Right Wing Mass Shooters

In the last 12 months, three of the worst mass attacks on Americans have come from Americans who were right wing extremists.  Additionally, the the most destructive act of terrorism in the United States other than 9-11, was the Oklahoma City Bombing, which was also perpetrated by a white, right-wing extremist. 

Not more than a year ago this week, there was the Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin which was committed by a white supremacist.  The Newtown Shooting in Connecticut was committed by a right wing sympathiser who wanted to emulate Anders Brevik in Norway. Family and friends reported him to be a right wing survivalist like his mother.  Most recently, the Boston Bombing appears to have been committed by two lone wolves who appear to be more influenced by the right wing conspiracy theories and white supremacist ideal than Islam.

The Far right presents a three part problem: a fearful mindset that embraces conspiracy theories, a willingness to commit violence without a factual basis justifying it, and obsession with accumulating weapons combined with paramilitary organisations. 

The right needs to repudiate their extremist fringe, especially the violent segment, and acceptance of violence as a political tactic--the same way William F. Buckley repudiated the John Birch Society.  Until then, they have lost credibility and have become just dangerous.

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RED ALERT ~ Adam Kokesh armed march on Washington SCAM

I have to admit some curiosity about what might be the motive for Adam Kokesh's March on Washington, DC.  It seems he was once a War Protestor who managed to get a spot on Russia Today, but was too weird for even RT.

And then I found this:



 Anyway, this find comes on top of reading this blog post.

"Oh, that Mr. Hitler couldn't mean all the things he says in Mein Kampf about the Jews.  Anyway, what could he do?  Try and kill us all?"

I guess we can add to that line of thinking: "Well, we have guns this time".

As N. A. Browne said in The Myth of Nazi Gun Control:

A more farfetched question is the hypothetical proposition of armed Jewish resistance. First, they were not commonly armed even prior to the 1928 Law. Second, Jews had seen pogroms before and had survived them, though not without suffering. They would expect that this one would, as had the past ones, eventually subside and permit a return to normalcy. Many considered themselves “patriotic Germans” for their service in the first World War. These simply were not people prepared to stage violent resistance. Nor were they alone in this mode of appeasement. The defiance of “never again” is not so much a warning to potential oppressors as it is a challenge to Jews to reject the passive response to pogrom. Third, it hardly seems conceivable that armed resistance by Jews (or any other target group) would have led to any weakening of Nazi rule, let alone a full scale popular rebellion; on the contrary, it seems more likely it would have strengthened the support the Nazis already had. Their foul lies about Jewish perfidy would have been given a grain of substance. To project backward and speculate thus is to fail to learn the lesson history has so painfully provided.

in short, those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Just in case you are truly demented, this actually comes from the Satirical Site, the Daily Mash.

Try not to be too disturbed by this, but most of the right wing ranting seems to sound like most of the stories printed at that site about US Politics.

After that disclaimer:

Illuminati celebrate election victory

Obama said his pyramidal hat was simply comfortable

BARACK Obama’s victory has brought the tyrannical New World Order a step closer, according to the Illuminati.

Just hours after his re-election, Obama was taken in a black helicopter to Illuminati headquarters where he was greeted with applause and a banner saying ‘Way to go, mind-control puppet!’
An Illuminati spokesman said: “This is a great moment for America, or as it will soon be known, Population Containment Area 2.
“With Obama back in power we can continue our secret project to enslave humanity and put Illuminati symbols in obscure places where they will only be noticed by conspiracy wingnuts.
“We’ll probably force everyone to be tattooed with a barcode too, although that’s less of an issue now that all their personal details are on Facebook.”
Obama has dismissed the Illuminati’s existence as “conspiracy theory nonsense”, saying he wanted to concentrate on real issues such as the economy, healthcare and compulsory microchips for all Americans.
He said: “My proposal to make ownership of tin foil a capital offence has nothing to do with its microwave-blocking properties. I just happen to think clingfilm keeps your sandwiches fresher.”
Democrat voter Carolyn Ryan said: “As a liberal, I’m a bit disappointed that a vote for Obama was a vote for a secret network of concentration camps to exterminate undesirable elements in society.
“Still, anything’s better than Romney. Four more years!”

 Note; I am not taking any credit for this, you morons- 

Copyright © 2012 The Daily Mash

Conspiracy Theorists = Crackpots with Guns, (and occasionally, grenades); Conspiracy Theorist Crackpots Blame J.T. Ready's Death on Jews

In response to the dubious conspiracy theory comment made by a recent newcomer to Penigma, I did a quick update on the latest J.T. Ready news.
I expect that we will be seeing more factual information forthcoming as the results of autopsies and other investigations develop to their conclusions.
But here is just one of the hate mongering right wing extremists explanations for conduct from which they hope to distance themselves.  We should be paying attention to these events, because while we don't have any nut job border patrolling vigilantes here in Minnesota, we do have our own extremist neo-nazi group that has been identified as an armed and potentially dangerous hate group in the central Minnesota area - Neo Nazis in Champlin and Mora, and our own branch of the KKK, and an assortment of militias who like the one that J.T. Ready belonged to, don't seem to be connected to either the main stream or reality.  And then of course we have the anti-gay crazy dishonest preacher who defrauds people by misrepresenting his organization, Bradlee Dean, and a group of racist skinheads who go by the name of Vinlanders Minnesota.

While these groups invariably - it's boring really - identify themselves as patriots, they are simple extremists insurrectionist wannabes who like to play with guns because they tend to be less than empowered or successful in their real life.  It is nothing more than a gun fantasy of heroic escapism, which has no justification in objective reality.

I like to go to the local media whenever possible, as they tend to have the best detail, and the best connections for getting to the facts of events:

From one of those, which I didn't know existed until today, we have the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix reporting that now, in addition to trying to float the drug cartel silly ass conspiracy, we also have the extremists trying to blame the Mossad for killing J.T. Ready.  Frankly, all these conspiracy theories seem to do is to give these guys a flimsy pretext to imagine they are important in a world where they are anything but significant, other than as slightly scary curiosities and walking, talking bigotry cartoons.

The tragedy is that it was in promoting total lies about new world order nonsense, and similar trite bullshit, that the very nice, not-hateful conservatives in the affinity scam we have covered here were suckered into the 2nd largest ponzi scheme in Minnesota.  The greater harm is that people change how they live, and hand over their hard earned money, based on all these claims of things being factual that are any thing BUT factual --- and are as opposite from factual as they could be.  The harm is broader than the occasional gun nut losing it and shooting up his loved ones.  More pernicious are the batshit crazies like birther queen (and jew)  Orly Taitz.

It seems both real justice and poetic justice to give notice to the other side of the conspiracy claims.

From the JTA / Jewish Global News

Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready’s death linked to Israel, sympathizers say

May 10, 2012

(Jewish News of Greater Phoenix) -- The still-open investigation into the death of Arizona neo-Nazi sympathizer T.J. Ready has left some sympathizers speculating that he did not commit suicide and that Israel may be involved.
On May 2, Ready entered the home he lived in with four others, including a 15-month-old girl, and shot them dead before turning the gun on himself.
Ready, who had a record of violent tendencies, was discharged from the U.S. Marines after two courts-martial and was a self-proclaimed member of the National Socialist Movement.
Stormfront.org, a white supremacist message board where Ready was an active participant, suggested the shooting was a hit put on by a Mexican drug cartel as a result of Ready’s leadership role with U.S. Border Guard, a small but heavily armed citizen militia group he founded to patrol the border for those crossing illegally. U.S. Border Guard's website “has been suspended indefinitely out of respect to the friends and family of the deceased,” according to its site, usborderguard.com.
Other Stormfront users blamed the ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government), and one even pointed the finger at Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. Many accused the media of inaccurate and biased reporting, and said they refused to believe any scenario in which Ready murdered anyone.
Ready’s final post to Stormfront came at 7:18 a.m. the day of the shooting.
“NEVER a Jew to blame!” Ready wrote in one of his last Stormfront posts. “Jews are the ‘chosen ones’ don’t ya know. They can do no wrong. In fact, Jews don’t ever even exist in space or time if a crime is committed by them. They float around in the matrix of racist imagination and conspiracy universes until some evil Nazi conjures them up. Then they only materialize out of thin air if they are suddenly persecuted for some strange reason. We must never blame the Jew for anything!”
In the days leading up to his death, Ready also posted a number of similarly themed comments on YouTube videos.
“Hitler was right,” he commented on a video titled “Our War: The Invisible Enemy,” a documentary about the British army. “And if you are too stupid to see that then you deserve to get pushed off your island into the sea by a bunch of foreigners. Jews like Jack Straw have sold you down the river(,) mate.”

Reaching Out, and Touching Former Minnesota Governor Jesse 'the Body' Ventura: Suing the TSA

Per CNN:

The former Minnesota governor and pro wrestler filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Minnesota against the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA.

The suit alleges enhanced airport security procedures, including pat-downs and full body scanning, violate Ventura's rights under the Fourth Amendment, which protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures....Ventura had hip replacement surgery in 2008, and the resulting titanium implant routinely sets off metal detectors, requiring him to undergo pat-down searches, according to court documents. The lawsuit alleges the pat-downs and the TSA's whole body imaging procedures meet legal definitions of unlawful sexual assault and unlawful video voyeurism.

Ventura, who is host of a TV program called "Conspiracy Theory" on truTV, a CNN sister network, flies two to three times a week for work, according to the suit.

His professional schedule means he must either submit to routine searches, "or retire from his television work and forgo his income," the lawsuit said.

Smack down,
not Pat-down;
Jesse's idea of
professional touching



Shyness & Modesty,
 thy name
is not Jesse Ventura,
Exhibitionism IS

 To say that Jesse Ventura has had a variety of employment in his lifetime is an understatement.  His career choices have included wrestling, which certainly makes the pat-downs by the TSA relatively minor contact.

A Salute

Court Order by Judge Clay Land
regarding the $20,000 sanctions against Orly Taitz
footnote 11
page 42 of 43


"The Court wishes to explore the possibility of directing the financial penalty to the National Infantry Foundation at Ft. Benning, Georgia, which has as part of its mission the recognition of our brave soldiers who do their duty regardless of the personal sacrifice required and their own personal political beliefs. The Assistant U. S. Attorney shall file within thirty days of today's Order a short brief outlining the position of the United States as to whether such a monetary sanction can be used for this intended purpose. The Court emphasizes that the Court is ordering the penalty to be paid to the United States as required under Rule 11 and not to a third party, but the Court seeks to determine whether the Court is authorized to subsequently order that the proceeds be paid by the United States to the Foundation."

page 43 of 43

IT IS SO ORDERED, this 13th day of October, 2009

Judge Clay D. Land
United States District Judge


www.scribd.com/doc/20996403/Gov-uscourts-gamd-77605-28-0

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the legal decisions of Judge Land in response to the various antics of Orly Taitz. Reading this order, in its entirety, was no exception. While I am not an attorney, Land is understandable even to the non-professional reader. He writes with clarity, and with a certain eloquence and even hints of humor. I delight in his use of quotations in his other Orders; we share an appreciation for using the words of others to augment and focus our written thoughts.

Judge Land was appointed to his position by former President George W. Bush, who I have been known to criticize from time to time. Let me in fairness not only applaud him for his choice of Land, but give him an enthusiastic standing ovation for this choice. While I am not familiar with the other (than Taitz) decisions of Judge Land, I can only hope that this is an example of our judiciary.

I hope all of the readers of Penigma will join me in an even more joyous ovation for Judge Land. His words in the above quoted footnote are a better tribute to the mind of the man than anything I can write to laud him. Judge Land, I salute you, your mind and your heart, for your administration of justice, and your thoughtful concern for those members of our armed forces that may benefit from this footnote in your Court Order.

A reading of the various legal actions to further the 'birther' movement filed by Taitz, the resulting Court Orders and Decisions, and the complaints filed against her with the California Bar, all strongly suggest that Taitz has been exploiting gullible, trusting, tragically misled members of the United States armed forces solely to promote her own notoriety and political agenda to the detriment of their military careers. Rather than serve the interests of her clients, Taitz acted primarily to serve her own agenda; her intent to continue to do so was one of the reasons for the size of the sanction. This is what makes the effort outlined in the footnote so poignant.

Well done, your honor. Well done.

President Ronald Reagan, or Ronald Ray-Gun?

“Not he is great who can alter matter,
but he who can alter my state of mind”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist,
1803-1882

“The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence.
Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free."
Charles R. Swindoll
American Writer, Clergyman
b.1934


On Thursday evening I recorded the last Colber(t) Repor(t) of the week, but did not get around to watching it until the weekend. Early in the show, Colbert featured an interaction with a remarkably calm but alert goat, as the lead in to his interview of Jon Ronson by satellite from the UK. Ronson has written a book, which I am looking forward to reading, as I work my way through the stack of material, book, online, periodical and 'other' that I seem always to feed slightly faster into the heap than I can winnow it down.

Ronson's Book, "The Men Who Stare at Goats", is about a little project that operated under the auspices of our government, beginning back in 1983, hence the whimsical word play on our esteemed late President's name. That and related projects were not discontinued until 1995. The book purports also to link these activities to the Bush administration's war on terror, which, not having read the entire book -yet - I can't address. It may very well be continuing in some form under President Obama for all I know. To supplement my preliminary reading, while I try to get my hands and eyes on a copy of this book, I have contacted the author by email, and await a response. Perhaps I should ask all of the readers of Penigma, like clapping for Tinkerbelle in Peter Pan, to 'will' Mr. Ronson to respond favorably to my request for an interview. (It must have worked, I have promptly received a positive response from Mr. Ronson.)

Mr. Ronson has a web site, which understandably is for the purpose of promoting his book and other activities, at http://www.jonronson.com/goats_04.htm%20l, and which provides access to the first chapter, which deals with a certain Major General Stubblebine, describing actual 'black ops' secret military projects with names like "Project Jedi" intended to create soldiers with super powers, able to use psychic ability for a variety of offensive and defensive purposes. Between that and the Reagan era Star Wars initiative, I'm afraid the US Government was tremendously, even appallingly, derivative of the George Lucas entertainment canon of movies and supplemental fictional material. Or given the military nature of all of this new age effort, should that be cannon?

In the Colbert interview, reference was made to something in the book, called 'sparkly eyes', for employing psychic powers against others. I'm afraid the closest I could get to that kind of inspiration while writing this was glittery eye shadow, but it certainly puts me in the correct frame of mind, given where my admittedly spotty research has taken me so far.

After reading an excerpt of Chapter 1 from "The Men Who Stare at Goats", I did a little research on this project, and I will admit shamefully to havng deviated from my usual standard of seeking solid original sources. I just looked it up on Wikipedia (cut me some slack, this is a fluff piece, written for fun; I read the boring, original, serious material the rest of the time). It was strictly a casual interim 'browse' to familiarize myself with the subject matter. Mr. Ronson very much is not making this stuff up. There genuinely does appear to be all this, and much, much more.

A quickie google search on Major-General Stubblebine produced material that was not funny. It appears that Major General Stubblebine is a 'truther', one of those who believes that there is some kind of conspiracy relating to the terrorist events of 9/11. Some of our readers have taken me to task for writing about the birthers and their conspiracy theories without having addressed the lunatic fringe movements on the opposite side of the political spectrum. Well, those readers will get their wish. Although not in depth in this article, I will continue to pursue information on Stubblebine. For now, I offer this video which I found through google - I repeat, I'm not claiming this is up to my usual research standards - for those who would like a glimpse of what I am describing. The video appears to be for some German media, I'm not clear whom, but for those of you whose language skills were getting rusty, which in this case includes me, there is a bonus in the form of German subtitles to amuse you. Here is the Stubblebine interview link : www.youtube.com./watch?v=daNr_TrBw6E I'm sure I'm not the only person who finds it bad enough for our fellow Americans to be treated to this rant by Stubblebine; for it to be seen around the world, in countries which are our allies, is even more embarrassing.

On a more serious note, which requires a bit of a mental shifting of gears to accommodate, I have to express my dismay and shock, so soon after researching the Orly Taitz / Birther information, that we appear to have high ranking military officers in the camps of our conspiracy theorists and lunatics on both extremes of the political spectrum. The 'truthers' apparently have the endorsement of Stubblebine, and the birthers claim the apparent support, through a law suit, of Major General James S. Childress.

This raises the question in my mind, who promoted these men to positions of authority and power, and how scary is it that they had access not only to soldiers, including special forces trained personnel, but dangerous weapons; guns and ammunition, tanks, rpgs. (OK - And goats!) I do not intend by these comments to in any way demean our armed forces, far from it. But reading and viewing the ideas held by these high-ranking individuals, the thought comes unbidden that those armed forces were under the care and command of individuals whose thought processes and conclusions I find disturbing. That these men, at either end of a very polarized political spectrum, had access to anything sharper than a marshmallow or more deadly than a daisy is on some level unnerving.

Readers may definitely look forward to my writing up something further on General Childress and on General Stubblebine. It is not my intent to be flippant or irreverent to legitimate service to our country by either gentleman in the course of questioning their extreme political views, and it is especially NOT my intention to embarrass or demean the rank and file of any of our armed forces. It is however an important concern for all of us that there appear to be individuals at the highest levels of our military who may be extremists, who are willing to use the achievement of that rank to give those extreme, even wacko views credence, and to use their service to recruit others who love their country to those bizarre viewpoints. The thought which popped into my mind unbidden was that it is bad enough to put inmates in charge of an asylum, but far worse to put them in charge of our armies.

Now, off to dig up that glittery eye shadow, and to try mastering the technique of 'sparkly eyes'.... if I can stop laughing long enough to apply it without poking myself in the eye.

More to come.

He Read A Book, Once

"Woe be to him that reads but one book. "
George Herbert
Welsh Orator, Poet, Anglican Priest
(1593 - 1633)

"I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy."
Frank Zappa
Composer, Musician, Record Producer, Film Director
(1940 - 1993)

"I read part of it all the way through."
Samuel Goldwyn
Movie Mogul
(1882 - 1974)

Recently, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals kicked a law suit brought against the United States by 'birther' Stephen Lee Craig. Craig had alleged he was the victim of 'involuntary expatriation', because the Congress had failed to define to his satisfaction the term natural born citizen.

One of my circles of friends has a turn of phrase for the self-styled expert who is bone ignorant on a subject, but does not hesitate to pontificate as if he knew more than he does. That turn of phrase is "I read a book once,” as in the one book, read the one time, (not even the same book several times) making someone an instant expert.

It is a phrase which, in the right company, speaks volumes with few words.

Mr. Craig, who was so unwise as to act as his own lawyer - at least, that is my understanding of the term 'pro se' - tried to enlist the three appellate judges in his efforts to define the term natural born citizen. You see, Mr. Craig wanted to define the term natural born citizen according to a book The Law of Nations, by Swiss political philosopher, Emmrich de Vattel. In the prefece of this old tome written in 1758, first paragraph, the author himself states:

"THE Law of Nations, though so noble and important a subject, has not, hitherto, been treated of with all the care it deserves. The greater part of mankind have, therefore, only a vague, a very incomplete, and often even a false notion of it. The generality of writers, and even celebrated authors, almost exclusively confine the name of "Law of Nations" to certain maxims and treatises recognised among nations, and which the mutual consent of the parties has rendered obligatory on them. This is confining within very narrow bounds a law so extensive in its own nature, and in which the whole human race are so intimately concerned; it is, at the same time, a degradation of that law, in consequence of a misconception of its real origin."

In other words, even de Vattel himself didn't believe anyone really read the darn thing before using it to support their political positions, despite all of the references to it in his own time. In a new twist on the phrase "I read a book once," Craig is asserting his meaning of natural born citizen because....wait for it... the founding fathers read a book once, this book, so it must be true that de Vattel's definition was what the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution. When I was trying to understand the 'birther' arguments, rather than simply assuming they were wrong, the "Law of Nations" argument was one that was accepted even more unquestioningly as absolute truth and justification than some others by the birthers.

Ah, but the court, the court says NO, a court where two of the three judges on the panel were appointed by one of the Bushes - one each for George H. W., and George W., a detail which should - should - put a wrench in conspiracy theories about this particular judiciary being in the pocket of Obama.

Of course, the founding fathers didn't SAY that de Vattel's definition of natural born citizen, which formed the basis for the principle of jus sanguinous used by some countries for THEIR citizenship, was what they were using, not in so many words. No, the very clear words they DID use are in the very first article of the constitution, that Congress should define citizenship; and Congress did, in numerous pieces of legislation over the years.

I couldn't make this up; I have a good imagination, but not THAT good. I wonder how long before it sinks in just how discredited the birther "Law of Nations" argument really is; and how quickly after that another crackpot birther notion will take its place.

Now I openly admit, I only made it through a few pages, including the preface, of "The Law of Nations". It is to say the least, heavy going. I don't think I could drink enough coffee to stay awake just through the whole first chapter of the four books that comprise de Vattel's opus, and I try to discipline myself to do regular 'drudge' reading. But then, I'm not trying to unseat the President of the Unites States by making claims from the content.

The kicker is, that I doubt that Craig or the majority of the other birthers ever read "Law of Nations" either.