About a week ago, I posted on a story out of Clark County, Kentucky wherein William Poole, 18, had been arrested on terrorist charges. His grandparents, finding writings in his journal that they found disturbing, turned his work into police, who have accused him of trying to organize a gang to take over the school.
Seven news outlets posted the story above. Only one cited Poole’s defence that his writings were part of a short story featuring zombies.
The frustrating lack of detail on this story, and the fact that there were inconsistencies in Poole’s story (other evidence suggests that Poole’s writings don’t actually contain zombies), caused me to hold back on this story and hope for more facts to arise. Was this an actual plot, a harmless fantasy, or an actual work of fiction? Were the police on the ball, overzealously enforcing zero-tolerance, or butt-crazy morons? I wanted to know more, but the possibility that this was an attack on free speech weighed heavy on me:
William Poole is not Salmon Rushdie, and the Winchester Police are not the Ayatollah, but if the facts bear out on this case, they’re on the same ladder. It may be time to start writing letters to the Writers at Risk Program and possibly to Amnesty International.
Thanks to Allyn Gibson, I’ve learned that William Poole has had his first day in court. Portions of his journal has been read in court by the police, but the judge has refused to release it to the public because the journal allegedly refers to minors. And while there appears to be no mention of zombies, Allyn is led by the evidence of this unsympathetic article towards Poole to believe that the kid is being railroaded.
Let’s get one thing out of the way. “Detective Steve Caudill testified that neither teacher had any knowledge of what Poole had written and there was no mention of zombies in any of the writings.” No Shaun of the Dead fanfic to be found here. But if Poole’s writings weren’t part of a zombie story, then what did Poole write? I’ll excerpt several paragraphs:
In the overview to his writings, Poole wrote, “We will shut down all the other groups that come against us.” The only way to join the brotherhood, he wrote, “is doing something stupid.”
A separate story, titled “War” was described by Caudill as “futuristic,” and referred to a group of people sitting down at a kitchen table, where they plan a takeover of a school, determining how long it will take for police to arrive on the scene. “They will all die together,” Poole wrote.
Another excerpt, read by Caudill, states, “All the boys sit down at the kitchen table and start planning it out. They wrote down how many teachers, students and guards were at the high school. Also, how long it would take police to get there. They wrote down what was needed and how they was going to do it. They agreed right there they they would all die together.”
He continued, “They yelled, ‘kill them,’ and all the soldiers of Zone 2 started shooting. They are dropping every one of them. After five minutes, all the people are laying on the ground dead.”
Other documents, titled “Death of a Soldier” tells his family goodbye and list two separate dates for his death, Nov. 20, 2004, and Feb. 19, 2005. The latter date was three days before Poole was arrested.
When I read these five paragraphs, I get the sense that Poole’s writings were fiction. If Poole were planning a school takeover, why write the plan in a narrative format where it’s hardly useful? I see narrative here. Not good narrative, granted, but it’s still narrative. Zombies would have been a useful brightline to show the writings to be fictional, but the mere fact that Poole wrote a narrative should mark the writings clear enough as fiction, not a plan.
Allyn’s right. Isn’t it fascinating how, despite claiming that Poole’s work wasn’t fictional, the authorities keep on falling back on fictional terms to describing his writings? “A separate story, titled ‘War’”? Planning sessions described in the third person?
The writings also supposedly contain correspondence with other individuals towards setting up a gang, but the police don’t say what sort, and they don’t explain why this isn’t sufficient to charge the boy under conspiracy laws rather this half-baked claim that the writings themselves constitute the direct threat. Until I start to see evidence that real people were contacted by Mr. Poole, that there are e-mails and phone calls between these individuals, I’m going to get more and more suspicious that the authorities have gone off the deep end.
From the descriptions presented, what Mr. Poole has written is little different from the violent pseudo-Manga art and fiction that some of my fellow students engaged in during my high school career. The only thing that really separates Mr. Poole’s writing, so far, from my own tale of terrorists attacking America via Amtrak is subtlety and taste (and, now that I think of it, I wrote Story on a Train when I was 18).
The Student Press Law Center is following this matter closely, and I think this case bears close attention.
Further Reading
- The blog Orac Knows follows this story
- M. Valdemar has a simple explanation why Poole’s stories may not have featured zombies.
- A take by Here There be Whales pointing out that Poole actually hasn’t threatened anybody.
There have been more developments in this case. They’re covered in this blog post
His story sounds too similar to this one. I think too many people are jumping on the “They’re infringing on our rights!” bandwagon. Have you considered the possibility that maybe the Winchester, KY police just saved the lives of a dozen high school students?
i dated william and i know for a fact that all this is real. nothing to do with zombies or any of that. he made threats to people at are school saying he was going to slit this girls throat. and other threats made to other girls and guys at this school. William was very troubled and his younger brother is also in jail. the family is troubled and i think it was best when he was in jail keeping himself out of trouble. William had made threats that he would “beat up us gothic kids” he refred to us as gothic becuase we wore black shirts and other black clothes. William several times had a group of people behind him and cam up to us “gothic” kids and started stuff saying he was going to kick our A** and saying stuff with this “gang” as he called it. several times he did this and started for no reason. William needs to be punshied. he gets kicked out of school for fighting all the time and was always suspeneded. he needs to stay in jail or get help for all the trouble hes been in.
Growing up in a big city, I have known a number of kids who picked fights and who wrote the way that William did. None of them ever brought a gun to school and started shooting.
If it comes out that there was e-mail correspondence between Poole and other kids conspiring to attack the school, then this is the evidence upon which Poole’s arrest and conviction should be based. This is what you call conspiracy. But the fact that this evidence is slow in coming worries me. The evidence that Poole is being hung on appears flimsy, and exists in similar forms in the hands of many other high school students you will never hear about.
William may need counselling, but he only needs to be punished if he was an immediate threat, and the bar has to be set rather high so that students such as yourself don’t end up getting punished yourselves for speaking out of turn or writing dark thoughts in your journal. The ghosts of Columbine are no reason to try and leapfrog the judicial process and catch somebody who may not actually be in the process of committing a crime.
I can’t beleive you all are being so biased without all facts. I know will and i know my schools reaction when they heard he was free. So many people cried in fear. Having him out there is to risky. After his brother even said he was afraid you all still think he’s all rainbows and teddy bears well u know wut we cant stand people who dont know him telling us wuts best for us. He has a past and it will haunt him. You all dont understand that he can and will fight back and try and get even with authority. He has no problem. One time he threw me aside like i was a piece of paper because i was “just there”
Nobody’s saying that William Poole is all rainbows and teddy bears, although the initial pass throughs of this story, about the zombies, were bizarre enough and yet (unfortunately) just within the realm of reality enough for many to slap their heads in wonder.
I myself held back on my outrage because, from early on, I could see that the story was more complicated than that. However, as things progressed, oddities in the handling of this story worried me. If indeed Poole was conspiring to attack the school with other kids, the e-mail correspondence should be the primary evidence before the courts, and I would expect the police to be trumpeting this more. If you argue that the police are holding back this evidence because it names minors, it should be simplicity itself to show the evidence to the press with the minors’ names blacked out.
But no. Instead, a student’s personal writings appear to be the primary evidence here. The writings don’t name the school, are told in the third person omniscient viewpoint, and are of a quality that strongly suggests that Poole isn’t intelligent enough that all of this is part of a code.
If Poole frightens so many students at the school, and if he has actually assaulted people, has he been charged with assault? There should be more red flags in his record. Your comments suggest that there would be no shortage of people who would testify against him. So why isn’t this case as open and shut as it should be?
Hi. As a civil rights activist and a beginning writer——currently writing a FICTIONAL novel about the invasion and defeat of the US Guv—- I have great interest in following this case thru to the end. Does anyone know if a trial date has been set ?
I believe the trial is currently underway.
I’m pretty sure it’s not James…he was just released on bond 2 days ago.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/rss/11197920.htm
Hey if you’re interested, I responded to your post over at the ‘Allyn’ blog.
My mistake. I guess the court session where the officer spoke was pre-trial?
After re-reading that AP release, I must correct myself. He was released last Saturday.
Yes that was the pre-trial hearing.
Like G.R.C. Student, I too know that Poole’s story was not at all about zombies. I have a class with the teacher he “wrote” the story for, and she has told us several times it was not an assignment. I also know the police officers who have read the “story” as you call it. It is not in any way about zombies if I understand their comments correctly. You do not know all the details of Poole’s case (no one does, not even those who will be testifying in court) nor do you know Poole, if I understand your post. He was in close contact with another boy in another part of the state in an effort to get more guns. Shortly after Poole’s arrest, the other boy brought a gun to school. I have no doubt that Poole would have done any differently, from what I have heard from those who were his friends. I also have no doubt that if he tried to bring a gun into the building, or, at this point, even enter the building, he would have no problem as there are only two armed security officers and 1400+ students. I do, despite disagreeing with your view, look foward to your forthcoming comments on Poole’s trial and future.
I appreciate all of the folks from the Winchester area who have come forward and offered up their observations. As I said, there is a frustrating lack of detail in this case, and every little bit helps. However, I do wish that more facts came out, one way or the other, in the courtroom, rather than through hearsay.
As you know, I’m hardly the only person talking about this (although the matter has not risen far above the radar for us to get more information on it and clear up all of these questions). You should check out the posts on this blog and you may also find the comments to this post interesting as well.
I am still concerned that the evidence as presented in this case doesn’t add up. In my experience, had someone conspired by e-mail to try and bring a cache of weapons to school property, that e-mail or other correspondence would have been the central evidence in a conspiracy charge. But we don’t have that, yet. We have no indication that the people that Poole supposedly conspired with have themselves been arrested and charged — which is what would have happened where I come from.
Instead, the focus of the investigation, or the evidence presented in the pre-trial has been Poole’s journal, which does not specifically mention the school.
You would think that if the case were as open and shut as some claim it is, it would be more open and shut. On the other hand, growing up I knew fellow students who kept violent journals or drew violent cartoons. I knew fellow students who had access to gunpowder and knew how to make bombs. But these individuals presented no threat to my school.
And, sadly, there have been cases beforehand where a student’s short stories written on his own time have gotten him into trouble. Where zero tolerance has produced totally insane results. The really sad part of this case is that I can believe that Poole is a persecuted writer. Because his case wouldn’t be all that unusual.
I will say a prayer for Winchester tonight, however. It is clear from some of the comments I’ve seen on this and on other blogs, that many in the community are afraid, and that is a tragedy, whatever the cause. I hope that this matter gets cleared up one way or the other. That true justice is done and that ultimately, Winchester breathes easier.
Hi Melissa. Question :
Do you really believe that if Poole had/has guns, plans on getting more guns, and the police have cooberating evidence to prove this that they would have let him out on bond, with only a warning not to go near the school?
As to his alleged friends… the reason I use the word alleged is because many kids in HS who call themselves friends aren’t always really… why didn’t these kids come forward before the grandmother called the police on him ? Or tell a teacher? Sounds to me, just my opinion, like they just want their moment in the sun.
That’s what really worries me about this case. I’m 40, but I remember HS like it was yesterday, and I know and am friends with many kids that age. The one thing that seems to have held true thru time is that kids love to tell stories (no pun intended). So Poole’s fate may actually rest on testimony of kids who don’t like him and the ones who want their 15 minutes.
Peace
I came across this page from somebody else and as i read it,i became more and more infuriated. I live in winchester, and i have had to live with this unfortunate incident. Unfortunantly the press did not express the true facts. What william wrote was not a story with “zombies”. It was an actual threat for students and teachers. And he had the power to tell his gangs to come to the high school and do god knows what. Do you know how scary it is to walk around the school not knowing if you’re safe. The fact you can’t walk outside b/c of your safety, the fact that someone could come and attack you. I know people that were on his list and were called into the police station. He had a bomb, and was building his second one. His parents dumped him at his grandfathers cause they didn’t want him, and his grandparents thought he was crazy. His grandmother turned him in! So this persecuted writer crap is not going to fly. He wasn’t a writer, but a crazy physco path!!
I think a quick glance again at the post and my comments below it should clarify a few things. To repeat, in this article I note that Poole did not write about zombies, and the fact that he said he did was a blow to his credibility.
However, I continue to be surprised that, if all of this evidence, including hard evidence of a bomb, did actually exist, the case against Poole and his co-conspirators should be open and shut. Are you sure you are reporting first-hand evidence or are you responding to gossip in the halls of your school?
I respect the fact that you come from the area and that you are afraid, but there are aspects of this case which do not add up. The manner in which Poole’s case has proceeded has not followed how it would proceed in cases where there was an actual threat against the school. An actual bomb would make it open and shut. It would make the news. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for such news. The fact that there have been few details, one way or the other, has been most frustrating.
Poole’s case disturbs me because it wouldn’t be the first time that some student wrote a violent journal or piece of art or something similarly harmless and got in serious trouble for it. And in a society where it is so easy to believe something like this, then something really scary has gone on, and it’s not limited to Winchester, Kentucky.
And, for the record, I’ve graduated inner city, big city high school myself, and I know what it is like to be afraid. And one thing I know about fear is that it can limit your ability to act in a rational manner. You need to step back from the fear a moment and assess the situation rationally. Then you’re more likely to do something you’re less likely to regret.
And I am still saying prayers for the safety of Winchester.
Thank you for your prayers..those of us here appreciate it. The information that i have received are factual…not just gossip in the halls. The media has not fully reported what is going on. But he didn’t write a violent journal or work of art. It was a hit list of people. I am very able to walk around the school thinking logically and reasonable. I have no reason to walk around the school and do something i will regret. I have done nothing, but i fear for my friends that know him or have dated him. Lets just hope nothing happens.
This is the exact quote from Detective Steve Caudill at the preliminary hearing : “There was no specific list naming any certain individuals,”
Guess that shoots down the list theory.
BOMB?? He ‘had’ a BOMB? Sorry , but if he had a bomb it would be a federal offense and this would have been a federal matter. End of story. Ask Ted Kosinski.
As to the media ‘not fully reporting’, I just can’t imagine that people like Bill O’Rielly would miss these extreme revelations in the wake of what just happened at Red Lake.
Can either of you back up these accusations with concrete proof?
Let’s keep calm over this. Now that it’s known that a lot of people are watching this case, I’m hopeful that we’ll get all the facts in due course.
Sooner would be better than later.
I’m calm. Sorry, I forgot that sometimes caps ‘emote’ anger online. It was more that I was shocked at the accusation.
I am however very frustrated that the Winchester Sun article covering the hearing in more detail has been pulled from online. I suppose that may be a result that the judge ordered the stories sealed. I wish I had copied it.
I also wanted to add a note to Melissa and GrCsoccerStudent that I am not calling you liars. I’m simply questioning the source of what you are presenting as ‘factual information’, and trying to explain why said ‘facts’ don’t make any sense as compared to law and police procedure (regarding the bomb).
In the case of the so called list, as I stated, it’s just not true. If it is true, than Detective Caudill has perjured himself under oath. A very serious offense. And whoever the alleged students who are going to testify against Poole, they really need to be aware of the consequences of perjury on the stand.
Believe me when I tell you, I hope I am not supporting a person who could cause any of you harm. It’s just that none of the actions of your local police or judge(s) reflect your accusations, nor their own. They let him go on bond. If the bomb story is true that just could not, should not, maybe even cannot have happened. And at the hearing they consistantly refered to the writings as stories. Check out the link further up in this blog for Orac Knows, he does a great job of breaking it down. It’s the second link after James links to his main page.
OI…just as the lies of the Bush administration consumed me to research bordering on obsession, so to is this case.
Peace…and may no harm come to any of you.
I just have a question for Alex…where do you live. You could live here and i just don’t know it, but if you don’t, then the news could be very wrong where you are at.
And because i’m a high schooler i could be in the wrong. I just have to go by what my teachers, the news, and the school administration tells me. I don’t want accusations to be made. I just want safety in my school, and if that means putting him away, then put him away and not let him out.
GrC, I got my information from the Winchester Sun and the Lexington Herald-Leader, you’re local newspapers. I contacted the webmaster at the Sun and he emailed me today that the site had been down over the weekend. Here is a link to the article covering the hearing :
http://www.winchestersun.com/articles/2005/03/09/local_news/news01.txt
It does not have Caudills’s quote, but clearly states there are no specific targets, only general mentions of ‘students’, ‘teachers’ and ‘a school’.
I originally got my info from the Lexington Herald at this link :
http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=977&year=
After searching for the actual article for their coverage , it does not contain the quote:
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/11086999.htm
So regarding the quote, I must back down and regard it as hearsay that he actually said those words. However the Winchester Sun article makes it clear there is no list.
Detective Caudill mentions no bomb. If they consider his journals threats, then one must assume they searched his residence. If they found a bomb, as I said it would then be a federal offense (to verify that you can call your nearest FBI office). Poole would be sitting in a federal prison under much more serious charges than ‘terroristic threats’.
What your teachers and school administration tells you is hearsay until and if it is proven. For that matter what the news says could be hearsay, but that would be unlikely. Printing false information would be slander and/or libel. Very serious offenses for an established news organization.
I’ll admit that it is disturbing that there is , according to both papers, some alleged outside party claiming knowledge that Poole was soliciting weapons. Or was he ? The Winchester Sun article says the letter was sent to Poole. That would be unsolicited.
Again, it would be very helpful to us on the outside if you folks from the area could actually provide us with links to news organizations that have any further info on the case as it comes along. We’d all be very thankful. But do your school work first
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Not to scare you, but it’s doubtful even if they find him guilty that he’ll be ‘put away’ for any length of time. If they’ve let him go on bond, they obviously don’t consider him any kind of imminent threat, and the defense would more than likely be able to use that fact at trial. He’d probably get alot of psyche treatment and maybe a small amount of time in jail or an institution.
Poole sure didn’t help himself by lying that it was a school assignment.
Peace
Great. Now the Sun article is down again. I suppose I am forced to ask for your trust. I failed to copy it, figuring the matter was fixed, but I did find a site that has excerpts from the Sun article. Scroll down to the March 14th update. There you will find the excerpts, along with some commentary. You’ll also find the links at the beginning of the update , and the second one takes you to the Winchester Sun ‘not available’ page
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http://zerointelligence.net/archives/cat_kentucky.php
I did read the article several times, and the excerpts are really from the Sun article. Hopefully it will become available again. I’ve emailed the webmaster again.
YAY. For the moment the Winchester Sun is back online. I hope this isn’t taking to much space for you James. If so feel free to delete. But I cut and pasted it.
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Police disclose contents of writings allegedly threatening school takeover
Winchester Police Detective Steve Caudill, reads an excerpt from William Poole’s journal, which police allege was a detailed plan to recruit a gang for an armed takeover of George Rogers Clark High School. During a preliminary hearing in Clark County District Court Tuesday afternoon, Caudill read from several documents written by Poole that referred to recruiting 100 people into an organization called NLS, or No Limited Soldiers. He also read from a letter reportedly written by an acquaintance in Barbourville, offering to provide money and weapons. (Sun photos by James Mann) By TIM WELDON/Sun Staff Writer
A chilling and sometimes violent account of a school takeover raised eyebrows during a hearing in Clark County District Court Tuesday afternoon. What’s still unclear is whether 18-year-old William Poole’s journal entries were a fictional story or details of a plan to recruit a gang to unleash an armed assault on George Rogers Clark High School.
During the preliminary hearing, excerpts from a journal written by Poole, who is charged with second-degree terroristic threatening, seemed to provide few clear-cut answers.
The preliminary hearing marked the first time Winchester police have publicly disclosed Poole’s writings that led police to charge him on Feb. 22 with threatening an armed takeover of the school, where Poole was enrolled as a junior.
Poole told police during a 30-minute interview following his arrest, and later reiterated during an interview with WLEX-TV, that what police had seized was a story about zombies taking over a high school, assigned by his English and computer teachers at GRCHS.
However, Detective Steve Caudill testified that neither teacher had any knowledge of what Poole had written and there was no mention of zombies in any of the writings.
Poole occasionally shook his head or laid his head on the defense table as Caudill read excerpts from a journal police allege was an attempt to recruit a gang to take over GRCHS.
Police were tipped off to the writings by Poole’s grandmother, with whom he lived. Caudill explained that she read his journal and became concerned.
Seven documents were seized by police. According to police, Poole was attempting to create a gang called NLS, or No Limited Soldiers, sometimes also referred to as “True Soldiers,” an organization that was to be comprised of Poole’s acquaintances, according to Caudill.
Throughout his writings, Poole makes numerous references to a “brotherhood,” such as in an overview, in which Poole wrote, “We will make the brotherhood known throughout the high school.” It continues with a three-part plan: 1) Recruit new soldiers, 2) Get everyone in ranks, and 3) get the numbers to 100.
Caudill testified that at least seven acquaintances of Poole’s reported that Poole had attempted to recruit them into a gang, but that none of them were interested.
In his writings, Poole makes references to four geographic zones. Zone Two refers to Clark County, according to Caudill. The other three zones mentioned in Poole’s journal are Barbourville, South Carolina and New York City.
Caudill also read from a letter sent by an unnamed person who was referred to as a “colonel” in the Barbourville organization, promising to aid Poole with weapons and money. In one passage, Caudill testified the person in Barbourville admitted breaking into homes and said he had thousands of dollars and 50 guns at his disposal.
“You know what I mean, man. We will handle things if you want us to,” the individual wrote Poole, who referred to himself in the journal as “Nappy Boy,” the head of the Clark County organization, according to Caudill.
In the overview to his writings, Poole wrote, “We will shut down all the other groups that come against us.” The only way to join the brotherhood, he wrote, “is doing something stupid.”
A separate story, titled “War” was described by Caudill as “futuristic,” and referred to a group of people sitting down at a kitchen table, where they plan a takeover of a school, determining how long it will take for police to arrive on the scene. “They will all die together,” Poole wrote.
Another excerpt, read by Caudill, states, “All the boys sit down at the kitchen table and start planning it out. They wrote down how many teachers, students and guards were at the high school. Also, how long it would take police to get there. They wrote down what was needed and how they was going to do it. They agreed right there they they would all die together.”
He continued, “They yelled, ‘kill them,’ and all the soldiers of Zone 2 started shooting. They are dropping every one of them. After five minutes, all the people are laying on the ground dead.”
Other documents, titled “Death of a Soldier” tells his family goodbye and list two separate dates for his death, Nov. 20, 2004, and Feb. 19, 2005. The latter date was three days before Poole was arrested.
One document mentioned that William P would go to the school and map out the floor plan, including locations of the cameras.
Nowhere in Poole’s writings did he refer to a specific school. It also did not list any specific targets, making only general references to teachers, students and school security.
According to Caudill, Poole told police that a teacher at GRCHS read the piece called the “Overview,” and warned that Poole could be in trouble if others at school saw it. Consequently, Poole reportedly told police that he left his writings at home. The teacher told Caudill he did not see any of the journal entries that police confiscated.
Assistant County Attorney John Keeton told reporters after the hearing that, as a prosecutor, he has to take the writings seriously. “The downside of not taking it seriously is beyond comprehension,” Keeton explained. He added that “it will all have to play out in court.”
District Judge Brandy Oliver Brown denied a motion by Poole’s attorney, Brian Barker, to reduce his $5,000 bond. Brown instructed Poole that if he’s able to post a $5,000 bond, he is to remain away from school property and may not have contact with anyone named in his writings.
I’ve found the comments thread on ZeroIntelligence to be intriguing reading:
http://jpeacock.net/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=347
A few days ago “Icarus” posted that Poole fled the state for parts unknown. Icarus ascribes this to sinister motives. Is it really? Poole has been bailed out of jail by an anonymous benefactor, he’s been told that if freed he can’t go near the school or anyone he knows, apparently his grandparents with whom he was living don’t want him back, so what other choice does he have?
For good or ill this case has garnered a lot of press for the town. And last week’s school shooting in Minnesota serves to heighten an already tense situation. Reading the posts here, on my own webpage, on ZeroIntelligence, makes it clear that the town has judged the kid guilty. “There’s a lot of smoke” seems to be the refrain, and since there’s smoke their must be fire, and that fire must be that Poole is guilty of precisely what everyone says he is.
Unfortunately, the evidence that’s been presented just doesn’t add up to that. I said over and over, “I see reasonable doubt here,” and I still do. Poole could be guilty, or Poole could be guilty of really poor judgment. Read the excerpts from his writings and you’ll see the writings are fairly poor. We know he spent time in an alternative school. Clearly, he has some learning problems.
What I see is a rush to judgment based on fear and innuendo.
James if you look around blogs covering this issue, Icarus shows up alot with biased opinion that have no basis in fact.
I have also been emailed from Campbell Roth , the writer of this article :
http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=977&year=
His story is based on personal interviews with Detective Caudill. The quote “There was no specific list naming any certain individuals,” by Caudill is first hand information via a personal interview by Roth, tho not under oath. I think given the Sun article and other previous articles stating that there is no list or named targets, we can consider that matter closed.
I am quite disturbed that this is going to a grand jury. Grand jury’s can suppress information at their discretion. Meaning they could find Poole guilty of anything and We The People will never have access to the transcripts or testimony.
America. Land of Free Press…unless you want to know the truth.
In sure hope Melissa and GrC show back up and offer more verifiable info. It would be a shame to have these kids thinking their voice doesn’t count.
Peace
OOPS….that comment was from the very ‘stout’ Allyn not James
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ARGGGG. Now I am getting angry. On the comments that Allyn provided a link to there are now people claiming that Poole has been re-arrested for picking up a friend of a friend at a totally unrelated elementary school. The fact that both the Winchester Sun and Lexington Herald fail to report this doesn’t seem to matter.
GOD I HATE MY FRIGGIN COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!