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Biker Breastaurant Shootout Arrests Threaten To Blow Hole In County Budget
On Thursday evening we outlined what we called the “pension ponzi”, whereby state and local governments resort to the issuance of pension obligation bonds to plug underfunded pension liabilities. The idea is to arbitrage the spread between coupon payments and what the pension funds can presumably expect to make by investing the proceeds from the bond issue. Here’s a refresher:
Much like transferring a balance on a high interest credit card onto a new card with a teaser rate, this gimmick only works if you do not max out the original card again, because if you do, all you've done is doubled your debt burden. As it relates to pension liabilities, this means that what you absolutely cannot do is use the cash infusion as an excuse to get lax when it comes to pension funding because after all, that's what caused the problem in the first place.
Aside from the rather obvious fact that borrowing huge sums of money to paper over problems has a tendency to promote the very same type of irresponsible behavior that got the borrower into trouble in the first place thus setting the stage for a scenario that ends up being twice as bad as it was initially, there's also the fact that, as documented in these pages extensively, investment return assumptions for public pension plans are often at odds with reality. That is, projecting a 7% return in a world governed by ZIRP and NIRP means that in the best case scenario you are being absurdly optimistic and in a worst case scenario you're likely taking greater risks in an effort to maximize returns.
The reason why officials are resorting to pension obligation bonds is that state and local governments in the US are finding themselves mired in fiscal crises, some of which are the result of poor policy decisions and others stem primarily from exogenous factors such as slumping oil prices. Compounding the problem was an Illinois Supreme Court decision which struck down a pension reform bid. That effectively set a legal precedent and left states and municipalities with fewer options when it comes to closing funding gaps.
We’ve covered all of this extensively and we thought we had likely seen it all when it comes to excuses for state and local budget gaps but in fact we have discovered yet another way for local governments to find themselves fiscally challenged: “true biker shootouts.”
The now infamous biker breastaurant shootout that unfolded two Sundays ago in the parking lot of a Waco, Texas Twin Peaks Sports Bar And Grill led to the arrest of more than 170 bikers and as you might imagine, that type of influx into the prison and legal system doesn’t come cheap. Here’s The Waco Tribune-Herald with more:
As lawyers threaten civil rights lawsuits, seek bond reductions and clamor that their biker clients have done nothing wrong, McLennan County is spending $7,958 a day to house those jailed in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout.
According to county records, 173 of the 175 people who were arrested in the wake of the deadly brawl, which left nine dead and 18 wounded, remain jailed. Two bonded out with ankle monitors.
The mass arrests are presenting unprecedented challenges to the county’s criminal justice system and have McLennan County officials keeping a close eye on the potential devastating budgetary fallout from the incident. A week and a half after the shooting, the county has spent upward of $80,000 just to house the inmates.
“We’ve never had an issue of this magnitude, but another thing is all the other business here at the courthouse is still going on,” said 19th State District Judge Ralph Strother, the county’s senior judge who presides over one of McLennan County’s two primary felony courts.
It's not just the cost of jailing the bikers that's taking a toll, but the cost of litigation as at least 63 bikers have requested court-appointed attorneys:
Cathy Edwards, the county’s indigent defense coordinator, said of the 175 bikers at the county jail she interviewed, 63 have requested court-appointed attorneys. Edwards said she appointed 14 attorneys Wednesday to represent the bikers, including attorneys from Waco, Corsicana, Temple and Copperas Cove...
Court-appointed defense attorneys are paid $750 for a guilty plea in a first-degree felony case, $500 for a second-degree felony and $400 for third-degree and state jail felonies. They are paid the same fee if cases are dismissed.
If they itemize their time and prefer to be paid hourly, they are paid $75 for out-of-court preparation and $80 an hour while in court.
With the influx of new cases, county officials are keeping a close eye on how the cases are affecting budgets.
And although officials believe the current budget can withstand the pressure, country commissioner Ben Perry admits that "adjustments" may be necessary:
Stan Chambers, the McLennan County auditor, said if many of the bikers are released in coming days or weeks, the current county budget should be sufficient to handle the increased costs
“The commissioners court obviously has to support the decisions that law enforcement and the district attorney’s office make, and any adjustments that need to be made to the budget, we will do so," Perry said.
So, in a hilariously absurd twist of fiscal fate, we can now add "incarcerated bikers" to the list of things which are imperiling state and local government finances in America.
It should also be noted that this serves to validate an important point we made earlier this month. Namely, that when it comes to true biker shootouts, accurately assessing the fallout ahead of time is virtually impossible.
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Isn't there a FEMA camp in which they can house them?
WalMArt down one block, take a left, go past the barricaded enter sign, around behind the concertina wire and stop at the armed guard checkpoint.
Sounds like the voice of experience;)
Wondering:
"... When the restaurant refused to ban the Confederation of Clubs, police stationed at least 22 cops including ten Swat officers from the Waco P.D. and the Texas Department of Public Safety in the parking lot outside the restaurant. They did not station either uniformed or plain clothes officers in the restaurant.
The shove in the bathroom became a scuffle in the restaurant. When about 30 Bandidos, Cossacks, Scimitars and other bikers spilled into the parking between the Twin peaks and the Don Carlos Mexican restaurant next door, the police were waiting for them. The scuffle became a knife fight and several men were stabbed. When one of the combatants produced a gun the Swat team opened fire with automatic weapons. Multiple sources have told The Aging Rebel that all of the dead were killed by police. ..."
https://saboteur365.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/the-waco-police-massacre-did-the-police-just-legally-murder-nine-bikers/
Thanks for that. There is a surprising lack of information from the police side.
Seems unlikely that more than a handful of charges could stick.
I stand with Elizabeth Warren and progressive leaders in Congress in support of the resolution for debt-free incarceration of all restaurant patrons so that counties can move ahead with the important business of serving the populace
yeah, ..serving the populace to whom?
Jack boots shouldn't have started a fucking slaughter if they weren't prepared for the results.
pods
Was the Waco TX biker massacre perpetrated by the ATF?
....or was it just complete fiction? Yet another green screen production?
A penny for your thoughts:
http://i.imgur.com/jepvue8.jpg
'Seems unlikely that more than a handful of charges could stick.'
on cops or bikers?
looks suspiciously like provocateur and ambush work from Ranger days past
There was one "cop" holding an AR that looked EXACTLY like a biker. Been inside for a long time.
No doubt he started it in the bathrooom.
His friggin codename was "Pisson Boots."
Come on, everyone knows when you are at the urinal you ONLY turn your head when you talk to your neighbor.
Sheesh.
pods
Or maybe it's just another psy-op....
http://i.imgur.com/jepvue8.jpg
Was it a setup to murder 9 bikers or was it another Sandy Hook and Boston.
How many people at the Breastaurant and shopping centers plus bikers. Hundreds? Probably.
How many have cell phones? The majority.
Waitresses with a fake rack who probably do a selfie every hour.
Not one video of the shootout. Zero zip none.
How is that possible? No one filmed it on their phone?
And what happened to the 18 wounded who went to the hospital and were (seemingly) never heard from or about again?
They never existed in the first place....because the "true biker shootout" was a complete falsehood.
http://i.imgur.com/jepvue8.jpg
Once someone sends this article to the bikers and someone takes the time to read and explain it to them, I expect they ALL will be requesting free counsel.
OK, if it's a Breastaurant,
why aren't they on the menu?
Didn't the bikers just yell, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot?".
If I had a son, he'd probably look like those nice boys in leather and chains with brass knuckles.
Ministry of Love.
"Biker Breastaurant Brawl Breaks Bursar's Budget - film at 11"
Speaking of films, it looks as if many of the bikers in this particular gang were actually cousins of well known actors. Spooky.
http://i.imgur.com/jepvue8.jpg
Better release some illegals to free up some resources.
Also, is there any more clarity on who actually did the shooting? Seems like only bikers took bullets and the popo seem to have come out unscathed.
Welcome to Peak Incarceration...
We free counseled some folks.
We Twin Peeked some folks.
"We falsely imprisoned some folks".
They think it's expensive now, wait til they lose all the lawsuits for jailing, and setting $million bond on people with NO crime history, for eating at a restaurant, when a fight broke out...
You have not been paying attention. The bikers have been labeled, the public buys it, they had already reviewed which judges would be used - it is rigged. They people either believe the 911 official story or no longer care.
And who is going to tell the story. Like 911 it appears all private security footage has been confiscated, any credible witness will likely meet a violent death shortly before due to give testimony (or even while walking to the deposition).
See how easily it was done? If you are part of an organized group and you notice the group is getting persistently labled by LE with the help of MSM, then you need to be careful. Some bikers engage in criminal activity and violence (mostly against each other) so they were an easy beginning.
In the future any prominent group advocating walking around armed (open carry) needs to be wary when they start being labeled. One insider cop during an organized march (or more likely an organized get together on an outside patio) is all it would take to justify your turkey shoot with you being the turkey. And it will be much more than 9 killed. Of course your best defense is not the arms but TV cameras and obvious video cameras filming that cannot be taken control of easily.
"Like 911 it appears all private security footage has been confiscated, any credible witness will likely meet a violent death shortly before due to give testimony (or even while walking to the deposition)."
Actually, UNLIKE 9/11, it appears to have been completely staged. A work of fiction in its entirety.
http://i.imgur.com/jepvue8.jpg
"Welcome to Peak Incarceration..."
Text of the 13th. amendment to the Constitution:
"Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
The political crimes of drugs, DUI, etc., are for feeding the gulags with slave labor, just as the Soviet's and Nazi's were.
Always about money and power, and division..
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
As for the Nazis. The SS was a PRIVATE security arm of the Nazi party. They owned and ran the Nazi's labor camps for the profitable benefit of the party and party-crats.
Together with the ReadyReserve that is tucked away in Obamacare, and the indefinite detention provision tucked away in NDAA 2012, the DC US' FEMA camps will be a humming hive of production, just as their Soviet and Nazi counterparts were.
The court appointed attornies are incentivized to deliver a guilty plea. Justice, American style.
You noticed that, too, eh?
Better pay for poorer defenses.
Rigged to send folks to prison. Why would I not be surprised to find a separate fee schedule that pays more for black convictions than whites, etc.?
Wouldn't be much of a crimnal justice system unless you had prisons to hold as many people as possible.
Oh, that Build it and they shall come phenomenon. Yeah, now I get it.....
Did you also notice the unusually large number of celebrity look-alikes among the "arrested" "bikers"?
http://i.imgur.com/jepvue8.jpg
there is discussion in the lawyer circles that the county will be pursuing forfeiture against the motorcycles.
This is how they will pay for the jailings and court appointed lawyers.
Here's a good article from the Waco Tribune about Twin Peaks asset forfeiture.
Waco defense attorney Robert Callahan is quoted as saying:
“I’ve been racking my mind to think, even nationally, when there have been that many arrests in a case,” he said. “Whenever you hear of a broad, sweeping arrest, it usually has to do with … mob organizations and federal prosecutions. I don’t know if even in Al Capone’s day we ever got up to 172.”
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/twin-peaks-biker-shooting/vehicle-forfeitur...
To offset that cost why don't you let out a few of those poor suckers you incarcerated for barely-over-the-limit DUIs where nobody was hurt and no property was damaged? Maybe some of those who were popped for possession of small amounts of drugs but otherwise did nothing wrong?
Oh, sorry, those all carry madatory sentances. Well, you can always let out murderers and child molesters instead. No mandatory sentances there.
Hell, they're letting the murderers and child molesters into the country let alone out of jail, "instead".
Humming God Bless America
Whenever you read a news story down here about some dude boinking a kid, it is ALWAYS a Mexican.
Or a boy scout leader.
Lookie lookie, here's today's installment:
http://www.wral.com/raleigh-man-charged-with-repeated-rape-of-teen/14677...
pods
What about DENNIS HASTERT? White, Republican, from Illinios, former wrestling coach, and former USA House of Representatives Speaker? Indicted for possibly paying $3.5-million blackmail to someone born in the town in which he was wrestling coach?
That might not mean that those are the only people doing it.
It might mean that those are the only people the newspaper PRINTS STORIES ABOUT who are doing it.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Kept-Secret-Sexual-Children/dp/0070542236/ref=sr_1_37?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432993592&sr=1-37&keywords=best-kept+secret
The Best Kept Secret, by Florence Rush
Shout it with me:
NO HARM, NO CRIME!
NO HARM, NO CRIME!
NO HARM, NO CRIME!
Exactly why the best revolution is to clog the system and use up all its reserves !!!!!
I have an idea for you. Why don't you let out all of the people that are in prison for bullshit offenses like pocession of a bit of weed, or being a hooker.
That would free up the space for the "folks" who need to be put in a box. Might even have some space for banksters and then you could stop making the share holders pay for the executives criminality. I will not be holding my breath for that to happen.
Breathe freely my friend, for that IS exactly what they're doing. Letting the pot smokers and hookers out to make room for the people who need to be put in a box. Like you and me, for instance.
Cops started it. Let some of them go.....
Biker Breastaurant Shootout Arrests = Keynesian stimulus. It's all good.
So now biker gangs are doing the Cloward-Piven tango? Heck, we let violent criminals go due to lack of jail space. We don't even try to confine all the illegal invaders coming across our southern border.
I've heard so many conflicting reports about what actually occurred that I doubt anyone will ever sort the truth from the speculation. I say they should be treated just like the rioters in Baltimore: let them go and suggest that they never come back. This country is totally FUBAR. Anybody know how I can get to Mayberry RFD and try to regenerate my sanity?
Damn! I told Andy it was a Bad Idea to leave Barney in charge...
"I've heard so many conflicting reports about what actually occurred that I doubt anyone will ever sort the truth from the speculation."
See if this helps to clarify anything:
http://i.imgur.com/jepvue8.jpg
Lookie here, little Douchebag....
You posted that stupid link 8 times already. I not gonna click on it again to see if it got more stupid since the first time I was stupid enough to click on it.
Talk about sleepwalking.
The STATE just killed nine people, and YOU along with about 97% of the rest of the brain-dead fucks that live out there in these United States can only make a joke about it, or say 'Well...they was prolly crininals anyways...fuck 'em!"
About 15 minutes ago, I just read that the STATE just sentenced a man to Life in PRISON
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-29/ross-ulbricht-founder-bitcoin-bazaar-silk-road-sentenced-life-jail
...most likely because he operated the most free market enterprise on the planet. In ten years time, Silk Road could/would have BEEN an Economy all to itself.
Those StatistWhores that run this world ...well, they just couldn't have that, could they?
Stop being the basement dwelling tranny pervin jack-off you were programed to be, and WAKE the FUCK UP!
"You posted that stupid link 8 times already. I not gonna click on it again to see if it got more stupid since the first time I was stupid enough to click on it."
I posted it more times so more people would have the chance to see it. It's important, IMO. It's sad that you don't feel that way.
If so many people thought it was stupid, it's kinda interesting that NOBODY gave me a thumbs down. No really, not even a single person, despite the photo having been viewed hundreds of times.
"The STATE just killed nine people, and YOU along with about 97% of the rest of the brain-dead fucks that live out there in these United States can only make a joke about it,"
Does this look like a JOKE to you, simpleton?
It's certainly a JOKE to those who are pulling the strings behind this drama, I'm sure! Just look at "Rob Schneider", his facial expression, and that beard. LMFAO!
I guess you haven't spent enough years staring at computer generated images to understand that THESE IMAGES ARE COMPUTER GENERATED.
Really, do YOU personally know anyone who was allegedly involved in this "True Biker Shootout"? What's your name, telephone number, and address, so we can corroborate your bullshit story? FYI, my name is Nathan Klein. Remember that.
"Stop being the basement dwelling tranny pervin jack-off you were programed to be, and WAKE the FUCK UP!"
Stop being a fucking moron and open your eyes, simpleton.
Let my people go!
replace toilet paper with newspaper
problem solved
That whole "civil & natural rights" thing. Ain't it a bitch?
One more County that's going to be unable to fulfill its employee pension contracts?
FEDS sniped them
Maricopa County Az joining them if things don't go as planned in Phoenix this evening?
Just wait until the lawsuits (especially from the members of the 99% clubs) for false arrest, excessive bail, etc. start rolling in.
They already have started.
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/twin-peaks-biker-shooting/hewitt-biker-file...
The owner of a local landscaping business who was jailed with more than 170 other bikers after the deadly May 17 Twin Peaks shootout has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, alleging his arrest and detention are unlawful.
The suit names as defendants the city of Waco, McLennan County and Waco police Officer Manuel Chavez, who drafted what Clendennen’s attorney calls the “fill-in-the-blank warrants” for the bikers’ arrests.
Clendennen, who remains jailed under $1 million bond, claims he was not engaged in criminal activity at Twin Peaks and was arrested and detained without cause. The suit also claims his motorcycle was seized illegally.
The suit says he has no criminal record, is a lifelong McLennan County resident, a former firefighter in Hewitt and Marlin and a “recreational motorcyclist.”
Won't be long before someone decides to privatise the jail. The taxpayer will still be on the hook, of course, but Corrections Corporation of America will also charge the prisoners for their food and housing (and phone calls and laundry and toothpaste and...) Before long, conditions in the jail will be so bad that many of the bikers will decide to pay the bailbondsman after all. Problem solved.
But it's Texas where Republicans run everything. There couldn't possibly be a financial problem.
Is it true that police snipers were the really killers on that day and the so-called shootout was really a police ambush?
You are thinking Ukraine.
"indigent defense coordinator"
now there's a phrase to make ones' head pop
Still no video of this Sandy HookNose wannabee event?
Hell yeah! You can bet those bikers would get a big kick outta all this!
I'm wearing my Harley Davidson jersey today!
I have explored the theme of using mass civil disobedience, resulting in mass arrests and legal processing, in order to bankrupt government entities, at http://thebrotherhoodreport.blogspot.com/ The point is not merely to just fuck them up (although perhaps a noble goal in itself) but to use that pain as a bargaining chip for greater goals of liberation.
When somebody is arrested some government agency not only gets to pay to jail them and provide an attorney, but said agency and individual miscreants involved also have implicitly offered to play vexatious-litigation. A mere 200 bikers are only scratching the surface of the fun to be had with this. Come on bikers... don't let this opportunity slide. Kick some ass!
You are on the right track.
Look at and analyze tyranny from a systems point of view for both vulnerabilities and choke points that can be exploited. Soviet gulag prisoners used to do this with complaints that the ferociously backstabbing gulag bureaucracy. The gulag bureaucrats feared having the complaints being used against them if they were not well handled, etc.
One such vulnerability in the DC US, in addition to just Stopping paying, is to use their own myriad of tyrannical and plundering laws against them. File suits and/or complaints against them for violations of RICO, "terrorism," discrimination, etc. All Americans to just flood their system with choking suit after suit and strangling complaint after complaint.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
The foundational vulnerability of tyranny is the fact that tyranny relies upon their victims, us, for their sustenance--Substance flows up, power, violence, flows down.
Tyranny
Wealth | | Violence
People
I concur. Interesting bit about the gulags. I figured complaints got the ole bullet-in-the-back-o-the-head treatment, but I wasn't there so I couldn't say. Not only does vexatious litigation flood their system, but it can be devasting to the individual people involved. Let them know that fucking with we-the-people is likely to hurt real bad. Although a suit against a suit doing doing evil in the ordinary course of his official duties may ultimately fail in their court system, it's still going to cost it a mountain of time, money, and aggrivation. Pro-se litigation is very accessible to indigent plaintiffs and is an excellent asymmetry.
You're seeing it. I hope that more do.
While I spend a lot of effort on espousing upon the coming need for violence, that is only in an effort to undermine their "violence solves nothing" indoctrinations. Government, especially tyranny, ARE violence, and theft; Violence and theft are all they have to respond with. Therefore they will bring violence upon us in an effort to keep stealing and eating what we produce--keep us, their farm animals, pushing, pulling, and providing for them.
However, violence is not our first, or even most formidable weapon against them. Our most potent weapon is the fact that they have built an unsustainable ponzi upon our backs. A ponzi that depends upon us continuing to pay into it. When we Stop paying into it, the whole rotten edifice will collapse into a heap like WTC-7. When we then Stop paying the very tyrants terrorizing and enslaving us, they too will collapse into the evil swamp from which they sprang.
But before a critical mass of tyranny's victims can be amassed, we enlightened ones can begin to throw gear grinding sand, and gear gumming flies into the working of their tyranny machine.
I am up to over 50 of these strategies. #23: "Stuffing" the IRS--File bogus tax liability info for each other. The IRS' systems have no ability to weed out bogus inbound info that incurs a liability on an American. They also have no system for expediently rectifying such "garbage in" filings. And you know what they say about "garbage in..." Just don't forget to apply Benford's Law to the numbers submitted.
http://www.theactuary.com/archive/old-articles/part-4/fraud-detection-an...
I'll see you on the battlefield, or in one of Zion's basements.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
The original article on the gulag complaint stuffing: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/03/gary-north/how-to-bring-down-the-sys...
Thanks for the links dude. Major gold! See ya in the trenches.
Yeah, like their pleading guilty lol. Each one will be calling 174 witneses.
And I would love to see the look on the jury's faces.
Lots of evidence points to the gun and badge thugs turning a fist and knife fight into a murderous, and treasonous, "turkey shoot."
My Crimes Against the American People List, treason list, just keeps getting longer and longer.
It is now at the "need a bigger guillotine" point.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Did anyone else notice the absurd number of celebrity look-alikes among the "arrested"?
http://i.imgur.com/jepvue8.jpg
Why, the video and cast alone must have cost them a fortune!