All this news about Dave Burgert, "militia leader" in Montana gives cause to find the story behind the state-sponsored b.s.

It was the year 2000 on a snow swept highway in NW Montana...

The red and blues started flashing in the rear view mirror. Bob Ceznik [CHECK SPELLING] was nervous driving south on highway 93 in Kalispell Montana. His big tan duelly offered no sense of comfort, with the creeping unease of (as he put it), becoming a victim once again to police brutality.

Bob chose not to stop, but reduced his speed to 35 in a 45. He had no idea why the law enforcement behind him wanted to pull him over, but he was nervous. He pulled a U-ey in Kalispell and returned North on 93 with the intent of stopping at his friend's house: Mr. Dave Burgert. Bob had tuned into a local LPFM and had been introduced to the New World Order, and as an alleged victim of police brutality, he didn't want to be stopped along the road without a witness.

It was a strange time in the Flathead Valley. Agenda 21 was a new concept Bob had been introduced to. He was familiar with the Wild Land Project from Michael Coffman's presentation down in town. On the local talk radio, people were telling of torching Forest Service gates, driving out to Klamath Falls to save water. Heck, Bob had even heard this guy Alex Jones on a local "pirate radio" station. Things were strange. Life was changing, and it wasn't just Bob Ceznik worried about what the future had in store.

The slow speed chase (35 in a 45) continued as the big tan duelly traveled North on Highway 93 to Dave Burgert's house. A second police car joined the slow motion column through the wintry weather. Ceznik pulls into Burgert's house and steps out and Burgert emerges from the door. The arresting officer's microphone strangely shuts off at that point as two officers advance towards the figures Ceznic and Burgert on the porch of the house.

From the recordings collected by the arresting officer, it can be heard that Ceznic is uncooperative with questioning, and Burgert tells Ceznic to "go inside Bob." At this point, the two officers attempting to question Ceznic for a traffic violation attempt to enter Burgert's home. Burgert solely and physically denies them entry and within the recording one can hear the spraying of pepper spray, scuffling and Burgert vocally stating they will not enter his house without a warrant. Burgert tells his wife to call and put the word out... the officers chose to leave the situation for another time.

This is the first event in several events where good, bad, right or wrong, one citizen among millions will eventually chose to pull the trigger on a pistol aimed at a law enforcement officer.

Burgert was now charged with (?interfering with a LEO?), and the local department had taken note of his determination to physically deny them entry to his house without a warrant on a non-criminal traffic violation. They also took note that he seemed to have friends who may or may not be willing to come and aid him should things get nasty.

Burgert was a process server on the side, and actually liked the job. He was working for an attorney familiar with the Montana liberty movement (Matt ???????). Not long after the scuffle on his porch, Burgert was serving papers in downtown Kalispell, MT when several city police approached him. Burgert, unfazed by costumes and metal buttons, reported that he was a court ordered process server and would not be detained. Incident number two unfolds.

Somewhere, within the dungeons of some police data facility, there is video of Burgert taken into the station wearing a black hood. He has been pepper sprayed and "black bagged" like in V for Vendetta. The hood is removed and he is snotting, spitting and tearing as the audioless video shows... again the bag is placed over his swollen face. Officers would later say that he was spitting at them, and they were forced to use a black bag to contain his bodily fluids. Most who have seen this video, I included, have felt the same way Evey felt watching Deitrich carted off in the movie.

Newspaper reports then carry the story through the faked death, the hiding in the woods, the living with a girlfriend married to another man. If one were to pick up the story here, he might seem totally nuts, devoid of reason, cocky and looking for trouble. While I'm not saying that isn't the case, I'm saying that if you don't understand that this man felt that he could not find justice, that a police baton and black bag were what he had learned -Pavlovian style- well, you'd be missing an important part of the story.

Now comes again the state propaganda, touting him as a "militia leader" while they prepare the next round of anti-free state legislation (that's 2nd Amendment for the unlearned). State doctors have officially diagnosed him with some paranoid disorder. He's been in prison for the last 10 years, gulping down whatever psychotropics Dr. Mangela has given him... on parole... and we're supposed to see this fella as some kind of anti-government militia sort?

Has the state media machine mentioned that within this "Project 7", they pledged allegiance to the Constitution of the United States? Well, for the sake of MIAC, they might as well start. That is was an educational organization designed to teach self-sufficiency? Have they mentioned that the whole basis of the "allegations" that this group was beset upon killing judges, police and even the dog catcher, was due to a collection of "Intel Sheet" akin to any SALUTE report one finds in any guard post on some military installation? That the dog catcher was among those listed would show the transparency of such a hollow allegation. Heck, even the Jews were alleged devils to the Nazis! Does the lame-stream-media refer to them as such? Has any reader of the Washington Post pondered the simple fact that if this was some sort of anti-government militia with the intent of murder, that some five or six people were convicted of charges because they hadn't paid a $200 tax?

I write this because I am fully aware that there are gargoyles perched within the District of Criminals, peering down for some opportunity to turn a problem into a reaction and through Delphi get you into their solution. They've been perched like vultures, salivating about some domestic troublemaker with ties to some "militia" who pledges allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. Especially one who is shooting at police.

The story, unwritten by the state licensed media worms, is much deeper. They've taken a man, who had pledged his life for vigilance and truth, who was beaten with bats, gassed and black bagged, ground into hamburger and drugged in a gulag prison system now with a heart to escape this place... and made him an example of you. If they so flippantly can gut the story from Burgert, do you think for a moment that you won't next wear a yoke with his appellation?

Dave Burgert is no hero of morals. He is no mob boss of some secretive militia gray man operation. He is a wounded soul, ground back and forth upon the shredder of a police state. His actions are his own, and he will live and die by them. No, I don't envy nor hate the man. I do know the story however, and I know that if his life can be summed up, I would say that he's been an Amerikan Solzhenitsyn who actually picked up that axe, hammer or poker. Two days ago, newspapers reported that he picked up a pistol and actually pulled the trigger on police... More than 10 years after police forcibly attempted to enter his home without a warrant chasing a suspected traffic violator.

Who will fault Solzhenitsyn for his words today?

Chump