<Thread> on the cold-blooded murder of five @CapGazNews journalists last week, which connects #Cult45 neo-confederate (white supremacist) torch-bearers with the evil currently occupying the WH's call to harm journalists (and subsequent snub) and... Whitefish Montana. 1/ TIMELINE
2/ Let's start with the events that happened today (Jul 2):
6/ Background on Eric Hartley, the journalist whose altered photo appeared on Jarrod Ramos' since-deleted Twitter account, and who Ramos referred to as "JabbaTH."
8/ Here's where Whitefish MT links to neo-Confederacy/white supremacist violence. David Lenio (Whitefish MT 2015) and Jarrod Ramos (Annapolis MD 2018) "were enigmatic, angry loners, with an unmistakable affinity for the racist alt-right."
9/ Ramos was an ardent supporter of Michael Peroutka who won 2014 election to Anne Arundel County MD County Council representing District 5. Peroutka "had major funding ties to former Alabama judge and US Senate candidate Roy Moore, as well to the League of the South... (con't)
10/ … whose leader, Michael Hill, had written approvingly about plans to form paramilitary groups to fight a militarized 'fourth generation' culture war, one of whose targets would be the media."
11/ Ramos' Twitter avatar was that of former Capital Gazette columnist Eric Hartley who wrote the 2011 @capgaznews article about Ramos' guilty plea to criminal harrassment. capitalgazette.com/news/ph-ac-cn-…
12/ Ramos' Twitter avatar added "a symbol of the 'brand of sacrifice,' from Berserk anime TV show, which marks a target for ritual murder" to Eric Hartley's photo. (Salon article, Jun 30, 2018)
13/ See Salon article, Jun30, 2018 for more references (& tweet samples) on how 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre seems to have inspired Ramos' targeting of journalists. Ramos replaced "the bloody severed head in a... cartoon with the face of Garrett Hartley," @capgaznews columnist."
14/ Here's the Salon article from 2015 that describes how an investigative reporter alerted law enforcement of Twitter threats against schoolchildren and Jews. The threats were sent by David Lenio, who was arrested two days later at Whitefish Mtn Resort:
@ALT_uscis@metaquest@SpicyFiles@equalandallied1@rkfatheree@ThomasS4217 2/ Conveniently enough, Congress is "working" to keep the gov't open with "a 'continuing resolution' that would fund federal agencies through Dec. 7. ICE asked Congress to include the $1 billion increase in the continuing resolution." (more...)
@ALT_uscis@metaquest@SpicyFiles@equalandallied1@rkfatheree@ThomasS4217 3/ "... immigration officials said they need the extra money to cover rising costs associated with arrests and deportations. Officials say this year they’ve detained an average of 43,000 immigrants a day, slightly more than Congress authorized in the current budget. (con't)
@ninaandtito@dwinfrey72@Peaceful_411@ThomasS4217@MsMariaT@BenWinslow 3/ "One witness stated that Defendant Jacob Kingston said that if the government moved to arrest and prosecute him, he would flee to Turkey. This witness also heard that Defendant Jacob Kingston built a home in Turkey. (con't)
3/ At this outdoor photo-op, @RepJeffDenham said "Congress is looking at one agency, one decision," and "called the state’s water conservation proposal a 'disastrous plan to flush water from valley rivers to the ocean,' foreshadowing twitterfingers-in-chief Aug 5th tweet.
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 This 7.10.14 article shows *how* tight Sheriff Israel is w/ Roger Stone.
<thread> 1/ Despite being sentenced to 1 yr in prison in '02, Suereth served 60 days house arrest & 5 yrs probation. Also in '02, Suereth married Thorne (who became Sheriff Israel's AsstChiefOfStaff in '14).
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 2/ In 2002, "Thorne was already working for Stone and Suereth and his son Andrew Miller would soon join the political operative's coterie."
Thorne was officially referred for the BSO job by Israel's campaign strategist, Ron Gunzburger, a close friend and associate of Stone's...
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 3/ … whom Israel installed at BSO as his $205,000-a-year general counsel. Not including Gunzburger, Thorne is one of at least three Stone cohorts whom Israel hired on the public payroll after the election."