Day 112 – The Catalyst of the Press
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Original Entry: Tuesday, 10/12/21
Morning:Â Up at 7 AM. Much better night sleep. Worked on Walking Distance type-up.
Lunch:Â CK Parm, spaghetti, spinach, apple crisp.
The News: Got 3 BDN (Bangor Daily News) in true prison fashion—nothing for days, then all at once. Community shared paper; 7 or 8 people on the list for it. Read that a new U.S. Attorney, Darcie McElwee, is about to become the head of the DOJ in Maine. Original note: "not sure if I'm gonna mess with that."
Media:Â Get Him to the Greek, Role Models.
Four Years Later: The Retrospective
Though I wouldn't actually send my first FOIA request for another nine days, Day 112 was significant because this is where the machine started to smoke.
I was receiving the Bangor Daily News (BDN)Â from home, which was a sacred community lifeline passed down a waiting list of 7 or 8 Mainers. In the bundle that arrived that day was the article detailing how Darcie McElwee was the new head of the DOJ in Maine. Her public platform was about keeping her office "open, visible"Â ensuring ethical conduct, and rooting out any corruption in her department.
That’s when I started thinking. My case was about as far from "transparent" as you can get. If she truly wanted to clean house, she needed to know about the Walmart Theft Ring (WTR) pretext. The DOJ didn't care about the Orphan Works; they cared about the corporate "squeeze," and they used a low-level "snitch specialist" prosecutor to get it.
The relationship between the WTR and my Copyright trial was the exact kind of pretextual corruption McElwee was publicly insinuating went on before.. Hmmm... The first FOIA was a strategic "stumble" that haunts me now, but it was just the first step on a Journey for the Truth that I am still engaged in today. I was about to test if they truly wanted "The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth."
