15 January 2021

Agent Provocateur

photo: Alan Copeland


Any kid who grew up in the late 60’s in Berkeley, CA, knows about
Agent Provocateurs.

We certainly did not use that phrase to describe the rabble rousers that seeded themselves amongst the peaceful anti-war protestors waiting to strike. Punks, thugs, jerks… no matter what the term, we could spot them a mile away. And we have all maintained that ability even fifty years later.

On January 6, as videos appeared showing the actions at the Capitol, the first word out of my mouth was instigators. I’ve never worked for the CIA, or the FBI, or any law enforcement agency. I’m ex-Peace Corps, not ex-military. Still, it was an easy call.

The following day I spoke to several friends with shared experiences of those crazy Berkeley days of yore. Their take on it was exactly the same: punk instigators.  

I rarely turn on mainstream media, and do so only to check what disinformation they are spouting on any given day. As I assumed, they followed the party line, blamed Trump and the MAGA crowd for the trouble at the Capitol on Jan 6. They ran video of men in the telltale black helmets, dark clothing, backpacks and bullet-proof vests bashing in doors and windows with a very familiar set of tactics. After a summer of non-stop footage of Antifa and BLM gangsters laying waste to city after city, it should not be necessary to have served in a war zone to recognize what had taken place. One didn’t need experts to analyze their modus operandi.

It must have been around 1967 that I saw my first agent provocateur.  Some low-life in a motorcycle helmet would run up just behind the frontline of the peace-sign holding crowd, heave a rock, and skedaddle out of there leaving the pacifist protestors to get their heads smashed in. We learned very early on that if you spotted a helmet, or a guy trying to rouse the crowd to rush the cops, head quickly in the opposite direction.

They were not as organized back then, and how could they be? Pre-tech insurgency was a lot more time-consuming. They might have been part of SDS, or Weather Underground sympathizers. I only ever assumed that they were jerks and never thought about any centralized group of thugs.

At the time, I may have not grasped the idea that they were anarchists intent only on tearing down society. But I did know that we were peacefully protesting an unjust war and they were trying to start a riot. They were the ones bashing store windows, throwing bricks, and antagonizing the police, then hightailing it before the billy clubs came out. So if a fourteen-year-old could analyze the situation back in the day, without the help of instant news coverage and think tanks, why is it that CNN and all the rest cannot?

The truth is that they can. They know exactly what is taking place now and what has taken place for years.

Legacy media’s latest fearmongering rhetoric centers around the lockdown and militarization of Washington DC ahead of Biden’s inauguration. Odd how they showed no concern for all the violence over this past summer and remained silent while our cities burned, police officers were killed, and family businesses destroyed.

These police-state tactics, repression of the truth, and outright lies by mainstream media and big tech are not going away anytime soon. That is the real threat and that should frighten all of us.

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For further info on the photo: Blog post    Note: The AP in the photo was not able to start any trouble only because the kids around him turned the tide of anger. 

Further reading about those days: A Neapolitan Intrigue

 

 

01 January 2021

To My Friends & Acquaintances Near & Far

I have been called a cult member, temporarily misguided, and just plain stupid for supporting President Trump. In all honesty, I generally do not share my political beliefs with people I know, and definitely not with the man on the street. Those types of discussions are not possible in my neighborhood, city, or state. At the slightest mention of Trump, the other side of the conversation huffs, harumphs, and says that they can’t possibly talk about that horrible man. There is no chance for making my case.  

Therefore, for those who know me personally, disagree with me, and refuse to intelligently discuss the matter, this is for you.

Let me start with some of Trump’s accomplishments since his inauguration on Jan 20, 2017.

Note: Economic gains/employment numbers are pre-COVID.

*Unemployment down to 3.6%, lowest in 50 years.

*5.3 million jobs created, 600k in manufacturing. Economic growth as much as 4.2%.  Median household income highest ever recorded. Pay for bottom 25% of wage earners grew 4.2%; top 25% grew 2.9%. Black American, Hispanic American, Asian American, and women’s unemployment lowest ever recorded.

*Biggest tax cuts and reforms in history. (more money for middle and low-income households.)

*More affordable health care options. Drug companies froze or lowered pharmaceuticals. $6 Billion to fight opioid addiction. Reduced opioid prescriptions by 16%.

*First Step Act and Second Chance Act. Criminal Justice Reform. (Obama, in 8 years, could not accomplish this.)

*VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, which greatly improved medical care for veterans. (which had been dismal).

*US now energy independent and exporter of natural gas.

*CO2 omissions fell 2.8% 

*NATO allies agreed to increase spending to $69 billion since 2016. (US had been paying 70%).

*Middle East Peace Agreements: Israel, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan. (first in 25 years.)

*No new wars started. Troops coming home.

*US-Mexico-Canada Trade Deal. Replaced disastrous NAFTA.

*Tariffs on China in response to intellectual property theft and abusive trade practices.

Trump’s accomplishments, which I did not list in full, far surpass any past president even those with two terms under their belt.

Even more impressive is that Trump accomplished all of this while being vilified, demonized, and attacked by his opponents. These condemnations began the day he announced his candidacy.  Then, on Nov 4, 2016, the morning after the election, and more than two months before he was to be sworn in, the real hell started with calls for his impeachment. It was then that the Obama administration stepped up their attempts to infiltrate and destroy his presidency before it ever began. (That would be categorized as treason in my book.)  

In May 2017, a Special Council began their sham Russian investigation at a cost of over $30 million. After nearly two years it concluded that there had never been any collusion between Trump and Russia. Once that failed, his foes moved on to the Impeachment Fiasco. Again, millions of dollars and wasted time spent trying to prove something that had never occurred. For those of who doubt the veracity of my claims that Trump has never been a Russian asset, it is all available in the Mueller Report.

Trump has been called a Nazi, Hitler, a White Supremacist, and a myriad of other defamatory names. Similarly his supporters, the deplorables, (so named by Hilary Clinton in 2016), are accused daily of being the dregs of humanity.

We then come to Trump’s Personality, about which many people complain. What, I ask, does that have to do with anything?  “He’s not presidential,” friends site as a reason for their disdain. What is presidential? Could it be the lying, pompous, supercilious, dictates of past presidents, especially the last? “He is a misogynist”. Square that with the businessman who has, throughout his career, promoted women to the top of his various enterprises. “He’s a homophobe and a racist.” On what basis can anyone state that? Trump couldn’t care less if you are a man, a women, straight or gay. He does not believe in labels and has always hired people for their abilities, not their gender or race or any other immutable characteristic. “He’s crude.” What does that mean? Personally, I find Trump refreshing. Both hilarious and empathetic, depending on the situation. One always knows what the man is thinking. He is the most transparent, most accessible president in our history. He is real; one hundred percent authentic. He never panders to his constituents.  I challenge anyone to point to a previous President who even came close to Trump’s level of accessibility to the press and the American people.

President Trump did not waver in his efforts to work for the American people even with the daily barrage of false charges, fake news, and endless malicious attacks on his character and the presidency. Few people could have withstood such viciousness and still shown up to work every day. No matter what the left tried, they could not take him down. And then, on top of all that, the Chinese Communist Party chose to release COVID-19 on the world.   

Whether or not the manufactured COVID-19 virus escaped from the lab in Wuhan, or was intentionally released into the world, does not change the fact that it was an act of biological warfare. The CCP shut off Wuhan Provence from the rest of China while simultaneously releasing the pathogen to the rest of humanity by way of passengers on planes.

The insanity and falsehoods regarding a virus that has a 99% survival rate is, frankly, criminal. It has been part of a nefarious mission run by Global Elites, Big Tech, and Big Pharma to scare people into submission. They have played the fear card like a card shark in Dodge City with an ace up his sleeve, and they are winning.

Nevertheless, Trump’s response to COVID-19 was exceptional. To combat the disease he launched the largest mobilization of governmental agencies and private industry since WWII. There is no world leader, past or present, who could have pulled off what he did. Even so, mainstream media, the Democrats, Hollywood and its elitists, have never stopped disparaging President Trump’s historic actions, repeating over and over that he has blood on his hands. No, China and the CCP are the ones with bloodied hands. (As well as several governors who knowingly placed COVID patients in nursing homes.)

Virus Response Timeline    (scroll down the linekd page to read.)

In the midst of the lockdowns and endless pandemic fearmongering, the tensions that had been on the rise since Obama set back race relations forty years, broke. Suddenly, people were rioting in the streets, burning down businesses, attacking others with bats and chains, and engaging in widespread looting.

Although videos and photographs were readily available online, the mainstream media, by and large, ignored it. Or called it Peaceful Protests. Suddenly, virtue signaling Americans painted BLM signs on their homes and the streets, joined in protests to defund the police, tore down historic statues, and donated billions of dollars to a Marxist organization.

The violent unrest ran mostly uncontested throughout the summer resulting in billions of dollars in damage and the loss of thousands of small businesses nationwide. The Marxists had achieved their goal of instilling fear in the nation. Should one say anything against the protests or, in fact, not be outspoken in support of BLM and “racial justice”, they were immediately called racist and attacked verbally, if not physically.

With all this as the background – four years of non-stop investigations and attacks on the President and his supporters, the China Virus, and then the Summer of uncontrolled violence, we arrived at November 3, 2020, and the election for the president.

The choice between candidates should have been easy. On one hand, there was the elderly man with dementia who has spent fifty years in government enriching his family through graft and greed, simultaneously selling out our nation to China. On the other hand was Trump with his unprecedented four years of accomplishments.

By 11pm, EST, on election night, it was clear that Trump would win in a landslide. He was ahead in Pennsylvania by 55.7% to Biden’s 43%. Michigan: Trump 51% to Biden 47%, as well as in the other swing states. And then, for some reason, they stopped counting votes in those states. Except that it was not because of a dripping urinal or tired poll workers. It was because the Biden folks realized that they had underestimated the outpouring of Trump voters, and had underestimated the number of fake ballots needed for a Biden win. In the case of the Dominion voting machines flipping votes, they also had misgauged the outcome. Shut down time. Send the Republican poll watchers home. Bring in the truckloads of fake ballots and run them through the machines numerous times. Recalibrate the voting machines.

Surrounding all the fraud and hijinks, Big Tech upped their game by suppressing the Right and boosting the Left. They had already been in the business of censorship on all platforms: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google searches. If they didn’t like what someone said – i.e. Trump won – they were de-platformed, shadow banned, splashed with a warning tag, or taken down completely. They have thrown out the First Amendment and replaced it with totalitarian censorship, all the while aided by the mainstream media and the billionaire class.   

When it comes to election interference, Mark Zuckerberg took it to a whole new level of meddling in the election. He personally contributed $500 million to improperly influence the election by contributing to unethical Democrat voting groups. That is against the law.

Zukerberg's Dark Money

This has been the greatest election fraud perpetrated against the people of the United States in our history. There is no lack of proof: thousands of sworn affidavits, videos of illegal ballots being counted, mathematical/statistical evidence that proves beyond a doubt that Biden could not have won. 

If the situation is not righted, and Trump is not installed for his second term, we will never again have a free and fair election in America. Worse, we will have lost our country.

This is possibly the most dangerous time in our nation’s history. We are close to losing our Constitution and everything it stands for.

This well-orchestrated plan to take over the country by a very few has been in the works for years. If we let them get away with it, Big Tech, the banking industry, Big Pharma, and a few billionaires will truly become the new oligarchs of the United States. And when the United States falls, so does the rest of the freedom-loving world.

These new Oligarchs, with the careful financing and planting of anarchists and Marxists, think they have scared Americans into submission. They are using fear of a virus to control us as well as the fear of cities burning when Trump is sworn into office on January 20.

We are not scared. Unlike the left, Trump supporters do not riot and loot. They march and pray or, if you are like me, send out waves of positive energy. We will not be cowed into submission. We will stand for the Constitution and the greatest country that has ever existed in the history of man.


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