Arrest warrant issued after man skips sentencing
Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/news/cookstory.asp?id=327028&cc=c&tc=&t=
Arrest warrant issued after man skips sentencing
By Ashok Selvam
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007
The day after Hoffman Estates police arrested Christopher Lee Bollyn in August, he posted his account of events on the Internet.
“I honestly believe this brutal treatment is connected to my 9/11 research,” Bollyn wrote. “I intend to seek asylum in Norway or Switzerland. I can read the writing on the wall.”
Whatever his current whereabouts, Bollyn is indeed now considered a fugitive. He was a no-show at Monday’s sentencing hearing and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. He remained at large late Wednesday.
On June 5, a jury convicted Bollyn, 50, with misdemeanor aggravated assault and resisting arrest in an August 2006 scuffle with three Hoffman Estates police officers.
He was facing up to a year in jail for the conviction.
Bollyn has written pieces alleging the government covered up a Sept. 11 conspiracy and has said the arrest was an attempt to suppress him.
Though motions were filed to appeal the verdict, Bollyn’s attorney, Paul Moreschi, said Monday he didn’t know his client’s whereabouts. Moreschi couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday.
A man who answered the door at Bollyn’s home Wednesday — whom neighbors and police identified as Bollyn’s brother — declined comment. Neighbors said they haven’t seen Bollyn’s immediate family in weeks.
Bollyn’s wife, Helje Kaskel, is from Estonia and the family frequently traveled outside the country.
Judge Hyman Riebman said Bollyn wasn’t a flight risk when denying the prosecution’s request to revoke bond. Riebman noted after the verdict that Bollyn is a lifelong Hoffman Estates resident who attended his previous court dates.
“There’s frustration when we go through a jury trial and you think that the truth is heard … You want to see it finalized,” said Cook County prosecutor James Pontrelli.
Hoffman Estates police are treating Bollyn’s warrant the same as any other misdemeanor, Lt. Rich Russo said.
Police already have questioned the brother and are looking at “reasonable” leads. The department has no plans at this time to travel overseas in search of Bollyn.
“If we felt him as a danger to the public, we would have stepped up our efforts to apprehend him,” Russo said.
Bollyn’s views, which include Holocaust denial, led him to appear him regularly on former Ku Klux Klan leader and politician David Duke’s radio show. He also was interviewed by CNN’s Paula Zahn about 9/11 conspiracies, telling her he wasn’t an anti-Semite.
Bollyn has not updated his Web site or made any known postings on other Web sites since his conviction. However, several supporters have posted messages on his Web site backing the idea that he should seek overseas asylum.
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Run Chris Run
Run away to fight another day, Reporterman. Defy the machinery of the system. The folks are still sleeping and waking from this one takes time.
Eventually they will try to hunt down every true investigative reporter whose findings are not in line with the Official Story. This is getting like the 1930s when the great writer Thomas Mann had to flee his homeland of Germany to go to Switzerland because of Hitler's penchant for arresting college professors, investigative reporters, artists, and intellectuals whose opinions were a real bummer for the image that the Reich was trying to create.
9/11 truth will not be stopped. The arrogant and wicked schemers have "misunderestimated" the spirit of the people. They will lose. They will be shut up in the prisons that history has waiting for them.
Don't blame him one bit
The Machine has always and will always target aggressive, incisive = effective exposure. Any threatened beast would do the same.
Anybody else here getting the creeping feeling that the "Second 9/11" has long been cooked up and will be sprung once sheeple-awakening reaches anything close to critical mass? It's a ghastly leap of imagination: what this society will be like if/when Martial Law is imposed.
My correspondence with dailyherald.com
Re: Chris Bollyn
I'm really tired of the crap that many reporters try and pawn off onto us these days. I'm concerned by the treatment Chris Bollyn, Luke Rudkowski, Matt Lepacek, and others have received at the hand of jack-booted goons masquerading as law enforcement. You can't talk to a goon. They don't understand english. However, I thought I'd give a reporter a try.
Hello Erin Holmes,
In your story, "One-time Hoffman Estates mayoral candidate wanted",
"The saga began last August, when Bollyn - a self-described journalist who
lost out in the city’s 2000 mayoral primary - called 911 to report a
suspicious sedan driving in his neighborhood."
Would you please define the term "self-described journalist"? I cannot
find a definition of the term, only its use by other journalists,
generally as a derogatory reference to another. Also, could you explain
the difference(s) between a "self-described journalist" and other
"journalists" such as yourself?
Christopher Bollyn is a correspondent with American Free Press newspaper,
according to the americanfreepress.net web site. The American Free Press
is primarily available newsprint form. It appears to me that Mr. Bollyn
is just a regular a journalist as opposed to a "self-described
journalist", as you have labeled him. Can you understand my confusion?
Thank you,
Dick Tater (haha)
Here is the reply I received from Erin Holmes:
Sir:
Thank you for your note.
I'm the new person on our courts beat -- it's a new assignment after eight years
with the paper -- and I took many pieces of the Bollyn story word-for-word from
previous articles as I was not the one who wrote those earlier pieces and was not
fully acquainted with the case.
"Self-Described" is how it's been worded before; I will certainly consider your
point in the future. I believe you make a good point.
Erin
Maybe there is a smidgen of hope.
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