Most of the posters were homemade with a lot of "personality" - the only noticeably professional efforts in mass were the flags in yellow with a picture of the coiled snake from “Don’t Tread on Me.”  There were a few flags with red stripes only (no blue/no states). Does that mean that there shouldn’t be any states, just one big federal government - here, I thought these folks were big on states rights - to include the belief in secession from the Union.

All sorts of messages and colors in the posters - one with “Pro Life,” (of course) but as for colors, very few people of color. I only saw one darker person (unsure if they were African American). So many different groups, so many poster messages, some mean-spirited, some humorous, some incomprehensible: “Print Me a Trillion. We’ll Eat It.”

There were people from Freedomworks (the organizing group), Glen Beck - star of The 912 Project, and Gathering of Eagles.

Larry Bailey is the chairman of Gathering of Eagles , a conservative, pro-war veterans group. When you go to this site, you will notice in the left column a link to another story. A picture of young Middle Eastern boy with an automatic weapon, caption reading, “Jihad Kids…” and “almost from birth, Muslim children are…taught to embrace violence…” This is ironic, and can aptly apply to the TeaParty movement. Note - children mimic their adults with a screaming comment from a 7 yr. old at the 9/12 TP march, “Government just screws us.” TP rhetoric is full of violence.  

The film crew stands up - CNN now switches to eyelevel. A few minutes on, a walker asks the crew who they work for..."CNN" they say. Someone screams "Communist News Network." The crew is polite, just working. Another marcher calls out to the crowd to get them to taunt the film crew, "You lie," "You lie." strangly like an echo, only one marcher joins in. They give up and walk on. Just behind them, one man tries to be nice, "Are you really here to film us...thanks."

The group donating the most money for this rally/march is the National Association of Rural Landowners, or NARLO, hence to be called Gnarly (pronounced Narly) - if there are Freepers, Birthers and Deathers, now there are Gnarlies. Visit their site to the link, “The Coming Civil War.”  Gnarly says, “The second American revolution has just begun. Join it or buy a gun, because you are going to need it.” Gnarlies want it; they believe it’s coming; and they want everyone to take up arms right NOW.

Previous to Gathering of Eagles, Larry Bailey was/is the original Swiftboater - president of Vietnam Vets for Truth, and head of Kerry Lied rally and pressure group, the Operation Street Corner, also the "Boot Murtha" campaign.

In 2007, in an interview with democracy-project.com, the host asked Larry Bailey, “Why do this, when you could be enjoying retirement.?”

Bailey replied, “I AM enjoying retirement by doing this.”

Why would anyone include this placard on a video unless they wanted to poke fun at the TP march - one person commented on it's as misspelling, but it's just improper grammar. Did these people go to school? Wouldn't this group want to put on their best face for the public; why show off this sign? And why would the pro-TP website, Minority Report, brandish it for all to see?  It seems that ignorance is a comfort zone for TP members.

After Larry Bailey retired from the Navy, he says he taught English and History. Better go back to work, Larry...certainly a more valuable occupation than organizing TP marches.

An odd statement involving Bailey's personal and political history - in an interview in 2005, when asked about being politically active in national politics before now, Bailey says, "Not national...(but) I was out of the Navy for a couple of years back in the 60's and became executive director of the Republican party in Ft. worth, TX." Odd, why would he be "out of the Navy for a couple of years." A person is in, and then out, and then back again - why is that? And wouldn't that interfer with those 27 years he says he was in the Navy, retired in 1990 but says he entered in 1962 - some lost years there, hummm.

Maybe in those in-between-years Larry did some contract or spook work in Navy-like situations. Maybe to this day he is a spook, infiltrating all these radical conservative groups. Maybe we should look at his DD-214 (discharge papers with vitae and easily available).

Is Bailey really what he purports to be; at times he seems to not know who he really is. Was he actually a Navy SEAL - an active SEAL, in between those times he wasn't in the Navy. On Dec. 21, 2004, he gave an interview with C-SPAN where the reporter never mentions Captain Bailey was a Navy SEAL and Bailey never speaks up to correct the omission - very important if being a SEAL was his raison for being in the Navy.

In another instance, Bailey is interviewed by Jim Vicevich at WTIC radio, regarding Bailey's harassment of Congressman John Murtha. Vicevich continually refers to Bailey as "Commander." Wouldn't that be an insult to be lowered in rank? Bailey never broke in to mention that it is "Captain Bailey." Before the interview, surely Bailey would have been introduced to the host. Is Bailey new to his own reputation.

A very important article is “The Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality,” for an up front portrait of the March 17, 2007 march/rally, and life with the Gathering of Eagles.

As a 27 year Navy veteran, retired in 1990 with the rank of Captain, Bailey is a Libertarian, and will tell you his favorite book is the Libertarian Bible, “The Law,” by Frederic Bastiat; Bailey calls it, “the bible of liberty, period.” Born in 1939, on Aug. 7, Bailey is 70.

"I want you to be a socialist"

Most people in America are affiliated with one or several social networking groups so why take special notice of Larry Bailey: because he is involved with groups who preach the overthrow of our government, and because he is a vigilante.

The Gnarly group uses the now-common bombast of calling Democrats, Socialists, but they also include environmentalists in the abomination category. Gnarly say, “Unless we come together in a cohesive, fighting unit, our freedoms and liberties shall fade into the dark chasm of socialism and radical environmentalism.”

What is radical environmentalism? I guess it’s what Peter Sumaruck has invented, with his Zero-Amp Tech. Pete’s power production system can power you home, business, city for 30 years for practically no cost - that’s what is termed free energy; it’s over unity (puts out more energy than you put in), is closed looped (once started, does not stop until you turn it off), and dispels Ohm’s Law of physics, as well as defeats the Law of Thermodynamics. Pete’s system is also pollution free.

“Caution, the Revolution is Coming”

Connected to Larry Bailey by a thread, how so? Larry works for Pownetwork, a company operated by a Vietnam vet’s wife, Mary Schantag, where they vet vets…or not. Someone tells them they think a particular person is not really a veteran (as they supposedly claim). Then they send their teams out on the hunt - no longer military-affiliated, but now vigilantes on the prowl. This way, if these raiders didn’t have enough combat experiences in their current lives, they satisfy this need by hunting out supposed miscreants.

"Who is John Gault" - Who is John Gault? I shrug.

The star of Pownetwork is Steve Robinson. He was a Navy SEAL from 1971 to 1978 - but no combat time, only sub repair and electronics instruction. Robinson yearned for combat so he took up a hobby of battlefield recreations, where he assumed the role of a Viking warrior, even to forging his own armor. when that was not enough, he became an actual vigilante.

If you go to the pownetwork.org, you will see a click for "wannabes," and even another...hundreds of cases - many of these are from the roster of the dead, no longer able to defend themselves. Steve Robinson wants to increase his body count. There are a few criminal types but most of the write-ups show no evidence of malfeasance. Some are very sad, like a man claiming to be a Vietnam vet, pulling a large wagon-like cart across the country, turns out he would have been only 15 years old in the war...no war, only disturbed.

Does Robinson get some joy out of this "work?" I would suggest honest labor for him.

This year, early summer, someone contacted Steve Robinson - someone who doesn’t like Pete Sumaruck, someone who doesn‘t want Pete‘s breakthrough technology to reach the public. At that time, Larry Bailey joined in on this blood sport, like pitbulls attacking a greyhound. The individual who contracted them, said Pete was claiming to be a Navy SEAL, when he wasn’t. They became convinced this would be profitable and fun. Bully mentality runs deep in both Steve Robinson and Larry Bailey.

This assault team began with articles on the pow website and loathing emails, first to me and then to Pete. Did they learn this tricks from Richard Nixon?

Pete to me, “I was not a Navy SEAL (or Se.A.L.); I keep telling people I was a civilian contract employee, taught by Navy SEALs. To go into combat - paramilitary work, in the boonies, where Americans legally couldn’t go - but everybody wants to say I’m a SEAL.”

I to him, “I know it now, but I wrote it that way because it was simpler not to go into all those details. It just didn’t seem that important. It was what you did… not how you got into ‘the business.’” I had originally written an article referring to Pete as a Navy SEAL; it just seemed more expedient at the time. I had no idea it would upset anyone.

"They want me to name names, and places...but I won't break honor." Pete spent 9 ½ years in this contract position, in war zones around the world - all of it in combat, to incorporate some photography in the last year. As you might imagine, combat is very tough duty. Steve Robinson wasn‘t in combat, while Larry may have, especially in Vietnam, but did he actually lead his men as a SEAL officer in combat? Was he actually a SEAL? Bailey doesn’t talk about that, only that he is most proud of being the commanding officer of the Naval Special Warfare Center (SEAL training) in California for 3 ½ years. This would have been administrative work, the reason we suppose Bailey wants to get out in the field now, in chase and capture.

When this flack began, we didn’t have any idea who had contacted the Pownetwork about Pete, or why. Then with some clever computer maneuvers (we have hard copy), we found out the individual was Dr. Steven Greer. Greer is a former emergency room physician, now ufologist (UFOs and alien research), and proponent of new energy technology (and maintains an expensive lifestype from donations to his group, Orion). He and Pete had a falling out when Greer wanted to purchase Pete’s invention 6 months ago, but suddenly could not produce the funds stipulated in the contract.

We believe factions of our government are helping Greer; many groups do not want new energy to succeed: naturally, the petroleum industry; “Tbone” Pickens and his natural gas; certainly nuclear power is powerful at the Pentagon. Back to the Gnarlies at NARLO, and their war against “radical environmentalists.” These people laugh smugly at advanced technology.

"You Can't Fix Stupid" 

Greer pulled back from Pete’s technology when it was clear that it really works. Dr. Greer had begun to promote many different types of new energy but none had come to fruition. With Pete’s invention, Greer took a push/pull attitude - Pete must be stopped, they decided; perhaps some contrived disgrace could be implemented to stop him. And so, the “garbage men” were called in.

But remember the greyhound - he is fast, intelligent and fond of arriving first at the finish line.

These vigilante teams used to be AuthentiSeal and VariSeals until both groups dissolved from lack of volunteer interest; furthermore, those company names only refer to an application to Navy SEALs. Currently, Pow has broadened their base to include vetting anyone in the present or former military.

What exactly do the Pow people do to their intended. Pete reported that a variety of people in his town called him to say that Pow team members, to include Larry Bailey, had called them to disparage Pete - Pow had discovered his high school yearbook and found the ones still living in town. They also went after any contacts he noticeably had in the energy community. The following is an email sent to me, telling me about how he (Ken Rasmussen) was contacted by Larry Bailey, raving about Pete. This is typical of the calls made by Bailey to friends and associates of Pete.

From: Ken Rasmussen
Date: Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Subject: Larry Bailey
To: Charlotte Wilson

Vigilantism in America is against the law, Larry Bailey.

In previous cases, Bailey is proud to describe the staged confrontations he has forced upon his supposed suspects. He and the team will go to the man’s home or public place where others might witness the altercation. They drag the man outside and do an “intervention” type confrontation.

“We Didn’t Bring Our Guns…This Time”

An unknown team member ingratiated himself in friendship to Pete, talked about buying a car engine he had for sale - can I come over and look at it (at Pete’s home)? Staking out his place. Days later an SUV with team members showed up, watched from a nearby hill, then asked if they could rent a place nearby, drove by several times, paused, stopped… Pete’s neighbors became alerted; they all came out to hold their ground. The vigilantes went away.

“Get Your Funds Cut Off”

The military is a time when you give your all, then you move on to something else - there is a time for battle, and then a time for peaceful productive work. There is no place for the word “glory.” Life is only a passage.

I have been the one to receive most of emails. Pete had told these people that their harassment tactic has been the catalyst for Admiral Boorda's suicide (constant hounding harassment because he wore a tiny "V" pin for combat in Vietnam/conflict over whether it should be one pin or two). The man writing to me blamed the suicide on the "Press." Oh ya, that's always good - just blame the press when you can't accept a real answer. I would say that overall, with these people, my using logic doesn’t work. No matter what I say, they refuse to be deterred by logic.

“You Can’t Fix Stupid”