STATEMENT OF DARRELL W. WILLIAMS

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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:16 PM
Subject: Unlawful serch and seizure plus Harrassment

> This incident took place in Eastwood, MO. It was totally out of context of
> what the ATF is supposed to be. The case Agent was David Davidal.
>
>

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>
> Darrell w. Williams January 28,
> 2001
> 7447 Hillsboro-H. S. Rd. 636-274-4985
> Cedar Hill, MO. 63016 Fax 636-274-4904
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>
> Federal Department
> Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms
> 351 South Silver Springs Road
> Room 108 ATTN: Carlos Sampayo
> Cape Giradeau, MO. 63703
>
>
> REF: Unlawful Search and Seizure
>
> MY NAME IS DARRELL W. WILLIAMS, I AM AFFILIATED WITH THE SOVEREIGN
> AMONSOQUATH TRIBE OF THE CHEROKEE.
> ON THE DATE ABOVE, BEING NATIVE AMERICAN, I WITNESSED FIRST HAND ONCE AGAIN
> AN ATROCITY, THAT HAPPENED TO OUR PEOPLE OVER 162 YEARS AGO.
>
> I PERSONALLY WITNESSED, TWO ATF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENTS WILLFULLY AND
> WANTONLY, SHOW DISREGARD TO, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF
> AMERICA, WITH THE UNMITIGATED GALL OF TWO ATF SPECIAL AGENTS.
>
> THESE TWO AGENTS WENT IN TO THE HOME OF CHIEF MARTIN "WALKING BEAR" WILSON,
> WITH THE INTENT TO SERVE A FEDERAL WARRANT ON CHIEF WILSON. CHIEF WILSON AND
> HIS WIFE WERE NOT AT HOME. THEY HAD DRIVEN TO PIEDMONT, MISSOURI TO PICK UP A
> LOAD OF CLOTHING FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THE LESS FORTUNATE FAMILIES OF THE
> COMMUNITY.
>
> DURING THIS PROCESS THEY WERE TO SERVE THE CHIEF WITH A SEARCH WARRANT, PRIOR
> TO THEIR ENTRY INTO THE HOUSE. THEY ENTERED THE HOUSE WITH A SUB
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> MACHINE GUN, AND PISTOLS, WAVING THEM AROUND LIKE THEY WERE RAMBO ON REVENGE.
>
> AS STATED BEFORE, THE CHIEF WAS NOT AT HOME, HOWEVER THESE AGENTS DID NOT
> CARE. THEY WERE ON A MISSION, DURING THAT MISSION; THEY BRANDISHED THOSE
> WEAPONS IN THE FACE OF A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY, A SIX YEAR OLD BOY, AND A BABY
> OF TWO YEARS OF AGE.
>
> FORCING THEM OUT OF THE HOUSE, WITHOUT ALLOWING THE TWO YEAR OLD TO GET SHOES
> AND SOCKS ON, THE SIX YEAR OLD WAS DENIED HIS OWN JACKET. ONE FIVE TIMES TO
> LARGE FOR HIM WAS TOSSED AT HIM BY ONE OF THE AGENTS, AND HE WAS TOLD TO "PUT
> THIS ON."
>
> THE FIFTEEN YEAR OLD WAS KEPT HOME FROM SCHOOL BECAUSE HE WAS SICK, AND HAD
> HE NOT ALREADY HAD A JACKET ON, I'M POSITIVE THAT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN DENIED
> THE ABILITY TO OBTAIN ONE.
>
> THE TIME WAS 1201 PM IN THE AFTERNOON, ON A COLD AND WINDY DAY, WHERE ANY
> ADULT WOULD HAVE HAD A PROBLEM KEEPING WARM, EVEN WITH THE HELP OF A JACKET.
>
> THE ONLY THING THAT SEEMED TO MATTER WAS THE GUNS AND AMMUNITION (KEPT IN THE
> MASTER BEDROOM AS A SAFE GUARD TO THE CHILDREN), OUR HERITAGE, WHICH WAS
> CONSTANTLY SCRUTINIZED, NOT ONLY BY THE ATF AGENTS, BUT THE DFS SOCIAL
> WORKERS, WHO WERE CALLED, AFTER THE AGENTS TORE THE HOUSE UPSIDE DOWN.
>
> I JUST HAPPENED TO BE ON THE RESERVATION THAT DAY, TO LOOK AT SOME OLD
> GLASSWARE, AND TO GO HUNTING. I PERSONALLY HAVE NOT BEEN HUNTING FOR ANY KIND
> OF ANIMAL, OR FOWL IN OVER 28 YEARS. BUT I WANTED TO TRY AND GET SOME
> SQUIRREL, (WHICH I FOUND OUT HAD
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> GONE OUT OF SEASON), THEN ONLY BECAUSE OF THE CONSERVATION OFFICERS WHO WHERE
> ALSO ON HAND.
>
> BY THE WAY, THESE OFFICERS DID NOT ARRIVE IN A VEHICLE; I SAW THEM MARCH OUT
> OF THE WOODS, CARRYING A SET OF BINOCULARS.
>
> I AM A 100% SERVICE CONNECTED DISABLED VETERAN AND I VOLUNTARILY TOLD MEMBERS
> OF THE CARTER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE AND THE MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL,
> THAT I HAD MY WEAPONS IN THE VAN WITH ME.
>
> ONE IS A 20 GAUGE SHOT GUN AND A 32 CAL. ANTIQUE PISTOL; I USE TO TAKE TARGET
> PRACTICE WITH. ALL OF MY
>
> WEAPONS ARE LEGALLY REGISTERED WITH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY,
> MISSOURI WHICH IS THE COUNTY I RESIDE IN.
>
> WHEN CONFRONTED WITH THE STATEMENT THAT THEY WERE CONFISCATING MY WEAPONS, I
> BECAME VERY UPSET. I WAS INFORMED THAT I HAD A FELONY CONVICTION FOR
> TAMPERING, WHICH WAS NOT TRUE.
>
> MY CONFRONTATIONAL ATTITUDE CAME ONLY AFTER THE ATF AGENT STATED, I, AM
> UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND IF I SAY THAT YOUR WEAPONS WILL BE CONFISCATED,
> THEN YOUR WEAPONS, WILL BE CONFISCATED. WHEN I WENT TO STEP OUT OF MY VAN,
> THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF CARTER COUNTY, STEPPED UP AND GENTLY PLACED HIS ARM
> ACROSS MY CHEST. I GUESS THIS WAS DONE NOT ONLY OUT OF RESPECT, OF THE FACT
> THAT I HAD BEEN A CAREER SOLDIER, BUT ALSO TO KEEP ME FROM FURTHER
> CONFRONTATION WITH THE RAMBO ACTING ATF AGENT.
>
> I THEN INFORMED THE HIGHWAY PATROL THAT THEY WOULD NOT CONFISCATE MY WEAPONS,
> UNTIL THEY
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> SHOWED ME IN BLACK AND WHITE LETTER FORM, THAT I HAD THAT CONVICTION. AT THIS
> POINT A SGT. (WHOM I PRESUME WAS IN CHARGE OF THE HIGHWAY PATROL THERE.
> STEPPED UP AND ASKED ME TO CALM DOWN).
>
> HE THEN ASSURED ME, THAT THEY WOULD RUN MY INFORMATION PAST THE CLERK AT THE
> OFFICE AGAIN, WHERE THEY FOUND OUT THAT THEY HAD INDEED MADE A MISTAKE. THE
> SGT. APOLOGIZED TO ME, AND I TOOK SOME MEDICATION TO SETTLE MY NERVES.
>
> WHAT HAPPENED TO ME, IS NOT OF THE UTMOST CONCERN. WHAT IS, IS THE FACT THAT
> THEY WERE TO SERVE MARTIN
> "WALKING BEAR" WILSON WITH THE SEARCH WARRANT, HOWEVER, MR. WILSON WAS NOT AT
> HOME.
>
> I SAT AND WATCHED AS THESE AGENTS PULLED WEAPONS THAT BELONGED TO THE CHIEF'S
> SON, AND HIS WIFE, OUT OF THE HOUSE, WITHOUT EVER PRESENTING A WARRANT. IN
> FACT THEY HAD BEEN DESTROYING THE HOUSE AS THEY WENT ALONG. THROWING STUFF IN
> THE FLOOR AND EVERY WHERE ELSE.
>
> THEY DESECRATED A PART OF OUR NATIVE HERITAGE, BY DUMPING A CEREMONIAL PIPE,
> ON THE FLOOR AND LAUGHED ABOUT IT WHEN THEY CAME OUTSIDE AGAIN. THE WARRANT
> WAS EXPLICIT, STATING THAT THEY WERE TO SEARCH THE CHIEF'S HOUSE, AND ALL
> OTHER OUT BUILDINGS ON THE PREMISES.
>
> AN ACT, THAT THEY DID NOT CARRY OUT. THEY TARGETED THE CHIEFS HOUSE, KICKED
> IN AN UNLOCKED DOOR TO THE TRIBAL OFFICE. (THAT'S RIGHT I SAID AN UNLOCKED
> DOOR).
> IT APPEARED TO ME, THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO INTIMIDATE PEOPLE, FOR NO REASON.
>
> THE PEOPLE AFFILIATED WITH THIS TRIBE, ARE A KIND AND GENTLE PEOPLE, AND
> WOULD NOT BE INTIMIDATED IN ANY
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> WAY, WHICH SEEMED TO MAKE THE SPECIAL ATF AGENTS EVEN MORE DETERMINED TO
> PROVOKE SOMEONE. LOOKING FOR AN EXCUSE TO USE FORCE.
>
> AFTER ABOUT ONE AND A HALF-HOURS, AND AFTER THEY HAD STREWN THINGS ALL OVER
> THE HOUSE, THEY CALLED THE DIVISION OF FAMILY SERVICES. I STAYED BY MY
> VEHICLE, WHICH WAS PARKED IN FRONT OF THE COMMUNAL KITCHEN; I HOWEVER COULD
> HEAR THEM LAUGHING AND SNICKERING ABOUT THIS AND THAT.
>
> IN MY OPINION, IF THERE WERE ANY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BROKEN
> THAT DAY, IT WAS DONE BY
>
> THE TWO ATF AGENTS WHO SERVED A WARRANT ON A BOY OF FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE,
> WHOSE NAME DID NOT APPEAR ON IT.
>
> THEN HAD TO SIT IDLY BY AND WATCH THESE TO RAMBO STYLE ATF AGENTS, DESECRATE
> PART OF OUR NATIVE HERITAGE, AND LISTEN TO THEM BELITTLE HIS FATHER.
> I HELD THAT FIFTEEN YEAR OLD BOY IN MY ARMS WHILE HE OPENLY CRIED, REASSURING
> HIM THAT THINGS WOULD WORK OUT, WHEN HIS FATHER GOT BACK.
>
> ME, A 10 YEAR VETERAN OF THE MILITARY, LYING TO CONSOLE THIS CHILD. SO THAT
> HE WOULDN'T HAVE A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. I KNOW THAT HE FORGIVES ME FOR LYING TO
> HIM, THE QUESTION NOW IS WILL I EVER BE ABLE TO FORGIVE MY SELF?
>
> THE WARRANT, (WHICH, I WAS PERMITTED TO READ, BY THE CHIEF). AFTER THE ATF,
> HIGHWAY PATROL, AND CARTER COUNTY SHERIFF, (TO WHICH I MIGHT ADD, MAY HAVE
> TURNED OUT TO BE, THE CHIEF'S SAVING GRACE, BY TALKING HIMSELF BLUE IN THE
> FACE, TO GET THEM TO ALLOW THE CHILDREN TO GET OUT OF THE WEATHER). LEFT THE
> PREMISES.
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> AS I STATED BEFORE, THE WARRANT WAS EXPLICIT, "THE HOME OF AND ALL OUT
> BUILDINGS." AGAIN I WOULD LIKE TO REITERATE, THAT ONLY THREE OF THE BUILDINGS
> LOCATED ON THE PROPERTY, WERE SEARCHED. A CLEAR AND UNMISTAKEABLE,
> DISOBEDIENCE OF THE WARRANT.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Darrell W. Williams
>
>
> CC: National Office ATF, President of The United States, Congressman Richard
> Gephardt, Senators Christopher Bond, Jean Carnahan, ACLU,
> Missouri State Highway Patrol Headquarters, Missouri State Governor,
> Attorney General State of Missouri Jay Nixon, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
> American Indian Movement, Cherokee Headquarters Tahlequah, Oklahoma
>