Pirates and Patriots: June 2017

Sam Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... " -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Sgt. Terrance Yeakey Saved Lives during the Oklahoma City Bombing, but Died in Suspicious Suicide, 1996

From these reports from Blacklisted News, it appears that Sgt. Terrance Yeakey qualifies for the Pirates and Patriots Award. Despite eventually deadly pressure, Yeakey refused to change his story of what he saw on the terrible day of the Oklahoma City Bombing, April 19, 1995.

"Instead of being treated as the hero he truly was, Sgt. Terrance Yeakey was silenced by his own government in an effort to keep him from exposing their complicity in one of the largest mass murders in American history – which senselessly ended the lives of 168 people, including 19 children."

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Never_Forget%3A_Hero_Cop_Who_Blew_Whistle_On_OKC_Bombing_Did_NOT_Commit_Suicide/58037/0/38/38/Y/M.html