Fayette Factor: Crozet Crash

An Amtrak train carrying GOP lawmakers to a retreat hit trash truck - owned by Time Disposal - causing injures of those on board.

One of two people on the vehicle is reported to have died.

A chartered train carrying Republican lawmakers to a retreat collided with a trash truck on January 31, 2018, Wednesday morning at 11:20 am, a congressman said.

The train was carrying House and Senate Republicans to the retreat in West Virginia when it hit the truck, Congressman Carlos Curbelo, of Florida, said on MSNBC.

The crash occurred outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, specifically in Crozet, Virginia.

The train was on the way to West Virginia when a sudden impact occurred, a loud noise was heard; everyone on the train was jolted.

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The town of Crozet is named after Benoît "Claudius" Crozet (December 31, 1789 – January 29, 1864). 

Crozet traveled to the United States in 1816, and, with recommendation from the Marquis de Lafayette, became assistant professor of engineering at the United States Military Academy, a postion he held from 1817 to 1823. Source.

Crozet taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and helped found the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Virginia. Crozet was Principal Engineer for the Virginia Board of Public Works and oversaw the planning and construction of canals, turnpikes, bridges and railroads in Virginia, including the area which is now West Virginia. He became widely known as the "Pathfinder of the Blue Ridge."

While at West Point, Crozet is credited by some as being the first to use the chalkboard as an instructional tool. He also designed several of the buildings at West Point. Thomas Jefferson referred to Claudius Crozet as "by far the best mathematician in the United States."

The anniversary of Crozet's death is January 29th. He died at the age of 74, in 1864. The town of Crozet, Virginia was named in his honor in 1870. The dining hall at the Virginia Military Institute is also named in his honor. It has been affectionately nicknamed "Club Crozet" by the Cadets.

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2016 Presidential Yankees or Cowboys?

What would Carl Oglesby say about all the candidates as they stumble towards the Presidential Election of 2016?

Carl Oglesby's most famous book, a favorite of mine, reveals a twilight language view of the world and should be read by all students of political history. It is The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate and Beyond (1976).

I've discovered this book, which is extremely difficult to find in a print edition (they go for over $300 via used book vendors), is available as a free download, here. You have no excuse not to read it.

I asked Carl's son, Caleb Oglesby, about publicly posting this link, as I respect author's copyrights. This is what Caleb wrote to me on August 10, 2015: "I think he would be happy to see it out there in the world. I know someone approached my sister about putting this book online, and we as a family gave our blessings."

Carl Oglesby, 1989.

Of course, I miss what Carl Oglesby (July 30, 1935 – September 13, 2011) would have had to say about the specific alignments of the candidates for president. "What would Carl say?" does come to mind.

It's a circus out there, but someone in this candidate pool, no doubt, is going to continue the Yankee or Cowboy traditions.

Rick Perry's Texas Cowboy roots are secure, but candidates Bush and Cruz have undermined Perry's Texas money base by courting Perry's former Cowboy funders.

Yankee Donald Trump, of course, would like to take on the mantle of the Midnight Cowboy.

Some people, like Rick Santorum, don't wear the Cowboy hat too well.

Who above are the "Yankees" and who are the "Cowboys"?

What is Hillary?

Update

I posted the above on August 10, 2015. The following is an update added on March 19, 2016.

The political calendar has advanced, and in the tradition of Carl Ogelsby, it is becoming more obvious what is what in the current Yankees vs Cowboys War.

A Virginia conservative newsletter, BearingDrift, has come forth with an item, "The Return of the Rockefeller Republicans."

Clearly, that piece's author senses that the "Yankees" in the race are Donald Trump, Chris Christie, and apparently John Kasich. 

It will be recalled that Christie was the designated person to take out Marco Rubio (a Cowboy? NeoCon).

If there is a contested convention in Cleveland, will an alliance be along Yankee and Cowboy lines?

Some dispute that Kasich is a Yankee, and, instead, wish to wrap him in the mantle of the Cowboy. But how comfortable is he with sunbelt conservatives vs East Coast moderates?

The Texas candidate who no-one-use-to-like, Ted Cruz, is an isolated Cowboy, apparently. However, he certainly seems to wish to send out occult hand signals.

The Internet has fun with Ted Cruz (above), but in reality, he transmits his own twilight language, publicly.

As far as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Rodham Clinton, there appears to be little evidence they are not Yankees.

Photographer David Becker.

The Isaac Who Planned To Kill Obama

by Loren Coleman ©2012

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. 

~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, given the day after he was sworn in as President on the highly symbolic date of 3.3.1933.

A man leading a conspiracy named FEAR plotted to assassinate President Barack Obama. Prosecutors said on Monday, August 27, 2012 that a murder case against four soldiers in Georgia has revealed they formed an anarchist militia within the U.S. military.

The Isaac who wanted to kill the President is Isaac Aguigui.

Anthony Peden, Isaac Aguigui

U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony Peden, 25, right, and Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, 19 are led away in handcuffs after appearing before a magistrate judge at the Long County Sheriffs Office Monday, December 12, 2011 in Ludowici, Georgia. Four Fort Stewart soldiers have been denied bond on charges connected to the killings of a former serviceman and a teenager in Long County. Two fishermen found the bodies of 20-year-old Michael Roark and 17-year-old Tiffany York on December 6, 2011, the day after investigators believe they were killed. The government alleges the group killed the two people – former soldier Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York – by shooting them in the woods last December in order to keep its plans secret.

Michael Burnett, Christopher Salmon

U.S. Army Pfc. Michael Burnett, 26, right, and Pvt. Christopher Salmon, 25, were likewise charged and photographed in 2011. 

Anthony Peden, Isaac Aguigui

In this Dec. 12, 2011 file photo, U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony Peden, 25, left, and Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, 19, are shown being taken back to jail after a hearing with a magistrate judge at the Long County Sheriffs Office. (All three photos, Lewis Levine)

A short AP piece was published about these four Georgia-based soldiers who formed an “anarchist militia within the U.S. military with plans to overthrow the federal government.” They had some targets in mind,

Prosecutor Isabel Pauley says the group bought $87,000 worth of guns and bomb-making materials and plotted to take over Fort Stewart, bomb targets in nearby Savannah and Washington state, as well as assassinate the president.

They also planned to poison apple orchards (see here for more on the symbolism of apples).

MSNBC online looked at what and where this money came from:

The U.S. Army private accused of being the ringleader of an anti-government militia in Georgia was a suspect in the death of his wife months before prosecutors say he and three fellow soldiers murdered two people to keep their clandestine group secret, authorities said.
Isaac Aguigui funded the anarchist militia FEAR, or Forever Enduring Always Ready, with up to $500,000 in life insurance benefits he collected after his wife's death in July 2011, prosecutors said.

In the Summer of the Gun, in which wall-to-wall coverage has covered alleged random shootings and copycats in depth, isn't it remarkable how little we have seen about this plot in the mainstream television media?

Could it be because there has not been any notion that the individuals involved in this plan to kill Obama were a "lone wolf," a "lone nut" or "crazy"? That it is a conspiracy goes against the comfortable American "lone nut" tagline with most of these stories. Europeans do conspiracies, Americans are just "lone wolves," we are told often.

Is the story being downplayed because law enforcement agencies successfully caught these guys before they murdered the President?

Is it because no one was killed? Well, that's apparently not true. As it turns out, perhaps three people are dead due to this F.E.A.R. group.

Phuong Le in "Fort Stewart Terror Plot: Isaac Aguigui's Relative Reported Worries About Soldier." wrote,

A relative of one of four soldiers accused by Georgia authorities of killing a fellow soldier and plotting anti-government acts came to police with concerns about the man almost a year ago...The female relative, who didn't want to be named, called police in September 2011 to relay her worries about Isaac Aguigui, who is originally from the small town of Cashmere near Wenatchee, police Sgt. John Kruse said. The woman told police that Aguigui's wife had died in July 2011 under suspicious circumstances, and the soldier had bought 15 firearms from a store in Wenatchee while on leave from the military. 

One of the four in the group turned government witness. Pfc. Michael Burnett pleaded guilty to manslaughter, illegal gang activity and other charges, and made a deal to cooperate with prosecutors against the three other soldiers.

Le continued,

Prosecutors say [Michael] Roark, 19, served with the four defendants in the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and became involved with the militia. The group believed it had been betrayed by Roark – who left the Army two days before he was killed – and decided the ex-soldier and his girlfriend needed to be silenced, authorities said.

Why has there been hardly anything heard about this on cable and network tv news?

Is it because the establishment details about the bios of these people are too touchy to have come out during the Republican Convention?  That they were active military is perhaps part of it. But more significantly, the ringleader Isaac's story has been directly tied to the Republican Party. 

"Republican National Convention page Isaac Aguigui watches from the edge of the floor at the start of the first session of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St Paul, Minnesota September 1, 2008." Original caption: Reuters.

The coming storm, it appears, the last week of August 2012, was about two Isaacs.

Isaac Laughs

Hurricane Isaac penetrates New Orleans with more than a tickle, a giggle and a trickle.

One meaning of Isaac is "he will laugh." 

So he may.

As it is above, so it shall be below. 

Here you see Katrina above and Isaac below. 

Hurricanes separated by seven years, to the day on August 29th, 

are mirrors of each other.

Hurricane Isaac is pulling media attention from the Republican Convention of 2012, where various people, such as Governor Christie, are praising the man of many states, tax havens, and positions.

Ah, Governor Christie gives forth with a Masonic signal to the faithful, which he appears to be practicing for his speech tonight. 

Meanwhile, Karl Rove (R), former Deputy Chief of Staff to former U.S. President George W. Bush engages, no doubt, in the five points of contact in the Masonic semi-hug with U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on the floor before the start of the abbreviated first day of the Republican National Convention on August 27, 2012 in Tampa, Florida.

 

Cartoonists will note the turmoil that Isaac has brought to this political week.

 But most of the imagery will be more about hurricane clouds than Republican ones.

The obviously juvenile game to be played more often, I'm afraid, will be a secret one to see how many unfortunate meteorologists and meteorology-wanabes stand in front of their maps filled with penal graphics versus weather patterns. This is necessary for human survival, via comedic relief, of course.

The first winner for 2012 goes to KJRH, Tulsa, Oklahoma weatherman Taft Price, who walked right into the deadly "Hurricane Weather Dong" trap, when he was discussing Tropical Storm Isaac, above. Discovery credit to Patrick.

Taft joins the Hall of Weather Map Shame occupied by these gentlemen.

Our well wishes for safety and health to all in the path of Hurricane Isaac