Alex Jones Show - 20030107_Smoak_Alex

00:00:01.000 Trying to get those folks on as guests.

00:00:04.000 Losing your wallet in Cookville, Tennessee can get you handcuffed on the side of the highway and your dog shot to death by police.

00:00:12.000 At least that was the experience of the North Carolina family returning from vacation in Nashville.

00:00:16.000 Headlines in the World Net Daily.

00:00:18.000 Private stop traumatizes family.

00:00:21.000 Couple handcuffed dogs shot to death over lost wallet.

00:00:23.000 To make a long story short, we'll get the tales from James Smoke, the father He witnessed these horrors.

00:00:31.000 I hope he sues them.

00:00:33.000 He was at a gas station.

00:00:34.000 The police had met this.

00:00:35.000 He put his wallet on top of the car.

00:00:38.000 How many times has this happened to you?

00:00:40.000 I know you've driven off and the gas cap's fallen on the ground.

00:00:43.000 I've driven off and had the wallet fall off and went right back and got it.

00:00:46.000 He's going down the road and somehow money flying around the parking lot.

00:00:50.000 They thought it was a car jacking.

00:00:52.000 They pull him over, get him all in handcuffs.

00:00:54.000 The dog comes out of the car.

00:00:55.000 They shoot the dog.

00:00:57.000 And this just shows how the militarization of police and the corruption of society Which then gives police, basically on hair-trigger guard, is endangering all of us, and this policy of shooting people's dogs for almost nothing.

00:01:14.000 Mr. Smoke, thanks for joining us today.

00:01:16.000 Yeah, good afternoon.

00:01:18.000 Basically, is this news article accurate?

00:01:21.000 What exactly?

00:01:21.000 Well, there's a couple of corrections there.

00:01:23.000 Yes, basically what you just said was accurate, but the wallet flew off on the interstate, somewhere around the 226 mile mark, according to the Tennessee State Police.

00:01:34.000 I got gas at exit 221.

00:01:36.000 So the car probably had to get up to speed before the wallet actually blew off.

00:01:41.000 Now, why did they panic so much at a wallet flying off of a car?

00:01:46.000 A citizen with a cell phone called them saying that a large sum of money was seen flying through the air off of my car and felt that something was suspicious that there was probably a robbery.

00:02:00.000 And so they took that and turned it into a possible armed robbery.

00:02:04.000 And I've also seen written in some of the police documents possible carjacking.

00:02:09.000 Yeah, the report says that.

00:02:11.000 Now, this shows the hysterics in the society.

00:02:14.000 I've talked to one IRS employee who works in the Tattletail Division.

00:02:20.000 And, uh, where, you know, where the tattletale phone calls come in.

00:02:23.000 Before 9-1-1, there were almost no calls.

00:02:25.000 Now, they are staffed 24 hours a day.

00:02:28.000 Phones ring off the hook.

00:02:30.000 Wives tattling on husbands. 1.00

00:02:32.000 Husbands tattling on wives.

00:02:33.000 Neighbors tattling on neighbors. 0.98

00:02:35.000 And there's no real terrorist to report on.

00:02:37.000 Everybody's just hysterically reporting on their neighbor.

00:02:40.000 Uh, there was a report last week out of the AP out of Maryland, out of Rockville, Maryland, where they have 10,000 plus phone calls about, oh, my neighbor's got a gun.

00:02:50.000 Well, now they're just SWAT teaming everybody's house, even though the guns aren't illegal, using those tips after the fact.

00:02:57.000 So, it's, this just shows what the Tattletail Society and overreacting does.

00:03:01.000 So, break down, Mr. Smoke, exactly what happened to you.

00:03:05.000 Uh, first of all, we went to Opterland Hotel years ago, my wife and I, on our honeymoon.

00:03:10.000 So we planned a family vacation because we had heard that they'd added the Delta in the late 90s and the hotel had doubled in size.

00:03:17.000 And we were amazed at how beautiful the inside the hotel was, so we planned another family vacation to Nashville.

00:03:23.000 Everything went lovely until the way home.

00:03:27.000 Two years day, I stopped at exit 221 to get gas.

00:03:31.000 And this is what's ironic about it.

00:03:33.000 There was a gentleman there that was admiring my dog.

00:03:35.000 Uh, Gerald Patton is what we named him.

00:03:38.000 And I was showing my dog off because he's such a gentle natured dog and let him pet him and showed him and in the process of showing my dog off I left my wallet on top of the car obviously.

00:03:48.000 But unbeknownst to me we pull off and leave and go down the interstate approximately five miles down the interstate the wallet flies off the lady makes the call and sets the wheels in motion for the incident that happened on mile marker 287 in town of Cooksville, Tennessee.

00:04:05.000 Approximately six miles before 287 I'm doing 70 miles an hour, headed east on I-40.

00:04:11.000 Toward home, I notice a Tennessee State Trooper coming up the road.

00:04:16.000 Well in excess of the speed limit.

00:04:18.000 But as he approached my car, he braked back and got directly behind me.

00:04:22.000 So six miles, we follow, he matches me, lane change for lane change on my bumper.

00:04:28.000 So it's obvious to me he singled me out.

00:04:30.000 I'm thinking maybe I got a signal light out, a tail light out, something.

00:04:33.000 He's, he's, he's picked me out of all this traffic out here, he's on my bumper.

00:04:37.000 As I go to turn around into the right lane around a floor-moving vehicle with the officer right on my bumper, I notice several police cars coming on the on-ramp, getting ready to yield onto the interstate.

00:04:50.000 I'm in the process of going into the right lane.

00:04:52.000 I said, wait a minute, there's not going to be enough room in the right lane for everybody.

00:04:56.000 So I flip from right signal turning right, flip back left signal back into the left lane.

00:05:01.000 To allow them to come on, and he put the blue light on me.

00:05:04.000 So I'm thinking, hey, some kind of lane change, something, he's getting ready to try to start.

00:05:08.000 But what it is, is he's waiting on his backup.

00:05:11.000 Soon as he sees the backup come up the ramp, he puts the light on me.

00:05:14.000 I immediately pull over.

00:05:16.000 I reach for my wallet, get my driver's license, and I realize I don't have it.

00:05:21.000 So I'm still expecting the officer to come to my window.

00:05:24.000 But no, this brilliant light comes on, and he's blaring orders to come across the PA system to get our hands up in the car.

00:05:31.000 While I have my hands in the car, he says, now, with your left hand still in the air, take your right hand and take the keys out of the ignition and throw them out the window.

00:05:39.000 So, I cooperate.

00:05:41.000 Next, he tells me to get out of the car, with my hands in the air, and walk backwards to the rear of the car.

00:05:48.000 So I cooperate once again.

00:05:49.000 Then he tells me, down on my knees.

00:05:51.000 Well, I'm turned sideways to the car, on my knees.

00:05:53.000 He says, no, down on your knees facing the rear of the car.

00:05:56.000 So I have to turn on my knees, Faced the rear of the car and said, now put your head on the ground.

00:06:00.000 Put my head on the ground.

00:06:01.000 He comes up, cuffs me.

00:06:03.000 No reading of rights, no nothing.

00:06:05.000 Throws me in the back of a trooper car.

00:06:07.000 And then they commit to do the same thing to my wife and child, and that's what really upsets me.

00:06:13.000 And in the process of doing this to my wife and children, the passenger right side door is left open to the car.

00:06:20.000 I'm in the car, in the back seat, talking to the trooper that's got me in his car, saying, sir, in the name of Jesus Christ, shut the door to the car.

00:06:26.000 There's dogs in there.

00:06:28.000 My wife and son are telling the officer right beside them, sir, please shut the door.

00:06:33.000 It's like you're talking to deaf people. 1.00

00:06:35.000 They can't hear nothing nobody's saying.

00:06:37.000 No cursing, nothing, just asking him polite.

00:06:40.000 It all falls on deaf ears.

00:06:43.000 So, when the final family member's taken from the car, the dog don't like to be by itself.

00:06:48.000 He's coming out the car.

00:06:49.000 He comes out the car and goes down into the grass or the side of the interstate.

00:06:54.000 Makes a loop and circle toward this officer with a flashlight mounted on his gun.

00:06:58.000 Well, we played with the dog out in the yard with flashlights.

00:07:00.000 He just run into the light.

00:07:02.000 And the guy shoots him point-blank in the head with a shotgun.

00:07:09.000 And then what happened at that point? 0.86

00:07:10.000 Your dog's brains were splattered everywhere?

00:07:13.000 Yes, and I'm telling the guy the whole time, I ain't robbed nobody.

00:07:17.000 I'm a tourist from North Carolina.

00:07:18.000 I'm on my way home.

00:07:19.000 We're just coming from Nashville.

00:07:22.000 Once again, deaf ears.

00:07:24.000 So then they moved my wife and child who had to witness the dog being shot within, I mean, 10 yards is probably an extremely long estimate.

00:07:32.000 Probably more like 10 feet from them.

00:07:34.000 They go ahead and take them, put them in the back of the car.

00:07:37.000 Whole time I'm telling the guy, please sir, we're tourists.

00:07:43.000 My name's James William Smoke.

00:07:44.000 I was born 3-5-1964.

00:07:47.000 Rondo, South Carolina is on my driver's license.

00:07:51.000 So he calls back, To the Tennessee Highway Patrol who found my wallet 70 miles down the interstate from where the incident occurred.

00:07:59.000 Or 60 miles approximately.

00:08:02.000 And the information matches.

00:08:04.000 So then he says, uh, we've made a mistake.

00:08:09.000 You can go.

00:08:10.000 I'm saying, wait a minute.

00:08:11.000 What did you do?

00:08:12.000 Scoop your dog up and put him in a bag?

00:08:13.000 They were going to try to take him and put him in a bag.

00:08:15.000 And I said, oh no, that dog won't stay in Tennessee.

00:08:17.000 That dog's coming home with us.

00:08:19.000 So they gave me a bag.

00:08:20.000 I put my dog in a bag.

00:08:22.000 And we go to the next exit to turn around.

00:08:24.000 I'm thinking I got to go back to 221 where I got gas to get my wallet.

00:08:28.000 Because they told me it was in Davidson County.

00:08:32.000 And my wife goes to file reports with the Cooksville City Police and the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

00:08:38.000 And my father and my other two children are behind us.

00:08:40.000 They see it.

00:08:41.000 They see the incident happening.

00:08:44.000 So we split up.

00:08:45.000 My wife Goes to Cooksville City Police Department and the Tennessee Highway Patrolman and my father and I take his car and go back to Exit 221 where I thought my wallet would have to be.

00:08:55.000 Because we only stopped to get gas and the next time we stopped was at the incident.

00:08:59.000 And then what happened next?

00:09:01.000 I went into the convenience store and said, I need to get my wallet.

00:09:04.000 They looked at me and said, sir, we don't know anything about a wallet.

00:09:07.000 I said, don't tell me you don't know about a wallet.

00:09:09.000 Tennessee State Highway Patrol just gilled my dog and they told me my wallet's in Davidson County.

00:09:14.000 I know you got my wallet.

00:09:15.000 Yes, sir.

00:09:16.000 We don't know anything about a wallet.

00:09:18.000 They had a restroom that was out of order at this particular gas station. 0.99

00:09:21.000 My son had walked across the street to another one so he could use the restroom.

00:09:24.000 I said, well, maybe I left it over there.

00:09:26.000 I went into this convenience store.

00:09:28.000 We don't know anything about your wallet.

00:09:30.000 So when did they finally get your wallet?

00:09:32.000 I'm getting to that.

00:09:34.000 So I say, well, this is great.

00:09:35.000 They cared enough to call the police and cause all this to happen.

00:09:39.000 Now they don't want to get up off the wallet with the money is what I'm thinking.

00:09:42.000 So I'm so upset about the dog and everything, I could care less about the wallet.

00:09:46.000 I said, let's just go back.

00:09:47.000 So en route, going back to exit 287, the cell phone rings, as my wife said, I know where your wallet is.

00:09:52.000 Tennessee State Highway Patrol have it, and they're at exit 239 waiting on you, so you can reclaim it.

00:09:58.000 Well, at this time, we've passed exit 239, so we have to turn back around, but not a long distance, probably 10 miles.

00:10:04.000 We have two Tennessee State Patrolmen awaiting with my property.

00:10:08.000 This guy took the time to pick up the money off the side of the road and everything, and they were You could see the remorse in their eyes.

00:10:14.000 They weren't allowed to talk about it, but they knew that there was a big screw-up that occurred.

00:10:18.000 And I signed the form, he gave my property back, and they told us, this is the first I heard of a citizen with a cell phone calling the robbery in.

00:10:26.000 So we get back in the car and we head back to Cooksville, and we decide that this is not going to stand, that we're going to have to do something about it and file a report.

00:10:36.000 So we spend the night directly across from the highway patrol at a Super 8 motel in Cooksville, Tennessee.

00:10:42.000 During my wife's process of getting the reports filed, someone gave her the name of Miss Mary Jo Denton, who works with the Herald Citizen, which is the town paper of Cookville, and she decides she's interested in publishing this story.

00:10:59.000 So we go there and interview and tell us basically what I've just told you, and she printed it and got the ball rolling for this media exposure of this craziness.

00:11:10.000 Okay, James, uh, Smoke, let me just first just tell you a few things here, and I'm sorry to hear this happen to your dog, General Patton, correct?

00:11:18.000 Yes, sir.

00:11:20.000 I have been to multiple homes, in fact, I've even thought about making a documentary about this.

00:11:25.000 Here in Austin, Texas, and I've seen reports from around the country, because I scan a little local papers and news wires, SWAT teams have a policy of shooting any dog that is barking.

00:11:37.000 Yeah.

00:11:38.000 And they told you about that?

00:11:40.000 No, sir.

00:11:42.000 You didn't tell me about that.

00:11:43.000 I witnessed that.

00:11:44.000 Okay, well, this is something most Americans don't know about.

00:11:47.000 Your case, and I know it was horrible, is nothing compared to inside people's houses.

00:11:54.000 We're talking 25-pound Schnauzers.

00:11:57.000 We're talking fat, blind Labradors.

00:12:00.000 They walk in.

00:12:01.000 I've been in a house right here in Austin on a so-called marijuana raid.

00:12:04.000 Of course, nothing was found.

00:12:06.000 They come in, a fat lab gets up, and I go to the house hours after.

00:12:11.000 It isn't even able to get off its bed in the kitchen.

00:12:14.000 The dog has 15 bullet holes in it.

00:12:17.000 Intestines all over the wall, brains all over the wall.

00:12:20.000 SWAT team, MP5, sprays it.

00:12:23.000 Yeah, they had automatic weapons that I don't see.

00:12:25.000 Right down the side, just splattering.

00:12:28.000 But look, it gets worse.

00:12:31.000 They don't just have somebody on dog-killing detail on every SWAT raid.

00:12:35.000 They routinely blow innocent people in half, little kids, their own officers, and that's in the back of the paper and isn't picked up nationally.

00:12:43.000 You're just one story that just happened for some reason to get picked up nationally.

00:12:49.000 Yes, sir.

00:12:49.000 Because you articulately told the story.

00:12:52.000 But when they do this, they kill your animals, they kill your children.

00:12:59.000 I feel like we were a sneeze or a body cramp away from death ourselves, yes, sir.

00:13:05.000 Well, by a body cramp you mean... You know, when they had us in the position, if you started convulsing with your body and had a cramp, they'd have shot us.

00:13:14.000 I know, it's horrible.

00:13:16.000 Well, look, I read reports every week where they shoot cops at these spot raids.

00:13:21.000 It's just horrible, but Hollywood keeps promoting it, so everybody's got to be part of it now.

00:13:26.000 And what was particularly appalling, Mr. Jones, was three separate occasions the trooper that had me in the back of his car walked over to the trigger man and he comes back grinning.

00:13:36.000 Like it's funny.

00:13:40.000 And what was this punk's name?

00:13:44.000 I'm on the legal advice not to use any names or anything.

00:13:47.000 Oh, yeah.

00:13:48.000 In fact, there have been cases where they sue.

00:13:51.000 There was a case where a cop killed somebody's wife who was unarmed at a house, wrong house, and the man spoke out and they sued him.

00:13:58.000 Of course, he counter-sued and won.

00:14:00.000 But better not list who shot your dog or you'll be the criminal.

00:14:04.000 Yeah, I understand.

00:14:05.000 You need to go ahead and tell the newspapers.

00:14:07.000 You know, you're allowed to say who killed your dog.

00:14:10.000 You haven't done anything wrong.

00:14:11.000 I'll say the name.

00:14:12.000 I'll dig it out.

00:14:13.000 Is the name of the trooper in here in this article?

00:14:15.000 Uh, he's on reports.

00:14:18.000 But it actually wasn't a highway patrolman that killed the dog.

00:14:20.000 It was a Cooksville City policeman who was called to the scene for backup.

00:14:25.000 So he was smiling about it?

00:14:26.000 What was it?

00:14:28.000 Well, see, it actually wasn't a highway patrolman that killed the dog.

00:14:31.000 It was a Cooksville City policeman who was called to the scene for backup.

00:14:36.000 So he was smiling about it?

00:14:37.000 What was it?

00:14:39.000 Well, see, it was over to the side out of the headlights of the car, but the trooper that had me in the car would go over to the trigger man, and as he walked back in front of the car light, he had the biggest grin on his face.

00:14:51.000 Three separate occasions.

00:14:53.000 Well, I know this.

00:14:55.000 I'm not allowed to use it because people's lawyers won't let me use it.

00:14:59.000 I was shown by a lawyer three years ago.

00:15:01.000 He was an old veteran.

00:15:03.000 He wouldn't come out of his house and his neighbors were worried about him.

00:15:07.000 So they sent a SWAT team around.

00:15:08.000 It was a Korean War veteran.

00:15:09.000 They circled the house.

00:15:11.000 And the SWAT team, awesome SWAT team, went in, gunned him down, he didn't even shoot back, and they gave each other high fives, celebrating, like they just scored a touchdown, you know how they do it?

00:15:22.000 Yeah, similar, very similar to what I'm talking about.

00:15:24.000 Very similar.

00:15:25.000 Well, it's nothing like killing a Korean War veteran, you know, you gotta give some high fives. 0.92

00:15:28.000 I'm talking about the celebration, you know, it was like they enjoyed it. 0.98

00:15:33.000 Killing of the dog.

00:15:35.000 Well, you know what, when they're old men, they're grandchilds, at a checkpoint, it happens to them, I hope nothing like that would ever happen.

00:15:42.000 I hope nothing like this ever happens again.

00:15:44.000 Happens all the time! 1.00

00:15:45.000 Cops get killed all the time by their own moron associates. 1.00

00:15:49.000 Well, listen, James Smoke, I hope you sue him. 1.00

00:15:50.000 You gonna sue him?

00:15:51.000 Yes, sir.

00:15:53.000 Well, as this develops, we'll try to get you back on.

00:15:56.000 You've got my number.

00:15:56.000 Stay in contact with me, sir.

00:15:58.000 If there's any way I can do anything else, I'll be willing to talk and tell my story so this doesn't happen to anybody else.

00:16:04.000 Absolutely.

00:16:05.000 All we need to do is disclose this tyranny.

00:16:07.000 Thanks for joining us.

00:16:08.000 Sure thing.

00:16:09.000 We'll be back and I'll cover news.

00:16:10.000 We'll start in the third hour.

00:16:11.000 We'll take calls.

00:16:12.000 I'm Alex Jones, defending liberty, resisting tyranny.

Alex Jones Show - January 07, 2003

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