Posted on 08/26/2007 7:14:22 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon said the man charged with setting a fire in a downtown hotel is "an unwelcome undesirable" illegal alien.
Judge Moon told Bario Gomez, "Undesirables like you are not welcome in this country. You are a Latino terrorist who entered this country illegally and soon plotted significant personal injury and damage to the people and businesses in our community."
Authorities said Gomez is an illegal alien with no proof of identification. Officials also said he gave police a false name.
The INS placed a hold on Gomez, 20, after charges of aggravated arson and aggravated vandalism were filed against him.
Judge Moon told him, "It is undesirables like you who create many unjustifiable problems and prejudices upon the good people who enter this country legally in chasing a dream for a better life for themselves and their families.
"Mr. Gomez, you nor any other citizen from a foreign land has a right to enter this country; you simply have a privilege to enter this country through the proper legal channels.
"You are a domestic terrorist who is an imminent threat to the safety of our people and their property. You are also a supreme flight risk from justice. It is with duty, comfort and ease that I increase your bond significantly in an appropriate amount to insure your appearance in further proceedings and to insure the safety of this community."
The bond was raised from $30,000 to $1 million. The previous bond was set by Magistrate James Purple, which Judge Moon described as "another ludicrously low bond."
According to Arson Investigator James Whitmire, Gomez checked into the hotel with his girlfriend. Testimony by Whitmire and management officials indicated that Gomez placed a toaster filled with matches in a microwave oven in his room intending a massive "delayed burn."
Proof also showed that multiple towels were stuffed into the toilet in order to retard the water supply. The hotel manager testified that the towels were stuffed so deeply that the pipes had to be disassembled to remove them. She also stated that the room was severely damaged and vandalized.
Capt. Whitmire testified that "hundreds of people were evacuated, including children."
He said, "If the fire had established itself many families and children would have most likely lost their lives or been severely injured. Being on the fourth floor, the fire would have been difficult to contain."
Hallelujah.
I've been thinking about judges. You know who we need on the supreme court?
Jeff Sessions. He is SO thoughtful and thorough. We need to start a campaign.
I don't know how they do it in Tennessee but most places the toilet is not the water supply.
Two fire bugs in a month behind bars that’s good news for all. The second one a fire bug in Coker Creek or the Tellico region just to the north of you. Judge Bruce Guyton refused that man bail period. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/aug/27/dead-hawk-fire/ This one was a real winner also.
Comes from walking around with a chip on their shoulders.
“Excerpt from article: According to Arson Investigator James Whitmire (who testified before Judge Moon), Gomez checked into the hotel with his girlfriend”
Thats what I mean..until that article I thought he was alone There has been no mention of a girlfriend or another person...
This happened on Aug 14..We all thought he was a nut or on drugs
All we knew was an illegal alien had put a toaster in a microwave at the hotel and started a fire and then went across town and started another fire..
Meanwhile the 4th floor of the hotal had to be evacuated..
at the second fire the guy was caught and there was a key from the hotel in his pocket..
all this extra horrible info is new to me..
At last, someone in this country with some importance that gives a damn.
That train racing down the track to Mexico, is starting to slow down. maybe there is hope for this country after all.
This Judge is a hero...
A great American.....
“Arpaio/Moon in 2008! They’d get my vote!”
Mine too!
Ditto-Chalf one up for the good guys.
I believe Judge Moon needs some congratulatory calls.
http://www.hamiltontn.gov/courts/Sessions/default.aspx
DIVISION I ... CHRISTIE MAHN SELL, JUDGE
DIVISION II ... DAVID E. BALES, JUDGE
DIVISION III ... CLARENCE SHATTUCK, JUDGE
DIVISION IV ... RONALD DURBY, JUDGE
DIVISION V ... ROBERT MOON, JUDGE
Office Manager: Bobbie Helton Phone: 423-209-7660
MUSIC TO MY EARS!
God dang were are letting some sh!t into this country!
Not that this guy has any excuses, but does anyone know the reason he did this? Boredom? Severe brain defect (not hard to imagine going by his pic)? Trying to get back at someone?
On Aug 14 someone said he had told the police he wanted to burn the hotel down and kill all the people..but thats the only time I heard that...
Here is the August 12 media news about Mr. Gomez. He also started a second fire, a grass fire on HWY 27. Read the linked story:
http://chattanoogan.com/articles/article_111454.asp
Nice. I hope they don’t send this one back. I know it costs a lot of money to incarcerate a person, but I’d hate for them to send him back only to have him sneak back over. Sounds like this one is not going to be satisfied until he does kill a lot of people. If this country really had any sense, they would go ahead and do him in now, before he gets any second chances to finish the job.
It is just me, or does that scar on his forehead look just the slightest bit like a horizontal crescent?
‘Dear Presidente Jorge Boosh,
My name is Bario Gomez and I would like to apply for a
pardon, I am a misunderstood Latino expert in fireworks
production and have beeen unjustly imprisoned by a bigoted
redneck judge in Tenneeseeee who hurt my feelings with his
mean words and demeanor (my fellow jail mate said that the
word ‘demeanor’ means even meaner than mean).
Most important Presidente Boosh, I have been denied conjugal
visits from my girlfriend of many years, and the jailers in
this place are using some rule about sheep in a correctional
facility to keep her away.
Thank you Mr. Presidente.
Bario Gomez,
Chattanooga Tenneesseeee
ps - is the ‘Pathway to Citizenship’ included in a pardon?
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