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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.

ADL ADL ADL





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