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.
“these clubs were totally off the radar until May 18. “
Then why were the cops visiting the Cossacks president to discuss on-going troubles with the Bandidos?
Then why were the cops discussing the high probability of trouble happening at TP’s with the TP’s manager who was aware of the large number of Bandidos and Cossacks coming
to TP’s?
Is that ‘one’ in almost four months?
I had posted to you a few days ago about how the cops were very concerned about the wounded at Twin Peaks.
About how they identified the Cossack medic and alerted all the cops as to why he was not down on the ground and should not be considered a threat.
Did I miss your response?
Exactly.
And to the Bikers’ (both good and bad, vet and non-vet, released at the scene or not) regrets, they didn’t realize they had traveled into enemy territory by going to Waco.
Tell me, Sarge.
Did y’all have any punji sticks in the flower beds?
Gonna try that next time?
I thought all the Cossacks were criminal? Was he the one exception? I missed your post. Why was he not considered a threat?
How did they identify him as a “medic”?
“Are there ballistics reports yet that multiple (MC member) shooters were in the crowd, or single shooter with crossfire from snipers across the street?”
The autopsies recovered nine bullets that could be identified as to relative caliber.
Seven of the bullets were medium caliber or larger which means they are NOT .223.
Two were characterized as small caliber, most likely .223.
One of the small caliber was in Campbell’s trunk.
The second was in Kirshner’s buttocks. He also had a wound in the thigh and a medium caliber bullet to the knee.
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What kind of ride do you have?
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“Why was he not considered a threat?
How did they identify him as a “medic”?”
He was administering aid to one of the fallen.
Ash was already gone when you signed up.
Are you a re-tread? :o)
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What is the relevance of a Cossack medic? Or McVeigh? or a hog trap? Or an article from May 18? I could go on for a while.
rel·e·vant
ˈreləvənt/
adjective adjective: relevant
closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand.
” It doesn’t give them the right to kill people for being part of the MC just because they think they may be doing illegal things.”
LOL! You really believe that the cops don’t have the duty to put down a gang shooting in a public plaza?
“What is the relevance of a Cossack medic?
It goes to show that those that post about the cops disregard for the wounded are posting falsely.
“Or McVeigh?”
I get slammed for not supporting our veterans! LOL. I am a veteran. McVeigh was an honored veteran. You have to be realistic.
“or a hog trap?”
It goes to show that these bikers are involve in criminal behavior.
Nope...but I was reading way before I signed up.
Was intimidated by HTML...Ha!!
That was a long time ago..!!
Lying again...TG?
None of that has anything to do with anything I have ever posted.
Has nothing to do with his boots......
Yo, Don!
You missed this article. Please read and evaluate for posting as a thread. Thank you.
“First they came for bikers…” (by Sorcha Faal)
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1870.htm
United States[edit]
In December 2014, the United States announced sanctions against the Night Wolves[24] due to their involvement in attacks on a gas distribution station in Strikolkove and the Ukrainian naval headquarters in Sevastopol, and recruitment of fighters for the war in Donbass.[24]
Canada[edit]
Canada added Zaldostanov to its sanctions list in February 2015.[25][26] The Night Wolves were included in June 2015.[27]
Banned entry to Germany and Poland[edit]
In 2015, when the Night Wolves were planning to celebrate the "Victory Day" on May 9 with a trip from Moscow to Berlin, the government of Poland refused them entry due to the club members' active support of Putin, and Germany cancelled the bikers' Schengen visas.[28][29] On their way to Berlin, despite visa issues, Night Wolves commemorated the deaths of Polish officers murdered by NKVD in Katyn by lighting candles in their name on 26 April,[30] despite the fact that Night Wolves and their leader are outspoken supporters of Joseph Stalin, who ordered the murder.[14]
Polish motocyclists organization 'Katyń Motocycle Raid' (families of the victims of the Katyń massacre do not wish to be associated with it[31]) criticized the ban and said that Night Wolves already made two such trips in the past, and Polish public opinion was divided on the decision, with 38.7% supporting it and 28.5% opposing.[32] After the ban, the Polish 'Katyn Motorcycle Raid' declared that it would light candles on the graves of fallen Red Army soldiers in the name of the Night Wolves.[33]
Bikers who wanted to enter Germany at the Berlin Schönefeld International Airport were denied entry.[34] On May 6, one member, who was trying to enter Germany by ship from Helsinki to Travemünde was deported to Finland.[35]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Wolves
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