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My name is Bruce Tetley. I am a nobody, a middle aged
musician who has never cleared more than $10,000 a year
in this life. Born and raised in Syracuse, N.Y., I moved
to Florida in 1996, then I moved to Maui in November of
2004. I have good reason to believe my life is in danger.
In the past week my bank accounts have been emptied
electronically and my credit cards maxed out. As far as the
banks are concerned, all transactions were legally done and
I have no recourse. In the past year I've had two very omi-
nous, threatening phone calls and two symbolic but no less
threatening "messages". One was a dead rat at the foot of my
bed back in Florida, and the other was a penny, painted red,
at the foot of my bed yesterday. (Not worth a red cent)
Let me begin to explain with some history.
I have not trusted the government of this nation for as
long as I can remember. Actually, it started in 1960 during
the Kennedy-Nixon debates. Even as a 10 year old, I didn't
trust "tricky Dick". When Kennedy was murdered in '63, I
knew something was terribly wrong and wasn't shy about say-
ing so. I read the Warren Report from cover to cover. (It
took a month!) It's amazing how that report parallels that
of the 9/11 commission fiction of today. Each blaming an inept
FBI, Secret Service, and police for failures in what should've
been normal protocol. The "single bullet theory" was so ludi-
crous, even to a 14 year old, that I was enraged at it's total
acceptence. From that day forward I knew that Lyndon Johnson,
Gerald Ford, Arlen Spector, Earl Warren, the FBI, CIA, and the
entire military-industrial complex were not to be trusted. My
feelings were confirmed when New Orleans D.A. James Garrison
exposed the whole mess in '67-'68. I did everything I could to
convince my friends and fellow students of this. Some listened,
most didn't even care.
Next came the Viet Nam war. I was fully prepared to either
be a conscientious objector or split to Canada rather than kill
or be killed so that fat cats in the U.S. could drive cadillacs
and get richer on oil and defense contractor investments. For-
tunately a good friend's father advised me that my asthma condi-
tion could get me a medical deferment and it did. I protested,
marched, boycotted GE, GM, ESSO(EXXON), Mac-Douglas, and basic-
every company associated with that war.
Now we come to Watergate. Needless to say, I was outraged
that the FBI,CIA,NSA, and the entire government apparatus could
be so manipulated to implement one man's warped and hateful
agenda. (Again paralleling today's nightmare)
I read every book, every transcript and watched nearly every
minute of the Watergate hearings. Oh, how I long for a man with
the guts and integrity of Sen. Sam Ervin. Not today. Not with
this bunch of criminals. It was during this period that I started
writing letters to Congress and newspapers. A trait I no doubt
inherited from my late mother, excepting that I send mine in.
Needless to say, I rejoiced at Nixon's downfall and jeered at his
pardon, but I knew Ford was a lackey so it wasn't a surprise.
When Carter was elected I took a break hoping that he might
do some good, and he did, some. But then in 1980 the "October
Surprise" and Reagan/Bush brought me right back into the fray.
Good grief! How could a third rate actor and a Saudi sucking, oil
drilling, CIA bag man come to power so soon after Watergate? At
that point I became depressed and thought there was absolutely
no hope. Iran/Contra, the S+L and BCCI scandals, and the bribing
of the oil rich soviet "istans" confirmed my mistrust. I remem-
ber reading about a Franklin S+L scandal in Omaha in 1986 that
involved cocaine, money laundering, and a bizarre sexual slavery,
blackmail ring that was run by then Sen. Lawrence King of the
state of Nebraska. It was just news then but would later tie in
to my current woes. It struck a nerve with me because I had
been kidnapped, robbed, and raped at gunpoint by three men in
that same year. Needless to say, the humiliation, guilt, andears of pointless sanctions.
Clinton turned out to be more Republican than Nixon for
crissake! NAFTA was all I needed to write him off. In '92,
however, the sex slave, blackmail thing came up again when an
aid in the Bush White House, Paul Balach, had been outed and
was involved in procuring young gay prostitutes for elite par-
ties involving congressmen, military, and "giants" of in-
dustry. There had always been rumors that ALL the Bush boys,
including G.H.W. senior leaned a little to the "lite" side.
As it turns out, a VERY dark side.
I lived in Sarasota, Fl. from 1997 - 2001 and while there
had read many articles about one Kathrine Harris and her fond-
ness for taking junkets to Washington, New York, and California,
staying at five star hotels, in $1200. suites at taxpayers ex-
pense. I wrote several letters expounding on the brazen waste
of money this women foisted on Florida citizens. I even got a
retort form her highness Harris in the Sarasota paper saying
that she could spend taxpayers money any way she saw fit. This
brought on a deluge of letters protesting her nerve and callous
behavior. She later wrote in a somewhat disingenuous explanation
that some construed as an apology. I was tickled. About a month
later, on my way home from playing at a club out of town, I was
stopped, searched and arrested for DUI. I had three beers in a
90 minute span and at 250 lbs., I wasn't even in a good mood. My
lawyer convinced me we could beat the charge if we went to trial.
I was convicted and spent 4 months in a very crowded Sarasota
County jail. I later found out that my lawyer could have pleaded
me out but was pressured to go to trial almost insuring that I
get jail time. Thank you Ms. Harris. Incidently, the gig I played
that night was in a club at the Venice Airport where the Huffman
Aviation flight training school was located.
I used to play in a very exclusive area called Boca Grande
which was between Venice and Fort Myers, Fl. One night, after a
show, I was invited to party with some college age kids at one of
their parents' home. The folks were away so we hung out by the
pool at a very luxurious estate. After a few drinks one of the
guys mentioned that the Bush family compound is just a few houses
down the beach. Then one of the girls said that she went to
high school with Noelle Bush (Jeb's daughter) and that she had
some really weird stories about the men in her family. I was ALL
ears. She said that whenever there was a non-official, strictly
friendly party at one of the Bush's homes, there always seemed to
a number of young, handsome, unattached men hanging around. She
assumed they were prospective suitors for her and her cousins but
when she would approach them, they weren't at all interested. It
was then that I recalled the Franklin cover-up, Paul Balach, and
the sexual prostitute scandal. Could the Bush boys be involved
in this seedy stuff? I certainly hoped so! Then this girl dropped
a bombshell. She said that she and Noelle got drunk one night when
Jeb and her mother were out and decided to look at some home movie
videos. Upon shuffling through a video drawer they discovered a
false bottom, opened it, and found several videos labeled
"Bohemian Club". They put one in and were aghast to see some sort
of pagan ritual in a redwood forest featuring young boys dancing
nude around a fire, men having sex with young girls and boys, ani-
mal sacrifice, and all the while, in the audience were her father,
grandfather, two uncles and many famous men in government and big
business. The girl was shaking like a leaf by this time and stop-
ped talking all together. The young men laughed it off and said she
was drunk and didn't see anything. I feigned aggreement and left.
I never spoke of this with anyone but always kept it in the
back of my mind. Then in 2000 we had the election fraud and all of
Florida knew it was a scam but the fix was in and we were screwed.
I prayed that somebody would find those tapes and bring these swine
DOWN! Nada.
I moved to St. Augustine in July of 2001 and shortly thereaft-
ter came 9/11. Once again, I smelled a rat. How could Norad and the
FAA fail so miserably on that day when 2 years earlier, when Payne
Stewart's plane went off course, the fighters were on him in 10 min-
utes?! I still don't believe they didn't know in advance. Heinrich
Himmler said "when war is desired, and the people opposed, attack
innocent non-combatants, scare the hell out of the people, and
blame the enemy".
I think it was in May or June of 2002 when the papers were full
of the news of Noelle Bush being arrested and jailed on drug charges.
In her mug shot she looked like Janis Joplin after a three day drunk.
I remembered the ritual, sex tape story and immediately went online
for some research. I couldn't come up with much on her at all. They
put a lid on all things Noelle from then on. I even tried to pose as
a reporter while in Tallahasse one time for a gig. I said I was
writing a story about celebrity drug abuse and wanted to interview
Ms. Bush. BIG MISTAKE! From then on, I feel my movements have been
monitored. Not closely mind you but I just had a weird feeling some-
times. When I couldn't get any more info, I pretty much dropped it.
I still wrote letters and bitched about this and that. One case
was in 2000 when Congressman Joe Scarborough's knocked up female aid
was found dead mysteriously in his office and he tried to cover his
ass with several different stories. I still think he's got more to
tell about that one. Now we come to the kicker.
In late 2003 or early 2004 there was a great hoopla in the St.
Augustine news about 14-15 attractive young Russian kids in the 16-
18 year old range who were packed into two small motel rooms in St.
Augustine beach and had no jobs, little money, and no supervision
whatsoever. The paper speculated that they were on some foreign ex-
change cultural program and had gotton lost in the bureaucratic
shuffle. I had done much research after the Paul Balach affair and
knew that there was a huge trade in sexual slavery and prostitution
coming from all over eastern Europe and run by the Russian mob and
as I found out later, the CIA. I wrote letters to the paper and con-
tacted the police about my thoughts and was told thanks, go away.
Another BIG MISTAKE! What was I thinking? The POLICE?! I thought
I could help. DUMB!
About six months later, upon returning home from a gig, I dis-
covered that someone had been in my apartment. I knew this because
I always lock the deadbolt and leave the handle unlocked. I found
them inversely locked. In August of last year I woke up to find the
dead rat at the foot of my bed and the locks reversed as before.
It was that and 4 hurricanes that made me decide to move to Maui
post haste, and in November, I did.
I figured I was safer here because all the garbage I was
stirring up was Florida related, so why would they care about me
here? Then Jeff Gannon came into view, thanks to bloggers.
When I heard that a gay prostitute had shown up with White
House approved credentials in the press room in the west wing,
I nearly passed out! Of course the whole business was rapidly
swept under the rug so I knew there was more to the story. Sure
enough, the bloggers were all over it and found out he was really
James Guckert and might have ties to the Balach scandal in '92.
That led me back to the Franklin cover-up and sex slaves, mind
control, CIA (under Bush Sr.), and finally the Bohemian Club.
I'll not go into the BC history because it's long and sordid. Just
"google" it and you'll find what I found. One of the by-products
of all these stories is that every witness who has come forward
to nail these slime ends up dead. The majority via "suicide".
It's become such a common thread that it's now a catch phrase
online that someone has been "suicided". If they are not murdered
and manipulated to look like suicide, they can also be manipulated
via mind control, drugs, and the newest abomination, electromag-
netic pulse bombardment that can be used to actually get inside a
person's mind and make them do anything they're ordered to do. The
"Manchurian Candidate" is by no means fiction.
Hunter Thompson's death is suspicious in that light because
he was rumored to have infiltrated the Bohemian Club years ago,
taken videos, and was ready to expose them to the world. The cover
story, or red herring, is that he had evidence about the planting
of explosives at the WTC prior to 9/11. Two days after Thompson's
death, Rusty Nelson, another video photographer in the Franklin
cover up, was arrested and is now MIA. I am convinced that this
scandal is real and the "Bushies" know it's the ONLY thing that
can bring them down now. Legislation, protests, congress, etc.
are powerless against the wall they've built around themselves.
Only a total exposure of their sexual hypocracy, deviant behavior,
and abuse of power can bring them down, with the help of the "rel-
gious right" they pander to so well.
So, that's where I am today. Last night I found the "red cent"
at the foot of my bed. I'm broke, no credit, and living on the most
expensive island in the world! You may ask, as do I, who cares about
some old radical schmoe who has absolutely no clout?! Well, all I
can think is that public opinion is the only thing left to fight
these guys. I write letters and inform readers of things the cor-
porate media won't. I call in to radio, public access TV, and C-SPAN
to get the word out. When you shine the kitchen light on roaches in
the night, they scatter, terrified for their lives. I have never
feared death. Just the manner in which it occurs. I never want to be
eaten alive by a shark, tiger, woman, etc... I say if they want to
"suicide" me bring it on! I'll take a couple of them with me. If any
friends or family read this and I turn up dead via suicide, heart
attack, car accident, drowning,etc., DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT!
If I'm shot or tasered to death, resisting arrest, you can believe
that. I won't sit in a jail cell forever for no reason.