Update (February 9, 2009 / 2:35pm PST): A note from Esther *** She’s back. 25-year-old Aquinnah O’Keefe (aka Esther) returned to the Lord Our Righeousness Church compound known as “Strong City” on Saturday afternoon. According to strongcity.info, O’Keefe returned to “the land” in remote northeastern New Mexico around 2:30pm local time. A photo posted on […]
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When KOB-TV sent reporter Jeremy Jojola more than 300-miles for an exclusive interview with a woman who’d been fasting for nearly a month, his station would not have the only camera in the room. Members of Wayne Bent’s “Strong City” also videotaped KOB’s unfolding interview with Aquinnah O’Keefe (aka “Esther”). Today, Strong City published its
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Update #7 (12:11am PST/January 29, 2009): AUDIO/ JEREMY JOJOLA #2 / UNEDITED / RUNS 13:28 / Jeremy Jojola, #2 Update #6 (11:35pm PST/January 28, 2009): The second interview with Jeremy Jojola is about to be conducted. Once that interview wraps-up, I’ll upload it shortly afterwards. Update #5: AUDIO / JEFF BENT / UNEDITED/ RUNS 29:44
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New: A message from Jeff Bent (Beyond90Seconds.com, September 17, 2009) Update: Bent may be forced to eat (Albuquerque Journal North, September 7, 2009). “At the very least, the warden told him if this religious fast progresses into the extent of a hunger strike, force-feeding could be on the table,” Bland said. (Albuquerque Journal North) (September
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TRANSCRIPTS Two frequent contributors to the comments sections of this blog have teamed-up to post written transcripts of the Wayne Bent trial on the Internet. Sam Redman and Jan Brennan are publishing the transcripts at Redman’s Strong City “mirror site“. According to Redman’s mirror site, the names of the victims will be redacted from its
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Just hours before authorities removed Aquinnah O’Keefe (aka “Esther”) from a “cult” compound in northeastern New Mexico last Wednesday, KOB-TV’s Jeremy Jojola conducted an exclusive interview with the young woman. O’Keefe, who said she’d not eaten since December 30th, had been fasting to protest the imprisonment of Wayne Bent (aka “Michael Travesser). O’Keefe’s sister is
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Update #6: 6:17pm (PST): KOB-TV 6:30pm news story from reporter Jeremy Jojola [wpvideo yC4yvMux w=350] Update #5: 1:30pm (PST): This is another video produced by Strong City today. It features additional footage of O’Keefe/Esther as she’s taken to an ambulance. This video shows a closer shot of the court document deputies presented to O’Keefe/Esther. [wpvideo
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[wpvideo axg19PuW w=480] And yet another dramatic turn in the story that never dies: The Wayne Bent case. This time, though, someone’s life does seem to be at stake. Although others may feel it’s a calculated drama with no intent of claiming any life. Now, as they say, “This just in…” Strong City has just
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Just as I was about to post this story, a reader tipped me off to a new video on strongcity.info featuring “Esther”. The video is nearly ten minutes in length and appears at the conclusion of this post. *** As regular readers of this blog well know, there is mounting concern for the health and
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VIDEO [wpvideo CV3872Cu w=350] Wasn’t sure how the headline was going to read on this post. First came word earlier today that convicted sex offender Wayne Bent is fasting…again. I wondered if that was even a story. Bent has fasted several times; to include a “final” fast or two. Had to ask: Was this merely
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