Jerky » Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:25 am wrote:- The entire tri-state area of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware being void of any organized crime element beyond the "national security culture".
- That said "national security culture" semi-openly operates as a "Mafia" unto itself.
The two bullet points here go hand in hand, yes. What else would you call a group that operates outside of the law and controls illicit activity on their turf? "Mafia" is a deliberately loaded term to muddy the waters and make it about Italians anyway, right? It's just plain organized crime.
That doesn't mean that SES guys and Secret Service teams are running cocaine to suites in the Watergate, of course. It just means the people who do, do so with the knowledge and complicity of security establishment.
The line between the two, of course, is that guys on the inside stay protected, and guys on the outside can get shot in the face and it's just a weird news story, water under the Arlington Memorial.
- That the maintenance of Confidential Human Sources and pretty much the whole "infiltration" law enforcement strategy means that federal law enforcement (and DEA and ATF) is hopelessly corrupted by design, and every "mistake" they make is proof of perfidy and not incompetence.
Oh, there's tons of incompetence, to be clear -- that's a great deal of how we know anything about the internal operations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
But yes, it's an inherent moral hazard that's been going for decades. This is a network of protected criminals. "Hopelessly corrupted by design" is a fair assessment. If they really thought it wasn't working, you have to wonder why they don't stop doing it.
- That the Alt-Right is an FBI project. (Nah)
This one, I'm fine with disagreement on because until something leaks, we'll never know. To my eyes, though, the entire "Alt-Right" thing has been a work, in the pro wrestling sense. It's not about them. It's about the people who come out to protest them. It's not about uniting the right, it's about targeting the left.
Now that I put it like that, though, you're right ... maybe it's the DNC, after all ...
- That "we know through experience and FOIA'd documentation that most of the White Supremacist Right culture that SPLC specialize in tracking has been a network of FBI informants. For decades." (VAST exaggeration)
Long, discursive but full of shit worth chewing on in this regard: "Abberation in the Heartland of the Real," Wendy Paintings. It's public domain that FBI has been talking for about a decade (maybe more?) -- white nationalism infiltration of law enforcement and the military. How does the FBI deal with that? What is their toolkit for such tasks?
I would say white nationalism has been a managed ecosystem since The Order and Elohim City. (It's not like their targets are very smart, either, this isn't a tall order.) Been told I hugely under-estimate the role of military, specifically naval, intelligence, and that's probably true.
- That the ongoing "culture war" is "a dumb joke", nothing more than "a weird epiphenomenon that emerges in the moire pattern formed between Twitter mobs and actual street fights." (tell that to its thousands of victims)
Who are the thousands of victims in question here?
- That "Chan boards have been an actual nexus of original intelligence work, and has occasionally exposed actual, pro, nation state sponsored operations, to boot." (I would love to see proof of THAT claim)
Unconfirmed hits on Chinese and Russian activity online, confirmed hits and leaks on Australian operations, the leak flap happened in 2015.
- That the University of Virginia was somehow involved in netting both Kessler and Richard Spencer as raw humint for FBI skulduggery of some kind.
The campus and alumni community, along with their affiliations and mutual institutions, makes "UVA" the vector for recruitment. I am not saying that UVA administration runs this program with excel spreadsheets and 800 numbers for them, or that Kessler was recruited by the quantico@uva.edu inbox. Just like when I talk about "Georgetown" or "Yale" I'm not trying to make any implications about their current faculty. This is shorthand for networks of power diffused around the actual institutions.
- That Kessler's recent appearance on NPR is a result of... what? The FBI snagging him an interview? Because they wanted him to... what? Disseminate "race realist" bullshit so that... what? It would "subvert a social movement"? If so, which one? Maybe they did it just to "advance the (bogus according to you) culture war"? But... how? By pwning the libs?
It's promo. Push messaging. They did it to raise awareness of Unite The Right 2. Yes, the entire edifice of US media is full of intelligence assets. Yes, prominent placement in US media often orchestrated by intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and even corporations. They wanted him to play a role and he did, same as so many other assets before him.
"pwning the libs" is richly contextual, but in the sense that his existence & exposure makes that demographic angry and gets them out onto the streets, yes, definitely.
Also, I call it a "bogus" culture war because the Alt-Right is less than ten thousand people. The threat is hugely over-inflated, and yes, I believe it was over-inflated mostly because the entire American journalist class lives on Twitter. The entire fucking chronology is told in twitter screenshots and youtube clips.
- That "Jason Kessler was the Richard Spencer, David Duke-ass face of a SEQUEL to the first failed Unite The Right event. Neither he, nor anyone involved on the Alt-Right end, expect to see any turnout." (Maybe, but considering all the well attended Far Right gatherings in other parts of the USA in recent months, I don't see why they wouldn't expect a bigger turnout)
- That "Unite the Right 2 was textbook". (what textbook?!)
I actually linked to one of them already:
viewtopic.php?f=44&t=37330
FEMA's specs were leaked recently by the MuckRock team:
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... -insights/
I have seen the pre-game/infiltration aspects euphemistically referred to as "Violence Abatement Teams" in the past.
I'm sure the DHS has actual manuals on protest surveillance and tactics for provoking aggression and arrests, and I am sure they were written largely thanks to their experience with Occupy and Standing Rock; not so much the Bundy stuff. How do you convert a high-density urban environment into a controlled space to accommodate thousands of people, and how do you maximize the actionable intelligence yield from these events in order to justify the spending?
- That "this" (whatever "this" entails, when all of the above is considered) has all been done to somehow "make US pop culture implode".
In response to that last bullet point... WHY?!
I mean, just because some aspects of US pop culture are imploding, that doesn't mean it's a - and pardon my use of the term - controlled demolition!
Right, but I said as much myself, too. I said they're basically throwing shitty little gas station maltov cocktails into a structure fire. Because it's already burning. Pop culture is burning because our infrastructure and economy are collapsing. Because the empire that sustains that is imploding.
I have no doubt that 99% of the men and women in Quantico are committed to safety and believe they are trying to maintain order. I also do not deny there is genuine utility in having at least a managed ecosystem of organized crime -- times of monopoly are times of peace in such circles. Pity about all the drive-by shootings and overdoses, of course, but to make an omelette...
So, to recap:
Alt-Right = Controlled Demolition.
Culture War = LIHOP.
Feds Don't Own Skinheads, Inc = No-Planes Theory.