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Category: Ramsey Muniz

  • Ramsey Muniz Returned to Texas

    Recent news and writings from Irma and Ramsey Muniz

    Jesus Christ – Born to bring Love, Spirituality, Faith, Courage, and Freedom to all Humanity

    Dec. 25, 2009

    Dear Friends:

    Ramsey, our families and I celebrate Christmas with you and share the profoundness of this glorious, spiritual day in our lives. Historically, on this special day, Jesus Christ was born to bring love, spirituality, faith, courage, and freedom to all humanity. Jesus’ suffering, confinement, and crucifixion was and is the reason that humanity shall forever struggle for freedom and love.

    We thank you with our hearts for making it possible for my husband, Ramsey, to return to Texas after fifteen long years in exile away from those who love him. This is only the beginning. It was destined that with your assistance, his freedom would become a part of our freedom and that of all humanity on this earth.

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

    With love,
    Ramsey and Irma Alvarez Muñiz

    “Learning how to survive can end up being the greatest lesson in learning how to live.”

    The Late Dr. Salvador Alvarez
    My Beloved Father

    www.freeramsey.com

    Loving Spirits are With Ramsey

    Dec. 6, 2009

    “As a family we must reunite our hearts once again, and there is no right way or wrong way to experience spiritual healing. There is ultimately only a deepening into one’s soul’s journey and one’s ability to live compassionately with all that surrounds us.”

    Tezcatlipoca

    ************

    Dear Friends:

    On December 13, 2009, Ramsey Muñiz will turn 67 years old, and I send this message for those would like to mail him a card. His address is shown below.

    You cannot imagine the transformation that Ramsey is still experiencing. The spirits continue to be with him. When his heart is very heavy and tears of sadness prevail, they all appear to him. The loving spirits of our deceased loved ones make their presence known, provide consolation and wisdom.

    Ramsey wakes up after the dreams with the realization of what has happened, and he writes everything that he recalls. His writings are the most beautiful words you can imagine and I am convinced that he is having communications with the spirit world.

    Remember that we almost lost Ramsey in 2005, and he went through a most profound near death experience. It is said that some people that go through this type of experience are able to communicate with the spirit world.

    Among those that he communicates with regularly are his beloved mother, Hilda Longoria Muñiz, and my beloved father, Dr. Salvador Alvarez. Recently he asked my father how we should pray to him, and the words that he wrote were:

    “Beloved father
    Fill me with your spiritual love
    That I might serve you
    That I might serve my beloved mother
    That I might be a true messenger of your love.”

    Several weeks later, Ramsey recalled the exact conversation that he was having with my father as he was receiving the prayer above. The prayer was actually more specific to our family.

    I share the prayer below so that others can pray the same for their families and deceased loved ones. The revised prayer is:

    “Beloved father, Salvador
    Fill our family with your spiritual love
    That we might serve you
    That we might serve our beloved mother, Irma Ramos Alvarez
    That I may be a true messenger of your family spiritual love.”

    I am in awe every time that Ramsey receives this beautiful and divine insight. I invite you to take this information to heart so that we can all experience a spiritual Christmas season with our families.

    Shortly you will receive correspondence on the current plans to free Ramsey. We need to free him now! See his mailing address below.

    Ramiro R. Muñiz – 40288-115
    FCC Beaumont – Medium
    P.O. Box 26040
    Beaumont, TX 77720

    Set up your altars, as the spirits are with us. It is US who are dead.

    Oct. 31, 2009

    Dear Friends:

    Below is a letter about El Dia de los Muertos written by my loving husband, Ramsey Muniz, in 2003. it was written during intense pain and suffering. Out of this suffering came profound thoughts about our culture, spirituality, life, and death. When I ask Ramsey where our deceased loved ones are, he states, “They are here. They are alive and it is us who are dead.” I treasure his insight, because one of the spirits that provides comfort and guidance to my husband is my father, the late Dr. Salvador Alvarez. I thank my beloved father for consoling and guiding us now, just as he did during his time on earth.

    ************

    “I write what I live, and I live what I write.”
    Ramsey Muniz – Tezcatlipoca

    Listen closely, for my destiny is to speak the true history. There is a day that pertains to our religious culture, which connects the earth, heaven, and nature. It is a day when we realize the true essence of cosmic visions, which prove that we are truly a part of Mother Earth, heaven, and the spiritual realm. On this day, the veil that separates the living from the dead is removed, and we are reunited with the loving spirits of our ancestors, forefathers and deceased family members. It is a day of rejoicing, communing, sharing, praying, fasting, and meditating with our ancestors and family members that now reside in “Ilhuicatlitic,” the heavens, because once again we share our ancestral spirituality on earth. It is a day that truly brings us together with our past in worship to our gods and rejoicing as one world, one people, and one nation in our minds and hearts for the past, present and future. It is a day so religiously and spiritually powerful, that even five hundred years ago, priests like Sahagun, Torquemada, Molina, Duran, and others realized the power of Teotleco — the arrival of the gods. They repeatedly witnessed the spiritual ancestral power granted from the past to the present and future raza on El Día De Los Muertos.

    “On this day of remembrance, do not judge me by the shackles and chains that confine me in bondage, but by who I am.”

    “On this day of remembrance, in this mode of darkness confined and isolated from humanity, I am not afraid nor do I fear the coming of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”

    Ramsey Muniz – Tezcatlipoca
    http://www.freeramsey.com

    Survival Through Love

    Oct. 23, 2009

    Dear Friends:

    The letter of love and gratitude received by my husband, Ramsey Muniz,
    represents a profound spiritual transformation that he is experiencing.
    We thank God for this change. I will be with Ramsey this weekend.

    ************

    Citlalmina:

    As I sit in this 6×9 cell my mind and heart travels back into the past, wondering how it was possible for me to survive three years spent in solitary confinement (dungeons) in the Leavenworth United States Penitentiary. Only the Creator and all of our Mexicano gods and goddesses are able to provide the answer. Be that as it may, I will forever share with the world that it was your love!

    “Our harmony and power have not lessened. They have increased, and no external force can overcome the beauty and intensity of our “ome.”

    Yes, I’m back! Never in my life have I felt so much love. I truly believe in my heart that as my wife God gave you a power of love because of your suffering, pain, grief, sorrow, and sadness with my imprisonment.

    Give my tender and profound love to mom always.

    ************

    “No one will do for us what we fail to do for ourselves.”

    “One functions spiritually for our ancestors, for ourselves, and for those who come after us.”

    “While I swam in a sea of knowledge and intelligence, I lived in a world of oppression and despair for
    the last sixteen years of my lif
    e.”

    “My spiritual face was seen in the colors of the wind
    And in the dampness of the earth.
    My face is illumination in life and death. I was
    The first cry of a new born and the last breath of dying.
    My face is the spirituality of Aztlan and the soul,
    Mexikayotl, of the universe.”

    All my world is caged and confined, yet
    My spiritual birth soul runs free.”

    “It is not true, it is not true that we have
    Come to live here. We came only to sleep – only to dream.

    “The clouds have been dispelled and the darkness
    In which I have loved for the last 16 years have fled.
    The Sixth Sun has appeared and the light of the day
    Shines upon my heart after such darkness that shall never appear again.”

    www.freeramsey.com

    Visit in Beaumont, Texas

    Sept. 29, 2009

    Dear Friends:

    My mother and I have just returned from the Beaumont FCI. We have been visiting my husband, Ramsey Muniz, for the last three days. After sixteen years of confinement in prisons away from his family and those close to our hearts, it is now our spiritual obligation, within the political/humanitarian realm, to prove his innocence and free him.

    They have kept my husband unjustly incarcerated for many years in order to hide the truth, and the time has come for us to speak about his innocence.

    We extend our love and gratitude to all who have made it possible for my husband to be close to his family.

    Sincerely,
    Ramsey & Irma Muniz
    www.freeramsey.com

  • Ramsey Muniz: Celebrating King's Life

    “One day we will have to stand before the God of history and we will talk in terms of things we’ve done. Yes, we will be able to say we built gargantuan bridges to span the seas, we built gigantic buildings to kiss the skies. Yes, we made our submarines to penetrate oceanic depths. We brought into being many other things with our scientific and technological power.

    “It seems that I can hear the God of history saying, That was not enough! But I was hungry, and ye fed me not. I was naked, and ye clothed me not. I was devoid of a decent sanitary house to live in, and ye provided no shelter for me. And consequently, you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness. If ye do it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye do it unto me. That’s the question facing America today.”

    –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    “I believe that peace is unstable where citizens are denied the right to speak freely or worship as they please; choose their own leaders or assemble without fear.”

    –President Barack Obama

    “I do not believe that our society in this 21st century can ever live up to its promise of justice, equality, and the fundamental rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, until it stops insidious oppression, discrimination, prejudice, hostility, and my imprisonment on the basis of political, cultural, and spiritual philosophy as it pertains to the freedom to all humanity.”

    –Ramiro R. Muñiz

    Even though I have been confined in the prisons of America for sixteen years, I celebrate not the death of my brother, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but his life that continues to live in a most powerful, spiritual realm in this mode of darkness. His memorable life continues to demonstrate that we must have faith, courage, and the will in our hearts to struggle for our God-given rights. His life proved that the time has come for us to reunite and rise once again, and seek the rights for which he gave his life– freedom, justice, and equality.

    In exile,
    Ramsey – Tezcatlipoca

    www.freeramsey.com

  • Irma Muniz: Update on Ramsey's Clemency

    Dear Friends:

    I have just returned from a three day visit with Ramsey in El Reno, Oklahoma. Our time spent together was blessing, as we shared our faith and plans for the upcoming months.

    Ramsey was sent to El Reno, Oklahoma just after he had been transferred closer to home in Three Rivers, Texas. His transfer to Three Rivers came about through the assistance of congressmen, senators, and many supporters.

    He had been in Three Rivers, Texas just over five months and had begun to see his attorney so that he could reopen his case and prove his innocence. Without warning, he was transported to El Reno, Oklahoma where he is now detained. The reason for this move was never substantiated and Ramsey Muniz is in exile once again for political reasons.

    At the end of 2008 we submitted an application for a Commutation of Sentence, knowing that the chances for it being approved were slim. Attached [below] is a letter from Mr. Ronald Rodgers, Pardon Attorney, who responded to the application.

    Ramsey Muniz was not granted a Commutation of Sentence and through research we learned that pardons and commutations were granted to those who had close political ties or had made substantial contributions to the Republican Party. We now plan to submit an application under the administration of President Barack Obama.

    Because we have a different administration, we are formulating strategies for a movement to move Ramsey back to Texas. We will seek your support once again and know that we will provide details in the near future.

    Ramsey asks that everyone remember Cesar Chavez and take part in events that commemorate his birth. Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, and there will be marches in San Antonio, Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, California, Colorado, and many other states throughout the country. This is important because our time has come! We must seize the moment as others are doing to proclaim our spirituality, culture, history, and identity during these changing times!

    Sincerely,
    Irma Muniz

    US Department of Justice
    Pardon Attorney

    Washington, DC
    January 29, 2009

    Memorandum

    To: Warden
    Federal Correctional Institution – El Reno

    From: Ronald L. Rodgers
    Pardon Attorney

    Subject: Ramiro R. Muniz
    Application for Executive Clemency

    Please advise Ramiro R. Muniz that his application for executive clemency was carefully considered in this department and the White House, and the decision was reached that favorable action is not warranted. The application was therefore denied on Dec. 23, 2008. Under the Constitution there is no appeal from this decision. As a matter of well-established policy we do not disclose the reasons for the decision in a clemency matter. In addition, deliberative communications pertaining to agency and presidential decision-making are confidential and not available under existing case law interpreting the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act. If the applicant wishes to reapply for executive clemency, the applicant will become eligible to do so one year from the date on which the President denied the current application.

    Please ensure that the applicant receives a copy of this memorandum reflecting the denial of this clemency application.

    Editor’s Note: bold faced emphasis in original.–gm

  • TCRR Fall Quarter Retrospective 2008

    Our quarter-year of absence at the Texas Civil Rights Review has coincided with the electoral revolution led by Barack Obama, so we couldn’t be more pleased to have a picked a season during which little more needed to be said.

    Yet the time of absence wasn’t chosen so much as it was delivered with a bundle of priorities that left not a spare minute to type in. At one point, it was only thanks to a delayed airplane that I was able to hammer out a fast note to a contributor. The competing priorities this past quarter were entirely welcomed, so worry not; our energies are well, our spirit intact.

    In the short time I have to write tonight, I’d like to reflect upon what usually goes on here, and why we miss it.

    The Texas Civil Rights Review was founded in 1997 as on online archive dedicated to racial equity in the Land Grant system of higher education in Texas, and, by proxy, across the USA. Thanks to that work in the 1990s some real progress was made for some real people. And as we look forward to Change, please remember Mr. President that equity in the Land Grant system is still possible, still worthy, and perhaps more than ever a timely theater for economic and democratic renewal of ourselves and our posterity.

    After a few years of exile from Texas politics (perhaps not unrelated to our successes in the Land Grant establishment) we returned in 2003 with a hopping mad interest in what had happened to affirmative action policy, and we proudly outed a blue-ribbon report from a Land Grant college committee that recommended affirmative action in admissions. (We still like to call it integration, remember?)

    As Summer turned to Fall in 2004 we covered the trial for public school funding in an Austin District Court, and documented the courageous struggle of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) to uphold the principles of equitable funding, especially for impoverished Hispanic children.

    On Christmas Eve 2004 we posted our first of many letters from federal prisoner Ramsey Muniz. We still say it would be a righteous act to pardon Ramsey and set him free.

    In the opening months of 2005 we covered the hearings that officially certified the election of Hubert Vo to the Texas House of Representatives. We followed up on the Vo hearings with a massive review of the hearing documents. (Rep. Vo has since been re-elected twice. In 2008 he won a comfortable 56 percent of the vote.)

    In April of 2005 we reported on thousands of pages of documents that we reviewed at the office of the Texas Secretary of State regarding the construction of a statewide voter database that was built to satisfy the so-called Help America Vote Act (VAWA).

    During the summer of 2006 we filed an open records request with the Texas Governor seeking documentation for the deployment of the Texas National Guard to the border with Mexico. We were told there were no documents. Later that year, we followed a rising flood of immigration issues that culminated in the federal roundup of several Palestinian families from the Dallas area who were cruelly treated regardless of age or pregnancy status.

    In 2007 we let fly a few thousand words over the converging issues of immigration injustice in Texas, symbolized by the Hutto family prison and the border wall reflex. If Change means anything, it should make a difference on both of these issues.

    Earlier this year we covered the federal harassment of Albanian refugee Rrustem Neza, who was finally released to live with this wife and children after a year of meaningless imprisonment at Haskell. And we reported on the shocking detention of Bujar Osmani who was nabbed by federal agents while taking a bathroom break at a law office.

    As the summer of 2008 turned into record swelter, we reported the death, the federal documents, and the dreams of Riad Hamad, ebullient champion of Palestinian children.

    In these stories and others, we have been very nearly alone in our commitment to documentation and detail. So yes, there was something to miss when we were absent during the Fall quarter of 2008. If you missed us, you weren’t alone. We kind of missed us too.

    As for the future, we remain realistic. The amount of time devoted to the Texas Civil Rights Review these past five years will not be sustainable, but the reasons for this are good ones. Your editor has not given up or burned out. I’m just busy.

    Whenever I do have a few spare hours, you’ll know it. I’m here. I keep my eyes open. I may be out of the office a lot, but I ain’t giving up the lease. — gm

  • Happy Valentine's Day from Ramsey and Irma

    Email from Irma Muniz:

    February 14, 2008

    Dear Friends:

    My loving husband, Ramsey, calls and is not concerned about discussing his freedom. His mind is focused on expressions of love, as Valentine’s Day is upon us. I, his wife, cannot find the Valentine’s Day card that he sent me. I have no time for love, as I have an insatiable need to free my husband.

    In the midst of sorrow, love refuses to die . . .

    Valentine’s Day Sentiments
    From my Loving Husband, Ramsey

    There is light and love in your soul,
    which makes the beauty of your heart a part of me
    and those close to you.

    The same beauty is the enlightenment
    that to this day makes me the Mexicano that I am.

    My hunger in these dungeons is not for food,
    but for the love that you have transformed into my soul.

    Humanity celebrates this day once a year.
    We, as lovers, celebrate this most profound love
    every day of our lives. It is so powerful that
    history will record this one day.

    “There is no greater glory than to die for love.”

    “Weeping may linger for the night, but
    in the morning there are shouts of joy.”

    “You have a soul in you of rare Mexicana quality,
    an artist’s nature; never let it starve for lack of
    what it desires.”

    “Between life and death, between the beauty and the
    horror of the world, the quest for freedom is what makes us —
    no matter what the circumstances — free.”

    “Celebrate this day of hearts with all the joy and
    passion that is within you.”

    Amor,
    Ramsey – Tezcatlipoca

    “Love is a power that has no limit. It is the power of imagination.”

    www.freeramsey.com