- On Dec 27, in Kansas City I was driving by Worlds of
Fun amusement park.
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- Suddenly, off to the right, I saw many brand new white
trucks (and some other colors) of the 4-wheel drive type. I was very startled
to see them in Kansas City. So, I turned my own white truck around to get
a better view.
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- Now, what made them stand out was the military precision
of their parking. Normal people do not park vehicles that close and straight.
So, I got out my video camera and 35mm camera.
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- I started taking pictures from the public roadside, and
noticed that the vehicles had no plates, or stickers in the windows...which
would leave out the possibility of a local dealership renting the lot.
Dealers have to have plates and the window stickers on the vehicle until
sale of the vehicle is complete.
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- The security for these vehicles drove around in unmarked
white trucks. It was cold and windy that day, even at noon. I parked my
truck at the front driveway and decided to walk down to the front gate
where people pay to enter the park.
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- I thought the park security would be the cheap rent-a-cop
type that would not easily leave their nice, warm trucks. However, I assumed
if they did come out, they would simply ask me to leave, and tell me to
come back in the summer when the park would be open.
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- I stopped a couple of times as I went down the road to
take pictures of the vehicles. My video camera has a 26x zoom, and if I
did not brace it against a tree, the picture would jump all over the place.
I was also taking pictures with the 35mm. The film was made for many times
magnification.
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- In this world, if you do not have pictures, no one believes
you.
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- I made it up to the gate which is really just 5 to 6
arches you stop at to pay your park entrance fee. I about to turn around
and go back to my little white truck at the top of the hill when I saw
park security coming fast through the park right toward my position.
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- There are no buildings nearby to hide behind the big
40 foot tall evergreens with 10 foot long branches where on the other side
of the arches, the only cover was this small, 6 foot evergreen tree. It
looked like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
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- I stood still behind this stupid little tree as both
white vehicles pulled up to the arches. One turned right and went back
into the park, the other sped up very fast (burning rubber) up the driveway.
So, I quickly went over to the three larger evergreens to hide.
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- Now this is fun, I thought. I get to play hide and seek
with the park patrol. Then the other truck which had turned right and went
into the park came back fast. It stopped just past me. I was 10 feet from
the left rear quarter panel of the truck. I thought for sure he saw me
because I was wearing a gray coat with bright light blue pants and standing
between 2 very green evergreen trees.
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- But it must be true what they say. People tend to look
forward when Searching, not behind. I was tempted to yell BOO !. It would
have scared the crap out of the park patrol.
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- But I was having too much fun hiding from these 2 guys.
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- So I backed into the third tree and went over the embankment
towards my truck. The amusement park is near I-435 highway, and earthen
embankments help deflect road way sounds, and block the view of the highway.
So I had about 50 yards to go to get to my truck up on the road.
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- The little field was sunken and could not be easily seen
from the park entrance. I thought I was home free.
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- Then 2 vehicles came flying over the embankments. One
cut me off from the front, the other from behind. The one in front jumped
out of his vehicle armed, but not drawn, not yet. Yelling, "Get down
on the ground!" Then yelling, "Whats your name? What's your social
security number?" My brain said, "What? Social security number?"
I thought a social security number was not to be used as a form of ID.
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- This fellow wanted my social security number more than
he wanted my name. I gave him the requested data and he quickly grabbed
my video camera and 35mm camera.
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- After a quick search over my body, the first guy (the
leader) asked me again for my social security number, but not my name.
I have never heard of park patrols, or police, asking for social security
number over your name. I was wary but I repeated the number again. I thought
"I'm dead" if I forget my social security number.
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- I was then grabbed from behind. My arms were placed behind
my back. Then, I was told to place my arms on the hood of the white truck
and to spread my legs.
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- The search turns up my truck keys, a cell phone, but
no billfold. I had left it back in the truck. The leader asks me what I
am doing in his park. I did not want him to know that I was taking pictures
of the trucks, so I told him I was taking pictures of the park. People
take pictures of the park all the time.
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- But this upset him even more, and he asked me, "How
far did you get into my park?" I told him only as far as the park
entrance. Of course, he did not believe me. Then he said, "I can tell
when people are lying to me."
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- I thought "What? He can't read minds." That
is such an old trick. I used it against the kids when I worked at the YMCA
as a camp counselor. It made the kids tell the truth...like you had some
special powers.
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- Then, the 'fearless leader' says, "I can let you
go if you tell me the truth." Now I started thinking, this is like
an old WWII movie where the German SS man says, "If you tell me the
truth, I will let you go." And then everyone dies after spilling their
guts .
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- I don' t remember his other questions, but the next thing
to happen was placing me in handcuffs. Now, I must say that 'fearless leader'
was well-trained in handcuffing and transporting people. He did it smoothly
and comfortably for me.
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- However, when I got in his truck, I realized he was not
your normal rent-a-cop. He had in the truck a military yellow-green backpack
with about 6 military patches on it. The backpack was removed from my view
quickly and put out of sight. Also, the radio in the vehicle was impressive
in 2 ways. First, it was hi-tech with what looked like a scrambler. Second,
the radio was not attached beautifully to the dash, but to an ugly metal
mount where a floor manual transmission stick would go. Strong, but not
pretty.
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- I was then transported a short distance into the park
to the 'fearless leader's' office. Where other military personnel were
working. No one was wearing military uniforms, but I saw ROTC hats from
different American universities.
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- Of course, ROTC college graduates come to Kansas City
for Christmas to work in an amusement park. Yeah, right.
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- Fearless leader's office was for two people, and his
assistant watched as he asked me questions about myself, not about my being
on park property. I did not mind. I know who and what I am. I don't think
he knows who and what he is. Or, who he serves or who he trusts.
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- He asked for my social security number again, and when
I repeated it he said "You're wrong! You lied to me!" Now he
was trying to rattle me.
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- Fortunately, I have learned from the book, 'The Gentle
Art of Verbal Self-Defense,' when in danger, slip into computer mode. Don't
show fear or pleading, that is what the other side needs for control.
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- You see 'fearless leader' was trying to use the Phony
Leveler and Satir mode. It's a powerful combination, but tough to use.
And since I was in computer mode, he was getting frustrated.
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- And his questions were stupid. They were phrased in such
a way that any answer would only make me look worse. You know like the
question "When did you stop beating your wife?" .
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- Then the funny thing happened, Fearless leader's data
base on me was 5 years old. It showed Steven Charles Laird living in Kansas
City. Well I have lived in Omaha, Nebraska for 4.5 years. When I could
not remember a Kansas City address from over 5 years ago, fearless leader
was positive I was not Steven Laird.
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- He kept saying "You are not who you say you are."
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- Also fearless leader kept leaving the office and coming
back. While he was gone, was he looking at the video tape and seeing his
trucks plus my Christmas of 1999. I did not fit the mode of people that
he has been trained to deal with. An honest person, who cares.
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- Living in the world of lies, makes things you don't understand,
the enemy. Where in my world of computers, if you don't understand something,
it is a puzzle to solve.
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- Then came the real obvious question, from fearless leader:
"Why don't I believe you when you say your name is Steven laird?"
That came right from 'Section G' of the verbal violence octagon. And Fearless
leader's voice kept modulating up and down. He was not having a good day.
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- But I was. It was all I could do not to jump up and say,
"Yeah, this is fun!" or laugh out loud in sheer joy.
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- Some other information fell in my lap. While fearless
leader was writing up my trespassing ticket, the other park patrol officer
said that he will be taking classes at another base starting Feb 1.
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- Fearless leader immediately walked him out of the office
and across the hall into another office.
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- So this is a base, I thought. Then, the data my friend
Jay gave me earlier this month, fell in place. You see, the home owners
around Worlds of Fun in Kansas City have been complaining for years about
the limestone mining that goes on under Worlds of Fun. The mining explosions
cause damage to ceramic pipes underground. Jay can even show me the old
entrance in the middle of the park.
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- So, now it all fits: amusement parks are all over the
USA and near every major city. They have there own sewer, water, power,
and fences to keep people out. What a wonderful place to put a command
and control center...(this is my guess).
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- Just before the local police arrived, fearless leader
told me not to come back to Worlds of Fun. They have cameras everywhere,
and will be able to pick me out of a crowd. How small are military cameras?
And what kind of surveillance do they have?.
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- When the local Kansas City police arrived with the patty
wagon to pick me up, they accused me of being a Russian spy.
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- But my discoveries were not over yet. The ride out was
long because amusement parks tend to use one way roads often. I got to
see more of the park out of the back window of the patty wagon.
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- I saw 100's more new vehicles in all the parking areas
inside the park, and that was only a few levels deep. I would love to see
a picture from the air of the amusement park Worlds of Fun.
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- For those interested in viewing the military personnel,
my court date is Feb 7th at 11:00 municipal court building 1101 Locust;
Kansas City, MO; Room A.
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- One last thing: the two amusement parks in Kansas City
are across the street from each other. Their present names are Worlds of
Fun and Oceans of Fun.
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- How about we change the names to Worlds of Big Brother
and Oceans of Lies.
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- What's In The Caves Under K.C.?
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- From NewsHawk Inc. <hawkeye@saber.net 1-3-99
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- We received a number of responses to our forward of Steve
Laird's report on strange goings-on beneath the Worlds of Fun amusement
park in Kansas City involving military personnel.
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- Most of our respondents indicated that, to their knowledge,
at least one thing that's going on regarding these subterranean installations
is that they're being used by the government to store food--to be precise,
a vast quantity of military-issue "MREs" or "meals, ready-to-eat."
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- And for what purpose? Who knows... .
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- Please read below the most comprehensive of these responses
that we've received.
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- NewsHawk® Inc.
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- -------- Original Message --------
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- Subject: MRE's Being Stored in Kansas City
- Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 14:03:09 -0800
- From: Ed Wolfe
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- Dear friends,
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- As some of you know, I live in a poor and working class
neighborhood in Kansas city, and am involved with various activities that
help poor people become less poor. As part of this, I often take in people
who are homeless, or would be if not for a safe harbor. One of my housemates
just got a four month temporary job unloading trucks at an underground
storage center located near my neighborhood (KC has a lot of underground
limestone caves that are used for storage). Anyway, this particular contract
is a government contract, and the product being unloaded and stored is
MRE's. that is, "meal ready to eat", which I believe is the current
incarnation of the old army C rations. How many MRE's are on a truck? All
day, 8 hours a day, for four months. That is a lot of meals ready to eat.
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- Note that I didn't hear this from somebody who heard
from somebody, I heard this from somebody in my own household who is unloading
the MREs, beginning at 7:30 in the AM. Three things: First, I am comforted
to know that this large amount of food is being stored here locally. Second,
if you have any fiends or acquaintances who do temporary labor or casual
jobs, you might ask around and see if any such operations are going on
in your city. Three, somebody is taking this really seriously. MRE's aren't
cheap.
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- Today they unloaded nine trucks, and then were let go
early because some additional expected trucks didn't show. It takes two
guys about 1-1/2 hours to unload a truck, and each gets $35. Don't know
if this space has been used to store MRE's before, but that's on the list
of questions to scope out. It does seem to be a government contract, the
supervisors seem sure of that. It has been confirmed that this is new,
that is, it isn't the regular cold storage location for Ft. Leonard Wood,
etc. One of the other laborers said that each truck had 3500 cases, so
today there were nine trucks times 3500 cases equals 31,500 cases. Anybody
know how many MRE's are in a case? This would seem to be literally an enormous
amount of food, as if there were six MRE,s in each case, that would mean
189,000 meals were unloaded today alone, and today was a short day. He
was called back to work at 3:30 in the afternoon, but the expected trucks
still didn't arrive.
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- Note that the laborers apparently have to +spc - a certain
amount of time sitting around and waiting. Since the contract is for four
months, 22 work days a month, and if today's unloading was an average work
day, and there are at least six MRE's per case, then we're talking a minimum
of 16,632,000 MREs. Any way you look at that, it is a large amount of prepared
food, being tucked securely away in a limestone cavern in KCMO. It's three
meals a day for 500,000 people for 11 days, and that's the low estimate,
since today was deemed a slack day by those doing the labor.
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- I researched MRE's just this evening to learn more about
them. The full meal type MRE comes 12 per case, and the case weighs 17
pounds. So, for doing some math, double the figures you were dealing with.
Using Robert's math that would come to 33,264,000 meals - using 22 work
days per month, for 4 months, and the light work load experienced by Robert's
friend that particular day. Assuming 12 per case, that's 2,772,000 cases
at 17 pounds per case equals 47,124,000 pounds of food, or 23,562 tons.
That would mean you could feed 500,000 people 3 meals per day for 22.17
days or roughly 100,000 people for just over 3 months (about 111 days actually).
These are large numbers indeed and we can all look forward to learning
more about this.
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