An Anonymous Message From A Civilized Local Person. Posted On Sunday, November 18, 2007 At 6:47:38PM:

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D1:              David Rushing
OneLiner:        I cannot believe the people in Shamrock are so blind that they can't see what you do.
UserName:        Charles Beardly
UserPhone:       To be kept private at this time.
UserEmail:       XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Date:            18 Nov 2007
Time:            18:47:38

LongDescription:

I am posting here because I am aware that David Rushing reads this site more than anything else in his life.

Mr. Rushing, I hope you will be able to remember me. I had originally contacted you through your COC website in the hopes of discussing the possibilities of locating an adequate audio/video production facility in or near your area.

As you may recall, I had inquired into teaming up with your local radio station but could not seem to contact anyone at KRMN. Your webmaster then advised me that Shamrock had no radio station because it had been shut down and that your office was looking to bring another station into the area because there certainly is need of one since KRMN is now out of business.

Upon further investigation, I determined that KRMN was not out of business and had simply elected to change their call-sign as a means of distancing themselves from bad debts that were made by the former station management.

Further, I found that the bad debts the new station owner is being persecuted for are debts that were not only not created by the current owner but they also are debts that any reputable banking firm worthy of it's charter would have never entered into simply because a cursory glance by a qualified person can see would have involved loaning monies to individuals who not only did not hold the station license but could not (under federal regulations) have possibly offered up the FCC license as a means of securing the loan in the first place as this would be a direct violation of federal regulations. In short, the "bank" (David Rushing) stupidly did not investigate the situation before offering the loan and your group (Shamrock Economic Development) very stupidly agreed to guarantee the loan without some serious investigation.

Now, having said this, I've also followed through and made two trips into Shamrock during the past three years. On one of these trips, I drove into town and offered to represent the local radio station (KBKH) as an account executive. Of the seven businesses I ventured into, five of them told me that they were not interested in advertising on the local station because "David tells us that he plans to sell ninety two seven and get someone back on it soon because the city owns that station." (There was even a gentleman at a drug store who kept telling me that he liked the new radio station owner but that he had "gotten crossways with the boys downtown and nobody's gonna do business because the EDB director has told them not to". When I inquired into what board, the gentleman responded "EDB. Economic Development Board".)

Of the other businesses, a couple of antiques dealers, a dollar store, a service station and two restaurants, each and every one tells me that they've been told "don't do business with the radio station so it will go broke and the owner will leave and the city can take it over". One lady even produced a copy of a memo on Shamrock Economic Development Corporation letterhead that asks local businesses to not advertise on the local station and to pay you instead of the station owner for any advertising that might have already run. (This, in itself, is a violation of federal RICO laws and can get anyone involved with such nonsense untold years in a federal prison. Especially, when the thefts involve a federally licensed facility such as a radio or television station, as this case does.)

I've visited with Mr. Hammond on two occasions and perused his files as well as some audio recordings and a separate video recording that he was evidently able to salvage from a security system that he tells me you were still holding parts of in direct violation of a court order that was to soon be brought up for enforcement. I've seen a news tape from an Amarillo television station in which there was a hearing scheduled concerning a great deal of the Hammond's property. Although the camera was not allowed into the courtroom, the sights of the Hammond's carrying their property out of the downtown building told me all I needed to know about what is truly going on, here. Then, when I saw the blurred and shadowy images of these people being forced by what appears to be three local hoodlums to "I don't care who has a bill of sale, I said leave it here! It's ours, now!" This video recording goes on for more than 30 minutes and there's not a single redeeming part in it for your group.

Mr. Hammond has recordings of several meetings that he had attended. One, during which he offered to tell your attorney how to file a proper Petition to Deny the transfer of the station into his name. I could plainly hear your attorney (called "John") telling everyone in attendance that "I don't think his transfer's gonna fly. It don't have a chance. You paid me to keep it from happenin' and I done filed against it so, there's nothin' to worry 'bout." (Mr. Hammond has a copy of an Informal Objection that was filed against the transfer in which "John" perjures himself in three different ways and could still be prosecuted on those counts if only the situation were looked into by a competent prosecutor which, of necessity, eliminates Lynn Switzer as it is generally known that she is a co-conspirator of yours.)

There's another recording that Mr. Hammond tells me was made in your office in which you and "John" tell Mr. Hammond that he's fighting tax money that will never run out. "John" even goes so far as to tell Mr. Hammond that he hopes for a nice long and drawn out fight because he will get more money that way because "this is not costing David or anybody on the EDB anything anyway. They pay me with tax money and we just go back for more to put in my pocket to fight you so you can't ever win this one because we're all dividing up tax money that just won't ever run out".

Now, I realize that your people have raised the question of illegal recordings and all of that but, does it really make a difference if everyone is locked away? And, sir, some of the criminal acts I've heard (and seen on the security system recordings) are punishable by penalties that far exceed those to ever be expected by someone who may or may not be guilty of something so mundane as illegal recordings. In fact, when you bring up that argument, you need to remember that it's almost as if you are screaming out, "Help! Police! He's speeding! He's speeding to the emergency room because I shot him while I was burglarizing his house but, I want him to get a ticket anyway because he's speeding and I can prove that it's him because the ballistics test will prove the bullet lodged in his head to have come from my gun!" What do you suppose is wrong with this line of thought? I suspect nothing - to your twisted and demented tiny little mind mind.

I am currently in Shamrock on another visit and have just reviewed a great deal of this material in an effort at deciding whether or not I will consider moving into this area. I am also giving some serious thoughts toward telling Mr. Hammond that I will purchase his radio station and then planning an immediate move into either the Pampa or Elk City area. Both are possible and you sincerely need to thank him for not already having done so.

Most station owners would've already done that as, to a station such as this, Shamrock represents considerably less than 5% of the potential income that can be generated. You've stupidly deluded yourselves into looking at the small picture in assuming that you can even slow down your local station when it, in fact, can tear your little community completely to pieces. You need to see this and recognize that you've already provided enough evidence against yourselves to be locked away for a good many years, should someone send the evidence to true law enforcement agencies outside of your immediate sphere of influence. Surely, your attorney can tell you this or is there a great portion of this material that your attorneys know nothing about? Also, is it possible that the real damages done with this evidence may not even involve a courtroom? Let us not forget that you may even be granted some form of diplomatic immunity but, when the court orders to suppress the evidence were done away with (and, they have been when they were ruled unconstitutional - which speaks volumes about Lynn Switzer),  how will it look when those recordings are eventually aired on national television? I know it can happen as I produce television programming and I can think of several possible buyers for this kind of material right now.

Here's what makes it funny: People will pay more for these recordings and the stories behind them than that little radio station will ever be worth! How does it feel to be adding to the value of the materials possessed by someone you so very deeply despise? That is exactly what you're doing, whether you know it or not. (You people really should've accepted the payoff on that rather ill-conceived loan and left the radio station alone to begin with. That was the only possible politically correct thing for you to do but, then again, thinking things through does not appear to be one of your strongest points.)

At any rate, I had simply thought to tell you that I did "consider the sources of some information" as you had asked me to do in an earlier message in which you so very strongly denied most of the things that I've now seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears. The audio itself, you can claim he's tried to edit but, as an expert in that field, I can tell you there are no edit points that are detectable by me and I've tried. The video is even more difficult to do and there are no edit points in that, either. Not to mention the fact that there is no video editing equipment in the possession of Mr. Hammond. Not yet, anyway!

Now, I would not even have written you had I not planned on leaving the area within the next few hours. I honestly feel that anyone choosing to live here is taking their life into their own hands and has either never lived in a place with any form of true law enforcement or simply doesn't know that better treatment of citizens can be had in other areas. Sadly, for Shamrock, this would even include the treatments afforded in third world countries. Just suffice it to say that I do not feel safe, here. I have personally observed the armed robbery of a local business, namely Mr. Hammond's radio station, and have seen that nothing has yet been done to bring the thugs involved to justice but, I also pledge to set about working on doing just that during the next several weeks. So, yes, I am now beginning to consider the sources of your community's bad reputation in the national business community and also must pass on this information to a friend who is very actively involved in the National Chambers of Commerce. I also think Mr. Hammond needs to become involved in the video production and distribution industry as a means of marketing the story of your criminal little community. He would certainly stand to reap a much more profitable income than any radio station in your pathetic and dying little town would ever provide.

I do most sincerely hope that your group can eventually get it's act together and begin to act more responsibly and eventually even consider approaching a level of maturity more on a par with the level of most fifth graders, at least. However, what I've seen in Shamrock is simply atrocious, at best.

Sincerely,

Charles Beardly

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  Editor's Note: Well stated! If only the local people could look at the situation as seen through the eyes of a "passer-by"...