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Continued from page 85 believe that what started out with discover- emergencies; I had been caught in Iranian
ing deadly air safety and criminal viola- revolutions. All these stressful conditions
ing high-level government corruption," tions at United Airlines could have such put together did not equal the fear I now
Stich explained. "That's okay if you report devastating consequences for me... experienced...
misconduct of industry, and that industry is "How could I be in prison for refusing to "I looked at the plastic bags used for
not being protected by high-level govern- commit the crime of cover-up? Where laundry and other purposes and thought
ment management. Let me quickly men- _ were the media, the so-called protectors how peaceful things could suddenly
tion that over a period of years, as I'm get- against government tyranny’... become if one were slipped over one's head
ting more publicity, I'm getting more and "It was all so incomprehensible. Ihad and the misery ended. The primary thing
more government agents coming to me all _ been financially well off. I had a good life. preventing me from doing such a thing was
the time. I can think of a dozen of these I had a reputation throughout the United the hope that I could expose the corruption
people who attempted to report serious, States as an air safety activist, and sudden- in government and somehow motivate the
high-level government corruption and suf- ly I found myself in prison and stripped of | American people to exercise their responsi-
fered retaliation." the assets I'd worked for the past 20 years _blities under our form of government.
to acquire, all because I felt a sense of | What a dreamer I must have been."
DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL responsibility... Not only a dreamer, Rodney Stich is a
Defrauding America is essential reading "Sometimes I just wanted to die. The courageous individual who has put his
for everyone who cares about freedom. It's _ strain of all this was getting to me. Flung _ sense of justice above everything else.
exhilarating—and disheartening—because into prison, things looked bleak.
it contains hard evidence of state-sponsored Everything was accumulating: the six Continued in the next issue of NEXUS...
terrorism by the US Government against its _ years of judicial persecution; the loss of my
own citizens. home, my business, my assets; the humilia- About the Author
When Rodney Stich found himself in tion, the character assassination, the loss of _ Uri Dowbenko is a writer and syndicated
prison because of his whistleblower activi- privacy and the hopelessness. There is Columnist. His "alt.media" column is an enter-
ties, his own personal nightmare was in full only so much a person can stand. It caused taining and informative critique of current
— . oe rr movies, books and pop culture with a social
swing. me to think more than once of ending it all. and political commentary. Samples of the col-
"Many times I thought to myself: 'My Thad been through World War II as a navy mn can be obtained from: alt.media, PO
God, how can this be happening to me? _ pilot in the Pacific; I had flown for almost Box 43, Pray, Montana, 59065, USA; website,
This can't be!'" he writes. "I couldn't 50 years, experiencing all kinds of aircraft