The Undercover Army (was) Mainstream A Ways Back

Greetings and Salutations!
Sorry for again missing a day.
“The Doonie” as I’ve been calling him as he responds to that when I say it in a rapid, playful voice: ‘dooniedooniedoonie!’ and it him off giggling fittin’ to die

GAWD sooooo coot! Anyways.
That and Sapper turned 57
Officially in “Ole Codger Range”

So we ended up going out to dinner at Mission BBQ which is a DotMil inspired restaurant. Think “TFG-Fridays” decor but with all Thin Blue Line/Red Line (firemen) and DotMil ‘stuff’ ALLLLL over the place. Every inch of the walls, the booths… everything is patches, helmets, pictures of both vets, the Honored Dead, and ‘regular’ pix of guys and gals in the field. TONS of challenge coins too. They do a great brisket and ribs, and doesn’t break the bank. Plus they have a DotMil/Vet discount. It’s his favorite.

So again, busy-busy AF.

So back to the crux of the matter.
Now
Mind you… this article is from 2021. The link to it is HERE

The TL;DR:
60000… yep
SIXTY THOUSAND ‘troops’/contractors and No Such Agency Types embedded in the general public as a program called “signature reduction”. which is, at best a term that is best described IMO as subterfuge. To whit:

subterfuge

/ˈsəbtərˌfyo͞oj/

Subterfuge is a noun that refers to a deceptive, dishonest, or tricky strategy used to achieve a goal, escape a consequence, or hide information.

Key Characteristics

• Deception: It relies on misdirection, slyness, or a false front.
• Avoidance: It is frequently used to dodge rules, sidestep blame, or escape responsibility.

Now as part of that long-assed article, they explain the idea of “signature reduction” to a point. THEY attempt to make it sound like their ‘job’ is to ‘mask’ (i.e. provide cover) for clandestine operatives both in foreign and domestic capacities.

What blows their own story out of the water is the SIZE of the operation and the very fact that they admit to operating domestically without oversight of CONgress nor any other branch of the DotGov. In the very article they state:

The newest and fastest growing group is the clandestine army that never leaves their keyboards. These are the cutting-edge cyber fighters and intelligence collectors who assume false personas online, employing “nonattribution” and “misattribution” techniques to hide the who and the where of their online presence while they search for high-value targets and collect what is called “publicly accessible information”—or even engage in campaigns to influence and manipulate social media. Hundreds work in and for the NSA, but over the past five years, every military intelligence and special operations unit has developed some kind of “web” operations cell that both collects intelligence and tends to the operational security of its very activities.

Read this again: “they search for high-value targets and collect what is called “publicly accessible information”—or even engage in campaigns to influence and manipulate social media. “

Boy
THAT right there sounds like they’re picking targets.
And pray tell just WHOM have both the DotMil and DotGov been screaming is the penultimate danger to them for the past dozen years or so?

Yep.
Guys and Gals like us
The Right Wing.
Right Wing Terrorists/ism
As far as they’re concerned WE’RE the threat as the majority of us are Constitutionalists, and BIG TIME wanting the FedGov OVERALL reduced back to its pre-Lincoln roots (hhhhhawk-SPITOOO! I hate that fucker)

And as for me?
Just WHAT is abotu15 miles away from me as the Crow Flies?

Ahhh Yes… McDill Air Farce Base.

Home of U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) and U.S Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). BOTH Commands which are pretty much ‘running the show’ and more than likely have a metric fuckton of operatives being run in this neighborhood.

Part of it is that I THINK that I’m just a ‘target of opportunity’.

When the mooks across the street (AKA The Watchers) moved in, during that oh-so-brief introduction, they said they were from Pittsburg as I had previously mentioned, with no family here so to speak. They (had) Pennsylvania Plates, which in an interesting note is that Pennsylvania is one of the only states that you cannot get DVM information online about the owner(s) with a plate number.

Per the A.I:

Pennsylvania is one of the most restrictive states regarding this information. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) will not process an information request based solely on a license plate number.

You cannot use a tag number to just “look up” a stranger’s name or address—a policy designed to keep your private data safe.

To the point when I approached my BFF Popeye, who’s a cop, he was highly reticent to do me a solid as he KNOWS that Big Brother is watching the database, and IF he got caught doing a check for me, well, he’d be ‘in the soup’ so I left it at that…

So as I said, they claimed to not know anyone locally. And yet within two weeks a Red Jeep with Florida plates with what I call “The Informant/Threeper” plates.

GENERALLY speaking, people riding around with THAT particular plate even here in the “Gunshine State” is either a Fed, or was getting a check from the SPLC. I’ve only met ONE guy who was an actual ‘Threeper’ complete with a LARGE roman numeral III tatted on the inside of his left forearm. Guy was a reeeeal piece of work… he owned and operated a gun store right outside McDill’s main gate, and had a unique business plan. In that guys coming on-base could stop and leave their Concealed Carry for the day (as they aren’t/weren’t? not sure if they changed the rules but anyways) and pick it up at the end of of the day

Problem was he was shady-shady
I worked as a gunsmith for him for a bit and he fucked me on my $$$ in the end, ‘cos he literally skipped town after a guy got fucking shot by a ND in the shop, and he tried to cover it up and pay the guy off… I mean the guy got gut-shot and the guy responsible tried to pay him off and NOT call an ambulance?

Thank God I wasn’t there that day.
The guy driving the Florida Jeep however?
REEKED of “Training Officer”/Operations Manager.
Late 50s
Good Ole Boy clothing, Carhartt flannels and Jeans.
Ball Cap.
Concealed Carrying (printed like a motherfucker)
Glimpsed what may or may not have been a badge on the belt
Shiny silver, maybe a EDC knife? Tough call.
BUT

This WHOLE thing? It reminds me also of post 9-11.

I lived in Quincy Mass. Right around the corner from The Islamic Center of New England… like at the time THE BIGGEST Mosque in New England. Couple of months after 9-11, my across the street neighbors had a BIG flag hanging outside of their house:

It was BIG too. Like BIG-BIG… 10×14 maybe?
It also gave me a mini-freakout until I checked as I initially thought it was an Iraqi flag, and we were ‘gearing up’ to start some shit with Saddam at the time:

2 stars… 3 stars… you can see how I might have been ‘twigged’ a bit as well, I remembered the flag sorta-kinda…

So I ran it through the early Goolag, and got the correction Iraqi v. Syrian.

We knew that it was a Hajji-Household, but never knew that they were Syrian. Now we lived in one half of a duplex owned by La Famiglia, i.e. the first wife’s Sicilian Fam. We needed a place to live that wouldn’t break the bank, and in cases like ours, IF the place was available, the po’folks of the fam would move in, until they could afford to move out.

So we asked Auntie Marie what was going on, as she was the neighborhood watch/intel agent so to speak in that she knew everything and everyone and the comings and goings of ALL in the neighborhood. OLD SCHOOL Italian Widow… She told us that the twin ‘boys’ (42 years old… LOL!) had been killed in a head on collision coming back from Mohegan Sun Casino. Both wiped out together.

Damned shame that.

So I researched it.
And now, back then, you used to be able to find the story as it was, for the time, pretty fucking tragic on its face. Twin Brothers who lived at home, supporting their mom.

It took me forever, but I finally found a mention of it…
The obituaries in the Quincy Sun, a local rag that came out every Thursday.

Nothing else.
And at the time? What made me go “Hmmn” was the accident itself.

See… the story used to be on the ‘net.
Boston Globe
ALL the main newsies.
NOW?
Fucking washed and scrubbed off the web completely as I can’t find the story ANYWHERE. Using the names, the date of the accident, I pull NOTHING.

At the time, like I said, this was a BIG story as it was a MAJOR accident right at the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend of 2002…

Now?
Nary a trace.

You tell me right?
The reason? (I think using my anal-list skillz)

The vehicle that hit them was a BIG Ford F250, with a lift kit and a HUGE bumper/ram/brush guard and from the pic I saw at the time, the brothers were in a Full Sized 4 door Cadillac that got fucking obliterated. The truck? Not so much that I could see… It still was a BAD Accident to say the least.

The weird part: The driver of the F250 (who was not cited) was a 23 year old male from…wait for it… Langley Virginia. His ‘buddy’ riding ‘shotgun’ was 56 year old male from again Langley, Virginia and the truck was plated out of Maryland.

Soooooo many Red Flags right?

Literally so odd I never have forgotten those details.

And years later when I discussed it with some ‘people on the inside’ in Iraq while at a party in a safe house, I was told that it was probably a new field agent and his training officer taking out some bad guys… And when I found out the two of them had worked at a Scrap Metal Yard?

Talk about a place where cash disbursements for material that’s really hard to measure makes it a great money-laundering location. I mean do you really think the feds are going to be able to measure if sumdood dropped off “X” amount of “Y” metal for “Z” amount of dollars?

Twin Syrian Brothers wiped out by two doods in a MASSIVE truck who just so happened to be from Langley, Virginia, home of Christians In Action, not even a year after 9-11 when the Biggest Mosque in New England still had the “Ace Tomato” trucks and other blatantly obvious local/state/federal surveillance vehicles parked ALL over our neighborhood?

Now mind you this is ALL supposition.
But even now… after all these years later, on Goolag Erf?

Yeeeeeeeeah… The Quincy Casa is the yellow house on the left.
The Brother’s house?
Blurred out.
Now, these days you can request that to be done.
But this place, even back then was blurred out.
Odd that innit?

So yeah.
As far as them paying for this shit?
Money as one of y’all have mentioned is no object as they own the money machine…. never mind in the article itself they plainly state that “…pull in over $900 million annually to service the clandestine force” which is a BIG FUCKING BUDGET/Line Item.

As I always say, YMMV and make of if what you will.

So do I believe they’re possibly watching me?
Big Roger on that.

However
I’m pretty sure the moulinyan who ditched the ride dipped due to natural instinct… i.e. he realized the cops were coming, and he wanted to be FAR away from the hoopty when they got there. In the vid he’s staring down the road towards the main drag, watching for the fuzz… hence his lack of looking at my crib, as it was a nonentity to him (I think). As stated by one of you, at the end of the vid, the Sheriff can be seen just towards the end of the tape passing the perp and not stopping. This being a product of some recent ‘diversification’ on the OTHER side of the hood I live in.

They tore out the cul-de-sac about two, three years ago opening the neighborhood (MY part) to the main drag, so the High Schoolers who attend the place about one mile away no longer go the loooong way home, but come down my street.

So lots of ‘muh diversity’ coming past the house.

So our Perp hence was ‘just another brother in the hood walking home’…

I personally think that I’m probably, for lack of a better term, a “Teachable Moment”/”Training Opportunity” as I said before. I mean it just makes sense as there’s two different sets of these “Watchers”. Unlike that poor bastard Anonymous Conservative who from the sound of it is constantly being put through the ball-wringer. Either that or he’s cooked from whatever the fuck they’ve been doing to him. Hard to deny though that there IS some bad shit afoot and some of us are under WAY more scrutiny or even attack than should EVER be acceptable.

With me however?
As they say, “Don’t start none, won’t be none”
And the asshole with the dog?
Haven’t seen him nor his dog in 2x days.
Have to see if he comes around again or not.
I personally think he’s just some rando-asshole.

Unfortunately, like Mortar Shells and Fucked Up Things, I –do– tend to draw fire, even when I’m keeping my head down.

As the frogs say, “C’est La Vie…”
Or as we said in the Infantry: “Shit DO Happen!!!”

So More Later
Big Country

(someone said this was me on the Redonkulas Show w/BattleDwarfGimli LOL)