1. Your last post was interrupted by a disrupted Wifi signal.
Answer: Yes, it was.
2. How often does this happen?
Answer: This week, my Wifi signal has been disrupted for the majority of each day. Most online access that I have managed has been interrupted mid-sentence.
3. What do you believe to be the reason for this intensified obstruction of your access to your blog?
Answer: There is certain information that others would prefer remain concealed from public access at this time.
4. May we speak about the topic of the FBI's attempts to divest law-abiding "targets of interest" of their property in a general context, then?
Answer: Yes, absolutely.
5. You have experienced longterm attempts by far right FBI personnel to divest you of your family home on Cape Cod, and, in fact, these attempts appear to be ongoing.
Answer: That's true.
6. What is the reason for the far right to engage in this sort of predation? What are they gaining from it?
Answer: I have been informed that there is graft by far right FBI personnel when a "target's" property is sold.
7. What do you mean by graft?
Answer: Far right FBI personnel skim a couple of percent off of the realtor's commission at the point of sale. It's possible that they take more through manipulations of the sale price of a "target's" residence.
8. What happens to that money? Does it go directly to the agents who have forced the sale?
Answer: I don't believe so. No. I am informed that it goes into a "profit sharing" pool, from which more senior far right FBI personnel benefit.
9. So, upon the forced sale of a residence worth one million dollars ....
Answer: Far right FBI personnel could skim $20,000 to $50,000, depending on the particular circumstances.
10. The particular circumstances?
Answer: If FBI personnel supply the buyer of the property, they are likely profiting to a much greater degree from the transaction. In that case, they would have the ability to determine the sale price, the sale commission, and all of the terms involving their behind-the-scenes profit.
11. How is this Constitutional?
Answer: In no way, shape or form.
12. You are describing a process which is defined by perpetrators of organized crime.
Answer: I am, yes.
13. How much can it cost for far right FBI personnel to engineer a forced sale of a property of the sort you describe?
Answer: It can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. But remember that those funds are being drawn from the National Treasury, so their expenditure is not painful to the far right. This group's objective is to utilize public funds to privatize profit.
14. What would the American public think if they knew that their tax dollars were being spent in this manner?
Answer: It's necessary to ask the public about this directly.
15. What do you yourself think about it?
Answer: I would lean toward commenting about this in a historical context. In general, in the past, as during the 1930's and 40's, deprivation of private property has been associated with human rights atrocities. The Jews were deprived of their businesses, their homes, and their personal effects before they were deprived of their lives. So, we need to be extremely attentive when we see federal law enforcement personnel engaging in schemes of forced property divestment. The likelihood is that much more significant crimes of harm are also being committed against the law-abiding American public by this agency and its affiliates.
16. Do you believe the far right is involved in human rights abuses under color of law?
Answer: I do. Based on my experiences and observations, yes.
17. Can it be proven?
Answer: I believe it can.
18. What if your particular case could illuminate these issues for the American electorate?
Answer: I would be thrilled.
19. Why?
Answer: What is freedom worth? Freedom of thought, freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. These gifts are priceless, in my view. They're inseparable from the foundations of a democracy that aspires to uphold the civil liberties and human rights of its citizens. All of its citizens, not a select few. Our Constitution expresses this ideal so clearly. Americans are united in our commitment to a free and just society for our immensely diverse and talented public. In that spirit, we need to help one another to defend our defining freedoms. Without this generous commitment to the wellbeing of others, the freedoms of all are endangered.
20. So, our kindness and generosity toward one another makes democracy possible.
Answer: That's exactly right. Democracy requires that we care about the struggles and hopes and setbacks and dreams and griefs and triumphs of our neighbors, insofar as they choose to share them with us. Our honor is defined by our determination to help one another as people of goodwill and good faith.
21. Is this achievable given the current challenge to democracy posed by the far right?
Answer: Of course it is. We're going to need some courage and fortitude to address the ways in which some of our institutions have diverged from their commitment to the Constitution. But, of course it is.
Lane MacWilliams
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The FBI is a deeply divided agency. There are many FBI employees who view their vows to the Constitution with the utmost seriousness and honor, and who strive to defend the fundamentals of our democracy with courage, fortitude and commitment. The fact that some segments of the FBI appear to have embraced a lawless course is not a justification to assail the FBI in general. As President Joseph R. Biden has so rightly expressed, violence is never justified in any circumstance. The rule of law must always be honored and upheld. It is our shared determination to preserve the civil liberties and human rights of all Americans that renders the United States a democracy. We must never abandon this promise. All of our most cherished freedoms depend upon it.
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