TX Secessionist Shoots 2 Deputies. Where's the media?

[kpete]

TX Secessionist Shoots 2 Deputies. Where's the media?

by Rock Strongo
Tue Sep 21, 2010 at 03:09:09 PM PDT

Did you hear about the conspiracy nut and member of the Republic of Texas secessionist group that shot three people including two Sherriff's Deputies this past weekend? Probably not with wall to wall Christine O'Donnell coverage.

Friends and acquaintances said White has long sympathized with the Republic of Texas movement. The Vietnam War veteran — who rarely left his home and lived without electricity — flew an American flag upside down on his property.

"He’s a man that stands up for his rights. He doesn’t take any horse crap from nobody," said Ken Nelson, a friend of White’s for more than 15 years. "They’ve been trying to get him off of his property for some time."

"It’s sad knowing that he wants to go that route," said Rusty Evans, 49, who has lived across the street from White for years and was one of several residents displaced from their homes during the standoff. "I believe in (the Republic of Texas) myself, but I don’t believe in violence — not like that."

One wonders what kind of violence is ok for that neighbor.

Another story descibes his conspiracy fears. Sound like anyone that may have a daily show on Fox news?:

"A good guy all in all, he's done some crazy things. He's not all there, he's nice but he thinks everybody is against him, he thinks there is a big conspiracy, he really thinks a lot of people are after him."

That's why he lives alone on a five-acre property, Teague describes as virtually off the grid from society.

"He flies his flag upside down on his hill, he lives in an RV shack, he has a bunker built under his house with tunnels, lives on a kaliche pit, has no running water, no electricity, lives off a battery bank."

more:
http://www.oaoa.com/news/sheriff-53065-authorities-shot.html
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/21/904011/-TX-Secessionist-Shoots-2-Deputies.-Wheres-the-media

[tularetom]

1. Well, sure he shot a couple of deputies, but "he's nice"

Geez, leave the poor guy alone.

Everybody makes a mistake once in awhile.

[atreides1]

2. He failed to meet that one special requirement

He wasn't Muslim!!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. I guess it's not news unless someone dies.

Close, but no cigar.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. But he didn't shoot the Sheriff...

[formercia]

5. He's going to love it in the can

All those Latinos and Black folks, the routine, having to get out of bed when the man says so and cleaning someone else's skid marks out of the crapper.

[MineralMan]

6. Actually, yes, I did hear about it. So did Google News:

Two Texas Deputies Shot; Suspect In Custody‎
KWTX - 2 days ago
ODESSA (September 19, 2010)--A man who's suspected of shooting two sheriff's deputies and another person was in custody Sunday after a standoff with law ...
2 TWO DEPUTIES SHOT; MANHUNT CONTINUES‎ - Odessa American
Sergeant Injured During Standoff Released from the Hospital‎ - NewsWest9.com
3 people shot in Odessa‎ - Houston Chronicle
The Associated Press - KCBD-TV
all 417 news articles »


Maybe you just missed it.

[divideandconquer]

7. Nothing happening here, just another nut just exercising his 2nd amendment rights

Keep watering that tree of liberty with of the blood of innocents, it's the American way.

[MineralMan]

9. Whatever. The OP said it wasn't in the media. I heard about it

and I live in Minnesota. Google has over 400 citations of the story. Someone missed it? Not the media's problem.

[proteus_lives]

16. Yeah, it's about guns.

:eyes:

The Brady Bunch are masters at avoiding the real issues.

[underpants]

8. Ashcroft didn't hold a press conference or raise the terror scale for William Krar

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1886269

WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- Since his appointment as attorney general, John Ashcroft's Washington office has issued 2,295 news releases. Not one of them has mentioned the name William Joseph Krar.

Krar, who is affiliated with several anti-government, white supremacist militia organizations, was apprehended after mailing a package containing false U.N. credentials, Defense Intelligence Agency IDs, phony birth certificates and a forged federal concealed weapons permit to a co-conspirator in New Jersey.(ended up at wrong address-recipient called the authorities)

An alert citizen contacted the FBI, which led to the arrest of Krar and the discovery of a mind-numbing weapons cache: fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs, nearly 500,000 rounds of ammunition and enough pure sodium cyanide "to kill everyone inside a 30,000 square foot building," according to federal authorities.

Even more astounding is the stony silence from the Ashcroft Justice Department, which found at least 2,295 occasions to toot its own horn that are apparently more newsworthy than the Krar arrest.

"We don't spend a lot of time thinking about how we announce our activities," a Justice Department spokesman told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Really? This is from a Justice Department that averages two news releases every day and has never been shy to march out every triumph over the arrest or conviction of anyone remotely connected to overseas terror.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/04/cyanide.sentencing.ap /
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Posted: 8:23 PM EDT (0023 GMT)
TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A man who stockpiled machine guns, bombs and enough cyanide to kill everyone inside a building the size of a small-town civic center was sentenced Tuesday to more than 11 years in prison.

[autorank]

10. Where are they? Asleep at the switch! k*r

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

11. He's a real Amurikkan though

If it was some Muslim or atheist, then it would be 24/7 coverage.

[live love laugh]

12. The medya is too busy talking about bed bugs to cover this drivel :sarcasm:. nt

[Aristus]

13. Guy looked EXACTLY the way I pictured him in my mind before I scrolled down

to his mug shot.

These creeps all look the same. Must be the in-breeding...

[w8liftinglady]

14. Odessa-I should have known.Midland is rich repubs/Odessa is redneck Repubs...

my sister lives in Midland.I lived in san Angelo for a long time(90 miles South of here)...yes ... these places exist.Texas is Hell.

[proteus_lives]

17. Why would someone choose to live in hell?

:eyes:

[w8liftinglady]

18. lol..sometimes you get stuck in hell and ca't get out...

[JonLP24]

25. Amen

I'm currently living in hell.

[Gaedel]

27. General William T. Sherman

"If I owned both Hell and Texas, I would live in Hell and rent out Texas."

[joshcryer]

15. Don't confuse cable TV for the press.

While cable TV does move the narrative, it doesn't mean stories are not perpetuated. We live in a high information society, so stories like this are invariably going to be buried.

[political_Dem]

19. They are all too busy watching the "Pilot" of NBC's "Chase".

;)

[Vickers]

20. "trying to get him off of his property" What's the story there?

:shrug:

[seabeyond]

21. i saw it on cnn a week ago or less.... nt

[Scurrilous]

22. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Gold Metal Flake]

23. WTF is a "kaliche pit"?

[Vickers]

24. It's supposed to be "caliche" which has various construction uses.

Sounds like he lives in an old caliche mining pit, meaning it's a shit-hole.

[raccoon]

26. Wonder if he'll get the death penalty? nt