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    Tom Clements Dead: Colorado Department Of Corrections Chief Shot At Home, Gunman On The Run


    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2914314.html
    http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...=8081#post8081


    MONUMENT, Colo. -- The executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections was shot and killed when he answered the front door of his house, and police are searching for the gunman and trying to figure out if the attack had anything to do with his position.

    Authorities are also looking for a dark-colored "boxy" car seen near the house of Tom Clements, 58, when he was shot around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in Monument, north of Colorado Springs. The vehicle's engine was running and a witness reported seeing one person driving away in the car.

    Lt. Jeff Kramer, of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, said investigators have not ruled anything out, but the shooting could have been related to Clements' job.

    "As the director of the Department of Corrections or any similar type position, it could in fact open someone up to be a target of a crime such as this. Although we remain sensitive to that, we also want to make sure that we remain open-minded to other possibilities as well," Kramer said.

    Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed Clements to the post in 2011 after he served for more than three decades in the Missouri Department of Corrections. He replaced Ari Zavaras, a former Denver police chief who led the department under two governors. The department operates 20 adult prisons and a juvenile detainment system.

    Hickenlooper was red-eyed and somber and spoke haltingly Wednesday morning at a news conference in which he said he doesn't think the killing was part of any larger attack against his cabinet, members of which stood behind him, several of them crying. Others dabbed their eyes.

    "Corrections is a very different job. You make difficult decisions every time that affect different people," Hickenlooper said, calling Clements dedicated, funny, caring and an expert on the latest and best methods in his field who chose the Colorado job over retirement.

    "Tom Clements dedicated his life to being a public servant, to making our state a better place and he is going to be deeply, deeply missed."

    Hickenlooper planned to go to Monument to meet with Clements' family after signing gun-control bills.

    A family member called 911 to report the shooting. Search dogs were called in to comb through a wooded area around Clements' home, and authorities were going house to house trying to find out what neighbors heard and saw.

    Clements lived in a wooded neighborhood of large, two-story houses on expansive 2-acre lots dotted with evergreen trees in an area known as the Black Forest. Long driveways connect the homes to narrow, winding roads that thread the hills. Clements' home was out of view, behind a barricaded of crime-scene tape in the road.

    After Clements was appointed, Hickenlooper praised Clements for his approach to incarceration, saying he relied on proven methods to improve prison safety inside and programs that have been shown to improve successful outcomes after offenders are released from prison.

    While Clements generally kept a low profile, his killing comes a week after he denied a Saudi national prisoner's request to be sent to his home country to serve out his sentence. Homaidan al-Turki was convicted of sexually assaulting a housekeeper and keeping her as a virtual slave. Clements said state law requires sex offenders to undergo treatment while in prison and that al-Turki had declined to participate.

    Hickenlooper ordered flags lowered to half-staff at public buildings until the day after Clements' funeral. Arrangements are pending.

    Clements is survived by his wife, Lisa, and two daughters, Rachel and Sara.

    Clements received a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Missouri. He started with the Missouri Department of Corrections in 1979 and over his 31 years there worked in prisons as well as probation and parole services. He was director of adult institutions when he left.

    Missouri leaders also mourned his death.

    George Lombardi, director of Missouri's Department of Corrections, said Clements was "just a very good, decent person."

    Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said in an emailed statement that Clements "dedicated his professional life and his considerable skills to public service and protection, and the citizens of Missouri join the people of Colorado in mourning this tremendous loss."


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    Looks Like I Called It On Colorado

    Looks Like I Called It On Colorado


    http://downwithjugears.blogspot.com/...-colorado.html
    http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...=8098#post8098


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    An update on the incident I mentioned in the latest RFN, where the head of the Colorado prison system was gunned down on his own doorstep.

    They're now hanging it on a so-called "White supremacist" (of course!) named Evan Ebel, aged 28, who was shot and put into a vegetative state by county mounties down in Texas. They're harvesting his organs now as I write this.

    Our Lords and Masters now claim that they are "looking for connections" between Ebel and the shooting of Colorado prison czar Tom Clements. The previous theory that it might have been done by a brown-skinned Muslim (i.e. a politically protected minority) has now been shoved down the Memory Hole. Nothing like a conveniently dead "White supremacist" to take the rap for pretty much whatever rap needs taking.

    Okay, look, we don't yet know much, so maybe it was this guy Ebel. With a criminal record for armed robbery, he's certainly no prize. I've never heard of this alleged "White supremacist prison gang" he's supposed to be a member of. Maybe it really does exist. But I do find his sudden demise and linkage to the Colorado incident very convenient for the power structure, and when things fall out conveniently for the dictatorship my bullshit antennae start twitching.

    You can listen to this week's Radio Free Northwest at

    http://northwestfront.org/2013/03/ra...rch-21st-2013/


    POSTED BY THE OLD MAN AT 9:33 AM FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013


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