Greetings
Mr. Anderson:
My name is Mark S. "Bear" Daniels and I am the
Editor of Silver State News Service (SSNS), which covers
the State of Nevada but is located in Van Nuys,
California, with my other publications at this time.
I am interested in filing a complaint with the General
Accounting Office regarding possible criminal misconduct
and Civil Rights violations by the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA).
On September 14, 2004, I was arrested by members of the
Reno Air Racing Association (RARA), including President
and CEO Michael J. Houghton and Deputy Police Chief Tom
Robins(on), Reno Police Department, who serves as
Director of Security and Chairman of RARA, as well as a
Board of Directors there.
I was placed under Citizen's arrest by these two and
charged with Misdemeanor Trespass. I have and will
continue to be reporting stories about Criminal
Misconduct involving RARA and the Airport Authority of
Washoe County (AAWC), in regards to attempts to defraud
the United States Government out of FAA Airport
Improvement Program (AIP) Grant funds, and other crimes
conducted at Reno-Stead Airport, including unlawful
closure of a Public Airport, Racketeering and Conspiracy
to Commit Murder and Attempted Murder in a Murder for
Profit Scheme, with potential multiple victims.
In placing me under arrest, both men cited having a
waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
giving them the Authority to conduct the arrest. I claim
a First Amendment Right to cover their event, the Reno
National Championship Air Races, as it is a Public event,
conducted by a Public, Non-profit Corporation, for the
Public Benefit.
Both men perjured themselves at my trial on the
Misdemeanor Trespass charge by indicating they had the
lawful right to arrest a Journalist, who was in the
conduct of an investigation relating to criminal charges
alleged or known against them, RARA and the AAWC. As a
result of their perjury, I lost the initial trial and am
now in the Appeals process.
I am also a Disabled Veteran. They claimed the right to
"exclude" (discriminate against) me from the
event, though they receive military support in the form
of personnel, equipment, to include aircraft, and fly
pasts at Public/Government expense.
They claim total control over the airport as
"Primary Tenant," and further, have been
awarded control of the Airport by no less than Krys Bart,
Director, of the AAWC, whom has twice dodged interviews
with me and referred me to RARA on all Stead Airport
matters, as opposed to the Director of the Airport there,
one Raymond A. "Skip" Polack, her subordinate.
Furthermore, I'm an individual who does business at the
airport including aircraft rental, hiring of pilot(s),
purchase of fuel and other merchandise on Airport
grounds. Stead Airport is a Public Airport which is also
the site of the Reno National Championship Air Races.
Within the past five years, the RARA violated their
fiduciary trust to the Reno National Championship Air
Race organization and the Community who owns them, by
selling land to the AAWC that was racecourse land. In
making the sale, RARA personnel who worked for and were
on active duty with the AAWC illegally, made the sale
back to the parent organization. The AAWC receives FAA
AIP Grant funding. The provisions of the AIP are such
that all land under the control of an organization
receiving AIP funding are considered "Airport
Property."
The AAWC is receiving substantial, multi-million dollar
funding amounts from the AIP, but claiming the property
they have purchased -- which was Airport Land being
utilized Lawfully for "Aviation Purposes," per
the provisions of the AIP, is now "Private
Property" and not subject to AIP provisions, though
the provisions themselves mandate this fact.
In attempting to claim the property as "Private
Property," the AAWC (a Public Agency) is attempting
to bypass EPA clean up orders for pollution on and in the
land and subsequently, water tables beneath the land.
Further, the AAWC is attempting to bypass illegally the
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA),
requirements for archaeological investigation for Native
American artifacts and possible historic sites on the
lands in question, and further, the Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) regarding development of the land.
The plan in developing the land will result in the
shutdown of the Reno National Championship Air Races
(RNCAR), in that, a "Reno-Stead Airport Regional
Business Center" is being "aggressively"
pursued and planned for development by the AAWC with many
non-aviation-related businesses to be placed there,
including Industrial Manufacturing and Warehousing
facilities of small to large volume and physical sizes,
among other non-aviation related business developments.
These plans are already introducing 120 kV power lines
into the area, along with Power Sub-stations with 50 foot
structures in and around Reno-Stead Airport and other
sections of land, some of which are near at least one
other airport and will present a substantial hazard to
BLM and Department of Forestry Air Attack units, aircraft
and their pilots, not to mention Police, Medical,
Military and Air Racing flight activities.
From all appearances, documentation, evidence, laws,
regulations, testimony and other pertinent information
and materials, the local FAA is in collusion with RARA
and the AAWC by assisting the Development Plan. The local
FAA have refused providing appointment, interview and
information, and have stonewalled me by forwarding me to
Los Angeles.
Officials from the Reno offices were extremely cautious,
nervous, anxious and appeared hostile over the phone
toward my inquiries. I contacted Los Angeles FAA and they
have not returned my calls. I am informed, believe and
thereon allege, that one FAA Official minimum from the
Reno offices, who had oversight of RARA, the AAWC and
Stead Airport operations and compliance, left the FAA
offices in Reno and immediately became a consultant to
the AAWC on the Business Center development and other FAA
oversight issues at Reno-Stead and Reno, Nevada, in
direct violation of FAA rules and regulations, not to
mention other Government rules, regulations and Laws,
regarding Conflicts of Interest, Standards of Ethical and
Business Conduct, and proprietary issues relating to Law
Enforcement by the FAA and oversight of those under the
FAA's allegedly watchful eye.
Further, I am informed, believe and thereon allege, that
there are National implications involving fraud by the
FAA in regards to its own AIP Grant program rules, in
that the FAA appears to be allowing communities to
utilize Airport lands for non-aviation purposes, even
though the local communities are subscribed to AIP Grant
rules and regulations, then turning around and holding
the communities responsible for payments to the FAA for
lands misappropriated for non-aviation, commercial
business operations.
I am writing to demand an investigation of my charges. My
complaint is NOT, I repeat, NOT an Anonymous Complaint.
My contact information is as follows:
Mark S. "Bear" Daniels
Editor
Silver State News Service
www.silverstatenews.com
5606 Calhoun Avenue # 5
Van Nuys, California 91401
1-818-780-8952
bearzbearzbearz@yahoo.com
imagesof@hotmail.com
I am reporting on these and other related stories at my
newspaper and publishing this letter there after sending
it to you. I will be following up as a Journalist and
Complainant in regards to this complaint.
My contact information may be given to anyone you see fit
to have it. When in doubt, release the contact
information with my full permission. I will personally
deal through Attorneys and/or Law Enforcement here if
anyone attempts a retaliation against me for filing this
complaint and exposing the problem in my Press, which is
what I allege RARA has attempted to do in the first place
by having me arrest(ed) on a Public Airport, at a Public
Event, Publicly funded, on a Free Day to the Public,
while I was attempting to view the Public Record of the
event, and have previously attempted to view the physical
Public Record in RARA's offices, the Public Repository
for the Public Records that affect them.
In that final regard, in violation of Nevada State and
Federal Law, including IRS regulations, I am alleging and
can prove that I have been (unlawfully) denied access to
the Public Record in the manner stipulated and mandated
by the State and the Feds, in accordance with the Law.
Michael J. Houghton and RARA, along with Krys Bart and
the AAWC, have denied me proper access to the Public
Record, which is "Available for Inspection on
Demand" at the Public Repositories. In RARA's case,
I have been threatened with bodily harm for appearing in
their hangar during an Awards Banquet, in September 2003,
and further, have been threatened with arrest, denied
access to the record, stonewalled by their Attorney John
P. Sande, who is a member of their Executive Committee,
and who has refused to return calls and the in person
contact I made with his Law firm, Jones Vargas, of Reno,
Nevada, in order to obtain the Public Record.
Allies of mine who have attempted to obtain copies of the
FAA Waiver and myself are denied these very Public
Records involving Aviation Safety, by the FAA offices
themselves in Reno and Los Angeles.
In my case, I am seeking immediate action by the GAO
and/or Inspector General's Office in the investigation
and handling of this complaint.
I have filed one previous FAA Abuse Hotline Complaint in
regards to an unrelated issue, and had that complaint
covered up by the FAA, and currently possess FAA
documentation to prove it. My rights as a
"Whistle-blower" were violated in that case,
and I lost a Job which I lawfully have a right to until
and beyond this day of writing, March 3, 2005, and
further, have lost over one half million dollars U.S. in
wages and other benefits as a direct result of the FAA
Cover-up.
I have lost all faith in the conduct of the FAA and
consider them the second most corrupt organization in the
Federal Government, and have no shortage of proof in
supporting that allegation. I was even under threat of
death for that complaint and the FAA utilized that issue
in their cover-up, as opposed to forcing the Defendant
into compliance with the Laws regarding Whistle-blowers
and their reports of Criminal Misconduct involving U.S.
Government affairs.
If you would, please forward this to the appropriate
section for investigation and follow-up and very
important - I would like to be cc'd as to whom you
contact, with contact information added so that I might
contact them.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you soon
regarding my complaint. An identical version of this
letter is being sent to the Inspector General having
oversight of the FAA, if I find an IG Office has
oversight.
Either way, additional copies are to be sent to these and
other individuals, groups and organizations, with an
interest in these matters:
cc: Senator John McCain, Arizona; all U.S. Government
Committees and Sub-committees having to do with U.S.
Aviation; Inspector General, The Pentagon; Inspector
General, United States Air Force; Commander, Canadian
Armed Forces; Editors, New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post and Wall Street
Journal; President George W. Bush; Vice President Richard
"Dick" Cheney; Office of the Secretary of
Defense; International Council of Air Shows; Director,
Department of Transportation; Marion Blakey, Director,
FAA; Director, Homeland Security; Director, TSA;
Director, FBI; Director, Department of the Interior;
Director, Bureau of Land Management; Director, Bureau of
Indian Affairs; Commanders, USAF Thunderbirds, USN Blue
Angeles, USA Golden Knights and CAF Snowbirds.
Again, a copy of this letter is to be posted immediately
after sending to your office. That copy will be posted at
Silver State News Service, www.silverstatenews.com,
minimum.
FYI ~ My publication Silver State News Service is a Free
Press (Literal Sense) providing Alternative Journalism in
the exposing and resolution of problems affecting
Citizens of the United States and the World. We are a
First Amendment Protected News Organization. We follow
publicly the progress of all our case investigations and
subsequent complaints regarding the same.
Sincerely,
Mark S. "Bear" Daniels
Editor
Silver State News Service
www.silverstatenews.com
Publisher
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