Starvin Larry

Via The Aging Rebel

All you really need to know about the repulsive corruptness of the official investigation into the Twin Peaks Massacre case in Waco is that Scimitars Motorcycle Club patch holder Matt Clendennen will not be able to speak a public word in his own defense for at least another month. Neither will his lawyer Clint Broden. A month will be the soonest either can speak. It is likely to be longer than that

A week ago, an appeals court ordered the judge who gagged Clendennen and Broden, Judge Matt Johnson, to vacate his order by today. McLennan County District Attorney Abelino “Abel” Reyna, who is Johnson’s former law partner and who dreamed up the gag order as a way to intimidate defense attorneys in the case, appealed the ruling this week. Reyna explained that Clendennen has to forfeit his constitutional rights in order to keep them.

The lying son of a bitch wrote:

“In its conditional grant of Clendennen’s Writ of Mandamus, the Tenth Court of Appeals set a deadline of August 14, 2015 for the trial court to vacate its gag order. Given the paramount importance to the trial rights of Mr. Clendennen and those similarly situated, guaranteed by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments and Article 1, section 10 of the Texas Constitution; the trial court’s affirmative constitutional duty to minimize the effects of prejudicial pretrial publicity enunciated in Gannett; and the seeming divergence of opinion between the Tenth and Fourteen Courts of Appeal, this Court should stay the conditional Writ of Mandamus issued by the Tenth Court of Appeals issued in this case on August 7, 2015, or grant such other emergency relief as requested in this petition.”

Judges Say

Yesterday the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals sided with Reyna. In a terse, two page order the learned judges wrote:

“This Court has determined that this case should be filed and set and the parties should brief the following issues:

“Is the Texas Supreme Court’s holding in Davenport v. Garcia, 834 S.W.2d (Tex. 1992), applicable to gag orders in criminal cases?

“Are the findings supporting the gag order in this case sufficiently specific?

“Is Tenth Court of Appeals’ conditional grant of mandamus relief supported by the law and facts of this case?

“Briefs from relator, respondent, and the real party in interest are due in this Court within 30 days of the date of this order. No motions for extension of time to file will be entertained.”

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Via The Aging Rebel

The autopsy reports for the nine men killed in the Twin Peaks Massacre in Waco on May 17 are a thicket of words that don’t seem to answer many questions. The reports may be as important for what they don’t disprove as for what they do or don’t prove. They do not for example, disprove the notion that all, or at least most of the dead men were killed by police using M-16s and FN P90 machine guns.

Thirteen of sixteen entrance wounds were .25 inches in diameter or smaller.

FN P90s fire a round with a diameter of .224409 inches. M-16s fire slightly smaller rounds with diameters of 0.218898 inches. All but one of the victims had wounds fired from a downward trajectory. Six of the nine dead had head or neck wounds. None of the wounds contained gunshot residue which indicates that the shots were fired from at least three feet away and probably five feet or farther away. The absence of residue casts doubt on claims by prosecutors of  “Bandidos executing Cossacks, and Cossacks executing Bandidos.” Two of the dead had large wounds consistent with a 12 gauge shotgun slug. Ten of 16 wounds were in the back, indicating that the victims were running away when they died. Seven of the wounds were fired from right to left. Six were fired from left to right.

Nine millimeter bullets have a diameter of 0.35433 inches; forty caliber handguns fire a bullet that is four tenths of an inch in diameter and 357 magnums fire rounds that are about .357 inches in diameter.

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Via NC Renegade

The average person is a statist, whether he realizes it or not. It is important that liberty activists recognize and accept this fact because the truth of our limitations as a movement determines the kinds of solutions into which we should ultimately put our time and energy. The fantasy of a final grand march of an awake and aware majority on the doorsteps of power is just that: a fantasy. Some people might argue that given more time, such an event could be organized or could happen spontaneously. But these people seem to forget that the immediacy of any crisis inspires awareness and cuts the bindings of complacency for only a certain percentage of any given population. With “more time” often comes more complacency, not less.

So, history becomes a kind of balancing act, with crisis generating the necessity of intelligent and moral action in some people but rarely, if ever, in most people (even during the American Revolution, in which patriots represented a stark minority). The reason that the culture of freedom consistently plateaus and remains stuck at underdog status is because human beings are, first, often acclimated to the idea that crises are things that only happen to other people, and, second, they are obsessed with the idea that governments should retain prohibitory and administrative power over the public as a means to “prevent” crisis from occurring (the sheepdog and sheep mentality).

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By William N. Grigg

Via The Aging Rebel

The Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences at Dallas released the autopsy reports for the nine men killed as a result of the Twin Peaks Massacre on My 17. A cursory examination of the 91 pages of documents reveals no smoking gun. The forensic evidence appears to contradict some witness accounts of what happened that day.

A brief summary of the autopsies results follows.

Daniel Raymond Boyett died of a two gunshot wounds to the head. Both were made by copper jacketed bullets. One of the head shot was on top of the head and the other was to the back of the head. “Additional copper jacket and lead fragments” were recovered. “The direction of the bullet” was “downward, right to left and back to front.” The fatal shot left “a round, 1/4 inch in diameter gunshot wound. Entrance is on the left temporal scalp, 3 inches below the top of the head.” Boyett also had contusions and abrasions that appear to indicate that had had been in a fight. The autopsy also describes a deep graze bullet wound on the left side of his abdomen. All three wounds appear to have been made with copper jacketed bullets. There is no evidence that the bullets were fired at close range.

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Via The Aging Rebel

It is still déjà vu all over again in the North Korean vacation destination formerly known as Waco, Texas.

Twelve weeks and four days ago, People’s Republic of Waco  security forces took something more than 177 capitalist stooges and their running dogs into custody for eating pulled pork sliders and fried pickles for breakfast. “Yes we’ve eaten donuts,” P.R.W. Tourism Commissar W. Patrick Swanton emphasized. “ A high number of people jailed, killed, or injured (while eating pulled pork and pickles) were not from the Waco area. We know that for a fact.”

Infallible Commissar of Laws Walter H. “Pete” Peterson smelled a stack of 354 mimeographed pages, fell into a fugue state, awoke giggling and declared all the criminal tourists to be guilty until proven innocent. There then began a long and tedious unfolding of laws and hearings and Official Truths. Swanton (wearing the big hat in the photo above) announced he was running for Field Marshall. Foreign lawyers from exotic nations like Dallas and Houston told lies and simultaneously avoided mandatory lobotomies. P.R.W. Enforcer of Liberty Abelino “Abel” Reyna ordered the foreign lawyers to shut their mouths lest their specious words endanger the freedom of the 177 capitalist stooges and their running dogs”

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In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.

Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she’d sent filed Title IX complaints against her. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,” the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses (see Caitlin Flanagan’s article in this month’s issue). Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can’t take a joke.

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Via NC Renegade