Masks as Metaphor

1.  What are your thoughts regarding masks for ICE officers?

Answer:  Honorable individuals do not wear masks.  Those working for the federal government, federal law enforcement agencies or local police and sheriff's departments shouldn't either.

2.  Yet there is a strong push for anonymity among some federal policy makers at this time.

Answer:  I understand the desire they have for anonymity.  They are working with exceptionally difficult mission and objectives.

But people's behavior changes radically when they believe there is no accountability for them, now or in the future.

And we simply cannot afford that flagrant impunity without risking a permanent loss of human rights.

3.  Do you believe we are all responsible for what we do?

Answer:  Of course I do.  The one exception occurs when an individual's sovereignty has been violated.  In that case, we need to know the names of those who violated the individual's self-determination, and that information needs to be documented for the history books.

Masks, whether physical or metaphorical, run counter to that illumination.

4.  In what way do ongoing threats from the FBI against your children pertain to masks?

Answer:  In every way, because the coercion of my children has been vigorously concealed from public scrutiny.

The threats of the FBI to wrongfully take the lives of my sons and daughter-in-law, to direct them to write false autobiographical content, to wrongfully direct them to cause harm to others, including our own family, to wrongfully command them to claim mental illness or abuse on the part of one or both parents, to wrongfully direct them to sign knowingly false witness statements -- these all stand as unconscionable abuses of power.    How many times has the FBI threatened to withhold medical care from them unless they sign false documentation?

We need to illuminate the FBI's habitual predation in this realm, and I hope my case will allow that opportunity.

That means no masks.

5.  How much in settlements has been awarded to accounts in your name or associated with your identity regarding this case?

Answer:  Over fifty T, according to the FBI.

6.  Are misappropriated funds now being returned to those accounts by necessity?

Answer:  I certainly hope and expect that they will be returned, yes.

7.  Can the history of those misappropriations be concealed?

Answer:  No, not without my consent.

8.  Do you expect that ICE officers will continue to be masked for the time being?

Answer:  I do, because federal policy prerogatives are dominant at this juncture.  But the public is alarmed about this development, as they are alarmed by de facto immunity when Americans lose their lives in interactions with ICE personnel.

9.  What are our obligations to the American public in the long term?

Answer:  In the long term, our obligations to the American people include speaking the truth about the fact that all of our freedoms are dependent on our successful stewardship of the environment.  Our human rights are predicated on our understanding that we must share in the urgent responsibility to achieve global sustainability.

If we want to be free, we also need to be responsible.

And that means that our world view needs to evolve and quite rapidly so.

10.  Thank you for speaking with us this afternoon.

Answer:  You are most welcome.

Lane MacWilliams