Bubba Copeland
The death by suicide of small-town Alabama mayor Fred "Bubba" Copeland was a premeditated hit job, according to Donald Watkins, a longtime attorney who has become a leading voice in online investigative journalism. In a post today, Watkins says he has uncovered the identity of individuals behind Copeland's death, and he plans to reveal details soon on his donaldwatkins.com website.Under the headline "Fred Lavon Copeland: Who Ordered the "Hit Job" on Bubba, and Why?" Watkins writes:
Last night, I was able to identify the "shot caller" who ordered the premeditated 1819 News media "hit job" on Smiths Station, Alabama, mayor, pastor, and businessman Fred Lavon "Bubba" Copeland.
I have also identified the person who painted the target on Copeland's back.
These are NOT the "usual suspects," but they are very bad people. They have done unspeakable things in life. They are incapable of contrition for causing Copeland's suicide.
Stay tuned! We will tell you who ordered the "hit job" on Bubba, and why.
Watkins and I reported yesterday that Copeland -- the mayor of Smiths Station, AL, and the pastor of a Baptist church in Phenix City, AL -- died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound last Friday (11/3/23), two days after the right-wing 1819 News site began a series of articles about his cross-dressing lifestyle.
The family of Craig Monger, the reporter who broke the Copeland story, was experiencing a financial crisis -- a corporate and personal bankruptcy in which both Monger's father and mother were named.
Now, Donald Watkins has learned that the story leading to "Bubba" Copeland's death was not a standard act of journalism. Watkins calls it a "premeditated hit job," driven by "very bad people" who have "done unspeakable things in life" -- to the extent that they are "incapable of (feeling) contrition for causing Copeland's suicide."
More details are coming soon.
What is coming in the story of small-town Alabama mayor Fred "Bubba" Copeland and his death by self-inflicted gunshot wound after a right-wing media site outed his cross-dressing lifestyle? Donald Watkins has insights at his Facebook page. Here are two of them:
ReplyDeleteDonald V. Watkins
There is more to Craig Monger's "outing" of Fred "Bubba" Copeland than what meets the eye.
Donald V. Watkins
Does the FBI have a long and documented history of serving as the "morality police" in America. Yes. Does the FBI use news reporters to administer public "shamings" of innocent, law abiding citizens? Yes.
https://www.facebook.com/donald.v.watkins/posts/pfbid02VJgGcXLkMwUZzzFhAoFxQXp17PJzX2Cs6RewXBfNZhhpeknGxgL7QfLxpcDqZofNl?comment_id=2401102130280004¬if_id=1699302517460967¬if_t=comment_mention&ref=notif
Here is a most intriguing Facebook comment from Donald Watkins re: the "Bubba" Copeland story:
ReplyDeleteDonald V. Watkins
There are alcoholic state officials on Goat Hill in Montgomery who are "commode-hugging drunk" by noon each day. There are Bible-thumping "Christian" members of Alabama Legislature who have gotten secret in-state abortions for their mistresses, on more than one occasion. There are appellate state court judges who engage in all kinds of deviant sexual behavior and fetishes. There are federal judges in Alabama who are plain freaks in their private sex lives. Yet, some "shot caller" bypassed all of these sanctimonious hypocrites and ordered 1819 News to carryout a media "hit" job on small-town Smiths Station mayor, pastor, and businessman, Fred "Bubba" Copeland. I intend to find out who did it, and why.
https://www.facebook.com/donald.v.watkins/posts/pfbid02VJgGcXLkMwUZzzFhAoFxQXp17PJzX2Cs6RewXBfNZhhpeknGxgL7QfLxpcDqZofNl?comment_id=2401102130280004¬if_id=1699302517460967¬if_t=comment_mention&ref=notif