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 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.
Some of us are taking care to note a few of your many inconsistencies and flip flops. Not sure if you are flipping or flopping now.
Last month you denied ever saying that folks came to TP ready to rumble. “Your troll blather has been that everyone showed up at TP locked and loaded for war.”
Even a parking ticket is a criminal offense.
” I think he keeps posting it that way just to get a rise out of you. And it’s working!”
LOL! Last May they thought they would get a rise out of me. I said it would never happen and it hasn’t happened.
“Last month you denied ever saying that folks came to TP ready to rumble.”
That is Don’s post, not mine. Oops. You are Don!
LOL! Such a silly post.
Admit that you lied about you being here..before you were. Admit that you told me...you wre too busy back in 2012 or whatever it was...
Admit you lied your ass off here today..."the Led Zeppelin" post...and you trying to swim backwards...saying it was Pink Floyd. Please!!!
Lie all you want....
Admit it...and I will consider.
Which I figure...like a liberal you won't admit..nor honor any "pact" anyone would sign with you.
You are a chick..correct!
“Even a parking ticket is a criminal offense”
LOL! Parking tickets are municipal citations, not criminal offenses.
You have screwed yourself into incoherence. Fortunately, most on the thread exist a bit higher on the bell curve.
“You are a chick..correct!”
Finny is. I am not.
Yet you can go to jail for unpaid tickets.
Yea, how bout that.
There is so much B.S. being thrown around here that I can’t believe....let’s just say my beeber is stunned!
Yep, I’ve a stunned beeber. I can’t say what I really want to say.
So now, as I’m told, a misdemeanor is not a criminal offense? Stunned. Stunned I say!!!! Stunned Beeber.
TG...can’t remember nuttin.
You lie like one....And I can PROVE that!!
I love chicks...not so much liberal one's.
“Admit you lied your ass off here today...”the Led Zeppelin” post...and you trying to swim backwards...saying it was Pink Floyd. Please!!! “
I owned up to the fact that I mistakenly wrote Led Zepelin.
I also noted that I my link very visibly noted that it was Pink Floyd.
If you feel better after that nit, fine. As I said four months ago, you can try and try but you will never spin me up with your personal blather.
Pretty much...my thinking.
“There is so much B.S. being thrown around here that I can’t believe....let’s just say my beeber is stunned!
Yep, I’ve a stunned beeber. I can’t say what I really want to say.
So now, as I’m told, a misdemeanor is not a criminal offense?”
I see you just tossed some more B.S. around. Please cite anyone that has told you a misdemeanor is not a criminal offense.
When did you lie about that?
So...TG...did you once say...you were here for some stuff that was going on...way back when. But you really weren't..and admitted to me..you were too busy back then to be here.
Was that you...lying?
You got caught today...trying to cover yourself..."quoting" Scripture...which you did WRONGLY...and back pedaled furiously afterwards. I know I'm right....I ain't wrong.
You are a liar....
Want me to post that first lie I caught you in?
Warrant seeks bullet from arm of Twin Peaks biker killed in deer collision - WacoTrib.com - September 9, 2015
The warrant, issued by 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother, is for a bullet in the arm of James Kenneth "Spaz" Anderson, 53, of Henderson, Texas, a member of the Bandidos who was killed Sept. 3 when his motorcycle struck one or more deer on a highway in northwestern Nebraska. ...According to the affidavit, Lanie Smith, a Longview [Texas] police officer, received information that Anderson had been shot during the Twin Peaks incident. The officer found him "recuperating" from his wound at a home on County Road 2121 near Longview and he reportedly admitted to Smith that he was shot in the left arm. Anderson told the officer he managed to flee Waco without being identified by police or arrested.
What we do know is that the AP report is somewhat meaningless in that it was apparently limited to Texas “public records” of “convictions”.
I bet the correct number is probably about 1/3 don’t have a Class B or better “conviction” in Texas or elsewhere. If you included deferred adjudications, including “sealed”, I go with maybe 1/4.
If you go state jail or better (or equivalent out of state), I bet about 1/2 have no convictions or deferred.
Well excuse me!!!
I tell you my entire “history”. And you parse “traffic infractions” as not including DUI. And then, hold on I’ll have to look it up, oh here it is “xpert: LegalEagle, LLC replied 9 years ago.
Yes...a DUI is a misdemeanor traffic offense
Maybe things have changed in the past 9 years. This is just the first thing that popped up after about 30 seconds of looking.
Parsing again much?
You jumped the shark a while back. Get help.
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