The Bastion Americana Freedom Journal, Issue IX: 12 September, 1943
After finally goading the Office to appear in public only to be stymied, the Journal wants blood.
This is issue IX of the Bastion Americana Freedom Journal. For more information, refer to earlier analyses.
This issue contains spoilers from The Night of the Nagual, The Case of the Old Wizard’s Woods, and references to The Case of the Calcified Costumer.
Content warnings: Violence, creeps, Nazis, gaslighting.
Despite widespread efforts to halt its distribution, the ninth issue of the Bastion Americana Freedom Journal appeared on streets corners across the nation, and in military bases overseas, without interruption.
The ninth 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 IX, 12 September, 1943
Arnold Pondletter, Editor-in-Chief
Classified ‘Most Secret, by order of the O.C.U.O.’
Main Article:
OUR COWARDLY CONGRESS COWERS BEFORE THE OFFICE:
FEW MEASURES ADOPTED TO PROTECT YOU FROM THESE FOREIGN MURDERERS
Washington, D.C. – During a toothless hearing before the members of the newly formed House Subcommittee on the Office, the deceiver Arachnae Bellegarde managed to twist and manipulate those spineless worms in Washington into letting her foul cabal operate with impunity.
The frankly shockingly sparsely attended session included testimony from Miss Bellegarde, Charles Klavin, a dissident former U.S. Army officer turned secret policeman, the F.B.I.’s Director Hoover, Justice Adger Thomas, an activist judge from Louisiana’s Fourth District, and a series of police officers, military officials, and foreign diplomats whose identities could not be verified in time for publication.
It would not surprise anyone here if these unvetted individuals were spies planted by the Office for their testimony.
After just over sixty hours of testimony in the course of a single week, the committee members felt the pressure from the conspiring White House and the pack of spies in their midst. Rather than listening to the peaceful congregation of thoughtful Garrisonian Party members gathered outside the Capitol Building, they bowed to their secret foreign overlords.
The entire production was a sham.
The weaklings on the committee refused to hear testimony from anyone of substance. Chairman Clyde Lehrer was barred from entry. They turned away the hero whistleblower Ned Garver, even as he was escorted by America’s Police Officer Abe Allison and Garrisonian spokesman Max Q. Revere for his own protection from the assassins he sought to speak against. Even Missy Di Campo, whose father was recently murdered by Office agents in Philadelphia, was left to mourn on the steps of the once-hallowed, now hollowed, Rotunda.
In the end, the U.S. Congress chose to stick their heads in the sand and allow the Office to continue their killings with impunity. Only a small measure, suggested by our own Jimmy Haldeman, was adopted: to include an observer on every one of their operations on U.S. soil to keep them honest and unable to bury their - (cont’d, p. 3)
Secondary Article:
SECRET OFFICE PRISONS MAY HOLD THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS IN ILLEGAL CAPTIVITY
Bearcreek, MT – What seemed a tragic catastrophe, the Smith Mine Fire, has led to the revelation of a network of secret prisons run by the Office for the Cataloging of Unusual Occurrences.
When authorities arrived to retrieve the dead after Smith Mine No. 3 caught on fire last February the 27th, they expected to retrieve the bodies of seventy-four brave American miners from the collapsed shaft. Instead, they found a phalanx of officials waiting for them.
“Those goons pulled far more than a hundred bodies out of there, some wearing orange jumpsuits and all of those chained by the ankles,” a local firefighter told the Journal under condition of anonymity. He described the officials in terms too colorful for publication. – (cont'd p. 2)
This headline includes a photograph of a rural mining operation under the stewardship of Smith Minerals and includes the caption: “Above: The Smith Mine No. 3, prior to the deadly blast.” An analyst has included the note: “Wrong Smith mine!” indicating that the pictured facility is not the one mentioned in the article.
Tertiary Articles:
THE HEARTLAND HORRORS STAGE A BRUTAL ATTACK AGAINST AMERICAN PATRIOTS ON AMERICAN SOIL!
A BLOODBATH IN PHILLY LEFT HOMES BURNING, BUSINESSES DESTROYED, AND FAMILIES RUINED.
EXCLUSIVE SURVIVOR INTERVIEWS ON PAGE 6.
And:
In loving memory of Anthony Michael Dreffis, friend of the Journal. Read tributes from patriotic youths to the beloved Mister Crumbcake on page 9.
This is accompanied by an outdated photograph of the late Mister Dreffis, a former radio propagandist.
Notes:
The aforementioned analyst also notes on the page “Always with this guy” at the mention of Ned Garver and “More than a hundred!!!” indicating incredulity at the misinformation the Journal tries to pass off as facts.
Bureau for Cataloguing and Reference Analysis:
.Once more, every element present in the Journal’s reports is demonstrably false. Their goals and aims are transparent. We are able to refute each point on the front page in order:
Every witness who spoke in support of the Office was wholly vetted. Each testified of a positive, if not life-saving, experience with officials in the field.
Although public testimony only lasted sixty hours, hundreds of hours of private interviews, both in-person and via telephone, were conducted over the last several weeks. The subcommittee determined that these interview remain classified in the interest of U.S. national security.
The number of Garrisonian-alligned protestors was not officially recorded, but Capitol Police estimates their number around two thousand, many brandishing weapons and wearing Legion, Tridente, and Bund paraphernalia. These protestors had been camped out for the entire length of the testimony and stayed riled up via intermittent speeches from Garrisonian representatives such as Max Q. Revere, Clyde Lehrer, and Father Coughlin.
The protestors seemed on the verge of violence as the Office representatives left the hearing, though they were cowed by the arrival of the Heartland Heroes, deployed under the command of Deputy Regional Inspector Malloy.
The policy to include an observer on domestic Office missions has been implemented as of 3 September, 1943. This ‘archivist stipulation’ was agreed to by Printmaster General Bellegarde, Inspector General Klavin, and representatives from the Subcommittee on the Office before public testimony began. Field officials have expressed concerns about the policy effectively halving our resources. These concerns are valid.
The Office’s Smith Mine facility was not a secret prison. It did house a hazardous substance vault and several miners and rescue workers were injured during its rupture, but no prisoners were present at the facility. Furthermore, the vault’s compromise was determined to be the direct result of a sabotage action undertaken by enemy agent Deidre Daniels who is currently housed at an actual human asset retention facility.
Furthermore, the mine pictured in the article is indeed a mine called ‘Smith Mine,’ but not the one in Wyoming to which the article is referring.
The Heartland Heroes operation in Philadelphia was overseen by Deputy Regional Inspector Malloy. It was not an attack but a series of targeted arrests designed to apprehend outstanding elements of the Tridente Cremisi cell known as the ‘Chimney Sweeps.’ Operation Ashcan followed Inspector General Klavin’s rules of engagement to a T.
The deaths of Jerome Alberghi and Christopher De Campo and the property damage occurred during Operation Ashcan have been determined by independent agencies to have been the result of the pair’s reckless handling of incendiary devices.
Operation Ashcan resulted in the arrest of fourteen individuals and the confiscation of thirty-eight firearms, three hand grenades, six radios, two thousand dollars in counterfeit bills, explosive materials and bomb-making supplies, and four hundred pounds of propaganda materials.
Etymological analysis by Doctor Abebe indicates that the published tributes to the late Mister Crumbcake were not, in fact, written by children.
The ninth issue of the Journal continues to perpetrate its manipulative lies, doubling down on its assertions that the Office is wholly and maliciously responsible for all the ills befalling American civilians. Although its goals could not be more transparent, public polling and media bias analysis in radio and newspapers indicate a general shift in sympathies toward Garrisonian representatives and viewpoints.
Efforts to prevent its distribution have stymied. For every printing press shut down, another two begin production. Alternative means of combatting this misinformation must be pursued.
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