Posted on 02/13/2017 5:53:01 PM PST by Elderberry
The various criminal and civil cases associated with the Waco Twin Peaks bloodbath 639 days ago remain fossilized and nobody – certainly not the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas – gives a damn.
It has been a year, eight months and 28 days since the illegal, mass arrests. The ACLU’s stated mission is “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” But the disillusioning truth is that the ACLU is just another meetup group for sanctimonious law school grads. And, for the last week, they have all been busy filing Freedom of Information Act Requests “to expose how Trump administration officials are interpreting and executing the president’s Muslim ban.”
As Terri Burke, Executive Director of the ACLU of Texas wrote two weeks ago: “Over the past 48 hours, our legal team, along with dedicated volunteers from all across the state, has worked day and night to free those illegally detained by the President’s executive order. Thanks to their tireless efforts, we have prevailed, for now. But ours was only an early tactical victory in what will be a long, hard fight for our nation’s soul. There is still much to do.”
Burke and the rest of her dedicated gang of bourgeoisie bohemians see nothing to champion in Waco. They never have. Maybe the problem is that the victims of the illegal arrests that followed the “Battle of Twin Peaks” were actually Americans. What Happened
What happened, in case someone somehow connected to the ACLU sometime, somewhere stumbles across these few words, was that about ten score citizens who care about issues that are mostly, only important to bikers – issues like mass detectors at controlled intersections that don’t detect motorcycles, and how license plates may be legally displayed on motorcycles, and how high handlebars should be allowed to be and that sort of thing – went to a political meeting sponsored by a wholly legal group called the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents and found themselves charged with criminal conspiracy to commit murder. Many of the accused had well deserved reputations for their civic mindedness and for their charitable works on behalf of animals, abused children and veterans and so on. Virtually all of the accused were simply trying to not get shot by police.
Among the attendees were two score members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club; which is regularly smeared as a “criminal organization” by sensationalist television journalists, lazy prosecutors and the sorts of postmodern cops who think they are storming Iwo Jima every time they drive their Lenco BearCats down to the donut shop. The Bandidos were, at the time of the bloodbath, proud sponsors of the Confederation. They are also actually about as criminal as most labor unions and a lot less criminal than the Baylor football team but the police, particularly the federal police, are always trying, without much success, to catch them at something. Which may explain why more than a score of police were waiting for Bandidos to pull into the Twin Peaks parking lot that day.
About four score members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club – which is not a member of the Confederation and so had no particular reason to be there – arrived early and while more than a score of police watched, claimed all the seats that had been reserved by the Confederation and most of the parking spaces. There is significant, anecdotal evidence that the police invited the Cossacks there in hopes of getting the Bandidos to react. There is documentary evidence that the police expected violence to result. There is video evidence that the police did nothing to prevent the violence. Nine people died and another score were injured seriously enough to be taken to a hospital. 15,336 Hours
The local prosecutor, a bald, America Ferrera look-alike named Abelino Reyna, interjected himself into the subsequent investigation and ordered that everybody who literally or symbolically stated “I think the Bandidos are nice” or “I love me some Cossacks” should be arrested, incarcerated and held on million dollar bails. Local officials immediately portrayed the bloodbath as a real life episode of a ridiculous television show called Sons of Anarchy. The great, restless herd of the world’s migrating press stampeded toward that angle. This all ruined many lives and many Texas lawyers have been trying to straighten out the mess Reyna created ever since.
Because of this official obstruction all the criminal and all the civil cases that resulted from the Twin Peaks bloodbath are officially on hold. So far there have been five evidence dumps in the case. An evidence dump is the release of massive amounts of putative evidence from prosecutors and police to defense attorneys with the intention of concealing a few relevant leaves in a deep, dark forest. The last evidence dump, Evidence Packet Five, was released in August. Evidence dump six, which contains cell phone records and information collected from social media, was released and almost immediately recalled in September because, officials announced, it contained child pornography. After evidence six there will also be an evidence dump seven and an evidence dump eight. Official Proceedings
The first trial in the case, against an as yet unnamed defendant, is scheduled to begin on April 17 but that now seems unlikely because of the mass of evidence that prosecutors continue to hide under their skirts.
There will be an appeals court healing on March 1 in which a couple of defenders named Clint Broden and Abigail Anastasio will argue that Reyna and his assistants should be disqualified from the criminal cases because they will be “necessary witnesses” at the criminal trials: Necessary because it will be legally necessary to ask them why they ordered police to accuse and incarcerate so many people they knew to be innocent.
If the appeals court eventually rules against Reyna, he will be replaced by a special prosecutor who may act legally and fairly. Or maybe he won’t. Over the weekend, a source familiar with the criminal cases said he expects a special prosecutor to dismiss the criminal charges against all but “eight” of the defendants.
In the meantime, since prosecutors have obviously been concealing something for almost two years, it might seem reasonable for the ACLU to ask its scores of “dedicated volunteers from all across the state” to work “day and night” to demand access to and evaluate the evidence Reyna claims to have that implicates 190 indicted and unindicted coconspirators in the murders of nine men and the felonious assaults of a score more.
Isn’t that what the ACLU is supposed to do? Obviously not.
Think about that the next time the ACLU asks you to write them a check.
“When gangsters sometimes have more honor than the bluesies, then that’s a pretty pitiful comment on current events.”
ROTFLMAO!
And what do you bathe with anyhow? If you want it to be manly, it ought to at least be something like Irish Spring. Not Eau De Toilette Petite Fleur, or something like that. Which seems to be more the scent of the perfumed princes who come prancing in here.
It’s true.
Ya know, there’s a reason why the Sheriff of Nottingham got a reputation as a cad, and Robin Hood a reputation as a hero? Gummit privileges went clear to the head of the former, while the latter was still thinking about free men.
Ah, Berry. Don’t worry about the other perfumed princes, the ACLUeless.
They’re useless. Don’t gnash your teeth over them. That’ll just wear out your teeth.
There is no one single stereotype that applies to all “outlaw” bikers. Some do evil things, some try to avoid doing evil things. But roaring around on Harleys isn’t, of itself, evil.
I bet if Jesus was around here, odds are He would get on a Harley at some time or another and go roaring around with outlaws to get them saved. Saved means redeemed to do what God wants, and not necessarily what perfumed princes want.
There’s a pernicious line of self-righteousness that proclaims that you should never try to be righteous yourself.
Police have been convicted of dealing drugs.
Domestic violence among LEO's is not at all uncommon (compared to the rest the population, on average, it is much more frequent).
Police agencies in various locales around the nation have taken advantage of civil forfeiture laws to the extent that it does equate with outright theft -- roadway banditry under color of authority. Those laws may be yet "on the books" and presently in effect, but in application (if not from very inception) civil forfeiture laws which empower law enforcement to seize assets prior to trial and conviction, are on their face contrary to a fundamental U.S. Constitutional principle.
The trials have been delayed -- but not delayed by agreement of defendants and defense attorneys (rights to speedy trial not waived) so in this case (as many others) the Constitutional right to speedy trial is being abridged.
I do not support the criminal aspects of some (many?) law enforcement officers and org.'s, yet I still do support rule of law, regardless.
How about we round up the law enforcement agencies functioning as "criminal gangs", throw them all in jail (guilt by association, under charges of "conspiracy") set $1,000,000 bail for each of them (regardless), hold them under those terms for months prior to finally lowering bail amount to a quarter-million or so, then prohibit them (under penalty of law) from associating with other leo "criminal gang" members until after holding trials for each of them -- and those trials delayed (delayed beyond statute, and contrary to spirit and letter of the Constitution)? If laws were to be evenly applied (what's good for one gang is good for another) could we all then say justice was being served?
Suck on that for a while, gator-breath.
Hollywood stereotype much? Even for a civilian that’s way over the top. You are obviously a victim of Joe Namath’s acting.
“yet I still do support rule of law, regardless.”
The rule of law as enforced by your nomad?
#6. Gang killings
I'm not a clubber. Never was, never will be. False accusations go nowhere. Or at the least, shouldn't, even though leo's and DA's do get away with making false allegations stick -- themselves not caring for underlying truths of the matters, and nowadays (within Texas) deliberately ducking & dodging the Morgan Act by taking care to not write down/not record any exculpatory evidence/aspect to a case if they can keep from it. I've had a local LEO relate about as much to me. I get the impression there are subtle pressures within LEO departments to make it easy on DA's in this manner (thus again contravening the intent of laws as written, by way of work-around). Criminal, I tell you.
I'm not a gang member either, or wanna-be "support club" guy (whichever fits) LIKE YOU apparently are, gator-mouth.
Would like to see yours (your mouth) taped shut, though. Does that make me a criminal? I plead guilty on that single count. Am guilty of looking forward to the day when your mouth will be firmly shut out of embarrassment, if nothing else...
“Would like to see yours (your mouth) taped shut, though.”
Do you really dislike me telling how the motorcycle gangs work?
How the Bandidos extort money from all the other clubs in Texas?
How you must pay these extortion fees in order to ride as a club?
How over two hundred gangsters met in Waco to determine whether the Bandidos would continue these extortion rackets?
You carry on as though everybody in an “outlaw” gang is bent on evil, and the ones that are, bent on equal evils.
That deserves to be set straight.
“You carry on as though everybody in an “outlaw” gang is bent on evil, and the ones that are, bent on equal evils.”
LOL! Why else join an outlaw gang?
Hello, a club is a private thing isn’t it?
If there was all this “extortion” going on, then the so called 99%ers of the AMA would be up in arms about their own clubs and would have the practice literally “outlawed” in short order.
If you want to be a 1%er, then there are people who have the copyright on that. It’s your choice.
Because you think the law has gone rotten
In other words if you want to wear some stupid wannabe outfits from the MoCo then not even the 1%ers will give you grief. You are not trying to be one of them in a larger sense. Same for the “Sworn to fun - Loyal to none” kind of gear.
One might as well accuse Donald Trump of “extortion” since he probably wouldn’t let you create your own Mar-a-Lago joint.
And that’s really the size of it, Gator Mouth.
Outlaw in the broadest sense is a protest. It says that the law has gotten so bad rotten that only a private association can protect your rights like they ought to be protected.
Now if it really isn’t bad rotten, then you need to make a case for that. But I would humbly suggest that the fuzzies of Waco sure ain’t making such a case.
And you know what... I agree with the outlaws in that sense. The law has gone rotten. I’m not sure what could have better validated that larger sense than Waco, and all your police oxford tap dancing can’t negate this.
I don’t agree they should be doing things that are downright unbiblical. But that’s why Jesus came into the world, and that’s why there are Christian bikers now. No, not everybody’s God-ordained way of worshiping Jesus consists of packing into the First Self Righteous Church of Pascagoula with idiotic smug grins on. Soul salvation, in fact, ranks above any outward thing whatsoever.
“Outlaw in the broadest sense is a protest. “
Terrorism in the broadest sense is a protest ...
You sure spend a lot of time defending gangsters ...
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