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.
This shooting was very atypical, not an "always caught up in". That is what initially made it newsworthy.
The shootings in Chicago are typical therefore they do not make the national news. Lock up all the people in Chicago, they know they associate with 1%ers of society.
So you wouldn’t attend a “rally” coordinated or highly attended by bikers or crips/bloods etc.
How about a concert at say House of Blues or a concert shed ampetheater with hillside seating?
“guilt by association” is a bad thing.
Do bikers ever wear their colors to a gun show?
Would that compromise the integrity of all of the other potential buyers attending the gun show?
And a retired judge brought into the case was involved in the partisan prosecution of Gov. Rick Perry.
ping
The DA in this case was very selective in who was accused and detained. One necessary element was membership in Bandidos or Cossacks or “affiliated club”, which is whatever the DA thinks might stick. Members of some clubs, on scene, were unarrested and released after about a day. Quite a few others were never arrested, although they were detained as witnesses. The cops told nearly all of the detained they were only witnesses, then arrested most of them.
In 1993 law enforcers instigated a gunfight in Mt. Carmel completely with media coordination to cover the raid.
History may or may not be repeating itself but never say never.
The smoke in that case rose to the top ranks of government.
Most don’t care if law enforcement over reaches. Until they are the guest of honor of the over reach. Then it is a horse of a different color.
Additionally, if the BATFE had a CI in the Bandidos, why would they burn him on a gang fight and possibly lose their source inside the gang. Doesn't make much sense.
Ping
Oh how Alinsky-like of you!
When you can’t answer the question or message, attack the messenger!
Also, if you understood Tx law, which you don’t, you would understand why each of the 177 were charged with identical charging documents. And no, I’m not going to waste my time explaining it again.
I’ve give you a hint; “71”
Finally, who better to be a troll. Long time member, sleeper, uses his long-tine status to post things that he knows are false, just to stir up trouble.
If you care about FR, you might want to be very worried about him.... and some of us are a little concerned about you.
Not those not wearing colors.
Why are you still posting this BS you know is not true.
Chapter 71, Texas Statutes covers an incident exactly like this.
Moi?
Sacre Bleu
Non!
P.S., I love how all you LEO-haters attack the messenger, as opposed to stopping lying about an issue.
Off with your head.... such as it is.
You have already been outed why not give it a rest.
You claim to be a lawyer; act like a double naught spy. But your best work is constructing strawmen.
All that time in DC (if true) got your sycophant chops finely honed.
You are persona non grata to me.
Concurring bump...and you might be on to something with regard to some of these old timers. A lot of their rhetoric and 'concerns' can be found at the DUmp and other liberal hang outs.
“You are persona non grata to me.”
Promise?
First it was St Agnes one Saturday night
Then Yugoslavia along with some ASA guys.
Now you.
Will it never end??!??!
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