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Sources familiar with the investigation into the killing of Jack Yantis tell The Free Thought Project that the emerging official narrative is that Jack Yantis was a “hard drinker,” and that he was intoxicated on the evening of November 1 when he received the call from the Adams County Sheriff’s Office to come attend to a bull that had been struck by a car on Highway 95, which bisects his property.

“The idea is that what we see here is a case where ‘guns and alcohol don’t mix,'” one source said by way of summarizing what may prove to be the official rationale for the killing. Confronted with a drunk, obstreperous man with a gun and a “history” with law enforcement, the deputies perceived themselves to be in danger and acted in accordance with the “reasonable officer” standard in the Supreme Court’s 1989 Graham v. Connor ruling — or so the official story could run. According to his father, Deputy Wood is convinced that the shooting will be fully vindicated.

I am one that although skeptical, vowed to keep an open mind until I read the official report. It is getting harder and harder.

He may have been drunk as can be, but from what I have seen, that would be irrelevant to the facts of the case.

Still trying to keep that mind open a little bit....

The drunk accusation doesn't make sense. I believe Mr Yantis arrived at the scene without a gun, and had someone go up to the house to retrieve a rifle. If he were drunk, I can not believe the officers on the scene allowed him to be handed a rifle.

With what sounds like a lot of observers on the scene, I am quite sure the officers sole duty when Jack Arrived was to ask him to dispatch the animal,while they observed. Still confusing about him with the rifle mounted and ready to shoot and an officer grabbing Jack while he was "hot to shoot".

Very strange information so far.

Guns and alcohol don't mix, eh. Toxicology done on the brave, valiant, gallant coppers?

Yeah, probably still waiting on those lab reports, too.

So two officers put 11 bullets into an old man because he had been drinking? That's the best these trigger happy dick weasels "reasonable officers" could come up with?

Sounds contrived to me.

Well we are a hand full of days short of six months since the murder of this man, and yet not a word from the killers or the attorney general, this is just bullchit!

They have had enough time to reach some conclusions.

The big lesson is don't bring firearms when members of police are around. Unless you stage mass demonstration nothing is going to come of this unfortunate event. Finito.

This is the problem with our current Society...We allow ourselves to be distracted by more current news and tend to not follow up on past events. It is a fallacy that should be corrected because the past dictates the future.

The agenda is that they hope everyone will just forget about the whole thing. Know what? It is working...

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"The History of the Future"

Really worth taking the time to read the Wisdom of this Gentleman, He tends to tap the true issues and what will play out in the end. Real nice guy who has a full understanding of the real world obstacles we are up against going forward.

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With Prior permission here is his latest article:

Bart Simpson for President

That ultimate symbol of mischievous scamp Bart Simpson in Season One of the longest running show in TV history when caught red-handed offered up one of his signature phrases, “I didn’t do it, nobody saw me do it, there’s no way you can prove anything.”

This came to mind when I was thinking about Hillary “They’ll Never Indict Me” Clinton and her morally challenged obviously corrupt character. Donald Trump has said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Hillary could say, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t get indicted.”

Everyone in the country knows that if any of us common people did one hundredth of what she has done in the email scandal alone we would have already been indicted along with the ten year Navy Vet indicted for taking a selfie on a submarine. The Obama Justice Department is not going to indict Mrs. Clinton no matter what the FBI recommends. She is above the law and she knows it or as she infamously said in the Benghazi hearing with regard to our four dead heroes, “What does it matter now?”

As a person who has been involved with and has closely followed the American political scene for more than fifty years this is the first time in my personal memory or Historical knowledge that a potential candidate for one party has promised to prosecute a potential candidate of the other party if elected.

As Secretary of State, Hillary’s accomplishments include the failed reset with Russia and of course her debacle in Libya. As a United State Senator what did she accomplish? In eight years she only sponsored three inconsequential laws:

S.3145, which designated a portion of U.S. Route 20A, located in Orchard Park, N.Y., as the “Timothy J. Russert Highway,” after the former “Meet the Press” host.
1. 3613, which renamed the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2951 New York Highway 43 in Averill Park, New York, as the “Major George Quamo Post Office Building.”
2.1241 which made the brick house of 19th century female union leader Kate Mullany a national historic site.

Her major accomplishment is that she married a man who became the most ethically challenged president in American History. As the wife of Bill Clnton she was deeply involved in smothering the serial bimbo eruptions which grew out of his long history of having affairs, sexually harassing women who worked for him, and assaulting others. This is the person who portrays herself as an advocate of women’s rights.

To highlight just one of her hypocritical faux stances for women’s rights look at her advocacy for equal pay. The Clinton Foundation pays women executives 38% less than their male counterparts. During her time in the Senate she paid women 72 cents for every dollar she paid men. According to public records her current campaign pays women staffers less than she pays men. So much for putting your money where your mouth is!

Looking back once more to the email scandal that Hillary so nonchalantly dismisses if as she maintains she never received nor sent any classified material during her entire term as our Secretary of State my question is, what was she doing besides traveling the world at our expense? Was she out of the loop and merely Secretary of State in name only? It is inconceivable that anyone could be the Secretary of State and not send or receive any classified material. That is beyond belief and a lie so transparent it shows total contempt for those it is meant to fool.

In the current election the Great Impresario likes to label people. In many ways it is an effective form of political shorthand. It sums up the thoughts, accusations, and beliefs about a person and brings them crashing in whenever they hear the catcall. Lyin Ted and Little Marco have taken their toll picked up and repeated by the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media and their pet FOX. Now we have Crooked Hillary. The others were just effective. This one seems appropriate.

If Hillary wins the presidency it will be a watershed just as the election and then re-election of her husband was. As his marked the end of public morality hers will mean the end of the rule of law. It will become evident to anyone observant enough to note the sunrise that enforcement of the bewildering lattice of laws and regulations are only aimed at the common folk not at our masters.

If such a legally challenged individual can fool enough of the people all the time to sit in the oval office it reminds me of what Bart said to Homer after it was revealed he had cheated on an important test, “I cheated on the intelligence test. I’m sorry. But I just want to say that the past few weeks have been great. Me and you have done stuff together. You’ve helped me out with things and we’re closer than we’ve ever been. I love you, Dad. And I think if something can bring us that close it can’t possibly be bad.”

Doing bad things for good purposes is the operational rational of Progressive Liberalism. The ends justify the means was the operational rational of all the megalomaniac dictators of world History. Please explain the difference.

Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowenshotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens

Has this been sent to a Grand Jury yet? Certainly there is enough to empanel a Grand Jury over? Keep waiting for this to "wrap up"...

No...they are counting on us to quit asking about it...This has become the standard normal policy and MO.

And unfortunately it works.

Interesting.....


Yesterday, TVOI News received a copy of an “Officer Safety/Extra Patrol” alert that was issued by the Ada County Sheriff’s Office for two locations near Meridian. The alert was issued last January and the subject of the alert was Brian Steele Wood, the Deputy Sheriff who was involved in the shooting death of rancher Jack Yantis in November of 2015.
The alert said that Wood’s whereabouts were unknown, that he was separating from his wife and that there had been some domestic violence issues, that he had made threats to the police, that he had been observed collecting guns from a fifth-wheel trailer on his sister-in-law’s property, and that Wood claimed to have access to explosives. Following all of that, the alert said that Wood’s in-laws had requested extra patrols and they didn’t feel safe. There was emphasis on the last line: “NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED ON WOOD. ACSO IS NOT CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING ANY CRIME INVOLVING WOOD. OFFICER SAFETY ONLY* *USE EXTREME CAUTION*
Obviously nothing came from that alert so in itself, it is not news. The reason given for providing the report to TVOI News is because of the alleged continuing erratic behavior of Deputy Wood. He and the other Deputy involved in the shooting death of Jack Yantis, Cody Roland are both on paid leave while the incident is being investigated. The Adams County Sheriff turned the case over to the Idaho State Police (ISP) to investigate. In March, ISP completed their investigation and turned it over to the Idaho State Attorney General’s office where it seems to have been dropped into a dark hole. KTVB reported that Todd Dvorak, spokesman for the attorney general said there was no timeline for reviewing the ISP’s report. In the meantime, Brian Steele Wood and Cody Roland are on paid vacation at the expense of the Adams County taxpayers.

First I heard of that. Thanks for the info.

I was just thinking about this today...
I can't believe they're still waiting for DNA results....hell...you can send Ansestery.com a swab and they'll run your DNA in a week or two.....probably do it for under a hundred bucks too....

No stall tactics or cover up here....nothing to see....move along....

The pig data base can't be that extensive.

I'm not really sure what you mean by that but I don't like calling LEO "pigs"....they're men and should be treated as such....and if they've done wrong...should be punished as such in a timely fashion...and without predjudice or special treatment...

Well said.

Threatening (fellow)police officers/domestic abuse/collecting guns and with access to explosives!!!!!!

Naw,this deputy could never lose it and just kill an innocent rancher and rough up his wife.

I agree that calling LE, pigs, is offensive.

But it is telling how some here are more offended by this name-calling than by the murder of an innocent citizen.