- Col. Keenan, McGhee Tyson AB commander, charged with
DUI...
- After driving wrong way on Interstate 75...
- Did not know name of president Bush (no comment)
-
- This odd story hit the TV snooz today. What's wrong with
this picture?
-
- By John Lee
- The Prohibition Times
- 12-23-3
-
- Tennessee Air National Guard
- 134th Air Refueling Wing (KC135s)
- McGhee Tyson Knoxville International Airport
- http://www.tnknox.ang.af.mil
- (where TN named highway for convicted hit-and-run DUI
killer)
- http://www.geocities.com/american_motorcycle_association/koella.html
-
- (1) Wing Commander is the top dog, a superstar flying
jets, so no reason to get drunk and forget your troubles, which would cost
him his pilot's license as well as his command. These pilots don't just
love their jobs, they are in-love with their jobs. They would KILL for
their jobs. He commanded troops in Afganistan and Iraq. He is accused of
drinking two cases of beer in a one hour time, then driving his car (when
he lives on base and has chauffeurs).
-
- (2) Diabetic ketoacidosis (so-called "diabetic coma")
affects walking, talking driving people, and tests false-positive on so-called
breath/blood-alcohol tests (that cannot test for "alcohol", they
test for methyl, a normal chemical in blood). Death can occur in 24 hours
without expert medical care, not found in any jail. Even while locked in
jail for 6 months, diabetics can score 0.40% "blood-alcohol"
without any ingestion of alcohol.
-
- (3) This Air National Guard base is now under max "terror"
alert, so the timing is odd.
-
- (4) McGhee Tyson Airport has $1-billion/year in CIA cocaine
imports, according to FBI and court cases, back in 1980s dollars. Fed Ex
has a max-security terminal beside the TANG base. Skull & Boner Freddie
Smith owns FedEx, and just won the USPS contracts to Commie China and the
heroin plantations, formerly held by Evergreen Aviation, which replaced
Air America for CIA drug running just in time for Iran-Iraq-Contra. Afganistan's
poppy crop is now overflowing, thank's to Jr's and Poppy Bush's Gulf War
Sudden Death Overtime. Were KC135 tankers loaded with opium on their return
flights? Did the commander find something he wasn't supposed to find? Did
an enemy inside the gates slip him a micky to take him out of the game,
and into the loony bin (into the clutches of a psycho doctor)? Project
Phoenix serial killers for CIA and Pentagon slaughtered 60,000 US allies
in Vietnam, and is now legalized in USA by Bush Jr...
-
- (5) The wing commander's symptoms appear more like sudden
ketoacidosis, perhaps caused by iatrogenocidal vaccine infection (deadly
for 30,000 Gulf War vets, disabling for 400,000 Gulf War Vets according
to US Census 2000), since he would have been grounded by the flight surgeon
long ago for diabetes. Is the base suffering a vaccine-induced epidemic?
Judge orders Pentagon to halt anthrax vaccines on same day wing commander
locked up...
- http://gulfwarvets.com
-
- (6) This sounds like the recent USAF colonel psychiatrist
at Wilford Hall medical torture, er, experiment lab, San Antonio TX, who
crashed his car into a tree, after cutting his nipples off with his hands
and feet duct-taped, in celebration of his pending retirement to lucrative
private practice...
-
- (7) Or perhaps he OD'd on USAF/CIA Chemtrail tanker fumes?
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- "Strictly speaking, a driver can register a
BAC of .00% and still be convicted of a DUI. The level of BAC does not
clear a driver when it is below the 'presumed level of intoxication.'"
- -Tennessee Driver's License Handbook and Study Guide
- http://www.state.tn.us/safety/handbook.html
-
- "All propaganda has to be popular and has to
adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of
those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
- -Chancellor Adolf "Hitler" Shicklegruber
-
- Here is the story:
-
- Keenan, McGhee Tyson commander, charged with
DUI
-
- By John Stiles
- 12-22-3
-
- The commander of the McGhee Tyson Air National Guard
Base faces a driving under the influence charge when he is released from
a hospital, Loudon County authorities said Monday.
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- Col. John K. Keenan, who commands the air base and is
wing commander of the 134th Air Refueling Wing, was stopped by Loudon County
officers Friday, said Sheriff's Sgt. Jimmy Davis.
-
- "When they first pulled him over they thought it
was medical (a medical problem)," said Davis.
-
- Keenan was taken to a Loudon County hospital where doctors
said he should remain overnight to get him "stable," said Davis.
-
- Keenan registered 0.38 on a test, Davis said. The presumed
state level of intoxication is 0.08.
-
- When it came time to release Keenan from the Loudon County
facility, deputies were told that Keenan should go to Peninsula Hospital
in Louisville, Tenn., in Blount County.
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- Peninsula Hospital provides inpatient mental health and
alcohol/drug crisis stabilization services for adults, adolescents and
children.
-
- Davis said deputies have obtained a warrant signed by
a magistrate, which will be served when Keenan is released from Peninsula.
-
- Keenan took command of the base in 2001 when Col. John
Knable retired.
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- Keenan was commissioned in 1983 through a Reserve Officer
Training Corps program. He took over at McGhee Tyson with the rank of lieutenant
colonel and has since been promoted to colonel.
-
- In a prepared statement, Maj. Gen. Gus L. Hargett, adjutant
general of the Tennessee Military Department said:
-
- "We are certainly aware of the situation concerning
the commander of the 134th Air Refueling Wing. We have taken the appropriate
steps to insure that Tennessee Air National Guard operations continue as
normal at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base.
-
- "Col. Tim Deering is the acting commander,"
he added.
-
- John Stiles may be reached at 865-981-9101.
- http://knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,
1406,KNS_347_2524443,00.html
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- http://www.wbir.com/News/news.asp?ID=16010
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- 134TH COMMANDER CHARGED WITH DUI The Commander of the
134th Air Refueling Wing, based at McGhee Tyson, is temporarily stripped
of his duties, because he is charged with DUI.
-
- Colonel John Keenan's blood alcohol level was almost
five times the legal limit, according to the Loudon County deputies who
pulled him over. The deputies responded to 911 calls of a reckless driver
on I-75 on Thursday afternoon, just after 3:00. The deputies turned on
their lights and tried to pull over the car after seeing him swerve from
the far right shoulder to the far left emergency lane on southbound 75,
but the car wouldn't stop, according to Sgt. Jimmy Davis of the Loudon
County Sheriff's Department.
-
- Davis says the deputies radioed to some semis for help.
They slowed down, so the car had to, and deputies were able to pull him
over.
-
- They say Col. John Keenan was driving. Deputies say he
knew his name, but didn't know where he was, what day it was, or the name
of the President of the United States. They thought he had a medical condition,
so an ambulance took him to the hospital.
-
- Deputies say an ER doctor told them it wasn't a medical
condition Keenan was suffering from, but that he was intoxicated. A blood
test showed an alcohol level of .38 in Keenan's system. Legally drunk in
Tennessee is .08, so Keenan's test was just about five times the legal
limit.
-
- "It was, I would imagine, a lifesaving deed that
we did," says Loudon County Sheriff Tim Guider. "In his condition
and based on witnesses, there would've been an accident, probably."
-
- Keenan went from the hospital to rehab. The sheriff says
he is charged with DUI and will be arrested when he gets out of treatment.
-
- A Tennessee native, he's been commander of the 134th
since December of 2001. Tennessee's military department says operations
are continuing as normal at the air base, but Keenan is temporarily stripped
of his command. Col. Tim Deering is the acting commander.
-
- 12/22/2003 9:40:35 PM
- Reporter: Teresa Woodard
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- http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MILITARY_ANTHRAX?
SITE=TNKNN&SECTION=HOME
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- Dec 22, 10:18 PM EST
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- Judge Halts Forced Military Anthrax Shots
-
- By PAULINE JELINEK
- Associated Press Writer
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- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Saying American soldiers should not
be used as "guinea pigs for experimental drugs," a federal judge
Monday ordered the Pentagon to stop mandatory anthrax vaccinations started
in 1998.
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- U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said he was convinced
by plaintiffs in a class action suit that the vaccine is experimental and
being "used for an unapproved purpose" - that is, for exposure
to airborne anthrax as well as exposure through the skin.
-
- Officials at the Defense Department and Food and Drug
Administration said they had not seen the ruling and had no immediate comment.
But the federal government has long maintained that the licensed vaccine
is safe, is not experimental and can be used for protection against anthrax
inhaled or absorbed through the skin.
-
- More than 900,000 servicemen and women have received
the shots, among the millions of doses of various vaccines administered
annually to protect troops against disease and bioterror threats. Hundreds
of service members have been punished or discharged for refusing them,
according to the Pentagon.
-
- "The women and men of our armed forces put their
lives on the line every day to preserve and safeguard the freedoms that
all Americans cherish and enjoy," Sullivan said in Monday's 34-page
ruling.
-
- "Absent an informed consent or presidential waiver,
the United States cannot demand that members of the armed forces also serve
as guinea pigs for experimental drugs," Sullivan said.
-
- In granting the preliminary injunction, Sullivan ordered
the government to file responses by Jan. 30.
-
- Anthrax is a naturally occurring bacterium that typically
affects sheep and cattle. When inhaled, dry anthrax spores can be deadly
to humans.
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- The federal government approved the vaccine three decades
ago. But plaintiffs - unidentified active duty, National Guard and civilian
defense employees - say the license was only for exposure through the skin,
and that it may not be safe.
-
- Sullivan's ruling said the label on the vaccine does
not specify which method of anthrax exposure it protects against.
-
- He cited a 1998 law prohibiting the use of new drugs
or those unapproved for their intended use unless people being given the
drug consent to its use or the president waives the consent requirement.
Congress passed the law amid fears that the use of such drugs may have
led to unexplained illnesses - which have come to be known as Gulf
- War Syndrome - among veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf
War.
-
- The anthrax vaccine itself has been approved since the
1970s and used regularly to protect veterinarians and scientists working
with anthrax.
-
- Believing Iraq and other nations had produced anthrax
weapons, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen in 1997 ordered the
armed forces immunized.
-
- While the government does not recommend vaccinating the
general public, it says the vaccine overall is very safe, with rare severe
side effects such as dangerous allergic reactions.
-
- But hundreds of military personnel have refused the shots,
worried they could be connected to complaints of chronic fatigue, memory
loss and other problems.
-
- A leaflet inserted with the product, which originally
stated that adverse reaction occurred in 0.2 percent of cases, was recently
revised to reflect a rate between 5 percent and 35 percent, the ruling
said. It said there have been at least six deaths linked to the vaccine.
-
- The 0.2 percent rate came from an earlier government
report that there were only 105 serious reactions in over 830,000 recipients,
the ruling said without giving details.
-
- The program was started to vaccinate all 2.4 million
members of the active and reserve military, but was radically reduced after
factory violations by the nation's sole vaccine manufacturer resulted in
dwindling supplies.
-
- The FDA cleared Lansing, Mich.-based BioPort's manufacturing
plant in January of 2002 to produce the vaccine and to resume shipments.
-
- After a three-month study considering the new domestic
need, previous supply problems and other issues, the Pentagon decided to
give the shots only to troops, essential civilians and contractors who
are assigned for more than 15 days to "higher threat" areas of
the
- world.
-
- Officials declined to identify those areas. Nor would
they say how many troops would be given the vaccine. It is likely that
these areas include the Persian Gulf and the Korean peninsula.
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- http://knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_2522768,00.html
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- Threat level is raised to orange
-
- Warnings color Americans' holiday season
-
- By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press
- December 22, 2003
-
- WASHINGTON - The head of the Department of Homeland Security
on Monday
- urged people to "just go about your business"
despite the decision to raise the national terror-attack warning to its
second-highest level.
-
- "I think it's very, very important to send a message
to the terrorists of goodwill and resolve," said Tom Ridge, making
the rounds of nationally broadcast morning news shows. He said the Bush
administration wants people to "be vigilant and have a good
- communications plan under way."
-
- After briefing President Bush on Monday, Ridge reiterated
to reporters that the intelligence community considered the new threat
"the most significant threat" to the country since the terror
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
-
- "We've never quite seen it at this level before,"
Ridge said.
-
- At the same time, he sought to reassure the public that
tightened security measures were in place and they should not alter their
holiday travel plans.
-
- "If you've got holiday plans, go," Ridge said.
-
- Ridge's comments came a day after he announced that the
government was elevating the national terror alert warning to "Code
Orange." The upgrade from "Code Yellow," or "elevated"
status, followed warnings that the terrorist organization al-Qaida may
be plotting attacks against the United States during the holidays. The
new designation
- indicates a high risk.
-
- "The information we have indicates that extremists
abroad are anticipating near-term attacks that they believe will either
rival or exceed" the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Ridge had said in announcing
the upgraded alert status on Sunday.
-
- Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America,"
Ridge was asked if the host of warnings and changes in warning status over
the past two years had made the public somewhat nonchalant about such alerts.
-
- He replied that it has been six months since the terror
alert was changed, saying "I don't think we've got to worry about
threat fatigue. We need to be on the alert and America needs to know that
those who need to do things are doing them, that their government is
- working 24-7 to protect them against terrorist attack."
-
- Some of the intelligence information gathered indicates
that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, al-Qaida, is seeking again to
use planes as weapons, he said. Ridge said the terrorists are "constantly
evaluating procedures ... to find gaps in our security posture that could
be exploited."
-
- The country's alert level had stood at yellow, an elevated
risk and in the middle of the five-color scale, since May. On Monday, Ridge
said the change in the alert status was the result of information from
"many sources," but said he could not be more specific.
-
- An official speaking on condition of anonymity had said
Sunday that some of the intercepted communications and other intelligence
mentioned New York, Washington and unspecified cities on the West Coast.
Authorities also are concerned about dams, bridges, nuclear plants, chemical
facilities and other public works.
-
- Thousands of state and local law enforcement agencies
have received an FBI advisory urging special notice of sites that could
be a conceivable target and potential security upgrades, the official said.
-
- A senior Pentagon official said Monday the Defense Department
is helping beef up security, but declined to give details. In past times
of high threat, officials have increased combat air patrols by military
jets over U.S. cities and deployed missile launchers
- outside the Pentagon and at other locations in the capital.
-
- Interviewed on CBS's "The Early Show" Monday,
Ridge said of the intelligence reports: "The volume is up. The quality
of the reporting is up. The credibility is there." Earlier, he contacted
counterparts in Canada and Mexico about increasing border security.
-
- At a hastily arranged news conference Sunday, Ridge said
credible intelligence sources "suggest the possibility of attacks
against the homeland around the holiday season and beyond" and said
it was decided to raise the alert level after U.S. intelligence agencies
- "received a substantial increase in the volume of
threat-related intelligence reports."
-
- Hours after Ridge's announcement, the State Department
issued a worldwide caution warning U.S. citizens overseas that they may
be terrorist targets.
-
- Ridge said officials did not see a connection between
the recent capture of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the heightened
security alert, and L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, backed
that up Monday, telling NBC he saw no connection.
-
- "There's been a suggestion of high terror threats
certainly in Iraq where we are on the front of the war on terror over the
last weeks, unrelated to Saddam's capture," Bremer said.
-
- Ridge tried to reassure Americans traveling by plane
for the holidays. "Make no mistake about it, aviation is far more
secure than it's ever been in the history of the country," he said.
At the same time, he said security at airports can be ramped up a bit more.
-
- As a result of the change in threat level, all federal
departments and agencies were
- putting action plans in place and stepping up security
at airports, border crossings and
- ports, Ridge said.
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