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Investors File Criminal Charges Against Kenneth Johnson and Pamela Del Real, FBI and IRS Notified

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As promised by investor Lt. Col. Thomas Baker, the forensic reconstruction of Galt’s Gulch Chile has been completed and was hand-delivered to the FBI and the IRS on June 8th, 2015. Informed by the reconstruction, investor David McLeod filed criminal charges against Kenneth Johnson and Pamela Del Real in Chile (Docket number RUC 4710-2015) on May 20th. More US civil suits against Johnson are likely to follow.

On a phone call with Cathy Cuthbert, she described the forensic recontruction as a wellspring of previously unknown facts and details about what actually transpired around GGC. Timelines, Contracts, Accounting, Wire Transfers, Corporate reports, Recorded conversations between Johnson and investors, Videos, Credit reports, etc. showing Johnson to be at the heart of the problems surrounding GGC he has blamed on others. In other words, despite Johnson’s claims of working for the investors as a developer the reconstruction shows that the “service” Johnson has been providing them is similar to that which the bull provides the cow.

Readers of this GGC series will find it no surprise that Johnson used investor funds to spin a complex web of deceit involving multiple entities, off-shore trusts, multiple bank accounts, share swaps with Mario Del Real and others, inflated prices, ridiculous late fees, absurdly negotiated prices, etc. all while using corporate bank accounts like a personal checking account.

It’s tempting to leave Jeff Berwick out of discussions about GGC now that he’s so publicly apologized. Unfortunately, his involvement in cutting Cobin and German out, starting a different entity into which to take title (IGGSA) and trying to get the New Zealand trust and offshore structures in place is quite evident in the reconstruction documents. There’s little doubt Ken Johnson was the instigator of the most serious problems with GGC, and continues to make all things worse with his presence and current behavior. However, to say Berwick wasn’t right there at the beginning is to not tell the story, correctly, at all. As mentioned in Part 3 my hope is that Berwick will externalize his contrite heart into some modest assistance to ongoing recovery efforts or investors in extreme need. With the introduction of these new charges, with more to follow, the publicity surrounding the aftermath of GGC is not going away, anytime soon.

Note: The criminal charges filed by David McLeod, and some documents of the forensic reconstruction I was able to coax from the recovery team, have been added to the free E-book, “The Creature from Galt’s Gulch”. I will continue to add such elements to the book as I receive them and within the boundaries of preserving the privacy of the investors.

Justice Provided by the People Involved

As described by Cathy Cuthbert and Thomas Baker, the breadth and depth of the forensic reconstruction they’ve put together is quite impressive. It’s not only a meticulous investigation and gathering of documents but they’ve formatted the whole thing into a package that makes it accessible to outside parties.

I’m not sure what may have transpired between Tom and Ken but the USMC motto of “No better friend, no worse enemy” might echo in Johnson’s mind for some time to come. That is, if Johnson is able to comprehend what has just happened to him. The agencies he’s just been reported to will hound him for the next decade. Half of that decade will be spent defending himself against the criminal charges that were filed against him in Chile on May 20th, by David McLeod. And, there’s more to come. A rather obvious tip to Johnson would be: The next time Tom makes an offer of either “Friend” or “Enemy” . . . go with the former choice. Who knows? Maybe the recovery team would still let Johnson wiggle out of his fraud if he’d just hand over the land the investors paid for.

The FBI white collar crime fraud division will find that most of the investigative, forensic accounting, and reconstructive work has been done and hand-delivered to them by the recovery team. With so much work already complete perhaps the agency will bump the case to the top of their case-load so they may stand in front of their logo at a news conference and receive some good publicity.

The Del Real Factor

Johnson is solely responsible for inviting a local Chilean, Mario Del Real, into GGC affairs. And yet, investors have been made to suffer Johnson’s endless complaining about problems he’s had with Mario and his daughter, Pamela. That’s because Johnson performed a bizarre GGC stock swap with Mario hoping to make big money on the value of water in an Andes Water company called Rio Colorado. By the time the smoke had cleared Mario owned most of IGGSA and his daughter was the general manager of the company! In other words, Johnson was no longer the dominant share holder of GGC and had lost all control over the entity that holds the land. What great “Development” work, Ken!

(To understand more about this failed deal see Chapter 7, “The Rio Colorado/GGC Share Swap”, in the GGC E-book.)

If you’ve read my “Stolen Car Metaphor” at the end of Part 7 you know my take that Johnson’s epic fail with the Del Real share swap is merely the lamentations of a thief who bungled and lost the proceeds of a previous theft. The fact that Johnson’s audience for these lamentations are the victims of the first theft is exactly the kind of behavior I find consistent with Dr. Robert Hare’s psychopathy checklist.

Any deal Johnson made with stolen shares of stock can, and should be, overturned. Therefore, whether the Del Reals colluded with Johnson, or are merely his victims, is a matter for a judge to decide (Yes, there is no longer any way to resolve GGC disputes without involving state agencies, unfortunately). Pamela Del Real’s resume (She’s now the general manager for IGGSA) shows substantial accounting expertise. Such expertise will make it impossible for her to plead ignorance if there was any foul-play on the Del Reals part.

Johnson’s Latest Ploy, Revealed

Johnson has now revealed his latest ploy and what’s behind his re-occupation of the GGC hacienda and grounds. And, surprise, surprise, it’s a variation on his usual … lies mixed with just enough truth to confuse and divide his listeners against themselves while holding out a carrot and stick for those who either cooperate or resist.

More specifically, Johnson is trying to confuse and divide investors against lead investor Josh Kirley hoping they’ll put pressure on Josh to relent in his legal actions which have locked up Johnson’s sale and pillage of IGGSA assets. He also wants the investors to help him get rid of his “Del Real” problem. The carrot Johnson offers is the same old title to land he’s been promising investors, and not delivering, for the past two years. The stick is his continued presence and purported counter-attacks on investors who “continue to attack him”. For those not familiar with Johnson-speak, the word “attack” describes the actions of anyone who points out to Johnson another of his own broken promises.

If only the investors will help him convince Kirley to relent, and help him get rid of the Del Reals, then Johnson can deliver, at long last, the coveted Titles to actual land the investors have been pestering him about, all this time.

E-mail Between Host and Parasite

A recent e-mail exchange between Josh Kirley (The host) and Ken Johnson (The parasite) is an excellent illustration of what actually went wrong with GGC. It’s also an excellent example of what happens when “The creature” is confronted with truth.

My thanks to Josh Kirley for making this e-mail exchange available:

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Josh Kirley <joshkirley@gmail.com> wrote:

“Ken,

For two years, you keep sending out the same emails. Always full of juicy drama, promising the release of more information in the future. This behavior is unprofessional. It inspires no confidence. Why can’t you just do your job?Try building something. Try living up to your responsibilities. Produce something. Be accountable. If you are GGC’s Minister of Propaganda, who is the Project Manager? Your accusations are baseless and defy all logic.

Tell me if you can refute the accuracy of the following facts. I swear to their order and authenticity.

1) You are wholly responsible for bringing the del Reals into this nightmare.

2) You pleaded with me to give 1 to 2.5 million dollars to Mario del Real for his Rio Colorado Project. You personally vouched for Mario, insisting the Rio Colorado deal was a “No Brainer” and a “Homerun”

3) I told you that I had my suspicions about del Real and would get back to you after performing some due diligence.

4) Once I told you that I was not willing to put money into a second Chilean investment, you totally reversed course.

5) You refused to provide me with del Real’s Ruta number, or even his full name, intentionally stonewalling my attempts to research his background.

6) You told an entire room full of defrauded investors at the second festival that your deal with del Real was a “totally separate” matter between you and him.

7) You told all of us that your alliance with del Real was “none of our business” and would have no impact on our contracts.

8) When I offered to pay, out of my own pocket, to have del Real looked into for you, you refused my help, saying that you feared if I looked into del Real, he might “get spooked” and walk away from your deal.

9) Weeks later, you came back to me, begging for a million dollars. You said that you were double crossed by del Real and you needed me to buy back the shares that you gave to him.

10) When I would not bail you out, you predictably changed your characterization of my relationship to the project from savior to saboteur.

I’m sorry if I cannot respond to each of your lying emails. But, I have to give priority to my day job. I suggest you do the same. Maybe start by paying employees, repaying loans, and living up to the contracts you signed.

Josh Kirley”

The Parasite Responds

“Josh,

As you know, you are lying about most all that you discuss. There are communications between you, Monica Wehrhahn, Ken Carpenter, Alison Sherman, the Del Reals and more. Do you think that those just disappear because you are now pitching your false storyline to yet another news outlet? This has always seemed to be a publicity stunt for you, just as GGC always have been for Jeff Berwick.”

Johnson then goes on a bizarre rant about Jeff Berwick and BitcoinATM, Wire Transfers, Cafayate, Argentina (If you can believe it) and ends with:

“We are working on completing what Mr. Aguirre was unable to complete, or was unwilling to complete. We are working to fix the $1m+ damages that those labeling themselves “rescuers” of GGC have inflicted upon the farm, buildings and property. We don’t spend our time pitching a false story line for our own publicity, as Mr. Berwick and yourself seem to focus on quite a lot.

Ken”

Notice that Johnson does not dispute, nor even address, any of Kirley’s questions or statements. This is the way e-mail “Exchanges” and “Dialogues” go with Johnson. For readers who may have wondered . . . “Why don’t they just ask Johnson if [Insert simple question here] the above exchange with Josh Kirley is your example. Josh speaks the pure truth and asks sincere questions and, in response, Johnson doesn’t respond, at all.

The last paragraph is classic Johnson-speak. For readers who don’t understand the dialect his e-mails usually end with a payoff like this if you know how to read Johnson-speak. That is, you take all accusations as a literal description of what Johnson, himself, has done or is doing. In his last paragraph, therefore, we learn that Johnson has caused more than a million dollars of damage and is pitching false story lines for his own publicity.

Johnson’s Assaults

I’ve spoken with two people who were physically assaulted by Ken Johnson. The first was a young man Johnson tried to push around (Mentally and physically) during Johnson’s employment with The Dollar Vigilante. This young man would not tolerate Johnson’s nonsense and was the first person to speak up to Berwick about his suspicions about Johnson poisonous behavior. If Berwick had listened it’s anyone’s guess how Galt’s Gulch Chile might have played out without the involvement of Ken Johnson.

The second assault was that of a 70-year-old Salesman that worked for GGC who didn’t fare so well in the “Encounter”. Sandy “Clarence” Sandfort was grabbed by the lapels and thrown over a couch by Johnson when he learned that Sandy was about the leave Chile after all of Johnson’s promises had remained unfulfilled. Sandy was severely bruised and Johnson had almost managed to break a few of Sandy’s ribs. He was so shaken up by Johnson’s assault that Berwick had to fly in the next day and negotiate an NDA and payoff to keep Sandy quiet about the assault. Johnson later broke the terms of that NDA by talking about the assault with a third-party. Hence, Sandy’s retelling of the assault to me.

and Taunting . . .

Tatiana Moroz, who worked for Ken Johnson and wrote the GGC theme song, shares her experiences with GGC and with sociopaths in the liberty movement. Most of what involves GGC is in the first 25 minutes of the video, but, the ladies (With Julia Tourianski, BraveTheWorld.com, and Gigi Bowman, gigibowman.com) go on to tell other fascinating stories around the theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqQW5a4dJMk

Contrast the story Tatiana tells in the above video with the excitement she started out with and you’ll get a feeling for the roller coaster ride that was GGC. Tatiana perfectly captures the cognitive dissonance felt by most who’ve followed the promise, and then the reality, of GGC in the hands of Ken Johnson.

Favorite excerpts:

“This nonsense [Sociopaths in the Liberty Movement] is disgusting and ridiculous … and what’s gonna happen, here, is that people are going to leave and they’re not going to want anything to do with it (True Liberty) and all we’re going to be left with is the dirtbags who think this kind of behavior is ok. … And I’m sick and tired of the people that are trying to call attention to the sociopathic behavior within our own movement getting trashed.”

Tatiana’s right, of course. Natural law doesn’t evaporate around people who wish to retain and use their liberties. If anything, we must be more mindful of universal human truths because we are the people exploring the boundaries of liberty. A tolerance for lies, manipulation, sexual assault, and broken contracts is not “What’s up!” in Liberty. Anyone claiming that such tolerance is “Cool” is not a libertarian. They’re just another asshole in disguise.

John Cobin Interview

I had the pleasure of interviewing John Cobin about GGC for 1.5 hours, last week. The interview was mostly for my E-book about GGC. However, of interest, here, is the remarkable consistency of Dr. Cobin’s story with everything he’s said from the very beginning. Cobin is abundantly forthcoming about every meeting, document, e-mail and conversation he’s had with respect to GGC. My reaction to the interview was to tell him that it was a pleasure to speak with someone involved in GGC that looks better and better with each discovered and documented fact about the project.

Cobin said the impression he got from Jeff Berwick and Ken Johnson was that, they alone, might be able to supply the funding for GGC. He had no idea that they would, almost immediately, take his extensive research and information about Chile and GGC and cut him out of the deal. Although he concurs with the possible psychopathy of Johnson he puts Berwick in the same category in terms of the way they defrauded him. And yet, I had the impression that, even now, he would be forgiving of Berwick if approached in some meaningful way to make restitution.

Cobin said Johnson came after him, very agressively, in a libel suit in Chile. Guess what happened when the court date arrived? Johnson was a no-show! I won’t compare a libel suit with a podcast debate, but, I’m becoming quite familiar with Johnson’s cowardice in the face of someone determined to tell the truth. So far, Johnson’s been a no-show on two podcasts about GGC that he, himself, dared me to participate in.

For those interested in Chile I highly recommend the interview James and Johnathan conducted with Dr. Cobin on Monday over at Borderless. Cobin proves himself to be THE reliable source for all of Chile and much of the rest of the “Expat” world, as well. Cobin’s book, “Life in Chile” greatly increased the effectiveness of my 21-day country-vetting trip to Chile in 2012. I look forward to reading his latest book, “Living in Chile” when I can come up for air over the summer.

GGC Theatre

Johnson has been roaming around the property making absurd videos in an attempt to document the damage done by the recovery team. Perhaps the investors share my hope that Johnson continue making these videos as they are helpful in documenting what Johnson, himself, has done.

One of the things Johnson harps on in the videos are the “Damages” done by the recovery team causing a poor yield from the wells. In fact, such poor yields were caused by Johnson’s complete ignorance and inept handling of the well work around the property. Despite the pleadings of the local workers Johnson put Manuel Hermosillo in charge of the wells and the work was terribly bungled. And yet, somehow, the investors end up blamed, yet again, for Johnson’s incompetence. Such GGC Theatre might be a useful prop to help Johnson influence the Chilean locals who have no idea what’s going on with GGC. To those who’ve read the first thing about GGC, however, they are just that much more documentation of Johnson’s failings.

Message to local Chileans:

Johnson’s accusations of others are a reliable confession of his own failings. There is truth in many of the disasters he documents but your messenger is the culprit, not the victim. Johnson’s “Investment” into GGC remains at zero while 76-investors and buyers have given $10.45 million dollars for the purchase of everything you see associated with GGC. 72 of the investors have been begging Johnson to leave for over a year.

What happens next?

First, most of the predictions made in Part 6 seem to be coming true. That includes Johnson hinting that he wants to sell water rights, again. Happily, he’s unable to do so with the current injunctions in place.

Johnson has some time while the ocean water recedes in preparation for a tsunami of new legal problems.

Some think Johnson will stick it out to the end because his claim to be “Working for” the investors is his only defense against the legal actions that have been filed against him. But, Johnson also claims he controls or owns everything (Vacillating between claims of control or ownership) depending on his audience and the phases of GGC. How could someone who owns everything be an employee? How could a trustee (Controls everything) claim to be a trustee of beneficiaries who have been begging him to leave for the past year?

Perhaps Chile, and the local populace of Curacavi, will no longer tolerate Johnson as the criminal charges pile on. If he’s made to flee then we may see more pictures of his backpacks of stolen money while he’s on the run. I think he still has a Paraguayan passport from the passport scandal he was conducting at TDV. Still, all these charges filed with state agencies will haunt him wherever he goes. As of today, Johnson has put a digital data noose around his own neck that will follow him around the globe.

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The Outlier’s Handbook

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The world discards ideas and people that present multiple standard deviations away from “normal”. And yet, Reality has always been phenomenal and noumenal. To ensure you’re able to thrive in the artificial chaos of this generation you’ll need to be an outlier, in many ways. Here’s “The Outlier’s Handbook” to optimize your trajectory.

The Outlier’s Handbook

(Thriving in Artificial Chaos)

Table of Contents

Part 1 — What Outliers?

“Let Your Reasonableness Be Known to Everyone”

  • Ockham’s Razor: Benefits & Limits
  • The Bookends of Normalcy Bias & Cognitive Dissonance
  • “This Book Goes Too Far!”

What Outliers?

  • Outliers Defined
  • You Know You’re An Outlier If . . .
  • Outlier Benefits
  • Outlier Costs
  • Personal Secession and Other Outlier Mindsets

Part 2 — It’s Your World, Boss!

This Is Where You Live

American Roulette

  • The Constitution is Safe!
  • A Bank with Social Services Around It
  • Democracy: The God that Failed
  • The Corporation
  • The Deep State
  • Fascism, American Style

Lifecycle of Nations

  • “Poverty of Nations” Report Card
  • Imperial Collapse Playbook

Danger, Will Robinson!

Technocracy: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation

Regional Bloc Head Mercantilism

  • Gee, Maybe Nation-States Weren’t So Bad, After All
  • Solutions Amidst Global Fascism
  • Change Happens Like This, Now

Part 3 — The Usual Suspects

Call Them As You See Them

Origin & Story of Rulers and Authorities

  • Angelic Gen 6 View: Consistency & Insights
  • So, Who are “They”?
  • The “New” Face of Evil (Follow the Blood)
  • Long Term Trends Require Spiritual Unity
  • The Minions
  • A Working Structure of Oppression

They Walk Among Us

  • Serial Killers
  • How Can You Spot One?
  • Political Ponerology
  • 7 signs you might be dating one
  • Protection From Them
  • Speech Patterns
  • I, Psychopath
  • The Hidden Cost of Killing Psychopaths
  • Beware the Backlash

Elements of Their World View

Their Goals

  • ”Ye Shall Be As Gods”

Their Methods

  • The Moral Code of Evil
  • Inversion
  • Undisclosed Adhesion Contracts
  • Counterfeit Money
  • Controlled Markets
  • Technocracy
  • Stacked & Interlocking Pyramidical Structures
  • Consolidation
  • Democracy
  • Eugenics
  • Perpetual Fear
  • Long-Term Planning
  • With Methods Like This, Who Needs the Occult?

Part 4 — Acquiring Immunity

Move #1: Acquire Personal Immunity

Personal Matters

  • Purpose is Everything
  • Managing Outlierhood
  • Growth
  • Ethical Time Travel

Health Matters

  • First Do No Harm
  • Clean Food, Water, Air & Place
  • Nutrient Dense Diet
  • Gut Flora, Probiotics and the Second Brain
  • Optimal Exercise
  • Stress & Breathing
  • Life Extension & Blood Sugar Management
  • Sensible Health Insurance
  • Putting It All Together

Spiritual Matters

  • Intelligent or Random Design
  • Oneism (Monism) vs. Dualism
  • CINO’s & MINO’s
  • Christianity Leads To Science, Islam leads to Murder
  • Gandhi or Jesus?
  • Get Blessed
  • Get Uncursed
  • Supernatural Immunity: The Mind & Way Of Christ
  • The Whole Council of God
  • Spiritual Warfare
  • Practical Examples of Spiritually Based Solutions

Locational Matters

  • The Best Place to Live
  • Where Not to Live
  • Should you relocate?
  • The World is Yours
  • The Illusion of Ownership
  • Mobility
  • G.O.O.D Project – Lessons Learned

Family Matters

  • Instrument of Recursive Perfection
  • Spouse Choice
  • Children
  • Extended Family
  • Friends Worth the Title are Family
  • Community

Legal Matters

  • Natural Law
  • The Constitution is Safe!
  • Jurisdiction Matters
  • Where is the Agreement?
  • It’s Hard to Be a Free Man
  • Unraveling Your Liberty

Financial Matters

  • Money is for Immunity & Purpose
  • Business as Extension of Purpose
  • Tax Penalties for Fear and Poor Planning
  • Mortgage Slavery, Repealed
  • Austrian Economics is Real Economics
  • Investments in Immunity & Purpose Have the Highest ROI
  • Asset Protection

Political Matters

  • Terms of “State” & “Government”
  • The Diversion Of Left – Right Thinking
  • The Votes that Matter
  • Optimal Government = Perfect Self-Government
  • The Chief Asset Of The State: Fear & Belief In It’s Necessity
  • All Matters of Liberty Are Related
  • Caveat Viator: Libertarianism and Anarchy are Aspects of a Complete Worldview
  • Govern Thyself Perfectly and Hold Death Dear

Perspective Matters

  • The Most Valuable Commodity on the Planet
  • Philosophers On Donuts
  • Terms of “Freedom” & “Liberty”
  • Equality & Authority
  • Freedom & Structure
  • Peace Does Not Flow From Passivity
  • Proof and Truth
  • You Can’t Beat Everything with Nothing
  • “Let’s Just Split the Difference and Find a Middle Ground”
  • Stoicism
  • The Opportunity in Uncertainty
  • If Swamp Rats Can’t be Exterminated Why Can You?
  • What About America?

Doing Matters

  • Tony Robbin’s Best Trick
  • Think Spiritually, Act Locally
  • Getting Things Done
  • Low Hanging Fruit
  • Tragic Flaws of Conventional Prepping
  • Expert Tips
  • How To Lose Without Fighting (An Outlier’s Not To-Do List)

Part 5 — Ants & The Human Mosaic

Change The World in Four Moves

  • Humans as an Ant Army
  • Move #1: Immunity
  • Move #2: Specialize
  • Move #3: Move
  • Move #4: Cooperate
  • Humanize the Best Attributes of Animals & Insects

Part 6 — Problems: Solutions

Move #2: Specialize & Pick One

Personal Concerns

  • Training Disguised as Education
  • Shortening Attention Spans
  • Media Agitprop

Health Concerns

  • Eugenics
  • Vaccines Vs. Immunity
  • Socialized Medicine
  • Food Fascism & GMOs
  • Fluoridated water
  • Nuclear Waste & Meltdown Disasters
  • Geo-Engineering
  • Disease(s) Cured

Spiritual Concerns

  • Psychopathy
  • Moral Relativism
  • Odious Debt (Slavery)
  • Wars of Conquest
  • False-Flag Attacks
  • End Times Decoder Rings
  • 501c3 Churches

Locational Concerns

  • Agenda 21
  • Scientific Control Grid
  • Power Grid Fragility

Family Concerns

  • The State as Great Father
  • Broken Families

Legal Concerns

  • Patent Squelching
  • Webs of Undisclosed Adhesion Contracts
  • Drug Wars
  • Licensing
  • Militarization of Police
  • Surveillance State
  • Monopoly
  • Bonus: Beating Traffic Tickets

Financial Concerns

  • Fractional Reserve Banking (The Theft of Human Labor)
  • Disappearing Middle-Class A.K.A Unemployment
  • Currency Wars
  • US Bankruptcy
  • World Banking Systems
  • Institutional(ized) Theft
  • Market Manipulation
  • Global Cooling, Warming …Climate Change?
  • Technocracy

Political Concerns

  • Collectivism
  • Globalism

Part 7 — Appendices

  • In Case of Emergency: Read First!
  • Four Ways to Parse Solutions
  • Reading List for Outliers
  • Outlier Creeds
  • Sovereignty & Law
  • Agorist Manifesto in 95 Theses
  • Agorist Road-map Kyle Bennet
  • 100 Ways To Leave Leviathan
  • Wayne & Barry’s Guide for World Rulers
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“Privacy is an insurance policy against oppression. Privacy allows a tyrannized citizenry to think independently, freely and clearly.”

– Boston T. Party

Such is the clear and historical perspective of Boston’s new privacy book, One Nation, Under Surveillance — Privacy From the Watchful Eye. In this most up-to-date and comprehensive book on the subject the author accomplishes three feats for those of us interested in state-of-the-art privacy:

  1. A complete analysis of why privacy is more crucial than ever, still possible and still works!
  2. A detailed description of who and what to protect our privacy against.
  3. An exhaustive and up-to-date implementation guide for achieving our own “sweet spot” of insulation.

In fact, Boston intentionally overdid his own privacy to learn how far it can be taken before it begins to work against you. This makes him one of the few Americans that can give first hand knowledge of the true costs, details and tradeoffs to balance in putting together our own plan.

Those familiar with the subject know that privacy cascades into multiple areas and down many rabbit trails of implementation. Because of its completeness and the inclusion of the three elements above it’s quite possible to implement a complete privacy plan using only this 480-page book as a companion.

More Crucial Than Ever (And Still Works!)

“Too many wrongly characterize the debate as ‘security versus privacy.’ The real choice is liberty versus control. . . . . that’s why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.”

– Bruce Schneier, “The Eternal Value of Privacy”

If you thought the battle for privacy was over after watching “Enemy of the State” Boston would ask why everyone still wants your data with every transaction or activity. The authors’ short answer to that question is that privacy still works!

If you’ve got black helicopters over your shoulder your cover is blown. However, using the same movie reference how much more peaceful would our lives be if everyone had 80% of the cover of Gene Hackman’s character?

The author would advise not turning yourself into a paranoid hermit obsessed to the point of having no life to protect. His suggestion is to commit to 20% of the full effort to achieve 80% of the results. In the authors’ experience going for 100% privacy consumes too much time, joy and money diminishing the quality of the life you’re protecting.

Keeping Your Nose Clean is Not a Plan

‘Doing nothing wrong and keeping your nose clean’ is normal rational behavior; it is not a privacy plan.

Viewed as a ‘privacy plan’ here’s the hard truth about ‘keeping your nose clean’: It might have worked in 1910, it was naive 30 years ago and it’s hazardous to your health, wealth and peace of mind, today.

As Boston describes, “What we are facing is, in effect, an environmental issue regarding tyranny’s pervasiveness. It’s as though the toxic gas of oppression is everywhere.” Going on to say “I may be wrong, but I don’t think that this force can any longer be fought and won on a national scale. Any inroads made there will evaporate after the next disaster or emergency or attack.”

The Data Beast

For an inside look at how hungry our state rats are over ‘public’ data aggregation see Catherine Austin-Fitts’ six-part series, The Data Beast. It’s a rare inside perspective on how important your live data is to those who pretend they already have it.

In benevolent hands accurate data is the beginning of discovery and optimizing the delivery of value. In evil hands it’s the most crucial element for manipulating the truth.

The State is selling an agenda not discovering a truth. The agenda is decided prior to data collection. Information that doesn’t support the agenda, although coveted within the agency, is squashed or denied publicly.

Climategate, Pandemics, the unemployment rate, the HUD scandal, the inflation rate, etc. . . . . The official story has nothing to do with the truth.

Beware of hungry data beasts masquerading as public servants.

The Cops and the Mail

Why does the average law-abiding heart race when seeing a cop or receiving a piece of mail from the state? Gee whiz, if you’ve done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, then . . . blah, blah, blah.

Perhaps because the last guy “protected and served” owes $1500 or was “served” into the emergency room. Or, maybe you’re still paying the fine or tax levied on ‘no services rendered’ or violating some conjured up prohibition. If your news hasn’t covered such unpleasantries Will Grigg has expertly chronicled the increasing steady stream of such incidents. It’s especially alarming that police brutality is on the rise at a time when the police are in less danger of being killed in the line of duty than ever before.

The architects of our depression are hungry to fund their next crisis. With a broad legislative brush anyone can be painted guilty of something or other. This creates the target rich environment necessary for profitable selective enforcement.

I’m a generation behind the boomers, but, you guys better watch out: Your upcoming social security and medicare costs are a big liability to a hungry, broke and desperate state wolf. Maybe the timing of this universal health non-care ruse is no coincidence?

Let’s face it: We’re nervous when we see the cops or get state mail because these guys are either desperate for money or psychopaths that need to control us as part of their therapy.

Getting Back to Normal

Most of the modern day battle for privacy involves reclaiming information that, not long ago, could not be tracked or didn’t even exist!

In 1910 there was no:

  • Social Security number to give
  • Business income to track
  • Income taxes to pay
  • Phone number to hide
  • Credit card to track activity
  • Computer, Database, e-mail, internet
  • Barcode to track shopping habits
  • Gun registration
  • DNA testing

And yet we had a higher quality of life than the world had ever seen.

We need to shed this notion that personal information is the price of better service. We’re not being served by its disclosure. We’re being numbered, branded, looted, sheered, taxed and vaccinated into a stupor.

We’re living in an age of laws so numerous and incomprehensible that enforcement can be focused on anyone ripe enough to harvest. Selective enforcement is a matter of revenue generation per the mood or balance sheet of the tax feeding agency.

There’s no shame in getting back to normal private behavior. The only shame is in what we’ve already given up.

Know Thine Enemy

“As long as you do not mistake a sociopath for a person of character, your privacy is generally safe from those whom you rightfully consider your friends.”

– Boston T. Party

One of the unique aspects of Boston’s latest privacy book is his crystal clear description of the enemy: The Psychopathic (Or sociopathic1) 4% of the population and the organizations they’ve infested.

“A sociopath is somebody who, through a combination of heritable condition, genetic predisposition and upbringing, has no sense of interconnectedness (bonding) with living beings and thus no foundation for an active conscience (Like the 96% rest of us who do have one). Studies indicate that sociopathy involves an altered processing of emotional stimuli at the level of the cerebral cortex, and thus sociopaths simply cannot process emotional experience, such as love and caring.” Chapter 6, pg. 11.

The author provides an extensive list of character flaws and behaviors to enable recognition of the psychopaths among us. A abbreviated list for the purposes of this article would be:

  • Grandiosity
  • Shameless lies
  • Unreliability
  • Lack of empathy
  • Flair for manipulation
  • Scheme further ahead than moral people can anticipate
  • Audio/video record their victims much more often than vice versa
  • Make Plans for Justice Backfire
  • See sudden adversity as a challenge; they thrive on it
  • Always act behind the scenes, which is difficult to discern
  • Masters of manipulation through compartmentalization

Recognition of psychopaths is difficult for normal people. We tend to project our own innate goodness onto strangers and find ways to forgive their endless transgressions until its too late. By the time we recognize them, or dare to call them out, they’ve either damaged us or teamed up.

(To improve your recognition skills you can see one under a self-imposed microscope in the documentary film,”I, Psychopath“).

Apparently, these mutants recognize one another and tend to team up to take control of powerful organizations. “Psychopaths have this dream that they would like to govern. ‘We want to be the government,’ they think, and this dream is realized from time to time in the human history and this is a gruesome time.”2

“In the case of work, a psychopath may feel envious of another’s position and prestige, but will not actually work to achieve that position. Instead he will brutally manipulate and exploit the work of others in order to achieve domination. Hare and Babiak describe this phenomenon in their book, Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work.”2

The enemy is most likely to present in one of five entities:

  1. Individuals who make their way into your personal life.
  2. Gangs, the leader of which is likely to be fully psychopathic (Ralphie, if not Tony in the Sopranos).
  3. Organizations who, despite their benevolent banner, have been infiltrated to the point that their internal controls are largely psychopathic (SEIU, Climate Change Orgs, in some cases local police).
  4. Individual members of the state exerting direct psychopathic influence on policy.
  5. Any combination of the above who exert psychopathic control of state apparatus through indirect means (Enter our beloved illuminati and their NWO).

To all of these entities we (Normal, productive, law-abiding and rational human beings) are just one thing: Supply.

Once you realize who the enemy is privacy takes on the same urgency as your desire to continue living a moral and rational life. Without insulation we are in a constant state of derailment with a severe lack of freedom in making optimal choices.

“A right-thinking man – with puppet strings attached – cannot be a right-doing man.” (ch. 22, pg 20)

Batten Down these Hatches

The following outline was gleaned from the index of ONUS and provides a glimpse into the scope of implementing a complete privacy plan.

These are the elements of life most likely to cause exposure. Each element represents a privacy ‘hatch‘ to be batoned down in its own way. One of the major feats of the book; each element is addressed to the point that the reader could close the exposure, themselves. That would be an impressive feat in any one area, let alone all ten.

It would be possible to break out the computer sections and present them as a complete book on privacy in that area. Luckily, the author grants himself no such reprieve and we get it all in one book.

  1. People
    1. Friends
    2. Family
    3. Spouse
    4. Children (Schooling)
    5. Relatives
    6. Business contacts
    7. You
      1. Your mouth
      2. Your plan
      3. Your passport
      4. Your SSN
      5. Drivers License
      6. Other ID’s
  2. Mail
    1. Business
    2. Personal
    3. Vehicle Registrations
    4. Sending
    5. Receiving
  3. Business
    1. Asset Protection Entities
      1. Car
      2. Boat
      3. House
      4. Business entities
    2. Contacts
    3. Employees
    4. Assets & Data
    5. Offices
    6. Income
      1. W2
      2. Corporate
      3. Barter
    7. Insurance
  4. Communication
    1. Mouth
    2. Phone
      1. Cell
      2. VOIP
      3. Voice Mail / FAX
      4. Landlines
    3. E-mail
    4. Internet
      1. Social Networking
      2. Forums
      3. Blogs
      4. Web browsing
  5. Computer
    1. Windows (A surveillance virus masquerading as an OS?)
    2. MAC or Linux
    3. Data Backup
    4. Passphrases
    5. Physical Security
  6. Money
    1. Credit?
    2. Debit
    3. Cash
    4. Money Orders
    5. Digital Gold
    6. Gold & Silver Coins
    7. Checks
    8. Loans
    9. 401K / IRA
  7. Guns
    1. Private Sales only
    2. Minimal onsite
    3. The Purchase
    4. Ownership
    5. Selling
    6. Tracking
    7. Storing
  8. House
    1. Address
    2. Utilities
    3. Census
  9. Travel
    1. Car
    2. Hotel
    3. Bus
    4. Air
    5. International
    6. Border Crossings
  10. Insurance
    1. Life
    2. Car
    3. House
    4. Health
    5. Business

A complete plan would combine the private version of the elements, above, with behaviors that minimize exposure during interaction with untrusted people or entities.

Many life areas can and should be trimmed down and the author offers frequent tips on doing so. For instance, friends or relatives who can’t be trusted probably don’t belong in your life. And, trimming down business entities, employees, vehicles and office space leaves much less work in eliminating exposure to prying eyes.

In fact, it’s not easy to tell where Boston’s own well-researched techniques and experience blend with his accumulated knowledge of privacy. Hence, one of the author’s points: “Much of wisdom is using the hindsight of others as your foresight. . . . there is not enough time to learn the lesson from purely your own mistakes . . .”.

For those with the foresight to use ONUS over the next several years it’s an exhaustive and up-to-date implementation guide for achieving your own “sweet spot” of insulation. Beyond that, the universal principles outlined will have to be combined with your own improvisations as the data noose inevitably tightens in years to come.

The private lives we all have a right to will require a fight to reclaim.

Privacy Premiums

“To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.”

– E.C. Riegel, 1949

The Rules

  1. Don’t draw attention to yourself
  2. Privacy is complicated – think it through
  3. Privacy is expensive – don’t be greedy
  4. Privacy is inconvenient – don’t be lazy
  5. Privacy is private – don’t be glib
  6. Be consistent – be thorough
  7. Work your story out in advance
  8. Privacy requires your alertness

You Are Your Data

To most entities you are known only by your data. There is no personal relationship. Change your data and you’ve changed your ‘relationship’. Another way of putting it is that what happens to your data happens to you. Since we’re not talking about friends why not make the data version of yourself unavailable for:

  • Tracking and control
  • Subpoenas for bogus civil suits
  • Visits from stalkers
  • False arrest arising from bureaucratic screwups
  • Unlawful search and seizure
  • Forfeiture of personal possessions to agencies who are broke

Opportunity in Crisis

A move to another location is an excellent opportunity to reclaim lost privacy. The number of people leaving/losing their houses and renting provides good cover. With this book you could start tackling the problem in a big way during the move. What a great time to make privacy a part of your new life.

Never Take Candy from a Psychopath

Bargains with the devil always come with an incentive package. Turn them down:

  • Loans from strangers
  • Tax deductions that blow your privacy
  • Child tax deductions if you’ll just get baby a social security number (Fight this: No baby needs one. Even the boomers won’t get their booty)
  • Free medical tests or ‘screenings’ as an excuse to get your DNA into a database (All babies born in a hospital are now subject to this outrage).
  • 10% off if you’ll just sign up for our in-store credit card

The candy offers go on and on. You’ll recognize them when you see them. Walk away. Consider the forgone ‘service’, discount or deduction to be a small cost of freedom.

A Little Goes A Long Way

Don’t get overwhelmed. Make privacy an extension of a normal civilized life. Change your mindset from within and calmly privatize one piece of life at a time.

Just a few pieces create a working bubble:

  1. Keep business income discreet.
  2. Never take candy from a psychopath (See list, above).
  3. Pay with cash or prepaid debit card.
  4. Keep computer and online activities private (Extensive tips on this in the book).
  5. Keep phone activities secure (Extensive tips on this in the book).

Use the peace from this privacy to map out a plan for the rest.

“Privacy is like fire insurance; you can’t get it after you need it. You get it first, and then hope that it never becomes necessary. (ch. 2, pg. 2)

The ONUS is On Us

“We’re not what we believe. We’re what we’ll fight for.”

There’s going to be a scuffle or two when reclaiming lost privacy. And, there’s going to be cost and inconvenience in maintaining the insulation level you decide on. Slowly, but surely, however, the river of trivialities that derail life can be brought to a trickle.

Reading through the implementation part of the book it’s evident the author has become quite brilliant at improvising privacy solutions as new exposures present. I believe the most valuable contribution of the book is that it tends to impart such improvisational skills to the reader.

“Do not confront, but learn to mask yourself and circumvent.” (ch. 22, pg. 17)

My overall take on ONUS is that it’s so thorough, comprehensive and actionable on such a complex (And urgent) subject that it was a practical sacrificial effort to get it all current and in one book. Apparently, this parting gift of liberty is no accident as it’s the authors last “Boston T. Party” book.

It would be a shame not to have this privacy tool available now that it’s needed most. But, it is available. All the mistakes have been made, we know privacy is crucial and possible, we know what the enemy looks like and have a detailed roadmap to get to a safe place.

The only shame would be in not taking privacy and shelter from the psychopathic storm.

Try imagining a place where its always safe and warm

Come in she said I’ll give ya’ Shelter From The Storm, —B. Dylan

Privacy Reference

1Psychopath and Sociopath are rough synonyms with pychopath implying inherited traits and sociopath leaving open the environment as a main contributing factor in causing the same behavior. The author uses the word sociopath perhaps to expand recognition of the traits to be present in seemingly normal everyday encounters, as they certainly are. I chose to use psychopath because the three friends I asked were better able to identify the word with the behavior.

2Interview with Andrzej M. Łobaczewski, author of Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes.

Copyright © 2014 by Terence Gillespie. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are given to McGillespie.com

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