Post by Police Moderator on Apr 10, 2013 6:33:12 GMT -5
Officials: White supremacists charged in Franklin County slaying
by Ben Benton
by Ben Benton
Two Coffee County, Tenn., men are in custody and two others are at large after indictments were handed down by a Franklin County grand jury Monday in the March 24 slaying of a Cowan, Tenn., resident.
John Corey Lanier, 26, and Todd E. Dalton, 39, both of Manchester, Tenn., were taken into custody on charges of first-degree murder and criminal homicide in the slaying of Corey N. Matthews, Franklin County authorities said Tuesday.
Investigators are searching for suspects David Gordon Jenkins, 46, of 3554 Ashbury Road in Manchester, and Coty Keith Holmes, 25, of 197 Rhoads Lane in Hillsboro, Tenn.
"This was a specific and targeted incident related to Mr. Matthews' affiliation with a white supremacist organization," Franklin County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Chris Guess said Tuesday. He said the slaying stemmed from "a dispute over the white supremacist organization's doctrine."
Franklin County authorities said Jenkins was identified as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, while the others were linked to the Aryan Nations.
Read more: times free press
David Cook, of the Times Free Press, is said to be traveling to Franklin County to mediate a truce between the two feuding factions. This forthcoming truce? Mr. Cook states, "However strong or weak, it is a start. It says something to the larger community. To the establishment."
According to Mr. Cook, "On this side of the street, we've got to fill the void. Fill the vacuum. For the truce to last, something has to appear to take the place of gang life. Something positive. Constructive. Something good. Gangs aren't a surprise."
"Combine poverty with empty fathers with prison with despair with drugs with guns, and the surprise is not that gangs exist, but that more of them don't.1"
Sources close to the truce negotiations, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they are not allowed to comment publicly, report that the truce talks are to be held in the basement of an undisclosed Great Klavern in, or near, Franklin County. Tom Metzger, 'reformed' member of the White Aryan Resistance is purported to be the moderator of the truce talks.
1Imagine if Mr. Cook proffered, in print, what he's opined about violent urban street gangs, but in regards to violent rural racist gangs? Reckon there would be some liberal outcry?
In the great scheme of things, there is no substantive difference between the Aryan Brotherhood and the Bloods, or the Aryan Nation and the Crips. A proven concept that absolutely escapes Mr. Cook, and his ilk.
They are all organized to mold young, malleable future sociopaths and psychopaths, spawned by piss poor (or absent) parent(s), most are poor, despaired by the liberal endorsed drug culture and all with plenty of guns. Is Mr. Cook truly surprised by the results?
Attack the urban gangs like we attacked the rural gangs and we'll be shed of most of them. Those that aren't arrested, prosecuted and convicted out of existence, will be nothing more than a flaccid laughing stock who occasionally end up whacking each other while leaving the rest of us alone.