Watching the watchers and reporting on the reporters isn’t something to build a lucrative content-creating gig on, or even a side-gig really, especially when you’re as ahead of the times as I was with bringing attention to the phenomenon now called “urban camping”. This article from last year, for example, is a good example of my coverage, but just providing a hyper-link to it now has me worried. Why? Because of the chilling effect that comes with being contacted by your probation officer because this post supposedly skirts the line of my legal sentencing conditions.
On the “reporting on the reporters” front, two Pacific Northwest homeless camp content creators have teamed up, a union I’m not surprised to see since I included BOTH their names in this post from March. Now they’re cross-posting on X.
Choe, who I tried getting an interview with a few years ago, works for the Discovery Institute, co-founded by a dude who once did police work for Reagan. Yes, that would be the same President who de-institutionalized America, a decision many credit with being a big factor in getting us to where we are today.
Closer to home, a fatal collision outside the Poverello Center, the homeless shelter I worked at for 7 years, sounds like a possible case of deliberate vehicular homicide, though the 33 year old assailant, Jeffrey Ryan Hill, is only facing negligent homicide charges after being arrested yesterday. If the Facebook profile I perused earlier is the same person, it appears Jeffrey might have a history of drug abuse.
While Trump made news with his July 24th wand-waving spectacle, my skepticism bordering on cynicism stems from a question I asked for nearly a decade: WHERE IS THE ACTUAL HELP GOING TO COME FROM?
Eventually Missoula will have the rock-star of meth recovery, Ginny Burton, coming to town for a visit and, when she does, I’m excited to get on the record again about WHY this town’s first “10 Year Plan To End Homelessness” failed.
That is, unless my bathroom judge tells me the first amendment still doesn’t apply to me right now.
If you waste precious moments of your life on social media like many of us do, you may have heard about Nazi jeans–or should I say GENES! Because we all know *wink, wink* what American Eagle Outfitters is REALLY up to by platforming boobs with blonde hair, right?
To contrast this culture of victimhood–which seems to have had a tremendously negative impact on perceptions, especially those of liberal white women–here’s a story about how MULTIPLE Sheriff personnel recently piled onto a young man who is in the long process of getting chewed up by the criminal justice system.
From the link:
On June 30, Owens attended a court hearing regarding his psychiatric commitment. Both Schade and Graybill said they were waiting outside the courtroom when Owens was brought out, handcuffed and in chains. According to their accounts, Owens was agitated, shouting and cursing, but posed no physical threat.
“They push him to the other side of the corridor, slam him up against the wall, they’ve got their hands around his throat… just body slammed him onto the ground, arms on his neck, pinning him,” Schade said. “He was yelling, ‘You’re hurting me.’ I couldn’t watch anymore.”
Earlier in the article this same family member acknowledged that other programs didn’t exhibit the dumb brutality of the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office, a distinction I doubt this young man will internalize after the trauma wears off.
Schade spoke highly of previous encounters with law enforcement dealing with Owens. Highlighting the experiences with crisis teams including the Mobile Support Team and Missoula Crisis Intervention Team.
“Mobile Crisis was out at our house three, four times,” Schade said. “They were so kind and talked James into getting help, but he kept checking himself out and eventually couldn’t live with me anymore.”
When you understand, like I do, that different jurisdictions are, well, DIFFERENT, and when you know local history like I do, for example recalling how the Sheriff’s Office NEVER received the same scrutiny from the Department of Justice over a decade ago regarding the rape scandal that led to Jon Krakauer’s book, then it’s not surprising to hear that some POLICE-led programs have seen an evolution when it comes to addressing mental illness, while the Sheriff’s Office remains stuck like stupid dinosaurs in the tarpit of their own dangerous incompetencies.
This image makes me think, would I be treated differently if I was part T-Rex, or would I be discriminated against?
A video making the rounds on the social medias (and getting criticized by women for being unfair to women because it ONLY talks about women when it was apparently more than women who participated in some study) is worth considering when it comes to the culture of victimhood that truly is a threat to ALL of us.
The REAL threat, though, is NOT specific cultural trends, but the reduced brain activity emerging from the use of AI-driven technology platforms. The recent study that should alarm EVERYONE, especially parents, must be a part of the equation for how we survive what the billionaire psychopaths have unleashed on us.
While the nerd-dorks at MIT inform us that our brains are literally becoming retarded, Fortune magazine is sad a “mentor to women” was murdered for being a corporate raider of single-family homes. If anything I’d say the death of Wesley LePatner is what equality means when you’re waging a class war against the poors for globalist child-fuckers.
At just 43, LePatner had risen to become global head of Core+ real estate and CEO of the $70 billion Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust, a role she took on this past January after serving as COO. A Goldman Sachs alum who worked in the firm’s real estate investment group, she joined Blackstone in 2014.
Earlier in this article the death of LePatner was referred to as “senseless”. Um, no, it actually makes perfect sense why people are snapping and why some might see corporations that profit obscenely on market-capture as legitimate targets.
I mean, c’mon, it’s not like this guy was targeting starving civilians in an open-air concentration camp or something, ya feel me?
Anyway, to summarize, NO ONE should allow instances of being a real victim to solidify into a core part of their identity, because, if you do, then that’s all you’ll be, and there’s nothing more boring than the bleating sound of a victim-loop coming from a retarded, social-media-reduced brain.
I know political tribalism is a fiercely defended component of our current political system, but a flowchart I saw recently on X provides a great visual example of what actually catalyzes political change in individual lives. Spoiler: it’s NOT the rational analysis that comes with comparing and contrasting abstract political ideologies.
For me, kids were definitely a factor in my own shift in political thinking, but not as much as working at a homeless shelter for 7 years. More than anything else, it was seeing the absolute failure of Missoula’s non-profit sector, along with collusion coming from certain bad-faith actors in authority, that changed my stance toward a lot of issues that have national reach from local roots.
Yesterday I tried taking a simple bike ride and, because of where I live, that meant crossing the river by using the California Street bridge, the one where Clay Salcido was viciously stomped to death by two drunk teenagers. Before getting to the bridge I heard someone yelling, so I took out my phone and recorded a short clip. The yelling you’re about to hear continued long after I stopped recording, and could be heard from the other side of the river.
After getting downtown the sound of mental illness was replaced by the sound of sirens. Why?
Apparently a street character I’ve become familiar with this summer was having some kind of medical issue, and these types of call generally include the trifecta of law enforcement, private EMTs, and public firefighters. After taking him away, I saw this guy back in the exact same location just hours later, hassling some day drinkers outside Al and Vics for a cigarette (to be fair, he was going to pay a dollar for one).
I’m going to include an image of this dude since we don’t get mugshot pics anymore because his behavior has been VERY aggressive, including starting a physical fight at the XXXXs, then getting arrested after going up to people eating outside the Iron Horse and spitting in their food.
I heard recently how much my former employer, the Poverello Center, detests what I’ve turned into after the combined failure of their “help”, along with the Sheriff’s Office’s involvement, in the euthanization of Sean Stevenson and the murder of Lee Nelson, who was targeted by Charles Covey while Lee was staying at the shelter.
It’s no secret that addiction and mental illness can be factors that increase the risk of violence, so it’s not surprising that ANOTHER brutal assault occurred on the property of the Johnson Street Shelter, which is overseen by my former employer until it finally gets shut down next month. Here’s an excerpt from the media platform that regularly reports on these acts of violence, KGVO:
Multiple officers began reviewing the surveillance video, which captured the entire incident. It appears that Doe is exchanging words with Lockyer from across the parking lot, who was wearing, at that time, a light brown baseball cap, a white short-sleeve button-up shirt with the buttons undone, a black undershirt, and blue jeans. Officers noted that Lockyer was not presently wearing the white short-sleeved button-up or the light brown baseball cap.
The surveillance then captures Lockyer punching Doe in the face multiple times. Lockyer then gets on Doe’s back and places his arm around his neck. Lockyer uses his other hand to grab his arm and continues to pull backwards in a rear-naked choke. Both parties fall to the ground and lie between the building and a concrete parking curb.
Lockyer continues to hold Doe in the choke until Doe passes out. Lockyer is captured letting go of the choke, and he proceeds to punch or elbow Doe in the head multiple times while he is already unconscious.
Doe’s body then turns towards the parking curb, and Lockyer positions his body on top of Doe’s upper torso and head. Doe’s body then appears to go into a full seizure and starts convulsing on the ground next to the parking curb. Other people begin walking towards Doe, and Lockyer gets up and walks away.
With all this local context in mind, how is Trump going to move the needle on his July 24th Executive Order, which opens up like this:
With so little in terms of actual programmatic help for hardcore street addicts in Montana, I struggle to see how an executive decree will do a goddamn thing about what decades of failure have allowed to metastasize across the country.
In the retarded petri-dish of Missoula, I suspect the arrival of winter will do more than anything a president can do to shield citizens from the visible evidence of our national failure, and beyond that I don’t think there will be any real discernible impact from Trump’s executive action. I hope I’m wrong.
25 years ago this month the police chief I spoke with at the Clark Fork Market less than two weeks ago was justifying the heavy police presence he oversaw—a militarized show of force by “law enforcement” which led to a riotous response by local citizens by week’s end. For those old enough to remember this time period, Missoula’s riot occurrred not long after the big citizen action against the World Trade Organization in Seattle.
When the Ferguson riots broke out 11 years ago, I reflected on Missoula’s experience with militarized police in this post at 4&20 Blackbirds, highlighting Chief Pete’s use of the word TROOPS to describe our taxpayer-funded law enforcers. Here’s the part of Pete’s description that I quoted from the video documentary about Missoula’s little riot:
“…we backed off, pulled out troops out of the Freont Street area…”
More recently America witnessed a much less organic attempt at rioting in Los Angeles and other cities as strategically deployed immigration chaos grabbed headlines. And, like in Missoula, the Sheriff in Los Angeles didn’t hesitate to accurately describe the nature of his badges:
I want to compliment Jim McDonnell and the LAPD. They have been doing a great job. It’s very frustrating to have the President of the United States sit in the Oval Office and talk about how he saved the officers in L.A. That is frustrating to our front-line troops at both the sheriff’s department and the LAPD.
Instead of being frustrated, like Sheriff Bob and Poice Chief Jim, I’m alarmed. Why? Because, despite paying VERY CLOSE attention to so many things over the years, I clearly missed the continuity of thought coming from the leadership of law enforcement that they’ve been engaged, AS TROOPS, in an undeclared war against the citizenry of the United States of America for a quarter of a century.
If you assume I’ve always been this critical and oppositional to the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office, specifically, and the role of the Sheriff, more generally, you would be wrong. In fact, the same year I wrote the post on Ferguson (2014) I ALSO was helping local law enforcement identify a killer, a strange and disturbing experience you can read about in this post (2023).
Before I get to the humorous part of this post about an “opportunity” I recently envisioned and shared last week with County Commissioners for the new location of the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office, I want take another quick look at LA where a training facility for the Sheriff’s Office recently blew up, killing three detectives. Here’s the latest news on this lethal incident:
A grenade is missing from the scene of an explosion at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility that killed three members of its arson and explosives unit, authorities said Friday.
At the time of the July 18 blast, the veteran deputies were working on two “military-style” grenades that had been taken into custody by authorities. One of the grenades detonated, and the other is unaccounted for, Sheriff Robert Luna said, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The agency is investigating the explosion and is expected to publish a final report in 45 days.
Closer to home, Missoula County Sheriff personnel are settling into their new location on Mullan Road, a location which affords them a more strategic type of terrain to defend. That’s because this new location has a natural moat called the Clark Fork River, a nice barrier that will make being surrounded by torches and pitchforks less threatening than it would were our “Shire-Reeve” occupiers to get themselves surrounded inside the courthouse downtown.
While this round of tax-increases hasn’t put property owners into the streets (yet), I thought the quality of my idea was worth immediately sharing with the elected officials who allegedly control the coin-purse of the Sheriff’s Office. And what is this good idea, you ask? An AI-powered CORPSE CAM, of course!
Here’s my comment, which I recorded myself last Thursday to avoid the lag-time of waiting for the County to upload the video to YouTube:
While this idea might seem a bit harsh, I think it might appeal to those who are already putting this idea into practice, just WITHOUT the cameras! If we add the power of AI, well, just imagine the possibilities! We could ensure that only the MOST IMPORTANT corpses take up the precious resources that our “troops” need to fight the larger war by having AI assess all the things we value as a society, like Instagram likes and the demographic characteristics that allows one to claim victim status.
Right now one of the biggest problems I see is the confusion locals have about this war, and that’s understandable. The vast majority of citizens across the country allow their realities to bifurcated into LEFT and RIGHT, and that leads to all kinds of problems for BOTH sides of this big con.
While the right deals with the cognitive dissonance of the Epstein file distraction, the left in Missoula–through the retarded facade of the “Peace Center–is starting to put up signs in their windows for ICE. Have a look at this new level of virtue-signaling idiocy:
Asserting Constitutional Rights? You mean, like the first amendment I thought I had until *CONTENT REMOVED BY DECREE OF MISSOULA COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE* that collude with corrupt Sheriff personnel who have the power to euthanize and execute black men in our liberal utopia?
This week I’ll be taking a few more reflective trips down memory lane to highlight why I’ve been in a 5 year information war against our local narrative controllers, and what it’s cost me. There are videos no longer available because of my financial situation, there’s that podcast I shut down, my marriage which fell apart, and so many other fun examples of the scapegoat services I’ve offered this town so the virtue signalers on one end of the political spectrum can post their stupid signs while the bitches with badges opposite them get to act like Wild West vigilantes.
Before I wrap this up I’d like to give a special shout-out to the young men I met on Friday as I was exercising that free speech thing our Constitution supposedly protects on the little patch of property we call Juggalo Island–the kudos and cash were very, VERY appreciated as I once again wonder how I’ll keep navigating the unceasing lawfare I’ve been dealing with since August of 2023 on the meager funds I get from the paid portion of my humiliation ritual.
I don’t think Mayor Davis expected to confirm the story I was working on regarding Detective Guy Baker’s alleged retirement and post-retirement plans, but that’s what happened yesterday after I exited an art gallery with a pocket full of Legos.
Since Detective Baker hasn’t formally announced his retirement to the media who helped shape–and will continue to shape–his legacy, I’m pretty honored to be the first out of the gates to get the ball rolling.
Before I get to my speculation on what Baker plans to do after retiring, I’ll remind readers it was less than a week ago that I spoke to Pete Lawrenson, the retired Police Chief who told me (as I threw shade on his white-hat boy) that he was the one responsible for hiring Guy Baker.
Lawrenson wasn’t happy about the stories that sounded “exaggerated” and “judgmental” to him. Well, it might come as a surprise to readers to read that I actually sympathize with Pete Lawrenson. Like Pete, I wasn’t happy about writing all the concerning posts I’ve written over the years about his cop buddy’s kid, like my close coverage of Lee Nelson’s murder and subsequent trial.
For an idea of what my citizen journalism has done to the Guy Baker legacy that paid content creators like Jon and Connie couldn’t even if they WERE locals, here’s a titles to peruse:
Ok, with that out of the way, what could Detective Baker be planning to stay busy, post-retirement? According to one of my sources, Detective Baker plans on becoming PI Baker! If true I can only hope Baker will be as cool as Ed Opperman, the PI who I interviewed in December of 2021. I even bought Ed’s book!
The reason this book suddenly became relevant is because the data point I previously reported regarding Baker’s black Escalade sporting IDAHO license plates suddenly makes sense to me when you know Idaho does NOT require a license to be a private investigator like other states do.
It’s a BIG responsibility being so early in reporting such fascinating and worrisome aspects of our local power structure, but with my Gonzo tendencies and artistic Lego flair, I do believe I have an ideal position in this community to continue doing what I’m doing, which you can see for yourself at the XXXXs on Friday. I even have a new poem to perform, so come on down if you’re a local and you LOVE free speech as much as I do!
