Was an actual hit man for a rich RW'er executed before he could explain what he was talking about?

[ck4829]

Billy Vickers was executed on January 28, 2004. Before he died, he confessed that people paid him to kill other people.

"Tell Mama and the kids I love you; I love all of you. And I would like to clear some things up if I could. Tommy Perkins, the man that got a capital life sentence for murdering Kinslow - he did not do it. I did it. He would not even have had anything to do with it if he had known I was going to shoot the man. He would not have gone with me if he had known. I was paid to shoot the man. And Martin, the younger boy, did not know what it was about. He thought it was just a robbery. I am sorry for that.

"It was nothing personal. I was trying to make a living. A boy on Eastham doing a life sentence for killing Jamie Kent - I did not do it, but I was with his daddy when it was done. I was there with him and down through the years there were several more that I had done or had a part of. And I am sorry and I am not sure how many - there must be a dozen or 14 I believe all total. One I would like to clear up is Cullen Davis - where he was charged with shooting his wife. And all of these it was never nothing personal. It was just something I did to make a living. I am sorry for all the grief I have caused. I love you all. That is all I have to say."

Now, who exactly is Cullen Davis? He is one of several of the ultra-wealthy financiers of the Right Wing.

"According to Baton Rouge State Times 01/08/1981, and Newsweek, 07/06/1981, the CNP (Secretive Right Wing Group, Council for National Policy) was founded when Moral Majority leader Tim LaHaye proposed the idea to Davis. Davis subsequently contacted Nelson Bunker Hunt (Fellow ultra-wealthy financier of the Right Wing, later convicted of trying to manipulate the market on silver), both subsequently funding the CNP and recruiting members.

Davis is also one of the founders of the Texas Roundtable, and was a principle on Ed McAteer's Religious Roundtable and a member of the John Birch Society."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1876512,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.d.htm

A hit man for a leader of the Right Wing, and he was executed before he could elaborate, how convenient for the Right Wing is that?

[pnorman]

1. "Council for National Policy"

That was a particularly nasty extreme-right group., and it had an interesting list of members. I'm busy right now, but later I'll dig out some of my notes on it.

pnorman

[pnorman]

6. Here's one of the items I was looking for:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy

I thought I had some specific stuff on that Davis guy, but couldn't find it so far.

pnormsn

[acmejack]

2. Would you be at all surprised?

Texas "Justice", I wonder how the murdering scum can sleep. The "Peace" officers that is. Oh, wait, the are "Corrections" Officers, correcting those life processes, I hope they are well paid.

The Hunt boys have been at the bottom of more skulduggery than one can comprehend-and they have gotten away with it! They are the ones who should be strapped to a gurney.

[blogslut]

3. Cullen!

Boy, there's a name from the past. Did you hear? He found Jesus! He's all better now.

Poor Priscilla. Rest in peace. Let's hope you, Stan and Andrea are cooking up something good, wherever you are.

All about Cullen and how he got away with murdering a 12-year old girl, right here:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/t_cullen_davis/index.html

[acmavm]

4. Sheesh! Haven't heard that name for decades. T. Cullen Davis.

His attorney (Thomas 'Racehorse' Haynes) got him off another chage after he tried to have the judge killed I believe. The judge (Judge Joe Eidson) who presided over T. Cullen and Priscilla's divorce had to lay in his trunk covered in ketchup so they could convince Davis that he was dead. The 'killer' took pictures I believe.

There's a book about old T. Cullen. It's old, first printed in 1979. "The Great Texas Murder Trials" by David Atlee Phillips. Chapter 10 'The Wired Canary' has the transcripts of the taped conversations between Davis and the guy who was supposed to set up the hit, Charles McCrory when planning the hit of the judge and a bunch of other people.

This guy got away with a lot more than just the murder of his step-daughter and his ex-wife's boyfriend.

[blogslut]

5. yes, he did

But's it's okay. Cullen's got Jesus now. From the Crime Library story:

"...By the mid-1980s, Cullen was flat broke. Kendavis Industries had taken a dive during the recession of the early 1980s and Cullen had blown some $40 million in bad real estate deals. In 1986, he filed for personal bankruptcy, listing assets of $600,000 and debts of more than $230 million.

The former Forbes 400 member took a job on his brother's payroll for $25,000 a year and Karen Davis, his alibi-turned-wife, returned to school teaching to make ends meet.

"The Lord has sustained me through this," he said. "I am not worried about the outcome. He can make it go, and He can make it come back..."

If anyone knows where Cullen is now, I would love to find out.

[Kip Humphrey]

7. CNP was the genisis of the takeover of the RNC and the subsequent takeover of our government

Don't believe? Trace the membership. In 1991, 88% of CNP members appear on the boards of directors of 300+ interlocking organizations comprising the hierarchical structure of the RNC. Also of note: CNP co-founder Tim LeHaye engineered the Rapturist movement of evangelical Christians through his "Left Behind" series of books. If only Greg Palast would investigate the history of the CNP, I think he would discover how America lost its democracy.