The question raised by a (long-time) List member is along this line: Since the Waco police have access to a very excellent crime lab in Austin, why in the world would they send the weapons to DC for analysis?
From the note forwarded below:
Waco police have sent the weapons to a ballistics lab in Washington, D.C., and say it could take months to get results to show which bullets struck the dead and injured.
(The colorization and bold emphasis here and found in the note forwarded below are added by this author.)
Of course, this author considers the weapons as "alleged" weapons. Between today's evidence-planting and evidence destruction practices (if evidence wasn't planted or destroyed, why are the videos of the Murrah Building bombing not being released?), it's really tough to know what's the reality in such matter. And, while this author has a perspective in response of, Good catch!, without anything more than a guess as to what the official reason may be, it's a question that tells us some things about our present legal environment.
This concept of evidence preservation is a matter that's (very) close to home with this author. What was the purpose of The Terre Haute Litigation? To preserve evidence (on behalf of the survivors of the Murrah Building bombing).
"In the beginning," homicide was a State matter. This practice followed from the interest in maintaining the myth of the "constitution," in that there's nothing in Art. I, § 8 about homicide. There being no granting of authority to the national system to define or punish homicide, the national system just didn't do anything with it, except for those matters that occurred on land owned (controlled) by the national system, e.g., DC.
These days, between airplane matters, and explosive matters, and now "gang" or "alleged terrorism" and the like matters, the national law enforcement agencies are (selectively) "taking over" the homicide investigation of these various events. (Wasn't the Sandy Hook movie scene "investigated" by the local law enforcement, or was it investigated by the feds? This is a thought to illustrate the concept of "selectively." Another thought is of the JFK body. That homicide was, and is to this very day, a state matter, and yet the "feds" took it over. The Warren Commission is not a Grand Jury of Dallas County, Texas.)
Now, let's look at this from the point of view of a group of people who want to take over the nation/world. What is the absolute best way to commit a crime and get away with it? Have your own people "investigate."
The "clean up" crew at/for The Murrah Building bombing and for S-11 was the very same company. We're talking about homicide matters that were investigated and prosecuted (well, no real prosecution out of S-11, yet, just the pretense of military response) by the national law enforcement agencies, and they've got their various statutory excuses for exercising "authority" in those homicide matters.
If we had a "constitution"-based system (at the national level), there'd be no investigation by national agencies of homicides. Period. The exception is that homicide (those homicides) that occur on land over which no STATE has authority to legislate (no authority to apply a STATE's Penal Code, in other words), e.g., DC. (Except that since DC is now its own "state," at least for purposes of representation in the congress, there's some question as to whether the congress can/may define or punish homicide in/for DC.) Where the national legislature wears the state legislation hat, which they have to do for all land beyond the reach of any STATE, then, of course, those national agencies are the only ones with the authority to investigate. However, regarding matters that very plainly occurred within the territory of a STATE, we're having our noses rubbed in this obvious non-limitation of exercise of national law-enforcement authority every time anyone with any national law-enforcement agency participates in a material role in the homicide investigation.
Today, we have all these movies and tv shows putting national law-enforcement agencies on the scene investigating homicide. It's an extremely plain slam on the original intent, and yet it's something that gets "no attention," not even by the ardent constitution-ists. (For example, there's a national uproar over the "natural born citizen" concept and the birthplace of the obama-nation, but where's the uproar over the "take over" of homicide matters, which has been going on a lot longer?)
In Waco, 2015, a number of (alleged) homicides developed out of the same (alleged) altercation, and the (alleged) weapons are being sent to the crime lab where? Not in Austin but rather in DC. Anyone remember the name Zapruder?
What better way to make sure that whatever needs to be destroyed or fabricated is destroyed or fabricated than to have one's own team of "investigators" "investigate."
If there were assassins (anyone else still remember Lon Horiuchi?) in Waco (2015) who took out those folks allegedly shot in the head, then the Grand Jury or trial jury may never know, because with full access to the weapons, that evidence is now very much open for being compromised.
The point of this note is this. If we had a system at the national level created by, thus also limited by, the "constitution," then those weapons from the "crime?" scene in Waco would be examined in Austin, under the authority of the State of Texas, by law enforcement of and for the State of Texas, for possible prosecution under the authority of the State of Texas, because under the language of the national "constitution," the national system has no authority to define or punish (thus no authority to prosecute, thus no authority to investigate) homicide under any disguise.
Anyone remember Waco of 1993? Where (in which system) were the victims/survivors of that holocaust tried? Right! The national judicial system, under Laws of the United States, and that not even in McClennan County (Waco), where "everything" happened, but rather in Bexar County (San Antonio).
Some may remember the more current BOND case out of PENNSYLVANIA. BOND poisoned her husband's pregnant girlfriend, but rather than being charged by STATE officials under STATE law, the feds charged her under a chemical weapons ban treaty. That's where all of this homicide activity is taking us, namely into and up under a UN sort of regime, in which it's a "national" law of homicide, then also subject to international treaties, that governs/applies, instead of STATE law. The Supreme Court shut all that internationalization-of-
This "take over" of the State law-enforcement function, and not just in homicide matters, but definitely including, even featuring, homicide matters, has been plain for quite a while. While there may or may not be much any individual or group of individuals can do about that directly, just know that by these acts, they're confessing, every time, that there is no "constitution," i.e., that we're dealing with a "federal," as in "by agreement," system. That awareness puts the burden on the individual to do something on the individual's behalf to get and remain far enough away, commercially speaking (one doesn't have to relocate to stop agreeing/consenting) from that "by agreement" system so as not to get caught up in that gristmill.
Harmon L. Taylor
Legal Reality
Dallas, Texas
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FILE - In this May 17, 2015 file photo, authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant, in Waco, Texas. Six witnesses say they heard a few pistol shots before automatic fire took over during a shootout last month at a Waco Twin Peaks restaurant. Police have acknowledged firing on armed bikers, but say they cannot address how many of the nine dead and 18 wounded were shot by bikers and how many were shot by officers. (AP Photo/Jerry Larson, File)
WACO, Texas (AP) First came a few pistol shots, several witnesses said, then a barrage of rifle fire during the shootout last month at a Waco restaurant favored by bikers. But authorities still have not said how many of the dead and wounded were the result of police fire.
Police have identified only one assault weapon, a semi-automatic gun that fires high-powered ammunition, among the firearms confiscated from bikers, and that was found in a locked car after the shooting ended. But several witnesses - at least three of them veterans with weapons training - told The Associated Press that semi-automatic gunfire dominated the May 17 shootout that left nine dead and 18 wounded.
"I heard, 'pop, pop,' small caliber, and then a rapid succession of shots from what sounded to me like an assault rifle," said William English, a former Marine and Iraq war veteran who was approaching the front door of the Twin Peaks restaurant for a meeting of biker clubs.
It's remains unclear exactly what triggered the gunfight. More than 100 of the 170 people arrested, mostly bikers and family and friends, are still in custody and cannot give their accounts. Six witnesses interviewed by the AP describe a melee that began with a few pistol shots but was dominated by semi-automatic gunfire.
Waco police have said they returned fire after being shot at, and call the witnesses' depictions of events incorrect. While those with pending charges may benefit by blaming authorities, police have declined to release detailed reports from that day and say they are still awaiting ballistic reports.
English said shots came from the restaurant's patio, as he and his wife approached the building. They and other members of their Distorted motorcycle club took cover on the opposite side of the patio.
Steve Cochran, a Navy veteran and member of the Sons of the South club, pulled into the parking lot facing the patio minutes before the shooting began. He was to help set up for the meeting of the Confederation of Clubs and Independents, a group that advocates for biker rights and motorcycle safety.
"I heard one pistol shot. All the rest of the shots I heard were assault rifles," said Cochran, who took cover behind a crane about 30 yards away. He walked the shooting scene with the AP several days later, showing what he saw and his vantage point.
Cochran said he heard suppressed rounds fired by assault weapons, which are still audible but sound different than a handgun firing.
Police have said 18 officers, four state troopers and more than 200 bikers were at Twin Peaks at the time. Investigators have said the shooting began during an apparent confrontation between the Bandidos, the predominant motorcycle club in Texas, and the Cossacks, and it then spilled into the parking lot. Video viewed by the AP indicated that the fight began outside.
Ron Blackett, a Confederation of Clubs and Independents leader who is a former Army and Coast Guard officer, also reported hearing one or two pistol shots followed by a blast of assault rifle fire from where he was parked in a lot behind Twin Peaks.
According to some records released to the AP following a public information request for 911 calls, Officer Brandon Blasingame reported "shots fired," to a dispatcher at 12:26 p.m.
"Two shot behind Twin Peaks," Blasingame reported two minutes later.
"They have an AR-15," he said in the next dispatch. It was unclear who he meant had the rifle, and if it was something he saw or was told.
The chronology ends at 12:31 p.m. and police have refused to release the rest of the report, saying it could compromise the investigation. Blasingame did not respond to requests for comment.
Waco police spokesman Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton says the witnesses' depictions of events are "absolutely incorrect," asserting that police shot fewer rounds than the bikers. He confirmed that some officers carry semi-automatic weapons, which fire a single shot with every pull of the trigger, and automatically reload between shots.
Jennifer Cicolani, of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, noted that a semi-automatic gun can shoot more bullets in less time than a small-caliber weapon.
Swanton declined to say whether assault weapons beyond the AK-47 in the car had been seized, reiterating that 318 weapons were collected, including that gun, handguns, brass knuckles, knives and chains.
Waco police have sent the weapons to a ballistics lab in Washington, D.C., and say it could take months to get results to show which bullets struck the dead and injured.
After the melee, police records show officers rounded up anyone suspected of being part of a biker gang, targeting those in leather vests and patches. Neither Blackett nor Cochran was arrested. English and his wife were, and were held for more than two weeks before being released on $25,000 bail.
"One of the sheriff's officers said we were going to be interviewed and turned loose," said English, who was wearing a leather vest that day with the name of his club on it.
Nearly all of those arrested were charged with engaging in organized crime, a felony. About 60 people had bonded out by Thursday, but those with the closest views of the shooting remain in jail and cannot talk, say the bikers' attorneys.
A biker rally to support those still in jail is planned for Sunday in Waco.
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