128 TRIAL BY MEDIA TRIAL BY MEDIA 12' utterance in the program came from Delaney. "Bad meat." Another TV witness, Rodriquez immediately responded, "Bad meat." Out of what context this phrase was muttered, the viewer hadn't the slightest idea. It was not even a sentence and therefore made no assertion, but the viewer was made to believe that the meat at Cattle King was bad meat. Rodriquez continued by calling the meat "green;" Delaney interrupted: "Rotten meat?" Rodriquez couldn't quite make the total accusation and repeated "Green meat, almost rotten." Does this seem coached to yoi t did to me the first time I viewed it, and even more so every time since. With the "green meat" (sounds horrible, doesn't it?) fresh in the viewer's mind, the camera takes you to a crowded elementary school lunch room where children were shown eating this horrible meat. In one shot a child at point-blank range was shown biting and chewing what appeared to be a cabbage burger. While this went on, Delaney enumerated the percentage of the federal school meat that Cattle King supplied. Immediately after this innuendo, Joe Padilla said he would not want his young children eating it, nor did he want it fed to other children. But it got worse. Rodriquez blurted, "I wouldn't feed my dogs this meat." Isn't it just a little hard to believe that a company that supplied 30% of the federal school lunch program's meat, that sold to the professional meat buyers of Safeway, King Soopers, Wendy's and hundreds of other outlets nationwide, didn't produce a good enough meat product to feed Ray Rodriquez's dog? Yet this is what the NBC report alleged. Near the end of the program, Dr. Houston, head of the inspection division of the USDA, was asked by Delaney if he would eat Cattle King meat. "Yes," he responded. Delaney incredulously repeated the question. Houston, on the defense, again responded, "Yes." This is as much defense from anyone on the program as Cattle King was going to get. No one from Cattle King was interviewed except two disgruntled ex-employees, a confused meat inspector, Joe Padilla, and a silhouetted ex-employee both of whose stories were later reversed. At the very end of the program, the commentator of the First Camera program, alluding to the overall sanitation problems at Cattle King, showed a picture of the company building, and made one parting shot: "If you think the meat you are eating is safe, think again." Three days after this twenty minute program on national television, the federal government impounded 7,000,000 pounds of hamburger, and forbade Cattle King and Nebraska Beef to bid on any future government contracts. But suspension from government business was not the only implementation, by provision of the governmental agency law, that the USDA would use against my companies. Because of a twenty minute dramatized documentary, they disclaimed any agency responsibility for wrongdoing by the plant, and refused to support the plant, even though all events complained of, were alleged to have been performed under intense inspection by as many as thirteen USDA inspectors and graders on their federal payroll. The USDA then launched an intensive testing program of the meat and increased the number of paid federal employees at the plant, and initiated an intensive criminal investigation in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice into the activities of the plant. During this intense scrutiny, the Department of Agriculture ended up condemning the future production of fourteen million pounds that were still on contract and an obligation of Cattle King and Nebraska Beef. In a country where you are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, the USDA's boss in Washington, DC, Dr. Donald Houston, under the advisement of USDA's attorney Marshall Marcus (Jewish), cooperated immediately and fully in killing my meat companies and destroying my family's reputation. Houston had thirteen employees under his agency's jurisdiction while intensely inspecting die operations and sanitary conditions of my plants. Sanitation was a vital part of their job in the process for producing meat for the consumer as well as the federal school lunch program and the military, yet the boss, Houston, made his decision before any investigation was done or any facts were accumulated. Why he did not back hi inspection service for a job well done remained a mystery to me. Later, I realized he was a professional politican who knew that his job and reputation depended on cooperating with the controlled media and the national meat cartel. A professional politican made this statement in U.S. Congressman Paul Findley's book: You don't need many examples of intimidation for politicians to realize what the potential is. The Jewish lobby is terrific. Anything it wants, it gets. Jews are educated, often have a lot of money, They are unique in that respect. For example, anti-abortion supporters are numerous but not that well educated, and don't have that much money. The Jewish lobbyists have it all, and they are political activists on top of it.^ Immediately after these accusations and sanctions, Dr. Jay Jones, who is the USDA veterinarian supervisor of the federal Colorado slaughtering plants, under Houston's jurisdiction, said: "the charges of obnoxious conditions [at Cattle King) are not warranted."^ Dr. Jones constantly-monitored the meat-packing plants of Cattle King, Litvak, and Pepper. Because of the innuendo on NBC where Houston stated he would eat Cattle King meat, I did not completely realize Houston's positioi until December 14, when he shared the panel with BGA executive director Terrene*. Brunner and U.S. Congressman Thomas Harkin, and read from a twenty-three page prepared statement, vowing to pull inspection service from all the Stanko factories. I then knew the boss, his federal agency, and his immediate advisors were against me I was doomed. Dr. McNabb, one of the veterinarians in charge of the Nebraska