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Announcing
American Renaissance’s 2010 Conference—Feb.
19-21!
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| Edward Earl Gentry Jr.’s torched home | Edward Earl Gentry Sr.’s home |
Edward Gentry Sr.
was a decorated U.S. Navy veteran who had served in
World War II, the Korean War, and the
War in Vietnam.
Pearcy is about 15 miles southwest
of Hot Springs and 55 miles southwest of Little Rock.
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| Edward Gentry Sr. | Edward Gentry Jr. | Pam Gentry |
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| Jeremy Gentry | Kristen Warneke |
The five murders were committed on
November 12. But the
only national
media coverage I have found were two brief items from
CNN.
Since when is mass murder not a national story?
When
the victims are all white, and the suspects are all
black—that’s
when.
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| The late Marvin Lamar Stringer | Suspect Samuel L. Conway | Suspect Jeremy Pickney |
About 15 minutes before the fire at the Gentry place was
called in, Edward Earl Gentry Sr.’s pickup truck was
found burning in nearby Hot Springs, the Garland County
seat.
On November 18, Little Rock's KTHV reported police as
having said that “the suspects stayed a while”,
and that the four victims whose corpses had been burned
had to be identified via dental records. [Five
Murder Victims Identified And Released To Family,
by Katherine-Marie Yancy, November 18, 2009.]
The “stayed a
while” remark had ominous echoes of other recent
home invasions—such as the
Knoxville Horror,
in which black
thugs tortured, raped and murdered a young white couple,
also trying to burn one of the corpses, and the
“Wichita Massacre”,
in which black thugs tortured, raped and murdered
four young whites (one
survived).
KTHV’s November 18 report added,
“Officials with the Garland County Sheriff’s Department
say they don’t have any suspects at this time,
but evidence leads
them to believe folks in the community shouldn’t feel
threatened.”[Five
Murder Victims Identified And Released To Family,
TodaysTHV.com] (My emphasis)
After all, it was just a gang of racially-motivated
black mass murderers victimizing white folks!
And
folks up North think that Arkansas is backward. Why,
Arkansas is
Clinton Country!
During the first week, Garland County Sheriff’s
Department Lt. James Martin reportedly said that
“investigators have had dead-end leads and calls the
case aggravating. He says FBI agents from Hot Springs
began working the case Tuesday.”[FBI
joins investigation into Pearcy deaths
Associated Press - November 19, 2009]
On
the night of November 19, sheriff’s deputies sought to
execute a no-knock warrant—i.e. they can break down the
door without warning, a sign the suspects were viewed as
dangerous—to arrest Marvin Lamar Stringer, Samuel L.
Conway, and Jeremy Pickney in Room 139 in the old
National Park Inn in Hot Springs.
Stringer, 22, opened fire, shooting Deputy Jason
Lawrence in the arm. Conway and Pickney fled. The
deputies shot and killed Stringer and, over the course
of a long night, managed to effect separate arrests of
Conway and Pickney [2
others arrested in Pearcy killings Suspects face capital
murder, robbery, arson charges
By: Don Thomason,
The Sentinel-Record, November 21, 2009]
(subscription required).
Deputy Lawrence was initially in serious but stable
condition, but has since fully recovered. So has Deputy
Felix Hunter, whose pre-existing heart condition had
kicked in during the shootout.
According to KARK 4 News, “Arkansas State Police, Hot
Springs Police, the F.B.I., and
the U.S. Marshal’s Service
assisted
[Garland County] with the investigation.”
[Update:
Suspects ID'd in Garland County Shootout, Murders,
November 20, 2009
Though they didn’t admit it at the time, the Garland
County Sheriff’s Department apparently had leads
beginning the day after the murders.
A
confidential informant told investigators
that “Conway showed him a gun and Pickney offered the
stolen wheel rims and televisions for sale the day after
the killings,” saying that the items
were from a “lick” (robbery).
But it took some time before a judge signed off on the
necessary search warrants. (Conway and Pickney were both
reportedly from Hot Springs.)
At a press conference the day after
the bloody shootout, Lt. James Martin of the Garland
County Sheriff’s Department announced, “No questions
now, no questions tomorrow, please don’t wear us out,
callin,’ because you’re not going to get anything”.
Lt. James Martin, Garland County Sheriff’s Dept.
I
was able to reach Lt. Martin on January 29. Although he
was congenial and as helpful as he could be, as the
following exchanges show, he was handcuffed from giving
me the information that I sought.
Nicholas Stix:
“I’m calling regarding the November 19 incident, in
which your department attempted to make three arrests …
regarding the Pearcy mass murder case.
“I
haven’t seen any updates on the conditions of Deputy
Jason Lawrence and Deputy Felix Hunter.”
Lt. James Martin:
“Correct, and you won’t. There’s a gag order in effect
on all of that. I can tell you that they’re both doing
good, and that’s about it.”
NS:
“So does that mean I’m wasting my breath, trying to get
a hold of the autopsy?”
Lt. Martin:
“Uh, no. I mean, you can contact the crime lab, and do
what you can do about getting a copy of that from them.
We haven’t gotten anything yet, and as far as we know,
the
[Hot Springs] Police Department hasn’t, either….”
NS:
“There was a vague statement that I read somewhere. It
wasn’t attributed to anyone, it was a police official,
so I don’t know if it was you or someone else. It said
that the killers
“stayed a while”
over at the Gentry place, and I was wondering if that
was referring to them having done other things like
maybe rape or something.”
Lt. Martin:
“No, I don’t know who that statement would have come
from, but I haven’t heard that one, myself.”
NS:
“You haven’t heard anything about any rapes occurring
before the murders?”
Lt. Martin:
“I haven’t heard anything about it. I’ve distanced
myself from it, and they distanced their self from
telling me anything, so that I can’t screw up and tell
you
[we both laugh]!”
NS:
“Wow. So, you don’t know anything about hate crimes
being charged or anything then?”
Lt. Martin:
“No, haven’t heard anything like that, either.”
NS:
“Then the next hearing’s in March, right?”
Lt. Martin:
“I’m not even sure about that. You know, public
relations or media relations or whatever are a very
small part of my job. I’m actually the training
officer….”
Perhaps the most valuable information Lt. Martin gave me was that it was Garland County District Court Judge David Switzer,[Email him] who had imposed the gag order. Judge Switzer was not cited in that context by any available print news sources.
Garland County District Court Judge David Switzer
On
the telephone with the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory’s
Rick Gallagher, I explained what I sought. In response,
he patiently explained Arkansas law to me.
Rick Gallagher, ASCL:
“Let me explain to you what the law in Arkansas allows.
Once anything comes to our laboratory—and
the medical examiner works for the
Arkansas Crime
Laboratory—unlike
most states. The state law states very plainly that we
do not control the
records
after that information comes here. They are strictly
within the purview of the prosecuting attorney that
would have jurisdiction over the case. And he, and he
alone, or a judge from the circuit court of that county,
are the only two ways that those records can be
released. Even after they go to trial.
[Emphasis by the speaker.]
“And so, even though
they are generated by us, and are given back to the
prosecutor and the law enforcement agency of record, we
do not control them. I can’t give them to you, because
they don’t belong to me. It’s essentially what that
means.
“You would have to have
permission, authorization, so to speak, of the
prosecuting attorney, which Garland County, “Pearcy, is
within the purview of
Mr. Stephen Oliver,
he’s the prosecuting attorney in the 18th
Judicial District East…
“And he is in total
control of it. And like I said, even after they had a
court trial, and of course you would think then that if
it’s in open court, that the record becomes public.
Well, in a sense it does, but to me, the way the law is
written, it never becomes public.
“I still have to have
the authorization. I have a file on my desk right now,
that I’m waiting on the prosecutor to give me permission
to talk to somebody, it’s 33 years old….”
Next stop was Prosecuting Attorney
Stephen Oliver’s office, where a staffer responded to my
request: “I wish I could give out the information,
but there’s a gag order”.
Back on November 22, Larry Auster
wrote
in his View From The Right blog:
“I have not seen any
reason for the gag order. But it’s not hard to guess:
the authorities in liberal society automatically
understand the need to conceal, tamp down, soften, and
delay the release of any facts about blacks murdering
whites.”
However, the terrible truth is that, given the
politically correct gag order already in force in the
newsrooms of today’s Main Stream Media (see
here,
here,
and
here),
there really was no need for one from Judge Switzer.
Of
CNN’s two brief items on the motel shootout and the
arrests, the original story on the shootout,
now available only in
cached form
[Police:
Suspect in slayings killed in shootout
November 20, 2009 10:37 a.m. EST](and soon to disappear
into the ether), provided no photographs of the victims
or suspects. It has since been replaced, at the same
URL,
by a story on the
arrests,
which carries pictures of the suspects, but none of the
victims. [Two
charged in Arkansas killings,
November 20, 2009 10:51 p.m. EST]
The AP’s Jon Gambrell wrote a couple of stories on the
crime,
one of which was rich
in details
and was run by Arkansas Online with pictures of
the suspects (but not the victims). But his stories
typically ran without
photographs,
got little play outside of the South, and always
suppressed the crime’s racial character.
Archive searches of the
New York Times
turned up nothing.
A
Times
search for the same periods under “Hot Springs,”
however, proved more fruitful. The
Times had run two stories about Hot Springs,
Arkansas in the past 30days alone! But both of them
about horse racing (here
and
here).
Mass murder didn’t rate space in the self-proclaimed
“newspaper of
record”.
There was a
discussion of the
atrocity there last November.
But either GOP activist-censor
Jim Robinson,
who maintains the site through users’
(?)
donations, or one of his deputy censors, killed the
thread—exactly as
Larry Auster
predicted.
Robinson has never had much stomach for threads about
black crime, or for that matter
seriously debating
immigration.
His function seems to be to divert the populist energy
of Middle American protest into paths that instead serve
the Republican National Committee—in other words, to
help the very GOP elites who have long been busily
destroying Middle Americans’ lives.
The savage 2008 rape-torture-murder of
Anne Pressly
did receive some national coverage because she was a
celebrated Little Rock TV anchor. But even that included
the New York Times’ morally perverse gloating
over the crime:
“The beating startled
much of the state and horrified Ms. Pressly’s neighbors
in the prestigious Pulaski Heights neighborhood, an
enclave of old houses, and where residents considered
themselves essentially exempt from violent crime.“[Arrest
in Killing of a TV Anchor,
November 27, 2008]
Pressly’s killer,
Curtis Lavelle Vance,
has since been convicted of the crime. But he was
not, needless to say,
sentenced to death.
Seeing that Marvin Lamar Stringer
sought to kill the Arkansas law enforcement officers who
went to arrest him, I think he can safely be removed
from the
“suspects” category, and added to that of
“murderer-robber,” etc.
Samuel L. Conway and Jeremy Pickney are now defendants,
charged with capital murder, aggravated residential
burglary, and arson.
Their next court date is
scheduled for March 5.
According to court papers, police and prosecutors
claimed that the motive for the five murders was
“robbery.”
“Robbery”?
What does mass murder have to do with robbing people of
some flat screen TVs and wire rims?
Similarly,
the AP’s Jon Gambrell
wrote,
“Court documents outline a case of robbery gone
horribly wrong”.
The theme of a “robbery
gone wrong”
(often expressed as a
“botched robbery”)
has become law enforcement and journalistic boilerplate
to cover up racially-motivated, black-on-white murders.
Arkansas needs a
Freedom of Information law, so that prosecutors and judges do not
have the right to sit on crime files in perpetuity.
Such a law could have conditions requiring the redaction
of the names of confidential informants and
undercover officers,
whose lives might be endangered by being publicly
revealed.
My
conclusion:
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
The Pearcy
Massacre must be added to
the ever-growing list
of racial atrocities
committed by blacks against whites (and against blacks
who
love whites)
made equally invisible by the national MSM:
As
far as the MSM—and our political elite—is concerned, it
can truly be said of the victims, in the words of the
passage
in Ecclesiasticus from which
Agee drew his title:
“And
some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished,
as though they had never been; and are become as though
they had never been born.”
Nicholas Stix [email him] lives in New York City, which he views from the perspective of its public transport system, experienced in his career as an educator. His weekly column appears at Men’s News Daily and many other Web sites. He has also written for Middle American News, the New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, Chronicles, Ideas on Liberty and the Weekly Standard. He maintains two blogs: A Different Drummer and Nicholas Stix, Uncensored.
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