed Blonde). Still, tell at least 3 people about this blog. Also use Zabasearch.com, Peoplefinder, etc. and find folks i.e. Douglas Pieper (Folsom), Trent Reznor, Tim Goebels, Seamus Farrow, George Soros, Jesse Lee Soffel, Agim Kaba, Zach Roerig, Jake Weary and Patti Labelle and tell them to come to this blog.
Find Casey Ryle and podcaster Jamie Miller in Rancho Cordova and tell them to get on board.
Call 1-888-331-1210 (A.U.R.N. Bev Smith), Air america, Randi Rhodes, Christine Craft and other shows and tell them to visit this blog. If you know of a good local or national talk show, list them on this blog! Salute Robert Corea (Friday Night Live/Riverside) and Michael Shackelford in Sand Springs. Do you know of any student who is a junior or senior and needs money to go to college? Do you know any student needing a stipend, books, etc.? A. Be certain they go to Cafepress.com/Manning and get "From the Palace to the Prison". It's a must! B. Send their name and info to us. Post it on the blog. E0mail it also to us asap. We are giving thousands of dollars. But you must tell us who needs help! And (finally) to Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Peter B. Lewis, Trent and any of you others willing to help us send kids to college, let us know. Hallopeter@freesurf.ch. I am Sherman D. Manning. www.Cafepress.com/Palace2Prison. Thanks.
Mr. Wil Wheaton, Mo Rocco, Kevin Henkes, Seamus Farrow, Arianna Huffington, Colin Stanger, Dick Scruggs and Geraldo Rivera, where are you?
Ed Schultz - where are you? I’m looking for movers and shakers to help me get justice for the least likely. It’s gonna take some rebels, geeks, lawyers, entrepreneurs etc., willing to invest in people, justice, lawyers, etc., to get the wrong people out of prisons. We need Moveon.org and Eli Pariser to help orchestrate issues of injustice and help with petitions and publicity. We need to work with John Bradley and Justice on Trial. (See Dashcase.blogspot.com, TheLawFirmTV.blogspot.com and SaveShastaGroene.blogspot.com… E-mail Hallopeter@freesurf.ch). Let’s get together. Hope you’ll write or call McGeorge School of Law Professor Mike Vitiello in Sacramento. Professor Vitiello is an avid reader of Sherman Manning’s books… Univeristy of California at Riverside Professor Dylan Rodrigues is also a fan of Manning’s books. Professor Dylan (U. C. Riverside) is now teaching Manningology… Richard Scrushy in Birmingham, Alabama says he loves God, was wrongly accused and he was exonerated. He got a miracle! And he was rich.
We need Richard Scrushy right here, right now. Let’s call, e-mail and snail mail Mr. Richard Scrushy today and ask him to buy 1000 copies of “From the Palace to the Prison” and one thousand copies of “Creating Monsters” and donate them to Oprah’s Angel Network, Family Members of Inmates (Roberta Franklin) in Montgomery, AL, or the Beat Within News in San Francisco. Mr. Scrushy should know what it means. He can e-mail me (Hallopeter@freesurf.ch) or just go order at www.Cafepress.com/Manning. Mr. Soros, Mr. Peter B. Lewis, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Spacenet Folks, Ebay, Semel, Sergey, Larry Page, David E. Kelly, Mr. Michael Moore, Ben Cohen, we need you all today! Right here, right now. We are struggling for justice. Do what you can today. If it’s just a letter of encouragement or snail mail to a prisoner. If it’s a money order or check mailed to a prisoner. (If you don’t know a prisoner to write - Go to WriteaPrisoner.com and find one. Tell the owner of WriteaPrisoner.com to quid pro quo us and link this site to his site). Send books to prisoners…
1. Mean Justice, 2. Actual Innocence, 3. From the Palace to the Prison and Creating Monsters (www.Cafepress.com/Manning or Barnes & Noble.com), 4. Journey to Justice, 5. The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Hurricane Carter, 6. The Purpose Driven Life. Get, read and share. Books change lives.
Pray for Cindy Sheehan, Rosemary Palmer and our troops in Iraq. We must support and love our troops even though we may not love the war. I want the troops to come home. I am opposed to the war. But I never want the troops to think that we don’t love them. You can love the troops and want them home.
Go to SaveShastaGroene.blogspot.com, DashCash.blogspot.com, TheLawFirmTV.blogspot.com… Download those blog pages and inundate Congress, the Senate and the White House with those blogs. Do it today. Let us hear from you today. God bless you. Post a comment. 8/28/05
"I'm Scott Lindlaw and I'll e-mail you." Where is Scott Lindlaw? You were a reporter. Did not get your e-mail. Resend... Hallopeter@freesurf.ch. Matt Harding? Wil Wheaton, Wil Seabrooks, Neal Carlson? Seamus Farrow? Where are you all? We need to hear from you today... Jesse Lee Soffell, Roerig, Weary, Danny Pintauro, Tony Danza, Dan Rather... Rolando Watts... Where are you? Come out wherever you are... God Bless you... P.A. Hallopeter@freesurf.ch.
Download this blog and our other blogs (see links) and e-mail them to your governor, senator and local reporters in your area. We must put the word out that wrongful convictions are a threat to public safety. We must get falsely convicted men out of prison. Mumia Abu Jamal and Sherman D. Manning should not be in prison. Where are the preachers? Where are the mega churches and pastors? They have a right to remain silent but they've taken that right way too far. They also have a right to stand up, speak up and speak out.
If the President's buddy (Pat Robertson) can call for murders, assassinations and hits on leaders, etc., certainly our pastors can call for the freedom of Sherman D. manning, Mumia Abu Jamal, Michael Goodwin and others. Visit Justice on Trial, The Innocence Project, etc. Salute Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznor. Buy all of Nine Inch Nails music and Green Day and Eminem. Tell Kanye West and Russell Simmons they gotta get "From the Palace to the Prison". Go to www.cafepress.com/manning. Pray for Michael Goodwin, Mumia and Sherman D. Manning. Pray for them. If Dwayne McKinney (Honolulu, Hawaii) is reading this blog, please, please contact us. Special prayers for all the displaced and uprooted citizens of New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabam. May God have mercy on the South. Hallopeter@freesurf.ch
On 9/15/05, a horrible crime was committed against prolific author and scribe Sherman D. Manning. This horrendous act appears to have the fingerprints of the CCPOA, The Greenwall, 723 and Gangster (prison) Guards all over it. One day C.O. Duclos complains "inmates should not be allowed to write books. How many books does Manning have in his cell authored by him?" The next day Duclos searches Manning's cell. Two weeks later (9/14/05) a crime is committed against Manning and the perpetrator of the crime files a confidential claiming he overheard Manning was going to assault Duclos. Manning is charged with the crime of threatening based upon this speculative, uncorroborated and unverifiable hearsay. The crime against Manning is not investigated. Manning is found not guilty of the crime but still sits in the hole. Deprived of telephonic contact with his family, beaten, threatened and about to be vindictively transferred. Rightfully he should be returned to facility A, but at least overridden to B-Facility or C. But they plan to transfer him. Every person reading this should call, fax, email Rod Q. Hickman, Walter Allen III, Jeannie Woodford all at CA Dept of Corrections (916-323-6001) and demand justice for Sherman Manning. We also need movers and shakers to help! If each person reading right now would email (link) others like George Soros, Damon Dash, Scissor Sisters, Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, etc. and send them a copy of this blog, etc., etc. when Rod Hickman gets a call from Seamus Farrow, (lawyer in the making) Mia Farrow, Barack Obama and Larry Page, they will respond. Otherwise believe us - C.D.C. will disappear Sherman D. Manning. He will die. He will die. Help us. Attorney Steve Sanders, Keith Chandler, Gerry Spence (and Spence Wannabes), Law students, journalism students, Wally Lamb, Prison Legal News, Hans Sherrer, Justice Denied, Innocence Projects, Barry Scheck, Barry Tarlow, Blair Berk, Peoples lawyer (John Rogers) California Attorney's for Criminal Justice... Help..Demand Sherman Manning not be transferred! We mourned the loss of Pamela vitale, wife of Attorney Daniel Horowitz. God bless the Horowitz and Vitale families.
I’m Sherman D. Manning, J98796, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640. If I had just one Peter Andrist in America, I’d be free. I dare not take Peter, Ms. Lee, Keith Chandler, Innocent, etc. for granted. I’m asking all to email, call or fax Mr. Dorsey Nunn of all of us or none, Attorney Jonathan Frieman (Yale Law School), Elizabeth de la Vega, Randi Rhodes, Christine Craft, Tom Joyner and Bev Smith. Go to www.AirAmericaRadio.com and post this. Post this blog on other blogs and tell people I need help! All of my blogs speak for themselves. C.D.C. hates me because of my expressions of free speech via my brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde”. They are sorely afraid that Randi Rhodes, Bev Smith, Christine Craft or Al Franken will get a hold of my books and explode! I need you to please, please, please go to the blogs of Michael Moore, Randi Rhodes, Aurn and Moveon.org and post this notice. I need help. Call 916-323-6001 and ask Mr. Rod Q. Hickman to cancel my transfer, get me help from a psychologist and punish staff for inequality of inmates, unequal treatment and bias… A snail mail from some of you letting me know you’ve Paid it Forward would be wonderful. God bless and let there be peace in the struggle. Sherman D. Manning.
Here is Peter Andrist in Switzerland. I need help for Sherman Manning and I need it right now! Will you please send an email to governor@governor.ca.gov, and call 916-323-6001 and demand the Sherman Manning, J98796 transfer to Pleasant Valley be cancelled. Demand CDC stop covering up for James Emslander, P86033, investigate the assault on Sherman, release Sherman to C-Facility and give Sherman immediate psychological intervention. Sherman is being denied psychological help after being sadistically traumatized on 9/14/05. I can’t do it all. I am in Switzerland. I need American troops to help now! Call 916-323-6001 and demand Rod Q. Hickman do what he promised the Governor he would; justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. We can’t wait! Time is of the essence. Sherman could be killed at Pleasant Valley or Kern Valley. We must let prison wardens (i.e. Roseanne Campbell CA) know they work for us. We pay them to be fair. We gotta win this one. I need you today! Download this blog and send it around to activists! Send it to Bonnie Kerness, Jodie Evans, Roberta Franklin, Dorsey Nunn, etc. Find the web addresses for All of us or none, Journey for Justice.org etc. and send them this blog! If you don’t know why they hate Sherman Manning, read his brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” (www.cafepress.com/Manning).. Tell Mr. Hickman we demand psychological treatment, release to C – no transfer and justice for Sherman Manning, J98796 today. Pay It Forward. If you know how to reach Ben Cohen, (Ben & Jerry’s), Damon Dash, George Soros or Martha Stewart, text them this blog…Hallopeter@freesurf.ch.
Here is Peter Andrist in Switzerland. I need help for Sherman Manning and I need it right now! Will you please send an email to governor@governor.ca.gov, and call 916-323-6001 and demand the Sherman Manning, J98796 transfer to Pleasant Valley be cancelled. Demand CDC stop covering up for James Emslander, P86033, investigate the assault on Sherman, release Sherman to C-Facility and give Sherman immediate psychological intervention. Sherman is being denied psychological help after being sadistically traumatized on 9/14/05. I can’t do it all. I am in Switzerland. I need American troops to help now! Call 916-323-6001 and demand Rod Q. Hickman do what he promised the Governor he would; justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. We can’t wait! Time is of the essence. Sherman could be killed at Pleasant Valley or Kern Valley. We must let prison wardens (i.e. Roseanne Campbell CA) know they work for us. We pay them to be fair. We gotta win this one. I need you today! Download this blog and send it around to activists! Send it to Bonnie Kerness, Jodie Evans, Roberta Franklin, Dorsey Nunn, etc. Find the web addresses for All of us or none, Journey for Justice.org etc. and send them this blog! If you don’t know why they hate Sherman Manning, read his brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” (www.cafepress.com/Manning).. Tell Mr. Hickman we demand psychological treatment, release to C – no transfer and justice for Sherman Manning, J98796 today. Pay It Forward. If you know how to reach Ben Cohen, (Ben & Jerry’s), Damon Dash, George Soros or Martha Stewart, text them this blog…Hallopeter@freesurf.ch.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY Sherman D. Manning President/Joseph Fellow
Dear Friends:
Bishop T. D. Jakes, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Bev Smith, Tom Joyner, Randi Rhodes, George Soros, Pastor Rick Warren, Denzel Washington, Ashton Kutcher, Matt Damon, Montel Williams… and you are being asked to join us on February 26, 2006 in a National Day of Prayer for the Innocent men and women; boys and girls in our prisons, jails and juveniles.
You don’t have to give any money, make a speech or hire a lawyer, etc. Just pray for wrongly convicted persons in prisons and persons in prisons – period. Our focus is on St. Matthew 25:34, 36, Proverbs 28:5, Acts 16:25 and Genesis 39:19-20. Joseph was in prison for a sex crime he did not commit… Jesus was wrongly convicted and crucified… How dare the church not help prisoners? Please re-read Genesis 40:23.
We call on every pastor, rabbi, priest, American and even world leaders to join us in a prayer vigil on February 26, 2006. We need pastors in pulpits all across America, youth leaders, radio hosts, etc. to pray for the Josephs in prison… If your radio or TV show censors religious speech, etc., then just ask your audience to pray silently. We are trying to get this P.S.A. to alternative newspapers, American urban radio networks, Radio One, Ebony Magazine, Upscale, Mother Jones, Air America Radio, etc., etc. But we need you to copy this letter and pass it on! We will try to send this to Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Rolando Cruz, Anthony Porter, law schools and to pastors across the globe… But we need you to pass it on. Please, please get on the World Wide Web and send copies of this to blogs, newspapers, pastors, radio stations etc, etc. around the world. Please do it today!
We hope churches, businesses and philanthropists will use February 26, 2006 also to donate money, books and assistance to prisoners and their families. From the Palace to the Prison and Blue-Eyed Blonde (which is brand new) are highly recommended books for pastors, students and prisoners. (Get it at Amazon.com and/or www.cafepress.com/manning). We encourage you to buy these books as well as “Actual Innocence” by Barry Scheck and “Fighting for America” by John Elsmore and donate them to prisoners, schools, churches and libraries before or during the prayer vigil.
We highly recommend you consider a financial donation to Innocent, 20 W. Muskegon Ave., Muskegon, Michigan, 49440-1317 (231/728-7225 … www.aboutinnocent.org). We also suggest you consider getting prisoners subscriptions to The Nation News (www.thenation.com), Prison Legal News (online or at PLN, 2400 N.W. 80th Street, #148, Seattle, Washington 98117) or Justice Denied Magazine (http:justicedenied.org)… Support Roberta Franklin and The Family Members of Inmates in Montgomery, Alabama… Most important? Spend time on February 26, 2006 praying for our prisoners. Copy (very important) this notice and pass it around, please… Pay It Forward… Peace in the struggle…
Sherman D. Manning
President of NAPS/Joseph Fellow/Bestselling Author
www.cafepress.com/manning
http://ShermanManning.blogspot.com
Fox, Prison Break fans are buying up the brand new “Blue-Eyed Blonde” in record numbers. Wanna-be like Matt Damon, Shavo Odadjian, Julia Roberts or Nicole Kidman? Read “Blue-Eyed Blonde” (www.Cafepress.com/Manning). Stars reading Blue-Eyed Blonde ie. Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, Anthony Fedorov, Peyton, Sherman and Eli Manning, Wentworth Miller, Denzel, Jamie Cullum, Eminem, Timothy Goebel, Johnny Weir, Clay Aiken and Eva Longoria can tell you “Blue-Eyed Blonde” is awesome! It is like a Richard North Patterson, James Patterson and John Grisham book combined! My pals in maroon 5, Nine Inch Nails and Scissor Sisters are all reading it. And you can’t be a fan of Fox’s Prison Break if you have not read Blue-Eyed Blonde,” stated A. Brody of Fox’s O.C…. Brad Pitt says, “With the power of the internet, what I think will happen is all of those Ashton Kutcher, Eminem and Matt Damon fans will begin to connect, chat and converse via chat rooms and blogs or fan web sites. And as they begin to discuss this new, special, unique and crazy book, it will explode. Somebody told me that reading “Blue-Eyed Blonde” was like watching Prison Break, Desperate Housewives and Boston Legal simultaneously. By the time I got to page 29 of “Blue-eyed Blonde” I was hooked! This Manning dude must be utilizing every waking moment in jail to write. He is America’s President Nelson Mandela, the young Malcolm and the new Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. Sherman can write!” “Other than James Patterson, I don’t know a better writer than Sherman,” says Clay Aiken. “This man can wow you, move you and inspire you,” says T. Goebel… Wentworth Miller says, “A lot of our shows have stolen stuff from Palace to the Prison, Creating Monsters and Blue-Eyed Blonde. I don’t think Sherman is in the class of a John Grisham (personally) but there is a raw, uncut credibility and authenticity that just screams from he pages of his writing. I actually read “Blue-Eyed Blonde” in less than 24 hours. I usually take a nap in my trailer at Fox Studios when we’re filming “Prison Break”… but when I was reading “Blue-Eyed Blonde” I used every break to read it! By midnight, I was done! It is one of the most interesting books I have ever, ever read.” We would like to invite you to enjoy Blue-Eyed Blonde. If you know how to contact Michael Viscardi, Bettina Von Sieman, Peter B. Lewis, Cynthia Keenan, Gerald Tiu, Nick Grabenstein, Benjamin Pollack, Albert Shieh, Adam Solomon, Aaron Olson, Chris Schwartz, Paul Pryse, Dr. Jay and Josh Brooks or Neal Carlson. Let them know a gratis copy of the brand new book, “Blue-Eyed Blonde” awaits them. They should email Hallopeter@freesurf.ch... If you are a member of any celebrity fan club let your members know the book is out! Let your fraternity, sorority, church, band and club know the book is out! Right here, right now! Download this posting and pay it forward…Peter Andrist.
Beginning mid-January, 2006 Sherman Manning will utilize this blog/bully pulpit to announce The Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award. This will be a monthly national infamous award named after former Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, Former Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham, etc and draws on the practice of Code Pink Women For Peace which gives Pink Slips to pro-war politicians during protests… Senator Proxmire died December 15, 2005 at the age of 90. Senator Proxmire was a political maverick who became a leading scourge of big spending and government waste in congress. Proxmire’s monthly “Golden Fleece” Awards began in 1975 to point out frivolous expenditures of taxpayers’ money, became a Washington tradition. Proxmire returned more than $900,000 from his office allowances to the treasury. He accepted no campaign contributions. He was a Yale and Harvard graduate. His Golden Fleece Awards targeted boondoggles, cost overruns and costly studies of what seemed obvious. Among his greatest strikes; a $27,000 analysis of why prison inmates want to escape; a $97,000 study of the goings-on in a Peruvian brothel and an $84,000 study of why people fall in love… The Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award is definitely motivated by the Golden Fleece Awards. Randy “Duke” Cunningham of California recently admitted to accepting nearly $3 million in bribes to influence contracts and government spending. Our pink slips would be incomplete without Mr. “Duke's” name. We will primarily look for sworn peace officers and persons involved in law enforcement to award the pink slips. “Every person who is a police officer, prison guard, prosecutor or district attorney is a public employee. We salute, honor and appreciate the service, professionalism and dedication of most local, state and federal employees. But when a prison guard is corrupted, abusive, violent or negligent, it threatens public safety. Two thousand prison inmates get out of prison everyday in America. And if they leave abusive environments – they bring abusive behavior to the streets. Cops beating up citizens on traffic stops or D.A.’s wrongly accusing and prosecuting the innocent also threaten public safety. So we will give an award every month to somebody in law enforcement who has distinguished themselves as the worse of the worst. We will accept public, private and anonymous nominations. And we will also send each awardee a Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip in the mail,” says bestselling author Sherman D. Manning…
We will also be giving the King/Mandela Leadership Awards. These are obviously named for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Former Prisoner/Former President Nelson Mandela. The King/Mandela leadership awards will be given to “any person who distinguishes themselves as an innovator, motivator and a positive influence on others. If you go beyond the call of duty in any career and we hear about you, you can get a leadership award,” says Manning… Critics claim the leadership awards are simply promos for Manning’s books. They point out the only two nominees thus far are philanthropists who have purchased large amounts of Manning’s books and donated them to schools. “Ludicrous,” Manning says. “I unashamedly hope every recipient of the King/Mandela Leadership Award will buy at least 50 copies of “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and donate them to high schools, colleges, churches and public libraries. In fact, I ask all nominees to do so. And yet, book donations are not a prerequisite for getting an award. We will profile every winner of the King/Mandela Leadership Award on our blogs and in our books. Attorney Willie Gary, Murray Janus, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Kanye West and Ray Nagin are all being considered at this moment for King/Mandela Awards. Several CCPOA members as well as prison wardens are presently under review for the Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award for January 2006,” Manning states.
He concludes “The final decision on awardees is up to me. That is simply because thus far, I’m paying the bills. So consider them my Authors Choice (if you will) Awards. But I’m open to voting, input and suggestions from others. If prison legal news, Justice Denied, Paul Wright, Hans Sherrer, Dorsey Nunn, Roberta Franklin, Keith Chandler, Innocent, Barry Scheck or Erica Allen told me, “I vote for warden so and so” for a pink slip award, I would take it to heart. I so respect people like Paul Wright, Hans Sherrer and Keith. I’ll probably get some other publications like The Beat Within to announce awardees also. But remember, our blogs are seen by people on all four corners of the earth. Pastors, politicians, entrepreneurs, billionaires, physicians, etc. Read my blogs. And I encourage people reading our blogs to Pay It Forward. Word of mouth is great advertisement. I’ve heard people say they found out about our blogs on Google, Yahoo!, EBay, The Nation News, Details, Rolling Stone Magazine, Air America Radio and the American Urban Radio Network…” We want you to begin now to send nominees via email to Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and snail mail to Sherman D. Manning, J98796, MCSP, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640 when possible send name, photo, news clipping (if possible) and all of the biographical data you have on the person whom you nominate. Nominate for The Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip or the King/Mandela Leadership Award. Please post a notice or message on your bulletins at colleges, in papers, on your web site, Myspace.com, Facebook.com, Livejournal.com, Friendster.com, etc. If you chat online, let everybody know we are looking for nominees. You may post a comment below if you’d like… NAPS.
I need you to go back and re-read my last posting about helping Sherman Manning by calling and emailing Rod Hickman. Let us re-double and re-read that posting and let’s get it done. I’d like to encourage Jodie Evans, Cindy Sheehan, Andy Sheehan, Ben Cohen, Matt Damon, George Soros, College News editors, college athletes, student editors in high schools, family members of prisoners, etc. to nominate, nominate, nominate. I was in Italy last month and someone asked if it was okay to link this blog to their unrelated blog. Yes! No matter what your blog is about, we want the link and we will share! Do link! The Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Awards will be scathing, controversial, sensational and embarrassing! Come on Jodie, Cindy, Soros, Roberta Franklin, CA Prison Focus, all of us or none… We need your input! And the King/Mandela Leadership Award will be prestigious. We promise to inform Mr. Nelson Mandela of each person who receives this award. A personal copy of this blog will be forwarded to Fmr. President Mandela every month when the award is announced. Also, finally, we want to give a quarterly leadership stipend of $500.00 to high school seniors and $1,000.00 to college students. We need student input. Please share this information with high school and college students. Announce on Myspace.com Friendster.com, Facebook.com, etc. Put the word out! Pay It Forward. Let us hear from you. If you don’t have Blue-Eyed Blonde yet -get it. www.cafepress.com. Foreword by Ashton Kutcher. Get it today! Here’s news… Prison Warden Mike Bunnell, Former Lieutenant Stephen Luke Scarsella (New Folsom Prison Lt), Former Sergeant Richard Neal Saunders (now New Folsom Officer) have all been nominated for the Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award! And in a stunning twist, Max Lemon, the late Captain Doug Pieper (who allegedly committed suicide but according to “Blue-Eyed Blonde” may have been murdered by members of the CCPOA) are also nominated to receive King/Mandela Leadership Awards. Mr. Pieper would be awarded posthumously… I’ve also heard rumors of Gloria Romero, Bill Clinton, Montel Williams and Marc Emery... Tell us what you think. Who should we award our first Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award to? And who should get our first King/Mandela Leadership Award? What high school journalism student deserves a Manning stipend? What college news editor or journalism student needs a Manning stipend? Email me and snail mail a copy to Sherman. Please don’t forget to visit our other blogs and keep checking for our new Fox related Prison Break blog – Blog – http://SaveShastaGroene.blogspot.com and http://Dashcash.blogspot.com. And must visits… www.Cafepress.com/Manning. Please re-read my last two postings and download this posting and share it with your friends. We encourage podcasters, vloggers and other internet thespians to Pay It Forward…”
Dr. Arnold Zweig, MD, F.A.C.S. is a specialist in facial plastic surgery and an expert in performing enhancements safely and successfully. Sherman D. Manning was inspired personally by Dr. Z at his home as a teenager. “I’m not even sure if Dr. Z remembers me. But I will never, ever forget being in his home as a kid with my Uncle Melvin Jackson… Folk like Dr. Z, the late Dr. Fred Allman, Jr. and George Soros have impacted my life in ways they may never realize,” Sherman says… We have asked Dr. Arnold Zweig (along with 24 other distinguished stars, celebrities and physicians) to join our Book-A-Thon by sponsoring 100 books or more to be distributed to marginalized people. We either ship the books directly to a charity, library, church or group (address must be provided by sponsor) selected by the sponsor; or we send them to Oprah’s Angel Network in Chicago. We suggest donors consider having Cafepress deliver 100 (or more… thus far our largest sponsor paid for 500 copies of Blue-Eyed Blonde) copies of “Blue-Eyed Blonde” to your church, civic group, library, high school or college… Or we recommend the following: Southern Center for Human Rights, 83 Poplar St., Atl. GA 30303, Underground Books, 2814 35th St., Sacto, CA 95817, Books Through Bars c/o New Society Publications, 4722 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143, Innocent Project c/o Cardoza Law School, 55 5th Ave., #1701, NY, NY 10003, The Montel Williams Show, 433 W. 53rd St., NY, NY 10012… We need you to go to www.Cafepress.com/Manning and order “Blue-Eyed Blonde” for any of the above addresses (or your own) today. We know these people (i.e. Oprah’s Angel Network, Montel Williams Show) will donate Blue-Eyed Blonde to worthy, needy and desirous readers… We will profile your donation on our blogs, in our books and press kit unless you request anonymity. Go to www.ZweigCenter.com or call 404/252-9991. “I hope Dr. Z will donate a couple hundred copies of “Blue-Eyed Blonde” to Oprah’s Angel Network… Whenever I get old enough to see a wrinkle, I will go to the Zweig Center in Atlanta,” says Sherman. I hope Dr. Zweig and many others (even if you can only afford five or ten books) will help… Thanks – P. Andrist.
I am Peter Andrist (Hallopeter@freesurf.ch) and I reside in Switzerland. I am a Caucasian, lifetime Swiss resident. I lived in America for five years, then for two I have sporadically visited. In my first year, I met Sherman D. Manning. And he became the best Christian friend I’ve ever had in my entire life time. I shan’t ever forget the very first time I heard him quote the “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech. I had chill or goose bumps… I traveled to DC with Sherman to hear Rev. Jesse Jackson’s speech announcing he would not run for president in the 90s. Jesse was great but as Sherman’s Atlanta mentor (late Rev. Hosea Williams) once said, “Microphones explode in Manning’s hand. Ask Andy Young; he’ll tell you nobody can out speak or preach Sherman Manning.” Sherman is in prison in California. (Sherman D. Manning, J98796, MCSP, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640) for crimes he did not commit… I absolutely love America! In my opinion it is a fabulous country with great people. My times in Virginia, D.C., Atlanta, MD, New York, etc. were absolutely wonderful. I love America. But like any country, America’s judicial system makes mistakes. Ask Barry Scheck. I’ll be as concise and candid as I can here and now. I need $100 grand that I don’t have. I need Mr. Dewayne McKinney, Mr. George Soros, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Warren Buffett, Peter B. Lewis, etc. Somebody to please step up and help!
The first thing that must happen is you, the person reading this right now; will you please remember God does extraordinary things through ordinary people? Will you just go to AskJeeves.com, Google and/or Yahoo! Etc. (Maybe Terry Semel will help) and get the address to the above-named billionaires and text or email them this posting!! That’s it! If just 40 or 50 people would (I need you to today! Please) get email addresses on Mr. Gates at Microsoft, Mr. Buffett, Sergey at Google, Peter B. Lewis, Mr. Soros at the Open Society Institute, Kanye West, Bono, etc. (and any other billionaire you can think of) and download, text, email or fax this posting to them; I believe a miracle would happen. I can’t do it alone! I’ve been fighting for ten years for lil Sherman. I just got married but even as a newlywed, I’m still fighting. Although I’m White and not a civil rights leader, I believe King was right “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” And I don’t want Jesus telling me, “I was in prison and you visited me not” or “Inasmuch as you’ve done it unto the least of these my brethren; you’ve done it also unto me.” I’m not a religious fanatic. I don’t even attend church as often as I should, but I believe in doing unto others as I would have them to do unto me. America? Please tell me how would you feel when you saw millionaires and billionaires all around you and you knew just one hundred thousand dollars would vindicate your rights? Your mother (Dollie Manning) is 75 years old and can’t come to California to see you. And you couldn’t even call her to say we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year? I tell you it is humbling and also troubling. I’m willing to do absolutely anything, anything (legal and ethical) to get Sherman Manning out! Tom Mesereau, Scott Ross, Gerald Uelmen, Dennis Riordin, Gerry Spence, Barry Tarlow or Ephraim Margolin would have Sherman Manning home in less than 6 months! I know I’m right! I also know neither of them will even peruse his trial transcripts for less than ten grand. Give me, loan me, donate me $100 grand and I’ll get him free! Mr. Gates, Mr. Soros, Jeff Bezos, Peter B. Lewis, Jerry Keenan, Chris Gardner, Robert Johnson, Tom Joiner, Earl Graves, Kanye West, Russell Simmons, P. Diddy, Snoop, Master P., anybody, a-n-y-b-o-d-y. Please! You want me to quit my job and come to America (Mr. Gates, Mr. Bezos, Mr. Buffett, Mr. Soros??) and work for you to repay the $100 grand? What? Just tell me. You want to guarantee the money goes directly to a lawyer? Solved: you call Tom Mesereau (or Mr. Spence, Mr. Uelmen, Mr. Margolin, etc.) and you arrange for them to take his case. You send them a check! Thank you! However, you want to do it! You want us to tell the world about your gift, loan, grant or waiver? Great! We can and we will! You want to be anonymous? That’s fine! However! I just have to get him out of prison; now! It begins right now.
This is the first time I have ever made any kind of public appeal or plea such as this! It’s awkward! I need help. I need you to please, please, please (you the man or woman who stumbled upon this blog…) use every internet strategy you know to share this blog. I can’t do it all! There are not enough hours in the day for me to do it all. I appeal to you to help me. If you know how to use Tribe.net, Facebook.com, Craigslists.org, Nola.com, Myspace.com, Friendster.com, Yahoo!, Message Board, etc., etc., to mention this blog, share this posting, etc. I ask that you do it and please do it now! Go on to every chat room you know of, fan, web sites, etc., etc., post messages on podcasts, etc. to put the word out!... If you do absolutely nothing else; please Google every person I mention in this posting (or at least 3 or 4 of them) and text, fax or email them this posting. Will you at least do that much? Please? Will you, college student; you, high school senior; you, activist, entrepreneur or whoever you are??? Will you take 15 minutes to Google, find and email some of the above names? Don’t worry about duplicating. The more emails Mr. Gates (Buffett, Bezos, Myspace, Craigslists, etc) get of this posting; the better the chances are they’ll read it! And believe me it is all about access! You can’t tell me that if Mr. George Soros, or Sergey or Bill Gates knows $100 grand would get a wrongly convicted out of prison; they would not give it. I refuse to believe it. They might wish to do it anonymously (for various reasons) etc., maybe, but I don’t believe they wouldn’t help! But those people are sheltered! It’s hard to read them. So unless you have the money, I need to exonerate him. I need you to Google Frank Darabont, Denzel Washington, Danny Glover, Tom Morris, Marc Forrester, Levan Hawkins, etc., and email them this posting! If enough of them see enough copies of this (the posting you are reading) somebody will get him out. Mr. Bill Gates, Mr. Bezos, Buffett, Soros, Washington, Martha Stewart, Russell Simmons, Diddy, West etc., somebody will say, “I’m gonna get Sherman out of there and get him home to his momma.”
My friend spent another Christmas in prison. For a sex crime he didn’t do! The Honorable Mr. Mandela spent 27 years in prison. Mr. “Hurricane” spent 20 years for crimes he didn’t do. Rolando Cruz? 14 years for child molestation and he was innocent. (Read “Blue-Eyed Blonde” www.Cafepress.com/Manning). How much longer must Sherman wait? Can I give him a Christmas present for 2006? Can that present be freedom? Can I get him out? I’m not asking for a limousine or a Lear jet! I’m asking for enough money to hire a Scott Ross, Tom Mesereau, etc. and to get simple justice. I’m gonna ask you to send me (P. Andrist, Brummelmattstrasse 7, CH—5033 Buchs Switzerland) the check, send it to Sherman… However you wish… I hope many of you will go back and read my last 3 postings as well as Sherman’s. He’s going through a lot right now. I hope perhaps you’ll tell the owner of Craigslists (Craig Newmark) that there are 12 or 13 pages about him in “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and maybe you can let Myspace.com readers, owners and subscribers know they are all in “Blue-Eyed Blonde”. There are so many possibilities with the internet! I just don’t have many answers, more time or talent. I need you now to help! Jodie Evans, Ben Choen, Cindy Sheehan, Eli Pariser? Are you reading? This may be my longest posting and it is my last posting til I get the money or til somebody sends Sherman the money to get a lawyer (the right lawyer) to get him home! This is an emergency! It’s an SOS! Ever heard of bloglanta.com? That (I think) is a blog for Sherman’s home town. Will you (every person reading my words) post a message on bloglanta.com? Ask Jay Bookman, Monica Kaufman, Steve Barnes, Dr. John Leroy, Dr. Arnold Zweig, M.D., F.A.C.S., Carol Casey, Robyn Lewark, The Country Club of the South Charity Guild, Lewis Reeves, James Jones, etc. to come to this blog? Or just send them this posting! Indiancrle@aol.com, Jeff@Amazon.com, Atlantamagletters@Atlantamag.emmis.com, Detailsletters@Fairchildpub.com, brantinter@aol.com... Please send each of them and everybody else you know this posting.
If thirty or forty of you take 15 minutes of your life, you will be responsible for Sherman walking back into the arms of his mom in Atlanta and being able to say, “I’m home.” I can visualize it right now. We will realize it if you help me do this. Please, please, please, please (times ten thousand) go to Google and do what I’ve asked you to do. Right here and right now! If the angel, granter or loaner requests anonymity we will honor it! Otherwise, we’ll tell the world who wrote the check(s). Now can you help me get this to Mr. Soros, Mr. Brin, Mr. Gates, Mr. Buffett, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Kanye West and the rest? Please. I will not post a new message until we accomplish this. Post a comment if you want but of more importance, pay it forward and get on Google (AskJeeves, MSN, Yahoo!, Facebook, Myspace, LiveJournal, etc., etc., Nola.com, Craigslists, etc.) today! We need you! Every thousand, hundred and dollar will help! Every letter, thought and prayer will help. Write Sherman and let him know you are helping. Thank you so much.
Please – Please – re-read and pass it on!... After the word on I stopped to pray. I talked to God about it. Now I’d like to finish talking to you. I need you to see and feel what I feel. Did you see “Mr. Hurricane”? With Denzel Washington? Denzel stood in visiting with his lawyers over the telephone and said, “You’ve got to get me outta here. I can’t stay here much longer. Get me out!” And when they argued technicalities… “Having seen the truth, they can’t turn their backs on me. We must transcend the law and get back to justice!” Wow! The Honorable Judge A. Lee Sarokin asked his clerk in chambers, “What do ya think I should do?” The Judge told his clerk, “I’m gonna let him go.” (I know I’m a man and newly married at that but there is a tear in my eyes right now just thinking about it). … “Rubin Carter should not spend another day or hour in prison,” so stated the Judge (rent the DVD “Mr. Hurricane” or read the book “The Miraculous Journey of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter)… Back to Hurricane: “Having seen (or read) the truth (or this truthful plea) they can’t turn their backs on me. I believe with everything inside my being that if Mr. George Soros, Bill Gates, Peter B. Lewis, Kanye West, Matt Damon, Damon Dash, etc., etc., actually see this posting; they will not turn their back on Sherman! P. Diddy is busy! Damon Dash, Soros, Buffett, Swiss Filmmaker Marc Forster, etc., are busy! They see very little mail. But if they get fifty emails of this posting? They’ll read it! Marc Forster (filmmaker… he produced and directed Neverland) is my homeboy! He is Swiss! If I knew where to reach/write/email him, etc. I’d be on my way to getting Sherman h-o-m-e!
Marc (of the movie Neverland) wrote Swiss millionaires begging them to pay for his trip and college to America for film school. Marc (true story) finally got a Swiss millionaire to pay for him to go to New York Film School. A stranger believed in his dream! And every now and then strangers will believe in your dream when your own brothers (Joseph… Moses) mistreat you… Marc paid the money back! Marc is in the USA somewhere! Will you go on Craigslists, Nola.com, Myspace.com, Google or wherever and see if you can find Marc. Send Marc this posting! Please – don’t just read this. Don’t just read this! I pray that you won’t be able to sleep tonight til your respond! I’m praying for a miracle right now! I’m praying that all these pastors like T. D. Jakes, Joel Olsteen, Rick Warren, Eddie Long, Noel Jones, etc., who preach about miracles, anointings and the power of God are right! I’m praying that if there is a God (and I know He is!) he will touch you! He will inspire you to make this plea, this posting, this prayer reach all around your city, your state, the United States and the world! Let this posting be like some of those commercial spasms! I think chain letters are illegal (??) but passing on an email or posting is not! I need help! Maybe the universe, creator, God or spirit led you to this blog, this day to help. Will you? Do what you can, with what you have, in the time that you have. Do it now!! Re-read this email – do what you can with it, pass it on and that’s all. Find Tyler Perry, Richard Scrushy, Donald Watkins… Help! Log on to Blogs like Air America Radio or Reach Media (America Urban Radio Network, Radio One!) etc. and place this posting on those sites! Go to the MontelWilliamsShow.com and post “Montel, please go to Swisswishfoundation.blogspot.com and read posting by Peter Andrist.” Do what you can! That’s all! I believe – Peter Andrist – 1/1/06
If you had a Merry Christmas, say Amen! It was extremely perplexing for me and troubling! It was scary because of my family. I miss them so very much. But I’m still alive and breathing. If you’re breathing, you’re blessed! The above posting by my Swiss pal? All I’ll say is that if just half of y’all do half of what Mr. Andrist is requesting; I will get my freedom. If you are reading this posting and did not read Peter’s, please go back and read it! It is absolutely an urgent, special and anointed posting. I’ll still do the right thing and use the funds we have for search funds (stipends, etc.) for college and high school students, which I mentioned in other postings. Now I really, really need each of you to tell everybody about the prayer vigil (see posting on this blog) coming up on February 26th. V101 Dr. Don Sainte John in Sacramento? I need you all to email him and send him this posting. Dr. Paul Boyd of New Orleans? Are you reading? Are you alive? Ryan Oelrich, Alan Ritchson, Danny Pintauro, Guy Velella, Richard North Patterson, Stauros Niarchos, Hal Lipset, Tony Dungy, Arthur Golden, Chris Schwartz, Jamie Cullum, Wentworth Miller, Albert Shieh, Michael Viscardi, Kyle Love, Trevor Loflin, John Doggett, Nick Grabenstein, Wes Kovarik and Nathan Craft can be found. Please, please find them and mention they are in “Blue-Eyed Blonde”. I hope you will cross promote and share this blog. I really, really need to reach the above-named people. Help. And please, please, please read Peter Andrist’s posting above! It is the most important posting on this site. Re-read it please. Happy, Happy New Year! Keep the snail mail coming! Sherman D. Manning.
The National Association for Public Safety has announced the recipients of The Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award for the month of January, 2006. Rest assured that each of the recipients did get a Pink Slip in the mail. Also, twenty national newspapers, columnists, journalists, professors as humanitarians world wide have been notified!
Drum Roll Please: Announcing Mr. Lance Corcoran! Mr. Chris Trott and Sheriff Mike Kile…We gave Lance Corcoran a Pink Slip because he represents everything which is vulgar, corrupt, profane and evil about government employees. Lance makes the tens of thousands of dedicated government workers nationwide look bad! Most government workers are good people! But Lance is the Vice President of the California Prison Thugs Union. AKA the CCPOA (CA. Correctional, Peace Officers Association!) Mr. Corcoran is a waste of government funds! People like Lance cost taxpayers millions and millions of dollars…When a prison guard i.e. rapes an inmate, smuggles drugs into prisons, foments violence, gets one inmate to stab another inmate, kills inmates and sets inmates up etc., etc. Victims sue! And when C.D.C. loses or settles out of court, this money is paid by John Q. Citizen! This is money we could use on tracking, treating and monitoring sex offenders, protecting our children and sending them to college, etc., etc. California citizens paid out $17.6 million dollars last year settling lawsuits for prison guard abuse! In 2004 citizens paid $9 million. From 2000 to date more than $60 million dollars have been paid out due to the criminal conduct of prison guards. This is paid by taxpayers. The same taxpayers who can’t ever know the disciplinary records of the officers working in our prisons. The same taxpayers who learn that the CCPOA guards the personnel files of rogue guards more closely than we shield the identity of rape victims. Lance Corcoran, allegedly and reportedly is a powerful spoke in the wheel of guard corruption in California. There is much more on Mr. Corcoran in the brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” (www.cafepress.com or www.bou.com) as well as in “From the Palace to the Prison”, “American Dream/A Search for Justice” and in “Creating Monsters”.
The next recipient of the Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award is - Drum R-o-l-l… Mr. Chris Trott. Chris Trott is a Local Chapter President of the CCPOA working in a state prison in Calapatria, CA near Imperial. His union placed a Rat Trap on the prison bulletin board in an intimidating retort to 3 prison guards having been put on paid admin. leave pending an investigation into their use of excessive force. The symbology, according to a CCPOA accompanying memo, was to “catch” the captain and warden and to challenge the supervisors. Trott claims the Rat Trap has a union “tactic” to complain about management problems at Calapatria…Todd Slosek, a CDC spokesman said this intimidation of the “ratting” captain was precisely the type of “code of silence” misconduct that CDC wants to stop, calling it “unacceptable and completely unprofessional.” A sergeant, a guard and a medic/guard were seen by Captain Serchel Leapheart subduing inmate Adron Cowains. Captain Leapheart wrote the three up for abuse. This CCPOA also ridicules corrections secretary Roderick Hickman – whom they nicknamed “spud” and called Rod a disgrace to their profession for attacking the code of silence. Yet, from the other side of their corrupted mouths, union leaders still maintain “no code of silence exists”. People like Trott are a disgrace to honest, law abiding citizens and dishonor the badges they wear. This is why they steal prisoner’s mail to the media and fight to keep prisoner abuse private. This is why no cameras are allowed in prisons. Out of sight, out of mind. But – I repeat – taxpayers pay for the actions of these rampart division like rogue guards…
Drum Roll please… Final - all new The Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Award goes to (my homeboy) Sheriff Mike Kile. Mike Kile is Sheriff of Screvens County, right next to Jenkins County in Georgia. A three month investigation by the Augusta Chronicle in 2004 found 32 former Screven County prisoners and at least 2 deputies who said Kile was corrupted. Kile ordered jailed inmates to work on his campaign signs and to perform tasks at his personal home. Kile had his own version of the PIC (Prison Industrial Complex) which was his J.I.C. or Jail Industrial Complex. June 2004 while working on Sheriff Kile’s illegal work detail, prisoner Harold Cannon escaped. Cannon went to the home of Richard Weaver and hacked him nearly to death with a machete…Almost killed him because a greedy, corrupted and renegade Georgia Sheriff thinks jail inmates are his own personal property. To Corcoran in Sacramento, Trott in Imperial and Kile in Screven, GA, you’ve been Pink Slipped! Now the world knows about you and your wasting of taxpayer funds. You are a threat to public safety! You’re fleecing America!!
The National Association for Public Safety is extremely proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with Critical Resistance, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the American Red Cross, The Open Society Institute, etc., etc., along with our international sponsors in business, education and entertainment, etc., etc. We stand shoulder to shoulder with all people in the pursuit of life, liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness. We hereby announce the January 2006 recipients of the all new King/Mandela Achievement Awards. (President Mandela will see this posting!!) By popular demand, we decided to go all out this month and award ten awards. The King/Mandela Achievement Award has been awarded to the following persons… Drum Roll Please…Louder… 1. Attorney Daryl Lapp 2. Attorney George Olson 3. Attorney Marc Goldstein, 4. Attorney John Bennet… Lapp, Olson, Goldstein and Bennet are all in the Massachusetts Law Offices of Palmer & Dodge. 5. Attorney Rob Briley 6. Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth 7. Attorney Sandy D. Alemberte of the Miami Law Offices of Hunton & Williams 8. Kanye West 9. Jonny Silberman 10. Cadet Pierce. (Be sure to read the “NAPS said” posting on this site on 12/30/05 also feel free to download these awards and share them with friends, churches, colleges, alternative news, lawyers and activitists. You have my permission to reprint and/or quote…See myspace.com, Teenink.com, Facebook.com, Friendster.com, etc. If Ned Vizzini or Tim Goebel are reading this…email me). I’ll remind all my awardees to send me (snail mail) a photo of you so that we can place your photo and bio in our photo and honoree gallery.
1.(Attorney Daryl Laap) 2. (Attorney George Olson) 3. (Attorney Marc Goldstein) and 4. (Attorney John Bennet) are all lawyers at the commercial law firm of Palmer & Dodge in Massachusetts. They volunteered to represent inmate Daniel Laplante pro bono in his lawsuit. Daniel’s constitutional right of access to the courts was violated. Officials at the state prison in Cedar Junction denied him physical access to the Unit Law Library. Thousands of inmates have their rights trampled upon by prison officials because officials are cognizant of the fact that most inmate lawsuits are dismissed out of hand. And it is extremely difficult to find a lawyer willing to step up…Palmer & Dodge was asked by the U.S. District Court to help this man. And they did so victoriously, pro bono! Daryl Lapp has been a partner since 1995, George Olson is a senior litigation associate, Marc Goldstein is an associate and John Bennet is a junior litigation associate in Palmer & Dodge! I salute, applaud and congratulate them. Thank you!
Number 5…We award Rob Briley! Attorney Briley is a great man. Inmate Clark McMillan claimed he was innocent, falsely accused and wrongly convicted… After maintaining his innocence for 22 years, Clark was released after DNA evidence cleared him of raping a 16 year old in 1980. Clark was convicted after the victim identified him in a police line up… The best way to destroy a man’s credibility, ruin his name and reputation etc. is to accuse him of rape! Rape is a terrible and a horrible crime! And it is also terrible and horrible to be falsely accused and convicted of rape when you did not do it! Lord knows it is humiliating! Clark lost 22 years of his life. His criminal records are expunged and his full citizenship rights are restored. Briley represented Clark pro bono and will receive no money for his time or costs. God Bless Attorney Rob Briley of Nashville, Tennesse!
6. Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth…A Michigan federal jury returned verdicts of $75,000 in compensatory damages and $125,000 in punitive damages against a Michigan state prison guard who paid one prisoner six cigarettes to viciously pummel another. Inmate Barton Allen was beat down while sitting on a toilet at Riverside Corrections Facility in Ionia in October 2001. Fellow prisoner Deshawn Fleming admitted smashing Allen’s head – Paid for by Sergeant Dennis Baldwin. In a quintessential display of “correctional justice”, Fleming, who confessed to the assault and that he was hired by Baldwin, was administratively infracted and found guilty, while Baldwin, on the same evidence was cleared by prison officials. Prison staff then malevolently sidelined Allen’s mail from the court, to prevent him from suing prison officials. Trust me; they steal mail from prisoners all the time! When the case moved to trial phase the court appointed Larissa Hollingsworth of Grand Rapids, Michigan, a newly admitted lawyer who had never tried a case. When Larissa kicked the states butt and won, she and Allen were moved to tears by the verdict. This fledgling attorney just sat there and “tried to look like I was used to winning.” Baldwin set a new record for the cost of six cigarettes in state prison. Somebody hug and kiss Larissa! I salute and applaud her.
7. Sandy D’Alemberte! We award Mrs. D’Alemberte, a former president of Florida State University for handling the wrongful conviction of Wilton Dedge. Mr. Wilton Dedge (author’s note: Seems like Brother Joseph in Genesis and Sherman in CA were/are not the only fellas falsely accused and wrongly convicted of sex crimes. It happens everyday!) was convicted of rape in 1982 and sentenced to 30 years in the penitentiary. After the victim described her attacker to police as 6’ and 160 lbs, she picked the 5’5” and 125 lb Dedge out of a photo array. The jury disbelieved six alibi witnesses! Dedge had his wrongful conviction reversed in 1983 and was wrongly convicted again in 1984 and given a life sentence in Florida State Prison. DNA conclusively exonerated him. Sandy D’Alemberte handled his suit pro bono acting as special counsel to the Miami office of Hunton & Williams, a large law firm with offices around the world. Hunton & Williams also provided their serves to Wilton pro bono… to the tune of a $2 million dollar award! Somebody shake hands with all the partners in Hunton & Williams and hug that brilliant woman Sandy D’Alemberte. I salute them!!
8. Big Kanye West! Y’all gotta excuse the semi-French but this brother has balls! He called out the U. S. President! Whether one agrees or disagrees with Kanye’s “We all know that George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.” In this age of sold out and gutless (heartless, etc.) superstars (i.e. Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant) it’s refreshing to see a young, brilliant musician and performer willing to say what he means; and mean what he says! I salute, applaud and high five Mr. Kanye West!! Go Kanye!
9. Jonny Silberman is awarded our King/Mandela achievement award because he is a great young man with a promising future. This is a Caucasian tenth grader who is a native of South Africa. He played soccer in South Africa and now brings his zeal and talent to the Weber School in Dunwoody, GA near Atlanta. Jonny is challenged with diverse ways of thinking to contribute thoughts and ideas, to develop his intellect, values and a responsibility for the world around him. Jonny studies history, humanities, English, Bible, Hebrew and Fine Arts. The Weber School is a Jewish School named for Doris and Alex Weber. Jonny qualifies for a nomination for the $500.00 Manning Stipend. We will follow the activities and success of Jonny Silberman. I salute, congratulate, applaud and award Jonny Silberman with a King/Mandela Achievement Award.
It should be noted that critics (i.e. CCPOA, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity) of these new awards claimed I was only giving them for book sales. Reportedly, Rush stated “This prison convict forces you to buy 50 copies of his “Blue-Eyed Blonde” book and donate em to Oprah’s Angel Network and then he’ll give you the King/Mandela Award.” Well, I unashamedly hope, pray and even suggest that awardees who are adult and can afford it will go to www.cafepress.com/manning and order 50 copies or more of “Blue-Eyed Blonde and donate them to Oprah, a church, school, YMCA or public library! That’s a great thing because books change lives! But let there be no mistake: No awardees has been asked by anyone to buy “Blue-Eyed Blonde”. And buying my books is not a prerequisite for getting an award. Furthermore, kids like Jonny Silberman who is only 15 cannot be expected to buy 50 books!!
Drum Roll Please… Louder… Louder! The 10th and final awardee of our brand new King/Mandela Achievement Award for January 2006 is Cadet Pierce! Manners, pride, character, honor, scholarship, discipline and personal integrity are all words which can be associated with our tenth winner – Cadet Pierce. Pierce attends Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, GA. Riverside is one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most prestigious military academies. Kids (all male) in grades 7-12 get a premiere, first class education nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This is an award winning (add the King/Mandela Achievement Award) JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) program! Go Cadet Pierce! We honor, we salute, we applaud and award you…On behalf of every member of NAPS, every volunteer, all the college frats, sororities, pastors, the two million prisoners, those in juveniles, jails, youth centers, the family and friends of prisoners, etc. on behalf of Critical Resistance, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Campaign, Amnesty International, the Red Cross, The Innocence Project (NY), Innocent (Muskegon), Innocence International (Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter0 and especially on behalf of all wrongly convicted citizens, I, Sherman D. Manning do hereby present the King/Mandela Achievement Award to the above named individuals. If they would like more personal data (i.e. addresses and telephone numbers, etc.) about them posted on this site, I authorize them to post it! For more information on Palmer and Dodge or Daniel Laplante, see Prison Legal News (July 2005). For more on Attorney Rob Briley and Clark McMillan, see the Tennessean and the Associated Press. For more on Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth, Sandy D’Alemberte or Hunton & Williams, see the NACDL Website or Justice Denied Magazine. For more on Kanye West, turn on your radio or go the record store! For more on Jonny Silberman, visit www.weberschool.org. for more on Cadet Pierce, go to www.cadet.com. Be sure to see the posting “NAPS said” on this (or http://Swisswishfoundation.blogspot.com) site for 12/30/2005!! I am personally guaranteeing that this posting (and every posting of the King/Mandela Achievement Awards) will be sent to former President Nelson Mandela for him to see! I’ve also asked Doug out at Innocent in Muskegon to get this to Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and others. We need you to download this posting and put our winners on your blogs, web sites and bulletins. Word of mouth is powerful. I wanna ask George Soros, Peter B. Lewis, Jerry Keenan, Jeff Bezos, Bruce Springsteen, Ralph White, David Perez, Chris Gardner, Earl Graves and Montel Williams to please help us! If you read this full posting today, go to the web site of Montel Williams, AirAmerica Radio and to Oprah’s website or blogs and put this posting on those sites. I thank you and I salute every winner of this award. I wait to hear from (Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and you must (also) snail mail me your bio and photo ASAP…) all of the winners. Congratulations and keep up the great work…Sherman D. Manning.
Under no circumstances shall I reveal my identity in this missive. America ought to be ashamed! How dare you read the posting here by Peter Andrist and not send a check to Sherman Manning? In America, I don’t comprehend the greed, selfishness and apathy. I’m sending $100.00 because it’s more than I can afford. But if I were Martha Stewart, Evander Holyfield, Earl Graves, Robert Johnson, some of these rich athletes etc., I’d pay for the man’s damned appeal. “What if he is guilty? What if it’s a con?” Forgive me but if I’m Oprah rich with a billion bucks, Kobe Bryant or Martha Stewart rich I’d pay a private eye five or ten thousand dollars just to look at Sherman’s case to tell me if he is wrongly convicted! Pay a polygraph expert to tell me plainly is this man innocent or is he guilty! It could be determined for less than 10 grand if Sherman is innocent! If I were Oprah (and I know she helps a lot of people – she’s just my example here), Hugh Heffner, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, etc. I would be willing to pay 10 grand to find out if Sherman is a bull shitter and criminal or if he really is innocent! If the P.I. said he’s guilty, I’d expose him! If a P.I. said “We have a not guilty man sitting in prison,” then I’d write a $100 thousand check and tell Tom Mesereau or Gerry Spence, “I want you to get Sherman Manning out of prison.” I couldn’t let him stay in prison. I guess that’s why I’ll never be rich… but if each of us little people send the guy fifty, a hundred or whatever we can; eventually justice shall roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. I think I’ll email my posting to Oprah. Think she’ll read it?
We introduce our newsletter. This is the only month we will provide the newsletter on our blog. Those clubs, groups, lawyers, schools, etc., wishing to continue receiving this, must send a note requesting it… Matthew Smith, Michael Marcum, Raphael Sperry, Tucker Brown (Shawnee High School), Chris and Don Ball (Georgetown Univ.)…let us hear from you. We will profile and feature law, journalism and social studies students, law professors, student activists and high school seniors also. Be sure to e-mail this newsletter to all of your friends and family.
Now read “The Greatest Lawyers” dedicated to Attorney Barry Scheck, Cardoza Law School and David Boies.
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N A P S
National Association for Public Safety
Newsletter – February 2006
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The Greatest Lawyers
By: Sherman D. Manning
http://ShermanManning.Blogspot.com
I was thinking about Bishop T.D. Jakes, Rick Warren, Eddie Long and Joel Olsteen the other day. I was wondering if they would be willing to help Barry Scheck do what he does. I thought about Warrick Dunn, Peyton Manning, Oprah, George Soros and Montel Williams. “How could I get them to help Barry?” I thought…I’m writing this international newsletter because I can’t force Oprah, Jakes or anyone else to help Barry Scheck. But rather than curse the darkness, I’ll Light a Candle. I’ve decided to (concisely) tell America and the world what lawyers mean to me…If you ask Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Rolando Cruz, Christopher Ochoa, Dewayne McKinney, Javier Francisco Ovando, Peter Rose or President Nelson Mandela how important a lawyer is; they will tell you. Douglas Tsapkes (President of Innocent) can also attest to the fact that a lawyer is extremely important.
Recently I honored and saluted the Hunton & Williams Law Offices, Sandy D’Alemberte, Palmer & Dodge Law Offices (Lapp, Olson, Goldstein, Bennet), Attorney Rob Briley, Attorney Larissa Hollingsworth and Gerry Spence for their legal brilliance. I also believe we should consider using one of our newsletters each month to profile great trial, civil, criminal and appellate lawyers who have gone beyond the call of duty to obtain justice for their clients… The late, great trial lawyer of the century, Johnnie L. Cochran used to say, “You may be able to guarantee that you will never commit a crime, but you can not guarantee that you will never be charged with or accused of a crime… If you or your father, sister, mother or brother are ever arrested for a crime which you did not commit; I assure you, you’ll want an advocate (lawyer) willing to vigorously, aggressively and successfully fight for your rights.” Mr. Cochran (author of “A Lawyer’s Life”) was awesome. He was one of The Greatest Lawyers.
Kobe Bryant says he was innocent. But Kobe would be in prison convicted of rape today were it not for The Greatest Lawyers. It may seem unimportant today but if one lives long enough, one will (at some point) hear it said or say, “You need a lawyer.”
Some of them are no good. Some of them dump their clients. Some of them are greedy and cold. But then, here comes the Morris Dees, Willie Garys and the Barry Tarlows.
Ask Michael Jackson about lawyers… One of the most brilliant, calculating and artistic lawyers in America is Michael’s lawyer, Tom Mesereau. I am especially moved by the fact that Tom Mesereau also does tons of pro bono work and he founded a poor people’s legal clinic at F.A.M.E. Church in Los Angles.
Leon Friedman? Ask Rubin “Hurricane” Carter who Leon is. He’ll tell you it’s one of his angels… Regardless of the fact that most media like to scandalize lawyers and berate them, I love lawyers.
In my book “Creating Monsters” I talk about how I know Tom Mesereau personally. There is also a lot about him in “From the Palace to the Prison”. I can’t get pastors or media persons to help Barry Scheck. What I can do is use my power. I can allow the 2000 plus persons who come to my blogs daily to know what I think. I think every person ought to go to the web and Google Barry Scheck (c/o Innocent Project/Cardozo Law School, 55 5th Ave. #1701, New York, NY 10003) and find out what you can do to help him. Mr. Scheck specializes in freeing wrongly convicted people from prison. And my brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” clearly explains how/why we must get wrongly convicted people out of prisons…
So (to me) lawyers like Edwin Spencer Matthews, Jr., Ray Hasu, Attorneys Leonard Schroeter, Michael Ratner, Marjorie Cohn, Jill R. Shellow-Lavine, Lorenzo Williams and Paul McMahon are crucial. They are critical… They are surgeons who operate in courtrooms for justice. I don’t care what anyone says - give me Lynn Stewart (even though she was wrongly convicted for representing an unpopular client) Ramsey Clark, John Turley, Tony Serra, Heidi Boghosian, Marty Lederman, Gita Gutierrez or Gerald Uelmen and we will do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. Men like Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Carter, Dewayne McKinney, Kevin Waters, Marcus Dixon…even former President Nelson Mandela would not be where he is (where they are) without lawyers. The Greatest Lawyers. (Editors note: tons of you received this newsletter gratis…Pay it Forward…Award and reward every person mentioned in this newsletter by googling them and e-mailing it to them. So what if they already have it. We are asking you to e-mail this newsletter to at least five people…today.) Sherman D. Manning.
About the editor: Sherman Manning (Sherman Manning, J98796, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640) is a wrongly convicted author. Sherman is an internationally acclaimed scribe, pied piper of Gen X authors, President of NAPS, entrepreneur, motivator, expert in the psychology of change, Joseph Scholar and Founder of the Proxmire/Cunningham Pink Slip Awards. His brand new book “Blue-Eyed Blonde” (www.cafepress.com/manning) is enjoying huge success. For more on NAPS, books, Barry Scheck, etc. go to http://ShermanManning.Blogspot.com, http://Lawfirmtv.Blogspot.com, http://Dashcash.Blogspot.com. Be sure to read the 12/30/2005 postings by Peter Andrist, NAPS and Sherman Manning. Please e-mail Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and let us know you received this newsletter…Thank you.
Special Note: If you have enjoyed this newsletter and would like to continue receiving it gratis, you must snail mail Sherman Manning and simply say “Continue sending me the newsletter.” No un-requested newsletters will be automatically mailed. If you know of any lawyer who has done anything spectacular (i.e. winning a civil, corporate or criminal trial, doing pro bono work, freeing the wrongly accused, etc.) let us know. If you know of any promising law student, journalism or computer student, let us know. This newsletter will be published twice per month. Thanks to stealth support (read “Blue-Eyed Blonde”) from physicians, lawyers and entrepreneurs this newsletter is free. All we ask for are two things: A. Let us know you want to continue receiving it. B. Share it by e-mailing it to at least 5 people today! We want every law school, frat, club, sorority, activist, bar association and civic group to receive at least one copy. So e-mail your civic groups, churches, clubs, groups, etc. a copy today.
Also, this author and NAPS would like to thank our word processor (pwprocessing@aol.com) Patricia Lee, our stealth anonymous supporters and the following: Interview Magazine, OK Magazine, Stuff Magazine, Ebony Magazine, Earl Graves, Bev Smith, Merrill Lynch (www.ML.com) SpeedoUsa, George Deeb, Adam Curry, Facebook.com, Myspace.com, Michael Lefenfeld, Caleb Sima, Chris Austad, Sean Glass (www.higherone.com), Paul Graves (Positivesdating.com), The Trevor Foundation, Quest Youth Group, Attorney Willie Gary, Gerry Spence, Southern Poverty Law Center, NACDL, CACJ, Dr. Arnold Zweig, M.D., F.A.C.S. (www.zweigcenter.com), Dr. Amy M. Simon, M.D., Susan Sarondon, Attorney Carl Douglas, Matt Damon, Dr. Pradeep Sinha, M.D. (facialaesticsurgery.com), Felix Dennis and others… If you would like to have your name added, simply go to www.cafepress.com/manning, order ten (or more) copies of “Blue-Eyed Blonde” and donate them to a high school, library, juvenile, law school, YMCA, prison or Innocence Project. E-mail Hallopeter@freesurf.ch and let us know you’ve placed your order.
Please join our International Prayer Vigil on February 26, 2006. Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, President Nelson Mandela and many others have been notified (see prayer vigil on http://Shermanmanning.Blogspot.com for prayer vigil info). Final reminder: You will not receive this newsletter in two weeks or less, unless you send a traditional missive (snail mail…S. D. Manning, J98796, C-13-203, P.O. Box 409020, Ione, CA 95640) to Sherman Manning today. No one will call or solicit you. Pay it Forward! Let us hear from you!
Cadet Pierce (www.cadet.com) and Jonny Silberman (The Weber School) we salute you!
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