Pretty much confirmed today:
"White supremacists suspected in Texas killings; Prosecutor was investigating Aryan gang" by Nomaan Merchant | Associated Press, April 02, 2013
KAUFMAN, Texas — Two days after a Texas district attorney and his wife were found shot to death in their home, authorities have said little about their investigation or any potential suspects. But suspicion in the slayings shifted to a white supremacist gang with a long history of violence and retribution.
The gang was also the focus of a December law enforcement bulletin warning that its members might try to attack police or prosecutors.
Four top leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas were indicted in October for crimes ranging from murder to drug trafficking.
See: This Post is the Bomb
Two months later, authorities issued the bulletin warning that the gang might try to retaliate against law enforcement for the investigation that led to the arrests of 34 of its members on federal charges.
Kaufman District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were found dead Saturday in their East Texas home. The killings were especially jarring because they happened just a couple of months after one of the county’s assistant district attorneys, Mark Hasse, was killed in a parking lot near his courthouse office.
McLelland was part of a multiagency task force that took part in the investigation of the Aryan Brotherhood. The task force also included the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration as well as police departments in Houston and Fort Worth.
Investigators have declined to say whether the group is the focus of their efforts, but the state Department of Public Safety bulletin warned that the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is ‘‘involved in issuing orders to inflict ‘mass casualties or death’ to law enforcement officials involved in the recent case.’’
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Didn't he say the same thing?
Terry Pelz, a former Texas prison warden and expert on the Aryan Brotherhood, said killing law enforcement representatives would be uncharacteristic of the group.
‘‘They don’t go around killing officials,’’ he said. ‘‘They don’t draw heat upon themselves.’’
Which calls the whole narrative into question.
But Pelz, who worked in the Texas prison system for 21 years, added that the gang has a history of threatening officials and of killing its own member or rivals. He suggested that if the Aryan Brotherhood was behind the slayings in Kaufman County, some sort of disruption in the gang’s operations might have prompted its retaliation.
That disruption might have come last November, when federal prosecutors in Houston announced indictments against 34 alleged members of the gang, including four of its top leaders in Texas. At the time, prosecutors called the indictment ‘‘a devastating blow to the leadership’’ of the gang.
Meanwhile, deputies escorted some Kaufman County employees into the courthouse Monday after the slayings stirred fears that other public employees could be targeted. Law enforcement officers were seen patrolling outside the courthouse, one holding a semiautomatic weapon, while others walked around inside.
You know, they CAN'T EVEN KEEP THEMSELVES SAFE but they want to TAKE the GUN out of YOUR HAND!
Deputies were called to the McLelland home by relatives and friends who had been unable to reach the pair, according to a search warrant affidavit.
When they arrived, investigators found the two had been shot multiple times. Cartridge casings were scattered near their bodies, the affidavit said.
Authorities have not discussed a motive.
‘‘I don’t want to walk around in fear every day . . . but on the other hand, two months ago, we wouldn’t be having this conversation,’’ County Judge Bruce Wood, the county’s top administrator, said Monday at a news conference.
The killings also occurred less than two weeks after Colorado’s prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by an former convict.
Law enforcement agencies throughout Texas were on high alert and steps were being taken to better protect other district attorneys and their staffs.
In Harris County, which includes Houston, District Attorney Mike Anderson said he accepted the sheriff’s offer of 24-hour security for him and his family. Anderson said he also would take precautions at his office, the largest of its kind in Texas, with more than 270 prosecutors.
‘‘I think district attorneys across Texas are still in a state of shock,’’ Anderson said Sunday.
I was told there would be no fear, but....
McLelland, 63, was the 13th prosecutor killed in the United States since the National Association of District Attorneys began keeping count in the 1960s.
That's like, what, one every four years?
Looks to me like someone is trying to advance an agenda.
Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes would not give details Sunday of how the killings unfolded and said there was nothing to indicate for certain whether McLelland’s slaying was connected to Hasse’s.
Sergeant Joe Roybal, spokesman for the sheriff of El Paso County, Colo., said investigators had found no evidence connecting the Texas killings to the Colorado case, but added, ‘‘We’re examining all possibilities.’’
After the AmeriKan ma$$ media has been implying that the last two days?
Colorado’s corrections director, Tom Clements, was killed March 19 when he answered the doorbell at his home outside Colorado Springs.
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Globe will get you back to Colorado:
"Prosecutors seek execution in theater attack; Holmes offered to plead guilty in Colo. killings" by Dan Elliott | Associated Press, April 02, 2013
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The decision elevated the already sensational case to a new level and could cause it to drag on for years....
And thus could be used every now and then as a reminder of the conventional narrative.
Within minutes of it becoming official, the trial was pushed back from August to next February and Judge William B. Sylvester removed himself from the case, saying that now that the charges carry the death penalty they will take years to resolve and he does not have the time to devote to such a drawn-out matter....
Whatever happened to the constitutional right to a speedy trial?
Legal observers said James Holmes’s lawyers publicly offered a guilty plea in what may have been a bid to gain support among victims’ families for a deal that would spare them a painful trial and lengthy appeals. The prosecution and the defense could still reach a deal before the case goes to trial....
I suspect they will. That will keep Holmes shut up forever.
The judge newly assigned to the case, Carlos Samour Jr., is considering whether a New York-based Fox News reporter should have to testify about how she obtained confidential information about Holmes.
Jana Winter cited anonymous law enforcement officials in reporting that Holmes had sent a psychiatrist a notebook of drawings that foreshadowed the attack. Holmes’s lawyers want to know who told Winter about the notebook, arguing that that person violated a gag order.
Good God, they are still waving around those silly stick figures!
In the latest revelation in that case, Aurora Sergeant Matthew Fyles testified that a sticky note with a drawing was in the package sent to Dr. Lynne Fenton....
The massacre helped lead to last month’s passage of new gun control measures in Colorado, including a ban on the sort of high-capacity magazines that Holmes allegedly used to spray the theater with dozens of bullets in a matter of seconds. Seventy people were injured in the attack.
And only twelve died?
Related: Colorado Shooting Sequel
Already saw it.
President Obama was scheduled to visit Denver on Wednesday to highlight the legislation as part of his push for more gun control after a school massacre in Connecticut in December.
I'd save up some spitballs for him.
They more the agenda-pushing media flog that story the more suspicious I become.
In a separate development Monday, Colorado court officials announced that a clerical error allowed the man suspected of killing the state’s prison chief to be released from custody about four years early.
In other words, he was let out to do these things or at least to be blamed for them.
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