Former Congressman Supports Cop Killer
Former Congressman Supports Cop Killer
posted by Rick Deckard on Thursday November 28 2002 @ 10:50PM PST
Alciere allegedly makes posts supporting cop-killer
Thursday, November 28, 2002 By KEVIN LANDRIGAN, Telegraph Staff ,
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CONCORD. Less than 200 minutes after an Olympia, Wash., man confessed to a
New Hampshire reporter he had killed a California police officer, Nashua's
infamous former state legislator with similar views had resurfaced.
Someone purporting to be Tom Alciere posted a message on a now-familiar San
Francisco news Web site praising Andrew Hampton McCrae for admitting he
killed Red Bluff, Calif., police Officer David Mobilio at random while
Mobilio was pumping gas into his cruiser Nov. 19.
McCrae surrendered peacefully to Concord police Tuesday after being
holed-up in a Holiday Inn for eight hours. He told local police and a
Concord reporter he decided to come to New Hampshire because its
Constitution allows for revolution.
If somebody had slaughtered that goon while the goon was refueling a patrol
car, then that goon wouldn't be shoving a submachine gun in your face,
Alciere apparently posted at 1:21 p.m. on Tuesday.
That's why the attack in Red Bluff was absolutely justified. If the voters
don't like it, they should've thought of that BEFORE they voted against
candidates who would repeal the unjust laws.
Let this be a lesson to them: Vote wrong, cops die. And let this be a
lesson to police chiefs across the USA: Cops under control, or cops under
flowers.
No one would answer the door to knocks by reporters at Alciere's home
Wednesday.
Two days earlier, McCrae had visited the same site and posted two
manifestos that included a confession to Mobilio's killing and the
illogical legal claim that forming a New Hampshire corporation gave him
immunity from prosecution for the crime, which carries the death penalty in
California.
The writer claiming to be Alciere likened McCrae's act to the violence of
patriots instigated during the Revolutionary War.
Americans didn't let the Redcoats get away with tax enforcement and
Americans don't have to let the police get away with drug enforcement. What
are they supposed to do, try to scare the intruders away with a Boy Scout
knife? the writer asked rhetorically.
All of this painfully brought back to state lawmakers Alciere's stunning
election as a Republican legislator in 2000 after Democratic and
Libertarian Party candidacies had failed.
When McCrae had just given himself up, House Assistant Majority Leader
David Hess, R-Hooksett, poked his head in the Statehouse pressroom.
I want it perfectly understood this man (McCrae) did not just get elected
as a Republican to the New Hampshire Legislature, Hess said, holding back a
smile.
Alciere, 43, won in 2000 without informing voters of his views or drawing
attention to his anti-police views posted more than a year before on the
Internet.
Following the vote, Alciere went online and said he was elected by a
''bunch of fat, stupid, ugly old ladies that watch soap operas, play bingo,
read tabloids and don't know the metric system.
In early January 2001, Alciere told The Valley News of Lebanon that he
loves it when someone kills a police officer: ''It's unfortunate that cops
do make it necessary (to kill them) when they're waging a war on drugs, and
I view cops as enemy officers.
Alciere said he is ''too chicken to do it himself and in 1999 summed up his
views this way: Nobody will ever be safe until the last cop is dead.
The uproar over Alciere's statements started an avalanche of calls for him
to renounce those views or resign.
Initially, Alciere said his anti-police comments were the ''harmless
rantings of a private citizen that wouldn't influence his legislative work.
Alciere first sounded defiant and said he would never step down, but on
Jan. 11, he left with a whimper, dropping off a resignation letter in House
Speaker Gene Chandler's office.
Meanwhile, McCrae's neighbors in Olympia's Capital Hill Apartments could
not explain how this 23-year-old could become a cop killer.
Gina Gervasi says she lived across the hall from McCrae.
He just seemed like a normal guy. A kid, you know, 20s, Gervasi said. I
didn't think he'd ever kill a police officer. I don't know. I can't believe
that.
A 91-year-old neighbor of McCrae's told The Sacramento Bee she spoke
several times to the neatly dressed man who had told her he was studying
creative writing and carpentry in college.
Louise Bracker said McCrae moved in during September.
He was kind of friendly and I wondered why would he want to talk to a
91-year-old woman,'' Bracker said. But then I figured he was kind of lonesome.
McCrae apparently entered the service as an infantryman in late 1998 and
transferred to the ready reserve in 2001. The Pentagon had no information
to corroborate his claim on the Web site of having been a Ranger.
Red Bluff police issued a call for information on a maroon 1992 Ford
Mustang hatchback with tinted windows, bearing Washington license plate 595
NAB.
A car McCrae may have driven was never recovered at the Holiday Inn in
Concord, where he stayed two days until surrendering to FBI agents.
Police now believe that car could be in California, Oregon or Washington.
Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, was not surprised to see Alciere
re-emerge.
This guy eats up the publicity, he lives for all this attention. He's one
sick individual, D'Allesandro said.
Indeed, Alciere has never fully left the public stage since leaving the
Legislature. His own Web site was regularly updated with attacks on the
Border Patrol.
So, in all fairness to the police officers, average police don't deserve to
get killed nearly as much as Border Patrol goons do,Alciere wrote months
ago on his Web site.
Some police officers sign up so they can serve the people, accepting the
job of enforcing the many unjust laws as a required trade-off. That is a
decision they have made and, while it is the wrong decision, at least they
aren't as bad as Border Patrol goons, which sign up only out of greed and
malice.
Border Patrol goons only serve the wants of bigots. Border Patrol goons are
the scum of the Earth.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Alciere has joined the critics
who argue the federal government used the tragedy to enhance its police
powers.
Recently, Alciere called for like-minded people to come to the state before
the Nov. 5 election to be able to run in 2004.
That's a presidential year, when lots of uninformed voters will march to
the polls. Even if you lose, you get involved in whatever political party
you ran under. There were wards here in Nashua where Republicans
outnumbered Democrats, and no Republicans even ran, Alciere wrote on his
Web site.
Kevin Landrigan can be reached at 224-8804.
Source:
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SectionID=25&SubSectionID=377&ArticleID=68714
Link: http://www.tomalciere.com/
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/11/28/2645982
