Confusing series of e-mails leads to warrant info –

Ninety warrants on file? Really?

Sure enough - that many, huh?

The information on this case is one of 90 obtained by The Legendary after a confusing and time-consuming public information act request. It is of some interest to We The People.

__________ __________ is a foreign national from Mexico. He is believed to be in Bosque County, a fugitive from a McLennan County arrest warrant. Then, again, he may be in Mexico. ¿Quien sabe? Apparently, the Warrants Division of the McLennan County Sheriff's Office intends to let someone else find out by relying on the happenstance that any peace officer - anywhere, any time - will serve the warrant, inter alia and unaided, on the accused murderer wherever they may find him. – The Legendary

Waco – After reading of wildly differing numbers of inter alia arrest warrants filed in the McLennan County Sheriff's Office, The Legendary Investigative Reporter R.S. Gates made a pulic information request about the matter.

When the information was finally obtained, it revealed a database of 90 such arrest warrants – not the number of 400 to 500 mentioned by retired U.S. Deputy Marshall Parnell McNamara, a challenger for the GOP nomination for McLennan County Sheriff, or the “thousands” termed by Chief Deputy Randy Plemons, an incumbent defender of the status quo who is vying for the nomination.

The upshot of the backshot is confusing, to say the least. Try to make sense of it - if you will.

TO: Larry Lynch (McLennan County Sheriff)

Requester makes application for and requests access to the following information.

Information related to the total number of outstanding criminal warrants on cases initiated by the McLennan County Sheriffs’ Department.

Information related to the total number of outstanding criminal warrants which the McLennan County Sheriffs’ Office is responsible for entering into a warrant database whether said warrants were entered or not.

Paul Wash, Captain
McLennan County Sheriff's Office
(254)757-5112
paul.wash@co.mclennan.tx.us
----- Original Message -----
From: R.S. Gates
To: 'Paul Wash'
Cc: 'Larry Lynch' ; 'Chief Deputy Randy Plemons (McLennan Co.Sheriff's Office)'
From: Paul Wash [mailto:paul.wash@co.mclennan.tx.us] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:42 AM
To: rsgates@gmail.com
Cc: Mike Dixon; Larry Lynch; Chief Deputy Randy Plemons (McLennan Co.Sheriff's Office)
Subject: Re: Public informaiton act request

In order to clarify your request, are you asking for the information related to our local warrants database? Also, based on the wording of your second request, it would seem that we would need to focus on a particular time period. If I'm reading that correctly, what time frame would you like to request?
After receiving your response regarding these clarifications, we will notify you of any specific programming required, if necessary, to fulfill your request.

Paul Wash, Captain
McLennan County Sheriff's Office
(254)757-5112
paul.wash@co.mclennan.tx.us

Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 12:34 AM
Subject: RE: Public informaiton act request

Paul,
Sorry for the confusion. The request is only for the total number of outstanding arrest warrants as of the date of the request. I read quotes in the paper about the number of calls for service and thought tracking the total number of outstanding arrest warrants might be a management function tracked as a normal course of business. You are not required to answer an interrogatory such as “How many outstanding warrants are there?”
If this is not a matter of concern which is tracked as a normal course of business, please advise that is the case. If it is tracked, please provide the most recent report of outstanding arrest warrants.

Thank you,
R.S. Gates

Thank you,
R.S. Gates
rsgates@gmail.com

From: Paul Wash 
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 3:55 PM
To: rsgates@gmail.com
Cc: 'Larry Lynch'; 'Chief Deputy Randy Plemons (McLennan Co.Sheriff's Office)'; Tamma Willis
Subject: Re: Public informaiton act request

A hard-copy version of the report is available for inspection at our Records window. If you choose to purchase the print-out, the cost is $2.70. (Worth every penny, no doubt! - The Legendary)

Paul Wash, Captain
McLennan County Sheriff's Office

The reply. I’ll try to pick up the info tomorrow.

R.S. Gates

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He'd have to be willing to say, "OK, I'll be part of this world."

Supreme Court to ponder edict on insurance requirement

Opening the way to nullification fight

Supreme Court justices are allotting an unusually long period - six hours over three days - beginning March 26, to hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of the government requiring people to buy health insurance if they're not already covered by employers' health plans, Medicare, or Veterans Affairs benefits.

The requirement was recently described by a panel of three federal appeals court justices sitting in Atlanta as “breathtaking” in its audacity. Other federal judges have compared the stricture as no more dramatic than that of states requiring motorists to be insured for liability in automobile accidents.

Their ruling, expected in June, is shaping up as what is being touted as a historic moment in the century-long quest by reformers to provide affordable health care for all.

An Associated Press dispatch described the conflict in this way. “Many critics and supporters alike see the insurance requirement as the linchpin of Obama's health care law: Take away the mandate and the wheels fall off.

“Politically it was a wobbly construction from the start. It seems half of Washington has flip-flopped over mandating insurance.”

Advocates of limited government and states rights see the conflict as an opening shot in a campaign to circumvent the new law, either by legislative nullification, a refusal by jurors to adjudicate cases brought against those who refuse to pay for health insurance, or intervention by the County Sheriffs who choose to deny prosecutors the ability to serve process in cases brought in their jurisdiction.

Here is model legislation prepared by the Tenth Amendment Center which could be passed by a state legislature to nullify the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was passed in March of 2010:

An Act to render null and void certain unconstitutional laws enacted by the Congress of the United States, taking control over the health insurance industry and mandating that individuals purchase health insurance under threat of penalty.

SECTION 1. The legislature of the State of ____________ finds that:

1. The People of the several states comprising the United States of America created the federal government to be their agent for certain enumerated purposes, and nothing more.

2. The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people of the several states to the federal government, and all power not delegated to the federal government in the Constitution of the United States is reserved to the states respectively, or to the people themselves.

3. The assumption of power that the federal government has made by enacting the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” interferes with the right of the People of the State of _____________ to regulate health care as they see fit, and makes a mockery of James Madison’s assurance in Federalist #45 that the “powers delegated” to the Federal Government are “few and defined”, while those of the States are “numerous and indefinite.”

SECTION 2. NEW LAW

A new section of law to be codified in the [STATE] Statutes as Section [NUMBER] of Title [NUMBER], unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A. The Legislature of the State of _______________ declares that the federal law known as the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, is not authorized by the Constitution of the United States and violates its true meaning and intent as given by the Founders and Ratifiers, and is hereby declared to be invalid in this state, shall not be recognized by this state, is specifically rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state.

B. It shall be the duty of the legislature of this State to adopt and enact any and all measures as may be necessary to prevent the enforcement of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” within the limits of this State.

C. Any official, agent, or employee of the United States government or any employee of a corporation providing services to the United States government that enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this act shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or a term of imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years, or both.

D. Any public officer or employee of the State of ____________ that enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding two (2) years or by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or both such fine and imprisonment.

E. Any aggrieved party shall also have a private action against any person violating the provisions of subsections (C) or (D).

SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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Administrator's $385K jail budget goof to air Tuesday in McLennan Commissioners Court session

Prisoner population 'above expectation'

Waco – According to Budget Director Adam Harry, prisoner population increases unforeseen at the time this fiscal year's budget was prepared are forcing a $385,020 amendment for outside prisoner housing.

A document included in the bookmarked agenda shows a decrease of that amount from the “contingencies” fund to cover the increased expense, and an increase to the outside prisoner fund in the same amount.(click here for report)

“Prisoner population has increased above expectation at the time the budget was prepared,” Mr. Harry reported.

There is no further explanation or discussion of the matter other than a spreadsheet that shows the monthly amounts involved in the budget item amendment to be discussed. (click here)

In December of 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons made a decision to remove all female prisoners held by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division of the Department of Homeland Security in the privately operated Jack Harwell Detention Center developed and built by the McLennan County Public Service Corporation on behalf of the Sheriff's Department and transferred them to a privately operated lockup at Hutto, Texas, because of problems with raw sewage in the cells and the unavailability of health care. (click here for contract details)

The public learned of the problem when a concerned citizen addressed the Commissioners Court.

Feeling Overmatched?

Constitutional Sheriff is the route to peaceful revolution

Oathkeeper sworn to uphold, defend

Quite simply, the County Sheriff can uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution by refusing to follow orders of a federal government that has spun madly out of control.

So saith Sheriff Richard Mack, formerly of Safford, Graham County, Arizona, now a resident of Fredericksburg and a candidate for Rep. Lamar Smith's seat in Congress.

You can read all about it, this peaceful path to revolution by state legislature, jury, or Sheriff.

The Tenth Amendment Center has mounted an educational campaign to make people what they aren't taught in government schools, that the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution means exactly what it says.

Sheriff Mack is the man who took on that government and fought the Brady Bill's requirement that sheriffs record the serial numbers of citizens' handguns.

The Supreme Court finally held that unconstitutional, unfunded mandate null and void. The consequences would have been grim, had the Sheriff chosen to simply ignore the order. He would have been arrested.

He chose to refuse and he chose to not quit his job.

He also chose to sue the federal government.

Then he won his lawsuit.

No one writes down the serial numbers of your handguns. Go figure.

Today, Tennessee, the legislature has passed a law that holds federal officials responsible for criminal charges if they try to arrest persons without charges, without allowing them to know the charges, or access to legal counsel or reasonable bail.

In Montana, the government increasingly finds itself unable to seat juries in marijuana cases because the veniremen adamantly state that they will be unable to convict on the evidence because the state law has already nullified the proscription of use, possession, sales and cultivation of la yerba buena.

It can be done with the fight against Obamacare, the TSA, the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act's harsh disavowal of all constitutional guarantees to a writ of habeas corpus, the right to confront one's accusers, to know the charges, to see and hear the evidence arrayed against one - all these and more.

There are numerous examples of what this 10th Amendment route to freedom has meant in historical perspective. There were nullifications of taxes, tariffs and trade barriers throughout – one of which led to the Civil War after the secession of South Carolina over increased import duties on goods traded for cotton. The tariff was designed as a punishment for the trade in human souls.

The Tenth Amendment may be contacted for this $20 course in freedom by clicking here:

http://store.tenthamendmentcenter.com/category-s/77.htm

Missionary work prompts labor problems on dairies

IN GOD WE TRUST

North Bosque County, Texas – It would be so good and wholesome to be able to offer official documentation of the facts surrounding this unfortunate tale, even better to attribute its sources.

Unfortunately, all this is impossible - for a very fortunate reason.

It is for this reason that The Legendary is unable to do so.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...”

The operative word, here, is establishment.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution precludes any silly government from becoming involved in matters of the heart, of faith, of a personal interpretation of the Divine, or of Holy Writ. The amendment precludes the authority of government to infringe upon worship, speech or other expression, or of peaceable assembly to petition the government for redress of grievances.

But in light of the rigid controls over dissemination of official information, we are forced to get our news items where we may obtain them.

Let's try this one on for size. Fortunately, the advertisers claim that, in our fair nation, one size fits all.

The lush pasture lands in the valley of the Bosque near the northern border with Erath of this rural county provide a rich and bountiful setting for dairy operations.

Naturally, these establishments are staffed with a disproportionately large number of undocumented alien workers from south of the Mexican border.

Hard working, dependable, and willing to perform arduous agricultural tasks for wages American workers will not tolerate, these men and women make their home near the rural communities of Hico and Iredell.

Of late, however, there has been a certain low key disturbance of the status quo, and it's based on the missionary work of a certain Protestant denomination which refuses to acknowledge New Testament teachings that Jesus of Nazareth was actually the Christ by virtue of the Holy Spirit coming upon his Mother Mary and telling her she would bear the Son of God Almighty, the chosen Messiah foretold by many centuries of Hebrew prophecy.

A missionary witnessing in fluent Spanish has sojourned amongst the undocumented alien workers and accused them of idolatry due to their Catholic faith and adherence to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church regarding the Holy Trinity of God, His Son, and the Holy Spirit.
This individual has reportedly gone so far as to suggest that members of the flock will suffer eternal damnation or perdition as a result of their faith - unless they repent immediately and follow the teachings of his brand of religion, a sect which denies all of the foregoing.

Fortunately, no religious test may be applied for matters of gainful employment or of qualification for public office. All such questions are referred to the U.S. Constitution, a document that does not require those who perform certain tasks in Interstate Commerce to be undocumented aliens.

At least, not yet.

But it's a matter of some curiosity that many of the dairy operators who so employ undocumented alien workers of the Roman Catholic faith adhere to the tenets of a certain fraternal organization first developed by Confederate veterans of the War of Northern Aggression following the cessation of hostilities in that horribly violent and unproductive chapter of American life.

General Ulysses S. Grant having obtained an unconditional surrender from the Commanding General of the Army of the Confederate States of America, General Robert E. Lee, President Abraham Lincoln became the last casualty of the war when a Confederate spy, a stage actor named John Wilkes Booth, shot him in the back of the head while he watched a play at a Washington theater with his wife and some friends.

It is a matter of record that on the very afternoon of the evening of this maddening and aggravating occurrence, the President insisted in an inconclusive cabinet meeting that there be no retribution in proposed Reconstruction programs, that matters of pacification among the people of the former Confederate States of America should not be punitive in their nature.

Following his untimely death, however, all bets were off on that score, and so some gentlemen of a certain culture, classically educated, soon met in a law office in Pulaski, Tennessee, to form a resistance movement in the war-ravaged South.

This organization is still quite influential today in certain areas of the nation, many of them far from the south. It espouses, among other causes, equal rights for white people, states rights, the right of men and women unencumbered by incarceration to freely choose with whom they wish to associate and worship, and to keep and bear arms for the defense of themselves, their families and neighbors.

For some unexplained reason, the operators of dairies known to follow this creed soon thereafter found themselves unable to persuade their employees from south of the border to get any work done on their places.

Faced with this unfortunate occurrence – one in which dairy cattle went unfed, cows were not milked on time, and none of the myriad chores of a smooth-running dairy operation depends, they chose a pragmatic course of action.

They made a sizable donation to the local Catholic Church, and the Diocesan Priest of that congregation soon counseled and advised their employees to go back to work.

He taught them that they have nothing to fear and no reason to worry, because in the United States of America, all persons have the perfect right to worship and believe as they may choose without any interference from government officials, employers, or their neighbors.

Persuaded, they are back hard at work in the pastures and milking barns of northern Bosque County.

It is my humble prayer that this condition never change in American jurisprudence, in the defense posture of the United States of America, or in any other aspect.

The matter is far too important to be entrusted to any form of government, though it may purport to represent the people of the world, the nation, the state, county or city, or any other conceivable political subdivision.

There are ways of doing everything under God's sun, throughout His Dominion.

I have spoken.

I am sincere.

So mote it be.

- The Legendary

Sergeant who killed 16 Afghanis upset over deployment

Seattle - The attorney for an unnamed Army sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghanis in a personal rampage is said to have been upset over a redeployment to the troubled nation following three tours in Iraq.

According to his attorney, Army authorities are discussing seeking the death penalty in prosecution of the man, who has been accused of seeking out his victims in two villages near his duty station. He said the individual so accused was very upset after seeing a fellow soldier's leg blown off the previous day.

Members of his family have been transferred to a community south of Ft. Lewis for their own protection. They told their attorney that the accused had been promised he would not be rotated back into the combat zone in his next duty station.

Taliban negotiators reportedly broke off discussions with U.S. diplomats seeking a peace agreement with the hard line Muslim jihadists following the attack, which allegedly left many children dead.

U.S. Army engaging Taliban insurgents "Everywhere you don't wanna be"