Author: mopress

Dear Friends:

Below is a letter received from my husband, Ramsey Muniz.
He is in good health and we remain steadfast in our
struggle to obtain his freedom. We thank our families,
friends, and supporters for their inspiration, love, and support.

We also extend our gratitude to Kiko Salazar and
Agusin C. Eichwald who will present a workshop on the
Ramsey Muniz case at the National Latino Congreso in
Los Angeles, California.

We ask all supporters to please forward the two attached
documents to your senators and congressmen asking that they
become involved in this humanitarian issue.

Irma Muniz

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10/1/07

My Dearest Wife:

For the last several years I have had the ultimate
desire of sharing with my wife, family,
Hispanics/Latinos/Chicanos/Mexicanos, and the entire world
my non-acceptance of the sentence of imprisonment without
parole. It is actually a death sentence knowing that one is
to in prison without the constitutional right of obtaining
parole or freedom.

My constitutional rights were violated during trial,
but more importantly I am innocent of the crimes for which
I was charged. I am innocent today for the death sentence
bestowed upon my life. I will be innocent tomorrow. The
federal courts and overly zealous U.S. attorneys and others
will have to live with my innocence in the future and forever.

Every day and night I will struggle with all the spiritual
power within me to be a free man once again. I refuse to die
in the prisons of America knowing from the beginning that my
innocence would one day set me free.

In the next couple of months I will begin serving my
fourteenth year in this mode of darkness, sadness, and
loneliness. Almost two years ago I became gravely ill at the
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. I was taken to surgery at
a local hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, as I almost died.

My wife, Irma, was present during this entire ordeal. I shared
with her the power of enlightenment that came within my soul
during the days and nights that I fought to live — not
knowing whether or not I would survive. I know now that a
power greater than me and anyone else decided that I was to stay
alive and continue with the struggle of my freedom. It is my
destiny and in reality history will reflect that freedom —
the right to be free – has been a part of my life from the
beginning.

I’m aware of the fact that many have decided to be
personal judge and jury regarding this unconstitutional
matter which has taken a toll of fourteen years of my life.
I pray for their souls, knowing deep in my heart that some do
not know what they do, while others DO know whey they make such
drastic and harsh judgements upon my life, having full
knowledge that I served various years in the torturous
conditions of solitary confinement, at times being in total
cold darkness.

My wife, Irma, came with the strength,
courage, and power of love to bring life, light, and instill
the reason for me to stay alive during those times. There
is love and forgiveness in my heart for those who refuse to
assist with my freedom. I only ask them to step aside
and let us continue with our path toward reopening my case,
having me transferred back to Texas, and becoming a free man
once again.

To Irma, my family, and those close to my heart after
all these years of confinement, I promise that I will never
stop fighting to become free. I refuse to die in the prisons
of America.

We seek the support of every person and organization concerned
about humanity, and ask that they support our efforts to have me
transferred back to Texas. We were already in the process of
taking the necessary steps to prove my innocence once and for
all, but I was removed from my legal constitutional American
right to demonstrate that there is justice in the courts of
the United States.

Constitutional law is my passion. During my years at
Baylor Law School I received the highest grades in constitutional
law. Freedom is not free. One must struggle with his/her life
to prove the essence and existence of freedom.

Sinceramente,
Ramsey

“A life sentence without parole, in my case, is constitutionally
a death sentence.”

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www.freeramsey.com

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Checking in with No Nonsense in November, we found a refreshed page layout and video. See for yourself. It will be a battle of turnout to turn back this filthy little pander wagon. So get your ballots in early.

On Monday, October 10 from 6:00-7:30PM at the Bush School Fountain, a
coalition of campus and community groups is gathering for a peaceful
protest against the ideas of Samuel Huntington. That evening,
Huntington will be giving a Texas A&M University Distinguished
Faculty Lecture inside the Bush School, and our protest outside is a
response.

Our coalition:

* Opposes Huntington’s ideas and his disparaging views of
immigrants. We celebrate Mexican, Mexican American, and Latino
cultures, support a multicultural vision of American society, and
embrace America’s diverse immigrant heritages.

* Supports the rights of people with whom we disagree to express
their views, and we do not oppose Huntington’s right to speak.
We also assert our right to express our dissent.

* Believes that Texas A&M University should raise the
starting pay for all full time workers to a living wage. Samuel
Huntington, a man whose work disparages Mexican and Mexican American
culture, is being paid $10,000 for one evening’s work. At the same
time, over 800 of TAMU’s full time workers, many of whom are Mexican
American, are paid poverty wages. We urge Texas A&M to fully fund
the Living Wage Initiative. (For more on the Living Wage Initiative,
see http://jpi.tamu.edu/LivingWage/)

The protest coalition includes Faculty and Staff Committed to
an
Inclusive Campus, Make Aggieland Safe for Everyone, the League of
United Latin American Citizens, The Mexican American and Latino Faculty
Association, and Comunidad Luchando Unida Por La Educacion (Community
United in the Struggle for Education). Come join us!

Harris M. Berger
FSCIC Co-Chair

Faculty and Sttaff Committed to an Inclusive Campus

[See Countering Huntington below–gm]