Yet another lesson in Semantics, Abram Harker Jeffs Trial begins

As I have observed before (here or elsewhere), it's what you call it. The San Angelo Standard-Times isn't trying to prejudice the Jury, they're just naming the statute violated. (I note that when I just tried not name the motion granted at Wikipedia, I got run off.) The headline on the story reads:

"Sexual assault of child trial set to begin today." The story goes on to mention Abram could get 99 years and recalls the basic outline of the raid narrative:

"Evidence gathered against the FLDS men came from an April 2008 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Schleicher County. Law enforcement personnel searched for a woman who had called saying that she was being abused at the ranch. The authorities now believe the call to have been a hoax.

More than 400 children were put into protective custody from the ranch during their search, but they were returned weeks afterward at the order of an appellate court.

Authorities collected trailer-loads of evidence, papers, records from various buildings on the ranch. The state also collected DNA evidence, which has been used at each trial to show that the accused men fathered children by their underage victims.

FLDS defense counsel has tried to suppress the evidence gathered from the ranch on grounds that the search warrant was improper. Defense lawyers also have tried to quash indictments against the FLDS men because they say the grand jury selection process didn’t represent Schleicher County’s Hispanic population proportionately."

And again, the phrase repeated in the media like a mantra; "Authorities now believe the call to have been a hoax." Once in a while a reporter slips up and says "the call WAS a hoax," but no one will do the reporting.

It's like make-up. De-emphasize that which you don't find attractive, accentuate your best points. Anyone reading the San Angelo Standard-Times article, who is also part of the unsequestered jury, will "know" that Abram Harker Jeffs is charged with pulling his phallus out of his pants, and beating a baby girl with it. The fact that she is now an adult, didn't assist in the prosecution, and won't isn't in the headline.

The reasonable speculation that the call may have actually been arranged, is also not in the article.

If Abram's trial goes much longer than any of the others, I will be surprised, though I am hearing rumors of some new wrinkle. Most of the "wrinkles" so far have been set ups for later appeals.

How, as a God Fearing Juror, can you NOT convict a man charged with using his penis as an assault weapon against a "child?" That's why they named the crime the way they did. It's inflammatory and prejudicial. Ask "Booger Red."

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Thinking Toto and Oz, of Blues, Rozita and on Broadway

Toto Ruins the Show

Why have I always seemed to care about "TxBluesMan" and Rozita Swinton?

They represent a chance to "look behind the curtain" and see who is calling the shots. There is always a chance that there is nothing behind door number one, but to know that, you have to look, don't you?

A good deal of the close observers of the YFZ debacle two years ago have a hard time accepting the way Rozita has been treated, and only technically "investigated." Indeed, the "investigation" only seems to serve the purpose of shielding persons like FBI Special Agent Johnathan Wilson Broadway from testifying about any communication between San Angelo and the FBI's Colorado Springs office. As I have observed before, it's the equivalent of taking the fifth.

Also as I have observed before, why would you refuse to testify about the communication between Agent Smith (and Broadway?) if it was inconsequential or normal?

All of the behaviors of the prosecution and Law Enforcement agencies feeding the prosecution with evidence suggest there is some unspoken truth, and that this concealed reality is in some way embarrassing to the prosecution.

Embarrassing is putting it politely. So, we have the figurative curtain, and we have what is behind the curtain, and that's where Oz and Toto come in. I'm Toto. I want a look behind the curtain to see what's going on. All the behaviors of the prosecution and it's witnesses (see Arizona's suppression of the evidence) say something is going on.

I pursued Rozita Swinton until there was nothing (at least for now) to pursue. Why? If she could be made to testify fully regarding her reasons for calling, it might be revealed that someone "encouraged" her. That's a look behind the curtain. Who might have encouraged Rozita would be a good thing to know, provided such a person exists.

I pursued "TxBluesMan" who has seemed preternaturally connected and possessed of resources? Is he (she?) one of the people behind the curtain? Who is the Blues connected to, if Blues is connected? Again, this leads to insight, provided such people exist.

Now we have FBI Special Agent Johnathan Wilson Broadway, who served as an information clearing house for calls concerning Rozita Swinton who may have held and delayed important knowledge reaching certain people so as to facilitate the raid.

All kinds of speculations could be made about Agent Broadway. He's shown a penchant for marrying older women, and whereas most men who marry as the get older, marry women that are increasingly younger than they are, Agent Broadway seems to marry women increasingly OLDER than he is, having been married twice that I know of. No crime of course, but is he bent out of shape with the FLDS because there is an Alison Mosbeck in his past? Is this working itself out in some sort of Freudian manifestation by his choosing of older women for brides?

I could use a circumstantial link of behavior and suggest Blues and Broadway are alike because the close proximity of Broadway's two marriages. The closer the two marriages are, in terms of time, the more likely that personal relations between you and your second bride overlap personal relations between you and your first bride. Was the most human moment I have ever seen TxBluesMan have, his sensitivity and attempted extortion of me, regarding Marty Braemer, an indication that he carries personal guilt in that area and it hurts? Is this the same for Broadway? Does it suggest something more than simply being similar men? Does it suggest they are the same men?

All I am trying to do, is get behind the curtain. I don't care if I corner Rozita or Blues or Broadway. In fact, I don't care if Blues is Broadway. Right now, Agent Broadway is the best and most public bump showing in the curtain, and so I intend to pursue knowledge about him. If you have anything to tell, please contact this blog. You can do so in the form of a comment that you ask me NOT to publish. All comments on this blog are moderated so I would heed your wishes and not publish that comment, but I might use the information if it can be verified.

You can email me, hughmcbryde (at) gmail. This sort of plea for information, has worked in the past. It's the reason I know Rozita worked for Lt Maggie Santos, of the Colorado Springs Police Department.

At this point, I don't need protected victims to testify (Rozita), or skulking nobodies to come out of hiding (TxBluesMan), I simply need to know more about Special Agent Johnathan Wilson Broadway. "JW." John. John W. Johnathan W. He's in this up to his neck. Is he just in deep water or is he trying not to sink in quicksand?

He's lived in Texas, in Tarrant county, he's gotten married at least twice and divorced at least once in Texas. He moved to Douglas County Colorado. He worked as a special Agent for the FBI in the Denver area. The more I know about him, the more I can connect the dots and see if those connections are revealing.

Who is he? What school did he graduate from? Where was he born? Let me know.

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A Blast From the Past

Let's go back in time:

US Attorney Brett Tolman

"Federal authorities have been probing allegations of crimes involving the Fundamentalist LDS Church and its leader Warren Jeffs for years — but have been unable to develop enough probable cause to launch a full-scale investigation or bring charges.
'Those cases where you hear rumor and innuendo about child brides and corruption, we have to have reasonable suspicion to open an investigation,' U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman said Thursday. 'Beyond that, we have to have probable cause to even get search warrants and grand jury subpoenas. That we have not been able to establish on numerous occasions.'

In an extensive interview with the Deseret News on Thursday (May 1st, 2008) Tolman and Tim Fuhrman, the special agent-in-charge of the Salt Lake City office of the FBI, detailed their efforts to investigate crimes within the FLDS Church. They also spoke against the need for a federal task force on polygamy-related crimes, despite a push by the U.S. Senate majority leader and the Utah and Arizona attorneys general."

That's four weeks after the raid. The FBI HAD NOTHING. They were still saying it.

Then enters the Shadowy Special Agent Johnathan Wilson Broadway? A man with Colorado Connections who neatly withholds information on Rozita's involvement from Texas Rangers, until after the raid is over.

FBI Special Agent J W Broadway, who leans on Anti FLDS forces that are not too bright, when they stray too close to sensitive material?

Brett Tolman also says:

"The crimes that are being alleged or that there is suspicion, these are predominantly state crimes. I think it's a rush to judgment to think that a federal task force is the answer."

So they have nothing at the FBI. They can't prosecute sex crimes unless they are Mann Act stuff.

"Right now, Tolman said that all his office has is suspicion and nothing more. Child abuse, rape and incest are all state-level crimes. So is bigamy.

'We have the ability to prosecute transferring or crossing state lines for purposes of sex, and we had a case a couple of years ago that we investigated,' Tolman said. 'When the young woman was interviewed, she indicated that no sex had ever occurred. At that point we're very limited outside some evidence to help us establish probable cause.' "

So we have a stymied FBI and no cry for help.

Let's go even farther back, to April 10th, the day before Special Agent Broadway "officially" hands Rozita's name to Brooks Long:

MSNBC/AP - "On Thursday (April 10th, 2008) state and local law enforcement authorities defended their decision to leave the sect alone for four years after it moved in.

'We are aware that this group is capable of' sexually abusing girls, Sheriff David Doran said. 'But there again, this is the United States. We are going to respect them. We're not going to violate their civil rights until we get an outcry.' "

Sheriff David Doran

So I guess we're waiting for a fake call to violate their rights. The FBI can't move, because outcries will be based on violations of local Law, and from the tone of this quote, Doran is feeling the pressure. It's been four years, they've got nothing.

The FBI wants at them, but complains there's that nasty constitution standing in the way. Locals want at the FLDS, but also, there's that troublesome document again.

When exactly did FBI Special Agent Broadway move to San Angelo, from Douglas County, where Rozita was convicted for faking being a little girl in distress?

Evidence dug up by the Pharisees VAST network of researchers say it was sometime after 2002. Agent Broadway appears to have been first stationed in Dallas, and then moved out to San Angelo. He seems to have lived there before, moving from Texas to Colorado and then back to Texas again, probably Dallas, and then out to San Angelo.

So he's been waiting four years too.  Are both men getting a little impatient?  I know the Doran article above makes him sound like he's wanted something to break for a while.

Did they just get tired of waiting and decide to prime the pump? Did Broadway "call someone" he knew in Colorado and "order up" a cry for help?

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What we have here, is (a) failure to communicate (UPDATED)

Often, more often than not, if you're looking for someone or something intently, you can't see it because you're STANDING on it.

What we've got here is, failure to communicate:

From "The Truth Will Prevail" - "Although she had not phoned other agencies since March 29, Rozita went wild on the night of the raid and began placing numerous calls to crisis centers in B.C., Canada, and in Utah as well as to the National Child Abuse Hotline and the Arizona Child Abuse Hotline. There seems to have been little response to any of these calls with the exception of one placed to a safe house for girls in Mission, B.C. on April 3. The caller gave her name as 'Sarah Barlow,' claiming that she was the 'Sarah' who had sparked the YFZ raid and that she was being kept in an FLDS 'compound' in Bountiful, B.C. Jeanene Nelson, the woman who received the call, contacted the Seattle, Washington, FBI Field Office on April 9. Asked why she had not given the information to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, she said that she had but they 'didn’t act like they were interested.' The Seattle Field Office phoned the San Antonio Division of the FBI to find anyone who might be interested in the information, which was finally communicated to Captain Caver and Ranger Long on April 11 by Special Agent John Broadway of the FBI San Angelo Resident Agency."

Your Modern Pharisee is a one armed Paper Hanger (or is that a one legged man in a butt kicking contest?) On occasion I get wonderful help from a couple of unnamed fellow travelers, but I can't count on it and it's often (far more often than not), uncoordinated.

Even my friends on the "inside" aren't always that helpful. I plead for information and usually don't get it. I dig in places that have already been mined out, I and others duplicate each others work. Agent Smith had said to me last year about his fellow agent, in Texas, calling him; "I'll recognize his name if I hear it." Then above little blurb gets published in "The Truth Will Prevail" a year later. I don't see Broadway's name, and we don't talk about it among ourselves.

I read the article, but as I do often, I'm skimming, looking for the familiar, and the bottom of the paragraph tidbit about Special Agent John W. Broadway? I missed it. That was four months ago. How long has Donald Richter known this? What we have here, is a "Failure to Communicate."

That little Strother Martinism could be said twice, (twice in Cool Hand Luke too), as that failure is at least foisted off on us by the FBI to possibly insulate Texas Rangers Brooks Long and Captain Caver from "knowing" about Rozita, until the raid was over. Supposedly Agent Broadway lets Long and Caver know on the 11th. The raid is officially put to bed on the 10th.

I've always said that if Long made any calls to CSPD on April 13th, he had to know something on the 11th (a Friday). These are Government employees people, and higher ranking ones. They don't work on weekends, unless they have to. If Long knew to call CSPD on Friday, then then FBI Special Agent John Broadway already had Rozita's name when he told him.

According to Donald Richter's article at "Truth," Jeanene Nelson called the Seattle field office of the FBI on the 9th. How convenient. Texas just finished removing all the children. The FBI moves in and does some poking around on the 10th, and THEN, and only then, we are to believe, John Broadway gives info to Long and Caver the next day, who sit on it until Sunday, and call. It would seem they are waiting to know who to call because first FBI Special Agent and Accountant John Broadway must find out who to call. Broadway-Smith-Mandel-Velasquez. Then you have to figure a note is passed back down the chain. Velasquez to Broadway, bare minimum. Long calls Mandel and/or Velasquez at CSPD. Voila! Long "finds out" about Rozita.

Only Special Agent Broadway probably knows already. How long did he know? Why does the Seattle Field Office call Special Agent John Broadway? From what I know, the man is an accountant, not a field agent. It is likely that Broadway knows this stuff when Seattle calls on the 9th. He's probably the clearing house for all things Rozita at this point.

All of this keeps pushing dates back, and now it pushes them back into the time frame where the raid was ongoing, and at least some of the children are still at the ranch. What does a sworn peace officer do in this case? Apparently sit on the info until the kids are safely stolen, bare minimum.

Again, I REPEAT, why does this clandestine back channel exist in the first place? We have cell phones and email and office phones and secretaries if we are in the FBI. WHY is there a POINT to POINT communication channel with RELAY RIDERS that hand carry notes out of sight of everyone?

WHEN was such a network set up? Building a pipeline takes time.

FBI Special Agent John Broadway seems to know Rozita's name on April 9th, 2008.

To use a pipeline to communicate (which MUST be built in advance) he must know that the pipeline goes to the right spot.

Unless some bizarre series of coincidences existed to have an "Old Boy" bathroom conversation network set up already (UPDATE: John Broadway has testified in a case with Denver connections), you have to build the channel because you already know you will need to use it. That means the channel is built no later than the 9th, and these things take time.

I don't know about you, but to me, unless these facts are just flat wrong, it's looking more and more like before ONE child was taken from the Ranch, the FBI already knew who Rozita Swinton was.

Another update, when researching Agent Broadway, it was discovered that he goes by "Johnathan W. Broadway" and "J W Broadway" as well as "Johnathan Broadway."

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Plead the 5th? Not when you can plead "Ongoing Investigation."

I am often proclaimed a "Tin Foil Hat" wearer by various skulking anonymous commentators out there in the ether. For instance, what ever became of that WILD story I told over the last year an a half (approximately) regarding Some Unknown FBI Agent in San Angelo Texas calling FBI Agent Steve A. Smith in Colorado Springs? I mean really, Agent Smith? I just fell asleep watching "The Matrix" and thought I called that guy.

Except there was some unreported testimony in Walther's court on Friday or Saturday. In fact very little has been said in the media about FBI Special Agent John Broadway testifying at all. But he was there. He was there and someone asked John Broadway a question. The question was, "Did the FBI in Texas/San Angelo call the FBI in Colorado Springs on or before April 13th, 2008?"

What was Agent Broadway's answer? Reportedly his expression changed, and he said he couldn't talk about it because it was the "subject of an ongoing investigation."

That's not exactly "The 5th," I know, but it's what creative law enforcement does when they don't want to answer an uncomfortable question. It beats "The 5th," because if you do have an ongoing investigation that you're dragging your feet on, purposely, you can always shut up when asked uncomfortable questions that might evoke "The 5th."

Why was the question uncomfortable? Because the arrest warrant of Rozita Swinton, and the accompanying affidavit justifying that warrant would have us believe that Texas Ranger Brooks Long called CSPD Lt. (then Sgt.) Sean Mandel, and that was the contact that led to "Oh yeah, we know whose phone number that is, it's Rozita's!"

Never mind the fact I've harped on before that you don't "discover" who owns a phone number by calling the police department whose jurisdiction might overlap that cell phone exchange. You call the FBI who looks up the phone number, you don't call CSPD. On top of that, there's no reason to think that CSPD would KNOW anything about a phone number, not attached to a name.

As we learned in early 2009, that's not what happened anyway. It was an unknown FBI Agent in Texas that called FBI Agent Steve A. Smith, who then called CSPD Sex Crimes Unit Sgt. Sean Mandel, who was on detached duty with an FBI task force. Sean Mandel went through great pains to tell me, that he wasn't in CSPD offices during that time. See above, "detached duty."

At any rate, it was Sean Mandel carrying a note from Agent Steve A. Smith to CSPD, and Hugh Velasquez that got the message from the Texas FBI to the Colorado Springs FBI. Apparently the message was "Hey, Brooks Long wants to talk to someone about this phone number."

As observed before, that means that someone in the communication chain already knows whose number it is. The discovery is not being made by calling CSPD, the discovery has been made, and CSPD is being called. It's supposed to look like Brooks Long got on the phone on Sunday, April 13th, 2008, called Sean Mandel at CSPD and Sean told him the number he had, was Rozita Swinton's.

Only that is NOT what happened, and I am the only one who has reported that fact.

Now, FBI Special Agent John Broadway says he can't talk about it.

He can't talk about it? Wouldn't he have said "why are you reading crackpot blogs?" He didn't though. That's because what I told you is true.

Think about this all over again. I know I've asked you to before.

Why is there a communication channel between Texas and Colorado Springs regarding the raid?

Item one. Such channels take a while to set up. It was not set up on April 13th, 2008, to make a call on that day. It had to have taken several days to set up, more likely, a week, maybe more.

Item two. Why did it exist at all? You have to KNOW there is some role being played by Colorado Springs in the raid, to set up a back channel off the record, time consuming method of communication.

Item three. Such channels are meant to be secret, to set up for us an appearance in public that is being arranged behind the scene. Such a channel for orchestration of events and secrecy.

Conclusion. Law Enforcement knew of the existence and role of Rozita Swinton much earlier than they told us. They tried to keep it secret that they knew until after the raid was over. They might have even known about her before the raid, and if they did, it virtually shouts that they either contracted for the call to be made, or knew at the outset it was fake.

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