Posted on 09/24/2015 3:25:44 PM PDT by don-o
Since the dawn of mass media a century ago, villains have always sought to control how people think and act by controlling what they are allowed to know. Yesterday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled for the villains.
The villain the court invited to stand on its shoulders is McLennan County Criminal District Attorney Abelino “Abel” Reyna. Reyna has emerged as the tyrant in charge of the coverup of the Twin Peaks Massacre in Waco last May 17. He may be a tyrant on behalf of the something bigger than himself, like the FBI, ATF, Homeland Security or Texas Rangers. It is at least as likely that he just likes how it feels to tyrannize.
A couple of events conjoined in the last week to illustrate Reyna’s talent for nullifying the Bill of Rights. First The Associated Press synopsized and published about 8,800 pages of evidence that has, possibly, been turned over to attorneys in one of the 177 criminal cases or four, current civil cases related to the Massacre. Nobody knows who leaked the information. The AP ran its story without a byline in order to protect both its reporter and her sources.
AP Report
The AP story referenced a 724-page police incident report and a 430-page Texas Department of Public Safety report that describe at least some of what happened in Waco on May 17. The reports are unlikely to contain the whole truth because they were both written by police. But the Waco police report does state that police “struck multiple suspects with their patrol rifles,” and the Texas Department of Public Safety report states that Reyna ordered the majority of bikers detained that day to be arrested and overcharged. “DA Abel Reyna and his staff told authorities at the convention center that if a person was wearing a patch, clothing or insignia that indicated support for the Bandidos or Cossacks, he or she should be charged with engaging in organized crime.”
Reyna responded publically to the AP story. “The fact that someone violated their ethical and legal obligations and the fact that the ultra-liberal AP is printing that material is evidence to me that my office is alone in trying to protect these individual’s constitutional right to a fair trial,” Reyna said in a written statement. “Our focus in the Twin Peaks matter will remain on the facts and the law and not the ridiculousness occurring all around it.”
Gag Order For Some
One problem with Reyna’s statement is that he was forbidden by a court order from making it. Since June, at Reyna’s insistence, attorneys in the case have been gagged. The most loquacious of them is a Dallas lawyer named Clint Broden and Broden has been fighting the gag order every step of the way. Broden has also mastered the art of speaking to the world at large by means of official court filings and the other day, after the AP ran its story and Reyna issued his official, angry lie about protecting his victims by silencing them, Broden filed yet another motion to lift the gag order.
What has occurred and what is occurring in relation to the gag order is very transparent to even the casual observer,” Broden wrote. “Immediately after the May 17, 2015 incident,” Reyna “ personally, along with other state actors sought to fill the public’s mind with pictures of roving ‘outlaw biker gangs’ and, only when they believed that they sufficiently accomplished that task,” Reyna “requested a gag order.”
Broden cited Reyna’s written statement and noted that it wasn’t exactly unprecedented. “This is not the first time…Reyna has violated the gag order he seeks this Court to enforce using equitable principles. On or about July 8, 2015, Mr. Reyna gave a press interview discussing the selection of the grand jury foreperson for the grand jury that could possibly consider Mr. (Matt) Clendennen’s case. During that interview, Mr. Ryna told the media: ‘That’s the system. He was chosen totally at random, like. the law says.’
“Attorneys were denied their free speech rights under the United States and Texas Constitutions,” Broden complained to the appeals court, “but he was free to continue to make statements to the press.” Judges Say
Almost immediately Reyna issued another official statement in response to Broden’s motion. He told Waco television station KXXV, “The allegation that I violated the gag order in any form or fashion is just another example of the ridiculousness I referred to in my statement.”
Yesterday the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused to either lift the gag order or compel Reyna to abide by it. “In this procedural position, we decline to act; based on the complaint raised by the real party in interest (the defense), the trial court is the proper venue for review of alleged violations of its gag order.”
This time Reyna had no comment.
Interesting...Thanks!
You’re welcome. I would use the adjectives disgusting and infuriating. And I got more.
IBTG
I suppose I could have used other adjectives, but some flood gates are best left untouched on a family forum...
Radio Legendary is reporting Broden is scheduled to speak about the gag order at the Texas Capitol on Saturday.
“Broden is enjoined to not talk about the case, but he is free to talk about the gag order, and plans to do so at a rally on the South steps of the State Capitol at Austin at 1:15 p.m. on Saturday, September 26.”
http://radiolegendary.com/2015/09/department-of-its-not-over-til-its-all-over/
Criminal defense lawyers file complaint against JP in Twin Peaks cases
“The Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association filed a judicial complaint against Justice of the Peace W.H. “Pete” Peterson on Thursday, saying the 3,000-member group is “astounded” by the way the judge handled setting bonds for 177 bikers after the deadly May 17 Twin Peaks shootout.”
The man has a pair.
From the Waco Trib article...Better watch out or Abel will be getting a gag on them 3,000 lawyers.
I wonder why they did not mention the cop serving as a GJ Foreman?
Absent a retraction and sincere apology, I think every motorcyclist and motorcycle club member should boycott the The Irresponsible Rebel to send a clear message that this type of unethical reporting will not be tolerated or embraced by the motorcycling community. Nothing released by this source can be assumed to be accurate, thorough, or informed, based on this incident. The Irresponsible Rebel has thus far refused to apologize for this wrong. Ego and ignorance have no place in the fight for freedom against discrimination and profiling targeting motorcyclists nationwide. The Irresponsible Rebel should be considered nothing more than low standard tabloid journalism until the cannons of ethical journalism are embraced and false and damaging statements are retracted.
Says he’s involved with Confederation of Clubs. Isn’t that a Bandido organization? I’m pretty sure I have read that about a thousand times on these threads.
As to the substance, if the AR got it wrong, and refuses to retract, he would be exposed to slander suits, would he not?
That’s odd. I haven’t seen an apology from the Waco Police for wrongfully arresting the guys in the first place. Have you?
And this is why it is crazy to do mass arrests. From Mac’s link -
” -Approximately 10 days later I was allowed to get my vehicle from the WPD impound lot. A few days later I received my driver’s license in the mail. At this time I do not have my cell phone, gun, and knives. Part of my right thumb remains numb from too many hours in tight plastic cuffs.
-I have never been arrested or detained by LE. My last traffic ticket was approximately 1978. I have grad credits beyond my MS. I retired from the USAF with 21+ years of honorable service, including volunteer time in Vietnam and Thailand. I retired from Boeing Aerospace Houston after working 13 years on the space station program. My final job was as the Manager of Quality Engineering and Inspection. I started riding in 1963 and ICMC is the only club of which I’ve been a member.”
Broden mentioned the filing of a complaint with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, in his Motion to Recuse Petersen which was filed on the 9th of July.
No harm in having another complaint filed.
Hey! Watch yer language! (8^D)
I guess it really sucks to get caught up in a gang gun fight
Dave Deveraux, who wrote the article condemning the Aging Rebel as dishonest trash, is a spokesman for the Washington State CoC and a nationally recognized advocate for motorcycle riders rights. His integrity on this issue is unimpeachable.
What Rebel did by accusing the In Country Vets MC of being police snitches without any evidence and allowing their names and addresses appear on his blog is unforgivable, libelous and in the biker world greatly deserving of a beat-down.
Any blog-site that would libel and endanger a group of Vietnam Veterans and their families without apology doesn't deserve to have its screeds posted at FR.
“I guess it really sucks to get caught up in a gang gun fight”
Especially when the federal gangsters start the shooting!
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