[Source: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/MA/G/scott.harshbarger.html]
Harshbarger and the Amirault Case
.... the mockery of reason and justice -- that began when District Attorney Scott Harshbarger mounted a sensational case of child sex abuse against the Amirault family, owners of the Fells Acres Day School in Malden. That was 1984. Today, Scott Harshbarger is the president of Common Cause, spokesman for all the latest in progressive-liberal enlightenment, and Gerald Amirault remains in prison, where he has been for nearly 14 years, with 20 years or more left to serve. Governor Cellucci's Chance, The Wall Street Journal Thursday, April 20, 2000
Why Swift should free Amirault By James M. Shannon, Boston Globe, 8/17/2001
"Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger made a political career by framing the Amirault family on child sex abuse charges." The Private Use of Public Policy by Paul Craig Roberts
Massachusett’s Scott Harshbarger, who built the fictional case against the Amirault family. Issue # 97
Violet Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave
Scott Harshbarger and
the Amirault Family
The Tragic and True Tale
of the Amirault Family of Malden, Massachusetts (Thus Far)
Articles on the Fells
Acres Day-care Ritual-abuse case by Hugo S. Cunningham
Wall Street Journal Editorializes
Against Cellucci Concerned about One of Massachusetts’ ‘Most Notorious and
Long-Running Travesties of Justice” – the Continued Incarceration of Gerald
Amirault April 2, 2001
Open letter to the
NATIONAL GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS OF COMMON CAUSE
How can Common Cause have Scott Harshbarger as President and CEO given the case of the Amirault Family which he prosecuted as District Attorney of Middlesex County? Just about everybody has agreed that that this case was a huge miscarriage of justice that put 3 people in jail for crimes they did not commit.
Dorothy Rabinowitz of The Wall Street Journal has exposed the systematic fabrication of evidence in this case. The question I ask is how can Common Cause continue it's association with Scott Harshbarger? Does Common Cause really want to put it's credibility on the line in defending the actions of a person like Scott Harshbarger?
Sent by email to: grassroots@commoncause.org, adam@videoproject.net, info@actnowproductions.com, rpastor@emory.edu, mcdougall@law.cua.edu, texas@appleseeds.net, impactfund@impactfund.org, fharris@unm.edu, cecohio@aol.com, bharbinger@phillipsandcohen.com, bparsons@parsonsfunnell.com, masspirg@masspirg.org, drinan@law.georgetown.edu, JDRauh5@aol.com
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COMMON CAUSE NATIONAL GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS, 2000/2001
PROFESSION AND RESIDENCE LIST
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| Name | Profession | Residence |
| Deborah Arnie Arnesen | Radio Talk Show Host, former State Legislator, New Hampshire | Nashua, NH |
| Derek Bok |
Professor, Kennedy School of Government;former President,
Harvard University Chairman, Common Cause |
Cambridge, MA |
| Margery Bronster | Attorney, Bronster, Crabtree & Hoshibata; former Attorney General, Hawaii | Honolulu, HI |
| John R. Chamberlin | Professor, Political Science & Public Policy University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI |
| Dick Clark | Senior Fellow and Vice President, The Aspen Institute; former US Senator, Iowa | Washington, DC |
| Gregory Coleridge | Director, Economic Justice & Empowerment Program, Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee | Akron, OH |
| Marie Watters Colton | Retired State Legislator | Asheville, NC |
| Archibald Cox | Chairman Emeritus, Common Cause;Carl M. Loeb Professor Emeritus Harvard Law School | Brooksville, ME |
| Janet S. Domenitz | Executive Director, Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG) | Cambridge, MA |
| Robert J. Drinan, S.J. | Professor, Georgetown University Law Center; Writer and Lecturer; former Member of Congress, Massachusetts | Washington, DC |
| Paul Duke | Senior Commentator, Public Broadcasting Service | Washington, DC |
| Derre Ferdon | Associate Director, Intermountain Centers for Human Development | Tucson, AZ |
| Margaret Gordon |
Professor (Dean Emeritus), Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington | Seattle, WA |
| Fred Harris | Professor, Political Science, University of New Mexico; former US Senator, Oklahoma | Albuquerque, NM |
| Scott Harshbarger | President and CEO of Common Cause; former Attorney General, Massachusetts | Washington, DC |
| Eric R. Havian | Attorney; Partner, Phillips & Cohen | Piedmont, CA |
| Philip Heymann | Professor, Harvard Law School | Belmont, MA |
| Hubert H. Humphrey III | Senior Public Affairs Consultant, The Tunheim Group; former Attorney General, Minnesota |
New Hope, MN |
| Jocelyn Larkin | Civil rights attorney | Berkeley, CA |
| Annette LoVoi | Executive Director, Texas Appleseed | Austin, TX |
| Maya MacGuineas | Fellow, New America Foundation | Washington, DC |
| Harold McDougall | Professor of Law, Catholic University | Silver Spring, MD |
| William Parsons | Attorney, Parsons & Funnell | Denver, CO |
| Robert Pastor | Visiting Professor, Harvard University Professor, Emory University | Atlanta, GA |
| Richard North Patterson | Novelist; Activist; Retired Attorney | San Francisco, CA |
| John Rauh | Chair, Children's Alliance of New Hampshire | Sunapee, NH |
| Wendy Marcus Raymont | Consultant | Washington, DC |
| Daniel Tokaji | Civil rights attorney, ACLU of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA |
| Adam Werbach | Executive Producer, Act Now Productions | San Francisco, CA |
| Ann Wynia | President, North Hennepin Community College; former State Legislator, Minnesota | St. Paul, MN |
[source: http://www.commoncause.org/about/ngb1.htm, 13-Jul-2001]
Replies ...
Thank you for doing this. But it's a futile gesture. For years people have
been complaining to Common Cause, pointing out the immorality of Scott Harshbarger.
And for years Common Cause has been turning a deaf ear. I'm sure you will get
the same infuriating asinine letter from Derek Bok that everyone else has been
getting. I'm one of those old-fashioned cranks who believe that evil is a moral
issue. Accordingly, I boycott Common Cause and urge others to do the same. But
thank you for making the effort. The folks at Common Cause need to be told that
some of the American people still care about justice. -Bob Chatelle
Bob@FreeBaran.org
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