Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Sheriff Finch Goes To Trial!

Sheriff Finch Goes To Trial!Date: Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:17 AM


Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association





October 28, 2013
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Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association 

Dear Ginny,

We bring you an update from Sheriff Mack at the the Liberty County Courthouse in Florida:

Well, I was wrong! I never thought the case against Sheriff Nick Finch would make it to trial, but that is exactly what is going to happen,tomorrow morning, October 29, 2013 at 0900. (Happy Halloween, nothing could be creepier!) The charges against this good man have been so flimsy and frivolous that I was certain a trial would be out of the question. But the tyrants are moving forward with their agenda to stop Sheriffs in their tracks and to make them answerable to the State! This case, this abuse of authority, and the inherent injustice associated with this case, puts everything at stake that we all have fought so long for; the power and independence of the county sheriff and his duty to stand for individual liberties.

Sheriff Nick FinchSheriff Finch did exactly what all of us have been hoping and praying for now for so many years; he nullified a gun charge and the arrest of a law-abiding citizen. So the State, under the direction of one corrupt deputy Attorney General (Willie Meggs) with complicity of an equally corrupt FL Governor, actually arrested and removed from office the duly elected Sheriff of Liberty County, Florida. Governor Scott and Mr. Meggs claim that Sheriff Finch destroyed public records when he released the innocent man arrested by one of his deputies. (You can read more about this atcspoa.org.) So of course, they nullified the election of Sheriff Finch who had only been in office a few months when all this occurred. Which begs the question: which is worse, the Sheriff rectifying an arrest of an innocent man and possibly whiting out the man's name on the jail roster or the AG and Governor destroying the election by the people of Liberty county who chose Sheriff Finch last November to be their their Chief Law Enforcement Officer?  
  CSPOA

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It is very much needed. I will keep you posted.
Now we have Sheriff Finch going into the Lion's den with his trial starting Tuesday morning. The jury has been selected. I thought doing so would be impossible. Why? Because if the prospective jurors voted for Finch then that would be grounds for dismissal from jury service. Likewise, if the prospective jurors voted against Finch, that too would disqualify them from jury service. If the prospective jurors were so apathetic as to not vote at all that should also be grounds for disqualification. If you don't care enough to vote in an election how are you going to care enough to vote on a jury?

But still, a jury has been selected and yes, Sheriff Finch puts his life and career on the line for all of us tomorrow. I am here to support him and his good wife in every way that I can. Tonight I will hit my knees and pray for Sheriff Finch and his family. But more importantly, I will pray for truth and justice. I will pray for America and the hope that we can restore liberty one county, one good Sheriff at a time.

Richard Mack

In liberty, 
Richard Mack  

P.S. What else can you do to help?  Please spread the word by forwarding this email to everyone you can, and please post links to cspoa.org on your own web sites and social networking pages (facebook, etc.)  We desperately need to increase awareness if our message is to have a widespread effect!  

CSPOA - Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association

AFFIDIVIT OF MR. PAPA SHOWING PROOF OBAMA USED SSN IN CT-042-GEO PREFIX

Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:16 AM
Subject: AFFIDIVIT OF MR. PAPA SHOWING PROOF OBAMA USED SSN IN CT-042-GEO PREFIX





Definition of Insanity...

Definition of Insanity...

 







More BS.... Obama Weeps For Economic "Hardships" Of FBI Agents

More BS....

Obama Weeps For Economic "Hardships" Of FBI Agents 

 

It seems that recruiting weirdoes to be terrorists and offering them training and financing to do crimes they would never have tried on their own, and then busting them and claiming that you “foiled” a terrorist plot is hard and expensive work. Never fear, Obama promises he will always have the FBI’s back no matter what those evil Tea Party Republicans do.

President Obama on Monday assured employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he would fight to keep politics from interfering with their mission as the agency struggles to contend with budget shortfalls.
Speaking at the agency’s headquarters at a ceremony recognizing James B. Comey as the new director of the F.B.I., Mr. Obama said it was unfortunate that the broad spending cuts known as sequestration have affected the agency’s resources as it tries to adjust to constantly changing threats.

“I’ll keep fighting for those resources because our country asks and expects a lot from you,” Mr. Obama said, “and we should make sure you’ve got the resources you need to do the job.”

Right. Without the FBI who would protect us from the terrorists building death rays? Or rather, where would the money come from to build the death ray guns so that we could be rescued from them by the heroic FBI?

Besides, unless the government paid for those smartphones, many agents would no longer be able to do sexting without paying for it themselves.
 
I realize there are probably FBI agents who do productive work. I am not claiming to describe everyone in the bureau. But Obama has decided to go out of way to drum up sympathy for these people in a way that he never does for middle class taxpayers losing their insurance thanks to him. Lots of people are hurting in this economy, even people who don’t work for the government. Obama simply ignores them as worthless while he wrings his hands over government employees.

He expects us all to pity the FBI and agree with him to get rid of sequestration for their sakes. How can anyone not find that angering?

And they are so self-important.
 
Mr. Comey said that as director he will instruct new agents to visit the memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, in addition to continuing to visit the Holocaust Museum, as a way of keeping in mind their unique responsibility.

Right. Because without the FBI, someone will commit the holocaust in the US or re-invent apartheid. We just can’t throw enough money at the FBI.

THE PERVERTED DISNEY EMPIRE (ILLUMINATI EXPOSED)

TNT Dinar Tony

10/29/2013
Maliki is at the State Department and has been in country for the last 2 days.  He is scheduled to meet the President today at 1:00 and to have a picture op this afternoon. 

He has spent the morning with others in D.C. finalizing the announcement to be made later today.

He is scheduled to remain in country until 1 Nov.

Bank personnel have just been notified that they have 30 min to report to work.

It should be a superfantastic day............

TNT Dinar
Tony


10 month old baby reacting to her mother's singing. Ridiculously cute


Why Dannon Let Jamie Lee Curtis Tell Lies About Activia

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Why Dannon Let Jamie Lee Curtis Tell Lies About Activia
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Date: Tuesday, 29-Oct-2013 10:52:40

Activia following its $21 million settlement with the FTC for falsely claiming that the yogurt helps regulate your digestive system, according to Ad Age.
"Slightly?" Perhaps not. The FTC's documents show that the past two years of Activia advertising -- in which Curtis discussed her improved bowel movements in a tasteful, upbeat manner -- were based on lies. Not little lies, either. Here's what Dannon actually knew about the affect of its yogurt:
Dannon's claim that Activia speeds up "intestinal transit," is based on studies that only showed that in elderly subjects.
Two studies that purported to show Activia was helpful were not statistically significant compared to the placebo groups.
Six other studies failed to show a statistically significant improvement in transit time when Activia was compared to a placebo.
"In truth and in fact, eating one serving of Activia daily is not clinically proven to relieve temporary irregularity and help with slow intestinal transit time," the FTC said.
That's right: Studies of Activia generally show that it does absolutely nothing to help your digestive system. Dannon is now banned from:
Claiming that one daily serving of Activia relieves irregularity, or helps people avoid catching colds or the flu.
It may not make any claims about regularity unless it has two properly designed clinical studies showing so.
And it can only advertise those claims if it also mentions that consumers must eat three servings of Activia each day to obtain these benefits.
That's a lot of yogurt (21 pots a week!) and a lot of hurdles for Dannon to jump in order to get Curtis back on to her green sofa.
Dannon may not care. Its message is already out -- does anyone still need to be reminded of the Activia-regularity theme? -- and the settlement is a mere fraction of the brand's $505 million annual sales.
There are plenty of examples of big companies (with enough scientists and lawyers to know better) that have been caught by the FTC making misleading health claims about their products: Nestle, POM Wonderful, Bayer, Rexall Sundown and Extenze. But none of the settlements have recovered more than a few million dollars from each company. That suggests the food business may have learned what the drug business already knows: That settlements tend to be much smaller than the revenues you can earn from false advertising, and that FTC action is therefore not a deterrent to misleading consumers. Rather, settlements with the feds can simply be built in to the revenue model, a cost of doing business.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-42746966/why-dannon-let-jamie-lee-curtis-tell-lies-about-activia/

WHAT DO PEOPLE FEAR MOST?

WHAT DO PEOPLE FEAR MOST?


This is pathetic, but darn funny when you think about it for a moment.  Should any one of you be offended at this, first ask yourself: Can I handle the truth?


Two magazines, Country Living (95.99% white readership) and Ebony /Jet (99.99% black readership) did surveys on "WHAT DO PEOPLE FEAR MOST?"  The results were interesting, to say the least...


*Country Living magazine's top three answers were:

  1. Nuclear war/terrorist attack in U.S

  2. Child/spouse dying

  3. Terminal illness


*Ebony/Jet magazine's top three answers were:

  1. Ghosts

  2. Dogs

  3. Registered mail

       No Kidding.  And these are the people who put Obama over the top.

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AND TO GO ALONG WITH ALL OF THIS, I'LL SHARE TWO QUOTES, ONE PITIFUL AND ONE GREAT!


**"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the World. I hope you'll join with me, as we change it." -- Barack Obama


**''Life's tough, pilgrim, and it's even tougher if you're stupid.'' -- John Wayne




The Clinton Body Bags -A REFRESHER , DO NOT FORGET-

Subject: : The Clinton Body Bags -A REFRESHER , DO NOT FORGET-

  
Pass this on to all those Clinton admirers!!!




And To think that the US puts an advisory for Americans in the Philippines for being a dangerous place to go to ..........?






Subject: The Clinton Body Bags - A Refresher  (Not Checked on Skpye due to  number of people bhagged-Am not putting my name cus I hate body bags-G)




Just a quick refresher course lest we forget what has happened to many "friends" of the Clintons.


1- James McDougal - Clintons convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr's investigation.



2 - Mary Mahoney - A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown .. The murder happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the White House.



3 - Vince Foster - Former White House councilor, and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock's Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide.



4 - Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later the air Traffic controller committed suicide.


5 - C. Victor Raiser, II - Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992.



6 - Paul Tulley - Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock , September 1992. Described by Clinton as a "dear friend and trusted advisor".



7 - Ed Willey - Clinton fundraiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.



8 - Jerry Parks - Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock .. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock Park's son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.



9 - James Bunch - Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a "Black Book" of people which contained names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas



10 - James Wilson - Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater..



11 - Kathy Ferguson - Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.



12 - Bill Shelton - Arkansas State Trooper and fiancée of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancée, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiancée.



13 - Gandy Baugh - Attorney for Clinton's friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a convicted drug distributor.



14 - Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mena, Arkansas, airport drug smuggling case. He died of three gunshot wounds.



15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.




16 - Paula Grober - Clinton's speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one car accident.




17 - Danny Casolaro - Investigative reporter. Investigating Mean Airport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparently, in the middle of his investigation.




18 - Paul Wilcher - Attorney investigating corruption at Mean Airport with Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise" was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993, in his Washington DC apartment. Had delivered a report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.




19 - Jon Parnell Walker - Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington , Virginia apartment balcony August 15, 1993. He was investigating the Morgan Guaranty scandal.




20 - Barbara Wise - Commerce Department staffer. Worked closely with Ron Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown. Died November 29, 1996. Her bruised, nude body was found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce.




21 - Charles Meissner - Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash.




22 - Dr. Stanley Heard - Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton's advisory council personally treated Clinton's mother, stepfather and brother.




23 - Barry Seal - Drug running TWA pilot out of Mean Arkansas, death was no accident.


24 - Johnny Lawhorn, Jr. - Mechanic, found a check made out to Bill Clinton in the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. He was found dead after his car had hit a utility pole.


25 - Stanley Huggins - Investigated Madison Guaranty. His death was a purported suicide and his report was never released.



26 - Hershell Friday - Attorney and Clinton fundraiser died March 1, 1994, when his plane exploded.



27 - Kevin Ives & Don Henry - Known as "The boys on the track" case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport drug operation. A controversial case, the initial report of death said, due to falling asleep on railroad tracks. Later reports claim the 2 boys had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many linked to the case died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury.



THE FOLLOWING PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE: ;


28 - Keith Coney - Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck, 7/88.


29 - Keith McMaskle - Died, stabbed 113 times, Nov, 1988


30 - Gregory Collins - Died from a gunshot wound January 1989.


31 - Jeff Rhodes - He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989.


3 2 - James Milan - Found decapitated. However, the Coroner ruled his death was due to natural causes".


33 - Jordan Kettleson - Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.


34 - Richard Winters - A suspect in the Ives/Henry deaths. He was killed in a set-up robbery July 1989.


THE FOLLOWING CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE DEAD:

36 - ;Major William S. Barkley, Jr.


37 - Captain Scott J . Reynolds


38 - Sgt. Brian Hanley


39 - Sgt. Tim Sabel


40 - Major General William Robertson


41 - Col. William Densberger


42 - Col. Robert Kelly


43 - Spec. Gary Rhodes


44 - Steve Willis


45 - Robert Williams


46 - Conway LeBleu


47 - Todd McKeehan


Quite an impressive list! Pass this on. Let the public become aware of what happens to friends of the Clintons! ;


HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT???...SURELY YOU JEST!!
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..."
-- Winston Churchill





A bank tale 10/28

 I went in to open a checking account. He asked me what my use would be and I said just a regular checking for now but I may be making a large deposit later and may need to talk to someone about a business account later since I'll be starting an LLc soon. As he began entering my info, I asked him if the branch handled foreign currency...he snickered and said, "why yes we do!" I told him I held some currencies and may be exchanging soon. He said " Funny you mention that.. ..have had SEVERAL clients opening new accounts and placing Dong orders. Now we dont handle the Dinar sales but the Dong is $58 per million"

He went on to say the people in just before me said they were brokers and were opening additional accounts. They told him the currency was revaluing today (10/28) and she was headed to Austin TX and sending her son to Reno, NV tonight so they could take care of their clients (over 100 Baptist churches) He then went on to explain to me that there were over 190 currencies about to revalue. I just shook my head agreed and told him I hoped he had bought some then. LOL

Bank of America Cuts Another 1,200 Jobs with more Coming!

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Bank of America Cuts Another 1,200 Jobs with more Coming!
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Date: Tuesday, 29-Oct-2013 10:41:33

Housing market healed?? Get real! Home prices have plummeted to record lows.
BofA cuts 1,200 mortgage jobs, with more layoffs coming
The nation's banks have seen a sharp slowdown in profits from refinancing as mortgage rates rose from historic lows while the housing market healed.
NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp. is slashing 1,200 jobs in its mortgage division as the company's refinancing business slows amid rising interest rates.
The Charlotte, N.C.-based bank made the cuts this week, a BofA representative said. The jobs are scattered around the country, including some in California, but the bank declined to elaborate.
The nation's banks have experienced a sharp slowdown in once-booming profits from refinancing as mortgage rates rose from their historic lows while the housing market healed.
BofA is planning to cut about 3,000 more jobs by the end of this year, but they are mostly contractors in its legacy asset servicing division, the bank said.
While there has been a slowdown in mortgage refinancing, there has also been a drop in customers needing assistance with short sales or modifications. Delinquencies have also declined as borrowers' ability to repay has improved along with the economy's upswing.
Other major banks have been issuing pink slips to thousands of mortgage employees too.
The country's No. 1 mortgage lender, Wells Fargo & Co., said in late August that it would eliminate the jobs of 2,300 workers who had processed refinance applications. That's about 3% of the 70,000 employees in the San Francisco-based financial giant's consumer lending group.
JPMorgan Chase & Co., the second-largest mortgage originator, said this month that it would eliminate 3,000 mortgage jobs as the business slows down — part of a previously announced plan to downsize the mortgage staff by 15,000 by the end of next year.
Mortgage rates have recently tumbled, though they are still off their historic lows.
Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday that lenders were offering the 30-year loan early this week at an average 4.13%, down from 4.28% last week. The average rate for a 15-year fixed mortgage, often a choice when homeowners refinance, also dropped sharply, averaging 3.24% compared with last week's 3.33%.
The layoffs come as Bank of America continues a long-term effort to trim expenses and slim down as the financial giant overcomes a hangover from the mortgage meltdown and financial crisis.
BofA has about 248,000 employees, down from 267,000 at the end of last year.
As the bank tries to pare expenses, it may have to pay a significant civil penalty. On Wednesday Bank of America lost a civil fraud case in New York. The Justice Department accused Countrywide Financial Corp., which BofA bought in 2008, of defrauding mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Prosecutors want Bank of America to pay $848 million, but the judge who oversaw the trial will determine how much the bank will pay. The bank said it may appeal the jury's verdict.
BofA shares fell 4 cents to $14.17 on Thursday.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-1025-bofa-layoffs-20131025,0,5915386.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fbusiness+%28L.A.+Times+-+Business%29#axzz2j7cKHJDg

Benghazi Attorney: Very good evidence people were RELIEVED OF DUTY because they insisted on a military response

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Benghazi whistleblower attorney Joe DiGenova was on with WMAL this morning to talk Benghazi after last night’s 60 minutes piece and noted toward the end of the interview that there is very good evidence that people were relieved of command because they insisted on a military response and refused to not dispatch troops to aid our men on the ground in Benghazi. He also stated that the main reason there was no response was because the president went to sleep and refused to issue an order allowing our troops to fly into Libya.
DiGenova believes Leon Panetta is not a bad man and if properly questioned about that night, he would give up all these details:
…There is more to learn about Benghazi. Panetta has never told the full story.
Here’s an interesting question. Remember General Ham and what happened the night of the assault on the American embassy? We have reason to believe that things happened that night in the chain of command where people were relieved of their duties because they insisted that there be a military response. We’re working on trying to establish that with some news organizations but there’s very very good evidence that people were actually relieved of command because they refused not to try and dispatch troops and some response.
And by the way, this notion that the administration has put out – it’s this little strawman that military couldn’t have landed in Libya, Greg Hicks has testified and so have some other military people that if there had only been a flyover, that would have dispersed these crowds because they remembered what the American military did its flyovers and its assaults.
There were planes in Croatia that could have been there by the time of the attack on the annex and no planes were ever sent. That was because the president of the United States refused to issue an order allowing for the dispersal of military into Libya because that was considered an act of war. The president, himself, who went to sleep, refused to issue some order.
You know, Panetta is not a bad man. He knows what went wrong that night. He’s never been properly questioned about this and pressed. And if he were he would admit all of this stuff.
Here’s the full interview:

Suppressed History:--: The Real Lone Ranger Was A Black Lawman Who Lived With The Native Americans

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Suppressed History:--: The Real Lone Ranger Was A Black Lawman Who Lived With The Native Americans
Posted By: Watchman
Date: Tuesday, 29-Oct-2013 09:24:39

The real “Lone Ranger,” it turns out, was an African American man named Bass Reeves, who the legend was based upon. Perhaps not surprisingly, many aspects of his life were written out of the story, including his ethnicity. The basics remained the same: a lawman hunting bad guys, accompanied by a Native American, riding on a white horse, and with a silver trademark.
Historians of the American West have also, until recently, ignored the fact that this man was African American, a free black man who headed West to find himself less subject to the racist structure of the established Eastern and Southern states.
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While historians have largely overlooked Reeves, there have been a few notable works on him. Vaunda Michaux Nelson’s book, Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal, won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Award for best author. Arthur Burton released an overview of the man’s life a few years ago. Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reevesrecounts that Reeves was born into a life of slavery in 1838. His slave-keeper brought him along as another personal servant when he went off to fight with the Confederate Army, during the Civil War.
Reeves took the chaos that ensued during the war to escape for freedom, after beating his “master” within an inch of his life, or according to some sources, to death. Perhaps the most intruiging thing about this escape was that Reeves only beat his enslaver after the latter lost sorely at a game of cards with Reeves and attacked him.
After successfully defending himself from this attack, he knew that there was no way he would be allowed to live if he stuck around.
Reeves fled to the then Indian Territory of today’s Oklahoma and lived harmoniously among the Seminole and Creek Nations of Native American Indians.
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After the Civil War finally concluded, he married and eventually fathered ten children, making his living as a Deputy U.S. Marshall in Arkansas and the Indian Territory. If this surprises you, it should, as Reeves was the first African American to ever hold such a position.
Burton explains that it was at this point that the Lone Ranger story comes in to play. Reeves was described as a “master of disguises”. He used these disguises to track down wanted criminals, even adopting similar ways of dressing and mannerisms to meet and fit in with the fugitives, in order to identify them.
Reeves kept and gave out silver coins as a personal trademark of sorts, just like the Lone Ranger’s silver bullets. Of course, the recent Disney adaptation of the Lone Ranger devised a clever and meaningful explanation for the silver bullets in the classic tales. For the new Lone Ranger, the purposes was to not wantonly expend ammunition and in so doing devalue human life. But in the original series, there was never an explanation given, as this was simply something originally adapted from Reeves’ personal life and trademarking of himself. For Reeves, it had a very different meaning, he would give out the valuable coins to ingratiate himself to the people wherever he found himself working, collecting bounties. In this way, a visit from the real “Lone Ranger” meant only good fortune for the town: a criminal off the street and perhaps a lucky silver coin.
Like the Lone Ranger, Reeves was also expert crack shot with a gun. According to legend, shooting competitions had an informal ban on allowing him to enter. Like the Lone Ranger, Reeves rode a white horse almost throughout almost all of his career, at one point riding a light grey one as well.
Like the famed Lone Ranger legend Reeves had his own close friend like Tonto. Reeves’ companion was a Native American posse man and tracker who he often rode with, when he was out capturing bad guys. In all, there were close to 3000 of such criminals they apprehended, making them a legendary duo in many regions.
The final proof that this legend of Bass Reeves directly inspired into the story of the Lone Ranger can be found in the fact that a large number of those criminals were sent to federal prison in Detroit. The Lone Ranger radio show originated and was broadcast to the public in 1933 on WXYZ in Detroit where the legend of Reeves was famous only two years earlier.
Of course, WXYZ and the later TV and movie adaptions weren’t about to make the Lone Ranger an African American who began his career by beating a slave-keeper to death. But now you know. Spread the word and let people know the real legend of the Lone Ranger.
Pictures and more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c7_1382919242#ipdJxLOlBkWgYQbq.99

Check out Hurricane-Force Gusts Batter Europe

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Date: 10/29/13 02:27:38 AM 


The storm was really bad