My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.




Saturday, September 9, 2023

An Open Letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray

Dear Director Wray:

My family and I are law-abiding Americans, attempting to lead focused, calm, peaceable and productive lives contributing to our democracy.

Yet FBI is preventing us from doing so, sir.

It appears necessary for me to point out at this time that, when your affiliates place a child's football on my property,  as they did on some date close to August 19, 2023, they are actually trespassing.  Neither their presence, nor the presence of their prop, are welcome here.

My husband and I don't play football, and neither do our sons.

And we have no interest in any nefarious purpose the football may represent or inappropriate contents it may contain.




That's why we set it at the curb on August 22, 2023, as pictured here:


Now, let's pause for a moment and put our reasoning caps on, shall we?

Let's imagine for a moment that the football contained something important to a scheme of falsified law enforcement reporting, as your affiliates have alleged.

What can a virtuous and law-abiding "target of interest" do with such an item?  She can't bring it into her house, because that could be misinterpreted.  She can't move it to a secure place for investigators to examine later, because that, too, could be viewed as sequestering it.  She can't take it off her property, because that, too,  could be mischaracterized.  And she likely cannot throw it away in a trash receptacle to be picked up early Monday morning, because corrupt law enforcement officials could describe that as a "drop."

She can, probably, move it to the curb, together with some other unwanted balls, and hope that a playful neighborhood child will pick it up as he or she passes by.

The ball is still on her property, but she hasn't examined it, taken ownership of it, or taken it inside.  So, she's probably alright so far.

Now, if our virtuous American were really a BIG BAD SPY OR TERRORIST, would she be moving any item that she knew to contain sensitive information TO THE CURB WHERE ANYBODY COULD TAKE IT?

PROBABLY NOT.

I don't know any big bad spies or terrorists, but I imagine they would be out of a job pretty quickly if they threw important things into a give-away box at the curb.  They might be chastised. They might be demoted.  But most likely the career of the big bad spy or terrorist would be over at that point.  He or she would have to find something entirely new to do for a living.

Now, what should our virtuous and law-abiding "target of interest" do when she notices, as I noticed last night, that someone removed the child's football from the box.

She should probably take a picture of it, which is, coincidentally, exactly what I did at 10:33 PM last night:


Someone has removed the child's football, she knows not who, between 9:02 PM, when she has left her house with her husband to travel to a notary, and 10:33 PM, when she and her husband have returned.

FBI affiliates have been warning of a "drop" on Friday, so our virtuous and law-abiding "target of interest" wonders now if they were referencing the child's football.

Was there anything unusual about the notary process for affidavits for the Office of the Inspector General Hotline in the intervening hour and a half?

Yes, there was!  Her notary, a man name Sivanagaraju Yarramaneni, has, inexplicably, invited four friends to play cards in the exact space where he ordinarily notarizes documents for them!  They need to travel to a side office in order to process the Jurat notarizations as needed.

Now, our law-abiding, virtuous "target of interest" knows a little bit about the habits of the FBI by this time.  The FBI likes to coerce falsified affidavits in numbers two and up, if the agency can manage it.  If four men plus a notary say that they saw a blue and yellow football in the possession of an honorable couple trying to notarize documents for the OIG Hotline concerning FBI malfeasance, a judge is likely to believe them.  If the FBI shows several fake online chats and documentation that the child's football contains something important to national security, what could happen to our virtuous couple at that point?

Anything!  Anything in the world!

The judge could grant a corrupt FBI the opportunity to hurt these good people. The judge could allow a wayward agency to take their lives from them.

And that would be what we may confidently call a miscarriage of justice.

These honorable people are attempting to send evidence to the Office of the Inspector General Hotline regarding the insider threat posed to our democracy by the FBI's engagement in knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting for anti-democratic objectives.  And all the while they are trying to make that contribution, the FBI is continuing to lie about them, target them, defame them, portray them as dangerous people, and physically hurt them-- and their family members and friends! -- as much as it possibly can.

The FBI even attempts to make use of its nifty new ability to create AI-generated films co-opting the likeness of "targets of interest" to depict them committing crimes that never occurred!

And, because the agency call pull these fake films together in 24 hours, and because their agents speak with such ostensible earnestness and concern about the fate of the nation while they're showing these films, almost everyone believes them!

Not our virtuous "target of interest," though.  She's perceptive enough to have understood the corrupt agency's game.

She sees that the FBI, together with segments of the CIA, and even the DoD, is attempting a silent takeover of the governance of the country.

In the name of totalitarianism, an unelected few are wielding extensive powers of surveillance and harm, all out of the view of the public at large.

The FBI has become, in effect, the secret police that are a requisite part of all totalitarian forms of government.  Affiliated with FBI personnel are Special Forces, which act, on US soil!, as death squads when an honorable, law-abiding American citizen becomes inconveniently vocal about the violations of her civil liberties and human rights by those very men who have promised to defend them.

And the vast majority of the American public is stunningly unaware.

What is our virtuous, honorable American whistleblower to do?

Give up?

That sounds unlike her.

Insist on the truth of the matter?

She is insistent.

Call criminal FBI personnel and affiliates by their proper names on her blog?

She may do that when people are failing to acknowledge their wrongdoing to her satisfaction.

Take out a billboard where she can place the faces of the real criminals and list their crimes?

She's considering it.

Mr. Wray, nearly two and half years ago, our virtuous and honorable American whistleblower extended to your agency a FOIA request for information about herself, without omission or redaction, which is likely to prove your agency's engagement in egregiously falsified law enforcement reporting against law-abiding American citizens.

She's still waiting.

During the intervening two and half years, your agency has defamed her, shot at her, surveilled her without ceasing, sent Special Forces teams onto her balcony, exposed her entire family to a deadly parasite known as Echinococcus multilocularis, intentionally exposed her to a whole host of other deadly diseases, water-borne schistomiasis among them, intentionally infected two of her loved ones with HIV, and continuously threatened to kill all of her family members and friends.

Does any of this sound lawful to you?

Does any of this sound honorable?  

Worthy?  

Justifiable in the eyes of the American public?

Does any of this sound Constitutional?

Probably not, Director Wray.

It doesn't sound right to me either.

Now, Mr. Wray, you and your agency owe me an apology, and I mean a serious, heartfelt, soul-searching apology in which your remorse for the crimes you have committed against my family is conveyed with unforgettable poignancy and unquestionable sincerity.

I am waiting for that apology with as much anticipation as I am waiting for materials responsive to my FOIA request.

Director Wray, what is the most important question we can be asking in this moment?

I think it is this:

Are you yourself directly responsible for the falsified law enforcement reporting and all follow-on harms perpetrated by FBI personnel and affiliates toward my family?

You are, sir.

You are.

And that fact may be uncomfortable, but it's a fact just the same.

Director Wray, it is time that you face the music regarding this concealed scheme of harm your agency has perpetrated against the trusting, law-abiding American public.

It is time you answer for these wrongs without further compounding them through schemes like the ridiculous one delineated above.

I would welcome your honorable engagement with this issue if any honor is yours to find.







Lane MacWilliams

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