THE SWORD THAT HEALS: (from BILLY BECK at his site, "Two--Four")

Note: from BILLY BECK'S site "Two--Four"....click my blog post title above to get linked to this man, and meet quite a character. And, this is Billy's copy, with my insideous photo interpretation added to bring imagery to idealism...no?

http://www.two--four.net/weblog.php




Mon Jan, 16 2012

"The Sword That Heals"



"There were no more powerful moments in the Birmingham episode than during the closing days of the campaign, when Negro youngsters ran after white policemen, asking to be locked up.



There was an element of unmalicious mischief in this. The Negro youngsters, although perfectly willing to submit to imprisonment, knew that we had already filled up the jails, and that the police had no place left to take them.


When, for decades, you have been able to make a man compromise his manhood by threatening him with a cruel and unjust punishment, and when suddenly he turns upon you and says: 'Punish me. I do not deserve it. But because I do not deserve it, I will accept it so that the world will know that I am right and you are wrong,' you hardly know what to do.


You feel defeated and secretly ashamed.





You know that this man is as good a man as you are; that from some mysterious source he has found the courage and the conviction to meet physical force with soul force."

(Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "Why We Can't Wait", 1964, chapter 2, "The Sword That Heals", p. 30)

Wilderness....Solitude......Sanity.

I blew out of Needles, California and headed north to Bullhead City, Arizona (they could have called it, "Crackhead City"...but didn't...huh?).

All I got from Needles was a serendipitous bathroom novelty called "Horny Goat Weed". Hmmmmm........who am I to snicker at wasting 75 cents.

Have not tried the Horny Goat weed yet, but find myself proud of this bizarre possession and remain curious.
















With "Horny Goat" I headed for Arizona Bay along the Lake Mead National Recreation Area (Arizona north of Kingman, south of Boulder Dam).





This is a vast, intricate, lonely, overlooked area of desert accessed on delightfully remote gravel roads.









Car camping near the waters of Lake Mojave (downstream of Boulder Dam forming Lake Mead) is highlighted with owls hooting at night, coyote families howling to each other, and some shy desert fox routinely coming out of their dens to circle the food smell from my truck.

A pair of ravens always drift over and seem to remember me for all the bread crumbs I share.

Had a pair of Bald Eagles show their "too cool for school" presence as a Grebe got dive bombed with the eagle using the morning sun to hide his attack.











I did get a good dusky, softly lit shot showing the usual Mojave Desert colors.










With nothing to do, and perfect sunny winter weather...I set up a major shoot using toy figurines. This shoot started like this.



Way too many figures and little or no composition...with too many possible focal points to choose from?












But I soldiered on, and hit my stride working all the angles...and pulling in close to take advantage of all the cluttered figures in the background.














There seems no end to shooting figurines with a super macro lens adjustment.

The possibilities lead to...an existential resolution as delusions of omnipotence plays out using figurines as mere mortals?





Hint: you can get these police figurines and wrestlers in the toy aisle at The 99 cent store in Bullhead City.




A PEACE sign made...by peace officers?

I've spent a lot of good time in this area, and hope some day to talk BLM into erecting an official "desert rat" Memorial Garbage Can for beer bottles.

The inscription:

"...In honor and memory of a lost child who grew to be "a man of infinite jest" by suffering then conquering SOLITUDE as a force field, a meditation, and an awakening to what lies ahead as a road man for The Lords of Karma.... Paid for by "The Horny Goat Weed" corporation as a sponsor for emerging "desert rat, half assed, nature photographers".

Have you heard MONTE MONTGOMERY's quitar style from Austin, Texas...yet?

Who is this man from Austin, Texas?

Is this another talented relatively unknown genius...who has not been nationally found yet?

Is this the guy who "lived out of his hippie Mom's car" in Luckenbach, Texas, as a kid growing up... with nothing to play with other than a six string guitar, that Monte taught himself to strum with what is considered a sublime level of style that makes most guitar players sit up and notice?


So you think you know music and can spot talent...huh?

My favorite Monte Montgomery album is "1st and repair" (Tip: you have to spell it that way at Grooveshark) and you can hear the whole album free (from start to finish) without signing in at GROOVESHARK.COM.

I used to listen to this album over and over...and couldn't really describe how good these songs are together, in the order they were published. Just listen to the first four songs, and you'll like Monte and this album.
You'll have to decide for yourself.



At Wikipedia we have this summary:



..."Montgomery appeared on PBS's Austin City Limits program on April 17, 1999.


Montgomery was on Guitar Player magazine's 2004 list of "The Top 50 All-Time Greatest Guitarists".[citation needed]

Montgomery has also won the "Best Acoustic Guitar Player" award at the SXSW Festival’s Austin Music Awards seven years in a row (1998–2004), the only artist to have ever done so.[citation needed]


On January 24, 2004, Alvarez Guitars unveiled the MMY1 Monte Montgomery Signature Guitar, a model based on Montgomery's 1987 Alvarez-Yairi DY62C Acoustic-Electric Guitar. Due to his intense playing style, Montgomery has broken the neck of his DY62C four times—the MMY1 has a reinforced neck to prevent such breakage.[1]"...

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Monte Montgomery Fast Facts:



1). At Grooveshark, you'll find a column for his most popular songs like:

------"When Will I" (shows you his chord progression style, very unique)...listen to this song first if you want to study Monte Montgomery's music;

------"Little Wing"

------"Took Too Long"

------"Wishing Well"

------"Bagpipe"



Hint: go to grooveshark.com and listen to Monte's "Mirror" album...you'll like the songs: "When will I" and "I know you by heart" (soft ballad).




2) TV comediane TIM "Tool Time" ALLEN, saw Monte on Austin City Limits one night in 1999, and was gobsmacked enough, to contact Monte and became a big fan?

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Tommy:







There is a lot to Monte Montgomery.

Amazing intensity.

No gimmicks in the studio.

Very honest songwriter.

His guitar style, leaves quite a few good and great ax men, scratching their heads, and acting like a cat at a mouse hole wondering, "WTF?...this is pretty unique..no?".

Monte has never been reviewed by any of the leading music critics, and...believe it or not, but ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE doesn't even know, what they are missing?

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE never, ever, ever....ever.......even heard of Toni Price?

Toni should have already been on the cover........but Jann Wenner, can't pull his head out of his LA ass....no?

Hey Jann..............uh..................have you heard of The Live Music Capital of The World? It's called AUSTIN, TEXAS........and that is where it is happening...now.

Jann.....assign one of your best music critics......send them to GROOVESHARK.COM to listen to TONI PRICE FREE with no sign in.

US SUP CT upholds warrant requirement for GPS Tracking of Vehicles?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/46104035


Supreme Court: Warrant Needed for GPS Tracking

Published: Monday, 23 Jan 2012 | 2:39 PM ET Text Size By: AP


The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.


The decision was a defeat for the government and police agencies, and it raises the possibility of serious complications for law enforcement nationwide, which increasingly relies on high tech surveillance of suspects including the use of various types of GPS technology. ...
















"The use of longer-term GPS monitoring in investigations of most offenses impinges on expectations of privacy," Alito wrote in an opinion joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. In her concurring opinion Sotomayor specifically said she agreed with Alito on this conclusion.


Alito added, "We need not identify with precision the point at which the tracking of this vehicle became a search, for the line was surely crossed before the four-week mark." .....
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Tommy:



This was a 9-0 decision by what I considered to be a very politicized "pro police state court"?

I'm shocked.

Imagine if the lawyers had argued "right to be left alone" rather than privacy?

Is their a distinction to make between "right to be left alone" and privacy?

Maybe there is hope for removing this CIA MIND CONTROL CHIP illegally placed in my skull, during the course of my attempted Constitutional challenges that never were possible due to the TORTURE AND HARASSMENT that forced me out of my home,far removed from the Sioux Falls, South Dakota Federal District Court that had "in personam" and "party with interest" jurisdiction.

To this day, The bought off stooges at The ACLU NATIONAL SECURITY DIVISION refuses to discuss my facts as part of their right to conduct a preliminary inquiry to analyze all legal issues.


To this day, THE ACLU refuses to challenge the never ending and illegal "PREVENTATIVE MIND CONTROL MILITARY DETENTION" that unilaterally and extra judicially "tampers with and misdirects all my communications" and neutralizes all attempts at associating with lawyers (facilitated by The GPS Tracking Device used in numerous crimes including 1% Doctrine Murders of known associates).

The "death of due process blues"

Lately, Glen Greenwald, summarizes the state of our sense and lack of sensibility in regard to quite an extensive and disturbing story that "really has not been appreciated" or reviewed by any other website, other than this blog (believe it or not).

I'm talking about extrajudicial neutralizations of lawyers, complainants, witnesses, and whistleblowers. I'm talking about "the death of due process blues" sang by me to the sound of, not one hand clapping?


I'm referring to my own specific fact based assertions that are usually referenced by me, after cutting up mainstream media stories that always (somehow?) manage to leave out specific facts, personal pronouns or analysis of "who, what, when, why, how" suspicions.


From Glen Greenwald writing for Salon.com:





http://www.salon.com/2012/01/21/two_lessons_from_the_megaupload_seizure/singleton/


Saturday, Jan 21, 2012 3:58 AM 05:51:17 MST


Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure

By Glenn Greenwald

..." The U.S. really is a society that simply no longer believes in due process: once the defining feature of American freedom that is now scorned as some sort of fringe, radical, academic doctrine.

That is not hyperbole.


Supporters of both political parties endorse, or at least tolerate, all manner of government punishment without so much as the pretense of a trial, based solely on government accusation: imprisonment for life, renditions to other countries, even assassinations of their fellow citizens.

Simply uttering the word Terrorist, without proving it, is sufficient"....

The smoking swab evidence: YOGURT SHOP MURDERS MYSTERY in Austin, Texas?

http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2011-12-16/scene-of-the-crime/

Note: click blog post above to get linked, or "copy and paste" above URL into google


Scene of the Crime

Revisiting the yogurt shop murders: A cold case reconsideration of the 1991 crime points away from the prosecution's assumptions and conclusions

By Jordan Smith, Fri., Dec. 16, 2011



On Oct. 28, 2009, Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg stood solemnly behind a lectern choked with microphones.

She had convened a press conference to deliver big news. Ten years after city and county officials gathered to announce that they'd found the four men responsible for the grisly 1991 yogurt shop murders, Lehmberg had decided to dismiss all charges against the only two men ever tried for the crime, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott.






"Make no mistake, this is a difficult decision for me, and one I would rather not have to make," she told a score of reporters.

But it was the only real option.

Although she still believed Springsteen and Scott were responsible for the crime, she said – despite a lack of any physical evidence connecting them to it...









– ....she had concluded that she must drop the charges because prosecutors had no explanation for explosive new evidence discovered in 2008: unknown male DNA found on a vaginal swab collected at the 1991 crime scene from the youngest victim, 13-year-old Amy Ayers, that does not match Springsteen or Scott, nor the other two men officials say also took part in the crime, Maurice Pierce and Forrest Welborn.....



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Tommy:




I cannot say for sure but, "this evidence only came forward under Brady" after, after, after....the FBI Director made a decision to "open a brief look" at my memo.

Despite any criticisms of Mueller by me made in the past...Mueller does have an open mind about things...and deserves credit for taking a look at this case using "fresh agents" not necessarily tied to "following The Central Texas LEO Group over the cliff".


I think that FBI sniffed around, and forced this info out of the closet. I do believe that it was withheld by Ronnie Earle's office. I do believe that it was a crime to withhold that evidence.

The good news is...you have DNA EVIDENCE.

So did this prosecutor identify the killer, or not?


Got to put her under oath with Ronnie Earle...no?

Sworn statements are far more legitimate then phone calls?

Body language is everything...no?

I still don't think this case is over...or should be considered solved (like The Christina Moore Murder and bogus half assed prosecution by John Bradley at Williamson Cty States Attorney Office).


It's not over when APD COMMANDER SHAUNA JACOBSON and Kurt, ended up dead over this. And a Judge also suicided (?).

I think The FBI in Austin or at HQ, do have something more to say about all this, because the case is not over or solved.

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...Since then, the investigation of the horrifying murders of the four teenage friends – Ayers; Sarah and Jennifer Harbison, 15 and 17, respectively; and Eliza Thomas, 17 – has again gone cold.....



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Tommy:












Has gone cold again?


Not if you consider the Shauna and Kurt Jacobson deaths...as linked and convenient murders for the parties that are behind this whole pathetic charade.





I know someone who "knows or should know" the truth: Stan Knee (former chief at APD), and former decorated officer, Lt. Hector Polonca (linked to other frame ups in other murders?).
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....What it would take, they agree, is a commitment to starting over from the beginning and reconsidering evidence found in crime scene photos, in roughly 130,000 pages of investigative documents, and in the physical elements of the crime – including pieces of evidence still untested for DNA – retained in evidence bags.
And, importantly, say several defense lawyers, investigators should return to the statements of the final customers at the neighborhood yogurt shop that evening, whom they believe were among the last to see the actual killers......




....Farrelly, Sawyer, and Garcia declined to divulge any specific details about the customers or what they said about the two men they saw, because the customers were never called to testify in court, but other sources with knowledge of the case have confirmed a basic account of what the final two customers, a married couple, told police happened on Friday, Dec. 6, 1991, just before 11pm. (Contacted by the Chronicle, the witnesses declined to comment for this story.)...

...Garcia says that he has offered to share with D.A. Lehmberg the timeline the defense developed, but to date, he says, she has not accepted that offer....


...Twenty-five to 27 percent of all exonerations ... involve false confessions; it is a fact that they occur. It is a fact that false confessions occur in Austin, Texas, with the Austin Police Department," Farrelly says. "And the fact that they won't even acknowledge that possibility is where they are going wrong."...

... the problems facing investigators now are precisely those expected when you "try to un-ring a bell," he says. "They want to connect it to those four because they're out on a thin limb, and I think it's been sawed off – according to them, it's only half-sawed off and we can regenerate that limb," he continued.
"There is an undercurrent that people want so desperately to believe that the police and that the legal system is right, that it would be a sign of weakness, or they would lose [public] confidence by admitting they're wrong."....

...Likewise, among the evidentiary details that have always caught her attention, Far?relly says, is the account offered by the owner of the party store next door, who said he didn't hear anything from the yogurt shop save for several popping noises – which the lawyers each assume was gunfire.

The fact that the shop was otherwise silent through a strip-mall wall suggests to Farrelly a certain amount of control over the victims, which she believes only would be possible had the assailants been grown men – and likely men with some previous criminal involvement.







Moreover, the systematic nature of the murders – all the girls undressed, multiple victims raped, the execution-style shootings, and the bodies stacked – suggests experienced, sadistic criminals with far more foresight and ruthlessness than likely for teenage boys.

Ultimately, what the defense lawyers and the current investigators have in common is a stated belief that the crime can be solved. The question – the final one that appears to separate the two camps – is how to get there. "If someone were to come in with an open mind, with no ties to the previous cold case ... and to look at the original investigation ... I think they would come up with a different theory," says Farrelly. "And I think that they would be on the right path."

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Tommy:












There was an agency "...who came in with an open mind, with no ties to the previous cold case...to look at the original investigation...".

The FBI brought in special agents to look at this.

MUELLER did have an open mind on this, and did probably note that it was expedient and wise to "use out of state agents with no ties to Central Texas LEO".










So...with the FBI using my memo, they did notice the timeline evidence of "my posting of the memo" at AUSTIN IMC (in front of Austin FBI and Austin PD's surveillance eyes of this activist website) and the untimely and suspicious death of APD COMMANDER SHAUNA JACOBSON and her husband Kurt. Shauna was tied to this case.

Nothing in this news story mentions this key timeline evidence?

And, no comment about another name in the memo (an appeals judge) who also had an untimely death (suicide)?

FBI might have more to say about this...the case is not over.





Did the two assailants know the girls?

They were allowed to use the bathroom...because the assailants knew the girls...right?....does any stranger get to use the bathroom or is that just for friends?


Would other "late night Yogurt slurpers have a routine" that could tie the assailants to other nights of banter with the girls?

FBI has access to NCIC crime data......so.......how many "arson murders with multiple victims involve stacking the bodies" and "why stack bodies"?

Stacking bodies in front of large windows at a strip mall?


Was the crime scene cased before the crime?

Was a silencer used? Popping noises? Did this witness see or hear any vehicles after the popping noises?

Any phone call evidence (called and recieved) on previous nights leading to an address close by (Moebius info memorialized in my complaint)? Multiple calls? Emails to and from girls a month before the crime?

What was the insurance pay out angle?






Who got paid?

Was this linked to The Pizza Hut (Lt. Hector Polonca) murder of Nancy DePreist? Who got paid? Where did that money go? Under Moebius' theory, the money paid gets moved and shared...no?


Why this particular night, when the assailants had already talked to a cop...and they did not get spooked? How confident and risky is it for the assailants to "usher other customers ahead in line" and "was that done so the assailants were last in line" and hopefully last in the shop (the goal all along)?

This cop (Dearl Croft) is a key witness who had his instincts working and "had a funny feeling" about the guy he talked to on that night, so...hypnosis to pull all facts from this cop?


What about vehicles? Did the assailants walk from a nearby apartment, or drive? Where was the car parked that was driven by the next door neighbor running The Party Store near the murder scene?


How many professional or seasoned murderers "stack bodies"? Why stack bodies like cord wood? How do you rape, control, murder, and stack bodies....at a strip mall with large windows allowing visibility?...and...uh...didn't the murderers try to avoid witnesses (like the next door business owner)?








Did one of the two assailants (who sat at the table that did not have a chair on it as part of the "closing the store modus") live next door?

Was Eric Moebius's theory about insurance fraud correct?

APD COMMANDER SHAUNA JACOBSON was credited with solving the case when supervising the cold case detective's work. She got my memo. What did she do next? Didn't she want to reopen the case broadening it into insurance fraud? Did she get shut down by Chief Stan Knee? Did she talk to the female Austin FBI agent?
Why were The Jacobson's death, part of a timeline, with a subtle cover up by Knee using and paying ARCHIE CARL PIERCE to write a report? Was that necessary? Who thought an outside source was needed to close the Jacobson death spin control?

What happened to the court room excited utterance by Kenneth Wayne McDuff who fingered Worley in The Yogurt Shop Murders? Was that correct? Did the DNA match Worley or McDuff?

Who did The Nancy DePreist murder at The Pizza Hut? Was that his (Joseph Achim Morino in Texas State Pen) first capital crime, and "was he involved with the occult" and does he have something to say that supports Moebius' theory on insurance fraud?


What did FBI get from Morino (who came to christ while serving life) about other crimes committed with what other unindicted coconspirators?

Wasn't Nick Milam an attorney who supported Moebius' theory, and wasn't he run out of town by SAN ANTONIO FBI working with INSURANCE COMPANY INVESTIGATORS (as reported by Bill Conroy at The San Antonio Business Journal)?

What did Stan Knee say to The FBI on all this?

Is this case over?

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http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/news/2010-12-24/former-yogurt-shop-suspect-killed-by-apd-updated/


Former Yogurt Shop Suspect Killed by APD (Updated)

By Jordan Smith, 1:02PM, Fri. Dec. 24, 2010



Austin Police shot and killed former yogurt shop defendant Maurice Pierce around 11pm Thursday night, after pulling Pierce over on a traffic stop in North Austin.


According to APD, Pierce ran a stop sign near Parmer Lane and McNeil Drive around 10:54p. After pulling over, officials say Pierce got out of the car and fled on foot. One officer -- Brad Smith, a rookie -- followed Pierce in a patrol car, while a second, five-year veteran Officer Frank Wilson, pursued Pierce on foot to the 12800 block of Carrera..............