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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 395
Stich was an FAA crash investigator. At the end of one of his first crash investigations he
found that one of the primary causes of the accident was that the airline had many FAA
violations. He put his findings in his report. He recalls that his colleagues told him that he
couldn't do that; they said: “You’re going to get killed!”
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Stich wasn't killed but he was
imprisoned.
Stich wrote a book about his experience and the experiences of many other government
whistleblowers in his book Defrauding America. Stich “was sent to federal prison in 1988, and
then released pending appeal of the decision.” He writes:
The entire Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, denied my appeal in
early 1990, holding that it was proper for Justice Department prosecutors and
federal judges to send a citizen to prison if he or she sought to report federal
crimes and exercised constitutional defenses if a federal judge earlier barred these
acts. I had filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the Justices of the U.S.
Supreme Court, seeking relief, but they upheld this holding. At a hearing on July,
1990, in the U.S. Distric Court at Sacramento, California, Judge Raul Ramirez
unexpectedly ordered the U.S. Marshalls to seize me, followed by a very difficult
five months of being transferred from prison to prison. For the next six weeks I
was placed in solitary confinement in a dimly lit cell, with no one to talk to, and
then transported from prison to prison in leg irons. Everything was done to make
my life miserable, as if they were trying to break my will, or bring about my death
through the aggravation of an existing heart condition. This latest incarceration
backfired, as I discovered a pattern of criminal activity by deeply entrenched
federal officials that were almost beyond comprehension.
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As a result of his terrible experience of being transferred from one federal prison to
another time after time, he met many other government whistleblowers that had been
imprisoned. Stich says that he was cautious about believing everyones stories since they were
convicted criminals. But the stories were consistent and many provided similar facts and details
about the same events without having known each other. Stich would discover that the number of
people incarcerated as whistleblowers was incredible. He also discovered that many suffered
retaliation much more severe than his own.
Stich discovered that “[f]rom 200 to 300 former CIA operatives or assets had been
sentenced to prison by Justice Department prosecutors during the 1980s, on charges arising out
of covert activities they were ordered to perform by their CIA bosses. It was their unanimous
belief that the prosecution of these CIA operatives was either to silence them or to discredit them
if they talked about the operations.”
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According to Stich, “One of the Standard tactics employed to keep the lid on the various
scandals and to silence or discredit whistleblowers is to falsely charge the person with a federal
crime. This is usually followed by seizing his or her assets, depriving the person of funds for
legal defenses. Court appointed attorneys are then furnished who routinely provide a weak
defense so as to protect the silencing tactics.”
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All the power and all the offices of the Federal
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