Posted on 12/14/2001 8:11:16 PM PST by Wasichu
Wasichu
This story gives greater details on the charges the feds have drudged up from the past, what was seized, and details on the Steve Anderson connection.
This is the latest Patriot to be targeted by the ATF for militia activities. Who's next?
Wasichu
Who's the boneheaded militia commander who inducted this creep into the militia in the first place?
Militia Son Claims He Was Profiled
Lexington, KY, Dec. 13 -
Lexington lawyer Gatewood Galbraith says the constitutional rights of his client, the son of a former Kentucky State Militia leader, were violated. The news comes more than a week after weapons were seized from his father's home in Garrard County.
Galbraith says a memo sent within the Kentucky State Police agency has several false statements and puts Charlie D. Puckett in danger.
Galbraith says the memo claims the younger Puckett may harbor resentment and notes he may act violently. It also says to consider him armed and dangerous and that he has made threatening statements towards law enforcement.
"This man has been seriously harmed. He's afraid to walk the streets, he's afraid to drive his car, he's afraid to appear in public. Why shouldn't he be? It's a virtual wanted poster," Galbraith says.
Wasichu
It does not say that any convictions resulted on the first two cases, and the third has already been discussed as having been a misdemeanor at the time.
I hope you don't have any youthful indiscretions the Feds can hit you with, when the time is right. The fact remains that Charlie Puckett has been a tireless worker for the Patriotic causes.
Wasichu
It seems like some of these 'groups' are missing a key ingredient for successful survival in a society with duly constituted and written laws - common sense.
NewsChannel 32 has learned that Charlie Puckett is a convicted felon,
It seems that you don`t do any research before you make blanket statements.
Militia Leader's Son Claims He's Now A Target
LOUISVILLE, Ky., 10:21 p.m. EST December 13, 2001
The son of the leader of the Kentucky state militia said Thursday that he thinks he's being unfairly targeted by state law enforcement.
Charlie Puckett and his lawyer called a press conference Thursday to demand that the state's attorney general, police commissioner and head of the justice cabinet all investigate the source of what they call an unfair advisory that characterizes Puckett as a serious threat to law enforcement officers.
"I feel battered and beaten," Puckett said. "It's just not right that they've done this to me."
Puckett said that the advisory warns officers throughout central Kentucky. It also advises that investigators have received information that Puckett has made threatening statements toward the law enforcement community. The advisory adds that Puckett may react in a violent, retaliatory manner if approached or confronted. Officers are cautioned to use extreme caution when approaching him, and should consider him to be armed and dangerous.
"If that isn't a free pass on a shoot to kill, if this isn't a free pass on confront this young man on any possibility and be ready to shoot him if he has the temerity to question why he's being stopped, then i don't know what is," Puckett's lawyer, Charlie Puckett, said.
But a state police spokeswoman, Lt. Linda Rudzinski, said that the advisory distribution is a standard procedure.
"The advisory was the result of credible information," Rudzinski told NewsChannel 32's Andy Alcock. "We sent it out to law enforcement agencies confidentially, as part of a routine business with state police."
The Lancaster, Ky., home of Charlie Puckett's father, whose name also is Charlie Puckett, was raided last month by Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investigators. They found and confiscated eight weapons and nearly 40,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as a concealed-weapons license. The elder Puckett also has a criminal record, including a felony conviction that made it illegal for him to possess firearms and explosives.
But Thursday, the younger Puckett sounded as if neither he nor his father could be a threat.
"I've helped my father with law enforcement, and I would do it again," he said.
The KSP advisory also stated that the younger Puckett may harbor resentment toward the ATF because of the raid, but Puckett disagreed.
"I don't think this is justified, and I think they illegally done it," the younger Puckett said. "But I don't harbor no resentment towards them whatsoever."
KSP investigators are trying to determine who released the confidential advisory. Puckett and Galbraith said that they might file a lawsuit about it.
Wasichu
Yeah, in our militia cell we always elect/appoint the perv who has the most 'exhibition charges' ...
Charlie Puckett and his lawyer called a press conference Thursday to demand that the state's attorney general, police commissioner and head of the justice cabinet all investigate the source of what they call an unfair advisory that characterizes Puckett as a serious threat to law enforcement officers.Article #1
Agents began investigating Puckett after he made inflammatory statements on two separate radio programs. In one statement, Puckett said that if any ATF agents were to come to his home, "The Garrard County coroner would have a mess on his hands."Right ...
It's for the children.
I know this, but who inducted him way back when he was new to the militia?
So far I've got 'press clippings' that seem to indicate different things ... I don't know exactly what/who to believe.
This is the point where witnesses need to be subpoened ...
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