This is not your Father’s Milita.

For reasons that I can not ascertain, the myspace video for Hutaree of their backyard training was set to ’80s goth-metal band Sisters Of Mercy.  It begs a question asked on their forum:  Who exactly are you looking for out in the forest? You do realize the weapons you are using would be no match against Big Foot. That is who you were looking for, wasn’t it?
THIS is the video on their website when they became famous.  Them running out in the woods dramatically, with a song from an 80s Goth Metal Song playing.

As we can expect, various videos from the group have been disseminated, until the most puerile one showed up… and well, to describe the Artsy little film… you do not want to view it.

But Sickles, who in those videos identified himself as a member of the Ohio Militia, may also have a lighter side. The accused plotter looks to have starred in a deeply Not Safe For Work movie, filled with cursing, mock violence, pot jokes, and sound effects conveying flatulence. Sickles appears entirely naked but for a mask of President George W. Bush that obscures some, but not all, of his genitalia.

In the film, Sickles’s chubby, tattooed character finds himself attacked by an enormous creature which appears to be half man, half duck. “Scar my tattered body no more with your punishing dildo mallet,” Sickles exclaims at one particularly dramatic moment.

Interestingly, a quick google search through the blogosphere sees the (as we stick these things in a one-dimensional paradigm) “Right” gleefully jumping at these revelations.

No.  Seriously.  Bush!  On the Guy’s Genitalia!  It’s a political statement from a group that includes a registered Democrat!
I thought they were Christian Extremists.  From the Far Right.  The Narrative has been destroyed!
I mean, putting Bush on your genitilia in a film is something that Liberals would do!  (No, seriously.  I saw this on a blog.  “Sounds like Nation readers“.)
…I think  any political allegory is lost with the arrival of the Duck.  Unless someone can explain to me what the Duck represents.

Meanwhile, the weird movement of the day that popped up — I suppose this ruins the narrative for them?

Guardians of the free Republics looked to Gandhi, King, and Mandela.  The Guardians of the free Republic’s stated desire was to peacefully and nonviolently ‘restore’ America to a pre-1933 form of government. But why would 50 governors step down at their request? In the wings, the group insinuated, waited the military.

Mandela!  Gandhi!

Both groups have probably burned the UN Flag. 

Something I don’t understand about The Guardians of the Free Republic.  What does this mean?

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But I’m not all that concerned about them.  I’ll wait until they adopt a British hardcore band of one type or another for use in youtube videos.

Meanwhile, the “open” part of the Hutree forum apparently was put down, and is back up.  You don’t want to see it.  Everyone must have been inspired by the “Scar my tattered body no more with your punishing dildo mallet” piece, such that it’s just a bunch of your typrical genitilia images that come from dark corners of the Internet.

Different dark corners then those from political fringe groups set for fantastical officer shootings.

Wait.  False Flag!  False Flag!  False Flag!

Yesterday, Page A12 and A13 of the New York Times were full of stories revolving the US Census Count.  One on the difficulty of counting the vote in the Rural South, another on the difficulty of counting in urban immigrant populated New York City neighborhoods, and another on the complete and utter ease of counting in the sparsely populated Prarie Belt.  I have this image of Alex Jones waving these pages about and ranting, focusing on this oh so thick Government Propaganda, sarcasm reigning when he gets to this.:

When it did, Kyle and his mother, Laura, filled it out together, then mailed it back almost immediately. “That’s just what you do,” Ms. Yoder, a nurse, said with a shrug. “You get it done. It’s not even a question.”

AND

“One important thing to remember is to always offer them the freebies,” Mr. Choi said before the volunteers headed out on Monday night, their bags stacked with can openers and pens bearing the 2010 census logo.

“Yes.  Trinkets.  Just like the White Man gave to the Native Indians when they arrived, as they started the long process of destroying their way of life and culture.”

The Anti-Census sentiment is represented in Congress by the likes of Michele Bachman, shuffling it as a Great March toward Socialism — and, naturally, Ron Paul.  An emerging theory coming from this anti-census sentiment is that, egged on by Bachman to the slice of populace that represents her national constituency, this will translate into decreased congressional representation for broad stretches of this “Real America” — which, come to think of it, might just simply balance off the problems the Census has in getting to various pockets of poor immigrant and minority (Democratic leaning) Americans.

I remember around about 1995 or 1996, the Census was a topic of political debate, and Bob Dole was on a Meet the Press type show holding forth against debated changes in Census counting.  Statisticians were universally arguing for various statistical sampling to round the numbers around, saying it would give a more accurate number in better reflecting some of the hard to reach pockets.  Raw partisan concerns would not abide this.  But it is interesting to note Bob Dole’s statements against this, coming out in the oh-so-common sense mid-west smash the egghead bean counters approach.  “What a Census is is just getting everyone to poke their head out, and you count them.”  I suppose the logistical details are lost in this approach, though it does slide Bob Dole away from the Bachman / Jones Black Helicopter concerns and into the “Everyone in North Dakota’s filling out the forms” line.

It is curious to note this weird item (is there any other kind?) from Larouche.  I won’t suggest to read the whole thing, but I will say read what you want — and I will just clip this.

There could be no reasonable objection to stating that the so-called “health bill” just rammed through by President Barack Obama, is a carbon copy of the original form of what became notorious as the wartime practice of genocide by Adolf Hitler. Indeed, the very essence of the argument put forward by President Obama is a treasonous attack on the great principle of the Preamble of the U.S. Federal Constitution.The essence of the matter is that President Barack Obama, just like Adolf Hitler, has shown himself incapable of distinguishing between a human being and a roasted goose for someone’s dinner.As for the culpable members of the U.S. Congress who made themselves complicit in this Hitler-like crime against humanity, in the main, they acted not as men or women, but as barnyard chickens, hoping that they were not next on the table.
So, like the children who fall victims of sodomy, they are denied their humanity in the same disregard for the distinction of human being from barnyard beast. All of this goes to show, that the great defect of U.S. morality today, is the people who are supporting Obama, are like the men who practice sodomy on children, like President Obama, lacking a clear understanding of the difference between man and a beast misused for their entertainment.

He goes on to align his org with the Vatican’s line regarding it’s pedophile scandal — Media Diversion — and here I will note that I was prepped for this because Howie G is always is a day or so ahead of LPAC in pushing the Larouchian line.  And there we take the cue from the ultra-conservative Catholic Doctrine on sex, followed by the suggestion of some “insider” connection, and in the footnotes a number of historical figures pop up for no other reason than — just because.

The new Obama Follower Sex Fixation (and there is more here) appears to have seeped into the cult’s followers — as evidenced by this:

A female co-worker of mine was leaving the post office, located at 2772 Roosevelt St., when the demonstrator, one of two 20-something white males, asked her to sign the petition. She refused and kept walking. The man, wearing a white shirt, hat and sunglasses, yelled that she “just wanted to see Obama naked.” […]

Tangentially, this line of argument <supporters of ex-convict and alleged cult leader and anti-Semite Lyndon LaRouche—has many Jewish leaders, but when pressed to name any of them or provide evidence that Jews support LaRouche, he refused. >  misses the mark on Larouche’s anti-semitism.  If I want to give “European” any credence for his “KKKNAZIBLEH” statements, it comes from around there — it should be noted though, that instead of answering with your “Jeff Steinberg” (He count as any type of “Leader”?), they made the “Go Back to your wacky Facebook” pitch.  (Your Facebook and your Sex?) A similar effect can be seen in  this youtube video of a deployment where the Larouche member just keeps repeating the word “bitch”.

So, a few months ago, “Rachel Holmes” left the comment here that “chewing gum and Hitler.  Perfectly describes what holds LaRouche World together.”   This is not wholly true.  The third component is a juvenile sexual distortion.

For See the last posts from “European” at factnet, where he made this weird and curious statement.
Beside that, J. Duggan got attracted to the organization because of the anti-nazi campaigns it had at the time,

There is no “Anti-Nazi” campaign.  There never has been.  Jeremiah Duggan was drawn into what he thought was an anti-war conference in what he thought was an anti-war movement.  He was ever-so-briefly peddling, or with people who were peddling, something called “Children of Satan”, what turned out to be a four parter.  Unfortunately, he would make an appearance in Part 3 — subtitled (ahem): “The Sexual Congress for Cultural Fascism”, wherein his life is settled into (from here):

That publication contends that Jeremiah was mentally ill and points out that German authorities continue to stand by their finding of suicide. It portrays Jeremiah’s grieving mother as a dupe who has been pressured into joining the worldwide conspiracy to get LaRouche: “The objective of the media smear campaign, linking LaRouche-affiliated organizations to the Duggan suicide, is to build pressure in several Continental European countries, and eventually launch a major disruption of the LaRouche campaign . . . to assure that if there is a John Kerry Presidency, LaRouche will be nowhere near the premises.”

Other than that, the pamphlets place pictures of Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz next to your picture of Adolf Hitler.  Skip to today and the next step in the evolution of that technique is simply to merge a Hitler mustache onto your Barack Obama and Harry Reid.  As for that “Sexual Congress” thing, we have come full circle with their latest iteration of the question “Do you know the difference between man and the animals?”

The person in the pseudonym “European” related his meetings with Jeremiah Duggan on factnet.  I do not believe I read them at the time, but reading them now I am left in the great “Huh?” with these posts.

1) Something made him have this world outlook. I would try to find out what he did BEFORE he met the organization, in Paris! What was his life REALLY back then? (Usually relatives dont know everything about what once children are up to.) His worldview was when I spoke to him very similar to those that have suicidial pacts, or people that experience things that make them suicidial. He COULD have been on drugs!

 
I at least have some reference points for where one can conjecture “suicidal”.  For “Suicide Pact”, I really have not the foggiest reference point — outside of, perhaps, the hysterical 1980s anti-Heavy Metal campaigns aped in the Larouche org by Don Phau (for appeals to Christian Conservatives, I suppose?) and currently all the rage in the Islamic World.  This is a bizarre conjecture, made stranger by his denial.

Suicide pact! Ridiculous! An insult against me!

Back to his “When I met Jeremiah Duggan” posts:
I noticed something very soon after we started do discuss. Duggan was psychologically very unstable. He had a very pessimistic and negative view of life when I spoke to him. The thing he was opposing with the organization that evening was that the organization believed it could create peace in the middle east. He said that man was evil, the world was evil and God was in fact Satan that torments all people. Life is evil and just a pain!
This is weird.  Parody is redundant with the organization, so it doesn’t look like a parody of the cult’s double thinking on who’s in with us and who’s out against us, and the mind power tricks that come from them, so much as a straight-ahead duplication.  The futher give-away is the reference to drugs.  There is a “Through the Looking Glass” feel to this report, along the lines of my last post’s side by side placement of an LPAC release on a deployment in Detroit next to a Detroit News report on seemingly the same deployment.

I admit European is more difficult to explain than “Revenire” — who hasn’t posted here in a while, but notably his initial thrusts here revolved on Jeremiah Duggan — on whom I had comparatively not focused much attention.  Or the Larouche Wikipedia Team, whose most fervent dream is to delete the entry on Jeremiah Duggan, but would settle for some dilution down to the German Report and removal of reference of Duggan on the other Larouche pages.  For that matter, the figure of Alan Osler, who can find it himself to make an issue of being able to — in the year 2008 — to ably mistype Larouche’s name and find information on Larouche where Erica Duggan in 2003 couldn’t.  (The logical line of implication with that one would be that Alan Osler wanted to say Duggan was lying about mistyping Larouche’s name?) The problem is I’ve known the identity of “European”.

I can say very little with any certainty on Jeremiah Duggan.  Read the details here.  He attended what he thought was an anti-war conference.  He realized that it was something entirely different.  He made a desperate call to his mom, and was then run over in traffic by a truck.  For seven years, Erica Duggan has had to make sense of the final “Get Me Out of Here” call, and the Larouche organization has been publishing nonsense putting the news story in the framework of British and geopolitical plots.

Yesterday, British Channel 4 broadcast a documentary tracking her efforts.  It is available here.  We also see further news stories here, here, here, here and here.
The Guardian’s tv capsule of the program doesn’t do it justice.  Jeremiah Duggan had been travelling around Europe when he made a panicked phone call to his mother back in London. Less than an hour later he was hit by several cars near Frankfurt having apparently run into the road., 
The tv capsule for The Mirror is a little off..
Seven years later Erica is still trying to find out what led her handsome, clever and caring son to travel to Germany with a group of anti-war protesters. 
But then again, the final sentence for that Guardian capsule looks accurate.:

Both families want justice for their children in the same way the rest of us want to breathe in and out.

………………………………….

Special additional note:

“Er,” I said. “Um, so, who are you guys..?”

“We’re supporters of Lyndon LaRouche. We just got a representative elected in Texas…! Did you know that Obama’s conspiring to shut down NASA?” he demanded.
No you didn’t.  Kesha Rogers was not elected to the House of Representatives.  Sorry, try again.

I suppose you noticed the cover of the Willamette Week.  It’s shortened on the webpage down to this.  A Rhesus Monkey in a cage, the cover story leading you to an interview with OHSU researchers defending their Animal Researchers.

And the line: “This Monkey Died For You”.

Move forward in the introduction to the interview snippets and you get this.

Whichever side of the debate you stand on, the facts on the ground in Hillsboro are these. The vast majority of the center’s primates are rhesus macaques roaming in open enclosures or outdoor pens with other monkeys. OHSU does not track the number of monkeys that have died in its experiments. (But, for the record, the monkey in the photo above is still alive.)

I suppose I should be glad the monkey is still alive — maybe? (“We report; you decide”), but for the love of baby Jesus — why was I misinformed above the current state of being of a research monkey?

I noticed this comment swirling in my comments section.

hot chicks making out is great! I love to watch

While I would ordinarily assume such a thing is spam which somehow filtered out of the spam filter, there is this odd chance that it’s referring to the current RNC Expense Report.  It was rather oddly inserted nonchalantly into a story, either burying the lead or having a more reasonable sense of the lead as against the public’s more prurient interests.  (The paragraph in the story which sparked the whip-lash “Hey Now!”)

Once on the ground, FEC filings suggest, Steele travels in style. A February RNC trip to California, for example, included a $9,099 stop at the Beverly Hills Hotel, $6,596 dropped at the nearby Four Seasons, and $1,620.71 spent [update: the amount is actually $1,946.25] at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.

“Republicans originally thought that Fox [News] worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox.” — David Frum, in his recent antsy piece against his political party.

Observation.

Mike Huckabee was hired by Fox News to do a program.
Sarah Palin was hired by Fox News to do some commentary.
Newt Gingrich was hired by Fox News to do some commentary.  (I tend to think this is a money making and spotlight keeping scam, but whatever.)

Right there, three of the supposed Republican 2012 presidential contenders are employed by Fox News.

I might be hallucinating, but I swear Mitt Romney is or was on the Fox News payroll too.  But I can’t find such a thing for certain.

There is a movie out there that looks and is supposed to be really bad.  Something called “Hot Tub Time Machine”, which is high concept in the manner that the title says the premise.  I wouldn’t mention it in relation to anything, and would allow it to slip out of view with nary a thought– Ebert gives it his thumb up, if that matters — except that it apparently plays some inevitable homage to Back to the Future. 

Marty McFly plays “Johnny B Goode” in 1955.  These guys play The Black Eyed Peas’s “Let’s Get It Started” in 1986.  Someone will have to clue me in if the cousin of “Will I Am” (quick wikipedia search shows his name is William James Adams, Jr) calls up his cousin saying something about “New Sound you’re looking for.”

Which would get too close to the Simpsons Nirvana parody.  (and so goes the phrase: etc.)

… Then again, I always liked South Parks’s “Wacky World of 1996” from 1999, as a parody of the tendency to cram these ahistorical references for use of a punchline.  Yes, watching the trailer for “Hot Tub Time Machine”, I see the teenager in that act with a girl in 1986.

Worth mentioning that if Back to the Future were made today, Marty McFly would be travelling back to the year 1980.  Now recreate the movie in your head from that reshuffled time sequences.  You’re getting a little loopy there, aren’t you?

The weekly meeting of war protesters, every Friday, went on without a hitch.  There were eight people.  The man with the bullhorn shouted, “US Out of Afghanistan.  Can we do it?”  The seven peoples behind him responded in unison, “Yes We Can”.  Message made clear, I gather.

I thought about the matter of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.  I guess the key line in the presentation speech and award citations came to the forefront yesterday.

The vision of a world free from nuclear weapons has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Under Obama’s leadership, the U.N. Security Council gave its unanimous support to the vision of a world without nuclear weapons. The new administration in Washington has reconsidered the deployment in Eastern Europe of the planned anti-missile defences and is instead looking at other multilateral options to secure the region. This has contributed to an improved atmosphere in the negotiations on strategic nuclear weapons between the U.S.A. and the Russian Federation. A new agreement between them will, we hope, soon be on the table.

We can see how the vision of a world without nuclear weapons is encouraging even the smaller nuclear powers to make cuts. And we can certainly not prevent the spread of nuclear arms to new countries unless the established nuclear powers meet their obligations. That was the clear premise underlying the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and it still applies today. The important Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference is being held next year. Either the nuclear powers will clearly signal their willingness to disarm, or the conference may prove a fiasco, with the danger of a new arms race. President Obama has sent his signal.

So we get this.

On a Friday that began in Washington with a triumphant presidential news conference about the conclusion of arms talks with Russia, Moscow seemed to have its mind on other things.

President Dmitri A. Medvedev was in Sochi, scolding Olympic trainers over their athletes’ dismal showing in Vancouver. Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin gave a speech on the dangers posed by spring flooding. The highest-ranking Russian official to address reporters about the treaty was Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov, who hastily gathered the press at dinnertime in a tiny ministry conference room.

Mr. Lavrov called the agreement “real progress” in the relationship between Russia and the United States, but added that Russia could pull out if it concluded that the American missile defense plans had compromised its nuclear deterrent. Indeed, unease over missile defense was seeping into commentary even as officials hailed a mutual success.

Mikhail V. Margelov, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of Russia’s Parliament, said the document was “neither a Russian gift to America nor an American gift to Russia.” He acknowledged that the reception had been quiet, saying that was because negotiators were focused on finishing the job.

Well, it’s more than had been done when he was awarded the Nobel, I suppose.