Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 10, 2011

Larry Fairfax, a man from northern Idaho who admits to planting a pipe bomb on an SUV driven by Cyndi Steele ? and then lying to investigators about the device -- was sentenced to 27 months in prison for a firearms violation. Cyndi Steele?s husband, attorney Edgar J. Steele, was sentenced to a term of 50 years for supposedly plotting with Fairfax to murder his wife.

The evidence connecting Steele to Fairfax?s crime was a third-generation copy of a digital recording of alleged conversations between the two men. Dr. George Papcun, perhaps the world?s leading expert on voice recognition and a consultant to several federal agencies, concluded that there was ?a reasonable degree of scientific probability that [the recordings] do not represent a true and valid representation of reality and they are unreliable.?

Federal District Judge Lynn Winmill, who presided at Steele?s criminal trial, refused to allow Dr. Papcun to testify.

Steele, a civil rights attorney who often defended neo-Nazis and other unpopular clients, describes himself as a political prisoner targeted for his professional actions. Steele?s wife maintains his innocence, insisting that he was framed by Fairfax ? who stole a large amount of silver from the family ? with the aid of the FBI. The preponderance of evidence suggests that this is exactly what happened.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.