Shannon Marie Mahoney and the FBI

[Mark]

Objectivists say that under a proper government "you are morally bound to refrain from initiating force and from acting as a vigilante" (Binswanger). The question is: Is the improper government that we do have bad enough that in some situations there is no such obligation?

The following is from "the cover-up quilt," a project, now defunct, of the late Tom Burkett and Beth George, one square for each victim of the FBI. Presumably the author has finished his prison sentence by now. The full name of the FBI’s victim was Shannon Marie Mahoney.　

The Shannon Mahoney Story
by Brian Mahoney (her father)

I am currently serving a 154 month sentence (12 years 10 months) for the murder (justified death) of a "protected government witness." The man I killed in Miami in January of 1988 was in the Federal Witness Protection Program and was providing the feds with information against Mafia persons. However that had nothing to do with me.

In January of 1988 I was a prosperous businessman who owned and operated several eateries and bars in the Champaign-Urbana, Springfield, Normal-Bloomington area of Illinois. I owned a Condo in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida that my wife and kids and myself used a couple times a year. We were in Ft. Lauderdale after Christmas 1987 for vacation when on January 3rd, 1988 my little girl, Shannon – age 8, didn’t come back from the beach with her older brother. We immediately began searching the area and soon realized the worst nightmare any parent could possibly have, "A missing child."

To make a very long, very emotional story short, the body of my daughter was found ten days later in the trunk of a car at a hotel outside Seattle, Washington. My little girl, my princess, had been kidnapped, raped, sodomized, tortured, then killed by this animal. This animal then cut my little 8 year old Shannon’s body into six parts, stuffed her into a suitcase and threw her remains in the trunk of his car.

Because he was a "Protected Federal Witness" in several ongoing investigations against the mob, the feds stepped in and took jurisdiction. There was also a question as to where Shannon was actually murdered.

A good and true friend of mine informed me that this animal was not going to be tried. The government was going to change his name and hide him back in the Federal Witness Protection Program due to his value as a government witness. I also was informed that he was a known pedophile ...

On January 22, 1988 he was transported back to Miami by the U.S. Marshals Service. I found out what flight he would come in on. As the feds walked him down the airport corridor, I stepped up behind him and shot him, point blank, three times in the back of the head. I then handed the gun to the marshals and was led away in handcuffs.

... the animal who brutalized my Shannon is dead! I did it. I meant to do it. I am saved, and the feds hate it. When I killed their precious witness, it messed up over 50 ongoing investigations and several trials that were about to start. ... now that I know what I know about the federal courts – lying witnesses, lying feds, and corrupt prosecutors and judges, I’m glad that I did what I did, even if it meant some mobsters going free. We all make choices in our lives. I made one that I am now paying for, but the bottom line is that monster will never harm another child. ...

The killing didn’t interfere with any legitimate trial. The would-be witness was offered something of value in exchange for his testimony and therefore it was bribed testimony, inadmissible and worthless. (I know, prosecutors use such testimony anyway and judges allow it.) Also, the character of the witness indicates he’s dishonest even without the bribe. (Right, it doesn’t matter to the court.)

The reason I focus on this one square of the cover-up quilt is that I happened to be visiting Florida when the case went to trial. It made the local newspaper.

The FBI and the DOJ are corrupt as hell.

[BaalChatzaf]

I might have done the same myself

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Selene]

His only mistake was getting caught. However, he was certain that he would get him that way.

Shooting that sub-human creature in the head from a sniper position might have given the father a chance at getting away. However, it would have decreased the probability that he would have eliminated the sub-human predator.

[Jules Troy]

Thumbs up to the dad, I would have done the same thing.

[dldelancey]

His only mistake was getting caught. However, he was certain that he would get him that way.

Shooting that sub-human creature in the head from a sniper position might have given the father a chance at getting away. However, it would have decreased the probability that he would have eliminated the sub-human predator.

For me, in that situation, getting caught would have to be part of it. I would want to kill the bastard and for the entire world to know why and to see that I was in no way sorry for it.

[Selene]

His only mistake was getting caught. However, he was certain that he would get him that way.

Shooting that sub-human creature in the head from a sniper position might have given the father a chance at getting away. However, it would have decreased the probability that he would have eliminated the sub-human predator.

For me, in that situation, getting caught would have to be part of it. I would want to kill the bastard and for the entire world to know why and to see that I was in no way sorry for it.

Understood, 12 yrs is a long time though and I would hope that jury nullification would work in my trial.