by Travis Mateer
On Saturday, April 27th, a memorial was held for Jane Rectenwald, so I went to pay my respects to the person I called THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN in Montana.
Jane passed away on January 5th, exactly four years after Sean Stevenson was euthanized by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office at St. Patrick’s hospital. Sean was allegedly assaulted by just one man, Johnny Lee Perry, in the men’s dorm of the homeless shelter where I used to work. Johnny was ALSO killed by the Sheriff’s Office, just two weeks after I posted footage of him making threats toward law enforcement. Yeah.
Sean was born in Pittsburgh, but until the memorial, I didn’t know that Jane was raised in Pittsburgh as well. Here’s her brief bio:
Jane was the type of person who couldn’t ignore wrongs when she discovered them, and that’s what made her dangerous. But this weekend I got a reminder that there’s something MUCH MORE dangerous for those who have power and are doing everything they can to keep it, and that’s the ability to LAUGH and to KEEP LAUGHING, despite the depressing fact that 4 years ago the Covid fear campaign decimated the cognitive abilities of previously sentient human beings.
Informed consent? Yeah, like liberty, it’s a quaint notion that had to be jettisoned to do funny things, like social distancing. Remember that absurdity?
I didn’t see much evidence of sentience at the University of Montana yesterday as Missoula said HELLO to Donny Junior, but thankfully I did see quite a few smiles as some local artists (myself included) used our talents to give Donny a PROPER greeting.
What’s a proper greeting, you might be wondering? Well, yesterday it included a saxophonist in a ski mask, an amplified operative with an ear-piece reporting on suspicious protestor activity, and a guy claiming to be representing “time-travelers for Trump”. It was glorious!
Also, it wasn’t reported, because WHY would any local media report on weirdos doing funny shit as all the SERIOUS protestors did their predictable BITCH AND MOAN routine? Yeah, weirdoes being funny doesn’t fit the lazy narrative that stokes anger, thus instigating DIVIDE AND CONQUER actions from well-meaning idiots who can’t see beyond their collective nose, so I’m not surprised our antics were ignored.
Lucky for my Zoom Chron audience, I’m not your typical local media, which is why MY efforts continue to be focused on identifying and breaking local narrative control wherever I find it strangling truth, and these days that’s pretty much everywhere. Here’s my quick report from the parking lot of the University of Montana:
I finished off the weekend giving an interview where I dispensed some of the truth I’m dealing in relations to the broken criminal justice system and the limits now placed on me that restricts where I can go and what I can say about certain things.
First amendment? Yeah, that’s another quaint notion we, as a society, don’t seem to have the LUXURY of supporting anymore.
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