Posted on 11/16/2013 11:49:20 AM PST by IbJensen
You cannot depend on Google street view for recent updates on structures. A friend of mine sent me a screen shot when I was pulled up to my mailbox talking to a neighbor. That was 3 years ago.
I still owned my 2002 Honda then.
Most military bases and armories had security upgrades after 9/11 and some are just now being completed.
I suppose you missed the part when being interviewed by Glenn Beck that the money issue was raised. Glenn told him straight to his face to not worry about the money.
Yes—I did miss that!
From Glenn’s mouth to God’s ear!
Chapter 37
Jaeger and Shanks returned to the office and took their seats at the beat up conference table again. Malvone said, Okay, lets get back to business. Bob, what do you have lined up for tonight?
Were still working down the rod and gun club list; weve got surveillance on these two, Bancroft and Kincaid. Were going to take a little breather tonight, do the surveillance in shifts and let the troops get some rest.
No, Im sorry Bob; we cant let them rest up, not yet. Ive got a new mission thats got to go down tonight; they can sleep after its over tomorrow. Heres tonights target. Malvone passed a thin file folder from his briefcase to each STU leader. They contained printed images of a thin-faced nearly bald man in his late fifties or early sixties, biographical data sheets, copies of magazine editorials, and printed excerpts from what looked like internet chat sites.
This guy is Leo Swarovski; anybody heard of him? asked Malvone.
Oh sure, said Shanks, he writes for gun magazines. Ive seen that name for years.
Exactly. Hes what you call a prolific writer. Swarovski writes under his own name and a couple of pseudonyms for a half dozen gun magazines, plus hes written a dozen books on guns and military history. Hes not a member of the Black Water Rod and Gun Club, but hes a friend of Burgess Edmonds, and thats close enough for government work. Itll fly outin TV-land.
And hes been a real thorn in our side for years. Every time the ATF has stepped on its dick in the last 20 years, Swarovskis been all over our case. He calls us F-troop and jackbooted thugs and the gun Gestapo, all that crap, and right in print, right in his articles! Hes one of the worst Constitution fanatics you ever saw, hes a real Second Amendment nut case, and hes extremely anti-government.
Michael Shanks said, The man really knows his guns though, Ill give him that. And he used to be a pretty well known competition shooter. I think he won some national combat pistol shooting championships in the 1980s.
Thats all true, replied Malvone. And hes still pretty sharp. He shoots almost every day; he reloads his own ammo, the whole nine yards. So hes not going to be a pushover . His wifes a serious shooter too; she used to be regular Annie Oakley, and for a while she was nationally ranked in trap and skeet. So Im expecting these two to be dead-enders all the way. Theyll shoot back if we give them half a chance, so were not going to. This is going to be a straight-up no-knock raid: door charges, flash-bangs, the works.
This is in Richmond? asked Silvari.
The Richmond suburbs, replied Malvone. But closer to Petersburg.
Then this isnt going to be like Edmonds, this isnt going to be an accidental fire, this is going to be an overt law enforcement raid ? Are we going overt now, are we going to intentionally blow our cover? asked Bob Bullard.
Its just going to be reported that the raid was conducted by a federal law enforcement tactical unit. The details beyond that will all be protected under the Patriot Act: theres no Freedom of Information Act for terrorism-related cases. Its all clamped shut, theres a total blackout, so the STU Team itself will still be covert.
The other leaders around the table nodded in agreement.
I gave the Richmond Field Office SAC a heads-up call. When youre finished with Swarovski, the Richmond ATF is going to assert federal control and take charge of evidence collection. Its already set up. When youre done, you just get in your vehicles and come back.
Bullard asked, What kind of evidence? Does he have any contraband?
Malvone answered , Hes got, or a least he had, at least a dozen assault-type rifles that we know of. And hes owned at least three fifty caliber sniper rifles, including one semi-auto Barrett. Plus you can bet hes got rifle scopes out the ass. Maybe he got rid of them all, maybe he didnt; youll find out soon enough tonight. But even if he did get rid of everything illegal, it doesnt matter, because youll be bringing some of your own as insurance.
Hammet interjected, We can bring some of Edmondss scoped hunting rifles, thatll tie them together.
Sniper rifles George, sniper rifles. But thats the idea. And well bring some of our confiscated militia weapons too. Thats all we actually need, any contraband weapons of his own will just be icing on the cake.
Bullard added, Dont forget hes an ammunition reloader. And that means hes got gun powder, so we can stick bomb making on him too. That always looks good on a domestic terrorism case.
Right you are Bob, right you are. But the only case we need to make is in the court of public opinion, because Swarovskis going to be carried out of his house feet first.
Malvone continued, Now you might be thinking that doing this asshole Swarovski will be a good nights work, and it will be, but its not all, its just one step leading up to the main event. Tomorrow the STU is going to break out from the rest of federal law enforcement; were going right to the top of the pack. Oh, well still be an anonymous ATF tactical unit out in TV-land, but were going to be very, very popular where it matters. Im telling you, Randolph and Sanderson getting sniped, that hit too close to home!
Want to know why I dont want Fallon or Sorrento marked up? Have you wondered about that? Have you wondered why we havent turned Fallon over for a public arrest? I mean, heres the state AGs assassin, thats quite a feather in our cap to bring him in, right? We could have done the big media perp walk and taken the credit, but we didnt, and heres why: Fallon and Sorrento havent finished their crime spree yet. Theyre driving up to Washington tomorrow to assassinate the Homeland Security Director, but theyre not going to make it all the way.
The men passed sly looks and winks to each other around the table. Jaeger said, And let me guess whos going to discover the plot and save the day, just in the nick of time. He turned and gave Michael Shanks a high-five.
Shanks added , And naturally, these two desperados will be taking along a couple of Burgess Edmondss finest long-range sniper rifles for the assassination attempt.
Well Im done here now, you guys dont need me any more, I can go back to DC, Malvone joked. Really, I can see you guys have grasped the concept. So tonight were going to leave some of Edmondss rifles at Swarovskis place. Tomorrow, Fallon will be found with another of Edmondss rifles, and if Swarovskis still got them, one of his fifty calibers. Thatll tie them all together in one nice tight bundle. Fallon and Sorrento as the trigger men; Edmonds and Swarovski as the money man and the organizer. Cut and Print. In fact, its the information Ive got in my briefcase now thats going to lead you to Fallon and Sorrento tomorrow, the information youre going to find in Swarovskis house. So this time, dont burn his damn house down!
They all laughed at that one, and exchanged knowing nods. Jaeger said,
Boss, at the risk of sounding like an ass-kisser, I have to say you are one scary freaking genius.
Well Tim, I dont know if Im a genius or not, but Ill admit I did have kind of a eureka moment a few years ago, a real shot of pure 100-proof insight. You know about plausible deniability, and how we use it all the time to avoid taking any blame for screw-ups . By we, you know, I mean the government. If theres any possible alternative explanation for a screw-up, no matter how far-fetched, you just deny, deny, deny; and if theres no rock -solid direct proof, eventually the problem goes away.
Silvari said Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter accusations.
Exactly. Malvone continued. Clinton was the real master; he raised it to an art form. But Ive been studying more recent history, and especially the way the media reports things, and then it just hit me. All of a sudden I saw the flip side of plausible deniability. I call it probable culpability. Smear somebody, plant some evidence, and then cap em. As long as the target is somebody the media didnt like to begin with, they report it just exactly the way you want them to, right down the line.
Like Waco, said Bob Bullard, who had been there.
Just like Waco. If were dealing with religious cults like in Waco, or gun nuts like Edmonds and Swarovski, its a piece of cake, because the media already hates them. Show them some automatic weapons that were found in the ashes, who can say otherwise? Were from the ATF, so were the experts, right ? The TV networks are all on our side in this, just look at how well it worked on Timeline!
Oh yeah, Terror in Tidewater, that was beautiful! said Tim Jaeger. You can always count on CBA to do a gun story the right way.
As long as we paint it in broad strokes, itll work every time, at least with the major networks, said Malvone. If anybody finds a few details that dont fit, some actual evidence that contradicts our version, it doesnt even matter, because then theyre just dismissed as paranoid black helicopter kooks, and after that they can never get any traction in the respectable media. Waco, Vince Foster, Oklahoma City, Ruby Ridge, you name it: anybody who bucks the official story is called a lunatic and a conspiracy theorist. Nobody wants to be lumped in with the black helicopter loony tunes, so no credible reporter ever looks into these cases very hard. Other than a few whack jobs on internet sites, nobody that matters ever really challenges the official stories. Just look at Waco, for Gods sake! Or Vince Foster, or any of them.
Silvari said, Reporters are so afraid of being called a conspiracy theory nut, that it actually makes minor conspiracies easy to pull off. Thats it in a nutshell, said Malvone. Thats the beauty of probable culpability.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Here is the link. It is about 3/4 through the story. I heard it live.
Thanks!
I’ll listen now.
bttt for those who haven’t seen this.
All will be told: “You will be housed; you will be fed..”
Like in Dachau?
Dachau, Auschweitz, Treblinka, Buchenwald..no doubt our great exalted leader’s travel itinerary for those ‘benefiting” by 0bamacare..
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it and Never Again is here.
What is most bothersome is that such a cadre of persons could be from what one would ordinarily take as a friendly all American citizen and neighbor. Who are these people, young and old, who would sell out the Constitution for pieces of silver? I know I and the USA saw plenty of these kind of people during the Obama dictated shut down during veterans day. I would hope that my neighbor would not put me in a position of thinking of him or her as a life or death enemy but if push comes to shove my belief as a G.I. with overseas duty in WWII would certainly show.
They’ll be paid a livable wage with benefits from the central socialist Obama government to shoot and kill their neighbors.
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