19 June 2006

 

DELRAY BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT

300 West Atlantic Ave.

Delray Beach, FL  33444

 

Attention: Joseph L. SCHROEDER, Chief of Police

 

RE: COMPLAINT—Detective-Sergeant Thomas A. WHATLEY, Jr.

 

Dear Chief Schroeder:

 

My name is Karol MADERA. I am a Canadian radio-amateur call sign VE7KFM and this is in support of George ZARDECKI’s letter to you dated 10 June 2006.

 

I first became aware of your Tom WHATLEY, amateur call sign N1FM [the ex-N1SOB], from monitoring ~14.275 MHz in early January 2006.

 

Your WHATLEY—who on-air has a characteristic voice, ‘bully’ mannerisms and ‘trades’ on his police status—first crossed my path shortly thereafter…. He roughly challenged me about my call sign immediately after I had called Geo. N9VTB—with ID. Instructively, this was only after I added some closing comments in Polish…. I thought it improper of your WHATLEY—who often attempts to intimidate others on-air by broadly ‘hinting’ that he is a policeman—

to do this in all the circumstances, especially since he did not ID…. So, I addressed him by name/call sign [this surprised him], informed him that I had been monitoring him for ~a month, told him that I sought no conflict with him, strongly suggested that he not partake in the Mike ND8V [now KZ8O] and Brian K3VR machinations against me and forcefully warned him that he not cross my path again! In this first, short, testy, but by-and-large ‘correct’ exchange, I also challenged your WHATLEY to point out the worst characteristic about me/my operations on 20 m. Again, this appeared to surprise him and all that he could come up with in reply was: “Arrogant”. I retorted to the effect: “Guilty as charged!”

 

After this relatively brief but ‘frank’ exchange of views, I thought that your WHATLEY would ‘smarten up’ and keep his distance. But, this was not to be….

 

During the intervening months your WHATLEY has repeatedly gone out of his way initially to ‘run interference’ for Mike and/or Brian—and lately much worse….

 

For example, when George and I would be using the frequency, Mike and/or Brian would disingenuously ask ‘if the frequency was in use’—to which your WHATLEY would falsely reply: “No, go ahead and use it.”…. Then the ‘games’ about ‘who was on 1st first’ [the fundamental ‘law’ on amateur radio] and malicious interference would begin. Lest the point escape you, it is not up to a third listener to determine for a station wanting to use a frequency if it is in fact in use—especially when the frequency is patently in use and they very arguably know it [I typically get s9+30dB reports from MI, PA and FL, with all that implies].

 

Your WHATLEY would also often directly talk over/maliciously interfere with our transmissions when in Polish [in part to get away from unwanted comments/cat-calls, etc., if in English]…. When challenged on this, he would transparently defend his actions to Mike, Brian and/or us for having ‘mistaken’ our language/signals as coming from Europe. This, when there was absolutely no propagation to/nor chance of Europe being heard! But throughout, he would refuse to vacate the frequency as the rules/logic demand. I say “transparently”, above, advisedly, in part because he had earlier stated to me that ‘he supposedly understands some Polish because he apparently knows a little German’ [which only confirms his linguistic and other cultural ignorance/insensitivity]….

 

Lately, your WHATLEY and Mike and/or Brian have been conspiring using a disingenuous variation on the above themes to interfere with our transmissions…. First Brian would at low power ‘slide onto’ the frequency in use by us, shortly thereafter joined by Mike and/or others at moderate power, all pretending that they can not hear us because of propagation or otherwise. Then your WHATLEY would come in at maximum power and attempt to ‘blow us off’ frequency. When challenged, he either pretends that propagation [‘miraculously’] improved, or that he is “conflicted” [his word]. He often also pretends not knowing “objectively” [again, his word] who was on frequency first—us or his friends Mike and/or Brian—but then invariably/instructively refuses to cease interfering and stays on frequency, typically until we are driven off…. He is just a big bully!

 

In closing, it should be of great interest to you that there is evidence that: Mike is a racist/white-supremacist/Ku Klux Klan apologist/policeman ‘wannabe’—and an organic mental defective; while Brian is a cyberpath, arguably a sociopath and possibly even a psychopath—reportedly with a checkered ~‘policeman’ past…. Both have engaged in quasi-criminal behaviour on the airwaves, via the Internet and otherwise. The question then arises: why is your WHATLEY routinely not only keeping their company/running interference for them, but actually also engaging in similar ~illegal on-air behaviour himself? Could it be because of his routine dealings with criminals, he has learned their tricks/likes their tradecraft?

 

Irrespective, from my experience/in my considered opinion you have a serious bully and a disingenuous personality in your Department—with all that entails….

 

If you need further information on this, do not hesitate to contact me.

 

Yours truly,

 

Karol MADERA

3040 Tillicum Rd.

Victoria, B.C.  V9A 2B3                                                                   VE7KFM@Yahoo.com  

 

 

NOTE to HTML version….

 

Errata: Tom WHATLEY was NOT a Sergeant, despite Brian K3VR’s occasional representations to that effect on-air.

 

The above Yahoo e-mail address is no longer in use, due to Brian CROW K3VR’s mischief in late 2006.

The current e-mail address is VE7KFM@Gmail.com

 

 

To ‘Quotable Quotes’:  Tom ‘Mother-Fucker’ WHATLEY N1FM/n1sob

 

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