[December 15th was] “Bill of Rights Day” – commemorating ratification on Dec. 15, 1791. But what the government-run schools – and supporters of the monster state – “teach” about the Bill of Rights has almost nothing to do with the foundational principles which motivated the people who supported – and demanded it.

They want us to focus on inane trivia – and they definitely present things as if the Bill of Rights “granted” our rights, or were meant to create a nationwide liberty enforcement squad in the federal government.

No, it was – you guessed it – about the principles behind what was ratified as the 10th Amendment. Drawing a line in the sand, as Samuel Adams put it, “between the federal Powers vested in Congress, and the sovereign Authority belonging to the several States.”

Richard Henry Lee – who on Sept 27, 1787 in the Confederation Congress proposed adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution drafted by the Philadelphia Convention – BEFORE sending it to the states for ratification, agreed. He said that drawing that clear line between expressly delegated power – and those reserved is “the great use of a bill of rights.”

The same thing happened in a number of state ratification documents, starting with Massachusetts, then South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia – and New York.

I covered this in some detail in an episode of Path to Liberty, here:
https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2021/12/bill-of-rights-the-untold-story-of-why-it-exists/

In early 1788, ratification of the Constitution was almost certain to fail in Massachusetts – home of Samuel and John Adams, Theophilus Parsons, John Hancock – and so many others. A loss there – Federalists understood – would send them reeling in states where it was expected to be a very close call at best – like New York and Virginia. In other words, the entire proposal was close to being doomed.

But – as advised by Richard Henry Lee months earlier, Samuel Adams and John Hancock went along with a plan to ratify, but only with the option of including recommended amendments as well. On Feb 6, 1788 – they did just that, and the very first recommended amendment from the Sons of Liberty will probably look familiar to any reader of the Tenth Amendment Center:

First. That it be explicitly declared, that all powers not expressly delegated by the aforesaid Constitution are reserved to the several states, to be by them exercised.

South Carolina followed their lead with this:

This Convention doth also declare that no Section or paragraph of the said Constitution warrants a Construction that the states do not retain every power not expressly relinquished by them and vested in the General Government of the Union.

And on June 21, 1788 – New Hampshire sealed the deal on ratification by also including as their first recommended amendment the same precursor to the 10th Amendment from Massachusetts.

But even after New York and Virginia followed with similar proposals, Federalists in the First Congress stonewalled – and did everything they could to prevent amendments from being considered and sent to the states for ratification.

Samuel Adams, however, didn’t let up – pushing friends like Elbridge Gerry and Richard Henry Lee to get the Bill of Rights done. To Adams, adding these amendments was solely about having a “a Line drawn as clearly as may be, between the federal Powers vested in Congress and the distinct Sovereignty of the several States.”

James Madison – who was initially opposed to including a Bill of Rights – and even voted against Richard Henry Lee’s proposal in the Confederation Congress, slowly came on board – maybe for just political strategy. But his dogged persistence pushed it through the congress.

With that history in mind, it makes even more sense why Thomas Jefferson, on Feb 15, 1791 – 10 months to the day before ratification – made this essential point about the structure of the constitution:

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ” all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.”

Why don’t they teach this history?  We can only guess, but I personally think it has plenty to do with the fact that the bill of rights wasn’t about granting rights to people – or having a central government to protect us – but instead – it was about opposition to centralized power.

Please do check out this episode of the Path to Liberty Podcast for a deeper dive into this essential history. There, you’ll find both video and audio versions of the show – and if you prefer reading – there’s a bunch of original source documents so you can read and learn more – in context – on your own time.

This is the kind of information we work to get out to more and more people every single day of the year. Nothing – absolutely nothing – helps us roll up our sleeves and get the job done more than the financial faith and support of our members.

 

 

Michael Boldin | The Tenth Amendment Center

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Big city school superintendents are scratching their totalitarian itch. “Public school students in Philadelphia will have to wear face coverings at school for 10 days after their winter break, officials said.”

The mandate, which will run from Jan. 3-13, is aimed at reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses after a holiday season likely filled with more social gatherings and increased exposure, the school district said in a statement on Thursday.

Philadelphia is among state and local agencies around the United States rolling out mask mandates or recommendations this month to fight a new surge in virus cases, which is expected to grow as Americans travel and socialize around the winter holidays.

 

Rolling out useless mandates and Dr. Meryl Nass would like to know,

 

• How did the Superintendent know on December 14 that there would be a spike in cases after the new year, and that it will last exactly 11 days, from Jan 3 through Jan 13?
• How does he know that the masks the kids are sent to school with reduce infection? He doesn’t.
• How does s/he know it won’t impair the kids’ education. He must know the opposite is true by now.
• The Superintendent is calling it a “proactive measure.”
• We know this is about making sure the public understands that those invoking “public health” are in charge, the masks will never completely go away, and regardless of any net gain or loss for the children (or the teachers) you will do what we say.
• Philadelphia was one of the US cities where the local health officer ordered vaccinations of kids aged 12 and up without parental consent.
• Last winter Rochelle Walensky warned, in the WaPo, that the masks could come back if cases rose…

 

Maybe it would be easier for these progressive tools if they just handed out armbands (black or rainbow would be my first best guesses). It’s not like they will be any more effective than cloth or medical masks, but you’ll get them used to their future as stooges for the regime without compromising their health.

Or is that the point?

 

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There was a time when expressing your sexuality in a public space was inappropriate. The new rule is to lay it out there and demand others acknowledge it.

Silence is sexual violence, they might say.

You will be made to care and to express that care or be labeled a bigot. At the same time, there aren’t enough safe spaces to talk about sex. Do you mean like the Public Library, the grammar school, the online reading app with material an adult would be arrested for saying out loud to a child or in public, or everything, every day, everywhere? Those safe spaces!

The only unsafe place, as far as I can tell, is the room where the priests and altar boys “get dressed” for service.

 

Hosted by the University of Vermont Program Board on Dec. 2, the event was described on Instagram as a night of “sexperts, sex toy prizes, condom giveaways, and more.”

“We all need a safe place to talk about sex (and play some sex toy BINGO :). You know you want to come!,” the description states.

 

Double entendre, anyone?

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t care what college students waste their money on (they are technically adults), but apparently, this was paid for with other college kids’ money.

 

University of Vermont student Jacob Brocklin told YAF he’s “uncomfortable with my tuition dollars going toward something like this.”

“The Program Board’s mission statement says that they will hold events committed to ‘social justice.’ I don’t understand how giving out sex toys is accomplishing some form of justice,” Brocklin said.

The University of Vermont Program Board also hosted an event titled En-Sex-Clopedia on April 18, which was described as “a safe place to talk about sex,” and included sex bingo.

 

Jacob misunderstands either Vermont or “college.” A university used to be the place where you could challenge established thinking. These days they define what you should think and what words you should use to express those thoughts. It is less about learning and more about training. There are even words and thoughts you should not use or have.

Oh, and they are all about money.

Colleges have been sieves for Democrat campaign funds for many years and, in recent decades, THE Democrat party education camp of choice. But that’s evolved. Forward, and all that. The re-education begins in grammar school, so UV and its like are more of the progressive finishing school. And whatever happens, don’t be grateful. You were entitled to that useless degree in social justice, something or other.

And since you will likely emerge a toxic intolerable shrew (with or without a penis), sex toys are likely an essential part of your social justice future. As is legal drug use, and at least one house cat.

 

 

HT | Fox

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There is something called an ‘elimination diet,’ which people use to find out what foods their bodies have trouble processing.  You start by cutting out everything but one food — typically beef, because you can stay healthy indefinitely eating just beef.  It’s boring but sustainable.

If a problem is diet-related, it should clear up.  (If it doesn’t clear up, either you have a problem with beef, which is unusual, or your problem isn’t caused by your diet.)

At this point, you slowly start adding other foods to your diet, watching for the effects they have on you.

If a problem occurs when you add a food — for example, if adding gluten leads to bloating or joint pain — you know to stay away from that food.

What makes this work is that you don’t approach your problems by trying to cut things from your diet.  There’s too much going on in a typical diet to figure out which foods might be causing which reactions.

You have to start at the ground and build up.  It’s essentially a variation on the scientific method.  You vary one thing at a time over here and see what variations result over there.

This is exactly what we should be doing with schools.

How would that look?

We would start by teaching reading and only reading.  That’s because reading is the educational equivalent of beef.

That is, if you’ve learned to read, you can read about how to learn anything else — including how to read better and how to write. Reading is, in that sense, a complete skill in the same sense that beef is a complete food.

Once we get close to 100% of the kids reading at grade level, then we would start adding in other things — but only so long as we see improvements in the things that we have designated as ‘essential.’

And by essential — as opposed to elective — I mean reading, writing, reasoning (logical, mathematical, scientific, and statistical), and whatever else is important enough that everybody needs to learn it.

(Does everyone need to learn calculus, or French, or welding, or forestry?  If not, then they aren’t essential, are they?)

Of course, there’s a slight head fake going on here.  In a system in which all the students can read, ‘adding in’ a new academic subject merely requires (1) providing suggestions about what the students  should be reading, and (2) testing to see that they’ve actually learned what they’re supposed to.

Without the need to hire teachers to read the textbooks to the students, the marginal cost of adding an academic subject to such a system is close to zero.

If we add an academic subject (Elizabethan literature or Excel), or an extra-curricular activity (football or band), and there’s no improvement in the things we’re tracking (literacy, numeracy, reasoning), then we take them back out again.

They are the public school equivalents of high-fructose corn syrup, making budgets fatter without making education any better.

Of course, there is a simpler way to accomplish the same thing, which is just to prohibit a school from offering electives (non-literacy classes, sports, other extra-curricular activities) unless 95% of its students are reading at or above grade level.   That could be done with a one-line addition to the rules at the Department of Education.

This would, however, punish students who are reading at proficiency.

Fortunately, there’s a way around that, which is to allow schools to offer electives but only as self-study courses.  The school’s only responsibility would be to assign graduation credit to a student who passes a particular test.  The students themselves would be responsible for learning the material — which they’ll only be able to do if they’ve learned to read with fluency and comprehension.

Another head fake.  See how, when you teach kids to read, so many things that seem like problems just take care of themselves?  (And how, when you don’t, everything else spirals out of control?)

One final benefit of putting schools on an elimination diet is that as students take charge of their own learning, they can learn anywhere, at any time.  So there’s no reason to keep them locked up during normal business hours.

Which would be an excellent first step towards disentangling ‘education’ from ‘daycare.’

One way to think about the Elimination Diet for Schools is that it implements Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s observation that perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.  Which is what we should be aiming for with any institution that is funded by taking money away from people who would prefer to use it for something else.

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The news is typically johnny on the spot when “explosive devices, gasoline, & road flares” and discovered after the arrest of troublemakers outside an area where a government facility is being built. Unless they are connected to Antifa, and maybe no one thinks that’s a story that needs reporting.

To test the theory, you must replace the reported association with the words ‘Trump Supporters” and boom – wall-to-wall 24/7 coverage. But this isn’t a story that ends this way.

 

Yesterday’s arrests came after several people threw rocks at police cars and attacked EMTs with rocks and bottles outside local fire stations. After police cleared the area, they found explosive devices, gasoline, & road flares.

— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) December 14, 2022

 

From Andy Ngo.

 

On Dec. 13, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) launched a raid on the so-called autonomous zone at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Since June 2021, Antifa and other far-left extremists from across the US have descended on the location to prevent the construction of what they call a “cop city.” Responding law enforcement were assaulted with rocks and bottles by militants occupying makeshift treehouses. The GBI says it found explosive devices and gasoline after the rioters were cleared from the area.

 

So the occupation, disruptions, and violence have been happening for 18 months with little media attention beyond the locals, throughout which Democrats in Congress have been trying to emphasize the importance of their January 6th show trial. A conspiracy concocted by the political left as a potential path to the indictment of Donald Trump to prevent him from being able to run for President.

It’s an intriguing contrast, an indictment of the Major Media left and their political patrons. Or maybe I have that reversed.

 

 

Daily Mail | Legal Insurrection | PM

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People sometimes look upon athletes and actors as pampered individuals paid exorbitant salaries to play a game or fantasy characters and never give back. We are blessed that there are exceptions to this stereotype.

The two men I write about today break the mold and are stepping up to work with one of my favorite charities, Tunnels to Towers. For what these two guys are doing to help our veterans, and first responders who did their jobs and either came home broken or never came home at all, they share this week’s Sunday Spotlight.

Andy Pettitte played 18 seasons pitching for the New York Yankees. In an era where my Red Sox and the Yankees were the greatest rivalries in baseball, you were born in New England to hate any athlete who wore the pinstripes. Try as I might, I could never hate Andy Pettite. Pettite was not flashy, brash, or cocky. He went out every five days, took the mound, and gave his all in every game he pitched. He seemed like he owned the Red Sox for nearly two decades. You would check the lin-ups for an upcoming game, see Pettitte penciled in as starting pitcher, and know the Sox were in for a challenging contest. I cannot remember a game where the Sox slayed this big left-hander on the mound. You couldn’t hate him. You just had to respect him and hope tomorrow would bring an easier game.

Cole Hauser is one of those actors you watch and think is not acting. Their character is who they are. As one of the stars who portray Rip Wheeler in the blockbuster series Yellowstone, Hauser looks totally natural in a cowboy hat sitting on a horse. He is one of the reasons we tune in on Sunday night. Hauser started his acting career in 1992, so he is not a newcomer to the screen, but his role in Yellowstone has been his most notable.

It is when athletes and actors leave their realm and use their notoriety for the benefit of others that we see their true value. These two men have joined forces and volunteered to help one of my favorite organizations Tunnels to Towers. It is not because it is my favorite, but because there may be no more worthy cause than to care for those who sacrificed their bodies or lives to protect us.

Both of these men remember well the fateful day in 2001 when fundamental terrorists attacked our country. These memories motivate them to step up and use their names and faces to aid Frank Siller in the mission of assuring that every man or woman who comes back from duty with a broken body has a comfortable home and every survivor of a First Responder has their mortgage paid in full.

It is my honor to feature these two men and to make them this week’s Sunday Spotlight.

 

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Joa from Breaking The Flaw Crypto6 Jury Drawing

Today we get further confirmation from the governments own ‘victim’ witnesses that Ian’s not involved in scamming in any shape or form. We try and follow along with what the governments dirty tricks are and what the point of introducing certain audio and video clips are. The government touches on an “international” bank account, a threatening FinCEN letter, and a letter from Attorney Seth Hipple advising the church it’s not required to register as a money services business under state or federal law. The government has been kind enough to submit these documents to the docket for us so everyone can read them for themselves.

Also take note that the trial has been on hiatus due to Renee and lawyer falling ill, but it is planned to resume Monday December 19th at 9AM. The defense should begin introducing it’s own witnesses and evidence and likely get way more interesting. The trial is open to the public and supporters of the Crypto6 are highly encouraged to attend. The address of the courthouse is: 55 Pleasant St, Concord, NH 03301. Also note that you don’t have to come for the full day. It starts at 9AM and there is usually an hour for lunch with a conclusion of the trial day at 5PM.

Crypto6 Day 6

FBI agent from prior day takes the stand again and prosecution continues questioning the ‘witness’…

Crypto Church Of New Hampshire Questions

Certificate of invisible hand trade name document on screen

Certify’s nobody is certificate to do business as church of the invisible hand

NH Peace Church

7/22/2020

Document shown on screen: Trade name registration for NH Peace Church

Certificate of registered trade name: NH Peace Church

Showing drivers license and passports of Renee, Nobody, and others

[The ‘expert’ refers to “Word documents”, but humorously these are actually LibreOffice documents in a different format being shown on a computer that merely is associating them with Microsoft Word, yes, this is who we are suppose to be relying on tell us Ian’s guilty of some not-very-clear ‘crime’, all the while exposing their own ‘victims’ to ‘identity theft’… I’ll quote the word ‘identity theft’ as this is actually a fraud against another, not the individual whose identity has been used and moves the blame  or really liability from those accepting said documents to other parties primarily being the victims]

List of folders with bank names shown

~ 15 banks

GFA Letter

Suspected fraudulent activity, froze account, colleene

Has determined account has been used to exchange virtual currency for real currency

You may be a money transmitter

Document shown on screen: International Bank Application Ian Filled Out

International Bank Account Application

Q Does it say profit from bitcoin sales?

A No

[humorous cause it does say church investments which would include bitcoin ‘profits’]

~ 16 exchanged listed in folder on Ian’s laptop on screen

[really it’s the church’s laptop, there exists a double standard here and depending on when it is convenient for them to say it’s Ian’s laptop or the church as both have financial implications in legal land]

Showing church policies on screen

[verification and KYC policies which are done with intent to stop fraud, whether or not it works, these are the governments own rules for what banks have to do even if they’re not technically applicable to the church’s sale of its own bitcoin]

Shows document on screen which banks church has “broken up” with

~22 banks listed

~7 rejected in advance

~6 active banks

Exchange statuses

Ian OK at ~7

Colleen OK at ~1

~9 denied or canceled

[remember that what a bank can legally do or the risks thereof is not the same thing as what you can do as a customer thereof, so for instance, you might have worked in the sex industry 20 years ago, nothing illegal about that, it’s not illegal for you to open a bank account, but banks will likely cut you off because the banks have been threatened by a bureaucrat at the federal level via a letter sent to all financial institutions, this actually happened not that long ago, and as a result all financial institutions in the US cut off anybody connected to the sex industry- the letter used words like “sex trafficking”- but that’s merely code for anything connected to sex, you opening a bank account, them closing it, and you repeatedly doing this at other banks doesn’t make you guilty of a crime, and the banks generally don’t tell you why they are closing your account for liability reasons]

Now looking at downloads folder on screen

Third folder down is KYC folder

Q What is that?

A It stands for know your customer

[I wonder how she knows what Ian’s intentions were for that, though it’s almost certainly a correct interpretation of what he intended, you’d think they’d need to have Ian up on the stand to testify to it, not some third party]

Q What is the last folder?

A Telegram desktop

Ian recommendation file

Showing (Melanie Neighbours Tax Planning & Preparation) Unsigned/recommendation/certification of asset document

KYC Telegram folder shown on screen

This folder shows a list of peoples names with KYC documents in them

[yes, the government is exposing these people and putting them at risk of ‘identity fraud’ during the trial, none of it is censored, or more honestly the government is aiding fraudsters who need ID information like this in defrauding others]

[FBI agent is confirming what is found in KYC folder contains ID of people who testified as “victim” witnesses at trial previously]

Q Did you go through all photos of all people?

A Yes

Q What was the average age?

A 59 from 2020

[there were 4,000 transactions, and these was a TINY fraction, call me skeptical, it’s not clear if these were folks that the church was calling to do verification with which would also have bumped the age of these folks up, but even if it was the average age of those conducting 4,000 transactions suggests that you’re not allowed to do sell bitcoin to older people which just sounds crazy- you’ll note later though that the ‘red flags’- a government term doesn’t actually mean you have to stop a transaction either so if these are people who were ‘red flags’ and the church did do business with them after a phone call that would be identical to what the banks procedure if not more than what financial institutions do]

Q You found Patrick Brown folder empty when you got it?

A Yes

[thinking about this a bit this is what I’d probably consider remnants, just not in it’s better more obvious form, but basically it’s partial data left over after some task has been performed and only gives you a partial picture of things]

[It’s curious to note that it would appear they are trying to point out that Ian missed or lost records or something happened to KYC records assuming they’re not just stored somewhere more permanent elsewhere of ONE ‘victim’ which is interesting because later we also see the banks have lost data as well yet the government doesn’t make them out to be scum]

They are going through dozens of picture IDs to show the various ages of some of the people, but not all of the people in this folder

Of those they are showing it appears to be those in the 45-70 age range mostly

[something else to note here is that they are not all victims and there is nothing suggesting that these are all victims… rather the government is trying to show through implication of the fact that this folder had a lot of older people in it that Ian is somehow guilty of targeting older folks and working with scammers]

[weird fed church photo on screen in one folder but out of place, how did it get there? presumably it ended up there by accident, but it’s curious mostly just in that I’m not sure what federal incident the photo comes from, there have not been that many, but I guess there have been some other incidents particularly if it’s quite dated]

[it’s very apparent that the prosecutor is trying to convince the jury buying bitcoin as an older person is illegal or should be]

Q Anything else you noticed?

A Buying on behalf of another

Playing audio exhibit from FTL

[unfortunately I wasn’t able to capture the episode this came from, it’ was a VERY brief cut of a show, clearly intentionally misleading although I’m not sure what it was suppose to show exactly]

Ian, Aria, Matt, and a caller talk about the Nigerian scammer

Ian “So you got hit for over $16,000?”

Ian “What was going through head?”

Caller “Never said to write no refunds”

Talking about man in the middle attack

[I’m not clear if this was someone who got scammed by someone pretending to be Ian online or what the case was, but I think that might have been what happened here, and the misleading part on the prosecutor’s side might be that they want the jury to think Ian was somehow actively partaking in scamming people and then talking about it on air with the victim of his scam?]

[I mean, it seems like what this should be showing if played and explained in context is that Ian is aware of and warns people about these sorts of scams, but this isn’t the defense playing this, it’s cut up by the prosecution with some sort of specific intent]

Good client bought on multiple occasions and was buying for good friend

All hoops for know your customer were jumped through

Ian “I generally don’t do third party trades either, but this was a good customer”

[aww maybe the objective here although poorly explained to the jury is the “third party trades”]

Q Is this what you saw?

A No

[this audio is undated, maybe third party trades became more common? it’s not like we have a ton of third party trades evidence here by the prosecution though anyway given only a small small percentage were shown of the ~4000 transactions]

[something else to point out is people don’t start getting social security until 62-70 depending on different factors and the average age was 59 according to the governments own math]

Q Was this person asked why they had so much cash they wanted to turn into bitcoin?

A No

Q Where was all this?

A On Ian freeman’s computer

[again, wrong, it was the church’s laptop, how can someone testify to something they don’t even know the answer to and while this may not be useful to the defense I’d still love to have asked the question what is your basis for claiming this is Ian’s laptop? it’s presumably the user name ftl_ian, but if that is the case then if I create a user called FBI can I claim it was the FBI’s computer when they seize it as evidence and try to use something on it from my house? the other thing is I’m pretty darn sure there were other people who touched that system here and there and I think this comes up somewhere too which begs the question how did you do determine who was the person who actively created a given document? etc]

Q How many did you interview?

A 30-40

[that’s a pretty big gap… ya think you might be able to do a little bit better than that as far as narrowing down the #?]

Q Did any not have third party involved?

A No

[so you selectively looked then… hmmm if you only look at x you’ll only find x, and I’m also curious what is mean by third party here exactly hmmm]

Q Are you trying to investigate one of the people in the Telegram folder?

A Yes

Q What makes this one different?

A We have his true name

[correct me if I’m mistaken, but don’t you have the true name of everyone? aka that is what is happening with KYC after all.. you’re getting a picture of both the ID and the ID next to the person for all persons in the transaction… and isn’t this the result of IDK Ian doing KYC and the church having a policy thereof which I think you already testified to here at this point in the trial ]

Q What has been different in these types of scams?

A Fake name, no ID

“in this case bitcoin clouds the money even more”

[but he got ID!!!!!! so lets get this right… he used a fake name and had no idea between the victim and the scammer, but the church got ID and it was a result of the raid and the church doing KYC that you got the ID? right? right ?]

A 2019 audio clip of free talk live is played

Ian “this show is generally got an older audience”

Ian “and also unfortunately the age of target scammer”

[it seems very much like they are trying to pull stuff out of context and are trying to suggest the church’s objective is to scam older folks]

Q What is in this folder?

A Signed agreements for assistant positions, termination agreements

On screen is an agreement between shire [free church I presuming?] and aria [reformed satanic church I’m presuming] for loan of $72,000, 50 BCH to spread crypto

A similar agreement is also shown that is signed between the shire free church and nobody

Play two related audios from BoA recorded call

[aka for quality and assurance purposes this call is being recorded … or something like that!]

Nobody: My first and and last name is nobody

Nobody: Actually fnk nobody

Nobody: Church of the invisible hand

BoA representative: How can I assist you?

Nobody: I’ve got an ongoing dispute with the bank for some time, you shut down account

Nobody: You still owe us $40,000

Nobody: Your belief is our customer defrauded someone else

Nobody: I would like a police report and full accounting of what happened with the money

Nobody: It has to come back or be explained

BoA representative: Ok awww….

[speechless]

Nobody: I do have a claim #, let me find my reading glasses

Nobody: I got church treasurer on the line

Ian: I got reference #

New witness

Name: Dannela Virel

Q Live?

A Portagon, Fl

Q How long?

A 30 years

76

2012 retired

widow since 2018

financial flanner

Q Dec of 2014 were you on a dating website?

A Match.com

I met Jerry Harmon and he worked on oil rigs

He lived in Raleigh, NC

We would Skype and text

Skype video site in beginning and then telephone calls later

Q Was an actual person on Skype?

A Yes

Yes, same voice as in video

Q How often?

A Several times of day

Talked about children, what he did in his time off, etc

Q You spoke to family too?

A Yes

A women claimed to be his sister

Q Did you make arrangements to see him?

A Yes, but when arrived was told to go to Alexandria, Virginia

Q Did you see him during your trip?

A No

Q Did he send you any gifts?

A Yes, but he didn’t know about them so it must have been someone else

[very bizarre, you’d think she’d just have said no if she knew they weren’t from the guy]

Q He’d send you photos of himself?

A Yes

Q His oil rig broke and asked me for money? Did you send money?

A Yes

I sent him wires from bank. I was given detailed instructions on where to send and what to put on the paperwork as dictated by Mr Freeman via Harmon.

Q What kind of photos were sent?

A Myself and ID/documents

Exhibit on screen of victim with ID shown

[aka the scammer’s victim, they’re not saying Ian scammed anyone, just that he worked with scammers, of which they have provided no evidence, and the governments own witnesses all testified to the fact the scammers didn’t work with Ian]

Q What did you send?

A I sent a photo to Mr Harmon

Q What is this photo?

A Wire transfer document

Q What does it say?

A I authorized….

[this is just a standard disclaimer that the church requires the deposit of cash or in this case the wirer of the funds to put on the receipt to ensure that they understand what the wire is for aka buying bitcoin, from localbitcoin.com or telegram, the username used, signature, and date, etc]

Q Date of wire?

A Jan 15, 2020

Q Sent to?

A Ian B Freeman

Q What is reference?

A Drilling equipment and virtual goods supplied to me by jerry

Q Date of 2nd wire?

A Jan 21, 2020

Q Did you know why you had to put rebeca down as to who you were buying bitcoin for?

A No

[ok, so, we’re all suppose to stop buying or selling bitcoin or anything else online because there are vulnerable people in the world? come on…]

Q Did you know what bitcoin was at the time?

A Yes

[I kid you not, she actually says she did know what she was buying at the time, but not who it was for]

Q Why did you use two banks?

A To avoid red flags

[doesn’t this sound awfully couched? How many times have you heard an old lady utilize the term red flag?]

Q Who told you this?

A Jerry

[I am skeptical here because I don’t think scammers know of or utilize this terminology ‘red flag’, but maybe I’m just not familiar enough with the scamming world]

Q Did you speak to freeman?

A yes

Q Did you call him?

A He called me, once or twice

Q What did he ask?

A If I wanted to send this money

[so this is evidence that the church’s policy was followed… when a ‘red flag’ occurs the thing a bank might do, but won’t do generally most of the time is take an additional step to approve a transaction or investigate and confirm… the government is evidencing Ian did more than the banks were doing and wasn’t even technically required to do it as he and the church are not a money transmitter and nor a financial institution that is regulated by the feds according to their own rules and of which the lawyers already had advised of]

Q Did Mr Freeman ask why you were buying drilling equipment?

A No

Q About what bitcoin was?

A No

The following day he said he was needing to pay tax at port so I broke up with him

Bank told me that wire was fraudulent and if you accept fraudulent wire you would be on the hook for it so I declined it

[I’m pretty sure she is talking about the scammer here given she didn’t have a relationship with Ian]

Q Where did money come from?

A Sale of plane, money I made, inheritance from mother and partner

Q How has this impacted you?

A Changed how I live

Defense Cross Examines ‘Victim’ Witness

The lawyer starts off with kind words saying “I was touched by your story”

Q This Harmon guy was a fabrication?

A Yes

Q You invested a lot in the guy not just money?

A I did

Q After one video did you preserve it?

A I have no idea

Q Did government ask for it?

A No

Q Charlotte was a setup right?

A Yes

Q You got to Alexandria you had specific place to meet?

A No

Q He never sent flowers?

A He never said that, but sent in his name despite this he seemed unaware

Q Did Chase bank advice this might be a problem?

A No

No one managed my money

Q They didn’t question what you did with your money?

A Right

Q You did wire with other bank to avoid authorities?

A Yes, Jerry said to

Q You never asked about Rebeca?

A That is correct

Q Two short calls with Ian Freeman?

A Yes

Q Asked if really wanted to send money? He was concerned?

A Yes

[ok, so red flag, warned, sent money anyway, exactly what the bank would do in most cases assuming they even went that far as the evidence shows from these government witnesses that the banks rarely questioned transactions]

Q Did he know who Jerry Harmon was?

A I don’t know

Q Did Harmon know Ian?

A He represented himself as knowing Ian

Q He represented himself as a lot of things that were untrue, right?

A That is correct

[yikes!]

Back to FBI case manager agent

Prosecutor asks questions first

Q Do you recall how much was being discussed?

A About $350,000 and $40,000

Q Documents found at radio studio?

A Yes

BoA audio played

Ian “My name is nobody and church of the invisible hand”

Ian: “So BoA decided they would close my church account, but decided that a wire was fraudulent so went to local branch and James Baker came (Aria) and he certified that it was not fraud and notarized it.”

Ian: “No one in your department indicated they got it.”

Ian: “You are sitting on $350,000 and I’d like to get that back”

Q Was that nobody?

A No, it was Ian

[just love this, cause he’s presumably authorized to speak on nobody’s behalf]

Search warrants for emails: shirebtc@gmail.com

From Ian to Chris

We don’t check it because vending machine is part of church and respect privacy

Q Letter say bank wants to know source of funds?

A Yes

Q Did he reply?

A Yes

Ian said: “We have received contributions from people in various parts of the US, is that a problem?”

Reply “No, not a problem”

Ian: “Are you referring to check that came out?”

Q Any discussion of bitcoin?

A No

One email says

“Never invest more you can afford to lose”

email (FinCEN letter):

Threatening FinCEN Letter Displayed On Screen

Another letter from Attorney Seth Hipple is displayed about how a vending machine is not an ATM and no KYC is required to sell crypto from ones own wallet.

Letter Written By Attorney Seth Hipple Explaining Why Church Is Not A Money Service Business

Another set of letters is shown on the screen  to at least one or more banks in an effort to find a less hostile bank and identify what the issue is exactly that causes banks to close accounts. The letter asks one of the banks is it threats or fines by government?

Plays video clip where I believe it is Ian talking about vending machine and explains that it is like candy, can’t be taxed, can’t be stolen, I didn’t ask permission to sell Bitcoin.

[note: Ian’s not required to ask permission to sell Bitcoin as prior letters from attorney clearly state no registration is required at state or federal levels within the context of the churchs crypto operations]

That’s it for day 6!

If you got this far you might also consider gifting Joa from Breaking The Flaw some crypto. He has consistently come out to the trial, drawn cartoons for us, and helped with making little protests outside the courthouse like that of last week an amazing success. No one here is getting paid to write these articles, take notes, make drawings, film, or do really any other connected activity. That means any fiscal contribution you might consider making to offset our, or in this case Joa’s costs to come out to the trial and produce these drawings for us is greatly appreciated.

Direct Your Crypto Gifts To Joa

And we are mighty tired that you keep insisting, from your over-blown sense of Superior Morality, that we should just shut up and accept the guilt spilling out of your mout.   Well, Up Yours, wokesters!

Reformatted, emphasis mine. And yes, this was over a bigoted play. Right to the point in the first line:

But it may also be that people are burned out with trying to be woke 24/7. For years, from the office of the president of the United States to the local school boards and every office, activist, bureaucrat, and administrator in between, people have had racism, trans, and every other phobia and “ism” pounded into them at every juncture.

People who have known they are not racist are tired of defending themselves every minute, except perhaps when it comes to their children. And they also know that discussion is simply impossible.

And even the true believers may be growing weary of confessing their sins with every other breath. How many times can you flog yourself on the steps of Canterbury Cathedral, especially for offenses you know you did not commit? How long are you supposed to clap for Stalin before your hands start to bleed and your arms cramp?

You may be opposed to racism. You may even have rended your garments and heaped ashes on your head over your privilege. But when the accusations become unrelenting and perpetual repentance for values you do not hold and actions you did not commit becomes a mandatory national ritual, you might begin to tune out. At least personally. Never publicly, lest a fresh round of accusations commence. But privately, you may be too tired to go the distance yet again. No matter how non-racist you are, you will never be non-racist or anti-racist enough.

-Lincoln Brown (Is Woke Fatigue Finally Setting In?)

Don’t tune out – do what the Left has told themselves – punch back twice as hard. Get up in their faces and tell them to sit on it and rotate and scream at them that you aren’t putting up with their delusions of self-piety, grandiosity, and holier-than-thou attitude anymore.

Then say, gently, “thank you” and watch them wonder what the heck happened. Then smile at the look on their face in bewilderment from that verbal whipsaw.

(H/T: Instapundit)

 

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Adam Exton died suddenly at the age of thirty-five, and this is a tragedy. Any loss of life is, but the irony should not be lost on any of us. Adam may be a victim of his policy preferences, given his position in the Canadian Government prior to his untimely passing.

 

 In 2012, Adam won the Ontario Young Liberal Volunteer of the Year Award. He received a degree in political science from the University of Toronto. Adam spent many years working at various levels of government, eventually holding the position of Director of Parliamentary Affairs at Health Canada. During the challenging times of the pandemic, Adam was part of the leadership team that led Canada’s health response to COVID-19.

 

As is increasingly the case, the cause of death is unknown and not disclosed. Adam died on December 9th and has been buried. We do not know the cause of death, and I have been unable to find it online.

If anyone sleuths it up, let us know. We will update the report, especially if it was something not-so-suspicious, like being hit by a bus or found dead in a hotel bathroom after an alleged robbery, at which nothing was obviously missing except the life of the deceased.

 

 

 

 

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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday.

Survival Sunday on Thursday (On Friday): SITREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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Have not tried this one.  I have tried the one with a gum wrapper and battery – you need to make the circuit with the tinder wrapped around the right place.  The heat flashes and dies very quicky – you won’t have time to move stuff to contact the ignition point:

 

 

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Top of the fold:

Microsoft report says critical infrastructure at risk | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

Say, who remembers our  WEF “friend” and his predictions? Candace does.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/candace-owens-on-inevitable-cyberattack.mp4

 

Remember, without power there’s no light, no heat, no running water, no refrigeration, no purchasing beyond cash, no gas being pumped… give two weeks without power, even just a single week, and in vast swaths people will turn on each other like rats in a flood.

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Most of us are familiar with the movie Soylent Green, about a future where “to serve man” is more than a slogan.  Tip o’ the hat to Twilight Zone.  Anyway, just recently the New York Slimes had a piece about the possibility of cannibalism.  IIRC some “green” eggheads have also proposed it.  And now, this:

The Human Meat Project

As the IMHO planned starvation occurs, will this happen for real?

 

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What does someone do when surrounded and assaulted by a pack of thugs? Looks like that guy didn't have a choice. pic.twitter.com/va29BLAbDI

— Dane (@UltraDane) December 14, 2022

 

From the comments:

If you can’t take a punch don’t start swinging at a guy who knows how to.

They move in packs.  I have read that if you have no choice, focus on the leader.  If the leader goes down, the rest will – on average – back off.

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com) (new)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

8 Foods You Can Cook From Scraps You Normally Throw Away (askaprepper.com)

Be frugal.  “Waste not, want not”.

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Baiting violence – Gun Free Zone

Given that idea, racist words justifying violence, bad actors are manufacturing racist incidents to get away with violence.

This boy was smart enough not to fall for it and still was the recipient of violence.

And potentially lethal violence as well. The victim was hit in the head with a metal folding chair.

Video at the link.

Be situationally aware.  And aware that there are people out there, often called “diverse”, who WANT an excuse to go violent.  And if they don’t get it, will do so anyway – and potentially lethally.

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

 

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I don’t know.  If it’s gotten that bad… and I’m not a lawyer so take this as my own opinion… 2-3 shots center of mass, decapitate, and mount the head on a pike as a warning to the next looters.  But that’s just me.  I have a fence that’s topped with spikes.  Musing.  Collect a whole set?

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Save the crap stuff for “ballistic wampum” trading materials.  The problem with that concept is, in a true SHTF situation, today’s trade could be tomorrow’s incoming.

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab.  I found out how to add people, and will monitor to check people asking to join.  Reminder, I will start posting stuff from below into the group tomorrow.

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Foraging: One-up articles

Why Oyster Mushrooms Are a Self-Reliant Health Gold Mine (theorganicprepper.com)

Also useful in gardening.

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Shepherd’s Purse Hidden Secret – Ask a Prepper

I’ve seen this around, I think.  From the same site:

16 Wild Edibles You Didn’t Know You Could Forage For – Ask a Prepper

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Foraging: Permanent sites:

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

 

 

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5 Food Shortages That Will Impact Your Wallet This Holiday Season | Nasdaq

The ripple effects of even simple things is enormous.

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And another food processing plant goes up in flames.

 

 

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Coles introduces purchase limit on frozen potato chips due to supply shortage | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

This is global.

 

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Gardening, animals, food preservation, overall health, etc.:

How To Make Your Chickens Lay More Eggs – Ask a Prepper

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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

 

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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:

 

 

Programmable footsoldiers.  And if it’s not masks, it’ll be the Jab, or the dreaded “Son of The Jab”.

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Selecting a Caliber and Type of Handgun – Mason Dixon Survivalist Association (wordpress.com)

I want to find a carry-able .45 cal.

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America’s Rifle, the AR-15 Is Protected by the Second Amendment: News: The Independent Institute

Great author who has written some incredible progun stuff.

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Kolbe v. Hogan Updated: Added a negative – Gun Free Zone

Long, but fascinating and important.

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Knife Control? Fatal Stabbings in NYC Up 37% This Year (thegatewaypundit.com)

Knife fights are messy affairs.  More than one person I know who knows about this says that NOBODY gets away unharmed.

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/rkba-the-one-thing-that-stops-the-globalists.mp4

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

World Economic Forum Declares ‘Jesus Is Fake News’ and ‘God Is Dead’ – News Punch

These people have set themselves up to be deities themselves, thus violating the First Commandment.  (Or second, if you’re Jewish.)  And so much of the WEF movement seems to be populated by people eager to download themselves into a computer.  I.e., fear of death.

Now what will be interesting – and obviously I’ll never know – is if these slugs get all implanted and wired up and “transferred” and their body dies.  And they go to stand in front of His judgment, and when they complain they were supposed to have surmounted death, He will say otherwise.  And here’s your ticket straight to downstairs.

Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha ha!

Is it wrong that I take delight at this thought?

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

 

 

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Please check out my memes collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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She does it time after time after time. It’s rather clear – that if duly elected Representatives of the People of New Hampshire make decisions she hates, she will do what it takes to overrule them from her perch in the Federal Government.  This has been especially true when it comes to sexual morality.  If a Republican majority NH Exec. Council…

Sidenote: For those of you outside of NH, the Exec. Council, made up of five state-wide elected officials, is a check on the NH Governor’s office (which is amongst the weakest such position in the US).  They not only must approve all contracts in the Executive Branch, but they also serve as a brake on the Governor’s appointees to any judgeship or high-level executive position within his Administration. In these cases, the Executive Council can override what the Governor WANTS by simply voting no. There have been a few times when Baby Huey (aka Chris Sununu) has brought forward contracts to fund abortion abattoirs (i.e., slaughterhouses) to the E.C. only to have them voted down. Such monies were reallocated to other-than-abortion-suppliers “women’s health centers” instead. HOWLS of malfeasance and cries of “you’re might kill women by denying them ‘healthcare’!” were heard as the Republicans were merely representing what their voters were telling them to do.

Sidenote to the Sidenote: no howls or cries are EVER heard about all the babies who are killed by the success of such “healthcare”.

…votes something in this area down, here comes Jeanne Shaheen marching angrily from the halls of the US Senate to override that decision with fistfuls of Federal tax money.

It also is the same situation with sex education.  The Republican E.C. members, as Ann Marie reported (Executive Councilors Rejecting Taxpayer Funds for Radicalized and Politicized Sex Ed), on the E.C. decided that spending taxpayer monies on this Get Real program explicitly graphic sex education was just a ploy for other Leftist/Democrat agenda items:

Get Real references the organization SIECUS [Sex Ed for Social Change] for the frameworks it says it aligns with. That organization’s stated purpose is to “spark large-scale social change.”

SIECUS also (1) asserts that “Sex Ed sits at the nexus of many social justice movements – from LBGTQ rights and reproductive Justice….” The motto for the Get Real publisher (ETR) is “advancing health equity.” That purpose is decidedly different to educating young children (middle school age) and informing young adults (high school age) about biology and healthy sex behaviour. What is the social change they want to effect? I doubt parents of prospective students know of this focus for the program, nor the single viewpoint of the authors and presenters. Does the Executive Council want to endorse these objectives? ( 1 https://siecus.org/about-siecus/our-history/).

…The program says it seeks to highlight the role of parents in their children’s care but also asserts that the materials and activities used by participants will be private within the classroom.

Yes, Parents, that means you aren’t invited to know what is being taught. (“…parental rights could be ignored completely.”).  Jeanne Shaheen doesn’t care and is most likely upset that parents “won’t get with the program – you bigots and knuckledraggers stuck in the Victorian Age and reading your Christian Bibles”.

So once again, she gathers up her feminist skirts, her our moneybag in hand, and heads off to the North with a yell of “I’LL SHOW YOU, MY PRETTIES”!

From the UL (reformatted, emphasis mine):

CONCORD — U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is working to deliver federal money directly to two providers that offer sex education services to at-risk students after the Executive Council repeatedly rejected these grants, a spokesperson said Wednesday.

The Republican-led council voted 3-2 Tuesday against $682,000 in federal grants for Amoskeag Health in Manchester and TLC Family Resource Center in Claremont. Youths up to age 19 at a higher risk of pregnancy and at risk of sexually-transmitted diseases are the target population for this instruction, including those in foster care, girls who have been pregnant before, or victims of sexual trafficking, state officials said.

“It’s outrageous these programs are on the brink of shuttering because of the Republican-controlled Executive Council’s extreme ideology and poor understanding of reproductive health,” said Shaheen spokesperson Sam Paisley in response to the council’s action.

“These programs help adolescents stay healthy by providing essential sex education, and they shouldn’t be politicized.”

So much for the Constitutional philosophy of Federalism. It’s obvious that Shaheen has forgotten (or hates, or both) that the Federal Government was a creation of the colonies/States – and not the other way around. But this is how Democrats roll – they always push for all Power (Governments have Powers, Individuals have Rights (or are supposed to have and have inviolate) to be centralized and then pushed up from whatever level to the next higher one:

• From people to the towns or cities
• From the towns or cities to the counties
• From the counties to the State capital
• From the State Capitals to Washington, D.C.

And this IS the mindset of Jeanne Shaheen. Take that Power, remove it from People, and make it as hard as possible to override decisions made in DC where they SHOULD be made locally.

First off, Sam Paisley knows that once Government gets involved in something, that IS a political action. More so when money is involved.

And look at his sleight of hand – she blames the Republicans (ok, how does Paisley know it is “poor understanding” – did he ask?  NO; furthering the politicization) for politics even as SHE is doing the politics from the next higher level.

Sorry, killing babies is extreme. What is even more extreme and dangerous has been the decades-long effort to de-personalize a developing human simply because its development process is still in the womb. It’s just a “clump of tissue” and “not viable” – making the statement that a new baby is not even worth mentioning in polite (or is that “Democrat political) life?

Thanks to E.C. Members Dave Wheeler, Ted Gatsas, and Joe Kenney for voting it down.

And Shannon McGinley said it well of this program:

“We object to our tax dollars being used to promote pornography addiction and promulgate gender ideology,”

Shaheen ought to be ashamed of herself for using her political power from “above” to override valid decisions made here in NH.  Unfortunately, she sees NH as simply a vassal state to be done with as she pleases.

 

 

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New Hampshire has been getting bluer and bluer thanks to Governor Sun-King, who … in a nutshell … believes that the future of the GOP is being every bit as woke and authoritarian as the Democrats while shifting the tax burden from businesses and the wealthy to working people.  Presumably in 2024, our self-absorbed, self-promoting Sun-King rides off to be a “contributor” on CNN or MSNBC and fill a seat on the Board-of-Directors of some woke corporations … in other words, he cashes in.

So who replaces him? I think it is safe to say that Chris Pappas runs for the Democrats. Is there a single Republican who can beat him? NOPE. Oh the NHGOP grifter-establishment will push Chucky Morse … you remember him …. the “quality candidate” who couldn’t even win his primary. And Chucky, assuming he is the nominee, will get crushed by Pappas.

Chucky’s only chance of being elected Governor was in the 2022 midterms … against the extremist Dr. Death Tom Sherman … but that required Lord Sun-King to run for the U.S. Senate, which Lord Sun-King was too lazy and scared to do.

There is no NHGOP bench. Lord Sun-King’s embrace of everything woke has NOT grown the Party. It has shrunk the Party. Lord Sun-King is the antithesis of Governor DeSantis, who has made Florida solidly Red.

I know what the comments will say: EDELBLUT! … EDELBLUT! …. EDELBUT! Dream on. Not a chance against Pappas.  Edleblut has never won a race higher than State Representative and he stuck like Gorilla-Glue with Lord Sun-King Sununu through the worst of Sununu’s COVID-excesses. The gubernatorial election is not going to turn on “Education Freedom Accounts.”

So get ready for New Hampshire to take on an even deeper shade of blue beginning in 2024. And thank Sun-King Sununu for that.

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I so enjoy watching explosions!  Last one was bridges. This post is “Tallest Building Demolitions in the World”:

(H/T: The Bridge Demolition YouTube)

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If you recall, we plugged a forecast last week predicting an arctic event leading to a cold white Christmas for many. After watching Joe Bastardi’s Saturday Summary for the coming week at Weatherbell.com, things are still looking frigid for most of America.

Related: Are You Ready For What Could Be a Cold White Christmas …

 

The featured image is the projection for Friday morning, and you can see that most of the nation is well below normal temperatures for this time of year, with cold seeping to the Texas coast.

New England, lucky for us, won’t feel too much of this, with local forecasts predicting rain instead of snow (in Southern New Hampshire) and a chance of snow on Christmas eve, which is a good a time as any for that sort of thing.

Here’s Weatherbell’s projected snow cover on Christmas day.

 

 

If you are dreaming of a white Christmas, these places can expect one (any color but white should have snow on the ground). All courtesy of Global Warming, of course. Nothing causes cooling like warming.

They should put that on a bumper sticker.

 

 

 

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Which is that the INTEREST payment on our National Debt could be our largest line item in the budget:

The Fed could be facing a nightmare scenario. “There is a much more worrisome scenario, however, in which US inflation remains stubbornly high, perhaps because the combination of continued tight labor markets and elevated living costs fuel persistent rapid wage growth. Such a wage-price spiral would pose a difficult conflict between the policy needs of the US economy and those of the rest of the world. Further increases in interest rates would be essential to bring down US inflation and inflation expectations. But at a time when many of our trading partners were mired in recession, further policy tightening could create grave problems abroad: substantial job losses, widespread defaults and disruptions in international financial markets.”

Left unsaid: The federal government can’t afford prolonged tightening because of increased interest payments on $31 or so trillion in debt.

And with compounding, it will just get worse and worse.  And with our state of our hyper-partisanship, what other programs will get squeezed?

And that really IS the problem. This is the most watched but ignored crisis of our national politics for the last three decades – and we keep electing people that keep spitting out our dollars with their votes as if there was an unending source of such.

It won’t be a crisis recognized until it bites US in our collective fannies when dollars mean pennies. Our national check-kiting will be finished. The days of the Federal Government being the machine exists only to fulfill the phrase “Taxation is Theft” to take from one to give to another for practically any reason (which is to say, no reason at all except POLITICS!) will end.

And we will have only ourselves to blame. Including both the Republicans and Democrats that we here in NH have sent to DC.  The Democrats just did what we knew that they’d do. The Republicans just lied to us as to their Party affiliations (their actions/votes spoke louder than their campaign promises).

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I put in a Right To Know demand for the police records for Attorney Bolton and I received 86 pages of documents going back to 2000. Frankly, these records are stunning. They depict a very angry, hostile,out-of-controll man who lacks self-awareness and self-control.

Laurie Ortolano RTK responsive documents-Steve Bolton

In May 2022, he was in an altercation in the bar at Chili’s restaurant with Cheryl Walley that resulted in an assault and the manager of the store calling the police. This happens at 5:30 pm on a Tuesday evening. Apparently, there was hollering and yelling over politics after having several drinks that resulted in Ms. Walley bending Bolton’s hand and assaulting him. The fight was taken out of the bar and into Bolton’s car. Why was this altercation so heated and physical?

The Manager of Chili’s placed the 911 call and reported alcohol consumption, a verbal altercation, and the assault and that both people left the bar shouting and went into a silver Nissan Rogue in the parking lot. The manager provided the plate number. This appears to be Attorney Bolton’s vehicle.

When the police arrived, the car had been moved into the Bob’s furniture store lot. The police report is incredibly lacking. The police never documented that they questioned how much alcohol was consumed or conducted sobriety tests.

Laurie Ortolano Nashua Police Incident Report Markup 7_22_22 Bolton trespassing 22-43246-OF

The report shows a March 2022 motor vehicle warning but the police do not list the citation given.

The report shows 5 more motor vehicle warnings for his unregistered and uninspected vehicle. This went on for 5 years and Attorney Bolton only received 1 fine in August 2012. He was stopped in Sept 2012, 2013, 2104, 2015, 2018, and 2022. I don’t think I could get away with year after year stops without fines.

The 2012 incident on Factory Street is very disturbing because it is so similar as to how Attorney Bolton attempted to arrest me in City Hall on July 22, 2022. Attorney Bolton exhibits a pattern of behavior to have innocent citizens arrested.  Attorney Bolton appears to make a false arrest claim and is misrepresenting information. As an officer of the Court, this is inexcusable. In 2012, Bolton called the police to have a contractor renovating a building on factory St arrested for assault. He claimed the man pushed him on the chest and swore at him. What Bolton didn’t realize was that there was an eyewitness who saw the entire incident. The eyewitness backed the contractor and driver and not Bolton. The witness did not know any of the parties but noted that the driver of the Jeep (Bolton) caused all the problems. The police failed to follow up on the false claim charge for Bolton’s testimony.

What is more disturbing is that Bolton announces his legal degree and former Alderman position to the officer as if to add credibility and clout to his statements. Bolton demands that the contractor be arrested. The police refused to arrest.t he contractor, first stating that they needed to conduct an investigation (Bolton did the same thing to me in City Hall) and because they could not find truth in his story. I am attaching the July Police report again when Bolton tried to have me arrested in City Hall. And the July 2022 arrest was not the only attempted arrest. There were two more attempted arrests in February 2022.

More disturbing in this November 2012 incident was that Bolton initiated the entire incident. Driving and talking on his cell phone, not paying attention, traveling at high speed, rolling down his window swearing and screaming, blocking the road off with his vehicle, and then EXISTING the car to engage further in the altercation. How can an attorney NOT KNOW that this is exactly what he should not be doing?

The 2000 incident in the BOA chamber for a Budget Committee documents his anger and outrageous conduct. Again, Attorney Bolton is the aggressor and believes it is correct to go after a citizen attending the meeting, threaten him ,and violate his personal space. Bolton was under investigation for criminal threatening and was represented by Kent Barker. The Police chief determined there was not enough evidence to take action. Mr. Teeboom did not want Bolton arrested or sanctioned; he just wanted him to receive a warning to control his temper.

This violation of personal space happened to me in a Board of Assessor meeting when I provided public comment on the equalization ratio used to set property assessments. When the meeting adjourned, Attorney Bolton came right up to my face, started shouting at me (I could feel his breath on my cheek) ,and stated that he didn’t like people who question him. He then used that incident in my deposition for my RTK lawsuit, claiming that I called him stupid and that I was out of line. This man’s self-righteousness is overinflated.

Attorney Bolton is a man who appears to have no sself-controlor self awareness. When alcohol is involved, it is almost never good. It appears he has been able to use his title and position to get away with threatening conduct for years. This happens all too often in governments. I think he has been given too many passes.

This is why the police should not be investigating on their own. The AG’s office does not have a municipal division and citizens are left to take it to the local PD. When people in power are under the spotlight, the police, all too often, turn their attention to the complaintaint.

I will be writing about this over the next several weeks and sending this information to the Professional Conduct Committee of the Supreme Court. I have filed 5-6 complaints to the PCC over the last 4 months. I sent Bolton’s attempted arrest of me on July 22, 2022 ,to the PCC and the response that Bolton had tthroughAttorney Hilliard, was frankly, outrageous. The police report did not document what Attorney Bolton “recalled” four months later, when he gave his recount to the Professional Conduct Committee. Is a man who had a significant stroke, appears impaired, and appears to be drinking to the point of conflict, reliable?

I filed a complaint with the PCC on Bolton’s and Leonard’s sanctions issued by Judge Temple for lying about the email record and disclosing for 10 months that the records would be delivered when Attorney Bolton/Leonard knew “early on” that the backup tapes were damaged. I lost that because the PCC said the Court sanctioned the City, not the lawyers. While that is true, the lawyers put the responses together but will never be accountable. I think the PCC is granting the Attorney’s legislative immunity which pretty much means that these attorneys can do almost anything they want to citizens and there is no accountability.

Also, I learned through the PCC that there are no financial responsibilities for Cities to maintain financial records on lawsuits. Bolton jacked up my legal fees on my RTK suits by bombing my attorneys with emails and records that were irrelevant to the case. Bolton then told me to go sit with. my lawyer and figure out what was relevant. The PCC ruled that this tactic is OK. This is why I have operated pro se now because I can’t get control of the costs when the City is intentionally jacking up my legal bills. And the City can make up any costs they want and spend as much taxpayer money as they want without taxpayers being able to hold the city accountable for legal money spent. This City’s spending on my legal cases, which was well over $1,000,000 according to them, was completely mismanaged and wasteful. An independent attorney could never get away with this, but Nashua City lawyers can.

The ability of a citizen to win a complaint with the PCC is almost impossible. Citizens cannot find lawyers to represent them because they all protect themselves and no one wants to snitch. Bolton and Leonard are represented by Russell Hilliard. The Supreme Court appears to focus on issues involving money mismanagement and inappropriate sexual relationship, but ethical conduct rules that govern attorneys seem to be more affirmational than enforced.

Mayor Donchess has set all of this in motion. When he took over, he shut down the use of outside attorneys to assist in cases. Everything was handled internally through Bolton. Bolton’s anger management issues and Donchess’s emotional callousness and blame and victim tactics created a powerful dark force, shutting down mediation and driving all legal challenges into court. This is what they did with all my cases. The best move I have made to date was filing a federal lawsuit because it forced the City to hire outside counsel. I believe that an outside attorney would look at this case and wonder what the hell Nashua is doing? Now Nashu’s dirty laundry is being viewed by many. There is no opportunity to settle in a city like this.

I have learned, through great personal sacrifice and cost, that the Courts and attorneys, right up to the Supreme Court, are more about politics and protection of their own than justice. It has been one of my biggest disappointments in being an American and a citizen who has significantly participated in her local government and filed her first lawsuit at 58. What a horrendous, corrupted process.

I have written to Mayor Donchess in the past six months to express my personal concerns with information regarding alcohol consumption and conduct. I received no response. But of course, with the Mayor not staffing an ethics committee for four years, the county attorney’s office being incompetent, no municipal division of the AG’s office, and a PCC (which stands for Protect Corrupt Counselors), all dodging the problem, how is justice delivered?

I am beyond disgusted and so disappointed.

 

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Forensics Device Used In Investigating Ian’s Computer

Day 5

I actually was able to enter an entire day of the trial in one go! So there is no need to come back and read this story again. Read it from top to bottom for an as accurate as can be reasonably expected version of the days going ons given the court bans reporters from coming in with electronic devices such that the job can be done properly (and for that matter the public can hold the court to account when they misbehave).

~16 supporters at trial

New witness

Dustin Long

FBI agent

info technology sphere

digital forensics examiner

6-7 years

analyze digital evidence

BA degree

Cyber investigation specialized forensics

Training

12 week course covers how to use a computer, apple systems, mobile devices, and you must pass course and he did

[use computers? Ha? Maybe I misunderstood something, but you probably don’t learn much in a 12 week course anyway so maybe not if it’s just a broad overview]

Ongoing education

Q How many devices examined?

A 200 devices

Q Where do you work?

A New England Computer Forensics Lavatory

Forensically image device

I first investigate at date of search warrant

I look for devices at search location

Is called by others to look when a device is found to determine if a device should be seized

Recording studio in house photo on screen

[this is not the photo the feds used, but is a picture of what the studio looks like from one angle, from other angles you’ll find peace signs, shire society, and other church related stuff]

Agent identifies devices seized

Laptop, taken back laptop for review

Bagged it

Back at lavatory I imaged the laptops drive bit-for-bit

I removed drive from laptop, then connected to a TX1 portable imaging device

[Ever wonder what one of these devices looks like? Well guess what, now you do. The above picture is the same model the feds use and runs about $3,000… you can purchase these yourself if you got the cash for it, I’m not quite tempted enough to get an overpriced $30 card reader with a screen attached though else I might actually have picked one up just for the fun of it, but basically this is just a small computer with a card reader attached that copies the drive, with some write blocking functionality built in, ohh yea, I have a computer forensics background, feel free to ask me about slack space and all sorts of fun computer forensics terminology, and unlike these guys I’ve actually written the software to extract data from what amounts to unutilized portions of the disk which can contain remnants of what a system was used for at some point in the past, but for this reason I also am VERY skeptical of “forensics” experts who get up on the stand and talk about stuff they don’t really have a clue about, and build a case off proprietary tools that aren’t scientifically sound, and of which there is no complete set of source code for, thus you can’t even confirm with certainty that the device is working in the manor the manufacturer is claiming even if based on generally sound principles, for instance, a computer forensics examiner testifying that someone searched for “how to kill” utilizing remnants from the disk may not be able to confirm that they actually searched for how to kill even if that is what they’re testifying to because part of that might be lost, so for example someone might have searched for how to kill a mockingbird rather than how to kill and the forensics examiner can’t distinguish between one and the other, yet trials have hinged on little more than this faulty “computer forensics” evidence on many of occasions for lack of someone actually competent to argue or explain why the “experts” testimony is highly suspect and flawed]

At this point the investigator goes over the write blocker

A write blocker prevents data from getting from their system into the hard drive

[what he is trying to say is the write blocker prevents contamination of the evidence]

He finds a Linux encrypted drive

[I so want to call him out for this, it’s GNU/Linux!!!!!]

Linux is just different OS

[yea, this is pretty much how he said it]

Encryption prevents others from accessing the data

Q Did encryption stop forensics imaging?

A No

Q How did you confirm it is accurate?

A Via hashing

[this is kinda bizarre and wrong really because hashing it doesn’t have anything to do with accuracy of initially acquired data, but that initial hash can prove later that nothing on the drive has changed since it was initially hashed, but it can’t prove that someone didn’t tamper with it prior to the hashing occurring, say like while in transport, but this is suppose to be solved by the bagging and recording of the folks keeping track of the evidence, thus you can get someone on the stand if a question of authenticity comes up]

Q Hashing is mathematical algorithm that computes long string of #s, verifies bit for bit copy? If one bit changed hash changes right?

A Right

I contacted computer scientist who has experience with Linux encryption

New witness

Name: Nickiles Nathens

Cyber security corporation miner corporation

Previously worked for FBI

Work:

ID collection and analysis of devices

General specialist

Computer forensics

Computer scientist to solve more complex problems

[yea!!!!! we were successful in making the government actually do a little bit of work for once, though given the lack of real security it’s somewhat humorous they needed a specialist here to solve more “advanced” problems]

Forensic examiner follows scientific process for review of structured data

The witness got her undergraduate degree from a Florida university information systems with a concentration in security

[this is kinda funny, Florida is known for having some of the worst schools in the country, I guess that is how they ended up working for the feds though]

Certifications in CompTIA, SANS cyber digital forensics

[you come to me with a resume listing these certifications don’t expect a interview, these are the things that get you passed human resources in the corporate world, not a job]

Q How many devices?

A 300

Q Ians?

A Yes, from March 16, 2021 raid

[This is funny because in March of 2016 there was another raid with no charges brought and an attempt to ruin Free Talk Live and Ian’s reputation, that raid utterly failed to do that, exactly 5 years later they do another raid, most devices from the first raid were returned, no charges were ever brought, a lawsuit is underway to force the feds to return the remaining devices, something every lawyer is going to tell you to NOT do because this forces them to investigate something that they otherwise might not investigate ever, and to what benefit? It’s a 7+ year old set of devices stolen, maybe there is something, but is it worth spending time in a cage over? Basically the fact alone that there is a lawsuit evidence the feds corruption here, and there resistance to release the remaining devices is likely in order to try and have something to hold over his head and taint the judge, which they have already successfully done, to the point in which the judge instructed the prosecutor to go after Ian over charges that the prosecutor even stated were investigated and had no merit!!! You would think a judge instructing a prosecutor to hang a man from a tree and perform mob justice on them would get them some sort of censure … but well… not yet anyway… probably never sadly]

The government now shows a picture of a laptop on the screen and has identified it as ian’s laptop

[this is wrong, it’s the churches laptop, and the feds forced the church to hire a lawyer to get back a laptop from the 2016 raid that was stolen by them, whereas other devices could be obtained without a lawyer because they didn’t involve an entity of some kind, this double standard is quite curious]

After the seizure this examiner was asked to analyze a copy of the image

An examination workstation to examine the laptop image was used

Q What is Linux?

A Just another type of software

[I was expecting operating system, but really it’s the kernel, not an operating system, but these guys aren’t competent enough to understand any of this]

We did not know the password for the system so we contacted Quantico Virginia to do a password crack

[aww what? That’s a town in Virginia… presumably a government agency of some kind specialized to do this sort of thing, but who knows]

Several weeks later they cracked the password

[they supposedly used brute force which is possible if the password was week, which shouldn’t be too surprising, but they could have done something called ‘live forensics’, which at least back in the day was rare, but basically it involves extracting the contents of ram, and that forensics technique would have worked against a laptop that was powered on at the time of the raid and the length of the password would then not matter, so could Ian have done a better job? Sure, but if the objective was to make them work rather than actual security he did everything perfectly]

Got no errors on accessing drive

[aww trying to understand what the heck they are talking about here… why would you get an error on accessing the drive if you have the password? This might be a ‘forensics thing’ relating to ensuring that the defense can’t challenge the evidence later, but it’s weird too because they’re not accessing the drive, but an image of the drive]

We then inventoried user profile, docs, etc

There was one user account ftl_ian

[this is wrong, like really wrong, there are multiple profiles and accounts on a default GNU/Linux system]

I made a listing of all files, then copied to forensically prepared media

[ie they zero’d out the disk before copying the data over basically, it’ll be interesting to note the media used which I think I made a note of as newer flash based media doesn’t give you control over low level access to the disk which could compromise the integrity of the claim here]

Copied everything over then

Made a 2nd copy for case agent

Provided on thumb drive or USB media to case agent

[this wasn’t sufficiently clear as a thumb drive would be problematic assuming we mean some sort of flash, but USB media could be a traditional spinning drive connected via USB]

Folder, docs, pictures, would have been seen

30 years of resumes for instance

I verified hash of files to make sure nothing changed

[so this would confirm what was read from the original matches what is being read from the new media, so this makes sense]

Picture of files on screen of home folder

Text file containing an ‘audit log’: copylog_export_home_files

[that makes sense]

We now find out that there is a Seagate Backup Plus drive

[this drive appears to be utilizing a traditional platter which is probably good given the prior claims, but there may still be concerns given the proprietary nature of some components utilized within the device not to mention the operating system utilized to present that evidence]

New Witness

Name: James Rossell

Victim

Lives Rockford, Tennessee

Before that he lived in New Jersey

How long? 20 Yrs

72 years old

He’s been retired for 15 years

He was a firefighter

US navy 4 years

Widowed 3 years

Married 39 years

3 daughters

8 grand children

Retired at 55

Retired early

Q After wife passed away was there time you were seeking companionship?

A Yes

Q 3 years ago?

A Yes

Went on dating site for senior citizens and met someone on site named Maria Romeo

Q Were they a real person?

A No

[must have been a dang bot]

Q What happened?

A She constantly needed money for this and that, then flew to Asia to get her inheritance

Q How did you communicate?

A Text message

She recommended we move to site more private

Q How often did you talk?

A Daily, sometimes

Q Talk about?

A Her inheritance

Q Did you help her with that?

A Yes

To help develop our relationship

[hmm this is beginning to sound a lot like prostitution to me]

Q Was it romantic?

A No

[gee paying for sex without the sex, there use to be 900 #s for that, but maybe this is cheaper?]

Q Was there hope for a romantic relationship?

A Yes

Q What was your hope for inheritance?

A I hoped she would come to the United States

I signed paperwork to say we’d marry

Q Did you know tuegroing at the time?

A No

[hmm sounds like a Russian bride situation so stereotypical in comedies on TV]

Q After signed paperwork then what happened?

A To get inheritance you must pay taxes in Indonesia

 

I sent $103,000 to her from my retirement account, which was from life insurance

She setup account from bitcoin

Q Was your money in bank accounts?

A I had to move from retirement account to bank account and then have it wire transferred

Q Did you have communication with her while you were doing all this?

A Yes

Q Did you have to take photos?

A Yes, picture of self

Q Who asked you to take a photo?

A Marry

Picture of sign is shown on screen

~“I am certifying I am buying bitcoin via wire transfer from the church of the invisible hand and ftl_ian”

“I james rossel authorized and completed a wire transfer in the amount of 67,000 USD for purchase of bitcoin from ftl_ian. I understand this transaction is non-refundable

username jrosell”

[the summary of this he sent KYC or know your customer documentation to marry to authenticate his purchase was intentional!!! it should be hard to claim ignorance when you’ve signed a document clearly stating what it is you were doing and why… but the government is depending on the jury being sympathetic to the plight of these victims, but the problem here is that Ian and the Shire Free Church/Church Of The Invisible Hand are not the predators nor intentionally partaking in victimizing this man any more than the financial institution who wired the money on his behalf is… and unlike the bank this is far more information demanded than the bank, but even if, when a transaction was suspect Ian would go out of the way to find a phone # in the phone book and call the person to verify that they understand what they were buying… which is exactly the same sort of procedure a bank might do… but such a procedure doesn’t result generally in a bank stopping the transaction from going through anyway]

Q What did you tell the bank you were buying, bitcoin?

A No

[if you were concerned then why not ??? did you even question it???]

Q Do you remember sending the wire?

A Yes

Q Problem with wire?

A Yes, the wire was canceled because it was too large of amount to to charity

[this is humorous given what he does next and they let go through without issue, but chances are this isn’t what they actually told him anyway as these folks are well rehearsed by the scammers on what to say]

Q What happens after?

A I got called by Ian Fleming as to why the wire did not arrive

[this is probably a not-quite-accurate description of what happened as the church has a policy to call when a transaction looks off, not when a wire doesn’t go through, but you’ll have to confirm this with Ian after the trial is over, but do notice how the guy got Ian’s last name wrong]

Q What did you tell Marry?

A It didn’t go

Q Then what?

A She suggested I sent a personal check

A check made out to Ian Freeman is shown on screen

Q What did you do with check?

A I sent it to Ian

Q Why wasn’t it for the $67,000?

A Not enough money at that point so I sent $7,000 later once money was in account

[basically the guy had funds coming in on a regular basis from other sources, this wasn’t his life savings or anything like that, or at least financial worth]

Q Did you get bitcoin?

A No

[then why did you sign a document stating you were buying bitcoin????]

Q How did things end with Marry?

A I just ended it

Q How did it effect you?

A Taught me to be careful on internet

[hmm yea, we seem to need more of this if the world is going to change for the better… learning life lessons is somehow the only way people learn anything and it’s probably wise for us to educate people about scammers as soon as humanly possible, not wait till people are in there 70s… no matter what a government tries to do you will not stop scammers… but you can educate people and get programs setup to protect the more vulnerable via special accounts that limit spending to some percentage over an average thus ensuring control of their assets while still requiring a 2nd person like a guardian or financial advisor before a larger transaction can occur, and that might not stop all scams, but it would put a more significant damper on scammers taking advantage of vulnerable people without hindering the rest of society as currently happens]

Defense lawyer cross examines witness

Q you don’t know Freeman?

A One time, on phone

Q What was your conversation?

A It didn’t go through so I sent check

Q So Ian did not ask for check?

A Right

[wow, so it’s the victim that is proposing to send a check from Ian’s perspective!!!!]

Q You understand you were scammed, right?

A Yes

Q $67,000 right?

A Yes

Q How did you lose the other $36,000?

A Some sent to Marry

Q How long was connection?

A 6 months

Q It went in bits and pieces?

A Yes

Q So it was more than Ian?

A Yes

Q You have no idea who this man in the middle is, right?

A Right

Q The scammer had you on the hook for quite a while?

A Yes

Q Purchase were made at behest of Marry right? Not Ian?

A Yes

Q The only conversation with Ian was wire could not go through?

A Yes

Q Ian told you bitcoin could not be purchased if wire did no go through, right?

A Yes

[he admits right there he knew he was purchasing bitcoin !!! remember that these are the governments own witnesses, and the defense is only cross examining them]

Q Bank tried to straighten you out, right?

A Yes

[so, now we know both the bank tried to make sure he wasn’t getting scammed and Ian tried to as well, but neither attempt was successful at stopping the scam, and Ian had less information to go on than the bank did]

Q They tried to stop scam?

A No, they said it was not on the up and up

[hilarious, this guy is trying to make himself believe he is a victim when in reality it’s pretty apparent he knew full well what he was buying, he clearly knows what “on the up and up” means, and this is why it’s important to demand your right to face your accuser in open court, and not via some virtual video conference thing, because in court the jury, when not masked can see indicators that may indicate someone being less than truthful, and in this case we probably largely see it in the words too, but… none the less the point stands]

Q The same bank let check through even though they stopped wire to some purported charity?

A Yes

Q Same amount?

A Yes

[this is important because there is this idea that the amount itself should have set off alarm bells or a ‘red flag’, but the reality is a red flag doesn’t mean a bank has to stop the transaction from going through, nor a money transmitter, not that Ian or the church were either of these.. what this evidences is that the systems in place forced by government don’t even work and are basically utterly pointless]

Q Ian never pressured you to send check?

A No

Q Never threatened you?

A No

Q It was Marry who did it all?

A Yes

[so now we know, the bank nor Ian, nor church is the predator here, but rather a third party we can only identify because the church did know your customer and got a copy of the scammers drivers license or passport and it’s the government who is refusing to investigate the actual scammers]

Defense lawyer ends the testimony with “sorry that happened to you, thank you very much”

New witness

Name: Patrick Brown

Lives in Spicewood, Texas

18 months

Previously San Jose CA

8 years

68 years old

[notice he wasn’t 68 at time the time incident occurred just as the other ‘victims’ weren’t as old either, this trial is covering events from 2-7 years ago so the ‘victims’ were all much younger]

Employed? Yes

Lows Hardware: 2 Years

Q Working previously?

A No

Q Any prior work?

A Property management for 33 years

Q Reason you came out of retirement?

A Yes, I was scammed of 1.2 million

[note: they aren’t claiming the church/Ian scammed the guy of all that money, only some of it went through the Shire Free Church and the government isn’t claiming Ian or the church was part of any of these scams]

Q you saved for retirement?

A Yes

Q Was that all of it?

A Yes

Q Did you get an email that changed your life?

A Yes

Q Do you remember who it purported to be?

A No

Q Federal or state agency in email?

A Didn’t say

Q It said your social security was hacked?

A Yes

After talking to agent he suggested moving my money around to different accounts to keep it safe

Suggested different banks to keep money at

Q What did he ask you to do after opening accounts?

A Move money to new accounts

half a dozen accounts

Q After money was moved, then what happened?

A I’d go there and he would tell me how much to move

Q OK there wire to accounts in your name?

A No

Q You moved money when asked?

A Yes

and when money was moved I verify it was moved

Q Did you believe it was moved?

A Yes

Q What was goal?

A To make it safer

To accounts in my name but not banks I had one business with before

Q Then what? Wired money to peace church?

A Yes

Q Did you send pictures?

A Sent money to this person yes

photo of driver license on screen and passport on screen

Q Why did you?

A Because Bruce (aka bruce is the scammer) told me to

“I certify I am buying bitcoin from bombshell on localbitcoin.com”

Q Do you know what bitcoin bombshell is?

A No

[aww it’s someone or some entity, you at least must have realized that, right? If not you should be in a home where someone takes care of you, not living by yourself]

Q Do you know what localbitcoin.com is?

A No

[then why did you certify that you were buying something you did know what it was from someone you did not know??? this is just crazy]

Q Who told you to write those words?

A Bruce Williams

[effectively the government seems to think bitcoin should be banned because stupid people exist]

Q Did you write it was a donation?

A No

[Note: he did tell the bank it was a donation as that is why it shown as a donation on the bank document shown on the screen prior, this witness is unreliable]

Q Any phone calls about why you were making so many wires?

A No

[this according to the government should have been a red flag! But if the banks aren’t doing it how can a not-bank entity be expected to do it? And humorously when something was suspicious and apparent to the church phone calls WERE made to verify that people knew what they were buying based on information not from the scammers, but from the phone book, you can purchase a premium subscription and still look people in the phone book, it’s not just landlines as I’m sure many think]

Cross examination by defense

Q Town you live in?

A Spicewood in hill country

[this was kinda funny, he actually said that]

Account is in Boston

Q What did you have to do to take it [out] ?

A Bits and pieces

Q Did you have to talk to a person?

A Small amounts no, big #s yes

Q How about for $50,000

A Yes

Q What was going on?

A They would just approve it

[this is his bank]

Q The bank never asked why such a large amount?

A No

[remember that the government is claiming that a large amount is a red flag so… the transaction shouldn’t have been allowed ! Lets be real, banks aren’t actually required to stop a transaction just because it is red flagged as the government is trying to claim here as is evidenced through this and many other GOVERNMENT witnesses]

Q How much of scam came through Fidelity? How much of the 1.2 million?

A Completely (all of it)

Q Charles Swab next?

A Did not lose any from Charles swab

[this guy is an unreliable witness]

Q The transactions for Bruce came to $180,000 and the rest went somewhere else?

A Yes

Q How long did scam go on?

A ~6 months

Q Only 4 transactions to Ian over 7 days, right?

A Yes

Q So Bruce Williams is probably fake name, right?

A Yes, I mean I don’t know, probably

I wouldn’t do it again

[that’s funny cause you can’t do it again, you’re working at lows no offense to those working at lows]

Q You never checked with social security?

A Yes, never checked

Q Started with emails, right?

A Yes

Q He never said he was working an Ian Freeman, right?

A Right

[this is important because the government is claiming that while Ian is not the scammer that he worked with the scammers when this is so obviously false and every government witness confirms it]

Q Just what other transactions were taking place?

A The only reason I did was because Bruce told me to

Q Can you tell me what other scams were going on?

A I can only say they were going on at different times

Q You just don’t know where it went?

A Right

Q You did no get bank statements after six months?

A No, well, yes

Q You never talked to Ian nor got convinced to do anything by Ian or peace church?

A No

Q Did they investigate bank?

A I did not do it all at Charles Swab

Q Did you ask Fidelity why they did that?

A No, I was customer with them for years

Q Did you ever have contact with Fedelity with why transactions were occurring?

A No

Q It seems like you would do anything Bruce tell you to do?

A Pretty much

[I ask myself this- how to do you help people like this?]

New witness

Name Herald Jones

75 in January

[trying to make him sound older than he is]

Lives in Kansas City MS

Retired since 2003, but worked for 10 years before that

Family: yes, married

54 years

Separated for 2 years

Children 2

44, and 32

4 grandkids

Developer in real estate builder and inventor

Q Successful?

A Yes

Telecommunications hotel

Possibly biggest in midwest

Personally made 10 million

Pretty high risk tolerance

Some successful

Q Spring of 2020?

A Separated from wife?

Q Did you go online?

A Yes

Q Did you meet someone online?

A Yes, Natoshia

Q How long?

A Several months

Q What did she tell you?

A She told me she needed help clearing taxes and attorney fees to get 100 million inheritance

[ohh boy greed gets the best of em]

Q Did she have council?

A Yes, Rayman Miller

Q Did you meet Rayman Miller?

A No, just online

Q Who helped with financial transactions?

A Rayman Miller

Q Did you send lots of wires?

A Yes

Q Who told you?

A Rayman Miller

Q How many wires?

A 30-40

Q What banks?

A Bank Of Westin and Bank Of America

Q Did you get feedback from bank?

A Yes, they thought I was being defrauded

Q Did you eventually stop?

A Yes after Bank Of America closed my account

Q When did you get banking info to wire money?

A Rayman Miller

“I Herald Jones completed a wire in the amount of $8,000 to purchase bitcoin from…”

[note: this is more than standard operating procedure for people who sell crypto online… the church did MORE than anyone else try and stop scammers]

Q Did you ever get any bitcoin?

A No

Q Did you ever get any inheritance?

A No

Q What happened to Natosha?

A No idea

Defense cross examines witness

Q Ever meet Freeman or church?

A No

Q Total lost?

A ~$800,000

[remember that this isn’t all going through the church, this is just what these victims of scammers lost]

Q All had to do with Raymond Miller?

A Yes

Q Spoke with someone who claimed to be Raymond Miller?

A Yes

Q Phone calls?

A No, just online

Q Natosha?

A Just online

I got pictures

[now we really know what this was about!]

Q Any physical evidence she had inheritance?

A Yes

Q Ever have contact with a lawyer?

A Raymon Miller or I thought he was

Q How long?

A 6 months

Q Started?

A March 2020… actually April

Q Out of nowhere the money starts coming?

A Yes

Q Other things could have been happening before May?

A I don’t remember

[another unreliable witness?]

Q Was Ian Freeman ever mentioned?

A No

Q Any indication he was working with Ian?

A Yes, Raymond said

[aww yes, the person we have identified as the scammer]

Q Did you ever ask Ian?

A No

Q Did these banks tell you to stop?

A Yes

Q Did they tell you why they thought it was a fraud?

A No

Q Multiple transactions went through both banks before anyone stopped you?

A Yes

[red flags aren’t enough to require a bank to stop a transaction!!!]

Q Did they ask you what it was for?

A No

Q So someone was scripting you?

A Yes

Q Miller was telling you what to tell the banks?

A Yes

Q You would say what Miller would tell you?

A Yes

[this is the problem, no amount of screening is going to stop scams, and it will also hinder legitimate transactions if the sole basis is the amount of the transaction]

Q Freeman did not tell you what to say right?

A Correct

Prosecutor

Q You wealthy?

A Yes

Q Why didn’t you tell bank truth?

A None of there business

Defense lawyer

Q Do you know reformed satanic church or aria?

[he got this wrong, it’s the reformed satanic temple pretty sure, not that it really matters]

A No

[this was on the wire transfer document shown on screen in court so the person had to have told the bank that at some point]

New witness

Name: Melanie Neighbours

Age 36

Manchester

How long? 4-5 years

Before? Keene

Grow up? Louisiana

Education? Accounting JD 2013 law degree

Q Bar?

A Yes

character and fitness no

DWI between law school and bar

Q Moved to New Hampshire?

A Yes, 2015

Q Worked?

A Financial analyst

Q Met before?

A Yes, five times

Q Agreement with office you won’t be prosecuted?

A Yes

Q What brought you to NH?

A Politics [I think]

Q Political beliefs?

A Anarchist

It’s immoral to commit fraud and use violence and government does that, the non-aggression principle

Q Is that why you left?

A Yes

Most libertarians and anarchists are in NH

Q How did you find NH?

A Internet, websites

Q Where did you decide to move to?

A Keene

The more in system activism is in Manchester

The more activist or civil disobedience activists were in Keene

Q How did you decide that?

A Chatroom / Shire Society

Q Is it through that process you men Ian?

A Yes

Through forum I found a place

Q Where did you move?

A Moved in to Ian’s duplex

[this is humorous because it wasn’t Ian’s duplex and Melanie Neighbours darn well knew that, and we can come to that conclusion by answers she provides later that she is lying or at least missleading]

Q What side?

A Other side, not studio, aka Rich Paul/Nobody side

Q Who lived with Freeman?

A Renee a the time

Q Anyone else?

A Yes, different room mates at different times

Q What did Ian do?

A I know he ran radio show

Q What did you do?

A Taxes/accounting

[aww yea, barely, not sure she actually had any business and there is evidence the few inquires she had were not followed up on, though this wasn’t fully apparent until more recently]

Q Did you enjoy living in Keene?

A Yes

Q What was Ian’s show?

A Free Talk Live

Q Were you part of that?

A Yes

Q Were you paid?

A Yes, $20 / night

[this isn’t the full honest answer, there was a $20 / night stipend to cover gas/vehicle expenses for co-hosts, but this wasn’t a regular consistent payment and wasn’t even happening in 2016, it started sometime later on, this was utterly voluntary contribution by those who shared the same beliefs or at least purported to and that was advocating peace, and the way I like to phrase it is taking a stand against the use of violence to achieve social and political objectives, but it’s not really limited to that, but rather you are just shy of a pacifist with one exception, and that exception is the use of violence in self defense, even if you’re principally trying to avoid said violence or avocation thereof]

Q What was the show about?

A It was a show on philosophy / current events

[Really??? Lets check Melanie Neighbours version against what FTL’s site says the show is about rather than giving vague unclear answers:

“This show is about Liberty with a capital L. Free Talk Live is an open phones panel discussion with a variety of hosts. The hosts serve as a check on each other and bring diverse viewpoints to the table, while still all being liberty-friendly.

Our show is headed up by multiple ministers of the Shire Free Church and features various voices from New Hampshire’s liberty activist community. Most of our hosts are here in NH as part of the Shire Society or Free State Project.”

I hope it becomes apparent that we share a key underlying belief as best stated by the Shire Free Church website: “The Shire Free Church does not define a specific path beyond those parameters that must be your foundation: peace as your way, love as your guide, and liberty as your light”

It’s an interfaith church and you may have other beliefs, but peace is the foundation of the church and mission thereof. It even sates this on the website: “It is our mission, inspired by God, Allah, the Universe, and the inner light – to foster peace.” and one way the church does this is through spreading cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency undermines the governments use of violence. How you might wonder? It does that by reducing the demand for US dollars. It’s the increased demand by peoples usage around the world of the US dollar that fuels wars waged by the government against others overseas. The more demand there is the more dollars can be printed and spent. The less demand the less dollars that can be printed and spent without causing the collapse of the US dollar.

Is Melanie Neighbour’s being willfully blind? It sure seems that way given she co-hosted FTL for years. Was she always an informant? I don’t know, but she certainly seems to have become one.

]

Q Ian a permanent host?

A Yes

Q Others?

A Yes, Mark, Aria, Renee

[curious she didn’t mention Darryl W Perry who was actually a permanent host and I don’t believe Renee or Area are or were, but Mark was, and so was/is Ian]

Q Anyone else on show?

A Rich Paul and others

[talk about being coached on what to say]

Q Besides that any other jobs?

A Yes, mostly admin work, did pay co-hosts from wallet

Q Did you do from office?

A Remote work

Q Did you leave Keene?

A Yes, when I met my husband + for other jobs

Q Other work in Manchester?

A Accounting firm, warehouse work, and at some point to work for Mark Edge

Q Ian a friend?

A “Friendly acquaintance”

[this is just unbelievably insulting, Ian is the best friend she’ll ever have and likely ever has had]

Q Helped as bookkeeper?

A Yes

[this is an exaggeration of what she did from what I understand]

Q Did you use Telegram with Freeman?

A Yes

Q Did you get subpoena for Freeman?

A Yes

Chat between Melanie Neighbours and Ian on screen

I need to hire an accountant to certify me as an accredited investor to prove net worth. I don’t own things, but have control over 2.5 million.

[Ian is the minister of the Shire Free church and has control over these assets through that position]

Q When you lived at address did you see church activities happen?

A No

[Were you blinded by government money or something? What did you think was happening 365 days a year every night from 7-10PM eastern? I guess all those people going to the studio were just a figment of my imagination. I guess all those church events that CONTINUE to occur every week are also just a figure of my imagination. I’ sorry-I’m insulted. Ian should be doubly so.]

Q When was it a church?

A When he fought property tax on building or whenever it was convenient

He connects not having assets to being a minister

[first, the defense blows her away later.. but first something I want to make clear here, this was her exact wording, not some interpretation thereof… now you can probably understand why people are saying she is an informant.. she didn’t have to say this… she only had to tell the truth to retain her immunity that we’ll find out later wasn’t even needed]

Q Are you a certified public accountant?

A No

Q Did you write letter for freeman?

A Yes, $35 maybe

I charged $35 / hr except tax forms

Letter stated $3 million in cash and assets

Q When did fallout happen?

A Bail

Q Why upset?

A He said he was broke

I didn’t agree

[wow, really??? one look at his place you’d know this guy has taken a vow of poverty… not to mention it wasn’t exactly a secret… he had room mates, *had a bedroom* and shared a bathroom, the vehicle he drove was an older used vehicle, later replaced with another older used vehicle, Ian never spent money wastefully and even donated most of his personal wealth he did hold prior to the church to the church years before any significant sales of crypto occurred or of which the government is accusing him of having sold for that matter, not to mention the government had likely seized or froze whatever assets he might have had left during the 2021 raid, so even if he had something the morning of the 2021 raid he didn’t possess those assets when questioned]

Q Did you explain why you were upset?

A Yes, the letter was an oversight on his part

Q Did you take your negative statements to the internet?

A Before, not after

[aww what? This was definitely after the 2021 raid, but I guess she meant that it was only after talking to Ian during a short window when the court accidentally removed Ian’s restriction on talking to his friends]

Q Do you still remain angry with him?

A Yes

[ohh yea, this is apparent as hell, if not just entirely made up for the benefit of the prosecutors at trial]

Q What do you know about bitcoin business?

A There were multiple kiosks, actually bitcoin vending machines is what they call them I think, he was selling and buying from localbitcoin.com

[it’s interesting at no point does she correct him about this, it’s a church, I’d understand it if someone else who knew not much of anything said this, and ~1 witnesses said as much, but you Melanie?? sorry- you have no excuses, you can’t claim ignorance on this one… this was just too well thought out and orchestrated]

Q Who is Aria?

A Moved after me, was co-host of Free Talk Live, started satanic church, did various homeless outreach

[why do they keep saying church… hmm I’m beginning to think it’s my memory now, I’m a bit under the weather as I type this, but it’s reformed satanic temple anyhow, maybe I just wrote it down wrong…. I guess we should just be glad she admitted that she knew the temple did homeless outreach without the defense having to press her on it]

Q Did she do bitcoin thing?

A Yes, she handed out bitcoin to homeless people

Q Selling of bitcoin?

A Yes

Q Distinct from church?

A Yes

[I’m not sure sure if she means the temple here or the shire free church, because one would be a true correct statement, and the other would possibly be a false statement, though I question how much she even knew of any of this, first hand anyway, maybe she was told this by Aria]

Q Did Aria ask you to write letter for her?

A Yes, an asset certification letter

Q Where did you understand the satanic reformed church assets were coming from?

A Ian

[constantly misstating the name seems to make me think it wasn’t just me in note taking]

Defense cross examines or I should say destroys backstabbing lying government agent/informant

Q Law school, but no lawyer? Bookkeeping, but no CPA?

A Yes

Q Aria right: Not Ian?

A Right

[aww ok, so that makes it an oversight you both missed, it was your job to get it right and you failed, not Ian]

Q How I choose a bank, right?

A Something like that

[I think something is lost here in transcribing unfortunately]

Q Don’t get into conversations about use even if innocuous, right?

A Right

Q That is a video about what she said, right?

A Right

[ok, I figured it out, so they are playing a video of aria explaining how to sell bitcoin and do it legally while trying to make it look like she’s committing criminal activity, and the defense is cross examining her on that video]

Q Your an anarchist?

A Yes

Q And an atheist?

A I was

[she was a big time atheist, curious the change]

Q When did you become a non-athiest?

A End of 2021

Q Same time as bail hearing?

Q Why?

A One of my daughters had died before birth

I tried preying as my partner suggested

[she claimed her daughter had died as a result of the FBI prior, curious]

Q You were bookkeeper?

A Yes

Q You didn’t do bookkeeping for Ian?

A No

Q Minister married you right?

A Yes

[gotcha! Ha she’s forced to admit the church is real, or at least it becomes apparent that the church does in fact do church things despite her fraudulent attempt to claim it was fake]

Q You did bookkeeping for Mark?

A Yes

[Mark Edge is a minister of the Shire Free Church and one of the main co-hosts of Free Talk Live, although has been absent more in recent years, he’s still good and involved in the Shire Free Church]

Q Radio station?

A Separate thing

Q You knew Mark was involved with Church right?

A He was involved with FTL

[she tries to avoid admitting knowledge of the fact Mark Edge is a minister of the Shire Free Church which is just crazy because the show is under the Shire Free Church ministries and she already admitted that Minister Mark married her and her husband]

Q Was Mark giving to charity?

A Yes

Q You are aware that Ian donated to charity right?

A Yes

Uganda orphanage, 100 nights homeless shelter, etc

[notice when questioned she admits knowing of at least these things, but there are others as well]

Q You know they gave bitcoin to homeless?

A Aria was

Q 100 nights homeless shelter isn’t fake, right?

A Right

[ ~she’s grudgingly responding to these questions]

Q Upset he claimed he had no money?

A Yes

Q April 2021

A Yes

Q You don’t know his financial situation in 2021, right?

A Right

Q Did you know that dash is a crypto, did you know dash crashed?

A I didn’t follow closely, but vaguely

Q You don’t know if church was above or below water

A Right

[gotcha, yet you are getting up on the stand and lying to the effect he wasn’t broke when you could simply have said you didn’t know, no one told you to lie, I told you to tell the truth even if it hurt Ian, yet you didn’t, you got up on the stand and fibbed your way through it with the intent to hurt Ian, that is NOT something Ian would have ever done to you]

Q You have no idea he was in control of anything in 2021, right?

A

[I think she just doesn’t answer this one, she knows she’s been caught red handed]

Q You did not see a shrine? Is that something you have to have?

A No, it’s loose in New Hampshire

Q No symbol defines has to be a church?

A Right

Q Did he register as a church?

A He said he didn’t! But I since checked and he did

[curious, so does not registering make you not a church??? as I understand it one need not register and one can still be a church or other religious entity or group and didn’t you more or less just admit to this prior with it being loosely defined in NH?]

Q The last time you had an interaction was years ago, right?

A Yea

Q Why are you under speaking with a grant of immunity?

A Something my lawyer got

Q Were going to be indited?

A No

Q Was there something I should have known, but didn’t?

A I don’t know

[I think the implication here is that she was working for the government all along as some sort of informant and getting paid to do it]

Q What are you worried about saying?

A Allot about 4-5-6 years ago… I don’t keep track of every conversation

Q Did jury know your under some sort of pressure to testify?

A I think they said they weren’t planning to prosecute for anything

Q You got immunity for nothing?

A I talked to them

Q Yea, a lot of people talk to them

A Yea, I had to comply

[this is getting super intense in the court room]

Q Were you granted immunity because of something you did?

A I’m not sure

I didn’t get immunity until after these letters were handed over

Q You don’t know why you got immunity?

A That is correct

Prosecutor

Q Was lawyer concerned about lying in letter about church source of funds?

A Yes

[talk about being coached]

Defense

Q What were they going to charge you with?

A [She can’t answer this… deafening silence… then..]

I didn’t work with federal stuff

[whatever that means, probably referencing her law degree though and not having experience with federal cases]

New Witness

Name Carla Cino

Age 74

State NJ

Since 1975

Real estate broker

Still? Yes

Married? No

Children? Yes 3

Were married? Yes

How did end? Divorce in 2003

Q At some point did you meet man online?

A Yes, online 2016

Q Name? Fredrick Drac

We spoke back and forth and online, he was in Germany

Q How long?

A 8 months

Q How often?

A Multiple times a week

Q He need money?

A He said he had to pay a lot of money to pay fines due to oil tankers stacking up he said guard wanted $5,000 fine

Q How much did you send him?

A $100,000

[some people deserved to be robbed, ok, I don’t really mean that, but dang, I work too hard for money to send $100,000 to some random guy on the internet who takes an interest in me that I’ve NEVER MET]

Q Did he say he would pay you back?

A Yes

Q Did you believe him?

A Yes

for a while

He said he had an opportunity to broke bitcoin and could pay me back more quickly if I helped

[let me get this straight, this women worked with scammers and helped launder money yet isn’t being charged yet Ian Freeman, who is a saint is being charged????]

Q What did he want you to do?

A He said people would wire me money and if I forwarded to Ian he would make money

Q Multiple communications with Ian?

A Yes

Q What would he tell you?

A Where to send money and only for bitcoin

Q Reason?

A For rare coins Ian said. They [banks] don’t like to see bitcoin.

Q Why a lot of banks?

A He traveled a lot

[what? Maybe she means the scammer? Or maybe she means Ian went to the state house and other court cases… not really clear]

Q Did you ever speak Aria or Renee?

A No, just Telegram

Q Where did your funds come from?

A All over

Q How many times?

A I don’t know, but a lot of money over time, 2019-202

[I think they are talking about how many times did she lose money from the scammer]

Q Did he ever ask why you were buying so much bitcoin?

A No

[I’m guessing this is referencing Ian, but not 100% clear]

Q Did wires every become a problem?

A Yes, but they never said why they closed account

[this is actually a very common and honest answer and basically the same thing that happened to Ian and the Shire Free Church repeatedly]

Q Why did it stop?

A I had an account at a bank I had a good relationship with give me an article about Ian’s arrest

Q Did you get your $100,000 back?

A No, I didn’t get any of it back

[Soo let me get this straight, Ian’s not the scammer, but you stopped because Ian was arrested ? Does that make any sense to anyone else? Sounds like the prosecutor is trying to convict through implication rather than actual facts]

Q How did you communicate?

A Telegram

Q How did you initiate a transaction?

A I would tell how much and they would reply with bank info

[they put up a standard shire free church disclaimer and signed receipt]

Q Did Ian ask why you were doing this?

A No

Q Did he ask if it was your money or someone else’s?

A No

I sent this one to neighbor Aria

Aria said she took out loan on house so reference construction won’t cause a problem with wire transfer

[extremely misleading given she was writing on the receipts who she was buying it for which is by implication suggesting it was her money or at least money she had the right to control, and the construction was completely true, she did have construction done on her place]

Q Did it really have to do with construction?

A Ohh I don’t know

[soo it might have then???? really… come on… you got to have a better case than this prosecution… after a decade of investigation Ian and 3 incidents later, 2012, 2016, and 2021 you can’t make for a stronger case than this??? you guys had millions of dollars to play with to secure a solid case and with that kind of money you shouldn’t just have a chance of winning here, you should have been able to create evidence through trickery to get Ian to say something incriminating even if he didn’t actually commit any crimes]

This one is for Renee and I think that is his girlfriend

[she probably was told ex-girlfriend as by this date in 2020 they had broken up already]

Cross examination by the defense attorney

Q You don’t know who your friend was do you?

A Right, don’t even know if photo was real

[ok, so she doesn’t even know if she was actually scammed? Because no one has actually investigated the scammers and for all we know these folks all just went belly up and died]

Q Never ian though?

A Right

Q The guy taking advantage of you had nothing to do with Ian right?

A That is correct

Q Why did you continue?

A I thought he was legitimate

[she makes a good case or example for arguing that those with dementia should have their assets restricted, though I’d argue by way of voluntary consent, not government violence, and not restricted entirely, but limited to a certain percentage over the average to ensure that a scammer would need a guardian or financial advisor to sign off without actually restricting or being a burden on the vast majority of normal healthy adults]

Q Did he say he was in business with Ian?

A No

Q He never said he was in business with any of them, right?

A Right

Q Did you know Ian sold bitcoin?

A Yes, I suppose I did

[how many times does one have to write it to realize that they’re buying bitcoin???]

Q None of your banks warned you of anything?

A No, it was occasionally

Q So all different ways you’d use to send Fredrick money?

A Yea

[Fredrick is the real scammer in this case]

Q Is Frerick being investigated?

A No, not that I know of

Q Did they give you any info on Fredrick?

A No

Q They want to know about Fredrick?

A No, they were focused on Ian

[notice that in coming days they realize this is a big problem and get other witnesses to make probably false allegations that they are investigating some of the scammers, but it’s also possible the “investigations” just started hmm immediately following the testimony of these witnesses YEARS later and despite never having inquired with Ian or the church about IDK KYC pictures he ACTUALLY preserved for incidents that might occur just like this that could not be avoided]

Q Ian gave you his real info?

A Yes

Q Did you tell him why you bought bitcoin?

A No

Q Did you tell him you were into trading?

A No, I didn’t chat with him allot

Q So he would not have any idea then what you were doing with bitcoin?

A Correct

Q This Fredrick guy has been in contact with you recently?

A Yes, in fact just last week he tried to involve me in some other scheme

Q Has the FBI been doing the right thing for you?

A I think so

[if this isn’t evidence this women needs to be in a home I don’t know what is]

Q Did they tell you they would go after Fredrick?

A Not at this time

New Witness

MC

FBI agent 8 years

Apparently this agent was sequestered like presumably all the others were. That means she heard everything that was said by other witnesses in the case.

She testified before and was in courtroom.

University of Virginia masters

Police City of Charlesville

Los Angeles division

The DC attorney general detail to protect attorney general

Q Then?

A NH

Q Assignment?

A National security

Q Before?

A White collar crime

Q You were involved in this case?

A Yes

Q You came after search warrant?

A Yes

Q What did you do?

A Interview people

Q Role in computers?

A I reviewed Ian’s computer and 3 cell phones: Renee, Andrew, and Arias

Q What did you do?

A I reviewed kraken crypto exchange records

Q What was the first thing you got?

A Everything when done

Q Lets go through what you were able to figure out

IRS doc defining what a church is shown on screen from Ian’s (really the churches) laptop

Church does not have to withhold income tax for ministers

Q What is itbit?

A Cryptocurrency exchange

Q Who is passport of on screen?

A Renee from crypto folder

itbit non-profit organization document shown on screen

Q What church is this for?

A Crypto Church of New Hampshire

Q Who?

A Renee

Q Ownership?

A 100%

[this question doesn’t even make sense for a church yet somehow is suppose to prove something]

Q Source of funds

A Donations

Q Purpose of account?

A Invest in bitcoin

Q Is this document too in this crypto folder?

A Yes

statement of dissolution

Q Reason

A To reform

[I’m leaving out the folks it lists for privacy reasons, but it basically has ~4 people on the board of directors for the Crypto Church Of New Hampshire and anybody who really wants to can probably look it up anyway]

Q Do you recall Renee’s reluctance to draft letterhead?

A Yes

Q Did you find letterhead on Ian’s PC?

A Yes

[it’s a laptop, but whatever, let’s not quibble over the details]

Crypto Church of NH Document Registration Shown on screen

Earlier this week, we shared some video of Kamala Harris’ (latest) horrible speech. One of the jokes that began making the rounds, or maybe it just got momentum from another phoned-in performance, was that her speechwriter was six years old.

The Babylon Bee took the hint and ran with it.

 

 

 

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If you read Imprimis from Hillsdale College, this landed in your mailbox last week. President Larry Arn writes about ‘Education as a Battleground,’ which includes that startling graph you see above.

If you were wondering where the increasing cost of public education is, you have at least part of the answer.

 

If you want to see the problem with American education, look at a chart illustrating the comparative growth in the number of students, teachers, and district administrators in our public schools in the period between 2000 and 2019. (See the chart below.) The number of district administrators grew by a whopping 87.6 percent during these years, far outstripping the growth in the number of students (7.6 percent) and teachers (8.7 percent).

 

Professor Arn uses this to frame another question: who owns the children? The natural response, the political response, and the pushback. It is a debate that rages around the country but whose roots lay in the administrative state.

 

Public education is an important component of the prevailing administrative system. The roots of the system are in Washington, D.C., and the tendrils reach into every town and hamlet that has a public school. These tendrils retain some measure of freedom, especially in red states where legislatures do not go along automatically. In some red states, the growth of administrators has been somewhat slower than average. But this growth has been rapid and large everywhere. In every state, the result has been to remove authority and money away from the schools where the students learn. In every state, the authority and money drained from the schools have flowed toward the bureaucracy. 

The political battle over this issue is fraught with dishonesty. Any criticism of public education is immediately styled as a criticism of teachers. But as the numbers show, the public education system works to the detriment of teachers and for the benefit of bureaucrats. The teachers unions themselves, some of the largest of the public employee unions, claim to be defending teachers and children. That cannot be more than half true, given that they are defending an administrative system that has grown by leaps and bounds while the number of teachers has grown very little.

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I have said and written many times that the political contest between parents and people who make an independent living, on the one hand, and the administrative state and all its mighty forces on the other, is the key political contest of our time. Today that seems truer than ever. The lines are clearly formed.

 

If you look at those lines, you might be unable to believe what you see. On one side, we have adults in and out of the school system who insist that in the name of anti-discrimination, students must discriminate against one race of children as oppressors because of the past sin of human slavery – while leaving out the complicity of actual slavers who do not share their skin color.

Another example tells us that government (meaning taxpayer) funded education must allow adults to talk to young children about sex and provide them with resources that you, as a taxpayer or parent, could not read in public without being arrested.

The lines are formed, and guarding the lines on the one side is an army of bureaucrats, expanding at great expense to teachers, students, education, and America. On the other side are the people who pay them and to whom they are meant to answer.

 

 

IMPRIMIS NOVEMBER 2022 | VOLUME 51, ISSUE 11

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The concentration of money accelerates societal decay because it creates time for leisure. The first level of financial concentration has always begun with the growth of cities.  

The city arises as a central trading post for the agricultural community where farmers can sell their crops to and purchase goods from the newly created merchants. The local community often gathered here to relate politics, news, and gossip because everyone frequently stopped by.

As communities grew they provided new financial opportunities, and the gradual depletion of small-town local life accelerated.  The larger trading cities began an exponential growth of population by draining the wealth from the hinterlands. Extreme wealth began to concentrate in fewer hands allowing for purchasing political favors, which means control.  This type of expansion has been similar throughout history.  In Athens, you can see the forged name of Alcibiades etched in the clay of a broken jar that was a mail-in vote for the Joe Bribe‘em of the day.

All cities experience great governmental growth and, therefore, corruption.  Welcome to Chicago.  There are always a significant number of citizens struggling in poverty for various reasons that must be kept fed and amused.  People that were once well-fed and housed that now walk the streets tend to assemble ropes or guillotines when they are forced into poverty.  Hence began the welfare system by using the omnipresent moral busybodies as an excuse to extort money and gain power over the mob.  Another benefit is providing a layer of safety armor for the corruptee. 

Today our system has evolved into creating crises of various types to solidify political and cultural control by prodding the self-absorbed into action.  The current group of outraged neurotics we enjoy on our streets are the transgender transvestites.  The ones most notable are the (women)? who have won the “I can’t get a man” sweepstakes.  They are rather easy to roll out as they have nothing at home to engage them but a box of doughnuts and a cat.  

The numbers in these groups are actually rather small, but skillful editing and repetition of the videos give the appearance of mass demonstrations.  These unfortunates can be provided with a few signs, a bottle of intoxicants, and a slogan to screech, and we have quite a nice demonstration providing a fine excuse to extort more money from the ordinary citizen to solve the crisis.

These large cities are perfect for frauds of various types as no one really knows the population levels within its boundaries. In small towns, it is inefficient to commit voter fraud because any fool can see that a town of 100 people cannot vote 125 times.  In large cities, population numbers are vague at best.  A fun example in 2016 came from that center of moral rectitude, Detroit. The Green Party candidate demanded a recount as she felt she had received more than 2% of the vote.  They had to quickly call off the exercise when it was determined that Hilly Clinton had received more votes than there were registered voters on the rolls in the city.

These situations with tremendous amounts of money floating around also create a need for a specialized police force.  It is similar to the movie “A Clockwork Orange.” Our hero Alex, arrives home from a brainwashing session (our current college system), and little Alex finds his former gang member friends are cops who have found more funds are available for legal criminals working for politicians instead of old-fashioned theft.  It certainly works for the FBI.

What can be done to alleviate the fraud and corruption?  The answer is nothing.  The tide has floated out.

Release the Maggots!

 

 

Madame Defarge writes at The Blue State Conservative.

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