Archives for category: Newspeople not asking questions

Above: Approved Flag Images

A symbol of the propaganda that makes it all work.

 

Sealed borders, the Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Count, massing US Border Patrol agents at the southern edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the post 911 surveillance state (fusion centers, license scanners, Homeland Security grant money, monitoring of e-mails, text messages, & social media sites, no fly/terror watch lists, tracking of cell phones, best advances in REAL ID and AI technologies, etc.) fail to keep fentanyl, meth and cocaine from arriving in Sequim.

Newspeople play along by not asking questions. A press release is what you get:

Three Arrested in OPNET Drug Bust at Sequim Casino

by Radio Pacific, Inc

Mar 13, 2026

 

Press release again:

A casino hotel tip led detectives to fentanyl and loaded magazines in Sequim

KOMO News

Mar 15, 2026

Port Angeles

Unlike many cities of its size, Port Angeles maintains a significant Homeland Security/CBP/Border Patrol presence.

Are newspeople forbidden to ask questions related to Port Angeles Homeland Security funding and performance?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

New Port Angeles USBP Station opened more than a decade ago. Has the new station been able to prevent cartel drugs from entering the Olympic Peninsula?

Newspeople remain silent.

After a Port Angeles CBP buildup that took place more than a decade ago, is there any follow up made by the press to inform the public on whatever results have been achieved?

If you run a government operation-these are the reporters you want to see on interview day:

Over in Island County

Has the Island County Homeland Security-funded patrol boat been involved in any arrest or seizure related in any way to the US/Canada border?

Newspeople remain silent.

Whidbey Homeland Security Grant Money- Newspeople Remain Silent

 

Love to see newspeople out asking questions.

What we get now is sort of a press release style of news reporting where a statement is prepared by whatever agency was involved in the latest policy update, drug bust/federal grant money award, etc.

Newspeople post this statement as is. A 5th grade book report would require more in the way of asking questions.

JFK speaks about the role of the press in a free society:

The Fantasy Newsperson Asks

We were told the border is sealed. How are drugs still coming in?

Kristi Noem tells us on Feb 4, 2026 that the border is secure:

Did the Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Count play any role in keeping these drugs out?

The US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

Has the removal of any cartel boss ever created any shortage of cartel product anywhere in the US?

If Kristi Noem has sealed US borders why would suspected drug trafficking boats be a problem?

Since the Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Count has kept cartel drugs out, are Seattle area drug addicts having any problem finding their cartel product of choice?

Has any US community announced that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

Is there any possibility that any DEA office or DEA budget will be downsized due to the success of all US Dept. of Homeland Security/Dept. of War efforts in recent months?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats, ICE crackdowns and designating cartels as terrorist organizations?

Any questions from newspeople?

 

Some version of REAL ID has been required at border crossings and ports of entry since 2009.

More cartel drug overdose deaths now, or before REAL ID?

Any questions from newspeople?

Pentagon & REAL ID

Why It Matters

Americans were told that they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.

If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

 

Related:

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Zero Questions

Puget Sound Copper Theft

USA 250 – News Reporting

Newspeople Not Asking Questions

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

Grays Harbor Fentanyl & Meth Not Stopped By Kristi Noem

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

The Post 911 Era

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

A symbol of the propaganda that makes it all work.

 

Zero questions from newspeople on how 250 pounds of opium entered the US.

A press release is what you get.

In The News

108 opium bricks, nearly 250 pounds, seized at British Columbia port of entry

Mar 14, 2026

KOMO News

The Fantasy Newsperson Asks

We were told the border is sealed. How are drugs still coming in?

Kristi Noem tells us on Feb 4, 2026 that the border is secure:

Did the Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Count play any role in keeping these drugs out?

The US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

Has the removal of any cartel boss ever created any shortage of cartel product anywhere in the US?

If Kristi Noem has sealed US borders why would suspected drug trafficking boats be a problem?

Since the Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Count has kept cartel drugs out, are Seattle area drug addicts having any problem finding their cartel product of choice?

Has any US community announced that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

Is there any possibility that any DEA office or DEA budget will be downsized due to the success of all US Dept. of Homeland Security/Dept. of War efforts in recent months?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats, ICE crackdowns and designating cartels as terrorist organizations?

Any questions from newspeople?

 

Some version of REAL ID has been required at border crossings and ports of entry since 2009.

More cartel drug overdose deaths now, or before REAL ID?

Any questions from newspeople?

Pentagon & REAL ID

Why It Matters

Americans were told that they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.

If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

 

Related:

Puget Sound Copper Theft

USA 250 – News Reporting

Newspeople Not Asking Questions

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Grays Harbor Fentanyl & Meth Not Stopped By Kristi Noem

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

The Post 911 Era

Patriotism

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

 

Above: July 6th, 2024. Looking over the jetty that connects to Damon Point on the far end. We are near the end of the jetty adjacent to the Wastewater Treatment Plant. Click image once or twice to show detail.

Mar 14, 2026 Update

Damon Point Public Parking

In The News

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards major maintenance contract for North Jetty

By Jerry Knaak The Daily World

Mar 11, 2026

“Meanwhile, Damon Point has been closed for more than a year due to dangerous conditions, and the nearby Quinault RV Park and Marina have been closed indefinitely since last May due to storm damage. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed construction of the North Jetty, a three mile-long berm of boulders jutting into the Pacific, in 1916.”

Ocean Shores City Administrator Scott Andersen:

“What we’d really love to see is the remnant jetty also rebuilt as part of that process. That would help us save a lot of land down there. That right now is not on their radar, they view this as a navigation channel issue and that’s why the Port is playing such a big role in their decision-making on this.”

“We were hoping this would happen two years ago, it’s been delayed like a lot of federal projects, but we’re glad it’s finally getting done.”

Our Take

“…delayed like a lot of federal projects…”

Plenty of US federal cash for foreign governments and their military related projects in recent years. Less priority here at home.

“…they view this as a navigation channel issue…”

The foot ferry to Westport was shut down because too much sand and silt built up around the marina on the Ocean shores side. Looks like this is not the kind of navigation issue that matters here.

 

Drive down to the former public parking area at Damon Point and see what Westport would look like today if efforts to maintain the coast were suspended decades ago.

Zero Questions From Newspeople:

When and why was a decision made to turn away from maintaining the 1916 jetty adjacent to former public parking areas at Damon Point?

Is the jetty adjacent to Damon Point the only section of jetty in Grays Harbor that has gone without maintenance since 1916?

What would Westport look like if efforts to maintain the coast were suspended?

Funding Priorities

In recent years, the US federal government has prioritized big cash for Ukraine, bombing the Middle East and conducting airstrikes on Somalia and elsewhere. The big mystery is the $6.3 million for the used Ocean Shores hotel. Seems like leaders from all layers of government would have been interested in this story and that local people and the general public would have wanted to be informed on how all this came together. Newspeople would not have needed to travel to foreign lands to interview all the players involved.

Today’s American culture is truly weak in terms of newspeople asking questions.

Welcome Home Troops

Local Oddities

In the news:

$6.3 million in federal cash for a used Ocean Shores hotel.

Any questions from newspeople?

December 8, 2022 The Daily World

Dept. of Ag invests $6.3M to purchase Ocean Shores hotel

$6.3 million “to fund the acquisition of an existing hotel. Marathon Enterprises Inc. is located in Ocean Shores, Grays Harbor County, Washington. The project is expected to result in saving eight jobs and creating one full time job.”

Zero questions from small or large newspapers. Zero questions from TV newspeople.

Related:

Federal Failure At Damon Point

Imagine telling the fishing boat captains over at Westport that their access to a 100 year old armor-plated harbor was going to be let go

Two Jetties – Westport and Damon Point

Ocean Shores Marina History – A Time Gone By

Westport To Ocean Shores Ferry – Any Questions From Newspeople?

USA 250 – News Reporting

Newspeople Not Asking Questions

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Grays Harbor Fentanyl & Meth Not Stopped By Kristi Noem

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

 

Above: Wave action at Damon Point

In The News

Ferry from Westport to Ocean Shores? Lawmaker has a plan

Mar 3, 2026

By Simone Carter – The Olympian

We learned of the above story in the The Daily World

 

Any Questions For Representative Nance?

Questions that may have come up in the interview are in bold type below:

Representative Nance,

In 2008, the El Matador ferry was shut down:

“…too much sand and silt at the entrance and inside the Ocean Shores Marina, and no governmental entity is prepared to apply for dredging permits.”

Are you aware that the situation has now become worse?

The public parking areas adjacent to Damon Point are now closed. Beach walkers have no access to Damon Point from former parking areas.

City of Ocean Shores:

“Damon Point Area Access Closed to the Public – Beginning January 27, 2025
Beginning Monday at 7:00am, public access to Damon Point will be strictly prohibited. We will begin stockpiling cobble in the parking lot to the left of the easement. To ensure everyone’s safety access to the area will be closed. This is a critical operation, and we appreciate your full cooperation.”

This public parking area is adjacent to where the El Matador ferry landed on the Ocean Shores side back in 2008.

Representative Nance,

What port facility on the Ocean Shores side would be suitable for the new ferry landing? When is the last time you toured this area? When is the last time you met with Ocean Shores political leaders?

 

Representative Nance,

Have you been over to Westport to look at a community that faces the same concerns Re: tsunami zone, global warming, sea level rise, climate crisis, king tides, coastal erosion, El Niño/La Niña, winter storms and did not let any of that get in the way of keeping things maintained on their working waterfront?

 

Representative Nance,

When and why was a decision made to turn away from maintaining the 1916 jetty adjacent to public parking areas at Damon Point?

 

Representative Nance,

Were you aware that $6.3 million in federal cash went for a used Ocean Shores hotel in late 2022?

Were Washington State lawmakers consulted prior to this deal going through?

December 8, 2022 The Daily World

Dept. of Ag invests $6.3M to purchase Ocean Shores hotel

$6.3 million “to fund the acquisition of an existing hotel. Marathon Enterprises Inc. is located in Ocean Shores, Grays Harbor County, Washington. The project is expected to result in saving eight jobs and creating one full time job.”

Zero questions from small or large newspapers. Zero questions from TV newspeople.

Other sources:

$6.3 million will be used to purchase an Ocean Shores hotel; saves jobs

KXRO News December 7, 2022

 

Related:

Federal Failure At Damon Point

Imagine telling the fishing boat captains over at Westport that their access to a 100 year old armor-plated harbor was going to be let go

Possibly of interest:

Westport – Nice For Walking

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

 

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

Sponsored by a local Invisible Veteran chapter.

 

The weak-minded culture expects very little from its newspeople.

Three on air personalities work the report below.

Live camera crew sent from Seattle to the middle of nowhere to stand in the dark and wait for flakes to fall update:

KING 5 News

Welcome Home Troops

KING 5 News again:

The Fantasy Newsperson

The newsperson reports:

Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Count Now At 145

US airstrikes on suspected drug trafficking boats kill 11 in one of the deadliest hits since Trump’s war on narco-terrorists started

By Wilko Martinez Cachero

Daily Mail

Feb 18, 2026

“The latest operation brings the reported death toll to at least 145 since the Trump administration launched its war against suspected drug trafficking boats in early September.”

The fantasy newsperson asks:

Are Seattle area drug addicts having any problem finding their cartel product of choice due to any federal drug war effort?

Has any US community announced that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

Is there any possibility that any DEA office or DEA budget will be downsized due to the success of all US Dept. of Homeland Security/Dept. of War efforts in recent months?

The US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats, ICE crackdowns and designating cartels as terrorist organizations?

Why It Matters

Americans were told that they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.

If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

Feeling The Energy

Back home:

Possibly of interest:

National Parks Hospitality & Goodwill Program

Macho Swagger

Watch Secretary of War Pete Hegseth takes thrilling fighter jet ride with ‘Top-Gun’ pilots:

Since 1986 Top Gun:

The US Dept. of Defense was nowhere to be found on 911.

We haven’t won a war since.

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, it feels like the people who run the Pentagon specialize in undeclared/unwon wars. Is it understandable that young people and their parents and grandparents would take a dim view on all this?

Department of War & Armistice Day

In the 60s & 70s I never attended a Veterans Day assembly at school.

There were none.

Probably enough veterans around to remove most of the mystique, or maybe those veterans thought it was all just an average thing and did not want to be seen as a separate part of American society, or get head of the line parking spots over at the grocery store. Maybe the concept of Armistice Day had not gone completely extinct.

Growing up in the 60s & 70s- veterans were all around- church, school, Boy Scout leaders, family, the neighborhood, etc. It was all just an average thing. These folks weren’t seen as a separate part of American society.

People weren’t stepping over to say “Thanks for your service” to my Dad- who did time in the Navy in the 50s- but looked just like anyone else out in public.

These guys weren’t lining up for free dinner promotions marketed by major restaurant chains.

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, the Pentagon seems to specialize in undeclared/unwon wars.

Veterans Day

One of the very most meaningful federal holidays for some. Stolen from Armistice Day in the 1950s. At that time, the US Dept. of Defense had started a decades long tradition of not being able to stay out of or win undeclared wars in distant lands.

It’s all about the freedom folks.

Biden honors Americans who ‘stood on the front lines of freedom’ in Veterans Day remarks

CNN Nov 11, 2023

Sorry, no newspeople available to ask:

Mr President,

How would American freedoms today be any different if US troops were never sent to Iraq in the very early 1990s?

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

News Content

Newspeople Not Asking Questions

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Grays Harbor Fentanyl & Meth Not Stopped By Kristi Noem

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

Over in Island County

Has the Island County Homeland Security-funded patrol boat been involved in any arrest or seizure related in any way to the US/Canada border?

Newspeople remain silent.

Whidbey Homeland Security Grant Money- Newspeople Remain Silent

A giant flag ritual at the next ball game will make it all good.

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

The Post 911 Era

Patriotism

 

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

Sponsored by a local Invisible Veteran chapter.

In The News

US airstrikes on suspected drug trafficking boats kill 11 in one of the deadliest hits since Trump’s war on narco-terrorists started

By Wilko Martinez Cachero

Daily Mail

Feb 18, 2026

“The latest operation brings the reported death toll to at least 145 since the Trump administration launched its war against suspected drug trafficking boats in early September.”

Weak-Minded Culture

The weak-minded culture here in the US expects very little from newspeople.

Newspeople have avoided asking questions related to Homeland Security funding and performance for decades now.

Why It Matters

Americans were told that they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.

If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

The Fantasy Newsperson

The fantasy newsperson asks:

Are Seattle area drug addicts having any problem finding their cartel product of choice due to any federal drug war effort?

Has any US community announced that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

Is there any possibility that any DEA office or DEA budget will be downsized due to the success of all US Dept. of Homeland Security/Dept. of War efforts in recent months?

The US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats, ICE crackdowns and designating cartels as terrorist organizations?

Any questions from newspeople?

Just Ask The DEA About Sealed Borders

Made for TV DEA spokesperson lets us know what to think.

Newspeople play along by not asking questions:

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US.

More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

 

Related:

The Post 911 Era

Drug War Scam Rolls On

Secure Border BS – Just Ask The DEA

Investigation Took Nearly 3 Years – Drug War Scam Update

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Puget Sound Life

Newspeople Not Asking Questions

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Grays Harbor Fentanyl & Meth Not Stopped By Kristi Noem

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

 

Some version of REAL ID has been required at border crossings and ports of entry since 2009.

More cartel drug overdose deaths now, or before REAL ID?

Any questions from newspeople?

Pentagon & REAL ID

 

Above: Mystery Bay scene

 

Three on air personalities work the report below.

Live camera crew sent from Seattle to the middle of nowhere to stand in the dark and wait for flakes to fall update:

KING 5 News

Welcome Home Troops

KING 5 News again:

More related to news content here:

Newspeople Not Asking Questions

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Grays Harbor Fentanyl & Meth Not Stopped By Kristi Noem

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

Over in Island County

Has the Island County Homeland Security-funded patrol boat been involved in any arrest or seizure related in any way to the US/Canada border?

Newspeople remain silent.

Whidbey Homeland Security Grant Money- Newspeople Remain Silent

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

A symbol of the propaganda that makes it all work.

In The News

Recruits will no longer need a REAL ID to fly to basic training

Jeff Schogol – Task & Purpose

Feb 11, 2026

“Under a new screening process, military recruits do not need to show a REAL ID or pay a $45 fee to get past security checkpoints for flights to basic training.”

Real Newspeople May Ask:

What keeps the terrorists with no ID of any kind from creating a disruption at the back end of the airport security screening line?

More here:

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

 

Some version of REAL ID has been required at border crossings and ports of entry since 2009.

More cartel drug overdose deaths now, or before REAL ID?

Any questions from newspeople?

 

Today, are Seattle area drug addicts having any problem finding their cartel product of choice due to REAL ID or any federal drug war effort?

Is there any possibility that any DEA office or DEA budget will be downsized due to the success of US Dept. of Homeland Security efforts in recent months?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats, ICE crackdowns and designating cartels as terrorist organizations?

Any questions from newspeople?

 

Related:

The Post 911 Era

Drug War Scam Rolls On

Secure Border BS – Just Ask The DEA

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

 

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

Sponsored by a local Invisible Veteran chapter.

 

Glenn Greenwald explains:

People who take no public funds, private donations or advertising dollars are free to ask questions at any time. Why not the press? Call for unpaid volunteers and you’d get better news coverage than what we have now.

Examples

Ocean Shores – Just Up The Street From Shilo:

$6.3 million in federal cash for a used Ocean Shores hotel.

Any questions from newspeople?

In the news:

December 8, 2022 The Daily World

Dept. of Ag invests $6.3M to purchase Ocean Shores hotel

$6.3 million “to fund the acquisition of an existing hotel. Marathon Enterprises Inc. is located in Ocean Shores, Grays Harbor County, Washington. The project is expected to result in saving eight jobs and creating one full time job.”

Zero questions from small or large newspapers. Zero questions from TV newspeople.

Grays Harbor – Damon Point

Zero Questions From Newspeople:

When and why was a decision made to turn away from maintaining the 1916 jetty adjacent to former public parking areas at Damon Point?

Is the jetty adjacent to Damon Point the only section of jetty in Grays Harbor that has gone without maintenance since it was first installed?

Drive down to the former public parking area at Damon Point and see what Westport would look like today if efforts to maintain the coast were suspended decades ago.

Federal Failure At Damon Point

Penn Cove

Beach adjacent to award winning sewage treatment plant is unsafe for recreational shellfish harvest due to sewage treatment plant outfall.

In the news:

August 11, 2023 Whidbey News-Times

Whidbey sewer plants win state awards

“The Oak Harbor Clean Water Facility was recognized as outstanding by the Department of Ecology.”

The Coupeville treatment plant received the outstanding performance award for the 13th consecutive year, and the Holmes Harbor plant was awarded for the 17th year in a row. The Penn Cove wastewater treatment plant was also a recipient this year.”

 

Real newspeople may ask:

When is the last time all of Penn Cove was safe for recreational shellfish harvest?

Coupeville

“Clams, mussels and oysters CLOSED year-round.”

“…clams, oysters, and mussels from this beach are not fit for human consumption at any time.”

“This beach is within the closure area for a sewage treatment plant outfall and is unsafe for recreational shellfish harvesting.”

Source: WDFW

North side of Penn Cove at Monroe Landing

“Clams, mussels and oysters CLOSED year-round.”

“This beach is within the closure area for a sewage treatment plant outfall and is unsafe for recreational shellfish harvesting.”

Source: WDFW

Port Angeles Drug War

A significant Homeland Security/CBP/Border Patrol presence at Port Angeles and the expanded Port Angeles USBP HQ have been in place now for more than a decade.

New Port Angeles USBP Station opened more than a decade ago. Has the new station been able to prevent cartel drugs from entering the Olympic Peninsula?

Newspeople remain silent.

Were Clallam County drug overdose death numbers higher before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established (2002) or are the numbers higher with a $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security in place? This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US.

More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

More here:

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

Over in Island County

Has the Island County Homeland Security-funded patrol boat been involved in any arrest or seizure related in any way to the US/Canada border?

Newspeople remain silent.

Whidbey Homeland Security Grant Money- Newspeople Remain Silent

 

Possibly of interest:

The Post 911 Era

Approved Flag Images

Patriotism

Drug War Scam Rolls On

Secure Border BS – Just Ask The DEA

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

The Invisible Veteran

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

 

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

Sponsored by a local Invisible Veteran chapter.

 

KING 5

The Trump Era 

Wonder what was happening at border crossing/port of entry inspections during this nearly 3 year-long investigation.

Do the good guys who made the local bust notify the good guys at the border about the weak links in their process?

 Zero Questions From KING 5 Seattle

How much fentanyl moved through local communities during this nearly 3 year investigation?

How many victims were harmed by the drugs and guns tied up in this nearly 3 year long holding pattern?

Love to see newspeople ask:

Were federal authorities at the border notified of this ongoing investigation?

Did the drug traffickers get fast track screening at the border so as not to disrupt this ongoing investigation?

If the drug traffickers were given a pass at the border- would that have tipped them off as to the investigation- or would that have been seen as standard protocol?

Imagine LE authorities observe a shoplifter or bank robber in action. Instead of going in to make an arrest they back off and conduct an investigation that goes on for nearly 3 years. What if they applied the same tactic Re: crimes involving arson, terrorism, child abuse, DUI, etc.

Has any city, county or state jurisdiction been able to cleanup their drug problem using these methods?

Just Ask The DEA About Sealed Borders

Made for TV DEA spokesperson lets us know what to think.

Newspeople play along by not asking questions:

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US.

More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

 

Related:

Drug War Scam Rolls On

Secure Border BS – Just Ask The DEA

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

The Post 911 Era

The Invisible Veteran

Port Angeles Drug War

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

 

Above: Slow Lane – Hill Road

Federal Gun Ban for Marijuana Users?

Another of many examples where American freedoms may come & go-completely unrelated to military operations/US Troops in distant lands, or the Sound of Freedom over Coupeville.

From the web:

Jacob Sullum – Reason

Feb 2, 2026

The NRA and NORML Unite To Oppose the Federal Gun Ban for Marijuana Users

Our take:

It’s a society that can’t stop bragging about freedom, thanking the troops for freedoms, fighting wars for freedoms, staging military jet flyovers at sporting events for freedom, etc.

Would any newsperson or school teacher ever ask:

It took a constitutional amendment to prohibit the sale of a glass of wine- why no constitutional amendment to authorize a federal prohibition of marijuana?

Today-

You may fill a shopping cart with hard liquor, make the purchase and head home. You do not give up your guns.

Yon may be involved in a serious car wreck and take prescription meds that may include mind and body altering opioids. You are not required to turn in your guns.

More here: Imagination Run Wild

Security Theater

KOMO News

Real Newspeople May Ask:

What keeps the terrorists with no ID of any kind from creating a disruption at the back end of the airport security screening line?

Guaranteed: No TV newsperson anywhere will ever ask this question. Americans do not live in a free and honest society.

More here:

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

 

Would any newsperson ever ask:

Has any WA gun control measure or public policy effort of the past 20 years slowed down the gunfire between say, Everett and Tacoma?

KOMO News

More than 300 comments are posted with the video above.

Free Enterprise System

WSDOT spending $12M to fill electric vehicle charging gaps on state highways

by Theron Zahn – KOMO News

Feb 1, 2026

“The Washington Department of Transportation is giving more than 12 million dollars in federal money to five companies to make driving long distances in electric vehicles easier.”

Not really free enterprise if layers of government must be involved in moving money around in order to make it work?

Several comments are posted with the article.

 

An old favorite:

Seattle climate change:

Seattle invests nearly $1M to support diverse communities most affected by climate change

Image above: Penn Cove 1/30/2026

Source/Daily Status Reports: Washington State Department of Health Shellfish Safety Map

Click image once or twice to show detail.

Several Whidbey beaches remain closed all year long for recreational shellfish harvest because of sewage treatment outfall.

Sewage treatment outfall. Not stormwater. Not climate change.

Reporting on this topic appears to be completely off limits to the press.

View the Washington State Department of Health beach list here.

Penn Cove

Real newspeople may ask:

When is the last time all of Penn Cove was safe for recreational shellfish harvest?

Coupeville

“Clams, mussels and oysters CLOSED year-round.”

“…clams, oysters, and mussels from this beach are not fit for human consumption at any time.”

“This beach is within the closure area for a sewage treatment plant outfall and is unsafe for recreational shellfish harvesting.”

Source: WDFW

North side of Penn Cove at Monroe Landing

“Clams, mussels and oysters CLOSED year-round.”

“This beach is within the closure area for a sewage treatment plant outfall and is unsafe for recreational shellfish harvesting.”

Source: WDFW

 

Below: An April 6, 2020 audio file describing recreational shellfish harvest and sewage treatment outfall at Penn Cove.

Has anything changed? Newspeople remain silent.

12:44 audio file and local photos of Penn Cove:

Podcast 4 Another Month With An R – Whidbey Sewage Treatment Plant Outfalls

A photo tour of Penn Cove:

Wastewater Treatment Plant – Department of Ecology Award For Outstanding Performance

 

Possibly of interest:

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

 

Image above: Penn Cove 1/30/2026

Source/Daily Status Reports: Washington State Department of Health Shellfish Safety Map

Click image once or twice to show detail.

Seattle Environmental Injustice News

From comments:

“More green scam money thrown down the drain.”

Source:

Seattle invests nearly $1M to support diverse communities most affected by climate change

Several Whidbey beaches remain closed all year long for recreational shellfish harvest because of sewage treatment outfall.

Sewage treatment outfall. Not stormwater. Not climate change.

Reporting on this topic appears to be completely off limits to the press.

View the Washington State Department of Health beach list here.

Penn Cove

Real newspeople may ask:

When is the last time all of Penn Cove was safe for recreational shellfish harvest?

Coupeville

“Clams, mussels and oysters CLOSED year-round.”

“…clams, oysters, and mussels from this beach are not fit for human consumption at any time.”

“This beach is within the closure area for a sewage treatment plant outfall and is unsafe for recreational shellfish harvesting.”

Source: WDFW

North side of Penn Cove at Monroe Landing

“Clams, mussels and oysters CLOSED year-round.”

“This beach is within the closure area for a sewage treatment plant outfall and is unsafe for recreational shellfish harvesting.”

Source: WDFW

 

Below: An April 6, 2020 audio file describing recreational shellfish harvest and sewage treatment outfall at Penn Cove.

Has anything changed? Newspeople remain silent.

12:44 audio file and local photos of Penn Cove:

Podcast 4 Another Month With An R – Whidbey Sewage Treatment Plant Outfalls

A photo tour of Penn Cove:

Wastewater Treatment Plant – Department of Ecology Award For Outstanding Performance

Has anyone ever seen the Puget Sound area press ask questions about Whidbey water quality impacted by sewage treatment plant outfalls?

Has anyone ever seen any government agency, elected official or volunteer organization seeking answers related to one or more sewage treatment plants sending unsafe product into the waters near Whidbey Island?

Zero questions from small or large newspapers. Zero questions from TV newspeople.

Possibly of interest:

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

Fix Global Warming With Taxes, Fees & Restricted Consumer Choices

Homeland Security In The News

DHS ramps up surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens

Associated Press

Jan 29, 2026

Many comments are posted with the article above.

 

We ask when police state use of advanced technologies will create any shortage of cartel product in Seattle.

Newspeople remain silent.

Love to see newspeople ask:

Has any US community announced that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

Any questions from newspeople?

Is there any possibility that any DEA office or DEA budget will be downsized due to the success of all US Dept. of Homeland Security efforts in recent months?

Sealed Borders?

Over and again, we are told by Trump and his team that the borders are sealed.

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats, ICE crackdowns and designating cartels as terrorist organizations?

Real Newspeople May Ask

Are Seattle area drug addicts having any problem finding their cartel product of choice due to any federal drug war effort?

US Dept. of Homeland Security – The people who fail to keep cartel product away from local communities will be keeping the Super Bowl safe.

Just ask the DEA about sealed borders:

Below:

The made for TV DEA spokesperson lets us know what to think.

Newspeople play along by not asking questions:

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Related:

Drug War Scam Rolls On

Worst Of The Worst – Pierce County Drive-By Shooting

Whidbey Water Quality

 

Above: Federal Failure At Damon Point

 

A short period of time and much has gone on.

Here, at Oak Bay Starfish, we’re still fascinated with the fake War on Terror. We recognize that both major parties and the press are not about asking questions in this area.

Why It Matters

US Troops were sent into life and death situations in the aftermath of 911.

For this reason it is important to ask questions and develop a feel for what is real and what is honest.

It feels like a society where honest and meaningful ideas stand up to questioning and discussion, but the questioning and discussion rarely takes place.

You can be sure that newspeople and the school teachers who stage Veterans Day assemblies will never ask questions to make sense of how sending US troops to distant lands is related to American rights and freedoms. They will avoid questions related to airport security theater.

Reaching for an honest understanding of how all this works seems to be completely off limits.

The Troops are sent into life and death situations in distant lands for our freedoms and safety? Decades later, how about a discussion on how all this is meant to work.

No REAL ID, Pay A Fee – Our Questions

What keeps the terrorists with no ID of any kind from creating a disruption at the back end of the airport security screening line?

Guaranteed: No TV newsperson anywhere will ever ask this question. Americans do not live in a free and honest society.

Decades Past 911 – A Fake War On Terror

In recent years, the press tends to support government agencies, departments and policies rather than question them.

Below:

A total of 3 Seattle TV newspeople work this story on camera. Zero questions from any of them.

KOMO News

Imagine the TV newsperson, on camera, escorting the TSA official all the way to the back of the “be sure to arrive early line” and asking what keeps the bad guys from creating a disruption at that point.

Year after year, more of the same. Similar cheerful videos, TV newspeople interviewing each other.

No voices of dissent. No passengers with questions about security theater will ever make it on air.

Sealed Borders?

Over and again, we are told by Trump and his team that the borders are sealed.

Real Newspeople May Ask

Are Seattle area drug addicts having any problem finding their cartel product of choice due to any federal drug war effort?

US Dept. of Homeland Security – The people who fail to keep cartel product away from local communities will be keeping the Super Bowl safe.

Just ask the DEA about sealed borders:

Below:

The made for TV DEA spokesperson lets us know what to think.

Newspeople play along by not asking questions:

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Real newspeople may ask:

If special games require special security-what keeps regular games safe? Crowd size/capacity is similar at several stadiums.

Are fans less safe at regular games?

What prevents terror strikes at hundreds of events & locations unsupervised by federal authorities?

What stops terrorists from going 2 states over and driving a truck across the playground at a daycare center?

What Others Are Saying

From worst of times to even worse: the Trump administration continues to spiral

Sidney Blumenthal

Jan 29, 2026 – The Guardian

“Bovino had cultivated his image for propaganda purposes just as carefully as former beauty queen Kristi Noem adjusts her outfits. He has been highly conscious of how he presented himself as a paramilitary fashion plate for what he calls his “turn and burn” raids. Bovino is the only one on an ICE raid who does not mask his face, so that he is the only personification of Trump’s brutal tactics. He poses in his photo on his Twitter/X in tactical gear holding an M4 rifle with a telescopic sight.”

“He wears a full-length dark military coat with bulky square shoulders, a high collar and decorated with military-like patches to attempt to project an intimidating presence.”

 

The GOP is losing one of its best issues

By Adam Wren – POLITICO

Jan 29, 2026

 

Possibly of interest:

Air Travel – TV Newspeople Will Never Question The War On Terror

The Post 911 Era

Drug War Scam Rolls On

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask

See Something, Say Something?

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

Approved Flag Images

The Invisible Veteran

USA 250 – Where Are Things Now?

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

250 Years For The USMC

Replace The Phrase?

Pledge of Allegiance In The News

 

In The News

Dozens of evidence markers at scene where man shot in Pierce County drive-by

By Colleen West – KOMO News

Jan 27, 2026

“Cappetto said the shooting, which is believed to be related to a feud between groups, appeared to have occurred in a home’s driveway, where 20 to 30 shell casings were found and tagged with evidence markers.”

Several comments are posted with the article.

2026 – Homeland Security Making A Difference

The post 911 surveillance state (fusion centers, license scanners, Homeland Security grant money, monitoring of e-mails, text messages, & social media sites, no fly/terror watch lists, tracking of cell phones, best advances in REAL ID and AI technologies, etc.) appears to have played no role in preventing the crimes described above.

Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Count Update

Death Toll from US Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Reaches 126 People

By Ben Finley and Konstantin Toropin – Associated Press

Jan 27, 2026

“The death toll from the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug boats is up to 126 people, with the inclusion of those presumed dead after being lost at sea, the U.S. military confirmed Monday.”

Back Home – Seattle, Bremerton, Everett, Tacoma, Port Angeles

Which community will be first to announce that local drug addicts are having any problem finding their cartel product of choice due to any federal drug war effort?

Any shortage of cartel product in any of these communities?

Any questions from newspeople?

Would Any Newsperson Ever Ask

Has any WA gun control measure or public policy effort of the past 20 years slowed down the gunfire between say, Everett and Tacoma?

What works? What fails?

Newspeople remain silent.

 

Related:

Drug War Scam Rolls On

Approved Flag Images

The Post 911 Era

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

MAGA – Concealed Carry

 

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

Sponsored by a local Invisible Veteran chapter.

 

From the web:

Eric Trump Congratulates His Father for a Drop in Fentanyl Deaths That Happened Before He Took Office

Jacob Sullum – Reason

Jan 20, 2026

“…a sharp decline in fentanyl-related deaths.”

“University of North Carolina drug researcher Nabarun Dasgupta and his colleagues have suggested other possible factors, including wider availability of naloxone, an opioid antagonist that quickly reverses overdoses, and depletion of the vulnerable population due to prior deaths.”

Need Real Newspeople To Ask Questions

What we get now is sort of a press release style of news reporting where a statement is prepared by whatever agency was involved in the latest policy update, drug bust/federal grant money award, etc.

Newspeople post this statement as is. A 5th grade book report would require more in the way of asking questions.

JFK speaks about the role of the press in a free society:

Fog Them Down With The Antidote

Love to see newspeople ask:

Has any US community announced that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

Any questions from newspeople?

Is there any possibility that any DEA office or DEA budget will be downsized due to the success of all US Dept. of Homeland Security efforts in recent months?

The US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

Chicago DEA – More Of The Same – Cartel Threat Rolls On

Jan 12, 2026

DEA Chicago’s new top enforcer discusses priorities, battling cartel influence in drug trafficking

“I understand Chicago. I understand the drug trafficking threat here, and it’s our goal, working through our partners, to reduce that,” he said.”

 

Chicago DEA still chases after cartel product not stopped at the border by Kristi Noem.

Will Chicago DEA be shut down when cartel drugs stop entering the US? Have recent US Dept. of Homeland Security efforts reduced the need for Chicago DEA services?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats, ICE crackdowns and designating cartels as terrorist organizations?

Any questions from newspeople?

Border Is Not Sealed

ABC 7 Chicago

December 2025 – The Border Is Not Sealed

Compliant TV newspeople host the DEA for friendly interviews avoiding any mention of progress made by Kristi Noem or Dept. of War strikes on drug boats.

Border Not Sealed – Seattle DEA

In recent years, the press tends to support government agencies, departments and policies rather than question them.

Arizona DEA – Border Not Sealed

Texas – All Federal Efforts Fall Short

Again- Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security appears to be completely irrelevant here.

The post 911 surveillance state (fusion centers, license scanners, Homeland Security grant money, monitoring of e-mails, text messages, & social media sites, no fly/terror watch lists, tracking of cell phones, best advances in REAL ID and AI technologies, etc.) fails to keep fentanyl out:

Fentanyl still flooding the Valley as DEA pushes for 0 deaths

by: Jorge Vela KVEO News

Dec 19, 2025

“The Drug Enforcement Agency has launched a new nationwide initiative called Fentanyl Free America, aiming for zero deaths from the deadly synthetic drug as fentanyl seizures continue to rise across the country.”

“Fentanyl was also recently designated a weapon of mass destruction, a move that expands the DEA’s authority to combat trafficking.”

“Dr. Melendez said illegal fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.”

 

Texas Again – Dec 23, 2025

Newspeople play the role of DEA public affairs staff instead of asking questions in the promotional video below.

Zero questions Re: Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security.

Zero questions Re: Dept. of War Vietnam-style drug boat body counts.

Made for TV DEA spokesperson lets us know what to think:

Port Angeles

Unlike many cities of its size, Port Angeles maintains a significant Homeland Security/CBP/Border Patrol presence.

Are newspeople forbidden to ask questions related to Port Angeles Homeland Security funding and performance?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

New Port Angeles USBP Station opened more than a decade ago. Has the new station been able to prevent cartel drugs from entering the Olympic Peninsula?

Newspeople remain silent.

After a Port Angeles CBP buildup that took place more than a decade ago, is there any follow up made by the press to inform the public on whatever results have been achieved?

If you run a government operation-these are the reporters you want to see on interview day:

Operation Macho Swagger

Newspeople play the role of federal public affairs personnel during Operation Macho Swagger– a ride-along to let us know what is being done to keep the southern edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca safe from B.C. incursions.

Fast boats put agents in close distance with ‘bad guys’ on the watery border

By Paul Gottlieb Jul 17, 2011 Peninsula Daily News

2011-

“… their main interaction with the boating public: Boarding boats and checking for ID, getting a “vibe,” as Jeff P. called it, for what’s up.”

2013-

Heroin epidemic gripping Port Angeles

In The News – 2024

With a significant Homeland Security/CBP/Border Patrol presence at Port Angeles:

Clallam County has one of the highest per capita rates of drug overdoses in the state…”

Look for newspeople to ask zero questions in this area:

When is the last time the Port Angeles Border Patrol made an arrest of any kind?

When is the last time the Port Angeles Border Patrol made an arrest linked in any way to the US/Canada border?

Has massing US Border Patrol agents at the southern edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca played any role in reducing Clallam County drug overdose numbers?

Have opioid lawsuits played any role in improving the situation?

How do cartels react to opioid lawsuits?

Are passports/enhanced/REAL IDs effective in keeping cartel drugs out of the US?

Standard driver’s licenses have not been accepted at the border since 2009.

When is the last time the Port Angeles Border Patrol made any seizure that kept any amount of fentanyl, heroin or any opioid from entering Clallam County?

Were Clallam County drug overdose death numbers higher before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established (2002) or are the numbers higher with a $51.6 billion (every 12 months) US Dept. of Homeland Security in place? This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

Over in Island County

Has the Island County Homeland Security-funded patrol boat been involved in any arrest or seizure related in any way to the US/Canada border?

Newspeople remain silent.

Whidbey Homeland Security Grant Money- Newspeople Remain Silent

More here:

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

 

Related:

Many Veterans Are Proud Of Their Oath – ICE Interactions

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Approved Flag Images

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask

See Something, Say Something?

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

 

The era of newspeople not asking questions brings on private citizens who go out and ask questions.

Instead of waiting for school teachers to teach about individual rights and limited government authority, waiting on the press to ask questions, or courts to handle cases, these guys go out and update us with a quick reality check.

These guys were also never waiting on the overthrow of Saddam Hussein or the take down of any other bad guy in distant lands, as DOD defends the constitution, etc.

Be sure to celebrate your freedoms for USA 250.

Long Island Audit

Public Records Request

It is very common that public offices in various states will say something like: Go to our website to submit your public records request online.

They would prefer the person with the camera leave the office as soon as possible.

It is common in various states that open records laws allow the public records request to be submitted in person orally or in writing and that the public records request may be made anonymously.

Public records laws set up an open door policy for people to go and interact in person with government offices and agencies during normal business hours at public offices.

Tyrant Terminator Audits!!! is a favorite channel where he has explained all this over and again in public offices.

Away From Border Crossings And Ports Of Entry

Long Island Audit

Any Newsperson Anywhere

Please let us know when Seattle area drug addicts have any difficulty finding their cartel product of choice.

Any questions from newspeople?

 

More here:

Operating A Camera In A Public Place

 

Above: Approved Flag Images

In The News

Seattle police arrest knife-carrying felon violating Stay Out of Drug Areas order

KOMO News

Jan 13, 2026

From the article:

“Stay Out of Drug Area” zones are specific geographic areas designated by the city due to high levels of illegal drug activity.

Questions Not Asked By Newspeople 

Our questions appear in bold type below.

CIA Drone Strikes, REAL ID, Kristi Noem, Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Counts, Kinetic Pentagon Strikes & Regime Change In Venezuela.

Much checked off in recent months. Starting strong for 2026.

Real newspeople may ask:

Today-

Are Seattle area drug addicts having any difficulty finding their cartel product of choice?

Why the need for Seattle Stay Out of Drug Areas if federal drug war efforts are able to seal the borders and cut off trafficking of cartel product?

Is there any possibility that any DEA office or DEA budget will be downsized due to the success of all federal drug war efforts in recent months?

Will any US community announce that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

Will any community anywhere in the US downsize or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats?

Any questions from newspeople?

 

The US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

More News

‘We all end up paying’: Bill targets sale of stolen copper wire in Washington

by Jeremy Harris – KOMO News

Jan 13, 2026

“Wire thefts have become a common and disruptive issue in the state of Washington.”

“Thieves generally target copper wires found in phone and internet lines, but often end up cutting fiberoptic cables, which have almost no scrap value.”

Zero questions from newspeople:

Are these thefts happening because drug addicts need cash to pay for cartel drugs that are not kept out by CIA Drone Strikes, REAL ID, Kristi Noem, Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Counts, Kinetic Pentagon Strikes & Regime Change In Venezuela?

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

1-(800) Kristi Noem

Firefighters: Unresponsive puppies brought to fire station likely OD’d on fentanyl

KOMO News

Jan 12, 2026

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

 


Thousands of American families have now had a loved one who did one or more tours in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Will they encourage new enlistments?

Recruiting Crisis – Damage Control

Questioning Government Policies

Possibly of interest-

CIA Drone Strikes, REAL ID, Kristi Noem & Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Counts Fail To Keep Drugs From Arriving In Clallam County:

Port Angeles Homeland Security/CBP Unable To Keep Drugs Out Of Town

Are newspeople forbidden to ask questions related to Port Angeles Homeland Security funding and performance?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

After a Port Angeles CBP buildup that took place more than a decade ago, is there any follow up made by the press to inform the public on whatever results have been achieved?

If you run a government operation-these are the reporters you want to see on interview day:

“Comments are turned off.”

Local press:

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

 

CIA Drone Strikes, REAL ID, Kristi Noem & Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Counts Also Fail To Keep Drugs From Arriving In Atlanta:

$1M drug bust: Massive amount of drugs, 71 guns, and live grenade found in raids

By FOX 5 Atlanta

Jan 1, 2026

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

Macho Swagger

Watch Secretary of War Pete Hegseth takes thrilling fighter jet ride with ‘Top-Gun’ pilots:

Since 1986 Top Gun:

The US Dept. of Defense was nowhere to be found on 911.

We haven’t won a war since.

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, it feels like the people who run the Pentagon specialize in undeclared/unwon wars. Is it understandable that young people and their parents and grandparents would take a dim view on all this?

TV Newspeople Function Like Paid Actors Reading A Script

TV newspeople:

Would any TV newsperson ever ask:

Did the advantage of US air power allow the undeclared wars in Iraq or Afghanistan to be prevented, won or shut down?

US jet aircraft have been able to strike targets in what wars won by the US?

Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians have been associated with what wars won by the US?

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

 

Also:

Operation Macho Swagger – “CIA Squad Smashed Venezuela…”

Approved Flag Images

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

250 Years For The USMC

For the Marines, the War on Terror began before 911

Take An Oath To The Constitution

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask

See Something, Say Something?

Launching Strikes In The Region Since 1991 Desert Storm

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

 

Looking to see when any shortage of cartel product develops in the Puget Sound area.

Looking to see when any newsperson asks questions related to Port Angeles Homeland Security funding and performance.

Above:

South entrance- Port Townsend Ship Canal

An old photo I took. Symbol of a significant Homeland Security/CBP/Border Patrol presence at Port Angeles that came together more than a decade ago.

Have Port Angeles based Homeland Security/CBP units been able to create any shortage of cartel product/fentanyl in the Puget Sound area?

Has any newsperson ever asked questions on this?

More here-

History of a post 911 CBP buildup at Port Angeles:

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Are newspeople forbidden to ask questions related to Port Angeles Homeland Security funding and performance?

In The News

CIA Drone Strikes, REAL ID, Kristi Noem & Vietnam-Style Drug Boat Body Counts Fail To Keep Drugs Out Of Clallam County:

Montana felon arrested three times in Clallam County faces drug trafficking charges

KOMO News

Dec 31, 2025

Any Newsperson Anywhere

Please let us know when Seattle area drug addicts have any difficulty finding their cartel product of choice.

Any questions from newspeople?

 

US military New Year’s Eve strike targets 2 ‘narco-trafficking’ boats, killing 5

by Maria Tedesco

The National News Desk

Dec 31, 2025

 

Related:

Operation Macho Swagger – “CIA Squad Smashed Venezuela…”

Approved Flag Images

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

250 Years For The USMC

For the Marines, the War on Terror began before 911

Take An Oath To The Constitution

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask

See Something, Say Something?

Launching Strikes In The Region Since 1991 Desert Storm

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

 

In The News

Brutal weekend for NFL officiating draws widespread scrutiny

by Grayce McCormick – The National News Desk

Mon, Dec 1, 2025

Think about American culture and sports. Americans know and care about the rules in sports. The rules are critical.

Coaches and quarterbacks face the press after every game and answer questions, win or lose.

No press secretary. No public relations spokesperson. No freedom of information act requests. No classified documents. Player stats and injury reports are always available.

Instant replays, commentary in the broadcast booth, analysis from network studios, sports talk radio, etc. Fans get tons of info all of the time. No chance for conspiracy theories to develop. Missed calls by NFL officials may be discussed for weeks on end. No such thing as: “We can’t comment on an ongoing investigation.” Instant replay is for all to see. Sports writers are OK with being critical of coaches, teams, players, the rule book, the league, referees, team owners, when the season starts and ends, etc. This is what a free and independent press looks like.

Coaches get fired for months of poor play.

Away From Sports Coverage

Newspeople and politicians are more about information suppression and not asking questions.

In recent years, the press tends to support government agencies, departments and policies rather than question them.

In government, it is fully understood that people will not have access to complete information through everyday channels.

Ever hear of a Freedom of Information Act Request in sports? How about a denied FOIA request?

Ever see a pro football coach or quarterback refer reporters to his press secretary for answers? Presidents do so on a daily basis. Professionals are hired to provide only the desired version of answers to questions.

Ever see a pro football coach or quarterback refer reporters to a public information officer for answers to questions?

JFK speaks about the role of the press in a free society:

Homeland Security Is A Scam

Love to see sports writers report on Homeland Security funding and performance.

Regular newspeople appear to be forbidden to ask questions in this area.

An enthusiastic report from the web:

CIA Squad Smashed Venezuela With Powerful Weapon, New Report Reveals

By David Hookstead – OutKick

Dec 30, 2025

“There is no sign indicating Trump plans on taking his foot off the gas when it comes to Venezuela and Maduro. The operations will continue, and our guys will continue to get the job done.”

Any Newsperson Anywhere

Please let us know when Seattle area drug addicts have any difficulty finding their cartel product of choice.

Any questions from newspeople?

Fake War on Terror – Borders Not Sealed

A fake War on Terror features a DEA that thrives on borders that are not sealed and the newspeople who avoid asking questions about all this.

Kristi Noem, REAL ID & Dept. of War Vietnam-style drug boat body counts fail to keep fentanyl from entering the US.

Just ask the DEA:

December 2025 – The Border Is Not Sealed

Compliant TV newspeople host the DEA for friendly interviews avoiding any mention of progress made by Kristi Noem or Dept. of War strikes on drug boats.

Border Not Sealed – Seattle DEA

In recent years, the press tends to support government agencies, departments and policies rather than question them.

Arizona DEA – Border Not Sealed

Texas – All Federal Efforts Fall Short

Again- Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security appears to be completely irrelevant here.

The post 911 surveillance state (fusion centers, license scanners, Homeland Security grant money, monitoring of e-mails, text messages, & social media sites, no fly/terror watch lists, tracking of cell phones, best advances in REAL ID and AI technologies, etc.) fails to keep fentanyl out:

Fentanyl still flooding the Valley as DEA pushes for 0 deaths

by: Jorge Vela KVEO News

Dec 19, 2025

“The Drug Enforcement Agency has launched a new nationwide initiative called Fentanyl Free America, aiming for zero deaths from the deadly synthetic drug as fentanyl seizures continue to rise across the country.”

“Fentanyl was also recently designated a weapon of mass destruction, a move that expands the DEA’s authority to combat trafficking.”

“Dr. Melendez said illegal fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.”

Love to see newspeople ask:

More overdose deaths now, or before the giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security was created back in 2002?

Texas Again – Dec 23, 2025

Newspeople play the role of DEA public affairs staff instead of asking questions in the promotional video below.

Zero questions Re: Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security.

Zero questions Re: Dept. of War Vietnam-style drug boat body counts.

Made for TV DEA spokesperson lets us know what to think:

Puget Sound Area

The Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area chases after cartel product not stopped at the border by Kristi Noem.

Will Northwest HIDTA be shut down when cartel drugs stop entering the US? Have recent US Dept. of Homeland Security efforts reduced the need for Northwest HIDTA services?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats?

Any questions from newspeople?

 

Related:

Operation Macho Swagger – “CIA Squad Smashed Venezuela…”

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Approved Flag Images

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

250 Years For The USMC

For the Marines, the War on Terror began before 911

Take An Oath To The Constitution

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask

See Something, Say Something?

Launching Strikes In The Region Since 1991 Desert Storm

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo-

A symbol the free and independent press of 2025 and US newspeople not asking questions over the past 30 years or so.

Oregon Coast

 

Cartel responds to Kristi Noem & Dept. of War Vietnam-style drug boat body counts by moving more product into the greater Puget Sound area.

In The News

King County Sheriff’s Office seizes $2 million in drugs tied to the Sinaloa cartel

KOMO News

Dec 23, 2025

“In a significant blow to the Sinaloa Cartel Network, the King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) Precinct Four Special Emphasis Team has successfully executed another drug bust, and photos show the seizure of drugs and cash.”

 

Zero questions on weak links in border security that allowed cartel product to move into Washington State.

KING 5 News

Four-Star General lets us know what to think at 0:27 below:

 

If you are on the Kristi Noem team, you have been out kicking ass this year. You have placed cartels on notice in a no-nonsense fashion.

2025 tough talk includes designating cartels as terrorist organizations and fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

What wars has DOD won by designating groups as terrorist organizations or by going after weapons of mass destruction?

Any questions from newspeople?

More than six months back, Kristi Noem deployed her ass kicking drug war road show.

Mar 20, 2025:

Homeland Security Vision of Success

Promotional events crafted and controlled by public affairs professionals, staged with major drug hauls, patrol boats, helicopters, etc.

The big campaign features top level team leaders thanking each other.

Well done.

Announcing the number of DOD ground units, US Navy and US Coast Guard vessels sent towards the US/Mexico border demonstrates a sense of commitment.

If you are part of a local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team, you are advertising the latest big drug bust after cartel product is able to move past the jurisdiction of federal agents at borders, border crossings and ports of entry, REAL ID checks and a barrier of DOD ground units, US Navy and US Coast Guard vessels prior to arriving in Hometown, USA.

If you are part of the DEA, you may hope for limited success coming from the Trump/Noem team because what would you do with yourself if cartel drugs could no longer enter the US?

Please let us know when Seattle area drug addicts have any difficulty finding their cartel product of choice.

If you are part of a local health dept. you are handing out Naloxone as always, to deal with the stuff that doesn’t get reported in the big local drug bust.

 

Americans were told that they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.

If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

Lessons Learned?

Anytime there is a plane crash, a loss at sea, or an industrial accident, a thorough investigation takes place. Lessons learned are used to prevent future accidents.

Any similar effort after a big drug bust?

Newspeople show zero curiosity in finding out how cartel product was able to move past Noem/Trump border security and on into WA.

What we get now is sort of a press release style of news reporting where a statement is prepared by whatever agency was involved in the latest policy update, drug bust/federal grant money award, etc.

Newspeople post this statement as is. A 5th grade book report would require more in the way of asking questions.

The press has failed.

Over the past 35 years or so, newspeople have failed in their role of investigating and asking questions related to public policy.

In a free and honest society, newspeople would ask questions.

 

Possibly of interest:

Border Not Sealed – Seattle DEA

A Fake War On Terror Features A DEA That Thrives On Borders That Are Not Sealed

For the Marines, the War on Terror began before 911

Super Bowl Security Nonsense

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask

See Something, Say Something?

We Like It – TSA Commentary

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Launching Strikes In The Region Since 1991 Desert Storm

Unlimited Government

Big Drug War Success 2025

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Drug boat body count & Whidbey increase in illegal drug activity

Drug Boat Body Count Irrelevant At Seattle?

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

Big Success With Undeclared Wars?

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

 

April 1, 2020

Old Drug War – Cartels Respond & Move More Product Into The US

Did General Milley’s Operation Macho Swagger ever reduce access to cartel product anywhere in the US?

When is the last time DOD/DHS was able to create any shortage of cartel product in the Puget Sound area?

Has there been enough time for newspeople to ask questions?

Newspeople remain silent.

April 1, 2020 C-SPAN

WWII costume reminds us of a time before decades of undeclared/unwon wars stacked up.

The Department of Defense track record goes back to 1949.

February 20, 2025

Cartels designated as terrorist organizations.

Love to see newspeople ask:

Did the advantage of designating terrorist organizations in Iraq and Afghanistan allow those undeclared wars to be prevented, won or shut down?

March 20, 2025 

The Kristi Noem Ass Kicking Road Show And Public Affairs Crackdown Is Launched

Public Affairs efforts commence – the word goes out.

Cartels have been placed on notice.

Secretary of Homeland Security delivers no nonsense statements in the March 20, 2025 video posted below.

Homeland Security Vision of Success

Promotional events crafted and controlled by public affairs professionals, staged with major drug hauls, patrol boats, helicopters, etc.

The big campaign features top level team leaders thanking each other.

Well done.

Announcing the number of DOD ground units, US Navy and US Coast Guard vessels sent towards the US/Mexico border demonstrates a sense of commitment.

Another US Destroyer Deployed To Secure Southern Border

By Peter Aitken – Newsweek

September 2, 2025

Dept. of War Vietnam-style body count begins with first US strike on narco-terrorist drug boats.

Body count is now 104 people killed in these strikes.

Newspeople Avoid Asking:

Seattle, Bremerton, Everett, Tacoma, Port Angeles

Which community will be first to announce that local drug addicts are having any problem finding their cartel product of choice due to Dept. of War strikes on drug boats?

Which community will be first to announce that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

Any questions from newspeople?

The Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area chases after cartel product not stopped at the border by Kristi Noem.

Will Northwest HIDTA be shut down when cartel drugs stop entering the US? Have recent US Dept. of Homeland Security efforts reduced the need for Northwest HIDTA services?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats?

December 2025 – The Border Is Not Sealed

Compliant TV newspeople host the DEA for friendly interviews avoiding any mention of progress made by Kristi Noem or Dept. of War strikes on drug boats.

Border Not Sealed – Seattle DEA

In recent years, the press tends to support government agencies, departments and policies rather than question them.

Arizona DEA – Border Not Sealed

Texas – All Federal Efforts Fall Short

Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security appears to be completely irrelevant here.

The post 911 surveillance state (fusion centers, license scanners, Homeland Security grant money, monitoring of e-mails, text messages, & social media sites, no fly/terror watch lists, tracking of cell phones, best advances in REAL ID and AI technologies, etc.) fails to keep fentanyl out:

Fentanyl still flooding the Valley as DEA pushes for 0 deaths

by: Jorge Vela KVEO News

Dec 19, 2025

“The Drug Enforcement Agency has launched a new nationwide initiative called Fentanyl Free America, aiming for zero deaths from the deadly synthetic drug as fentanyl seizures continue to rise across the country.”

“Fentanyl was also recently designated a weapon of mass destruction, a move that expands the DEA’s authority to combat trafficking.”

“Dr. Melendez said illegal fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.”

Love to see newspeople ask:

More overdose deaths now, or before the giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security was created back in 2002?

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

 

Related:

Drug boat body count & Whidbey increase in illegal drug activity

Drug Boat Body Count Irrelevant At Seattle?

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Big Success With Undeclared Wars?

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo-

A symbol of newspeople not asking questions over the past 35 years or so.

Approved Flag Images

 

Above: Summer gathering – Washington Coast

In The News

Transportation Secretary’s daughter calls to abolish TSA after 15-minute security delay

by Elaine Mallon – The National News Desk

Dec 18, 2025

“She said the agents pressured her and another pregnant woman to walk through the scanners, which she refused.”

“After finally getting the absurdly invasive pat-down, I barely made my flight. All this for an unconstitutional agency that isn’t even good at its job,” Duffy-Alfonso wrote. “Perhaps things would have gone more smoothly if I’d handed over my biometric data to a random private company (CLEAR). Then I could enjoy the special privilege of waiting in a shorter line to be treated like a terrorist in my own country.”

“She called current security measures for air travel on par with a setting from a dystopian novel written by George Orwell.”

She is being scolded in the comment section for questioning & criticizing federal policies.

The Oak Bay Starfish Take 

Americans were told they faced a life and death situation after 911. If certain actions were not taken, terrorists could come to America to disrupt our way of life and attempt another 911.

If all this was a life and death situation that required sending the troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be important to ask a few public policy questions about what was going on?

Newspeople have a long history of not asking questions in this area.

A Fake War on Terror features TV newspeople out at the airport cheerfully reporting on the busiest travel days of the year.

In a real War on Terror, real newspeople would ask:

What keeps the terrorists of the GWOT from creating a disruption at the back end of the airport security screening line?

Guaranteed: No TV newsperson anywhere will ever ask this question. Americans do not live in a free and honest society.

Imagine the TV newsperson, on camera, escorting the TSA official all the way to the back of the “be sure to arrive early line” and asking what keeps the bad guys from creating a disruption at that point.

The mainstream media functions like paid actors reading a script.

Over and again- Newspeople play the role of federal public affairs staff instead of asking questions.

Every year is the same. Similar cheerful video, no mater where you are in the USA.

No voices of dissent. No passengers with questions about security theater will ever make it on air.

 

Related:

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask

See Something, Say Something?

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

The Invisible Veteran

 

Above: USMC Okinawa – 1980

Zero Mention

Senator Banks makes no mention of the decades of undeclared/unwon wars that remain in place no matter who is in the White House:

From the web:

Military Recruitment Is Surging: A Multifaceted Turnaround

Sarah Holliday – The Washington Stand

Nov 17, 2025

A Few Questions

How many of those who make up the surge have made it even halfway through their first enlistment?

“Rather than dropping standards to meet recruitment goals, enrollment is reportedly surging.”

Some might say that creating a prep course category to attract men and women who did not meet physical standards would count as lowering standards.

Related:

The Army Is Losing Nearly One-Quarter of Soldiers in the First 2 Years of Enlistment

By Steve Beynon – Military.com

Mar 7, 2025

 

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, the Pentagon seems to specialize in undeclared/unwon wars. Both major parties are good with it.

Some will say obese teens and young adults are to blame for the big recruiting crisis. Thousands of young, intelligent and athletic Americans participate in college athletics each year. Certainly, they would qualify to enlist- no rehab/prep program required.

Why are these people not showing up at the recruiting office?

Any questions from newspeople?

Thousands of American families have now had a loved one who did one or more tours in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Various family generations speak with each other.

Will they encourage new enlistments?

Both Major Parties – Lies About Freedom

It’s all about the freedom folks.

Biden honors Americans who ‘stood on the front lines of freedom’ in Veterans Day remarks

CNN Nov 11, 2023

Sorry, no newspeople available to ask:

Mr President,

How would American freedoms and the Constitution be any different today if US troops were never sent to Iraq way back in 1991?

Look for newspeople and school teachers to ask zero questions in this area.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

 

The US should maintain strong and ready military forces.

Look for newspeople and school teachers to ask zero questions in this area:

How Do The Troops Defend The Constitution?

Not asking about the oath of enlistment. Asking about what happens after the oath has been taken.

Love to see newspeople interview elected officials and let us know how sending US Troops to Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, etc., is somehow defending the constitution.

Podcast 9 Defending The Constitution?

From 2004

“Today, however, the Congress has relinquished its delegated powers, giving the President license to do whatever he and his office determine that they can get away with. Consequentially, the presidential and legislative oaths to the Constitution have just turned into a great photo op on inauguration day.”

“It is a sad and hard realization for a grunt who loves the Marine Corps to admit that the organization is not used in the preservation of liberty, and has not been used toward that end for a very long time.”

Source:

Why I Didn’t Reenlist

By Casey Khan

February 14, 2004

Armed Forces Recruiting – 1980s

Part of what made it work:

In past decades, people could do time in uniform, then return to the US with a feeling that they were living in the best country on the planet.

They believed it and their parents and grandparents believed it.

Those who did may have wished to hand down a better version of the modern American society to their kids and grandkids.

Today-

Standards have deteriorated. The troops return to an ongoing breakdown of society.

Both major parties have taken turns in power over the past 40 years or so. For sure, there is a chunk of public policy that has become worse, not better.

Emergency/crisis/chaos mode is what we get now.

Keeping America Safe?

Under Kristi Noem:

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

The Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area chases after cartel product not stopped at the border by Kristi Noem.

Will Northwest HIDTA be shut down when cartel drugs stop entering the US? Have recent US Dept. of Homeland Security efforts reduced the need for Northwest HIDTA services?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats?

Any questions from newspeople?

 

Related:

Approved Flag Images

Big Success With Undeclared Wars?

Drug boat body count & Whidbey increase in illegal drug activity

“…Gen Z is the least likely generation to enlist…”

Quality Recruiting – US Armed Forces

Take An Oath To The Constitution

The Invisible Veteran

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Almost Armistice Day

35 Years Past Desert Shield

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

TSA – Newspeople Refuse To Ask

See Something, Say Something?

 

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

Sponsored by a local Invisible Veteran chapter.

Related:

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

The Invisible Veteran

Respect for The National Guard

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

 

The US should maintain strong and ready military forces.

In The News

Growlers from Whidbey part of buildup near Venezuela

The buildup is part of the escalation of action against Venezuela dictator Nicolas Maduro.

By Jessie Stensland – Whidbey News-Times

Dec 12, 2025

“Also on Wednesday, U.S. forces seized a crude oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, which the Trump Administration said was part of efforts to stop drug trafficking.”

“Joseph Trevithick, a writer for The War Zone, wrote that deployment of the military’s preeminent electronic warfare aircraft is not a standard show of force and could indicate more military action to come.”

Also Whidbey

Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security, the 2025 Vietnam-style drug boat body count, and massing US Border Patrol agents at the southern edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca fail to keep drugs from arriving in Oak Harbor:

Oak Harbor maps out ‘stay out of designated area’

The ordinance allows judges to ban some people convicted of drug crimes from certain zones.

By Marina Blatt – Whidbey News-Times

Dec 5, 2025

Pentagon Drug War

Seattle, Bremerton, Everett, Tacoma, Port Angeles

Which community will be first to announce that local drug addicts are having any problem finding their cartel product of choice due to Dept. of War strikes on drug boats?

Which community will be first to announce that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

More questions:

Is Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security completely irrelevant here?

Has the US Dept. of Homeland Security ever created any shortage of cartel product anywhere in the US?

Are the efforts of any federal agency or department causing local drug addicts to have any problem finding their cartel product of choice?

Is the Seattle fentanyl supply any different today than under Biden?

Have opioid lawsuits played any role in improving the situation?

How do cartels react to opioid lawsuits?

Any questions from newspeople?

Seattle – Alternative Media Asks Questions

Any Shortage Of Cartel Product Inside The US?

The Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area chases after cartel product not stopped at the border by Kristi Noem.

Will Northwest HIDTA be shut down when cartel drugs stop entering the US? Have recent US Dept. of Homeland Security efforts reduced the need for Northwest HIDTA services?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats?

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

Don’t lie to people and maybe they would be more patriotic.

Oak Harbor

Here, in this military town, the local paper seems to go with family friendly and patriotic themes.

In 2016, their hometown pride was running high when they posted:

“For the past couple of years, the Whidbey News-Times paid the insurance for the Veterans Day Parade, about $200, because it was a small way of saying thank you to the men and women who sacrificed so that we may have our liberties, including our Freedom of Speech.”

Were US troops sent to Vietnam so that Americans could be free to send letters to the editor?

Is there any case in which the US Armed Forces have been sent to distant lands on a mission to protect freedom of speech?

Is protecting freedom of speech even part of training scenarios?

Mainstream Media Functions Like Paid Actors Reading A Script

Americans do not live in a free and honest society. Today, the mainstream media will function like paid actors reading a script:

Would any newsperson ever ask:

Did the advantage of US air power allow the undeclared wars in Iraq or Afghanistan to be prevented, won or shut down?

US jet aircraft have been able to strike targets in what wars won by the US?

Currently serving four-star officers and high level DOD civilians have been associated with what wars won by the US?

Macho Swagger

Watch Secretary of War Pete Hegseth takes thrilling fighter jet ride with ‘Top-Gun’ pilots:

Since 1986 Top Gun:

The US Dept. of Defense was nowhere to be found on 911.

We haven’t won a war since.

Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, it feels like the people who run the Pentagon specialize in undeclared/unwon wars. Is it understandable that young people and their parents and grandparents would take a dim view on all this?

 

Another of many examples where freedoms may come & go- completely unrelated to military operations in distant lands:

Was it the Viet Cong that set up laws in 16 US states to prohibit interracial marriage?

Jet Noise Made Them Free?

 

Related:

Approved Flag Images

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Drug boat body count & Whidbey increase in illegal drug activity

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

See Something, Say Something?

Drug Boat Body Count Irrelevant At Seattle?

The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East

Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays

The Invisible Veteran

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo- Watching the waves at Keystone

 

Above: Occasionally looking for the Coupeville ferry

Coupeville/Penn Cove is on the eastern shore of Whidbey Island- no ferry link to Port Townsend exists there.

 

The era of newspeople not asking questions brings on private citizens who go out and ask questions.

Instead of waiting for school teachers to teach about individual rights and limited government authority, waiting on the press to ask questions, or courts to handle cases, these guys go out and update us with a quick reality check.

These guys were also never waiting on the overthrow of Saddam Hussein or the take down of any other bad guy in distant lands, as DOD defends the constitution, etc.

Operating A Camera In A Public Place

Flex Your Freedoms

Welcome Home Troops

Request for ID at 13:50

The Oak Bay Starfish Take

The press has failed.

Over the past 35 years or so, newspeople have failed in their role of investigating and asking questions related to public policy.

In a free and honest society, newspeople would ask questions.

In recent years, the press tends to support government agencies, departments and policies rather than question them.

 

School teachers have failed.

School teachers have failed in their role to teach about basic individual rights and limited government authority. If school teachers and the press did a proper job informing citizens on public photography, it would be seen as a much less controversial act.

The press is free to go and interview the people who have posted the public photography videos below.

School teachers are free to find the best of public photography videos and make lessons of them in class.

More here:

Operating A Camera In A Public Place

 

Above:

Admiralty Head Light with a nice Christmas wreath.

From The Web

CBP Agents Held This U.S. Citizen for Hours Until He Agreed To Let Them Search His Electronic Devices

Jacob Sullum

Reason

Dec 11, 2025

“Chavarria was held for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer.”

“The agents, who persistently pressured Chavarria to surrender his devices and the passwords for them, informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist.”

Keeping Us Safe?

Ever notice that strict post 911 CBP protocols never seem to create any shortage of cartel product anywhere in the US?

Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security, the 2025 Vietnam-style drug boat body count, and massing US Border Patrol agents at the southern edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca fail to keep drugs from arriving in Oak Harbor:

Oak Harbor maps out ‘stay out of designated area’

The ordinance allows judges to ban some people convicted of drug crimes from certain zones.

By Marina Blatt – Whidbey News-Times

Dec 5, 2025

Ditto for Grays Harbor County:

Drug Task Force arrests alleged fentanyl dealer

The Daily World

Dec 5, 2025

Seattle, Bremerton, Everett, Tacoma, Port Angeles

Which community will be first to announce that local drug addicts are having any problem finding their cartel product of choice due to Dept. of War strikes on drug boats?

Which community will be first to announce that first responders are finding less need for Narcan, buprenorphine, Naloxone, fentanyl test strips, or any similar product used in overdose response situations?

More questions:

Is Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security completely irrelevant here?

Has the US Dept. of Homeland Security ever created any shortage of cartel product anywhere in the US?

Are the efforts of any federal agency or department causing local drug addicts to have any problem finding their cartel product of choice?

Is the Seattle fentanyl supply any different today than under Biden?

Have opioid lawsuits played any role in improving the situation?

How do cartels react to opioid lawsuits?

Any questions from newspeople?

Any Shortage Of Cartel Product Inside The US?

The Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area chases after cartel product not stopped at the border by Kristi Noem.

Will Northwest HIDTA be shut down when cartel drugs stop entering the US? Have recent US Dept. of Homeland Security efforts reduced the need for Northwest HIDTA services?

Has any community anywhere in the US downsized or shut down any local drug task force, or narcotics enforcement team due to the success of Dept. of War strikes on narcoterrorist drug boats?

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

 

Possibly of interest:

Drug boat body count & Whidbey increase in illegal drug activity

Fentanyl Arrives In Grays Harbor County

Drug Boat Body Count Irrelevant At Seattle?

Big Homeland Security Budgets

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

See Something, Say Something?

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Approved Flag Images

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

 

Above: Hill Road scene.

In The News

Oak Harbor maps out ‘stay out of designated area’

The ordinance allows judges to ban some people convicted of drug crimes from certain zones.

By Marina Blatt – Whidbey News-Times

Dec 5, 2025

“The idea of creating the designated area was in response to community and business owners’ concerns after police documented an increase in illegal drug activity in the business district on the south side of the city, said Chief of Police Tony Slowik.”

Looks like Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security, the 2025 Vietnam-style drug boat body count, and massing US Border Patrol agents at the southern edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca fail to keep drugs from arriving in Oak Harbor.

Love to see newspeople ask:

Has the Island County Homeland Security-funded patrol boat been involved in any arrest or seizure related in any way to the US/Canada border?

Federal grant money goes to “…gain a better grasp on cross border activity and to prevent illegal crossings.”

When is the last time the Island County Homeland Security-funded patrol boat made any seizure that kept any amount of fentanyl, heroin or any opioid from entering Island County?

Newspeople remain silent.

Whidbey Homeland Security Grant Money- Newspeople Remain Silent

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

Alternative Media Continues To Ask Questions

Desperation? US Sends Fighters Deep Into Gulf of Venezuela

RonPaulLibertyReport

Related:

Fentanyl Arrives In Grays Harbor County

Drug Boat Body Count Irrelevant At Seattle?

Big Homeland Security Budgets

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Take An Oath To The Constitution

Approved Flag Images

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media

 

Above: A meetup with newspeople who ask questions.

 

Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security, the 2025 Vietnam-style drug boat body count, and massing US Border Patrol agents at the southern edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca fail to keep fentanyl from arriving in Grays Harbor County.

In The News

Drug Task Force arrests alleged fentanyl dealer

The Daily World

Dec 5, 2025

Mainstream Newspeople Remain Silent

Newspeople avoid asking if the 2025 Vietnam-style drug boat body count and Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security have created any shortage of cartel product anywhere in the Puget Sound area.

Press Release Style Of News Reporting

In recent years, the press tends to support government agencies, departments and policies rather than question them.

Love to see newspeople out asking questions.

What we get now is sort of a press release style of news reporting where a statement is prepared by whatever agency was involved in the latest policy update, drug bust/federal grant money award, etc.

Newspeople post this statement as is. A 5th grade book report would require more in the way of asking questions.

The press has failed.

Over the past 35 years or so, newspeople have failed in their role of investigating and asking questions related to public policy.

In a free and honest society, newspeople would ask questions.

JFK speaks about the role of the press and voices of dissent in a free society:

More Questions

Is Kristi Noem’s giant and expensive US Dept. of Homeland Security completely irrelevant here?

Has the US Dept. of Homeland Security ever created any shortage of cartel product anywhere in the US?

Are the efforts of any federal agency or department causing local drug addicts to have any problem finding their cartel product of choice?

Is the Seattle fentanyl supply any different today than under Biden?

Any questions from newspeople?

Homeland Security Is Ineffective In The Drug War

More than six months back, Kristi Noem deployed her ass kicking drug war road show.

March 20, 2025

Public Affairs efforts commence – the word goes out.

Cartels have been placed on notice.

Secretary of Homeland Security delivers no nonsense statements in the March 20, 2025 video posted below.

Tough Talk Before The Epstein Files Flip Flop

Below:

Pam Bondi and Kash Patel speak with confidence back before the flip flop on the Epstein files release.

All is well.

High levels of confidence in this businesslike event. Unfortunately, questions from the press were not picked up in the audio below.

April 9, 2025

The claim:

At 5:00 in the video above, the FBI director clams that various federal agencies will “…get all the drugs off the streets…”

“Almost 45,00 pounds of pure, uncut cocaine were seized and 3,800 pounds of marijuana, Bondi said.”

Under Kristi Noem

Cartels move product into all 50 states.

DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas:

“…HIDTA-designated counties are located in 50 states…”

Welcome Home Troops. Thanks for doing time/risking your ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, working to keep a post 911 USA safe & secure.

Don’t worry-The Super Bowl and public affairs will be safe:

Welcome Home Troops

Common flashlight batteries are now locked up like diamond jewelry:


Kristi Noem is sealing off the border. Any day now, cartel drugs will no longer be available anywhere in WA.

People will no longer need cash to support a drug habit. There will be no more need to steal, and we can all go back to how things were in the last century.

Back to a time before the US Dept. of Homeland Security was established in 2002. This giant federal agency now has more than two decades of experience and lessons learned in working to prevent cartel product from entering the US. More overdose deaths now, or before DHS?

We’re not impressed.

Credibility squandered, enthusiasm dried up.

 

Related:

Port Angeles Homeland Security Spending Spree

Drug Boat Body Count Irrelevant At Seattle?

Big Homeland Security Budgets

Throwback Thursday – Port Angeles Drug War

What Is A Fake War On Terror?

Approved Flag Images

Sound Publishing And Black Press Media