while the arizona newspapers are demonizing gary tredway and howard mechanic as being a liar, a manipulator who spun his resume from whole cloth a political wannabe who tried to con the voting public.
despite demonizing gary tredway most of the newspapers got the facts straight end admitted that mr tredway was being screw by the government and did not deserve 5 years in jail for throwing a firecracker during a vietnam war protest.
for the last 30 years gary tredway / howard mechanic has been a model citizen and business man.
the real evil people are the people in the government who did in howard mechanic and forced him to become fugitive gary tredway.
on may 5, 1970 there was a vietnam war protest at an air force rotc building at washington university. the building was fire bombed and howard mechanic is accused of hurling a cherry bomb at the firefighters.
howard mechanic always denied throwing the firecracker. but even if he did throw the firecracker the punishment does not fit the crime.
on oct 19, 1970 howard mechanic was sentenced to 5 years in jail for the alleged throwing of the firecracker.
on may 22, 1972 the us court of appeals upheld his harsh conviction.
what howard mechanic did was stupid, illegal, and could have hurt some one if the firecracker landed near a human.
if one of my kids did it would give them a strong lecture on what they did is a dangerous act that could have hurt someone and told them not to do it again. and i would drop it at that.
if i was a judge i would have done the same thing and maybe put the guy on probation.
but the real crime here is the government attempting to jail howard machanic for 5 years for a crime of almost nothing.
the government did a lot of other wrong things in those days too.
on may 4, 1970 at a vietnam war protest ohio national gaurdsmen kill 4 kids at kent state university. the gaurdsmen also wounded 9 other kids. the criminal gaurdsmen were never arrested nor were they punished.
the vietnam war was unconstitional, illegal, and violated international law. but congress never once stepped in to impeach any of the presidents involved in this illegal war.
the american government killed over 50,000 kids who were sent off to the vietnam war. many more were wounded and maimed for life.
the american government kill, maimed, and firebombed thousands of vietnamese women, children, and men. criminal acts on the part of the american government.
in modern times a government sniper kill vicky weaver. the government sniper was not punished.
and in waco texas the fbi, and btaf killed almost 100 women and children in a church in waco texas. again the fbi and btaf agents were not charged with any crimes or punished.
this list could be expanded to 100 if not thousands of pages about the crimes commited by the government.