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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 13. August
2005 / Timeline August 13, 2005
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12. August 2005, 14. August 2005
08/13/2005
Korean War Veteran Has Authorities Illegally Swarm On His
Property
Just Hours After He Called President Bush A
Liar On A Local AM Radio Station
By Greg Szymanski
Don Stout looked up into the Midwestern sky one afternoon two weeks
ago and saw a strange helicopter flying over his five-acre piece of
land in rural Albany, Ohio.
Before he knew what happened, the 77-year-old long-time resident,
law-abiding citizen and Korean War veteran had eight law
enforcement officials swarm on his property, checking the place out
for marijuana.
Never before having a run-in with the law, Stout said the
heavy-handed looking group of law enforcement thugs “came and
went without saying a word” after suspiciously looking at a
large bush on his property not in the slightest bit resembling a
pot plant.
“I’ve been here since 1994 and everybody’s knows
me including the sheriff. I never smoked marijuana and they know
it, but I think they just like terrorizing people,” said
Stout in a telephone conversation from his rural home, adding he
still hasn’t received an answer from anyone why law
enforcement officials invaded his privacy and entered his land
without a proper search warrant.
“It scared the hell out of me as eight or ten men swarmed my
place. I was weeding my garden and the next thing you know, they
were on my property, looked at this bush and left without saying a
word. It was ridiculous, but the sheriff, the deputy sheriff and
the game warden all raided my place for no reason and I am still
looking for an explanation.”
Although Stout can’t pinpoint why authorities entered his
property without a warrant, earlier that day he aired his strong
opinions against President Bush, calling him an outright liar, on a
free speech and truth-telling talk radio show on the popular WAIF
AM770 local radio station.
Stout said he has been calling in regularly voicing his anti-Bush
opinions, saying people in rural Ohio are finally starting to wake
up to lies, deceit and treachery imposed on the American people by
what he calls a “lying dog of a President.’
“I think he and the rest of his buddies are corrupt, down
right crazy and Bush should be impeached plain and simple for lying
to the people about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,”
said the former Korean War veteran, who lashed out at Bush for
going to war illegally and in the process killing thousands of
innocent civilians, including more than 1,700 GI’s.
“I think George Bush is a liar and is personally responsible
for the deaths of many good young men in order that his rich
buddies could profit from this illegal war.”
Considering himself a “true American” who honorably
fought for his country and drove a Greyhound bus for many years,
the plain speaking Bush critic thinks America is in a crisis and at
the brink of martial law at the hands of government tyrants bent on
destroying the country from within. “I think we have lost
this country and many people feel it’s too late and feel
helpless about doing anything about it,” said Stout. “I
am pretty outspoken about a lot of things and it wouldn’t
surprise me if another terrorist hits us harder than 9/11, putting
the country under a state of emergency and martial law while at the
same time taking the heat off Bush.
“This reminds me of Nazi Germany. The people are being fed
propaganda and in turn the dollar is going to hell as are the rest
of our freedoms. I don’t think we should give up our freedoms
in order to be safer, when all the government is trying to do is
take us over from within.
“The Founding Fathers would have never stood for what is
going on and would have thrown Bush and his buddies out on their
ears. I think the people of Ohio are starting to wake up and I do
not intend to stop talking about how I feel on that talk radio
show.”
Besides the strange raid on Stout’s property, the radio
station giving the thumbs up to air the controversial truth-telling
radio program in the traditionally conservative heartland also has
reported mysteriously having its transmitter knocked out on two
occasions from “two mysterious bolts of
lightening.”
Housewife Lauren Dowling, another avid WAIF listener and unofficial
promoter of the truth-telling show that schedules many of the
guests for broadcaster Sharon Elliot and station owner Joe Edwards,
isn’t pointing fingers but said this week from her rural home
that the two “bolts of lightening” in the last six
weeks was very unusual.
Although Elliot and Edwards have been airing a controversial show
from their station headquarters in Nelsonville, Ohio, radio for
quite some time, it hasn’t been until recently that they
decided to bring on even more controversial figures like
anti-establishment broadcaster Alex Jones and others to talk the
traditionally mainstream audience at WAIF.
“And Maureen Jones just came on the other day educating
people about fluoride in the water, which was very
interesting,” said Dowling, adding calls have been coming in
from all over the South East quadrant of Ohio, including parts of
West Virginia about the station that has small town roots but a
large broadcast reach.
“I thought it was time the people of our community heard the
truth from people like Alex Jones, who by the way, probably shocked
a few listeners, but had a very important message which has been
basically censored by the mainstream press.
“I’m just an average Mom, giving out a common sense
dose of the truth to these arrogant leaders.
Besides Jones, WAIF is scheduling for future morning shows other
alternative broadcasters and activists basically silenced in rural
America by the Bush propaganda machine and a cooperative press.
Plans also include interviewing many people who have had their
voices silenced about 9/11, especially eye-witness, victims and
journalists who have struggled hard to wake up a sleeping
country.
“It’s never too late and people around here are
starting to open their hearts and minds, tuning in to listen and
participate,” added Dalling.
And Stout, who many people in the community believe had his civil
rights violated by law enforcement officials for voicing his
regularly on WAIF, had one last message to President Bush before
getting to the bottom of why officials illegally swarmed down on
his private property:
“I don’t intend to trade of security for my rights as
an American. I believe we need to take our country back from these
thugs and brown shirts before or jobs, our financial security and
our lives are taken away from us right before our very eyes.
“I want the American people to know that a lot of other
people here in Ohio feel like I do and also know the election was
stolen by Bush. He is losing popularity because a lot of people
over here are finally starting to see through his lies, lies that
are costing young American lives every day this illegal war
continues.”
08/13/2005
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