Just to fill everyone in, this is what was brought over by Sraacke in the original thread. Pay special attention to the portions in Blue and Plum. This is me just connecting the dots, I am not asserting any of this as fact, however I feel as though my logic is pretty straight forward and I urge you to reach your own conclusions /disclaimer.
The poster made various pleas in both the original thread and my inbox to have this information taken down. I told him I didn't feel he was being honest and after I confirmed my actions weren't against the rules of this forum, I decided that unless I found a reason to suggest he was honest, it was staying up. He had made statements which I knew to be dishonest and contrary to his history. Some of those statements are below.
#1
#2
#3
All of these statements are false at best. We will take them in order.
#1. He is someone who looks for confruntation with police, yet he said
#2. While this statement isn't directly untrue, I believe the intention to decieve is obvious. He attempts to passively deny these are his youtube videos. Here he is on sraacke's forum taking credit for the youtube video shown above(video now taken down by him). http://laopencarry.freeforums.org/post10936.html
#3. Pretty much the same as #2. Nobody is running in any different directions, it is a video posted by him, acknowledged by him in the above link, and now hidden by him.
A man named Rick Daniel Pennington was arrested 1-25-13, in Ouachita Parish, and placed on a bond of 200$. So, the possibilities are pretty limited. He either was dishonest about his troubles with police and was arrested directly before another arrest(for the same thing again), he lied about the crimes he was charged with and his bond amount(while pandering for money), or someone with the exact same full name and age was arrested in the exact same parish for the same charge(HA!).
Personally, I am going to go with number two. I believe this person, in a weird attempt at internet bravado, posted a bunch of ******** on sraacke's forum, panhandled a bit based on lies, and has realized he may be caught in those lies and decided to ask for the evidence of his crimes to be taken down.
As I told Speedracer, the irony of this shouldn't be lost on anyone. Someone who attempts to bait other people into making bad decisions so he can capture them, disseminate, and capitalize them, now wants his mistakes taken down. I will give him the response people like him give the officers they bait. I am doing nothing illegal, there is no reason for me to need to take it down if you have done nothing wrong. He can ask me to take this down as many times as he wants, but he has no power or authority to make me, I will tell him no like he tells them.
I hope this lesson isn't lost on him or anyone else who decides to try to cost hard working officers their careers. Additionally, I hope this lesson isn't lost on our forums. One side of the story is usually the ******** side, especially when donations start being requested. As such skepticism should be the standard response. Sraacke/Yale's decision to not fact check any of this in a reasonable manner and spread his request for donations to here, the national open carry forums, and other forums was ignorant at best. He put his stamp on this and it turned out to be unvetted and untrue. I think that he is partially at fault for anyone who donated money to this person. A simple google search turned up all of this information and took less than 5 minutes.
The poster made various pleas in both the original thread and my inbox to have this information taken down. I told him I didn't feel he was being honest and after I confirmed my actions weren't against the rules of this forum, I decided that unless I found a reason to suggest he was honest, it was staying up. He had made statements which I knew to be dishonest and contrary to his history. Some of those statements are below.
#1
#2
#3
All of these statements are false at best. We will take them in order.
#1. He is someone who looks for confruntation with police, yet he said
in his description of his first video involving him open carrying a gun and video taping police(one where he added subtitles in an attempt to twist the words of the officers in a perfectly handled stop). Link HERE. I don't know how someone who isn't seeking confrontation would promise more videos of confrontation. Confusing to say the least.
#2. While this statement isn't directly untrue, I believe the intention to decieve is obvious. He attempts to passively deny these are his youtube videos. Here he is on sraacke's forum taking credit for the youtube video shown above(video now taken down by him). http://laopencarry.freeforums.org/post10936.html
#3. Pretty much the same as #2. Nobody is running in any different directions, it is a video posted by him, acknowledged by him in the above link, and now hidden by him.
A man named Rick Daniel Pennington was arrested 1-25-13, in Ouachita Parish, and placed on a bond of 200$. So, the possibilities are pretty limited. He either was dishonest about his troubles with police and was arrested directly before another arrest(for the same thing again), he lied about the crimes he was charged with and his bond amount(while pandering for money), or someone with the exact same full name and age was arrested in the exact same parish for the same charge(HA!).
Personally, I am going to go with number two. I believe this person, in a weird attempt at internet bravado, posted a bunch of ******** on sraacke's forum, panhandled a bit based on lies, and has realized he may be caught in those lies and decided to ask for the evidence of his crimes to be taken down.
As I told Speedracer, the irony of this shouldn't be lost on anyone. Someone who attempts to bait other people into making bad decisions so he can capture them, disseminate, and capitalize them, now wants his mistakes taken down. I will give him the response people like him give the officers they bait. I am doing nothing illegal, there is no reason for me to need to take it down if you have done nothing wrong. He can ask me to take this down as many times as he wants, but he has no power or authority to make me, I will tell him no like he tells them.
I hope this lesson isn't lost on him or anyone else who decides to try to cost hard working officers their careers. Additionally, I hope this lesson isn't lost on our forums. One side of the story is usually the ******** side, especially when donations start being requested. As such skepticism should be the standard response. Sraacke/Yale's decision to not fact check any of this in a reasonable manner and spread his request for donations to here, the national open carry forums, and other forums was ignorant at best. He put his stamp on this and it turned out to be unvetted and untrue. I think that he is partially at fault for anyone who donated money to this person. A simple google search turned up all of this information and took less than 5 minutes.
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