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  • From: Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] fascist sheriff indicted!
  • Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:51:26 -0400

Gerald Hege, the jackbooted Sheriff of Davidson County, has been indicted on embezzlement and obstruction of justice charges:

http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/2872420p-2648732c.html

"The indictments charge Hege with six counts of obtaining property by false pretense, five of embezzlement by a public official, two of obstruction of justice, interception of an oral communication and aiding and abetting the interception of an oral communication.

"Among the subjects of the investigation were the sheriff's handling of money, particularly through his Blue Line Foundation charity, and his reporting of crime statistics.

. . . .

"Hege's persona is outsized, a 21st-century throwback to the days of the all-powerful Southern sheriff. His Web Site proclaims Davidson to be "Hege Country," and shows the sheriff, a Vietnam veteran, wielding a pistol-gripped, double-barreled shotgun next to a promise of "no deals for anybody."

"Hege's county jail has a reputation as one of the toughest in the nation, with 24-hour lockdown, no TVs or newspapers, and the walls painted pink as a way to symbolically emasculate its inmates."




  • [internetworkers] fascist sheriff indicted!, Beckett, 09/15/2003

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