by William Skink
Perusing my usual conspiracy haunts brings me back, one more time, to look at the Bernie Sanders Seattle disruption.
After a reactionary jab at the (mostly) angry white progressives, then a jab at the predictable Soros scapegoating, I’m exploring the rat-fucking trial balloon possibility of Cointelpro tactics being deployed against Bernie.
While the ubiquitous Soros smear seemed weak and perfunctory, this new wrinkle is more specific and technical. It builds on the BLM co-optation angle mentioned in my last post, derived the from the two agitators identification with a group called Outside Agitators 206. Not mentioned in the last post is the odd “former support” by the activist Marissa Jenae Johnson of Sarah Palin. Johnson also still refers to herself as a “radical Christian”.
At issue is the provenance of an IP address. My understanding of this is terrible, so I’ll leave it to the more technically minded to grapple with the implications:
But what specifically does Outside Agitators 206 stand for? Well, here is a public statement that doesn’t appear to hold the same goals as the larger #BLM movement. This is the relevant text of that statement:
To succeed, the Black Lives Matter Movement must transform the politics of Black America. By definition, that means declaring war on the Democratic Party, and forcing Black politicians and activists to choose between the Party and the people’s struggle.
As usual, the Democrats will try to make Black people more angry at the terminally racist Republican Party than at the police and local administration of their (typically) Democrat-run city. Hillary Clinton is already making noises of empathy with Blacks suffering under the urban police state. However, the Black Lives Matter movement has no institutional stake in the victory of either party, but is, in fact, locked in mortal political struggle with other Black people in the Democratic Party. These Black Democrats will insist on a truce, a cessation of agitation against national or local Democrats, until after the election.
In a recent interview, at about the 29 minute mark, Johnson seems to echo this sentiment by stating, “We actually need to keep pushing people to dismantle the system.” The larger question then is are these the genuine sentiments of quasi-anarchists or the underhanded machinations of agent provocateurs? Actually, it could be a combination of both: genuinely committed activists being manipulated by operatives with a vastly different agenda. The answer may lie in the quest that Deep Throat gave to Bob Woodward in All the President’s Men: follow the money. Are there any powerful interests that stand to lose billions during a Sanders administration connected with Outside Agitators 206? I’d like to thank alwyn from Rigorous Intuition (and Project Willow for posting the image) for posting what friend Lassiter Jones found through a traceroute of their IP address and a check of the ownership on cqcounter.com which revealed it was owned by Merck and Co.
There is some back and forth on what the date Merck and Co. relinquished the IP address means (April 22nd, 2015), made more confusing by an apparent back-dated social calendar on the website going back to February of 2015.
None of this is very conclusive, but one implication, at least to me, seems apparent: Bernie is making some deep pockets very nervous.
And that is a very good thing.