Courtesy of Conium

Does Drew Edmondson think that the law applies to everyone else but him? It’s bad enough that he is persecuting honest citizens for excercising their constitutional rights, now he is using bullying tactics to persecute a chicken farmer in Northeast Oklahoma. We’ve personally talked with Bev Saunders on the telephone. The stories she told us of Edmondson’s harrassment would make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Incredible and unbelievable!

BY ROBERT J. SMITH

Two men wearing FBI windbreakers arrived last week at Gentry City Hall looking for Bev Saunders. They never said they were federal agents, but they didn’t say they weren’t, either.

Tulsa police Maj. Rod Hummel and the other man wanted to give a subpoena to Saunders, who works at the Gentry Chamber of Commerce and is manager of Poultry Partners, an organization of poultry farmers in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The jackets were a bullying tactic meant to convince her that the men were federal agents, Saunders said. A former FBI agent said Thursday she’s probably right about their intentions.

“As a citizen, if they are wearing a jacket with FBI, I would be assuming they represent that agency,” said U. S. Marshal Dick O’Connell, who spent 30 years as an FBI agent. “In my opinion, those officers, although they didn’t say they represented a federal agency, probably gave the impression that they did represent a federal agency.” Hummel didn’t return telephone calls seeking comment.

Saunders wasn’t in the chamber of commerce’s office at Gentry City Hall when Hummel and the other man arrived Oct. 22 wearing jackets with FBI logos on the left shoulders. She was off work when they returned Oct. 24, but she came to meet them. When Saunders asked for identification, Hummel showed his Oklahoma driver’s license. He never said he was with the FBI, she said. She never spoke to the second man, who stayed outside.

“They didn’t lie,” she said. “They were just leaving the impression.” The subpoena is related to the federal lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson in 2005 against eight poultry companies with operations in Arkansas. Read more…