If you’re a regular reader, you’ll already know that I’ve been posting quite irregularly over the past month or six weeks. I can now provide a partial explanation.

It started back in April with two overlapping stories. The first, published at Civil Beat, reported the arrest of Lindsey Kinney, a witness in the Mike Miske racketeering conspiracy case. Kinney was arrested and charged for making death threats on social media against several people (“FBI Arrests Miske Witness After Waianae Harbor Confrontation“). A couple of days later, I posted a bit more information here about Occupied Forces Hawaii Army, a group that the FBI linked to the incident, and which apparently sees itself as the army of the Country of Hawaii (“Introducing Occupied Forces Hawaii“), albeit currently in a non-combat role.

Soon after that, I started trying to write about another situation that OFH Army is part of, and that led to further research about the group, its members, and its crazy belief system.

And there’s where I began stalling out. Every rabbit hole I explored led deeper, and on to other things, the web of crazy beliefs kept growing, and I really had trouble wrapping my head around it all. And, along the way, I was too focused on this story to post regularly here on iLind.net. Perhaps I’m not as good at multitasking as I used to be.

In the case of Occupied Force Hawaii Army, there’s a gargantuan dose of pseudo-legalistic flimflam that devotees have to swallow. That’s a red flag, for sure. When anyone asks their followers to believe the unbelievable, it’s a pretty sure sign that there’s a con or a scam involved. Usually it’s a matter of following the money. That’s a track I haven’t been able to follow yet.

It took me at least three weeks to decide that I needed to strip this story back to essentials, leaving the incredible details for subsequent follow-up.

I expect the stripped down story to appear soon, perhaps tomorrow, over at Civil Beat.

Once it’s published, I can fill in more of the essentials here.