Lubbock Hero of the Week: Lawyer Ben Webb

Ben Webb

Lubbock lawyer Ben Webb was strip-searched and jailed because he refused testify against his former client as ordered by Judge Jim Bob Darnell. Yes, his real name is Jim Bob.

Webb’s courage to stand up for his former client’s rights is a shining example of true patriotism.

A Lubbock attorney this morning was exculpated after a judge signed an order finding him not guilty and releasing him of his bond obligations.

Ben Webb was arrested and jailed in June of this year after he refused to testify against a former client on trial in the 140th District Court.

Judge Jim Bob Darnell found him in contempt and ordered him arrested.

He was strip-searched and jailed before another judge released him on a personal recognizance bond.

Darnell also stipulated he must pay back any attorney fees he collected for representing the defendant he refused to testify against, Donald R. Johnson.

Visiting Judge Paul Davis, appointed after Darnell recused himself, freed Webb by signing the order agreed upon by Rod Hobson, Webb’s attorney and John Grace, who represents the county.

“I feel two things today: pride and vindication,” Webb said at a news conference on the courthouse lawn. “It feels good to know what I felt was right was right.”

Darnell declined comment.

Source: Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Lubbock Police Arrest and Stun Tech Student

Lubbock Police officers used a stun gun on a Texas Tech student Saturday afternoon during the “Tour de Tech Terrace”.  The student was charged with evading arrest with a vehicle, resisting arrest, failure to identify and public intoxication.

Hunter Temperton, a student in the College of Arts and Sciences, was arrested at about 6:40 p.m. Saturday at the Tech Terrace Park at 23rd Street and Gary Avenue, according to Lubbock Police Department officer Sgt. Jon Stewart. Sgt. Stewart said the subject was in the street when officers told him to go into the park. Temperton did not comply with officers and was subsequently arrested, he said.

However, students witnessed Temperton walking to a group of students while one of the officers was writing him a ticket and then the officers tackled him from his bicycle and pinned him to the ground.

As you can see in the video, it appears as though Temperton is subdued on the ground by two officers and is offering little resistance.

However, in the audio, one of the officers can be heard saying “keep your hand down.” The officers then stun him with a stun gun and say, “Now give me your other hand or I’m going to tase you again.” The student’s hands are obscured by the body of one of the police officers in the video.

Source: The Daily Toreador

Supreme Court Appointment

This AP story shows the collectivist attitudes of people today. Racism is a nasty form of collectivism.

From AP:

The White House announcement ceremony was a picture of diversity, the first black president, appointing the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, joined by Vice President Joe Biden, who is white.

First of all what defines “black“? Both of Barack Obama’s parents were not “black“, so does that make him 100% black as opposed to 3/5 of a person just because he has more vitamin D in his skin than someone else? I don’t understand the logic to this nonsense. Who cares if she is Hispanic, Asian, black, white, tall, short, ambidextrous, toothless, or even deaf? Will she abide by the Constitution Article 3, Sec 1-2 and the 11th Amendment?

For the Liberty of these States United,

Arron Burr is my Hero

Source: Associated Press