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Darren Morrison Ft. Collins, Colorado
By Alan Prendergast
Published on June 06, 2007 at 12:17pm
READ ARTICLE IN THE WESTWORD
It takes all kinds, this argument over guns in America. Patriots and paranoids,
cranks and constitutionalists, handwringers and Huns, they all step up to the
plate sooner or later. The debate is rarely polite, often incoherent and generally
clouded by suspicion, fear and rancor.
Subject(s):
Columbine, Darren Morrison, Duncan Philp, Tom Mauser
But it takes something special to reach the kind of bizarre denouement that
played out in a Jefferson County courtroom last week, when a gun activist
admitted to e-mailing death threats to a Columbine parent in the name of another
gun activist — because, see, he believed his life had been threatened by the other
activist, and he wanted to see the man arrested.
Makes sense? No? Then you haven't met Darren Morrison.
Morrison, 44, is a Navy veteran and was, until recently, a custodian at Colorado
State University. He ran unsuccessfully for Angie Paccione's seat in the state
legislature last year as a self-proclaimed independent, pro-gun, anti-immigration,
anti-abortion, born-again Christian. An additional preoccupation, not listed in his
campaign biography, appears to be Duncan Philp.
Philp, a prominent gun-rights advocate who lives in Wyoming, posts frequently
on Tyranny Response Team (www.trtnational.com) and has been a fixture at
antiwar and Second Amendment rights rallies in Fort Collins. Morrison claims
that Philp is a "hate monger" and has shouted unpleasant things at him at protests
through a megaphone. He thinks he's seen Philp's car idling outside his home.
When Morrison was banned from posting on the TRT forum a few months ago,
Philp suggested adding Morrison to a list of deceased members: "Poor Darren we
knew him well," he wrote. Morrison regarded the jibe as a death threat.
Philp denies ever threatening Morrison. "I don't have the time to drive seventy
miles to stalk this guy," he says. "He was sending me all kinds of e-mails taunting
me. We were never friends. He found out that a lot of the Tyranny Response
Team members are anarchist libertarians, and he equates that with communists."
Last December as the feud heated up, a series of ominous e-mails went out to
law enforcement, a local gun group and others, ostensibly from Philp, boasting
of his prowess with a .50-caliber handgun. The most disturbing ones came to the
inbox of Tom Mauser, who's become an outspoken advocate of tougher gun
laws since his son, Daniel, was slain in the 1999 attack on Columbine High
School. Philp was involved in a protest outside Mauser's home in 2001 and
collected $20,000 in a lawsuit over police harassment stemming from the
incident ("Deeper Into Columbine," October 31, 2002).
"I have a laser site on my 50 cal as well as a home made silencer," one typo-
riddled missive read. "I have spotted planes fling into DIA. I could easly shoot
one down so do not take any trips for a while."
Mauser was understandably alarmed. "I get this stuff a lot, but this one really did
cross the line," he says. He contacted the authorities.
The threat came to the attention of the director of the FBI, and the Denver
airport went to a heightened state of security for a brief time. A few days later, in
a parking lot on the campus of a Cheyenne community college where he was
taking classes, Philp was confronted by six sheriff's deputies, three FBI agents
and four campus security guards. Some of the officers had guns drawn, Philp
says, leading to a shouting match between him and the federal agents.
"I just got fed up with this nonsense," he says. "I've put up with it for fifteen
years."
Questioned about the e-mails, Philp admitted some familiarity with .50-caliber
weaponry — enough to know that shooting down an airplane with a handgun
isn't an option. He pointed out that the atrocious spelling and grammar were
similar to that found in messages he'd received from Morrison. In online
postings, Morrison has acknowledged having dyslexia; he's also written of the
"rabid" growth of the TRT and to receiving "treats," not threats, from Philp.
Morrison later admitted to a reporter from CSU's Rocky Mountain Collegian that
he'd sent the e-mails. He wrote a letter of apology to Mauser and pleaded guilty
to a misdemeanor charge of harassment. At Morrison's sentencing two weeks
ago, Mauser testified about the strain the threats caused to his family during the
Christmas season.
"My wife was very disturbed," he said. "He's playing with people's lives. Mr.
Philp has engaged in some unsavory activities toward me over the years, but he
didn't deserve to be targeted like this, either."
A tearful Morrison apologized again while insisting that he had reason to fear
Philp. "I wasn't sure he wasn't going to try to kill me," he said. "I got sucked into
the fight...What I did was inexcusable. I beat myself up all the time for what I
did...I've never done anything like this. I just didn't think this through."
Philp suspects that Morrison is behind other threatening e-mails he's received in
recent months, a charge Morrison has denied. Philp wanted the judge to order
some jail time as well as a psychological evaluation. "He's cost the system an
awful lot of money," he said.
Jefferson County Judge Judy Archuleta slapped Morrison with a year's
probation, five days in jail and a ban on any future communication, electronic or
otherwise, with the Mauser family. "It sounds like everybody's running scared of
each other," she said.
After the hearing, Mauser expressed surprise that the judge didn't ban Morrison
from using the Internet altogether. "The message has to get out that you can't do
this kind of thing without consequences," he said. "One of the lessons we learned
from Columbine is that people who commit violence often signal their violence
first."
By Alan Prendergast
Published on June 06, 2007 at 12:17pm
READ ARTICLE IN THE WESTWORD
It takes all kinds, this argument over guns in America. Patriots and paranoids,
cranks and constitutionalists, handwringers and Huns, they all step up to the
plate sooner or later. The debate is rarely polite, often incoherent and generally
clouded by suspicion, fear and rancor.
Subject(s):
Columbine, Darren Morrison, Duncan Philp, Tom Mauser
But it takes something special to reach the kind of bizarre denouement that
played out in a Jefferson County courtroom last week, when a gun activist
admitted to e-mailing death threats to a Columbine parent in the name of another
gun activist — because, see, he believed his life had been threatened by the other
activist, and he wanted to see the man arrested.
Makes sense? No? Then you haven't met Darren Morrison.
Morrison, 44, is a Navy veteran and was, until recently, a custodian at Colorado
State University. He ran unsuccessfully for Angie Paccione's seat in the state
legislature last year as a self-proclaimed independent, pro-gun, anti-immigration,
anti-abortion, born-again Christian. An additional preoccupation, not listed in his
campaign biography, appears to be Duncan Philp.
Philp, a prominent gun-rights advocate who lives in Wyoming, posts frequently
on Tyranny Response Team (www.trtnational.com) and has been a fixture at
antiwar and Second Amendment rights rallies in Fort Collins. Morrison claims
that Philp is a "hate monger" and has shouted unpleasant things at him at protests
through a megaphone. He thinks he's seen Philp's car idling outside his home.
When Morrison was banned from posting on the TRT forum a few months ago,
Philp suggested adding Morrison to a list of deceased members: "Poor Darren we
knew him well," he wrote. Morrison regarded the jibe as a death threat.
Philp denies ever threatening Morrison. "I don't have the time to drive seventy
miles to stalk this guy," he says. "He was sending me all kinds of e-mails taunting
me. We were never friends. He found out that a lot of the Tyranny Response
Team members are anarchist libertarians, and he equates that with communists."
Last December as the feud heated up, a series of ominous e-mails went out to
law enforcement, a local gun group and others, ostensibly from Philp, boasting
of his prowess with a .50-caliber handgun. The most disturbing ones came to the
inbox of Tom Mauser, who's become an outspoken advocate of tougher gun
laws since his son, Daniel, was slain in the 1999 attack on Columbine High
School. Philp was involved in a protest outside Mauser's home in 2001 and
collected $20,000 in a lawsuit over police harassment stemming from the
incident ("Deeper Into Columbine," October 31, 2002).
"I have a laser site on my 50 cal as well as a home made silencer," one typo-
riddled missive read. "I have spotted planes fling into DIA. I could easly shoot
one down so do not take any trips for a while."
Mauser was understandably alarmed. "I get this stuff a lot, but this one really did
cross the line," he says. He contacted the authorities.
The threat came to the attention of the director of the FBI, and the Denver
airport went to a heightened state of security for a brief time. A few days later, in
a parking lot on the campus of a Cheyenne community college where he was
taking classes, Philp was confronted by six sheriff's deputies, three FBI agents
and four campus security guards. Some of the officers had guns drawn, Philp
says, leading to a shouting match between him and the federal agents.
"I just got fed up with this nonsense," he says. "I've put up with it for fifteen
years."
Questioned about the e-mails, Philp admitted some familiarity with .50-caliber
weaponry — enough to know that shooting down an airplane with a handgun
isn't an option. He pointed out that the atrocious spelling and grammar were
similar to that found in messages he'd received from Morrison. In online
postings, Morrison has acknowledged having dyslexia; he's also written of the
"rabid" growth of the TRT and to receiving "treats," not threats, from Philp.
Morrison later admitted to a reporter from CSU's Rocky Mountain Collegian that
he'd sent the e-mails. He wrote a letter of apology to Mauser and pleaded guilty
to a misdemeanor charge of harassment. At Morrison's sentencing two weeks
ago, Mauser testified about the strain the threats caused to his family during the
Christmas season.
"My wife was very disturbed," he said. "He's playing with people's lives. Mr.
Philp has engaged in some unsavory activities toward me over the years, but he
didn't deserve to be targeted like this, either."
A tearful Morrison apologized again while insisting that he had reason to fear
Philp. "I wasn't sure he wasn't going to try to kill me," he said. "I got sucked into
the fight...What I did was inexcusable. I beat myself up all the time for what I
did...I've never done anything like this. I just didn't think this through."
Philp suspects that Morrison is behind other threatening e-mails he's received in
recent months, a charge Morrison has denied. Philp wanted the judge to order
some jail time as well as a psychological evaluation. "He's cost the system an
awful lot of money," he said.
Jefferson County Judge Judy Archuleta slapped Morrison with a year's
probation, five days in jail and a ban on any future communication, electronic or
otherwise, with the Mauser family. "It sounds like everybody's running scared of
each other," she said.
After the hearing, Mauser expressed surprise that the judge didn't ban Morrison
from using the Internet altogether. "The message has to get out that you can't do
this kind of thing without consequences," he said. "One of the lessons we learned
from Columbine is that people who commit violence often signal their violence
first."
Robert Teesdale Somewhere in South Carolina "hiding out"
Teesdale was caught trying to make a buck off of the TRT logo and without
the knowledge and consent of the owner of the TRT logo. He thought that he
could pull of a coup of the TRT by attempting to start a TRT US that this
would place him in total control of all TRT chapters. He thought wrong.
Teesdale is of British extraction and not born in the USA. He never served in
the military, yet supported the idea of sending troops to Iraqi to die for the
profits of companies like Halliburton. He pretended to support the troops by
showing on up on a the street corner in Ft. Collins, Colorado waving a US
flag and a sign, but saw fit to spit on any honorably discharged veteran of the
US military he saw on the opposite side of the same street corner protesting
Bushism and Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq. Teesdale is known to work with
local FT. Collins law enforcement to inform on peaceful war protesters and
as it suits his sefl serving agenda.
He operates a company called Magonaga Industries and was attemtping to sell
TRT logo products on line and without the knowledge of the orginator of the
TRT name and its products. He has established bogus off shore accounts
with listings having bogus 800 phone numbers. Here is his website, which is
suspect is about to be taken off line at the point he reads these posts.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.xing.com/profile/Robert_Teesdale
Educational background; University/College University of Phoenix, Nov 2006
Business Management, BS Business Management
Currently completing degree.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
He got the BS part right. A degree from the University of Phoenix is nothing
but a lot of BS. The so-called University is nothing more than clearing house
for losers who couldn't cut it in a real university. It is a private school that
lives off of government loans and in order to keep the money flowing into this
school it must mass produce degrees. At U of P one only has to show up
50% of the time and do nothing 100% of the time.
Teesdale was caught trying to make a buck off of the TRT logo and without
the knowledge and consent of the owner of the TRT logo. He thought that he
could pull of a coup of the TRT by attempting to start a TRT US that this
would place him in total control of all TRT chapters. He thought wrong.
Teesdale is of British extraction and not born in the USA. He never served in
the military, yet supported the idea of sending troops to Iraqi to die for the
profits of companies like Halliburton. He pretended to support the troops by
showing on up on a the street corner in Ft. Collins, Colorado waving a US
flag and a sign, but saw fit to spit on any honorably discharged veteran of the
US military he saw on the opposite side of the same street corner protesting
Bushism and Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq. Teesdale is known to work with
local FT. Collins law enforcement to inform on peaceful war protesters and
as it suits his sefl serving agenda.
He operates a company called Magonaga Industries and was attemtping to sell
TRT logo products on line and without the knowledge of the orginator of the
TRT name and its products. He has established bogus off shore accounts
with listings having bogus 800 phone numbers. Here is his website, which is
suspect is about to be taken off line at the point he reads these posts.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.xing.com/profile/Robert_Teesdale
Educational background; University/College University of Phoenix, Nov 2006
Business Management, BS Business Management
Currently completing degree.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
He got the BS part right. A degree from the University of Phoenix is nothing
but a lot of BS. The so-called University is nothing more than clearing house
for losers who couldn't cut it in a real university. It is a private school that
lives off of government loans and in order to keep the money flowing into this
school it must mass produce degrees. At U of P one only has to show up
50% of the time and do nothing 100% of the time.
Dudley Brown of Windsor, Colorado
Fudley is the founder and self appointed dictator of Rocky Mountain Gun
Owners (RMGO), who has recently split with Gun Owers of America
(GOA) and its founder Larry Pratt. Fud has stabbed the TRT in the back
so often almost making a pin cushion of us. Why? Because he perceives
any other gun rights organization as a threat to his power base and political
lobbying income.
During a TRT protest in Longmont of Colorado of Governor Bill Owens,
Dudley was seen talking to SGT. Lewis of the Longmont PD and he was
asked by the SGT to ID all of the TRT leadership for their spy files.
Fudley was all to willing and ready to help the local gestapo screw the TRT
over. Fudley told Longmont PO SGT Lewis that one leader had just
finished throwing a few firecrackers at police and that the TRT CEO was
using a laser pointer on the police. Nothing of the sort had ever happened
and if it had why weren't either of these men ticketed or arrested that day?
This fact was uncovered when the TRT went to Denver to retrieve the
Denver PD 'spy files', per the assistance of the Colorado ACLU. Upon
reading the spy file we spotted Dudley's name and saw that he was listed as
a police informant by the police.
Fudley hates competition and he perceived the TRT has a competitor that
could take funds away from his treasure chest of lobbying loot.
The very first day I had met Fuldey was at a TRT protest in Ft. Morgan,
Colorado and this slob had the nerve to threaten me over my methods of
protesting. I did nothing to him at the time, nor did I tell him how to
conduct his style of protesting. Fudley has never been a member of the
TRT, none of us have ever seen Fud wearing a TRT T-shirt and so who
was he to tel any TRT member how to do anything?
Fud's short list of abuses towards the TRT
1. Threat of violence directed at a TRT member and anther gun rights
activist.
2. Police informant, who will lie to police in order to destroy his perceived
competitors.
3. When asked to attend a second amendment rally and defend liberty on
Bill of Rights Day he refused.
The guy just doesn't look like the kind of guy who supports gun rights and
gun owners. Dudley is a traitor.
Fudley is the founder and self appointed dictator of Rocky Mountain Gun
Owners (RMGO), who has recently split with Gun Owers of America
(GOA) and its founder Larry Pratt. Fud has stabbed the TRT in the back
so often almost making a pin cushion of us. Why? Because he perceives
any other gun rights organization as a threat to his power base and political
lobbying income.
During a TRT protest in Longmont of Colorado of Governor Bill Owens,
Dudley was seen talking to SGT. Lewis of the Longmont PD and he was
asked by the SGT to ID all of the TRT leadership for their spy files.
Fudley was all to willing and ready to help the local gestapo screw the TRT
over. Fudley told Longmont PO SGT Lewis that one leader had just
finished throwing a few firecrackers at police and that the TRT CEO was
using a laser pointer on the police. Nothing of the sort had ever happened
and if it had why weren't either of these men ticketed or arrested that day?
This fact was uncovered when the TRT went to Denver to retrieve the
Denver PD 'spy files', per the assistance of the Colorado ACLU. Upon
reading the spy file we spotted Dudley's name and saw that he was listed as
a police informant by the police.
Fudley hates competition and he perceived the TRT has a competitor that
could take funds away from his treasure chest of lobbying loot.
The very first day I had met Fuldey was at a TRT protest in Ft. Morgan,
Colorado and this slob had the nerve to threaten me over my methods of
protesting. I did nothing to him at the time, nor did I tell him how to
conduct his style of protesting. Fudley has never been a member of the
TRT, none of us have ever seen Fud wearing a TRT T-shirt and so who
was he to tel any TRT member how to do anything?
Fud's short list of abuses towards the TRT
1. Threat of violence directed at a TRT member and anther gun rights
activist.
2. Police informant, who will lie to police in order to destroy his perceived
competitors.
3. When asked to attend a second amendment rally and defend liberty on
Bill of Rights Day he refused.
The guy just doesn't look like the kind of guy who supports gun rights and
gun owners. Dudley is a traitor.
Triston Treber , of Strasburg, Colorado
Triston is the fellow on the right holding the placard and the very
fool who unwillingly assisted the TRT in the winning of a 20K lawsuit
in a Denver federal court against Jefferson County Deputy Estep,
who on the night of December 14th 2001 violation of first, fourth and
fifth amendments. Treber was trying to pull off a coup of the TRT by
seeking unethical ways to eliminate the TRT leadership.
Triston had contacted the Lakewood PD and told them that he knew
for a fact the TRT was going to try and hurt or kill Tom Mauser
during a TRT protest of Mauser's home in regards to his position on
gun control. Leave it to the cops to accept crap like this at face value.
Triston's deceit was exposed during the deposition of Deputy Estep.
And Triston was later publicly exposed on our TRT National website.
As far as we know he still works as a glass guy who replaces and
installs home windows as a contractor for cash.
http://www.co.arapahoe.co.us/apps/P...983-01-1-00-015
Co-Owner Name: Owner Address: 60659 E. 5TH PL. City/State/Zip:
Arapahoe County Website - Parcel SearchTREBER, TRISTON T.
STRASBURG, CO 80136. Neighborhood: AG. Neighborhood Code:
Triston is the fellow on the right holding the placard and the very
fool who unwillingly assisted the TRT in the winning of a 20K lawsuit
in a Denver federal court against Jefferson County Deputy Estep,
who on the night of December 14th 2001 violation of first, fourth and
fifth amendments. Treber was trying to pull off a coup of the TRT by
seeking unethical ways to eliminate the TRT leadership.
Triston had contacted the Lakewood PD and told them that he knew
for a fact the TRT was going to try and hurt or kill Tom Mauser
during a TRT protest of Mauser's home in regards to his position on
gun control. Leave it to the cops to accept crap like this at face value.
Triston's deceit was exposed during the deposition of Deputy Estep.
And Triston was later publicly exposed on our TRT National website.
As far as we know he still works as a glass guy who replaces and
installs home windows as a contractor for cash.
http://www.co.arapahoe.co.us/apps/P...983-01-1-00-015
Co-Owner Name: Owner Address: 60659 E. 5TH PL. City/State/Zip:
Arapahoe County Website - Parcel SearchTREBER, TRISTON T.
STRASBURG, CO 80136. Neighborhood: AG. Neighborhood Code:
WYOMING TYRANNY RESPONSE TEAM : TRAITORS