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The Skunk Docket

June 2026

The Man Behind the Skunk: United States v. McDermott, 64 F.3d 1448 (10th Cir. 1995)

This platform practices what it preaches: open book, no hiding, no spin. So here is the founder, in his own record. His name is David Bruce McDermott II, of Mounds, Oklahoma. Thirty years ago he stood on the wrong side of the United States — United States v. McDermott, 64 F.3d 1448 (10th Cir. 1995). He fought that fight, he paid, and he grew. He has been holding the system to its own rules ever since — dozens of federal actions, decades of documentation, a lifetime of learning exactly how the machinery works from both sides of the bars.

Not long ago, the wrong people picked on that man. He spent five months in a county jail with no bond over Facebook posts criticizing a state trooper. A judge stayed his case off the record; officials ignored the stay, took a plea that appears on no docket, and connected his release to dropping the federal civil-rights lawsuit he had filed from his cell. Every word of that is documented in the State's own paperwork — and all of it is published in The McDermott Files on this site, free for anyone to read.

The reporting doctrine

Here is what those officials did not understand: this house reports up. Everything documented — every stay ignored, every record falsified, every duty abandoned — gets referred through lawful channels to the authorities whose job is oversight: the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, the DOJ Public Integrity Section in Washington, D.C., the Office of the Inspector General, and the State's own Council on Judicial Complaints — which has already confirmed in writing that three investigations are open. No threats. No noise. Just the record, certified mail, and the patience of a man who has done this for thirty years.

That is who built this site, and that is why it exists: so the next citizen the machinery rolls over doesn't have to spend thirty years learning what he knows. Click a button. Get action, then reaction. The door is open — and it stays open, free, for everyone.

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