Remembering Petty Officer 1st Class Chad R. Regelin
Bronze Star recipient, Chad was credited with personally locating and destroying 24 roadside bombs, training 13 commando engineers in counter-IED tactics and fighting in more than 20 direct fire engagements. USO Sailor of the Year for 2011, Regelin was an explosive ordnance disposal technician with Mobile Unit Three in southern Afghanistan and was on his second tour of duty there when he was killed.
Petty Officer Regelin is the 1,865th American to die in Afghanistan … Ich hatt’ einen Kameraden
*Burial with full military honors will follow at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo*
Chad R. Regelin
The Liberty Tree
Flags Over Capitol at Half-Staff for Fallen Sailor
Governor Brown today has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff over the State Capitol today in honor of fallen U.S Navy Sailor Petty Officer 1st Class Chad R. Regelin, of Cottonwood, who was killed in action in Afghanistan last week.
Remembering Chad Regelin
The funeral procession will begin around 12:00 p.m. Saturday Jan. 14th from Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints in Anderson.
The procession is expected to arrive around 1:00 p.m. at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery 11800 Gas Point Road Igo, Ca.
Below are Google directions of the procession route:
Slideshow: Remembering Chad Regelin
Petty Officer 1st Class Chad R. Regelin
“I’ll lend to you for a little time,
A child of mine,” God said,
“For you to love while he lives
And mourn for when he’s dead.”
“It may be six or seven years
Or twenty-two or three,
But will you till I call him back,
Take care of him for me?”
“He’ll bring his charms to gladden you
And should his stay be brief,
You’ll have these precious memories
To comfort you through grief.”
“I cannot promise he will stay
Since all from earth return.
But there are lessons taught down there
I want this child to learn.”
“I’ve looked this world over,
In my search for teachers true.
In the crowds of this great land,
I have selected you.”
“Now will you give him all your love
Not think the labor vain,
Nor hate me when I come to call
To take him back again?”
UPDATED: Oath Keeper To Muster_Quartzsite Liberty Festival 8/27/2011
August 12th, 2011
Update 8-12-11: Oath Keepers To Muster Quartzsite, Arizona, August 27, 2011
URGENT August 27 Quartzsite Rally Update!
Important message from Stewart Rhodes.
Oathkeepers, this rally in Quartzsite, AZ on August 27 is now more than just a march in support of ten oath keeping officers and a stand-up Marine veteran Mayor.
This is going to be a liberty celebration BASH. (See detailes itinerary below).
After the march in honor of the Quartzsite ten, we will have a big barbeque and then live music on into the night by some excellent local bands and also a live concert by freedom fighter musician JORDAN PAGE.
Jordan is a nationally known superstar in the freedom movement, and a big supporter of Oath Keepers (he often wears an Oath Keepers Tee shirt when he performs). He’s the Thomas Paine of music. He loves Oath Keepers and is honored to join us for this historic event.
We do need to help cover his costs, so we have created a chip in where folks can donate to help get Jordan Page to our event in Quartzsite, Arizona on August 27. Please donate and spread it around to others.
To embed this chipin on your site: Click the copy link on the chipin widget, copy the text and enter the code into your website editor.
We will also be joined by Arizona radio show dynamo and freedom fighter Ernest Hancock, of Freedom’s Phoenix, who will do a live broadcast of the event. He will also post the Jordan Page chip-in on his site and help raise funds and promote the event.
This event will be an historic stand for honor, courage, and oath keeping, and will serve as an example of what MUST happen across American to restore our Republic.
We all need to sweep our own “porch” clean, sweeping out corruption and good ol boy networks and big government petty tyrants in every community.
Let it start here. Let it start now, right in Quartzsite. Let’s set the example and show em how it’s done!
And let’s also hold a celebration of our liberty and our commitment to take up the torch of liberty handed down to us from our fathers, and reaffirm our commitment to preserve it for our children. FEAR NOT, and let the beast know you fear not, by joining us with a smile on your face.
Remember, all that matters is that our children are free. I think this song by Jordan Page says it all. — Stewart Rhodes:
image: Oath Keepers muster in Tucson on Memorial day.
Oath Keepers To Muster Quartzsite, Arizona, August 27, 2011
Please Note: This article will be updated frequently as our plans are solidified. Please check back here often for the most current updates. Link for this article: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/08/03/oath-keepers-to-muster-quartzsite-arizona-august-27-2011/
August 3rd, 2011
Oath Keepers To Muster Quartzsite, Arizona, August 27, 2011
Please Note: This article will be updated frequently as our plans are solidified. Please check back here often for the most current updates. Link for this article: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/08/03/oath-keepers-to-muster-quartzsite-arizona-august-27-2011/
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Calling all freedom troops! Oath Keepers Muster! Quartzsite Liberty Festival!
OATH KEEPERS TO MUSTER _ QUARTZSITE LIBERTY FESTIVAL!
August 27, 2011, Quartzsite, Arizona
Press Release:
Oath Keepers will muster, along with the Sons of Liberty Riders, the Sons of Liberty, the Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots, the Campaign For Liberty, and numerous other patriot/Constitutionalist groups, in support of the Quartzsite Ten – the ten officers of the Quartzsite, Arizona, Police Department who have blown the whistle and leveled allegations of corruption against the Chief of Police of Quartzsite in written documents. See http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/07/12/quartzsite-police-officers-association-letter-regarding-police-chief-jeff-gilbert/.
The Quartzsite Liberty Festival will also support the concerned citizenry of Quartzsite, local activists such as grass-roots journalist Jennifer ‘Jade’ Jones, and the town Mayor, the Honorable Ed Foster (a Marine veteran), who have stood up for the free speech rights of the citizens. This non-partisan Festival will include a banner and flag march, and we are expecting thousands of marchers. The “Quartzsite Liberty Festival” is slated for August 27, 2011, in Quartzsite, Arizona. The early morning starting time will be announced.
Contacts:
Arizona Oath Keepers – Contact Mike Frye: mrteapartyfrye@gmail.com phone — 623-521-3612
Oath Keepers Board of Directors – Contact Elias Alias eliasalias@gmail.com phone — 406-285-6597
Sons of Liberty Riders – Wendy Schops – webpage:
http://americanlibertyriders.ning.com/events/not-on-our-watch-quartzsite-az?rsvpConfirm=1
Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots – Michael Bailey – webpage:
http://phoenixteaparty.ning.com/events/rally-in-support-of-quartzsite
Vito’s RV Park & Rice Ranch RV Park — Tent camping (full service facility) $7/night (928) 916-0556
Quartzsite Chamber of Commerce — http://www.quartzsitebusinesschamber.com/
Background info:
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/07/28/quartzsite/
Oath Keepers considers the Quartzsite saga to be a vital pivot point on which small-town America shall awaken to the encroachment of corruption and violation of rights from Federal levels downward into our local communities and our daily lives across the nation. This muster and march shall send forth a clarion call to the American people to restore the Republic from the bottom up, starting with their local communities. The muster will support and protect the whistleblowers in seats or positions of government power, and will applaud the courage and integrity of the Quartzsite Ten in standing up to unjust use of power by no longer being willing to follow un-Constitutional, and therefore unlawful, orders. Oath Keepers across America, our supporters, cooperating groups, friends, concerned citizens, are invited and requested to march with us in Quartzsite.
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For Website Updates And Info:
Oath Keepers To Muster Quartzsite, Arizona, August 27, 2011
Please Note: This article will be updated frequently as our plans are solidified. Please check back here often for the most current updates. Link for this article:
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Calling all freedom troops! Oath Keepers Muster! Quartzsite Liberty Festival!
Quartzsite Ten Stand On Their Oath Against Alleged Corruption
On Sunday, July 31, 2011, the Board of Directors of Oath Keepers unanimously voted to call on the Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Montana chapters of Oath Keepers to conduct an official Oath Keepers Muster at Quartzsite, Arizona. This muster will be held in conjunction with several other patriotic civic organizations, Sons of Liberty Riders, the Sons of Liberty, the Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots, the Campaign For Liberty,
The Muster will be held on August 27, 2011.
The purpose of this Muster is to support the courageous stand against alleged corruption within that town’s Police Department by ten police officers of the Quartzsite, Arizona Police Department. The ten officers are currently under “administrative leave,” and at least two of them have been fired from their employment in Quartzsite Police Department. The State’s Attorney General has issued a statement indicating an ongoing State-level investigation, and the County Attorney has issued a statement confirming some of the allegations brought by the whistleblowing officers. Public outcry is at a roar. It is essential that we support oath keeping officers just as stridently as we call out oath breakers, and here we have ten stellar examples of police officers doing the right thing. They need our full support, so if you can make this muster, please answer the call. We have Oath Keepers from as far away as Texas who will be traveling to Quartzsite to join us there to take a stand in support of these officers.
The Muster is also aimed at supporting local patriot/activist Jennifer ‘Jade’ Jones and Quartzsite Mayor Ed Foster, who is a Marine veteran who has kept his oath by standing up for the free speech and political participation rights of the citizens of his town. Oath Keepers intends to spotlight the need for local involvement in local government, transparency in government on all levels, and to encourage unity through community action as small-town America strives for public office accountability in local affairs. America is watching, thanks to the efforts of Jennifer ‘Jade’ Jones, the Quartzsite Ten, and Mayor Ed Foster.
This Muster is to support the Quartzsite Ten and to show public approval of their willingness to speak out at risk of their jobs to seek an independent investigation and the proper and lawful execution of and administration of the law in Quartzsite.
There will be speakers and presentations, and music after the rally.
The Muster will include an Oath Keepers led march similar to our march at the Tucson Muster this past Memorial Day (May 30, 2011). We want large, tall marching flags and banners please. Oath Keepers are encouraged to wear their Oath Keepers gear. To buy your black-and-gold Muster shirts, hats and other Oath Keepers gear, please check with our online store:
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/store/
See video of our Tucson Muster and march:
Be advised: Southwestern Arizona experiences 100-degree-plus temperatures, so come prepared to handle high heat during our march. We are told that ten or more Phoenix Fire Department EMTs will be volunteering to assist heat victims during the march. We are seeking volunteers who can assist with supplying water along the march route.
At present time we are in process of obtaining permits, establishing locations for the Muster, camping facilities, lodging facilities, etc. We will be announcing details as they come in and are verified.
Mike Frye of Arizona Oath Keepers and I, (Elias Alias), of Montana Oath Keepers (and national Board member) will be coordinating this Muster. We are now accepting multiple other organizations into our planning. Group and organization leaders are invited to coordinate with us for inclusion in the Muster.
Contacts:
Arizona Oath Keepers – Contact Mike Frye: mrteapartyfrye@gmail.com phone — 623-521-3612
Montana Oath Keepers and National Board of Directors – Contact Elias Alias eliasalias@gmail.com phone — 406-285-6597
Check back regularly for up-to-the-minute updates and additional info.
Small Town Being Investigated for Big Violations: http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/crime/small-town-being-investigated-for-big-violations-07312011
Sons of Liberty Riders participated in the Tucson Memorial for Jose Guerena. Read about it here.
If Chief Gilbert wants to label us “terrorists” simply for keeping our oaths to defend the Constitution, by using our natural right of free speech in support of good police officers who refused unlawful orders, and if he is going to label us “terrorists” for simply exercising our First Amendment protected right to peaceably assemble and petition government for a redress of grievances, — all rights that GOOD MEN fought and died to preserve - well then, all I have to say is “we’re your huckleberries” Chief. See you in Quartzsite folks! Our forefathers are watching.
Stewart Rhodes
Founder of Oath Keepers
SPECIAL REPORT: Symptoms of Tyranny, Oathkeepers in Arizona
SPECIAL REPORT: Symptoms of Tyranny, Oathkeepers in Arizona
Producer / Editor: Gary Franchi
Writers: Gary Franchi / Nina Police
Camera: Drew Phillips
An epidemic is sweeping the nation. In this special report, never seen on the mainstream news, we look at the symptoms of tyranny and take you to Arizona where the Oathkeepers converged to march for a fallen Marine. Jose Manuel Guerena was shot 61 times in his home when Pima County SWAT entered to serve a search warrant. You will get an inside look at the Oathkeepers memorial service where Stewart Rhodes and Sheriff Richard Mack spoke of the recent abuses, presented the widow with a plaque, and provided solutions on how you can overcome these symptoms of tyranny.
“I cannot think of a more unreasonable search than one that leaves you dead” – Stewart Rhodes – May 30, 2011
Jose Manuel Guerena
OATH KEEPERS MUSTER – Tucson Info Updated
May 25th, 2011
OATH KEEPERS MUSTER – Tucson Info
OATH KEEPERS MUSTER
Sheriff Mack and Stewart Rhodes On The March
(Updated 5-27-2011)
Vanessa Guerena
Late Thursday afternoon the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, responding to public records requests, released video and documents related to the shooting of Jose Guerena.
Mike Adams & Stewart Rhodes: Rally in Tucson Over Death of Young Marine Veteran Jose Guerena
Sheriff Richard Mack Memorial Day Address to Oathkeepers
Oath Keepers will muster at Tucson, Arizona, on Memorial Day, May 30, 2011.
What – An Oath Keepers muster. Oath Keepers and friends will muster and march to the home of Mrs. Vanessa Guerena for a ceremony of memoriam for her late husband Jose Guerena, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq war.
When – 8:00 a.m. sharp Monday morning Memorial Day, May 30, 2011
Where - The intersection of West Valencia Road and South Wade Road. Take I-10 to I-19 South and exit West Valencia Road to South Wade Road, Tucson, Arizona. See below.
Who - Oath Keepers is calling for all veterans, National Guardsmen, active duty military, current-serving peace officers, firefighters, retired public servants, gun owners, veterans organizations, civic organizations, church groups, student groups, and other patriotic Americans.
Why – To stand with Oath Keepers at a memorial service for Jose Guerena, a war veteran who was killed by law-enforcement gunfire in his home on May 05, 2011. We wish to honor Jose Guerena’s service to this nation and ensure that his death lights the spark which shall lawfully undo present-day policies which militarize our local peace officers and violate our veterans’ and gun owners’ Fourth Amendment rights.
Press contact – Arizona Oath Keepers state chapter President Ray Epps: 480-586-5145. Backup Press contact – Elias Alias – 406-285-6597 * eliasalias@gmail.com
The public is cordially invited to march and stand with Oath Keepers for this ceremony. All who cannot attend are encouraged to do what you can on Memorial Day in your own communities. A great example of local activity is given us by the Pahrump, Nevada Oath Keepers chapter. Enjoy reading their Proclamation here:
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/05/25/pahrump-oath-keepers-issue-proclamation/?cp=1#comment-29725
What you can do – Work with veterans and neighbors and community groups in your respective areas to ensure such Proclamations are brought before your local government officials and State officials. (You can do this anytime, it is not limited to only Memorial Day.)
*Work to establish oversight by your State government, your Attorney General, and your County Sheriffs’ offices to protect Fourth Amendment rights at the local level to provide accountability for intrusive police activities. Work to educate your neighbors and friends to the militarization of our local peace officers and help them see how such practices violate our Bill of Rights, including the Fourth Amendment. Recommend to your local government that police actions, especially S.W.A.T. activity, does not mimic the acts of criminals who execute home invasions. Remind everyone of the inherent dangers in accepting Federal funding and Federal training. Work to break the connection between Federal involvement and local control over our peace officer community. Educate everyone to the dangers in militarizing our local peace officers.
What we need from Tucson: Oath Keepers is seeking locally a volunteer drummer for this march, and a bugler for the ceremony. Oath Keepers would love to have a color guard from Tucson or Arizona, but we’ll take a color guard from wherever we can find one. If anyone wishes to volunteer to drum for this march, or to play taps on the bugle at the ceremony, please send us your message by going here – http://oathkeepers.org/oath/contact/ or call our Arizona Oath Keepers chapter President Ray Epps at 480-586-5145. Backup number 406-285-6597.
Oath Keepers will muster at 8:00 a.m. on the morning of Memorial Day, May 30, 2011, and will march at 8:30 a.m. to the home of Vanessa Guerena, the widow of Jose Guerena. Our procession will not permit late-comers to join after we begin the march, so make sure to be on time. Come early. Our march will begin at our rally point which is less than one mile from the Guerena home.
Our muster will be at the intersection of West Valencia Road and South Wade Road. Out of town marchers can find West Valencia Road by exiting Interstate I-19 just south of Interstate I-10 at the exit for West Valencia Road.
Upon arrival at the intersection of West Valencia Road and South Wade Road, please park on the South side of Valencia. We would like to ask all drivers to park by backing in, instead of parallel parking, so as to reduce the length of parked cars. Thank you for remembering to do that.
Oath Keepers will not permit the carrying or displaying of signs during our march and memorial service.
Flags may be carried and displayed. Those who have Oath Keepers gear are invited to wear Oath Keeper shirts and hats, patches and pins. We are planning a somber and reverent march, respectful of the departed young former Marine and war veteran, with sincere sympathy for his wife and children. There shall be another time and place for political expression.
Oath Keepers will conduct a brief ceremony on the lawn outside Mrs. Guerena’s house to honor her husband’s military service and all military and police who have paid the ultimate price for this country’s continued freedom. We will extend our sympathies to Mrs. Guerena, and then march back to our muster area.
Other activities will be announced when we return to our muster area. There each marcher will be given hand-out fliers with our afternoon schedule, which Oath Keepers will distribute to all who march with us.
Note - It is important that all who wish to participate with Oath Keepers on Memorial Day be present at 8:00 a.m. sharp, for that is how everyone will receive our announcements regarding the afternoon’s activities.
There will be afternoon speakers, including Stewart Rhodes, founder and President of Oath Keepers, Major (ret.) Rex McTyeire, U.S. Special Forces veteran and President of Oath Keepers’ South Carolina chapter, and Sheriff Richard Mack, former Sheriff from Arizona, among others. A number of Oath Keepers officers will be arriving from out of State.
The afternoon events will carry a political nature as Oath Keepers officially denounces the practice of deploying militarized SWAT teams to serve warrants on military veterans and gun owners who, like Jose Guerena, have no prior criminal record. Oath Keepers will inspire Americans to uphold the Fourth Amendment. Oath Keepers salutes our finest, our peace officers and our soldiers, with sincere gratitude for their service, but Oath Keepers stands against the Policy of using militarized SWAT units for routine law enforcement procedures.
We must take a stand against the use of SWAT or other militarized units against gun owners and veterans who have no violent crime history, and that stand needs to be a firm one. Come make a stand with us. Veterans, here is a place to stand for a righteous cause – bring your veteran groups and friends.
Therefore, Oath Keepers is going to rally to honor this young Marine’s military service in war in the morning hours, using this occasion to also honor all of America’s fallen heroes, and then move into other locations to express our opposition to the destruction of our liberty, our support of the Fourth Amendment as written, and our opposition to this policy of using SWAT teams to serve mere search warrants on gun owners and veterans who have no violent criminal record.
Here is a closing word from Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers –
“What better way to honor our war dead and veterans this Memorial Day than to defend our Constitution and our God given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which is what they all fought, bled, and died for? This policy of using SWAT to serve search warrants on veterans and gun owners simply because they are armed, and where there is no long history of violent crime, has got to stop. I think taking a stand over the use of SWAT against this young Marine in Tucson is a good place to start.” – Stewart Rhodes
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Check for updates on this information at the “Announcements” section of our front page on our national web site, www.oathkeepers.org/
Questions may be sent online here – http://oathkeepers.org/oath/contact/
The following two links will provide more detailed understanding about our Memorial Day events in Tucson, Arizona:
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/05/16/an-empire-strikes-home-_-part-one/
Meet some of our Board of Directors – http://oathkeepers.org/oath/bios/
Sheriff Richard Mack – http://www.sheriffmack.com/
Oath Keepers National – http://www.oathkeepers.org/oath/
Semper Fidelis Jose Guerena!
May 21st, 2011
Oath Keepers to Rally in Tucson on Memorial Day Over Death of Young Marine Veteran
CALLING ALL OATH KEEPERS, ALL VETERANS, ALL PATRIOTIC POLICE OFFICERS, ALL GUN OWNERS, AND ALL LIBERTY LOVING AMERICANS.
This is an urgent call-out to all Oath Keepers, all veterans, all patriotic police officers, all Americans who cherish our liberty and our Constitution, and to all liberty leaders and patriotic organizations to join us in Tucson, Arizona this Memorial Day, May 30, 2011 to take a stand in defense of our Constitution, which our war dead fought to defend, and to take a stand against the egregious policy of using SWAT teams to serve search warrants on veterans and gun owners with no violent criminal history.
Tucson Interview of Jose Guerena Coworker at Memorial Day OathKeeper Event
Courtesy of Oath Keeper Psychictaxi
Hundreds march in protest for Jose Guerena
http://www.kvoa.com/videoplayer/?video_id=5792&categories=
Group protests SWAT death of Tucson Marine
Video
http://www.azfamily.com/home/Group-protests-SWAT-death-of-Tucson-Marine-122846839.html
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Group marches in support of Jose Guerena
http://www.kvoa.com/news/group-march…8%2C0#comments
Stewart Rhodes speaking at the hotel in Tuscon, AZ
Sheriff Richard Mack speaking at the hotel in Tuscon, AZ
Neighbors, family gather outside ex-Marine’s house
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Oath Keepers to Rally in Tucson on Memorial Day Over Death of Young Marine Veteran
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OATH KEEPERS MUSTER
Sheriff Mack and Stewart Rhodes On The March
Oath Keepers will muster at Tucson, Arizona, on Memorial Day, May 30, 2011.
What – An Oath Keepers muster. Oath Keepers and friends will muster and march to the home of Mrs. Vanessa Guerena for a ceremony of memoriam for her late husband Jose Guerena, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq war.
When – 8:00 a.m. sharp Monday morning Memorial Day, May 30, 2011
Where - The intersection of West Valencia Road and South Wade Road. Take I-10 to I-19 South and exit West Valencia Road to South Wade Road, Tucson, Arizona. See below.
Who - Oath Keepers is calling for all veterans, National Guardsmen, active duty military, current-serving peace officers, firefighters, retired public servants, gun owners, veterans organizations, civic organizations, church groups, student groups, and other patriotic Americans.
Why – To stand with Oath Keepers at a memorial service for Jose Guerena, a war veteran who was killed by law-enforcement gunfire in his home on May 05, 2011. We wish to honor Jose Guerena’s service to this nation and ensure that his death lights the spark which shall lawfully undo present-day policies which militarize our local peace officers and violate our veterans’ and gun owners’ Fourth Amendment rights.
Press contact – Arizona Oath Keepers state chapter President Ray Epps: 480-586-5145. Backup Press contact – Elias Alias – 406-285-6597 * eliasalias@gmail.com
An Empire Strikes Home-Part One
An Empire Strikes Home-Part One
May 16th, 2011
Forenote: This article focuses on the recent killing of a former U.S. Marine veteran of the Iraq war in a military styled raid on his home by the Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff’s Department while allegedly attempting to serve a warrant.
However, there are two other striking stories which relate to this story. The three stories taken together create a yet larger story, and one with very serious implications. I will break the larger story into three sub-sections, parts one through three. I will post two other parts as quickly as I can write each of them. Please check back at this site for the next installments, and do grant yourself permission to read part one in full.
Jose Huerena R.I.P.
On The Militarization Of Local Peace Officers
By Elias Alias, May 16, 2011
Let us examine some articles about a young husband and father, a war veteran with the U.S. Marines who served two tours in Iraq. The articles are about his being killed by the Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff’s Department while the Sheriff’s Department was serving a warrant at the former Marine’s house.
On May 05, 2011 KGUN9 in Tucson, Arizona, reported the following information to its audience:
PCSD ID’s man killed in morning SWAT situation
Posted: May 05, 2011 11:47 AM MDT
Updated: May 06, 2011 11:20 AM MDT
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) – The Pima County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed that a man is dead after a standoff and gun battle with deputies.
Jason Ogan, spokesperson with PCSD tells KGUN9 that 26-year-old Jose Huerena was the suspect killed this morning.
According to Ogan, deputies were serving a warrant at a home near Valenica Road and Wade Road when the standoff started. A woman and a child were also in the home with the suspect at the time the warrant was served. Howeverm [sic] they were able to get out of the house before the SWAT team became involved.
When deputies fianlly entered the home, the Huerena started firing with a long rifle. Deputies fired back, fatally shooting him.
That article is here –
http://www.kgun9.com/story/14580187/tpd-confirms-second-swat-situation-in-two-days
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As I read the above article, I gather that the Pima County Sheriff’s Department was using “deputies” to serve a warrant. At the home of the man for whom the alleged warrant was issued, a man ended up dead after “a standoff and gun battle with deputies”. The “suspect” was, as I read this story, involved in a “standoff”. That means to me that he was barricaded inside his home and keeping the officers outside his house by some means or other, with the most likely implied meaning being his brandishing of a long rifle. We don’t know for sure at this point who “the Huerena” would be, but we figure that is actually Jose Huerena, the suspect for whom the warrant was issued, who fired on the deputies “with a long rifle”. At that point, after the suspect fired on them, they opened fire and killed him.
All in a day’s work, yes?
Before moving to the next news release about this shooting incident, in which fortunately no peace officers were harmed, let us recount that an armed suspect fired on the deputies who were there to serve a warrant, as told to the news journalist by … well, by whom? We must presume that the report came from the Sheriff’s Department for Pima County, right? In fact, the article clearly states that one “Jason Ogan, spokesperson with PCSD” told KGUN9 that Jose Huerena was the suspect who was shot dead, and that deputies were serving a warrant at Huerena’s house when the standoff started.
We’ll bear that in mind.
But later and to our surprise, we’re to read a somewhat different account. Let’s look at the subsequent report:
SWAT Officers kill armed suspect, neighbors shocked
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) – At around 9:45 Thursday morning, people living near Valencia and Ajo Highway heard sounds that they’ve never heard on their street before.
“Gunshots. Boom, boom boom. Screaming!” described a neighbor. “It kind of looks like a scene from Law & Order. To see all of this is just crazy!”
Pima County Sheriff’s deputies told KGUN9 News that the SWAT team showed up at the home to serve a search warrant, although they won’t say the reason for the warrant. Deputies said that when they went down the hallway, they were greeted by Jose Guerena, 26, who was armed with a rifle. Deputies said that he opened fire on the officers which forced them to fire back, killing Guerena. The bulletproof shield that officers were carrying took the brunt of the bullets. They were not hurt.
“We are trained to always be on alert because you never know when a scenario is going to change. We don’t always know what the bad guy is going to do.”said Pima County Deputy, Jason Ogan. “The SWAT team is used deliberately for high risk type warrants, this met that criteria and that’s why the SWAT team served the warrant.”
Ogan said that Guerena’s wife and four year old son were not hurt.
Neighbors who spoke to 9 On Your Side had no idea why the SWAT team was serving a warrant on the house.
“Being out here so close to the border, it could have been anything from drugs to human smuggling,” one neighbor said. He added that the Guerena family was the “quiet family” on the street.
Guerena’s home was eventually searched, but deputies would not disclose what was found.
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Now we see it was not just any old run-of-the-mill Sheriff’s deputies who showed up to serve the warrant, but instead was a highly specialized sort of Sheriff’s deputies – the County Sheriff’s S.W.A.T. team.
So I’ve got a question at this point. Why did Sheriff’s deputy Jason Ogan in the first article we read above say it was “deputies” when in fact it was S.W.A.T. team members? There is a difference. S.W.A.T. is the elite of law enforcement. They are truly militarized, trained hard and intensely in “procedures” and “tactics” as if the American homes they’ll assault are battlegrounds. This mindset is perfected and driven home into their loyal brains by repeated training and indoctrination. It is a mindset which is viewed by the “authorities” to be vital and necessary for good men involved in bad work, such as assaulting the homes of American citizens. They are trained to obey all orders instantly, and to take it up with superiors later if they think they were given a bad order.
Perhaps in his role as “spokesman” for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, Deputy Ogan felt or intuited in his first report of the incident that “deputies” sounded more benign, somehow a bit more acceptable, than just blurting out that the S.W.A.T. team had stormed the house of a citizen and shot him dead.
But it would have been okay, even if he had told the full colorful version of the story, since the suspect had fired on the S.W.A.T. team as they were simply serving a warrant. After all, we do know that law enforcement offices around the nation are given regular profile updates on “extremists” and “lone wolf radicals” and “anti-government” misfits of nefarious ilk. We also know that the Department of Homeland Security has published its opinion that returning veterans from America’s numerous foreign wars are primary objects for extra police scrutiny because they get kinky in their brains sometimes and think they’ve seen something wrong with how the Federal government administers itself upon the American people and especially how it administers itself upon foreign peoples in various countries. This of course would make our returning war vets highly susceptible to radical or extreme views. That, and of course the combat vets know damn well how to use firepower, same as or better than many cops who’ve not been in combat.
So we must ask, did the Pima County Sheriff’s Department pass this kind of government propaganda, which demonizes our war heroes, our veterans of foreign wars who served this nation by placing their lives on the line in combat zones around the world, on to the deputies and the S.W.A.T. unit members of the PCSD? We may never know, because DHS and the Fusion Centers prefer to keep these kinds of profiling of citizens secret. We can know that there are very solid grounds to ask that question, and I do not want that question to be lost in the shuffle of what’s to come later in this article.
In this second article, we learn more details, thanks to not only Deputy Ogan but also to other deputies. We learn that “the SWAT team showed up at the home to serve a search warrant, although they won’t say the reason for the warrant.” Of course everyone knows that the reason, the warrant, is only to be known by those with a need to know, and the public has no need to know, so the Sheriff’s Department hasn’t anything to tell us, in this second report, about the warrant, about just what the warrant accused the dead man. The authorities know, but they had no interest in the public’s knowing the details of a warrant which warranted a freshly dead citizen. But my God, it could have been – DRUGS!
I’m supposing that it’s common practice to go about serving warrants with S.W.A.T. teams in Arizona. That is probably a good thing, at least in this case, for the deputies have told KGUN9 tv news that when they “went down the hallway, they were greeted by Jose Guereno, 26, who was armed with a rifle. Deputies said that he opened fire on the officers which forced them to fire back, killing Guerena. The bulletproof shield that officers were carrying took the brunt of the bullets. They were not hurt.”
My goodness, he might have shot one of them. Thankfully, they had shields which “took the brunt of the bullets”. Note that the deputies stated, or are quoted as saying, that the shields took the brunt of more than one bullet, for they used the word’s plural spelling, “bullets” with an “s”. The “s” is an embellishment, no? It lends yet more to the story. Here is a guy who has a long gun and is suddenly firing not just once but multiple times at the peace officers who had barged into his home.
But that’s okay, in a way, because S.W.A.T. trains for unexpected shifts in “scenarios”. Each new home invasion has its own unique set of circumstances, its own special challenges, its own list of variables which are to be accounted for in planning a S.W.A.T. operation. They call such raids “scenarios”. Here is how Deputy Ogan put it, precisely –
“We are trained to always be on alert because you never know when a scenario is going to change.”
See? They’re trained to see home invasions as “scenarios”. That is because they are specialists and because they have been militarized psychologically. I say that because in the S.W.A.T. team members’ heads, a home invasion is an “operation”. That’s how soldiers see that kind of work. And that is how an increasing number of our local peace officers across the nation are seeing it, because an increasing river of Federal funding continues to grow its way into our Counties, such as Pima County, Arizona.
Along with that funding comes training, courtesy of Federal programs. The local peace officer becomes psychologically cognizant of a more professional approach to law enforcement. He has, through Federal grace and Fusion Centers, a notion of interface with the U.S. military, which also is being schooled and trained to interface with local law enforcement. So it’s obvious that a common perception of a common chain of command with a common set of tactics and training “scenarios” is called for. We are after all in modern times, and all that.
But Deputy Ogan was happy to say plenty to the news journalists. Look at what he said next –
“We don’t always know what the bad guy is going to do”, said Pima County Deputy, Jason Ogan.
And that brings up an interesting point as well. The training S.W.A.T. team members receive seems to paint any citizen who is the object of a warrant-serving scenario is to be automatically seen as “the bad guy”. Pretty simple symbology, that. If there is a warrant, the intended recipient of that warrant must be “the bad guy”. Case closed, no judge and jury required. Were it not so, the system would not send a S.W.A.T. team to serve the warrant, right? Of course. Deputy Ogan spells that out for us too, in his following sentence –
“The SWAT team is used deliberately for high risk type warrants, this met that criteria and that’s why the SWAT team served the warrant.”
So we may deduce that a criteria was studied and the suspect was considered to be a “high risk type”. That does cause me to wonder how the warrant named his crime, and I wish the Sheriff would elucidate on the particulars of how this was viewed to be a “high risk type warrant”.
There is a reason why I wonder such things. It has to do with this –
http://www.kgun9.com/story/14602951/swat-team-fatal
From there –
SWAT team fatal shooting update: Suspect did not fire weapon
Posted: May 09, 2011 5:12 PM MDT Updated: May 09, 2011 5:13 PM MDT
Reporter: Jessica Chapin
TUCSON (KGUN9- TV) - The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is releasing new information in the May 5 officer involved shooting case that resulted in 26-year-old Jose Guerona’s death.
Further investigation reveals Guerena did not shoot at the deputies before they returned fire.
The SWAT Team shot and killed Guerena Thursday morning after he pointed an assault rifle at officers who were trying to deliver a warrant. The rifle had the safety on, but was loaded.
Guerena’s wife and 4-year-old son were also at home but they were not injured.
The sheriff’s department is still investigating.
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Well damn.
That sorta changes things, we reckon.
Let’s be clear, regarding one sentence above – one cannot “return fire” when one has not been fired upon. The truth here could be that Guerena was first officially said to have fired “bullets” at the S.W.A.T. deputies, now we’re told that he did not fire a shot.
We were told by the Sheriff’s Department that the S.W.A.T. shields deflected the shots so that no deputy was injured. Remember that? Now we’re told by that same Sheriff’s Department that the man did not fire a single round at the S.W.A.T. team. What can we make of that?
I imagine it’s just the fog of war. Another militarization of the local peace officer – when one screws up, one obfuscates, just like Deputy Ogan has done, on the record no less. A good question at this point would be from whom Deputy Ogan got his story’s details. Did he just make up those lies himself, or did someone tell him what the story would be? Caught in a total self-contradiction in the news media, on the record, is an automatic waiver of any immunity, especially when a citizen’s death hangs in the balance. Killing a U.S. Marine veteran and lying about it is a grave situation.
There is more.
Here is another revelation:
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_d7d979d4-f4fb-5603-af76-0bef206f8301.html
SWAT team fired 71 shots in raid
Fernanda Echavarri Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:00 am
From the article –
The Pima County Regional SWAT team fired 71 shots in seven seconds at a Tucson man they say pointed a gun at officers serving a search warrant at his home.
Jose Guerena, 26, a former Marine who served in Iraq twice, was holding an AR-15 rifle when he was killed, but he never fired a shot, the Sheriff’s Department said Monday after initially saying he had fired on officers during last week’s raid. (snip)
Now let’s look at this story from the perspective of the widow. Continuing from story linked above.
Vanessa Guerena says she heard noise outside their home about 9 a.m. Thursday and woke her husband who had just gone to bed after working a 12-hour shift at the Asarco Mine, she said. There were no sirens or shouts of “police,” she said.
Guerena told his wife and son to hide inside a closet and he grabbed the AR-15 rifle, his wife said.
The department says SWAT members were clear when identifying themselves while entering the home.
“Tucson is notorious for home invasions and we didn’t want to look like that,” said Lt. Michael O’Connor of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. “We went lights and sirens and we absolutely did not do a ‘no-knock’ warrant.”
When five SWAT members broke through the front door Guerena was crouched down pointing the gun at them, said O’Connor.
“The suspect said, ‘I’ve got something for you,’ when he saw them,” O’Connor said. Guerena’s wife denied he said that.
Deputies began shooting.
A deputy’s bullet struck the side of the doorway, causing chips of wood to fall on his shield. That prompted some members of the team to think the deputy had been shot, O’Connor said.
The Sheriff’s Department put in a call to Drexel Heights fire at 9:43 a.m. requesting assistance with a shooting. But crews were told to hold off.
Guerena was dead by the time they were allowed in the house, fire officials said.
Vanessa Guerena vividly remembers seeing her wounded husband.
“When I came out the officers dragged me through the kitchen and took me outside, and that’s when I saw him laying there gasping for air,” Vanessa Guerena said. “I kept begging the officers to call an ambulance that maybe he could make it and that my baby was still inside.”
The little boy soon after walked out of the closet on his own. SWAT members took him outside to be with his mother.
“I never imagined I would lose him like that, he was badly injured but I never thought he could be killed by police after he served his country,” Vanessa Guerena said.
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Here is more -
http://www.kgun9.com/story/14621212/marine-killed-by-swat-was-acting-in-defense-says-family
From that link:
Former Marine killed by SWAT was acting in defense, family says
Posted: May 10, 2011 7:14 PM MDT Updated: May 13, 2011 5:40 PM MDT
Reporter: Joel Waldman
Web Producer: Layla Tang
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - New details are emerging about Jose Guerena, the man killed last Thursday in a SWAT incident at his Tucson home. He was gunned down by SWAT members while his wife and young child hid in a closet.
Now, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department has taken responsibility for the fatal shooting. The SWAT team said it was just executing a narcotics search warrant when Guerena threatened officers with a military rifle. But the Sheriff’s Department has changed its story on whether Guerena actually fired at anyone.
On Tuesday, candles and tributes to Guerena could be seen outside his home. Family members said the 26-year-old former Marine served two tours of duty in Iraq. A smashed window and a barrage of bullet holes might be the type of scene a battle-hardened Marine would find in a war zone but not the Tucson home he shared with his two children and wife. Guerena’s wife, Vanessa, said her husband died thinking he was protecting his family from an invasion.
“I saw this guy pointing me at the window. So, I got scared. And, I got like, ‘Please don’t shoot, I have a baby.’ I put my baby (down). (And I) put bag in window. And, I yell ‘Jose! Jose! Wake up!’” she explained.
Jose had just come home from working at the mine. Vanessa said he had fallen asleep two hours before, only to wake up to chaos in his house. It was Pima County SWAT executing a narcotics conspiracy search warrant, but according to her, neither she nor her husband knew it was the authorities until it was too late.
“You’re saying only (they) yelled SWAT after the shootout?” asked KGUN9 reporter Joel Waldman.
“Oh, yes! Yes,” said Guerena.
[Elias note: Let’s break in this story right here long enough to note something significant. The wife of the dead Marine veteran is saying that the invading S.W.A.T. deputies did not yell their identity until after the shooting began. So this aspect of the case is in contest. That is not good for the Sheriff’s Department, because the Sheriff’s Department has already demonstrated that it will state false information as if it were truth. The Sheriff’s Department is the only side of this argument which has already established itself as being capable of lying. Thus far, Mrs. Huerena has not had to retract any of her statements, while the Sheriff’s Department has.]
(continuing from article) Vanessa said Jose grabbed a gun to protect himself from what he thought were home invaders.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Office denies that officers failed to identify themselves. Lt. Michael O’Connor told KGUN9’s Joel Waldman that the SWAT team has a standard procedure when serving high-risk search warrants of this nature designed to prevent the suspect from confusing officers with criminal home invaders. “We will have a lot police vehicles there, with their lights and their sirens on. In this case… because it was a narcotics high risk type of a search warrant, we had our large armored vehicle there with the markings on it. It also has lights and sirens, it was going. So we do everything we can to portray the image that we are law enforcement, we are not home invaders.”
O’Connor also said emphatically that this was not a “no knock” raid. “This case was, we came in very high profile, lights and sirens. We go to the door, we pound on the door. We wait approximately 15 seconds. If no one answers the door, we breach the door with a heavy tool and open the door.”
The officer said that when the SWAT team got the door open, they found Guerena crouched in the hall pointing an assault rifle at them. According to O’Connor, Guerena said, “”I have something for you!” He said that Guerena “brought this all on himself by presenting himself the way he did.”
Guerena’s relatives disagree. “Now, they’re saying this now that they admitted for him not shooting back (SIC). They want to throw more dirt on him,” said cousin Oscar Garcia.
Garcia is referring to the issue [ of ] the change [ in the ] story about whether Guerena fired his gun. Initially investigators reported that he had, but then later, they corrected that statement and said that Guerena had not gotten off a shot. Deputies confirmed that Guerena’s safety was still on when his gun was recovered. Also, officials said that reports that some SWAT officers’ shields were riddled with bullets are also untrue. (snip)
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Additional reading:
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_b3177522-baa0-5c9e-9f0d-d3d7da6e9e4b.html
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What can we say about all of this? I think, personally, that someone somewhere might see good cause to establish a fund for Mrs. Huerena’s two children, who now have been deprived of a father by the government.
We have learned, if we are to believe everything we read, that Mr. Huerena’s warrant was related to “conspiracy” and to “narcotics”. We wonder if the people will be able to see that warrant. We wonder if the others supposedly involved in that conspiracy will be named. We wonder if they will be giving statements, whether coerced or volunteered. We wonder how many years it shall take the S.W.A.T. team members to mature in their personal wisdom, each of them who pulled a trigger in this home invasion, enough to realize that the war on drugs is not lawful and cannot be justified in the U.S. Constitution, and that what they did the day they killed this young father, young husband, young new-home owner, young war veteran, they violated something very sacred, something which is supposed to be protected by our women and men who wear the uniforms, badges, and guns of law enforcement.
Their training produces a mind-set which is so intense, so reinforced, so strongly structured that some of them may never become human again. Perhaps a few will sober up in later years, come down from their perpetual adrenalin high, and realize that they were duped into being strong-arms for a corrupt government program which is working to destroy the U.S. Constitution which they swore to uphold and protect.
While this incident is very damning, we must recall that this incident is but a tiny fraction of the great number of S.W.A.T. team mis-applications in this nation. Innocent citizens have been brutalized, tormented, and even shot to death by government agents acting like storm troopers in the so-called war on drugs. And I’m guessing that hardly a one of the guys with the guns who are conducting such assaults ever looks into the Constitutionality of this kind of thing. I’m guessing that they will be old men and women before they realize that in enforcing anti-drug laws they are assisting the government in its claim to own the citizen.
How can I say that? Easy. A free American citizen has full Constitutional rights, including an unalienable right to complete ownership of one’s body and one’s mind. It has to be that way, and the government has to admit it ultimately, because it is written into our nation’s founding legal documents. It is amplified in the letters and writings of this nation’s founders. It is enshrined in numerous Supreme Court rulings. And it is simple common sense. If government can own one’s body, one is not free. This nation’s government declares incessantly that Americans are “free”. To be free, one must accept full ownership of, and responsibility for, one’s body and one’s mind.
When government would tell anyone what one may or may not put into one’s body, government has at that point exceeded its authority and violated its own founding legal charter and nullified the compact between the several sovereign States of the compact. There is no authority for the government to own anyone’s body, nor to dictate what one may or may not ingest into one’s body. Self ownership is an unalienable right. Government is wrong about the war on drugs.
And that is where we should close part one of this article. There is another very interesting story just out, and that story involves the same scenario – a police raid on a citizen’s home and whether or not the home owner has lawful right to defend himself against an unlawful assault by law enforcement. Seems the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that the cops can do as they wish, make any mistake on a warrant or an address, and the home-owner is liable if he tries to defend his home against an unlawful attack by the cops. I will post Part Two shortly.
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Terry Lakin Homecoming Event: May 14, 10:30 am
Lt. Col. Terry Lakin
Terry Lakin Homecoming Event: May 14, 10:30 am
Many of You Asked To Welcome Terry Home so Let’s Welcome Him Home with a Big Crowd!
Terry will be returning to Baltimore on May 14, 2011, at around 10:30am. We would like to have a couple of hundred people on hand to greet him and welcome him home.
Here are details:
- DO THIS FIRST: We request that you pre-register your attendance. Why? We need approximate counts for the BWI security teams and we need to be able to communicate with you via email and/or text if there are any changes. (Note that will only provide counts, not names). CLICK HERE TO REGISTER:
- We will meet in the Southwest Airlines Baggage Claim area at about 10:15 am on Saturday, May 14. The precise final location will be posted about 48 hours prior. NOTE: It is important that you DO NOT go up to where the arriving passengers enter the terminal. They want that area clear.
- Baltimore Washington Airport has ample, affordable parking. Follow this link for general parking information: http://www.bwiairport.com/en/parking/information-rates. We suggest you just use the Hourly Garage because of its proximity to the airport terminal.
- There are no less than about 20 hotels within a mile or so of the aiport. Follow this link for a list of the hotels: http://www.visitannapolis.org/groups/facilities/bwi-hotel-district/index.aspx
What to Prepare:
All we ask you to do is bring a home-made poster that says, “Welcome Home Terry.” or “Thank You Terry” or any appropriate messages about the issue. Bring a small US flag if you have one.
What will Happen:
You will all gather in the baggage claim area around 10am on Saturday, May 14, 2011. Representatives will be there to answer questions and guide you to the correct location. We will text the coordinators when we deplane so you can all get ready to greet Terry as he descends on the escalator to baggage claim. We need a big hurray and lots of applause (of course). He may say a few words. Then we’ll get him to his luggage, to his car, and home.
We can tell you he was quite encouraged that so many wanted to welcome him home so now is the time to step up and register.
This Brave Soldier is in Prison. Do you know why?
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This Decorated Lieutenant Colonel simply asked for confirmation that his commander in chief is eligible to be president. Instead he received a court martial with no defense allowed and six months in prison.
Why Terry’s Case is Important
Terry’s case brought and has kept the presidential eligibility issues in the front of the public and press. From his first video that started his story, and his second video describing the unusual circumstances of being denied all discovery and access to witnesses, his case has become part of every discussion of this issue. He was derided on CNN, covered by every major paper and media outlet, and even brought the issue to late night TV comedy.
Terry has been criticized by some for his actions. They state plainly that he disobeyed orders and should simply accept the results. They believe that his pursuit of confirmation of eligibility should have been unrelated to his service. The facts of his case are plain. He did disobey and was fully cognizant of the potential results. However, after exhausting all possible means of resolving this through existing army procedures, he felt he had no choice but to bring this case to public.
Please read his letters from prison to hear it in his own words.
His resolve has not changed. He still believes the issue is critical to the strength and authority of our Constitution. Terry contributed greatly to the visibility of this issue and will continue to do so. He has sacrificed everything he’s worked for. He has given up his liberty, his income, and his retirement. His future is uncertain. He did this because he believes that the truth and Constitution matter. His stand has motivated others to launch numerous efforts and is bringing the issue to state after state as actions are taken to ensure that eligibility for any office will never be an issue in the future.
It is now official. Neither Pili nor Terry will receive any income from his position in the Army. This means that beginning in February Pili is dependent on the Trust for her expenses, medical expenses, and legal fees.
What will the family need? We are estimating the will need $500,000 to cover lost income, medical insurance, and acrue funds for civilian legal fees for a potential appeal (that may last more than three years). In addition it includes money to help Terry get back on track after his scheduled release in June. His future employment status is uncertain at this time.
Can Terry and Pili count on your generous support today with a single gift or monthly commitment?
Then call your state and federal officials and ask them to pass laws that require confirmation of eligibility for any elected office.
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Contacting Terry
Through May 4, 2011 please continue to send mail directly to the prison.
It takes 5-6 days for a letter to move through the system at the prison. So do not mail any letters to the prison after May 4, 2001. Use the PO Box listed below for May 5 and beyond.
If you want to contact Terry via mail please follow these guidelines carefully:
- Do not use rank or title. Only first name, last name, and registration number (see below).
- We can send him letters, greeting cards and post office money orders but nothing else.
- Do not mail personal checks.
- Do not send stamps or cash. It will not be delivered to him.
- Do NOT send any packages, food, magazines, etc. of your own.
- You can have books sent directly from a publisher or distributor.
Send your mail to:
Terrence Lakin #89996
830 Sabalu Road
Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027
May 5, 2011 and beyond please send mail to the PO box listed below.
Letters, packages, etc. will forwarded to Terry as they arrive.
LTC and Mrs. Terry Lakin
Terry Lakin Action Fund
PO Box 1116
Bel Air, MD 21014
Terry’s Case: Is Affirmed
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Wake for a Native American Marine Warrior
No words are necessary. Look, read and cry a bit, then thank the Lord for all our troops. This is a wonderful tribute to a fallen warrior. I’m so impressed with the way American Indians honor our troops. This is the way we should always honor our fighting men and women. We all could learn something from our Indian brothers and sisters.
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Native Americans and the U.S. Military
A Long Tradition Of Participation
American Indians have participated with distinction in United States military actions for more than 200 years. Their courage, determination, and fighting spirit were recognized by American military leaders as early as the 18th century.
I think they [Indians] can be made of excellent use, as scouts and light troops. –Gen. George Washington, 1778
Many tribes were involved in the War of 1812, and Indians fought for both sides as auxiliary troops in the Civil War. Scouting the enemy was recognized as a particular skill of the Native American soldier. In 1866, the U.S. Army established its Indian Scouts to exploit this aptitude. The Scouts were active in the American West in the late 1800s and early 1900s, accompanying Gen. John J. Pershing’s expedition to Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa in 1916. They were deactivated in 1947 when their last member retired from the Army in ceremonies at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. Native Americans from Indian Territory were also recruited by Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and saw action in Cuba in the Spanish-American War in 1898. As the military entered the 20th century, American Indians had already made a substantial contribution through military service and were on the brink of playing an even larger role.
Contributions In Combat
It is estimated that more than 12,000 American Indians served in the United States military in World War I. Approximately 600 Oklahoma Indians, mostly Chotaw and Cherokee, were assigned to the 142nd Infantry of the 36th Texas-Oklahoma National Guard Division. The 142nd saw action in France and its soldiers were widely recognized for their contributions in battle. Four men from this unit were awarded the Croix de Guerre, while others received the Church War Cross for gallantry.
Native Americans As Warriors
As the 20th century comes to a close, there are nearly 190,00 Native American military veterans. It is well recognized that, historically, Native Americans have the highest record of service per capita when compared to other ethnic groups. The reasons behind this disproportionate contribution are complex and deeply rooted in traditional American Indian culture. In many respects, Native Americans are no different from others who volunteer for military service. They do, however, have distinctive cultural values which drive them to serve their country. One such value is their proud warrior tradition.
Strength
To be an American Indian warrior is to have physical, mental, and spiritual strength. A warrior must be prepared to overpower the enemy and face death head-on.
American Indian soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen have fought heroically in all of this century’s wars and armed conflicts. They have not only been formally recognized for their bravery through military decoration but through anecdotal observation as well.
Honor, Pride, Devotion
Warriors are honored – honored by their family and their tribe. Before going into service and upon their return, warriors are recognized by family and community. Recognition takes place through private family gatherings, or through such public ceremonies as tribal dances or intertribal ceremonies.
Being a warrior in traditional American Indian society gives one a sense of pride and a sense of accomplishment at a time in life when self-esteem is just developing. Becoming a warrior brings status to young men and women in their culture. The ceremonies that honor the warrior create a special place in the tribe’s spiritual world.
Wisdom
The warrior seeks wisdom. Wisdom, as used in this context, means the sum total of formal learning and worldly experiences. In wartime, those Native Americans seeing heavy combat had to learn how to survive, often using skills that may unit commanders thought were inherent to the American Indian’s cultural background. A Sac and Fox/Creek Korean veteran remarked:
My platoon commander always sent me out on patrols. He. . . probably thought that I could track down the enemy. I don’t know for sure, but I guess he figured that Indians were warriors and hunters by nature.
There was a camaraderie [in the Air Force] that transcends ethnicity when you serve your country overseas in wartime. –Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Cheyenne Korean veteran
Thanks to my military service [in the Navy], I now have friends in 500 tribes. –Lakota Korean veteran
The Warrior Tradition Carries On
The requirements for successful military service — strength, bravery, pride, and wisdom – match those of the Indian warrior. Military service affords an outlet for combat that fulfills a culturally determined role for the warrior. Therefore, the military is an opportunity for cultural self-fulfillment. By sending young tribal members off to be warriors, they return with experiences that make them valued members of their society.
* American Indian Medal of Honor Recipients
* Photo Section Images
* Indians in the War [World War II]
* Navajo Code Talkers in World War II: A Bibliography
* Navajo Code Talker Fact Sheet
* Navajo Code Talker Dictionary
* Reminiscences of Seattle…Sloop of War Decatur During the Indian War of 1855-56
Cpl. Henry Bake, Jr., and Pfc. George H. Kirk, Navajo code talkers, operate a portable radio set on Bougainville. Official U.S. Marine Corps Photo. See page25.
Three Indian girls in the Women’s Reserve of the U.S. Marine Corps: Left to right, Minnie Spotted Wolf,, Montana; Celia Mix, Potawatomi, Michigan; and Viola Eastman, Chippewa-Sioux, Minnesota. Official U.S. Marine Corps photograph.
Crucible of a Hero, Lt. Col. Terry Lakin
LTC Lakin faces lengthy prison term for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan
Crucible of a Hero, Lt. Col. Terry Lakin
When Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, M.D. walks out of the chamber where he has faced a court-martial this week, he will emerge — regardless of the verdict — a towering American hero.
”Nothing like the stupendous display which he has mounted — of principled, sustained self-sacrifice and fearless defiance — has been seen in decades on the American political stage. Together with the peril of actual battlefield engagement, it ranks alongside the greatest courageous stances even of the American Revolution itself. Patrick Henry, Nathan Hale — those kinds of stances.”
For historical background and the underpinnings, foundations, and history of this case, see Lt. Col. Lakin himself and Thomas Lifson, both in April 2010; see also www.safeguardourconstitution.com.
”Terry Lakin is putting at risk his own life, his own fortune, and his own sacred honor. He has invited his own court-martial, scorn, possible conviction, and disapprobation; loss of rank, position, and pension; loss of the future; danger to family and impoverishment; and possible hard jail time at Leavenworth. All this for the exalted goal of fealty to a Constitution his every step of the way towards protecting which is blocked by the government that administered the oath he took, and which oath he must contravene only to be able to honor it in the extreme. The greatness of battlefield valor stands elsewhere; this is bravery of another order.”
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Posted by: JQAdams
Dec 15, 02:37 AM
”He has, in the early stages of his trial, been denied discovery, and the presentation of witnesses, evidence, or argument in defense of his position.”
Posted by: Tav
Dec 15, 02:51 AM
”To my mind moral courage often takes more bravery than physical courage. In a battlefield engagement there is really no changing ones mind – too late now – kill or be killed – good luck – and the adrenaline is on overdrive. Moral courage has to be calmer and much more sustained and fear of prolonged scorn and shunning by ones fellows can be much more frighting than a bullet. Where are LTC Lakin’s fellow officers in the U.S. Army who also took an oath to protect and defend the United States Constitution, not an oath to any President? Why are they not speaking up at least for his right to confirm that the man who is now sitting in the Oval Offices is constitutionally giving orders so it can be known that his orders are legal and that they are therefor following legal orders? That his orders are legal can only be demonstrated by a full form legitimate Birth Certificate, not one held in great secrecy. His fellow U.S. Army officers may or may not have physical courage, but those with moral courage seem to be MIA. Maybe it’s time to go back to the draft. If it ever does come out, if the Veil of Secrecy is blown aside, even many years from now, that Barack Hussein Obama is not a Natural Born Citizen, all these other officers are going to look very dishonorable and very guilty of Dereliction of Duty. “In times of change, the Patriot is a scarce man; brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.-(Mark Twain)”
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O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
LYRICS of the Fourth Verse
Sung by former Marine Lewis
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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