The CT Chief asks, "What if the killer can provide proof of his deed to the website in addition to his 'prediction'?"
"That would enhance the website's complicity, which they would be very reluctant to do."
"Well, what about the highly public murders? The Senator's head is blown apart by a sniper's bullet during an outdoor speech?"
"Since the killer's risk is much higher in such a scenario so would his required payment, and this magnifies the funding problem I described earlier. Instead of $500,000, now $1,000,000 becomes the new equilibrium. Maybe even more. I suspect that most targets worth a million dollars or more in donations would have sufficient security to neutralize an AP threat.
"Furthermore, an executive order could be signed that would offer any website target Secret Service protection. That would increase a perp's risk many times more, raising the stakes beyond the wallet of a populist scheme.
"So far, I have discussed only the donors and the killers. Their link is the website, and that's the real Achille's heel of AP. The website could easily be discredited by the spread of rumors. We could claim that it had been compromised, or that it was stealing the donor funds, or that it had no intention of ever paying off any 'predictors.' We could easily destroy any trust the participants had in the website."
The CT Chief nods in admiration. "Yes, that would work."
"But let's assume that an AP website does manage to survive long enough to foment a few murders. Websites are run by people, and anybody is subject to arrest, prosecution, conviction, and imprisonment. AP's inventor James Bell found that out personally. His argument that website personnel have no knowledge of or complicity in a crime just won't wash. Holding money for killers and then effecting disbursement of that money is complicity.
"Since judges would be on a target list, they could not allow an AP scheme to operate unmolested. All judges in the land would have a vested interest in shutting down AP websites immediately. Judges can rule any way they desire if the daisy chain remains intact to the Supreme Court, which it would once we educated the judiciary of the threat which AP poses to them.
"In short, such a site could simply not be allowed to legally exist for very long in the U.S. Justice would shut it down almost immediately."
"What if it's based offshore?"
"Not a problem. We would pressure whatever foreign government had jurisdiction in shutting it down.
"What if that foreign government approves of the AP website and refuses to shut it down?"
"Then we'd fight fire with fire. AP can go both ways. We'd simply create a competing AP website targeting their officials."
"Gee, you have given all this some thought, haven't you?"
A tight smile. "Yes, sir, a bit."
"So, give me the takeaway here on AP and the Krassnyites."
"In our opinion, 'Assassination Politics', while a very frightening notion, is too vulnerable a scheme to succeed. What Harold Krassny did, however, is far more disturbing. By example he agitated random individuals. He basically said, 'There are bad people out there who deserve to be killed, and you can kill them with little risk. So what are you waiting for?'
"Now that is a very difficult proposition to counter, especially since Krassny's dead. There is no website; there are no donors. These perps are linked only by a common idea, one they've all thought of before Krassny's example. Krassny was a bolt of lightning into a parched forest, and the resulting fire is, or soon will be, out of our control. We can protect a few trees in particular, but many acres will burn and there's nothing we can do about it. Gentlemen, we're facing a force of Nature here. The conflagration will end only by a lack of heat, or by a lack of fuel. It either rains or the fire runs out of forest."
"Since the potential 'forest' is so large, how about making it rain?"
"That's probably our best hope, but at the moment I have no ideas on how to create a deluge. Many Americans have felt pushed around long enough, and they've reached a level of desperation that overwhelms all moral sense. In fact, their moral sense is what's energizing this thing. Because of its considerable public support it is a phenomenon many times worse than Islamic terrorism. There's a lot of pent-up rage that is becoming unbound. Most of the victims are seen by many average Americans as evil powermongers, and few tears have been shed over their deaths.
"Although Bell's AP scheme has not transpired, he did get a lot of normally peaceable Americans thinking about retribution, and that was a larger contribution than even the technical details of AP. Here's a James Bell quote: 'With my essay, I simply proposed that we libertarians begin to treat aggression by government as being essentially equivalent to aggression by muggers, rapists, robbers, and murderers, and view their acts as a continuing series of aggressions. Seen this way, it should not be necessary to wait for their next aggression; they will . . . always be aggressing, again and again, until they are stopped for good.' "
The room erupts. "Shit!"
"Good Lord!"
"Bell fertilized the soil — not for himself because the AP sprout could never take root — but for Krassny. His example has taken root. What we're facing is a vicarious bloodlust focused on government leaders and political figures. It's likely to become our newest national spectator sport. We're staring at the French Revolution here, and Harold Krassny is the ghost of Robe-spierre. I think that heads have only just begun to roll."
2008 USA social news
Hearing media people describe liberals is like listening to a fish characterize water: Water? What water? (at 63)
Postulating the existence of the ghosts of liberal imaginations and pursuing the logic of their paranoia, what is the threat posed by the "religious right" precisely? Is the nation in imminent danger of having its coarseness removed? When anal sex, oral sex, and premarital sex are all gleefully laughed about on prime-time TV, the peril of religious values infecting the culture would seem to be somewhat overrated. (at 180)
— Ann Coulter,
Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
A tidal wave of "political correctness" crashes over the land. Hollywood stars try to outdo each other in moral sanctity and in blaming the "religious right" for the nation's economic woes. It is all Bush's fault.
Our principal trouble today in this country seems to be that too many people have too much time on their hands.
— Justice Clarence Thomas, 1998
2008 political news
The Canadian province of Quebec finally secedes after a referendum passes at 53%. Though hardly a popular mandate, the other 47% seem poised to take the looming secession in stride. Democratic equanimity is, after all, the Canadian way. Separatist movements in Alberta and B.C. double in strength nearly overnight. Canada, historically a rather purposeless nation formed largely by default, is splitting at her tenuous seams.
After eight years, the Democratic Party is finally back in the White House. McBlane and Wiedermann are elected. Liberals across the country are dizzy with joy to have finally seen the last of Bush, Inc. — determined to make the Republicans pay for their Orwellian regime.
The federal gun registration under the DWA is amended to include semiautomatic shotguns and handguns, as well as manually-loaded centerfire rifles. (Rimfires remain exempt.) Also affected for the first time are the pre-1899 "antique" firearms (e.g., Mauser bolt-actions, Winchester lever-actions, etc.), which were formerly exempt from nearly all federal gun regulation. National compliance is estimated to be an average of only 12%, and less than 5% in the rural South and inland West.
A police state is a self-perpetuating system that will grow until it collapses under its own weight, or until people have reached the limits of their endurance. (at 17)
— Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman, The State vs. The People
The dispensing of injustice is always in the right hands.
— Stanislaw J. Lem
Harold Krassny's dissemination of the laptop data begins to bear fruit. A well-known libertarian pseudonymic columnist writes
a devastating story about the Oklahoma City bombings, bringing to light unmistakable Government complicity. The more federal officials deny the allegations, the worse they look. The faith of the American public slips drastically.
A REPORT ON THE BOMBINGS AT OKLAHOMA CITY
Exclusive to The Modern Jeffersonian, by "Whisk E. Rebellion"
Fall 2008
When federal intelligence agencies in the United States decide to move in a particular direction — or when a faction of them decides to move in a particular direction — they do so when to move in that direction would scratch a number of different itches at different levels simultaneously.
— intelligence analyst Dave Emory, from The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, by David Hoffman, p. 327
As many of you already know, a Wyoming WW2 vet named Harold Krassny distributed over the Internet the laptop files of his two victims. Without divulging how I received excerpts of these files, they contained a virtual treasure trove of incriminating information on Government "black ops."
Topping the list of these was the Murrah Building bombings. As this report will prove, that horrible event was planned and executed by individuals serving the Federal Government.
Creation/evolution of the "covert cadre"
Independent and interlinked officials, agents, and operatives of several federal intelligence (e.g., CIA, NSA, NRO, ONI, Army CID, etc.) and law enforcement agencies (e.g., FBI, DEA, ATF, Secret Service, etc.) had, by the mid-1980s, coallesced into a covert cadre. They are often referred to as a "rogue element" within the US Government. (Most metropolitan police departments have such "rogue elements", such as the LAPD Rampart Division.)
They are not under the direction of the president or Congress. Rather, they are directed by the same people (i.e., the "shadow government") who direct the president and much of the Congress. The purpose of this covert cadre is to accomplish highly sensitive and clandestine operations to indirectly further the scope of federal powers. Generally, the president and Congress are "not in the loop" for these ops.
The need for more regulation restricting freedom
In 1993 the FBI directly supplied Islamic terrorists with the explosive materials and expertise necessary to topple the World Trade Center. When the Bureau's agent saboteur was never told why real explosives were being provided in what was supposedly a sting operation, he became suspicious and tape-recorded further contacts with his FBI handler. The text of such, unmistakably proving active federal collusion, was reported by many papers, including the New York Times.
The Anti-Terrorism bill had been introduced just after the February 1993 bombing of the Word Trade Center, and Clinton just couldn't seem to push it through. The controllers of the covert cadre had long believed that an act of domestic terrorism was required to shock the public into accepting new stringent regulations reducing their individual rights.
Oklahoma City
On 30 August 1994 ATF agent Angela Finley sent a status report of Elohim City (EC) in eastern Oklahoma near Muldrow, which was classified Sensitive and Significant (vs. Routine). It went to the heads of ATF, Treasury, Justice, and the NSC. Through the lengthy infiltration of Confidential Informant (CI) Carol Howe it described the paramilitary activities of the EC 1,100 acre white supremacist compound and its often expressed interest in bombing federal facilities.
This report caught the attention of certain government people.
The ATF did not want to wait; they wanted to be proactive. Still stinging after their Waco fiasco, they planned a 25 March 1995 series of nationwide paramilitary raids on many militia groups. Concerned ATF agents leaked the plan to Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX), who immediately fired off a letter to AG Janet Reno that such action would "run the risk of an irreparable breach between the Federal Government and the public." Although his letter went unanswered, the raids were quietly called off.
The ATF were mollified with the promise that they would soon be instrumental in thwarting a terrorist bombing of a federal facility. By early April the ATF were included in an ongoing FBI undercover sting operation concerning an Iraqi terrorist ring based in Oklahoma City. Several of the key Iraqis had ties to individuals at EC.
What came out later was that Timothy McVeigh was actively working with these Iraqis, who were plotting to blow up a federal building. Terry Nichols was likely the initial contact with fundamentalist muslims during his many trips to the Philippines. What McVeigh and Nichols did not know, however, was that the Iraqis were also planning to dump the bombing in their laps as a right-wing act.
Many eyewitnesses have said that McVeigh, a decorated Gulf War sergeant, was an ATF informant paid to infiltrate the Islamic terrorist group. (Another possible taskmaster was the US Army Special Forces Covert Tactical Unit.) What is known is that at least one federal infiltrator/saboteur was placed in the group. He would soon become famous as "John Doe #2."
It was decided by the covert cadre that a bombing could then be easily blamed on either the Iraqi Hezbollah or the Elohim City white-supremacists, whichever was later deemed more useful.
18-19 April 1995
On midnight of 18 April 1995 the front of the Oklahoma City Murrah Building was placed under surveillance by ATF agents. The building's security staff, Federal Protective Services, was to leave at 0200 hours and return at 0600. The Ryder truck, driven by McVeigh and John Doe #2, was to park in front at 0300. The truck was packed with 1,000lbs. of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (ANFO). It was — like the 1993 WTC bombing — never meant to go off.
In OKC, however, the relatively small amount of low-explosive would seem to the public sufficiently large to destroy the Murrah Building, when all it could do was merely blow out a few windows. ANFO is a very ineffective explosive for air blasts. At less than half the velocity of detonation (VOD) of C-4, ANFO is simply just too slow to bring down a reinforced concrete building forty feet away.
John Doe #2, an FBI agent saboteur, was to have disarmed the bomb before it was supposed to detonate at 0330, leaving a surprised "Lee Harvey McVeigh" (who possibly thought that he was helping to set up the Iraqis by driving the truck) to be arrested "in the nick of time." John Doe #2 would then be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list in the hopes of establishing his bona fides with neo-Nazi groups or militias — whom he could then easily infiltrate. That was, at least, the official plan.
The covert team, however, had another plan which would serve much larger interests. They successfully passed themselves off as federal agents to McVeigh and John Doe #2, and convinced the pair that the truck's delivery had been postponed to 0900 for greater drama (since the building would be full of people then) and arrest publicity (shown live on morning TV news).
Thus, the Ryder truck did not show at 0300. On-site federal agents became very worried. By 0330 an FBI team near the State Fairgrounds with radio-tracking equipment was searching for the truck. By 0400 they had relocated downtown, though without success. Unbeknownst to the ATF and FBI, the transmitter beacon on the truck had been disabled by operatives. When the truck had not arrived by 0600, on-site agents naturally assumed that the staged arrest had been postponed until the following evening. The op was called off at 0630 because the truck was to have been driven to the unoccupied Murrah Building in order to safely arrest McVeigh and regain control of the truck bomb.
At 0215, covert operatives secretly entered the Murrah Building on foot from the underground parking garage. (Hours earlier they had left a van containing all their necessary gear.) Concealed behind decorative planters, they placed 10lb. C-4 high-explosive charges with radio-controlled detonators on six reinforced concrete columns at their 3rd floor junctions: A3, A5, A7, B3, B4, and B5. (Columns A4 and A6 were expected to fall on their own from the collapsing cantilever floors.) They quickly finished their work and left on foot through the garage at 0257. (An agent would return by 0530 to retrieve the van.) They had not been seen by the ATF/FBI surveillance agents on the other side of the building.
The OCPD Bomb Squad arrived
at 0630, searched the first two floors, and left by 0830. Unfortunately, they did not search the 3rd floor.
At 0704 a group alphanumeric page was sent by the covert cadre to all OKC ATF agents. Of the thirteen agents, five had been out all night on the sting operation. The pager message read "UNODIR NO-GO OFFICE."
"UNODIR" means "unless otherwise directed." ATF clerical staff did not receive this group page, and showed up for work as usual. The purpose of the page was to prevent ATF agents from interfering with the Murrah Building 0900 delivery of the Ryder truck. Ironically, their absence would create suspicion that the ATF had prior knowledge of the bomb plot.
Several neighborhood security cameras across the street from the Murrah Building clearly recorded the arrival of the Ryder truck at 0859 hours. Timothy McVeigh, the driver, exited the truck, crossed NW 5th Street and walked east to Robinson Avenue, where he turned north towards the YMCA building and a parking garage.
The passenger, swarthy, black-haired John Doe #2, was seen by one witness to have walked to the rear of the truck. He then noticed with alarm that the door's padlock had been changed, thus he could not deactivate the truck bomb as planned. In great haste he fast-walked east on 5th Street and turned south on Broadway to his getaway driver and vehicle, a brown Chevy pickup truck with tinted windows. Several witnesses soon after identified Hussain al-Hussaini as the driver, leaving downtown at a high rate of speed over the Walnut Street Bridge. The FBI put out an APB on the truck, which it inexplicably cancelled hours later.
The ATF and FBI agents who had been on-station hours earlier got word that the Ryder truck, which had been hidden overnight in plain sight at the Remington Park Race Track parking lot, was spotted at the intersection of Reno and M.L.K. By the time agents arrived downtown it was 0901 hours and the truck was already parked in front of the Murrah Building.
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