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Letter from Gatewood Galbraith re Charlie Puckett, Jr. 

December 12, 2001

Kentucky Attorney General

Capitol BuildingFrankfort, Kentucky 40602

Commissioner Ishmon Burks

Kentucky State Police

919 Versailles Road

Frankfort, Kentucky 40601

Hon. Robert Stephens

Justice Cabinet

403 Wapping Street

Frankfort, Kentucky 40601

Re: Request for Investigation

Dear Gentlemen:

 Enclosed please find a copy of a message sent by the Kentucky State Police to law enforcement agencies in Central Kentucky, concerning a young man named Charles D. "Charlie" Puckett, Jr., which amounts to a virtual "free pass" for confronting the man then shooting him if he has the temerity to ask why he is being confronted.

This memorandum is unfounded, inflammatory and calumnious and we have good cause to believe that the reason for its existence is that certain federal agencies are actively seeking to precipitate an allegedly "violent" incident with Kentuckians involved in the Kentucky State Militia so that they may expand and exert their police powers over our citizens’ rights to assemble and participate in their federally conferred status as militia. Title 10 United States Code Section 311 (Also attached)

Mr. Puckett denies ever having made any "statements of a threatening nature" but he certainly feels threatened by the issuance of this error-filled missive from our own KSP

which intentionally castigates him as a person who "may harbor resentment" or react in a "violent, retaliatory manner if approached or confronted" (my emphasis). Further, any officer is to use "extreme caution" and is to consider Mr. Puckett "armed and dangerous."

Gentlemen, this memorandum and the use of a state agency in its origination and dissemination is criminally irresponsible. This memorandum directly targets this young man, who has no criminal charges against him, and categorically burdens his exercise of Constitutional rights with a miasma untenable in a free society. In plain English, Sirs, he is being set up as a fall guy and we challenge the role and activities of the Kentucky State Police and, indeed, the Commonwealth, in putting him in this position.

We request that each of you use all of the resources at your disposal within the your various Offices to investigate, and publish to the public how this memorandum came about, the procedures for its formulation, fact-checking and dissemination. We need to identify the source and the motive behind these allegations in order to thwart the efforts of those agents provocateur who seek to ignite a confrontation between their agencies and our citizens. Your participation is essential to protect not only this young man’s Constitutional rights but perhaps his very life as well so that we request that you attend to this matter as soon as possible.

All replies may be directed to this office.

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