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Yes, I really do have a Council of Lego Karens set up in my apartment because I believe every divorced heterosexual male should never be free, for even one second, of the powerful force reshaping society: aging liberal white women.

Today I want readers to behold the new leadership that my Karen Council has appointed to lead us all into the amazing future we deserve, and that’s Queen Koostra!

All hail Queen Koostra!!!

Thanks to Alani Bankhead’s discrimination lawsuit revival show on Monday, I’m reviving my interest in Barbara Koostra’s role as one of the three original plaintiffs of that discrimination lawsuit, along with her highbrow taste in art and propensity to make a man homeless when he breaks his leash and acts like a bad boy who refuses to do what he’s told.

Let’s begin.

On a warm July morning last year, a truck completed its journey from Washington, D.C, arriving in Missoula at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture carrying several nondescript pine boxes.

Inside those boxes lay the treasured art collection of copper baron William A. Clark. Their arrival – met with great anticipation – capped a milestone in museum director Barbara Koostra’s long career.

“Some of Clark’s vast art collection coming to Montana permanently, nearly a century after his death, is a profound and important moment in our state’s long, historic relationship with the Copper Kings,” Koostra quipped that morning.

This article from former Democrat spokesperson, Martin Kidston, frames the quipping Koostra as an accomplished art guru seeking to preserve Montana’s history through art. Later in the article we get a hint at the Koostra shit-storm brewing:

Given the prominence of that collection and the achievement it represented, it came as a surprise when five months later, the University of Montana announced that Koostra would be leaving the museum.

The school, working to trim costs and restructure its faculty and staff, opted not to renew her contract after 14 years, The announcement came as a surprise to the art community, as well as to Koostra.

“On the heels of obtaining the Clark collection, it took my breath away that that would be a response to adding so richly to the collection and its value,” Koostra told the Missoula Current. “I don’t know where the genesis of this change even began. There was never any input solicited from me or my staff as to how to reposition the museum within the structure of the university.”

For more Koostra context, here’s the pedigree that I believe fueled this art influencer’s brazen entitlement that going UP UP UP was the only direction for her to be moving on the status ladder:

Before returning to Missoula, Koostra spent 17 years performing at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. After earning her MBA from the University of Montana, she stepped in as director of the Missoula Cultural Council before serving the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C.

As someone keenly aware of narrative control and the critical role that MONEY plays, like funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, it’s obvious that Barbara Koostra got VERY comfortable in her influential position picking artistic winners to promote with Federal dollars.

For an alternative take on the role of Uncle Sam subsidizing national art, here’s a little history from an institute that would like to END the National Endowment for the Arts:

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was born in 1965 out of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society agenda, under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. Its founding objectives in subsidizing art were sweeping but vague; they included supporting artistic excellence, increasing access, strengthening the country’s cultural infrastructure, and boosting national heritage.

The overarching principle was clear: Art matters, and as such, taxpayers should be forced to pay for it. As Johnson put it, “Art is a nation’s most precious heritage.… Where there is no vision, the people perish.”2

Art is undoubtedly important to human well-being. Yet the power to subsidize art cannot be found clearly within the powers enumerated to the federal government under the Constitution. What’s more, none of the arguments for direct government art subsidies hold up under basic scrutiny.

Any agency with such amorphous and ill-defined goals was bound to spark controversy. Over time, political pressure has seen the NEA’s priorities change. In the 1980s and 1990s, outrage over provocative taxpayer-funded art led to funding cuts and a ban on direct grants to most individual artists.3 After increases in real terms, the rate of growth of the NEA’s budget stagnated and then declined.4

By the 2000s, the NEA’s focus shifted toward community-based and educational programs, with less support for avant-garde experimental work. More recently, the NEA has supported projects that ostensibly advance economic development and diversity and inclusion goals, through public-private funding models whereby “experts” select projects for grants matched by the private sector.

After being summarily dismissed from her influential perch over Missoula’s art scene, Barbara Koostra continued doing community-based education by trying to educate Daniel Carlino about what kind of political pet the Council of Karens considered him to be.

When Daniel Carlino faced eviction in 2021, and the added conundrum that an eviction could de-qualify him from running in the ward he had been living in, Carlino didn’t specify WHO his landlord was at the time when KPAX reported on the plight of renters, including Carlino:

Renters across Missoula are facing eviction.

“We just got a notice to leave from our landlord, without a reason, just kind of unexpected,” said Daniel Carlino who is running for Missoula City Council in Ward 3.

“You have to live in the ward to run,” he said and if Carlino can’t find a new place in his Ward, he might have to withdraw.

“Either run in another city council ward, and restart, or I might just have to postpone the campaign for a later time,” Carlino told MTN News.

When I did what Carlino couldn’t do, and named Koostra as the landlord in my post, Daniel’s own girlfriend (handler?) came at ME for digging into this story.

Here’s the response I gave Bornstein about her strange comment at the time:

To answer Bornstein’s question: no, I did not consider that doing this investigative work, which started with comments made to the media by Candidate Carlino himself, would make it harder for him to find a place to live.

Because why would that be?

Is there some kind of entrenched political establishment with operatives in the housing market capable of using their residential gatekeeper powers to deny this young candidate the stability of housing just because he has the temerity to challenge them?

Is that what you’re saying Maggie Bornstein?

Well, the Council of Karens (including Mike Nugent?) finally got what they wanted, and they ousted Carlino after complaints to Montana’s Commission on Political Practices flew from both sides amidst the shady ward-hopping of Jennifer Savage’s musical-chair-move, as reported by The Pulp:

Savage resigned her seat because she moved to Ward 3, where she’s now running against Councilmember Daniel Carlino, a democratic socialist who isn’t afraid to tangle with the council majority. According to Savage, it’s not that she moved in order to primary Carlino, but I can say anecdotally that some Carlino supporters — and at least one Missoulian letter-to-the-editor writer — certainly feel that way, especially given Savage’s many endorsements from other members of the council, including the mayor. In other words, the decision of how to replace Savage is suffused in the tightly wound politics of the moment.

There’s also the awkward timing. Savage has been running for Ward 3 for months, but only officially vacated her seat in Ward 1 earlier this month.

In a disgusting op-ed to ensure that the vile Council of Karens got the Karen bat-signal that Daniel Carlino HAD to be politically destroyed, Queen Koostra outed herself as Carlino’s landlord in order to write this about him:

OMG! This is AWFUL! What other indignities did Queen Koostra suffer at the hands of this BAD, BAD man?

Ten hours of cleaning were needed to return the home close to its move-in condition. A curtain was missing; glass door panes, the garbage disposal and ceiling tiles were broken. Dishes and personal items were abandoned. Their 2020 Christmas tree was left in the yard, rotting — in July 2021.

Carlino failed to acknowledge the two-way street of respectfulness that should exist between tenants and landlords.

Carlino and his roommates relinquished their deposit to remunerate me for these offenses, but the time and effort required to make the home livable again I will never get back.

I’d like to thank Queen Koostra for not being afraid to show the cunt side of being queen. Honestly, you almost have to ADMIRE the dogged persistence and self-destructive vindictiveness of Karens and their mighty powers, enshrined by the church of WOKE, and ratified by those squeamish bitches across the pond:

Calling someone a “Karen” is “borderline racist, sexist and ageist”, a tribunal judge has said.

Employment judge George Alliott said the term, typically targeted at middle-aged white women, was pejorative.

The remarks came in the case of Sylvia Constance, 74, who had brought claims of unfair dismissal, direct race and age discrimination and victimisation against Harpenden Mencap, a charity that provides support to adults with learning disabilities.

Forcing an organization to spend its helping-retard money on this “victim” is pure Karen, and a good place to end this post before my Karen Council demands I get a good pegging.

Thanks for reading!

For Montana Democrats who want to beat Kurt Alme, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, their hope for a clean Bankhead bow-out disappeared on Monday. If Alani Bankhead stays the course, Alme should have an easy path to the Senate.

Is that the plan?

When I saw this social media assertion from the Bankhead campaign post a few days before her Monday announcement, I had a feeling a Democrat gender skirmish was brewing. The tell was how Bankhead refused to criticize prosecutors and law enforcement in her statement, instead gushing that THEY WERE AMAZING and FOUGHT FOR JUSTICE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

Victim LARP incoming, I speculated on X?

Was I right? Yep!

After the press conference, Montana Democrats tried building on the media attention by immediately going on Facebook to spread misinformation about Bodnar:

Sexual HARASSMENT allegations? Nope. It was actually sexual DISCRIMINATION allegations, and those allegations were settled two years ago.

Or were they?

A University of Montana lawsuit that began in 2021, involving 18 plaintiffs who alleged sex-based discrimination, ended on Jan. 9 with UM agreeing to pay a $350,000 settlement and provide “universally available” Title IX training to employees.

“This settlement provides UM and (the Office of Commissioner of Higher Education) with this opportunity to learn, grow, and improve,” Hillary Carls, lead legal counsel of the plaintiffs, said in a statement on Jan. 9. “With two hands, Montanans can build institutions of higher education for all.”

The lawsuit, first filed in August 2021, accused the University of mistreating female employees. The original four plaintiffs were Catherine Cole, former vice president of enrollment management and strategic communications; Barbara Koostra, once the director of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture; Mary-Ann Sontag Bowman, a tenured professor in the School of Social Work; and Rhondie Voorhees, the former dean of students. Cole, Koostra and Voorhees left the University since Bodnar became president in 2018. Bowman currently works at the University as a tenured professor.

Re-litigating a settled case with inaccurate rhetoric? What does Alani Bankhead think she’s doing?

She’s apparently doing something that she said those in her sensitive line of work should NOT be doing, and that’s pivoting from ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) to politics.

The tough work of fighting heinous crime through the ICAC network took Alani Bankhead to Hawaii. Before I get to why I think that’s relevant, let’s see what other people on Facebook are saying about yesterday’s press conference from this relatively unknown candidate:

To help provide the type of info Diane Sands is looking for, let’s consult this brief biography:

Mighty Sparrow Coaching is Bankhead’s current business, and it entails dealing with “imposter syndrome“, a pathological version of self-doubt that grifters see as opportunities to make money. I wonder how much money Bankhead charged the state of Montana last year when her “coaching” company did its thing for the Montana Board of Crime Control:

I find it interesting that Alani Bankhead is already connected to the Gianforte administration through her coaching work with the state. If she stays in this race and successfully takes out Bodnar for Alme, my hunch is that Bankhead will get a nice job “protecting children” in Montana.

Teaching kids is what a political blogger by the name of Don Pogreba did in Helena before he quit and moved to Hawaii for a new teaching opportunity. When “Pogie” closed down his blog, I wrote this farewell piece in 2021 which made an interesting connection between the school in Hawaii, where Pogreba went to teach, and a board member of that school:

Here’s more on Roy Simperman from the Carroll College website:

In 1965, Roy married Diane Corette (now late), daughter of Jack and Sallie Corette, whose tireless efforts and personal donations led to the building of the Corette Library. The couple moved to Seattle, where Simperman went to work for Boeing, coding and calculating trajectories for NASA lunar orbiter computer simulations, creating software for NASA mission navigation and guidance control, and working on a fusing system for a nuclear warhead in a missile. He later worked at Weyerhaeuser Timber, where he initially designed and developed a computer simulation to model the forestry program from genetics to timber harvest, making the company more profitable. At just 35 years of age, Roy was then placed in charge of the largest division of its kind in the world with 29 facilities in seven states including all of Weyerhaeuser’s nurseries, greenhouses, orchards, seed plants, and their genetics program. In 1985, he purchased Audio Control, a manufacturer of equalizers and signal processors for audiophiles. He also bought a stock photography company which sold photos online before the Internet was widely known. Simperman’s work at the stock photo company led to the creation of his company, Semaphore, in 1994. In 2001, Simperman began dating Frances Rogers, owner of a successful printing business in Seattle; she and Roy co-designed their home in Hawaii and married in 2004.

When I checked the donor data I found that Roy Simperman financially supported Greg Gianforte for Governor in 2020. Interesting.

While nothing directly connects Alani Bankhead to the Simperman fortune, the geography and timing definitely has me wondering IF there might not be something more direct lurking in the dark money shadows that helped catapult Bankhead to her primary win as a relative unknown:

Alani Bankhead came from financial nowhere to win the Democratic Senate primary. She had $23,884 to campaign with, including a $5,000 loan.

Only 30% of voters knew who she was until a pop-up PAC spent $3.3 million on ads and even phone banking to get out the vote for Bankhead.

That kind of election lightning is unlikely to strike again in November, when the retired Air Force special agent goes up against two far-better-funded candidates. Independent Seth Bodnar and Republican Kurt Alme have each raised $2 million. The entire Democratic primary field combined had raised less than $325,000.

And the PAC that came to Bankhead’s rescue in the primary? Progressive Vet PAC has given no indication it will be supporting a Democratic candidate for Senate in the general election.

While Alani Bankhead downplayed this explosion of PAC money yesterday, flanked by women holding handmade signs promoting their political currency as victims, it remains to be seen if liberal women in Montana will emerge as the angry, vindictive spoilers Bankhead wants them to be. If they do, I hope they take Bodnar’s hot dog and mount it on the wall of their sexist clubhouse.

One final note before I end this post. Since Alani Bankhead said we’re in the “Epstein era” yesterday, I was prepared to ask her a question about whether or not she’s used the Epstein DOJ search bar function online to look up Montana connections, and my follow up was going to be whether or not she thought local media have done an adequate job bringing Epstein’s Big Sky connections to the surface.

Instead of posing my question to this controversial candidate, I had to quickly pack up my stuff and leave because, if I didn’t, the continued fallout from this toxic relationship means I would have risked being arrested.

As I’ve said before, lawfare is a real bitch.

Thanks for reading!

Last Monday two media guys made themselves available for City Club. Since I’m not allowed to cover City Club in person, or to even to write about the catering service they use, I guess I’ll just post the video for readers of this blog so you can see for yourself why local media is in such a deplorable state of SUCKING.

Matthew Frank told the audience that his publication, The Pulp, has eschewed political op-eds because they want to cover the kind of quirky stories that won’t make powerful people uncomfortable. That’s how I interpreted Frank’s proud reference to one of The Pulp’s most popular stories, a 2024 article about a man who picks up dog shit.

Since Matthew Frank and his colleague, Erika Fredrickson, do everything themselves, the picture of dog shit in a bright pink bag accompanying this hard-hitting piece of journalism was taken by Frank himself. Amazing!

After the City Club event, one of the “social media” platforms the two media guys scapegoated for their contracting industry posted about Missoula’s need for investigative journalism.

Here’s one of the comments I found worth highlighting:

According to “Rocky Missoula” there is no investigative journalist in town “worth mentioning” and any future reporter, says Rocky, should be an outsider who should “only intend to live here a short period” because, the assertion goes, only an aggressive outsider will lack the fear that holds back local reporters from asking the “hard questions”.

Ok. But would an outsider be able to put a seemingly random commenter on Facebook into the narrative-control context she deserves?

Who is Sue Reber Orr? Six years ago, during a tense Zoom meeting about homelessness, Sue acted like she was just an average resident of Orchard Homes instead of what she REALLY was at the time: a Democrat operative helping people like United Way’s Susan Hay Patrick do narrative damage control.

Sue Orr’s husband is ALSO someone I’ve become familiar with, since his law firm, Orr McDonnell Law, employed the substitute judge who helped kick-off the years of lawfare I’ve been dealing with ever since ending a toxic relationship that nearly ended me.

In a Democrat document available online, Sue Orr’s name is listed along with another name I’ve written about, Lisa Davey, who works at a non-profit called “Common Good Missoula”. I guess Common Good Missoula isn’t too worried about that pesky IRS restriction on non-profits engaging in political activity.

Considering Lisa Davey’s political role with Missoula County Democrats, her other work exploiting teens for the climate agenda, for example, appears even more shady and legally dubious, but saying anything more about THAT topic could put ME in legal jeopardy because of who is involved.

Does Lisa Davey and Susan Orr really want an aggressive investigative journalist asking tough questions about serious issues, like openly wondering if there’s something connecting all the clumsy women in Missoula who “accidentally” drown, including my co-worker, Leah Hartley?

No, I don’t think they do, and I have the figurative legal scars and empty bank account that proves (at least to me) how much this town DOES NOT WANT their own biases and narrative blindspots challenged.

To further make my case about what Missoula needs and doesn’t need regarding information and transparency, it should be noted that investigative journalists have come to Missoula in order to make media products for wider public consumption. Too bad both Jon Krakauer’s Rape book and Connie Walker’s Stolen podcast relied heavily on THIS Guy for their narrative.

Asking tough questions at this point in our country’s 250 year history means taking information that’s already available about the Epstein class and using that information, like I have done, to make uncomfortable connections regardless of what those connections indicate, which is that BOTH political parties and almost ALL our criminal justice jurisdictions are deeply compromised.

If you’d like to help support THIS investigative citizen journalist, I’ll be at a brewery this Friday for an informal meet and greet where I will be able to explain some of the stuff I’m currently working on and NOT able to write about yet, so stay tuned!

And, as always, thanks for reading.

on day fourteen of Galactic June 
behold the rise of claw and gate 
who left the womb upon a blood moon?
what rough beast ripped open fate?

life is like a box of rockets 
on polymarket, where you make your bet 
will it blow or hit sky water?
you never know if it's hot or wet 

should I worry about James Franco?
and the code for monster/child?
on day twelve the 'Berg goes bingo!
disclosure boners sure make them smile 

Yeats, my mate, we have an answer 
a wormhole, butthole, Grey named Lam
prancing like a killer Unicorn 
born from a cut of Kosher ham 

O, dear God, a praying mantis 
from Atlantis will referee 
I'm no fan of Galactic showdowns 
but I'd like to get to day fifteen!

After yesterday’s post about the sudden interest the hacktivist group, Anonymous, is showing Missoula, today’s post will explore what this attention might mean for our retarded liberal mountain college town.

Over a decade ago Missoula was in the grips of a rape scandal that Jon Krakauer documented in his book, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. To show how Missoula’s scandal helped inform a national conversation, Time/CIA Magazine covered this story in 2014.

Nestled at the base of a mountain in the northern Rockies, the University of Montana in Missoula is one of the nation’s most picturesque campuses and home to nearly 15,000 students. Since its founding in 1893, the school has produced 28 Rhodes scholars. Notable alumni include former Senator Mike Mansfield and All in the Family star Carroll O’Connor. The university’s football team, the Grizzlies, has turned out a slew of NFL stars. It is, in short, the kind of place that makes its alumni cheer and serves as a symbol of pride throughout the state.

But something changed for Missoula on May 1, 2012, when Thomas Perez came to town. Perez, then the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, stood before a press conference to announce a federal investigation into the university, city police and county attorney. “In order to learn, all students must feel safe and must feel supported,” Perez told the gathering. There was a problem in Missoula: “In the past three years, there have been at least 80 reported rapes.” Practically overnight, Missoula went from being the home of one of the nation’s most respected public universities to a place where young women were victimized in horrible, violent attacks–or, as news coverage began describing it, “America’s rape capital.”

Around this same time “Anonymous” entered the fray and used a trio of alleged rapes in other states to elevate their organizational influence. These excerpts come from the book I cited in yesterday’s post:

The Stuebenville, Ohio case resulted in arrests and convictions, while the case in Missouri, initially not charged as a crime, did get charged after Anonymous brought attention to it.

For more context on the Missouri case, this is from Wikipedia:

In January 2012, a 17-year-old boy from Maryville, Missouri was arrested for the rape and sexual assault of Coleman, then 14. A 15-year-old boy was accused of doing the same to Coleman’s 13-year-old friend, and a third boy admitted to recording the assault on a cellphone. A significant controversy arose in 2013 when the county prosecutor dropped felony and misdemeanor charges against the first boy, Matthew Barnett, who was related to Rex Barnett, an influential former state representative, and the Nodaway County prosecutor Robert Rice dropped the felony sexual exploitation charge against the third boy. Robert Rice was soon afterward appointed as a Judge in Nodaway County, the same county he threw out the case in.

Outrage in online communities, including Anonymous, soon followed when the story surrounding this case was revisited in October 2013. Michael Schaffer, reporting on the incident for The New Republic, described Maryville, Missouri as a “lawless hellhole”. In 2014, a special prosecutor was put in charge to reinvestigate the case. The boy pleaded guilty to misdemeanor second-degree endangerment of the welfare of a child for leaving her outside her house, and was sentenced by Missouri Circuit Court Judge Glen Dietrich to four months in jail that were suspended in favor of two years of probation. He was sentenced in juvenile court for the assault.

Did the national attention, prodded by Anonymous, ultimately help Daisy Coleman? That’s debatable. On August 4th, 2020, Daisy Coleman committed suicide. Four months later her mother followed suit. That doesn’t sound like successful “help” to me.

In 2016 “Anonymous” targeted a California town for attempting to manage its homeless problem. Considering how some hacktivists lived similar lives to those on the street, this shift was predictable and matched the increasing attention from national media platforms on the issue of chronic homelessness and rampant drug culture.

The city of Sacramento, Calif., is at the center of a video warning presumably posted by the hacker group Anonymous regarding an anti-camping ordinance aimed at the homeless Jan. 6.

In the roughly three-minute video, shown below, a masked figure claiming to represent the group said the city would face the “formidable talents” of its hackers unless the ordinance disallowing camping in public spaces was reconsidered.

Though the reported cases of Anonymous targeting local governments are relatively few, cities and counties nationwide have experienced similar threats over the last few years: In November of 2013, a Missouri town was singled out for the way it handled the rape investigation of two teenage girls; in December of 2014, the city of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.’s website was targeted due to laws passed around homeless behavior; and in mid-May of 2015, the Hancock County, Miss., Department of Human Services was included among threats made by the group as it pushed for reform in child protection agencies and family courts.

A lengthy New Yorker profile on a “masked avenger” with Daddy issues exemplifies the type of origin story common to the digital vigilante LARP scene and, really, any youthful inclination to rebel:

In the mid-nineteen-seventies, when Christopher Doyon was a child in rural Maine, he spent hours chatting with strangers on CB radio. His handle was Big Red, for his hair. Transmitters lined the walls of his bedroom, and he persuaded his father to attach two directional antennas to the roof of their house. CB radio was associated primarily with truck drivers, but Doyon and others used it to form the sort of virtual community that later appeared on the Internet, with self-selected nicknames, inside jokes, and an earnest desire to effect change.

Doyon’s mother died when he was a child, and he and his younger sister were reared by their father, who they both say was physically abusive. Doyon found solace, and a sense of purpose, in the CB-radio community. He and his friends took turns monitoring the local emergency channel. One friend’s father bought a bubble light and affixed it to the roof of his car; when the boys heard a distress call from a stranded motorist, he’d drive them to the side of the highway. There wasn’t much they could do beyond offering to call 911, but the adventure made them feel heroic.

…

At the age of fourteen, he ran away from home, and two years later he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, a hub of the emerging computer counterculture. The Tech Model Railroad Club, which had been founded thirty-four years earlier by train hobbyists at M.I.T., had evolved into “hackers”—the first group to popularize the term. Richard Stallman, a computer scientist who worked in M.I.T.’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the time, says that these early hackers were more likely to pass around copies of “Gödel, Escher, Bach” than to incite technological warfare. “We didn’t have tenets,” Stallman said. “It wasn’t a movement. It was just a thing that people did to impress each other.” Some of their “hacks” were fun (coding video games); others were functional (improving computer-processing speeds); and some were pranks that took place in the real world (placing mock street signs near campus). Michael Patton, who helped run the T.M.R.C. in the seventies, told me that the original hackers had unwritten rules and that the first one was “Do no damage.”

In Cambridge, Doyon supported himself through odd jobs and panhandling, preferring the freedom of sleeping on park benches to the monotony of a regular job. In 1985, he and a half-dozen other activists formed an electronic “militia.” Echoing the Animal Liberation Front, they called themselves the Peoples Liberation Front. They adopted aliases: the founder, a towering middle-aged man who claimed to be a military veteran, called himself Commander Adama; Doyon went by Commander X. Inspired by the Merry Pranksters, they sold LSD at Grateful Dead shows and used some of the cash to outfit an old school bus with bullhorns, cameras, and battery chargers. They also rented a basement apartment in Cambridge, where Doyon occasionally slept.

If out-of-state hacktivists hiding behind anonymity are successful in bringing attention to a homeless couple getting allegedly roughed up by local cops in Missoula, my hunch is it will be a simple narrative of COPS BAD, while the homeless couple will be depicted as faultless victims of circumstance.

To complicate simple narratives–which only exist in make-believe land where masked avengers exist–let’s conclude by looking at a local article about helping a homeless couple from the Missoula Current.

Kimberley reaches the bottom floor of an age-restricted residential facility in Missoula before explaining her husband’s condition – how he had a brain tumor removed many years before and still struggles with memory and speech.

In their apartment, William sits barefoot in a chair and quietly says hello. Three cats wander curiously around feet and legs when the couple begins their story of homelessness and the endless travel that brought them to Montana – first Dillon, then Butte and finally Missoula.

“Butte didn’t have any resources for us,” said Kimberly, who asked that their last name not be used for safety reasons. “Him being a veteran, they recommended we come to Missoula. We were living in a motel here.”

Who cares if Montana has a dangerously-thin “safety net” for drifters who show up somewhere in Big Sky country then, inevitably, get sent to Missoula because places like Butte “didn’t have any resources” for William and his old lady, Kim, who we later learn had a sex offender living with her and her children.

William served in the U.S. Army in the 1980s working supply at the motorpool. Like some veterans, however, he struggled to find direction after leaving the service and lived for a time with his aunt, followed by his stepmother and father.

But soon he found steady employment with Walmart where he met Kimberly, who was also employed by Walmart as a cashier. Things were good and they helped each other out.

“I was in a hard position at that point,” said Kimberly. “He gave me an opportunity to make things a little easier for myself and my children. I had a man but he was not the kind of man a woman would want. He was a violent man and a sex offender.”

In what will probably amount to nothing but a dumb attempt to educate “Anonymous” about Missoula, I have reached out to the email address provided in the video yesterday and am currently going back and forth with whoever is behind the Guy Fawkes mask this time, so stay tuned to see what we, as a retarded liberal mountain college town, might be able to expect from this new hacktivist attention.

Thanks for reading!