At the time we had a fair amount of government people lurking and sympathetic to the point that prosecutor would have some serous concerns about his personal well being to name this website as a target.
When I was being set up to get burned, the "advice" of my "new friends" was to separate myself from AWRM, just run with them, "leave that internet stuff alone for a while".
During that time period, I grew mighty suspicious, but there were promises of "great connections with the contractor world" although I was still doing the gun show circuit, and from time to time would hang out with John Trochthman for dinner. We talked, in part about my suspicions and his. What he figured out and seems true, is that right before the government decides to do you in, they work to isolate you, and once you have "disappeared" in the eyes of most people, that's when they finally snuff you or drive you to suicide by making life untenable, throwing one disaster after another at you in the COINTELPRO style.
That's why when the government was whole hog against me after prison, I came back discreetly at first, then figured it would not matter too much, but the more I got back here, the more cautious they got. Once I started posting names of people screwing with me here and at assaultweb, they backed off a fair amount.
The thing is at the time, they really had done their thing, the statutory sentence for my stuff was served, and they were trying to come up with ways to screw me, but keep it out of a courtroom. That's when I got a bit louder about a few things online, especially when I got more details on the Koernke case and the false bank robbery setup because something similar was tried on me in Eugene Oregon when I was on the tail end of my prison sentence.
I also went back to SOCNET for a while, and what a moderator did was edit my posts then argue against me in monologue after disabling my ability to post, like he was narrating what I would say, and there was my account posting for maybe two or three posts, then banned.
Thats among the reasons I have a real problem with the "specops community" and why nowdays, they don't show up here talking SF pedigree like it is getting them anywhere. They pull that shit, I call them out, immediately. Just like I called out those human rights abusers in the prison, and of course the piled on ten to one like the bitches they are, and AFTER I was beat up, want to talk one on one. That's like, with their backup guys there...badge guy to no badge guy.
Now with all that shit under the bridge, by the time things happened at the Bundy Ranch, the Marine snipers had zero problem dialing in on the former SF pricks who were working for the BLM. Those people know more than I do who was in New Orleans in 2005 and what they did.
They are hoping that AWRM and the half dozen or so members we have left will just shut the lights out and go our separate ways to die with a whimper the way the inner circle of Daniel Shays did.