Beyond Sham and Drudgery, Fealty to the Human Endeavor

"With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world." -- Max Ehrmann

OIG Hotline, the FBI appears to allege that newly falsified witness statements were coerced and aggregated from many sources, including from childhood friends, childhood neighbors, private school firends, a private school teachers, college friends, graduate school friends, close family friends, extended family members, and professional colleagues of both my husband and myself.  It appears that his material was being aggregated over a relatively long period of time, given the number of people involved.

The FBI appears to allege that these people have been forced to attest to all kinds of impropriety, including alleged capital crimes supposedly occurring in the far distant past.

Lesser wrongs are no doubt alleged in abundance.

Yet the truth of my childhood, teen years, and beyond is that I was a chaste, sover, and compassionate individual -- a straight arrow.

Though this may not be relevant, I will disclose that my mother suffered from alcoholism for a number of years during my childhood.  One result of this was my early emotional maturity, given that I was often placed in a caregiver role, tasked with de-escalating conflict, redireing attention, and supporting the family's health and wellbeing.

So, I have never been drunk, smoked a cigarette, taken illicit substances, knowingly broken the law or willfully harmed anyone.  I grew up as a "little adult" because of my circumstances.  I was a virgin until the age of 23, when my husband and I began seriously dating, and he has been my only intimate partner over my lifetime.

So, I find the FBI's choice of me as a "target of interest" to be quite extraordinary, really. They picked someone who has lived the life of a saint.

Given this reality, the ability of the agency and its affiliates to terrify, bribe, and threaten my family members and friends into alleging the most horrific acts stands as a saddening and profound indictment of the agency's corruption through the unconstitutional "target of interest" program and other agency initiatives.

This is a tragedy for our nation both because of the fact that the FBI and its affiliates have an important job to do, with some genuine mission objectives that are critical to the future and ought not to be undermined by a lack of ethics, honesty, and professionalism on their part -- and because virtuous "targets of interest" are suffering untenable and gratuitous harms from this wayward program through the FBI and countless affiliates and contractors.

Even more than the impact on the near term, we need to consider what the loss of our civil liberties and human rights will mean for the nation -- and indeed the world -- over the long term.  What does it mean for the development of the individual when personal sovereignty is lost, when free will is forsaken, when self-determination is no longer possible?  Under those circumstances, a voice of dissent becomes a threat to be silenced, a unique perspective becomes a "glitch in the matrix," an advocate for human rights becomes a dangerous "radical."  And free speech will simply disappear.

When the FBI has the capacity to create AI-generated audio of anyone's voice saying any unlawful words or AI-generated video of anyone's image perpetrating any heinous acts -- the most important objective for a fearful public wll simply be to not draw the attention or the ire of the totalitarian three-letter agencies, which will function as the de facto government no matter what election outcomes might be.

The electorate will wish to convey compliance and convention, repeating propaganda, signing false witness statements, and perpetrating any harms their handlers direct -- all in the name of "national security," even while the freedom the agencies were meant to protect will have been abandoned long since.

This is not only the probably future.  This is the palpable present.

And yet, there is an alternative.

It is possible that perceptive leaders may understand that the agencies' near term and long term policies must necessarily diverge if human sovereignty, in its most important manifestations, is to endure.  The preservation of individaul free will is possible for us in the long term if we address this critical inflection point with thoughtfulness, intelligence, and insight now.

And I hope we do.  Because the best of what it means to be human -- our capacity for creativity, epiphany, compassion, deep bonds, scientific discovery, artistic expression, personal transformation and spirituality --  is all dependent on a foundation of free will, free speech, and free thought.  And we don't want to lose these gifts to the pressures of the historical moment.

We will overcome the climate crisit.  This is a certainty.

But will we uphold human sovereignty so that future generations can embody the best of our humanity.  This is not certain.

If there is to be a contemplation of the place of sovereignty in humanity's future, I hope I am privileged to be part of that discussion.  I cannot do that if the deceits of the FBI and its affiliates prevail.   Yet alleged false witness statements, although they may be numerous, are bound to stand in such start contrast to the truth of my identity, I hope the veil of disinformation will be lifted by the Supreme Court, by the Congress, by the White House, by the DOJ as a whole, and by the OIG Hotline in particular.

People of goodwill and insight can certainly prevail if FOIA reports and investigative reports are provided ot me, and if Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 is upheld and preserved through notification to me of class action.

And this is my hope -- that the truth of my virtuous character and conduct will be spoken as a means toward locating a larger truth about our fealty to the human endeavor.

For all of the "sham and drudgery" humanity endures, our nobility, our courage, and our love for one another must continue to define who we are.

Only in this way can the greatest gifts of humankind be fully realized.

With appreciation for your ongoing efforts toward that goal,

Lane MacWilliams

P.S. -- Please allow me to once again extend the disclaimer that some threats received by me and extended by the FBI are unsubstantiated by me at this time.  I regret that I am unable to assess the credibility of every threat extended by this agency or their affiliates, and also that I am not in a positions to judge the likelihood of manifestation.  Having said that, many of the FBI's threats toward my family in the past have manifested in real-world harms.  As a result, I believe that FBI threats extended to me ust be viewed as potentially substantive.