"...do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."
"For the good of the Air Force, for the good of the armed services and for the good of our country, I urge you to reject convention and careerism..." - Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Maxwell AFB, April 21, 2008 "You will need to challenge conventional wisdom and call things like you see them to subordinates and superiors alike." - Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, United States Air Force Academy, March 4, 2011
In a shocking report that "our government" is now releasing about a message "intercepted" that is "believed to have originated from Iran" that was issued ten days ago, but which you're just now finding out about, we are being primed to pin blame on Iran when we get attacked on our homeland because the DHS is too busy murdering American protestors to stop it. Thankfully, these media reports "calling all Iranian sleeper cells, you've been activated!" will in no way help deliver the message to activate Iranian sleeper cells by putting it out on the media.
The third branch of government will not fix the tyranny of our nation, they are a part of it. They are federal politicians in dresses, coming from elite backgrounds and circles where the worst people imaginable making headlines today spring and go to work destroying our nation. They only are seen as credible by the naive because of the intense propaganda of pomp that exists to make them seem above the fray. They are not above the fray or out of reach of the corruption. And like the two other branches of our federal government, they do not work for the American people. The examples making this clear are innumerable, but one recent decision stands out.
In this decision, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Fourth Amendment's protection of our homes from unreasonable searches and seizures and the warrant requirement, could simply be brushed aside if armed government agents with guns simply claim to be concerned about your, drum roll please, "safety" while you are inside your home.
Consider that this is the same Supreme Court that ruled police have no duty to protect you. If a police officer sees you being stabbed to death on a bus, according to the Supreme Court, police have zero legal duty to protect you.
However, they have now also ruled that police encountering a locked home with no probable cause for a crime, let alone a warrant to enter, can simply bust in your door and enter so long as they claim they are concerned about your safety. Similar to their fascist ruling in Mimms where an armored cop with multiple weapons who pulls you over for a claimed traffic violation can order your unarmed flip-flop wearing self out of your vehicle and handcuff you for the officer's "safety" while he investigates why your taillight is out.
When the court writes "safety" it really means tyranny.
Our court system is not your friend. It does not care about the Constitution and it exists only to apply laws against you, not to uphold the law to defend your rights.
Rumors that our foreign-owned puppet government is considering reinstating the draft in its efforts to murder and steal in its illegal war on behalf of the foreign enemy that controls our puppets through blackmail and pedophilia.
It doesn't matter how government courts have ruled. The law is the law and the Thirteenth Amendment is the supreme law of the land and states:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
I would recommend Americans with any fighting spirit refuse to go die. It's not that the foreign government that owns our puppet politicians wants you to fight for them. It wants you to die for them. They have further designs on the United States and they don't want it populated with Americans willing to fight.
Violating your oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States by engaging in an unconstitutional war directed by a President who has overstepped his lawful bounds and who has no concern for the will of the American people nor the authorization of Congress which is charged with the power to declare war.
Failing in your duty to refuse unlawful orders.
Failing all of this before the Americans who pay you, while also murdering innocents in another country.
Failing all of this in an action that will result in making America less safe and more poor, and perhaps utterly destroy it and the world.
Failing all of this because you were unlawfully ordered to by a President who is a puppet of a hostile foreign nation that has repeatedly attacked the United States, murdered the sailors on the USS Liberty, spies in the White House, staffed the White House, murdered American journalists, and which conducts the most heinous actions against others.
Failing all of this because that foreign nation controls President Trump because he is a pedophile and compromised, something you know, because it's too obvious to be denied, yet you didn't care.
I cannot think of a more dishonorable and disgraceful way to live as an American military service member, let alone die as one.
It's already undeniable that Israel has literally conquered the United States. The White House administration are all puppets of Israel. Israel owns the Congress and it owns both political parties. We have a Congressman who is a citizen of Israel and wears his IDF uniform while in Congress. We have multiple congressmen saying that their loyalty is to "Israel first."
While America would use an EC-130 or other platforms to broadcast American propaganda into puppet nations, Israel has simply purchased America's media while it funds many in the so-called "alternative media" to blast its propaganda. Israel has been extracting resources from America for many decades, leaving the American people with a staggering national debt that will collapse it in our lifetimes, sooner rather than later. What comes next for America, while Israel expands its world conquest agenda?
And now the founding documents of the United States have inexplicably been removed from the nuclear-bomb proof shelter in the National Archives and been put on a plane reportedly to travel around the nation, during a time of unlawful, unconstitutional, and unapproved war with Iran (but war nonetheless waged by a pedophile traitor named Donald Trump on behalf of his foreign owners) with false flags from Israel in the forecast, for the alleged purpose of displaying those sacred documents in various cities. Never before would anybody think to risk those documents in such a way, exposing them to aircraft malfunctions or theft, and certainly not at a time when attacks on the United States are anticipated. So why is this being done? They say it's because some people can't travel to DC, but why can't they? And who are these throngs of poor people who really want to put their eyes on the documents that founded our nation? Why do this when there is heightened risk to air travelers and risks of attack in our nation? Why would a government that has long ignored the Constitution, and especially this current foreign-owned administration, want to risk these documents in order to show poor people in various cities who are unable to travel to DC and who have such an urge that isn't associated with a half time Super Bowl show?
The real reason this is being done is because when those documents are "accidentally" destroyed or are stolen, it will serve as a powerful signal to the American people that their nation and form of government is over. That's why it is being done.
In fact, almost certainly, what will happen is that jet will be blown up with the documents onboard, and it will be Israel that does it, while they blame Iran. Mark my words. Then they can tie it into the DHS/TSA didn't get enough funding narrative and expand the police state. My guess is the attack(s) will involve hundreds or thousands of relatively small drones.
It's not hyperbole to say that Israel has conquered the United States. It is reality. Israel sees America as an enemy to be used against others enemies, and the whole world is the enemy as far as Israel is concerned. Right now it is having its various enemies attack each other. And Israel absolutely detests the people of America despite its propaganda to cover its theft and murder of Americans. As the surveillance cameras from Israeli companies and the AI from Israel-owned companies like Palantir and Oracle continue to build the American control grid (the same cameras that were used to murder the Ayatollah in Iran) and as the mask is dropped on what has occurred in America, people will see massive suffering from a new overt master, mask dropped, that sees them as less than human. All that suffering and innocent people dying in Iran is going to be our future here at home, and at the hands of the very same people.
Military members should refuse orders to strike Iran.
Not because striking Iran would be done at the behest of the greatest foreign enemy of the United States, the state of Israel, which owns our puppet government through blackmail and intimidation. Not because the action is done to advance the agenda of that foreign enemy, Israel, at the cost of American lives and treasure which our occupiers of course care nothing about, having murdered Americans themselves directly with the USS Liberty and more than likely had a hand in the attack on the Twin Towers. Not because Americans will suffer and die in much greater numbers than they are used to. It's not even because the United States is the terrorist nation waging a war of aggression, much like Germany in the 1940s, upon a sovereign nation. It's not even, believe it or not, that this idiotic action risks World War III with Iran aligned with China and Russia. Those are reasons why the United States should not make war on Iran, but those are not reasons why military members should refuse orders to invade Iran. We are not in the business of carrying out the will of the American people only when it makes sense and is a good idea.
No, the reason military members should refuse orders to strike Iran is because such an action is not the will of the American people, and violates the Constitution of the United States. Just like previous strikes against Iran, any future strikes will be unlawful. Congress did not authorize this action, it has not been debated, and Americans do not support this action from this incredibly unpopular puppet President who seeks a distraction from his extraordinary and wholesale coverup and pampering of the foreign pedophiles who own him and much of our government.
Unfortunately, I expect Israel will not be dissuaded and it will want to capitalize on the firm grasp it has on President Trump, both pretend political parties, and on all of our public and private centers of gravity. It's not just traitors like Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham who are puppets of our foreign enemy, Israel, it's the entire system. But the demographics are changing in America and people are waking up so Israel will not waste this opportunity to again advance their criminal agenda at the mere cost of American lives and prosperity.
Americans should be ready to suffer even further. Our government does not work for us so our will has absolutely zero bearing on its actions. And we cannot expect anybody in our military to refuse clearly unlawful and America-damaging orders. If my twenty-year military career taught me anything, it's that our military officers are absolutely unfit for service and do not have the character to uphold their oaths of office and our supreme law. So get ready for the massive fallout that will come from yet another epically stupid "American" decision made on order of the foreign nation that uses us like the disposable diaper that our nation has become. If a real war kicks off, we can expect attacks on our homeland with some being waged by Israel as necessary to advance the police state and tyranny that has been steadily built here over the years. Digital surveillance, disarmament, digital money, all of it will be unleashed upon the American people in the name of "war time." Trump's unconstitutional pursuit of so-called anti-semitism policies which obfuscate their actual purpose, to punish those who criticize the terrorist nation that occupies us, will likely lead to DHS targeting Americans for their speech in more brutal ways than Ron DeSantis and various university presidents have done so far. And that would give them some residents for the rash of new DHS prison camps we are told are being built for illegal immigrants, despite Trump's lackluster efforts against illegals while his stormtroopers seem much more occupied with American citizens. Either way, Americans, of course, can expect more poverty for themselves and their grandchildren and their great grandchildren as a result. That's the best case scenario anyway.
This government now murders innocent Americans in the streets routinely. It lies about doing so claiming threats that were not there, alleging actions that did not happen. And despite it being on video in plain view, the many traitors to this nation cheer it on, too stupid to understand they're not on the same "side" as the tyrants.
The foreign owners of our government are accelerating their attempts to create a violent situation so they can roll out their next agenda. They are hoping that murdering Americans in broad daylight will lead to an excuse to impose digital currency and to expand their attacks against Americans across the nation while unveiling their new toys like drones, mandatory kill switches in private vehicles, Palantir databases, digital ID requirements to access the Internet and such. In short, total and absolute control of the American population by a lawless government working for a foreign government that has conquered it.
This is legitimate tyranny. And few in America care. Why would they, football is on.
It's not just Trump. It's far greater than him, he's just a servant to his masters. And these masters are the ones who orchestrated the most amazing psychological shaping operation over the past couple decades making good on Obama getting rid of the prohibition on our government propagandizing Americans. They crafted the narrative of Trump as a victim of government persecution by the Deep State. They artfully presented the Russia Hoax so that any claim that Trump was a foreign puppet would be dismissed without thought. Of course Trump is a foreign puppet, just not of Russia. They also shaped the information war by ensuring that all claims that Trump was an authoritarian would be dismissed as they had their puppets on the left calling Trump a Nazi and a racist and Hitler and lying about his statements such as they did with the Very Fine People Hoax. But the reality is Trump is an authoritarian. He is a foreign-owned authoritarian. But that argument has been defeated in the minds of so many American slaves by the previous "side." If you bring up that Trump does something bad, the immediate red herring justification by brainwashed Americans is "but Joe Biden did...."
What is the most frightening is that this level of effort was not done just to get a politician elected in a rigged American system. It was done to mind fuck Americans into support and cheering actions. Trump is going to put the final nail in the coffin of America. The puppeteers didn't put that much time and effort, while sacrificing the credibility of all the three letter agencies, to not get an outsized result from their evil investment.
It will be wholly unrecognizable as the United States before his term is up. America is over. We can expect black bagging, more targeted murders by the government, and there is nothing that can be done about it. All the technological tools that government is sending our inflation-ridden tax dollars to support all have one purpose -- to ensure tyranny can be meted out at the individual level with precision. So while it's innocent protestors being murdered right now, soon it will be people disappearing for making a social media post criticizing their lawless government (like they do in the United Kingdom). Remember how technology was used to go after J6'rs for the crime of exercising their right to protest? Think of that much more efficiently conducted and much more ruthlessly. And to all the chest-thumping morons who think Red Dawn is a playbook, I'm sorry to inform you that the Second Amendment is useless, violence will only accelerate the inevitable, and the only thing that remains is to wait for our turn on the train. Our future is indeed a nightmare.
And the worthless fascists and traitors to their nation over on FlyingSquadron.Com, many who I know personally, are as expected making their values clear. ClearedHot, M2, the usuals with some rare minority sanity from a couple of people. Their message is that if you do ANYTHING that government doesn't want you to do (film, protest, simply be at a protest, or exercise your God-given constitutional rights) then you deserve to be executed on the streets. Just look at the comments. I've been warning about these fascists within our ranks for years, and they've made it abundantly clear with the latest tyranny.
These are the people who you pay, who will then kill you and your family if ordered to, and will celebrate if somebody else does it. This is literally Third Reich behavior. These people are the enemy of the United State of America that I have for so long told you they were.
As my three readers will know, I have for some time been accused, and especially recently, of being aggressive in my Internet activity. Tony Carr, and a long time admirer of mine posting anonymously, have called into question my brutal honesty (they don't characterize it as honesty of course). Tony wrote in the comments section the other day:
But as Anonymous points out, your vibe isn't debate or disagreement.
Your vibe is hate. You are loose with serious words, which undercuts
your whole shtick as a guy who is all about the seriousness of words.
You slap labels on people cheaply, you reason inductively, and you
disrespect and trash others by default.
What my "anonymous" follower certainly knows (he used the name "John Richards" back in the day and even contacted my mother-in-law at one point in his online tomfoolery), and as perhaps Tony knows as well, is that one of my "targets" was a fellow from Bainbridge Island where I had a run in with a politician and his leftist mob of Antifa nut jobs. Like my recent two-ship of critics, the bone of contention back then was, drum roll please, my speech and saying things that somebody else didn't like. Now, oddly enough, in those days I was running an experiment on civility given the critiques of my style in the military. I used to call it "Ben Franklin'ing" in discussions with the wife. Since these were our neighbors on a small island and I was no longer speaking to military folks, I tried to be as civil as I could be while still explaining to my neighbors my view that Clarence Moriwaki was unfit for a certain public position. My civil post explaining this was well received in the Bainbridge Island Open Community Facebook group, garnered many likes and a good conversation. It appeared to be local democracy in action.
And then a friend of Moriwaki's and an admin of the group, Houston Wade, deleted the thread in its entirety and banned me. Turns out, what a shocker, that it doesn't actually matter how you state your opinion when your opinion is not allowed by those in power.
I was then banned from all the local groups. Most would simply shrug this off and go about their day, especially if they aren't passionate about the subject. Democracy requires a vibrant bunch, and such vibrancy is tough to find these days. But I wanted to not be silenced, so I had to create alternative means of joining the conversation. Doing so, however, putting in all that extra effort to have your voice heard, opens you up to all the crazy claims of "obsession" and being a "stalker" and such when it comes to criticizing public folks with power. But at the heart, it's really about wanting to be able to express your view in a nation that requires spirited debate and holding power accountable to be healthy. But our digital age has made fascism and controlling conversation all too easy and it takes a great deal of work to make alternative inroads in such a situation. And our nation is far from healthy.
The end result is the appearance of the free speech required for an informed citizenry. After all, people are talking. But it's only some people. You don't see the people who are not allowed to talk. Some of the truly crazy people will be allowed from the "other side" because their participation actually helps those in power. But civil and yet accurate conversation is a threat and will not be tolerated. Given that most people increasingly don't discuss matters of any substance, it's easy for them to not realize how curated and controlled the discussion truly is because they don't face censorship in the same way.
So as I sought to do an end around against the machine that controlled speech about public matters in my neighborhood, I had to be far more persistent and more creative. While I remained civil, I flooded all avenues in my attempt to be heard. Civility isn't required, but I was doing a test. Given the results, I actually think trying to be polite isn't helpful, it's too easily mistaken for weakness and timidity and only encourages bad actors. I have also discovered a link between those who critique my communication "style" and those who attempt to silence me. But perhaps I'm wrong about my communication style? Maybe my attempts are "ineffective" not because of the fascism that grows every day in our nation but rather because of how I say things? That's what my critics have precisely told me recently.
Tony Carr and Mr. Anonymous think I am the reason for my "ineffective" rhetoric, and I only ran that one experiment, so perhaps I'm still wrong about the value of my communications? Maybe there is a more effective way to speak truth to power, or to expose people in government doing wrong? Maybe, as Tony says, it's not about what I say but how I say it?
Then again, as Charlie Kirk demonstrates, perhaps it's truly dangerous to be effective with words Perhaps so many courageous men and women from the Civil Rights era who peacefully demonstrated and spoke and who ended up dead might disagree about communication style? Maybe when dealing with power-hungry people of low character who will stop at nothing to silence others, could it be there is no way to be polite enough to keep them from vilification and demonization and violence against you?
Let's consider it an open question as I continue to reflect on the criticism of my communication style.
My anonymous follower was sure to like posts from Clarence Moriwaki (as did Dan Tarleton who even gave him money in his effort to silence my speech) and I spent tens of thousands of dollars of my own money on social media getting the word out about this vile politician (who was a public relations guy and media manipulator for his political masters) and the digital mob he had assembled. Moriwaki's close friend, and right hand man in this effort against me, was the guy I previously mentioned, Houston Wade. Houston Wade was truly despicable in a crowd of the truly despicable. He showed up to court to support his politician friend against me and was very active online spreading the most awful lies about your humble blogger. Their lies included the words of Tony Carr and his words even made it into court documents used against me. Imagine that. Houston Wade was central in the digital campaign to demonize me in my own community and to the broader audience online.
I have spent more time on Houston Wade than anybody else since those days. It's not even close. Sorry Brandon.
I have been active online and off trying to address the threat Houston Wade posed to the local community, and to his marks online, by using my harsh words and my inability to build consensus. StopClarenceMoriwaki.Com was one such avenue that my anonymous follower is very familiar with. I was so active, so extraordinarily dedicated to exposing Wade, that of course I have been routinely charged with being cRaZy and all the rest. Who makes multiple videos about an individual like that? Who makes all those memes? Holy God, who makes an online video game about his subject?! Beyond how abnormal such efforts are, who has the time? Who makes a website like HoustonWadeLies.Com? Why are you so obsessed with pointing out so-called character deficiencies and dangers of some guy you got in a spat with years ago???
I have persistently accused Houston Wade of intense projection, staggering dishonesty, a willingness to lie, advocating violence, warned of his obsession with mixing sexuality and violence in his imagery, using homosexuality as an insult despite claiming to be ultra "woke," and documented his frequent celebrations of death for anybody he disagreed with politically who met their demise. Houston Wade regularly mocked me online when his politician friend was using the courts against me, telling me how I was going to go to prison and there receive the unwanted male attention that so many prison movies have made infamous. I was also attacked by his supporters and mob members mercilessly. Death threats, multiple false police reports claiming I had broken into homes, and the most vile defamatory comments were made about me online. Houston Wade's former felon roommate left a string of unhinged threatening messages on my parents' answering machine on the other side of the country. Years later when my mother passed, her online obituary featured a comment, falsely asserting it was from me, which described incredible indecency between a mother and son, placed on her obituary just days after she passed away. I was alerted to that post by my grieving father. Houston Wade regularly made false comments online about her death.
When my wife and I went back to the island to cast ballots in a local election and to support an individual's free speech rights in court who I filed an amicus brief in support of despite hating every fiber of his being, we hired armed security to drive us around and provide protection. You might call that paranoid, but I know evil. And there is a staggering amount of legitimate evil on Bainbridge Island.
The free speech rights of the person I supported with my amicus brief was Houston Wade.
As in any contest for a worthy cause, there will be wounds and scars, even in digital combat and the contest of words. At least if you pick up a worthy cause. If you pick your battles, which is to say you actually pick battles, by using words to say something important in an attempt to better the world, to identify threats to the larger community. If you do that, you will face repercussion because evil people do not tolerate being exposed and you will face backlash. Nothing worth doing is easy. Or popular. Except criticizing the man who is in the ring taking the blows to express truthful things that threaten evil, that's easy enough to do and popular.
After I beat Clarence Moriwaki (a current Bainbridge Island City Council member) in court, badly, I was involved in efforts concerning Houston Wade behind the scenes as well as online. I was quick to report on his loss in court for defaming a neighbor in the absolute worst way, and broadcasting his bankruptcy that resulted, to his audience of potential victims. Wade brought me up in his court proceedings regularly in his many irrelevancies. He blamed me for some of his woes in court documents and testimony. I won't say that he was incorrect, but it didn't convince any of his judges. Be that as it may or may not be, I tried to reach any of his potential victims to let them know the character of the person they were dealing with and I enjoyed a large amount of success much to his dismay. Houston spent considerable time banning and censoring me from any community, starting with the "Bainbridge Island Open Community" Facebook group, and then reporting my posts in other areas, doing the thing that all frauds and liars do who smart from my accurate words.
While Wade was successful at getting Elon Musk's X platform to suspend my account, according to Grok, he was ultimately unsuccessful and soon I no longer had to inform folks about him as there was an army of people doing it who had seen the information I provided. In his podcast, he made it very clear how my ceaseless efforts caused him real torment.
In the video above, in addition to demonstrating the real pain I caused him, Houston Wade also makes the false claim that I am friends with child molesters (a frequent claim he lobbed at anybody he disagreed with, and one that has him nearly one million dollars in debt after a court ruling and that led to him declaring bankruptcy). Wade talks about my obsession with him and begs his audience to block me, concerned about the power truthful words might have on his grift. I would recommend readers watch this video before continuing to read below to really understand the full force of agony my words can cause some individuals. The video shows the real, purposeful, pain on Wade's face as a result of my efforts. At 13:27 Wade discusses his stalker (referring to me) and says:
It is exhausting, the thing is I know I'm not alone, because I know he has dozens of victims, so we all talk with each other and share and treasure each other's support because this guy is unending, he'll make websites about you, he'll make videos about you...
He's right. So many of my critics, excuse me, my "victims" who have suffered the "harassment" and the brunt of my harsh words, have communicated with Houston Wade in their shared effort to retaliate against me. It goes well beyond an Internet slap fight. But we'll leave that for another day.
As far as words go, it's really extreme stuff. I admit it. My words have been issued not just harshly, and truthfully, but also with the hope of causing pain by exposing the character of my subject. Does that make me a monster? Is there a difference between wanting to cause pain with the truth, rather than through lies, or am I the asshole and curmudgeon and prick that Tony Carr says I am because of how I conduct myself with words online regardless of the accuracy he credits me with? Who spends so much time "attacking" another person online, anyway? Trolls do from what I'm told. And "stalkers" of course. Houston Wade refers to me regularly as his "stalker" for expressing views about him he doesn't approve of, and doing it so frequently. His Twitter account lists his location as "in Rick Rynearson's head" yet his podcast's "winged rhino" flying animation makes it very clear that I am front and center inside his. And that was purposeful, the OODA Loop applied to our new digital landscape. But the question remains, who does that? Is there something wrong with me spending this much time "obsessing" over somebody online? Is this the vibe of hate that Tony Carr referenced? Am I the "serial stalker" who moves from target to target that Houston claims that I am? So many people take issue with my aggressive speech...
So, I chose to do some reflection, to ponder the recent criticism of my online activity... and I have decided that I will likely cease my intense online activity against Houston Wade. It's a start, after all, right?
I won't be ceasing because there is any real merit to these criticisms of my speech, of course, but rather because Houston Wade has just been arrested and charged for trying to do things to an eleven year old that shouldn't be imagined let alone attempted. Be forewarned when reading the details of the charging document I just linked, it's not a pleasant read. Edit: the charging document has now been revised with more charges and even worse details about multiple actual child victims, his fetish for dominating submissive children, and his use of bondage gear. And we all know some folks who really don't like words when they're not pleasant. Six years ago I tried to warn people about Houston Wade's mental/sexual state, but given the censorship and control of information, not many likely saw that explicit warning. Censors hate the truth. And some, really really hate it... Bad people don't like voices exposing them.
My three readers might remember that a few weeks ago, Seth Hettena wrote an article about my refusal of an unlawful order over on his Substack, "The After-Action Report." When he contacted me with his list of questions, I declined to cooperate because I didn't trust him or most in his chosen profession. I got lucky and his article ended up being fair reporting. But my instincts about him turned out to be exactly correct.
A few weeks later he published a different article entitled, "Weekend Read: JSOC Once Taught the Rules. Now It Breaks Them." The article featured a scathing critique of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) through the lens of a guy who was part of JSOC, a guy named Brandon Bryant. The problem? Brandon Bryant has never been a part of JSOC. Further, Brandon Bryant is a severely mentally ill mythomaniac with a well documented history of repeatedly lying in his many media professions about his short time in the military, and his even shorter time in the drone program. I have spent considerable time over the years documenting the lies told by Bryant and he is, without question, a mythomaniac with a far far greater than average propensity for lying.
When I pointed out that Bryant was never a member of JSOC, Hettena did a stealth edit of the first line of his article and changed his line to say "supported JSOC." His article originally stated:
He also similarly changed a section of his article which originally stated:
Seth didn't reply to my comment to point out he had changed his article based on it, as he has done on other articles to other commenters, but twelve hours after he had made the edit he finally published his "moderator note" shown at the top of this blog post. He published that note only after I had already pointed out his silent edit. For at least twelve hours, my comments he used to slightly improve his article were no issue and not deleted, and even got a like from somebody in his audience. But even after his stealth edit, he left multiple other false comments in the article where Bryant wove his untruthful narrative that he was a part of JSOC and had "JSOC instructors." So I commented again and pointed out these sections. One would think such corrections would be valuable given Seth's article title doesn't even make sense. JSOC once taught the rules? To who? Definitely not to Brandon Bryant.
But Seth apparently didn't find those comments valuable. Rather, Seth deleted all my comments and blocked me from his Substack. He characterized my comments as a "personal attack." I took screenshots of the comments which I'll share here and would encourage my three readers to take a look at the changes he did not make to his article, where the thrust of his writing remains a smear against JSOC through utilizing the fantasies of a well documented fraud who pretends he was part of that organization.
The first comment, shown below, is the one that prompted Seth to stealth edit his article. It has since been deleted but the unhinged replies to it from Brandon Bryant have been left up:
It should be noted that not only is calling somebody "a dishonorable man and a loser" not a personal attack in the mind of Seth Hettena (who moderates objectively and not to remove accurate criticisms that better inform his readers, wink, wink), but also that the 3rd Special Operations Squadron has never been a part of JSOC and a person is not simply "read in to" that organization, while in a wholly different organization no less. That's simply not how it works.
An investigative reporter who claims he is a "veteran national security reporter covering intelligence and special operations," one would think, would be aware of the organization chart available on Wikipedia that shows AFSOC (which the 3rd SOS falls under) is separate from JSOC. None of this is classified information and anybody familiar with the SOF community should recognize this fact.
Source: Wikipedia, the go-to resource for real investigative journalists
This second comment above was also deleted by Seth as a "personal attack." Perhaps pointing out his failure to investigate was what he was referring to although his moderator note claims he is just looking out for his audience and his source rather than trying to protect his own thin skin. Seems a valid criticism to me and his stealth edit of his article seems to suggest he agrees with me.
The comment above was also deleted despite no personal attack being made, unless Seth thinks suggesting he could have reported better is somehow an attack and he wasn't being truthful in his moderator note, being more interested in silencing criticism of his reporting than catering to the soft sensibilities of his audience and the source of his reporting.
I shared with Seth a video he should have investigated prior to his article, and which I imagine he likely was already aware of before he crafted his garbage article, given that he shared a video from my YouTube channel when he was researching me. It stands to reason he would have seen "Brandon Bryant the Documentary: Drones and Deceptions" on my channel but if he did, it certainly didn't trigger any kind of journalistic ethics. Of course given his demonstrated research inadequacy, it's also possible Seth failed to find the video on my channel or on this blog despite spending time on both. But Bryant's claim that I'm a slanderer, of course, has not been removed.
My video shows very clearly why any journalist worth their salt would never demean their credibility by using Brandon Bryant as a source.
My instincts about Seth Hettena turned out to be correct. He is a shit reporter with no interest in the truth. He deletes comments that criticize and correct his staggeringly-bad reporting, and the subject of his reporting, and then labels such corrections (that he partially utilizes to try to fix his dead-on-arrival article no less) as "personal attacks" while leaving up actual personal attacks. What an embarrassing showing.
Seth's article is about as much of a failure as it would have been had he written an article in 2010 interviewing Bernie Madoff for investment strategy. Just writing the article demonstrates a lack of even the most cursory amount of research. He didn't even know the basics of the SOF org chart to challenge the ridiculous claims from his source, and then based the very title of his trash article upon them?? It seems to me such a showing should lead an "investigative reporter" to perhaps investigate a different line of work.
It's not just the lies from the article that irritate me. It's not just that I'm confident the "conversations" Bryant reports in this article never happened and that he just made stuff up to assist Seth with his agenda, it's actually much worse than that. Beyond the lies is yet another instance of an unprincipled journalist using a severely mentally ill individual who cries daily about his depression and loneliness and the fact that nobody loves him, to say things like a trained circus seal, in exchange for some attention. What kind of humane individual does that? Why not have him do a little dance for you too while you and your buddies get a chuckle?
Bryant has had hordes of such individuals, calling themselves reporters and journalists, use him for clicks or for whatever their agenda, knowing that he'll say whatever it is they want him to say. One problem, however, is that when they do so they exacerbate his mental illness, they inflate the myth in his head that keeps him from being able to confront reality and to get along in the real world. Bryant's inability to distinguish between reality and fiction is only made worse when he reads his lies put into print where they start to look true. This is a huge disservice to someone with the mental health challenges that Bryant faces. Seth can just send an email and perhaps ignore the details of the life of his "source" but did he even research it? Did he even care?
Put another way, imagine if Seth was cycling over a bridge and spotted a homeless guy muttering to himself "I can fly like a bird, I can fly like a bird." What if Seth then decided to interview the guy for a story and published "Man Can Fly Like a Bird!" on his Substack. Imagine the clicks! But would that raise any journalistic ethics issues? Seth could say, "Well, I just reported what my source told me." Sure, but do you think that source reading your article perhaps reinforced something that was obviously not true? Do you think the crews below cleaning up brain matter off the concrete might have thought you should have a done a bit more research first? There is no excuse for these predator "journalists" chasing clicks and damaging sources while misleading their audiences with falsities. Just a disgusting showing by Seth Hettena all around on this one.
And, for full transparency, here is all correspondence I have ever had with Seth Hettena (consisting of emails as I declined to have a phone conversation with him). I don't intend to have any more correspondence with this subpar "journalist."
Hi Mr. Rynearson,
I'm a journalist who covers military and intelligence issues for Rolling Stone and my Substack newsletter, The After-Action Report.
I'm reporting a story for my Substack regarding the current debate in
Washington, triggered by Democrats who say US forces should not follow
unlawful orders. I saw on your blog that you consider the strikes on
suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific
to be unlawful orders.
Given that you actually faced such a decision, I thought it would be helpful to get a fuller perspective on this debate.
What
grounds make the boat strikes unlawful, in your view? Do they once
again violate the Fifth Amendment? And does the absence of
congressionally authorized war powers also weigh against these being
lawful orders?
What were the consequences of your refusal to
follow orders? It appears from your blog and YouTube channel that the
Air Force tried to discharge you but ultimately allowed you to retire
with benefits and a security clearance. Is there a reason the Air Force
did not make an example of you?
Do you see a straight line from the Awlaki strike to the current strikes on suspected traffickers?
As
you know, the Justice Department issued a legal opinion blessing the
Awlaki drone operation as lawful. Were you aware of Barron's legal
opinion at the time you made your decision, and if so, why did it not
persuade you to take part in the operation?
Media reporting
indicates that there is another Justice Department opinion regarding the
boat strikes, which goes further, arguing that the troops involved
cannot be prosecuted. Do you think troops should rely on such an
opinion? Would such an assurance have affected your decision not to
follow the order in the Awlaki operation?
You wrote on your blog
that the Obama administration's use of American military assets to
target American citizens for assassination outside war zones without due
process was "an act of treason." Does that same logic apply to the
Trump administration's boat strikes that target non-citizens? Are they
treasonous as well?
From an operational standpoint, what key
safeguards should be in place before authorizing a strike (whether
against a citizen or non-citizen)?
Are there lessons from your refusal of the 2011 order that you believe policymakers today are ignoring or misapplying?
Hope to speak with you soon, or feel free to respond by email.
First,
you've made an assumption about the identity of the American citizen I
was tasked with assassinating. I have never named that individual and
there were multiple American citizens targeted and killed unlawfully
under the Obama administration. The identity of the now deceased
individual is not classified, but I believe it detracts from the
conversation to name him. All that matters is that he was an American
citizen, outside a war zone who presented no imminent threat.
Second,
I've written about the order on my blog and there supplied official
documents about my resignation. I've also posted quite a lot about the
recent strikes under my name on Facebook recently and publicly.
Finally,
if you know Glenn Greenwald and you can have him email me and vouch for
your objectivity, I'll answer your questions. Otherwise I have to
defer you to my public contributions. Good luck with your story, it's
important. I hope you do it right.
- R
Hey there,
Thanks for getting back to me. I only know Glenn Greenwald from his work, so I guess I'll stick with the public statements.
I
take your point about you not naming the American citizen you were
tasked with assassinating, and I'll make that clear in the story.
Is there a photo of you from your AF days that I can use with your permission?
Seth
I appreciate the obvious effort you've put into this
with your detailed questions. And I am sorry to say I don't trust
journalists and their agendas which are too frequently not concerned
with being as truthful as they can be. If I gave you an image with my
permission and you chose to do the story including me in it, it would
show my image and some label about me giving permission for it to be
used, giving the impression to the reader that I sanctioned whatever it
is that you chose to write. But I don't know what you're going to
write.
I imagine this won't be agreeable to
you, but if you provide me the article before you publish it, and I
think it's fair, I'll provide a photo and permission to use it.
If you're one of the rare journalists, my apologies in advance for making it harder for you to do vitally needed work.
- Rick
OK, I guess I'll figure something else out.
All the best,
Seth
This is you, right, and not some other Richard Rynearson?
Seith, it's a well done article. And thank you. If
you still want a picture for it, you can use any of these if you wish. I
don't have many good pics in uniform.
Nice work.
- Rick
Hey thanks. I'd still welcome a conversation with you. This issue isn't going away anytime soon.
My name is Rick Rynearson. I was an Air Force command pilot & field grade officer and am now retired. I grew up an Air Force dependent (my father retired a CMSgt). I have eight deployments to OEF/OIF as a close air support attack pilot, more than one thousand combat flight hours, seven Air Medals and a Distinguished Flying Cross for valor. At 15 years into my career I resigned my commission & refused an order to assassinate an American citizen without charge or trial -- an order issued by the Obama/Biden administration; my resignation was not accepted & I was ultimately vindicated by the Air Force. I have a B.A. in religion from the Florida State University. My wife is a Harvard educated former Air Force intelligence officer turned civilian lawyer, former clerk for a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Air Force Reserve JAG.
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