I addressed the Thousand Oaks, CA City Council about the cover-up of the mass murders.  All reports and video are being hidden and that's more than suspect.  We need and deserve open government!

Thousand Oaks, CA —The November 8 th   massacre  of college kids and a Sheriff’s sergeant by a crazed gunman still generates many more questions than answers.     It’s now more than obvious that the answers will have to be forcibly extracted from the officials by legal process and court orders.  Right now, lawyers helping victims face a solid stonewall as far as getting enough information to even file lawsuits. Legal authority is required to open the reports, surveillance video and evidence for inspection.   The lawyers must sue before they can obtain subpoenas or any discovery material.  However they can’t sue without having a proper theory as to negligence or some other tort claim.  With the records locked up so tight, justice may never be done.  The first obvious liability target is the Borderline Bar and Grill itself.  We know that those people injured were not shot.  Due to inadequate...

Thousand Oaks, CA —Exactly one month to the day,  Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayob  and his PR department held a press conference to release some “new” details.  In reality those details were not so new since a small 5.56 MM projectile was removed from the body of  Sergeant Ron Helus during unsuccessful emergency surgery.   Since they knew immediately that  Ian David Long, the shooter was only armed with a .45 automatic Glock pistol and only the police were using Ar-15 style rifles capable of discharging the 5.56 MM rounds.  They did learn definitively from the FBI laboratory that the round came from a CHP officer’s rifle.  This was and is beyond humiliating as well as epically tragic.  I don’t envy these fellows that had the duty to let this troubling cat out of the bag.  I did not make things easier for them when I asked about several off duty officers from at least three departments socializing in the Borderline club that wer...