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An Old Article when some of the Condit banners were waving.

 
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benn



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:29 pm    Post subject: An Old Article when some of the Condit banners were waving. Reply with quote

Here is an old article that was on google alert today. I did not find it in one of jane's biography lists. I sent Mary Mostert an email this morning.

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Do The Levys And The Media Owe Gary Condit An Apology?
May 29, 2002
By Mary Mostert, Banner of Liberty

Last summer, when the search for Chandra Levy was at fever pitch, the

nation’s media, especially the television networks, did a real hatchet

job on Congressman Gary Condit, based entirely on an unidentified leak

from the Washington, D. C. police department.

Over time, in the minds of most Americans, the charge in the “leak”

that Gary Condit “admitted” having a “romantic relationship” with

Chandra Levy became a fact. Gary Condit, a man who married at age

twenty and thirty-four years later is still married to the same woman,

was vilified as an adulterer and, possibly a murderer.

I received some of the most incredible e-mail during that period of

time from people who had it all worked out in their heads as to how

Gary Condit killed Levy, why he killed her and where the body was

buried. I also received an e-mail with a picture of Chandra sitting in

front of government buildings in Israel and a story that she was

actually in Israel in hiding. Naturally, I didn’t use the picture,

knowing how easy it is to fake pictures these days.

I would write back and ask how it was possible for Gary Condit to have

worked a murder and hiding a body into his busy schedule on the House

floor on May 1, 2001, when he voted several times. I received replies

saying he could have accomplished it all in the two hours between votes

by “driving to Chandra’s apartment, killing her and hiding the body.”

Since Condit almost never drives a car to the Capitol, I thought his

ability to do that, on foot, would have probably been a superhuman

feat.

Of course now that Chandra Levy’s remains have been found, we suddenly

are getting information apparently kept secret by the media and the

Washington Police about two other attacks on women in Rock Creek Park

within days or weeks of Chandra’s disappearance. Many other questions

need to be answered.

Why did the Washington Police only make a short search of Rock Creek

Park after they had arrested Ingmar Guandeque, who attacked the two

female joggers in the same area of the Park Levy’s body was found? Why

wasn’t Gaundeque’s first reported attack, a mere two weeks after

Chandra’s disappearance, ever mentioned by the media? And, why did it

take the second attack by the same man who is now serving a 10 year

prison term for those attacks (1) on July 1, 2002 to move the

Washington Police to finally search Rock Creek Park? And, since both of

the other attacks took place near where Levy’s remains were recently

found, why did the police fail to thoroughly search that section of the

park, instead of wasting so much time and personnel questioning Gary

Condit, searching his apartment and demanding lie detector tests?

Everyone knows that a real suspect cannot, under our Constitution, be

required to take a test which could lead to them testifying against

themselves. While Gaundeque did not volunteer having killed Chandra

Levy, he obviously should be the #1 suspect - beginning about May 15,

2001. Why was his very existence kept a secret while the media whipped

up a concocted frenzy of suspicion and hate for Gary Condit?

Condit’s hometown paper, the Modesto Bee, reported Monday, “Media

interest in Levy wanes.” (2) Even Fox News, which had almost daily

demands for the resignation of Condit last summer, is not giving the

new turn of events much time and space. Robert Zimmerman, a spokesman

for Fox News Channel in New York, stated: “Already, Fox has scaled back

its talk-show coverage of the case. Her body was found. Now it’s a

whodunit. When there are breaks in the case, there will be some

coverage."

Finding the body was not needed when Fox News and other media were

trying, convicting and sentencing Gary Condit to political oblivion for

his supposed “affair,” based on an unverifiable “rumor.” Gary Condit

cooperated with the police, but he correctly observed that it’s not the

job of the media to investigate the disappearance of Chandra Levy.

Unfortunately, the police did a very poor job of investigating and

added fuel to the media’s fire.

Condit even answered the media’s incredibly stupid questions, such as

Connie Chung’s “Did you kill Chandra Levy?” (3) However, he refused to

discuss his relationship with Chandra Levy to satisfy the sexual

curiosity of reporters. Was it romantic? What did they do? Did Chandra

have a crush on him? She dreamed of “being faithful” to him, a married

man, for “five years until he retired from politics” and then “getting

married and having his baby.”

Right. What every sixty-year-old retiree needs is a new wife, a new

baby and a wrecked family?

Actually, there’s a lot that Fox News could be talking about. For

starters, it could apologize for destroying Condit’s reputation and for

trying to wreck the Condit family. They didn’t succeed in wrecking his

family. In the words of Chad and Cadee Condit, the Congressman’s son

and daughter who resigned $110,00 and $52,000 per year jobs in Governor

Gray Davis’ office over the governor’s negative comments about their

dad, (4) “The Condits are a very proud and loyal family, not only in

the good times but in the darkest hours." That commitment to their

family cost all working members of the Condit family their jobs.

Some of the most vicious web sites on the Internet are aimed at Gary

Condit. And, I suspect the solidarity of his family will make some of

those web sites even more vicious. Gary Condit is still smiling. In an

era when most American families are floundering, the strength and

solidarity of the Condit family is, or should be, inspiring to others.

Bill Clinton was not driven out of office, even though there was a huge

amount of proof laid out in court cases and the Starr Report. Gary

Condit has been driven out of office with absolutely no proof that he

has done anything immoral, much less illegal.

I think Condit’s wife Carolyn and his children Chad and Cadee know a

whole lot more about the kind of person Congressman Gary Condit is than

the rumor mongering commentators and reporters who simply have

speculated about what “might” have happened - just like the people who

wrote me e-mail about Levy being buried in a parking lot in Virginia or

hiding out in Israel. It was mostly speculation, rumor and outright

lies.

I think a lot of people, including Chandra’s parents, should be ashamed

of themselves for what they have done to Gary Condit and what they have

tried very hard to do to the Condit family. It’s cost the Condit family

a small fortune in money - but the most important thing - their family

- has survived.

Links:
1. U.S. Department of Justice - February 8, 2002 - Attacker of women in

Rock Creek Park receives 10-year prison sentence
2. Modesto Bee - May 27, 2002 - Media interest in Levy wanes
3. Banner of Liberty - Chung’s Silly Question: "Did You Kill Chandra

Levy?"- August 24, 2001
4. CNN August 28, 2001 - “The Condits are a very proud and loyal

family, not only in the good times but in the darkest hours."

Comments



Mary Mostert was writing professionally on political issues as a

teen-ager in Memphis, Tennessee in the 1940s. In the 1960s, she wrote a

weekly column for the Rochester Times Union, a Gannett paper and was

one of 52 American women who attended the 17 Nation Disarmament

Conference in Geneva, Switzerland to ban testing of nuclear bombs in

the atmosphere. She was a licensed building contractor for 29 years, as

she raised her six children. She served an 18 month mission as Public

Affairs Director for the Africa Area for The Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints in 1990-91. In the 1990s she wrote a book, Coming

Home, Families Can Stop the Unraveling of America, edited the Reagan

Monthly Monitor and talk show host Michael Reagan’s Information

Interchange for seven years. She now operates the website, Banner of

Liberty.

Send the author an Email at Mostert@ConservativeTruth.org

To read more, visit Mary Mostert's article archives

Visit Mary Mostert's web site at Banner of Liberty<<

I don't know what made this doublespace. The page that I copied was not doublespaced.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The double spacing makes it easier to read, Benn. Why it happened, who knows, but it's a good thing.

That article rots your socks, doesn't it? That woman must be a Condit relative or a friend of the family?

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, this was the most common opinion held among opinion columnists such as Mostert. I had email exchanges witha few of them which helped me make sure I addressed that point of view in Murder on a Horse Trail.

The point of view was held by a certain percentage of people, opinion writers leading among them. Rich typifies this point of view, for example. There is nothing Condit specific about it, they see themselves as defenders of liberty against an instrusive and condemning media, even Fox News in this case.

There's always a certain degree of justification for most views, including this one. I find that they don't like facts, so giving people like this facts privately is a waste of time. I tried it. They don't like it. In the end, they don't think that a case should be discussed. Just report the official law enforcement statements and move on, nothing to see here is their mantra.

Their view is culminated by a position that "authorities" are the only ones who need to deal with criminal cases and all we need to do is show up for the hanging, and don't ask any pesky questions.

With as many facts as this person Mary Mostert got wrong, I am surprised that anyone would give any credence to the conclusions she drew from them, and quite frankly, I doubt that anyone did.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

>> Their view is culminated by a position that "authorities" are the only ones who need to deal with criminal cases and all we need to do is show up for the hanging, and don't ask any pesky questions.<<

That was exactly what Condit's public viewpoint was. From page 129 of "Murder on a Horse Trail."


"As quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, the statement read:

'It is not appropriate for any of us to make
any further public comments about the facts of
this case or to speculate about a matter that
is under police investigation." Condit, 53,
six-term congressman, said in a prepared
statement.

'All of us should focus our attention on
getting her home,' he said."

These contrary opinions are good to read, such as the article by Mary Mostert. They make it easier to find the truth.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That point of view of hiding behind non-disclosure so that that it remains unknown to the public that they themselves are lying to the police and refusing to answer questions under oath is only helpful to the guilty. At every level of our society, disclosure in open forums is the only way to shed light on the truth.

People who have something to hide don't want a light shed on them. When they hide sexual affairs with the same vigor of hiding a murder, then for all practical purposes there is no apparent difference.

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