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EDITORIAL: Are state taxpayers responsible for how we handled Twin Peaks shootout?
Waco Tribune ^ | September 30, 2015 | Editorial Staff

Posted on 09/30/2015 9:10:48 PM PDT by ExyZ

That said, Wacoans who pretend to be concerned about government expense should reflect deeply on their conservative principles, assuming they actually have them. Should state taxpayers legitimately help bear the cost, say, of jailing 177 bikers for weeks on million-dollar bonds when something very obviously failed somewhere in the local criminal justice system in terms of due process? How about the filing of one-size-fits-all charges against the 177?

Nor should they, at least not at this point. District Attorney Abel Reyna, Waco police and others have shown little public accountability for their actions, some of which have garnered mounting criticism not just from numerous biker apologists but discriminating civil rights groups, former prosecutors, legal scholars and news media both statewide and nationwide.

Lack of transparency about legitimate questions involving law enforcement protocol and due process hardly justifies the full faith of the public, excepting those who blindly trust everything that elected and appointed officials do.

(Excerpt) Read more at wacotrib.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: biker; cleat; reyna; texas; waco; zimbabwaco
Tick, tock.
1 posted on 09/30/2015 9:10:49 PM PDT by ExyZ
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To: ExyZ

YEP


2 posted on 09/30/2015 9:18:33 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: ExyZ

IBTG


3 posted on 09/30/2015 9:22:27 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: ExyZ

Heard on the web -—
“Government is what we choose to do together.”

Now we get to pay for our misused, delegated police powers.


4 posted on 09/30/2015 9:22:46 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Eagles fan after loss to Dallas -- This is the first time I ever saw the "prevent offense".)
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To: ExyZ

The Waco authorities (and their Obama regime DOJ/BATF overlords) are probably completely as a loss as they struggle to find a way out of this mess they’ve created. And the final costs could be huge. Waco should pay for the misdeeds of their employees. To the extent that other governmental agencies (e.g., BATF, FBI) were complicit, Waco can seek partial reimbursement from them...but NOT from the good citizens elsewhere in Texas who have no involvement in this fiasco.

And, of course, IBTG.


5 posted on 09/30/2015 9:26:57 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose! Does TG have to be an ass every day?)
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To: ExyZ

The editorial states some of the same questions we have been asking. Well at some most of us.


6 posted on 09/30/2015 9:27:09 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: don-o

See this one?


7 posted on 09/30/2015 9:37:52 PM PDT by sport
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To: House Atreides; don-o; Elderberry; Cboldt

“And the final costs could be huge.”

And perhaps the greatest and most difficult to quantify cost is the further erosion of trust in law enforcement, the judicial system, and government in general.


8 posted on 09/30/2015 9:48:58 PM PDT by ExyZ
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To: ExyZ
A whole lot of my fellow citizens are watching this particular “incident” from yet again, Waco, TX.

Tock, tick.

How many more months will it take the “government” to find/publish simple ballistic reports from the dead and wounded?

9 posted on 09/30/2015 10:38:11 PM PDT by sarasmom (If Trump trumps all the other candidates, and he does, why would I not vote for him?)
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To: ExyZ

No one in criminal justice system seems to understand the cumulative effect of the 1990s murders at the Weaver property, the Nifong travesty in North Carolina etc.

At first I started the above paragraph out with “exactly,” but distrust of government in general is a good thing. However, distrust in the criminal justice system undermines society. That criminal prosectors, police and other officials are sowing this distrust is doing great harm to the country.


10 posted on 10/01/2015 12:32:35 AM PDT by JLS
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To: ExyZ

Yes, so you must mind whom you place in office and hire to work on behalf of us.

There was a time when “sovereign immunity” would bar all such suits to recover for harms perpetrated by government and its agents. But no more.

Either hire and elect sane people, or buy a lot of insurance.


11 posted on 10/01/2015 3:23:42 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: kiryandil

In Before The G_______?


12 posted on 10/01/2015 7:07:32 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: T-Bone Texan

In Before TG


13 posted on 10/01/2015 11:12:17 AM PDT by Elderberry
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To: JLS

You said it! That’s why this Waco charade is so profound. It’s not just corrupt cops, its a system of Civil Servants who enjoy a whole different set of rights than the Americans they ostensibly serve, but clearly over whom they preside with authority exclusive to Civil Servants, from policemen to judges to court officials.


14 posted on 10/01/2015 6:13:29 PM PDT by Finny (Be prepared to own what you vote for. Voting "against" is a mathematical fallacy.)
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