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SOMETHING WE WILL ALL AGREE ON

His name you know by now is Clifford Fuddy William/s and he is proud enough to be from somewhere other than Liberty County that he has named his very secretive gang “The Outsiders”. But he seems to be anything but an outsider when it comes to the Liberty County Sheriff Department. He has not only been seen on numerous occasions with our County Sheriff, Henry Patterson, but he allegedly has been working for him for months in and out of the sheriff's department.

Liberty Dispatch knows what we know about Williams and his political team because we applied the axiom of Sun Tsu in his book referred to in politics by so many called “The Art of War”. LD applied the idea of keeping your enemies close from the very minute we were aware these people were in this county and setting up shop. We even allowed them to post a few of the stories Robert Valdez wrote about Clifford Fuddy Williams' unlicensed Private Investigation work. We learned a great deal of things about this group from two of the associates of The Outsiders. These two were perfect for what we needed because neither are very good at keeping secrets. So we have cataloged quite a bit of information – some from Robert Valdez and most from a new member that should have the nickname “Chatter Box” or “Loose Lips” or if you’re an Outsider, perhaps something a bit more negative.

In many conversations with these people, the one thing that stood out was that no public official and no media mentioned had a future here in Liberty County if they were successful EXCEPT FOR HENRY PATTERSON. So from the very beginning our readers should surmise we were at odds with these people’s goals since we publicly supported many of our current public officials. The purpose of our relationship with these people was to learn as much as we could before it became obvious to them we were collecting information.

We are holding much of that information, but believe it is in everyone in this counties best interest for questions to be asked of them. Even people that do not like this website, media, Democrats, and people that consider themselves our enemies – they should all take note. These Outsiders want to force you out of the public arena.

But who are these people? I don’t just mean their names. I mean where are they from and where do they work and why are they here? Do they have criminal records? Are they licensed to do the investigations they did months ago and continue to do? Were they or Williams licensed to do Investigations work at the sheriff's office against Joe Warren, Royce Wheeler, John Joslin and others??? The “detailed” and “factual” investigations they have done – do they still claim to have done those investigations while working closely with (and for) Henry Patterson?

And what does Henry Patterson have to say about these people and his relationship to them? It should not be long before everyone has an opportunity to understand why we should all agree we don’t want the sheriff’s department using our taxpayer money to be co-oped by anyone, but especially not these people.

Prayer Works...

Liberty Dispatch wants to thank all of the people who have been praying for Tracy Pegues, the wife of one of our contributors. Tracy’s Mom died of cancer at age 47, and because of Tracy’s family history and past test results, doctors check Tracy every year.

When this year’s initial test results came back showing Tracy had a tumor, people that knew about it began to pray. Since that time results from a blood test have lowered the likelihood of cancer, but because of her family history, doctors have decided surgery sooner rather than later is best under her circumstances.

Tracy Pegues is 51 years old. Her surgery will be in the next few weeks. The Pegues family want to thank everyone who is praying for Tracy.

Beware of strangers (outsiders) bearing gifts...

Most people who watch Liberty Dispatch have heard of “The Outsiders” at one point or another. From their writing- they fancy themselves as some kind of great investigators with their half-baked stories of this and that.

In the beginning, Liberty Dispatch posted stories related to “The Outsiders” separate and beyond Liberty Dispatch's stories only because other news media in Liberty County would not. Once Liberty Dispatch found out that these people were mostly comprised of cult type tax dodgers and libertarians we disconnected from their story input.

The agenda of “The Outsiders” is unknown at this point but what we do know from exchanges and stories from “The Outsiders” is that they defiantly have a "secret" agenda in Liberty County and it is not necessarily a good one.

Sources close to the sheriff’s department claim that “The Outsiders” may have an even bigger interest in Liberty County than their innocuous “We want to help Liberty County”- that statement reminds us all of the old term, “Beware of strangers (outsiders) bearing gifts”. Information has been given to Liberty Dispatch that “The Outsiders” have been and continue inside the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department as advisers and/or consultants in the Joe Warren investigation and subsequent charges- among other investigations.

To support the full range of Liberty County control, “The Outsiders” also appear to be running Liberty County Sheriff Henry Patterson’s re-election campaign and want to attack Liberty Dispatch for most of its supporters wanting to send Sheriff Patterson packing and support prospective Liberty County Sheriff candidate, JP Bobby Rader.

It’s bizarre how “The Outsiders” are involved and trying to control anything and everything that can give them power in Liberty County, i.e. - the TEA Party in Cleveland, TEA Party in Liberty, TEA Party in Dayton and the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department. It’s alleged that they have created the TEA Party in Liberty and Dayton as a "false flag operation" to help get Henry Patterson re-elected as Liberty County Sheriff. If those "false flag operation" allegations are true, that should signal a warning to all in Liberty County of the legitimacy of TEA Party groups in Liberty and Dayton, Texas. (‘False flag operations’ have been used many times in history by combatants to appear as friend when they were actually foe to gain an advantage in battle.)

As for the TEA Party in Cleveland, it may have already been infiltrated by “The Outsiders”- it appears that Cleveland TEA Party leader Aubrey Vaughn may also be an “Outsider's” apparatus who is covertly pushing for Henry Patterson’s for re-election. In a recent TEA Party meeting, Henry Patterson, Aubrey Vaughn, and local reputed “Outsider Leader” Clifford Fuddy William and “Outsider Underling" Eddie Shauburger were all seen sitting together in solidarity.

Why doesn’t the Liberty County Sheriff Henry Patterson tell us all why he brought “The Outsiders” into Liberty County? Why won’t Liberty County Sheriff Henry Patterson tell us why he has brought in a bunch of identity cult types in to Liberty County? Sheriff Patterson, why have you sold your soul and Liberty County to this cult? We all want to know!

Dear Liberty Dispatch,

I think I remember getting a push poll in one of Eddie Shauberger’s efforts to get elected. It really seemed more like political telemarketing masquerading as a poll. It definitely wasn’t to collect information like it tried to imply it was. I can’t imagine anyone ever analyzed the data. I remember because it contained negative information about Shauberger’s opponent – to be honest I don’t know if it was true or not.

I thought the poll was an unusual way to try to motivate voters. I didn’t care for the tone of the call and was unsure of its truthfulness. It seems like I remember they asked a hypothetical question.

I can see where push polls can easily mislead the public, and not just about the opponent. They can even mislead the public about what they are; callers claim they are conducting a poll when all they are doing is spreading negative information.

I hope these people from outside the county will now be reluctant to use this kind of campaign strategy now that you have said one of them has a track record that includes this kind of stuff. If they have as much campaign money to try and re-elect the sheriff as you say, then I guess anything might happen, but I bet your article on this stops it from happening again.

Thanks LD! Take your mask off and behave Outsider people!!

WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN THE OUTSIDERS CALL YOU...?

Whether you have one hard wired into your house or you have a cell phone, when the political races begin it will be easy for aggressive political campaigns to call on you. People who have a private and personal agenda to take over and infiltrate Liberty County.

The odds are many of our readers will get a phone call early in the 2012 election year. In fact, one group that is particularly proud that they are not from Liberty County has now publicly declared their intention to call candidates and interview them. This group is advertising to the public that they are carefully investigating many of Liberty County’s candidates as a public service to this community. They have SELF declared themselves the finder of fact and they have declared that the voter, because they have come into town and done the voters’ homework for them, will make a more informed decision. Apparently they think they need to tell the voters how to think and how to vote.

These people will probably try to lay out a seemingly logical common sense reason that their “revelations” about candidates are not mudslinging and that they have no agenda and that 'anyone that questions them does have an agenda'. But who are they? What are their names? Where do they work? How can we judge their motivations and whether they have an agenda if they are hiding in the shadows? Should candidates be concerned that if they do not consent to be interviewed by people that are not from around here that the will pay some kind of price? Should they worry that the interviews are a formality and that these people are going to try and make them look bad so they can get someone they want elected? When a candidate gets a call to come to one of their “interviews” - what do you do?

Other phone calls are being made. A great deal of work is being done by the same people to set up a political structure to support the candidates they want to be elected. These people from outside of this county have looked around the country and decided if they start Tea Parties around the county in Liberty and Dayton that they can use conservative enthusiasm to commingle and build a campaign structure that is influenced by them. To rally support they have had meetings and invited some of the more middle of the road Republicans officeholders and harshly questioned their decisions. Most of this work is being done to build trust and relationship with people who live here so they can get support for their favorite local candidates. When you get the call to attend a new Tea Party - what do you do about trusting these people from outside the county enough to allow them to convince you to vote for their local candidates?

Even more phone calls may be made. Eddie Shauberger, a former candidate for office for a decade here in Liberty County and an affiliate of these outsiders, is boasting these people have a huge treasure chest of money to spend on building Tea Parties and using other political techniques to elect the people these outsiders want elected. Shauberger, a resident of Chambers County for several years now, used phone banks in spending hundreds of thousands of contributors’ money in his past attempts to win elective office.

Shauberger had two main methods of gaining votes. One was to flood the phone lines and tell people positive things about himself. So for example, when your phone rings these people from outside the county will have a canned message aimed at convincing you that Sheriff Henry Patterson is a great sheriff. These outside people will probably follow that up with a mailer. The mailer will not mention Shauberger or that people from outside the county are spending megabucks to elect Henry Patterson. It will just try and put the idea in your head that Patterson is a good sheriff. What are you going to when they call? Why do you care what people that do not even live here say about Sheriff Patterson? Why are they spending so much money and effort on this? What will you do when they call?

Then if Shauberger stays true to past methods, these people will have prepared a “push poll” they will flood the phone lines with. The caller will try and disguise themselves as someone simply gathering information as a pollster. But in the poll there will be a very negative statement about the opponent of whoever the outsiders are supporting like Henry Patterson. For example, would you consider voting for Bobby Rader for sheriff if you knew he released some people on bond that were accused of this or that? This method is meant to be a sneaky way of putting negative mind control thoughts about a candidate in the heads of voters in a way that is not so straightforward. What are you going to do when you are cooking supper and you get this kind of phone call trying to convince you to vote for these outsider's candidate?

Statistics tell us what most voters do these days. Most voters are sick of the flood of election year “revelations” and they throw the flyers in the trash on the way back into the house. They hang the phone up early in the unsolicited call. Most people will judge these races without this kind of “help”.

These outsiders have strong ties to Sheriff Henry Patterson and they keep saying that their open records and other things they claim they worked hard to discover, are proof this candidate or that candidate is committing criminal acts. Please, someone.. anyone.. if you do stay on the phone with these people when they call in February or March, please ask them "why" the Sheriff they are almost insisting we re-elect "why doesn’t he arrest these bad people and corrupt politicians?"

What will you do when they call? We don’t know... But we do know our readers are likely to trust their own experience and what they have heard elsewhere about candidates and get back to their supper rather than visit with strangers about local politics.

Liberty Dispatch advises that no candidate talk to or meet with these outsiders even when they try to lure you in with the promise of financial support.

Dear Liberty Dispatch,

Republicans are running our government in the black despite still having to pay for all of the democrats stupid half baked mistakes.

Recently taxpayers discovered the appraisal of the old WalMart building came in at just over $1.3 million. How many of our hard earned dollars did Democrats pay for that building? $2.1 million dollars? How many months has it been off of the tax rolls?

I am sick and tired of the never ending waste. We are still waiting to hear how we can force our District Attorney to stop buying things like the SUV parked in his driveway and spend some of his slush fund money on budget items so we can save the county some money. I bet Mike Little is a big tipper when the county is picking up the tab.

If people in the south part of this county only knew how Melvin Hunt operates, they would save some money by voting to centralize funding and decision-making by commissioners.

Republicans are making great progress. Most of them anyway But it will be wonderful for them and for all of us when they get out from underneath the cloud that was left before they took office.

EXCLUSIVE: JOE WARREN FIGHTS BACK

Liberty Dispatch readers will remember how the mysterious group “The Outsiders” investigated and produced a story about Liberty County ADA Joe Warren and his alleged crimes. In their story they also attached evidence of Liberty City Officials in an alleged reported cover-up of police reports and information related to Joe Warren's alleged crimes.

Readers will also remember that ADA Joe Warren's alleged crimes were brought before a Liberty County Grand Jury and Mr. Warren was no-billed of all charges.

Fast forward to the past week, Liberty Dispatch has learned that Joe Warren’s attorney- Daniel Bradley has noticed Liberty County of his intent to sue on behalf of his client Joe Warren. Attorney Dan Bradley worked for Liberty County DA Mike Little and Joe Warren as an ADA then left to practice law outside of the DA’s office. Daniel Bradley now practices law closely with Mike Little and Joe Warren separate of the Liberty County DA’s office.

Attorney Daniel Bradley has expressly noticed current Liberty County Sheriff Henry Patterson and Liberty County of his client’s “Intent to Sue”. Heretofore Attorney Bradley has six months to file his lawsuit which is expected to be filed in Federal Court as a 1964 Civil Rights action. The exact details of Warren’s claims are unknown at this time but apparently they are related to alleged “false charges” made by and through the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Henry Patterson which ultimately translated into a no billed or favorable grand jury decision for Joe Warren.

Who knows how/if this lawsuit - which will be filed in the upcoming election year affect Sheriff Henry Patterson’s re-election campaign?

Contributor, Ray Akins

Dear Liberty Dispatch

I have heard some Democrats criticize the efforts being made by conservatives to save money. I have a hard time stomaching people that have no respect for taxpayer money. But if you will permit me I wanted to address one area the local Democrats are griping about.

Recently, Liberty County judiciary, all Republicans, reviewed the county’s practices by using empirical data regarding the amount of time people accused and arrested of a crime spend in our jails at taxpayer’s expense. They discovered that taxpayers were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars housing people that were awaiting trial rather than using their judicial discretion and the bail process.

I can only assume complaints by local Democrats are purely for political purposes since they do not have a reputation for being tough on crime. After all where were their complaints when Democrat Judge Rusty Hight was allowing convicted criminals off in his infamous “Wednesday court”/ Nevertheless, let’s review what the law says is the proper use of judicial discretion as it applies to bail.

The law says the court should take into account the:

1. Nature and seriousness of the offense or default (and the probable method of dealing with the defendant for it);
2. Character, antecedents, associations and community ties of the defendant;
3. Defendant's bail record;
4. Strength of the evidence.

In fact, Texas courts have leeway to set bail amounts as they see fit, as long as it is not excessive. Of course, we could write a whole other story about how politics and excessive bail were used by the afore mentioned Judge Hight against one of the contributors to this website, but for now let’s stick with how judges can properly use discretion to save the county money.

Most felony cases are originally filed in the Justice of the Peace Court. While JP’s do not conduct trials of felony cases, they do handle several felony matters before the case goes to a Grand Jury. The primary purpose of the arraignment is for the judge to make sure the defendant understands the nature of the offense against him, the charges, and his rights. The defendant may ask the Judge questions about the charges or his rights at arraignment. The Justice of the Peace sets bonds at arraignment. In most other counties, an arrest warrant carries a bond recommended by the District Attorney and/or a District Judge. The Justice of the Peace is usually not an attorney in Texas courts and frequently they defer to or are guided by those people who are and all of the factors listed above are part of the proper use of judicial discretion.

Of course while I am sure Liberty Dispatch’s conservative readers are not for just turning everyone lose with a promise and a prayer, there are safeguards. A bond means you are putting up cash or surety (often through a bail bond company) to promise that, if you are released from custody, you will show up for all subsequent hearings and trials related to your case. Failure to do so means your bond could be forfeited to the State of Texas, and can lead to another warrant for your arrest. Failure to respect the conditions of a bond can result in a third-degree felony if the original charge was a felony is punishable by 2 to 10 years in a state prison.

So the new found tough on “law and order” position liberals are claiming to criticize saving money sounds a great deal like a pure political attempt to discredit the attempt Republicans are making to dig our county out of the hole they dug.

We can be sure these same people critical of the use of judicial discretion would prefer a tax hike.

SHERIFF’S FRIENDS AIMING TO SHOOT DOWN JUDGE

Patterson vs. Rader

If sources close to Liberty Dispatch are right, so much for a friendly contest between two Christian men who both would like the support of their fellow Republicans in their quest to serve the next term as Liberty County Sheriff.

According information revealed in a meeting some time back, supporters of Henry Patterson have already laid out their attack of his potential rival. In uncharacteristic candidness for politics, Patterson’s supporters are saying potential Sheriff’s candidate Justice of the Peace Bobby Rader and anyone who is close to him “better watch out”.

In that recent meeting with a past supporter of Rader who now supports Patterson said: “Judges have records. All of the decisions Rader has made over the years are subject to investigation and, even if the decisions are legal, in politics it is the appearance that can be used against a candidate. It doesn’t matter what the rest of the facts are in a Judge’s decisions, it only matters how it is portrayed to the public.” (This is a paraphrase of the strategy LD has been told is being planned by Patterson supporters).

The mentioned Patterson supporter has bragged that anyone related to any case Rader has had anything to do with is fair game. They have expressed the idea that they could care less about Rader’s reputation for looking at circumstances and listening to witnesses because without context the Judge can be made to look bad in the next election.

This kind of negative campaigning is unfortunate, especially against a JP who was not only the breakthrough winner a few years ago for Republicans when all office holders were Democrats, but he has been the public official we have heard the fewest complaints about – none from the Sheriff until his supporters starting preparing for this next election.

As previously mentioned, this person who is one of Patterson’s most well known supporters is a former supporter of Bobby Rader and now he is now pushing hard to help re-elect the current sheriff Henry Patterson. This person is also affiliated with "The Outsiders" and a close adviser to a Sr. member of "The Outsiders" not only active in efforts to re-elect Patterson, but also active in decisions having to do with the Joe Warren case.

This turncoat supporter of Patterson boast that he will get the Tea Party behind Patterson and they will be unbeatable. No rationale has been offered by "The Turncoat" or any of "The Outsiders"  about why Tea Party activists would favor Patterson, who was a Democrat four years ago, over Rader. There is also no indication that people joining local Liberty County Tea Party groups are aware that they are viewed as recruits for the Patterson re-election bid.

It is my hope that "The Outsiders" mind their own business and stay out of Liberty Politics but... their agenda will not let them stay out of the Liberty County politics. Bobby Rader and Henry Patterson should be able to run a quiet and peaceful race but readers should understand that the battle lines and tactics have already been drawn by "The Outsiders" & Company. It is believed that the only way Patterson can get the voters attention after years of apathy and inaction is to go negative.

Contributor, Richard Pegues