From the Radio Free Michigan archives ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu. ------------------------------------------------ Date: 31 Dec 94 03:00:49 EST From: Linda D. Thompson <71163.1350@compuserve.com> To: shrink@svpal.org Subject: Re: PEON: little of nothing (fwd) Chris is asking for the militia episode. We taped it. I can get copies made. JJ is the black guy and he's from Ohio (I know the guys on the show. I declined to be on the show and was in discussions with the attorneys before that show and before the NBC news show on militias.) The background on all this is that these programs that are appearing on militias were set up by the ADL as follow ups to their "armed and dangerous" 30 page report. After that came out, several media "suddenly" called. Each that I asked said they called because of the ADL report. When NBC called, I told them I would do an interview when they did a true story about Waco. They then had their Waco reporter call me. He said "I understand you have some concerns about our Waco coverage," (words to that effect, I can't remember exactly what he said) and then he continued with, "We just did an update on that about 6 months ago," and I said, "Yeah, coincidentally RIGHT before the trial and you ran that SAME bogus piece of footage from over a year ago about MY tape and your coverage sucked." I basically gave him a really hard time about it and he ended with, "Well, thank you for your opinion," and "good-bye." He seemed sort of surprised, more than anything. Then I sent NBC's counsel a letter that the coverage was nothing but a conspiracy between NBC and ADL and if they mentioned me, I would sue. Realize, the ORIGINAL intent of these programs has virtually NOTHING to do with the militias. They were hoping I would be killed off over the summer. When that didn't work (attempted execution by cops), they came out with the ADL report 3 months later. That report has no actual, hard or good info in it about any group EXCEPT the militias that are public (JJ, Olsen, and Trochman) and of those, Trochman is the "racist" and he is an ADL plant and one guy in the MI militia I believe is also. This is how ADL works. When they don't have anything genuine to point to, they invent "racists" using their own operatives, then by "associating" me with racists, smear me. That has backfired, thanks to JJ and another guy who is Jewish that everytime anyone wants a militia interview, they will be interviewed. (Snarf). Donahue's show delayed broadcasting the militia segment because they couldn't make the guys look bad enough. One ADL guy refused to go on when he found out one of the militia members was black (hardy har har). Donahue kept interrupting and screaming (even though everyone else remained calm) and the audience was very obviously "stacked." They even had some Russian woman stand up and say, "We need the Russian trucks and tanks here to protect us from people like you!" which made no sense when the guys had been pretty calm and rational and Donahue had looked like a moron. The "opposing" side were both ADL, one admitting to being from ADL and the other was from one of their affiliate groups. Anyway, NBC also did a news show and couldn't resist slandering me anyway (that was the purpose) even after being in contact with their counsel on it and my refusing to do an interview. They set up this VERY staged bit of garbage at the end of the segment. They showed the Michigan militia practicing (same footage they have used for everything) and they talked about the "dangerous computer networks" being used by militias. Then they show this guy named Richard Bottoms and say he is a "concerned citizen" and "computer programmer" looking at a computer screen. Next, they show the opening logo to OUR computer network (AEN News) and a close up of a printout of a piece of paper where my name is to the left and the name and addresss of Lon Horiouchi, Vickie Weaver's killer, are on the paper, saying that our network put out the home address of FBI agent Lon Horiouchi. Then they have retired FBI Agent Buck Revelle saying, "This is dangerous stuff, very dangerous. This isn't just harrassment, this is revenge." NOW, here's the scoop on that: Richard Bottoms, the "concerned citizen" showed up here in Indianapolis in the spring, about the same time as we discovered that ADL was paying a guy named Henry Kitchen to go around on radio shows and bad-mouth me (he's their "researcher.") An investigator for the state of California who investigated ADL there (where they were indicted for spying and are being sued by former senator McCloskey for spying) said Henry Kitchen was one of the ADL spies that had turned up in the California investigation. A village voice reporter, Adam Parfrey, who we already knew was connected to ADL, at the same time was pestering me for an interview and I wouldn't give it to him. He had been on our computer network and was your basic MO-ron. Another guy from Village Voice who was pretty decent came out to do an interview and assured me he was NOT associated with Adam Parfrey. He visited for a couple of days and a photographer from Village Voice came out and did some photos. Both were quite nice folks. The reporter then called to tell me that he had lied, that he HAD actually been working for Parfrey. The story that came out had both his name AND Parfrey's on it, but the part the reporter did was okay (balanced, not particularly complimentary but not a smear) and the part Parfrey did was a smear. I'll get to why all this is relevant in a second but it all boils down to showing ADL's involvement behind all this. Simultaneously, Richard Bottoms writes an article for the local free tabloid (you know, one of those "trendy" free papers that has all the weird sex ads in it) which is about "racist and nazi" computer networks and says our BBS is the "jumping off point" for Nazis and Racists (he was roundly lambasted in computer circles locally here for the article, needless to say, since everyone who knows us knows THAT's a bunch of malarkey). Now, here's the tie-in. The reporter from Village he had talked to Bottoms and Bottoms had said that HE had talked to HENRY KITCHEN to do his article and he was being paid by Southern Poverty Law Center. Southern Poverty Law Center, at the same time, put American Justice Federation on their "Klan Watch" list, mailed to 600 law enforcement agencies. A reporter from Channel 6 here locally called and said he wanted to do a story on the Declaration of Independence of 1994 and came out, did an interview and asked not ONE question about the Declaration of Independence of 1994 and did a TOTAL smear story on me, that ended with, GET THIS, Henry Kitchen appearing at the end (not identified by name, though, which was WEIRD), but supposedly from "Paradise productions" claiming to have made a movie "refuting" my Waco tape. We got the tape and it has not diddly beans in it about Waco, and is a total attack on me, personally. A bunch of people have sent us radio shows where Kitchen calls in to attack me or is interviewed and I am always his "topic." So then the ADL report comes out on "militias" and both the ADL and Southern Poverty Law Center release a press release about it at the same time, then ATF writes a report, lifing their info directly from the ADL report. Within three weeks, we had ATF practicing at a mockup at Ft. Harrison, 7 miles from my office, with 80 various cop cars at the hotel where ATF was staying (local sheriffs, fed cars, state police). We left for a week then. :-) Then all these media calls for "interviews" and all the resulting stories (whether I'm interviewed or not) to either portray militias as "armed and dangerous" allied with "racists and nazis" or to smear me, generally, or, after saying that something I'm somehow associated with (or supposed to be associated with according to the story) is "dangerous/racist/ nazi" and then that I'm "a rising leader in the movement" (without actually saying *I'M* racist or nazi or dangerous.) They also make a point of mentioning my arrest this summer and refer to my having a gun at the time of my arrest (it's very weird how they manage to do this consistently in such a way as to make it sound like I was brandishing a weapon and attacking people, when actually, I was arrested for "obstructing traffic.") So NBC's news story features Richard Bottoms, of all the zillions of people in the world, Richard Bottoms, who has no credentials in anything as far as I know, as a "concerned citizen" (why?) showing a print out from our BBS with Horiouchi's address on it (of all the HUNDREDS of BBSes that had that info for more than 18 months) and an FBI agent saying, "That's dangerous stuff, dangerous indeed." With the CLOSING remark by the commentator being, "Police (just generic, no particular "police") "Police are concerned that a deranged individual might act on these and shoot someone." Smells like a set up to me. 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