An Open Letter to Tom Lyons

Dear Mr. Lyons:

Because you openly provided me with your business card (a card I still possess) at a meeting in Hillsborough several years ago, and because you actively invited my communications at that time, I feel that I am well within my rights to write an open letter to you regarding your misconduct against my family.

My understanding is that you are still employed by the FBI as of this writing.

Mr. Lyons, allegedly, the FBI routinely skims several percentage points off real estate transactions they prompt among their "targets of interest," whom the agency attempts, in all regards, to impoverish and dispossess of their property.

If the FBI cannot force a property sale, the agency apparently threatens, as it threatened to me, to drive the value of the property to zero through punitive crimes committed by the FBI itself.

This brings me to the astonishing allegation on the part of your own agency that you committed or directed a series of capital crimes with the intent of placing related "evidence" on one or more of my properties.

Mr. Lyons, I am certain the revelations of your purported misconduct in this matter are embarrassing to you and to the FBI, both.

But it is time for you to face the truth of any and all criminal acts you perpetrated or directed with an intent to wrongfully blame my family members or myself.

Actions have consequences, Mr. Lyons, and, as much as your immunity from prosecution has granted you license to perpetrate astonishing and gratuitous harm against my family, the truth has a way of emerging when honorable people insist.

And, Mr. Lyons, I insist.

Your forced recruitment of both of my sons and daughter-in-law into concealed government programs with which they wanted no involvement, for the express purpose of coercion of their conduct at your directive, including the provision of knowingly false witness statements, stands as a profoundly corrupt act, and one that should never have transpired.

Now, your treatment of them as virtual hostages to your whim represents unconscionable misconduct on your part and on the part of the FBI as a whole.

Are you aware that I regularly receive threats that my sons will be forced by their handlers to wield a weapon in public at your directive?  That they will be indicted on charges relating to drug crimes you directed?  That they will be arrested for assault or capital crimes you directed after violating their sovereignty in repeated and reportedly appalling abrogations of their human rights?  That you will further damage their cognitive health or their physical wellbeing?

Mr. Lyons, enough.

You will not escape accountability by further harming my children, just as you will not escape accountability by further harming America's children.

The sovereignty violations you have perpetrated against my family parallel the sovereignty violations you appear to have perpetrated against the nation as a whole in extending fade deployments against our most important elected and appointed leaders.

What has constituted your apparently irrational and obsessive harm of my loved ones has translated to your alleged treason against the nation.

I object, and I daresay the American people object alongside me.

Mr. Lyons, your apologies need now to commence, and they need to be accompanied by your consistent and ongoing demonstrations of genuine humility, sorrow, and remorse.

The funds you have misappropriated from awards extended to me must be returned in full, and you must begin a long and thorough process of atoning for your gratuitous harm against my family and the United States, to which we are loyal.

Your false accusations against me, and against every single one of my immediate family members, must be withdrawn in their entirety without delay, along with the corresponding harm they have justified.

The health harms you have directed against my loved ones and myself must all be withdrawn on a prioritized basis.

Mr. Lyons, the truth usually emerges in situations like this one, when a federal employee has caused harm to the nation with impunity, avarice, unconscionable aggression, and a complete lack of ethics or any perceptible moral boundaries.

Those who wrongfully seek to control and manipulate public officials through wielding disinformation and deceit may ultimately be caught, as you yourself have been caught.

And I hope this will serve as a lesson to your colleagues within the FBI each and every time they consider diverging from their mission and objectives to cause needless suffering toward the nation, to profiteer from their misconduct under color of authority, to defame and prey upon vulnerable Americans without justification, to exploit the young in a manner that brings lasting shame to your agency, to falsify records and evidence for the purpose of knowingly wrongful prosecutions, and to mete out spurious sentences toward the innocent.

History will not view these acts with forgiveness when the full extent of their cruelty and avarice is brought to light.

Mr. Lyons, I look forward to your lawful expressions of atonement, following the immediate cessation of your predation against my loved ones and myself.

These are vastly overdue, it must be said, as is genuine reformation of the FBI's widespread programs of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting, unwanted by our nation, and unnecessary for any of your agency's legitimate goals.

Lane MacWilliams