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What does Keith Gilbert have to do with the Dawson lawsuit?

by Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich, February 21, 2005

Go directly to: The Dawson Lawsuit

Appelate Brief for Dawson v. The City of Seattle

Keith Gilbert was a primary reason the appelate court ruled in favor of the Seattle Police Department's policy of detainment.

Update September 13, 2006:

Who is Neo-Nazi Keith Gilbert? Is it just a coincidence that Daniel Pipes links Gilbert and the Aryan Nation to Islamic jihad? We're getting lots of hits on this page again, is Keith Gilbert's name back in the news? (Why would someone from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation be looking for websites referring to Keith Gilbert?) If he's back in the news, I can't find anything recent. But I did find this excerpt from a chronicle called "Conspiracy Nation, Vol 1 #92."

There is an odd postscript to the assassinations of both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. A few days, in fact four days, after Malcolm X was assassinated, that was February 21st, 1965, there was an abortive attempt to assassinate Martin Luther King as well. Martin Luther King was attending a movie in Los Angeles and police received a tip and they discovered a large dynamite bomb at the theater, which had it gone off, would have certainly killed Dr. King and virtually anyone else in that theater. Eventually an American neo-Nazi named Keith Gilbert, was convicted of this assassination attempt on Martin Luther King. Gilbert maintained that while in prison, he was receiving support from very powerful forces. It later came to light that he was receiving money and that the individual he was receiving money from was a fellow named Loren Eugene Hall, himself a paramilitary white right-winger and white-supremacist who had been one of the main informants for then Reagan legal-counselor Edwin Meese concerning the case of Edgar Eugene Bradley. Edgar Eugene Bradley was sought by Jim Garrison in New Orleans in connection with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Edgar Eugene Bradley was a resident of the state of California. Garrison filed an extradition request, then deputy state attorney general Charles A. O'Brien (sp) reviewed the Garrison extradition request, recommended that it be granted. Activity on the Garrison extradition request for Bradley was delayed by then-governor Reagan until after Richard Nixon was elected president and then was turned down without comment. The Edgar Eugene Bradley extradition request was handled for Reagan by then Reagan legal advisor, legal counsellor Edwin A. Meese, who later, of course, became attorney general of the United States and who also was a highly ranked intelligence officer with the Army reserve, both then and now.

The guy who Ed Meese dealt with primarily was a former CIA operative in connection with the anti-Castro Cuban activities and a white-supremacist named Loren Eugene Hall, who in 1989 incidentally, was indicted for running a methamphetamine ring in Oklahoma. His son, Loren, Jr., who was also indicted and named in the indictment, stated at a press conference that the entire methamphetamine ring was being used to channel funding to the contras. That, by the way, from the Dallas Morning News of September 13th of 1989. It was this guy who was providing financial support to Keith Gilbert while he was in prison for having placed this huge dynamite bomb in an L.A. theater four days after Malcolm X was assassinated in New York. Now Keith Gilbert eventually became one of the top lieutenants for Richard Gernt (sp) Butler, the head of the Aryan Nations compound at Hayden Lake, Idaho. Later Keith Gilbert broke with Butler and established his own compound a few miles down the road.

Interesting enough, Keith Gilbert was linked to a fellow named Michael Wayne. Michael Wayne's name came up in connection with the assassination of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. A Michael Wayne was known to have been at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, asking what route senator Kennedy was going to take to exit from his press conference. Michael Wayne was also a very, very close, not a double, but he resembled very closely Sirhan Sirhan, the patsy in the Robert Kennedy assassination. The individual generally cited by most investigators as actually having pulled the trigger on Robert Kennedy was a white supremacist named Thane Eugene Caesar who worked for Lockheed's Burbank facility, and specifically worked in the top secret area associated with the CIA's U-2 project. Oswald also was affiliated with the U-2. Caesar was working as a security guard for a security service in the Ambassador Hotel the night of the shooting. He was a documented white-supremacist and, again, he worked in the Lockheed Burbank facility and another engineer in Lockheed Burbank was Richard Gernt Butler, one of whose top lieutenants was Keith Gilbert, whose name was linked in L.A.P.D. files to Michael Wayne, a Sirhan double, who was in the Ambassador Hotel. And again, it was Keith Gilbert who was convicted of this attempt on the life of Martin Luther King four days after Malcolm was killed. Not that that necessarily proves anything, but when you take those coincidences in combination with the enormous number of evidenciary tributaries linking various aspects of our assassinations and political assassinations, it is pretty clear that this is more than just coincidence, and I personally have always felt that the Keith Gilbert-Richard Gernt Butler-Thane Eugene Caesar, Malcolm X assassination-Martin Luther King assassination-Robert Kennedy assassination link has never been properly investigated.

It is also worth noting that the people who brought the Sirhan family into the United States were college friends and political associates of Richard Nixon, who was a prime beneficiary of the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the director for security for Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign was a fellow named James Golden, who was on leave from his position as director of security for the Lockheed Corporation, at which Thane Eugene Caesar was employed. And again, that does not prove anything either, but when you examine this country's political assassinations, be it the assassinations of the Kennedys or Martin Luther King, or Malcolm X, Incidentally there is an echo which comes forward right to this day. One of the main civil rights leaders of the early '60s, Medgar Evers (sp) the field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he was assassinated in 1963, a few months before Kennedy was assassinated. A white-supremacist named Byron de La Beckwith (sp) has been indicted for his assassination and is going to stand trial. He has been able to wiggle out of this so far. When Byron de La Beckwith was seeking to avoid indictment for the assassination of Medgar Evers, much of his political support came from former Major General Edwin Walker. Edwin Walker had been a divisional commander in Germany and was replaced by John Kennedy because Edwin Walker was violating Army regulations by obliging his troops to study the "Blue Book" of the John Birch Society. It is a violation of U.S. military regulations to force your troops to study political doctrine. Edwin Walker was fired by John Kennedy. He then came to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area where he became a protege of H.L. Hunt and in the fifth volume of the 26 volumes of Warren Commission testimony and exhibits, it is revealed, or it is documented that, Edwin Walker's John Birch Society cell was used as a vehicle for bringing military intelligence agents over from Munich, Germany to operate at the field level in the assassination of John Kennedy.

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Based on Gilbert's reputation, the City originated the "our cops are wimps" line of defense in Dawson. The Dawson clients did not live in a Keith house. The City's attorneys claimed Seattle COPS were either so afraid of Gilbert they had to take all his neighbors at Todd's houses hostage.. or .. they're so afraid of everyone they have to take everyone hostage. The Dawson raid was a training exercise in "serving warrants." According to Seattle's training notes from Tacoma Cares, detainment is a routine method of accompanying inspectors on searches if gangs are suspected.

Keith Gilbert used the handle "Diesal". I suspected it when I began following his posts on a Gun discussion board that led people to us. He said he was from Seattle, and I suspected it was him, even though the style of writing was nothing like the insane babbling he wrote in all his lawsuits against Seattle government.I found it disturbing that Gilbert was introducing my work on communitarianism, a topic about which he knows nothing. Unlike the Gilbert I knew,"Diesal" seemed to have a much better grasp of English, he appeared quite literate. Like Etzioni (another former terrorist), Gilbert does not appear to have written everything he put his name on. One member from the forum where he linked to us pasted in the federal charges against Gilbert.

And how about this prespective on Gilbert from Mostly Cajun Dick Culver. In this October 2004 blog he calls Keith a "comic opera character." He explains what I highly suspect about Gilbert: "Keith paraded around town in a Nazi uniform complete with jackboots and Luger Pistol. This guy was too good to be true, he hurled racial slurs at any ethnic minority who happened to be in town, and generally made an @$$ out of himself to anyone who would listen."

Too good to be true, indeed.

Seattle police claim they were so afraid of Keith Gilbert they had to use a Community Policing SWAT team to take hostages and gather private data during a public health inspection for "suspicion of harboring rats and bugs."

Here's the Dawson attorneys addressing the "Gilbert defense" in their Appeal Brief:
"Interestingly though Ofc. Bauer admits that during pervious boarding house inspections where Gilbert had appeared, he was not a problem when she was at the scene in "stand-by" mode-her mere presence kept him a bay. In fact, it is uncontested that the SPD were so concerned with Gilbert's possible presence that instead of posting a look out to alert the DPH inspectors if he appeared, they focused all their energies in the premises for the duration of each search."

If I were still working this case, I'd ask for the complete file on CPT Bauer's "previous boarding house inspections." I have too much evidence that the City had NO authority to perform boarding house inspections! The COPS don't have a legal definition for "rooming and boarding houses." The Dawson clients were a family under Seattle Municipal Code Title 22. No wonder I was fired from Dawson, I'd never have let a communitarian cop get away with this comment!

Seattle police also claim the Dawson raid was part of SPD's basic training and principles:
"SPD admitted, during a CR 30(b)(6) deposition, via its designated agent Captain Joseph C. Kessler, that it justified the detentions by citing SPD's training and basic principles that require SPD to detain "people when [SPD is] in the middle of a search warrant of any kind. Capt. Kessler specifically stated that this would include detaining people during the execution of any type of warrant, including any DPH inspection warrant."

Many reporters, forums and editorialists are discussing the "domestic terrorism" angle. Gilbert was arrested by a Joint Terrorism Task Force. As with Dawson, Gilbert's roommates were woke up by SWAT teams and guns in their faces. None of the reports say if they were detained for any length of time or under any of the same conditions required at the Dawson raid. The Dawson raid was for rats and bugs, and the Gilbert raid was for machine guns. Would they not take the exact same (or more) safeguards with a federal warrant served for illegal weapon's sales?

Who wrote the lead and called the Dawson residence a "rooming house?" Does he know anything about the City's four years of planning that were wasted on that term? How the heck did Dawson co-attorney Margaret Boyle's name get left out of Paul's story? How much homework did he do on the Dawson complaint, summary judgement or appeal on 12/17/03 before he wrote about the oral arguments before 3 federal district court judges on 2/17/05? If only a reporter would ask the right questions now, even accidentally.

As for this being a "police-aided raid," the ACL has City planning notes that show the Community Police aren't aids, they're the instigators for these "new" public health and safety "inspections." Community Police Team member SPD Officer Hope Bauer was also on the interdepartmental sub-committee who designed the Roosevelt development plan. She targeted low-income renters and she helped rewrite Seattle's Noise Ordinance. Hope was a guard in the hostage room during the raid. When the residents complained about their Rights being violated she snapped at them to shut up because, "You people already have too many Rights in this country as it is." We always wanted to ask Hope what country she is from. We also have an Anchorage Crime Mapper on the Crime Mapping Elist who explained the difference between mapping data on "urban rats and country mice."

The controversy over Dawson is the Rooming and Boarding House issue. This committee was suggested by CPT Officer Cindy Granard. In 1997 the COPS' committee members began deisgning a training program for all city and county employees to gather data and input it into a new GIS database program. In 2000 Seattle turned over the data "tests" and was selected as a pilot test for COMPASS, a COPS-DOJ database program that began consolidating all available data. The Dawson tenants were used in a COPS' "pilot test of new enforcement precedures" targeted against tenants in neighborhood low-income rentals. The U.N. community development plans include many innovative ways to take private property out of private ownership.

The target of the Dawson raid was Hugh Sisley's land, dubbed "The Roosevelt Parking Lot Project" by the Seattle Department of Design, Construction and Land Use. Linda Gallager, Attorney for Public Health, fails to mention the bogus Terminix records used to obtain that "legal warrant," or the 12 pages of rambling testimony of lies offered to Mark Sidran by Todd Ade's junkie brother-in-law (who claimed to be a professional and a "stranger.")

Do Seattle cops have full-blown-fear? (pdf file) How insulting is the City's defense to our brave local peace officers? Whose idea was it to insinuate they were so afraid of Keith Gilbert they had to violate the rights of everyone? Did the "new" COPS-COMPASS-SPD Chief Kerlikowske suggest this angle? It makes them all look like wimps (and, they're not wimps. COPS' TroopsMore grants paid the City a $5000.00 bonus for every new officer with 2 years prior military training.) When I 86'd Gilbert from my home in Oct 1999 I didn't so much as have a pencil in my hand. The Dawson "warrants" were served by five ACT officers and four CPT officers. There were at least ten public health inspectors and numerous unidentified, plainclothed officials inside, outside, in their cars, and on the street. Also, the City's planning notes show they were actively seeking "innovative ways" to gain entrance to Sisley properties. I have numerous City notes to "go after Sisley with negative media." The City of Seattle planned and invited reporters to every action they took in Roosevelt, yet there were ZERO reporters anywhere in sight on the day of the Dawson raid, and not ONE Seattle paper or TV news station ever responded to ACL queries.

For the full ACL story about what really happened in the Roosevelt Neighborhood in 1999, see our Neighborhood Plans page; Agenda 21 has a lot of background on the blueprints for sustainable development plans. This website was actually formed entirely in response to what happened to us under this plan. We were a testing ground for communitarian enforcement procedures.

Sample links in mainstream news and other websites:

Tuesday February 22, 2005 -- Former Aryan Nations member charged with selling machine guns CanadaEast.com- Breaking World News Online

Monday, February 21, 2005 -- Off the deep end by the SEATTLE P-I EDITORIAL BOARD.

Thursday, February 17, 2005 -- Two play key role in white supremacist's rise By Maureen O'Hagan and Michael Ko, Seattle Times staff reporters

Thursday, February 17, 2005 -- Neo-Nazi accused of peddling machine guns was feared by some; Health inspectors once asked for police escort on housing search By Paul Shukovsky, Seattle PI. "People in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood were so afraid of Neo-Nazi Keith Gilbert that even Health Department inspectors got search warrants and brought along a small army of police officers several years ago just to look for rats." (Once? Didn't the City say police escorts were standard procedures? Wouldn't that imply more than once?)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 -- Neo-Nazi, associate nabbed in Seattle Federal agents lead effort; suspects face weapons charges

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 -- Govteen.com forum

Tuesday, Febrary 15, 2005 -- Former Aryan Nations member charged with selling machine guns By The Associated Press/ KTRR TV Houston - "Federal agents arrested three men on gun and explosives charges Tuesday, including a former Aryan Nations leader who once served time for plotting to kill Martin Luther King Jr."

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 -- ABCNews.com reprints the AP wireservices article but reports Gilbert served five years in San Quentin... other reports say he served five years in Alcatraz. AOL News corrects this at the bottom of their story.

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005 -- Ex-Aryan Nations leader charged with selling machine guns by Gene Johnson, Associated Press, posted by Arizona Republic.

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005 -- FBI Task Force Raids Two Seattle Homes By Michelle Esteban, KOMO News Seattle.

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005 -- Bad pennies by David Neiwert, "a freelance journalist based in Seattle. His reportage for MSNBC.com on domestic terrorism won the National Press Club Award for Distinguished Online Journalism in 2000." Neiwert has extensive background on Gilbert.

Neo Nazis Update Posted by: What I knew and when dept. at Andrew Macnamera's blog.

And here's the White Supremicists talking about it too: Stormfront.org

And now for some old news about Gilbert and Sisley:
Tuesday, April 20, 1999 -- Roosevelt neighbors battle owner of decaying houses, by STEVEN GOLDSMITH, Seattle P-I Reporter.

Now, what Seattle reporter will explain what a Seattle property tax hike [that] would add police and firefighters has to do with Gilbert and Hugh Sisley?

"My goal is to make Seattle a greener city. By learning from our peers in cities around the world, we can transform our dream of a higher quality of life here into a reality." --Peter Steinbrueck, Seattle City Councilmember Visions of Urban Sustainability - Press Release 1/24/05. Steinbrueck refused to answer any questions we had about the Dawson raid in September 1999. Steinbrueck and Nick Licata (who's on the Community Council) both ignored every request we made for an investigation into DCLU-SPD-PH partnerships. As "green" Streinbrueck well knows, "quality of life" eliminates protections guaranteed to under the Fourth Amendment. Shhhh.

On a more personal note, our gratitude and thanks for the heads up on this "breaking story" goes to our most beloved Seattle Democrat, Nancy Rising! Too bad we're not discussing this over martinis tonight at the family bar.:} Did you ever think we'd live to see this story in the PI?!?!?


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