Re: This ohio woman MUST BE a MUSLIM TERRORIST in disguise

["McGinn" <McGinn@xxxxxxxxx>]

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"McGinn" <McGinn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Dr. Elsebeth Baumgartner (born May 12, 1955) is a former attorney and
> current CEO of Cleveland Genomics, Inc. (which provides DNA sequencing
> services), and has doctorate degrees both in law and in pharmacy. Dr.
> Baumgartner graduated first in her entering class from the University
> of Toledo College of Law. She is a Christian and the mother of two
> adult daughters by her husband, pharmacist Joseph Baumgartner. She is
> currently facing criminal charges in the U.S. state of Ohio carrying
> prison sentences of 66 years and 6 months in one case, and 42 years and
> 6 months in another case, for peaceful political speech. Currently she
> is free on bail.[1][2]
>
> The specific criminal charges against Dr. Baumgartner are intimidation,
> retaliation, falsification and possession of a criminal tool (the
> criminal tool being a laptop computer) for her criticizing Ohio
> government officials and accusing them of corruption, such as against
> retired Judge Richard Markus. [3] Note that Dr. Baumgartner isn't being
> accused of making threats to aggress against anyone, but that the
> intimidation and retaliation charges directly refer to her accusations
> of corruption on the part of Ohio government officials.
>
>
> Dr. Baumgartner previously had served 231 days in jail on the charge of
> falsification for accusing Ohio government officials of corruption at a
> Port Clinton City Commissioner's meeting (i.e., a city council
> meeting). [4] Ten of those days were spent being held incommunicado,
> having been denied access to legal counsel, visitors, clergy, the
> opportunity to make a phone call, and not allowed to send mail out or
> receive mail. [5]
>
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> In 2003, Dr. Baumgartner was permanently disbarred as an attorney for
> accusing Ohio government officials of corruption in a hearing where she
> was not allowed to be present and where the sole evidence against her
> was those who had been accused of corruption denying the charges. [6]
> In December 2005, Dr. Baumgartner was committed against her will for 39
> days to the North Coast Hospital under court order for a mental
> evaluation, even though Ohio state law requires that a person released
> on bond, as Dr. Baumgartner is, be evaluated on an out-patient basis.
> She was found competent. Two times previously she had been
> psychologically evaluated, and each time found competent. [7]
>
>
> A number of critics of the actions taken against Dr. Baumgartner by the
> Ohio judiciary contend that she is being made a political prisoner in
> order to silence her and punish her for speaking out on government
> corruption by the very parties accused of corruption as a means to
> protect themselves from the legitimate consequences of their crimes and
> to make an example out of her by creating a chilling effect to
> intimidate others from speaking out against their corruption.
> [8][9][10][11] These critics note that she has already been jailed for
> peaceful political speech and that the Ohio government is currently
> attempting to imprison her for a total of 109 years for peaceful
> political speech. Such critics further contend that even if all of her
> accusations were false that a person ought not be made a criminal or
> suffer imprisonment for mere peaceful speech (i.e., not threatening to
> aggress against another), even if said speech is false, and that the
> ultimate reason for the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is
> precisely so that people can be free to criticize the government and
> officials in government, and say things which said officals greately
> dislike, without fear of retaliation by the government.
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