Brownwood KXYL’s “Anarchy Radio” : From Hate to Arnachy !
Anarchy (New Latin anarchia) is a term that has a number of different but related usages.
Political disorder and confusion
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Anarchy
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My Commentary on Local Talk Radio:
It’s been said that everything starts locally. I believe this statement. I’ve noticed through observation that local talk radio hosts have now turned their comments towards outright anarchy utilizing encitement type comments and language. Whenever a talk show host disagrees with a judges decision and calls for a violent act (“beating his head against the sidewalk”- KXYL’s Connie Carmichael- see our 1/22/05 post) against that judge, this directly attacks our judicial system. How do our local Judges and their families, Court Reporters & their families, Law Enforcement and their families, Reporters and their families feel about these type of comments being spewed over our communties “public” airwaves. The reason I listed all of these people and their families is because these are the ones who are affected by Todays shooting of the Atlanta Judge, Court Reporter, Sherrif Deputy and the Carjacking (Assault) of the Atlanta Constitution Reporter. I’m noting and documenting this behaviour because even though I don’t know any of the victims in Georgia, I do know and respect many of our local community members who work daily in our Judicial System. Will our local & regional press report on the local implications ?
Why is it the folks who boycott/pickett Harry Potter because of the possible negative influence of their children, remain silent when these talking heads of local talk radio who identify themselves as Christians/Republican's speak of such violent action and daily name calling. James Williamson is the voice of the " Brownwood Republicans/Christians". Guess this is why he was chosen to represent the Republican Party to Brownwood Elementary students recently !
Is the fact that nobody called in to challenge these local talk radio statements a result of few local/regional listeners or is this an approval of the local/regional audience and advertisers ?
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FYI-
2005
On Feb. 28, the husband and mother of federal Judge Joan Lefkow are slain execution-style in the basement of the judge's Chicago home. Although they originally feared some connection to white supremacists because of previous threats on Lefkow's life, police now believe the killer was a Chicago electrician who was upset over a ruling that Lefkow had made against him in a medical malpractice lawsuit. That man, Bart Ross, killed himself when Milwaukee police made a routine traffic stop of his van on March 9, 2005.
1999
Los Angeles County Court Commissioner H. George Taylor was killed after being struck by three shotgun blasts as he entered his home’s driveway. His wife Lynda was shot and killed when she rushed outside to investigate. No arrests were made, but detectives are convinced that the slayings were connected to Taylor’s work in court.
On Feb. 28, the husband and mother of federal Judge Joan Lefkow are slain execution-style in the basement of the judge's Chicago home. Although they originally feared some connection to white supremacists because of previous threats on Lefkow's life, police now believe the killer was a Chicago electrician who was upset over a ruling that Lefkow had made against him in a medical malpractice lawsuit. That man, Bart Ross, killed himself when Milwaukee police made a routine traffic stop of his van on March 9, 2005.
1999
Los Angeles County Court Commissioner H. George Taylor was killed after being struck by three shotgun blasts as he entered his home’s driveway. His wife Lynda was shot and killed when she rushed outside to investigate. No arrests were made, but detectives are convinced that the slayings were connected to Taylor’s work in court.
1989
Federal judge Robert Vance was killed when he opened a bomb-laden package in his home outside Birmingham, Ala. His wife was severely injured but survived. Walter Leroy Moody Jr. was convicted and sentenced to die. Moody sent mail bombs to Vance and to a black civil rights lawyer, Robert Robinson, because he was angry that a 1972 conviction for possessing a pipe bomb had not been overturned.
1987
Mississippi judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, a former Biloxi city councilwoman and mayoral contender, were murdered in their home. Later convicted as part of a racketeering organization that arranged for their contract murders were a former mayor of Biloxi, Pete Halat, and three other people. Prosecutors alleged the killings were ordered over missing profits from a prison scam that had been kept in the law office Halat and Sherry once shared.
1987
Federal judge Richard J. Daronco was killed at his Pelham, N.Y., home by Charles L. Koster, a retired New York City police officer apparently seeking revenge for the judge’s dismissal of a $2.5 million lawsuit filed by his daughter. Koster then shot and killed himself.
1987
Mobster Joel Cacace hired a trio of hitmen to kill federal prosecutor William Aronwald for disrespecting the Columbo crime family. By mistake they tailed Aronwald’s father, George, a 78-year-old city administrative law judge who shared an office with his son, and shot him dead as he stopped to pick up his laundry.
1983
Illinois Judge Henry Gentile was shot to death in his courtroom by a disgruntled man whose divorce case was being heard by Gentile. Also slain was lawyer James Piszczor. Hutchie Moore was convicted of murder in the shootings.
1979
U.S. District Judge John Wood was slain by a sniper outside his home in San Antonio. The killer was hired because defendants in a Colombian drug-smuggling case before the judge believed he would impose a maximum sentence on them. Charles Harrelson, the father of actor Woody Harrelson, was convicted and sentenced to two life terms in the first assassination of a federal judge in the 20th century.
1974
Washington state Superior Court Judge James Lawless was killed when he opened a brown package. Ricky Anthony Young was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Lawless had been scheduled to sentence Young in an arson case, and sometime earlier had sent him to jail in the burglary of a drug store.
1970
Superior Court Judge Harold Haley is kidnapped during a trial at the Marin County Courthouse in San Rafael, Calif., in a bid to win freedom for the "Soledad Brothers." Haley, his kidnapper and two fleeing inmates die in a hail of police bullets.
Source: The Associated Press
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