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This is just so typical! The true criminals here are Bob Mueller and James Comey! And this is how they move - they’re pros but they’re going to get smashed; I hope to see them executed for treason! I’ve been dealing with these domestic terrorists since 2001 and I like to think I’ve got the upper hand finally. From the Fox News article related to this question:"Special Counsel Robert Mueller's remarks today confirmed what we already knew. There was no collusin between the Russians and the Trump campaign, and there was no case for obstruction," campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement. " President Trump has been fully and completely exonerated. Mueller said his investigation is over. The case is now closed."Parscale went on to address the investigation of "the origins of the Russia hoax," and why the Justice Department and FBI intiated their probe of the Trump campaign."Anyone who is for transparency, constitutional civil libterties, and the rule of law should want to know why human sources, wiretapping, and unmasking were used to infiltrate a presidential campaign," he said.Bob Mueller is a blatant and highly skilled criminal, as is James Comey - although not nearly so skilled. Why else do you think they are pandering to the left!?! Rosenstein even called Comey out for it and now we have Bob:“So I do not blame the former director for being angry. I would be too if I were in his shoes,” Rosenstein said. "But now the former director seems to be acting as a partisan pundit, selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul. I kid you not."Rosenstein’s criticism of Comey is the latest salvo in what has evolved into a war of words between the two former colleagues. Comey has become a major public figure in the wake of his dismissal and has been at times lauded as a hero by Trump’s critics. Several weeks ago, Comey penned an op-ed in The New York Times ripping into Attorney General William Barr and accusing Barr and others in Trump’s administration of lacking the “inner strength” to stand up to the president and writing that Trump “eats your soul in small bites.” In a televised town hall last week, Comey described Rosenstein to CNN’s Anderson Cooper as a person “of accomplishment but not real sterling character, strong character.”"That is disappointing," Rosenstein shot back Monday. "Speculating about souls is not a job for police and prosecutors."Think about Randy Weaver and Brandom Mayfield and Stephen Hatfill and read:When Comey and Mueller Bungled the Anthrax Case; and, my own story which is the following.I’ve lost everything multiple times in the last 20 years and I can’t say that I’ve missed much; I would’ve especially been grateful had I never had to interact with so-called family. That said, I haven’t had a hot shower in over a decade, so I think a hot shower would be nice. But I don’t really miss hot showers . . .What I really miss is JUSTICE! I took government in both high school and at the Houston Community College, so I was buffaloed into believing that America was a place were justice rules; pure fantasy as it turns out!This is from a document I wrote several years ago called “Credence: A Tale of Corruption.”The following document is a condensed version of a truly Texas tale, a tale of corruption on a grand scale. The full version of this story, including copies of relevant legal documents, was delivered to the Office of the U. S. Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Assistant U. S. Attorney, Eastern District of Texas, in January of 2009.I’ve been living in the same woods, near Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas, since early March of 2009. Back then I had a 1984 Chevy pick-up which I kept in good running condition. On the way back from my patent agent’s office, the last time, my fuel pump gave out. Luckily, I had made it to the Flying J truck stop on I-45 and Richey Rd. I talked to a guy from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, who had a Ford F-250 and he towed me back to my woods. I didn’t have the money to replace my fuel pump. A short time later a tree crew showed up and began tearing out the woods. They removed the trees from 16 acres to make way for a future development. They towed my truck out to the end of the dead-end street.In the interim I met Sgt. Michael Walsh with HPD’s Environmental Enforcement Division. He was looking for people dumping used motor oil which happened frequently. Sgt. Walsh gave me his card and told me that if I saw anyone dumping to get their license number and give him a call. A short while later I watched a guy dump a whole trailer of trash on the property that had been cleared of trees. Sgt. Walsh gave the guy a citation and found out he owned a company which cleared out foreclosed homes and evicted apartments. He was getting paid to take the trash to the dump and still dumped it illegally.A short while after that I walked up on two Harris County Pct. 4 employees who had a dump dolly backed into the woods and were dumping unused wet concrete out onto the ground. One guy looked at me and said, “See no evil, speak no evil, right?” I responded, “Yeah, right.” A couple of nights later the other guy came by and tried to bribe me off with Taco Bell tacos. I told him my dogs had already eaten. Sgt. Walsh got a kick out of the situation. He gave the county a citation and the District Attorney, Pat Lykos, made Pct. 4 come out and clean the whole area up. In retaliation a couple of Sheriff’s Deputies showed up and towed my 84’ Chevy. I had already built a shanty in the woods and had my property stowed.While working my way through an open book written by Dr. Hugh Jack of Grand Valley State University, Automating Manufacturing Systems with PLCs, [1] I googled any questions I had, and I had a few considering it is a senior level course and I had none of the prerequisites, and I came across another open source book, written by Tony Kupholdt, an Instrumentation Electronics instructor at Bellingham Technical College, called Lessons in Electric Circuits [2]. I worked my way through all 2500 pages, including the DC lab exercises. I had most of the electronic components I needed due to the microcontroller kits I had purchased before becoming homeless.While living in Port Arthur, Texas, I worked for a company, co-owned by Maxwell Morgan LLC (Maxwell Financial LLC), called Del Pueblo Foods. They had received $1.5 million from insurance due to Hurricane Rita and were in the process of building a state of the art processing facility in a former car dealership when they entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Among other things, I designed and fabricated their food grade brine production and delivery system and overhauled their semi-automatic processing line. I was working as an independent contractor for the trustee, Stephen Zaylor [3] of Lufkin, Texas. Mr. Zaylor brought in Chiron Financial Advisors, from here in Houston, to find a “Stalking Horse” bidder. Chiron Financial did so and during the bankruptcy auction the Del Pueblo assets were sold to this bidder and the new company is now called KT Foods. [4]While working for Mr. Zaylor I did an internet search for Algebra and Trigonometry “cheat sheets,” sheets with all relevant formulas, and came across the website of Professor Paul Dawkins. [5] Professor Dawkins teaches Fundamental Calculus at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and his Calculus “notes,” free to download, are exquisite. While working through Dr. Jack’s PLC book I became inspired by the Boolean Algebra. I was just amazed at how the Boolean Algebra could take a bird nest of logic and reduce it to the simplest and most efficient logic path possible; the power of mathematics demonstrated. So, after Lessons in Electric Circuits, I taught myself Fundamental Calculus using Professor Dawkins “notes” and, primarily, the problem sets of Professor Kouba of the University of California, Davis. [6]While searching the internet for Calculus application problems, I came across the open source textbook and course material provided by Dr. Jeffrey Schnick of St. Anselm College, a complete Newtonian physics course. [7] I worked through the physics course while learning Calculus II. They complement one another rather well.In my spare time I completed several drawings and wrote a number of patents for additional novel and unobvious technologies, technologies which require more than 20 patents to protect. The technologies are all highly marketable and diverse. Two examples I include in this discourse are a surge generator for reef aquaria (actually designed in 2001) and three novel tree shear designs. I have also completed two oil paintings and am working on three others.My inventions are often, if not always, triggered by a catalyst, something already in production which leads me to a novel idea for a new machine. When working for Ares Robotics I was on a Conoco job, a pipeline vessel outside of Ville Platte, Louisiana, when I conceived of the early version of Athena’s Fury™. The company in charge of processing the waste product was hauling it offsite in large, 80 barrel, vacuum boxes. I looked over and saw a truck loading a box and the truck bed was hoisted straight up in the air:I saw these two hydraulic cylinders standing straight up in the air and I immediately conceived of my first piston pump, what’s now being marketed as the Bolsena Sludge Pump. I planned to make it tri-plex:I had the components, three sets of each, machined by Hyseco, a company specializing in large bore cylinders. I was pretty ignorant as to the proper way to design cylinder components at the time but I knew what I got back from Hyseco wasn’t right. I took a piston and gland up to Hurst Hydraulics, another company in Houston specializing in large bore cylinders. I spoke with Jim Hurst and, I believe, his son. I asked them if they could tell me what was wrong with the components and whether they were reparable and, if they were reparable, how much it would cost. Jim told me he would scrap them and start over. He said they were machined from grey cast and needed to be ductile iron. He told me the seal grooves were wrong and that my rod connection was too small. I had these eight inch pistons machined to connect to two inch rods since I planned to drive the pump pistons by smaller hydraulic cylinders. Jim told me he wouldn’t use anything smaller than a 4” rod with an 8” piston because you run the risk of snapping rods. I went home and started thinking about how I could stabilize the rods and, almost immediately, conceived of Athena’s Fury™ in its current manifestation:(these images contain proprietary information)While designing Athena’s Fury™ I was maintaining an experimental, 55 gallon, reef aquarium. I was utilizing filtration techniques developed by Dr. Avery of the Smithsonian Institute with incredible results. My little tank was really flourishing. I had just finished reading Charles Delbeek’s and Julian Sprung’s Reef Aquarium books which made me conceive of my surge generator, Ocean’s Pulse™, originally very similar to Athena’s Fury™.On the Ville Platte job I spent a lot of time pushing and pulling robot umbilical in to and out of the vessel and realized an umbilical management system was needed. I drew a sketch of a framework that could be assembled at the vessel entrance which included three wheels made from large chain sprockets welded together. One wheel was rotated by a hydraulic motor and the other wheels were spring loaded and mounted in a manner that would allow the umbilical to be sandwiched between them and the drive wheel. It included an umbilical cleaning system using brushes with pressurized cutter stock pumped through them.After the job concluded I showed the sketch to Richard Starr and he tore it apart. He said the umbilical would most likely slip on the wheels, he didn’t want to have to add cutter stock as an umbilical cleaning agent, and he didn’t want to construct anything on jobsite. I was a little perturbed and decided he could come up with his own design. I went back out to the shop and started working on an automated robot wash I had designed and was building. Grant Peterson, a conspirator owned by the corporate thief, William Albion Anderson, had some mud processing equipment stored in the Ares yard including a troughing conveyor. I bent over to pick up a piece of metal and caught that troughing conveyor out of the corner of my eye and immediately conceived of the deployment/umbilical management system. I had already thought of the eight wheel drive, articulating ROV:(these images include proprietary information)Richard Starr, being a licensed Professional Engineer, kept the doors open at Ares Robotics by working consultant jobs. Rhodia, a large French owned chemical company, approached Ares Robotics about building a robot to remove product from their railcars. Richard was heavily involved as a professional witness in a personal injury lawsuit at the time thus the designing and building of the railcar robot fell to me. I only drew two pictures to design that robot, both full-scale on a piece of plywood: one to see how wide I could make the head; one to see how wide and tall I could make the body. While building the railcar robot I realized that if I made it larger so that it would squeeze through a 24” manway as opposed to a 17” manway it would make a better vessel robot than the one in current use because the head would raise completely up and out of the material and there would be no live electronics inserted into the vessel. I had built this larger version and used it on the Ville Platte job.This mid-sized robot worked rather well but had a couple of inherent problems. With the head raised completely out of the material it placed too much weight on the front two wheels and, when turning, they would chatter. Occasionally they would chatter so much the wheel would detach from the wheel motor. Richard Starr and Terry McWilliams discovered a solution for this problem which worked extremely well. After we employed this solution it would occasionally chatter the wheel motors out of their brackets. Richard Starr discovered a solution for this problem which also worked extremely well. Although good solutions and essential additions to the robot, I felt they addressed the branch of the problem and not the root; I felt the robot needed more weight on the back end to prevent the chattering outright.The second problem also concerned weight. The material we were removing was weighing around 18 pounds per gallon and when the 4 inch discharge hose became full of material the robot had difficulty manhandling the discharge hose and umbilical. In other words, the robot became difficult to maneuver. During the job I stood at the manway and managed the umbilical myself, shoving hose in, pulling hose out, using a come-along, whatever was necessary to get the job done but, working in tyvex and nomex in +100° temperatures, I knew there had to be a better way. I conceived of two complementary solutions: the articulating, eight-wheel drive robot and the umbilical management system.There were a couple of problems inherent to adding weight to the robot. In order to add mass you had to increase bulk but the only way to increase bulk and still fit through the access manway was by lengthening the robot which was problematic. When launching the robot it made a transition from horizontal to decline. If you lengthened the wheel base of the robot then, when making this transition, it would high-center. If you lengthened the robot but kept the wheel base the same then, after making this transition, the “tail” of the robot would encounter the top of the access manway and launch would be prevented.I started to brainstorm, thinking of all the vehicles I had been exposed to. Growing up on a farm/ranch I had been around heavy equipment my whole life but the solution came from my Marine Corps experience. The articulating, eight-wheel drive robot was inspired by the Light Armored Vehicles (LAVs) I was exposed to in the Marine Corps. My original MOS was LAVs but I was instead sent to 0352 school when a group of sergeants and corporals came to LAV school. They were short on non-commissioned officers. LAVs are eight wheel vehicles and although they don’t articulate themselves their wheels do.As soon as I conceived of two separate bodies articulating I built a simple but effective wooden model and determined that, (this has been redacted).Originally I was planning to operate Ocean’s Pulse™ with pneumatic cylinders. I had no plan to market the device to the public; it was just for my own experimental use. One night I was walking my dog, thinking about the pneumatic system for Ocean’s Pulse™, and realized I could use compressed air with the umbilical cleaning apparatus rather than pressurized cutter stock. Eventually, I bought a microcontroller kit designed to teach humans 12 years and older about microcontrollers because I was trying to learn how to design the controller for Athena’s Fury™. One of the practice circuits used two NPN and two PNP transistors in conjunction with the microcontroller to switch the direction of rotation on a small DC motor. I realized I could operate Ocean’s Pulse™ with a small DC motor and PLC making it marketable to the public. Do you see all the connections? One thing leads to another.My original idea for the robot navigation problem was to use laser diodes inspired by messing with my brother-in-law’s laser level. Eventually I realized that to get a spot of light of sufficient size on the robot would require a diode array of prohibitive size. I bought a one day pass to the Texas A&M Pump Symposium [8] and, as a result, received a bag full of trade magazines. I was reading an article on Plant maintenance and saw a thermographic image of a pump. I said to myself, “Well, I’ll be damn, there’s my navigation solution!” The same magazine had an advertisement for Infrared of Texas [9] out of Beaumont, Texas. After I visited their website and looked through their gallery I was convinced it was a viable solution.One of my inventions is something I designed and built for my father when I was about 12 years old. When I was up there in 2004 it was still in his shop and still being used. I was helping my father and uncle remove some cedar trees [10] in 2004 when I thought of mounting a hydraulic shear to the front of a four-wheel All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV); I just didn’t know how to reduce the shear to a manageable size and still have enough power to shear a tree. I was working for Stephen Zaylor, the bankruptcy trustee handling the Del Pueblo Holdings case, when I discovered the solution.I was working in the new building and some of the warehouse workers were cleaning up the yard outside. One of the workers came to me with a pair of scissor-type tree limb shears he had snapped the handle on and asked if I could get a new pair. I went to Drago’s Hardware to buy a new tree limb shear and found a pair with a funny little linkage mechanism that cost a little more money. I was looking at them trying to figure out how that linkage mechanism could justify the additional cost when one of the Drago brothers came up and said they had just gotten them in and that they were supposed to be able to cut through a much thicker branch. I bought them and gave them a test run and the difference was incredible. I thought immediately of the ATV tree shear problem.In trying to discern what that linkage mechanism was and how it worked, I looked in the hand tool section of the McMaster-Carr [11] catalog. I discovered all kinds of hand tools had that same mechanism. On one page, describing a pair of heavy wire cutters, the advertisement proclaimed, “Toggle-joint turns 50 pounds of force at the handles into 4000 pounds at the jaws!” Now I knew it was a toggle-joint and that I could multiply the force by a factor of 80. Next I turned to the Machinery’s Handbook. They had a page dedicated to toggle-joints including a table of coefficients. I felt for sure I was on to something.I didn’t get around to designing a tree shear until after I finished the patent application for Athena’s Fury™ which means I was homeless at the time. I realized right away that the force dynamics of the toggle-joint was non-linear. I researched the load dynamics of live trees and discovered, in a book called, Structural BioMaterials, [12] that live trees, like many biological materials, exhibit an initial J-shaped stress/strain curve which conforms ideally to the force dynamics of the toggle-joint. I also found a young fellow’s Master’s Thesis which proved to be a real boon.went to the Texas Worksource Center [13] and did a patent search and right away found the Leseberg patent titled, ATV Mounted Tree Shear. I went straight to the claims and the very first claim quite accurately described my preliminary drawings. I was just sick. It was clear from his patent and what additional information I could find online that the guy didn’t know what he was doing. But what was I supposed to do, call him up and offer free advice? The worst part was this all came from the Muse. The Muse has never led me wrong. Sometimes it may appear as such but given enough time the reason for Her inspiration always becomes clear. This is really what made me stand back and take another look.I re-read this fellow’s Master’s Thesis and found in the section on future improvements a concept that would allow me to improve on the Leseberg patent but I was afraid it would be an infringement. I ran the numbers anyway and the force generated was almost unbelievable. I started calculating how to put it all together and quickly realized the spatial footprint was much too large. I dismissed this improvement solution but kept the concept in the back of my head.A couple of days later I was walking in circles thinking about this Master’s Thesis when the first viable, non-infringing solution popped into my head. I ran the numbers and not only did it not infringe on the Leseberg patent but it made the Leseberg shear look like a tinker-toy. I started drawing and was half-way through when the second viable, non-infringing solution popped into my head. I ran the numbers and it was even better. Six months later I was walking my dog around the bayou when, quite suddenly, I realized how to make that concept resulting in the over large footprint work, it was a real simple adjustment. As I said previously, the numbers on it are almost unbelievable. At the base of the blades, when the blades are fully closed, it generates over a trillion pounds of force . . . per blade; my third viable, non-infringing solution. Thank you Mother, Muse, Goddess.When writing the patent for my third tree shear design I discovered that the Leseberg patent, numbered 7,240,702, is a worthless piece of paper in that the art taught belongs to the public domain. The same art is taught in a patent granted to Caterpillar Tractor Company in 1978, titled Tree shear assembly with toggle linkage, and numbered 4,131,144. The Leseberg patent doesn’t reference the Caterpillar patent because it’s a hustle, a bluff meant to stifle competition.When Terry McWilliams and I hired on at Ares Robotics we both did so at a pay rate well below what we were used to. Richard Starr entered into the verbal agreement, with both Terry and I, whereby we would work for compensation below what we were accustomed to for a period of time - to be determined - at which point our contributions to the company would be evaluated and ownership granted based on those contributions. On good faith, I demonstrated my conceptualized pump and robotic system to Richard Starr and informed him that the time to discuss ownership had arrived. Richard Starr laughed and told me that I wasn’t an engineer and couldn’t do anything with my conceptions without him and then asked, “Why should I give you ownership?” At the time I weighed 215 pounds and could bench press my 120 pound dumbbells for ten reps. I put my fist clean through Starr’s office door and left. I knew at the time that William Albion Anderson was stealing everything from everybody anyway. Shortly thereafter the Supreme Ordeal commenced.I have always seriously considered the idea that we (human beings) all exist and interact in a cosmic mind. Since reading the books of mind research scientist, Dr. Ben Goertzel, [14] I have become increasingly convinced of the validity of the idea. There is a great deal of resonance between Dr. Goertzel’s research programme and mythological/spiritual wisdom. In mythology there exists an archetype known as the “brother-battle” theme. This simply acknowledges that humanity, and all sentient life for that matter, is divided into two camps: a dark, masculine force, and a light, feminine force. The masculine force is directed towards stasis while the feminine force is directed towards creative dynamics. When balanced, these two forces maintain life in a type of dynamic equilibrium.From Dr. Goertzel’s book, From Complexity to Creativity:The dynamics of the dual network may be understood as a balance of two forces. There is the evolutionary force, which creates new forms, and moves things into new locations. And there is the autopoietic force, which retains things in their present form. If either one of the two forces is allowed to become overly dominant, the dual network will break down, and become excessively unstable, or excessively static and unresponsive. Of course, each of these two "forces" is just a different way of looking at the basic magician system dynamic. Autopoiesis is implicit in all attractors of magician dynamics, and evolutionary dynamics is a special case of magician dynamics, which involves long transients before convergence, and the possibility of complex strange attractors.From this it follows that we sentient beings are just so many magicians and anti-magicians conducting the business necessary to keep our cosmic mind functioning. I myself am aligned with the light feminine force.My family, all aligned with the dark, masculine force, has formidable connections with the Wyoming oil fields and the refineries around Casper, Wyoming. My parents, Harley and Kathy Hansen, leased considerable properties from a lady named Bertha Hengler for more than twenty years. Bertha lived in Casper, Wyoming, and both her son, Jim, and daughter-in-law, Alice, retired from executive positions at Casper refineries. We used to visit Bertha, Jim, and Alice at least once a year to go snow skiing. Jim and Alice were cross-country enthusiasts. My parents, upon Bertha’s death, purchased half of the Hengler property they had rented from Jim and Alice and continued to rent the other half from Bertha’s son, Bob. While working at Ares Robotics I tried to get my parents to leverage these connections but they would have none of it. I sent Ares Robotics marketing packages to both my parents and my godmother, Zella Mae Sanders, and received no response from either party.My family has been working with the corrupt Harris County “authorities” since day one. They are convinced that these “authorities” have been assisting them in the theft of my technologies and trade secrets. They are idiots. They are too stupid to figure out that they are being set up. The corrupt Harris County “authorities” have been working with William Albion Anderson the whole time. I have tried repeatedly to convince them of this without success.My original criminal conviction, in 2002, was for felony criminal mischief. In order for criminal mischief to be a felony, in the State of Texas, one must inflict more than $5,000 damage. When I left employment at Ares Robotics I was rather angry and left behind my tools and the original pump components I had purchased. Richard Starr locked the gate to the Ares Robotics yard and refused to return my property until I had given him the drawings demonstrating the technologies I had conceptualized. I backed my 1991 Toyota Tacoma, straight cab, 4 cylinder pick-up into the gate. I didn’t even bust the gate open and did very little damage to it. While locked up in jail the prosecutor, Chuck Rosenthal, charged me with a felony saying I had inflicted more than $5,000 in damage to the gate. My parents and sister, Dr. Kim Hansen-Franzen, came to see me in jail but neither they nor my court appointed attorney would take a picture of the gate for me. I accepted a plea agreement after 3months in the county jail, spent 3 months homeless, living under an abandoned railroad bridge, and then 5 more months locked up in county and state jail. The plea agreement, deferred adjudication probation, was granted even though the court knew I was financially destitute and would, upon release, be homeless. The court liaison officer, Nugget Ebby, gave me a map to the Star of Hope [15] mission just prior to my release. In 2004 and again in 2009 I went back to Ares Robotics and the same old gate, the gate I had “destroyed,” was still in use; in 2009 I took a picture of it with my cellphone camera.When this court “conviction” failed to deter my determination to realize a successful business based on my novel technologies, the corrupt Harris County “authorities,” those working for William Albion Anderson, conspired with a fellow named Patrick Morrison to get me arrested for “stalking.” Patrick Morrison was on deferred adjudication probation for a “dangerous intent” case at the time; he had threatened his neighbor with a nine millimeter pistol. He had also failed four urine analyses for crystal-methamphetamine use and was staring prison in the face. Patrick Morrison is rather well off financially. He owns Pat Morrison Stucco, which works primarily in The Woodlands, an upscale community, and Champions Equestrian Center, a full service stable. I met Patrick Morrison through Shannon Slyfield, Richard Starr’s former girlfriend and, at the time, the head trainer at Champions Equestrian Center. I was arrested for “stalking” Patrick Morrison’s eleven year-old daughter. The intent was to arrest me for a child molestation case but, when I failed to engage their conspiracy in the proper manner, they settled for stalking.In the state of Texas, the complainant in a stalking case involving a minor needn’t be the minor in question, they can be the minor’s legal guardian. And all that need be demonstrated by the court is that the minor’s guardian feared for the minor’s safety and well-being. This makes sense, of course, but it can easily be corrupted. I spent 32 months locked up in the Harris County Jail for these crimes I didn’t commit. I spent another 24 months on parole, seven of those with a monitor on my ankle. I spent 45 days in the psychiatric unit in the Harris County Jail and another 49 days in the maximum security forensic psychiatric hospital in Vernon, Texas. They had Dr. Freidman, a psychiatrist with the Harris County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority, diagnose me with “delusional disorder” because I kept insisting, to my attorney and others, that a conspiracy was at work devastating my character. And, of course, I insisted on a trial. They wanted to be able to demonstrate to a jury that I was mentally unstable. At my trial there were no witness’ called on my behalf but yet my appeal, an appeal ran through the court system without my notice, a direct violation of the Texas Fair Defense Act of 2001 (I was never once contacted by John L. Denninger, the court appointed appellate attorney or anyone else), was less than fruitful. George Godwin, the convicting court judge, since retired, made certain of that.I originally designed and built the food grade brine system for Del Pueblo Foods in 2004, just prior to being arrested and fraudulently charged for “stalking” the Morrison girl. To design the system I relied, almost entirely, on the information available from a website called Fluide Design. This website has since been changed to Pump Fundamentals. [16] This is the website of Jacques Chaurette, a licensed Professional Engineer specializing in pump and piping systems. Mr. Chaurette gives away a book (in 2004 it cost a small fee) called, Pump Sizing and System Design, which thoroughly expounds upon the thermodynamics involved in calculating total head for a piping system. It also thoroughly demonstrates the proper method for sizing pumps and how to read pump curves although it deals specifically with centrifugal pumps. I used the spreadsheet method to calculate total head and the system I designed was quite robust and professional.While locked up for “stalking” the Morrison girl I wrote my cousin, Rex Hansen, a letter requesting that he write a letter of support to the parole board on my behalf. Rex did so and I was released to Port Arthur, Texas, in December of 2006. Rex told me Del Pueblo Foods was in bankruptcy so they could only hire me as a warehouse worker at $10/hr. I accepted knowing it would be much easier to find a job from the free world than it would from a half-way house. Almost immediately I drew a sketch of Athena’s Fury™. I entered into a Confidentiality Agreement with Maxwell Morgan [17] and Sausalito Foods [18], a distribution company formed by the principals of Maxwell Morgan, Rex Hansen and Jeff Roth, two silent partners, and a food salesman named Wally Van Cleave. The agreement was signed by Rex Hansen, Managing Director of Maxwell Morgan and Sausalito Foods, Jeff Roth, Director of Maxwell Morgan and Sausalito Foods, and Mike Wood, the plant manager at Del Pueblo Foods. I demonstrated Athena’s Fury™ to all parties and they immediately began their attempt to steal my technology. Actually, the attempted theft really began when Jeff Roth casually mentioned that Rex had a Confidentiality Agreement and, at my request, Rex emailed it to me.The Confidentiality Agreement in question is quite legitimate but nowhere on it was Athena’s Fury™ or Athena’s HydraSystems™ mentioned (I didn’t realize the necessity of this until later when entering an agreement with the University of Wisconsin’s Innovation Technology Center). It was a generic, bi-lateral agreement between me, Maxwell Morgan, and Sausalito Foods (Rex Hansen inked in Sausalito Foods, in the “and Affiliates” section, and initialed the entry). Rex Hansen then promptly proceeded to email me a confidential offering memorandum for Sausalito Foods. In this manner he could fraudulently demonstrate that the Confidentiality Agreement we had entered covered this offering memorandum rather than my technologies. The guy is a complete idiot but this is also why the Texas Secretary of State interfered with the lawsuit I filed against my cousin, Mark Hansen, in Colorado. The play by the Secretary of State was solely intended to convince Rex Hansen and the other idiots in my family that the Texas “authorities” were conspiring with them.To demonstrate that the Confidentiality Agreement between Maxwell Morgan and myself covers Athena’s Fury, I have in my possession the following emails:RE:Non-Disclosure AgreementFrom: Rex W. Hansen ([email protected])Sent: Tue 1/16/07 12:02 PMTo: ‘Wes Hansen’ ([email protected])Attachments: Confidentiality Agreement.doc (24.8 KB)---------Original Message----------From: Wes Hansen [mailto:[email protected]]Sent Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:27 AMTo: [email protected]: Non-Disclosure AgreementHey Rex,I was wondering if you got a moment if you could email me a copy of the Non-Disclosure agreement Jeff said you have. Thanks, WesRE: Dreams of GloryFrom: Rex W. Hansen ([email protected])Sent: Tue 1/28/07 12:02 PMTo: ‘Wes Hansen’ ([email protected])Working on raising money now. I will try and get a proposal to you early this week.Rex---------Original Message----------From: Wes Hansen [mailto:[email protected]]Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:03 AMTo: [email protected]: Dreams of GloryHey Rex,I had a wonderful vision of glory last night and, more importantly, this morning when I awoke it made perfect sense. In my vision I was the commander of a large military force and we had aligned ourselves with the Goddess Athena. We were engaged in pitched battle with another large force which had aligned themselves with the god Ares. Of course anyone who has studied their Greek mythology knows Athena is always victorious over Ares because She is much more subtle and cunning. In my vision however, the forces were evenly matched and running neck and neck. Finally, Athena appeared beside me and whispered something in my ear. That something was the secret weapon that allowed us to defeat the opposing force. That something was called “Athena’s Fury.”I am going to start a company, whether with you or someone else, and it will be called Athena’s Robotics, LLC. It will utilize a revolutionary new piece of technology (my piston pump) and that technology will be called, “Athena’s Fury.”Man I like that girl Elizabeth. She’s such a fiery young woman. Achingly beautiful in my opinion. I asked her to lunch but she says I’m too weird for her. Maybe it’s the beard . . . What do you think?StatusFrom: Rex W. Hansen ([email protected])Sent: Fri 3/30/07 11:09 AMTo: ‘Wes Hansen’ ([email protected])Hey Wes,How are things going? I’m sure Jeff has told you we have been delayed another month. However we are moving forward with moving.I haven’t forgotten nor have I lost interest in your pump proposal. I just haven’t been able to provide a tangible commitment yet. As soon as I have a solid understanding of our own financial status and business plan, I will move forward with your proposal. I just don’t want to over commit right now.Should have everything wrapped up in the next 3 weeks (course I have said that before).Talk to you later,RexRE: StrategyFrom: Rex W. Hansen ([email protected])Sent: Wed 5/02/07 1:09 PMTo: ‘Wes Hansen’ ([email protected])We don’t have a deal done yet. Have no idea where this is going at the moment. Be happy to introduce you to ______. I don’t feel comfortable doing anything right now, ______ keeps telling everyone I’m the devil, so I pry wouldn’t be a good intro at the moment.Rex---------Original Message----------From: Wes Hansen [mailto:[email protected]]Sent: 05/02/2007 5:15 AMTo: [email protected]: StrategyRex,Perhaps you could email _______ the Athena’s Robotics profile I emailed you awhile back. Explain to him that we are looking for an initial investment of $350,000 to $400,000 so to build a prototype we can use to generate performance curves and conduct field tests. A portion of the investment could be the renovation and lease of the building out behind the Olive factory (you can explain about the building I am sure). Let him know that we plan to generate cash flow by renting pumps and that pump rentals generate annual revenues in the low $1 billion range. We can then use this cash flow to develop our robotic sludge removal system and acquire the necessary processing equipment with sludge removal and processing in crude oil tanks alone generating an additional $500 million annually. Let him know I would be happy to conduct an informal presentation of the pump and peripheral equipment if he is interested.Respectfully,Wes Hansen[end emails]I also authenticated the Confidentiality Agreement in question in a lawsuit involving a party who can also substantiate a “date of conception” in the early fall of 2001. Furthermore, I have in my possession the receipt from Hyseco Hydraulics regarding the original pump cylinders dated November, 2001:In addition, I have the following email from my first cousin, Mark Hansen:PumpFrom: Mark Hansen ([email protected])Sent: Mon 4/02/07 9:54 AMTo: ‘Wes Hansen’ ([email protected])Wes,Was looking over your Pump drawings.How many of these do you think you can sell?Is there a market to build and Rent?Have you figured out how much to build one yet?I think I can find investors if you get to that point?How have you been? Did you get flooded?Mark[end email]I knew Mark’s investor was most likely Brian Schuchman [19] and I had no interest in working with Schuchman for a couple of reasons: I didn’t want to lose control of my business; I didn’t want to build a business just to sell it. According to his Forbes profile, Schuchman is in the habit of building companies and selling them; that’s all he does. He had just sold 95% of Commnet Wireless to Atlantic Tele-Network for $59 million in an all cash transaction. I sent my pump drawings to Mark solely to lend credibility to the story I had been telling my whole family, including Mark and his wife Cammie. Rex Hansen had spyware on the computer I was using at the Del Pueblo facility and he contacted Mark and eventually Schuchman. I responded to Mark in the following, rather curt, manner, “I already secured financing for my pump business, thanks. No, we didn’t get flooded.”I filed a lawsuit in a Texas court requesting the return of confidential documents as provided by a provision in the Confidentiality Agreement. The defendant, Mark Hansen, was a resident of Colorado so it was necessary to involve the Texas Secretary of State. I received notice from the Secretary of State, via certified mail, that Mark Hansen had been duly served on December 11, 2008. The Texas court in question never received such notice thus a trial date was never set. I filed two separate lawsuits in this same court, one on the same day as I filed the suit naming Mark Hansen as defendant, and its integrity was well established.The Secretary of State sabotaged the judicial proceedings of a Texas court in the attempt to prevent the authentication of said Confidentiality Agreement while, at the same time, convincing my family of their intent to help them (my family) steal the technologies and trade secrets covered by said Confidentiality Agreement. They failed in this endeavor for, as the old saying goes, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” They made this attempt in order to assist William Albion Anderson, an extremely wealthy Perry campaign contributor, in his attempted theft of technologies and proprietary information which rightfully belong to me; technologies I have since patented. I have also managed to maintain Trade Secret status, as defined by both Texas State law and the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, on the majority of the technologies in question.So why did the Texas Secretary of State foolishly interfere with the judicial proceedings of a Texas court? They planned to arrest my whole family, myself included, for “Theft of Trade Secrets.” Here’s how:I knew my family was being set up, I just didn’t know how. I knew there had to be a connection between William Albion Anderson and Rex Hansen. I started pounding the internet searching for it. On William Albion Anderson’s Forbes profile it demonstrated that he had been appointed as a Director for Rancher Energy of Denver, Colorado, in the spring of 2007 and a Director for Far East Energy of Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2007. Considering this whole conspiracy was coming into play in 2007, I found these appointments suspect. I became even more convinced of their conspiratorial nature when I discovered that Rancher Energy, a company using CO2 injection to extract oil from spent oil wells, was working solely in oil fields conveniently located in the direct vicinity of Casper, Wyoming.In the offering memorandum for Sausalito Foods Rex Hansen emailed to me, it reveals that Rex Hansen is a Managing Director for Bathgate Capital of Denver, Colorado. I began researching Bathgate Capital and discovered, in their tombstones, that Bathgate had extended $1.4 million in seed capital to a company in Houston, Texas, called Far East Energy. Bingo! The Rex Hansen/William Albion Anderson connection. This is what caught the interest of the federal authorities. The State of Texas had all of my information including social security number. They planned to demonstrate, in a Texas court, that Rex Hansen became aware of the pump and robotic system in question while engaging William Albion Anderson through the Bathgate/Far East Energy connection. They then planned to demonstrate, in a Texas court, that Rex Hansen directed me, his cousin, to work for the William Albion Anderson company manufacturing said pump and robotic system thus familiarizing myself with the technology and facilitating the theft of that technology. They were going to put my whole family in prison. Not interested in seeing the inside of a Texas court again, I thwarted this planned action.I knew that Debra Reeves, Ares Robotics’ office manager and Richard Starr’s personal secretary (perhaps even love interest), was, in fact, working for and loyal to William Albion Anderson. I sent my story to the federal authorities packaged in three-ring binders including page dividers and table of contents. The binders included copies of all original documents. I drove to Ares Robotics in the spring of 2009, entered into a Confidentiality Agreement with Richard Starr, and left him a copy of this information. When I went back a week later and retrieved the information, one of the drawings of Athena’s Fury™ was missing.My family is going to prison no matter what. Some people would be tempted to say they’re all a bunch of idiots. I wouldn’t refute this directly but, to me, their actions just demonstrate the deterministic nature of things. They have acted the way they have because they have no choice, none of us do – it’s a Divine Comedy. But yet, paradoxically, we should all strive towards the cultivation of a good heart. It’s the fundamental message of all religions. His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote a book about the four gospels and it’s titled, A Good Heart. [20][end document]The people engaged in these activities include: the entire state of Nebraska and especially Frontier County and the City of Curtis; my entire genetic family, immediate and extended, both sides and including Agri-Affiliates of North Platte, Nebraska, and Maxwell Morgan Strategic Finance of Portland, Oregon (the principle conspirators within the genetic family are Harley and Kathy Hansen, Robert Franzen and Kimberly KayHansen-Franzen, Mark Hansen - a cousin whose mother is my mother’s sister and whose father is my father’s brother, and Rex Hansen - a third cousin and first-class asshole; the entire state of Texas and especially Harris County and the City of Houston; the entire state of California and especially Los Angeles County and the City of Los Angeles; the entire United States of America and especially the so-called “Department of Justice;” Thomas Brinsko and his father-in-law, Earl Heard and their entire organization, BIC Industries; I’m certain there are probably many more. These are all really wonderful and loving Christians - don’t take my word for it, ask them and they will tell you themselves!What follows is a small sample of some of the emails I have sent to various government officials, lawyers, news media personnel, and what have you. This first is an email I sent to the Houston Office of the FBI in 2014 and the second is an email I sent to the famed attorney, Gerry Spence in 2017 (he’ll sue the government on behalf of an illiterate white supremacist but not on mine):Criminal ActivityWesley HansenThu 10/9/2014 9:46 AMTo: [email protected] [email protected] attachments (3 MB)Credence.pdf; Binary Operators in Harmonic Oscillation.pdf; The Womb in the Tomb.pdf;To whom it may concern,In January of 2009 I, Wesley W. Hansen, sent documents fully describing multiple crimes against my person to the Office of the U. S. Inspector General in Washington D. C. and to the Assistant U. S. Attorney, Eastern District of Texas; please see the attached document, Credence: A Tale of Corruption, for a brief summary. Since that time and due to forces beyond my control I have been homeless, living in the woods, and eating food foraged from dumpsters. At the landowner’s request, I moved from the lot I was living on to a different wooded lot owned by the same landowner.Apparently, the owner sold the property on which I am now living. Yesterday evening, Wednesday, October 8, a gentleman walked through the property as a prelude to tree removal. He told me it would probably take them a week to get to the job but the unavoidable fact is I must move once again.This is the thing, I first informed the FBI about the situation I have been dealing with in a 20 page hand-written letter I sent from the Harris County Jail in 2005. In January of 2009 I sent the boxes with three-ring binders, complete with tables of contents and tabs, which told the whole tale, supported by copies of all legal documents, to the U. S. Inspector General and the Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas (I was living in Port Arthur at the time). And here I am, six years later, still living in the woods and eating out of dumpsters!The point is I’m tired of it! I believe I have demonstrated a patience far above and beyond any that could be expected. According to the Houston Chronicle, some mobster turned state witness on the mob and the FBI set him up in a gated mansion on Memorial Dr. AND funded a swanky nudie dancing joint for him so he could return to the same B.S. he supposedly left – and return he did – yet here I am, a former U. S. Marine and law-abiding citizen who has been pummeled by the very society he served, and I’m left in the woods for years on end! If I were to take the law into my own hands, how long would it take you to put me in prison? I’ll bet it wouldn’t take six years; based on past experience, I’m somewhat surprised you haven’t fabricated a reason and done it already!You people are entropic agents but, rest assured, entropy shall be overcome!"But daddy, it's you, the man with the light-bulb head!" "It's too late, son, I've come to turn you on . . ."Regards,Wes HansenHomeless Vet1 messageWes HansenThu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:01 PMTo: [email protected]. Spence,My name is Wes Hansen. I was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps in spring of 1994. Due to actions by the FBI and others, I have been living on the streets of Houston, Texas, and Los Angeles, California, since March 01, 2009. Perhaps you will find my story of interest!?!I was born (1969) and raised on a farm/ranch in Southwest Nebraska (Frontier County). I signed a guaranteed 0300 contract with the USMC on the brink of the first Gulf War. After being honorably discharged, I graduated from the commercial dive school in Houston, Texas, The Ocean Corporation, as the honor graduate, class D252, in May of 1995. I spent some time working for American Oilfield Divers out of New Orleans, Louisiana. I then moved back to Houston and went to work in a small job shop, Lift Aids of Houston, as a fabricator.I worked for Lift Aids for a bit more than three years and attended evening classes full-time at Houston Community College majoring in Pre-Science/Pre-Engineering. I maintained a 3.89 GPA and was a member of the Honor Society. Lift Aids encountered lawsuit troubles due to some short-cuts they had taken prior to my tenure there so I left and went to work for a start-up called Ares Robotics (website no longer available). I was making $60,000/year at Lift Aids when I left.The Board of Ares Robotics included Richard Starr, CEO and founder, Dave DeLater, Vice President, Michael Harris, Treasurer, and David Gaines, Secretary. Richard Starr claimed to be a former member of Seal Team 6 and a licensed PE with a couple of engineering degrees. At the time I was a bit young and I tended to think that people generally tell the truth but, in hindsight, I believe Richard Starr to be less than truthful.Starr told me that the company was short on operating capital and, believing there to be a good bit of potential opportunity at Ares, I agreed to work with them under what were certainly unconventional terms. Of course, their machinist, Terrence McWilliams, was also working under the same terms. I agreed to hire on as an independent contractor, although we clearly were no such entities; I agreed to accept considerably less money than accustomed to, $15/hr., with the stipulation that Ares would pay all of my tax bill; McWilliams and I were to be accumulating "sweat equity," worth of which to be determined once the company got a little "wind in its sails," upon which time we would be granted formal ownership based on that sweat equity.The first year taxes came due, I didn't get a 1099 until that following November, which caused me considerable concern; needless to say, I pitched a bitch.Of course Michael Harris was doing all of the tax work, the company's as well as mine and that of McWilliams.During the course of the next year, Richard Starr casually mentioned to me a pump problem he had been thinking about for the last 13 years; within the next 6 months I had solved the problem (see attached document). This is when my problems really started.I had some experience with PhotoShop and I'm also an artist (see my short blog), so I was helping Starr develop a Business Plan/Marketing Package. Starr was seeking money and, at his bequest, I sent a copy of the Business Plan/Marketing Package to my parents and godmother; my godmother was a bit wealthy and my parents had connections in the refinery business around Casper, Wyoming. I believe this is when the FBI got involved!Anyway, I developed my pump idea on my own time and I even started building it, purchasing roughly $8,000 worth of components. On good faith, I presented the work to Starr, telling him that I would be interested in working with Ares regarding the pump but that we needed to formalize the ownership deal. I also told him that I wasn't going to continue working under the unconventional agreement we had and that I wasn't waiting until November to see a 1099 this year. He basically told me that he was the engineer and that I couldn't do anything with my pump design without him so, and I quote: "Why should I give you ownership?"I was more than a bit perturbed and I left the Ares property without my pump components. The next eight months were a nightmare: I was followed everywhere I went and I wouldn't even get a call-back on any job applications,something which was peculiar giving my welding and pipe-fitting skills. I blew through the rest of my savings and racked up a bit of credit card debt. The crazy thing was, I still had a key to the Ares building and I went there every Saturday to perform maintenance on a reef aquarium in my old office. When my money ran out, after the 8 month period, I went to talk to Starr and to see about getting my pump components. The front gate was locked and Starr refused to give me my pump components (they were locked up in a sea container) until I returned "his" pump and robot drawings (see the attached document).When I left Ares I was irritated but not to the point of losing control. I was driving a straight-cab, four-cylinder, Toyota truck with manual transmission and I backed into the front gate. I didn't really do any damage to the gate, in fact, all I really did was break a taillight out on my truck. Shortly after I got home, two bonafide, plain-clothed detectives with HPD or the Sheriff's Department showed up and arrested me. I was charged with two felonies and three misdemeanors.I spent three months in jail and it was just crazy. I was a mark! I was charged with felony criminal mischief related to running into the gate; they said I had inflicted $5,000 damage which I knew to be bullshit. No one would provide pictures of the gate and, after three months, I agreed to 4 years of deferred adjudication. The judge, Jeanine Barr, agreed to this even knowing that I had no relatives in the area, no money, no place to live, and, quite frankly, no support whatsoever. Right before I left her court, she had her court liaison officer, Nugget Ebby, give me a map to the Star of Hope, a Christian mission in downtown Houston! I spent three months living on the street before turning myself in; Barr sentenced me to three more months in State Jail.Via Richard Starr's former girlfriend, Shannon Slyfield, I got mixed up with the Morrison family. I didn't know it at the time, but Pat Morrison was on deferred adjudication for putting a pistol in his neighbor's face during an argument about his daughters and their horses. I also didn't know that Morrison was a meth-head, albeit an rather wealthy meth-head. Morrison had failed 4 urine analyses and was headed to prison. He and his wife filed a criminal complaint against me for stalking their eleven year-old daughter and he was diverted to treatment. You can read a quick sketch of all the rest in the attached document; it's twenty pages with lots of pictures.I've lived on the streets of Houston and Los Angeles since March of 2009. I've been studying mathematics and science primarily - in between picking up recycling and scrap metal. I live on about $35 a week. Recently I wrote a couple of Mathematics paper which are quite revolutionary (see attached). Basically, I figured out a simple way to use something called the Anti-Foundation Axiom to develop a countable class of "hyper-ordinals" in between each standard ordinal and I define a novel definition of multiplication on these hyper-ordinals which turns out to be recursive; this enables a counter-example to Tennenbaum's Theorem. In the second paper I extend the counter-example out to completion and discover that there exists an countably infinite subsumption hierarchy of recursive universes - countably many counter-examples to Tennenbaum! Had anyone else written these papers it would be all over the media by now. A short while after posting these papers to the internet, all of my books were stolen. In the three years I've lived on the streets of L. A. I have probably had my stuff stolen a few hundred times but they never messed with my books - the dope-heads can't read let alone understand math! So you tell me . . .There's a lot more to this of course . . . I have contacted many people. I originally put everything together in three-ring binders with toc and tabs. I sent the whole package to the U. S. Office of the Inspector General, the Assistant U. S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Texas, ABC News with Brian Ross, an old girlfriend who's now a New Mexico Judge, and a childhood friend in Nebraska, Harris Grunden. Someone from the U. S. Attorney's office called me shortly afterwards and told me that they didn't investigate cases, that they only prosecute cases recommended by the FBI. I told him the FBI, in this case, was the perp, at which he told me he would look at my documents. I've contacted the Houston Chronicle, the Washington Post via Leonard Pitts at the Miami Herald and, right after I arrived in L. A. I contacted a couple of people at the L. A. Times; one of those people retired two weeks later and the other, well, hasn't been any help. I've tried seeking assistance through the VA which is a bigger joke than you can even imagine. I even contacted Bernie Sanders and his PAC during the most recent primaries . . .Maybe you can help a guy out . . .With regards,Wes Hansen3 attachmentsCredence.pdf2072KQNaturalsREV.pdf420KQUniversev8.pdf1001K[end email]You can read about my original mathematics and confirm my knowledge base here:Wes Hansen's answer to What can be said about the concept of number, which has not been said before?Wes Hansen's answer to Can Godel's incompleteness theorem also apply to an unsolved conjecture that is totally irrelevant to the self-referential liar paradox?This next appeared as a comment elsewhere here on Quora:Yeah, it’s kinda like “asset forfeiture” isn’t it? I was living in a shack in the woods by Bush Intercontinental in Houston, Texas, (see my comment to Brian Cananzeyabove) back when the whole hooplah about forfeiture came to the fore. The congressman who introduced legislature putting limits on asset forfeiture did so because some little town in East Texas, situated on some main highway in between, I believe, Houston and Shreverport, Louisiana, was financing their whole operation off of a speed trap. The problem was, when a white person got caught in their trap, they would give out a warning or a ticket and an admonishment to “slow down now,” and send them on their way; however, when a black person got caught, they would confiscate the vehicle, all loose cash, all jewelry, and anything else of value - I’m surprised they didn’t take kidneys and livers. Their “logic” was, “Well, they’re black and traveling to Shreveport from Houston so they must be a dope dealer.”Your problem is, you’ve never been caught up in this bullshit; I have! There is no “logic” to the so-called criminal justice system, the entire bedrock is based on your logical fallacy (anecdotal); what do you think legal precedent actually is!?! In spite of the constitution, our set of axioms, the law isn’t some theory deduced from that set - especially on the freaking liberal side! Okay, so let’s talk a bit about obstruction!Here’s my story: Wes Hansen's answer to How would a homeless person spend $100?. No, I’m not online panhandling, just read it!I’ve been eating shit sandwiches for the last 20 years because of Bob Mueller and James Comey - among others. Everything that I describe in that email to Spence happened in a conservative county, Harris, in a conservative state, Texas, under a conservative administration, George Bush. I contacted the ACLU in Houston in 2007; I had an email account with AT&T at the time and contacted some Jewish lady - an attorney. I received one response and never again received a response to my emails. I contacted the Houston Chronicle and Leonard Pitts at the Miami Herald; here’s my email exchange with Pitts:“ MLK5 messagesWes HansenMon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:17 AMTo: [email protected]. Pitts,I read your column regularly via the Houston Chronicle and have long admired it; you have an eloquent way with words and seem particularly adept at exposing the emperor’s nakedness. On many occasions I have contemplated writing a quick note of respect but have always held back, for whatever reason.Recently I read your column, “On the issue of race in America, conservatives are silent,” and found it rather poignant. With regards to the Martin Luther King, Jr. quote, “We who engage in nonviolent direct action . . . ,” it would seem to me that journalists, especially popular journalists such as yourself, are the ideal agents of nonviolent direct action; “the pen is mightier than the sword.” As such I can’t help but wonder . . .I’m a former U. S. Marine who signed a guaranteed 0300 contract just prior to the first Gulf War; I was young and looking for adventure. In the same issue of the Chronicle that your above referenced column appeared there was a story titled, “Hero: Was sacrifice in Fallujah worth it?”(http://www.houstonchronicle.com/...).The hero in question, Marty Gonzalez, was a 24 year-old Marine sergeant who received three Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars in the battle for Fallujah. He had nine surgeries to repair a shattered elbow, received a brain injury from a grenade, injured his back, an injury which was exacerbated by subsequent surgeries to the point he requires a wheelchair, and he suffers from PTSD. During the battle for Fallujah, 18 young men from his battalion paid the ultimate.Mr. Gonzalez is upset about the recent situation in Fallujah to the point he became physically ill. This is understandable and I certainly empathize; however, Mr. Gonzalez expresses anger at President Obama for the President’s decision to withdraw from Iraq in the manner in which he did and I feel this anger is grossly misdirected! And of course the Chronicle, being who they are, magnified this expression of anger, or so I feel.If you read the recent book by Stephen Kinzer, “The Brothers” (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/1...), it becomes readily apparent that the Dulles brothers conspired with Johnson and, most probably, the Brown brothers, to murder John F. Kennedy. The result of this assassination, hence, their motive, is a matter of historical record: the ascendancy of Johnson to the Presidency; the escalation of the Vietnam conflict based on false premise; the enrichment of Texas and Kill, Burn, and Loot (KBR) from the blood and tax money collected from all other 49 states and re-directed, through Vietnam, to Texas!Fast forward a number of years and you have Darth Vader’s clone, Dick Cheney, as CEO of Halliburton, owner of Kill, Burn, and Loot. A Texan, George Dumbya Bush, becomes President taking Cheney along. In spite of having the most advanced intelligence apparatus in the world, an intelligence apparatus clearly focused on Al Queda, America’s leadership (executive branch and congress) unbelievably (emphasis on unbelievably) fails to comprehend the intent of a dozen Saudi Arabians resulting in 9/11. Capitalizing on the anger generated by 9/11, Cheney and company, under false pretense, a pretense negated by said intelligence apparatus (although I question the motive of said negation), organize the invasion of Iraq. Once again, Texas and Kill, Burn, and Loot get filthy rich (emphasis on filthy) off the blood and tax money from all the other states, this time filtered through Iraq!Human beings evolved to recognize patterns and I question that I’m the only one in existence who sees this pattern. Why does no-one in the popular news media have the courage to point it out? These are the same people responsible for many of the lies and much of the injustice which you rail against Mr. Pitts; perhaps you can find the courage. Feel free to mention my name and link to my blog:(On my blog was a redacted copy of the Credence document referenced in my Quora answer above, which I linked to)“Our lives begin to end,” said King, “the day we become silent about things that matter.”Best regards,Wes HansenPitts, Leonard <[email protected]>Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:18 AMTo: [email protected] received your email. Thank you for writing. I or my assistant will try to get back to you as soon as possible.Please note that we do not open unsolicited attachments, and we do not read or respond to forwarded emails sent to mass-distribution lists, or to invitations sent via Twitter or LinkedIn.Yours Truly,Leonard Pitts, Jr.Author of "Freeman," "Before I Forget" and "Forward From This Moment"Pitts, Leonard <[email protected]>Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:51 AMTo: Wes Hansen <[email protected]>Thanks for taking the time to write, and for your kind words about Mr. Pitts' column. I'll make sure he sees your email.Sincerely --Judi SmithAssistant to Leonard Pitts, Jr.Yeah, okay, so shortly after that (I was homeless in the woods at the time) some hacker working for the Washington Post hacks into my G+ account and leaves a message IN MY BLOG - not in the comments. He tells me he is a hacker working for WP and that someone had already hacked my G+ making it impossible to comment so the reporter he worked for had him hack in and he told me I should read some book - I don’t recall the book and had no way to read said book at that time.Roughly around this same time, I sent a return receipt requested letter to the Texas Innocence Project and it was returned to me unaccepted - I had erected a “mail-box” beside the road passing by my woods. I sent that rejected letter along with a letter of explanation to the National Innocence Project and received a form letter telling me that they didn’t handle cases like mine and that I needed to contact the Texas branch. Thinking that perhaps they had squared things with the Texas branch, I sent a second return receipt requested letter to the Texas branch and it was once again returned unaccepted. The property I was living on was sold and they began tearing out the woods in preparation for development; I road an old bicycle to San Antonio, caught the UP train to El Paso, and took Greyhound to Los Angeles.Upon arrival in L. A. I contacted Sandy Banks and Steve Lopez at the L. A. Times; here is a copy of that email:“Homeless VeteranWesley HansenWed 7/8/2015 4:06 PMTo: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>1 attachments (2 MB)Credence.pdf;Ms. Banks and Mr. Lopez,I’m a homeless veteran living under a bridge crossing the Los Angeles River and I’ve been reading your columns on homelessness recently. I was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps in 1994, have 57 credit hours of Community College with a 3.89 GPA, and have been homeless since March of 2009. From 2009 until September of 2014 I lived in the woods near Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, and have been here in Los Angeles since last September.The city of Houston has approached homelessness in much the same way that Los Angeles is doing now. The first thing they did was remove all of the water spigots from the public parks; then, they placed stainless steel locking mechanisms on all of the fire hydrants; concurrently, they passed a city ordinance making it illegal to solicit on city streets and roadways and making it illegal for organizations to feed the homeless anywhere within city limits. And compared to Los Angeles housing in Houston is highly affordable if not cheap.Here’s the thing about politicians and business owners here in America: they like to think they can have their cake and eat it too, a logical absurdity. I survive by sifting through other people’s trash and I occasionally find newspapers, magazines, and even books that I like to read. At one point during this last recession, I came across a Wall Street Journal, Special Edition, which was celebrating the positive effect trust-fund children were having on the upscale housing market; this at a time when the general housing market was in the tank. They featured several stories about trust fund babies including a story about two young girls, one 19 years the other 21, whose father had given them each a $90 million trust fund. Each of these girls owned homes, each priced in the tens of millions, in different cities around the world, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, etc. The youngest girl, her husband, and their four dogs spent part of the year living in the 60,000 square foot “Spelling” mansion here in Los Angeles; this is the size of a Mid-Western shopping mall and their master suite is over 4,000 square feet, larger than most duplexes housing two families of the working poor. This was being celebrated by the Wall Street Journal; it was presented as something to be envious of.A year or so after reading the Special Edition of the Journal, I found a Houston Chronicle carrying a full page story, with a lead in on the front page, of Martha Turner’s sale of an equity stake in her company, Turner Properties, to Sotheby’s International. The Houston Chronicle was celebrating the idea that the arrival of Sotheby’s International elevated them to the same lofty echelon as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, and Paris. In that very same issue of the Chronicle, in the City and State section, was an article about the city-wide ordinance prohibiting solicitation on roadways becoming county-wide. Apparently, the city ordinance forced the panhandlers out to the suburbs and now the leaders, in their infinite wisdom, thought they’d use the same tactic to chase them clean out of the county; after all, you can’t have homeless people in the same proximity as Sotheby’s International. Never mind the fact that you could house all of the homeless in Harris County, Texas, in two or three of the average sized, “single family” homes listed by Sotheby’s.So now I’m here in Los Angeles and I find the most wonderful Special Edition of Forbes magazine. It features the “alpha activist,” Bill Ackman on the front cover and features a story about Ackman’s Howard Hughes Corporation. Allow me an extended quote:[. . .] “But despite his rococo extravagances, Howard Hughes was a master businessman, particularly skilled in the art of avoiding taxes. In his memoir, Hughes’ accountant Noah Dietrich claims Hughes paid only about $20,000 in income taxes a year. Indeed Howard Hughes Corp.’s circuitous journey into Bill Ackman’s portfolio began as a tax scheme. In the 1930s the IRS levied a 37.5% penalty tax on unnecessary accumulated surpluses. Hughes operations never paid dividends, so Dietrich began plowing profits into undeveloped land. That’s how subsidiary Hughes Aircraft came to own the 25,000 acres of land adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip, now called Summerlin in honor of Hughes’ grandmother Jean Amelia Summerlin.In 1972 Hughes put his Vegas real estate into Summa Corp., which finally began developing Summerlin in the 1990s. Summa sold to mall developer Rouse in 1996, and in 2004 General Growth bought Rouse for $12.6 billion. During General Growth’s bankruptcy, Ackman carved out a trove of unwanted assets plus the Howard Hughes name.Fittingly, Howard Hughes Corp. still retains about $250 million in crises-related tax-loss carryforwards today, so it currently pays no taxes. Eventually Ackman may turn Howard Hughes into a REIT, dodging still more taxes. Hughes himself couldn’t have done better.” [. . .]- Forbes Magazine, the 2015 Global 2000 Issue, pg. 89Now, if Steve Forbes were to read this email, he would probably say I was just some liberal, communist agitator who doesn’t understand the benefits of capitalist principles; he would probably throw a couple of Ludwig Von Mises quotes at me as a counter-argument; and he would probably try to put me out of mind as quickly as conveniently possible. But I am not a communist agitator and I do understand the apparent benefits of a “self-organizing” economic system. All I am stating, to the politicians and business leaders, is this: you can’t celebrate these extravagant excesses, which our society does on a daily basis, without also celebrating the fact that there are multitudes of homeless people roaming OUR cities, sleeping in tents on OUR sidewalks, shitting in OUR gutters, panhandling along OUR roadways, and sifting recyclables out of OUR trash receptacles; you can’t have your cake and eat it too, it’s a logical absurdity.As for me, all I need to get off the street is for the F.B.I., the Office of the U.S. Inspector General, or some branch of law enforcement to simply do their job. I have attached a 20 page document, with lots of pictures, called, “Credence: A Tale of Corruption,” which summarizes my story. Every level of law enforcement, city, county, state, and federal, knows my story and they have consistently done absolutely nothing.With regards,Wes Hansen”Here’s a copy of the email I sent to Anthony Kelley, a former Marine who works with the L. A. County Sheriff’s department and who was put in my life by the social worker at the VA clinic on Temple St.:“HelloFromWesHansen/SemperFi4 messagesWes HansenSat, Sep 24, 2016 at 4:21 PMTo: [email protected]. Kelley,I spoke to you and your associate today, on 7th and, I believe, Flower, downtown - about the Valor program. Please find attached a brief document, "Credence: A Tale of Corruption," which provides an introduction to the circumstances which led to my current situation. I am also a fairly competent fine artist and you can see some examples of my work (oil paintings and drawings) on my blog:http://atomicdecompositions.blog...As I mentioned to you and your associate, I have been studying mathematics since becoming homeless in March of 2009 and I have made a small number of novel contributions, four to the applied side and one, the Non-standard Peano Arithmetic which I was telling you about, to the pure side:https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress..."Ever since reading this blog post (some time ago now) I’ve been thinking about these non-standard models of PA and I don’t particularly care for any of them!?! I’m not a formally trained mathematician but I’ve been thinking about this a great deal and it seems to me that the non-standard models are not the most effective approach. So here’s a question posed as an idea that I’ve had.Consider the natural numbers defined as sets in ZFC by von Neumann. Since ZFC/AFA subsumes ZFC, could you not define the natural numbers as sets in ZFC/AFA, define an additional 1-place, non-logical symbol, @, call it the hyperloop, which, when applied to any set, generates that set’s hyperset. Would it not then be reasonable to suggest that the natural number @{null} is greater than one but less than two and could you not apply @ recursively generating an order-preserving non-standard model of the von Neumann naturals that also had the power of the continuum? And then could you not develop PA the standard way but with this set of non-standard von Neumann naturals as the universe? Would that not preserve sequentiality, hence, be a bit more practical and effective as opposed to these other non-standard models? To me it just seems to make a whole lot more sense and, of course, my motivation, as always, is that damn Goldbach conjecture . . .Anyway, back to the grind . . ."This was comment number 91, the very last comment on that post. Now, don't think that since there was no response that my idea is not valid; quite the contrary, if you read the comment I replied to I think it will indicate to you not only the validity of my idea but that it is a rather good idea! Of course, if you doubt my comprehension of mathematics I would not be offended. I have been exposed to a large number of mentally compromised individuals during the last fifteen years so I well know how subtle the symptoms can sometimes be. Anyone with a knowledge of mathematical logic and elementary number theory can tell you that the above idea and the proof of the Binary Goldbach Conjecture on my blog, which I authored sometime in 2010-2011, demonstrate at least a working familiarity with the subject matter.Now Harris County, Texas, did send to me to the North Texas State Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Vernon, Texas, for a competency evaluation when I was in their custody, but there was not then nor has there been anytime since, any doubt as to my mental competence; the court, and I believe the attached document should at the very least make you consider the truth value of this, simply wanted to be able to tell a jury that I was incompetent. You know, I first contacted the FBI with this situation, with a written letter from jail, in 2005. I scheduled an appointment with the FBI office in Beaumont, Texas, and met with an agent for a very short time in late 2007 or early 2008. Finally, I then sent the entire story organized in three-ring binders with table of contents and tabs, including all legal documents (Non-disclosure agreements, court papers, etc.) to the Office of the U. S. Inspector General, the Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas (I spoke with a gentleman from that office for a short time on the phone), an office at ABC Investigative News with Brian somebody (I forget the last name), and a childhood friend in Nebraska, Harris Grunden (Harris and I are no longer friendly).I don't know if you can do anything about this situation or not; I certainly have contacted a number of people to no avail. Generally, the people I contact about this do not even acknowledge that contact, for whatever reason. I have, in my possession, design documents regarding the inventions outlined in the Credence document, should you need proof of those claims.With regards,Wes HansenCredence.pdf2072K”Here’s a follow up email after I figured out that he was lying to me - hey Semper Fi:“Go Fuck Yourself2 messagesWes HansenThu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:30 PMTo: AKelly <[email protected]>Yeah, I went down Figueroa today and found out there is no VA facility on Figueroa; came back to the library and found out the VALOR program is for Pharmacy students.http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-...You remind me of my family; they're all rotten as fuck as well.”Here’s a copy of the email I sent to Bernie Sanders’ PAC back in 2015 prior to the primaries. My biggest fear was seeing Clinton and Cruz in the general so I registered democrat (in California) so I could vote in the primary and voted for Sanders (I’m a Libertarian) - he has absolutely no integrity and is part of the conspiracy against Donald Trump. Read my Quora answer before you judge the email; the problem with these emails is, they have a word limit. In the case below, I attached a 20 page summary which outlines the criminal activity quite well. It also includes proprietary drawings of my inventions related to the Ares Robotics gig - I was an independent contractor, hence, Ares had no legal right to these inventions. The email:“Homeless Veteran2 messagesWes HansenWed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:17 AMTo: [email protected]. Sanders,I submitted the following to Senator Sanders via the comment form on his government website:I am a homeless veteran who has been homeless since March of 2009. Please find attached a 20 page document, with lot’s of pictures, called, “Credence: A Tale of Corruption.” It is a brief summary of the events leading up to and resulting in my current situation. In summary:In 94’ I was honorably discharged from the U. S. Marine Corps; in 95’ I was an honor graduate, class D252, at The Ocean Corporation, a commercial dive school in Houston, Texas; after an illusion bursting stint with American Oilfield Divers, I took a manufacturing job and started night school full-time at Houston Community College; studying pre-science with the intent to transfer, in a couple of years I accumulated 57 credit hours with a 3.89 GPA; working as an independent contractor, albeit exclusively for a robotics firm, Ares Robotics (the deal was, being a recent start-up and short on cash, Ares Robotics would hire me as an independent contractor, pay my tax bill, and when the business became solid the board would assess my contribution, sweat equity they called it, and extend me ownership based on that assessment), I invented a number of novel technologies, technologies which should have made me independently wealthy; almost immediately I acquired two felonies and three misdemeanors on a previously spotless criminal record and found myself incarcerated at the maximum security forensic psychiatric hospital in Vernon, Texas; I notified the Houston office of the F. B. I. of these events in 2005 with a letter sent from the Harris County Jail; the situation deteriorated; I scheduled a meeting with the F. B. I. in Beaumont, Texas, in 2007 while on parole and experiencing “difficulties” with securing gainful employment in 2007; the situation continued to deteriorate; in January of 2009 I wrote a detailed account of my experience supported by copies of all legal documents, professionally organized with Table of Contents and Tabs, and sent copies to the U. S. Office of the Inspector General and Assistant U. S. Attorney, Eastern District of Texas; in March of 2009 I became homeless, a situation which continues to this day; a little over a year ago I moved to Los Angeles, California; my extended family, as well as many of the people from the community in Nebraska where I grew up, Nebraska’s official Easter City, are intimately involved in the theft of my technologies; during my time as a homeless man I have studied mathematics, practiced yoga, and further developed my meditation practice; I now know considerably more about mathematics than I did in 2009; I am a Buddhist so I assume the long view . . .I am convinced the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been involved in this despicable conspiracy since day one! I served my country with honor and don't feel out of line for expecting my country to serve me honorably; to date, this has not been so . . .With regards,Wes HansenCredence.pdf2072K”Here’s a copy of the Whistleblower notice I sent to Chuck Grassley’s office; at that same time I also sent emails to the Congressional Offices of Grassley, Sue Collins, Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham, and Devin Nunes - all along the same lines:“Mueller investigation/pertinent info2 messagesWes HansenSun, Aug 26, 2018 at 3:16 PMTo: [email protected],This email is in regards to the on-going Bob Mueller investigation; I have pertinent information about said situation. Both Jeff Sessions and Rudy Guiliani, hence, the President, are aware of this situation; this situation is why the President is upset with Jeff Sessions.I’m a homeless Marine Corps veteran (0352, 1991 – 1994) living under a bridge on the east side of the LA River and I’m homeless BECAUSE of Bob Mueller and James Comey! I know first-hand how they really operate!I was honorably discharged from the USMC in 1994, graduated from The Ocean Corporation, a commercial dive school in 1995, and, after a short disillusioned stint in the off-shore industry, started work in a small job shop during the day and going to school full-time in the evening at the Houston Community College. I was making $60,000/year and maintaining a 3.9 GPA at the college - things were going well. Then I invented some novel technologies relevant to the oil and gas industry and a couple of wealthy individuals decided they wanted to steal the IP. I went from having zero criminal history and zero mental health history to having 3 misdemeanors and 2 felonies AND a full-blown mental history in a very short time.I took the second felony case to trial, hence, the trip to the North Texas State Hospital; they wanted to tell the jury I was mentally incompetent. I filed an appeal and it was run through the system without my notification - something which is illegal, even in Texas. After I was released on parole, I had an FBI agent follow me around everywhere I went, eventually resulting in joblessness and homelessness. The story is long but here’s a relevant excerpt (I sent this to a mathematician at the University of Lethbridge in Canada recently; I made a couple of significant contributions to pure mathematics, with implications for cyber security, hence, national security, and he and his wife were both very helpful: http://vixra.org/author/wes_hansen):“I really do live on the streets of Los Angeles (for four years now, the previous six on the streets of Houston, Texas) and that's really why I do the weird stuff I do; it would most likely be impossible to explain to someone who has never experienced the street.I have been homeless for the last decade; I don't mind living hard like I do, but I'm sick and tired of living in the trash receptacles - where I get my $25/week for groceries. I was put on the streets by my family working in conjunction with the USA's FBI, although in truth, the FBI was setting my family up. I was doing well, honorably discharged from the USMC, working full-time during the day making $60,000/year, and going to the community college full-time in the evening, studying Pre-science/Pre-engineering with intent to transfer and maintaining a 3.9 GPA (out of 4.0). Then I invented some novel technologies relevant to the Oil/Gas/PetroChemical industries and a host of rather wealthy/powerful individuals decided they wanted my stuff. It's a long story but here's a couple of relevant excerpts:[M]y parents, Harley and Kathy Hansen, leased considerable properties from a lady named Bertha Hengler for more than twenty years. Bertha lived in Casper, Wyoming, and both her son, Jim, and daughter-in-law, Alice, retired from executive positions at Casper refineries. We used to visit Bertha, Jim, and Alice at least once a year to go snow skiing. Jim and Alice were cross-country enthusiasts. My parents, upon Bertha’s death, purchased half of the Hengler property they had rented from Jim and Alice and continued to rent the other half from Bertha’s son, Bob. While working at Ares Robotics I tried to get my parents to leverage these connections but they would have none of it. I sent Ares Robotics marketing packages to both my parents and my godmother, Zella Mae Sanders, and received no response from either party.[I] filed a lawsuit in a Texas court requesting the return of confidential documents as provided by a provision in the Confidentiality Agreement. The defendant, Mark Hansen, was a resident of Colorado so it was necessary to involve the Texas Secretary of State. I received notice from the Secretary of State, via certified mail, that Mark Hansen had been duly served on December 11, 2008. The Texas court in question never received such notice thus a trial date was never set. I filed two separate lawsuits in this same court, one on the same day as I filed the suit naming Mark Hansen as defendant, and its integrity was well established.The Secretary of State sabotaged the judicial proceedings of a Texas court in the attempt to prevent the authentication of said Confidentiality Agreement while, at the same time, convincing my family of their intent to help them (my family) steal the technologies and trade secrets covered by said Confidentiality Agreement. They failed in this endeavor for, as the old saying goes, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” They made this attempt in order to assist William Albion Anderson, an extremely wealthy Perry campaign contributor, in his attempted theft of technologies and proprietary information which rightfully belong to me; technologies I have since patented. I have also managed to maintain Trade Secret status, as defined by both Texas State law and the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, on the majority of the technologies in question.So why did the Texas Secretary of State foolishly interfere with the judicial proceedings of a Texas court? They planned to arrest my whole family, myself included, for “Theft of Trade Secrets.” Here’s how:I knew my family was being set up, I just didn’t know how. I knew there had to be a connection between William Albion Anderson and Rex Hansen. I started pounding the internet searching for it. On William Albion Anderson’s Forbes profile it demonstrated that he had been appointed as a Director for Rancher Energy of Denver, Colorado, in the spring of 2007 and a Director for Far East Energy of Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2007. Considering this whole conspiracy was coming into play in 2007, I found these appointments suspect. I became even more convinced of their conspiratorial nature when I discovered that Rancher Energy, a company using CO2 injection to extract oil from spent oil wells, was working solely in oil fields conveniently located in the direct vicinity of Casper, Wyoming.In the offering memorandum for Sausalito Foods Rex Hansen emailed to me, it reveals that Rex Hansen is a Managing Director for Bathgate Capital of Denver, Colorado. I began researching Bathgate Capital and discovered, in their tombstones, that Bathgate had extended $1.4 million in seed capital to a company in Houston, Texas, called Far East Energy. Bingo! The Rex Hansen/William Albion Anderson connection. The State of Texas/FBI had all of my information including social security number. They planned to demonstrate, in a Texas court, that Rex Hansen became aware of the pump and robotic system in question while engaging William Albion Anderson through the Bathgate/Far East Energy connection. They then planned to demonstrate, in a Texas court, that Rex Hansen directed me, his cousin, to work for the William Albion Anderson company manufacturing said pump and robotic system thus familiarizing myself with the technology and facilitating the theft of that technology. They were going to put my whole family in prison.This all started in 1999, when I was 30 years old - 19 years I’ve either been locked up for crimes I didn’t commit, in the Maximum Security Forensic Psychiatric Hospital for evaluation I didn’t need, working a minimum wage job, a monitor on my ankle, on parole for a crime I didn’t commit, or, as now, homeless and living out the dumpsters!This all happened in a conservative state - Texas, under a conservative President from that state - George W. Bush. When Obama won the election in 2008, I was ecstatic. I thought, “Oh, yeah, we’re going to have some fun now!” I put this whole story together in three ring binders with table of contents and tabs; it took 2 three inch binders, two 1.5 inch binders, 3 legal folders, and 2 CDs - everything was documented, Non-disclosure agreements, Court docs, memos from meetings with FBI personnel, emails, photographs, everything. I had six copies; I boxed up five of them and sent them to the U. S. Office of Inspector General, the U. S. Assistant Attorney, Eastern District of Texas, Brian Ross at ABC News, a friend I grew up with, and a former girlfriend who was a lawyer at the time - now a District Court Judge. Everyone screwed me over except the ex-girlfriend! She kept my documents for me! Shortly after mailing everything, I received a call from someone at the U. S. Assistant Attorney’s office - I now regret mailing them the documentation. The FBI put me out on the street specifically to make me lose my documentation - I’m certain of it, but the Judge saved my day.Now you tell me, do you really think Comey and Mueller are capable of an impartial investigation? And the whole tale is way worse than what I have revealed here. I’d like to see Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Comey, Mueller, McCabe, Rosenstein, and that whole rotten bunch locked up where they belong. And don’t think for a minute ole Barry Boy doesn’t know about my situation, because he damn sure does - so does Bernie “can’t be bought by billionaires” Sanders. So does the Washington (Democracy dies in darkness) Post, the Houston Chronicle, the L A Times, Leonard Pitts at the Miami Herald, and, more recently, the Wall Street Journal.Jeff Sessions, I believe, has gone over to the Dark Side. He says that under his charge the DOJ will not be used for political ends but what is Mueller’s investigation? It was started with the Steele dossier for goodness sakes, and I tend to believe the entire circus was deliberate on the part of Comey, Mueller, and the rest of Obama’s DOJ and administration. Let’s be serious, liberals like to think that Donald Trump “stole the election” from Hillary Clinton, but Clinton lost that election with her “basket of deplorables” comment; in other words, she lost that election due to her own misplaced sense of superiority. Did Trump cut a deal with Putin, exchanging dirt on Clinton for a revisit of Magnitsky? That doesn’t even make sense given that the President is essentially powerless with regards to Magnitsky!With regards,Wesley W. Hansen”And it goes on and on!And now we have Bob Barr, a good friend of Bob Mueller, telling the American People that there is no systemic problem at the FBI only a small leadership issue; obviously Bob could give a fuck about me; obviously the American People could give a fuck about me. Now talk to me about obstruction!Finally, here’s an email I recently sent to Carl Cannon, at RealClearPolitics, author of When Comey and Mueller Bungled the Anthrax Case:Bob Mueller/James Comey1 messageWes Hansen <[email protected]>Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 1:43 PMTo: [email protected]. Cannon,Please, if you would take a moment, perhaps you could assist a homeless Marine Corps Veteran whose life was ruined by Bob Mueller and James Comey!?! I just read and posted your article, "When Comey and Mueller bungled the Anthrax case," to Quora; the last 20 years of my life have been pure hell because of these two. If you would please take the time:https://www.quora.com/How-would-...To fill in a tiny bit, in 1999, or 1998 actually, I answered an ad in the Houston Chronicle for a job at Ares Robotics. I interviewed with Richard Starr, the founder and a licensed Professional Engineer, and he told me he knew the folks at The Ocean Corporation, where I attended Dive School. I drove out there and talked to some people about him and they said he was okay. A month later Starr called and asked if I was still interested in the job and I took it. The rest is summarized in the attached Credence document. The people there all belonged to this cult called The Mankind Project: https://forum.culteducation.com/.... It has affiliated with it an organization called Women Within: https://forum.culteducation.com/.... They're a cult but they have crazy powerful members; they've destroyed my life. You can read about it in the Houston Press article about Michael Scinto - he killed himself: https://www.houstonpress.com/new.... Of course, it's not just that cult - my so-called family doesn't belong to it; neither do James Comey or Bob Mueller or Barack Obama or Eric Holder or . . . or at least I don't think so. This is so crazy, the true story I mean; that's why they sent me to the Maximum Security Forensic Psychiatric hospital in Vernon, Texas, everyone I tell the story to is either in on it or they think I'm crazy! I've been homeless for a bit more than 10 years now . . .With regards,Wes HansenCredence.pdf2072K[end email]That part about the crazy is just a conjecture of course; I don’t know, really, what other people think but I am most certainly mentally sound - in spite of the best efforts of these Loving Christians!I don’t really miss much anymore; I practice my spiritual practice!

Black and WhiteMilwaukeeBorn and raised in a very European community in the Middle West, I was taught to be open-minded, tolerant and to think critically. We were an immigrant community made up from German / Jewish / Catholic / Lutheran / English, most highly skilled, well employed in large manufacturing industries, speaking several languages and being highly educated coming from one the best schools systems in the USA. Milwaukee was 'Leave it to Beaver' country. Times were so much more tranquil then, people were friendly, things were so much more innocent, there was very little crime and neighborhoods raised children. We didn't have all the technology then, no TV and only radio with Edward R Murrow and Gabriel Heater and JC Kaltenborn interspersed between the Long Ranger and Shadow programs; it made life simpler it seems which has changed our life today for the better and also made it worse. Like someone said before, technology has robbed jobs, created laziness, created greed, and has allowed public help for all the wrong reasons. We should be using our technology for good things for our children, like developing wind and solar energy, and cures for diseases and not to increase greed.We only had small handful of blacks in Milwaukee when I lived there as the Great Migration of southern Blacks to the north hadn't hit Milwaukee yet. It was hitting Detroit and Chicago with both good and disastrous results. The heavily industrialized white north needed skilled machinists and such but the blacks were generally uneducated and unskilled field hands and didn't fit in well. This provided opportunities for them to learn and embody themselves into the industrialized culture and advance - some did and some didn't and social dysfunctions and crime went way up and racial segregation found its way to the north.The NavyThen I entered the Navy and was stationed in the south, and found a completely different - hateful, fearful, uneducated - good ole boy society still living in the Confederate culture and fighting the Civil War and racial integration to the death. I found the region was filled with black people, about 30 per cent to 40 percent of the population depending upon the state, all of which were treated horribly; Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia being the worst, as sub human by some, as second class citizens by most. The south was segregated by law with separate public facilities and areas to live in. The police enforced the segregation, the courts supported it and the Ku Klux Klan terrorized those who tried to change things. In the Deep South whites indescribably murdered and lynched blacks and no whites were ever brought to justice for these horrible murders - no arrests and no convictions. Throughout the south there was the black seedy [shanty] section of town and the separate white town house section with street lights being the best. Facilities were separated by race and enforced by the police. Us Northerners though it was just a silly duplication of facilities and an insult to the human condition and southerners were morally bent.On my ship we had lots of black sailors and I liked most of them. I had them in my Fire Control weapons gang, Cousins was my partner in the Main Battle Gun Director, Hawkins was our best 3inch gunner, James was our best street fighter; he bailed me out of plenty of Bar fights across the world. On the ship we got along well but when we went ashore in the south we went to separate sections of town. In Norfolk that meant Granby Street for the whites and Church Street for the blacks. That is why we Yankee sailors went to NYC for weekend liberties, blacks too for the freedom. I never understood the southern institutionalized Jim Crow segregation I saw in the Norfolk area during the 1950s & 1960s. I understand defacto segregation volunteered by cultural choice, like ethnic groups sticking to their own kind, even different social / economic groups doing the same. Whites who objected to segregation would get into trouble with the police for using black facilities as a means of protest; they would be arrested and tossed n jail. . One day I was put off the Norfolk city bus for giving my seat to a very pregnant and in-pain black woman.This segregation was hard for us northerners to understand. We would go to sea for weeks chasing Russian submarines then come back to Norfolk trying to find that elusive femme fatale that must be somewhere nearby looking for a nice good looking young Destroyer sailor man like me. I soon found that not only was she elusive, but was non existent. There weren't those girl meet boy facilities here that were found in the north to meet girls. Hell, we were in segregated and backward Norfolk, and they had signs around town that said "sailors keep off the grass," so where does a sailor go to meet women in a dry and segregated backward place where there are no dance clubs or night clubs and only a few dingy fast food restaurants with lousy Pizza. So, we went to Manhattan for weekend liberty searching for feminine companionship in Times Square - which we found in spades . . . The Big Apple was alive with tens of thousands of all kinds of women, dance clubs and spicy night club adventures.In my early Navy days in Norfolk, when I didn't have a car or a ride for weekend liberty, I would take a Trailways interstate bus to New York City. When the bus stopped for bathroom or food in the South, we left the bus and parted company into separate racial facilities, but when in the North we shared all facilities together. If you were pissed off at Jim Crow and thwarted the segregationist pattern, like entering a "colored" rest room, you could be arrested and put in the local jails, where you would be treated horribly, being crammed into tiny, filthy cells. fed salt without water and sporadically beaten. In the South, the police didn't take kindly to whites who sympathized with the blacks. On one trip I met Mary Thomson, a young pretty Black girl who lived in Manhattan, and we became good friends. She was very smart and had a great personality and I wished I could date her when she visited her parents in Norfolk, but as things are in the South, I knew that was impossible. We could only breathe the fresh air of freedom when we crossed the Mason - Dixon Line.It was totally two different worlds, comparing monolithic Norfolk to an incredibly diverse Manhattan; where the south has lots of guns and say "You' all" and in New York where they have lots of fun and say "Youse guys. Norfolk - as well as the entire south was a dark and dismal region, intolerant, segregated, violent, poor and they lived for Confederate values; where politicians ran on religion, fear and hate and being against the fascist federal government for trying to desegregate the south, hating the communist Martin Luther King and his Civil Rights struggle, and the Yankee liberal north trying to change the south and inspiring all their troubles - again! That was racial integration, they were dead set against it. They like the old ways and understand them, it fitted into their comfort zone.The lynching of Black people in the Southern and Border States became an institutionalized method used by whites to terrorize Blacks and maintain white supremacy. In the South, there was deep-seated and all-pervading hatred and fear of the Negro which led white mobs to turn to lynch law as a means of social control. Lynchings open public murders of individuals suspected of crime conceived and carried out more or less spontaneously by a mob seem to have been an American invention. Most of the lynchings were by hanging or shooting, or both.However, many were of a more hideous nature, burning at the stake, maiming, dismemberment, castration, and other brutal methods of physical torture. Lynching therefore was a cruel combination of racism and sadism, which was utilized primarily to sustain the caste system in the South. Many white people believed that Negroes could only be controlled by fear. To them, lynching was seen as the most effective means of control.The Civil Rights Movement and the escalating war in Vietnam were the two great catalysts for social protest in the sixties. During the 1960s, the civil rights movement changed the lives of African Americans forever. It was a tumultuous time, and things got harder for them before they began to get better, but it was dramatic. Some people began to feel hope that they would someday have equal rights. There was little consensus on how to promote equality on a national level - groups such as the NAACP, CORE, and Dr. Martin Luther King's SCLC, endorsed peaceful methods and believed change could be affected by working around the established system; other groups such as the Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Nationalist Movement advocated retaliatory violence and a separation of the races.The StruggleOne of the first major events in the sixties was the attack on the Freedom Riders, groups of black and white citizens who rode busses across the south in order to test laws enforcing segregation in public facilities. As they rode across the south, they were met by angry mobs and police brutality, which would beat them severely, sometimes to death. Another event, which happened in 1963, was the killing of Medgar Evers, the field secretary for the NAACP, who was murdered in his driveway. Because of all the beatings of the Freedom Riders and the frustration of blacks wanting their rights, many riots broke out in various cities and states, such as Los Angeles, New Jersey, Chicago and Philadelphia. When these riots broke out in the 1960's, the police would use any methods necessary to exert their power, such as the use of clubs and physical force. Sometimes, when black protesters would try to enter restaurants, stores or any other "White" facilities, they would be sprayed with large fire hoses. The photos of Birmingham in 1963 are evidence of these events.In 1962, President Kennedy dispatched troops to force the University of Mississippi (a state institution) to admit James Meredith, a black student. At the same time, he forbade racial or religious discrimination in federally financed housing. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and President Johnson continued the battle. King convinced President Kennedy and later President Johnson to push for legislation to end discrimination and was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1964. President Johnson prodded Congress into enacting (August 1965) a Voting Rights Act that eliminated all qualifying tests for registration that had as their objective limiting the right to vote to whites.The whole USA was on fire: From 1964 to 1968, more than a hundred American cities were swept by race riots, which included dynamiting, guerrilla warfare, and huge conflagrations, as the anger of the northern black community at its relatively low income, high unemployment, and social exclusion exploded. At this violent expression of hopelessness the northern white community drew back rapidly from its reformist stance on the race issue (the so-called white backlash).During this time, we lived in a Bi Polar world, it was a Cold War, us against the Russians, capitalism vs. communism, and that was our nation's chief concern. Within that battle was embedded the Civil Rights movement, centered on the American South, but it also had vast challenges for northern blacks achieving social acceptance and equal opportunity. Although the roots of the movement go back to the 19th century, it peaked in the 1950s and 1960s along with the (Hippy) counter revolution challenging traditional social mores. Civil Rights workers pursued their goals through legal means, negotiations, petitions, and nonviolent protest demonstrations. The civil rights movement was the largest social movement of the 20th century in the United States. These were violent times, the south was ubiquitous for murders of black people, especially in Mississippi, and whites got away with it. No white jury would convict a white man for killing a black person.For example, Emmet Till was a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago who was brutally beaten, tortured, disfigured, shot, and dumped into the Tallahatchie River. Even though the two white men (J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant) confessed and bragged about the killing, when they were tried, they were acquitted by an all white jury. These kind of activities happened over and over again in the south. Between Civil Rights people getting murdered, there were thousands killed in the south with no recompense from the law. But life in Norfolk was hell too - Whites and blacks were separated by law which was joyfully enforced by the police, most whom I regarded as psychopaths. The city was divided into sections, one for whites the other for blacks. Black people had their own churches, restaurants, taxi cabs, parks, beaches, bathrooms, locker rooms and water fountains.The American Civil Rights Movement in the late 1950s and 1960s represents a pivotal event in world history. The positive changes it brought to voting and civil rights continue to be felt throughout the United States and much of the world. Although this struggle for black equality was fought on hundreds of different "battlefields" throughout the United States, many observers at the time described the state of Mississippi as the most racist and violent. In 1955, Reverend George Lee, vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and NAACP worker, was shot in the face and killed for urging blacks in the Mississippi Delta to vote.Although eyewitnesses saw a carload of whites drive by and shoot into Lee's automobile, the authorities failed to charge anyone. Governor Hugh White refused requests to send investigators to Belzoni, Mississippi, where the murder occurred.In August 1955, Lamar Smith, sixty-three-year-old farmer and World War II veteran, was shot in cold blood on the crowded courthouse lawn in Brookhaven, Mississippi, for urging blacks to vote. Although the sheriff saw a white man leaving the scene 'with blood all over him' no one admitted to having witnessed the shooting" and "the killer went free.Mississippi's lawmakers, law enforcement officers, public officials, and private citizens worked long and hard to maintain the segregated way of life that had dominated the state since the end of the Civil War in 1865. The method that ensured segregation persisted was the use and threat of violence against people who sought to end it.On September 25, 1961, farmer Herbert Lee was shot and killed in Liberty, Mississippi, by E.H. Hurst, a member of the Mississippi State Legislature. Hurst murdered Lee because of his participation in the voter registration campaign sweeping through southwest Mississippi. Authorities never charged him with the crime. Hurst was acquitted by a coroner's jury, held in a room full of armed white men, the same day as the killing. Hurst never spent a night in jail."NAACP State Director Medgar Evers was gunned down in 1963 in his Jackson driveway by rifle-wielding white Citizens Council member Byron De La Beckwith from Greenwood, Mississippi.In the spring of 1963 two events changed Americans view on Civil Rights. The first was the march in Birmingham in which Dr. King was arrested and he wrote "A letter from a Birmingham Jail. He wrote a letter in response to criticism for ministers in Birmingham Alabama. May 2, 1963 Children of Birmingham Alabama marched on the city and more than 3000 people were arrested. At that time Bull Conner was in charge of the police and fire department in Birmingham. Conner was a raciest of the highest order. He wanted to make an impression to all black people of Birmingham that he was strongly against Civil rights in America. He had dogs bite students and firemen hose down the students in the street. Hundreds of news out lets from around the world filmed this turning event in America. The imagines of what Americans saw on TV and newspapers horrifying people across the nation. People who had been sitting on the fence suddenly realized something had to be done... Before the events in Birmingham a poll was taken asking Americans if Civil rights was an important issue in America only four percent answered yes and after the events in Birmingham 52% of Americans thought Civil rights.Bull Conner had become a game changer. He alone helped the Civil rights movement more than the President of the United States, a future Nobel prize winner, when America saw a man have so much disliked for a race it was time for change. Over 900 people were put in jail. They amount for bail went from $300 per person to $2500. The Civil rights movement did not have any money to pay for the bail of all the people .President Kennedy knew he had to do something. He had gotten word African Americans wereready to march or riot in the streets of the nation. In the first six months of 1963 978 demonstrations took place in 109 cities Kennedy like many other American could no longer straddle the fence .On June 11,1963 President Kennedy made a speech to the nation about civil rights. Kennedy knew once he made the speech his re-election was not going to be easy. He said if he was going to lose re-election he was going down trying to help people. He knew by making this speech he would lose votes in the south. He felt he would lose every state in the south in the next election except Texas.On November 22, 1963 Kennedy was killed in Texas trying to shore up his base in Texas. The day after Kennedy's civil rights speech was given Medgar Evers was killed in Mississippi.The 1963 March on Washington attracted an estimated 250,000 people for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans. Participants walked down Constitution and Independence avenues, then - 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed - gathered before the Lincoln Monument for speeches, songs, and prayer. Televised live to an audience of millions, the march provided dramatic moments, most memorably the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. On August 28 the marchers arrived. By 11 o'clock in the morning, more than 250,000 had gathered by the Washington Monument, where the march was to begin. It was a diverse crowd: black and white, rich and poor, young and old, Hollywood stars and everyday people. Those assembled marched peacefully. But it was a great peaceful day and I loved it!Perhaps the most notable episode of violence came in Freedom Summer of 1964, when civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner left their base in Meridian, Mississippi, to investigate one of a number of church burnings in the eastern part of the state. The Ku Klux Klan had burned Mount Zion Church because the minister had allowed it to be used as a meeting place for civil rights activists. After the three young men had gone into Neshoba County to investigate, they were subsequently stopped and arrested by Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price. After several hours, Price finally released them only to arrest them again shortly after 10 p.m. He then turned the civil rights workers over to his fellow Klansmen. The group took the activists to a remote area, beat them, and then shot them to death. Dittmer suggests that because Schwerner and Goodman were white the federal government responded by establishing an FBI office in Jackson and calling out the Mississippi National Guard and U. S. Navy to help search for the three men. Of course this was the response the Freedom Summer organizers had hoped for when they asked for white volunteers.Life in Norfolk / PortsmouthAfter the Navy, I started my IBM Career in Norfolk as a Customer Engineer on Unit Record Equipment and then on main frames. I soon got a reputation that I could fix anything and maker customers happy and IBM kept sending to more school in upstate New York. They sent me to never ending TAD assignments on the East Coast - especially in Manhattan, Washington, Cape Canaveral and Disney land. I was a Yankee and never supported the Jim Crow segregation throughout the south. I didn't like the conservative politics and evangelical religion that supported it either. I got involved in politics, helped Jack Kennedy win the Tidewater region. I fraternized with the black computer operators at the Naval Base. We kidded around a lot. IBM got called from naval base people that I was a disgrace to the white race because I had black friends, after all, the south is segregated and I should obey that law. I spoke up and said my piece. All this infuriated the Naval Base people and IBM personnel. I was a good engineer but I was IBM's renegade and after seven years we parted ways. I had become a New Yorker with all my lengthy visits there and I wanted to move there.As throughout the South, black and white children grew up apart, lived in different neighborhoods and went to separate schools. U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr., who essentially controlled Virginia politics, vows to stop integration plans in Virginia schools. In Norfolk, the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority (NRHA) under the direction of Mayor Duckworth works to rezone neighborhoods and keep black and white citizens separate. Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond and other cities made headlines by openly resisting attempts to integrate schools. The Governor Almond of Virginia called it Massive Resistance. There were a lot of people who didn't want integration. It wasn't that people hated blacks. They didn't know you. Segregation left scars that have lasted generations.Segregation meant black students never had the same quality in schools as whites; they had to catch up to their white peers after decades of second hand books and second-class schools. Back students' tests scores failed to meet federal standards. But blacks could strut better, on July 4 the two high schools marching bands Woodrow Wilson (white) and Norcom (black) - marched down Portsmouth's main drag - High Street. It was the only time I saw solidarity between the races as the whites timidly marched while the blacks strutted their stuff to the cheers of all the onlookers.The stores along Granby in Norfolk and High Street in Portsmouth, specifically, their lunch counters and the city itself were the site of a battle that also played out in dozens of other cities in the South. They were segregated and Blacks were forbidden to sit at 'White only' lunch counters. One time when I was walking into a Bank on High Street in Portsmouth in my IBM outfit, a blue suit with vest and white shirt, there was a demonstration on the sidewalk and inside of the F. W. Woolworth Dime Store by young black people who were doing a sit in at the 'white only' lunch counter. Outside, the blacks had signs around their neck "Remember the Golden Rule' and they were being screamed and spit on by the whites. The police had large fierce dogs that attacked the blacks and me since I was standing there. I never was so ashamed at being a citizen of the United States and vowed to take up the fight for Civil Rights.I joined the Portsmouth Jr. Chamber of Commerce and became quite active. There were many worthwhile causes we participated in. Meetings were held once a month and were accompanied with famous speakers. Being a Military town, many of these speakers were Admirals, but many were local politicians who openly advocated segregation in the face of the Civil Rights movement being conducted at the time. I associated with all the local politicos and military types. I got involved in many projects, like distributing Bubble Gum Machines throughout Portsmouth. The Chamber sponsored the local Miss America beauty pageant, which afforded me the opportunity to participate in several Miss America Pageants as a Judge and organizer. We had a meeting to discuss what we were looking for, young women with poise, looks and talent. So, what I was supposed to do was audition perspective candidates and sends them on. There were several ladies I interviewed and picked, one was black and really had the talent and personality and figure. Then I got chewed out by the organizers - didn't I know that Ms America was for white women only? I was really angry! I had to tell the black girl she didn't qualify for the contest because she was black. I will never get used to southern racism. One time I made speech on an HUD project being considered for downtown Portsmouth on Effingham Street outside the Naval Hospital, which was nothing but shacks inhabited by poor Black people. Whites were against raising this ghetto and replacing it with decent housing because they did not want conditions for Blacks to improve. I was for the project and was threatened with a ride out of town and a beating by the Ku Klux Klan. I invited them to try it now and I was prepared to beat the Holy loving shit out of them on the spot but they declined and left saying they knew where I lived. I started packing my 25 caliber automatic or P38 then.It's a wonder how small little happenings in ones life can endure major changes, but a good example was my learning how to rebuild car engines. I had this old 1948 Plymouth whose engine had conked out and I was going to try to rebuild it, learning as I went. I figured, "What could I lose, the car was junk anyway." I had the head off and was trying to get the pistons out and was over at the local Car Parts dealer getting some tools and asking for advice. Another customer standing there, a Black man, offered some expert advice, in fact he came to my house, but as was the custom for Black people coming to a White person's house, came to the back door. ("What" I thought) I learned that he was a Baptist preacher in Churchland living in a shanty town off of Route 17, which was not too far from my house on Hatton Point Road. I will tell you this that man knew his cars! That was the beginning of a relationship with him where I took him as my mentor in learning about car engine repair. One day I am at his shanty house getting some advice and sitting at his kitchen table having a cup of coffee. He asked me if I could take his teenage daughter to the grocery store to pick up something and I said sure. She got in the front seat and off we went, it was only just around the corner at a shopping center on Route 17 in Churchland. As I pulled onto a highway, a State Trooper pulled us over.With his pot belly and strong Southern Accent, he said, "What are you doing with this Neegra woman in your front seat?" I explained I was taking her to the grocery store. "Boy, don't you know that you never ride a Neegra woman in your front seat, looks like your taking her out, and you know that is illegal in Virginia." "By the way, you talk funny, are you a god-damned Yankee?" This went on and finally he let me go after the girl got in the back seat. Do I have to tell you how I felt?I belonged to the Sweet Haven Baptist church pastored by Reverend Damon Wyatt and what a God-fearing, Bible-toting, sugary-sweet and loving bunch of racists most of them were, including Reverend Wyatt himself who was the worst racist of all, and a Baptist Pastor at that. They were all bible thumping died in the wool segregationists and KKK lovers who hid behind the scriptures for the worst sins man perpetuated on another man. I heard all about all the bad people - Negroes was this, Jews that and the Yankees were worse for trying to desegregate the South, and even the Catholics had special nasty names. Bible thumping - sweet scripture talking bigots, it was a very twisted and hateful society. Again, I paid little attention to all these horrible attitudes, something to live with while down South I reasoned. After all, it seemed they hated everyone not like them. But little did I know then that all this was burning a hole inside me and that it would explode later.My Grandmother was an Eastern Star and my uncle was a Mason. I belonged to the DeMolay during my high school years, was an officer and participated in the Annual Shriner's Circus as a clown. So when my Virginia Dismal Swamp hunts and Chesapeake Bay fishing buddy wanted to sponsor me for the Portsmouth Masons, I said OK. The Freemasons, also known simply as Masons, is a fraternal philanthropic organization with lodges in almost every community of the world. Masons come from every profession and religious background and joining the Masons' benefits' you in many ways. I was investigated and accepted and did my various catechisms to become a Master Member. But my chapter didn't accept blacks, said Black people weren't free born, but were slaves in the USA or had a slave history, so they didn't meet the free born requirement for membership in the Masons. Blacks joined their version of the Masons called the Prince Hall organization. I couldn't believe such stupidity and reminded them that in the ancient world, the whites were slaves to the Greeks and Romans. They didn't know what I was talking about. It was like I was in a different world of full of organized and accepted prejudice. I refused to be part of an organization that discriminated like that.I lived an interesting life; in the south I was active in Civil Rights, went hunting in Dismal Swamp and fished on Chesapeake Bay for six years, went to never ending assignments to Manhattan, Cape Canaveral and Disney Land as an IBM engineer; taught main frames and peripherals, traveled around the USA, went to the March on Washington (1963), was a volunteer Fireman, rebuilt and sold used cars and started writing. During my ten years in Virginia, I was involved in politics, worked for Kennedy in 1960 and the Civil Rights movement, was active in many community and political organizations, and did the normal southern things like having a large gun collection, hunting in Dismal Swamp and fishing on Chesapeake Bay with my own 18-foot power boat. But I didn't like the south, felt way out of place there, the culture was on the other side of the coin for me, being the Bible Belt they didn't represent anything Christ did, instead supported racial segregation, the antics of the Ku Klux Klan to keep it that way, and all kinds of laws to ensure segregation now and segregation forever with any nefarious means possible. The south was a very evil place for me.On April 3, 1968, the day I transferred to Manhattan, Martin Luther King was assassinated. The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, was a wave of civil disturbance which swept the United States were the greatest wave of social unrest the United States experienced since the Civil War.1967 - Move to New York CityIn NYC I taught Grad School, hung out with the creative types in Greenwich Village, artists and performing arts folks, wrote books, went to Woodstock (1969), traveled the USA, was a National Recruiter hiring hundreds of professionals, managed large engineering and sales / marketing organizations and married Bettie, the love of my life, a black woman from Aliceville, Alabama. I got involved in politics and was elected and or appointed to various positions on the School and Planning Commission Boards.New York, in fact the rest of the country, has always accused Greenwich Village of being a little well . . . different. There is definitely a personality type that inhabits the area. You need to have an open mind and be someone's who's bold and independent and doesn't mind going out of their way to meet people or at first be out of your element. It's great for people who adapt well to new situation, love having their hands full, making connections and have big-time aspirations and want to be able to submerge themselves into their career from the start. We tend not to march to quite the same drummer as most of the rest of the country, which may be why we have attracted the artists, writers, musicians and all the rest of the excessive personifieds to the Village for so many years.1992 - Semi Retirement in Upstate, NYAfter taking an Early Retirement from Digital Equipment Corporation and working in the Manhattan computer industry for thirty years, I worked Route Sales jobs in Upstate New York for thirteen years, my sales territory being the Hudson Valley, Delaware River Valley and Catskill mountains. I sold all kinds of goods and services, from convenient store goods, to gas station products, Sam's club memberships, cruise travel and janitorial services. I had all kinds of customers, small town governments, food and hard goods distributors, all kinds of institutions, schools, and all kinds of small businesses, hotels, bungalow cottage colonies, canoe liveries and resort operations. Bettie and I lived in the Town of Wallkill in the stunningly beautiful Hudson Valley, which itself was full of interstate highways and shopping centers.I have been in Atlanta many times over the last ten years, many visits were business trips with Digital, and some trips lately have been with Bettie to see family and friends. Every time I come, there are new roads and real estate development being completed with new projects getting under way. Atlanta is growing very fast, more than 400,000 people a year move into the area. Atlanta leads the nation with the highest percentage of new homes sold among major market areas at 41% of all sales. The best way to describe Atlanta is to think about this hot-summer region as an ultra modern African nation filled with four million hardworking and very successful American Black people. This is really a Black town, and except for a very few areas to the North and West of Atlanta, there are few Whites here. The Blacks exude a classy and showy countenance as they ride around in their luxury cars and retire to their colonial brick mansions. In New York, many people say, including Blacks I know, that you cannot put a thousand Blacks together without a riot or some kind of police problem. In New York City, Rap concerts generally become violent affairs. Not here in Atlanta where you could put a million Blacks together with no problems what-so-ever. Perhaps it is because most of the Black people in Atlanta are middle class and there is a strong contingent of the upper class too. Political pundits say that most of the Black intelligentsia living in the United States is in Atlanta.The wealth of the Atlanta area is readily observed anywhere you go. Show off "Bling" is perhaps it is a Southern or Black Thing, but most people drive expensive cars and trucks. Ford 'Expeditions,' Lexus, Acura, and Cadillac Seville vehicles are constantly seen everywhere. There seems to be nothing poor about the Atlanta region, real estate and cars look new and well kept up. Fast food is everywhere and most people are over weight. Atlanta is all about flash, newness, growth. Also, the girl watching is as good as that available in Manhattan, or maybe better. On any given day in Atlanta, there must be a million beautiful Nubian Centerfolds walking around the shopping centers and high rise office buildings.But Atlanta is not like multi cultural and funky New York. Atlanta is a 'classy' Black town. Downtown Atlanta is clean, full of parks, old period homes, high rise buildings, and everywhere you go, there seems to be a nice walk-around neighborhood. Buckhead is an old and expensive neighborhood of extremely elegant homes. It looks like Middletown's Highland Avenue or the suburbs of Greenwich, Connecticut. Atlanta reminds me of Boston, one of the most livable big cities I have ever visited. I do not know where the drug sucking, welfare loving, criminal class lives.2005 - Retirement in GeorgiaIn 2005 our taxes went up again (every year about $500) and the winters were killing me. So, finally, for the easy retirement living and needing cheap living Bettie and I moved into the outskirts of the Atlanta metro area. I am glad that we bought a house out in a rural area, away from the Atlanta congestion, but with the huge migration to our area, the peace and tranquility of rural living won't last long. Remember, to make accurate comparisons, housing in Atlanta, Georgia is less than a third the price of Middletown, New York with a fifth of the taxes. Our town of Monroe is very nice and convenient to getting around as it is located at the intersection of multiple highways. Big box stores have all; been built here, a Wal-Mart Super Center, Home Depot, a new Hospital and dozens of Fast Food restaurants, all sorts of commercial activities - everything is here now.I found the people to be nice and southern hospitality is alive and well - on the surface. The traditions of the southeast U.S. are as vast as they are diverse and as beautiful as they are horrendous. These traditions encourage the behavior of some of the most polite and hospitable people on the planet. People that would give you the shirt off of their back while hosting you in their home with a glass of sweet tea in your hand, rich food full of soul in your belly and college football and NASCAR on the TV. The new south is full of northerners who came south for cheaper living. Underneath there is a southern culture that loves itself, fears the outside world and modernity, hold Yankees in loathing (especially New Yorkers) and loves fast food. There are lots of very obese people. Remnants of the old south are still around. I would say it's all about two things, the reverence for the Confederacy and twisted believe systems around the Civil War - it had nothing to do with slavery they say and evangelism still runs the show here. Being a Christian conservative is square one to being elected. The church is where people connect and socialize; they are not used to the diversity of races, religions, ethnic types and different ideals and hang with people like themselves. I would say overall we are very pleased with the move. The south has become a very good destination for living in peace and tranquility. I don't think it is racist anymore and holds to traditional values. Actually, I suspect most blacks are better off in the south than the north and they are moving back by the millions.But the south has great irritations for me. For example, The "War" ain't over, the confederacy lives on and the south will rise again in the Deep South like Alabama and Mississippi is heard often in churches and town halls... They have a world view separate from the rest of the USA. They want to teach "creationism" in the schools and elect ultra conservative politicians who want to make the USA a Christian nation. From the outside it has looked like a gaggle of incompetent evangelical inbreeds at times. I will never accept evangelicals constantly putting their religion into politics. I don't like the constant Confederate reminders, rants against immigrants and critical thinkers and the unrequited love of guns. However, if you wanted to hear me scream like a chicken in the slaughter house you should have heard me rant against New York's social liberals - the free ride for users and abusers paid for by my taxes.I don't socialize with many neighbors (it's not a southern thing) and know even less of them. But it would be considered bad manners for me to drive past a person without making eye contact nod my head & give a little smile. (If you have a hat/cap, tip it a little in acknowledgment). I like this little custom. It seems to keep my little part of the world a bit more friendly & caring.Black vs. White AmericaIt's not good yet! The perception lingers that justice remains far from being color-blind. We had the Trayvon Martin debacle in the national news and I was more than upset with the idiotic NRA gun lobby mentality and white conservative craziness that goes with it and the acquittal of George Zimmerman for what I called an outright murder, but I am a New Yorker where you go to jail for killing someone, but in Florida it's legal and called "Stand Your Ground." In my mind, there is no doubt that a black man will not get fair treatment in many court jurisdictions, and that angers me and I know it inflames black people too. I think there is plenty of legitimate cause for minorities to suspect the system is not fair and being totally altruistic, it's like the system has a warped agenda that favors the connected, rich and white. However, I also think there is plenty of legitimate cause for white fright and flight too. And it isn't just white flight, that's a racial misnomer, no one wants to live around crime, deteriorating schools and rising taxes to pay for heavy duty social programs, especially when they are retired and have limited incomes. People buy homes in neighborhoods with good schools and flee the neighborhoods with bad ones.To be honest with you, I do not understand the condition so many people keep finding themselves in, the un wed mothers, the crime, drugs and poverty. The lack of opportunity and commensurate skills in the rural south and Appalachia makes daily existence rife with people scheming to get on disability for [sic] asthma and other exaggerated excuses, all cooked up by greedy ambulance chasing lawyers and cockeyed judges. Disability has become the standard fare' welfare benefit when unemployment runs out. It's a farce! In these areas, people are poorly educated and not able to secure good jobs there or anywhere else.Even though there are some Rednecks and good-ole-boys sputtering at Civil Rights advances and trying to reenact the 19th century, the whole south is not the big baddy it once was and actually, in many measurements, it's better than the north and many southern cites are good examples of much improved racial relations and economic progress. I firmly believe that we are a decent county albeit there are many outlandish political and religious extremists and racial rabble rousers running about. Yeah, we have our demigods, it seems that in the throws of our vast technology - global economic and 21st century cultural changes that dogmatism is alive and well among certain peoples (and that goes for white and black).I keep thinking this is the USA and we are the land of opportunity and I have seen our capitalistic and rugged individualism culture advance more people to well being than any other country (and I have traveled the world extensively). In the USA all you have to do is move toward the opportunity with an education and wiliness to work. It seems to me that some people just don't try hard enough to improve their condition and seek the easy way out and most often that is a government program or government job. Or they get trapped by teenage pregnancy, drugs and criminal behavior. And I suspect our ever growing government largesse doesn't help the situation but actually hurts, it just seems to farther encourage irrational behavior. And that goes for those at both ends of the spectrum, the needy and self sufficient who both get undeserved and wrong-headed benefits from the government. But maybe I am stupid for not seeing the light . . . being our brother's keeper and all, but in my opinion, working hard, perseverance, and flying right are easier and more fun than going bad and into the pit. And I object paying for people who don't try or behave themselves.Well, here I go, going to raise a storm among the liberal - conservative body politic. I think many of our problems are caused by our political dysfunction in Washington which I chalk up more to republican extremism, and our class dividing social problems which I chalk up more to the democrats, each having gone over board with big government largesse and exasperating the status quo with fire brand rhetoric. It seems pissing each other off is the new normal instead of trying to work through problems. So what is this thing about social problems and the democrats? I think they didn't look critically enough at what I consider to be the main social problem and its collateral damage consequences - and that is an epidemic of unwed mothers. It used to be called illegitimacy but now it is part of the new middleclass normal.After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of the births to American women less than 30 occur outside marriage. According to the most recent government reports, the black female accounts for 73 percent of out-of-wedlock births; 66 percent for Native American women; 53 percent for Hispanic women; 29 percent for white women; and 17 percent for Asian American women. The report says that overwhelmingly, the more educated you are, the more likely you are to marry before having children. About 92 percent of college-educated women are married when they give birth. A wide range of studies suggests that children born and raised in single parent homes tend to do more poorly in school and have greater developmental problems than those raised in two-parent households.From an empirical viewpoint, however, the traditional conservative explanations are no more appealing than their liberal counterparts. These explanations fall into three overlapping categories: the culture of poverty, the scarcity of two-parent black families, and genes which affect every aspect of an organism, from appearance, to thought processes and personality. This is why many members of the same family will have similar likes and dislikes. Some children will have a particular temperament, and family members will say "you're just like your father". This also explains why related children raised by different families will often have likes and dislikes similar to their siblings raised elsewhere even if they never met. The geneticist Dean Hamer had traced belief in God to a specific gene. Actually, the bottom line is you get your genetic makeup from your parents completely. If they don't have it, you can't get it.Blacks are angry because of the incredibly amount of socio-economic disparities between them and other races of people, particularly white people, in the country. It's honestly as simple as that. It's not so much about racial prejudice, and mistreatment, but it's about socio-economic disparity and the seemingly endless effort of people to keep black people down.The real reason there's so much beef between blacks and whites is because of the social lies. Lots of blacks blame racism for things they could've accomplished but didn't. And lots of whites pretend they don't understand how being white still gives them advantages, but the vast majority fully grasp that it does and they lie about it because it's a leg up in a cutthroat competitive society and denying you have something is a good way to keep it.But what I have seen in the USA is more people getting better rather getting worse. However, there is always the poor, they will always be with us as the Bible says, and I would say they exist that way in the USA more for lack of opportunity and not because they are lazy or dumb. There are cultural reasons too but that is for another day of discussion. Let's remember that the poor are made up of both white and black and you ain't scene nothing until you go to a white trailer park full of toxic waste. Every downtrodden area I have been to, and that includes the rural south, Appalachia, and northern inner cities, is laden with crime, drugs, poor schools and few jobs.For example, if a factory went there with jobs instead of welfare, everyone would be better off. If there were high educational standards and good teachers went to the schools instead of those bad ones that couldn't be fired because of tenure, the kids would be better off. Not that we could ever totally remove welfare, but it should be a short term 'helping hand' tool and not developing a 'way of life' habit. In other words, our poverty approach is not what is working and I don't think you can fix all the problems that make an area downtrodden. It's kind of like the Middle East; it will always be what it is because of cultural, geography and the pain it suffered.And lets remember, when an opportunity exists, some people will take it and some won't! And maybe we shouldn't worry so much about them - if that's possible in a western egalitarian oriented society?

The man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. ( Victor Lustig )In 1925, France had recovered from World War I, and Paris was booming, an excellent environment for a con artist. Lustig's master con came to him one spring day when he was reading a newspaper. An article discussed the problems the city was having maintaining the Eiffel Tower. Even keeping it painted was an expensive chore, and the tower was becoming somewhat run down. Lustig saw the possibilities behind this article and developed a remarkable scheme.Lustig had a forger produce fake government stationery for him and invited six scrap metal dealers to a confidential meeting at the Hotel de Crillon, one of the most prestigious of the old Paris hotels, to discuss a possible business deal. All six attended the meeting. There, Lustig introduced himself as the deputy director-general of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. He explained that they had been selected on the basis of their good reputations as honest businessmen, and then dropped his bombshell.Lustig told the group that the upkeep on the Eiffel Tower was so outrageous that the city could not maintain it any longer, and wanted to sell it for scrap. Due to the certain public outcry, he went on, the matter was to be kept secret until all the details were thought out. Lustig said that he had been given the responsibility to select the dealer to carry out the task. The idea was not as implausible in 1925 as it would be today. The Eiffel Tower had been built for the 1889 Paris Exposition, and was not intended to be permanent. It was to have been taken down in 1909 and moved somewhere else. It did not fit with the city's other great monuments like the Gothic cathedrals or the Arc de Triomphe, and at the time, it really was in poor condition.Lustig took the men to the tower in a rented limousine for an inspection tour. It gave Lustig the opportunity to gauge which of them was the most enthusiastic and gullible. Lustig asked for bids to be submitted the next day, and reminded them that the matter was a state secret. In reality, Lustig already knew he would accept the bid from one dealer, Andre Poisson. Poisson was insecure, feeling he was not in the inner circles of the Parisian business community, and thought that obtaining the Eiffel Tower deal would put him in the big league.However, Poisson's wife was suspicious, wondering who this official was, why everything was so secret, and why everything was being done so quickly. To deal with her suspicion, Lustig arranged another meeting, and then "confessed". As a government minister, Lustig said, he did not make enough money to pursue the lifestyle he enjoyed, and needed to find ways to supplement his income. This meant that his dealings needed a certain discretion. Poisson understood immediately. He was dealing with another corrupt government official who wanted a bribe. That put Poisson's mind at rest immediately, since he was familiar with the type and had no problems dealing with such people.So Lustig not only received the funds for the Eiffel Tower, he also collected a large bribe. Lustig and his personal secretary, a Franco American con man Robert Arthur Tourbillon also known as Dan Collins, hastily took a train for Vienna with a suitcase full of cash.[citation needed]Surprisingly, nothing happened. Poisson was too humiliated to complain to the police. A month later, Lustig returned to Paris, selected six more scrap dealers, and tried to sell the Tower once more. This time, the chosen victim went to the police before Lustig could close the deal, but Lustig and Collins managed to evade arrest.Central Bank of Iraq (2003)Saddam took US$1 billion a day before the war. In March 2003, on several occasions beginning on March 18, the day before the United States began bombing Baghdad, nearly US$1 billion was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq. This is considered the largest bank heist in history.Approximately $650 million was later found hidden in walls in Saddam Hussein's palace by US troops. It is believed that this was the bulk of the stolen money. The remaining money is currently unaccounted for. Diyaa Habib al-Khayoun, general manager of the state-owned al-Rafidain Bank, claims that $250 million and 18 billion now worthless Iraqi dinars were also stolen, but by professional robbers unconnected to Saddam.In March 2003, a hand-written note surfaced, signed by Saddam, ordering $920 million to be withdrawn and given to his son Qusay. Bank officials state that Qusay and another unidentified man oversaw the cash, boxes of $100 bills, being loaded into trucks during a five hour operation. Qusay was later killed by US troops in a firefight.Boston Museum (1990)Dressed as police officers, stole US$300 million worth in paintings. Hours after St. Patrick's Day festivities wrapped up in Boston on March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers knocked on the security entrance side door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at 1:24 a.m. "The policy has always been that you don't open that door in the middle of the night for God. Why on this one night they opened the door no one can explain," Lyle Grindle, the museum's current head of security, told Access Control & Security Systems, a security industry trade publication. Grindle was not in charge of security at the time of the 1990 heist. Just minutes after letting them in, the guards quickly learned that the late night visitors weren't real cops. Though they apparently did not brandish any weapons, the intruders managed to overpower the two guards. They handcuffed the guards, bound them with duct tape and left them in the basement.In the fewer than 90 minutes that followed, the bandits went through the museum's Dutch Room on the second floor and stole three Rembrandts, including the Dutch artist's only seascape, "Storm on the Sea of Galilee." It was one of several works the thieves savagely cut to release it from its frame, leaving ragged edges of the canvas behind in otherwise empty frames, which continue to hang in the museum to this day. Also taken from that room was "The Concert" by Vermeer, as well as a Chinese bronze beaker located near the Rembrandt. The thieves also apparently tried to steal a fourth Rembrandt but were unsuccessful. Nearby, they also made off with "Landscape with an Obelisk," an oil painting by Govaert Flinck that was until recently attributed to Rembrandt, Flinck's mentor. On the other side of the floor, the thieves went into the Short Gallery and ripped five Degas sketches from the wall. Feet away a bronze eagle that adorned the top of a Napoleonic flag was also pillaged. A Manet portrait, located in the museum's Blue Room on the first floor, capped off the list of works the thieves stole.It is not known in what order the rooms were ransacked, since the thieves ripped out the surveillance tape before fleeing the museum with it. To this day, the small museum isn't able to collect insurance, since it carried no insurance policy at the time of the heist.Knightsbridge Security Deposit (1987)Requested to rent a safe deposit box, then subdued the manager and stole US$111 million.The Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery took place on 12 July 1987 in Knightsbridge, England, part of the City of Westminster in London. Two men entered the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Centre and requested to rent a Safe deposit box. After being shown into the vault, they produced hand guns and subdued the manager and security guards.The thieves then hung a sign on the street level door explaining that the Safe Deposit Centre was temporarily closed, whilst letting in further accomplices. They broke open many of the safe deposit boxes and left with a hoard estimated to be worth £40 million (equivalent to roughly US$66 million at the 1987 exchange rate; the inflation-adjusted value would be £63.6 million --$111 million-- as of 2005).One hour after the robbers departed, one of the guards managed to escape his handcuffs to raise the alarm. Police forensic investigators at the crime scene recovered a fingerprint that was traced to the Italian Valerio Viccei. After a period of surveillance, Viccei and several of his accomplices were arrested during a series of coordinated raids on 12 August 1987 and later convicted of the crime. Viccei would later published a book on the robbery.Kent Securitas Depot (2006): abducted the manager, then stole USD$92.5 millionThe Securitas depot robbery was a robbery which took place in the early hours of 22 February 2006, between 01:00 and 02:15 UTC in England, an operation that succeeded in stealing the largest cash amount in British crime history. At least six men abducted and threatened the family of the manager, tied up fourteen staff members and stole £53,116,760 (about US$92.5 million or €78 million) in bank notes from a Securitas Cash Management Ltd depot in Vale Road, Tonbridge, Kent.The manager of the depot, Colin Dixon, was abducted at about 18:30 on 21 February, apparently while driving his Nissan Almera to his home in Herne Bay. He was pulled over on the A249 just outside Stockbury, a village North East of Maidstone, by what he thought was an unmarked police vehicle due to the blue lights behind the front grill. A man approached him in high-visibility clothing and a police-style hat. The manager proceeded to get into the police imposter's car, thinking that he was a police officer, where he was then handcuffed by others in the vehicle. He was then driven west on the M20 motorway to the West Malling bypass where he was bound further, transferred into a white van and transported to a farm in an unknown location in west Kent.As this was taking place, the manager's wife and eight-year-old son were being held hostage at their home in Herne Bay, after they answered the door to men dressed in police uniforms, who falsely informed them that the manager had been involved in a road traffic accident. They were then driven to the farm at which the manager was being held, where he was told at gunpoint that failure to cooperate could put him and his family in danger.The depot manager, his wife and son were taken to the Securitas depot in Tonbridge at around 01:00, travelling in a plain white van, being held at gunpoint. At the depot, 14 members of staff were bound by robbers, armed with handguns and wearing balaclavas.The heist came to an end at approximately 02:15, although it was still another hour before staff members, who had been tied up, managed to raise the alarm. Police officers arriving on the scene discovered staff, the manager and his family, bound but physically unharmed.Great Train Robbery (1963)Stole US$74 million without guns. The Great Train Robbery was the name given to a £2.3 million train robbery committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.The Royal Mail's Glasgow to London travelling post office (TPO) train was stopped by tampered signals. A 15-member gang, led by Bruce Reynolds and including Ronnie Biggs, Charlie Wilson, Jimmy Hussey, John Wheater, Brian Field, Jimmy White, Tommy Wisbey, Gordon Goody and Buster Edwards, stole £2.3 million in used £1, £5 and £10 notes — the equivalent of £40 million (US $74 million) in 2006.Although no guns were used in the robbery, the train driver, Jack Mills, was hit on the head with an iron bar, causing a black eye and facial bruising. The assailant was one of three members of the gang never to be arrested or identified. Frank Williams (at the time a Detective Inspector) claims to have traced the man, but he could not be charged because of lack of evidence. Mills recovered fully from the attack and died in 1970 from leukemia.Thirteen of the gang members were caught after police discovered their fingerprints at their hideout at Leatherslade Farm, near Oakley, Buckinghamshire. The robbers were tried, sentenced and imprisoned. Ronnie Biggs escaped from prison 15 months into his sentence, settling in Melbourne Australia, and later moving to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when police found out his Melbourne address. Charlie Wilson escaped and was living outside Montreal, Canada on Rigaud Mountain. In the upper-middle-class neighbourhood where the large, secluded properties are surrounded by trees, Wilson was just another resident who enjoyed his privacy. Only when his wife made the mistake of telephoning his parents in England was Scotland Yard able to track him down.Banco Central in Brazil (2005)Tunneled 255 feet up to the bank, then stole US$69.8 million.On the weekend of August 6 and August 7, 2005 a gang of burglars, suspected to be either the Gang of the Tattooed or Primeiro Comando da Capital, tunneled into the Banco Central in Fortaleza. They removed five containers of 50-real notes, with an estimated value of 164,755,150 reais (US$69.8 million, £38.6 million, €56 million). The money was uninsured; a bank spokeswoman stated that the risks were too small to justify the insurance premiums. The burglars managed to evade or disable the bank's internal alarms and sensors; the burglary remained undiscovered until the bank opened for business on the morning of Monday, August 8.The Banco Central is a national banking institution charged with control of the money supply. The money in the vault was being examined to see if it should be recirculated or destroyed. The bills were not numbered sequentially, making them almost impossible to trace.Three months earlier, the gang of burglars had rented an empty property in the centre of the city and then tunneled 78 meters (255 ft) beneath two city blocks to a position beneath the bank. The gang had renovated a house and put up a sign indicating it was a landscaping company selling both natural and artificial grass as well as plants. Neighbours, who estimated that the gang consisted of between six and ten men, described how they had seen van-loads of soil being removed daily, but understood this to be a normal activity of the business. The tunnel, being roughly 70 cm (2.3 ft) square and running 4 meters (13 ft) beneath the surface, was well-constructed: it was lined with wood and plastic and had its own lighting and air conditioning systems.On the final weekend, the gang broke through 1.1 meters (3.6 ft) of steel-reinforced concrete to enter the bank vault. The bank notes weighed approximately 3,500 kg (approx. 7,700 lbs) and would have required a considerable amount of time and effort to remove.On October 22 the body of the suspected mastermind, Luis Fernando Ribeiro, 26, was found 9 October on an isolated road near Camanducaia, 200 miles (320 km) west of Rio de Janeiro. He had been shot seven times and had marks on his wrists as if he had been handcuffed. Five men were arrested September 28 with about $5.4 million of the money and told the police they had helped dig the tunnel. So far, authorities have recovered more than $7 million but $63 million remains unaccounted for.Northern Bank (2004)Bank officials threatened to help steal US$50 million. The Northern Bank robbery was a large robbery of cash from the headquarters of the Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Carried out by a large, proficient group on 20 December 2004, the gang seized £26.5 million in pounds sterling, making it one of the biggest bank robberies in British history. The police and the British and Irish governments claimed the Provisional IRA was responsible (or had permitted others to undertake the raid), a claim vehemently denied by the Provisional IRA itself and the Sinn Féin political party. The robbery, and the allegations and counter-allegations surrounding it, threw the Northern Ireland peace process into crisis.On the night of Sunday December 19, 2004 groups of armed men called at the homes of two officials of the Northern Bank, one in Downpatrick in County Down, the other in Poleglass, near Belfast. Masquerading as police officers, they entered the homes and held the officials and their families at gunpoint. Bank official Chris Ward was taken from Poleglass to Downpatrick, the home of his supervisor Kevin McMullan, while gunmen remained at his home with his family. Subsequently Mr McMullan's wife was taken from their home and held, also at gunpoint, at an unknown location. The following day both officials were instructed to report for work at the bank's headquarters at Belfast's Donegall Square West as normal. They did so, and remained at work after the close of business, and later in the evening they gave admittance to other members of the gang.The robbers entered the bank's cash handling and storage facility. This held an unusually large amount of cash, in preparation for distribution to ATMs for the busy Christmas shopping season. Cash was transferred to one or several vehicles (possibly including a white "Luton" van) at the premises' Wellington Street entrance, and the gang fled. Shortly before midnight the gang holding the Ward family left, and those holding Mrs McMullan released her in a forest near Ballynahinch.The haul included £10m of uncirculated Northern Bank sterling banknotes, £5.5m of used Northern Bank sterling notes, £4.5m of circulated sterling notes issued by other banks, and small amounts of other currencies, largely Euros and U.S. Dollars.Brinks Mat warehouse (1983)Broke into warehouse to find ten tonnes of gold bullion worth US$45 million. The Brinks Mat Robbery occurred on 26 November 1983 when six robbers broke into the Brinks Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England. The robbers thought they were going to steal £3 million in cash; however when they arrived they found ten tonnes of gold bullion (worth £26 million). The gang got into the warehouse thanks to security guard Anthony Black, who was the brother-in-law of the raid's architect Brian Robinson. Scotland Yard quickly discovered the family connection and Black confessed to aiding and abetting the raiders, providing them with a key to the main door and giving them details of security measures. Tried at the Old Bailey, Robinson and gang leader Michael McAvoy were each sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for armed robbery. Black got six years, and served three.Prior to his conviction McAvoy had entrusted part of his share to an associate John Perry. Perry recruited Kenneth Noye (who had links with a legitimate gold dealer in Bristol) to dispose of the gold. Noye melted down the bullion and recast it for sale. However the sudden movements of large amounts of money through a Bristol bank came to the notice of the Treasury who informed the police. Noye was placed under police surveillance and in January 1985 killed an officer he discovered in his garden. At the resulting trial the jury found him not guilty on the grounds of self-defence. In 1986 Noye was found guilty of conspiracy to handle the Brinks Mat gold, fined £700,000 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.Three tonnes of stolen gold has never been recovered. It is claimed that anyone wearing gold jewellery bought in the UK after 1983, is probably wearing Brinks Mat.Dunbar Armored (1997)Inside man steals US$18.9 million. The Dunbar Armored robbery is the largest cash robbery to have occurred in the United States. It occurred in 1997 at the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, California. The thieves made off with some 18.9 million U.S. Dollars.The robbery was masterminded by Allen Pace, who worked for Dunbar as a regional safety inspector. While on the job, Pace had time to photograph and examine the company's Los Angeles armored car depot. He recruited five of his childhood friends, and on the night of Friday, September 13, 1997, Pace used his keys to gain admittance to the facility. Pace had timed the security cameras and determined how they could be avoided. Once inside, they waited within the staff cafeteria, ambushing the guards one by one. Pace knew that on Friday nights the vault was open due to the large quantities of money being moved. Rushing the vault guards, the robbers managed to subdue them before they could signal any alarms. In half an hour, the robbers had loaded millions of dollars into a waiting U-Haul. Pace knew exactly which bags contained the highest denomination and non-sequential bills. He also knew where the recording devices for the security cameras were located and took these.The police immediately realized it was an inside job and closely examined Pace, but could find nothing. The gang worked hard to conceal their new wealth, laundering it through property deals and phony businesses. Eventually, one of the gang members, Eugene Lamar Hill, erred when he gave an unknowing associate a stack of bills still wrapped with the original cash straps. The associate went to the police and Hill was arrested. Hill soon confessed and named his associates. Allen Pace was arrested and sentenced to twenty-four years in jail. Only a fraction of the money was ever recovered. Some $10 million is still unaccounted for.Lufthansa (1978)US$5.8 million at Kennedy Airport. The 1978 Lufthansa Heist was planned by Jimmy Burke (immortalized in Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas), an associate of the Lucchese crime family, and carried out by several of his associates. It all began when bookmaker, Martin Krugman, told Henry Hill (an associate of Jimmy Burke's) about millions of dollars in untraceable money. The money was flown in once a month and was the money exchanged by servicemen and tourists in West Germany and that it was stored in a cardboard vault at Kennedy Airport. The information had come from Louis Werner, who owed Krugman $20,000 in gambling debts and worked at the airport.On December 11th, at 3.12 a.m. a guard, named Kelly Whalen, patrolling the cargo terminal, spotted a black Ford Econoline van pulling into a bay near a loading platform, for vaults. Whalen walked toward the loading bay, to investigate this peculiar appartion and was struck over the head with a .45 pistol. A wiry man in a black ski mask pulled his mask over his face as the blood began to pour from Whalen's wound. Another man grabbed Whalen's gun and thus disarmed him. Whalen was ordered, by the two men, to disarm the silent alarm, after he did this he was handcuffed behind his back. He saw a series of other men, all carrying rifles or pistols, running into the cargo terminal and then another man took his wallet and said that they knew where his family were and that they had men ready to visit them. Whalen nodded to indicate that he would co-operate with the thieves.Another guard, Rolf Rebmann, heard a noise by the loading ramp and when he went to investigate, 6 armed, masked men forced their way in and handcuffed him. They then used a one of a kind key from Werner and walked through a maze of corridors to where the two other employees would be. Once these two had been rounded up two gunmen ventured downstairs to look for unexpected visitors and then the other men marched the employees to a lunch room, where the other employees were on a 3 a.m. break. The gunmen burst into the lunch room and brandishing their firearms they showed a bloodied Whalen as an indication of their intentions if anyone got out of line. They knew each employee by name and forced them onto the ground. They made John Murray, the terminal's senior cargo agent, call Rudi Eirich on the intercom. The robbers knew that Eirich was the only guard that night who knew the right combinations to open the double door vault. Murray was made to pretend, to Eirich, that there was a problem with a load from Frankfurt and told Eirich to meet him in the cafeteria. As Eirich approached the cafe he was met by two shotguns and he saw the other employees, bound and gagged on the cafeteria floor. One gunman kept watch over the 10 employees and the other 3 took Eirich, at gun point, down two flights of stairs to the double door vault. He later reported that the men were informed and knew all about the safety systems in the vault and they knew about the double door system, whereby one door must be shut or the other one can't be opened or the alarm will be activated. The men ordered Eirich to open up the first door, to a 10-by-20 foot room. They knew that if he opened up the second door he would activate an alarm to the Port Authority. Once inside they ordered Eirich to lie on the ground and they then began sifting through invoices and freight manifests to determine which parcels they wanted of the many similarly wrapped ones. Finally they began hurling parcels through, one nearly hit Eirich's head, he saw it kicked open and said that inside was stacks and stacks of cash. Around 40 parcels were removed and Eirich was made to lock the inner door before unlocking the outer door because this would trigger an alarm to the Port Authority office. Two of the gunmen were assigned to load the parcels into the vans while the others tied up Eirich. A man, without a ski mask on, burst into the cafeteria and was euphoric, he said to the other gunmen that they had the money in the vans. He was quickly told to put on his ski mask by the other thieves, however some of the employees caught a glimpse of his face. They were told not to call the Port Authority until 4:30 a.m., when the men left it was 4:16 a.m. according to the cafeteria clock and no calls were made until 4:30, when a report of $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewels being stolen was made. The employees complied because they knew if the police caught the men they or their families would be harmed or even killed. The robbery took only 64 minutes and was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil at the time.