Once again, Wednesday, Alex Jones referred to the "event" that happened last month at the gun rights protest "Co-intel-pro."
A few weeks ago, I had spoke my mind about certain issues between myself and the person in question, Catherine Bleish. Catherine and her allies immediately went on the defensive, claiming to be the victims of my "vicious attacks."
I will not repeat the entire exchange here, nor bring up all the details of the bad blood, however, since then, this thing with Alex Jones has happened, along with the fallout thereof, and several people have been asking my opinion. They want to know if I think Catherine Bleish is Co-Intel-Pro.
First of all, my "vicious attack" was not against Liberty Restoration Project or Catherine Bleish, nor the wonderful things accomplished by either. I never attacked Catherine on a personal level, nor as an activist. Nor did I claim she was completely wrong in her criticisms of Ron Paul, Campaign for Liberty, and Alex Jones. It was a timing issue. I had kept my mouth shut about problems that I had with an unfortunate situation, and I've tried my best to "just move on."
However, the claim of Catherine and John that they wanted to "protect the movement from being misled" by the likes of a Ron Paul or Alex Jones, who were labled as treasonous and harmful, It was a calling that I had then the duty to mention some of the misleadings I had percieved in these critics only in their direction of "Leadership."
I only wish to offer a warning to those who wish to follow Catherine Bleish and John Bush.
Do the research. I left the LRP and Operation Defuse leadership at the beginning of December 2009. Before I left, I was going to volunteer to spearhead the Missouri Operation Defuse actions. In the 3 1/2 months since my initial intention to volunteer, I have recieved no less than three warnings about John Bush. I don't care enough about John to do the research on his backstory, but I've heard some gossip that does not surprise me.
As far as Catherine goes, let me point you to the collaborative projects Catherine has worked on over the past 3 years. Ask people she was involved with in her dealings with Rule of Law Radio, Revolution Broadcasting, Midwest Liberty Fest 2009, the Kansas City Ron Paul movement, the Saint Louis liberty movement, and Revolution March.
If you still aren't satisfied, let me take you on a journey of what I've seen in this infight, and how I percieve it, so that you will stop asking my opinion.
Fast forward to 11/22/2009. End the Fed rallies were being held across the country, Continental Congress 2009 was ending, and Alex Jones and Jason Bermas were doing their Sunday shows. To me, this is where the calls of "Co-Intel-Pro" and infighting began.
I got off of work and took a shower and headed to the KC Federal Reserve. I hosted a very successful rally, and went home to celebrate, before deciding to go to the KKFI (Kansas City public radio) studio to sit in with the overnight Monday morning host, Ben.
The next day, Catherine contacts me, I had spent the day posting videos from the KC rally, as she posts videos from the Chicago rally, that many members of Continental Congress attended (being the closest rally to the event). She starts telling me of how things broke down at the end of Continental Congress, and how she was trying to advocate civil disobedience, and was being called a "Provacatuer"
I listened to the podcast of the Sunday Jason Bermas "Infowarrior" show, and 2 people called in stating that there were provacatuers at CC2009, calling for people to break laws.
The only documentation I've seen to this day, of the actual arguments that happened, is a video from Brooke Kelly's "Puzzled" vlog, showing several older folks asking for more peaceful solutions and the younger persons being fired up against tyranny. One thing in this video stood out to me. John Bush dramatically giving a speech wearing handcuffs. It reminded me of Glenn Beck and his chalkboard. Anyone that needs a visual aid to get a point across must not believe that they are talking to adults with rational thought. But that's really my only personal criticism of John.
I can agree with Catherine's explanation that this was the idea of civil disobedience a la Rosa Parks, but I still have no solid proof that this was the spirit of the discussion.
The next week I start seeing things of Operation Defuse, around the same time the press reports that Missouri State Rep. Bob Dixon, chairman of the interim committee reviewing the practices of the fusion center states that "closing the MIAC center is off the table."
Which brings me back to why I "viciously attacked" Catherine in the first place. Again I want to attempt to show you that It's not Catherine as a person, or as an activist, nor the organization Liberty Restoration Project, that I'm against. It is the failed leadership strategies of Catherine when it became clear that the organization had grown to big for her, and at the same time she had grown to big for it.
I began immediately thinking strategy, and start to visualize a protest in Dixon's district in Springfield Missouri. I was told by Catherine and John that attacking the problem from the outside would be too great of a task, and that instead I should head up citizens committees where "oversight" alternatives could be offered up and draft legislation could be passed to the state legislature.
Let me show you why this is ironic by taking you back 9 months to when the MIAC story broke and explaining the birth of Operation Defuse and the background of the fusion center fight. It was the Alex Jones show that broke the story. So without the help of Infowars.com and a brave Missouri Law Enforcement official there would have been no fight for LRP to recieve national attention.
But the call for support is sent out, and America responded to our action plans. People called demanding a retraction, it was retracted...people called the tourism industry...next thing you know the head of MIAC was reassigned. We were making waves in the country in our quick response to this attack.
Then LRP broke the "Armies watch End The Fed Rallies" story, which Alex Jones jumped on and still harps on it, without "giving LRP any credit"
LRP was too busy at the time to act on the Army document because we were in full call to duty against the MIAC Militia report. We had taken multiple trips to Jefferson City to testify about Real ID, as Missouri was passing a repeal bill last session. During these trips, we confronted staff members in Governor Nixon's office for dodging the Sunshine Law (state level FOIA) requests and for not responding when requests for a meeting with the governor were requested. You can find two of these videos on YouTube, the second of which we were escorted out by MO Highway Patrol (Governor's Security detail) and Catherine states "We'll be back with a lawyer" as the camera fades. We never returned to the Governor's office. LRP did not get the Sunshine documents until late December, and there was never anything more said about a meeting with the Governor.
June 10th the Missouri State Legislature started hearings on state intelligence gathering (in other words, they wanted to look like they were taking care of the problems MIAC caused) Catherine testified at all 4 hearings, I testified at two of them, and in the meantime, I was hosting street actions and events in Kansas City, while Catherine was working on Midwest Liberty Fest and doing speaking engagements at Jekyll Island, Freedom 21, Porcfest, and various Tea Parties in the Saint Louis area, as well as appearing in the documentary "Camp Fema".
Shortly after the release of "Camp Fema," (I can't remember the date) Catherine called into Alex Jones' show on a day where Alex was repeating the whole show how depressed he was, and how bad things are. She talked about how the Missouri Legislature is waking up to the Constitution and are beginning to understand the 10th Amendment and how the MIAC issue is a federalism problem. Alex examined this in the same way I did, that if the State kicked out the Federal Government, the feds would just work through the local levels to get to the databases maintained by the state, and kind of talked down to her for being a bit gullible when told by government to have hope.
During Freedom 21 Catherine and I begin talking about different strategies for a Veto Session protest. Ideas were thrown out to call for 10th Amendment resolutions and to call out Governor Nixon to respond to the grassroots. During this event, Catherine and I were consistantly at odds with each other, but this was one thing we both could get behind.
During that weekend, she told me that she didn't see much point in Federal Reserve rallies. She told me that I should trust the Neocons in the tea party movement because they were waking up to our way of thinking.
I began advertising for this grand State Capitol rally, and I eventually took hell for doing so, Catherine had a better idea, to join with the 10th Amendment Center to join their rally, so I was wrong for going out on my own and promoting our own thing that wasn't going to happen.
So we weren't going to call out the Governor. In fact that battle was completely dead. Nixon was essentially "Off Limits" as far as LRP was concerned.
Here's a Governor who had 5 scandals in his first 6 months in office, and we were told to back off. So, the 10th Amendment thing wasn't a total waste...although I chose not to attend after the previous drama.
They lobbied several legislators and Catherine had talks with several persons associated with Bob Dixon and incumbent republicans. They expected her to cowtow to the Republican party line if she wanted any support for real 10th Amendment issues, and insulted Ron Paul to her.
Then the End The Fed and CC2009 happened and the rest is history.
So imagine my surprise when John and Catherine, on a conference call, months later, tell me that "protesting Bob Dixon isn't a solution."
So don't go after the Governor whose name is on the documents, and don't go after the Chairman of the whitewash committee.
This is just one example of one ongoing project where I have had questions about Catherine's leadership capabilities.....I wouldn't say my dealings have enough for me to call her Co-Intel-Pro but I previously outligned LRP's 2009 Action Plan and the failures within, and she responded by saying we were too busy fighting MIAC to do most of it, and the rest was my fault for not picking up her projects when she left KC.
The question I still have to this day is where did the Donations go? We fundraised like a mofo to try to get a house....then we fundraised like a mofo in the name of getting more sunshine and FOIA requests, and when neither of those happened, we were once again asked to fundraise for Operation Defuse.
When I proceeded with my examination, she then shifted the focus onto my motives for questioning her. She claimed that I was doing this because "She rejected my advancements towards her." You have to understand that Catherine and I were very close in each other's lives for the past year. Often closer than my wife and her boyfriends when it came to the passion of fighting for our freedoms. She began putting my wife down, along with her boyfriends. She told me that I "...needed a woman in the movement who understands me." She constantly compared me to other men in the movement, so when my wife and I went through a rough time and split up, and she was talking about her reasons for leaving Kansas City for opportunities in Saint Louis and stated that if she could find those things at home, she did not want to move. Specifically, a new boyfriend who "gets" her, $100/month rent, and the ability to start new LRP chapters. With LRP KC already in disarray, and my attraction to her style of civil disobedience, along with the advice that I should find a woman with passion, yes, I did make a pass at her. But I would NEVER let my love life affect an organization that I worked for a year and a half to improve and streamline. In the very words of Catherine "I don't shit where I sleep."
In the eruption of criticism also criticized Josh, her beau during much of this madness, now her ex, for similar motives, which I can neither confirm nor deny.
However, Catherine is a person who claims to operate on the principal that people "agree with" her decisions.
At the time of the Operation Defuse launch, which was apparently birthed out of the Alliance she made with John during CC2009, I had no clue of Catherine's immediate plans. Josh was against the idea of a southwest US speaking tour, which she dismissed as jealousy of John.
So, she worked against one of her organization's area director's wishes, and didn't even discuss it with the other area director until fundraising was beginning. Motives or not, I can provide example after example as to how LRP was never "grassroots" nor operated through agreement with her decisions.
But what of her motives? These examples do not provide my opinion on why she would act this way? Is she really Co-Intel-Pro or not?
She attacks Ron Paul and Alex Jones two weeks after a report by Cass Sunstein is released calling for infiltration and infighting of "conspiracy groups."
Again, not enough for me to call "Co-Intel-Pro" but why else?
Well Ron Paul backed out of the campaign, calling for a grand march on Washington DC. Catherine began mobilizing people toward Revolution March.....while Ron Paul was telling people to buy tickets to Rally for the Republic. The Grassroots Campaign tried to get Dr. Paul a speaking slot at the RNC Convention.....Ron again was worried more about Rally for the Republic.
Catherine and I tried to get people to understand the complexity of MIAC and the Army End The Fed report. But usually it was just broken down by Alex Jones' constant focus on how he broke the Militia Report and how He was the one being watched at the End The Fed rallies.
When Catherine tried to cheer Alex up during a bad show, he marginalized her as gullible.
Catherine looked up to the top two figures of the movement and they disrespected her hard work. I'd say their actions in January finally pushed Catherine over the edge.
I'd say if anyone had a personal grudge against the people they were criticizing, it would be her.
Again, I wouldn't say she's "Co-Intel-Pro" but I don't know enough about John to say either way. I find it very odd that the beginning of their alliance was muddled with calls of provocatuerism, and that ever since then, they have gone after the top two names in the movement, not on a point by point basis, but relentlessly, devoting several hours to attacking the negative actions of Ron Paul and Alex Jones.
And now I understand that Catherine has begun using this "Cointelpro" slogan as a joke.
Is this not the same tactic used by mainstream media to make certain important, serious, issues look like unimportant, light, child's play? (for example, the Audi super bowl "Green Police" commercial)
I'm airing the laundry with this, and I know to the majority out there this is going to seem like an attack. I assure you, I have nothing but the ultimate respect for Catherine, or at least who she was, and for my LRP family who we've fought so many battles together and got things done no matter how small our membership became.
That is truly my motives for airing this dirty laundry, I worked for so hard to give myself to LRP and this one person's improper role hardened me against the ability for this movement to live up to its potential. I either want Catherine to admit that her leadership has spun out of control and into negativity and step down as Executive Director of Missouri's most well known freedom group, or I want to educate the future LRPers so they don't waste their efforts on the ego of one person.
I don't blame her, nor John, for her actions. Sometimes people just cannot see when they are destroying something they love and must grasp it harder and suffocate it.
Again, this is just a scraping of the surface of the problems I've had with the top leadership of LRP, however, I feel honored to have had the experiences I've had and to have known Catherine when she went through her "positivity" phase.
I pray for the movement that through the cointelpro, and the infighting, and the Tea Party Takeover, that we can somehow come out with something vigilant and positive. That we can suck out these poisons and understand our role in the cure.
I hear Catherine is moving again, out of Missouri. I hear she may finally be heeding my call for her to step down as head of Missouri's most well known patriot group.
I hope this can be a growth period for all of us, and that I can finally open my email, or answer a phone call, or check facebook, or listen to the Alex Jones Show without listening to someone talking about the infighting and "cointelpro" tactics described here. I pray that this is the last time I have to type or speak the names of Catherine Bleish or John Bush.
I want to see new patriot activist groups pop up in Kansas City and will devote my resources and connections to helping make that happen if the right persons want to step up with me. I want to see Missourians reclaim the state legislature, starting with my own campaign. I want to focus on my life with my reconciled wife, my adolesent son, and my daughter whom I've missed 6 years of her life. I want to finally close the book on the influence Catherine has had over my life.
However, I've since seen another hot story broke by Infowars.com and another call to action from Catherine Bleish.
It seems that Governor Nixon is on the plate again, this time in Obama's Executive Ordered "Council of Governors"
I pray for Missouri.
Please, God, let this time be Different.
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