Posted on 08/08/2015 8:09:05 AM PDT by don-o
Waco might not get away with it.
So far it has been impossible to know exactly what all it is that Waco has spent the last 83 days hiding because that’s the nature of official secrecy in an institutionally corrupt Dogpatch run by Jack S. Phogbound.
For the last 83 days Waco has been hiding something, maybe many things, about the Twin Peaks Massacre last May 17. For the last 83 days the case has been a black barrel full of question marks.
Right out of the gate, it certainly seems obvious as sunrise that the Waco Police, the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department knew what might happen in advance and either encouraged or failed to prevent an apparent ambush of a dozen or so Bandidos by some unknown number of Cossacks. Or vice versa. It is obvious that the cops knew in advance because they erected pole cameras around the crime scene before the crimes happened. And then after the crimes happened they kept the video evidence secret. And that has led to speculation that has been at best informed and at worst half baked.
Something Happened
One recurring version of what happened, popularized by the Washington Post and the Houston Chronicle, is that the Bandidos came in hot while the Cossacks greeted them as Samoset and Squanto greeted the Pilgrims. Then there was some shooting by somebody and nine men were killed and at least 18 were wounded. All of this bloodshed was recorded by dozens of dash cams, security cams, body cams and cell phone cams as well as the pole cams and most of that footage remains officially secret.
The Post/Chronicle version is that the Bandidos lit the Cossacks up. According to the Post/Chronicle, Cossacks named “Richie” “then Diesel, then Dog” died. An alternative version argues that between seven and a dozen Bandidos were “surrounded and attacked before they could get off their bikes or turn off their ignitions” A Bandido named Manny “Candyman” Rodriguez was “shot first as punches were thrown beside him.” In that version someone “reached over the shoulder of a Cossack” and shot Rodriguez “in the head at point blank range.” In that alternative version, unpublished by the Post or Chronicle, Rodriguez was the first man to die.
Virtually none of the forensic evidence has yet been released. So, it is impossible to know if Rodriguez, or Cossacks Richard Matthew “Richie” Jordan II, Danny “Diesel” Boyett or Charles Wayne “Dog” Russell died the way they have been reported to have died. Or if, say, the police killed them.
Covering Up
Immediately after the bloodbath, officials from all seven of the police forces listed above rounded up all the witnesses, seized their vehicles and their cellphones and sealed the crime scene and the area around the crime scene for days. Then the witnesses were intimidated with million dollar bonds and further punished. According to the Post/Chronicle account, Jordan’s stepfather, a Cossack officer named Owen “Big O” Reeves was invited by a Bandido to bring many hungry Cossacks to the Twin Peaks that Sunday for a peace powwow and brunch. The same account portrays Reeves as an instigator of the fight between members of the two clubs. A single source told The Aging Rebel in May that Reeves, “when in jail, attempted to say he was undercover.” There have been impossible to refute accounts that undercover lawmen and contract employees were there and in biker costume when the bloodshed started.
Of course everyone’s good name, including Reeves, could be cleared if only Waco, state and federal officials weren’t so actively engaged in suppressing and potentially destroying evidence and spinning the story to their own advantage. Nobody in Waco seems to give a damn about justice.
Suppressed Evidence
Defense attorneys have tried a couple of strategies to get a look at the actual evidence in the case – the many videos, the autopsies and the forensic evidence. Dallas attorney Clint Broden, for example, subpoenaed video from both the Twin Peaks restaurant and the Don Carlos restaurant on the other side of the parking lot. A Waco judge named Matt Johnson couldn’t find a reason to quash the subpoenas but he did slap Broden and his client, a Scimitar Motorcycle Club member named Matthew Clendennen, with a gag order on June 30.
The McLennan County District Attorney, Abelino “Abel” Reyna had been threatening for weeks to gag defense attorneys who made too much noise. Some lawyers became quiet as little mice but not all. When Broden refused to sit down and shut up Reyna asked his former law partner, Judge Johnson, to silence him. Since this was Waco, Johnson did. Johnson didn’t do it to ensure fair trials for the 177 defendants in the case. He did it as part of a concerted effort to continue to hide whatever it is that everybody in Waco has been hiding for almost three months. Ask Richard Nixon how that worked out for him.
Broden and the attorneys for 16 additional defendants requested what Texas calls “examining trials” for their clients. Examining trials are strategically important for defenders in Texas because they allow attorneys an early look at aome of the evidence. Prosecutors must either “discover” evidence to the accused or let him go. A judge or magistrate decides how much evidence is enough but when the examining trials start there is an excellent chance that at least some of Waco’s secrets will be revealed.
A buffoonish justice of the peace named Walter H. “Pete” Peterson illegally signed the original arrest warrants for the witnesses who were jailed after the Twin Peaks Massacre. Peterson’s conduct was so blatantly illegal that Waco hired him a lawyer But Peterson still planned to preside over all the examining trials – except Clendennen’s because Broden successfully sued to stop that.
This Morning’s News
This morning the official censorship in Waco began to falter. First an appeals court told Judge Johnson to lift the gag order on Broden and Clendennen. The higher court told Johnson he could stall for another week but then Broden and Clendennen must be allowed to talk about the case. Almost simultaneously Peterson announced that he had “changed his mind” and would no longer preside over any of the examining trials. A retired judge named James E. Morgan will decide what evidence the defense attorneys can see.
Nothing really changed today. Broden still can’t speak and 177 people have still been extrajudicially punished for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
What happened today was a reaffirmation that all of the United States of America, even Texas, even Waco is a part of a nation governed by law, not by corrupt nepotism. Implicit in the ongoing official coverup is the undeniable notion that Waco has had something to hide. As the examining trials unfold America might begin to glimpse what that is. Clint Broden can finally begin to tell the country what he thinks Waco has been hiding sometime next week.
Eventually the secrets that have been hidden and the lies that have been told might be exposed.
“Your position as derived from your statements is as I summarized in the post you are desperately deflecting from.”
As I said before, CITE my posts for my position. Don’t just make up a bunch of B.S.
I have posted much in the last three months on this issue. Go review my posts if you want my positions.
I don’t have time to reiterate all to some Johnny-come-lately to this topic.
“Figure it out. “
Not going to waste my time on that one.
There is no evidence that Jesse Rodriguiz was shot and killed by police.
Either present evidence that he was or stop making that false statement!
Yes. And for the time being, says all that need be said about that sad and silly one.
“attempting to get people to say things which can be recorded”
Quite the opposite.
Please CITE any post I have made that would lead to the above conclusion, Mr. Alinsky.
Hard to present evidence when there is a total information blackout and gag orders on everyone who has seen it, don’t you think?
If you are in the mood to demand evidence, I suggest directing that demand at those who have it and refuse to release it.
Until then, the evidence we do have is hundreds of rounds fired by police, no evidence of a shot fired by anyone else, and nine dead to account for, all reportedly by gunfire.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots here.
I don’t really have a dog in this fight
Why? Just because I said I don’t have a dog in this fight?
I don’t.
I don’t live in Waco.
I’ve never been to Waco.
I’m not a biker.
I haven’t eaten at that Twin Peaks. (My wife and I have eaten at others)
I don’t know anyone involved in the situation.
But I said the more I read about it, the more I think it stinks.
What more is expected of me to save the Republic, since you seem to think it’s my responsibility?
HOW CONVENIENT! Every single time most anyone around here shows you how FUBAR your thinking is --- you have some chicken-droppings excuse for being blind as a bat whenever it suits you.
And I shouldn't need to have to explain to you how you continually distort most everything you touch.
It's like the Midas touch, but with new & improved turd blossom.
Becoming informed and curious is a good start. This Waco thing has been very low in the news cycle. We at FR can at least collect what little reporting there is.
The family of Jesse Rodrigiuz has file a wrongful death lawsuit which specifically did NOT name Waco or their police department.
One would think that they would know how their son/husband/father died and take appropriate action even if a cop hating twit like you doesn’t.
“Until then, the evidence we do have is hundreds of rounds fired by police, no evidence of a shot fired by anyone else, and nine dead to account for, all reportedly by gunfire.”
The only part you got right was ‘nine dead’.
Don't look now, chaos, but you are the dog in this fight. You're up against the civil service dog, and he's a friggen' raptor looking for a meal.
Bump.
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