Two weeks ago on this blog, Senior
Editor Brian Doherty
wrote about a case in Texas that sounds like one of the
weirdest and most infuriating abuses of justice you’ll see:
In a federal/local raid earlier this month on a “smoke shop”
called the Purple Zone in Alpine, Texas, two sisters running the
place were arrested: Ilana and Arielle Lipsen.Arielle insists she was hit in the head with a rifle by a DEA
agent in what she characterized as an unprovoked
assault. […]Pictures of Lipsen’s head with the alleged gun butt wound were
taken and spread on Facebook by Tom Cochran, who runs a screen
printing shop whose services the Lipsen sisters used. […]The document that Ilana Lipsen had to sign to make bond, which I
have seen, included this handwritten demand […]:
“will advice media (Kwest9 news) that he [sic] sister,
arielle lipsen, was not beaten by agents carrying/using a M16
rifle, and her sister instigated/assaulted agents.”
A NewsWest9 report
says Lipsen did, as ordered, recant her original story.The pictures have now led Cochran to suffer a public call for
boycott of his business, Big Bend Screen Printing, from
the National Border Patrol
Council, an AFL-CIO affiliate union for Border Patrol workers.
(Local station NewsWest9 has more
on that.)
So on tonight’s live episode of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT,
repeats three hours later) we’ll have Tom Cochran on to talk about
this crazy series of events.
Party Panel this evening consists of New York Times
science writer-slash-friend of
Reason John
Tierney and former Reagan-administration deputy defense
secretary K.T.
McFarland, who will talk about the two big pieces of news
today: the Environmental Protection Agency’s
proposed rules mandating carbon reductions, and the
confusing and contested prisoner swap of five allegedly
Taliban-affiliated Guantanamo Bay prisoners for the
controversial Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Later in the show the
Panel will also discuss the National Security Agency’s huge new
facial recognition plans.
Bowe Bengdahl is back on the menu in the next segment, with
radio host and military veteran Bryan Suits, who is
threatening to bust out with some insiderish knowledge about the
case. Former U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations
John Bolton will likely have a thing or two to add on the
subject, though first we want to get his reactions to being a
pawn in Iranian cyberespionage. And naturally we’ll be
celebrating
International Whores’ Day.
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