Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

What's a "Handschu Scam" and what, if anything, does it have to do with the alleged terrorist plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, the latest fiasco in the U.S. "Justice" Department's Julian Assange farce, and the January 6, 2021 D.C. riot, mega-hyped into an "insurrection" to satisfy the gullible?

When government agents infiltrate lawful political organizations, they're under pressure to come back with information. And what government hearings have revealed time and time again is that they come back initially with no information, with information about lawful activities and then they're under pressure to generate some business. And they try to entrap people and foment illegal activity. …and the people behind the plot to blow up anything [in the Handschu case] were all government agents.
— ACLU's Donna Lieberman

So how far will that "pressure to generate some business" make them go? Here's a clue—

A 22-year-old Bangladeshi man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City with a fake bomb as part of an elaborate FBI sting. Quazi Nafis pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in February. His case drew claims of government entrapment after the FBI supplied the inert explosives, the van used to carry them, the detonator and even the storage facility where an agent helped Nafis assemble the fake bomb.
Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Bid to Attack Federal Reserve with Fake Bomb

As revealed in the Handschu case mentioned by Ms. Lieberman, this government entrapment scam is one of the U.S. law-and-order-industry dirty little secrets.

It was, for example, what created the so-called "Viper Militia" in Arizona, where an FBI "informant" proposed robbing banks, blowing up government buildings—including Phoenix Police HQ—etc., to further "the cause."

When I interviewed a Viper Militia member on the periphery of that investigation, he told me it was easy to recognize an infiltrator: He was the one that "proposed the violent acts and was impatient to 'get 'em on'."

Most people quietly left the group as a result of the " informant's" rantings. A few stayed behind because they felt they had to try to keep this guy—who, incidentally, was responsible for the name "Viper"—from hurting people. Naturally it was these patient heros who were indicted by our Junior G-men. Good work, guys!

Ditto the West Virginia Militia, where Oakey "Marshall" Richards, an "informant" recruited by FBI agent J.C. Raffety, proposed blowing up the Federal Fingerprint facility near Fairmont, West Virginia. This is a sprawling complex that would probably take several thousand pounders from a B-52 to even dent.

And then there was the Olympic Park Bombing. While anti-abortionist Eric Rudolph eventually copped to the attack, the FBI was busily defaming—and thus destroying the life of—honest-to-goodness home-town hero Richard Jewell who discovered and reported the bomb.

In the mean time, the local FBI "informant" was busily attempting to subvert other local groups, planting evidence and fomenting violence.

Former Libertarian Party VP candidate, medical doctor, and attorney Nancy Lord was on the margin of the Olympic Park investigation: Her client, Mr. Robert Starr, was framed and indicted when explosives were planted on his property.

Dr. Lord was passing around two recordings: One of the FBI "informant" in the Star case—the other of the 911 emergency call from the bomber. She was asking if people thought they were the same voice. It sounded to me as if they could have been. The FBI finally admitted the voice could have been one of "their" boys.

In the mean time, the FBI was dragging poor, innocent, Richard Jewel across the path using him as the proverbial red-herring.

And it was because Randy Weaver refused to become just such an infiltrator and "informant" that the U.S. Government eventually killed most of his family at Ruby Ridge, including his fourteen-year-old son Sammy (shot in the back by U.S. Marshal William F. Degan) his wife Vickie (shot through the head, literally with babe-in-arms, by FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi—who's now hiding-out somewhere in the witness protection program), and seriously wounded Randy himself, as well as his friend Kevin Harris.

So now we come to Gretchen Whitmer. Apparently there were 18 folks involved in the alleged plot. How many do you suppose were government agents or "informants ?" Twelve. Guess which ones were in charge—

And what about that mega-hyped riot—ah, "insurrection "—on January 6, 2021? Would you be surprised to know that Unindicted Co-Conspirators in [January 6] Cases Raise Disturbing Questions of Federal Foreknowledge?

And there's the shameful, despicable, disgusting—and telling—attack on internationally renown journalist and Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, multi-nominated for a Nobel Peace prize, for documenting the truth about That Thing That Lives in Washington D.C.

The FBI recruited Icelander Sigurdur Ingi Thordarsona , a known pedophile, con-man and fraudster, as an "informant" to lie about Mr. Assange. Unfortunately for the FBI, after typically taking major financial advantage of his "informant" status, Thordarsona went public. That blew the foundation out of the "hacking" charge which was the centerpiece of the "Justice" Department's case.

As of July 20, 2021, Uncle Scam still doggedly refuses to stop torturing Mr. Assange. But it's U.S. Government fear—or is it terror—of folks finding out the truth, not justice, driving this compete prosecutorial travesty.

The establishment was also hip deep in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. It killed six and injured about 1,000. Unsurprisingly, the group held responsible had an FBI "informant" in it, former Egyptian army officer Emad Salem. He was supposed to supply fake explosives.

Whoops!

The use of such "informants" is just a short hop, skip, and a jump away from false-flag operations, where your own agents attack you pretending to be the enemy for various reasons. You set up a fall-guy, sort of like maybe Quazi Nafus, and then, if necessary, do the ditry work yourself—or contract it out. This is usually planned on a much larger scale, like Operation Northwoods clear back in 1962—

"Code-named Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the written approval of the [Joint Chiefs] Chairman [Lemnitzer] and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war [against Castro's Cuba]."
—Body of Secrets, James Bamford

And here's how folks that plan such things think—

Already in 1983, after the terrorist bombing on the Marine barracks in Beirut with 241 dead US service men, Director of Central Intelligence William Casey called Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral James "Ace" Lyons, and asked him to collect a team of Special Forces that could act as "real terrorists" and attack US Naval bases world-wide, with bombings, kidnappings, and thefts of nuclear weapons, to make US personnel aware of the terrorist threat.[109]
—The Flying Pangolin, by Andreas Canetti - The Unz Review

And then somewhere between Quazi Nafis and Operation Northwoods you find things like the Oklahoma City Bombing . If you believe the official law-and-order-industry narrative, dangerous militia member Timothy McVeigh and his army buddy Terry Nichols blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City with a low-explosive ANFO (fertilizer) bomb, stashed in a parked Ryder truck.

If you have a smattering of knowledge of explosives, however—and believe in physical evidence as presented by retired Air Force General and explosives expert Benton K. Partin —it's clear Mr. McVeigh was the fall-guy for just another violent U.S. Government false-flag crime against we-the-people.

The Oklahoma City Bombing, Operation Northwoods , the thinking of Director of Central Intelligence William Casey , and FBI informant Emad Salem's involvement in the first World Trade Center attack might make some folks curious about possible connections to the 9/11 World Trade Center building collapses—all three of them.

There are plenty of other examples.

So what’s your opinion – was it an “Insurrection” or just another Handschu Scam??

A close look at this extensive Handschu Scam history— well, it's a marvel those folks at the FBI, CIA, etc. have time left over to actually protect us rather than entraping folks and blowing us up.

Unfortunately when you get right down to it, our protectors aren't really that good at protecting us anyway.

But, hey, we believe any myth or narrative concocted by the law-and-order-industry or our government minions and elected liars—and manufactured by the MSM. Right?

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L. Reichard White [send him mail] taught physics and the philosophy of science, designed and built a house, ran for Nevada State Senate, served two terms on the Libertarian National Committee, managed a theater company, etc. For the next few decades, he supported his writing habit by beating casinos at their own games. His hobby, though, is explaining things he wishes someone had explained to him. You can find a few of his other explanations listed here.