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Inside The Illegal Arms Bazaar at Redstone "Public Safety" is a Non-Issue and Confusion Reigns… by Al Martin In recent days, the FBI has become very concerned about leaks, which have been exposing the illegal activities of the illegal arms dealers at Redstone Arsenal. The Bureau has committed fresh resources to uncover the individuals who are leaking information to the Al Martin Raw website about continuing frauds at the US Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. One of the sources, the Friendly Colonel, believes he may be in danger, since it is always dangerous to uncover fraud and malfeasance and to tell the truth about government, especially when it relates to government wrongdoing. In an update on the "Marshmallow Story," the illegal sale of anti-personnel explosive devices to illegal Chinese arms dealers (see "Those Wacky Arms Dealers at Redstone" www.almartinraw.com/column18.html), it seems that the transactions of "Mr. Murphy" (an alias for a Chinese arms merchant) are going along well. "Mr. Murphy" has now rented enormous storage facilities near the Redstone Arsenal for his " marshmallows" pending the June 15 shipping date. The Friendly Colonel had no idea of the quantity of marshmallows he bought. By the time the purchase order is fulfilled, he said that three ships will be needed to transport them to Mexico. The first delivery took up three of the biggest warehouses that were available, ordinarily used by heavy equipment operator/ contractors to store equipment. He was surprised at the enormous quantity. One of the topics of discussion at the weekly meeting/dinner was the increased nervousness because everyone realizes there's a leak, and the FBI is making everyone more nervous because of their investigations. Apparently (although it's not identified), there is one or more investigative committees from congress which are getting closer and closer. The general in charge announced that there is going to be "Officers' Target Practice" this week in the event they're going to have to shoot some "hostiles." The "hostiles" that the general is referring to are investigators. There were also many comments on the failure of the test of the new VMX43 aircraft, which was a loss of $185 million to the taxpayers. The general actually laughed and said, "$185 million? We defraud the American taxpayers more than that every year in food and booze." The VMX43 project was a collaboration between defense contractors. The general thought these guys that built this thing "must be pikers if they can't figure out how to defraud the people out of more than that." These wise cracks just come out of them. They don't care who hears it. They really believe they're impervious. They really think that they're invincible and even bullet-proof. They are however "concerned" about the "public safety" of what they're doing. You must remember that everything that is being done at these arms sales is illegal. The weapons sales are themselves illegal. The people buying them are illegal arms dealers. They're being illegally sold and transported illegally to other countries. Every step of the way is illegal. People need to be reminded that even though they think these activities at Redstone Arsenal appears to be "business as usual," that every step in the process is an illegal act. This is a public safety issue. All of these highly explosive "marshmallows" (very volatile anti-personnel devices) are being shipped in cardboard banker's boxes stuffed with newspapers. They are transported by ordinary rent-a-truck companies. "Mr. Murphy" thought this would be the cheapest way to do it. The boxes are all sealed up and marked "educational materials." As has been mentioned before, if just one of these five-ton capacity trucks loaded with these "marshmallows" were to explode, it would be a simultaneous explosion. It is enough explosive power to flatten several city blocks. These weapons are being transported without any license and without any permits because they are illegally marked in a regular rental truck with no precautions at all. And they are being driven through high-density civilian areas. What they've always been concerned about is a major accident in which a lot of civilians get killed. All the illegal weapons being illegally shipped out of Redstone Arsenal include both conventional and non-conventional munitions. Most are being shipped over the road, and since it's illegal, and since they're all being mislabeled as something other than weapons, no precautions are being taken whatsoever. In addition, the weapons which leave illegally via air are transported by aircraft whose safety is considered marginal at best. These aircraft are afflicted with the same problems that the Department of Defense has with all its aircraft. The Spare Parts Scams (cannibalizing parts from one to another) have depleted the inventory of serviceable aircraft. Weapons are being flown over high-density population areas in rickety old aircraft. And they are absolutely scared that a major accident might happen, an accident which could take out five to ten city blocks of some big city. The problem with the congressional investigating committees is that they are typically do-nothing affairs. In fact, the problem for whistle-blowers remains - where do you go to report this fraud? Do you go to the do-nothing committees? Dear reader, vest no hope in exposure by congressional investigating committees whose members oftentimes have a conflict of interest in exposing the truth because they have some political or financial reason to keep the truth from the people and to hide and suppress the truth. So what's a poor citizen to do? Take Prozac ™. But seriously… And this is the irony of how dangerous it is to tell the truth about government -- congressional committees will do nothing because of their individual members' conflict of financial interests. Often they have direct political or personal financial interest in making sure that certain fraud connected to certain military contractors is not uncovered. The Department of Defense Inspector General is also quite useless. All they do is write a report which gets filed and no one ever sees it. They write a report. It goes through the Department of Defense and nobody ever does anything with it. Then it goes to all the congressional committees, which also do absolutely nothing with it. Then the report goes to the media, and then maybe one or two media outlets will actually do something with it, maybe publicize the Inspector General's report about this problem, or that fraud, or that deficiency, But then nothing is ever done about it. It should be noted for the record that the general at Redstone has a habit of calling the American people "fodder." He uses the term "hostiles" to describe congressional investigators and "fodder" to describe the American people. The general typically uses these "Bushonian" words which Jeb used to use all the time. Oliver North used these terms as well. It was common jargon used by this clique. But the public safety issue of transporting illegal weapons from the Redstone Arsenal should be a primary concern to the American people. The weapons, for example, mentioned in the Al Martin Raw article about the V22 Osprey, were all chemical weapons that were undoubtedly leaving US shores. Had one of those aircraft exploded in the air over a populated area, five million people would have been killed. This is a volatile topic -- loading illicit chemical weapons on an aircraft (the Osprey V22) whose safety record is marginal at best. It's a potential catastrophe just waiting to happen since the government has been doing this for years -- with no regard for public safety. The Friendly Colonel has expressed concern that the investigation may eventually lead to him. Regarding the Friendly Colonel -- the FBI doesn't know who he is and what frustrates them even more is that they don't even know which colonel he is in whose army. "Mr. Murphy," the Chinese arms merchant, has a partner who's a retired general in the German army. He thinks the Friendly Colonel is in the Israeli Army. A Russian general is under the impression that he's a colonel in the South African Army. What is continually amazing is that no one knows who anyone is at these arms bazaar meetings. They just figure if you're there, you belong… Everyone is known by rank, but it's very confusing. The Germans show up in US uniforms. The Russians show up in Pakistani uniforms. Nobody knows who anyone is. Or what armed service they're actually affiliated with. And this is the global arms bazaar. And it is very bizarre indeed. The lengths they go to hide their identity is amazing. But they all insist on using their real rank - but you never know which army they're from. The FBI knows that some of the leaks are coming from the Friendly Colonel, but they don't know who the Friendly Colonel is. Or what nationality he belongs to. Or what army he is in. Or what army he claims to be in. The hilarity of the situation is that these meetings have absolutely no security. This is a US military arsenal where classified weapons systems are bought and sold illegally on what is supposed to be one of the most highly secure military facilities in the country, namely Redstone Arsenal. And yet foreign military officers are allowed to enter by presenting identification which is false. And the general and all his people know it's false. The general himself doesn't know who half the people are. I mean, you could say you're with the "Fourth Mongolian Light Brigade" and you'd get on the base. The security lists at the base don't make any sense and don't correspond to any of the people who are there. There's always a bunch of Arabs around with obviously fake names like "Colonel Goldberg." And the Chinese are always Major this or Colonel that of the "Fourth Mongolian Space Defense Force." It's absolutely hilarious. And the FBI can't figure out who anyone really is. They all make up names -- even military divisions. They even make up whole armies sometimes. And then they show up in military uniforms of countries, which don't correspond to the lie they told the first time. It is such a state of confusion that no one really knows who anyone else really is. This will most likely be the last article in this ongoing series on "Fraud at the Redstone Arsenal." As always, though, the Al Martin Raw Website will provide continuing updates, as information becomes available. And rest assured -- the Al Martin Raw Website will not rest until the Whole Truth is told. |
