The Bastion Americana Freedom Journal, Issue XII: 3 October, 1943
Mickey Malloy makes it a habit to kick hornets’ nests. He just can’t help it. What he forgets is that other folks get stung, too. After his inadvertent unsanctioned arrest of the editor-in-chief of the Bastion Americana Freedom Journal, you can bet that things are boiling over.
This is issue XII of the Bastion Americana Freedom Journal. For more information, refer to earlier analyses.
This issue contains spoilers from The Case of the Man from Tomorrow and Gray Dogs.
Content warnings: Violence, creeps, Nazis, gaslighting.
This edition of the Bastion Americana Freedom Journal is over fifty percent longer than previous releases. In addition to its usual tripe, it features essays by every prominent Garrisonian figure characterizing the Office as a secret foreign police force and an enemy of free thought and free speech. Several elected politicians also provided their first published comments in support of the Journal and the Garrisonian Party. Whatever goodwill the Office had left in the public eye was washed away in the wake of the Rubber City Bloodbath and Carl Jones’ arrest and release.
More than ever before, the officials will have to watch their backs.
The twelfth issue of the Journal’s front page is provided below:
The Bureau for Cataloguing and Reference has provided the following transcription:
Bastion Americana Freedom Journal
Only the Truth, for True Americans
Free to Patriots
The only newsletter endorsed by the Garrisonian Party of America.
Issue XII, 3 October, 1943
Carl Jones, Editor-in-Chief
Classified ‘Most Secret, by order of the O.C.U.O.’
Main Article:
ASSAULT ON THE BASTION OF LIBERTY AND FREE SPEECH
OFFICIALS ATTACK EDITOR OF THIS JOURNAL IN HIS HOME
Coushatta, LA – As a truth teller and the bane of the comfortable oppressor, I always knew that one day those whose unearned positions I put at stake would come for me. I did not fear for myself, dear Patriot, but for you. When they came for me, it would be to leave you in the darkness, to snuff out the light of truth.
Just four days ago, Deputy Regional Inspector Michael Malloy burst into my private home without a warrant and arrested me on trumped-up charges. Malloy is a known drunk, a corrupt abuser drummed out of the Tampa Police Department, and a colleague of the late war criminal Olivier Bellegarde. The Office is home to many such deplorables. And while Inspector Malloy lacked a warrant, what he also lacked was a Congressionally-mandated archivist, the very means by which the Office swore to increase transparency and prevent this very type of miscarriage of justice.
I confess now that I have been publishing this humble newsletter under a pseudonym. They were always coming for me. I tried to stave them off as long as I could. The ‘Pondletter’ was cracking the dams of their power, and they could not stand to see even a trickle of it lost. I shall introduce myself now: my name is Carl Ephram Jones. My family helped civilize this country. We worked the ground in Louisiana to the bedrock and scraped out an honest living for generations. Then, after that horrid war whose consequences have defined our nation for near four score years, we lost every method we had of feeding ourselves, growing our business, keep this country aloft. Those were lean years, and the meat was picked from our bones by the circling vultures.
When I learned that a new committee of carrion eaters had descended upon our nation, I had to act. Though my warnings had fallen on deaf ears before when I broadcasted these revelations as ‘Virgil Kincaid,’ I would now be able to show my readers what was happening to us as it happened. They would not be able to deny what was right in front of them. I knew advocating for True Americans would put me in the assassins’ sights, but I could not let them do to you what was done to my family over the last eighty years. Still, all my security and precautions were overcome by the enemies of free thought and shared ideals.
I was hard at work on this latest issue when officials descended upon me, black-masked and blood-soaked. (cont’d p. 3)
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Secondary Article:
ABRAHAM ALLISON, POLICEMAN OF THE YEAR, HAS WORDS FOR THE ‘HEARTLAND HEROES’
Birmingham, AL – Abraham Allison, recently awarded the title of the Garrisonian Party’s Policeman of the Year at a ceremony presided over by Clyde Lehrer himself, had strong words for the so-called ‘Heartland Heroes.’
“Justice wears no mask, only a blindfold,” Allison said during his acceptance speech Sunday evening. “Justice does not care whose thumb you’re under or what cause you claim to represent. And justice is pure, unwavering, relentless. Justice does not kill little girls.”
Milton and Loretta Thomas, the parents of the late Sandy Thomas, the young girl gunned down during the Rubber City Bloodbath last month, presented Officer Allison the award on their daughter’s behalf, but were too stricken with grief to make any comments.
Allison continued: “When the government and companies coil together, it is only to squeeze out True Americans. Each citizen must band together to safeguard himself. The Heartland Heroes are terrorists, criminals, and the worst -” (cont’d p.3)
The article includes a photo of the award, a large chalice with stylized revolvers as its handles. The captions reads: “Above: The coveted Policeman of the Year award, as presented by the Garrisonian Party of America.”
An analyst has noted that the award, which did not exist before this year, is ‘ugly as sin.’
Bureau for Cataloguing and Reference Analysis:
Background information on Carl Ephram Jones of Coushatta, Louisiana is plentiful. Jones was the eldest of three and the last of his siblings still living in Louisiana. His family does indeed go back several generations in the area. They were the purveyors of a large cotton plantation. After they lost their enslaved workforce as a result of the American Civil War, the Jones family gradually spent all their money and sold off most of their land until the only person left was Carl and the only property remaining was the family home on a small plot. He placed the blame for this downfall on Northerners and reformers and launched a small radio program attempting to expose corruption in local and national politics and eventually advocating for an uprising to set right past wrongs. His ‘Red River Revelations,’ hosted under the pseudonym ‘Virgil Kincaid,’ ran weekly from 1936 to 1941 until it was shut down and banned from the airwaves by the Federal Communications Commission for seditious language. He tried to continue his reporting in a self-printed newsletter of the same name but never passed out more than a few dozen copies. He put his forays into journalism on hold until this summer, when he supposedly began publishing the Freedom Journal.
Jones’ arrest and the search of his home by officials reporting to Inspector Malloy was illegal under federal and state law and in violation of the newly-signed agreements between the Office and House Overview of Recent Non-American Extralegal Trespasses (HORNET) committee. As a result, Jones was released from Office custody within hours.
Although the arrest was illegal and all confiscated items were returned to Mister Jones, catalogers did make an extensive inventory of what was found. Jones’ notes for each issue of the Journal indicate that he was receiving information, cash, and connections from an outside source, likely an Abwehr contact.
A cursory examination of the body found in Jones’ home discovered dental repairs indicating that they had been performed in Germany so it was remanded to the Office for further autopsy. The cause of death was determined to be from a severe infection stemming from untreated gunshot wounds to the abdomen. It is unclear whether the victim would have survived these wounds even with proper care. Existing scars and injuries present on the body match descriptions of the enemy agent known as Eizhürst and Mister Schmidt. No birth name has been uncovered. He will be buried in a Most Classified location at Camp X and his remains will be returned to Germany if his family requests them at the conclusion of the war.
Deputy Regional Inspector Malloy has been placed on administrative leave for the time being. His investigations under the purview of the Office have been suspended or transferred to other inspectors. A hearing has been scheduled in one week’s time regarding his future with the Office. Although he did manage to verify the demise of one of the Abwehr’s most vicious killers and unmasked the writer behind the Bastion Americana Freedom Journal, his actions are in direct violation of the Office’s agreement with the U.S. government and threaten that already-strained relationship. Printmaster Bellegarde has begun preparing for another round of hearings, press junkets, and town halls while Inspector General Klavin has begun tracking anti-Office protests and increased militia recruiting all over the country.
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