It Is Time To Put Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief Behind Bars

My favorite commenter, Anonymous, commented yesterday or the day before on a blogging that made reference to the man behind bars, Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief.

Anonymous informed me that I am playing a major role in the local public rebellion against corruption and tyranny.

I don't know if that's true or not, my playing a major rebellion role. At most I only get a few thousand blog visitors a day.

I liked the Anonymous comment so much I'm going to copy it below. And then below that I'll do some rebelling...

Mr. Durango--you exhibit more of the vaunted Texas spirit and straight talk than so-called "native Texans". Let's hope that this man will get adequate legal help (or not--he seems to hold his own against these thugs so far, not only to kick CHK's @#$% but maybe also get Mayor Gasbag and his cronies under oath to reveal their secret dealings that benefit them but harm the citizens. Your sister probably can tell you that information from a good deposition can lead to many other legal actions, including your vision of Snively Whiplash and co. taking the "perp walk". Stay on this, Mr. D., because it's obvious the Star Telegram and even other media have been compromised and subdued. This battle must be viewed and conducted as a public rebellion against corruption and tyranny. You're playing a major role, sir, whether you know it or not. You have the power of the pen.

Sometime in the past week I said something like it seems as if the zone of Texas I'm living in is under some sort of protective bubble that prevents the laws that govern the rest of America from being relevant.

Many people have complained about Mayor Moncrief's conflicts of interest, with him having holdings in all the Barnett Shale natural gas drillers operating in the city of which he is the mayor. In other parts of America a mayor would either shed the interests that cause a conflict or recuse himself from having any part of any decision that benefits a business that benefits him.

Mike Moncrief benefits from his gas company holdings to the tune of $600,000 a year.

Now, back when the gas drilling seemed a fairly benign, fairly harmless endeavor, Moncrief's conflicts of interest did not seem so conflicting to me.

But, now that we learn the gas drilling operations are doing some serious polluting, endangering lives, abusing eminent domain, with the City of Fort Worth and its mayor doing nothing to make the gas drillers take the measures necessary to reduce the pollution.

We see the City of Fort Worth looking the other way when gas drillers steal water from the Trinity River and damage the river's levees in the process.

We see the City of Fort Worth act as a stooge for Chesapeake Energy, being an ally of that company as it attacks Fort Worth citizens in locations like Carter Avenue. In Arlington, Mayor Cluck finally had the guts to tell Jerry Jones there would be no more eminent domain abuse in Arlington.

Fort Worth's corrupt, conflict of interest-laden, dictatorial, narrow-minded miscreant of a mayor could do the same thing, telling Aubrey McClendon that he would not permit any more eminent domain abuse in his town.

The fact that that won't happen and the eminent domain persecution of Steve Doeung by Chesapeake Energy continues, is the point where, along with doing nothing about the gas drilling caused pollution, Mayor Mike Moncrief crosses the line into being engaged in what amounts to a form of racketeering.

There is an FBI office in Dallas.

I wish the Dallas FBI would spend less time setting up stings in which fake bombs are given to 19 year old kids and more time investigating the crimes that are being committed in Fort Worth, where the city has a mayor who is in collusion with natural gas drilling companies who are in full assault mode on the citizens of Fort Worth.

I'll distill it down for the FBI and shout it in capital letters and make it bold.

THE MAYOR OF FORT WORTH, MIKE MONCRIEF, IS TAKING $600,000 A YEAR FROM NATURAL GAS DRILLERS WHO ARE ABUSING EMINENT DOMAIN TO TAKE FORT WORTH CITIZEN'S PROPERTY & POLLUTING THEIR AIR WITH DANGEROUS CHEMICALS WHILE STEALING WATER FROM THE TRINITY RIVER.