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Mystery booms: Should we blame Boogaloo?
I've come back to propose a conspiracy theory. That's what we need right now: More paranoia.Actually, this theory posits a plot to spread paranoia -- a plot which germinated within those eldritch corners of the internet which the Boogaloo crowd calls home.
We're talking about a plot to besmirch the left. Admittedly, such a plot seems unnecessary, since the left is doing a superb job of besmirching itself. The self-defeating antics of "progressives" -- and I could list quite a few of them -- give me reason to predict a Trump victory in the electoral college, despite the current polls favoring Biden. A backlash is a-comin'.
But the neo-Nazis among us espouse much more extreme goals. They have a vision which goes far beyond any election: They want a race war. They want rid of democracy. They want an end to the American experiment. Most of them like Trump and would prefer to see him win, but his fate is far from their sole concern. In fact, my readings indicate that some far-rightists consider Trump an impediment to their larger plans.
In a preceding Cannonfire post, these words appeared:
Just yesterday, while in the local dollar store, I heard a couple of Trumpers braying loud inanities about the supposed threat posed by leftist radicals.That incident was weird -- almost "John Keel" weird. I've never encountered a similar situation throughout the decade I've lived in this Baltimore suburb.
(Trumpers habitually discuss politics in public places while keeping their voices at a jackhammer volume that could deafen a banshee, even though everyone else just wants to buy pretzels in silence.)
Those two guys spoke in VERY LOUD voices which could be heard throughout the store, yet they seemed to be reading from a script. They spoke in whole sentences and did not interrupt each other, using "print" language, not "everyday conversation" language. For example, they warned of "THE THREAT TO OUR COMMUNITY POSED BY LEFT-WING EXTREMISTS!" (That's as exact a quote as memory permits.)
People don't talk that way. Not in Dundalk. Not anywhere.
I suspect that this bit of theater connects with another mystery which has beset this community, and many other locales. For days -- weeks -- Baltimore experienced a barrage of fireworks and explosions. The mystery booms rattled nerves each and every night, and the attacks lasted throughout the night. Dundalk was hit particularly hard: I head the blasts until the wee small hours of the morning, as late as 4 AM.
To be fair, we should note that Baltimore is a town where the laws against fireworks are considered hilarious. Nobody ever gets prosecuted for setting off skyrockets. On July 4 and New Years Eve, things get pretty damned raucous; one might suppose that General Ross and his troops had come back to life in order to wreak vengeance.
Booms are often heard on other nights, particularly during summer nights.
I've come to expect an illegal fireworks "demonstration" one or twice a month during a summer, though the clandestine KABOOMS never last for more than a few minutes. Even on New Year's Eve, the cannonade continues for only about fifteen or twenty minutes.
What happened during the fortnight of George Floyd protests was quite different.
During those two weeks, the salvos lasted throughout the night. It was unstoppable. Moreover, the emphasis seemed to be on sound rather than visual spectacle. Skyrockets were rarely seen. The "boomers" showed a marked preference for very loud explosions which seemed unnervingly close to actual artillery.
I've spoken to locals who suspect that the kids went "fireworks crazy" this year because they knew that, on July 4, public displays would be canceled due to Covid 19 fears. But this explanation makes no sense. Privately-owned fireworks, though common, are illegal. Thus, a ban on public fireworks displays, funded by the city and other institutions, should have no impact on the use of illegal fireworks by private parties.
As a general rule, kids save most of their fireworks for Independence Day. This year, we were treated to a nightly barrage weeks before July 4, and each night's barrage was far more intense and long-lasting than anything I had previously heard. The attacks occurred only during the protest period.
There were no mystery booms last night, and none the night before.
Where did the fireworks come from? Fireworks cost money, and many people are financially strapped right now. There are rumors that people were handing out free fireworks from trucks parked near Patterson Park.
The "mystery boom" phenomenon occurred in many states. This podcast refers to attacks in Pennsylvania.
The attacks in New York were, it seems, particularly relentless and disturbing.
Illicit bursts of fireworks from street corners and rooftops aren't uncommon in the city's neighborhoods in the days before the Fourth of July, but the past few weeks has seen an extraordinary surge in such displays.In NYC, as in Bawlmer, the booms and crackles lasted throughout the night.
There have already been more than 1,300 fireworks-related complaints to the city’s noise complaint hotline through the first half of the month, including 455 on Sunday. Usually, there are just a few dozen such complaints during that time period.
Where they are coming from is also a mystery.Also see here:
While the short sparklers that parents let kids twirl until they quickly flame out can be purchased, the kind of fireworks that create the booming blasts in Brooklyn can’t be sold legally in New York.
But people are getting them — a lot of them, from the sound of things.
"You would think that we're at war," said Brownsville resident Harvell Livingston.The following excerpt from the NYT buttresses my contention that these fireworks differ from the ones we've seen and heard before.
While illegal fireworks have always been a part of the soundtrack around the Fourth of July, lately they have been lighting up social media all around the city -- with examples of living rooms lit up like daylight to petrified pets.
"You got these boom, boom, booms at 12 at night," said a Washington Heights resident. "I know that from everyone that I have talked to that it just has to stop."
“These are not your normal kids playing with fireworks,” said Michael Ford, a piano teacher in Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood. “These are real explosives, like Macy’s-style fireworks.”The country was a tinderbox, and these fools were playing with matches. Literally.
In Brooklyn’s gentrifying Flatbush section — which has recorded hundreds of complaints, among the most of any neighborhood in the city — the daily fireworks are exposing divisions over race and class, and provoking debates about what should be reported to the police.An out-of-nowhere group came forward to assert a link between illegal fireworks and Black Lives Matter.
When police officers showed up last weekend to crack down on the explosives in a part of the area with many black and Hispanic residents, some people assumed it was a response to a petition created by residents of Ditmas Park, a historic district in the neighborhood, that urged the city to put a “a peaceful stop to the illegally launched fireworks that have been disrupting our sleep and our lives for weeks.”This is incendiary language: White or black, we're all "entitled" to peace and quiet.
Equality for Flatbush, which calls itself a “people of color-led, multinational grass-roots organization that does anti-police repression, affordable housing and anti-gentrification/anti-displacement organizing,” lashed out at a now-deleted Facebook group, Peaceful Ditmas Park, and a law professor who helped write the petition.
Equality for Flatbush said Peaceful Ditmas Park was “a majority-white Facebook group where pro-gentrification and white supremacist sentiment is highly prevalent” and called the law professor, Irina Manta, a “Ditmas Park Karen,” using what has become shorthand for an entitled white woman.
Police were put in an impossible situation. Many residents complained about this nightly bombardment, which was both unsafe and illegal. But any attempt to arrest the perpetrators would probably have led to further violence and further protests.
And who would profit from that?
Donald Trump. Boogaloo. The racists who want a race war.
I'm now at least semi-convinced that those loudmouths I heard in the Dollar store were actors attempting to create fear and tension. I believe that they were the amateur agents of a much larger psyop (psychological operation), albeit one which proved unsuccessful.
If you study the history of psyops, one name stands out: Edward Lansdale of the CIA. He helped to quell a rebellion in the Philippines by convincing villagers that they were under attack from an Aswang, a vampire-like creature known to anyone familiar with that country's folklore. He spread this rumor via many methods. One method: Actors in public places, reading from scripts.
Just like those guys in that store.
A word about the Berman "firing." The more I mull over this business, the stranger it seems.
A law-enforcement source with knowledge of the situation inside the Southern District of New York described a chaotic situation there following Attorney General William Barr’s Friday night announcement that U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman was resigning, followed an hour later by Berman replying that he had not resigned and would not leave—followed by Barr’s claim that President Trump was firing Berman, followed by Trump’s claim that it’s all up to Barr to handle.Granted, it is characteristic for Trump to lay all blame at the feet of others. But there is a theory going around that Barr instigated this imbroglio without Trump's knowledge -- because Barr himself is at risk.
There is an SDNY Grand Jury investigating Rudy & assoc that conceivably could implicate Barr himself. This could be the tie to why Benczkowski just resigned from the DOJ- as he would be a fact witness against Barr. The strength of Berman’s response says he has something on Barr https://t.co/ekuvvOfr2z— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) June 20, 2020
The same source offered this tweet in October of last year.
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