From: Jasper
Date: 14 May 2000
Time: 15:09:02
Charlie,
When was that "Good 'Ol Boy Roundup" and where can I get more information on it?
From what I can recall, a member of one of the federal agencies did the taping on his own and brought it straight to the media (why not normal channels?). I heard about it on NPR and expected the story to grow into a scandal every bit as big as Watergate. Considering the implications of a large (how large?) gathering of local and federal law enforcement people (undoubtedly spanning Democratic and Republican administrations) partying with openly racist signs on display, it should have been one of the biggest stories of the decade (the '80s?). If you can have that kind of "networking" with racists at the "Bubba" level (we were led to believe) how about social affairs involving like-minded people at the upper levels where they would have been discrete enough not to hang the signs?
For some reason the story just died. I can imagine circumstances where national news execs agreed for legitimate reasons not to push it. But after the O.J. case and Fuhrman's involvement with the Police Protective League seminar and picnic, you'd think someone would make the mental connection and see if there was an actual connection. If the PPL was the "bastion for white supremacy" that some black LAPD officers said it was, what are the chances that the organizers of the "Good 'O. Boy Roundup" wouldn't invite some of those guys to come join them.
What has me going here are the reference in the transcripts and in Joe Bosco's book to Fuhrman at picnics or Bar-B-Q's. One reference is to Fuhrman's alibi the night Nicole was murdered. Another is to Fuhrman's boating of "seeing Nicoles boob job up close and personal." That's not nearly enough to say there is a connection between Fuhrman and some members of the federal police or intelligence agencies like the FBI agents we saw in the case but it's enough to tell anyone who wanted to know how these people are organized to start looking.
Those other associations you made are remarkable. I wonder what all of that would look like on a chart and what it would take to map it out? It would be interesting to see who links to the most key people and key events. --Jasper