megalomania
March 21st, 2007, 01:30 AM
I have a theory, or rather an interesting question: Why is it with the way banks treat people nowadays with skyrocketing interest rates, frivolous fees, shoddy service, and outright criminal hostility that people aren’t blowing them up right and left?
If you want the real reason it’s because people don’t actually make bombs and blow things up like the fedgov would have you believe. Nor are people so insane that once they get a wicked gun they go on shooting rampages.
Still, if ever there was a deserving institution for some old style vigilante justice it is the banks and their spawn. Enter the FBI’s newest supervillian “The Bishop.”
In May 2005 a series of threatening letters were sent from the Chicago area to various cancerous companies, the modern slavers of the 21st century, banks and financial institutions. During the previous 18 months The Bishop has sent at least 15 letters to companies around the US.
The letters warn financial criminals to follow his orders or face dire consequences. Besides some religious references, and indicating his name is The Bishop, there are also mentions of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and the DC snipers (pardon me, the DC AfroAmerican snipers let us not forget). “And when the ... recipient opens it, they don't even know what hit them.” The letters mention how easy it would be to kill them with the easy act of sending a mailbomb, or to kidnap their children so the parents are tormented. Every soccer moms worst fear realized!
Here are a few tidbits from the Denver Post: In the 1972 movie "The Mechanic," Charles Bronson played assassin Arthur Bishop. A line used in the movie, "Bang you're dead," has shown up in at least one letter under investigation by authorities. "The Bishop" is also the name of a book in the Stainless Steel Rat fiction series by author Harry Harrison.
The Stainless Steel Rat series was among my favorite books when I was younger, they are immensely entertaining, and I recommend them for forumites. The books are about a remarkably talented criminal nicknamed the Stainless Steel Rat set in the distant future. In fact the SS Rat character was the inspiration for the criminal in the story I wrote and posted on the Forum a few years ago.
Quoth The Bishop, "It is so simple to kill somebody it is almost scary."
Quoth The Bishop, "It is better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven." A line first written by poet John Milton in “Paradise Lost.”
Quoth The Bishop, “tick, tock.”
Now The Bishop has escalated his cause with the January 2007 mailings of two uncompleted pipe bombs. The bombs were intentionally duds sent as a warning to the money slavers. The warning devices (can something properly be called a bomb just because it is a collection of materials?) consisted of PVC pipe, smokeless powder, wires, and buckshot. Following this the fedgov has stepped up its drive to protect the precious usury scammers by catching this dire threat to the impending recession. The investigating clowns consist of bunglers from the FBI, buffoons from the BATF, some queers from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission who must be happy to be doing some real police work for once in their lives, and affirmative action low scorers from the Postal Inspection Service.
The recipients of the warning bombs were American Century Investments in Kansas City, Mo. and Janus Capital Group in Denver, Co. The Colorado bomb was forwarded to Perkins Wolf, McDonnell & Co., a brokerage firm in Chicago. How is that for customer service?
A profile of The Bishop has emerged that describes almost every person that has ever registered to The Forum, or likely even visited for longer than it takes to close their browser. Says Fred Burton, vice president of counterterrorism for Stratfor, a company that manages to extract money from banks (no mean feat that is) by beating the terrorist drum, the Bishop may be angry about losing money in the stock market or he may be playing out a game.
"It is also very feasible he is living in a virtual world. He is playing out a fantasy or PC game into reality," Burton said. Burton also said Lucas Bishop is a character introduced in the 1990s in the X-Men comic-book series who also can be played in a computer game. He is part of a mutant police force that returns from the future. His power involves absorbing energy and releasing it in concussive blasts.
Say, that sounds like a brilliant idea there, Fred. Obviously Stratfor is the lowest bidder in the financial institution anti-terror game for a reason…
More on the profile, now with an unreliable eyewitness account: White male, mid 30s to early 40s, about 6 feet tall, 180 to 190 pounds, sandy brown hair with thick luscious curls, dreamy blue eyes, wearing an olive drab or gray military style jacket. He is believed to be only high school educated and spends a lot of time online.
The fedgov thinks the next step, if The Bishop follows the bombers playbook, is to personally target his victims at their homes.
A task force of 100 fedgov stormtroopers has been reassigned from donut tasting duty to investigate The Bishop. Isn’t there a story about 100 monkeys in 100 squad cars given enough time will eventually bungle every investigation? Maybe I am thinking of something else… The fedgov has brought in several vans with X-ray equipment to postal sites, and can call on a fleet of 18 mobile command trucks around the country if need be. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service said inspectors are poised to react if a device from The Bishop turns up again. I bet they are happy just to get out of the mailroom, the steam pipes are too hot in the winter.
The Bishop has been very careful not to leave any fingerprints the fedgov says. The fedgov admits mail bombs are extremely rare, but they are ready anyway. Don’t tell the sheeple that or the fedgov could lose funding.
Quoth the fedgov:
The ones that turn out to be dangerous usually have a fictitious return address, and are postmarked in a different city than the return address, investigators said. Many have numerous "fragile" warnings. The majority have handwriting with exaggerated characteristics in an attempt to foil any future analysis that might be use to identify the mailer, investigators said.
About 100 postal inspectors have been joined in the investigation by agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It may be the biggest probe of its kind since a man tried to plant mailbox bombs in the pattern of a "smiley face" across the middle of the country in 2002, said Tripp Brinkley, program manager for dangerous mail investigations for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
Brinkley said The Bishop's explosives are similar to most that the agency handles.
Virtually all mail bombs analyzed by postal inspectors have four major components, which investigators list using the acronym "PIES" for power source, initiator, explosive and a switch that triggers the mailed item when it is opened or something is removed from it.
Most devices consist of fairly common parts that can be bought at home-improvement stores, said Brinkley at the U.S. Postal Inspection Service's national training academy in Potomac. The agency opened the secure facility last week in a show of preparedness and to discuss techniques that will be used to try to stop a suspect.
Investigators have seen switches that include mousetraps and door-alarm parts. A power source can be a simple 9-volt battery, Brinkley said. The initiator that fires the explosive can be as ordinary as the end of a light bulb.
Postal investigators deconstruct explosive devices in their Maryland laboratory. Investigators said every element is analyzed to determine where it may have come from, including the ink and paper used for a note, packaging materials, wires, and the pipe or container that holds the explosive.
Some parts can have serial numbers or other identifiers that can provide data on where a component was made, which can lead investigators to where it was shipped and sold.
"Then we will exert every effort to find everyone who ever bought that kind of switch from that electronics store," Brinkley said.
How nice of them to spell out exactly what they do to investigate a mail bomb. Would be bombers take note!
Postal inspectors, who are leading the investigation, are offering up to a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the Bishop. Notice the caveat “of up to” as in you may have already won one million dollars. Yeah right. They have a composite sketch too. What, no sunglasses and hoodie?
http://www.roguesci.org/images/the_bishop.jpg
If you want the real reason it’s because people don’t actually make bombs and blow things up like the fedgov would have you believe. Nor are people so insane that once they get a wicked gun they go on shooting rampages.
Still, if ever there was a deserving institution for some old style vigilante justice it is the banks and their spawn. Enter the FBI’s newest supervillian “The Bishop.”
In May 2005 a series of threatening letters were sent from the Chicago area to various cancerous companies, the modern slavers of the 21st century, banks and financial institutions. During the previous 18 months The Bishop has sent at least 15 letters to companies around the US.
The letters warn financial criminals to follow his orders or face dire consequences. Besides some religious references, and indicating his name is The Bishop, there are also mentions of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and the DC snipers (pardon me, the DC AfroAmerican snipers let us not forget). “And when the ... recipient opens it, they don't even know what hit them.” The letters mention how easy it would be to kill them with the easy act of sending a mailbomb, or to kidnap their children so the parents are tormented. Every soccer moms worst fear realized!
Here are a few tidbits from the Denver Post: In the 1972 movie "The Mechanic," Charles Bronson played assassin Arthur Bishop. A line used in the movie, "Bang you're dead," has shown up in at least one letter under investigation by authorities. "The Bishop" is also the name of a book in the Stainless Steel Rat fiction series by author Harry Harrison.
The Stainless Steel Rat series was among my favorite books when I was younger, they are immensely entertaining, and I recommend them for forumites. The books are about a remarkably talented criminal nicknamed the Stainless Steel Rat set in the distant future. In fact the SS Rat character was the inspiration for the criminal in the story I wrote and posted on the Forum a few years ago.
Quoth The Bishop, "It is so simple to kill somebody it is almost scary."
Quoth The Bishop, "It is better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven." A line first written by poet John Milton in “Paradise Lost.”
Quoth The Bishop, “tick, tock.”
Now The Bishop has escalated his cause with the January 2007 mailings of two uncompleted pipe bombs. The bombs were intentionally duds sent as a warning to the money slavers. The warning devices (can something properly be called a bomb just because it is a collection of materials?) consisted of PVC pipe, smokeless powder, wires, and buckshot. Following this the fedgov has stepped up its drive to protect the precious usury scammers by catching this dire threat to the impending recession. The investigating clowns consist of bunglers from the FBI, buffoons from the BATF, some queers from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission who must be happy to be doing some real police work for once in their lives, and affirmative action low scorers from the Postal Inspection Service.
The recipients of the warning bombs were American Century Investments in Kansas City, Mo. and Janus Capital Group in Denver, Co. The Colorado bomb was forwarded to Perkins Wolf, McDonnell & Co., a brokerage firm in Chicago. How is that for customer service?
A profile of The Bishop has emerged that describes almost every person that has ever registered to The Forum, or likely even visited for longer than it takes to close their browser. Says Fred Burton, vice president of counterterrorism for Stratfor, a company that manages to extract money from banks (no mean feat that is) by beating the terrorist drum, the Bishop may be angry about losing money in the stock market or he may be playing out a game.
"It is also very feasible he is living in a virtual world. He is playing out a fantasy or PC game into reality," Burton said. Burton also said Lucas Bishop is a character introduced in the 1990s in the X-Men comic-book series who also can be played in a computer game. He is part of a mutant police force that returns from the future. His power involves absorbing energy and releasing it in concussive blasts.
Say, that sounds like a brilliant idea there, Fred. Obviously Stratfor is the lowest bidder in the financial institution anti-terror game for a reason…
More on the profile, now with an unreliable eyewitness account: White male, mid 30s to early 40s, about 6 feet tall, 180 to 190 pounds, sandy brown hair with thick luscious curls, dreamy blue eyes, wearing an olive drab or gray military style jacket. He is believed to be only high school educated and spends a lot of time online.
The fedgov thinks the next step, if The Bishop follows the bombers playbook, is to personally target his victims at their homes.
A task force of 100 fedgov stormtroopers has been reassigned from donut tasting duty to investigate The Bishop. Isn’t there a story about 100 monkeys in 100 squad cars given enough time will eventually bungle every investigation? Maybe I am thinking of something else… The fedgov has brought in several vans with X-ray equipment to postal sites, and can call on a fleet of 18 mobile command trucks around the country if need be. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service said inspectors are poised to react if a device from The Bishop turns up again. I bet they are happy just to get out of the mailroom, the steam pipes are too hot in the winter.
The Bishop has been very careful not to leave any fingerprints the fedgov says. The fedgov admits mail bombs are extremely rare, but they are ready anyway. Don’t tell the sheeple that or the fedgov could lose funding.
Quoth the fedgov:
The ones that turn out to be dangerous usually have a fictitious return address, and are postmarked in a different city than the return address, investigators said. Many have numerous "fragile" warnings. The majority have handwriting with exaggerated characteristics in an attempt to foil any future analysis that might be use to identify the mailer, investigators said.
About 100 postal inspectors have been joined in the investigation by agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It may be the biggest probe of its kind since a man tried to plant mailbox bombs in the pattern of a "smiley face" across the middle of the country in 2002, said Tripp Brinkley, program manager for dangerous mail investigations for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
Brinkley said The Bishop's explosives are similar to most that the agency handles.
Virtually all mail bombs analyzed by postal inspectors have four major components, which investigators list using the acronym "PIES" for power source, initiator, explosive and a switch that triggers the mailed item when it is opened or something is removed from it.
Most devices consist of fairly common parts that can be bought at home-improvement stores, said Brinkley at the U.S. Postal Inspection Service's national training academy in Potomac. The agency opened the secure facility last week in a show of preparedness and to discuss techniques that will be used to try to stop a suspect.
Investigators have seen switches that include mousetraps and door-alarm parts. A power source can be a simple 9-volt battery, Brinkley said. The initiator that fires the explosive can be as ordinary as the end of a light bulb.
Postal investigators deconstruct explosive devices in their Maryland laboratory. Investigators said every element is analyzed to determine where it may have come from, including the ink and paper used for a note, packaging materials, wires, and the pipe or container that holds the explosive.
Some parts can have serial numbers or other identifiers that can provide data on where a component was made, which can lead investigators to where it was shipped and sold.
"Then we will exert every effort to find everyone who ever bought that kind of switch from that electronics store," Brinkley said.
How nice of them to spell out exactly what they do to investigate a mail bomb. Would be bombers take note!
Postal inspectors, who are leading the investigation, are offering up to a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the Bishop. Notice the caveat “of up to” as in you may have already won one million dollars. Yeah right. They have a composite sketch too. What, no sunglasses and hoodie?
http://www.roguesci.org/images/the_bishop.jpg