Quote from: Gumbi on June 09, 2019, 07:40:35 PM

The government is moving into full totalitarianism and you think he is paranoid exposing the deep state in just about every blog post. The problem is Armstrong has attracted too much attention and I believe inviting Nigel Farage may have sparked all of this. Martin needs to leave the USA as soon as possible before they lock him up again under some bullshit conspiracy case.

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If MA got more mainstream, perhaps I would believe it. But he remains a fringe commentator on alternative media channels. I doubt the powers at be would be much interested in him and with that, why would they ever release him from prison if they wanted him shut up? Makes no sense.

NF speaking at the Rome WEC was not publicised. I am in Europe and on all mainstream media, there was not a single mention of NF attending any speaking engagement. NF is someone who sees vast media scrutiny in literally everything. He cannot even walk down a street without it being front page news (milkshake assault). So picking up a speaking fee from a "convicted financial fraudster" would be ideal propaganda to further deflate his "credibility". Not a single report.

The latest court case in NYC sounds like:
1. A contractor was clearing out a property MA owned, perhaps while he was imprisoned.
2. Said contractor explained in their services contract, "anything they found" was legally theirs as signed by the person who authorised the work.
3. Said contractor found a horde of rare coins (the irony!).
4. Said contractor sold said coins to a third party.
5. Third party have recently decided to auction the coins.
6. MA has found out and come forward as the owner of those coins, disputing that third party purchased stolen goods from the cleaning contractor.
7. Auction house suspended auction of coins.
8. Investigation now opens up the original MA court case from 1999, where the judge ordered him to forfeit all of his assets, and that is why he was imprisoned for so long under contempt (under the belief he was hiding his assets).

This is what MA is now worrying about.

I don't think this is some deep state conspiracy. It is basically re-opening Pandora's Box and MA is stuck between either losing a high value asset that was stolen from him, or proving it is his and re-opening the SEC case from 1999.

I feel for him though, at his age, he does not need the stress of this legal dichotomy. I have met him and he does seem like a good, if somewhat flawed, person.