OH LOOK, ANOTHER VETERAN BEATING COURTESY OF THE OAKLAND PIG DEPARTMENT

Y'know, you just knew, but to find out now the scope of it...

Makes one reevaluate the enemy.  They saw us and our fathers coming from the proverbial mile, took the lead and directed the movement into the proverbial brick wall.

I suspect the timing of PATCON coming forward is to get some Patriot pissed off enough to start fighting now, with the onset of winter.

The enemy would just love that.  They'd love being able to take the gloves off with the cold and heavy snows; you're easier to track, much less to no cover, and the general misery they'd love to heap on Americans in order to find you-not good.

Furthermore, I do NOT support assassinating Barack Obama.  I have my reasons I'll leave it at that at this time.  BTW he really does look like the spitting image of Malcolm X don't he?

Oh, to have a time machine and go back a quarter century...

PATCON Revealed: An Exclusive Look Inside The FBI's Secret War With The Militia Movement

By J.M. Berger
INTELWIRE.com
Undercover FBI agents posing as white supremacists gathered alarming intelligence about the militia movement during the early 1990s, according to documents obtained by INTELWIRE.

But FBI headquarters abruptly terminated the undercover operation -- code-named PATCON -- just three months after the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

The timing could hardly have been worse; the networks targeted by the investigation were inflamed to violence by Waco. At least one individual targeted in the investigation -- Andreas Strassmeier -- was later linked to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Another target of the investigation was later linked to Eric Rudolph, perpetrator of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.

PATCON was the centerpiece of an extensive investigation of militia and white supremacist groups in Arizona, Alabama, Tennessee and Texas.

From 1991 to 1993, at least three undercover agents working under the auspices of the FBI posed as members of a fictional white supremacist group seeking closer ties with established organizations.

The targeted groups "advocate violent overthrow of the U.S. government and the establishment of an Aryan nation," according to the documents.

Origins of the investigation

Texas Reserve Milita: Aims and practices

Informants in the Ranks

The PATCON Undercover Operation

Interlocking

Paranoia at the CMA Convention

The Order of Saint John

Names in the documents

The FBI documents linked below describe the PATCON operation as well as the Bureau's efforts to penetrate two secretive extremist groups, the Texas Reserve Militia (TRM), based in the Austin, Texas, area, and the Order of Saint John (OSJ), based in Benton, Tennessee.

Despite the operation's success in gathering intelligence on the militia movement, the PATCON undercover operation was officially terminated on July 15, 1993, six months after the disastrous siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

FBI field offices in Baltimore, Knoxville and San Antonio were ordered to shut down the PATCON operation in an FBI teletype, in which FBI headquarters deemed there was "insufficient justification" to continue the investigation. It is not clear from the documents that even one significant arrest resulted from the two-year investigation.

But the very same militia groups targeted by PATCON had been inflamed to violent action after Waco, in a wave of anger that led directly to the Oklahoma City bombing. At least one member of the Texas Reserve Militia -- Andreas Strassmeier -- has been linked to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

In 2005, INTELWIRE filed a request with the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act for all documents pertaining to a militia organization called the Texas Light Infantry, one of the names used by the Texas Reserve Militia. After reviewing the records, INTELWIRE filed follow-up requests for records concerning the a group known as the Order of Saint John.

The two FOIA responses contained documents that revealed the PATCON operation. Believing more documents exist, INTELWIRE filed a request specifically for records related to PATCON. Last month, the FBI claimed it was unable to located any such documents -- despite the fact that all the documents cited in this story were provided in response to previous FOIA requests. INTELWIRE is appealing the refusal.

ORIGINS

During the late 1980s, the Texas Reserve Militia was formed by some members of the Texas State Guard, a volunteer state military force intended for use when the National Guard is unavailable. The TRM broke away from the state organization when Texas officials determined they were forming an unconstitutional "private army."

The group was also known as the Texas Light Infantry, the Second Order and The Order. The latter names were inspired by a 1980s neo-Nazi gang that robbed banks and counterfeited money to fund attacks on the government and target ethnicities (external link).

The FBI believed TRM leadership was linked to the original Order and also closely tied to the Aryan Nations white supremacist network based in Idaho (external link). One TRM member reportedly received at least $250,000 in funds from armored car robberies by the original Order, according to the documents.

According to the FBI's case files -- including an FBI letterhead memorandum dated December 21, 1990 -- the TRM conducted monthly paramilitary training courses at a camp in the Austin, Texas, area. The camp provided training in firearms, explosive and guerilla warfare for volunteers from Texas and out-of-state, including skinheads from Las Vegas and Memphis. By the end of 1991, the TRM had about 50 members and a much larger number of informal associates, the documents said.

In or around July 1990, a member of the Texas Reserve Militia threatened to murder two FBI agents with the Austin field office, according to documents obtained by INTELWIRE. The person who threatened the FBI agents "is a major figure in the Aryan Nations," an FBI teletype stated. In response to the threat, the FBI initiated a domestic terrorism investigation against the TRM. Undercover agents were deployed to infiltrate the group, an operation that would later expand into PATCON.


AIMS AND PRACTICES

"Members of the group advocate violent overthrow of the U.S. government and the establishment of an Aryan nation," according to the FBI letterhead memorandum. At TRM training camps, military discipline was enforced and officers were saluted with the Nazi "Heil Hitler" gesture, the memo said.

At one point, the FBI searched the training camp and found one exploded and one partially assembled pipe bomb, the memo said. According to an FBI lab report, the pipe bomb found on the premises was created by a "skilled craftsman" with a high degree of sophistication.

TRM members also trained with firearms, including fully automatic weapons, the documents state.

Undercover agents were dispatched to investigate the group after the threat to murder two Austin-based FBI agents, the documents said. The threat was sparked by the FBI's arrest of an unnamed TRM member on an unspecified charge.

The undercover agents posed as "white supremacists who were willing to commit violence in order to further the white supremacy movement."

Informants were also actively recruited to penetrate the TRM's ranks. During the course of the investigation, mulitple informants provided information about the organization to the FBI.

In one instance, the FBI documented a meeting between TRM members and an Austin-area police officer, during which they discussed keeping the group's activity secret and paying bribes to the police officer to suppress complaints by the training camp's neighbors concerning the group's activities.

A confidential source of the Los Angeles FBI field office revealed that a prominent TRM member had set up a bulletin board network "in which persons with the right code numbers can dial [redacted] phone and enter his computer system and enter the names and addresses of homosexuals who live in the U.S. and Canada. The purpose of the list, according to the source, is to allow action to be taken against those homosexual individuals in the event of a takeover of the United States by the Aryan Nations."

In 1991, authorities authorities discovered a cache of explosives and paramilitary supplies in Alabama. The FBI believed the explosives were linked to the TRM, according to a February 1992 letter from FBI Assistant Director Larry Potts to the criminal investigative division of the U.S. Army.

The explosives were found next to a highway north of Birmingham and included ammonium nitrate, the primary explosive component later used in the Oklahoma City bombing. According to the letter, the material and other items found at the site were intended for a raid on a National Guard convoy.

INFORMANTS IN THE RANKS

Starting some time in 1990, a parade of informants from within the militia movement began talking to the FBI about planned activities by the TRM and other groups. Over the course of several months, the intelligence became alarming and expanded to include other militia groups around the country.

On November 21, an informant told the FBI in Phoenix about a shipment of various explosives, improvised military-style ordinance, detonators and assault rifles (illegally modified to be fully automatic).

The informant told FBI agents that the TRM was joining forces with an organization called the Texas Reenactment Group and that the combined organization would train using "old East German police uniforms which are being obtained by [redacted]." The merger was expected to increase membership of the TRM by at least 200 members. Members would be armed with fully automatic M-1 carbines.

The source said all members of the group "hate the current President, George Bush" and subcribed to conspiracy theories about a "New World Order" (external link).

On January 22, 1992, an informant revealed to the FBI that the TRM leadership had scheduled a meeting with a member of Civilian Material Assistance (CMA), "which started out as an anti-communist group supporting the Contras in Nicaragua, but has recently turned into a racist right-wing white supremacist group."

That meeting had its origins at the November 16-18, 1991, CMA convention in Decatur, Alabama, where a trend toward cooperation by diverse extremist groups began to emerge as a significant potential threat to U.S. domestic security. By the time of the convention, the FBI had infiltrated a number of sources into the mix.

PATCON

In March 1991, the FBI extended its investigation of the TRM into a undercover sting code-named "PATCON."

Details of the PATCON operation were included in a routine request for re-authorization of the TRM investigation. The January 1992 memo from San Antonio-based FBI Agent Daniel Coulson is addressed to Assistant FBI Director Larry Potts.

"During March 1991, a Group 1 Undercover Operation titled PATCON was approved, utilizing three undercover agents, in order to prevent the murder of (two FBI) agents," Coulson wrote, referring to the threat cited above.

PATCON initially targeted the TRM, but in January 1993, the undercover agents were also deployed to penetrate the Order of St. John, according to a follow-up memo from Coulson to Potts.

PATCON undercover agents posed as extremists who financed their activities through armored car robberies, according to an October 1992 teletype.

PATCON was a Group I Undercover Operation. According to Justice Department guidelines, Group I operations must be approved by FBI Headquarters and are used for investigation involving "sensitive circumstances" or significant financial investment.

"Sensititive circumstances" include investigating possible criminal misconduct or corruption by government employees, political and/or religious organizations. They may also describe optations "having a significant effect on or constituting a significant intrusion into the legitimate operation of a federal, state, or local governmental entity."

Group I undercover operations may involve "activity by an undercover employee that is proscribed by federal, state, or local law as a felony or that is otherwise a serious crime" and "activities that present a significant risk of violence, risk of financial loss, or a realistic potential for significant claims against the United States."

One possible factor in the Group I designation involves an investigation of military equipment stolen from Fort Hood, Texas. According to several documents, an active duty soldier at Fort Hood was an associate and possible member of the TRM. PATCON undercover agents tracked and in at least one case purchased some of the stolen equipment.

Another factor is only referenced in short asides among the documents currently released. A October 1992 teletype notes that part of the PATCON budget was reserved "for the purchase of Stinger missiles." Several documents refer to the possible theft and resale of Stingers by militia groups, but details are sparse. It's not clear whether the Stingers actually existed and whether PATCON recovered them.

INTERLOCKING

PATCON was fully operational by the time the CMA convention was held in November 1991.

The convention featured extremist speakers from around the country, most of whom were pursuing some sort of racial agenda. An FD-302 interrogation report dated November 21, 1991, provided an extremely detailed report on the event.

One speaker, described in the documents as a U.S. Marine, addressed the convention on the new cooperative strategy. Before beginning his speech, he requested that all cameras and recorders be turned off.

According to an informant, the Marine discussed a new strategy for the assembled extremists -- "interlocking anti-government groups so that the movement could be ready to fight the government when the government attempts to take over the rights of the citizens." The speaker believed this battle would take place within two years.

According to the informant, "interlocking" would connect extremist groups by "making members of one group members of another group" in order to "increase communication and cooperation among these groups" so that they could unite to violently oppose the government.

"This interlocking procedure ... allows groups with different viewpoints but with the same common antigovernment beliefs to join together," according to the informant.

After the Marine, a member of CMA also spoke about interlocking. One attendee objected to CMA interlocking with "hate groups such as the KKK" and was told that "come compromises had to be made" in order to fight the New World Order, according to the informant.

Another document reveals that CMA and the Aryan Nations were planning to interlock "for the purpose of fighting the U.S. government."

Under the interlocking scheme, "the CMA and the TRM are so closely related that officers in one have equal and dual rank in the other group," according to an informant cited in a December 26, 1991 letterhead memorandum.

PARANOIA AT THE CONVENTION

One member attending the convention attempted to interest people in a modified cannon launcher he had designed for long-range attacks (see story).

Another informant said the cannon's inventor wanted to use the cannon to "lob shells" into the FBI and IRS buildings in Phoenix, Arizona. The inventor was later arrested in relation to this threat, the documents said -- one of the only arrests documented in the case files in relation to any aspect of the investigation.

An informant who attended the convention said the inventor grilled attendees for names and addresses, leading many to suspect he was a government agent.

The informant and another who attended the conference said the attendees were paranoid about government surveillance. Although convention attendees aimed most of their mistrust at each other, they did come close to discovering one member of the FBI's actual surveillance team, according to one informant.

THE ORDER OF SAINT JOHN

A map of the Benton, Tenn., compound used by the Order of St. John, which the FBI penetrated in 1993.

One speaker at the convention, representing a group known as the American Pistol and Rifle Association, coached attendees on tactics for shooting police officers. PATCON agents would follow connections between CMA and the APRA to an armed compound in rural Tennessee.

The Order of St. John, based in Benton, Tennessee, was closely linked to APRA -- to the extent that they appeared to be the same group with adjacent mailing addresses. Both groups were tied to the TRM, according to several FBI documents.

Like the TRM, the Order of St. John also went by "The Order." FBI sources penetrated the group so effectively that they were able to draw maps of the Benton compound.

A PATCON agent met with the leader of the Order of St. John, John L. Grady, at the group's Benton compound in September 1992 and on at least one other occasion, according to an October 1992 teletype and June 1993 memorandum. (Please see notes below regarding allegations against named individuals in these documents.)

Grady told the PATCON agent that some members of the OSJ-linked American Pistol and Rifle Association had been members of the original Order, describing them as "hardcore types and having committed a number of indiscretions for which they were now serving prison terms," according to the documents.

The September 1992 meeting coincided with the APRA's annual conference. Security was tight at the conference, including patrols armed with semi-automatic pistols. The PATCON was told that a large stockpile of weapons was stored at the compound. Speeches were given at the event.

One attendee identified in the October 1992 teletype, was Tom Posey, a leader of the CMA who had been deeply implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal. The PATCON agent was shown five sets of night-vision goggles in the back of Posey's vehicle, according to the document. The agent bought the goggles for $7,500, the document states, and they "appeared to be part of the Fort Hood theft." Curiously, the FBI field office in San Antonio was instructed to check the serial numbers of the goggles "without revealing to Army authorities" that they had been recovered.

A document states that Grady told the undercover agent he was "aware of various law enforcement agency efforts to infiltrate his organization as well as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and that a group called 'Klan Watch' put out a publication which expressed views contrary to Grady." (KlanWatch was a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.)

On a second visit, the PATCON agent and was "warmly welcomed," according to the memo. He received a tour of the compound, including a library "which contained over 30,000 books on topics ranging from religion to conspiracy."

"Grady talked about the aftermath of the Waco incident and stated that the Davidians shot in the compound had been killed by a Special Forces unit," the memo said. It was later revealed in mainstream media reports that Special Forces officers had been involved in planning the raid, but that was not public knowledge at the time of the visit. The leak of that story was linked to another underground group (external link).

NAMES IN THE DOCUMENTS

INTELWIRE is publishing a representative sampling of more than 2,000 pages of documents relevant to this story, which were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Additional documents will be published in the future, and additional related FOIA requests are in process.

The first batch of documents can be viewed by clicking here.

The documents name several figures in connection with the investigation. It is important to note that in almost every case, the individuals named in the documents have never been prosecuted for the acts alleged in these documents. INTELWIRE does not assert any claim as to the truth of the allegations contained in the documents.

Some individuals whose names are redacted or incomplete in the documents have been identified by INTELWIRE. Additional reports are planned to address this issue and the veracity of the claims made in the documents.

Members of the Texas Reserve Militia identified in the FBI's extensive case files included:

Watt (first name not given), a former member of the Texas State Guard (a legitimate government reserve group) who was described as one of the founders.

Louis Beam, a prominent neo-Nazi with ties to the Aryan Nations and the original Order, who ran an early white supremacist computer bulletin board network and published a newsletter called The Seditionist. (External link)

Someone who claimed to be a former Special Forces member; the person's name was redacted from documents by the FBI.

Associates of the Texas Reserve Militia who are named in the documents include:

John L. Grady, leader of another militia organization known as the Order of St. John. Grady was later linked to Eric Rudolph by prosecutors who tried Rudolph for a 1998 Birmingham abortion clinic bombing (New York Times).

Thomas Posey, leader of a paramilitary group known as Civilian Material Assistance. According to a January 22, 1992 teletype, CMA "started out as an anti-communist group supporting the Contras in Nicaragua, but has recently turned into a racist right-wing white supremacist group."

Another member of the group, described but not named in the redacted documents released by the FBI, was Andreas Strassmeier, a German national who would later be linked to the Oklahoma City bombing.

The son of a prominent German politician and a veteran of that country's army, he moved to the United States from Hamburg in the late 1980s or early 1990s, and established relationships with various racist and anti-government movements around the country. (US v Nichols, 96-CR-68, 12/10/97; In Bad Company, Hamm, pp. 116-117)

Members of the TRM suspected Strassmeier was a government informant, according to published reports. (McCurtain Gazette, FBI document links former Green Beret to McVeigh, bombing, Cash and Charles, Aug 31, 2005)

Shortly before the Oklahoma City bombing, an informant told the ATF Strassmeier was plotting to blow up U.S. federal buildings. The informant also said Strassmeier had traveled to Oklahoma City prior to the bombing.

Right after renting the Ryder truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing, Timothy McVeigh called the Elohim City compound and asked to speak with Strassmeier (US v Nichols). Another informant described at least one additional call (story and documents). After the bombing, Strassmeier fled the country and returned to Germany.

The FBI interrogated Strassmeier by phone in May 1996, but agents did not ask him about his association with the TRM (document).

The documents also name the official responsible for overseeing PATCON from FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. -- Larry Potts, then an assistant FBI director. During his tenure with the FBI, Potts was involved in the 1991 Ruby Ridge standoff and the 1993 Waco siege -- two events that created deep suspicion and hostility among members of the militia movement.

In addition to Strassmeier, several key events and figures encountered in the PATCON investigation overlap with the activities of the Aryan Republican Army, a white supremacist bank robbery gang that has been linked to the Oklahoma City Bombing. Like the Order, the ARA robbed banks with the stated purposes of financing an armed revolution against the U.S. government.

In a 2007 affidavit (story, document), one member of the gang said he suspected Richard Guthrie and other gang members of taking part in the Oklahoma City bombing. In July 1996, Guthrie appeared to commit suicide in prison, shortly before he was scheduled to testify about the ARA's activities (documents).

Shawn Kenney, a member of the gang and an FBI informant, had his criminal record "actively erased," according to an affidavit by former Cincinatti police officer Matthew J. Moning, who investigated the ARA, also known as the Midwest Bank Robbers.

Another FBI informant close to the ARA was Scott McCarthy, according to a 2006 Congressional probe of the bombing (story and full text). The report, written by U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, claimed the Justice Department was "unwilling to permit" investigators to speak with McCarthy.

Prior to their arrest, ARA members made a videotape outlining a proposed campaign of racial and antigovernment violence. According to a 2002 story in the McCurtain Gazette, two copies of the tape were seized by the FBI in mailing envelopes addressed to Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations and to Louis Beam, who is named in the Texas Reserve Militia documents.

The ARA videotape also threatened terrorist violence against the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, a threat that was later carried out by Eric Rudolph.

This story was updated on October 10, 2007.

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THE PATCON COVERUP, FROM SIPSEY STREET IRREGULARS

SSI EXCLUSIVE: The "Patriot Conspiracy" fix at Newsweak. Tina Brown guts a story to protect Democrats & the FBI. "PATCON will get you killed."

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence. Newsweek is published in four English language editions and 12 global editions written in the language of the circulation region.

Since 2008, Newsweek has undergone a series of internal and external contractions designed to shift the magazine's focus and audience while shoring up the title's finances. Instead, losses at the newsweekly accelerated: revenue dropped 38 percent from 2007 to 2009. The revenue freefall prompted an August 2010 sale by owner The Washington Post Company to 92-year-old audio pioneer Sidney Harman — reportedly for a purchase price of $1.00 and an assumption of the magazine's liabilities. . .

In November 2010 Newsweek merged with the news and opinion website The Daily Beast after extensive negotiations between the proprietors of the respective publications. Tina Brown, The Daily Beast's editor-in-chief was expected to serve as the editor of both publications. Newsweek is jointly owned by Harman and IAC. -- Wikipedia.

"Can we write this story without even mentioning FBI complicity, PATCON, the Clinton Administration, Waco and Oklahoma City?" The answer, it seems, was 'yes.'

Going into this weekend, I knew these three things to be certain.

1. Newsweek had a story about a paid confidential informant enlisted under PATCON, an FBI program that spanned many years, including the years that Ruby Ridge, Waco and the Oklahoma City Bombing happened. PATCON is shorthand for "Patriot Conspiracy."

2. I also knew from sources, living and dead, that PATCON was the worst scandal that the FBI ever perpetrated. PATCON could sink the FBI, perhaps permanently, and along with the Gunwalker Scandal, totally discredit the teflon coating that the Bureau has excreted around its corrupt core and thoroughly debunk the myth that the FBI is anything but an agency of arsonists posing as firemen.

3. Finally, I knew that Newsweek would run the story tomorrow. I have been hinting about this story for weeks, and now it was about to happen.

The only thing was, I heard yesterday, that there was a better than even chance that as a result of intervention by Tina Brown, Newsweek's editor, there might not even be any mention of PATCON, Waco or Oklahoma City -- no mention, in fact, of a lot of things.

Of course I also knew that it didn't mean that the PATCON story would end there. It won't. It will come out whether Tina Brown's troubled and cash-strapped magazine benefits from it or not. (Interesting, isn't it, how corrupt politics trumps fiduciary responsibility to the owners of Newsweek, Jane Harmon and the stockholders of IAC, and the public's right to know?

Staff members at Newsweek and The Daily Beast said the environment there had become difficult in recent weeks. People who work there, who did not want to publicly criticize their bosses, say morale in the newsroom has sunk as Ms. Brown has had more frequent outbursts in front of her employees. “It’s all hell, it’s agony,” she has been overheard telling staff members about the quality of their work, according to one of them.

Executives at the magazine are extremely sensitive to perceptions that Newsweek is performing poorly and point to metrics like a 20 percent rise in newsstand sales and a 2.6 percent increase in subscription renewals (they had been in decline for five years) as proof that the turnaround efforts are gaining steam.

“We don’t face financial difficulties,” said Barry Diller, whose IAC/InterActiveCorp owns The Daily Beast. “The attempt has been to take The Beast and revive Newsweek, which we said at the beginning was going to be a two-year effort. We are actually ahead of schedule.” -- New York Times, 14 November 2011.

So there, Diller explained, they don't need a blockbuster issue -- or even a stunning series of articles that everyone would be drawn to read -- because they are "ahead of schedule." Were they to take this monetarily self-destructive decision, I thought, it would certainly illustrate the political preferences of Tina Brown, Lady Evans, CBE, nee Christina Hambley Brown and the power of FBI blackmail to get what it wants.

Well, it is Monday and the article is out.

And now we know what a cabal of New York editors under pressure from a frightened FBI and nervous White House can do to the story of the greatest crime ever perpetrated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- they can gut it, reducing it almost to innocuousness, all to protect criminals who hide behind federal badges and to shield the politicians who sent them.

For you see, you may scan this article, you may study it, you may even read it backwards, but you will find no mention of PATCON. Nor will you find any mention of how PATCON touched upon, shaped the lives of and ultimately decided the fate of the dead at Ruby Ridge, Waco and Oklahoma City. For PATCON has been excised by the editorship of Tina Brown and sent down the memory hole as if it never existed.

Sources in advance of the story said that FBI was very afraid of this article. "They don't want PATCON mentioned," said one source. "Not ever, by anybody. Because it leads to OKBOMB (the FBI name for the Oklahoma City bombing case), Elohim City (Oklahoma, a Christian Identity community), (German undercover agent Andreas Carl) Strassmeier, the McVeigh-Strassmeier connection, the Aryan Republican Army, the whole shebang." A source out west told me that when he mentioned the name to a retired FBI agent, he was told to "stay away from that shit" for "PATCON will get you killed -- it's national security."

There are many rumors and individual bits of fact that have drifted out about PATCON over the years -- Stories of FBI informants and undercover assets giving taxpayer-funded operational assistance -- including weapons, explosives and money -- to neoNazi and racist terrorists to cement their relationships with the criminals; Reports that an operation that began with real concerns about racist terrorist groups like The Order was expanded to include mere political opponents of the Clinton administration and the defensive-oriented constitutional militias; Reports of a similar operation called VAAPCON, "Violence Against Abortion Providers," using the same tactics; Reports that the Southern Poverty Law Center was hip-deep as a partner to the FBI in PATCON; Reports of FBI penetration of the news media, religious institutions and the ranks of politicians of both parties, who very usefully expanded the FBI's power and reach and who provided political cover when the curtain slipped. Oklahoma lawyer and journalist J.D. Cash once told me that "there isn't a neoNazi or racist group in the country that isn't operationally controlled by the FBI." Did that include the Aryan Republican Army and the Oklahoma City bombing? I asked. "Certainly," he replied. So, the prospect of a story in a major news magazine about PATCON must have given the FBI a severe case of the old rectal looseness.

Now, however, "the Fibbies in the Hoover Building, (Eric) Holder and (Janet) Napolitano must feel like dancing" said another source. "They got what they wanted out of Newsweek. Jesse Trentadue must feel like puking."

I have not interviewed Mr. Trentadue for this article, but I rather suspect the source is right. For this was an article crafted out of documents, now part of the public record, that Trentadue -- a Salt Lake City lawyer who has been trying for 17 years to find out the true circumstances of the murder of his brother Kenney at the hands of government agents in an isolation cell at the federal lockup in El Reno Oklahoma a few months after the OKC bombing -- provided Newsweek. He even led them to the former PATCON confidential informant, John Matthews.

And what did Trentadue get for all his troubles, for putting his faith in Newsweek, for literally giving them the story on platter?

Here's what he got:

Trentadue believed that the FBI had confused Kenney for a member of a gang of white supremacist bank robbers called the Aryan Republican Army; though for years the FBI has claimed that McVeigh largely acted alone, Trentadue has uncovered evidence allegedly linking him to the ARA and the group to the bombing.

You will note that there is no mention of PATCON and so many modifiers that it merely makes Trentadue look like a conspiracy theorist loon.

Nice.

Well, that's all very well and good, Vanderboegh, you may say, but where's the proof that this CI was even involved in PATCON?

Take a look at this and you tell me.

Compare it to the Newsweek story.

The subject is John Matthews.

The heading is "PATCON" -- Patriot Conspiracy.

This will be the first document of many posted in these pages as we gradually explore the records related to PATCON and confidential sources who will explain its outline, scope and bloody consequences.

If the FBI thought they dodged a bullet by persuading Tina Brown to expunge PATCON and its details from this article they reckoned without the Sipsey Street Irregulars and the Coalition of Willing Lilliputians.

There are many more dark corners of PATCON that have yet to be explored and Mr. Matthews will certainly be an excellent tour guide for some enterprising reporter who doesn't work for Tina Brown and who is willing to get to the truth.

There are even links from PATCON to the Gunwalker Scandal.

After all, personnel, as I was taught in Business 101, is policy.

Future articles here at Sipsey Street will explore the details of the murder of Kenney Trentadue and Eric Holder's role in covering them up. It will also deal with the tale of how a U.S. Attorney in Arizona made the proffer to McVeigh associate Michael Fortier in order to flesh out the "lone bomber theory" and divert attention away from Elohim City, the Aryan Republican Army and federal undercover informant Andreas Carl Strassmeier.

The name of that United States Attorney was Janet Napolitano.

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REPOST: DEBT REPUDIATION: IT'S TIME TO FREE YOURSELF FROM FRAUD

DEBT REPUDIATION: IT’S TIME TO FREE YOURSELVES FROM FRAUD

Time to free yourself of your slavery

J. Croft

http://freedomguide.blogspot.com

Got a mortgage? For a mcmansion that’s been overpriced, and overly expensive to maintain, heat and cool? Filled it up yet with crap made overseas? Having a garage sale to make room for a fresh bunch of foreign junk?

Got a auto loan for a vehicle that cost more to repair than the car you bought 10 or 20 years ago? Think it’ll last long enough for you to pay off-or are you just going to get another lease?

Got a wallet full of credit cards you’re going to spend the rest of your life trying to pay back?

Got more bills from all that debt than you got cash for, so you get a payday loan to make ends meet-so you can get gas for your SUV and eat?

Got thousands more in student loans-because a college education takes a fortune-so you can afford to finance all the credit cards and the auto loans and the mortgages… and there’s no work in the field you chose because all the work’s gone overseas?

This picture look like your life?

Got a foreclosure notice from a court because you lost your job to China or India?

Got a moving truck for all your made in China crap because you lost your home?

Trapped, because the bankruptcy rules were changed and so now you’re bound to service this debt hell and high water, even adjusting for inflation?

Wonder how did things go to hell in this country?

Thank a banker.

BANKERS SET YOU UP

International bankers influence government policy… meaning they control a lot more than what interest rate they charge. They control their banks through seats on the boards of directors of the major banking firms, and through stocks. The US Federal Reserve System is a private banking cartel illegally given government license. Bankers and their minions(they don’t have “friends”)determine how many laws you live under, how they’re configured to shape and influence your life. Since their overthrow of the US government in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act and the unratified 16^th Amendment that illegally allows income taxes the bankers have run America into the ground. They’ve rigged the regulations and economics so that America has been subjected to repeated, artificially manipulated boom and bust economic cycles that serve to manipulate government policy, and public opinion as the bankers see fit. America has been emptied of it’s domestic industries-you can’t hardly even start up a “mom and pop” small business and have much hope of success, they can’t survive in a economy deliberately being destroyed.(1.)

A major industrial effort like steel or manufacturing? Better be a multinational conglomerate.

Bankers determine who gets the deals, the loans. No-not you, nor anyone you might know. But to those that are “in” with these parasites, that go along with either franchising some megacorporate chain store, or a merger that winds up shipping middle class jobs overseas and having literally slaves do the work, or robbing small family farmers and independent businesses of their homes, land, and livelihoods-you’re golden!

Bankers set the controls, the inputs and outputs of their society-we just try to survive in it but we’ve had any opportunity to advance ourselves systematically robbed from us. What are we left with? Working as an “associate” for some franchise store, picking cotton, lettuce and apples at a corporate run farm, or maybe you’re just ass-out at a temp firm.

So how do you get that “murkan dream”? Get some banker’s loans and credit cards. Salve the pain you feel in your heart about the crap deal you’re getting from the bankers and do some shopping-becoming even more their slave. Except it’s not a dream you can actually attain, it’s a myth passed down from your parents and grandparents who were weaned of their self-reliance and responsibility-domesticated by massah state and massah corporation. America’s their plantation.

Their chains are the debt they make you obligated to pay back-in spite of everything they’ve done to enslave you. It’s the ingrained obedience to anyone in a thousand dollar(current value)suit and their lawyers and bill collectors that ultimately binds you. Not losing your home or your car. And you’re going to lose it, when the bankers finance your employer to ship the factory you work overseas, or that franchise store you work at shuts down because of falling profits-because everyone else’s job’s been shipped overseas.

Do you know what those parasites, those TRAITORS do with the loan they make you spend a lifetime paying back, that they generate out of NOTHING? They use it just as they would actual federal reserve notes in the bank vault; they count it as a “fractional reserve” to make more financial insturments-and generate yet more insturments from those! Collateralized debt obligations, derivatives, and probably a lot more types of banker magic “money”-that they use to control or outright own every object, every institution, and everyone. Our chains of debt slavery are but the invention of their twisted, greedy little minds.

…You still think this is normal somehow? The bankers could literally transform our Earth into a paradise with all the wealth they hold, and they DO hold all of it… but this world of war and strife and suffering, disease, poverty, death: it’s what they want because weak, divided people preoccupied with religious, territorial, resource and economic side-struggles of their design are too preoccupied to fight back. That includes you Mr. and Mrs. ‘Murika: too busy gawking at Britney Spears having her last shot at a comeback blown out from under her on MTVcuz she’s a basket case, to notice you could’ve bought everything you owned at a THIRD of what you’re paying if you had done like our ancestors had done and paid up front.

Guess what? You’re going to lose your job because the whole scheme is coming undone. By design; because the bankers have all the money… now they want the assets so they take the last real jobs, crash the economy and foreclose on America, sell it all off to the highest bidder. They’re already stripping down old homes down to the last board and nail and reassembling them in Mexico-they’ll have the last American industry be asset strippers-disassemble everything and cart if off! Maybe if you’re lucky you can work for them and as you help finish off our once great nation you might be able to feed your family…

…Then again, if we’re going to lose it all anyway, lets lose it on our terms.

…If you’re gonna lose it anyway, lose it on your terms!

What do I mean? Repudiate your debts and free yourself.

What are your debts but aritifices, fictions of obligation tied to crap you don’t need and is shoddily made to boot?

Stop paying the bills.

“Are you CRAZY?!! I got this and that to pay for, and they’ll come after me, and I love my junk and blah, blah, blah.”

Our enemies the international bankers use our desires to entrap us in their imaginary chains of debt obligation. They’ve demonstrated they are the greatest enemy to Mankind, as they control all and set us against each other like so many toy soldiers. They thrive on destruction and enslaving others.

They have a weakness and it is the same weakness with any “authority figure”; they only have the respect they are given.

They only have the respect of their “authority” that WE GIVE THEM!

Therefore, the “obligations” they impose on us are only as valid as the authority WE GIVE THEM!

They the bankers have committed FRAUD, unimaginable FRAUD against the entire Human Race! Therefore ANY AND ALL CONTRACTS, OBLIGATIONS, DEBTS, INSTURMENTS AND ANY AND ALL CERTIFICATES OF OWNERSHIP OR CONTROL ARE NULL AND VOID!

Their imposed debts are null and void.

Their “federal reserve notes” are fraudulant, therefore null and void.

Their contracts are rooted in fraud, therefore are null and void.

Their very lives have been spent murdering and repressing the Human Race from it’s true destiny-our true destiny! Therefore their very lives are null and void.

So act accordingly.

First, get ready; body mind and soul. Get in shape; eat organic foods, use a filter rated to cleanse water of chlorine, dead bacteria and flouride-the brain number.

Get right with God; you’ve got a purpose on this planet and it’s not to catch up on who wore what at the Emmys. Hint: it has to do with those talents you’ve let rot because you pursued some “career” set up by some bankster scumbag. Find a quiet place. Think nothing, say nothing, don’t let anyone or anything interrupt… Our Father WILL talk to you and the hard part is to LISTEN. Go from there.

Learn how to fight. Americans are trained to be dependent on the very beast for protection that enslaves them. Go to www.rwva.org to learn how to use a military pattern rifle, out to 500 meters. Go to www.awrm.org to learn how to be a soldier, because saying NO to the beast and challenging the “authority” of it’s minions is a inheriently dangerous matter. Besides you might make some Friends, and you’ll find out you’re not alone.

Take back YOUR GOVERNMENT! It’s OUR government, not the beast’s! Most of the tyranny that’s currently imposed by this nation’s Constitutional government is through local channels, through local government. So get some people together to take over the scummiest local berg or ville and FREE it of the neomarxist oppression that characterizes current government. Get the book “How to win a local election”. I cover these topics in much better detail among my various essays at http://freedomguide.blogspot.com so prepare because this is the kind of war that’s preferable to flinging bullets.

“The bankers control the governments, which control the troops who man all the high tech weaponry our tax dollars pay for, and they’re not going to allow this”!

That is the stumbling block. Backed into a corner like Ed and Elaine Brown the beast that is the federal government will use force-because if they don’t their whole house of cards that is their “authority” will crumble forever.

It’s like this; this is a war of beliefs between true human spirituality and the artifices imposed by the beast, between Freedom and slavery, between our America and the United States that has been conquering and murdering in our name, between good and evil. And this war is fought in the hearts and minds of every single person-it’s a choice they must make and stick with when that moment of epiphany, of clarity comes.

What will you do Mr. and Mrs. America-while you have choices to make, income coming in, people who will buy your stuff, your home? Act fast as I write this in September, 07 because time’s about out for you!

You-who works at a financial institution-what will you do? What will you do to begin to atone for serving those that have enslaved the entire Human Race and have set us on a course for genocide? Will you dedicate your lives, your treasures and your sacred honor?(yes you have that in your heart, it’s by Our Father and He’s ready for you to embrace Him) Will you warn anyone and everyone to steer clear of the banks before they get their meathooks into them for life?

Officers, Soldiers, Agents-what will you do when your “superiors” give you orders to attack your fellow countrymen, your fellow man? You have the guns-would you rather begin forging a real future for your children and all of Mankind by turning those guns on the minions of those who have warped everything about us? Surely a revolt is preferable to living with the damage to your very soul each time you evict a family out of their home, that they’ve worked their whole lives for, or murdering someone who saw through the FRAUD the bankers have committed on us all? The very FRAUD you uphold because “it’s your orders”? Nazis used that same excuse at the Nuremberg Trials…

What will all of you do-those that live by the beast-when WE THE PEOPLE shake loose your mental conditioning, and rise up in an unstoppable wave of FREEDOM and overthrow your putrid slave system once and for all? I’ll tell you; you’ll be quickly tried, found guilty of collaborating with the enemy, and summarily hanged from the nearest tall object. Or maybe have your throat slit or something.

And to the bankers… what will you do when the last of your minions, your soldiers desert you… and Justice is coming after years of seeing all you and your gangster families have built for generations come crumbling down? You want my advice? Give up now, repent and perhaps you can have a mansion and retire in exchange for righting what you have wrought upon us.

Do it now while you still have that option. Do it now while WE THE PEOPLE might let you off so easy.

J. Croft

http://freedomguide.blogspot.com

1. For much further analysis of bankers and their fraud go to:

www.rense.com
www.apfn.org
www.cafr1.com
www.dailyreckoning.com
www.gold-eagle.com
www.silver-investor.com

OUTSPOKEN TRADER WARNS OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

11/20 BLOGROLL: PROBLEM WITH OWS, AND WOLVERINES!!!!

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-occupy-wall-street-does-not.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SurvivingInArgentina+%28SURVIVING+IN+ARGENTINA%29

Why Occupy Wall Street does not Represent You

Very few topics I’ve covered have generated as much anger as my previous post regarding OWS. Being politically correct is not in my language and I have enough friends so as to not lose sleep over who’s panties get all bunched up. If someone has a different opinion, you’re more than entitled to it. In fact, if you present it in an adult manner, without insulting and in a way it makes some sense I might even publish that different opinion in my blog.
That’s where the signs of trouble start with OWS. I can´t remember the last time I’ve got so many angry email, comments and insults. Even when talking about the Tea Party movement and allowing some people to be more disrespectful towards the movement than I should have I didn’t get that type of hate email and messages. That’s a sign of maturity, understanding and simply knowing better. When all you can do is insult then you either lack the maturity to explain yourself properly or your movement just lacks any content worthy of being explained.
One of the things that apparently angers OWS people the most was my comparison to our version of it, the “piqueteros” and either similar groups of social groups that somehow “evolved” from the piquetero movement.

What is a piquetero?
Seems every member has his or her own definition of what OWS really is.  There’s apparently as many definitions as people involved, another sign of trouble in my opinion. What apparently most of the would agree on is that they are people fed up with the system/government and are most of all fed up of Wall Street, bankers and other global corporations owned by evil greedy men that are basically destroying our planet and enslaving hard working people around the world. So far so good, and so far I’m feeling represented myself. The piqueteros started in somewhat similar way, keeping in mind the clear differences between what is considered a poor person in USA and what´s poor by South American standards. Before becoming political, piqueteros where simply people from all walks of life, mostly poor, that were just fed up of being hungry, unemployed or exploited by both the government and politicians. Eventually the piqueteros became the strong arm of the government itself, but the origins weren’t different form the ones of the OWS movement.

Occupy and Okupas
I sometimes wonder, do people really know what they are joining before saying they support this or that movement? During hard times like these its easy to be misled. You find a group of people that say they are the 99%, that they are fed up, they don’t want to be exploited by big corporations any more, “What the heck, I feel the same way!”  and you finally feel represented.
But what is “Occupy”, where does it come from? It comes from another grassroot movement, but one that may not represent you as much as you think. “Occupy” comes from the “Okupa Movement”, which is slang for “ocupa “, purposefully replacing the c for K as if making reference to their lack or dislike towards proper education and literature, maybe some rebellious spirit and lack of maturity in there as well, something the young Spaniards are known for these days. The “Okupa” movement refers specifically to occupying land, public or privately owned, that has either been abandoned or in the majority of cases, is simply unoccupied. This social problem was already common in South America but it started as a movement in Barcelona with young people living on welfare and not wanting to live with their parents any more. The movement became popular all across Europe and it went well with the idea of working very little or nothing at all, traveling across Europe collecting gov. checks and living in occupied property. The Okupa philosophy is that if a property isn’t occupied, they have a right to occupy it themselves. Sometimes the Okupas have a social twist, some form vegetarian kitchens, do arts and crafts and have a certain hippie air about them. The okupas with more political aspirations go for establishing self-managed cultural or social centers and  growing gardens.
This sort of activities have gained them social acceptance to some level but the root problem with Okupas is significant. For one it completely ignores the right to private property, to manage or inhabit it in whatever way you like. For another it indulges a lifestyle of no responsibility and lack of productivity. During one of my trips to Spain I found what I consider to be a good example of the okupa movement and the core problem of Europe: A 30 year old English skater that was skateboarding in one of the Museums of Barcelona. Dirty, unemployed, and with no intention of finding a job any time soon, he had been living off welfare for several years. I found it to be an interesting metaphor how this person showed no respect, nor any intention to visit the museum he was “playing in”, but had no contempt in damaging the structure he was using for skateboarding.

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Who are the leaders, speakers and representatives of OWL?
Naomi Klein, feminist, anti-consumerism , communist.

Cornel West, Black Panther Party admirerer, honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America

Slavoj Žižek, Marxist, atheist philosopher

This guy…

SO, still feeling you’re part of THIS 99%?
COMMENT:

There are Marxists, there are most certainly bums enjoying a free ride, but there are a lot of people who are desperate.  Do we do NOTHING just because the enemy's bridled people's anger at the PTB with their OWS or do we continue being irrelevant?

http://arcticpatriot.blogspot.com/2011/11/mommy-make-bad-man-stop.html

Mommy, Make the Bad Man Stop

So I was monitoring several conversations across several websites, and I'm picking up on a common theme.

These are my thoughts on that theme.  Take them for what they are, and keep what (if any) is of value to you.  (That's the thing about blogging.  You put your thoughts out there, and assume someone really gives two damns.  It's really quite pretentious, if you ask me...)

Americans of all shapes and sizes, political orientations, backgrounds, goals, and dreams are almost completely united in one common cry, echoing across the fruited plains, from sea to shining sea.

It's freaking making me sick, I tell you.  The cry?

"Mommy, mommy, make the bad man stop!"

Conversations abound about this presidential candidate, or that one, whether this flavor of a religion is good or that one, which man is well equipped enough to "pull us out" of our national "mess".

And really, I'm about sick of it all.

I thought -stay with me here- that this was America.

We don't put our hope in other men.  We do not worship other men.  We do not rely on our servants to make us all better again.

Until we stop doing this -across all of the political spectrum- it doesn't matter who is in power.  His mandate from the voters will be exactly the same, with the exact same consequences: 

"Mommy, mommy, make the bad man stop!"

The bad man generally doesn't stop until something violently impacts his or her body with enough force to render it combat ineffective.

Calling for mommy doesn't help, especially if mommy is a crackhead who hired a thug to get you out of her way.

So which "mommy" is going to save you?  Mammy Obammy?  Mommy Romney?  Cain?  Paul?  Perry?


Really?

Isn't "Save me, government!" the cry of the enemies of liberty?  


The American people, both of the "I like huge government" type, and "I like slightly less huge government" type, are so convinced that it matters one whit who is in office as far as their personal liberty is concerned.


It doesn't.

The only factor in the entire universe that matters one iota where your personal liberty is concerned is you.

I've said before not to fight a fight that is not worth fighting.

I've said before that in a fight worth fighting, the only moral outcome is win.

Now...

Is personal liberty really a fight worth fighting?  Really, do you believe that?

Is it worth the cost in everyday life?  Is it worth any price, up to and including your life?

Then win.

Then quit calling for your mommy to save you and go out and live it.   That's the only way to win.

Who wins in November, his religion, what form of western liberal democracy he subscribes to, his suit, his wife, his preferences, his lies, his honor...

None of that matters.

Mommy isn't going to make the bad man stop.  She's 5'2", out partying, drunk, and high on crack.

You, and your damned "personal liberty", are just in her way.

Mommy hired the bad man.  Don't you see?

I suggest we quit getting pinned down in the "firefight" below.  It's tertiary to our objective.  It's not the main show, for those interested primarily in personal liberty.

Let's see how we can use the "firefights" of 2012 to advance our cause, and still remain "combat effective".

We only have the rights we are willing to defend.
We only have the rights we are willing to kill and die for.

Government cannot grant rights.
Rights must be secured from tyrants and bought with blood.

Government cannot take away your rights.
You must choose to give them away.

If two men vote a third into slavery, he is justified in resistance.

If a thousand do likewise, the one may still resist.

If two hundred and thirty million voters consign one person to slavery, he is justified in resisting by any means available.

No matter what is legislated, no matter what voters decide, you are free.
Only you, through conscious choice, can change that.

Only YOU can make the bad man stop...

Resist.

COMMENT:

Basically, be your own damn leader!

And stop obeying the enemy's laws!

http://arcticpatriot.blogspot.com/2011/11/shhhwolverines.html

SIPSEY STREET: PROOF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS RUN FALSE FLAG AND COINTELPRO OPERATIONS AGAINST PATRIOT MOVEMENT SINCE THE 90'S

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/11/fake-terror-plots-paid-informants.html

"Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned." Yeah, but wait until they get a good look at PATCON.

Critics say bureau is running a sting operation across America, targeting vulnerable people by luring them into fake terror plots.

Yup. And you ain't heard nothin' yet. Wait for the rundown on the operation called PATCON, coming soon to a news magazine near you.

This just in from Jesse Trentadue.

From: Jesse Trentadue
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 9:20 PM
To: Jesse Trentadue
Subject: FW: WORKING ON A CELTIC PAY BACK!

A Newsweek story on my brother Kenney's murder, the Oklahoma City Bombing and PATCON WILL run this Monday and it WILL be the cover story. In trying to find out why my bother was tortured and murdered by the Clinton Justice Department, I stumbled upon PATCON.

PATCON is an acronym for "Patriot Conspiracy", a Clinton-Reno-Holder, FBI and ATF undercover operation. PATCON was designed to infiltrate and incite the milita and evangelical Christians to violence so that the Department of Justice could crush them.

Ruby Ridge was a PATCON operation. Waco was a PATCON operation. And so, too, I believe was the Oklahoma City Bombing.

In mid-December, a documentary will be released on PATCON, the Oklahoma City Bombing and Kenney's murder. Shortly before Attorney General Eric Holder appears before the House Judiciary Committee on December 8, 2011, a story should run on Holder's "Trentadue Mission," which was designed to keep PATCON forever in the dark.

Semper Fi.

J.C. Trentadue

Folks, this is what I have hinting about for some weeks. PATCON will blow a bigger hole in the wall of FBI invulnerability than any previous scandal and will embolden the GOP politicians who have been reluctant to take on the FBI over the Terry murder. PATCON blows a hold in the wall, and we follow behind with the true circumstances of what happened in Peck Canyon that night. Got popcorn? This is gonna be good.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

 

GLOBAL GUERILLAS: ROBOTS WILL ALLOW THE PERFECTION OF TYRANNY

Q: How Will Plutocrats Dominate a World? A: Bots

Event: Bloomberg, the emblematic plutocrat, raids Liberty Square to drive out the Occupy Wall Street protest.  In fact, looking across America, it's amazing how irritating peaceful protest is to its plutocrats, particularly if it is directed against them rather than some useless issue (that the commercial conservatives/liberals love to waste time on).
The question this should raise: how do a very, very small group of neo-feudal plutocrats control a global population (of economic losers) in the modern context?
Right now?  Lawfare and the bureaucracy of the nation-state.  As things continue to degrade, that veneer of legality and constraint will fade and become less effective.
Long term?  Bots.  Software bots.  Drones. My good friend Daniel Suarez did a great job of demonstrating how this works in his books Daemon and Freedom.  
In short, bots will increasingly allow a VERY small group of people (in our case, a small group of plutocrats that act as the world's economic central planners) to amplify their power/dominance in a the physical world to a degree never seen before.
Software bots automate information dominance.  They can do everything from checking purchasing habits to energy use (via smart meters) to social media use o look for "terrorist" signatures.  They can dominate markets as we are seeing high frequency trading.  These software bots can also automate interactions with human beings from the simple phone spam/customer service phone tree to interfaces like Siri.

Hardware bots include everything from flying drones to crawling rats to kill, maim, or incapacitate individuals and/or groups.  Driven by the ability of computational hardware to mimic nature, these bots will be able to do what their counter-parts in nature can do and more (already, although the data isn't official yet, I anticipate the majority of "enemy combatants" killed by the US security system in 2011 were killed by drones).  Expect to see them operating in swarms/clouds, conducting highly autonomous decision making (including the decision to kill), and serving in hunter killer roles.
The combination of the two bot systems, software and hardware, provides the means to automate control of vast populations.  A perfect, privatized solution for an extremely small group of plutocrats (many of whom are pathogenic).
OUR job is to avoid this future.  Build resilient communities that can provide independence and defend themselves.  Provide an alternative for those unwilling to become economic losers.
NOTE:  I've built and deployed two big, global bot systems in software, and what they can do is absolutely amazing. 
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/11/q-how-will-plutocrats-dominate-a-world-a-bots.html

2016: Bloomberg vs. Occupy Wall Street #ows #openprotest

It is reasonable to project that in a mere five years, a protest like Occupy Wall Street wouldn't be possible.  Here's a scenario to get your head around how things will change due to the introduction of bots (every bit of tech seen below is available and in most cases deployed already):

• Software bots monitoring CCTV footage and social media traffic (as well as GPS info from every cell phone) detect a "signature" of a protest (aka a "riot/mob" to plutocrats).   
• The signature is confirmed by human analysts in a corporate facility (this capability was outsourced) located in xyz remote country getting paid (low single digits $ per hour).
• Spy drones would be dispatched to confirm data via electromagnetic sensors (including a sniff check for weapons/drugs and remote sensing of IDs).  
• The "signature" of a "riot" is confirmed by software bots that pattern match it against pattern guidance from the Mayor's office (in particular, it's important to make sure that this "riot" isn't a Tea Party or pro Wall Street gathering).  At that point, regulatory bots would produce the needed e-paperwork to disperse the "riot."
• Drones, both ground and air, with non-lethals would be dispatched/released.  Arrival in minutes given urban launching points.  
• Audio warning to protesters, "You are attempting to conduct a demonstration in violation of xyz regulation and code.  Disperse immediately or face discomfort."
• 1 minute later, the drones use non-lethal but painful doses of sound/heat to force those people unwilling to leave out of the area.

NOTE:  This type of automation can be very effective against black block and UK rioters.  It can chase down and incapacitate fast moving groups of vandals. 

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MF GLOBAL COLLAPSE FORCES ANN BARNHARDT OUT OF BUSINESS

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BCM Has Ceased Operations (Part 1)

Posted by Ann Barnhardt - November 17, AD 2011 10:27 AM MST

Dear Clients, Industry Colleagues and Friends of Barnhardt Capital Management, It is with regret and unflinching moral certainty that I announce that Barnhardt Capital Management has ceased operations. After six years of operating as an independent introducing brokerage, and eight years of employment as a broker before that, I found myself, this morning, for the first time since I was 20 years old, watching the futures and options markets open not as a participant, but as a mere spectator.
The reason for my decision to pull the plug was excruciatingly simple: I could no longer tell my clients that their monies and positions were safe in the futures and options markets – because they are not. And this goes not just for my clients, but for every futures and options account in the United States. The entire system has been utterly destroyed by the MF Global collapse. Given this sad reality, I could not in good conscience take one more step as a commodity broker, soliciting trades that I knew were unsafe or holding funds that I knew to be in jeopardy.
The futures markets are very highly-leveraged and thus require an exceptionally firm base upon which to function. That base was the sacrosanct segregation of customer funds from clearing firm capital, with additional emergency financial backing provided by the exchanges themselves. Up until a few weeks ago, that base existed, and had worked flawlessly. Firms came and went, with some imploding in spectacular fashion. Whenever a firm failure happened, the customer funds were intact and the exchanges would step in to backstop everything and keep customers 100% liquid – even as their clearing firm collapsed and was quickly replaced by another firm within the system.
Everything changed just a few short weeks ago. A firm, led by a crony of the Obama regime, stole all of the non-margined cash held by customers of his firm. Let’s not sugar-coat this or make this crime seem “complex” and “abstract” by drowning ourselves in six-dollar words and uber-technical jargon. Jon Corzine STOLE the customer cash at MF Global. Knowing Jon Corzine, and knowing the abject lawlessness and contempt for humanity of the Marxist Obama regime and its cronies, this is not really a surprise. What was a surprise was the reaction of the exchanges and regulators. Their reaction has been to take a bad situation and make it orders of magnitude worse. Specifically, they froze customers out of their accounts WHILE THE MARKETS CONTINUED TO TRADE, refusing to even allow them to liquidate. This is unfathomable. The risk exposure precedent that has been set is completely intolerable and has destroyed the entire industry paradigm. No informed person can continue to engage these markets, and no moral person can continue to broker or facilitate customer engagement in what is now a massive game of Russian Roulette.
I have learned over the last week that MF Global is almost certainly the mere tip of the iceberg. There is massive industry-wide exposure to European sovereign junk debt. While other firms may not be as heavily leveraged as Corzine had MFG leveraged, and it is now thought that MFG’s leverage may have been in excess of 100:1, they are still suicidally leveraged and will likely stand massive, unmeetable collateral calls in the coming days and weeks as Europe inevitably collapses. I now suspect that the reason the Chicago Mercantile Exchange did not immediately step in to backstop the MFG implosion was because they knew and know that if they backstopped MFG, they would then be expected to backstop all of the other firms in the system when the failures began to cascade – and there simply isn’t that much money in the entire system. In short, the problem is a SYSTEMIC problem, not merely isolated to one firm.

Perhaps the most ominous dynamic that I have yet heard of in regards to this mess is that of the risk of potential CLAWBACK actions. For those who do not know, “clawback” is the process by which a bankruptcy trustee is legally permitted to re-seize assets that left a bankrupt entity in the time period immediately preceding the entity’s collapse. So, using the MF Global customers as an example, any funds that were withdrawn from MFG accounts in the run-up to the collapse, either because of suspicions the customer may have had about MFG from, say, watching the company’s bond yields rise sharply, or from purely organic day-to-day withdrawls, the bankruptcy trustee COULD initiate action to “clawback” those funds. As a hedge broker, this makes my blood run cold. Generally, as the markets move in favor of a hedge position and equity builds in a client’s account, that excess equity is sent back to the customer who then uses that equity to offset cash market transactions OR to pay down a revolving line of credit. Even the possibility that a customer could be penalized and additionally raped AGAIN via a clawback action after already having their customer funds stolen is simply villainous. While there has been no open indication of clawback actions being initiated by the MF Global trustee, I have been told that it is a possibility.
And so, to the very unpleasant crux of the matter. The futures and options markets are no longer viable. It is my recommendation that ALL customers withdraw from all of the markets as soon as possible so that they have the best chance of protecting themselves and their equity. The system is no longer functioning with integrity and is suicidally risk-laden. The rule of law is non-existent, instead replaced with godless, criminal political cronyism.
Remember, derivatives contracts are NOT NECESSARY in the commodities markets. The cash commodity itself is the underlying reality and is not dependent on the futures or options markets. Many people seem to have gotten that backwards over the past decades. From Abel the animal husbandman up until the year 1964, there were no cattle futures contracts at all, and no options contracts until 1984, and yet the cash cattle markets got along just fine.
Finally, I will not, under any circumstance, consider reforming and re-opening Barnhardt Capital Management, or any other iteration of a brokerage business, until Barack Obama has been removed from office AND the government of the United States has been sufficiently reformed and repopulated so as to engender my total and complete confidence in the government, its adherence to and enforcement of the rule of law, and in its competent and just regulatory oversight of any commodities markets that may reform. So long as the government remains criminal, it would serve no purpose whatsoever to attempt to rebuild the futures industry or my firm, because in a lawless environment, the same thievery and fraud would simply happen again, and the criminals would go unpunished, sheltered by the criminal oligarchy.
To my clients, who literally TO THE MAN agreed with my assessment of the situation, and were relieved to be exiting the markets, and many whom I now suspect stayed in the markets as long as they did only out of personal loyalty to me, I can only say thank you for the honor and pleasure of serving you over these last years, with some of my clients having been with me for over twelve years. I will continue to blog at Barnhardt.biz, which will be subtly re-skinned soon, and will continue my cattle marketing consultation business. I will still be here in the office, answering my phones, with the same phone numbers. Alas, my retirement came a few years earlier than I had anticipated, but there was no possible way to continue given the inevitability of the collapse of the global financial markets, the overthrow of our government, and the resulting collapse in the rule of law.
As for me, I can only echo the words of David:
“This is the Lord’s doing; and it is wonderful in our eyes.”
With Best Regards-
Ann Barnhardt

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