by Will Grigg
Homeland Security Theater productions follow a rigid formula. A
suitably unpleasant and easily manipulated person is identified by
undercover operatives, carefully cultivated as a “villain,” then lured
into saying something stupid into a recorder. Or quietly assenting to
some outlandish plot concocted by a “terrorism facilitator” (yes, that is what the Regime calls its hired provocateurs).
At a suitable time, the agency that scripted the “plot” will arrest
the person it has snared in it, along with anybody else who happened to
get caught in the undertow. Regime-aligned media outlets will dutifully
regurgitate officially approved talking points describing the dire and
deadly plot that was foiled by the government’s bold and valiant
security operatives. The chastened and unworthy public will be lectured
about the need for unending vigilance and the duty of citizens to
prostrate themselves with gratitude before the gallant defenders of the
public weal, oh may they be held in eternal reverence.
Last August, the Las Vegas Metro Police arrested David Allen
Brutsche, an ex-convict and registered sex offender, on charges of
plotting to kidnap police officers, murder them, and dispose of their
bodies in the desert. His “co-conspirator” was a 68-year-old paralegal
named Devon Newman, whose sole involvement in the affair consisted of
being in the same room with Brutsche and several undercover operatives from the
Metro Police’s Intelligence Unit when details of the
government-orchestrated “plot” were discussed.
Brutsche describes himself as a believer in “Sovereign Citizen”
concepts, but denies involvement in any organized movement. His only
connection to the “movement” came after police – seeking a suitable star
for their agitprop production – arrested him in April for selling water
on the Strip. Brutsche had been involved in several previous police
encounters, during which he expressed a predictable (and entirely
reasonable) resentment toward the State’s costumed emissaries of
officially sanctioned violence.
After Brutsche was released from jail, Majewski offered to introduce
him to others who shared “Sovereign” views – all of whom were police
operatives as well. At some point, the group was expanded to include a
67-year-old woman named Newman, who was brought into this mess to be a
“co-conspirator” who had no connection to the police force.
The script written by Majewski called for police to be kidnapped and
put on “trial” for crimes against the public, after which they would be
executed. Last August 20, an unnamed police operative summoned Brutsche
and Newman and insisted that the time had come to go “operational.”
Within a few hours the patsies had been arrested, and the Metro PD’s
propaganda office, by way of complaisant news outlets, was hailing this
supposed accomplishment. One entirely typical news account struck from
Metro’s propaganda template claimed that “Undercover Metro officers
infiltrated the group … [and learned] of their detailed plans to `snatch and grab’ random police
officers, try them for treason in a `sovereign’ court and execute
them….”
There was no “group” apart from the Metro officers themselves, and there was no “plot” of any kind.
Less than a month after the arrests, all of the murder conspiracy
charges were quietly dropped for lack of evidence. In December, Newman
pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge. Yesterday, following a
decent interval, the entire case was brought to an end with a deal in
which Brutsche pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping conspiracy charge.
With time already served, Brutsche could be released from jail in
August.
“I do plead guilty,” Brutsche said during yesterday’s hearing. “I wanted to say something. It seemed like entrapment to me.”
In the weeks immediately preceding the arrest of Brutsche and Newman,
six members of the Clark County Use of Force Board resigned to protest
Sheriff Doug Gillespie’s refusal to fire Officer Jacquar Roston, who had
shot and seriously wounded an innocent man the previous November. The
board had unanimously recommended that Roston be fired – but Gillespie
insisted that a week-long suspension was sufficient “punishment” for
Roston’s act of attempted murder.
Stung by overdue media scrutiny of a rigged “inquest” system that
always validated police shootings, Gillespie had promised serious
reforms – while retaining the authority to do the bidding of police
unions, which dictated that no officer would ever face serious
consequences for unlawfully shooting a Mundane.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center and similar left-wing
“watchdog” groups, “Sovereign Citizens” are violent people whose lawless
behavior threatens the public. Taking refuge in obscure and
incomprehensible language and implausible claims of immunity, such
people believe that they can steal and kill with impunity. That
description is disputable when applied to “Sovereign Citizens,” but a
perfect fit for the people who just brought down the curtain on the
Metro PD’s recent Homeland Security Theater performance.
