Lots to do today and very little time.

Rough day yesterday and must finish a promised project today before I do anything else lest a friend rise up in righteous wrath and slay me in justifiable retribution for non-payment of promises.

Expect at least one and maybe two important posts later today, one on Gunwalker and the other on PATCON.

NRA weinermobile crew contemplate Montana drive-by on gun rights.

"When NRA first began our campaign to fire Eric Holder we were one of just a few voices in the wilderness." -- Wayne LaPierre in NRA fund raising appeal.

David's right. "Why is this even a fricking issue?"

The endorsement of a powerful gun-rights group is up for grabs in a key Senate race.

The National Rifle Association’s (NRA) decision on whether to endorse Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) or Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg (Mont.) could be the deciding factor in what is expected to be a close contest. Political analysts say that the winner of this election could determine which party will control the Senate in January of 2013.

If Tester voted for the likes of Holder and is not on the front lines demanding the truth in the Gunwalker Scandal out of sheer contrition (and he did and he ain't) then why should the NRA back the Democrat sonofabitch? Can the Lairds of Fairfax come in from "the wilderness" long enough to figure THAT out?


"Yea, verily I say unto you, incumbency hath charms to sooth the savage Fudds."

Tales of delegitimacy: The "Supercommittee" falls apart.

"Would you like a little Supercommittee with your salad?"

Der "UberKommittee" ist kaput. Was there ever any doubt? Except as an example of the suicidal orgy of anecdotes in delegitimacy that the current bipartisan regime seems to be caught up in, this means exactly dick, and a very limp one at that. It never did mean more than dick, and history will note that whatever dick that it did represent was fundamentally unserious from the beginning. These are the guys who went back into the salon on the Titanic after it hit the iceberg to await further developments with a round of whiskey and soda. Pardon us down in steerage if we draw the right conclusions from such exercises in unreality.

These people are intellectually, economically, morally and spiritually bankrupt. They have lost The Mandate of Heaven. Their diseased regime is bankrupt, and yet still they pretend to play poker with worthless chips as if the game isn't over because if they admit it then the bystanders might think less of them.

That would be impossible.

Mike
III

(Tip of the boonie hat to Sayen CroWolf for the illustration.)

Barkus' bark tells us more about Sipsey Street's bite.

The Krewe of Barkus is a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade whose participants are dogs costumed according to a central parade theme and escorted by their human owners. Originally created in November 1992, the krewe was not granted parading status by the city of New Orleans until 1994. The Krewe is reigned over by a King and Queen and registration fees for members are donated to local chapters of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Themes over the years have included: Jurassic Bark, 2001: A Dog Odyssey, the Wizard of Paws, Tails From the Crypt and Raiders of the Lost Bark.

Barkus traces its history to a November 1992 meeting of the Margaret Orr fan club. Orr is a meteorologist for New Orleans television station WDSU. A member of the club hatched the idea for a canine-centered "krewe" and it took hold. Orr regularly participates in the event as a Mistress of Ceremonies.

Membership in the Krewe of Barkus has grown over the years and now numbers over 400. -- Wikipedia.

It is interesting that Barkus, the self described MSM journalist who began posting in these pages in defense of Tina Brown, continues to engage here. One would think that Barkus has better things to do than deign to come down to Sipsey Street and risk contact with the great unwashed, arguing with us "conspiracy theorists" as the visiting representative of the "Main Stream Media Anti-Defamation League."

To be sure, Barkus' blandishments are couched in reasonable language and lack the usual dismissive sarcasm that we have come to expect from the usually resentful and bewildered representatives of a dying race -- that of "main stream" journalists. It is obviously important to Barkus to persuade us of Tina Brown's good intentions, despite what my sources have indicated is the true nature of events in the Newsweak editorial spaces.

And so you have to ask yourself, "Why?"

Why is it important for anyone of the Mandarin Literati class to waste time on a mere "extremist blog" written by a "blood soaked" novelist?

File this under "Things that make you say, 'Hmmmm.'"

Lo, how the mighty gun grabbers have fallen!

"There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." -- Matthew 13:50.

Citizen disarmament advocate Dan Thomasson reduced to impotent, and truthfully awful, sarcasm: America's too crazy about its weaponry, sure as shootin'

Once They Own Your Kids, What’s Left?

Good question.

"These statistics imply the State & Defense Departments may very well be the top suppliers of small arms to Mexico’s drug cartels and not civilians."

Say it ain't so, Hillary.

"Doomed." Spoken by a guy who has seen all the Gunwalker Scandal documents & interview transcripts. Meanwhile, Rick Perry has discovered Gunwalker.

Issa: If Eric Holder is not ‘doomed,’ the Obama administration is.

House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa told The Daily Caller that if Attorney General Eric Holder isn’t “doomed” because of his handling of Operation Fast and Furious, the entire Obama administration is.

“If the [Obama] administration continues to have full confidence in a failed administration by Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, then ultimately the administration is going to be doomed,” Issa told TheDC during an interview in San Diego on Saturday. “Eric Holder seems to have the full confidence of the president, and I can’t understand why.”

Meanwhile, Rick Perry has discovered the Gunwalker Scandal. Eric Holder must go.


"Welcome to the party, pal!"

How to win friends - - Germans once again try to endear themselves to their historical victims by taxing slave labor payments retroactively.

'Europe spricht Deutsch' ('Europe is speaking German') -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel to British PM David Cameron last week.

Outrage as Berlin issues tax demands to Belgians deported to Germany in WWII to work as slaves for Nazis.

NYT cheesedicks link nutburger who thought he was Jesus to "right wing extremism."

He watched an Alex Jones movie once. Ah, yup. That'll do it. Good thing he didn't read a "blood-soaked novel."

Another country heard from. . . A "card-carrying member of the MSM" defends Tina Brown.

In response to the exclusive below, I just received this comment:

Barkus said...

Sure, a source you happen to admire was made to look like a nut. That's unfortunate. But as a card-carrying member of the MSM, I have to tell you that editors are paid to make editorial decisions, and most often they make them for reasons of space, expediency and quality rather than for the conspiratorial ones you fancy. Here's what probably happened, because it happens all the time: They killed PATCON not because it "will get you killed" but because it didn't fit the larger (or smaller) purposes of the story. They had privileged access to Matthews, so they're going to ride that for all it's worth, rather than getting into PATCON. That the MSM is skeptical of conspiracy stories in general doesn't mean that they are part of a general conspiracy. And that a general-interest newsweekly runs a story that isn't the story you want it to run doesn't mean that FBI or the Clintons were calling the shots. Tina Brown calls the shots at Newsweek; that's what she gets paid for. You might like her or you might hate her; I have mixed feelings about her myself. But she, like most members of the MSM, is just doing her job, and while she might have a point of view -- so do you -- her job is fixing stories when they don't work, so that she can fix a magazine. It's not being part of an FBI "fix."

Well, now that we have THAT straight. But, actually, it is part of a fix and I'll trust my sources before I do a "card-carrying member of the MSM". Any day of the week.

The story was one thing one day.

It was another thing the next day.

In between, PATCON got cut out.

That's "fixing stories" all right.

Which was, if I recall, the whole point of the piece.

SITREP and panhandling.

Situation Report:

A reader has graciously used frequent flier miles to ensure that I get from Birmingham to DC for the next hearing. I will fly out on the 6th and come back on the 10th. It always knocks me for a loop when readers kick in to help, especially on that level and most often it happens when I don't even ask. As before, I will not be spending any money on a Hilton resort, as the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General always does when they go to Phoenix to interview whistleblowers for 15 minutes.

I will be staying with friends, in Free America south of the Potomac. However, taking on the PATCON story at this juncture has added another whole layer of expense to this Sipsey Street Irregulars proposition. There are literally hundreds upon hundreds of pages of PATCON documents that I must print out for study and circulation to other experts. My last printer broke down some time ago and I have been making do by going to the library but at 15 cents a copy and the volume required, that will no longer suffice. I will also need some folding stuff for photocopies and other expenses in DC while I am there.

The last time I was in DC, I don't suppose that I bought more than three meals myself, since my generous friends took care of that as well. This time, I will need to do better, which means that I must panhandle y'all for the resources.

I hate it, but I don't see how I can accomplish what needs to be done without it.

I can't offer you tax deduction status and I'm sure not tax exempt myself. I also understand what economic stresses y'all are under and I feel guilty about even asking. Please, for those of you who have already sent subscriptions, understand that that I'm not asking more from you. Please don't send more. But if you haven't thought to send a little before and feel like maybe now's the time, you can donate by clicking on the PayPal button to the right or by sending whatever you feel appropriate to Mike Vanderboegh, P.O. Box 926, Pinson, AL 35126.

In any case, I promise that I will not do as this lady advertises, for I truly cannot dance. Never could. Even before the cane.

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.

I make the "Government Monopoly of Violence" advocates' "Insurrectionism Timeline" in three places. (Is that all? Note to self: Try harder.)

"Relax, Paul, just shake it out your pants' leg. You can wipe up later."

Featuring, in a recurring role, the terrifyingly evil and maniacal old fat villain with a cane from Alabama. (Did you know he writes "blood soaked novels," too?)

David is jealous.

(Insert maniacal laughter.)



It could be worse, CSGV could be facing The Haiku Menace.

Newt's "bright idea."

Newt Gingrich announces his new idea to curb judicial activism.

Gingrich follows FDR with court-packing scheme.

Famous Last Words, No. 2,374. Falling somewhere between "Don't give up the ship!" & Nixon's "I am not a crook!"

"I'm shocked! Shocked! To find gunwalking going on here." "Your e-Trace print out from Mexico, sir." "Oh, thank you very much."

"This case has nothing to do with Fast and Furious," said ATF spokesman Thomas Crowley. "There hasn't been any gun-walking in the Dallas division of ATF."

Enter Hillary, Stage Left.

The Hillary Moment.

Tell me again, GOP, why you don't want to go after the State Department Connection to the Gunwalker Scandal?

Am en route back to Birmingham . . .

. . . after spending some time with my youngest daughter at college. Will have at least two big stories for tomorrow, and I think I can guarantee you big stories daily for a while.


"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

Praxis: Why you should always fly with a weapon.

Interesting strategy for using firearms to keep TSA and baggage pilferers out of yer stuff.

David Codrea: Politicians’ views on guns reflect constituent ignorance and apathy—then and now

Nothing new under the sun.