The Twin Peaks Massacre Coverup

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 University’s 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 prosecutor’s 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 don’t 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 individual’s 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.

Good post.

May I kindly and civilly point out: if you want those question answered, you have to seek the answers yourself by investing your time and your effort -- others can and will answer here but you are merely reduced to taking -- or not taking -- their word for it, which is how this started in the first place -- America took the MSM's word for it and America was wrong to do so. In America today, every MSM consumer has to take responsibility for informing themselves, as the MSM is fraudulent in terms of "journalism."

For example, I DID MY OWN DUE DILIGENCE and spent many, many hours on websites and blogs and news sources other than FR to dig, dig, and dig some more, reading comments and articles and doing media searches -- to discover that out of ALL the clubs present that day, only one motorcycle club there had a history of criminality with police and in the news. ONLY ONE OF THEM.

But guys like Gator and the other tiny handful (only about half a dozen individuals who post so prodigiously that they appear to be not nearly such a tiny group) insist that all of these clubs were criminal gangs, even though if you do your own due diligence (trying to link the well-over 100 places I went to discover this info on my own would be great if I got paid for it, but I don't), you WILL CONFIRM that prior to May 17, the ONLY motorcycle club on the radar with the cops, the ONLY one, was the Bandidos -- and at that, the Bandidos were ranked mere 2nd-tier criminals in terms of dangerous gangs.

Now, Gator will flat out deny that, just as he denies the FACT which you can also discover doing your own due diligence (as opposed to just taking my word for it), that only one third of the purported "criminal gang members" arrested had prior arrests or convictions, even misdemeanor type "crimes."

That alone tells those familiar with bikers what happened -- in the real world, any truly bad-ass biker over the age of 23 has a police record. Hell, a lot of us here had a police record by the time we were 23, and we're not even bad-ass.

I am new to these kinds of threads, I’ve only seen them pop up from time to time and made only a casual mental note of them. This one I decided to read a bit more carefully to try to catch myself up on this case. So anyone who wishes to bring me up to speed please note my admitted, innocent ignorance of the facts here and also note while I’m new to this discussion I’m not an FR Noob.

It is good to ask questions. Unfortunately, this particular thread has become more or less a pissing contest of sarcasm and accusation, and not a whole lot of useful information going back and forth. That said, I'll take a stab at your questions and provide what I know, what I think, and what I believe.

1. If these two biker gangs (or clubs or whatever they are) hated each other so much, why did they assemble next to each other at this location in such mass?

There are a couple of fine-tuning points to consider. "Hatred" is really not a helpful adjective. Individuals may hate, but clubs or organizations do not. Organizations may or may not have formal alliances or institutional amity or enmity, but "hate" is not accurate.

And I do not mean to lecture. I would describe it more as tension existed between the two clubs; said tension lends itself to confrontation; and said tension also lends itself to exploitation by law enforcement for ends that may or may not be related to serving the public.

With respect to your question on assembly, it is not unusual for Confederation of Clubs meetings to have large attendance by member clubs - it would be atypical to simply send a single delegate or two.

This is one question I’ve had since the beginning. What were the mechanics, so to speak, of this assembly? Did one or two of one gang show up, and then two of the other, and then five of the one, and then 10 of the other? Or did they both come “en masse”, so to speak, all at once?

That is a question that is probably impossible to answer with total and unerring accuracy. From what reports are available, it appears that the Cossacks club was present first, and the Bandidos club arrived subsequently. It would not be surprising, unusual or indicative of anything to learn that individual Cossacks or Bandidos happened to already be present or arrived later.

And either way, again, why would two rival gangs (or clubs) group together like that in such large numbers from each? If they so hated each other? That just doesn’t seem right to me.

That's a fair question as well and there's a simple answer for it. Confederation of Club (COC) meetings are held in order for issues of interest to all motorcyclists and bikers to review and discuss, and form consensus on. Those issues may be external to the culture (proposed legislation) or internal (inter-club relations). COC meetings are considered to be neutral ground and neutral venues. In fact, it would not be unusual for COC officers to be patch holders in hostile clubs.

Much is made of the supposed hostility between clubs. It's not an automatic blanket-type situation. For example, you will hear things like "Club A is at war with the Club B!" When what is in fact taking place, may merely be a dispute between individuals that happen to bear the colors of those clubs. If the Club A in South California has a dust-up with Club B in South Carolina, that does not necessarily mean that Club A and Club B are at odds in Nevada. Or even in North Carolina.

Also keep in mind that all sorts of accusations aside, any organization is in truth made up of individuals.

I hope that answers your question thoughtfully. If it does not or leaves out a particular detail, feel free to ask further.

2. This is the main question if like answered, because it’s really not clear to me: Am I right to say that over 150 American Citizens are sitting in jail right now, without having been charged with a crime? Because if so, I don’t care if they are gay, Muslime, kiddy touching Democrats, no American Citizen should sit in a jail cell without any charges for over, what is it 3 months now?

I would refer you to Texas law, which apparently permits jailing on accusation prior to charging for up to six months. Freeper Cboldt can probably answer that with far more accuracy. I believe most have been bailed out.

If they have been charged, then ok (I guess) but I’d still ask when is their expected trial date (or have they waived the right to a speedy trial?)

I cannot provide, offhand, the actual status of each arrested person but I don't beleive trial dates have been set and I would be surprised to hear that any have waived that right.

To me, for now, these seem like the only pertinent questions.

In my opinion there are a number of appalling and unacceptable Constitutional violations that took place in Waco on May 17th, 2015. Those violations resulted in the deaths of Americans and the wounding of over a score of others. Mass arrests, fill-in-the-blank warrants, unconstitutional bail, confiscation of property, wiping of witness cell phones, and other abuses were rampant that day in Texas and in days to follow. It is an ugly situation.

You will find that there are many here who applaud that situation. There are those who consider the situation appalling enough that public discourse on it pointless, and preparation a better expenditure of civic energy.

I can't speak for others, but I remain interested in dialogue - if you can reach it through the slinging of propaganda and nastiness that this broader topic tends to bring to the fore.

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