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.




Thursday, February 23, 2023

The Totalitarian Fingerprint as a Means to Silence Dissent

1.  You have been informed that far right factions of the FBI are attempting to frame your husband in wrongdoing of which he has no knowledge.  Is that true?

Answer:  Yes.  I am informed that the FBI is utilizing misappropriated DNA as "evidence," in addition to some type of "fingerprinting" technology with which I am not familiar.

2.  Is it actually possible to simulate fingerprints?

Answer:  I have no idea.  It may be that FBI informants are simply trying to obtain a "target's" fingerprints on something as simple as a pen that can subsequently be placed elsewhere.

3. What are the specific threats you have received pertaining to your husband?

Answer:  Threats of faked communications, threats of attempts to "reverse engineer" his accomplishments at work, threats of the possession of "state secrets" of some sort, threats of a "nuclear scam" of some kind.

4. You have also been told that the far right may have engaged in some efforts to implicate your younger son in a similar manner.

Answer:  Yes, I have received a number of "like-father-like-son" threats, appearing to imply that both my husband and my son could be falsely accused of similar crimes, the specifics of which we do not know.

5. Alongside these threats, you have received myriad threats lately of water-borne illness, or a "plague in the water."

Answer:  I have, and I don't know what illness these threats are referring to in particular.  But they seem to threaten hospitalization and/or death to one or more of my family members as the result of some type of water-borne disease.

6.  Your younger son's parked car was impacted by a bus a few days ago.

Answer:  Yes, it was.

7.  Did your stalker appear to take credit for this accident?

Answer:  He did, yes.

8.  Afterwards, your younger son spoke to your husband over the phone about this incident, and then was allegedly forced to file a report with his FBI handler about that conversation.

Answer:  That is my understanding.

9.  But you have been told that your younger son's FBI handler is also falsifying witness statements internally to the FBI, after they have been signed.

Answer:  That is what I have been told, yes.  It seems that handlers often persuade witnesses to sign statements that they may have seen or heard something suspicious, but they can't be certain.  Afterwards, it appears that the handlers remove the equivocal language without informants' consent.  

10.  In this way, FBI handlers obtain a falsified witness statement with the informant's signature appended.  And this process appears to be routine for certain segments of the agency.

Answer:  Yes, it does.

11.  Your stalker appears to have claimed recently that the minister of your church, Matthew McDermott, signed a knowingly falsified witness statement for the FBI.  He also seems to have claimed that Kimberly Kelly, your children's former nanny, has recently been coerced into signing knowingly falsified witness statements about your family.

Answer:  I have received those claims, but I have no direct knowledge of those events.  I will simply say that it appears that far right FBI personnel are adept at frightening people into signing almost anything.  

12.  But a minister?

Answer:  Anyone can be a victim of these tactics.  During World War II, control of churches and ministers was assigned to Adolf Eichmann.  Each congregation ultimately had an SS officer assigned to it.  But it was a process that was gradual.  A church's National Socialist "representative" in 1939 became a church's National Socialist "liaison" by 1941.  By 1943, the National Socialists were approving or disapproving ministers' sermons directly.  All words spoken from the pulpit had to be submitted to the SS in advance.

13.  It seems that the FBI is attempting to coerce false statements from your minister in wielding the public assumption that a minister will not lie.

Answer:  I cannot comment on the FBI's methods in this case.  The agency may be falsifying material internally after it is signed by informants.  I can encourage informants to review previously submitted reports and correct them.  And I believe that encouragement to be important.

14.  Why?

Answer:  Because most people do not want to lie about others, and most people would be horrified to know that coerced lies are being used to cause harm to innocents.

15.  Why do far right segments of the FBI seem to be so intent on implicating you and your family of wrongdoing?

Answer:  The agency as a whole has never been encouraged to accept responsibility for the wrongs it has committed.  There is a culture of impunity and aggression within its ranks.  FBI personnel are instructed to follow orders through a military-style chain of command, and not to evaluate whether those orders violate the Constitution or the rule of law.

16.  It seems that the far right within the FBI seeks not only to silence whistleblowers through intimidation, but to silence them through violence.

Answer:  It does seem that way.  The agency appears to be utilizing the "target of interest" list, the "Phoenix Program," the "disposition matrix," and the military's "signature reduction program" to extend acts of violence and harm toward whistleblowers and their families.

17.  You have sometimes said that a dystopia is defined by a society that locks up the truth tellers while the criminals go free.  

Answer:  I have, yes.

18.  How long has it been since you have had the freedom to leave your home in safety?

Answer:  Many, many months.  Too many to count.

19.  How do you feel about that?

Answer:  I feel deeply concerned for the future of our democracy.

20.  Yet, you have not chosen to be rendered silent.

Answer:  No.  Silence is acquiescence to totalitarianism.    And I will not relinquish my hopes for our country by acquiescing to those who wish to usurp power through unconstitutional means from the American electorate. Democracy requires that we speak out loud.

19.  Do you hereby certify that the foregoing is true and correct?

Answer:  I do.




Lane MacWilliams

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Is My Stalker Currently Residing on Vista Verde Way?

OIG Hotline investigators, I left a voicemail message for you with the Office of Information Policy yesterday evening, expressing my concern that Wifi "piggybacking" appears to be occurring from a base of 21 Vista Verde Way, Portola Valley, CA.

My stalker may be in residence at this house, as may be his cadre of men who appear to be making nightly forays onto my property.

A highly sophisticated drone is launched from, and later returns to, this property each night, after conducting an ongoing criss-cross pattern over our property at 45 Vista Verde Way lasting several hours at least.

In addition, my stalker appears to be utilizing the exterior lights at 21 Vista Verde Way to signal "safety" or "danger" to my household.

Clearly, it would be a cause for substantive alarm to have my stalker in this kind of proximity to my home.

All indicators are that this man draws pay through the "Target of Interest" Program and the "Signature Reduction Program" for violent acts perpetrated against the American public.

Please assist me in ascertaining whether this threat to our lives is genuinely 200 feet from our back door.

With gratitude for your presence,




Lane MacWilliams

Contact information for the owners of 21 Vista Verde Way:

Jon and Esther DeChow

Emails:  jfdechow@sbccglobal.net, dochow_esther@hotmail.com

Phones:  (650) 851-2682; Jon's cell: (65) 465-7975; Esther's cell: (650) 465-1404

"Under Cover of the Forest": When the FBI's Unconstitutional "Target of Interest" Program Co-opts Municipal Governance

OIG Hotline investigators, I expressed my concerns to the Planning Commission of San Mateo County this morning during their public meeting by joining via phone.

The content of my remarks is represented exactly by my February 21, 2023 blog post entitled "Email to the Planning Commission of San Mateo County."

Following my statement, Mr. Steve Monowitz, Director of the Planning Commission, recommended that I email him directly.

That communication follows herewith.

I will observe that my stalker suggested that FBI personnel showed Mr. Morowitz defamatory material purporting to represent me at some point over the last several days.

One can only imagine how such false claims, presented by FBI personnel with the knowing intent to mischaracterize an honorable whistleblower, would be received by someone serving the County in this role.

Has the FBI proceeded to extend the false assertion that, by assisting the agency, Mr. Monowitz can help apprehend "dangerous criminals"?  

Has the FBI gone one step further to suggest that remuneration for Mr. Monowitz, given his anticipated service to society, would be only right?

Bribes are particularly pernicious when they are extended in the guise of contributing to "national security" or "community safety."

The truth, which is that far right segments of the FBI are actively preying upon law-abiding American citizens for anti-democratic objectives, represents an astonishing betrayal of the Constitution these individuals have sworn to uphold.

What is the true intention behind the MROSD project?  Is it arson?  Is it trespass intended to lead to violent home invasion?

My stalker has suggested that this project, in allowing access to my land under "cover of the forest," would permit Special Forces personnel working under the "Signature Reduction Act" to cause any number of gratuitous harms.

If true, what a horrific distortion of our power and our talents as a nation.

Who, of good character, is willing to stand up publicly and say that such attempts to harm law-abiding American Democrats and journalists are wrong?

The answer may determine whether our democracy can be wrested from the grip of those far right factions within the FBI who prefer autocratic governance over our nation.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams

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Email sent to: smonowitz@smcgov.org. From: lanemacwilliams@gmail.com. Date:  Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 9:40 AM

Re:  Follow Up Re:  APN #080-200-080, County File #PLN2022-00333

Dear Director Monowitz:

I appreciate your request that I follow up with you regarding my concerns pertaining to APN #080-200-080, County File #PLN2022-00333.

On the most basic level, I would like to know how much time ought to be granted to the public to comment on this proposal according to written San Mateo County guidelines.  Can you please direct me to that information, so that I can access it?

As you know, I am concerned about the origin of the $272,000 grant from Santa Clara County for this project, as I am told those funds did not originate from within Santa Clara County, but rather from the FBI/Infragard.

As a whistleblower of FBI malfeasance concerning initiatives that draw billions of dollars in congressional budget appropriations yearly, I have experienced ongoing threats intended to silence me as a witness in a federal investigation through the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. DOJ.

The arson and trespass threats connected to this particular project have raised my concerns, certainly.

I have been informed that Project Planner Camille Leung is signatory to Infragard.  If true, this is problematic from the standpoint of ethics concerns.

Bryan Apple of MROSD has reportedly been "recruited" as signatory to Infragard in the same manner.

So, I would ask the Planning Commission not to approve this project for the time being, while these details are being investigated by the OIG Hotline Investigations Division.

I appreciate every effort on the part of the Planning Commission to take a protective stance toward lives and property within San Mateo County.

Thank you for allowing me to ask for your advocacy, and that of the Planning Commission as a whole, with regard to this matter.

Sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Email to the Planning Commission of San Mateo County

Email sent to:  planning_commission@smcgov.org.  From: lanemacwilliams@gmail.com. Date: February 21, 2023 at 3:07 PM

Re:  Important Comments for Meeting No. 1729, Regarding an Item Which Is Not on the Agenda

To the San Mateo County Planning Commission:

Due to the safety concerns involved, I respectfully ask that this communication be read in its entirely to the Commission for its consideration and included in full within the written documentation of the meeting.

I am commenting on the Notice of Grading Permit Application submitted by the Midpeninsula Region Open Space District (MROSD).  The project location is the Coal Creek Open Space Preserve.  The APN number is 080-200-080, and the County File number is PLN2022-00333.

The project in its entirely involves the construction of a retaining wall and a re-graded trail in close proximity to the entire western border of my residential property in Portola Valley.

My comments follow:

As a whistleblower of FBI malfeasance, I have received specific threats concerning the involvement of the FBI/Infragard in funding this MROSD project, contiguous to my property.

Chief among the threats I have received pertaining to this project is that of arson leading to a wildfire event.  My property sits on a steep slope, and the MROSD proposal involves work that is to be conducted very near to the low point of this incline.  Under certain conditions in the summer and autumn, when this work is scheduled, this represents an extremely high-fire-hazard area.

The Planning Commission has an interest in ascertaining whether this project is one that could endanger the welfare of lives and property within San Mateo County.

Specific question for the Planning Commission at this time involve the following:

1.  Has the necessary time period for public comment on this project been upheld?  This permit application was filed on November 3, 2022, three-and-one-half months ago.  Even so, the letter I received from Project Planner Camille Leung was not mailed until February 13, 2023, with a decision date of February 28, 2023.  Under these circumstances, I do not believe two weeks represent a sufficient time period for public comment.  More information about this project is needed.

2.  Have any funds for this project been provided by the FBI and/or Infragard, either directly to MROSD or indirectly through Santa Clara County or San Mateo County?  How much in total?

3.  Does the San Mateo County Planning Commission believe that it is acceptable for a whistleblower of FBI malfeasance to be receiving threats of wildfire and other grievous harms related to criminal trespass connected to this MROSD project?

4.  Is Project Planner Camille Leung willing to reveal to the Planning Commission whether she herself is signatory to Infragard?  In other words, has she accepted any compensation from FBI affiliates in order to handle this project in a manner that shortens the public comment period or waives consideration of public safety concerns?

5.  If this project is approved, and harm comes to my property, to my family, or to me as the result of wildfire or other harms related to criminal trespass facilitated by this MROSD project, is San Mateo County willing to assume liability for those harms in total, given that the County has been given advance notice of the high potential for corruption within this particular proposal?

6.  Is the Planning Commission willing to speak directly to investigators from the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice regarding all it knows of FBI/Infragard communications pertaining to this project, my property, or my family?

7.  How can corruption of public projects through payoffs from the FBI/Infragard be prevented within San Mateo County in the future?  Should public officials ever be allowed to accept compensation in order to handle public projects according to the directives of corrupt federal officials who have no interest in the welfare of San Mateo County?

I would respectfully ask the Planning Commission to allow this project to be thoroughly investigated prior to granting approval of this proposal.

Thank you very much for your attention to these concerns.

Sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams

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Is the FBI Improperly Funneling $272,000 Through Santa Clara County?

 OIG Hotline investigators, please be aware that San Mateo County's Planning and Building Department has sent an unusual letter to my husband and myself, ostensibly notifying us of an improvement to a hiking trail close to our house.  The Project Planner, Camille Leung, is apparently inviting comment on the project.

An online search of this project turned up some unusual details.  Chief among them is the fact that the project is being funded by $272,000 transfer from Santa Clara County, which has no cross-over into this trail's blueprint.

Given that is is unlawful for one county to transfer taxpayer funds to improvements outside its boundaries, I am curious as to whether the $272,000 represents FBI/Infragard funds that are being diverted through Santa Clara County in an attempt to conceal their origin.

It seems strange to me that the San Mateo County Planning and Building Department mailed this notification to us on February 13, 2023, with a statement that their Office will "act on the above application" close to February 28, 2023.  That represents a two week period for public comment, when the filing of the application was made on November 3, 2022, three and a half months ago.

I believe that San Mateo County regulations require a longer comment period from the public for projects of this nature.  Several months are typically allotted.  So, it is unusual that the Planning and Building Department, which is guided by regulations and ordinances, would be violating required time allotments.

Given my stalker's threats of EMF/ELF problems associated with this project, I have asked Ms. Leung whether PG&E is involved in the planning of this endeavor in any capacity.

My stalker's threats of "wildfire," in addition to other harms, are notable given the project's near proximity to our home.

It is necessary to recognize that there are many, many miles of hiking trails within the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.  The choice of the municipality to focus on the land closest to our home seems improbable.  These are not highly trafficked trails, and we live in a comparatively rural region, on 3.5 acres.

I will update investigators with any correspondence I receive from the San Mateo County Planning and Building Department in response to my emails, below.

In the meantime, should investigators wish to ascertain whether the FBI/Infragard is funding this project, here is the information I have located regarding this question:

https://www.openspace.org/what-we-do/projects/alpine-road-regional-trail-improvement-project


The contact information for the Project Planner, Camille Leung, is as follows:

Camille Leung, Project Planner
Planning and Building Department
455 County Center, 2nd Floor
Redwood City, CA. 94063

Telephone:  650-363-1826
Email:  cleung@smcgov.org

Thank you for allowing me to document this concern.

Most sincerely.

Lane MacWilliams

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Email sent to:  cleung@smcgov.org. From: lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com. Date:  Monday, February 20. 2023 at 3:48 PM

Re:  ATTN: Camille Leung:  Please assist me in commenting on MROSD Project (County File:  PLN2022-00333)

Dear Ms. Leung:

I am writing to inquire about the County's planned construction of a retaining wall and associated regrading of the Alpine Road Bypass Trail.

Is PG&E involved in the construction of the retaining wall, by any chance?  Will PG&E be providing power to workers who are regrading the trail in addition?  Is PG&E installing power lines  or infrastructure of any kind to address short-term or long-term needs for power involving either project?

Further, I would like to know the particular department in Santa Clara County that is transferring $272,000 to San Mateo County in supplying the funding to support this project.

Will you please enlighten me with regard to the questions above right away?

I would like to comment on this proposal this Wednesday, but I need to know these specifics in order to do so.

Thank you very much for your assistance with these concerns.

Sincerely,
Lane MacWilliams

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Email sent to: jlujan@smcgov.org. From: lanemacwilliams@gmail.com. Date:  Monday, February 20, 2023 at 3:36 PM

Re:  ATTN:  Janneth Lujan:  Please assist me in commenting on MROSD Project (County File: PLN2022-00333)

Dear Planning Commission Secretary Lujan:

Can you please inform me of the required amount of time that residents are given to comment on MROSD projects potentially affecting their private property?

Are private property owners typically allowed one month to research these projects?  Two?  Or more?

What is the legally required amount of time with which private property owners must be provided?

I note that the Planning and Building Commission has a hearing scheduled for 9:00 AM on Wednesday, February 22, 2023.

Is it possible for the public to participate in this meeting via Zoom or by telephone?

Do you have instructions you might provide to me regarding this?  The Planning and Building Department online sites are blocked to my viewing via my laptop, for some reason.

Thank you for promptly enlightening me with regard to my questions above.

Sincerely,
Lane MacWilliams

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Monday, February 20, 2023

Is Viktor Goldmakher's FBI Handler Instructing Him to File a Civil Suit?

OIG Hotline, I am informed that the FBI handler of my former Cape Cod tenant, Viktor Goldmakher, is instructing him to file a civil suit against me in federal court for violating his tenant rights.

I'm afraid I don't know how to protect myself against this kind of predation.

Our laws likely do not reflect the right of private citizens to protect themselves from falsified law enforcement reporting and related crimes as they are currently being perpetrated by far right FBI personnel and affiliates.

It is alleged that Viktor Goldmakher endangered both my family and my property by following the directives of his FBI handler in providing falsified witness statements to the FBI, in allowing access to my property by FBI personnel and affiliates, and by mailing to me information which was meant to falsely implicate me of a "crime" of which I know nothing.

When I attempted to forward that mailing to OIG Hotline investigators through certified mail, the letter appears to have been removed from the U.S. mail system for a period of time while FBI personnel engaged in evidence tampering.

It's not clear to me how to safely engage with a tenant who is willing to cause this level of harm, and who does so while accepting compensation from Infragard.

While it is safe to say that my relationship with Viktor Goldmakher would almost certainly have been peaceable and positive were it not for the predations of criminal FBI personnel, it is also appears true that Viktor Goldmakher has willingly misused the trust that I have extended to him in allowing access to my property.

It would appear that the FBI feels confident enough that it can control attorneys, court clerks and judges, that the agency is comfortable in extending ongoing abuse of "targets of interest" through unjustified legal action.

Certainly, the FBI's desire to wrongfully utilize court proceedings to establish a "reservoir" of defamatory information about "targets of interest" in the public sphere appears to be persistent.

I do not yet have evidence that a civil complaint has been filed against me by Viktor Goldmakher.

But the FBI's pattern of guiding predatory informants to claim victimization by those "targets of interest" they have in truth victimized, in legal settings and elsewhere, seems well-established.

Perhaps your Office has the ability to suggest to far right FBI personnel that they should not attempt this particular manipulation of the U.S. judicial system and that Viktor Goldmakher should cause my family no further harm.

Thank you for allowing me to express this concern.

Most sincerely,




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.  The safety of FBI agents should be protected, just as the safety of the American citizenry should be protected.  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.  

Sunday, February 19, 2023

The Moral Imperative in the Face of Loss

I am re-publishing here a post I first wrote on November 27, 2022.

I believe that solemn reflection is necessary in the face of the gratuitous, targeted loss of those who ought to have helped define our future.

In their absence, it is necessary to hold fast to the truth of their worth.

Democracy must be earned and re-earned by our insistence on one another's inviolable human rights, by our determination to protect one another from harm, by our commitment to allow a multiplicity of respectful voices to debate and define the course of freedom within Americans' Constitutional governance.

It is the bonds of fellowship, the ties of benevolence, the shared commitment to one another's lives that defines the United States as a nation of citizens possessing both principle and generosity of spirit.  

The rule of law must be upheld alongside our compassion if we are to approach our potential as a just and honorable society.

I believe we have that capacity, because President Biden personifies that spirit as our eminently just and honorable Commander-in-Chief.

It is up to us as Americans to insist on this same expression of ethics and goodwill within the national security personnel and law enforcement officers who have vowed to defend our Constitution and our communities.

Our fortitude as a nation is defined by our individual character as Americans.

Our courage, our integrity, our honesty, our compassion, our insistence on the truth, our defense of one another's human rights, our goodness -- these qualities are not democracy's afterthought; they are democracy's necessity.




Lane MacWilliams

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One of the greatest tragedies of covert war, as it appears to have been waged by the far right throughout history, and perhaps in our own time as I write these words, is that countless victims never understand the objectives of their assailants.  

They simply wish to live, and to live in peace.

Yet, that privilege is denied to them, and often denied violently, and without warning.

During World War II, Adolf Eichmann negotiated in excruciating detail with the Jews concerning the details of their longed-for emigrations to safer countries.  Yet, all of these mediations were a cruel ruse to enlist their cooperation in their own demise.  Their hopes for a safe destination ensured their willingness to board trains in an orderly fashion.  By the time they reached the concentration camps, perhaps the bitterness of Eichmann's deceit had caught up to them.  We cannot know the pain of their disillusion.  These voices were lost to us, through no fault of their own.

But I am here to articulate the moral imperative: that the murder of innocents can never be a political stratagem, a prerogative of those who wield the public trust, or an expediency on the path to power.

To quote from Argentine prosecutor Julio Strassera, "Sadism is not a political ideology, nor a war strategy, but instead a moral perversion."

When violence has been wielded against law-abiding American citizens with no capacity to defend themselves -- with no awareness that such defense might be required of them -- with no protection in their most vulnerable hour -- it is incumbent upon good people to re-establish the rule of law.

Calm insistence is required of us, despite the horrors such unconscionable acts may incite within our hearts and minds. Calm insistence on the facts.  Calm insistence on the truth.  Calm insistence on the Constitution.  Calm insistence on justice. 

If certain factions of the U.S. security agencies have perpetrated human rights violations against law-abiding American citizens for anti-democratic objectives, let us have the courage to acknowledge those crimes even as we grieve the loss of lives that cannot be replaced.

The "casualties" of the far right are not faceless, nameless, numbered "targets."

They are human beings.  Irreplaceable.  Invaluable. And vital to our future.

Would that we could have assured them of the dignity, the privacy, and the safety they so thoroughly deserved.

Perhaps the force of our grief can impel us to assure others that these rights, so recklessly imperiled, will now be reclaimed.




Lane MacWilliams