ATF screws over vintage airplane collector: Premonitions of Absolved?

Claude Hendrickson III says he wants to fly the Douglas AD-4N Skyraider in air shows and eventually donate it to the Southern Museum of Flight.

Well, I went out to buy a Birmingham News today and what do I find on the front cover?

The Feds have seized a vintage airplane because the ATF has a paperwork issue. Another John McClain moment.

Gun owners to aircraft collectors: "Welcome to the party, pal!"

You know, one of the themes in Absolved is that there are no obsolete weapons, only obsolete tactics. Has the ATF internalized that fear already? Are they having premonitions of Absolved? Do they see Charlie Quintard in their sleep?

Or is it just the dimwitted ATF chickenshit paperwork/rule confusion default position?

Yeah, probably that. At least until the book comes out. ;-)

Mike
III

Collector puzzled over seizure of his vintage war plane by customs agents

Skyraider believed to be 1 of 4 left in U.S.

by Anita Debro -- Birmingham News
June 03, 2009

A vintage airplane collector said Tuesday that government agents have impounded his rare 1952 military aircraft he imported from France last fall and are threatening to destroy the plane because of a missed step in bringing it into the country.

Claude Hendrickson III said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seized his Douglas AD-4N Skyraider about six weeks ago at the Bessemer Municipal Airport hangar he leases.

"(ICE) basically said we smuggled the plane into the country. My question is how do you smuggle this into the country," Hendrickson asked pointing to the single-engine aircraft that was commonly used as an attack bomber during the Vietnam War.

Hendrickson's Skyraider is believed to be one of only four of its kind that remain in the U.S.

The airplane, which Hendrickson bought for $100,000 last May, since its seizure has been moved to another hangar at the Bessemer Airport.

Hendrickson said he is not allowed to fly the plane or perform any work on it until ICE agents release it.

ICE spokesman Temple Black on Tuesday declined comment on the case and forwarded questions to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Birmingham.

Officials in the U.S. Attorney's Office declined specifics on the matter, but said "ICE continues to investigate the case."

Hendrickson said he was not trying to bring the plane into the country illegally. He said he believed he followed all steps to import the plane.

The 48-year-old businessman hired attorneys Joe Lassiter and Anthony Johnson.

Hendrickson said his attorneys on Tuesday met with lawyers in the U.S. Attorneys in Birmingham regarding the plane.

Hendrickson said he has been advised that ICE had 60 days to file any criminal charges against him. He said the plane has already been impounded for about 45 days.

MISSED PAPERWORK:

Hendrickson, who lives in Shelby County, said he was in Texas on business when federal agents seized the plane at the Bessemer Airport in May.

He flew into the airport as soon as he heard about the seizure and briefly met with ICE agents.

Hendrickson said ICE agents told him then that he had failed to fill out a form required by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives when he imported the plane into the states from France.

Hendrickson said he was unaware he had to register the plane with ATF since he removed the aircraft's artillery while it was still in France.

Hendrickson did register the plane with the FAA.

The FAA issued a certificate of registration on the airplane in September 2008, according to the agency's Web site. The registered owner of the aircraft, according to the FAA, is Dixie Equipment LLC, the business Hendrickson owns.

IN HONOR OF FATHER:

Hendrickson's father, Claude F. Hendrickson Jr., is a retired captain in the Navy. The elder Hendrickson flew planes like a Skyraider during his service.

It was his father's service as a Naval pilot that sparked the younger Hendrickson's fascination with airplanes. The younger Hendrickson owns several vintage military aircraft that he houses in Bessemer including the exact SNJ-4 warbird his father flew during his time in the military.

He and his father made the trip to France last year for the Skyraider. After inspecting the aircraft, the two men hired a pilot to fly a 15-day trip to get the plane from Europe to Buffalo, N.Y.

The Hendricksons planned to enter the plane in air shows across the country. Hendrickson already flies several of his military planes in air shows.

The younger Hendrickson said once the Skyraider had made a successful run in air shows, he planned to donate the aircraft in his father's honor.

"Ultimately, my intentions from the beginning have been to fly this plane for five to 10 years in air shows and then donate it to the Southern Museum of Flight in my father's name."

Now, Hendrickson worries that the government will destroy the vintage aircraft.

"I just don't get it," Hendrickson said. "This is a part of American history. It is of no danger to the government."

"More Targets Found on Arkansas Shooting Suspect's Computer": What did the Fibbies know about this guy and when did they know it?

Here we have from FOX News a bit more information on the Little Rock Jihadi, raising even more questions about what the FBI and when they knew it.

Mike
III


Source: More Targets Found on Arkansas Shooting Suspect's Computer

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

A senior U.S. official tells FOX News that more targets were found on the computer of a man charged in the fatal shooting at a military recruiting center in Arkansas — suggesting the accused gunman may have been part of a larger plot to attack military targets and may not have been acting alone.

Officers found maps to Jewish organizations, a Baptist church, a child care center, a post office and military recruiting centers in the southeastern U.S., New York and Philadelphia, according to a joint FBI-Homeland Security intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press.

After Monday's attack outside the Army-Navy Career Center in Little Rock, detectives searched a computer linked to suspect Abdulhakim Muhammad, and discovered research into multiple sites in different states, according to the memo.

Muhammad, 23, a Muslim convert who previously was known as Carlos Bledsoe, pleaded not guilty to capital murder in the deadly suburban shopping complex shooting.

Authorities said he targeted soldiers "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past."

Private William Long, 23, was killed and Private Quinton I. Ezeagwula, 18, was wounded. Both completed basic training within the past two weeks and had never seen combat. Ezeagwula was in stable condition at a hospital.

The latest information seemed to contradict a local police official's denial earlier Tuesday that the shooting was part of a larger conspiracy, though details of possible accomplices and their involvement weren't immediately disclosed.

Muhammad is being held without bond and is due to make his first court appearance Wednesday.

Muhammad, a U.S. citizen, is accused of carrying out a targeted attack against U.S. forces because of "political and religious motives" and already had been under investigation by the FBI at the time of the shootings.

An FBI joint terrorism task force based in the southern U.S. reportedly had been tracking Muhammad after he traveled to Yemen and was arrested and jailed there for using a Somali passport, an official told The Associated Press. The probe had been in its early stages and based on Muhammad's trip to Yemen, ABC News reported.

While there, Muhammad, who was born and raised in Tennessee, studied jihad with an Islamic scholar, according to Jihadwatch.org. He moved to Little Rock in April.

At Tuesday's court hearing, Deputy Prosecutor Scott Duncan said Muhammad told investigators that "he would have killed more soldiers had they been in the parking lot."

Long and Ezeagwula were targeted as they stood outside the recruiting center smoking cigarettes.

(More at link.)

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit Would Like To Remind You: You Have No Right to a Fair Trial

I expect David Olofson and Gun Owners of America to seek a writ of Cert with SCOTUS, but the refusal for a rehearing enbanc was yesterday denied in the case of US v. Olofson.

Therefore, while you still have no right to expect a fair trial in the federal system, you still have the right to an unfair fire fight with the thugs they send to frame you.

This is going to get out of hand.

Jihadi Came to Little Rock from Memphis -- by way of Yemen -- and had been on FBI radar.

ABC News reports here that the Jihadi Bledsoe had come to Little Rock from Memphis BY WAY OF YEMEN and had been on the Fibbies radar. Here's the story, more from me on the other side.

Mike
III

Recruiter Shooting Suspect Under FBI Investigation

Man Accused of Killing One Recruiter, Wounding Another, Spent Time in Yemen

By RICHARD ESPOSITO, PIERRE THOMAS and JACK DATE

June 1, 2009

The suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of one soldier and the critical injury of another at a Little Rock, Ark., Army recruiting booth today was under investigation by the FBI's Joint Terrorist Task Force since his return from Yemen, ABC News has learned.

The investigation was in its preliminary stages, authorities said, and was based on the suspect's travel to Yemen and his arrest there for using a Somali passport.

The suspect, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 24, had changed his name from Carlos Leon Bledsoe after converting to the Muslim faith.

Law enforcement sources said he offered no resistance when Little Rock police arrested him today.

It was not known what path Muhammad, a U.S. citizen who is a recent convert to Islam, had followed to radicalization.

"At this point it appears that he specifically targeted military personnel, but there doesn't appear to be a wider conspiracy or, at this point in time, any indication that he's a part of a larger group or a conspiracy to go further," Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas said.

But, Muhammad's travels overseas have sparked a major international investigation. Officials say it is too early to know for certain if he indeed acted alone.

According to sources, the suspect advised them that he was going to kill as many Army personnel as possible. At the time of the shooting, the subject had approximately 200 rounds of ammunition available, police said.

According to a police report, Muhammad told police he saw two uniformed U.S.
soldiers in front of the recruiting office before he shot and killed Pvt. William Long, 23, and wounded Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, while they were taking a break outside the U.S. Army recruiting station where they both worked.

When Muhammad was arrested he was near a Walgreens drug store and another large store with hundreds of people inside and out in the parking lot areas.

But authorities said he never attempted to hurt anyone at either location, and only directed his hostility to the recruiting site.

Oh, well, if he was only killing U.S. soldiers that makes him some kind of humanitarian? Well, of course.

Note that Eric Holder's not putting guards on recruiting stations, only abortion clinics.

Praxis: Building a Distributed Counterjihad Network -- "They are slaves of Allah. And we are free."

Thanks to Wretched for the link below, which he sent to me with this comment:

“They are slaves of Allah. And we are free.”

A very interesting analysis below. I liked the statement above (albeit out of context). A worthy title to my response to your poster “Evil Muslims and Noble Judeo-Christians”

This is a very interesting piece, especially its organizational scheme.

Mike
III


Building a Distributed Counterjihad Network

by Baron Bodissey



The last five years have taught me that I bring only three skills to the anti-jihad movement.

The first is a knack for writing propaganda. By “propaganda” I do not mean the 20th-century version as practiced by the Nazis, the Soviets, the New Deal, and other huge and repressive state enterprises.

I use the word in its original sense, which was derived via the Romance languages from the Latin verb propagare, “to cause to increase or spread, as of a plant”. In the 18th century it referred to the work of a committee of cardinals (congregatio de propaganda fide, “the congregation for propagating the faith”) which was charged with the foreign missions of the Church.

In the 19th century “propaganda” took on a more generalized meaning, “the dissemination of a doctrine or practice”. It wasn’t until the Age of Utopias arrived a century later that it was understood to mean “the retailing of lies by state media in order to support, maintain, and extend the power of the State”.

So, in an old-fashioned way, one of my main functions in this space is to disseminate doctrine through propaganda.

My second skill — which I use in tandem with the first — is the making images of various sorts. I enjoy this activity more than any of the others.

The third skill involves networking with people. In person I am a severe introvert, and find it difficult and painful to meet new people. But email and skype seem to obviate this disability, and since I took up blogging, I’ve found that seeking and maintaining contacts online comes easily and naturally. My native shyness is no impediment when making friends over the Internet.

It is this last skill that I carry to all the Counterjihad meetings I attend. These activities have forced me to think carefully about the process of networking, and how it applies to the formation of an international Western resistance to the Islamization of our culture, often under repressive conditions.

I left for the meeting in Denmark a day early and without a laptop so that I could have enough time to ponder and write up a presentation on distributed networks as they apply to the Counterjihad. The treatise below is adapted from the longhand notes that I made for the May 16th session in Copenhagen.



The Distributed Network

I. Introduction

What we’re doing here is something relatively new: the organization of a Counterjihad network using the Internet and other forms of global electronic communication.

The work we do must remain at least partially clandestine for three reasons:

1. The governments of our countries are repressive.

The evidence for this assertion is that even here in Denmark, most people prefer to be pseudonymous. The situation is even worse in the UK, Finland, Belgium, Sweden, France, and the Netherlands. In those countries, people with opinions like ours can be arrested and prosecuted.

2. There is also unofficial repression.

The violent actions against “racists” by Antifa and similar groups are permitted, condoned, and tacitly supported by the various Left and Center-Left parties that head the governing coalitions in most European countries.

3. The danger of attacks by Muslims.

If you add to the above the risk of being killed by the Religion of Peace — keeping Theo Van Gogh and Kurt Westergaard in mind — it’s no wonder that people prefer to do this sort of work under pseudonyms.

Thus the problem is to organize extensive, robust, and effective Counterjihad groups without putting our people at risk, and without courting the dangers that would discourage new people from joining.

This is where distributed networks come in.

II. What is a distributed Network?

1. Decentralized

A distributed network has no “boss”, and no hierarchy except at the very local level. No one can issue orders or commands over the larger network and expect them to be obeyed.

This means that decision-making can be slow and frustrating. Before it can be implemented, an idea has to spread through the larger network, excite discussion, and be determined to serve the interests of the different components of the network.

This process takes time, but it also means that decisions are likely to be more appropriate and effective when they are finally arrived at.

Once an idea takes hold, action within the network tends to proceed very quickly.

2. Flexibility

Because there is no individual or small group controlling the distributed network, new ideas may arise and be accepted easily. The variety of contributing groups is a guarantee against rigidity and narrowness of approach.

Because there is no hierarchy, information in the network flows through multiple horizontal paths of communication, and not simply up or down the branches of a “tree”. If one component or sub-network opts out of any particular action, others will participate, accomplishing the same task through alternative means.

Much of this flexibility thus arises from:
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3. Redundancy

People within the network may burn out, change allegiances, lose interest, or take on other work, so that redundancy is an absolute necessity. For any given function and within any given region, there should be multiple ways of accomplishing the same task, and multiple channels through which information travels.

III. How is a distributed network structured?

Visualize the distributed network as a nervous system, but not the type normally associated with a vertebrate animal — no brain or spinal cord. Instead imagine an earthworm or a hydra, with a number of ganglia (nodes) connected by nerve pathways.

If you remember from your high school biology class, when an earthworm is cut into several pieces, each fragment may well survive and grow into a full-sized earthworm.

1. Nodes

The nodes in our networks consist of people, either acting alone as individual contacts, or as a stand-ins for a larger group, in effect functioning as gateways or domain controllers for other networks.

Thus Aeneas is here today as a node in the same network that contains me and the rest of you, but at the same time he is a portal opening onto a much larger collection of people who form an anti-jihad network in the UK.

Each node may represent a specialized function, either as performed by an individual or a group. For example, a contact in the network may function primarily as a maker of videos, but may also represent a small group of colleagues who perform the other specialized tasks required — video recording, audio dubbing, graphic effects, subtitling, etc. The larger network is thus aware only of the individual and his representative function, but the sub-network contains the additional components.

The most specialized function of all is perhaps that of the “idea man”, the theoretician, the thinker who contributes components of the ideological framework that guides the entire network. The theoretician may be hooked into the network by only one or two connectors, even though his may well be one of the most valuable contributions.

Most people, however, will act as nodes in multiple overlapping networks. This is what gives the distributed network its power and flexibility.

Under conditions of extreme political repression, the nodes of the network may be structured as “cells” on the traditional revolutionary model, so as to limit damage in the event any individual is compromised.

2. Connectors

The connectors or links which join the nodes together are harder to define — they consist of the lines of communication between people, in whatever forms these may take. Ideally, each node will connect in multiple ways to a significant number of other nodes, adding to the general flexibility and redundancy of the network.

Possible connectors include email, instant messaging, telephone, snail-mail, face-to-face meetings, carrier pigeon, etc. — any medium through which human beings may communicate with one another.

Under conditions of extreme political repression, the old-fashioned media — written messages and face-to-face meetings — will come to the fore again.

IV. Optimum size and functionality

To operate effectively, a non-hierarchical network must be limited in size. A single node — one person, possibly representing a larger group — cannot function efficiently with more than 60-80 connectors to other nodes.

I have personal experience with the effects of too many connections, because I exceeded that limit some time ago, and my network activities have become that much less effective as a result.

When a node in the network exceeds the maximum size limit, the problem can be resolved in one of two ways:

1.

The network can be transformed into a hierarchical one, with sub-networks that operate in subordination to the main node, or

2.

The network can undergo “mitosis”, splitting into two or more independent networks, with a division of resources among the “children” as seems appropriate, and with continuing communication via representative nodes in each child.



A combination of the two strategies is probably the optimum result. Sub-networks may spontaneously organize themselves, recognizing an informal and voluntary hierarchy within a larger network of networks. Groups of people who feel comfortable working together can perform specialized functions, with an assigned spokesman acting as a single node in the larger network.

The network as a whole may also split along regional or other lines, with overlapping nodes allowing for continued contact and communication. This is especially appropriate within a language group, and people with skills in multiple languages will naturally tend to become “ambassador” nodes acting as connectors to various super-networks.

You can see this process at work in the evolution of the ICLA network, which began as the 910 Group and later expanded to become CVF.

The original core group consisted of a handful of activists from the United States, Canada, and Europe. The first mitosis occurred when European operations became largely separate. This group [the attendees at the Copenhagen meeting] represents the European network, which for some bizarre reason has an American acting as one of its major coordinating nodes!

The European network has also formed sub-networks, including a UK group, a Swedish group, an Austrian group, a French group, a Finnish group, and so on. At the same time new liaisons have developed between our network and other existing networks. One successful liaison is our relationship with the Italian Counterjihad groups, as developed by Gaia.

An example of a successful sub-network on the basis of function is the video production group — a loose and fluid collection of people who make (or reproduce) videos, transcribe, translate, and subtitle the final product. This group acts independently to produce material, and then connects to the larger network through me or one of the other nodes to distribute its work.

V. Why a distributed network?

We — the European Counterjihad — are compelled by necessity to form a distributed network, because we operate without funding. Whenever funding is available, a hierarchical network naturally results, because one person (or a small group) controls the flow of money, and the other nodes in the network are answerable to him. A hierarchical tree forms, based on the distribution of monetary resources.

The head of a funded hierarchical network can act as a node in a larger distributed network, but the “money man” himself will inevitably command a hierarchy.

A hierarchical network obviously has its advantages — when money is available, the network can act in ways that we can only dream of.

But a hierarchy is brittle — a break in one of the major branches of the tree disables those smaller branches that lie further out and depend on it.

A hierarchy is also susceptible to incompetence and corruption. When the head of the hierarchy ceases to function optimally for either of these reasons, the entire network is effectively disabled. The absence of institutional redundancy and alternative pathways prevents information from routing around the damaged areas.

The distributed network thus has major advantages in resilience and flexibility. With no central authority, we cannot be corrupted from the top. And when part of the network is compromised or disabled, alternative pathways form almost immediately around the damaged portion.

VI. Creating and enhancing the distributed network

The formation of a distributed Counterjihad network is a natural process, as like-minded people band together in pursuit of a common purpose. It would occur in any case, without anyone being conscious of the process or thinking about how to bring it into being.

However, being aware of the theoretical issues can expedite the process.

The four major tools employed in building the network are (1) the recognition of a common interest, (2) personal relationships, (3) the art of persuasion, and (4) the ability to delegate.

1. A common interest

Our common interest is the Counterjihad; that is, the resistance to the Islamization of the West, and the affirmation and strengthening of Western cultural values. This is clear enough.

However, it’s a good idea to pay attention to the places where various interests diverge. An example of this would be the Jew-haters: I reject them not only because I find their ideology repugnant (which I do), but also because our interests diverge. If opposing the Jews is a paramount interest for a group, it will eventually join forces with the Muslims against us. We cannot make common cause.

On the other side are the Nazi-phobes: the people who are so afraid of being branded Nazis or racists that they will do anything to avoid such a fate. Ultimately our interests will diverge, because being called “Nazis” and “racists” is something we simply cannot avoid as long as our primary mission is to resist the Great Jihad.

2. Personal relationships

Skill with personal relationships is an absolute necessity for any substantial node in the network. Approaching interactions with another person on a purely utilitarian basis — How can this person serve my interests? What use can he be to me? — is not as valuable as maintaining a broad-based connection that grows naturally and may have no immediate payoff.

This is what brought me into the business: I seem to have a knack for forming and maintaining personal contacts with a wide variety of people. It’s the single major skill that I bring to the table.

3. The art of persuasion

Since nobody gets paid, nobody can issue commands. Only persuasion can get things done.

There has to be a lot of horse-trading — “You do this for me, and I’ll do that for you.” There has to be a lot of discussion, a patient amassing of details. I have to be willing to compromise, to be diverted from my original course of action, and to see the situation from someone else’s point of view.

In other words, persuasion relies on the skills of a salesman combined with those of a priest.

If I can’t talk myself three feet off the floor, I can’t get the job done.

4. Delegation

If you are unwilling to delegate tasks within the network — if you insist on complete personal control of every process — your effectiveness within the network will be limited, especially as it expands and grows more complex.

My own responsibilities have increased to the point where I am required to manage connections to 75-100 nodes, which all but exceeds the practical load that can be carried by any individual human being acting in a network. If I don’t delegate most tasks, I can scarcely be effective at all.

I have had to learn to say, “I rely your judgment.” I have learned to accept that the people around me are fallible human beings like myself, but that I must rely on their decisions anyway, even if they arrive at different conclusions than I would.

Surrendering total control of what transpires is an absolute necessity.

VII. Synchronization

One of the ultimate goals in the formation of the larger network is synchronization — the ability to coordinate simultaneous actions over widespread areas and in different countries, and also to bring people together to converge on a single location for a targeted action.

Remember: this is what our enemies among the “anti-fascists” and the Muslims are very effective at. Those anti-Motoon riots that broke out all over the world at about the same time were not spontaneous. They were coordinated and carefully timed.

However, they were not centrally controlled. No “Jihad Boss” issued orders telling everyone what to do — the perpetrators were simply acting within a distributed network that functioned very effectively. They were all working with a common interest: Islam.

These are the characteristics we should seek to emulate. As we contemplate future actions, we need to keep in mind that any action planned and launched in one country should have “brother actions” across Europe, and even the whole of the Western world.

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The above analysis is mainly concerned with content, and not with process. The theory and practice that I have outlined are independent of ideology. Our enemies can — and do — utilize distributed networks to facilitate terror attacks, penetrate the West, and subvert our institutions. In fact, they are way ahead of us in this regard.

But they are working at a disadvantage: they are slaves of Allah.

And we are free.



Note:

The diagram at the top of this post is from An Atlas of Cyberspace by Martin Dodge, who describes Paul Baran’s work:

The pioneering research of Paul Baran in the 1960s, who envisioned a communications network that would survive a major enemy attack. The sketch shows three different network topologies described in his RAND Memorandum, “On Distributed Communications: 1. Introduction to Distributed Communications Network” (August 1964). The distributed network structure offered the best survivability.

"Tribal Justice is Un-American": Sowing the Wind to Reap the Whirlwind.

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. Hosea, Chapter 8, Verse 7, King James Bible

My street-level introduction to Hispanic racism occurred on the day when I stepped into a situation in a gas station convenience store when seven or eight illegals moved to threaten the owner over two candy bars one of their companeros had shoplifted.

The owner was black, a naturalized American citizen from Nigeria, and he was moving back behind the counter to where his .357 was. I had come into the store unnoticed behind the Mexicans, so to give Wally time to get to his piece, I announced in a loud voice: "Donde esta carte verde?" Or, "Where is your green card?"

The illegals executed an about face, and from cursing about the "pinche cabron mallate" and saying very nasty things about his mother, they moved on me and began cursing about the "pinche cabron gabacho" and saying very nasty things about MY mother. "Mallate" is Mexican for "nigger." Gabcho means roughly "dirty Yankee white boy."

Unnoticed by the illegals, Wally made it to his .357. My .45 was in the car. Too far away.

So, if you ain't got it, make them think you got it.

I smiled real big and said quickly, tapping my chest with my left forefinger: "Si! Si! Mi 'Gabacho.' Mi gabacho LOCO con armas del fuego."

Or "Yes, Yes, I'm a dirty Yankee white boy. I'm a CRAZY dirty Yankee white boy with a gun."

My right hand was out of sight to them, tucked in my belt as if reaching for something.

They stopped their forward movement and grew quiet. The guy with the candy bars took them out of his pocket and put them on the counter. When he turned to do that, he spotted Wally with the .357 held casually and pointing at nobody in particular.

They left quickly and noiselessly.

Wally asked me afterward what a "mallate" was. I told him it meant nigger. He was incensed. "They've been calling me that for weeks, every time they came in." He paused. "What is a mujer negra?" (He mispronounced it, but it was easy to work out.) I told him they'd been calling him a black woman.

Now he was really pissed. Wally was a veteran of the Nigerian civil war and had done and seen things that the illegals who insulted him would have crapped their pants in abject fear had he even TOLD them about.

"I'm better than they are," he fairly shouted. "I'm an AMERICAN! They're not Americans, they don't want to be Americans. They just come here for the money. They're thieves! They try to steal from me! And THEY insult ME!?!?"

Shortly afterward, Wally went back to Nigeria. The regime had changed and it was now safer for political emigres like him. But I suspect that he preferred negotiating the tribal morass of Nigeria to the tribal politics of the United States. At least he understood the tribal ins and outs of Nigeria. He never understood why people would adopt tribalism in a country that was founded on some very untribal ideas.

Wally's problems were Hispanic racism at street level. As Patrick Buchanan points out below, Hispanic identity politics elevated to the federal courts is infinitely more dangerous. I'll have some comments on the other side.

Mike
III

A Quota Queen for the Court
By Patrick J. Buchanan
June 2, 2009


If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court.

Because that is what Sonia is all about. As The New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her career has been advancing persons of color, over whites, based on race and national origin.

"Judge Sotomayor, whose parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico," writes reporter David Kirkpatrick, "has championed the importance of considering race and ethnicity in admissions, hiring and even judicial selection at almost every stage of her career."

At Princeton, she headed up Accion Puertorriquena, which filed a complaint with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare demanding that her school hire Hispanic teachers. At Yale, she co-chaired a coalition of non-black minorities of color that
demanded more Latino professors and administrators.

At Yale, she "shared the alarm of others in the group when the Supreme Court prohibited the use of quotas in university admissions in the 1978 decision Regents of the University of California v. Bakke."

Alan Bakke was an applicant to the UC medical school at Davis who was rejected, though his test scores were higher than almost all of the minority students who were admitted. Bakke was white.

After Yale, Sotomayor joined the National Council of La Raza and the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund. Both promote race and ethnic preferences, affirmative action and quotas for Hispanics.

But why should Puerto Ricans like Sotomayor, who were never subjected to slavery or Jim Crow -- their island was liberated from Spain in 1898 by the United States -- get racial or ethnic preferences over Polish- or Portuguese-Americans?

What is the justification for this kind of discrimination?

Like Lani Guinier, the Clinton appointee rejected for reverse racism, Sonia Sotomayor is a quota queen. She believes in, preaches and practices race-based justice. Her burying the appeal of the white New Haven firefighters, who were denied promotions they had won in competitive exams, was a no-brainer for her.

In her world, equal justice takes a back seat to tribal justice.

Now, people often come out to vote for one of their own. Catholics for JFK, evangelicals for Mike Huckabee, women for Hillary Clinton, Mormons for Mitt Romney, Jews for Joe Lieberman and African-Americans for Barack Obama. That is political reality and an exercise of political freedom.

But tribal justice is un-American.

In the 1950s and 1960s, this country reached consensus that denying black men and women the equal opportunity to advance and succeed must come to an end. Discrimination based on race, color or ethnicity, we agreed, was wrong.

Sotomayor, however, has an exception to the no-discrimination rule. She believes in no discrimination, unless done to white males and to benefit people like her.

How can any Republican senator vote to elevate to the Supreme Court a judge who, all her life, has believed in, preached and practiced race discrimination against white males, without endorsing the Obama-Sotomayor view that diversity trumps equal justice, and race-based justice should have its own seat on the high court?

Down the path Sotomayor would take us lies an America where Hispanic justices rule for Hispanics, black judges rule for blacks and white judges rule for white folks.

It is an America where who gets admitted to the best colleges and universities is not decided on grades and academic excellence, but on race and ethnicity, where advancement in jobs and careers depends not on aptitude and ability, but on where your grandparents came from.

On principle, Republicans cannot support Sonia Sotomayor.

And politically, if they do, why should the white working man and woman ever vote Republican again, as it is they who are the designated victims of the race-based justice of Sonia Sotomayor?

It was Richard Nixon who brought the white working class, North and South, into his New Majority, when he increased the Republican presidential vote from 43 percent in 1968 to 61 percent in 1972. Ronald Reagan solidified this base.

But why should the white working and middle class stay with the GOP? Its presidents exported their jobs to Mexico, China and Asia, and threw open America's doors to tens of millions, legal and illegal, from the Third World, who have swamped their cities and towns. If the GOP will not end race-based affirmative action, which
threatens the futures of their children, why vote for the GOP?

Why should white folks vote for anyone who says, "We are against race discrimination, unless it is discrimination against you"?

Obama would not have selected Sotomayor if he did not share her convictions. And there is nothing in his writings or career to hint at disagreement. Thus it comes down to the senators, especially the Republicans. A vote for Sonia Sotomayor is a vote to affirm that race-based justice deserves its own seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

But if that happens, it will not only be the race consciousness of Hispanics that will be on the rise in the good old U.S.A.

The Weimar Republic provided the Nazis with the societal cultural backlash that they rode right into power. A race war in this country, the logical result of codified identity politics, will be won by no one, but it will be a white, racist dictator who sits on the throne afterward. This is not the result that these ignorant "multi-culti" collectivists foresee in doing what they are doing, but it is the likely outcome.

And when the trains start running to an American Auschwitz, will they then, from the perspective of being themselves inside the boxcars, STILL support racial identity politics, government control over people's lives and gun control?

As for me and my friends, we'll be in the field, fighting collectivism still, albeit one with a different face.

More on the Little Rock Jihadi

A soldier talks on his cell phone in front of the military recruiting office in west Little Rock after a gunman shot two soldiers outside the office Monday, killing one. -- Little Rock Democrat Gazette

NBC's Today Show just reported the Little Rock shooting saying the Jihadi "was upset about the U.S. military" WITHOUT MENTIONING THAT HE WAS AN ISLAMO-FASCIST.

The Arkansas Democrat Gazette of Little Rock reports in a story today here that:

A Tennessee man who converted to Islam and opposes American military actions overseas is charged with shooting two United States Army privates outside a west Little Rock recruiting center, killing one and seriously wounding the other Monday morning, police said. Armed with two rifles and a handgun, Abdul-Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, who was born Carlos Bledsoe, specifically targeted the Army-Navy Career Center in the Ashley Square shopping center at 9112 N. Rodney Parham Road, police said. From behind the wheel of a black Ford Sport Trac, police said, Muhammad fired at least 10 rounds from an SKS 7.62mm rifle. Seven recruiters were inside the office. None was injured.

So he was a home-grown Jihadi and the "assault rifle" was a standard SKS.

AP reports here with more detail on Private Ezeagwula:

William Long, 24, of Conway, died, and Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville, was wounded and in stable condition, Police Chief Stuart Thomas said.

Both men were from nearby hometowns and volunteered to work at the recruiting center to attract other locals to the military. "They can show the example, 'Here's where I was, and here is where I am,'" Artis said.

Police arrested Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, along a crosstown interstate moments after the shootings at the Army-Navy Career Center in a shopping center in west Little Rock.

Muhammad acted alone, the police chief said, and based on an interview with officers, the suspect "probably had political and religious motives for the attack." He lived in an apartment just 1.5 miles from the recruiting center. A search warrant had been obtained for the apartment.

Thomas said Muhammad, previously known as Carlos Bledsoe, would be charged with first-degree murder, plus 15 counts of committing a terroristic act. Thomas said those counts result from the gunfire occurring near other people.

The accused shooter's father, Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis, Tenn., hung up on a reporter who called about his son's arrest Monday night.

Witnesses told police that a man inside a black vehicle pulled up outside the recruiting center and opened fire about 10:30 a.m. Long fell onto the sidewalk outside the center while Ezeagwula was able to crawl toward its door.

USA Today reports here that Jihadi Bledsoe was upset with the Army in particular.

A Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting station, killing one, police said Monday.

"This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular, and that's why he did what he did," Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings said.

"He has converted to (Islam) here in the past few years," Hastings said. "We're not completely clear on what he was upset about. He had never been in the military."

"He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them. That's what he said."

OK, so let's recap.

Bledsoe converts to Islam and changes his name to Abdul-Hakim Mujahid Muhammad.

Jihadi Bledsoe, who was never in the military, was upset about the Army.

Because of this, he drove up to a recruiting station and shot two unarmed Privates in a drive-by, killing one, wounding the other.

Just another upstanding citizen professing belief in the "religion of peace," not that NBC will mention it.

More as details emerge.

You Want an Example of REAL Domestic Terrorism? Here ya go: Jihadi Strikes in Little Rock, One GI Dead, One Wounded.

Shooting Scene this morning in West Little Rock.

Will all you posters who have pooh-poohed the war with Islamofascism kindly give me your attention. The war came home to U.S. soil again, this time in Little Rock, AR. The GIs were standing outside a recruiting office, likely taking a smoke break.

A black SUV pulled up and the two unarmed men were both shot by a "brave home-grown representative of the Jihadi death cult" calling himself Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad (his momma named him Carlos Bledsoe).

KATV reports here.

More comment from me on the other side.

Mike
III

Shooter, Victims Identified West LR Shooting

posted 06/01/09 3:17 pm

Little Rock - Authorities have identified the soldier killed in Monday's double-shooting outside a U.S Army recruitment office in west Little Rock.

According to Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper, 23-year-old William Long of Conway died shortly after being transported to a Little Rock hospital.

Police say the incident occurred around 10:15 a.m. at a U.S. Army Navy Career Center inside the Ashley Square Shopping Center at 9112 North Rodney Parham Road. According to Lt. Terry Hastings with the Little Rock Police Department, two enlisted soldiers standing outside the office were hit when a suspect drove up in a black SUV and began shooting.

At a briefing Monday afternoon, Little Rock police chief Stuart Thomas identified the suspect as Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 24, of Little Rock. Thomas says Muhammad also goes by the name Carlos Bledsoe.

Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad/Carlos Bledsoe.

Hastings identified the 2nd wounded soldier as Quinton Ezeagwula, age unknown. He remains at a local hospital in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries.

Muhammad led police on a brief pursuit towards downtown Little Rock, before being taken into custody in the area of the Interstate 30/630 interchange. Authorities searched the vehicle and found an assault rifle, Hastings said. A bomb squad was called in, as police were concerned about two bags in the vehicle, but no explosives were found, he said.

At the Monday-afternoon briefing, Thomas said investigators believe Muhammad acted alone, and likely carried "political and religious motives." Thomas said the gunman targeted the military but was not believed to be part of a broader scheme.

Muhammad faces one capital murder charge, and 15 counts of terroristic acts.

The FBI (web) has opened an investigation into the incident, said Steven Frazier, spokesman for the agency's Little Rock office. "Based on what we find, we will determine whether there is any federal jurisdiction to prosecute," he said.

According to Army Lt. Col. Thomas F. Artis, Long and Ezeagwula were not recruiters, but part of a recruiting program called "hometown recruiting assistance." Artis says recruiters use soldiers to tell their stories and talk to potential recruits while they are visiting or based back in their home region.

Long and Ezeagwula were just out of basic training, Artis said, and had not been deployed.

MBV: I hope the Army decides to give Long and Ezeagwula each one of these:

Purple Heart.

After all, they didn't get shot in a garden-variety street crime for their wallets. They were casualties of enemy action. It would also be recognition that the War Against the Islamo-fascist death cult is indeed world-wide.

Do you think the media will make as much of this incident as the dead abortionist?

Yeah.

Right.

Back to the Future: "J'Accuse!" -- "I will speak for I will NOT be an accomplice!"

"His remarks were the most heated--and most applauded--of the day."

So wrote leftie journalist Dick Reavis (author of "The Ashes of Waco) in an article in the 26 October 1995 issue of the Dallas Observer, found here.

He was reporting on a speech I gave to the Second National Militia Commander's Seminar, sponsored by the Tri-State Militia Network and hosted by the Texas Constitutional Militia at Mountain View, Texas, 14 October 1995.

The speech was entitled "J'Accuse!"

Background: I was invited by Tri-State's to speak to the Texas seminar about my work at DeesWatch. Shortly before I was to speak, Ray Lampley, self-styled "Prophet of Yahweh" and notorious antisemite, showed up unexpectedly. As Tri-State's had previously denounced Lampley and his teachings this came as an unpleasant surprise to just about everybody on the Tri-State's board.

He and I had also crossed swords before that day on the Internet militia boards. As I recall, Lampley called me and other Constitutional militia people, "uncircumsized dogs." I responded that here in Alabama we didn't find it necessary to circumcise our dogs, and I wondered at the sanity of anybody who did.

(This was mild criticism coming from Lampley's neck of the collectivist woods, for the Aryan Nations' Richard Butler called constitutional milita folks, "White on the outside, black on the inside, with a Jewish brain.")

Most board members wanted to eject him unceremoniously. Others, while in total disagreement with Lampley's philosophy, were hesitant to do so. The discussion in "officer's country" was heated. At the end of this "full and frank exchange of opinions", I volunteered to use my speech to let Lampley know where he stood. Or at least, I would let everyone know where I stood. I did ask that someone keep an eye on Lampley and his party, for I had left my .45 at home -- a mistake I would never again make.

It occurs to me that we have the very same processes going on now in different portions of the liberty movement and my speech would probably be worth repeating.

I post it here as a document of record and warning for the future.

Now, I will get back to Absolved.

Mike
III

"J'Accuse!"

(Following a brief introduction by Col. Russell Smith, Texas Constitutional Militia, I began....)

Thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down. I'm not worth getting exercised about. My name is Mike Vanderboegh. I don't know how many of you have seen my work on the Internet and various other places, but I run a little outfit called DeesWatch Project. We are a truth squad that tries to hold Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center and also the ADL,... but Morris is our principal meat since he is an Alabamian and we're Alabamians and we really don't like him representing our state... We try and hold him to some semblance of the truth.

I would like to speak to you today a little bit less about Morris Dees and a little bit more from my heart... But, how many of you have heard of Morris Dees, before I get to that? Do you know who this scalawag is? The Southern Poverty Law Center of Montgomery, Alabama has, even before the Oklahoma City bombing, been "Marketing the Militias." That is the phrase used by his own home-town newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser.

Morris Dees has been using the Militia "Threat" to raise money for himself and he's done very well. By our best guess right now, he has seventy million dollars in the bank. . . .Now mind you, I used to like Morris. I mean I liked his work, I thought I did. I admired it from afar. Morris did a good job of attacking the Klan and the American Neo-Nazis at a time when they needed to be attacked. Unfortunately, Morris is in the position of the Dragon Slayer who's killed all the dragons, and now the villagers won't pay him anymore because there isn't any threat. So, what does a dragonslayer do? Invent a dragon, hence the Militia Movement Scare.

Now, in the process over the years of dealing with the Klan and the Neo-Nazis, Morris has developed an incestuous relationship with a governmental agency that we all know and despise called the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Morris and the BATF freely exchange information back and forth contrary to law. We'll be proving that one of these days. And he also is used by the Feds to gather intelligence that they themselves are unable to gather. They're prohibited by law (as much as they adhere to that), from doing spying on specific groups. Morris, SPLC, ADL, Chip Berlet, the Center for Democratic Renewal, all of these left-wing groups are "Non-Governmental Organizations" .

Our dear President Clinton, well he's not MY "dear" President Clinton, but anyway, President Clinton has allowed the Justice agencies, the Treasury agencies to use intelligence gathered by NGO's regardless of where that information came from, how it was gathered, whether it was gathered legally, or not, and use that information as means of targeting individuals for investigation. They deny this and we know that it is true. That is also one part of what is going to put Morris' SPLC in the ground.

....Now why did I get involved in this? Because.., I'll tell you why I got involved with this, because he started lying. He started lying about people like Gun Owners of America, a group that I didn't belong to, but I have since joined largely because of the lies Morris was telling. And you know, he calls Larry Pratt a racist, because Larry Pratt speaks to people that, in a crowd, there are racists. So Morris draws the broad brush that not only is Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America a racist, but that Gun Owners of America, a group that is three hundred thousand plus strong is a "racist militia support group." Now what is a "militia support group"? It sounds like "communist fellow traveler" doesn't it? One of those, sort of amorphous sounding things.... Well what is a "militia support group"? Well, is it a group that believes in a strict interpretation of the Second Amendment? Hey Morris, I'm guilty, haul me off. But you see Morris doesn't haul people off, he just FINGERS people to be hauled off.

You know there is a case..., I guess maybe the best way to explain why I am doing what I am doing with Morris... There is a case that happened in France at the turn of the century, the Dreyfus case. Anybody know about that? Dreyfus was a loyal French Army officer, he also happened to be Jewish. And the French army started missing all sorts of secrets. And the French high command who couldn't immediately couldn't put their finger on who the spy was, decided to finger Dreyfus because he was a Jew. Well, they convicted him and they sent him to Devil's Island, but gradually the truth came out in a series of sensational trials... And even though Dreyfus was proved to be innocent, the French high command and the French government left Dreyfus on Devil's Island, rather than admit that they had made a mistake... And finally this came to a head when a French journalist named Emile Zola wrote an impassioned indictment of the French government. And it was headlined: "J'accuse!", or, "I accuse!".

And "J'accuse!" precipitated a sensational slander case that Zola lost, but the uproar caused such a break within the government that although Zola fled the country rather than submit to imprisonment..., eventually the French government recanted and Dreyfus was let loose. Now if anybody here sees any parallels to Michael New, let me know, OK?

Zola said this in his defense of Dreyfus and this is my motto "I must speak out for I will not be an accomplice." (Applause). Now that goes for the United States government as well as the French government at the turn of the century. But.., but.. "J'accuse," it also points out something else. How is Morris able to slander the American Militia Movement? He says we're all racists, and we're anti-Semites. . . that we're controlled by the Aryan Nations. OK. How's he able to do that? (Audience offers various reasons.)

No! Because it's partly true. Look in your hearts my friends and you will know that it's (in some small part) true. You know W.C. Fields, a great American philosopher, had a statement, he said that "There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply!"

Now my friend..., my friends..., our fuel supply may indeed have a few Ethiopians in it. But I'm not talking about friends of darker skin. I'm talking about racists, I'm talking about anti-semites, I'm talking about agents provocateur, I'm talking about loose cannons. And to the extent that we ignore these people we prove Morris right. You know the best lie is one that is half true, or even a quarter true. Am I right?

AM I RIGHT?

(Shouted, "Yes!") You bet your ass I'm right.... Pardon me, but its true. "J'accuse!" "J'accuse!" "I must speak for I will not be an accomplice!"

Now why did I get involved in DeesWatch and why did you people put on those cammie uniforms? Hmm? Why do you figure? (Voiced answers from the audience). Yes, but everybody has a personal part to that, right? There's a little thing, for me is was a particular lie. A particular thing. I..., sometimes it hard for me to remember what it was. But each of us woke up at some point, maybe in the middle of the night, and maybe we walked out and we looked at the stars and we contemplated what was going on and we said "that's it, I can't take it. I've gotta do something. . . HAVE to do something, because I am responsible for MYSELF." I must speak, will not be an accomplice. Because we all have to look at ourselves in the mirror. (Pauses).

I'll show you why I'm doing this. (Reaches in back pocket, produces a wallet and flips it open to two photographs). For them. Do you see that? That's a five year old and a three year old and I intend for them to grow up in the same country or a better country (loud applause) than I grew up in and I will not turn this country over willingly to the liars and the anti-Americans, whether they come from the government that wishes to oppress us or from the slimy cracks of racist organizations that deserve our entire condemnation!

(Louder applause and shouts.) I must speak! I will not be an accomplice!

(Pauses). . . And we must act, that is why you are wearing the cammie isn't it? We must act. You must be the countervailing power. Why? Because you stood in the dark and you said "No more". Why?

Most of us... Most of us... (pauses). Morris likes to say that the Militia Movement was orchestrated by armed groups that predated the Clinton administration. My research indicates that about 80% to 90% of the current Militia Movement only was mobilized by the blatant power grabs of the Clinton administration, specifically on the Second Amendment, on property rights and various and sundry other things. It's true that there were racist groups including the Klan who dressed in cammies and carried guns.., Morris has pictures of these people. What does the American people see (when they look at you)? They see guys with cammies, they see guys carrying guns, they don't see into your heart. And the fact that these other people exist makes the lie possible. So YOU must put the distance between these people and yourselves.

It's up to you, alright? This is a war for the hearts and minds of America, alright? And does the media lie? Of course they lie. Know that, use that, and get up in front of the cameras everyday and say "Yeah, these people exist but they're not part of me. They're not part of us, alright? They're hangers-on, they're slime out of the cracks. They've existed from time immemorial. They will always exist, but they are not part of the American Militia Constitutional Movement. Period. Period. (Sustained applause.)

Now let me ask you something. Do you suppose that any of our ancestors who were at the Boston Massacre cared that the first guy who died was Crispus Attucks? Do you think that they cared that his skin was black?

Did it matter?

Did it matter that the sniper who killed Pitcairn at Bunker Hill was named Peter Salem? Did it matter that he was black? Did it matter that he was a slave? No, it didn't matter. He killed Pitcairn didn't he? He's an American, by God, in my eyes. And a hero.

Does it matter that the guy who ran the Sons of Liberty in Georgia, a guy who the governor complained was a "dirty Jew" who was causing trouble and "leading the arrogant mechanics of the city"... Did it matter that he was a Jew? Did it? (Shouted from audience "He was a patriot!")

(Whispered response): He was an . (Louder): HE. WAS. AN. AMERICAN!...As are all other Americans who believe in the Constitution of the United States! That's all the loyalty test you need. It doesn't matter... the rest of it does not matter. It doesn't matter what. It doesn't matter whether you like them, it doesn't matter whether you like their politics, it doesn't matter. If you start having loyalty tests, "well, you've got to believe in this and you've got to believe in that," and you let yourselves be divided..., then you will be conquered.

I guarantee you. And the slime like Morris Dees and the ADL that do that will do it to you with your own weapons that you provided them. You have no one else to blame but yourselves. J'accuse! I will speak!

You know, one last thing I would like to say. And it's something that folks like Morris don't understand.., the Clintons of the world, the Schumers, they don't understand this. When you're standing there in the night and you're making your decision about what your going to do, why do you do that?

Do you think that that decision is available to any other people in the world? It is... but, do they have our advantages? What do we have? We're Americans.

We're Americans! We're used to Liberty. We breathe Liberty, we eat Liberty. And we create Liberty. There has been nothing seen like us on this planet, not nothin'. Alright? When we fight, as we have had to, every generation....., (pauses) People complain that "Aw, I'm broke, they're going to come and harm my family. I don't know what I'm going to do."

Let me tell you something, that's your birth right my friend. Every generation has to do this. Every one! Your fathers fought the Nazis, your grandfathers fought the Huns, your great grandfathers fought the Civil War, their great-grandfathers fought the Revolution. And for what? For the land? For the people? For a leader? For a political party? For a flag? For conquest?) For the color of their skin? Where they came from?

NO!!

FOR AN IDEA!

The idea was freedom. And it's codified in the Constitution of the United States.

An IDEA!

Nothing has been seen like us. Not ever, nor will ever again if we lose it... If we lose it. And it is up to us to lose it. We can be divided or we can be united. And we can win. You can see how scared these people are.... Now I've heard a lot of things about "there's going to be an attack in three months", well, I heard that three months ago. "There's going to be an attack in two weeks." Well I heard that last year. Alright?.... Look, all you have to remember is that time is short, you need to stay awake, you need to be prepared, and you need to fight these people politically every day of the week, every week of the month, every month of the year--- until that option is no longer given to you.

We CAN beat these people politically. You can see how weak they are. You can see how the ideas are permeating in the countryside. You can see it in the way that Morris is all of a sudden getting very weak-kneed. Alright? We're having an effect.

Look what he did with the Arizona train derailment. (In a simpering tone) "We don't think the Militia Movement is definitely involved here, it could be Farmer Fred."

Did you see that? Joe Roy of SPLC said, "Farmer Fred of Maricopa County, Arizona, may have wrecked the railroad because he didn't like the railroad coming through his property." Now forget the fact that the railroad has been there for a hundred years. OK? But did he go out and blame the Militia's? Naaah.. not THIS time. They're starting to get cautious, because they're starting to get sued. And people are checking their facts.

OK, that doesn't require a rifle. It doesn't require a rifle to vote, but you had better have your rifle. And you'd better stay awake. And you'd better remember that the armed citizenry is the last defence of freedom in this country. But that doesn't mean that it is time to go to ground and get ready for some big fight that may not come for a year. You'd be awful embarrassed wouldn't you if we got rid of this guy politically and there wasn't any fighting? You're out there in the woods somewhere, and your beard's down to here (gestures about waist length, to laughter). Your wife has left you, your kids haven't seen you.

Well, I don't know, I've rambled a bit and I guess I'll just close with this thought: If you think that you can't make a difference politically, we in Alabama thought the same thing. But in 1994, the Second Amendment movement got behind a constitutional candidate named Fob James and we busted our buns and we elected him governor by this much (holds fingers about a sixteenth of inch apart). And do you know what? When he took the oath of office, do you know what they hung across the state house? They hung a banner that had the entire text of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. (applause). Alright?

Now WE did that.

The Second Amendment movement did that. The people that form the backbone of the Alabama Militia did that. We elected Fob James Governor. Well, guess who controls the Alabama National Guard now? Hmmm? So you think you can't make a difference politically? You can. If you try and you don't lose heart. If you don't let yourself be divided. If you don't let yourselves be tarred by professional liars like Morris Dees. And we have another saying in Alabama, New Hampshire says "Live Free or Die", well our state motto is: "We dare defend our rights!" (Applause).

SPEECH TRANSCRIPT ENDS.

From the Commentary I wrote at the time:

There was a question and answer period after the speech, two or three questions or comments, and then I was done. At each point in the speech, when I would thunder "J'accuse!", I would look or point at "Prophet" Lampley. There was no doubt which sinner in the pews I was preaching to, nor was there any doubt from the reception my speech received where the vast majority of the militia folks in that tent stood. Lampley left unceremoniously shortly thereafter, not to return.

Now that's not something that Morris Dees is eager to tell you about. It doesn't fit in with his preconceived fundraising pitches ("The Militia Terrorists are coming to blow up your Federal Building"). But it is representative of the vast majority of the Constitutional Militia movement that I have come to know, both public and non-public units and individuals.

These men and women are the doers and the givers of our society. To use a term which has become passe in our politically-correct "paradise" they are "citizens." And it is the citizens-- the voters, the faxers, the rabble rousers, the talk show callers, the fact checkers, the FIJA activists, and, God bless 'em, the citizens militias-- who will save this Republic, God willing. When the petty tyrants like Schumer and Clinton rage at the "danger" posed by the militias, somewhere our Founding Fathers are smiling. -- Mike Vanderboegh, DeesWatch.

Shortly thereafter, came this headline:

Three Arrested in Bomb Plot

Oklahoma City (AP, 12 November 1995)-- The FBI has arrested three people on charges of plotting to build a fertilizer bomb that authorities believe would have been targeted at a white separatist religious community. Ray Willie Lampley, 65, his wife, Cecilia Lampley, 47, and John Dare Baird, 53, were arrested Saturday at the Lampley's home in Vernon, 90 miles east of Oklahoma City. Assistant U.S. Attorney Doug Horn said the three are charged with conspiracy to manufacture and possess a destructive device. They were being held without bond and will appear in federal court Monday.

Back to the Future: Another Sovereign Makes the News and the Feds Continue to Tempt a Battle of Sipsey Street.

"Public wealth rebate notes?"

Another Yogi Berra moment here.

Mike
III

May 31, 2009 9:13 p.m. PT

Alleged secessionist charged with gun, drug charges

Prosecutors contend Snohomish man had machine gun, silencers

By LEVI PULKKINEN
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

Federal authorities in Seattle have filed gun and drug charges against an alleged member of a secessionist movement after agents seized a weapons cache that included four silencers, body armor and a fully automatic rifle.

Filings in the case, currently before the U.S. District Court in Seattle, offer glimpses into the "sovereign citizen" movement and, prosecutors contend, militia groups loosely affiliated with it.

Currently free on bond, Andrew Steven Gray was arrested early last month after a lengthy investigation involving a Snohomish County militia shooting range, according to recently unsealed documents filed in U.S. District Court. Gray, a Snohomish man with a previous felony conviction on drug charges, is alleged to have amassed a 21-gun collection at a Monroe storage unit, as well as operated a 300- to 500-plant marijuana grow at his home.

Prosecutors also contend that Gray, 32, has long-standing ties to the sovereign citizen movement, in which adherents believe state and federal law do not apply to them. Through his attorney, Gray has denied membership in any such group; that claim, though, seems to be at odds with a letter sent to the court on Gray's behalf from a leader in a Snohomish County secessionist movement.

"Regardless of the label applied or the specific form their ideology takes, their ideology fundamentally rests on the belief that the federal courts, federal law, and ultimately the federal government and all of its agencies have no legal authority to impose their will upon a 'sovereign citizen,'" the FBI special agent heading the case said in court documents.

The bureau launched an investigation into Gray after a paid informant told authorities Gray had been shooting at a facility known as the Militia Training Center, according to statements from the lead investigator, a member of the bureau's Joint Terrorism Task Force. Due to his previous felony drug conviction, Gray is barred from handling firearms.

The informant obtained a recorded statement during which Gray was heard admitting to gun possession, according to the agent's statement. With that statement, federal agents obtained a search warrant and on May 4 raided a storage locker and home occupied by Gray.

At the locker, agents allegedly discovered a stash of weapons, armor and ammunition. The cache included four unregistered silencers, as well as a M-16-style machine gun capable of automatic fire. Among the weapons seized were two guns manufactured by a Snohomish gunsmith whose offerings include parts named "Christian warrior" and "NObama."

Agents also raided a Snohomish home, inside which they discovered the marijuana operation, according to court documents. Gray was arrested and has since been indicted on charges of unlawful machinegun and silencer possession, felon in possession of a firearm and marijuana possession with the intent to distribute.

Speaking Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Dion said the current prosecution does not extend to others thought to be involved in the Snohomish County "sovereign citizen" movement or the militia training center.

"You're always worried anytime you see drug dealers with a high-powered weapons," Dion said. But, he added, "factually, this is a standalone case."

After his arrest, Gray was released on bond after his attorney, Seattle lawyer Jessica Riley, argued that Gray is no longer involved in sovereign-citizen groups.

"Although Mr. Gray may have historically been affiliated with this group, in recent months he had begun to distance himself from the 'sovereign citizen' movement," Riley said in court documents. "Mr. Gray is not the crazy, politically charged renegade that the government makes him out to be in its complaint."

Riley went on to describe Gray as an "avid gun collector," an unusual hobby for a man barred from gun ownership due to a previous felony conviction.

The assertions made by Gray's attorney appear to be at odds with a character reference sent to the court by Thom Satterlee, who identifies himself as "Bishop of the Way" and "Yoshua's Talmadin."

According to Everett's Herald newspaper, Satterlee has frequently advocated that a portion of Snohomish County dubbed Freedom County by supporters secede from the United States. Over the years, Satterlee has been convicted of practicing law without a license, seen his non-existent county's sheriff jailed, and had the Secret Service confiscate "public wealth rebate notes" he attempted to redeem at a bank.

In his May 18 letter to the court, Satterlee wrote glowingly of Gray, describing him as a man of "high moral character whose word is (his) bond."

"I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Andrew for better than the last 10 years," Satterlee said in the statement. "Andrew has always been respectful and courteous in all the situations and toward all the individuals that we were helping."

Gray is scheduled to appear in court Thursday to enter a plea to the charges. If convicted as charged, he faces a minimum sentence of five years in prison.

MBV: More here on Satterlee and the background of Snohomish Secession.

Published: Friday, May 10, 2002

'Freedom County' advocate guilty of illegal law practice

Scott North / Herald Writer

ARLINGTON -- Thom Satterlee has for years claimed to be a commissioner in "Freedom County," a place the courts have repeatedly ruled does not exist.

That hasn't stopped him from appointing a sheriff, a coroner and an auditor, and signing reams of official-looking correspondence demanding that Snohomish County clear out of his neck of the woods.

Last Friday, the Darrington man found out there is a legal limit to his activities.

Satterlee, who from time to time has filed papers claiming his right to argue legal cases, was convicted of unauthorized practice of law, a gross misdemeanor, after a jury trial in the Cascade Division of Snohomish County District Court in Arlington.

Judge Jay Wisman sentenced Satterlee to 30 days in jail and imposed a $300 fine. He stayed the punishment pending appeal.

Satterlee did not immediately return phone calls. Since 1995, he has led a group that claims a majority of people in about 1,000 square miles of northern Snohomish County have seceded and formed their own government.

Freedom County backers have repeatedly failed to gain legal support for that contention, losing a series of lawsuits in state and federal courts. All but one of those cases have been brought by Satterlee and others without the assistance of lawyers.

Deputy prosecutor Matt Baldock said Satterlee's involvement in Freedom County was an issue during the trial, both in screening potential jurors and in some of Satterlee's claims for authority for his actions. His involvement with Freedom County was not a factor in the decision to file charges, the prosecutor said.

"I can honestly say that his reputation was not taken into account," Baldock said.

The case stemmed from Satterlee's intercession on his son-in-law's behalf in an October civil case involving a traffic accident.

A Seattle law firm had legal papers served on Satterlee's son-in-law. Satterlee responded with legal pleadings, representing himself as the "communication agent/counsel of record" and directing that all future legal papers be sent to Satterlee, Baldock said.

The Seattle lawyers contacted the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office after they realized Satterlee was not an attorney nor a member of the Washington State Bar Association.

Baldock said state law is clear on who may practice law. The courts have defined legal practice as giving legal advice or counsel, preparing legal documents and representing or negotiating on somebody else's behalf in legal forums.

Satterlee is the second Freedom County leader to be prosecuted in recent months for false representation.

Robert Bender, who goes by the name Fnu Lnu, in February was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $600 fine after being convicted in Tukwila of impersonating an officer and obstruction. Bender was charged after he claimed, during a run-in with Tukwila police, to be the sheriff of Freedom County, a position he was appointed to by Satterlee in October 2000.

Bender, whose assumed name is a police acronym for "first name unknown, last name unknown," has since said he resigned as Freedom County sheriff.

Satterlee had sought to represent Bender at his Tukwila trial, filing documents claiming he was the "acting interim prosecutor" for Freedom County in the case. That was rejected by the court, which noted Satterlee wasn't licensed to practice law in Washington, according to court records.

Back to the Future: Is it just me, or have we been here before?

"It's deja vu all over again." -- Renowned American Philosopher, Yogi Berra

Folks,

While the media will be busy conflating Scott Roeder with "militia extremists" today, it is important to keep reality in mind. Judy Thomas, who wrote the piece below for McClatchy News Service, is a long-time reporter of the Kansas City Star. No one gets it right one hundred percent of the time, but she is an honest reporter of events and very knowledgeable about the 1990s, having worked the Eric Robert Rudolph story among others. I have known her for many years and am impressed with her body of work. Generally speaking, if she writes it, you can believe she is reporting the story as best she can determine the facts.

Note, for example, that while Judy reports Roeder's bust, trial and conviction like all the other mainstream "bleaters" she also reports, unlike them, that his conviction was overturned based on an illegal search.

I have vague memories of Roeder's 1996 bust and will probably go through my cached emails from that time today to see if I have any mention of him.

Roeder was not a Constitutional militiaman in the 90s, he was a Freeman and "sovereign citizen." The Freemen were what we called "loose cannons" and "nutburgers" back then, and they had a distressing proclivity for petty crime and con games. Just ask their honest neighbors in Montana about getting paid for bills in worthless "sovereign notes."

Freemen Standoff, 1996.


You have but to read Professor Churchill's book, To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face, to see how the Constitutional militia people differentiated themselves from these people while still trying to protect them from government violence.

Different individuals within the movement drew the lines in slightly different places, but in general there was agreement on a core set of concerns. First, the movement issued explicit warnings to the government that any repeat of Waco would result in widespread violence. This message was conveyed with particular intensity during the siege of the Freemen compound in Montana in 1996 and the stand-off with militants from the Republic of Texas in 1997.

Most in the movement had little sympathy for the Freemen or the Republic of Texas, but they were determined to prevent another exercise of "Waco rules." Mike Vanderboegh offered the Republic of Texas as an example of the problem: "Everybody understood these guys were loons; nobody liked them. You know, they were chasing little fairies of history dust . . . Our problem was we want to let the Feds know that it's not okay to provide a Waco solution to this problem. At the same time we want to let the Republic of Texas know, 'We're not going to come to your defense. We're not encouraging you boys.'"

During the Freeman siege, over a dozen spokesmen for the militia movement signed a statement declaring that "should any citizen be injured, or suffer loss of life, now or in the future, by unlawful authority, and/or without due process . . . we will no longer restrain our bretheren from the use of whatever force is necessary to eliminate the threat of unlawful federal enforcement authority." This public message was reinforced in a series of private discussions around the country. Norm Olson traveled to Montana to monitor the siege, and latr reported warning officials that "if they treat this Montana thing like they treated Waco, that I was right there. And I told them, 'You will all die, you will all die.'"

The FBI received similarly blunt warnings in Alabama, Missouri and New Mexico. -- To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face, pp 253-254.

In point of fact, this was when Bob Wright of the 1st Brigade New Mexico Militia replied to the Albuquerque FBI SAC, when he asked if Bob would really go to the support of people under attack in another state:

"Why would I want to do that? There's plenty of you federal sonsabitches around here."

Now, that said, Mr. Roeder is going to have his day in court. The "good doctor" has already had his in the jurisdiction of the Almighty. No doubt, Mr. Roeder will ultimately be judged in the same Court. In the temporal sphere, if found guilty Mr. Roeder will likely be put to death in the fullness of time. This is something he probably thought through and accepted before he did it, if he did it.

But the one thing you can also count on is that Roder will be painted as a 90s "militiaman" by the professional liars at ADL and SPLC.

Read Judy's story, link here, and I'll have a final comment on the other side.

Mike
III

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Suspect supported killing abortion providers, friends say

By Judy L. Thomas | Kansas City Star

The suspect in custody for the slaying of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller was a member of an anti-government group in the 1990s and a staunch opponent of abortion.

Scott P. Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kan., a Kansas City suburb, was arrested on Interstate 35 near Gardner in suburban Johnson County, Kan., about three hours after the shooting. Tiller was shot to death around 10 a.m. inside Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita.

In the rear window of the 1993 blue Ford Taurus that he was driving was a red rose, a symbol often used by abortion opponents. On the rear of his car was a Christian fish symbol with the word "Jesus" inside.

Those who know Roeder said he believed that killing abortion doctors was an act of justifiable homicide.

"I know that he believed in justifiable homicide," said Regina Dinwiddie, a Kansas City anti-abortion activist who made headlines in 1995 when she was ordered by a federal judge to stop using a bullhorn within 500 feet of any abortion clinic. "I know he very strongly believed that abortion was murder and that you ought to defend the little ones, both born and unborn."

Dinwiddie said she met Roeder while picketing outside the Kansas City Planned Parenthood clinic in 1996. Roeder walked into the clinic and asked to see the doctor, Robert Crist, she said.

"Robert Crist came out and he stared at him for approximately 45 seconds," she said. "Then he (Roeder) said, 'I've seen you now.' Then he turned his back and walked away, and they were scared to death. On the way out, he gave me a great big hug and he said, 'I've seen you in the newspaper. I just love what you're doing.'^"

Roeder also was a subscriber to Prayer and Action News, a magazine that advocated the justifiable homicide position, said publisher Dave Leach, an anti-abortion activist from Des Moines, Iowa.

"I met him once, and he wrote to me a few times," Leach said. "I remember that he was sympathetic to our cause, but I don't remember any details."

Leach said he met Roeder in Topeka when he went there to visit Shelley Shannon, who was in prison for the 1993 shooting of Tiller.

"He told me about a lot of conspiracy stuff and showed me how to take the magnetic strip out of a five-dollar bill," Leach said. "He said it was to keep the government from tracking your money."

Roeder, who in the 1990s was a manufacturing assemblyman, also was involved in the "Freemen" movement.

"Freemen" was a term adopted by those who claimed sovereignty from government jurisdiction and operated under their own legal system, which they called common-law courts. Adherents declared themselves exempt from laws, regulations and taxes and often filed liens against judges, prosecutors and others, claiming that money was owed to them as compensation.

In April 1996, Roeder was arrested in Topeka after Shawnee County sheriff's deputies stopped him for not having a proper license plate. In his car, officers said they found ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound can of gunpowder and two 9-volt batteries, with one connected to a switch that could have been used to trigger a bomb.

Jim Jimerson, supervisor of the Kansas City ATF's bomb and arson unit, worked on the case.

"There wasn't enough there to blow up a building,'' Jimerson said at the time, ``but it could make several powerful pipe bombs...There was definitely enough there to kill somebody.''

Roeder, who then lived in Silver Lake, Kan., was stopped because he had an improper license plate that read "Sovereign private property. Immunity declared by law. Non-commercial American.'' Authorities said the plate was typical of those used by Freemen.

Roeder was arraigned on one count of criminal use of explosives and misdemeanor charges of driving on a suspended license, failure to carry a Kansas registration and failure to carry liability insurance.

He was found guilty and sentenced in June 1996 to 24 months of probation with intensive supervision and ordered to dissociate himself from anti-government groups that advocated violence.

But in December 1997, his probation ended six months early when the Kansas Court of Appeals overturned his conviction. The court held that evidence against Roeder was seized by authorities during an illegal search of his car.

Morris Wilson, commander of the Kansas Unorganized Citizens Militia in the mid-1990s, said he knew Roeder fairly well.

"I'd say he's a good ol' boy except he was just so fanatic about abortion," said Wilson, who now lives in western Nebraska. "He was always talking about how awful abortion was. But there's a lot of people who think abortion is awful."
Suzanne James, former director of victim's services for Shawnee County, said she remembered Roeder.

"He was part of the One Supreme Court, a Freemen group based out of Shawnee County," James said. "He was fanatic about a lot of things. I went to one of his court appearances and thought, 'This guy is dangerous.' There were a lot of red flags that came up about him."

In recent years, someone using the name Scott Roeder has posted anti-Tiller comments on various Internet sites. One post, dated Sept. 3, 2007 and placed on a site sponsored by Operation Rescue called chargetiller.com, said that Tiller needed to be "stopped."

"It seems as though what is happening in Kansas could be compared to the 'lawlessness' which is spoken of in the Bible," it said. "Tiller is the concentration camp 'Mengele' of our day and needs to be stopped before he and those who protect him bring judgment upon our nation."

On May 19, 2007, a Scott Roeder commented on an invitation by Operation Rescue to join an event being held May 17-20 in Wichita, "the 'Nation's Abortion Capital,' to pray for an end to George R. Tiller's late-term abortion business and for all pre-born babies everywhere to once again come under the protection of law."

The post said: "Bless everyone for attending and praying in May to bring justice to Tiller and the closing of his death camp. Sometime soon, would it be feasible to organize as many people as possible to attend Tillers church (inside, not just outside) to have much more of a presence and possibly ask questions of the Pastor, Deacons, Elders and members while there? Doesn't seem like it would hurt anything but bring more attention to Tiller."

So, here we are, back to the 1990s future.

A Democrat liberty- and property-stealing administration in power, angering the common folks, again.

A run on firearms and ammunition, again.

The armed citizenry dusting off the boots in the closet, again.

Freemen, again.

Abortion doctors having rough vigilante justice being wreaked upon them, again.

The Media with all their deliberate imprecision and conflation, again.

As this case plays out, pay attention to Judy Thomas' reportage. She usually has her facts right, whichever way they cut.