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DRAGON TALE

The Dragon sometimes wins

Such harassment of motorcycle enthusiasts is common from THP, Blount County and North Carolina police, as occurred in 1997 at a BMW rally at Fontana Village, North Carolina. Drivers and riders had arrived from all over North America to commune with Mother Nature, stop for gas and lunch at the Motorcycle Resort at Deals Gap, North Carolina, (at that time, run by ex-cop Pete Leary whose race teams have won a national championship) and to tame the world-infamous Dragon.

A camouflaged Task Force of these agencies descended upon 3,000 peaceful tourists, using helicopters, drug dogs and secret alcohol Prohibition laws. It seems these cops were under the influence of the delusion the BMW owners—including off-duty cops and military personnel—were about to start a rumble with a gang of 11,000 "drug-crazed" Hell's Angels (originally named by US military veterans for their squadron by the same name). The Angels were allegedly tourists at casino in nearby Cherokee Nation.

Tourists were forced to pass five road blocks in a one-mile distance. Motorcycles were disassembled and confiscated for the tiniest of alleged infractions. Pedestrians were arrested as "public drunks" for any purchasing of beer at the Fontana campground, which was licensed to sell beer. Unmarked police cars were used to entrap motorcyclists by slowing to a crawl and waving riders to overtake on the double yellow line, and followed bikers at night while driving without headlights on. Off-duty cops who pointed out the illegality of the Task Force's arrests faced career reprisals when they got home. As one tourist observed, "I hadn't seen such a show of paramilitary force since the riot control in Washington D.C. when Nixon bombed Cambodia." To add insult to injury, a police helicopter hovered over sleeping campers broadcasting the theme song to the television propaganda show, COPS.

Car 64 Where Are You? Blount County deputy goes overboard chasing biker who flipped him off

Dragon bites deputy

A press release by the BMW club summed up: "The police came to be viewed as buffoons, except by those members from foreign countries, who had only read about this type of police intervention in accounts of World War II era Germany. For most, the actions reinforced the Hollywood stereotype of southern justice: Local sheriff uses imaginary crisis to order suspension of the U.S. Constitution." A BMW rider who was a former Arizona State Trooper and former Indiana Patrolman said, "The next time I come to your area it will be with a video camera, a tape recorder, a cellular phone and a copy of the North Carolina State Statutes."

Fortunately for the BMW club, the sick Graham County sheriff responsible for this viscious fiasco, bootlegger Melvin Howell, committed suicide after his arrest for sexual assault of sheriff's department employees and indictment for threatening murder against them. When the sheriff's own attorney was forced to testify against him, he became depressed. What else did the lawyer know about besides the death threats? As The Graham Star reported, "The Bad Boys in Blue" had gotten out of hand in spectacular fashion, while responsible owners of motorcycles had minded their own business while on vacation. Rob Mason, executive director of the Graham County Chamber of Commerce, said the police actions were "equivalent to the sheriff's department torching Stanley Furniture," estimating financial losses to area businesses at $250,000 (since tourists were afraid to leave the campground). As they say, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Suicidal Sheriff Howell's chief deputy, Jerry Crisp, was fired by Graham County for his alleged destructive tendencies but reemployed by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) police (which was also part of the anti-motorcycle "Task Force"). Seeking retaliation for his humiliation -- two years after the BMW rally -- Crisp made an illegal arrest outside of his jurisdiction, handcuffing ex-cop Pete Leary at his place of business (and nearly breaking his arm). Leary had voiced concern about how police had mistreated his motel guests, campers, restaurant diners and store customers during the BMW rally. Crisp obviously sought to intimidate and silence one of his many critics, to the point of risking a lawsuit for false arrest. Leary, winner of a gunfight with a convicted murderer during an attempted armed robbery (when he dodged a shotgun blast and returned fire by shooting the assailant in the derriere), was not likely to take his false arrest quietly by turning the other cheek.

Citizens who criticize our government often face reprisals for attempting to exert democracy, even when those citizens are ex-cops (especially when they enjoy motorcycles). Crisp also sued the BMW club for writing about him in their newsletter. The club retained the services of Pete Leary's lawyer and published a "clarification" in their newsletter to protect themselves from the vindictive TVA cop.

COP VS COP

SLAYING DRAGONS

The Dragon

The citizen-profiling is so bad that a patrol cop for Rockford PD intentionally rammed a motorcyclist, giving him a summary arrest, prosecution, conviction, sentencing and execution, all without the benifit of due process in trial by prosecutors, judges and jurors. The biker was a cop commuting to work, responsibly using a vehicle which was the most fuel-efficient, lowest-emission, least-distraction-prone and most traffic-jam proof.

The officer on patrol was eventually recharged with vehicular homicide. However, civil service rules apparently allowed him a semipermenant vacation with full pay and benifits while going through the trials and appeals process.

Eyewitnesses and recovered videotape from the police cruiser proved the BCSD sergeant swerved into the motorcycle as they passed each other on a secondary highway near the Knoxville-Maryville-Alcoa (Rockford) border. Crack trooper Ronald McDonald reported to reporters that witnesses, "said it appeared the Rockford car ... swerved into the motorcycle (and) sent it careening into the guardrail. After reviewing police video from the Rockford car, it appears the witnesses' account is accurate." Yet once again, McDonald and THP failed to make an arrest of an "insider" despite overwhelming evidence of probable cause.

Rockford PD, Blount County SD, Alcoa PD and Maryville PD routinely set up speed traps on back roads in that area. Anyone not driving at a dangerously slow speed risks an expensive--or deadly--confrontation with a heavily armed redneck(s) that has only a basic comprehension of constitutional law, and ignores what little it does understand. (Hint--safety detectors are cheaper and healthier--use a $10 earphone and jack soldered into the speaker wires.)

The deadly do-right was "fired" by the end of the day (ie, "suspended with full pay, full benefits and free vacation").

No motive for the attack was alleged in the reports. The THP's initial press release did not mention whether the two cops knew each other, nor did the Knoxville News-Sentinel's article.

News reports did not mention whether the killer cop was issued a traffic citation for "failing to maintain control" (the psycho-driver controlled exactly what he wanted to do) nor "following too closely". The reports alleged THP would conduct a "criminal investigation", which means homicide (first-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter) or a minimum charge of reckless driving. Any other alleged traffic offense is not a "crime" according to Tennessee law, since traffic cases are merely "civil complaints". (Unless a driver fails to show up in court, then a new charge of "criminal contempt of court" is sworn out by the judge, who summarily convicts the defendant since the alleged crime occurred in the judge's "presence".)

It was not reported whether the killer cop was offered a voluntary blood-letting to test for alcohol and drugs, nor whether he consented by waiving his Miranda rights to freedom from self-incrimination. Without the damning video of cop-caught-on-tape, a negative blood-test result would ordinarily prohibit a homicide allegation. (But when a TVA cop was recently killed on I40 after an axle detached from a car on the opposite side of the median, which skewered the cop in the head, the breakdown victim was instantly arrested for DWI without a test nor allegation of drinking, since he had a prior DWI conviction and a suspended license.)

The next day, another cop was killed on Interstate I40/75 (just past the exit for Senator Carl O. Koella Memorial Parkway). This time, THP issued instantaneous citations to two truck drivers who admittedly didn't cause the initial pile-up, yet THP didn't cite the two bone-headed women who initiated it. THP certainly didn't make any arrests nor issue citations to the pickup truck manufacturers that designed a product that quickly incinerated four people, despite the best rescue efforts of passers by. (A 10-year-long civil trial to recover fair compensation for what's left of the victim's family is no match for conducting competent crash investigations and implementing cheap safety tricks. Ford's Pinto/Mustang only needed $1-dollar to save thousands of lives. GM's products create "crispy critters" (as GM's engineer's joked in memos) for less than $10-dollars each. This is according to frivolous-trial-lawyer Ken Starr's failed corporate-defense of "cost-benefit analyses"—that cost GM over $1-billion dollars—plus Starr's millions in legal fees.)

But the crispy cop wasn't riding a bike. According to the News-Sentinel, Rockford Mayor Gail Dalton slipped that even a dead cop on a cycle was not worth an intensive search for justice (nor, apparently, a public change in policy towards riders—unless KNS and TV censored her). The mayor revealed that out-of-town cops were not Rockford's priority: "Sgt. Johnson is well thought of, and we pray for a good outcome (of the investigation)."

Excuse me, but I'd like to presume I'm capable of changing my mind about an associate when its revealed they intentionally committed hot-blooded murder. Or is Road Rage now an affirmative defense to homicide? Then again, maybe killing bikers is the master plan of a criminal conspiracy within the local muni-corporations?

Rockford, of course, was the location of the factory owned by senator Koella's brother, that was the 2nd-to-last stop for the governor and Koella's fateful campaign effort, chauffeurred by THP.

POLICE CONDONE COP-KILLING

It is doubtful that such police agencies could ever possibly conduct a fair and impartial crash investigation involving a motorcycle owner. In fact, the Knoxville Police Department (KPD) and the Knox County District Attorney's office dropped first-degree murder charges against two arrested alleged killers of an off-duty Knoxville police officer who was riding a motorcycle.

According to a law-enforcement source, the alleged shooter shot himself in the leg as he finished shooting the Harley-Davidson rider in the back, and was dropped off at the same hospital as his alleged murder victim. The driver was then arrested for drunk-driving by Lake City police. Police allegedly had the murder weapon in their possession after an inventory of the impounded vehicle. A tape recorded police confession by the passenger allegedly quoted the shooter: "Watch this Outlaw piece-of-shit squirm" as he pulled out his gun and shot the biker cop in the back. ("Outlaw" is the name of a national gangster-biker organization.) A former Knox County sheriff who was an associate of the suspected cop-killers showed up at the hospital to offer his support. Ex-sheriff Joe Jenkins was recently arrested for car theft to pay for his cocaine and gambling addictions, and faced a drunk-driving prosecution. The police source alleged the shooting was a random act of drugged-drunk-insane violence. The cop alleged that since one of the alleged killers had a relative in high-government position (the Knoxville fire department), the charges were dropped as a "favor".

Foster Arnett, the attorney and public relations specialist for KPD alleged in the Knoxville News Sentinel the dead cop was a criminal (a "one-percenter" biker) killed in "a drug deal gone bad," implying that such murderers ought never be prosecuted. The news media played along with its typical hatred of all things motorcycle and its routine glorification of death via motorcycle, with the thrill-kill bonus of gunplay. At a later date, the two released men were reportedly arrested, prosecuted and convicted on federal drug-dealing charges. The KPD source alleged his buddy was not "dirty" and that he was too broke to be profiting from drug sales, though another source who also knew the dead cop said he was "mean". (The victim-cop, Tony Williams, formerly played football for the University of Tennessee, which is certainly a violent sport where "meanness" is rewarded.) Apparently, according to KPD and the Knoxville government's business partner, the News Sentinel (who received $20-million in charity from the overtaxed taxpayers), it is now open season on crooked cops and citizens may open fire at will without fear of repercussion. (What an empowering idea.)

The KPD source said that drug dealers and murderers -- so-called "informants"—are often released as favors to various other police agencies, and that this policy is merely standard police procedure. The cop explained that "informants" include career criminals who commit murders and all lower crimes. The "disgruntled" cop, however, did not want to get "officially" involved since he knew he risked his career and pension if he opposed the wishes of Knoxville's chief of police Phil Keith and his appointer, Knoxville's Republican mayor, Victor Ashe. This cop killing occurred in 1989 just after Ashe and Keith seized power. As a Knox County homicide prosecutor advised this author: "If I wanted to kill YOU, all I would have to do is not let anybody see me do it, not tell anybody I did it, and dispose of the murder weapon." These alleged cop-killers struck out on all three counts, yet still found the jailhouse doors opened wide—allegedly with a little "help" (i.e., obstructions of justice) from their friends (and accomplices to murder) in high places. No, even active-duty cops can't get justice when they drive motorcycles. Even when allegedly murdered by a man convicted of a previous murder.

MOTORING MADNESS FOR MORONS

Instead of the pathetic excuse for a crash investigation by the Tennessee Highway Patrol, let's take a shot at a REAL crash analysis. In aviation crashes of commuter pilots, engineering experts try to learn all there is to learn from every tragedy (or at least to learn something new). Highway crashes are handled the opposite. Police officers are not qualified for traffic engineering by any stretch of the imagination. Police crash reports are not allowed to be used in court, perhaps because they are so inaccurate. As Sheriff Tony Bumante and Timothy Eagan wrote in Breaking Blue (a true-crime book about police-crime rings and a cops-killing DUI judge): "Phelps said he wouldn't hire college graduates when he was chief of police. Wouldn't do it now. 'It's my opinion that higher education is not important for police work.'" Traffic police exist to harrass and tax motorists, killing hundreds every year—including 25% innocent bystanders—and have nothing whatsoever to do with traffic safety.

Despite the best efforts of professional propagandists, even an esoteric effort at researching traffic safety studies show that traffic police enforce laws that actually increase danger to motorists by a factor of 6 to 10 times (600% to 1,000%), as Ralph Nader pointed out 35 years ago in his censored book, Unsafe at Any Speed—The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. Nader wrote: "For decades, speed was the subject of the most widespread slogans drummed into the public. 'Speed kills' and 'slow down and live' are familiar ones peddled by the National Safety Council.... The findings showed a more complex picture of the role of speed than had ever been assumed before. Accident involvement rates are at a minimum at speeds between fifty and seventy five miles per hour.... Although obviously the severity of accidents is greater at higher speeds, the study revealed that considering accident frequency rates and severity, the number of injuries per vehicle miles traveled is at its minimum." Nader was quoting David Soloman of the Federal Highway Administration, from "Accidents on Main Rural Highways Related to Speed, Driver and Vehicle (1964)."

Such police myopia applies to all alleged traffic "crimes" for normal driving behavior. The real casue of crashes is inattention. If a "speeder" does crash, often it is because an inattentive driver screwed up so bad that no driver could avoid the crash. It requires more attention to merge with fast traffic using a "rolling stop", while it requires less attention to stop and slowly merge with fast traffic as a mobile road hazard.

Very few motorists have the capacity to challenge this deadly injustice in a court of law, and all traffic courts have already stripped drivers of virtually all safegurds allowed in a real courtroom, such as "discovery" of a police officer's criminal background. Many just accept that it's better to pay an occasional ticket as an assertive driver than to die in a crash as punishment for being a passive driver. The example of this particular story illustrates that even the nation's finest law firms working on a salary of $500,000 can hardly influence the outcome of a corrupt "criminal justice" establishment. As Ralph Nader pointed out in Unsafe, police crash reports fail to provide officers with checkboxes for highway defects, vehicle design flaws and incompetent driver education (all are the responsibility of government, according to the government). It's like cops are mere janitorial supervisors who tidy up the post-crash roadway. Cops rarely carry rescue and first-aid equipment, and serve merely to divert attention from the real causes of crashes and injuries in order to make business even more profitable for themselves and for hideously wealthy insurance corporations.

CYCLING FOR GENIUSES

At any rate, government research by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) proves that 95% of America's motorcyclists do not have a clue what to do in an emergency situation. Here's the censored riding tips, pathetically missing from both "news" media articles and from police reports in the 12-inch-thick Barnard vs. Koella investigative file:

Dragon bites biker? Booze? Suicidal depression? Killer cop? Hit & runner? Countersteering? Avalanch?

According to the MSF publication, The Photographic Analysis of Motorcycle Operator Control Responses, killer mistake #1 is not understanding that two-wheeled vehicles initially steer in the opposite direction compared to automobiles. This steers the tires out from under the 'bike and forces it to lean over. The technical term is Countersteering. All two-wheeled vehicles do this at all speeds above 4 mph, although gyroscopic forces feel different at different speeds. The Wright Brothers (inventors of the airplane) first noticed this phenomenon 100 years ago, and laughed at the ignorance of their bicycle customers. Motorcycle racers used this "secret" for decades, some of them earning millions of dollars with this "unfair advantage". This lifesaving knowledge has been in the public domain for well over 25 years, especially once Dr. Harry Hurt and a team of engineers presented their research papers to the Second International Congress on Automotive Safety.

According to Dr. Hurt of the University of Southern California Traffic Safety Center, in the 1981 NHTSA study "Motorcycle Accident Cause Factors and Identification of Countermeasures" (the Hurt Report), 92% of riders involved in these accidents have received no formal training whatsoever. Of the 8% who did get training, perhaps 99% did not receive competent instruction in countersteering. The report concluded that the accident victims' ability to countersteer was essentially absent, and overuse and locking of the rear brake often caused loss of control, making it impossible to avoid impact. The average speed of these crashes was less than 30 miles per hour, and only one crash in a thousand involved a rider above 80 miles per hour. Although alcohol was allegedly a factor in 15% of the crashes, and 75% were initiated by automobile drivers, riders still require knowledge of life-saving skills in order to react correctly during the two whole seconds warning before potential impact. This is true whether they or the automobile drivers are sober or not. In other words, tens of thousands of automobile drivers who never intend to ride a motorcycle can be saved from DWI arrests when motorcycle riders are educated in countersteering and braking techniques. It is proof of the NHTSA's criminal incompetence that all this info from their own study is censored from its Traffic Safety Facts 1998—Motorcycles (DOT HS 808 953), which harps impotently on helmets, alcohol and speed.

Countersteering is censored from Rider License Handbooks and the MSF's Beginner RiderCourse workbook. Above 5MPH all steering is by countersteering

Today, MSF schools in 50 states try to teach Countersteering to millions of motorcyclists in the name of saving lives. Unfortunately, the government has seized control of the MSF from the engineering manufacturers, perverting the biker-school system. The word "Countersteering" is more often than not censored from the vocabulary of its schoolteachers and from its motorcycle license study guides. Sometimes "push steering" is used instead of the more descriptive word of Countersteering, but that fails to inform which way to push! To illustrate how confusing "push steering" is, author Jim Bennett in The Complete Motorcycle Book, a Consumer's Guide, alleges to his gullible customers: "Motorcycles are cornered primarily by leaning, not steering. Push right, lean right, go right.... At very high (i.e., illegal) speeds, the rider leans the bike to an extreme attitude. The handlebars are turned away from the turn. This is known as countersteering.... An unskilled rider on an improperly equipped motorcycle attempting this is lucky if he does not lose control." Bennett seems to be confusing "pushing" the handlebars left or right (steering) with "pushing" the bike up or down (leaning). This deadly advice was from a rider with 20-years experience who writes for AAA World Magazine. (That was 1995 -- in 1999, Bennett's publisher, Facts on File, apparently had the book "revised" to extoll the virtues of Countersteering, perhaps to protect itself from the legal liability of advising Bennett's readers to kill themselves.) Even The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycling says, "Using the handlebars as a lever to lean the bike into a turn is called countersteering, because you do it backwards.... Rather than turning like a car, motorcycles lean into a turn... like an airplane." (Motorcycles are fun like airplanes, too -- in this author's opinion—even though they are much slower.) Basically, Countersteering is required anytime a rider needs to change lean angle.

Trophy tree for illiterate bikers at Deals Gap Motorcycle Resort

In contrast, the MSF's Photographic Analysis, performed by the National Public Services Research Institute, informs: "In order to be leaned in the direction of a turn, the motorcycle is first steered generally in a direction opposite the turn.... The motorcycle operator's body lean is not a significant factor in leaning the motorcycle.... Body lean lags behind that of the motorcycle and reaches a maximum of approximately two-thirds that of the motorcycle." (And these tests were performed on riders who did not consciously know about Countersteering.) The MSF's Experienced RiderCourse workbook devotes entire chapters to countersteering and other useful tricks for normal riding, such as "leaning off" (or "hanging off") the seat, but a rider must first survive long enough to be accepted into this program, which according to the Hurt Report, leaves novice riders at relatively high risk. The excellent MSF's Guide to Motorcycling Excellence says this about Countersteering: "Once you feel comfortable with the technique, you will have made an important 'discovery' that will help you ride with control." Any rider can test this "theory" in a turn by steering the bike like a car -- survival of this experiment means it won't be repeated. This MSF's Guide to Excellence includes both the Hurt Report and excellent illustrations of countersteering, as well as photographs of countersteering in action -- yet is NOT provided to so-called MSF RiderCourse schools (at least not in Tennessee), many of which don't even know of this book's existance. Keith Code, chief instructor for the California Superbike School, points out in his novice-to-expert series of books and video titled, A Twist of the Wrist, "The counter-steering researchers had opened the door to riding improvement for everyone. But I also remember the upsets and arguements created when I tried to explain counter-steering to a disbelieving veteran with 20-years of riding experience." Government studies prove that when riders are taught Countersteering, crashes are reduced 95% (5% didn't get a license and take the required FREE training—California then discontinued this successful-but-unprofitable life-saving experiment). Such training needs to be provided FREE to all motorcycle license holders, paid for with motorcycle license fees (what a concept—"Value for Tax Dollars"). It is NOT a good thing for government to censor this word from the public just because government bureaucrats and police (and a few writers) are too stupid to understand it.

Parents invariably "teach" children how to ride a bicycle by starting them out on a tricycle -- which steers like a car instead of a countersteering bike -- and then wonder why the kids crash their bikes (sometimes with severe or fatal injuries). All riders eventually must learn countersteering subconsciously. The disaster occurs in a panic situation as riders "exit The Zone" and override their instinct and attempt to steer the 'bike like a car. To further compund the confusion, a 'bike begins to AUTOMATICALLY steer like a car AFTER it has reached its full lean angle, due to "castor effect" of its steering geometry. This 2-part steering process suckers inattentive riders into a false sense of security. To straighten the bike and reduce lean angle when exiting a turn, a rider must countersteer yet again. Learning the secret of Countersteering turns a "rider" into a "driver" who has instant control of the machine.

In addition to Countersteering, "gyroscopic precession" produces an additive effect during the initial lean of the motorcycle. As the front wheel is steered away from centerline, gyroscopic precession suddenly tries to push the 'bike over in the same direction. Just like Countersteering, gyroscopic precession gets stronger the quicker that steering takes place. Bicycles do the same thing, but it's less noticeable since speeds are lower and the front wheel weighs less. However, bicycles are easy to test for gyroscopic precession by simply picking it up with one hand while the front wheel is spinning, then steering the handlebars and feeling the bike twist. This is one more reason why motorcycles steer the opposite of cars. This is nothing more that "elementary school" physics.

Cycle skid mark from locked rear tire? Kink is impact point.

Final skid mark and impact on right rear of van. Note rider was still in middle of his lane.

In Barnard's emergency, photographs of his 44-foot skid mark from braking show that he barely deviated from the middle of his lane. Since his front tire struck the final 1-foot of Koella's van, Barnard would have avoided the crash if he had been able to steer to the left half of his lane. This failure implies he panicked—a normal response—and forgot to Countersteer—also a "normal" response. Riders must constantly practice Countersteering every time they ride, in order to program their brains to react correctly in an emergency. Note, however, that the 44-foot skid mark measurement is almost meaningless, since it is really two skid marks in one -- the first part is before impact, but much of it is after impact.

No one in the world is 100% safe all the time (most accidents happen in the home), and perhaps no rider in the world could have avoided Carl Koella in that exact predicament. No witnesses saw Koella use his left-hand turn signal, and the pre-crash skid mark is very short. From a philosophical point of view, passing into the next world while doing what one loves might not be the worst way to go.

According to the MSF, the second deadly sin is "overusing" the rear brake in a panic situation. Since up to 100% of a motorcycle's weight transfers to the front tire under maximum braking, ANY use of the rear brake will only lock the rear tire. This destroys the "gyroscopic stability" of the rear wheel, which is required to hold the bike vertical, destroying the controlability of the 'bike. In rain or on oil-covered surfaces, or going down a steep hill, this changes to 50%/50%, but on dry asphalt, riders must never use the rear brake for rapid decelleration. Normal low-speed riding, especuially with a heavy touring 'bike with passenger, 50%/50% will work fine. The danger lies with being lulled into a false sense of security as the rider's brain programs itself to depend on the rear brake. By never using the rear brake, even in normal riding, the rider's brain gets programmed with the correct emergency skills. Once again, in Barnard's case, his skid mark implies he used his rear brake (since it's almost impossible to lockup the front brake on dry pavement in a straight line, especially for 44 feet—although most of the skidmark occurred after impact with the van), destabilizing the 'bike at the very moment he most required control. Advanced riders actually use the rear brake specifically when they WANT to lose control of the back end to make the front end steer sharper, which makes the back tire lose grip and begin to slide with the bike leaned over—which is not something a beginner wants to play with.

It was not mentioned in the crash report whether Barnard's headlight was on high-beam or low-beam, or whether a high-powered bulb was installed. A high-powered bulb on high-beam is impossible for any driver to ignore.

Koella crash diagram. Click to enlarge

Note police drawing of skid mark does NOT match photo. Police alleged cycle lost control before hitting van, but disproven by photo.

The correct technique for this emergency was maximum front-wheel braking to give Koella extra split-seconds to cross the road, opening up a slightly larger gap to the left of Barnard's lane. Then releasing the front brake and Counteering hard TO THE RIGHT, DIRECTLY AT KOELLA'S VAN, which LEANS THE 'BIKE HARD TO THE LEFT. This sets up the correct lean angle, allowing the 'bike to TURN TO THE LEFT. Since we are only talking about a 3-foot-wide maneuver, the rider would then immediately Countersteer to the left, directly at the oncoming lane of traffic. This leans the 'bike to the right, setting up a "swerve" maneuver back to the right once safely past Koella's van. Practice, practice, practice is the only way to program a rider's brain for evasive maneuvers. Children ought to be taught this "physics lesson" from first-grade through college, and media-blitzs ought to inform everyone else, until all Americans can recite this in their sleep.

A final life-saving tip is provided by Keith Code: "Steer as quickly as possible in every turn," since this gets the bike leaned over and REDUCES the maximum lean angle needed for the duration of the curve, which INCREASES ground clearance, and prevents the rider from panicking and trying to cut to the inside of the curve too early. Steering slowly just forces the rider to lean the bike at an excessive angle right in the middle of a corner, reducing ground clearance and possibly causing the machine to drag on the pavement. This habit is also the required instinct when an emergency avoidance situation suddenly presents itself. In other words, quick steering is safe and slow steering is deadly. (Click here to see a hypothetical Perfect Corner, © John Lee.)

SELECTIVE CRIMINALITY

What do we get from the government instead of lifesaving education and helpful crash analysis? Police officers -- without motorcycle licenses -- who write traffic tickets for "reckless driving" or "drag racing" when a motorcyclist LEANS A MOTORCYCLE OVER (which is the ONLY way a 'bike can change direction!). A rider who cannot lean a motorcycle is a rider who is unqualified to ride a motorcycle. According to the Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Advanced RiderCourse workbook, "leaning in [or hanging off]... permits sharper turns at any given speed when ground clearance limits motorcycle lean angle. It is useful in highway-speed turns and in decreasing-radius turns." Or worse, we get an army of "law-enforcement" agencies that gang up to "Testi-lie" against a dead motorcyclist in order to save one of their benefactors from taking responsibility for his sickness and continual irresponsibility. In this case, according to a former police officer, the Blount County Sheriff's Department is paid by the multinational ALCOA corporation specifically to target owners of motorcycles traveling public highways (i.e., illegal "selective enforcement"). Motorcyclist Terry Barnard didn't stand a chance in the Blount County "justice" system. Let's stop this insanity, please.

ALCOA's secret airport in Blount County, off U.S. Hwy. 129, near Koella's house.

Keypad-operated electric gate closes at night from 4PM to 8AM.

Driving lesson over. On with the Koella crime. One allegation in circulation, made by a Townsend police officer, is that the reason it took so long to arrest the senator and take a blood-alcohol sample was that the Tennessee Highway Patrol escorted the millionaire senator out his back entrance of his farm and over state lines to a hospital Kentucky, where his blood was allegedly filtered through a dialysis machine. This scenario might explain why an alleged alcoholic with obvious mental derangement allegedly passed a blood-alcohol test with a score of 0.00%. Another allegation made by a doctor at Blount Memorial Hospital is that he observed a Tennessee Highway Patrolman giving a blood sample. Since when do police officers give blood samples after someone else's traffic crash? (Although maybe that's a good idea for cops to be tested for drunk-driving whenever they make an arrest for drunk-driving.) This doctor also alleged he witnessed Koella arriving at the hospital to give blood at 2AM, not 10PM as police alleged, and that Koella was leading police not vice-versa (as published photos showed from inside the jailhouse). That's 8 hours after the crash, not 4 hours as police alleged.

This allegation is believable since Koella's lawyers refused to allow the plaintiff's attorneys to view Koella's medical records except in the former's law office (where such files would be easy to censor). Normally, plaintiff's lawyers just purchase copies from the doctors and hospitals. Koella's medical files were then sealed by the judge, presumably to prevent the public from learning what medications Koella was prescribed (although they might prove "amantadine" was prescribed for the trooper, not Koella). Case law would allow anyone to motion to unseal these censored files since Koella is now dead, especially since this case is arrousing such hot debate over the Carl Koella Memorial Parkway (which makes it even easier to unseal the medical records).

Contingency plans for protecting elite members of America's caste system are well within the capabilities of wealthy organizations staffed by intelligent, educated and ambitious people. Remember that Senator-Doctor Frist's family business was willing and able to steal $1-billion from the U.S. taxpayers, without fear of going to prison even after the corporation got convicted, so this allegation is not that far-fetched. Frist is ambitious enough to dream of becoming president someday, according to newspaper reports.

Popular legal talisman of drug dealers and ALCOA Inc.

ALCOA airport's warning to campers, boaters, hunters, picknickers and police officers.

Trooper Jessie Brooks admittedly chauffeurred the politicians all day long. A donated business jet or even the governor's own aircraft at nearby McGee Tyson International Airport could rapidly cover such a short distance. Republican Knox County Sheriff Tim Hutchinson also has an air force of 5 ex-military helicopters that he reportedly flies VIPs in, according to the Knoxville Journal, (such as the pro-Republican managing editor of the Knoxville Sentinel, Harry Moscos), which is illegal since the rebuilt choppers can't get airworthiness certificates. (What other FAA laws do these cop-pilots violate? This National Sheriff of the Year -- (which he won for fighting the chief of police during a proposed tax-saving merger) -- can resell these "free" aircraft for a profit after 5 years, according to his pilots. This sheriff is currently attempting to act as general contractor for a new Knox County jail costing the taxpayers ultimately $300-million with finance charges ($200 additional tax per year for each resident), resulting in abandonment of the county jail -- the largest building in Knoxville -- as well as the previously abandoned city police's jail.) Helicopters equipped with spotlights and infra-red night-vision systems, of course, can land anywhere, anytime -- even in the dead of night on a senator's farm or the nearby secret airport of ALCOA. Who knows the actual time-line for events that evening? Witnesses to the crash were kept at the jail for many hours past the official end of the investigation, and off-duty police officers did not return home for eight hours after Koella's blood-alcohol and blood-drug sampling, according to police statements to investigators.

ALCOA's secret airport beside Lake Calderwood, near McGee Tyson International Airport.

Control tower and windsock at ALCOA's secret heliport and grass landing strip.

As author and legislative voter of Tennessee's latest drunk-driving laws (the ONLY kind of voter who's allowed to vote on DUI laws in a "representative Republic"), attorney Carl Koella certainly knew he faced first-degree murder charges -- and either a life in prison or the death penalty -- should he be convicted of drunk, drugged and medicated driving after a fatal hit-and-run crash. (Such prosecution recently occurred to a North Carolina motorist, who avoided the death penalty with a life -- and slow death -- in prison.) Governor Sundquist, Senator Thompson, (Senator) Dr. Frist, Congressman Duncan, Mrs. Senator Dole, and a gaggle of other relatively anonymous politicians all faced political disaster that evening had Senator Koella been treated as any other citizen would have been. This is also why WBIR News refused to comply with the plaintiff's subpeona and why it censored a third video from the public that showed all these politicians gathered around the courthouse late at night, exercising their collective powers of damage control (and laboratory expertise?).

As former Blount County Constable Jeff Boling told investigators: "It would not be below Koella to leave the scene of an accident inasmuch as Koella feels that he is above the law." Constable Boling also noted "Koella's friendship with a number of well-known criminal figures." Senator Koella sponsored legislation that eliminated the Blount County Constables coincidentally after Boling conducted raids on "protected" criminal establishments. It is interesting that a couple of weeks after Koella's arrest, all the Republican state and national politicians (including Governor Sundquist, Congressman Duncan, Senator Thompson and Senator wanna-be-president Dole) gathered in Knox County, Tennessee, on election eve. Their meeting point was Cotton Eyed Joe nightclub, whose owner had just been arrested for using the nightclub as a warehouse for large amounts of stolen property. Koella also sponsored legislation that attempted to ban video cameras from public court proceedings, coincidentally during preparations for his upcoming criminal and civil trials. As previously stated, even police officers could detect Koella's dementia, which would not look good to the voters accustomed to viewing the senator through media filters. According to Koella's investigative file, Koella also had close ties to the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), and could get a fired employee reinstated if it suited him. There may be ties and cooperation between all these Blount County players, as often exists in any similar community.

It certainly was odd that the district attorney for Sevier County -- an area plagued with a sheriff convicted of drug dealing (Tennessee leads the nation with dozens of sheriffs convicted of drug-dealing) -- to place a newspaper ad praising the virtues of an arrested hit-and-run driver facing potential drunk-driving felony charges. (Perhaps that's a new courtesy that D.A. Al Schmutzer will be extending to all citizens accused of drunk driving?) Sevier County, home of the tourist havens of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, is where Koella's mysterious 199 votes turned up after the election, counted at midnight by only Koella's supporters on the election commission, reversing his opponent's reported victory. It is rumored these "votes" cost $30,000, and Koella's opponent was denied access to inspect the accuracy of these alleged votes. Attorneys general (and police) support of this felony-hit-and-run driver is also suspect in light of suspicions that Koella was in fact the drug kingpin of the local area (where his alleged underlings occasionally took the fall in his place. As the convicted "Tex" Hill cheerfully said during his cocaine trial and during Koella's two trials, "Koella's a great guy. If I need anything I just give him a call." If this suspicion is true, it may be great that our "conservative, tough-on-crime" politicians are secretly providing Americans with the recreations they desire, but for those same politicians to steal elections, raise taxes, waste billions of taxpayer dollars and write laws enforcing stricter Prohibitions, that's an entirely different matter.

Blount County's McGee Tyson airport was the landing zone for jet-loads of cocaine imported from Florida, according to prosecutors of drug "kingpins" during the 1980s. Duffle bags full of cocaine were literally raining down from the sky and landing in people's yards, providing front-page fodder for local newspapers. A billion dollars of cocaine arrived in Blount County every year, according to these prosecutors. Presumably, not all of it stayed in the Knoxville and Blount County areas, and some was shipped northward. Fortunes and dynasties have always been made from Prohibitions. According to an instructor for Tennessee's drunk-driving "schools", the ancestors of Governor Don Sundquist earned their family fortune off alcohol Prohibition, since Tennessee retained its state-wide ban on beer and liquor 30 years after most of America went "wet". For Tennesseans, bootlegging whiskey did not end in 1933. This Prohibition-based economy continues today with marijuana farming being Tennessee's biggest cash-crop, according to the government. Successfully transportating large amounts of illegal substances requires logistical supply lines, and is best accomplished with the cooperation of law enforcement agencies -- for an appropriate "licensing" fee, of course. This is a significant part of the economy of East Tennessee, with "legitimate" business empires built to launder the ill-gotten profits. In 1994, a single truckload of toilets from Medellin, Columbia -- with $30-million of cocaine inside -- was "mistakenly" abandoned in Knox County, according to area law officers who enjoyed their photo on the front page of the Knoxville News Sentinel. No arrests were made at the time. What eventually became of that half-ton of white powdery substance was never reported. According to Barry Mawn, special agent in charge (SAC) of the Knoxville office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): "This is a shipment that was destined for a number of major cities in the United States. We just don't have, fortunately, that kind of addiction problem here." According to a laughing SAC of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Knoxville, the FBI's "investigation" of this crime was probably over after a couple of weeks.

Interstate highways are useful, but expose illicit cargo to risk of hundreds of thousands of lurking traffic police and trucking checkpoints run by cops. Airfield access, on the otherhand, immunizes modern-day bootleggers from scrutiny by traffic police (which represents 90% of American law enforcement). Large public airports are great for convenience, but lack the "security" of a private airstrip. Especially an airstrip that's invisible to the public, and protected from the public with security countermeasures. According to a former police officer, the Blount County Sheriff's Department is paid by the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) to harass, ticket, arrest and seize the property of motorcycle tourists who dare to travel the public roads. Motorcycle tourists love exploring and camping in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, which is coincidentally right next door to ALCOA's secret airstrip.

Presumably it is illegal for individuals to pay a government police force to target specific citizens for "selective enforcement". If this allegation is true, it is especially disturbing in light of the Blount County Sheriff's Department past history of abuse of civil rights. In one instance, the FBI investigated allegations of murder against the Blount County police force, when the cops alleged a prisoner died not from torture, but from falling out of bed. To conduct a sting operation, an undercover FBI agent walked along the road, and sure enough was arrested by deputies, who beat him -- in view of an FBI surveilance video camera. The police were then given a dose of their own medicine. One Sheriff Department "detective" suffered the indignity getting fired and facing three hung juries. He later got a job in the Loudon County "law enforcement" community (coincidentally a part of Senator Koella's district). If Blount County police will allegedly commit these crimes, perhaps the American Motorcycle Association is prudent to warn tourists to spend their dollars anywhere else besides Blount and Knox Counties, Tennessee.

ALCOA has always enjoyed close ties with National Security and Pentagon agencies due to its manufacture of strategic aircraft materials -- the same agencies repeatedly implicated in drug importation from South America. As Senator John Kerry, chairman of the so-called Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan and Bush administrations, admitted: "our system of justice had been perverted; that our covert agencies had converted themselves into channels for the flow of drugs into the United States." ALCOA is slowly relocating it's operations to south of the American border, due to lack of labor and evironmental laws. Perhaps this secret airstrip is only used for legitimate business. Perhaps not.

Such corporate-funded "profiling" is clearly illegal, since it targets only one category of motorist for "selective enforcement", ignoring identical or worse traffic infractions by larger automobiles and logging trucks that cause many serious injuries and deaths (including deaths to motorcyclists). The 40-MPH speed limit, set far below the average speed of traffic in dangerous violation of safety regulations set by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO), is apparently enforced only against citizens who travel by motorcycle. According to a friendly neighbor, Blount County sheriff Ron Dunn admits: "It appears to be run over or get run over. I feel bad for anyone who is obeying the 50 mph speed limit. They are the ones at greatest risk for getting in a wreck. Tractor-trailer trucks cannot negotiate the dozens of 180-degree turns along U.S. Highway 129 -- they must stop and block both lanes of these blind curves. Automobiles and motorcycles that meet such obstacles often have little choice but to crash under them. Yet ALCOA allegedly pays Blount County police to pick on bikers as if the cops are corporate security guards on private property.

ALCOA practically built the twin "company towns" of Alcoa and Maryville, Tennessee (or thinks it did), as its headquarters for world-wide operations for aluminum-production. Lake Calderwood is an ALCOA-made lake originally built to produce industrial electricy during World War II. ALCOA owns 21,000 acres of land surrounding this lake, which is bordered by mountains. A golfing resort was built across the lake from where these photos were taken, for the exclusive use of ALCOA executives. It included an impressive 9-hole lake-view course, recreation lodge and skeet range, with access via private ferry. A large house was reserved for the resort manager. However, ALCOA inexplicably bulldozed this valuable resort, leveling everything into oblivion. Presumably its executives still played golf and took vacations, and ALCOA shareholders certainly would have appreciated the millions of dollars profit its sale would have produced. At the very least, ALCOA's top executive, Paul O'Neil, could have paid himself a fat bonus for selling a resort, such as when he reportedly paid himself a $15-million reward for sending 1,500 Blount County jobs south of the American border.

Satan-worshiperand homosexual adulterous 5-times-convicted-felon George Bush Junior, president of the bankrupt United States Corporation promoted ALCOA's apparently homosexual CEO to Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico Corporation and director of the International Monetary Fund Corporation (IMF) to oversee the "US" Department of Treasury counterfeiting fiat-"money" printer for the private Federal Reserve Bank Corporation (all greenback "dollars" are nothing more than bank loan IOUs to the heirloom international banksters who own Federal Reserve Bank Corporation). This inclused the beloved Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection corporation of Puerto Rico (ALL so-called "income tax" revenues voluntarily donated to IRS go to international banksters of Federal Reserve Bank to pay partial payment of interest on war-loans to bankrupt United States Corporation - NONE of the IRS profits go to running the so-called US government, as in all other bankruptcies) and the new mass-murdering corporate security guards in Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), who massacred 90 churchgoers, including dozens of little children, in 1993 over an alleged dispute in a $200 Roman Civil Law contract for debt. (Waco, Texas city councilman William Sessions, Esquire, British Association of Registry (BAR), was promoted to FBI director by Waco oil rancher and Ivy League narco-trillionaire Sir President George Bush Sr, KBE (Knight of the British Empire and cousin to the Queen of England). ATF and FBI teamed up with martial law special forces armies from Pentagon and NATO to experiment with their mind-control genocide squads by broadcasting the screams of slaughtered rabbits 24/7 to lull the kiddies to sleep - and to push their own troops over the edge of sanity - before sending in the tanks and feeding the Christians to the crematorium alive on Snuff TV. Sessions was subsequently fired by by boss of 3 months, US Attorney General Janet Reno, Esquire, British Association of Registry (BAR), and President William Clinton, Esquire, British Association of Registry (BAR), (AKA William Blythe IV, AKA William Clinton Blythe Rockefeller).) The Treasury website sells Paul O'Neil, Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico:

Paul H. O'Neill was sworn in as the 72nd Secretary of the Treasury on January 20, 2001.

O'Neill was chairman and CEO of Alcoa from 1987 to 1999, and retired as chairman at the end of 2000. Prior to joining Alcoa, O'Neill was president of International Paper Company from 1985 to 1987, where he was vice president from 1977 to 1985.

O'Neill's unique experience transforming an old economy firm into a new economy success has been chronicled as a study by the Harvard Business School, and studied in business schools across the nation. O'Neill has gained valuable insights into international finance and the global economy as head of a major corporation with 140,000 employees spread across 36 nations.

US Treasury Department also includes Office of Intelligence Support (OIS). Its website explains that Treasury does not merely count and publish America's money:

The Office of Intelligence Support was established in 1977 during the tenure of Treasury Secretary Blumenthal. It succeeded the Office of National Security (ONS), which was set up in 1961 under Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon to connect Treasury with the work of the National Security Council. ONS's representation of Treasury with the Intelligence Community began under a Presidential Memorandum in 1971 during the tenure of Treasury Secretary William E. Simon. In 1972, in response to the Murphy Commission Report to the Congress, which stressed the importance of strong links between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible for international economic policy, Treasury became a member of the National Foreign Intelligence Board. Today, Executive Order 12333 lists the Special Assistant to the Secretary (National Security) as a senior intelligence officer of the Intelligence Community.

The Special Assistant and his staff support the Secretary of the Treasury in his roles as chief economic and financial adviser to the President, head of the second largest law enforcement department in the federal government.

On December 4, 2002, President Bush Jr (3rd cousin to Queen of England, a closer relation than both his father or mother since he is a product of inbreeding-incest) "fired" Paul O'Neil. On December 5, a private "experimental" plane crashed into the Federal Reserve Bank Corporation's skyscraper in Miami, Florida. On December 6, Bush announced the "resignation" of O'Neil to the sheeple, the same day that unemployment "officialy" reached a 9-year high at 6% (not counting all people unemployed longer than 6 months, or those collecting unemployment while working part-time, or 10-million criminal-illegal aliens, or 7-million convicted criminals in US prisons - more people in prison than all the rest of the civilized world combined). (The "bigger" headline news on the same day was the sentencing of felon and Hollywood superstar Winona Ryder, charged with four felonies and convicted for alleged felony theft and narcotics prescription after she purchased $5,000 of clothing by leaving her unbouncable million-dollar credit card with the sales clerk at the cash register. Note that Sacks Corporation wanted nothing to do with the prosecution, but the government prosecutors ignored the "victim's" request to drop the prosecution of Ryder. Ryder was aided by her friend Mark Klaas, whose daughter Polly was murdered at Bohemian Grove presidential retreat and homosexual nudist colony in San Francisco's giant Redwood forest, where Presidents Georges Bush and Bill Clinton Blythe Rockefeller worship Satan and perform annual child sacrifice to their 50-foot-tall stone idol of Owl of Bohemia (spooky voice provided by Walter Cronkite) and where kiddie snuff porn is filmed, according to court orders. Ryder had donated $1-million reward to locate the killers of Polly Klaas, before Ryder had met Mark.)

The Treasury Department works hand-in-hand withAmerica's Secret Police, the so-called Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Bush's father, George Sr (arrested at least once for DWI with a mistress), was Director of CIA until fired by President Jimmy Carter, as which point Bush ran against Ronald Reagan in 1980. Bush helped the senile Reagan commit treason and "beat" Carter with CIA's and Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) "cooperation" (aka "conspiracy") in October Surprise, which cut an illegal deal with Iranian terrorists to continue holding the US embassy hostage until Reagan/Bush won the election. Colonel Oliver North was responsible for the sabotage of Carter's resue mission to Iran, which murdered the American helicopter crews of Special Forces who crashed and burned in the desert sands. Bush's CIA also staged a murderous Nazi coup d'etat in Bolivia, slaughtering the elected officials and establishing cocaine as its national currency, also to embarass Carter in the election polls.

Klaus Barbi, the Nazi Butcher of Lyon, a wanted war criminal from World War 2, was later kidnapped in 1983 and "extradited" from trial in France by Simon Wisenthal's Nazi Hunters. Barbi was sentenced to death.

Such treason sowed the seeds of Iran-Contra trials and convictions and assassinations, including the murder or more likely retirement-in-exile of Director of CIA Bill Casey, which were Bush's undoing as Bill Clinton defeated Bush's reelection in 1992. Basically, all law enforcement officers and military intelligence analysists agree, the CIA exists merely to import prohibited narcotics into the USA. This drug pipeline, in concert with the bogus "War on Drugs" and other phony but deadly wars like Vietnam or the so-called War on Terrorism, establishes American drug warlords like George Bushes at the top of the American food chain. This entails US CIA and DIA hiring and training terrorists and directing terrorism against US citizens, including blowing up or shooting down US airliners. Billionaires and empires are created upon the murdered bodies and looted checkbooks of US citizens. Capitalism at its best and brightest. Darwin's Curse of Survival of the Serial Killers and Mass Murderers. What genocidal wrath was previously allotted for Native Americans and kidnapped African Americans is now "Blowing Back" upon European Americans, with the massacre of New York and DC on September 11, 2001. Bush and his fellow Nazis hesitate not to forwarn Americans that their terror campaign against America is just beginning and will know no bounds, with nuclear and biological mass murders just around the corner.

Refueling and storage facilities at ALCOA's secret airfield, completely surrounded by mountains

Refueling apparatus and storage warehouses at ALCOA's secret heliport and grass landing strip.

No airstrip or locked gate apparently existed while the resort was in operation -- these were built afterward. The tiny hydroelectric dam does not require a primative airstrip for its technicians, since it's only a short drive from town and major airports, and is a free phone call away from ALCOA's headquarters. The short, grassy airstrip is certainly a risky endeavor for any airplane pilot, due to being surrounded by water on one side and mountains on the other (although it would be perfect for "bombing runs" by aircraft approaching via the lake). The helipad might be convenient for middle-management to commute to work, but it's just as quick and far less expensive to just take the short drive by scenic highway. ALCOA also bulldozed the entire lakeside community of Calderwood. According to an employee of Tapoco Incorporated (the name of the agency running the Calderwood Hydroelectric Development and the Tapoca Wildlife Refuge) ALCOA has no plans to ever develop this 21,000-acre lakeside wilderness. Aircraft are not seen using this airport during the daytime, acccording to local residents, when the gates are virtually open to the public. The miniature airport is located beside refuelling apparatus appropriate for both avgas and jet fuel ("diesel"), and sports adjacent warehouse space. An aluminum-sided hut stands guard as if some kind of "control tower".

THE VIOLENCE OF CENSORSHIP

Airport Hilton Hotel bar

Hilton Hotel bar at McGee Tyson International Airport in Alcoa, Tennessee. © Hilton

Reporters who investigate police crimes, as well as whistle-blowing cops themselves, face the terror of anonymous gunshots, arson and hit-men-for-hire. A former police chief's home burned down due to arson, coincidentally as he investigated Senator Koella's crash. Ex-cop J.D. Smith was also a political candidate for the Tennessee state legislature. The fire destroyed many of his Koella files, but some information did survive. The Sevier County resident checked out Koella's alleged bar-room antics at the Airport Hilton with current Tennessee governor Don Sundquist, prior to the senator's fatal crash. The private detective was on the trail of allegations that Senator Koella was kicked out of the Hilton bar by a bouncer, due to Koella's inebriated state. The "governor's" aircraft was parked next door at the Cherokee Aviation terminal. Perhaps that's why Koella headed home instead of going straight to Knoxville for Congressman John Duncan's annual party with the rest of the ambitious politicians. Was Koella going home to pass out and sleep off his alleged intoxication? Or perhaps Koella was not alone in his van during the crash? Who knows? These allegations fit in well with the reported timeline admitted to by Koella's attorneys, which was well-hyped by the pro-Republican media that day.

According to a senior journalist of the Knoxville Writers' Guild, "random acts of arson" have always been used in East Tennessee to intimidate people who investigate "controversial" topics such as race relations, environmental pollution and political corruption. Coincidentally, as city and county lawmakers met in the palatial-but-soon-to-be-abandoned City-County Building (and the Sheriff's jailhouse bunker), debating why every county taxpayer must each "donate" thousands of dollars under "force" (as the mayor proudly calls it) to build a new prison while crime rates are falling, a bomb threat was reported by a sheriff's deputy. This forced evacuation of the sheriff's department and council chamber. Who would most benifit from disruption of lawmakers seeking to thwart the sheriff out of potentially "earning" up to $30-million personal profit from this illegal construction project (one of the lawmakers sued the sheriff to halt construction)? Twenty cops had testified to the council that the new jail was not required since they couldn't begin to fill the two they already had (they wanted a pay raise instead). Are bombings to be included in these alleged intimidation tactics? Pyromania is pyromania. This sheriff was reportedly alleged by one of his lieutenants to steal cars with a convicted murderer (while using his police cruiser), is reportedly a business partner with a convicted felon ever since their nightclub ("Uncle Sam's") burned down due to arson (reported by MetroPulse to be due to rivalries within the ownership), and according to an associate takes an alcoholic multi-millionaire "drunk driving" as personal protection. What else is he capable of? Since the Tennessee legislature passed a law prohibiting criminal background checks of big-city sheriffs (and police chiefs), how do we know what might be hidden in his files?

Note that Koella's criminal defense attorney, Jerry Cunningham, alleged during the sentencing hearing that: "Your Honor, this is a dry county and we can't buy a highball here, but we do sell beer, for what it's worth." Cunningham was not under oath, like all attorneys (defense, prosecutors, judges). The Airport Hilton does, in fact, serve all types of alcohol, including "highballs" (although this author's investigation has yet to determine exactly what a "highball" is).

Such retalitory violence is not uncommon. A Knoxville, Tennessee highway official experienced a shotgun blast as he stepped out his front door, as reward for testifying against corruption of the state highway department contracts (he must have been a Boy Scout, since he wore a bullet-proof vest that morning). This begs the question: Is the mafia (a generic term for organized crime of any ethic origin) in control of America's highway system, like the Italian mob controls the docks and garment industry of New York City (despite Republican NYC Mayor ex-prosecutor wanna-be-senator wanna-be-president Rudolf Gulliani's profitable police crackdown on jaywalking)? And if the mafia is in control of America's 250-billion-tax-dollar-a-year highway system, what does this mean for highway safety? Since when have violent criminals cared about public safety?

Illegal road construction in Koella's district. Click to see rear view

Deadly highway construction projects waste taxpayer funds and kill thousands of people.

In Tennessee, one highway construction contractor "earned" 100-million dollars every year from the state, yet could not be bothered to obey the law and erect "road closed" signs or move 10-ton concrete barriers out of the middle of the road, despite months of pleas to the Department of Transportation (DOT) from the city's mayor, police department and a judge (U.S. Highway 411 running through Koella's district). Koella was chairman of the Commerce Committee which doled out billions of tax dollars in highway funds, including the highway named after him, the road formerly known as U.S. Interstate I-140. From other allegations made by area witnesses, another question worth begging is just how much drug profit fuels the Republican machine? Was Koella a cocaine middle-man doling out drug money to politicians as well? Tennessee leads the nation in total number of sheriffs convicted of drug dealing, and Senator Koella helped the legislature pass a law to prohibit criminal background checks of big-city sheriffs and police chiefs (former Knox County sheriff Joe Jenkins was convicted of drunk-driving and car theft to feed his cocaine habit, and held week-long "free-cocaine" parties at his home, according to an eyewitness). Koella, Sundquist, Duncan, Thompson and Dole, et. al., had no qualms holding their election-eve party at Knoxville's Cotton Eyed Joe's nightclub, despite it's owner reportedly being arrested for warehousing stolen property there. This is a holdover from the Republican Reagan-Bush years, when the U.S. embassy staff of Costa Rica -- including the U.S. ambassador -- was expelled for operating a cocaine import businsess into the United States on behalf of the U.S. government. (This was one of the foundations of the famous Christic Institute lawsuits against the U.S. government, which eventually led to 15 convictions against Reagan-Bush White House employees, and the disappearance of CIA director Bill Casey.

Detective Serpico took a bullet in the head after reporting literally thousands of police crimes (yet he survived to watch Al Pacino portray him in Hollywood).

One Knoxville journalist pulled an Uzi on a hit man, the third sent to kill him, resulting in the hit man's violent death soon after for failing to meet his "quota" (assassins are expendable mafia soldiers -- this one admitted he was hired by a particular drug dealer under indictment). Coincidentally, this reporter dared to publish a 911 tape of a Democratic lobbiest being murdered at a mayor's houseboat, which implicated the Loudon County police in his murder (part of Senator Koella's district).

Even the staunchly conservative mouthpiece of the Knoxville News Sentinel recently swallowed a gunshot through a window into its crowded offices. The shot was fired from the top of an abandoned building across the street in downtown Knoxville, just a couple of blocks from the police's and sheriff's bunkers. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time David Hunter, a former KPD officer and writer for the Sentinel, was interviewing gubernatorial candidate John Jay Hooker, while Governor Sundquist was anticipating a reelection cakewalk. (Was Hunter armed with all these allegations, which were in the Sentinel's possession? He did write that Hooker was perhaps not as "insane" as the governor and the media had alleged he was. What did this "pat on the back" mean? As Hunter confided to a local journalist, "I've been threatened a number of times, but I never took it too seriously.") Speaking of snipers, previous to that incident, the Sentinel incidentally employed as a security guard an ex-Air Force "anti-terrorist" sniper who was ordered to blow up food shipments during President George Bush's "police action" in Somalia. The sniper burned out and laid down his weapon after blowing a seven-year-old girl into three chunks. While previously undercover, the military sniper also was chewed out for not killing a student in a high school hallway instead of "merely" disarming him. The ex-military cop was eyewitness to an off-duty civilian cop killing a female motorist with his reckless driving, actually splitting the victim's car in half. The Sentinel, of course, could not be bothered with interviewing this eyewitness to our government's terrorism and eyewitness to a 17-year-old American female soldier gunned down in Somalia, while "fighting to keep America free" from starving Africans. (That's the kind of fascinating news that gatekeepers prefer to keep locked behind the gate.)

Author's home in top floor of building on left. Spot the 3 little firemen?

December 29, 1999 © Joe Howell, Knoxville News Sentinel

This author has likewise taken a bullet fired into his car during a serial killer's second murder trial. Perhaps it was a warning, since the car was parked at the time. This overt attempt at investigation intimidation and public-relations censorship failed, with the killer receiving his second murder conviction. According to the chief of police, the hit man killed six people. According to the district attorney, the assassin worked for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He is due for monthly parole hearings as of 4 January 2000, after serving 3 years of a 25-year murder sentence, 1.5 years shy of his minimum sentence (which even the district attorney's office didn't know about). (Details of this story are due to appear in a national magazine. Our government pays career criminals $100-million of our tax dollars every year, basically to "inform" on subordinates, competitors and anyone else they know, according to our government.)

Graffiti at crime scene of theft of author's car

Ghetto graffiti in alley where author's car stolen. © John Lee

At the same time, this author received a phone call from the Knoxville chief of police (caught on tape), had a KPD car parked on his back doorstep on Christmas Eve (photographed), was followed and stopped by KPD (on a trumped-up traffic violation allegation by a close associate of the chief of police who's "on the fast track" despite crashing his patrol car five times during his five-year career. Case dismissed.). On another occasion, the author was nearly run off the road by an overtaking KPD patrol car (which was 2 feet inside the author's lane) -- its driver was jabbering on his police radio about the author's hometown which was outside the cop's jurisdiction. The author was also nearly hit head on by a Blount County patrol car 3 feet inside the author's lane, while riding a motorcycle on U.S. 129. (Another police-caused severe crash occurred to an innocent bystander in front of the author 15 years prior, so it was not related, but it did injure or kill the occupants of that car when they trusted the green traffic light. The cop T-boned the car in the passenger door as the innocent driver crossed the intersection. Both cars were knocked 100 feet sideways in the blink of an eye. Had it been the author's car that was hit, his passenger would surely have been killed, and perhaps the author, too. This author was "young and stupid," and did not stop to testify against the cop for his deadly crime.)

Graffiti at crime scene referring to author's helmet sticker. Other sticker said, Beware: Bikers Know Their Rights

Personal information about author's motorcycle helmet sticker that is only visible under close surveilance. © John Lee

Knox County Sheriff's Department (KCSD) deputies also appear to behave strangely around the author while in public (according to a witness). The author was also followed from a doctor's office by a Tennessee Highway Patrolman who was outside his assigned county. Without going into details, the same week as most of these events the author's home nearly burned down on 29 December, 1999, after an accidental fire next door at a building under renovation. The author's car was coincidentally stolen two weeks later, despite being closely surrounded by half a dozen law-enforcement agencies and an army of nearly 1,000 cops. At the crime scene, "ghetto graffiti" said "KPD PROVE" and other web-site and personal information. Phone calls to Knoxville Police Department (KPD) and to its contracted towing service, Sutherland Avenue Wrecking, alleged they did not have the car. The car was then reported stolen to the car theft detail of KPD. Six weeks later, Sutherland Avenue Wrecker Service mailed a letter of notification that it towed my car under authority of KPD. A Sutherland employee declared it cannot tow a vehicle until ordered to do so by KPD. Tennessee law requires wrecker companies to notify owners within 30 days (why not same day?). It has 15 days to notify the KPD car theft division. Yet Sutherland busted both time limits, meaning it committed car theft. Was "KPD Prove" intended by KPD to dare this author to dare to prove the cover up of the murdered KPD police officer? Allegedly my car was blocking a fire lane, rather than parked legally in the author's loading zone. KPD refused to tow a lawrge truck which really was blocking the fire lane overnight (cleaning up the fire damage with "PD" plates), ticketing the truck with a $25 citation. Meter maids ignore all other vehicles parked in the same spot, since it is not illegal to do so. In the author's case, the parking ticket charge was $1,000, increasing at $150 every week. (What's the phone number to the Guiness Book of World Records?)

This is the situation that resulted in several class actions being filed against Knoxville Municipal Corporation, its mayor, chief of police, individual police officers and their Mafia-connected towing contractors. A RICO class action was also filed regarding the corporation's police deaprtment and traffic court being operated for profit and organized crime and racketeering (RICO). After giving testimony in court, its court clerk was fired for extortion and theft. An audit revealed hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from court revenues and fraud of the court docket.

Crime scene graffiti that on first glance implicates "KPD"

Graffiti at crime scene of car theft. © John Lee

According to a law-enforcement source, Senator Koella was involved in a viciously ruthless, state-wide car-theft ring that's capable of murder. Former Knox County sheriff Joe Jenkins, an associate of the alleged cop-killers, also was convicted of many car thefts. Current Knox County sheriff Tim Hutchinson is alleged by his ex-chief of detectives to steal cars with a convicted murderer. Another of the author's cars avoided vandalism of an entire parking lot after an unexpected shift-change (one block from the KPD bunker). Uniformed and armed police officers coincidentally sat next to this author in a college library -- despite admitting to not being a student (caught on tape) -- and parked next to the author while he worked on his car for one hour (photographed). An "undercover" private eye or informant coincidentally confronted a friend of the author, then pretended to be a drunk while "spying" on the group for several hours (at a distance of 10 feet). As a Loudon County cop advised this author, "Be careful out there." That week judicial commissioners reportedly told the Knoxville Journal that sheriffs deputies routinely use intimidation tactics on commissioners -- especially when commissioners complain about fraudulent warrents issued on fictitious suspects to illegally search people's houses. One commissioner reportedly told a friend, "if anything happens to me, have somebody investigate the sheriff's department."

Downtown Beruit? View from author's back door of the sheriff's destruction of downtown Knoxville (where his car was stolen). Some of the office buildings were condemned and demolished without any compensation to the tenants

© John Lee

That week after the accidental fire, the mayor held his "mayor's night out" at the brew pub next door (but abstained from enjoyment), and along with his KPD commander, attempted to show support of downtown Knoxville. Within a couple of days he withdrew his and the KPD's support of the "Justice" Center (leaving the sheriff out on a limb with a gang of business-minded citizens attempting to saw it off). On the day of the fire, the mayor and KPD announced the hiring of an outspoken (and fired) sheriff's department detective who will work exclusively on unsolved murders (I wonder if he is interested in solving a cop-killing allegedly tolerated by the KPD?). As the sheriff's chief of detectives, Lieutenant Jimmy Jones's resignation letter reportedly observed the part-time National Sheriff of the Year "turned into a paranoid, selfish, power-crazed tyrant," who offered "virtually nonexistant" cooperation with any other law enforcement agencies. (They say you're not really "paranoid" if they're really out to get you.) Also on the day of the fire, the Sentinel ran a story on the front of the business section telling how literally the nation and world approved of Knoxville destroying historic buildings, successful businesses and parking garages and replacing them with taxpayer-funded buildings that compete with private businesses (with a photo of my home). This story was written by a "deputy clerk of the court", not an active-duty journalist, and told how the "Justice" Center (a downtown maximum-security prison) was unstoppable by the public. The next day, my home moved to the front page of the Sentinel, with banner headlines proclaiming the accidental fire a towering "inferno". At any rate, it's lucky the wind didn't shift 90 degrees, or that accidental fire would have eliminated the one and only case file of Barnard vs. Koella. As it was, the author's home only suffered relatively minor smoke and water damage, with a few burn holes in the flammable roof. What's coincidence and what's not? Do the probability and statistics. At least it's good to know the police are everywhere when one needs them.

This is in addition to tape-recorded death threats the author received as reprisal for reporting crimes and contracting committed by U.S. military officers, while the author was stationed overseas in the U.S. Air Force.

As one local police officer described it to this author: "It's not about politics. It's about money. You start fucking with their money and you better watch out." Coincidentally, part-time Sheriff Tim Hutchinson was "fired" from his part-time job as general contractor of the $300-million prison, and construction was suspended until "public hearings" could be held. The Knoxville Journal wrote that "the media wolves" were "snapping at Sheriff Tim's heels", referring to employee desertions at KCSD, and "Wonder how many more rats will desert the sinking ship?" It was a busy first month of the new millenium.

This is standard operating procedure for a journalist investigating government corruption. This author received death threats while exposing literally billions of dollars in scams while a member of the U.S. Air Force overseas. The U.S. Secretary of Defense offered a job at the Pentagon for this author's trouble, but a normal civilian life of working and playing instead of killing and maiming was more appealing. Unfortunately, like Vice President Al Gore wrote when he returned from Vietnam, this author also wanted to "attone for his sins". Hence the continued involvement with fighting government corruption.

Even the possibility of censorship violence is plenty to frighten most journalists from pursuing a "controversial" story. With all of Tennessee's major newspapers now owned by Republicans, there is no enthusiastic outlet for news about criminal behavior by Republican politicians (or the liberal repeal of Prohibitions). Any reporter employed by these newspapers would face reprisals from editors for bucking their system. In this Koella crime, the editor of the Sevierville newspaper -- who was allegedly an eyewitness to Koella's drunkenness at the election party prior to the fatal crash -- coincidentally quit his editorial job and moved to Virginia (in order to better avoid any subpoenas in Koella's criminal or civil cases?). Media experts point out that "news" corporations exist not as watchdogs to inform the masses as needed for an intelligent democracy, but as guard dogs for those individuals powerful enough to manipulate the news corporations. Guard dogs soon become lapdogs once the "enemy" threat is subdued (i.e., the masses are under control). As for reporters taking issue with attacks upon their contemporaries, most writers don't care about such things any more than most cops care about cop killings -- or care enough to actually do something about it.

Note that although Detective Serpico did put a loaded gun to a cop's head in a police station, disarming the other cop of his deadly weapon, not even Serpico ever arrested another cop during the commission of a cop-crime. Internal Affairs detectives routinely watch dirty cops commit dozens of crimes on videotape before they finally make their move to arrest. In the history of American "law enforcement" -- to this author's knowledge -- no individual cop has ever arrested a dirty coworker observed committing a single criminal act, as police routinely do against ordinary citizens for "traffic crimes". (The official police euphamism for this disparity is "selective enforcement".) What's the word for this fear by "honest" police officers to make an arrest of a corrupt cop? Could it be "cowardice"? As long as America allows its cops to carry guns, honest cops will be terrified by the 100,000 criminals who have infiltrated America's police departments (by Detective Serpico's conservative estimate).

HERO WORSHIP

Only time will tell whether the Tennessee legislature backs down and reverses its law honoring Senator Carl Koella. Kinda' makes you wonder about all those other government "memorials", doesn't it?

For instance, the "Terry Barnard Memorial Highway", (U.S. 321), is actually the "Lamar Alexander Parkway". Blount County's Alexander is a former Republican governor who President Bill Clinton publicly named "America's Sleaziest Politician". That's quite an "honor", placing Alexander at the pinnacle of the rogues' gallery. Some might say that's the pot calling the kettle black, but as a former top prosecutor for the state of Arkansas, and with insider knowledge from his vice president, Tennessee's Al Gore, he might just know what he's talking about. Or maybe Clinton was jokingly referring to Alexander's Blount County being named after America's first U.S. Senator to be impeached by Congress, Tennessee (Southwest Territory) governor William Blount from Knoxville (and autographer of the U.S. Constitution). Other local political rogues: Knoxville's "Parson" Brownlow, editor of the city's newspaper during the bloody Civil War, was arrested for treason by the Confederacy while 5 alleged co-terrorists were given the death penalty. The preacher went on to become governor. Namesake of Knoxville, Henry Knox, was President George Washington's secretary of war, and supported General Washington's policy of executing soldiers who refused to fight without a paycheck. Washington, incidentally, farmed marijuana and died of syphilis. Alexander was in notable company, according to the president. Clinton and Gore were not the only ones critical of Alexander's activities.

In April of 1999, the non-partisan political-watchdog groups Center for Responsive Politics, Common Cause and Democracy 21 all lambasted Alexander for bypassing election-finance laws in his "undeclared" candidacy for the U.S. president's job. Alexander raised over $5-million for his political action committees (PACs), "We the Parents" and "Campaign for a New American Century", much of it from huge doners that contributed HUNDREDS of times more than the allowed amount. A spokesman for the Center for Responsive Politics added that Alexander put "kind of a new twist on a familiar trick". The spokesman added, "You're getting exactly what Congress set out to prevent. That's kind of an unhealthy situation." Technically, it was illegal for this "soft" money to be used for a political "shadow campaign". Common Cause was even harsher: "Tennessee is the Cayman Islands of the campaign finance system, similar to the money-laundering paradise of the Caribbean." (It remains to be seen whether Vice President Al Gore can capitalize on Tennessee's "money-laundering" potential.)

Lamar Alexander then dropped out of the campaign, perhaps keeping a hefty "profit" for himself (by setting up a non-taxed "non-profit" corporation that pays him a salary big enough to kill the company's "profit" -- i.e., "non-profit" equals non-taxed). Panhandling while running for president can prove to be a profitable hobby in America.

As a footnote to this sad tale, Governor Sundquist recently purchased property near Alexander. Perhaps Sundquist used some of the $5-million "profit" from his left-over gubernatorial campign funds. The Democratic party, headed by Koella's buddy Lieutenant Governor John Wilder, refused to give his opponent a penny. Democratic nominee John Jay Hooker was thus forced to run for governor on $500 out of his own pocket. Hooker actually performed remarkably well in the polls, and might well have defeated the governor with sufficient funds and if the so-called liberal media hadn't parroted Sundquist's claim that Hooker was "insane" for taking advantage of an anti-depressant and proposing total campaign-finance reform (which would kill media profits). Since his alleged opponent only spent $500, Sundquist did not have to spend much of "his" $6-million nest egg (his $1.5-million inaugeration party was "free" -- for him). Sundquist reportedly plans to retire to this Republican stronghold in order to live near his "partners in crime" in beautiful Blount County.

Will Sundquist survive the political and law enforcement forces gathering against him? Will the Owenby Bureau of Investigation dig up any more skeletons? Will Sundquist face the same justice that befell Democratic Governor Ray Blanton and his Tennessee State Police in the 1970s, sending Governor Sundquist and his Tennessee Highway Patrol officers to prison for their alleged crimes? Will Hollywood make a movie about possible gubernatorial murder, like it did in the movie Marie with Sissy Spacek, launching the acting and political careers of attorney Fred Thompson? (How about Oliver "JFK" Stone directing and producing a movie titled "John" (or "Lee"), with either Bruce "Die-Hard" Willis or Arnold "Be-Back" Schwartzenegger in the starring role? Personally, this author feels Val "Saint" Kilmer or Tom "Mission Impossible" Cruise would be more accurately type-cast for the job.) Will Sundquist end up doing hard-time and selling used cars like convicted Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jake Butcher? Not even Butcher's billion-dollar banking empire could save him from the Republican-controlled U.S. prosecutor's office of the 1980s. Conspiracy to aid and abet a vehicular homicide by crossing state lines is a federal crime with no statute of limitation. Same for first-degree murder of a state senator. Or is the fix already dialed in by the "Republicrats" in Tennessee and Washington D.C., reducing America to a one-party "democratic republic", with elections "pre-engineered" to benifit the status quo? Will Senator Koella's ghost crash the Republican machine in Tennessee? What about his silly highway? Dare we trust time and media sentinels to tell us the truth? Can we rely upon hard-partying conservatives to rewrite our nation's Prohibition and traffic laws to allow the rest of us responsible citizens the freedom to drive and to party, too?

This author doesn't believe in shutting down America's vices -- heck, the nation would probably go (completely) insane without them. As Honest Abe said: "A man of few vices is a man of few virtues." But enough is enough. Can't we just keep our government courruption down to a "reasonable" level?




DEEP THOUGHTS

Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me.... With much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.... I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.... I bought male and female slaves.... I amassed silver and gold for myself, the treasure of kings... and a harem as well--the delights of the heart of man. I became greater by far than any man in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me. I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure.... I saw something else under the sun; in the place of judgement, wickedness was there, in the place of justice, wickedness was there.... There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth; righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve.... So I commend the enjoyment of life, because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat drink and be glad.... Anyone who is among the living has hope.... The dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.... Never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun. Go eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do. --King Soloman, from Ecclesiastes 1:16 to 9:9 (Recovery Devotional Bible)

JOKE OF THE DAY

What do you call a lawyer gone bad?
"Senator."


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