Category: Shitbags

  • Vet robbed of tires for his vehicle

    Rusty Dunagan and his family awoke yesterday morning to discover that the tires for his SUV had been stolen. But it wasn’t just any SUV, see, Rusty lost his legs in Afghanistan in 2010 and the SUV was a handicap-altered Denali designed specifically for Rusty;

    Stickers decorating the Denali declare it belongs to someone in the military and the chair lift on the back signals it belongs to someone disabled.

    “It is just very sad that you did this knowing you know what’s on our vehicles and you still went ahead and did it and it just shows what kind of person they are,” Angie Dunagan said.

    The blocks holding up the SUV were stolen as well. They came from the garden border of the home across the street.

    Annalisa, just 3 years old, missed out on the family’s planned trip to the zoo.

  • The Monkress References – a Service for TAH Readers

    Jonn’s closed comments on the original article about Phillip Dale Monkress; phony SEAL in FL.  At approaching 1,900 comments, the article was simply too unwieldy and took to long to load.  The discussion has moved to the new article entitled “Paul Wickre; your one stop shopping for information” (more about the reason for that title below).

    However, newcomers to TAH might need some background.  So I’ll give a brief recap, with links, to the article themselves, of Monkress-related articles here at TAH.

  • Paul Wickre; your one stop shopping for information

    A few weeks ago, I got a call from AT&T in regards to my attempt to change my calling plan. The problem with that was I hadn’t tried to alter my plan. So apparently, someone had tried to impersonate me with my carrier and got busted. They hung up when they couldn’t supply the AT&T woman with my code word. A few days later, my wife happened to be visiting a friend’s house in the Metro DC area when the friend got a phone call from a blocked number. The person on the other end of the call told my wife’s friend that he was with the sheriff’s department and about to serve a warrant on me and he wanted to know if I had guns in my house. Of course, this worried my wife.

    A few minutes later, the same person called me and told me the same story, and said that if I had any guns in my house, I’d have to remove them from the premises for the safety of him and his officers. When I asked for the caller’s name, he hung up. A few minutes later, he called my daughter and told the same story, and thinking he had called my wife, told her that she’d have to have her permits for the guns ready to show the officers. But, what the caller didn’t know is that in West Virginia, there are no permits for possessing guns of any sort, except those restricted by the Federal government.

    That same night, some troll began leaving comments on the Phillip Dale Monkress discussion from the IP address, 71.178.164.92, which goes back to one Paul Wickre. Wickre then proceeded to publish my social security number as well as TSO’s in the comments of that discussion. I know that was an attempt at intimidating us. But we both have Lifelock, so we really weren’t at risk much.

    In fact, Wickre thought he could publish a bunch of stuff about me, including my financial situation, which would scare us off. Yeah, that didn’t work, because nearly everything he wrote was wrong, you know, because he’s such a super sleuth.

    In the interim, I got a call from a young man who had dealings with Wickre in the recent past, during which Wickre called his home, threatened his wife, even stood out in the street in front of his house yelling and screaming like a lunatic* [see update]. Eventually, he had to get a restraining order against Wickre because of the harassment. He went on to tell me that Wickre sits in his office drunk and makes calls all night yelling and threatening at people like a big baby.  * TSO Adds: Psul disputes this version of events.  Nonetheless, Jonn’s statement is what he was told, not what happened.  Since Jonn was not there, and is not a Master of the Tarot Card Arts, he has no way of knowing what happened.  He is recounting what he was told.

    The other day, as TSO recounted, master detective, Paul Wickre, thought he had discovered TSO’s phone number and called our buddy Laughing Wolf who happened to be in Normandy, France at the time. We’re working on getting the recording of that phone call from Laughing Wolf who is still in France. Here’s the .wav file – you’ll need earphones to hear him say “TSO! I got ya. I got ya, baby” – ya know, even though he really didn’t.

    So here is Paul Wickre’s arrest record  [Updated, See next three Paragraphs.]

    TSO Adds: Over the course of two days Psul has sent me a virtual uncountable number of absurd emails disputing the characterization of this as an arrest record, while I was busy trying to take in the sights of half naked women in South Dakota, the sweetest smelling of the midwestern states.  Therefore, it is no longer to be called an “arrest record” but rather “a delightful invitation by the State of Maryland to engage in some judicial jousting, some of which might have been criminal, but by no means is limited to only criminal.”

    As near as I can divine, his basic problem is that we reference only the criminal, and Psul is a full spectrum legal advocate employer thanks to Maryland.  This is no judicial David Ortiz, swinging for the Monster Seats.  No, Psul is a five tool player, covering the spectrum of legal issues. Hell, any drunken cub scout could amass his criminal record for resisting arrest and such things.  (Oh, not convicted on all accounts he also wants you to know, so you should visit the Maryland site to get the full Psul Legal Experience.) On a holiday weekend I daresay an enterprising youth could even match the legacy of Psul by getting a fugitive from justice warrant sworn out by the Commonwealth of Virginia as well.  What makes Psul so special though is his ability to do it all.  Sort of like an Alex Rodriguez of judicial proceedings, although admittedly he is less popular with his colleagues than Mr Rodriguez.  (I am not asserting that Psul is “juicing” or using any [legal] performance enhancing drugs, just in case that is his next legal threat.)

    So, as you peruse this next graphic, be sure to note not just the criminal proceedings, but also the civil, domestic, bankruptcy and other highlights.  Psul does not have 35 arrests for criminal matters, but rather has 35 delightful invitations by the State of Maryland to engage in some judicial jousting, some of which might have been criminal, but by no means is limited to only criminal.

     UPDATE X2: Just to push on to the heart of the matter, I decided to do away with the graphic we had, which should help with Psul’s serious problem with our potentially violating a Copyright not held by him.  So, instead, I used the helpful download that Maryland has on his delightful invitations by the State of Maryland to engage in some judicial jousting, some of which might have been criminal, but by no means is limited to only criminal page, and you can view that here.  Also, I will add links later to each and every document so you can read in full.

    Wickre Court Docket

    (NOTE:  NP means NOLLE PROSEQUI, STET: A suspension of the prosecution with the State given the opportunity to reopen the case without the need for the defendant to be recharged.)

    97208C-RESIST ARREST (Guilty) COURT (HARRINGTON, J.) ADDS CONDITIONS TO DEFENDANT’S BOND AT DOCKET ENTRY #4 TO REFLECT THE FOLLOWING: DEFENDANT IS ORDERED TO REFRAIN FROM MAKING ANY ABUSIVE, HARASSING, OR ANNOYING CALLS TO THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE STATION IN BETHESDA OR TO HAVE ANY ABUSIVE, HARASSING, OR ANNOYING CONTACT WITH THE FOLLOWING POLICE OFFICERS: DAN BURGESS, TOM CURTIS, OR JOSEPH CENCULA.
    SPECIAL CONDITIONS ADDED TO BOND #144375: DEFENDANT TO REFRAIN FROM MAKING ANY ABUSIVE, HARASSING, OR ANNOYING CALLS OR ANY CONTACT TO THE BETHESDA STATION, MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE, WITH OFFICERS DAN BURGESS, TOM CURTIS, OR JOE CENCULA, FILED.

    000000EP06248-ATTEMPT BY DRIVER TO ELUDE UNIFORMED POLICE BY FAILING TO STOP (NP)

    107225C – ASSAULT. 2ND DEG. OFFICER, RESIST ARREST, EXCEED POSTED SPEED LIMIT, FAIL TO OBEY AN OFFICIAL RED SIGNAL, FAIL TO OBEY LAWFUL ORDER, RECKLESS DRIVING (2x), DRIVER TO ELUDE POLICE ON FOOT/ATT, VIOLATION OF PROBATION (Guilty as to Reckless Driving and Violation of Probation, rest are NP)

    2D00115803 – ASSAULT-FIRST DEGREE, ASSAULT-SEC DEGREE (2x), FALSE STATEMENT TO OFFICER, HINDERING/OBSTRUCTING (This Document is Statement of Charges)

    4D00126067 – RESISTING ARREST(2x) (This Document is Statement of Charges)

    5D00105649 – ASSAULT-SEC DEGREE, RESISTING ARREST (This Document is Statement of Charges)

    5D00187612- ASSAULT-FIRST DEGREE, ASSAULT SEC DEG-LAW ENFORCMENT OFC, RESISTING ARREST (This Document is Statement of Charges)

    82639C – MOTOR VEH BO-JURY – ELUDE A POLICE OFFICER/ATT, FAIL TO OBEY AN OFFICIAL RED SIGNAL, FAIL TO KEEP TO RIGHT OF CENTER, IMPROPER TURN (RIGHT OR LEFT), FAIL TO OBEY LAWFUL ORDER, RECKLESS DRIVING (Guilty to all save eluding to police officer which is NP)

    94377C – ASSAULT SECOND DEGREE, RESIST ARREST, VIOLATION OF PROBATION (Guilty on 1st Charge, NP on second, Guilty on VOP)

    94706C – ASSAULT SECOND DEGREE, FALSE STATEMENT TO PEACE OFFICER, OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE, VIOLATION OF PROBATION (NP, Guilty of False Statement to Peace Officer, NP, Guilty of Violation of Probation)

    000000HV40801 – DRIVING VEH IN EXCESS OF REASONABLE AND PRUDENT SPEED ON HWY  (Guilty)

    0D00030030 – TELEPHONE MISUSE:REPEAT CALLS, TELEPHONE THREATS (NP on charge 1, Guilty as to making Telephone Threats)

    0D00047887 – ASSAULT-SEC DEGREE (2x)  (Guilty on 1, STET on second)

    1D00087613 – ASSAULT-SEC DEGREE, RESISTING ARREST (NP, NP)

    5D00048655 – FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE — VA (Warrant issued 10/16/1997)

    5D00126040 – MALICIOUS DESTRUCTION PROP VALUE + $500, DISTURB THE PEACE  (STET on both)

    0601SP005732006 – PEACE ORDER (TEMPORARY PEACE ORDER ISSUED, RELIEF GRANTED: SHALL NOT COMMIT A PROHIBITED ACT; SHALL NOT CONTACT PETITIONER ; SHALL NOT ENTER RESIDENCE OF PETITIONER; SHALL STAY AWAY FROM PETITIONER)

    0601SP026222002 – PEACE ORDER  (TEMPORARY PEACE ORDER ISSUED, RELIEF GRANTED: SHALL NOT COMMIT A PROHIBITED ACT; SHALL NOT CONTACT PETITIONER ; SHALL NOT ENTER RESIDENCE OF PETITIONER; SHALL STAY AWAY FROM PETITIONER)

    0602SP006232007 – PEACE ORDER  COURT ORDERS: SHALL NOT ABUSE, SHALL NOT CONTACT, SHALL NOT ENTER RESIDENCE, SHALL STAY AWAY FROM EMPLOYMENT.  Second hearing Peace Order denied.

    107541C – ASSAULT SECOND DEGREE, RESIST ARREST, VIOLATION OF PROBATION (NP, Guilty, Guilty)

     

    That’s quite a few cases of restraining orders and domestic disturbances, isn’t it? But they all take place in Montgomery County, MD. I doubt he’d ever venture outside of that Blue County where he might get injured. That arrest record “delightful list of invitations by the State of Maryland to engage in some judicial jousting, some of which might have been criminal, but by no means is limited to only criminal” is indicative of a drunken bully who is accustomed to dealing with people who are easily frightened. That won’t work here or with us.

    The odd part of the whole thing are issues that aren’t in dispute – Phil Monkress lied about being a SEAL, and he admits that he was never a SEAL. No amount of calls from Wickre will alter that fact. Even Monkress’ lawyer admits that she can’t do anything to make us take the post down. So Wickre thinks he can bully us into taking the post down – something that wouldn’t work anyway, because the internet always remembers everything we post. If I took the post down tomorrow, which would never happen anyway, it would still exist on the search engines.

    So, anytime Paul Wickre wants to discuss this problem he has, he’s welcome at my house. He knows where it is, because I posted TAH HQs on Google Earth – I’m not hiding from anyone. But, I’m relatively secure in the knowledge that Wickre, like most bullies, is too much of a chicken shit to set foot outside of Montgomery County, MD and face anyone with whom he has a problem.

    So, Friday, I emailed his wife and explained the situation to her, and that’s why last night he took on this arrogant air about all of the legal stuff. I sent one email and asked her to perform her wifely duties to distract him from the phone and internet. And apparently he didn’t like that, even though he called my wife, her friends and my daughter to threaten us.

    So, here I sit waiting for Wickre to summon the testicular fortitude to cross the Montgomery County line. Oh, yeah, I’ve moved all of my guns out of the house, Paul, as per your request. Ha-ha.

  • SGM Underwood’s Stolen Valor

    A few months ago, we talked a little about Sergeant Major Andrew F. Underwood, who was a CID agent and whom the Army busted for stolen valor while he was still on active duty. At the time we weren’t really sure what he had done, only that some military judges were really mad at him. Well, TSO, who heads our huge legal department, got some of the records of the proceedings and here are a couple of relevant passages;

    Underwood BS

    Underwood BS1

    First of all, he had only three months of deployment time in more than 20 years? And he was a sergeant major? Secondly, no one thought to check his record of assignments to see if he had indeed made those deployments before they promoted his monkey ass? Yeah, he deserved to fry. He tossed his twenty years for a couple of BS deployments.

    Here’s the whole .pdf file if you’re interested.

  • Monkress’ Minions back at it, and still as bright as ever

    So, the Monkress thing blew up again last night.

    I’ll get to it in a minute, but I actually doubt this is Paul Wickre. It may very well be, but since whoever it is is CLAIMING to be Paul Wickre, I suddenly get suspicious.

    Anyway, some comments from this clown last night to set up the punchline:

    God of the Old Testament Says:

    Keep talking , keep posting, keep it up.

    More data is good! TSO in Indiana, Weir in AL, Jonn in Mineral poor county….

    Keep on posting!

    TSO; Gotcha Baby!

    Then “Psul Wickre”:

    11:23a LAFAYE IN 765-409-5646 M2AM M2AM 8

    Wow

    Another hit on TSO MArk SEAVEY

    RIGHT AT THE HERAT OF LAFAEYETTE INDIANA.

    MONILE OMNIPOINT RIGHT ON ROUTE #65

    Anyway, he then goes on with various legal threats etc. It’s all pretty standard asshattery. No one here has committed any crimes (at least on here) and no police would come after you. He’s trying to troll, that’s it. Frankly it cracks me up.

    But here’s the thing, I got an email this morning from Laughing Wolf who is currently in Normandy:

    My phone went off just a bit past 0500 Normandy time today. By the time I got to it, it had gone to voicemail. Voicemail consisted of a male screaming ‘TSO I gotcha baby, I GOTCHA!’ and some unhinged laughter.

    Now this actually fits with the shit above, because LW lived (note the past tense) in Lafayette. I don’t. In fact, I’ve only driven through it twice, and only stopped once. Added to that, I’ve never hid my name, my email address, my phone number or my address. So I don’t even know what “Gotcha!” means. If you want to call me, just email and I will toss the number up. The only Indiana phone I have is at work, and you can just call my office and get me. I don’t even look at the number, I just answer the phone. My cell number is a 202 area code. I almost never answer that one, but not to avoid calls, it’s just that it is generally dead, as it is right now.

    If you want to talk to me, just email at seaveyattorney[at]gmail[dot]com and talk to me. Or just email and ask for my number. 9 times out of 10 I will give it out. Or, again, just call me at the office. I get paid to be here, might as well talk to someone.

    And yes, having “attorney” in my email seems pretentious. Homestly I just put it in there so I would remember what the damn email address was, and why I was using it. I hate having numerous emails, so I have that one for legal stuff, and my work one for work stuff.

     

    Wickre is the guy with his creepy arm around dude, in back left.

    wickre2

  • Brandon Bryant: Drones gave me PTSD

    Y’all have been sending us this link all day from NBC about Brandon Bryant, the former drone operator from 2006 until 2011 when he left the service to be a media darling, apparently. He says that he killed 1,626 people from his desk chair in Nevada. I wonder if anyone, besides me, has bothered to do the math – that’s 325 people a year. Almost one a day for the entire time he was in the service, from day one at Basic Training. If it were true, and I doubt it, I’d say the drone program is doing a great job.

    But we discussed Bryant in December and some of the folks who worked with him said that he was full of shit. His favorite story, he repeats in the NBC article – that he saw a child going into a goat shed just as he was blowing it up (because the US war machine hates goat sheds, for some reason) and he was wracked by the guilt of not aborting the Hellfire before impact. His mates said that there’s a delay in the video image, ya know, after going halfway around the world and all, so the missile had actually impacted on the goat shed by the time he saw the child on the video screen, if the story is even true.

    His mates said that Bryant was actually a drone operator, but that none of the things he is telling the media is true. Besides, in the same character as Breanna Manning, Bryant isn’t supposed to be talking about anything he does, so it stands to reason that he’d tell the media stuff like this because none of it is true and he can’t get in trouble with his chain of command (he’s still in the IRR).

    In the original post he told the Daily Mail that he “accidentally” joined the Air Force after the Army recruiter said he should join the Air Force. Yeah, I’m sure. I’m going to trust his mates on this one and file him under shitbag.

    When he told a woman he was seeing that he’d been a drone operator, and contributed to the deaths of a large number of people, she cut him off. “She looked at me like I was a monster,” he said. “And she never wanted to touch me again.”

    So why did he feel that he needed to tell this unknown woman that story? She probably knew he was lying, and a fan of TAH.

  • Hasan and his “defense of others”

    So Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood murderer, reveals why he wanted to dump his own lawyers and defend himself. I’m pretty sure there’s no lawyer on the planet who would let him try his “defense of others” defense that he told the judge about yesterday, because it pretty much goes against common sense. This administration has done it’s level best to keep Hasan from being associated with terrorism and that’s all for naught at this point. From ABC News;

    Accused gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan announced the revelation Tuesday as he asked the court for a delay in his trial so he could prepare a new “in defense of others” legal strategy.

    When Judge Col. Tara Osborn asked specifically who he was defending, Hasan said, “The leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban” and its leader Mullah Omar, according to an account by The New York Times.

    So, since this is his defense can we stop calling him an “accused gunman”?

    Maybe he’s just jealous that Guantanamo detainees get their food crammed down their throats and he wants a piece of that hot action. Honestly, though, I’m a little upset that the judge is going to let him confront his accusers. Making them answer is questions will probably make them relive the horror of that day.

  • Hasan can represent himself in courtroom

    Anonymous in JAX sends us a link to the news that the judge determined that Nidal Hasan can represent himself in his trial. Yeah, I see this as a really smart move by the judge, well, maybe not. But, Colonel Tara Osborn, the latest judge to preside over the Hasan trial has decided that the Fort Hood murderer is competent and physically able to defend himself the trial – I think there’s still going to be a trial, anyway. The murders that Nidal Hasan committed were almost four years ago and he should be on his last appeal about now, if this trial was conducted in human years rather than tortoise years.

    The selection of a panel of officers for Hasan’s jury was expected to begin on Wednesday, and opening arguments were scheduled for July 1.

    Osborn previously said she believed Hasan had the mental capacity to run his own defense, but his physical condition was an issue. Defense lawyers previously said Hasan was capable of sitting in court a maximum of five hours a day.

    Hasan could be ordered to stand down if he attempts to use his trial as a stage for promoting radical beliefs, said retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Corn, a professor at South Texas College of Law in Houston.

    “Does he want to use the opportunity to represent himself as a platform?” Corn asked. “Or does he just want to play the martyr and just sit there and do nothing? We don’t know.”

    Yeah, well, as a casual observer to the news coming out about this trial, my guess is that he’s enjoying the spotlight. He has already inspired one copycat (Naser Jason Abdo – the other Fort Hood terrorist who has already been convicted even though his crime was committed months after Hasan), I’m sure he thinks he can inspire more. Well, that and stretch out his time on earth and accrue pay for his parents or somebody.

    In other legal news, Breanna Manning’s trial started today. He was also arrested after Hasan.