“Kafkaesque” Redefined in 21st Century America
by Pat Shannan
In recent years, I have personally witnessed (so many times I cannot recount) the deceptive chicanery to which federal judges and prosecutors stoop to get a conviction “at all costs.” But in the federal venue the expression does not fit anymore because the railroading of a defendant, guilty or innocent, doesn’t “cost” at all – it pays. More about this in a moment.
My first personal, hands-on investigative experience was with the 1983 Gordon Kahl case when U.S. Marshals planned and carried out a bushwhack execution of the sixty-three-year-old law-abiding farmer in North Dakota.
The first one backfired. Even after gaining an unfair advantage via ambush, the agents lost that February 13th gun battle to the sharpshooting WWII veteran, but after FBI agents and U. S. Marshals childishly argued in Police Chief Darrel Graf’s office the next morning about “who should get to kill Gordon Kahl,” the two agencies conspired together for a joint operation of “legalized murder” in northeast Arkansas on June 3rd. Kahl was tracked down and shot in the back of the head without warning as he watched the TV evening news from a friend’s kitchen table. U. S. Marshal Jim Hall blasted the unarmed Kahl without warning with what was nothing less than cold blooded murder. Local officers said that Hall then stormed out of the farmhouse and vomited violently in the yard – apparently at the disgusting thought of what he had just done. Hall later disappeared into the federal smokescreen and could not be located by independent investigators. It would have made little difference. The federal gang already had its cover story in place, and there would be no prosecution.
We, the American people, should be vomiting too, because the legal violence has not ceased – it has multiplied. Why do we silently tolerate this abuse and violence and, yes, even murder by those sworn to “protect and serve?” Probably because the ignorant far outnumber the enlightened and counterfeit legal tender money continues to fund these ungodly operations.
Another reason has to be that the national news media, both print and electronic, usually become “Accessories after the Fact” in the government instigated crimes by telling only the government’s side of the story; and even that is usually laced with several little white lies covering up the single great big one. The ignorance is in direct correlation to this biased reporting.
During the past decade, I believed that the Edgar Steele case was about the worst of any federal crime creation I ever saw – certainly Dave Hinkson’s was a close second. Matt Hale must not be forgotten either. The details of all three frame-ups seemed to follow the same federal script: make up a crime, create a false witness (one is enough these days) and allow no defense details to be heard.
But now the unwarranted, undercover, underhanded, surreptitious, Mafioso-style false flag set-up and abuse of Schaeffer Cox and his young family may have taken the lead in the 21st century race for who can be smeared and attacked by government for the worst reasons and in the most despicable manner.
Born in Denver but moving with his family to Alaska as a youngster, Schaeffer Cox was only 24 when attacked and 28 when his final federal ambushing by the federal court occurred. He was put away for a sentence of 26 years. Yes, Schaeffer was a fearsome government adversary of the worst kind: he told the truth and exposed corruption. He also believed that the Constitution was still the governing law of the land that all public officials, elected and appointed, were required to follow. He found out too late that in these Orwellian times such speech and thought can cause one to be labeled with the dreaded “T-word.” Terrorist.
But much as with that of “racist” or “anti-Semitic,” any definition of the word “terrroist’ is, at best, vague. Edgar Steele, an Idaho attorney and the victim just mentioned, once wrote concerning the Newspeak word-twisting: “Anti-Semite used to describe someone that didn’t like Jews; now it’s anyone the Jews don’t like.”
So just what is a “terrorist” anyway, other than the latest excuse for creating travel control over citizens? The TSA hasn’t found one in a dozen years of existence, so they can’t say they know what a terrorist looks like. But after only a decade of the fear evolution, a terrorist now seems to be accurately defined as anyone the government doesn’t like.
Journalist and Edward Snowden-advocate Glenn Greenwald writes of the deception:
There is this common paradox which is that the words that are most frequently used and have the greatest impact are often the words that are the most ill-defined. And therefore subject to manipulation, deceit, and propaganda.
So the word ‘terrorist’ for example is something that pervades countless political discussions of great significance. And we are essentially at the point, literally, where if the government points to somebody and simply utters the word ‘terrorist,’ then large numbers of citizens… will cheer for whatever it is that is done… No matter how lawless, no matter how little evidence has been presented to justify it, the mere fact that they have been labeled a ‘terrorist’ is something that will basically cause a majority of people to sanction whatever is done.
And yet what is so fascinating about the word ‘terrorist’ is that it really is a term that has absolutely no fixed meaning, it’s simply a term that means whatever the person wielding it wants it to mean.
(The bold type in Greenwald’s quote reminds us of the news videos in Boston following the legalized murder of one CIA-trained Russian Tsarenov brother and the near murder of the younger after he was in custody. The cameras showed the citizen morons in the streets chanting “USA! USA! USA!” as if the militaristic cops had just won a gold medal in the new Olympic event of machine-gunning.)
Publicly outspoken as a political candidate and citing every front of federal abuse, young Cox was no different than the majority of Americans who say the same words but only to their friends and neighbors. Young Mr. Cox said it to the microphones at news conferences and at political rallies, and it was this that made him an “enemy of the state” – not uncommon in communist countries but outrageous in one that purportedly has a protection for such things under “the freedom of speech.”
Even so, his stand was well received, and he finished third at age 23 with 38% of the vote to be his district’s State Representative. But his Second Amendment cause and his general Constitutional platform (and especially the open-armed, welcoming reception by the people) was just a little too much for the gun-grabbing enemy, and Schaffer Cox eventually found himself too a target – Yes, an enemy of the State. “What they did next is perhaps the most morally reprehensible aspect of this whole ordeal,” says Cox, from the Marion Federal Penitentiary. “It was so bad, in fact, that the Military Police from a nearby base ended up intervening to help me and my family.”
It was a contrived complaint by the Feds that he and his wife were neglecting their year-and-a-half-old son Seth. At the time the Cox’s were not only innocent of this federally fabricated fiction but were licensed by the government as foster parents and certified by the local office of Child Protective Services.
But the horror story had just begun and the list of abuses outlined by Cox himself in a letter is as surrealistic as a Franz Kafka novel. The FBI even questioned his pastor and neighbors before stopping by the utility companies and warning them not to let their maintenance crews go near the Cox home because he “is a terrorist.”
“Lucky for me,” writes Cox, “because of the type of business I was in, most of the maintenance crews and other employees there knew me and knew nothing could be further from the truth.”
Nevertheless, Cox had been officially targeted and the continuing FBI attack was unrelenting. By now, he had been forced to move his family from their home out of fear that a SWAT team would attack during the night and take their children to never-never land. The next charade exposed just exactly how persistent and amoral the weasels could and would be.
Another provocateur by the name of Bill Fulton called one day saying he was a “militia leader” from another town and wanted to meet with Cox at a store in Fairbanks. Schaeffer smartly took along a friend. As it turned out, Fulton brought along eight goons who said they only wanted to help out by retaliating against the feds with force. Of course, they needed Cox’s endorsement to get the backing from his strong voter base. When he refused saying it was ridiculous and in no way fruitful, Fulton and his goons threatened violence right then and there to both of them – actually holding a knife to the friend’s throat. The threat was that if Cox didn’t help them organize a plot to attack the government, they would kill him instead.
Pop Quiz: Guess who was paying the Fulton Gang’s expenses? (Never mind. Sorry to insult your intelligence.)
Schaffer took his complaints to the local police and got no help. One never does when the interlopers are the federales. Fear overcomes honor and duty with the locals every time. But Cox and his wife were friendly with another detective that lived nearby and decided to visit him at home one evening. They were invited in to chat around the kitchen table, while Schaffer asked for his help. (Now we get a twist of Hitchcock into the mix.) Later he was to discover that this “friend” was also a secret adversary working with the feds as well.
Because of a military connection, Cox visited an officer at the local Army post in hopes that he would get some help there. It was another dead end, but he does report this interesting little tidbit:
“While all of this was going on, this young MP named Stephen Gibson, who was talking to us, had asked an FBI agent what all the fuss was about and who was this Schaeffer Cox guy? The FBI agent told MP Gibson that Schaeffer Cox (that’s me) had been doing lots of different things and they had wanted me for a few years but ‘he hadn’t done anything illegal but that didn’t matter now because we are going after his son, and when we try to take him we think that will be sufficient to elicit a display of force at which point we will shoot him; and that will put an end to our Schaeffer Cox problems.'”
From prison Mr. Cox further informs us that he has since learned that the motivating factor for Bill Fulton et al. was the FBI offer of $350,000 to anyone that could get him to commit a crime that resulted in a conviction. (Here we have another secret power of money creation. Where would any lawful government operating with lawful money find this financial motivation to offer to government criminals?)
But now we are beyond all that. These cases must be properly appealed and ASAP.
There seems to be a common thread to all these insider crimes and certainly many more that have not yet been exposed. Our favorite attorney has told us that Schaeffer, Edgar, David and Matt all had a failure of trial counsel to present their defenses, i.e., the evidence that would have convinced the jury to acquit was never presented to or seen by them. The prevailing reason may be another chapter of Judicial Corruption but this is not as important right now as the fact that innocent men are in jail because the key evidence to prevent that was held out at trial. Whether it was a tyrannical judge or a sell-out attorney is not important here now. The point is, it happened. We have shown how the FBI was creating the crime in the first place, but when a judge makes the legal decision to exclude tape recordings and other exculpatory evidence that would exonerate a wrongfully accused defendant, it means that it was intentional and the judge was part of the conspiracy and the scam was deliberate.
Dave Hinkson had a passport showing he was out of the country when his alleged “conspiracy to murder a federal judge” conversation occurred. The judge disallowed the evidence to be presented to the jury.
Edgar Steele spent thousands on two audio tape experts that were then not allowed to testify in his defense. Both reported that the incriminating tapes were cut and edited in dozens of places and also disputed the prosecution claim that the recorded voice there was actually that of the accused.
Matt Hale’s is another horror story of federal set-up. There was never any evidence shown to the court that Hale had solicited Tony Evola – a government informant posing as a supporter of Hale – to kill an Illinois federal judge. His case had just as many judicial discrepancies as the others. All the men are serving what amounts to life sentences.
As said at the opening, I’ve seen it as a repeated pattern and have long been aware of it, but now I am learning that one thing a judge cannot legally do is prohibit a defendant from making an offer of proof. (I always blamed it on an inept or sellout lawyer.) But if the slick rascal can intimidate and prevent the defendant and his attorney from making the offer, and the evidence is not in the record, then there is nothing for an attorney to talk about later on appeal. Then all the defendant can do is claim “Ineffective Assistance of Counsel” which becomes far easier for the Appellate Court to shoot down than that of exculpatory evidence actually having being denied by the trial judge.
It is once more a reminder that the FBI has been responsible for at least two dozen false flag operations on U. S. soil since 9/11, according to former Fox News reporter Judge Andrew Napolitano (who is as angry about this as any of us); and that maybe each time Americans read or hear the media reporting “Terrorist” activity in the future, it should connote “FBI at it Again” for a more plausible definition.
And here is how it pays to be a liar for the feds:
