Posted on 09/16/2015 7:52:40 AM PDT by don-o
For the last four months Waco has been muffled by an impenetrable fog. Like Brigadoon.
Only this Brigadoon isn’t nice like the one in Scotland. It refuses to just disappear for a century at a time and, as The Associated Press put it the other day, Waco is a Brigadoon “perpetually recovering from its last disaster.”
The last disaster, depending on your point of view, was either the recent exposure of the morally bankrupt athletic program at self-righteous Baylor University or the Twin Peaks Massacre last May 17. Waco has dealt with the Twins Peaks Massacre by shrouding the incident in smoke, ordering everyone who might knows something that might embarrass the local tyrants to remain silent and either arresting or legally restraining everyone who dares to disobey.
Lawless
Waco is a lawless town rum by a cabal of small town bullies. The members include cops, prosecutors, judges, union officials and defense attorneys and together they perfectly illustrate what G. Robert Blakely meant when he coined the term “racketeering enterprise.” Short term, there is no way to remedy the Waco Criminal Organization. That’s the sort of thing federal law enforcement officials are supposed to do and, unfortunately, the feds are coconspirators in the premeditated murders of between six and nine innocent people, the wounding of a score more and the false imprisonment of something near 150.
The only remedies would seem to be through the federal courts and through the press. The Waco Criminal Organization knows that as well as anybody which is why there has been so little news from the anti-Brigadoon. Clint Broden
Since shortly after the Twin Peaks murders, the loudest voice coming out of the mists has belonged to a Dallas lawyer named Clint Broden. Broden is not from Waco. Even Patrick Swanton knows “that for a fact!”
Early in the case, McLennan County District Attorney Abelino “Abel” Reyna threatened every defense attorney with a gag order if they talked out loud and on the record. When Broden refused to sit down and shut up, Reyna’s former law partner, Judge and coconspirator Matt Johnson, slapped Broden with a court order to remain silent. Broden fought back by filing numerous, argumentative and quotable legal motions. Eventually he, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 15 additional organizations filed briefs with the Court of Appeals for the Tenth District of Texas on behalf of a motion to lift the gag order. Eventually Broden won. So Reyna immediately appealed freedom of speech to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals which agreed that Waco was a Constitution free zone.
That appeals court told Reyna, Broden and other interested parties to stay completely silent for another month and then submit briefs on the matter. Now the month is up. Yesterday Broden submitted his brief in defense of freedom of speech. So did the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and the 25 other organizations including the Committee for Freedom of the Press.
There will be more inevitable stalling. It might take the Court of Criminal Appeals another month to read all those words. But sooner or later, Broden and his rude pen and his incorrect opinions will be once again unleashed. And the mists will begin to clear.
The court of public opinion is overrated. More conspiracy theories but where is Jessie Ventura on this?
Had not listened to it in a while.
Caught my ear that the cops who fired were NOT immediately taken off duty; but, stayed on scene throughout the evening.
So the cops can violate their own rules? It’s is a speculation on my part that a cop who fires his weapon must be taken off duty. I am happy to be corrected.
>>> Waco has dealt with the Twins Peaks Massacre by shrouding the incident in smoke, ordering everyone who might knows something that might embarrass the local tyrants to remain silent and either arresting or legally restraining everyone who dares to disobey. <<<
Anyone hear of arrests for violating the gag orders? I haven’t seen that anywhere.
The usual nonsense from this gangster apologist blog.
I think you mean “gag order”, singular, because, despite the lies that this blogger posts, there was only one gag order, on one attorney.
Specifically?
Headline is misleading; but for an event that happened a month after Waco they are miles ahead.
Well, the fairy tale he tells about Clint Broden, for example, painting Broden as some crusader who was unfairly gagged.
Broden was gagged specifically to prevent him from going against the judge’s orders and releasing video to the media. It was a condition of him being allowed to obtain that video before discovery. If he had been willing to wait to obtain the video, or if he had agreed not to release it to the media without the judge’s approval, then he wouldn’t have been gagged. He refused, so he brought it on himself.
YOU are the conspiracy theorist, Okie. And it's a hell of a conspiracy that you subscribe to, on a par with thinking any American of Sicilian descent is a violent, murderous member of the Mafia.
Most departments have that policy, but it's only policy. The point of the policy is to give the officer time to decompress and process the incident (which is not necessary for battle-hardened people), and also to give the public the impression that the department takes the incident with an appropriate degree of seriousness; IOW, it considers that the shooting was perhaps not justified, by a hothead, and better to take time to justify the use of force. IMO, that part of the justification is a farce, in all departments. Self-examination always results in self-exoneration.
Nope. The violation would be contempt of court, and the consequences would likely be modification of bail conditions, at worst.
The gag is on more than one attorney.
The people covered by that one gag order includes Clendennen, Clendennen's counsel, and all witnesses who have been interviewed.
The gag order IS the order. There was no separate "don't share the video with the media" verbal order from the judge, which Broden rejected, so the judge wrote a gag order.
Plus, it wasn't the judge who suggested the gag order, it was DA Reyna. The exact language of the gag order came from the DA.
Plus, anybody who reads the briefs will see that you misrepresents several facets, in your remark. If the only issue was the video, then why gag more than the video?
“Are they all gang apologists?”
LOL, criminal defense lawyers? Yes, in general, they tend to be. That’s what they get paid to to do!
"So the cops can violate their own rules? It’s is a speculation on my part that a cop who fires his weapon must be taken off duty. I am happy to be corrected."
"If this is the boots being mentioned, the interesting thing is his pants legs. Why would they have been pulled up like that? Perhaps to get something out of his boot?"
LOL! That falsehood again ...
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