Are Child-abuse-image Traders also Trading Details of Dormant Bank Accounts?

 This is a link to a BBC article, in which the BBC attempts, without any conclusive success, to track down a persistent trader in child-abuse images via payments made to him: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq587wv4d5go

 When they do trace the relevant bank account(s) to a physical address, in Jakarta, they confront a man who says that he opened the account some time before, simply to take a one-of mortgage transaction, and hasn't used it since. The BBC is unable to disprove this and has no interest in attempting to prove the claim to be true, so it is left hanging. However, the man's claim coincides pretty much to what would have to be true in order for such a persistent trader in illegal material to evade arrest. The trader also replaces stopped bank accounts in a matter of hours, which must indicate ready access to a significant relevant resource.

  The trade in child-abuse images is not the only organised criminal activity where the key enabler is a safe payment pathway. Everything from bribing a local council planning official to hiring a professional killer, needs a way for the client to pay the supplier of goods or services in a way which exposes neither of them to significant risk. Even kidnappers and blackmailers need to help their victims pay them off in a way which is safe for both parties. 

Now then, some of these illegal activities attract much more attention than others, due to the huge volume of transactions and their obvious evil, others are rarer but represent much more important players playing for very high stakes, and, generally-speaking, the professional killers and kidnappers are the criminals which needs to hide the most because governments tend to prioritise crimes affecting the rich and powerful over those affecting the poor and vulnerable. 

Many years ago, before the internet was "invented" (like all great inventions it actually evolved in natural stages as the components became available) and its predecessors linked only university science departments, but computerised banking was already a thing, Medawar was treated to a very strange monologue by a person who he now believes to have been, or since become, a professional killer. 

Most of this was the speaker expounding an ideology, which the young Medawar had not heard before (he's heard it again, a lot more, more recently) to the effect that it was in the best interests of humans as a species for strong individuals (like the speaker) to take not only what they needed, but anything they wanted, by whatever means they found convenient, and regardless of all laws created by "weak" people to protect their own pathetic interests. He also specifically stated that if he "needed" to trade in child pornography, he would do so. 

The ideology was what is now described by the FBI as "accelerationist" and accelerationist terrorist groups such as "764" and "O9A" set out to use the internet and other means to promote child abuse, child rape, extreme pornography, drug use (even where this is legalised, they continue to promote it) misogynistic violence aimed at women and girls (most recent "non-terrorist" attacks since the death of Osama bin Laden have targeted women and little girls, the Manchester Arena bombing being the first really obvious example) as part of a long-term plot to destroy ALL the pillars of modern civilisation, such as family structures, democracy, organised religion, financial structures and even money itself. 

The accelerationists are where the robotic mantra of "follow the money" will lead you mostly in circles, because they plan to abolish money in favour of forced labour and simply taking goods by force. In a sense, their aims are furthered both by the illegal activities enabled by safe payment pathways as well as any and all of the actions governments and international authorities take to stop up those safe payment pathways. (The Devil in folklore is associated with the two or three-pronged pitchfork as his weapon of choice.)

 Even without the involvement of the accelerationists (and they are involved in almost everything bad because that is their philosophy, which is not exactly a philosophy of life) the safe payment pathways must be organised and that by definition must involve the higher levels of organised crime. And the consequence of that will be that the safe payment pathways will be used to provide layers of protection for the most important crimes and criminals, using intractably-large numbers of child abuse-transactions (children are traded as well as images) to hide smaller numbers of more important matters, which are themselves used as extra layers of cover for even more important high-level crimes. 

Viewed from one angle, the structure is a fortress of concentric defences around a central tower or "keep." Viewed from another angle, it will be a pyramid with the most dangerous and guiding intelligence at the top.

The child-abuse image traders are really just the outermost perimeter of barbed wire, intended to slow-down and entangle investigators. Abusers are used by organised crime as much as they are users. And the wall of child abusers has great deterrent value if governments fear that some of their own members might be exposed if they allow the police, or the BBC, to look too hard even at the outermost ring of the fortress or the base of the pyramid, depending on how you look at it.

In detail, serious organised crime figures only NEED child abuse images and other illegal pornography to be widely traded in order to provide an intractable number of suspects (at all levels of society) for police to chase and an intractable volume of transactions in which to hide their really key payments. They can achieve this without ever having direct contact with the abuse material by acting not as the kiddie-porn trader's gophers, but as his bankers. If a pornographer or child-trafficker needs a disposable bank account, they can probably sell him the details of a dormant account in almost any country or city he might name, but a huge and fast-growing city like Jakarta might be preferred over the Shropshire or Central Texas. 

What most of organised crime wants ("money for nothing and your chicks for free") differs markedly from what the accelerationists want, but at the same time the higher up the pyramidal hierarchy of crime one looks, the more one sees accelerationist attitudes and even actual accelerationist philosophy. 

Petition to Require English and Romanian Authorities to Fix Trial Dates for Andrew Tate

 Here is a link to the petition in question, and below that a few reasons why it might well be worth the bother of signing it, because doing so may produce interesting results on a surprising number of fronts. Medawar will also offer a suggestion for an alternative petition that might be tried, either if this one fails or, more usefully, as a concurrent effort to attract powerful attention in another quarter;

 https://www.change.org/p/demand-justice-set-a-date-for-andrew-tate-s-romanian-trial-and-expedite-uk-extradition

Andrew Tate faces 21 known charges in England, brought by Bedfordshire Police and Devon and Cornwall Police. In the past there have been criminal investigations into similar charges in Hertfordshire, these were not progressed as criminal cases but are now the subject of a civil lawsuit being brought by four victims.

 For the tax-related charges brought by Devon and Cornwall Police, the investigating authority will be the HMRC (concerning documents filed with their Exeter Office) and the Economic Crime Unit in Newton Abbot. There is an unnamed third person facing charges: a "Tax Agent" for the Tate Brothers. If this is who Medawar thinks it is, the ECU people in Newton Abbot know him well and he's always willing to act for those unable or unwilling to visit his premises and check him out. 

 For the rape, assault, coercion, trafficking and Modern Slavery charges brought by Bedfordshire Police, the actual investigative body may have been the Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Major Crimes Unit, though it would be possible, but a little odd, for Bedfordshire Police to have proceeded entirely independently. This has not been made clear in media reports, but that may be due to prevailing poor journalistic standards as much as any policy issue. The historical case, which is now before the High Court as a civil claim, had victims of rape and false imprisonment, coercion etc. in both Hitchin (in Hertfordshire) and Luton (in Bedfordshire), so there would have to be a compelling reason for the joint Major Crimes Unit for those counties NOT to be involved. 

  Due to interventions by "The Trump Administration" (which do not seem to have been instigated by President Trump, who professed almost complete ignorance about the Tates when asked by a reporter he trusted) Andrew and Tristan Tate currently enjoy the right of free international travel to countries they see as safe, whilst awaiting trial in Romania under "house arrest" even if the house is in Florida or Dubai. The Governor of Florida does not agree with this and is doing everything he can to deter the Tates from returning to his State, other than to face criminal or civil proceedings there. Mr DeSantis does not share the Trump Administration's view of the Tates as saintly prisoners of conscience, largely because he does not share President Trump's ignorance about their openly-promoted extreme ideology and alleged violent, coercive personal conduct. That ideology, BTW if you take all their extreme positions together, adds up to Accelerationism. As with Mr DeSantis, an overwhelming number of Mr Trump's ordinary supporters would be appalled if they knew and understood that this is FBI-speak for "Satanism!"

 Here is a link to a Wikipedia article about the main Accelerationist (dis)organisation for adults:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles

And below is a link to a Wikipedia article for the youth/online wing "764", largely based in Texas. Texas seems to be where the money for extreme ideology comes from in many cases.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(organization) 

 Now, a lot of people have interpreted President Trump's determination to give liberal demons such as Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu the benefit of the doubt as unconditional support! Indeed, both Putin and Netanyahu themselves were so convinced that they "owned" Trump that they started to openly play him for a fool by blandly asserting things which he knew to be untrue ("there are no starving children in Gaza" for example). Playing Trump for a fool is a grave miscalculation born of arrogance and if there's anyone else on the planet as arrogant as Putin and Netanyahu, Andrew Tate is it! And, yes, by using his supporters within the Trump Administration to further his career, Andrew Tate is also playing Trump for a fool.

 If the petition, above, generates any publicity at all, and if people sign it, it will, then sooner or later the truth will penetrate Trump's information bubble and he will know that not only Andrew Tate, but people in his administration that he trusted to keep him informed, have been playing him towards an end that most of his supporters will loathe.

 A supplementary or follow-on petition might usefully address President Trump directly and ask him to require FBI agents with direct experience of investigating Accelerationist terrorism act as lead agents in a re-evaluation of what the US Federal Government and its law enforcement and intelligence agencies thinks of the Tate Brothers, their online output and the likely and intended outcomes of the lifestyle choices they are promoting so vigorously on a global scale.

Two discarded and largely undiscussed theories about Jill Dando’s Murder

Neither of these are going to please either the conspiracy theorists, or those diehards insisting that they have seen (or been told about) dozens of items of undisclosed evidence offering cast-iron proof that Barry George really was guilty and his supporters deluded or wicked.

However, Medawar has taken and interest in the case from when he first heard about Jill Dando’s murder, on the Easter Monday in 1999 when it happened, right up today. In all that time, they are the only two theories that Medawar has heard of which are supported by any information he has come across by his own efforts rather than having it shouted at him by one of the warring factions or another. Both theories have been discarded, one of them officially disparaged and the other simply vanished as soon as it appeared and has never, ever, been mentioned since, by any of the parties to the case or any of the conspiracy theorists who have fed off the case for a quarter of a century. The two theories are not mutually exclusive either, but BOTH of them proving to be correct does open a Pandora’s box of motives based on Accelerationist ideology. There appears to have been a policy decision not to tell the general public about the Accelerationists, which is a pity because it would help the public to understand why, much more recently, Daniel Clarke, Nicolas Prosper and Axel Rudakubana (to name but three) did what they did. Either one of these theories could be found to be true without opening that Pandora’s box, so here goes:

 

“Some sort of link between Jill’s murder and the abduction and presumed murder of her fellow bright, cheerful blonde, blue-eyed TV News presenter Jodi Huisentruit in Iowa, in June 1995.”

This was one of the first ideas to be hurriedly discarded and we were told that there was no possible link, and in any case the two crimes were on different continents. (As if the airliner had never been invented, really. Medawar fully accepts the official Metropolitan Police version to be credible and true and now believes that he must have once walked to Abu Dhabi and back in a single weekend, and that he has swam to and from Guernsey and the IoM several times over the years.)

There is no link known to Medawar, other than that both broadcasters and journalists would have reported on the still-unsolved abduction and murder of a young mother from Iowa (where Jodi spent most of her career) near Bristol (the part of the world where Jill’s career began) just as Jill was transitioning from being a newspaper reporter to a news presenter on local radio and local television, also in South West England. It is hard to see how those investigating Jill’s murder were able to state, with such commanding authority, that there was no link, when those investigating Jodi’s death haven’t seen any evidence that enables them to rule out links between her abduction and other cases (and there seem to be quite a lot of these, in fact.)

“Jill confided in a close female colleague that a young female journalist she had mentored at the BBC, had moved to Florida and then to Texas, where she had fallen afoul of a group of well-connected orthopaedic surgeons over a badly botched operation on her hand. Ignoring threats of serious retribution if she want to law, Jill’s protegeé went ahead and filed a civil lawsuit (in Austin, as it turns out) and was rammed off the road as she drove to court to formally commence her claim, This hit and run collision put her in a coma, leaving Jill as the only person still expressing any interest in the case. The lawsuit was of course never formally opened.”

This was the first theory which Medawar ever saw in print (and it was the only theory (it's more of an observation in a way) he has ever seen about Jill’s murder which is both highly specific and totally coherent). Apparently triggered by the appearance of a senior male colleague of Jill’s on Newsnight on the day of Jill's murder, to state very firmly for the benefit of the police, public and especially BBC colleagues, that Jill’s death was not a professional killing, Jill’s female colleague, who seems to have been a lot closer to Jill than the male authority figure ever was, wrote a good and fairly detailed article which Medawar read in one of the broadsheets the weekend following the murder. Because it was so clear, coherent and specific, Medawar foolishly expect this to be the start of a lengthy investigation by both police and press and there would be much more to come. To his eternal regret, he managed not to keep the article, but it was probably the Times on the Saturday, or the Sunday Times. It might just have been the Telegraph but that’s doubtful, and there’s no way The Guardian or Observer would have given space to a BBC employee contradicting the BBC’s official line.

This theory was not officially discounted, debunked or acknowledged in any way. It simply vanished without trace and has never been mentioned since. Medawar knows nothing about the fate of the lady who wrote the article, but it is pretty clear that any BBC employee who doubts the guilt of Barry George is an unperson. Perhaps she, too, is in a coma and on life support somewhere?

Accelerationists

and why they hate and murder “Nazerenes” a hate-speech term for caring Christian young women who try to help victims of crime or malpractice:

Here is a link to an article on Wikipedia; let’s see how long that link lasts, shall we?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles

It is very strange that this group has never made the front pages, but although it apparently started in Staffordshire and The Fens, the youth wing "764" is based in Texas (see above) and there are a number of politicians in that state who seem to lean towards Acclerationism and O9A seem to have as much money as they actually need, which isn't true of many political movements funded solely from within the UK.

It would be nice to firmly believe, regardless of the two theories mentioned above, that the Accelerationists don't actually exist, but that would be flying in the face of the evidence. The Home Office does seem prepared to fly in the face of a lot of evidence at times.

“Person of Usefulness”

“How do Professional Hitmen Know so Much About Their Victims?”

 

In truth, “killers for hire” (the correct legal term in England and Wales) don’t necessarily need to know very much at all, but their need for some reliable information, often in very small key snippets, is one of several reasons why their relationship with organised crime is both intimate and somewhat at arm’s length, like bi-curious schoolgirls really. The killer needs to know who the customer wants killed and the customer needs to know (or specify within fairly broad limits) when and where he cannot afford to be. There’s a certain amount of danger in the killer and customer even knowing who the other is and that’s another reason why organised crime is there for them both. And then there is the money: the killer benefits from having a third party pay his fee by a route the customer does not know and the customer does actually benefit by that fee being a different amount (perhaps a very different amount) from what he has paid out. The killer won’t stand for his fee being shaved merely to camouflage it, but it is acceptable for organised crime to deduct monies for tasks which the killer is better off not doing for himself, and gathering necessary information on the target and their movements is something the killer cannot do at all safely in most cases.

But, even more importantly, organised crime is Organised with a capital “O” for a reason and information is, and always has been, its primary commodity. More valuable than rubies precisely because information can always be smuggled, and in many cases it can be obtained without much effort and without breaking any laws. Indeed, the structure of organised crime has evolved to harvest information as a side-hustle to every other hustle. So, there’s a good chance that any competent organised crime gang will already know much, perhaps all, of the things which the killer would otherwise have to take risks to find out. There’s also a risk that if the customer passes on all the information, perhaps even privileged information, that they have, the killing itself will acquire a signature which points back to them! (That’s what the murders of Barry and Honey Sherman look like to Medawar, BTW.) This is why an experienced killer for hire might improvise around a dataset which a semi-professional killer would find inadequate. And semi-professionals do exist: they are often quite well off without killing people and it’s more like a self-funding hobby for them. Sometimes they are former military personnel who want to feel they are still “professional” and “in the game” but there are a lot of military instincts they will need to suppress to get away with it for any length of time, and always building a “proper” dataset is one of them!

In effect, organised crime can launder the killer’s fee in the same action as it launders the information he needs, supplying him only with facts he can use but which can’t be traced back to any particular source. And within the hierarchy, information, like money, generally flows upwards. Organised crime is a pyramid with a very broad base and at the bottom are people who are not “members” of any gang, but who will take the precaution of sounding out someone who is a member about anything “big” they might be planning, just in case it’s something the gang wants to tax, or even forbid. Some of the people at the bottom of the pyramid commit no crime other than talking about their lawful work and their clients. They might be the handymen and gardeners, even the dustmen and postmen, local shopkeepers. They definitely will include mini-cab and courier van drivers! There will be policemen and other officials, too, but their information runs the risk of being traceable and all public servants will come under routine scrutiny from time to time. And the people who decide what information to sell and how much it will cost, will be much higher up the pyramid than the source. They will look to their own security first, the customer’s and killer’s needs second and then the devil takes the hindmost.

This all adds up to any detectable dataset building on a murder victim being a signature of the semi-professional, and should organised crime have a commission where such a thing is actually necessary, the really smart thing to do would be to pass the job on to the semi-professionals and save their actual professionals for less amateurish capers.

So, given all that, the question really is: “how might a semi-professional murder for hire gang, perhaps including or advised by ex-military or US Federal Agents, go about building a dataset on a target?”

Below this article is an embedded video by the YouTuber, former US Army soldier and SIGINT specialist, Ryan McBeth, in which he uses the public’s prurient interest in the Jeffery Epstein scandal to enlighten us as to how Human Intelligence (or “human engineering”) techniques might be used to harvest even quite specific intelligence and, in particular, something he calls “Elicitation.” Unlike blackmail, bugging and torture, elicitation is not illicit and this makes it extra-useful for those seeking to get persons close to a target to volunteer the information needed to kill that target. Had those persons been the subject of coercion or illegal hacking, they would have a “victim card” to play that might embolden them to come forward and come clean once the worst has happened and someone has been murdered. Elicitation is the process of approaching and cultivating a friendly, supportive relationship with a “person of usefulness” to tease out, very gently and with no pressure at all, information about an object, subject or person of interest.

(By explaining that’s all Epstein needed to do in order to fulfill his operational goals, Mr McBeth indirectly but convincingly implies that the mansion full of hot and cold running fourteen year-olds was either unnecessary or simply something that Epstein’s guests would have expected to be available more or less anywhere they went to relax! Either way, the sexual exploitation was gratuitous.)

There are all sorts of ways a person of usefulness (friend, neighbour or colleague to the target) might be approached; either through their professional or personal life. They might find a distant or previously-unknown relative getting in touch (and this might not even be a scam because any of us might connect to someone known to a criminal gang at one remove or another) or they might be asked to mentor a junior colleague. If the person of usefulness were a junior, they might find someone gratifyingly senior mentoring them! A new face might turn up at a hobby-related club which the person of usefulness attends.

If the person of usefulness has a strong professional profile, they might be invited to join all sorts of prestigious bodies (perhaps as an Honorary Fellow of a Royal College outside their own field?) and the people they meet there would be so irreproachable as to be trusted with almost any information that really should not have been divulged.

In such a case, whereby the person of usefulness finds it unthinkable that they might have been, or even must have been the source of the information used to kill someone close to them, they will seek mental and emotional refuge in not thinking the thought, and indeed in promoting some alternative theory, up to and beyond the point where that theory becomes wholly ridiculous to objective and rational observers, especially their junior colleagues who will be much better at smelling a rat than a senior colleague’s peers.

And rather than being a willing and useful witness in any murder investigation, the person of usefulness would have a strong subconscious compulsion, or even a conscious determination, to misdirect that investigation. Sooner or later, such compulsion must surely become so obvious that even the most charitable investigators will be unable to ignore it.

 Knowing that one has been the target of effective human engineering can be as a bad as a physical assault, perhaps worse. But there could be cases where that knowledge, publicly-aired, might be a fitting punishment for arrogance.

 

 

The non-live link to the above video: 

https://youtu.be/Wpz3lc2QYwI

Why Might a Professional Hitman use .380” ACP Ammunition in a Standard Makarov pistol?

 There have been a few assassinations in Europe, where the victim has been shot with a single round of .380” Auto aka 9mm Browning short ammunition. Because European police and judges aren’t always obliged to publicise technical details of evidence, it’s difficult to say just how many times this has happened, but it’s happened more than two or three times and in more than one country. In one case, four Serbia-linked suspects were convicted and then acquitted at appeal, thus muddying the waters to the advantage of more or less everyone except the law-abiding public.

Generally, the recovered bullet has not been engraved by rifling, so it is assumed (especially where that assumption is convenient) that a “low quality” improvised smooth-bore gun “which no professional hitman would ever touch” has been used, such as a blank-firing replica bored out to fire live ammunition. (One snag with that assumption is that most of the replicas of “9mm” guns are carefully designed to fire only 8mm blanks and NONE of the internal components is of a strength or diameter allowing a simple boring-out job to work. Even if not tampered with, 8mm blank-firers tend to break before the user has got through the 50-round tin of blanks which comes with the gun. The metal is very poor and this is not an accident, but a policy on the part of the manufacturer.) That convenient assumption may have compromised more than one investigation leading to at least one miscarriage of justice.

Not infrequently there are indentations around the mouth of the spent cartridge case, for which there are several possible explanations, the convenient one again being a low-quality improvised weapon and home-made ammunition consistent with a “lone lunatic” offender. The trouble with that one is that the ammunition is NOT home-made but commercial and of good quality and the cartridge case, bullet, priming cap and as far as it can be ascertained, the powder charge, have not in fact been altered or swapped. The indentations prove only that the crimp was made tighter at some point: it is impossible to say if the bullet was actually “pulled” and replaced, or if the user simply wanted the crimp to be tighter for some specific technical reason. (Again, inconvenient because it would rule out a lone lunatic offender. If the multiple jurisdictions involved didn’t do that already.)

The reason why it is possible to fire .380” ACP ammunition, also known as 9mm Browning short or 9x17mm in a standard Soviet service pistol chambered for the standard Soviet 9x18mm round (widely known as 9mm Makarov) has to do with the latter being an indirect development of the former, via the Luftwaffe’s wartime “9mm Ultra” project which largely fell into Soviet hands. However, as the video embedded will prove should the reader be patient with it, this mismatch of ammunition works much better than one would expect. It certainly functions and “feeds” a lot better than the video-maker appears to have anticipated!

There are reasons why this sort of stunt might not work for any two slightly dissimilar cartridges and might even be dangerous, but in this instance it DOES work and with quite decent reliability. None of the technical issues pose a significant risk of damage to the gun within the number of rounds fired in the video demonstration, nor any danger to the shooter. The most interesting of the technical issues explains why this mismatch of ammunition is safe enough (but only this way round: if it proved possible to fire a 9mm “Makarov” round in pistol (such as a Colt 1903 pocket model) chambered for the .380” ACP it would be dangerous because not only is the 9mm Makarov loaded with a stronger powder charge than the .380” ACP, it also has a slightly larger diameter bullet, which would cause excessive breech pressures by itself even if the powder charge were identical. But there’s much more to it than that -and this really is important enough to be worth the bother of understanding it! It lies in the reason for the bullet diameter being changed in the first place:

The Bolshevik regime, which brought the Soviet Union into being, inherited not only an archaic system of measurements from Czarist Russia, but also what appeared to be an irrational and inconsistent system of definitions. So, not only were metric designations the new order of the day, there was a relatively simple set of rules about how one defined certain things, including calibre. So, a Soviet “9mm” designation would define a cartridge designed to be fired through a barrel with a bore diameter (measured across the lands rather than between two opposing rifling grooves) of exactly 9mm.

The .380” ACP aka “9mm Browning Short” by contrast was defined by having a bullet of (more or less) exactly 9mm diameter. But in a modern rifled firearm with “inside lubricated” bullets, the bullet has to be made to fit the groove diameter of the barrel and not the bore (or land) diameter. This means that when the bullet is forced into the bore by the ignition of the powder, it really does have to be forced and this “engraves” the rifling into the bullet, which gives it enough grip to make it spin and leaves a permanent record of the rifling on the bullet, as long as it’s not destroyed on impact with tough materials such as metal or brick.

Because the difference in diameters comes about by a swap of what dimension is defining the calibre, a rifled 9mm Makarov barrel is closely equivalent to a smooth-bore barrel actually intended to fire .380” ACP ammunition. Now, no smooth-bore barrel is ever really ideal for a bullet that needs to spin to remain stable in flight, but when the bullet isn’t going to travel very far and accuracy is a moot point, this doesn’t matter all that much.

It does matter to some extent, though, and at the end of the video below the video-creator explains why: the bullet is designed to be effective by hitting nose-on and staying nose-on. Evidence to support what he claims lies in the fact that Greener’s .38” Calibre Humane Killer, designed to be fired (by hitting the back of the firing pin with a separate hammer that came with the gun) with the barrel in hard contact with a horse’s head, actually has about 1&1/2 inches of rifled barrel! There’s no possible accuracy issue with a humane killer, but it had rifling non-the-less.

The one way in which the Makarov barrel differs from a smoothbore barrel of appropriate diameter, is that the bullet does not seal the rifling grooves and enough propellent gas leaks past the .380” ACP bullet to reduce the power of that bullet below what it achieves in a similar gun with a barrel of the same length as the Makarov, but properly rifled and dimensioned for the .380” ACP. Again, this is something which is demonstrated in the video. Along with miserable accuracy at any useful combat range using .380” ACP in a Makarov.

And there is an advantage to that reduction in power, even when using unmodified commercial .380” ACP ammunition, if the .380” ACP round will only be fired in hard contact with the target, like a humane killer. Firing a gun with the muzzle hard up against something solid can cause excess back-pressure, and for this reason Greeners offered, and their customers purchased, special .38” cartridges for its humane killer, even though as a fairly short, rimmed .38” round it might seem that almost any .38” revolver cartridge that was short enough to fit would do.

If a hitman’s plot to take his victim by surprise and dispatch them with a single shot in hard contact (to suppress noise, flash etc. and to make sure the victim died) went wrong, a Makarov pistol loaded with .380” ACP bullets that were hopelessly unstable at a distance, wouldn’t win him any gunfights with police or unexpected bodyguards. But a completely unmodified, standard Makarov service pistols with a magazine of eight standard 9mm Makarov rounds would be a powerful asset in expert hands, and all the hitman would need to do is ensure that the first round fired would be a .380” ACP.

By yet another fortunate turn of events, the majority of 9mm Makarov cartridges have a lacquered steel cartridge case, whilst there are no known sources of steel-cased .380” ACP rounds, most of which have traditional brass or perhaps cupro-nickel cartridge case, both quite different in appearance to lacquered steel. The hitman would single-load a (shiny) .380” ACP round into the chamber, either directly or by putting in a magazine with just one round in, into the gun and working the slide. He would then “decock” the gun and on the Makarov this is accomplished simply by applying the safety catch. All he need do then is put in a full magazine of (dull, off-grey) 9mm Makarov rounds and it’s good to go.

The Makarov pistol has a double/single-action trigger where, if the gun is not already cocked by working the slide or a previous round being fired, pulling the trigger over a fairly long distance against quite heavy resistance cocks the hammer and fires whatever round is in the chamber. Subsequent shots require only a shorter pull against less resistance, which makes for best accuracy and allows a marksman to maintain a comfortable hold on the gun.

The downside is that the first shot, if fired by the double-action trigger, is inherently less accurate. That’s not an issue if the first shot is fired in hard contact with the victim’s head, of course. If all goes to plan, the follow-up shots will not be needed and since the gun decocks itself when the safety catch is used, there’s no need to unload the weapon before pocketing it, but letting the fumes clear from the barrel for a moment or two might stop the gun giving itself away by the smell. Witnesses might well see a man leave the scene with something still in his hand, this would go into a pocket or a bum-bag once it had time to stop smoking.

If things do go wrong, then the hitman has eight very effective shots with which to solve any immediate problems and there’s nothing to stop him reloading if he has a spare magazine.

Now, one of the things which might worry a hitman who spends a lot of time listening to received wisdom, is that by firing a cartridge in a barrel which offers little initial resistance to the bullet’s travel, he’d be taking a risk on the bullet moving so easily that the pressure necessary to fully-ignite the gunpowder is not achieved and the bullet then barely clears the muzzle, followed by a cloud of unburnt powder grains. This is known as a “blooper” and it is another “obvious problem” which conspicuously fails to occur in the video demonstration. But a perfectionist with time on his hands might just try to tighten up the crimp on a few .380” ACP rounds just to be sure. That’s not the only possible explanation for the indentations around the fired cartridge case mouth and Medawar has toyed with several of them over the years, but it’s as good as any and, unlike all the others, it’s really quite specific to the .380” ACP ammunition being used in a completely unmodified Makarov service pistol which would be an asset to an expert in any unplanned fight following a carefully-planned hit.

Since there is a quantifiable advantage to using this methodology, and the means to implement it as widespread as a standard service pistol made by the million, there is no actual necessity for different crimes committed by such a method to have anything in common other than the method. Even any perceived link to Serbia might be purely logistical, in that both standard Makarov-type pistols and ammunition were made there, with commercial .380” ACP ammunition being widely available throughout Western Europe as it works in an even larger number of both service and commercial pistols which have been in production, which still continues, since 1903. Any belief that the exact same gun, or even the exact same hitman, might be involved in multiple crimes may prove to be unfounded, unless the evidence is personalised in some way, such the probably-unnecessary indentations around the mouth of the spent cartridge.

Here is the embedded video, by “8mm Mauser Guy” and it’s followed by a few of Medawar’s observations on what’s going on. The strength of this video, incidentally, is that it was meant just as a homage to the popular firearms expert Paul Harrell, who went before us a little while after the video was published. This means that whilst it echoes all of Mr Harrell’s quirks and mannerisms, it also echoes his determination to find out what actually happens rather than attempting to prove or disprove any particular theory, or any particular legal case. 

 

The (non-live) link: 

https://youtu.be/9_wJsE0rwlk?si=dMb61BgVxpxVKUPd

Observations on what the video's findings

.380 ACP in 9mm Makarov pistol: this WORKS (surprisingly well, really); velocities are lower than one might expect from a proper .380" ACP barrel the same length, as the bullet does not seal the rifling grooves though it pretty much seals the bore. The velocities are already subsonic and the .380" aka 9mx17mm ammunition would need no modification to achieve this, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be modified, either superfluously or for some technical reason known only to the person who did it.

Nor does it engage the rifling, so bullets may tumble after only a few feet and will NOT be engraved with rifling marks.

The ejected cartridge cases bulge only SOME of the time: this may depend on how they sit in the 0.8mm longer and 0.2mm wider chamber at the moment of firing. The above video shows two such cases being picked out out of approximately thirty fired.

(The true length of the .380" ACP cartridge case is 17.3mm and that of the 9mm Makarov 18.1mm)

Postscript 

Medawar is confident that the Home Office would greatly prefer it if Michelle Diskin and/or her lawyers would refrain from reading this article or watching the video.  

 A follow-up article, coming soon, will explain how hitmen use human engineering, just like hackers do, in order to find out things "which a professional hitman (backed up an organised crime gang) could not possibly have known about the target's habits and whereabouts." That may discommode a national broadcaster more than the Home Office, should Ms Diskin or her lawyers be so perverse as to take an interest.

The article after that may ruffle feathers quite widely.

After The Great Reset, The Great Betrayal

 Medawar begs his readers' pardon for largely ignoring "The Great Replacement" and his reasons for doing so lie not in that being a conspiracy theory so much as the awkward fact that he cannot see the Global Elite bothering to kill off a large swathe of the "useless" human population of the Elite's world only to replace them with other "useless people" they would inevitably despise just as much. Population reduction, should it be happening and it does begin to look as if it is, is almost certainly an end in itself rather than an attempt to make a better world, because the Elite's narrow definition of "better" or "useful" equates to "for the benefit of the Elite."

  During the past several days of extraordinary vitriol, contempt, bullying and even threats of armed invasion against America's closest allies expressed by President Trump and an assortment of loyal mouthpieces, it has emerged that Ukraine might just be allowed to escape defeat and subsequent linguistic if not ethnic cleansing were President Zelensky to sign a "minerals agreement" with the United States. 

An American friend of Medawar's recently offered the fascinating insight that the heavy emphasis on Ukraine signing the minerals agreement, far from being evidence that Mr Putin had pulled the wool over Mr Trump's eyes as practically all of America's allies currently believe, almost certainly means that Mr Trump has already got Mr Putin's penciled initials on a similar, if not identical, agreement. Some observers claim that Putin desperately needs to retire before he dies in office, but if he leaves power without a safe place to hide, he'll be dead in days. Putin might be no more able to say no to Trump than Zelensky. 

Now, the media is being infuriatingly unspecific about which "minerals" are involved, but it is possible to deduce, from ALL the places being done over by the Trump administration, that the mineral of most interest is Scandium and that anything else will be icing on the cake or a red herring, depending on one's choice of food-related metaphor. And this is what arouses Medawar's interest, because Scandium has relatively few uses where there are no substitutes. And given the frenetic rate at which Mr Trump is burning America's bridges with pretty well all of her most loyal and important allies and nearest neighbours, Scandium must have a particular importance to those responsible for engineering and bankrolling Mr Trump's return to power. And yet, Scandium isn't of such importance to the wider American economy or the security of the American people that America needs to control the greater part of the world supply of this metal! A great deal is being done, at significant cost to America's previously excellent standing with her allies and perhaps even to her own narrow economic interests, to secure something which only matters greatly to the private plans of a very few. Neither is it possible to see what Mr Trump might gain by serving those few rather than the very many people who recently voted him back into office.

Any debate as to whether Mr Trump is betrayer or betrayed needs to be left until Medawar has conveyed his suspicions as to whose interests are being looked after here, because it's certainly not Mr Trump's natural constituency of the Christian Right, nor is it even their bitter foes on the "Liberal" left. To understand who might need Scandium, we need to understand what Scandium is in the first place:

Relevant quotes:

 "Dislocation theory is immensely complicated and, after all, perhaps mainly of interest to dislocation experts" Professor J.E. Gordon "The New Science of Strong Materials" page 218. https://amzn.eu/d/41qairv

"The world's most influential scientists are those who control the research grants of lesser scientists and they acquired that influence after realising that politicians and oligarchs are much more interested in magic than science. Whilst in science, as in faith, there is always an alternative to everything if you look hard enough, alternatives are anathema to magical practices and 'influential scientists' are ever alert to suppress alternatives" {this is a relatively recent realisation on the part of Medawar, worth quoting here.}

Source Material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandium

Note that in 2003, the three mines producing significant (bearing in mind global supply was about twenty tons per annum) amounts of Scandium were in Russia's Kola Peninsular, Zhovti Vody in Ukraine and Bayan Obo in China. Other potential sources would include Finland, Sweden and possibly Norway. Finland and Sweden were openly threatened with invasion at the same time that Ukraine was invaded, and again threatened if they joined NATO, or attempted to protect themselves against mischief to sea-bed infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, etc, etc. Threat, threat, threat from Russia, followed by threat, threat, threat from Trump.

The video conveys a lot which the Wikipedia article doesn't. Wikipedia also states that the "only" industrial use for Scandium is to make high-performance alloys with aluminium, but actually, Medawar knows of, but will not identify, another important use which seems to be classified information these days, but was in the public domain ten or fifteen years ago. Suffice to say that the total requirement for Scandium created by US military needs for the whole of the Cold War was probably around a tenth of a single month's global production at 2003 levels. So, Wikipedia is right in the sense that turning aluminium into an easier-to work substitute for titanium in some applications accounts for practically all Scandium usage by weight, but it's not the only important use. But the US Government is in no danger of running out of Scandium for that other use and probably holds more of it than it needs as older systems are retired and recycled.

The demonstration in the video, where a fairly big chunk of Scandium metal floats on liquid bromine (without any obvious chemical reaction until water is used to wash the bromine off afterwards) not only conveys an understanding of how light Scandium is and therefore that twenty tons per annum is actually a lot in some ways, but also how different it is from aluminium, because aluminium foil catches fire when exposed to bromine fumes at room temperature! Finely-divided Scandium also burns in a bunsen flame with a very brilliant flash. Sadly, it is too expensive for fireworks! 

Suggestion: 

At the behest of a South African Tech oligarch and would-be spacefarer whose childhood friends may well include South African mining oligarchs, President Trump has bartered America's integrity and diplomatic standing for the Russian people's birthright, to which deal President Putin was and remains a willing party. They commit atrocity in and to Ukraine primarily because they seek an effective monopoly not just of Scandium production but also its utilisation and conquering Ukraine might have seemed an easier prospect than conquering Communist China! New sources are being developed in the Philippines as well. The Americans HOPE to develop a domestic source in Nebraska but this project is currently aspirational rather than actual.

And who REALLY wants Scandium?

Well these people might:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles
Scandium is a 'magic ingredient' to those avowed Satanists who dream of an "Aeon of Fire" in which their descendants  will build a Galactic Empire, because aluminium-scandium alloys MIGHT allow a spaceship to be fabricated with industrial resources that will fit inside a preceding spaceship of feasible size, allowing spaceships to replicate themselves as they spread from one planet to another. For this to happen with titanium, someone would have to think hard enough to greatly simplify the process of exploiting found titanium ore with an equally-great reduction in the amount of energy involved. It is probably not going to happen with beryllium either, unless dislocation theory is wrong in a most unlikely way.

Now, in the real universe (and that's not where these people live a lot of the time) building a Galactic civilisation might perhaps be done by sending out self-replicating spaceships with a set of values in their cargo so sensible and so durable over time that colonists and the colonised might see the sense in voluntarily keeping those values. But an Empire in the sense of something centrally-controlled and ruling by lethal force, even at thousand-year intervals, let alone real-time, is a non-starter. 

Another obstacle in the path of the desired Galactic Empire is that any journey even as far as Mars may, if organised by Elon Musk, turn out to be more Voortrek than Startrek.

But the greatest problem (and the very real danger) is that the Satanists of the O9A believe that in order for the Aeon of Fire to begin, they have to destroy our existing civilisation and risk taking with it the entire industrial base and all the knowledge and competencies which interplanetary, let alone interstellar, travel might require. And their strategy for destroying our present civilisation: the deliberate perversion and destruction of the moral codes which hold our society and civilisation together and allow it to function, by encouraging rape, all levels of physical, mental and emotional violence against women and the sexual abuse and murder of children, looks increasingly like a viable method of bringing about just such a destruction, although it is far from guaranteed that this will involve the survival of the human race, let alone a new Aeon or historical era of any sort. The most likely outcome will be the end of humanity. And given that the alternative route to a galactic culture or civilisation might be something growing out of our existing civilisation and therefore based on the "Nazarene" Abrahamic religions the Satanists hate so much, it is not implausible that they might even prefer total extinction to a galactic fellowship ruled by love rather than force.

And the current obsession with securing global supplies of Scandium and perhaps other "magic ingredients" is not the only sign that the O9A might have friends, or at least puppets, in very high places, in Europe, Russia and many other places outside as well as inside the United States, even though Texas seems to be a key stronghold at the moment. 

Ever since US Special Forces managed to kill Osama bin Laden, there has been an obvious shift in the nature of terroristic violence; towards women and children, especially little girls, as targets, and away from Islam as a clearly-identifiable source of motivation, even though most of the training material and practical methodology still comes from "Islamic" sources. O9A "associates" are free to study practice and even promote any of the Abrahamic religions including Islam, the C of E, or, according to preference, any sort of Nazism or Paganism, and even some (fairly twisted) varieties of Buddhism. Because if if they caught committing rape, murder, child murder and paedophilia, that simply rebounds on the cover religion or ideology and not on the O9A. Even were it to be proved in court and widely-reported that O9A was responsible for the actions of "non-terrorist" mass killers as diverse as Jake Davison and Axel Rudakubana, the associates of and potential recruits to O9A would find it all pretty cool and even encouraging.

Which is probably why, even though anti-terrorist officers and increasing numbers of crime reporters and other journalists worry about all this between themselves, O9A, which is now present globally, continues to be completely disregarded at the political, senior law enforcement command and media editorial level, globally. There is a very ancient piece of wisdom which says that: "Anyone who ignores the attacks of the enemy, makes the enemy stronger." 

We cannot possibly produce an effective plan against a danger nobody dares to mention, for fear of ridicule, or violence, or blackmail or any of the other forms of coercion and manipulation which the O9A and its "764" youth wing are increasingly proficient at.

Medawar's Law Expanded!

 Medawar's Law (henceforth, "Medawar's First Law" after Asimov) is:

"There is no crime that a property developer won't commit."

The Biblical inspiration for this lay in the story of Queen Jezebel's web of fraud, theft, perjury, idolatry and murder all centering around her plot to obtain her neighbour's winery and vineyard for one of her husband's development schemes. 

(This tale is being replayed almost to the letter in the quiet Central Texas town of Fredericksburg in the present day. Probably also in various parts of rural Kentucky and in Tempsford, North Bedfordshire.)

After more than a decade of quiet contemplation, Medawar has decided to add another two laws, which will probably be sufficient.

One of the given wisdoms is that "those whom the (Greek) gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." But Medawar would offer the following two:

(Medawar's law of think-tanks, which is his Second Law)

When the Lord God Almighty wishes to destroy a politician, He allows Satan to introduce the politician to a well-funded think-tank bursting with attractive-looking bad ideas.

And

(Medawar's law of intellectual elites, his Third Law)

When the Lord God Almighty wishes the destruction of a scientist, Satan will appear to invite the scientist to join a club, policy group or other form of secret society open only to "The most brilliant minds."

The Next Four Dangerous Years

 The danger is not that politicians sponsored by Elon Musk will prevail over those sponsored by Bill Gates and the Getty Family, or vice versa. Because Musk and Gates are not opponents: they are rivals! Both are bent on equivalent inexplicable and irrational objectives and both are completely capable of discarding evidence which fails to fit their narrative. This tendency often goes with great wealth or power and so consistent is the correlation between wealth, power and a determination to ignore, or frig, the evidence that one can only assume that cause and effect in these cases works both ways and leads to a runaway effect every time a man acquires an excess of power or wealth.

The danger is that the world will be conned into thinking it has to pick sides in the battle of the Oligarchs, because they will make the rest of the human race fight to the death on their behalf and not care a jot.

The opportunity is for us, the human race, to realise that we do not have to let either Musk nor Gates get his way, or lend our wealth or power to any Oligarch or despot whatsoever. They have nothing which they did not take from us in one way or another. Gates and Musk in particular are adept devising ways of exacting money for doing little or nothing. (The Hyperloop cost the government of the UAE and Richard Branson much, but it did nothing.) Because no-one ever lives long enough or works hard enough to earn untold billions in their own lifetime, it is actually a defining property of Oligarchs that they devise a means of getting money for little or nothing.

The things they actually do with the money they get from us, are always all about them and their hobby horses or hobbies.

And if one Oligarch or another were to one day have complete and total power, would that be a world in which we could bear to live, even assuming that the Oligarch wanted us to live?

Perhaps the emerging evidence about the regime of "racist" rape and terror exercised by the billionaire Mohamed al Fayed and his brother over his staff gives us a pretty good clue that every day in such a world would be like a private top floor suite in the Harrods department store on a really bad day.

The strange thing is, the assumption of many reporting on the fact that black staff were ordered to leave the shop floor every time al-Fayed visited it, leaving only young, blonde and female staff, is that the black women cleared from his path were victims! This is not the case: the black women were not, as far as has been reported so far, the ones who were raped and then intimidated into silence by the former and serving police officers in his pay.

 

And that brings Medawar to what might or might not be a different matter:

Now that John Cannan, the convicted abductor, rapist and murder of Shirley Banks and the only suspect the Metropolitan Police will accept for the abduction and murder of Suzy Lamplugh has died in prison without even being interviewed under caution in connection with Suzy Lamplugh, there is no known legal reason why the following information from the public domain cannot be restated, and unknown "legal" reasons are unacceptable, as when a Soviet court refused to tell Irina Ratushkinskaya what law it was that she was supposed to have broken, leading Kenneth Baker MP, now Lord Baker, to campaign for her freedom. (As did Medawar in a much smaller way.)

John Cannan may have been a lone murder and rapist, (as with Steve Wright, the "lone" bit has never been proved and in Cannan's case it has never really been tested.) But he was not a lone criminal: he had a defined role within organised crime circles and that role was to provide bigger and more important criminals with vehicles for a particular occasion and purpose that couldn't be traced back to them, first and foremost, with the vehicle not being traceable back to Cannan as a somewhat lower priority. If push came to shove, the buck was supposed to stop with him. He was what a structural engineer might term a "crack-stopper." Part of being a crack-stopper would have been disposing of the vehicle afterward, again in a way designed to be, if it couldn't be untraceable, somewhat less traceable to his client than to him.

The reason why the CPS under more than one DPP never allowed the police to interview Cannan under caution about Suzy Lamplugh, was that the police only presented the CPS with one reasonably-solid piece of relevant physical evidence, and that was DNA evidence which proved that both he and Suzy had been in a particular car with a history of unclear ownership, which police had found in a car-dealer's showroom. The CPS found this insufficient (they did not find it to be invalid) because proving that two people had each been in a vehicle with a chequered past at some point, does not prove that they were both in the vehicle at the same time, however simple and obvious it might seem at first glance that this "must be" the explanation.

Given Cannan's low-level role in organised crime; providing the big fish with their wheels, an equally simple and perhaps equally valid explanation might be that Cannan provided another criminal with a car that was then used to transport Suzy, or that he disposed of such a car afterwards. 

There was then an impasse, for decades, largely because the police seemed to go round in circles attempting to make the CPS accept that their bit of evidence proved what they wanted it to prove, rather than accepting that it proved what the CPS (experts in proof) said it proved and moving forwards from there.

There are two possibilities raised by this which the police seem determined not to even consider:

The first is that all Cannan did was handle a car which someone else used to abduct Suzy. This is possible, and there's nothing that really disproves it, but given Cannan's history it would be a bit of a coincidence. Medawar sees why the police don't like this idea, but he can also see why the CPS couldn't ignore it, because it contains the seeds of a successful defence, albeit one that would amount to a plea of guilty to a charge of assisting an offender.

The second is to consider that if it were normal for Cannan to provide other criminals with a car that couldn't be traced back to them, might he not have been contracted to provide someone with such a car, with a young woman meeting a particular specification, already in it?

Medawar does not go so far as to claim that such a client would have been Mr al Fayed, but the indications are that he was taking advantage of a captive audience for his sexual needs on a regular and organised basis with his employees at Harrods. If there was one billionaire in London corrupted by his own wealth and power into behaving thus, it is not unreasonable to conclude that there might have been and might still be, others. 

Al Fayed is a useful case study, rather than necessarily a suspect, because some of his victims claim to have been transported (on a pretext) to Paris or New York and raped, in a manner remarkably similar to what the veteran News Anchor, Sandy Gall, privately claimed had happened to Suzy. And there are two other prominent corporate figures in the news at the moment, alleged to have done very much the same thing to young men. (Again, Paris tends to feature, along with New York, probably because these are tempting destinations for an adventurous young person.) Had any of these young men or women died during such a misadventure, they would seem to have disappeared without trace from their last known location and the body might have been disposed of a very long way away from where the constant drizzle of "criminal intelligence tips" to police would suggest. Just like Suzy. 

The police have had tip after tip from the criminal community pointing the finger at John Cannan and sites in the West Midlands and South West, where they have looked and found no evidence of any body at all. Medawar would humbly suggest looking East and South East, for a change.

An Answer to Neil Oliver

 The question which Neil Oliver has been asking, is "why now?"

Here is an embedded video in which he asks this question:

 

Well, the "why now?" of suddenly throwing the Pakistani rape gangs whom the establishment protected for so long under a bus, is probably (as many suspect) to protect someone more important. The trouble is, everybody wants this to be a particular senior minister in the present government, or a senior figure at the BBC, or Prince Andrew; that sort of thing.

It is bigger than that, and the reason why we are being offered "action" rather than further investigation, across the geographical UK and across a broader range of offender ethnics and demographics, is that there is an international context to all this, and that is also why very powerful, and very wealthy, individuals from outside the UK are trying to muscle in on the whole issue, supposedly in opposition to the British establishment, but in fact pushing in exactly the same direction: to make sure that all the non-Pakistani suspects remain under the carpet, if not in the closet.

There is a book, which was withdrawn from publication (and appears therefore not to be in copyright!) after the author was shot in the head, allegedly as suicide, and the book is about a number of similarly convenient "suicides" of those involved in an elite sexual grooming scandal, whereas the focus being sought by everyone from Keir Starmer to "Tommy Robinson" is on a very non-elite offending demographic indeed. We are allowed to look, not at the top of the pyramid, or even the whole base of the pyramid, but at one block in the base of the pyramid.

That book has been withdrawn from publication, and Amazon no longer publishes the e--book of it, but secondhand paperbacks of "The Lost Boys of Bird Island" are available on Amazon for £60 and up! On E-bay they can cost £80!

Not only is it true that "the truth shall set you free!" (Attrib: The Lord Jesus & David Icke!) but in this particular case, the truth is itself available for free, as a consequence of the sudden death of one of the two authors.

It is important not to skip the front matter of the book, especially the Forward, because this describes how elite paedophile gangs link the US, UK and Belgium, to South Africa and especially Cape Province. Then read the main text, to get an idea of how far up the greasy pole those involved might be in all four countries.

https://ia601207.us.archive.org/21/items/the-lost-boys-of-bird-island/The%20Lost%20Boys%20of%20Bird%20Island.pdf

It's interesting that the American Oligarch trying (very persistently) to muscle in on the whole issue of paedophile gangs and grooming in the UK, originally hails from South Africa! Mr Musk is never going to answer Dr Oliver's question, so why not let Detective-Sergeant Mark Minnie answer it for him, from beyond the grave?

Legal Stalking

(This is an updated re-post of an article originally posted here in 2016.)

 

The law firm "Public Interest Lawyers" is to close and more than a thousand complaints which it has filed against British soldiers and marines will be reviewed and probably thrown out. See link to Daily Mail article. For more than a decade PIL instigated witch hunts against servicemen (and it was mainly men) on the basis of what are now known to be flimsy or completely bogus cases of human rights violations. Far from PIL being the victim of an establishment plot, the Blair, Brown and Cameron governments were completely happy to hang ordinary soldiers out to dry and they helpfully established two new investigative bodies to process all the complaints which PIL generated. It was only when judges described evidence from some of PIL's Iraqi clients as "lies" (very strong language for judges) -and the Brexit issue coincidentally swept a lot of human dross out of positions of high office in the United Kingdom government, that PIL was finally held to account. 

Whilst the Daily Mail is to be congratulated for having campaigned against the witch hunts, and for years the response of the liberal establishment to the Mail's campaign was to fatuously heap praise and honours (honourary doctorates and "solicitor of the year") on PIL's senior partner, Phil Shiner, the suggestion by some Mail columnists that Mr Shiner now be prosecuted for treason is probably inappropriate. The false cases represent a serious crime, primarily against individual soldiers and marines and the principle of Justice rather than against the State and the most appropriate charge would, therefore, be one of "conduct tending to pervert the course of justice." If Mr Shiner is to face a court himself, then it is only right that he should do so for what he did to individuals with rights of their own. Which was to persecute them using the law as a weapon, often for years, and almost always with the acquiescence of the successive governments that were willing to send those same individuals into harm's way. (Initially they were sent into harm's way with inadequate equipment, too, because the Blair government forbade the army to make detailed preparations for war because Mr Blair didn't want it to look as if war with Iraq was a forgone conclusion.)

A treason charge would only be appropriate if there was evidence that Mr Shiner acted deliberately to harm Britain as a nation by setting the courts against her soldiers, and even then it would probably need to have been on behalf of a foreign power rather than as a sort of personal hobby horse. So far, there is no evidence of this, though investigations into Mr Shiner have only just begun. 

However, it is true that if an officer of the Russian FSB or SVR had concocted a plan that saw more than a thousand criminal cases being sought against frontline British service personnel, making it seem as if the British Army was somewhat worse than the SS -and had that officer managed to get the British taxpayer to completely fund his destablisation campaign, then that hypothetical officer would receive warm praise and prompt promotion.


Update: 5th of October 2016.
The government of Theresa May has indicated that it will close loopholes in the Human Rights Act which have left soldiers open to malicious prosecution on the flimsiest of grounds. Most European countries had implemented the same basic Human Rights Act without exposing their soldiers to malicious legal action, so it has to be concluded that the governments of Antony Charles Lynton Blair and David Cameron intended that British soldiers would be so exposed.

Both Blair and Cameron denuded the British armed forces of vital resources whilst finding a constant stream of controversial and unwinnable wars for them to fight, and the net result was quite debilitating. It is only possible to conclude that a weakening and discrediting of Britain's armed forces was their objective. "Why" is an open question, but it might have something to do with a europhile agenda too radical to be admitted to in public. The early signs are that Mrs May will have no truck with that sort of thing, but it will take a while for the new government to accept that defence has been deliberately underfunded by a significant extent since about 1992. The turnaround has to start somewhere, though, and hopefully this is it.

Update: 3rd of February 2017.
Phil Shiner has been convicted of several professional misconduct charges. There are now calls for him to be prosecuted for breaches of the criminal law that could see him jailed, but this would require a lot more legal work.

 

Update: 2nd of October 2024. 

 Phil Shiner has pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud, in a sum over £3M. So Medawar's previous update, that criminal charges would require a lot more legal work, was something of an understatement. See embedded report from "The Art of Law" below.

Once the criminal proceedings are finally over with the sentencing in December, surviving victims of this man may be able to bring civil claims for defamation, but it is a pity and a glaring omission that no stalking charges have been brought or even, apparently, considered.

 

The Murder of Linda Muegge: Who was "Frank"?

 It is now about seventeen years since Linda Muegge, an animal welfare campaigner who also ran a food kitchen for disadvantaged humans and was otherwise active in her community in a positive way, was stabbed to death in her kitchen, in Fredericksburg, Central Texas, the killer attempting to burn the house down over her head to conceal the evidence. This failed for two reasons: a large amount of non-flammable plaster ceiling material fell on top of the body, preserving evidence of her wounds -and the local fire department were training nearby and were able to attend the scene several minutes earlier than would have normally been the case:

This is a link to a current Fox News article on the case:

https://www.fox7austin.com/news/fredericksburg-woman-linda-muegge-case-missing-in-texas

And this is a link to a blog article (one of several by the same author) posted many years ago by a friend of Medawar, reproducing a lot of articles and local background information not otherwise available online. If you have trouble reading the newspaper cuttings, they are posted as jpegs so you can download them and read them more easily in an image viewer that allows you to zoom in on the text:

https://vocct.blogspot.com/2010/12/muegge-murder.html

Here is the somewhat meagre but still useful article from the Texas Department of Public Safety (who, incidentally, are responsible for licensing private detectives. The State Troopers come under the DPS, too.)

 https://www.dps.texas.gov/apps/coldCase/Home/Details/8

 This murder has occupied the attention of both Medawar and VOCCT for oh so many years, and it is perplexing that the FBI have not yet solved this one because Agents from the San Antonio Field Office have so many friends and supporters in Fredericksburg.

Today, one word in the FBI's updated article on this murder strikes Medawar as a bit of a clue, which those agents really should have been able to follow up on. That word is "Frank" and it is the name used by an individual who Linda complained of, to police, some years before her murder. She did not feel safe with Frank on her land or in her house, and she only knew him because he had been introduced by a mutual friend. See:

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/homicides-and-sexual-assaults/linda-muegge

The method of approach to the victim is not typical of an ordinary stalker or sex-pest. It is, however, how undercover officers and private detectives tend to do it. SVR and FSB agents also prefer to be introduced to a target rather than to introduce themselves, but the agency involved might be closer to home than that.

It is unlikely that the killer himself was a private detective, because that would be unprofessional as well as illegal and setting a fire to "destroy evidence" is not a favoured technique with professionals because it tends to give investigators an unambiguous timeline which can be more dangerous than just leaving the deceased to their own devices until discovered hours or days later. But since Frank appeared at the beginning of a years-long campaign of harassment, the killer might well have been one of Frank's clients, or an associate thereof. (Well-planned killings tend to have several layers of separation.)

Now, at the time there was a licensed private investigator, based in Fair Oaks (between St Antonio and Fredericksburg) who did quite a lot of work for the great and good of both cities and most of them (and several local FBI agents, police officers and Texas Rangers) knew him as "Frank"  even though that was not the name on his business card. He also claimed to be a former FBI agent and this claim was verified by senior agents in the San Antonio Field Office, although, interestingly, one State Trooper who asked FBI Headquarters to confirm this (in connection with complaints about the private investigator's license) was told, quite clearly and firmly, that the private investigator was NOT a former FBI agent.

It's almost as if the FBI as an institution is currently searching in vain for information already known to many of its former agents!

It could be very embarrassing for the killer, whoever he is, if Medawar had an image of that investigator's business card, would it not?

"Cyber Stalking Leading to Death" will get you life in jail!

 There has been a successful Federal prosecution for this crime, details now released by the FBI. It is worth noting that this was effectively also a gangstalking case insofar as the primary defendant was found to have had help on the night when things progressed to the actual killing and, given the intensity of the stalking (and blackmail attempts) which preceded this, it's quite likely that he would have sought to share the workload before this.

(Note to police, FBI and NCA: if a victim is alleging offences that seem like an impossible amount of work for a single offender, you must give weight to the possibility of conspiracy and/or common purpose as well as that the victim is simply mistaken. The latter course will only reduce your workload and help your career if it is really true: if the victim turns out to be correct you've just blown away your career, reputation and pension. The safest course is to check for this kind of thing, because it's always going to be more common than suggested by official statistics (which are primarily designed to get your political bosses re-elected).

No mention is made of sentences for the two known accomplices, which may indicate either that they still face further local charges in Independence, Missouri, or that they felt the need to cut a deal with the Federal authorities. Had they been proved to have assisted with the cyber-stalking phase of the case, they could easily have faced the same penalty. 

This highlights the enormous risks being run by anyone playing even a minor role in stalking, gangstalking and cyber-stalking offences, because simply by doing what you are told by the sort of person likely to become head of such a gang, you are making yourself legally responsible for the actions of someone not in their right mind!

There's more than one Federal law these days that can be used to prosecute such cases, depending largely on whether or not the abuse of computer technology was involved (bugs, spyware, tracking devices, and tracking apps on the victim's phone all count and not very many stalking gangs fail to use at least one of those!) Even when it's all done by word of mouth, it's still a conspiracy to deny rights and when that results in death (or kidnapping) the penalty can be life imprisonment or death, if the current administration is minded to permit the latter.

In the United Kingdom there is no such thing as a Federal crime; just varying degrees of severity or public interest which might divert a case from Crown or Sheriff's court to the Old Bailey or the Court of Sessions. But there is a an over-arching principle that participants in a conspiracy share responsibility for what the conspiracy does and there is also a law of Common Purpose, which requires even participants in a spontaneous offence to share responsibility for its outcome. Beyond that, a gang member can be and often is, charged with "assisting an offender in..." whatever the crime was. 

The cosy feeling of security in being a gang member or going along with workplace bullying is a legal illusion, because by doing so you make yourself responsible for the final outcome of that activity, however dreadful that might be. And the dreadfulness of the outcome is determined by the most psychopathic or sociopathic personality within the gang, or workplace. Everyone accosted by a bully or participant in a feud of any kind, needs to ask themselves the simple question: "what's the worst thing this person might do?" before doing anything that might help them do it.

There's probably at least a dozen followers in jail for every leader who managed to get himself jailed rather than letting someone else go to jail for him.

Bob Dylan: "don't follow leaders, who rob the parking meters!"