Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 20:43:26 -0700
From: "Arel Lucas"
Subject: Re: Help, please

To my "blind copy" list with the addition of others not on the list
for this special push to get Keith out of jail where he is
experiencing medical neglect:

One of you spent some time today calling the office of Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger in California and claims that their legal department is
looking into whether there really was a valid warrant.  Assuming that
there was, though, please do two things:

sign this petition
www.ipetitions.com/petition/freekeithhenson
and
call Governor Schwarzenegger's office at 1.916.445.2841 or fax him at
916-445-4633.  (Email is less effective from http://www.govmail.ca.gov
but we will appreciate anything you can do.)  District offices, if
that is possible for you, are listed at
http://gov.ca.gov/site/contact-governor

Here is her version of what to ask for:
 CESSATION OF THE EXTRADICTION WARRANT FOR HOWARD KEITH HENSON ON
COMPASSIONATE AND HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS.  KEITH HENSON IS OLDER, AILING
AND DOES NOT NEED TO BE PUT THROUGH THE TRAUMA OF TRANSFER TO THE
RIVERSIDE COUNTY JAIL, WHICH IS ALREADY SO OVERCROWDED THAT FELONS ARE
BEING LET OUT EARLY.  THIS IS A WASTE OF TAX-PAYERS MONEY.

The petition I asked you to sign asks Schwarzenegger to pardon Keith
or commute his sentence.  Ask for what you want, but I think she is
right that humanitarian and compassionate grounds are best right now,
for whichever boon you wish to request.

His full name is Howard Keith Henson, awaiting a hearing in the
Yavapai Superior Court, jailed in the Yavapai Detention Center, where
last night he was kept awake till 2 while another inmate rolled around
in agony from kidneystones, then was taken to the infirmary and given
aspirin.  Then Keith was awakened at 4 a.m. for blood pressure check
and meds--which we're glad he got, but 2-4 hours of sleep a night in
an extremely noisy dormitory, with no contact lens supplies to clean
his lenses, and no blanket in a jail where even the young people
complain of the cold (over airconditioned in the daytime, down to the
40s at night here in the mountains).  His blood pressure has continued
dangerously high for some days.  The worst thing about Riverside, of
course, where he appears to be headed now is not the weather or the
lack of supplies (or having to write with only a stub of a pencil
because pens or regular-sized pencils are not allowed) but the control
of $cientology over the jail there.

If you want more details, write me back, visit
www.operatingthetan.com, or you can call at (928) 445-4412 (home).
Keith's next and probably last Arizona hearing is Friday, at which
time we expect habeas corpus to fail and his extradition to California
to be ordered.

I apologize to those who asked to be taken off my list.  This doesn't
mean you are back on the list.  This means I am desperate.

Arel