Having Exercised Their First Amendment Rights, This Is Where I’d Recommend They Take A Strong Look At The Second
October 12th, 2007
The Rocky Mountain News, just so you know, decided to post the full arrest ticket for every one of the Columbus Day protesters a couple of days ago. They redacted only the social security numbers, leaving all personal contact information in place. Phone numbers, home addresses, everything.
Is it legal? Yeah. Is it a sleazy little fucking intimidation tactic? Absolutely.
Anyway, the Rocky did finally pull the arrest tickets this morning. But only after they’d been picked up by the local right-wing blogs, who are now hosting them on their sites. Which was absolutely predictable, of course.
That’s your Rocky Mountain News. When not pilfering their stories from the right-wing blogisphere, they’re subcontracting their dirty work to ’em.
In entirely related news, the Tanner Gun Show will be at the Denver Merchandise Mart all weekend. And, don’t forget, Colorado’s a Make My Day state, should any of these little creeps come knocking.
Also, in the spirit of openness and fair play, following is Rocky Mountain News hack Berny Morson’s address and phone number, since he’s the asshole whose article is linked to the tickets.
Berny Morson
624 Pine St
Boulder, CO 80302
(303) 449-4239
October 13th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Wah, wah, wah. God, this blog is just one whiny baby complaint from this Ben dude after another.
why do you think anybody fucking cares?
October 13th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
When the retired FBI official Joe Trimbach publishes his book AMERICAN INDIAN MAFIA Wardo and AIM leaders will be exposed. It will be much worse than an arrest for demonstrating.
“[T]he cover stories [of AIM leaders] have only served to implicate AIM members in other killings, such as the execution-style murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash.”–Joe Trimbach
Former members know that aiding and abetting carries the same penalty that awaits Graham: life in prison. And so they are naturally concerned that Graham may cut a deal and sing like a canary…” Joe Trimbach, former Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Minneapolis FBI
“For the first time, Joe’s book exposes myths and falsehoods, as well as never-before-published secrets of AIM.”–Ed Fleck (retired FBI agent)
“A new book entitled, American Indian Mafia, will expose Churchill’s fraudulent research and conspiracy theories embodied in two of his more interesting books, Agents of Repression, and The COINTELPRO Papers. These books deal with supposed conspiracies concocted by the FBI against the American Indian Movement. The investigating committee apparently has not looked under this rock.”–Joe Trimbach
I sort of wonder if the book will have information pinched from the Soviet archives.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2007/10/mitrokhin-archive.html
The Mitrokhin Archives describes the KGB’s Covert Action Information Bulletin. Ward published articles in that journal.
The purpose of the KGB-sponsored journal was to discredit the CIA and FBI.
Ward now seems to have gravitated to the radical Islamist cause.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2007/10/ward-churchill-in-film-canary-effect.html
October 13th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
“sleazy little fucking intimidation tactic”
You make it sound like they’re walking around with a boner and a shotgun.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Snapple, I can’t find information anywhere on this upcoming book you keep talking about, except on your blog. How do you know about this book? Are you the author? If so you’ve definately picked the perfect place for self-promotion.
What the, why do you think they published all that personal information if not to provide a way for harassment and intimidation to reach the protestors? Did anyone else in the public require that information for any other reason?
October 13th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Joe Trimbach has written several articles that mentioned his book.
He had the most recent one in News from Indian Country.
http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=693&Itemid=1
If you go to the end of that article and click on the name of the book, it does actually link to my blog.
I found that out by accident. It doesn’t look much like a link, but it is.
I have no idea how he stumbled on my site. I don’t know him.
I have a number of articles by Trimbach cited on my blog. Search Trimbach.
October 14th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Of course I am not Joe Trimbach.
Oh, and I’m not Vernon Bellecourt, either:)
October 14th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Snapple claims he’s not Joe Trimbach, thereby proving beyond any reasonable doubt that he is.
October 14th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Charley Arthur claims he’s not Ward Churchill, thereby proving beyond any reasonable doubt that he is.
October 14th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Snapple, no more redundant comments. I’m deleting them from here on out, and I’ll ban you again if you persist.
October 15th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Snapple, you must either know or be Trimbach.
1) The only references I can find to Trimbach’s “up-coming” book are on your website, or the indian country news article.
2) somehow, that article links to your site, to an entry that post-dates the 2002 publishing date you attribute to Trimbach’s article on your website.
3) your Trimbach quote that begins “A new book entitled…” doesn’t appear anywhere except on your site, with a specific date and time of quoting, or on THIS site, where YOU posted it without quotation or citation.
4) you reference a speech given by Trimbach to an audience of former FBI agents, with a link to an article in an FBI journal hosted only on your website.
5) I refuse to believe that you wouldn’t immediately make contact with a man so devoted to your cause, even if you didn’t know him before hand.
Someone else might want to look into this further, I think Snapple’s identity might be pretty interesting.
October 15th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Based on his/her posts, you actually believe that would be interesting?
October 15th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
It might be a revelation about the psychopathy of those employed by the FBI or committed to slandering Churchill.
October 15th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I am not supposed to repeat myself.
Anyone who is interested can see the cites by searching Trimbach on my blog and reading the articles.
The first I heard of Trimbach’s book was in the Rocky Mountain News a couple of years ago.
There were January 2007 and June 2007 articles in News from Indian Country.
There was a mention of the book at a talk he gave in Florida and I think a small mention in a Colorado paper.
These are on my site.
Here is the link to my first post about Trimbach, but I have several.
This one is based on the 2006 RMN article.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2006/04/my-hero-steps-out-of-shadows-agent.html
October 15th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
I found the April 17 2006 article in the RMN here. At the end of the article the book is mentioned.
http://cache.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=1514584127&page_url=%2f%2fwww.rockymountainnews.com%2fdrmn%2fspeak_out%2farticle%2f0%2c2777%2cDRMN_23970_4626179%2c00.html&page_last_updated=4%2f17%2f2006+6%3a13%3a47+AM&firstName=Joseph&lastName=Trimbach
October 15th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Here is a big snip, but not the entire article.
I hope this is helpful.
Trimbach writes in the RMN Speakout section:
I have some experience dealing with media manipulation. In the 1970s, my employer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, frequently employed a “no comment” policy when confronting propagandists. The unfortunate result was that many falsehoods concerning the FBI went unchallenged. Today, they survive in various publications where truth usually takes a back seat to ideology.
Nowhere do the myths die harder than with radical elements of the American Indian Movement. At its core, AIM was as violent a group of extremists as you’ll find in recent history, though you’d never know it from reading the history books. AIM’s legacy lives on as the story of beleaguered Indians who merely sought to improve indigenous lives. While there’s historical room for altruism among its unassuming members, the sad reality of AIM’s true heritage is one of destruction.
In 1973, AIM leaders Russell Means and Dennis Banks led a nighttime raid on the historic village of Wounded Knee in South Dakota. The invasion began with gunfire and looting and left the village in shambles 10 weeks later, having caused two deaths. Most historical accounts characterize the takeover as a “liberation” or as a “symbolic” protest meant to focus attention on the plight of reservation dwellers.
The latest rendition in the rewriting of Wounded Knee history is A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973. Regrettably, the Public Broadcasting System has opted to feature this low-budget documentary, thus bestowing legitimacy upon another shameless attempt to cast invading militants as heroes. What is not explained is how 67 families benefited from the systematic destruction of their homes.
In the world of academia, truth is likewise rendered homeless where AIM is concerned. For example, University of Colorado’s embattled professor, Ward Churchill, exemplifies a career built on fraudulent research. Take his book, The COINTELPRO Papers (South End Press, 2001), a collection of outrageous assertions based on guesswork. University administrators who granted Churchill tenure may be surprised to learn that each mention of my name is in reference to complete fabrications.
In one of the more zany episodes, I assume the identity of an infiltrating postal inspector during the Wounded Knee crisis. In another, I am given responsibility for the death of a village occupier, at a time when I was hundreds of miles away. What I did do, as the chief FBI official on the scene, was to order the erection of manned roadblocks to cordon off the violence. Would-be historians have since contended that armed militants who opened fire on these roadblocks were not trying to harm anyone. The assertion is both inaccurate and absurd.
One of AIM’s greatest heroes from that period of violence was convicted killer Leonard Peltier. Peltier participated in the shooting death of two FBI agents, one of whom sat pleading for his life while his partner lay unconscious, bleeding to death. Today, thanks to unscrupulous authors, Peltier has been transformed into a harmless, warm-and-fuzzy prisoner of conscience. Peltier still maintains his innocence, Tookey Williams-style, despite court testimony that has him bragging about the dastardly deed.
Students of history should take heart in knowing that truth eventually wins out. Rumsfeld apparently agrees. He ended his speech with the hopeful prediction that, despite our enemy’s skill at manipulating media, the United States has an advantage in its standard of truth. “I believe . . . that free people, exposed to sufficient information, will, over time, find their way to right decisions.”
Let’s hope this includes exposing the false legacies of AIM.
Joseph H. Trimbach, the FBI special agent in charge at its Minneapolis division from 1973-1975, is writing a book due out next year about his experiences with the American Indian Movement.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Here is a cached link to an older article in News from Indian Country (1-11-2007). The date at the bottom says 2002, but that isn’t the article date according to zoominfo. It is called “Grave’s Mistakes.”
Dead link
http://www.indiancountrynews.com/fullstory.cfm?ID=534
Cache
http://cache.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=1841599599&page_url=%2f%2fwww.indiancountrynews.com%2ffullstory.cfm%3fID%3d534&page_last_updated=1%2f11%2f2007+10%3a32%3a12+AM&firstName=Joseph&lastName=Trimbach
October 15th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Tyndale-
The 2002 date should have been typed 2007. I fixed it and gave the exact date 1-11-07.
It is called “Grave’s Mistakes.”
(Zoominfo)
I also found a good link–the cache I had was now bad.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2007/06/american-indian-mafia-by-joseph-h.html
I hope this is helpful.
Trimbach mentions the book in the 1-11-07 article.
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