Please forgive me for taking your valuable time in my
petition to you as a law-abiding, tax-paying former United Airlines Captain who
has landed in a most difficult legal and political quandary. I desperately need your guidance and
assistance.
As we all know, the U.S. airline industry appears to be just
now financially recovering from the devastating effects of 9/11 that was
further exacerbated by outrageously high jet fuel and “give away” airline
ticket prices. Additionally, only
$1.3-billion of the federally-guaranteed loans authorized by the $10-billion
dollar Airline Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) loan program was let,
in part, because applications filed by air carriers failed to include a
provision for the distress-termination of defined-benefit pension plans. This abhorrent act of “legal extortion”
enabled United Airlines to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2002. The other major air carriers soon followed
suit.
I have exhausted many legal and political avenues over the
past several years in my personal attempt to bring to light possible
white-collar criminal activity surrounding what appears to be the recovery of
the airline industry on the financial backs of their employees while
concurrently divesting these corporations of huge defined-benefit pension
obligations. I shouldn’t have had to do
this; I’ve come up against a huge legal and political wall that is insulated by
the Patriot Act. My attempt to scale
that wall will sadly remove my Right of Habeas Corpus as provided by the United
States Constitution. I believe I can go
no further in this process; it is herein that I beg for assistance.
There are individuals, agencies, and organization that feel
they possess incriminating evidence of white-collar criminal activity that
implicates the federal judiciary. I hope
that you are able to negate the following assertions made to me by credible
witnesses regarding existing law involving the indictment and possible
impeachment of a member of the federal judiciary.
It has been alleged that last year when the GOP-controlled
Congress failed to pass legislation denying any citizen of the right to file
federal charges against any federal judge for any reason whatsoever,
certain Supreme Court Justices petitioned the good office of the President of
the United States for an Executive Order (which was granted and signed in proxy
by Karl Rove), that stripped anyone (including honest U.S. citizens) of their
Habeas Corpus rights for attempting to do so.
Is this so? Please tell me that
this is not true. The implication smacks
of an unbridled, unchecked federal judiciary that cannot be indicted or
impeached on any grounds. We are
thus on the brink of degeneration into a fascist plutocracy vice a democratic
republic all under the deceitful guise of national security interests.
I have attached correspondence that outlines my current
dilemma for your review. I personally do
not possess evidence of judicial corruption in the case of the United Airlines
bankruptcy; there are others who do but are precluded from litigating due to
constraints imposed by the Executive Order.
The judicial system is broke. I was
an airline pilot so I can guarantee you that I am clueless as to how to restore
some semblance of U.S. government that citizens once, perhaps delusionally,
imagined existed to represent the interest of its’ citizens. I am seeking neither reputation nor
remuneration, only truth and justice; I shouldn’t even have to take your time
to write you.
Tragically, in light of these facts, I feel that I can no
longer place my faith and trust in the federal judiciary to seek the truth and
serve justice on white-collar criminal activity surrounding airline
bankruptcies. I am a patriot exercising
my freedom of speech and right to representation while demanding a fair and
impartial justice system. The only legal and political recourse in these
matters would be the referral of possible criminal issues to a House
investigation hopefully leading to a full Senate hearing. I have personally petitioned Congressmen and
Senators as is evidenced in the enclosed correspondence.
Restore our faith in the federal government and the federal
judiciary. Drain the swamp; rid our
federal government of the culture of corruption. I am very sad that I even had to write this
letter. I shouldn’t have had to. Don’t you agree, gentlemen?
Thank you for your time.
I will patiently await your response.
Very Respectfully,
Dan Hanley
Encl: Letter dated
April 6, 2006 to DOJ, DOT, and DHS
Letter dated
April 12, 2006 to Congressman Henry Waxman
Letter dated
November 18, 2006 to Senators Reid, Durbin, and Obama
Letter dated
November 20, 2006 to District Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
Letter dated
November 26, 2006 to Senator Carl Levin
Cc: Senator Harry
Reid
Senator Carl
Levin
Senator
Richard Durbin
Senator
Barak Obama
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
Congressman
Henry Waxman
Congressman
George Miller
Congressman
Jerry Costello
U.S.
District Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald
Glenn
Tilton, CEO United Airlines
Jack Brace,
CFO United Airlines
Paul
Lovejoy, General Counsel United Airlines
Captain Mark
Bathurst, Chairman, United ALPA MEC
Robert
Nichols, Attorney, United ALPA MEC
Dr. Donald
Hudson, ALPA National Aeromedical Consultant
