The Aging Rebel by Brent Coon 5/17/2018
Today marks the 3 year anniversary of the Twin Peaks Waco biker shootings and mass arrests. It is indeed a dubious anniversary, as it stands for law enforcement abuses measurable at just about every level imaginable. Self-dealing. Grandstanding. Criminal conduct. Perjury. Bribery. Corruption. Intimidation. Abuse of power. Violations of Constitutional Rights. Railroading of Innocents. And the premeditated destruction of innocent lives for the advancement of their own careers.
Those sweeping and unconstitutional arrests 3 years ago were made on a single and identical probable cause affidavit, rubber stamped with the exact same basis for every arrestee, by a single officer with no personal knowledge of the underlying allegations. That alone should be a shocking and telling fact. But, that is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In fact, 3 years later, there is ZERO evidence in support of these perjured affidavits for the vast majority of those arrested on that fateful day. The lives of those falsely arrested and wrongfully accused of illegal conduct were forever ruined on that date. Most were charged with crimes associated to the highest of crimes, involvement with murder, with bonds set at a million dollars or more. Slammed in jail with outrageously high bonds. Shackled like convicted criminals. Personal belongings and property confiscated. While few were involved at ANY level in the altercation at Twin Peaks, all were charged identically. Even when bonds were posted, those arrested were presumed guilty until proven innocent due to false statements made by law enforcement in the days following the incident. After 3 long years, a light is finally being cast on the illegal and unconstitutional actions of Waco law enforcement. The gag orders barring comment by those arrested were challenged and reversed. The crooked District Attorney overseeing the process has been defeated in re-election. A trial of their “best case†did not even result in a single conviction of a single crime. Rumors fly around this prosecutor for allegations of selling his office for campaign money, buying drugs, and other illegal activity. He has dismissed remaining cases when challenged to take the stand to avoid perjury charges. And yet, the civil lawsuits brought by those illegally arrested are still formally stayed from prosecution at the request of law enforcement defendants. But that day of reckoning is getting ever so closer.
If 200 women were rounded up by out of control elements of a sexist law enforcement agency and charged with the same fictitious crimes by a perjured probable cause affidavit, put in jail, and had their lives ruined, every female in America would be outraged. In fact, our entire country would be outraged. If 200 African Americans were arrested and similarly charged on phony perjured affidavits of bigoted law enforcement agents, the entire African American community would be outraged. So too, would our entire country be outraged. If 200 gay persons were arrested and similarly charged by a homophobic law enforcement agent, the entire country would again be outraged. And yet, when it happens in the biking community no one is apparently outraged, except other motorcyclists. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is an outrage. Over 10 million Americans ride motorcycles. There are thousands of clubs and associations of motorcyclists across America, ranging from the Harley Owner Group chapters, comprising tens of thousands, down to every small mom and pop club in America. They all share a love for the road, expressing their independence, and enjoying the fraternity of their club brothers and sisters.
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