August 24, 1995

NEWS RELEASE

PHELPS WILL HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE
TODAY AT NOON AT TREASURES OF THE CZARS
TO IDENTIFY CHURCH BOMBING SUSPECT

Because District Attorney Joan Hamilton is a corrupt official who has hitherto failed, neglected and refused to prosecute literally hundreds of violent crimes committed against Westboro Baptist Church and its members -- choosing rather to prosecute our innocent church members on trumped-up criminal charges supported by nothing but perjured evidence, we have called upon the federal authorities to enter the Aug. 20 bombing case lest Hamilton deliberately botch the case as she did the Vintage massacre and the Lisa McGraw cases in March of 1993 and innumerable cases since.

Alexander Hamilton said the first duty of government is to establish justice. Thus, when the established system of justice breaks down completely as it has here, such that the guilty go free and the innocent are prosecuted, the last and best hope of the oppressed is to go public, hoping that somehow the sunlight of truth will prevail. Informants responding to our $5,000 reward offer have now identified the likely ringleader of the bombing, and we intend to publicize the information today at a news conference at noon at 3rd and Quincy.