There is an interesting report here, on Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. I know nothing of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMG’s). However a lot of the report reads as if it is trying to justify surveillance budgets by linking non-OMG groups with former and current military members in them, to bonafide OMGs, to make the problem of ex-service personal in OMGs seem larger than it may be.
There were four main points of interest in the report for me, though.
First is the photography. You will notice that some shots are of gang members while riding on the road. Those were taken by the hidden cameras on vehicle surveillance units that were mingling with the bikes on the road. Vehicle surveillance does not want you to see them taking pictures, and with modern tech that isn’t the least bit necessary. If you ever see OMGs riding, closely observe the vehicles around them, as in this day of copious spending on vehicle assets, one or two vehicles will almost certainly be vehicle surveillance units outfitted with high frame-rate 1080p video running, probably in all directions. The purpose of looking won’t be so much to discern something you can use to differentiate vehicular surveillance from the background, but rather to realize that the older, crappy, beat-up white minivan, driven by a fifty-year-old fat black woman who looks like an idiot, is probably what a state of the art, tier-one, tech-loaded vehicle surveillance unit tracking a target will look like as it mingles with a target in traffic. It is also worth considering the complex chain of events that would bring that vehicle unit to that exact spot in space where an OMG was riding. It didn’t just happen – these are complex operations with multiple layers and extensive planning.
Second, you will notice some images (such as the second individual pictured, Benjamin Timms) seem strangely stretched out along one axis, either horizontal or vertical. That may be indicative of a specific 720p hidden pinhole video camera setup which came out of China several years back, with the very small “lens/imager-chip” unit attached to the processing-board/memory unit by a long ribbon wire, allowing the small lens to be positioned away from the board and battery. It was particularly suited to hidden body cam usage since the main body/battery of the unit could be concealed in one place, and the lens and ribbon wire could be threaded to another area. If so, those pictures would have been taken with that hidden body cam as it was concealed in the clothing of either a foot unit passing by, or an infiltrator within the gang. In some shots, it appears the bikers are posing for pictures, and the image is coming from torso level, so the asset taking the shot in the report probably maneuvered near where the picture was being taken to get a well posed shot with clear faces, among other reasons.
Third, towards the end is the admonition that, “If you have any questions or concerns, or would like to provide or share additional information pertaining to active, prior or retired military personnel involved with an OMG, a support club or motorcycle club, please contact IRS [redacted].” It is not entirely clear, but if the redacted part was something like IRS [“Agent Stanley Butler,”] it would appear the official responsibility for coordinating the intelligence operation may have been placed with an unknown agent assigned to an obscure office in the IRS. This may have been done so any FOIA requests or subpoenas for documents pertaining to the surveillance aspect of the operation directed to agencies such as FBI, ATF, or DHS would come up dry. It would be interesting to FOIA all records pertaining to surveillance of Sharyl Atkisson generated by the IRS, OSHA, EPA, DOE, BLM, etc.
It would also be interesting to know if LE has tasked IRS with some sort of inter-agency intel-office to handle such things, since IRS has all sorts of access to financial intelligence right from the get-go.
Finally, the report is noteworthy for what it doesn’t contain, which is some easily acquired information that seems strangely beyond the reach of the agency which produced it. In several places you will notice it says things like, “Members Anthony Kozina (back right) and Colin Marks (Orange fairing) are allegedly employed as Government contractors for the FBI at an unknown location,” or, “James Sweat is a member of the
Army National Guard and a National Guard DOD civilian employee. Sweat has served for 18 years, holds a Secret clearance and holds the rank of E-6. It is unknown what job title he holds as a DOD employee.” Why wouldn’t the ATF have done something as basic as call the FBI or DOD to pin down exactly what they did and where?
The most likely explanation for such an omission is, the intelligence operation targeting them is afraid to ask for the data for fear that by acquiring it, they may create a traceable thread leading back to their agency. What they are doing is technically illegal, under statutes covering stalking and harassment. If I followed Aurini everywhere he went, let him catch me taking photos of him in public, let him catch me asking a cashier exactly what he had just bought, followed him into public bathrooms, and restaurants, and movie theaters, stalked his activity online, followed him everywhere in a car, and just generally made a nuisance of myself, he could go to the police and file a report for harassment and stalking. He could get a restraining order forcing me to leave him alone. He could even sue me for damages for inflicting psychological trauma.
Basically that crime is the entire job description of many Law Enforcement Intelligence operations. Even worse, if every facet of their operation were to be aired out in a civil lawsuit, one could expect a pretty heavy award from a jury for psychological distress and anguish. You have a professional government agency deploying hundreds of people over a year, and state of the art technology, to invade the privacy of a single individual who, in many cases, has technically broken no law and committed no crime.
The worst nightmare of the agents involved would be getting identified, subpeona’d, and having a civil lawsuit open their entire investigation up to discovery. Now they have to come into court and under threat of perjury lay out exactly what has been going on, from the relatives of the target that they have bribed to snoop around in the target’s house, to the extent to which the target has been followed every moment of their day by ominous government spooks, to the illegal and overly intrusive nature of the recordings of private conversations in their homes provided by the phase interference mics installed on the telephone poles outside the house. It would even compromise the capabilities of sensitive techniques and technologies. For that reason such intelligence operations will take extraordinary measure to avoid being identified, and to keep their operation both deniable, and as detached from their agency as possible.
They will hire surveillance assets through an intermediary, contracting them through a private investigative agency, probably run by an ex-Intelligence Division operator, himself aware that he may have to lie under oath to protect their secrecy. They will use aliases when making phone calls wherever possible. And they will avoid creating any thread that a target could use to unravel who is at the top of the operation targeting them, even if it means not acquiring a piece of intelligence.
In the case of Anthony Kozina and Colin Marks above, had they obtained this report, and it listed that they had some job only a handful of people would have known about, they could have filed suit against the FBI. Once the suit was initiated, they could have dragged each person who knew their position, and could have revealed it, in under oath. When one of those people said they were contacted by Joe Blow at Homeland Security, and they had told him what position those guys occupied, then Joe Blow could be subpoenaed. Now Joe Blow has to say why he called. Maybe his phone records could be subpoenaed. Ultimately, what could be revealed is whether Homeland Security has a file on either biker, and where exactly it resides. Then that file becomes subpoena-able, as part of the case. Now they have a file detailing every moment of what is technically classifiable as the crime of harassment, done officially with taxpayer dollars, by a government agency, on a scale no individual could ever perform, and the target can seek legal redress from damages to a restraining order – to say nothing of the PR headache which would arise from such a document detailing the government’s secret, above the law, surveillance state apparatus.
They could even have the agents themselves charged criminally with harassment theoretically, though I have no idea if the law even applies anymore in this country, in such a circumstance. I could see the Homeland Security Intelligence Division preemptively amassing dirt on the local Police Chiefs and any judges in areas of operations, who would handle such thing, just so that they could have that shut down if it arose. I could even see them doing the same with local media executives, so the news wouldn’t touch it either, if you tried to go that route. When you are Law Enforcement, professionally breaking the law day in and day out, in a way that would ruin your agency and your own life if it came to light, it is, “In for a penny, in for a dollar.” If you’re going to do it, it’s no use not going in whole hog.
The threat is apparent. If you have a group which kidnaps and gang rapes innocent girls, before killing them and dumping them in a ditch, and normal investigative efforts can’t link them to the crimes, then there is true honor in doing whatever it takes to bring them down, regardless of the law.
But once that machinery is assembled for more permanent operations, it is obvious what comes next. We know it is a matter of time before the SJWs move into those organizations, navigate into leadership positions, and begin to bring in their ideological soul-mates. Eventually, once the SJW-ism reaches sufficient mass, it will seek to purge the Law Enforcement professionals, who might want to protect their agency by limiting the application of such powers.
Then the machine will begin to be applied politically. We have already seen this with Sharyl Atkisson, on whom they planted classified documents, so they could imprison her because they didn’t like her reporting. Now the question has become not whether they will do it – it is just how many conservatives they will do it to.
Understand what is out there, get a grip on what it looks like, and understand that the next step in the drama will be when it begins to target the conservative movement more broadly. There is no telling how far off that will be, but with the Grexit approaching, and the imminent arrival of K-selection, we may not be as far off from that as you would think.
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Can it be considered K-selection when they starting trying to confiscate guns and capture conservatives to torture and killer them?