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RePrinted from "Valley Morning Star", Harlingen, Texas
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ANOTHER VIEW
By Robert J. Darby
A marmalade of mass destruction and toast
Alleged terrorists sit and wait; so does their cache
On July 2, federal, state and local law enforcement officers, at least 30 strong, staged a highly publicized raid on the home of Johnny Wise in
Olmito. The public was told that barrels of highly toxic and potentially explosive chemicals were being stockpiled by Mr. Wise so that
someday he could produce weapons of mass destruction and implement a plan to kill the entire bureaucracy, starting with the president and
flowing all the way down the political chain to a county judge.
Workers with spacesuits at hand carefully handled these deadly chemicals and the television cameras recorded it all while agents from every
conceivable law enforcement agency stood by to assist. The raid included the IRS, FBI, Secret Service, ATF, Texas DPS, local authorities and
even, from 30 miles away, the McAllen Police Department. Perhaps they were called in to direct traffic at this feeding frenzy.
Mr. Wise and his alleged co-conspirators were cuffed, changed and shackled and to this day remain in federal custody without bond accused of
threatening the lives of various federal, state and local officials with weapons of mass destruction, a charge that carries a mandatory life
sentence.
This is very serious stuff. So serious that the general public should be kept informed of this matter, as well as the status of these weapons of
mass destruction. Any intelligent individual would assume that the spacesuit-clad workers and the 30-plus law enforcement agents would have
secured these weapons of mass destruction and trucked them away to a safe area away from the general public.
However, they are still sitting in Mr. Wise’s yard. Perhaps they are not quite as deadly as the overzealous federal prosecutor would like for us
to believe. Public rumor, based on reliable sources, states that the weapons or mass destruction are nothing more than 150 gallons of orange
marmalade destined for a Mexican orphanage. Three glass containers filled with an ominous clear liquid reportedly were nothing more than
coconut oil and some homemade tequila which, when ingested, most likely would be explosive, however far from a weapon of mass
destruction.
In the days following the great raid we were told, by an undisclosed and somehow unlocatable paid federal informant, that this entire diabolical
plot was further enhanced by Mr. Wise and his fellow co-conspirators’ plan to utilize Bic lighters to propel cactus thorns into their intended
victims. The thorns were to be coated with deadly concoctions that the trio was going to make in their kitchen. The trio then allegedly e-mailed
threats to the entire bureaucracy. We have not been told what options were presented in the threats, only that the life of the president had been
threatened.
Give me a break! Give the intelligent public a break! Give these men some justice! This is a federal prosecutor out of control!
My point is very simple. If, indeed, the orange marmalade story is false and there really are dangerous chemicals in those drums, then why are
they still sitting. unguarded, in Mr. Wise’s yard? This entire matter is further complicated by the fact that the federal informant is the one who
created and e-mailed from his computer the threats that started this entire fiasco.
Medical personnel have stated that it would be almost impossible for the three to create any type of biological weapon in their kitchen,
inasmuch as none of the three have any medical background. To expect us to believe that a Bic lighter could propel a cactus thorn through
someone’s clothing and into their skin is bizarre, at the least. If that is to be believed, then come deer season I’m heading to Circle K and buying
a few high-powered lighters. Only in South Texas can you bag a 10 point buck and light up a Marlboro with the same weapon. Amazing!
I recall two previous situations, one in Las Vegas and one from back east, where the federal government screamed "terrorist" and "weapons of
mass destruction," incarcerating the accused only to meekly admit several weeks later that they made a mistake. Is this same scenario unfolding
in the Valley? What sewer has our justice system fallen into when three men can be charged and incarcerated without bond, possibly facing a
mandatory life sentence, based on such a ludicrous story supplied by a paid federal informant whom the government refuses to produce. Thc
actions of the federal government scare me far more than these alleged weapons of mass destruction.
Personally, I am going over to Mr. Wise’s residence to sit by the resaca with a bag of biscuits and enjoy the orange marmalade.
Robert J. Darby is a resident of Harlingen.
Printed: Thursday, September 3, 1998
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