Posted on 09/07/2015 2:37:39 PM PDT by Elderberry
This is the 114th day of the Twin Peaks Massacre coverup. It is worth noting for two lamentable reasons.
First, the degree to which government officials have been uncooperative, obstructive and evasive about the Massacre is prima facie evidence that there is an official coverup. There was no probable cause to believe that most of the 177, or 182, or so, people arrested that day were guilty of engaging in organized criminal activity. There is probable cause to believe that police murdered at least six men and may have attempted to murder 20 more.
The second reason to note the ongoing coverup is the apparent disappearance of what just a few years ago was being called the investigative impulse in American journalism. The investigative impulse began, according to Jon Marshall of Northwestern Universitys Medill School of Journalism, in the 1600s, when Enlightenment philosophers taught that people have a right to question their leaders.
To its inerasable shame, the Waco Tribune-Herald has not noticed the coverup. To its credit, the Houston Chronicle has. Any time a prosecutors office or a politician does not want people talking about something, one should raise a red flag and insist we talk about it, a law professor named Patrick Metze told the Chronicle this morning. They may say it is to protect the investigation, but they are protecting themselves from whatever it is that they dont want us to see or know about. You can read the entire Chronicle piece here.
Based on information supplied by various sources who believe their lives, careers and pensions are in actual danger and who have spoken with The Aging Rebel under conditions of either off the record or deep background, this page will continue to report that the Twin Peaks Massacre was the result of a contrived and avoidable confrontation between members of the Cossacks Motorcycle Club and the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. The Aging Rebel believes that the confrontation was engineered by and anticipated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Texas Department of Public Safety and a Waco area law enforcement agency that was not the Waco Police Department. The Aging Rebel also believes that these police agencies, and possibly the Waco Police Department, began physically preparing for an armed confrontation to include the use of deadly force in the Twin Peaks restaurant parking lot at or before dawn on May 17. And finally, this page believes the Massacre was captured in its entirety by at least 44 video cameras. Investigating This Mess
The Associated Press defines information gained off the record as information that cannot be used for publication. The same news agency and most publications define deep background as information that can be used but without attribution. The source does not want to be identified in any way, even on condition of anonymity. Generally, information gained off the record can only be used after being substantiated by additional independent sources. Off the record information tells reporters where to llok and what to look for.
Off the record information about federal police actions is often substantiated by filing Freedom of Information Act requests with, for example, the Disclosure Division of the ATF. The information requests involving bikers are almost routinely denied on the grounds of either what the FOIA Act calls Exemption Seven or one of three Exclusions.
The exempt information is defined as, Certain types of information compiled for law enforcement purposes. The three exclusions are: One, Subject of a criminal investigation or proceeding is unaware of the existence of records concerning the pending investigation or proceeding and disclosure of such records would interfere with the investigation or proceeding; two, Informant records maintained by a criminal law enforcement agency and the individuals status as an informant is not known; and three, Existence of FBI foreign intelligence, counterintelligence or international terrorism records are classified fact.
Exclusion three is one reason why motorcycle clubs are frequently described as transnational gangs.
Taken together, the exemption and exclusions explain why gang investigations are always classified as ongoing even when the newest information in those investigations is more than a decade old.
After a FOIA request is denied, large news gathering organizations and some private law firms have the means to bring suit in federal court to discover exempt and excluded information. The Aging Rebel does not have the resources to pursue such lawsuits at this time. This page is aware that many of its conclusions about what happened in Waco on May 17 are unsubstantiated sand have been described as speculative. As one 23-year-old reporter recently put it, A blog favorable to motorcycle clubs citing an undisclosed source is not credible.
Credible or not, the authorities in Texas have been blatantly manipulating public opinion since the day of the Massacre and the Department of Justice has, as yet, not chosen to intervene. One plausible explanation for that inaction is that the Department of Justice has been involved since sometime before May 1.
The Aging Rebel stands by its coverage of the Waco Twin Peaks Massacre and will continue to pursue the story.
Bwaaaaahaahahaahaaaaaaaa!
Jerk.
So now you are belittling a tactic taught to the best and bravest among us? Your comment is an insult to every US (hell every military member any where) military member that are taught and practice dropping to the ground when fired upon from an unknown direction. I know many guys that still hit the dirt at the sound of gunfire from an unknown or new direction. Some haven't been in the military for 40 years or more.
You are pathetic to stoop so low just to make one of your inane insults about bikers.
The underside of the bridge is clear!
My nod of respect for First Wave Feminism!
My don-o is the bestest of the bestest.
It is delightful to hear you in such good spirits and feeling
no pain. May God bless you with good health all your days.
In Jesus Holy Name,
Amen
Hey, I’m not touching this conspiracy stuff with a ten footer. Haven’t followed the story, or commented since weeks and weeks ago.
My posts were never very popular anyway, as you recall. I was surprised you pinged me, at all. Curiously, I’m wondering if you guys have run out of stumps to butt, or what?
My arguments were always the same as CPE’s posts are, now.
I got "caught"..... lmao....but you are a smoking ruin, firmly and forever ensconced in the FR Hall of Shame.
I probably should let this go, Crys but you should get the classic
I saw that after I posted and looked it up -- I'm indebted to you for enlarging my vocabulary!
The fact remains that of all the motorcycle clubs present at Waco on May 17, only one club had any history of criminality, the Bandidos, and it was considered second tier in terms of badness, according to LEO.
You can look it up.
ALL of the rest, if you do your research, you will discover had zip, zero, nada, zilch, except for one Cossack who got in trouble for helping a private citizen patrol the border, record anywhere; these clubs were totally off the radar until May 18. Yet for some reason you think they were all criminals.
Why is that?
Because you are ignorant.
You are simply his target of the day......
“The fact remains that of all the motorcycle clubs present at Waco on May 17, only one club had any history of criminality, the Bandidos, and it was considered second tier in terms of badness, according to LEO. “
Second Tier: 258 Bandidos arrested in Operation Hogtrap!
Cossacks corner Bandido on highway, beat him up with chains and wrenches and take his patch.
I tell ya, it a gang war.
Yo! Can you give me an updated count?
LOL!
All those mean tough bikers running into the restroom to hide!
One dummy even trying to flush his gun down the toilet!
Your insult to military personnel is noted and logged.
Nothing's changed. Not much has happened except for a great day when a fake story was posted and all the bikerbots did highfives and broke out the champaign!. Don tried to get it removed but the only thing Don would get from the mods is some images!
Link to thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3330813/posts?page=1
Don complains and mods send him this:
He complains again and they send him this:
:snork:
“Your insult to military personnel is noted and logged.”
LOL!
“For his service in the U.S. Army, McVeigh received several awards including the Bronze Star Medal,[1] National Defense Service Medal,[19] Southwest Asia Service Medal,[20] Army Service Ribbon,[20] and the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal.[19]”
“So now you are belittling a tactic taught to the best and bravest among us?”
I think desertion in the face of the enemy is NOT taught in our military.
“ALL of the rest, if you do your research, you will discover had zip, zero, nada, zilch, except for one Cossack who got in trouble for helping a private citizen patrol the border, record anywhere; these clubs were totally off the radar until May 18. “
You have been called on that many times. Why do you keep repeating the falsehood?
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