By Elmer Whittaker
I became politically active rather late in life and not
quite voluntarily, after having become the victim of police and judicial corruption
numerous times in 2009/10 in Mohave County, AZ where I lived during that period,
and Lubbock County, TX some 1000 miles away from where I lived.
In August 2009 Kingman Police Officer Arron Cowin and KAAP
fabricated a case against me that was maliciously prosecuted by Kingman City
Prosecutor Dunkin J. Rose for seven months before having to dismiss the charges
just days before trial.
Arron Cowin is said to work for the Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department now.
After filing a complaint with the FBI against Kingman
Police Chief Robert DeVries, I was assaulted twice by the son of the KPD Police
Chief, Mohave County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron DeVries and Mohave County Sheriff’s
Sergeant Don Bischoff who had threatened my life earlier.
This time the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office fabricated a
case against me which then was maliciously prosecuted by the Mohave County
Attorney’s Office for yet another seven months before having to dismiss these
charges as well just days before trial.
I went public about the police and judicial corruption in
the Mohave County News Media right from the beginning but choose in particular to
make my name known publicly after my life had been threatened and with that
became politically active in Mohave County.
Realizing how corrupt our law enforcement, judicial
branches and political organizations really are and how easily someone’s
constitutional rights can be violated and shredded while the victim is often almost
helpless against the onslaught of corruption is the real scary part of my
experience.
I organized the “We The People Of Mohave County” activist
group to promote liberty and justice and to fight the out of control corruption
in the county. It wasn’t until I helped promoting and supporting a new Sheriff’s
candidate to challenge long time Mohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan when I
really started to make lots of enemies coming from within the Mohave County
Republican Party which really is the root of all corruption in Mohave County.
When my intention to start a chapter of the Arizona
Libertarian Party in Mohave County which is predominantly ruled by the
Republican Party, became known, several organized smear campaigns were started to prevent a
Libertarian Party chapter. Fortunately, the leadership of the Arizona
Libertarian Party immediately saw through the intentions of the republican
smear campaign.
In regards of smear campaigns, lies and slander, I must
mention Republican PC and delegate Sharon Holmes and former Republican District
Director Steven Robinson, the latter being a particular nasty cancer in Mohave
County’s political landscape.
Although I was not then and am not now, interested to
serve as an officer or chairman of a Libertarian Party chapter or run for any
public office, I saw the urgent need for a third party in Mohave County, besides
the very small number of democrats.
That the plans of starting a Mohave County Libertarian
chapter never came to fruition was then not the result of smear campaigns but a
simple but definite lack of interest on parts of the Mohave County people.
During that time I was particularly active on Facebook
and saw it as an excellent medium for political activism. In order to vote for
Ron Paul in the republican primaries I change from being a Libertarian and
became a registered Republican. Although having been a registered Republican voter,
I was removed and banned from most of Arizona’s Republican Facebook groups
including the Arizona Republican Liberty Caucus by administrator Ken Rineer and
in all cases, not for the use of bad language or name calling or anything there
like, but solely for uttering my not so humbled opinions. The Facebook groups
that I was removed and banned from included not only right wing groups like the “Arizona
Committee of Safety” and the “Oath Keepers” of which I was a due paying member,
but also left leaning groups like “Occupy Kingman” and “Occupy Havasu”.
Truth and outspokenness is clearly not appreciated in today’s
political scene and probably never was. Liberty however, cannot be built and
flourish on a foundation of lies, deceit and corruption, I think.
I am currently on the move to relocate back to Las Vegas,
NV where I had already lived some 15 years before moving to Arizona. I just recently
joined the Libertarian Party of Nevada. Due to my bad experiences and
victimization I am particularly interested in ending corruption and promoting
liberty and justice for all.
