Swarmed By Mutton - Part 2

Digging Into The Mutton Crew

In my previous Substack I looked at the activities of a group of accounts on Elon Musk’s ‘X’ platform which I suspected were part of the so-called Mutton Crew. Those accounts were - BreezerGalway, DrRobertWMarlo1, Mr_Magoo5, thisisnothappen, AlBowers1 and The_Seeadler

I set about trying to understand more about their tactics to see if I could clearly verify if they were running a hybrid warfare operation on ‘X’. I believe I have now established that they are and that the Mutton Crew is a a centrally controlled and coordinated hybrid warfare operation, although I think it unlikely that it is linked to 77th Brigade.

I suggest the often touted Mutton Crew link to 77th Brigade may not exist. It seems to me that the purported link is being exploited by the Mutton Crew as a plausible deniability psyop (psychological operation). As I will hopefully demonstrate, they are undoubtedly centrally coordinated and controlled, but I think it is unlikely they are controlled directly by 77th Brigade.

What matters, in my view, is that the Mutton Crew is attacking the accounts of ordinary people, like you and I, and protecting the State from any questioning of its authority and preferred narratives. The Mutton Crew is engaged in censorship—seeking to get dissenting accounts removed—and it spreads disinformation on behalf of the State.

I embarked on a little online expedition and the specific accounts mentioned above piled onto the related threads and were joined by many other, almost identical accounts, running precisely the same tactics in unison. Due to the vile abuse hurled by the Mutton Crew at reasonable people engaging on a couple of the threads, my own timeline became polluted by the Mutton Crew swarm. I had to apologise, to decent people commenting, for muting the threads.

As previously noted, the only Mutton Crew account that tried to engage with me in anything approaching a reasonable manner was The_Seeadler. That said, in typical Mutton Crew style, having posted on its own profile that it was allegedly a former British Royal Marine living in Northern Ireland, The_Seeadler did try to assert that I, by outing the account as Mutton Crew, was placing the account holder at some sort of heightened security risk and demanded I take Part 1 down.

When I pointed out that Republican terrorists were probably far more interested in the accounts openly admitted role as British soldier than its online trolling activities, the conversation petered out. Although the accusation remained a theme pursued by some of The_Seeadler’s Mutton Crew associates for a while.

In Part 1, I updated the post after The_Seeadler suggested to me that only accounts that questioned State narratives saw the anomalous placement of Graham Bottley’s Swaledale Mutton account at the top of the Mutton Crew’s follower lists.

I was provided a number of screen shots to allegedly demonstrate this fact. These were then used by the Mutton Crew to claim I was lying. However, you can scroll the follower account and grab a screenshot at whatever point you like.

I will use screenshots in this article. All I can do is assure you I have not scrolled them.

A big thanks to all of you who took the time to check how the Mutton Crew’s follower lists looked to you when you accessed them. You have confirmed that, from your perspective, Swaledale Mutton appears at the top, or near the top, of all of the named accounts.

I only single Robert Stuart out for specific thanks because he is an outstanding investigative researcher and journalist. His work, exposing the BBC’s Saving Syria’s Children false flag, is among the most thorough, compelling and conclusive deconstruction of a false flag and its operators you will find. Thanks to Robert for reporting that Swaledale Mutton was indeed at or near the top of the Mutton Crew accounts.

The Swaledale Mutton accounts are run by Graham Bottley. He is an interesting and seemingly extremely unpleasant character who appears to be leading the Mutton Crew to commit online crimes on ‘X.’ “Authenticity” is not a word anyone could easily associate with Bottley. Musk’s ‘X’ is evidently at ease with all of this.

Having speculated that the Swaledale Mutton position on the Mutton Crew’s follower lists was used as some sort of account signal between the Mutton Crew—with ‘X’ assistance—following my exchange with The_Seeadler I conceded this possibly wasn’t the case. Given the evidence we are about to discuss, I now believe it far more likely that The_Seeadler and his Mutton Crew collaborators were scrolling and lying. Nothing the Mutton Crew ever says is remotely trustworthy.

In any event, it doesn’t matter if they were or not. Clearly, from our perspective, Bottley’s Swaledale Mutton is placed at or near the top of many of the Mutton Crew accounts. It serves as an identifier for us and that is good enough.

This shows that ‘X’ is using its algorithm to identify Mutton Crew accounts. Elon Musk’s ‘X’ is apparently complicit in the hybrid warfare being waged against the public by the Mutton Crew.

Method

Operation Gladio was the collective name given to a decades long NATO program of false flag terrorism. Far right terrorist groups, such as Ordine Nuevo, were used to murder and terrorise civilians in order to convince them that they were threatened by far left terrorists allegedly sponsored by the USSR. The primary purpose was to coerce the European public into accepting draconian State restrictions in order to “stay safe.”

While NATO’s and the intelligence agencies use of the “stay behind” units—as they were often called—was Europe wide, it was the exposure of NATO’s hand in the “years of lead” in Italy that officially revealed Gladio. Following a number of convictions, in November 1990, the European Parliament published its ‘Resolution on the Gladio Affair.’

The resolution states:

[H]aving regard to the revelation by several European governments of the existence for 40 years of a clandestine parallel intelligence and armed operations organization in several Member States of the Community, [. . .] for over 40 years this organization [collectively Operation Gladio] has escaped all democratic controls and has been run by the secret services of the states concerned in collaboration with NATO. [. . .] [I]n certain Member States military secret services (or uncontrolled branches thereof) were involved in serious cases of terrorism and crime as evidenced by, various judicial inquiries.

Operation Gladio proves that NATO states, or elements within NATO states, have used false flag terrorism to murder, injure, terrorise, mislead and behaviourally control their own populations. State orchestrated false flag terrorism is a documented fact.

I wanted to know how the Mutton Crew would respond when presented with this undeniable fact. As they all flatly deny the existence of State run false flag terrorism, I tagged the Mutton Crew accounts and asked them an open question:

What do you think about NATO's use of the "stay behind units," what became known as Operation Gladio? I suspect you are Mutton Crew. Please provide rational answers and show me you're not.

If there was a direct response from the named Muttons, or any others that joined the swarm, I restricted my initial response to just one follow up question:

What do you think about what came to be collectively known as Operation Gladio?

I was simply seeking a rational and coherent answer to an evidence based, legitimate question. “Never heard of it” would have been perfectly acceptable.

At the same time, I was openly accusing these accounts, on a public social media platform, of being members of the Mutton Crew. All these accounts had to do, in order to deny they were Mutton Crew and demonstrate that they were not members of a suspected hybrid warfare operation, was engage with the question in a reasonable manner.

None of them did.

Results

The first thing to note is that an ordinary account, held by a rational human being, would not be compelled to respond simply because it was tagged. For most of us, it would be a choice. All of the tagged Mutton Crew accounts responded, but none of them addressed the question, they all obfuscated and they all used the same tactics.

The first to respond was BreezerGallway. Its response was telling. It re-posted my original post (OP) with the following comment:

This person denies an atrocity occurred in Manchester Boys and Girls. Do not be like InThisTogether.

Noting the infantalisation of the adults that use ‘X,’ I wondered why this Mutton had bothered to do this? BreezerGallway shared my post but simultaneously tried to discredit me and urged other ‘X’ users to discount my OP. Discrediting the purveyor of information is a very basic propaganda technique. But what intrigued me was the fact that BreezerGallway had responded at all.

BreezerGallway could have been infuriated by being asked a question. Or perhaps dismayed that I had accused it of being Mutton Crew. So why then re-post the OP, for all to see, without denying being Mutton Crew? This suggested to me some sort of compulsion. Was BreezerGallway under orders to respond?

I persisted with the follow up question, to which BreezerGallway replied:

I have no interest in your nonsense. You're an abhorrent specimen of a human.

I responded again with the same follow up question and BreezerGallway told me to f**k off.

The next response was from Mr_Magoo5. This account tried to make light of the situation but the answer was unusual to say the least:

Wtf you tagged me in I'm not 77th I'm a free man.

I accused Mr_Magoo5 of being Mutton Crew, not 77th Brigade. Not only couldn’t this account answer the question, it offered a completely unnecessary denial. This suggested to me that it was important to Mr_Magoo5 that my question be framed as an accusation that the account was linked to 77th Brigade.

Two stand out questions arose. Why bother responding at all and why not deny being Mutton Crew?

DrRobertWMarlo1 offered an utterly absurd and completely unfathomable response:

Absolutely adore your paranoia. Happy we're a niggle in your side and a vision in your mind. Sleep well

I am still at a loss to understand how that reply was even vaguely relevant to the question. Why would it make DrRobertWMarlo1 happy to imagine it had annoyed me by not answering a very basic, open question. But more importantly, who is the “we” referred to? Where is the denial of being a member of the Mutton Crew?

Clearly, DrRobertWMarlo1 sees itself as being part of a group engaged in some sort of confrontation with a perceived enemy. That is because the account is Mutton Crew which evidently is engaged in hybrid warfare against us.

Mutton after Mutton swarmed in. They split threads, isolating other, reasonable commenters on their own threads and drawing them into hostile slanging matches. But under no circumstances did the Mutton Crew ever respond rationally to the question.

With more than 17K followers on ‘X,’ I am lucking if a hundred people see my tweets. I am well and truly shadow banned and the original thread would have gone nowhere if they had just stayed off it.

For example, with supposedly 17.3K followers, the ‘X’ post sharing this article has received 482 alleged views, 11 likes and 8 re-posts. For people who share this kind of information publicly, ‘X’ is dead air. Anecdotally, I think the situation has deteriorated markedly since Musk took control.

As I monitored the threads it became clear to me that the Mutton Crew could not address the question but had to to offer some sort of response. It would have been much easier for them to ignore the question. The nature of my evidence based question—highlighting State orchestrated false flag terrorism on a public platform— appeared to automatically trigger the Mutton Crew’s swarm tactics. There didn’t appear to be much thought, if any, behind it.

What followed was the usual barrage obscenities, ad hominem attacks on other commenters, diversions, the reframing of questions, provocations, snide “insider” jokes, logical fallacies presented as rational arguments, etc. It forms an easily identifiable Mutton Crew pattern of online behaviour. None of it is rational, all of it is dishonest.

As pointed out by Swifty_s in direct reply to me:

Funny you’ve received no attempt at a coherent answer to your question, just Ad-Hominem retorts. Maybe they’re just naive & have no idea about Gladio, it’s always a possibility. I can’t see why anyone with integrity would avoid acknowledging Gladio, yet still counter you.

Swifty_s is a rational human being who thinks critically and made an astute observation: why avoid acknowledging Gladio yet still respond?

The notion that the Mutton Crew doesn’t know anything about Gladio is possible. With the greatest of respect to Swifty_s, I think it is also extremely unlikely.

The aversion to even mentioning Operation Gladio went to extremes. Thus demonstrating that the Mutton Crew does know what “Operation Gladio” refers to. Or at least has it listed as a flagged keyword.

Other Muttons, such as hectorponsonby, couldn’t even use the word “Gladio.” Instead, this Mutton referred to it as “Gladioli.” Again the need to reframe the accusation of Mutton Crew membership to incorporate an allegation of links to 77th Brigade was conspicuous:

I mean. If you acknowledge Gladioli happened that means you *must* be the mutton division of the 77th. This is the sophistication of the arguments being presented here. It’s no surprise these people fall for every conspiracy going.

The obvious point here is that hectorponsonby evidently couldn’t acknowledge Operation Gladio. This response prompted me to ask another follow up question.

Can you write the following words please? Operation Gladio

The hectorponsonby account did not respond to that request. It seems reasonable to consider that Muttons are under orders to never write the words “Operation Gladio.” The phrase was not used in any of their responses. They “all” scrupulously avoided any mention of it.

While I previously speculated that the Mutton Crew are potentially linked to 77th Brigade, I now doubt that is the case. The Mutton Crew constantly raises the issue absent any reason for doing so.

For example, CatVonDont appears to be a prominent member of the Mutton Crew that states on its profile:

Leader of the 77th biscuit battalion. Here to intercept your tweets because you are a credible threat to the narrative

This attempt at pithy snark is, I suspect, trying to push those who challenge the Mutton Crew to investigate the alleged link to 77th Brigade. I think if that link could ever possibly be established, the constant mention of it, habitual among the Mutton Crew, would not be made.

They seem unable to plausibly deny they are Mutton Crew. What they persistently “plausibly deny” is that they are not linked to 77th Brigade. For those people who dig a bit more into their activities, I believe the purported 77th brigade link is a red herring.

In my view, wasting people’s time is a big part of their hybrid war effort. This is evident in their swarming tactics. They embroil honest social media users in endless and utterly pointless debates. They spin threads off other threads and hoover up user data as they go.

I don’t know if they are real human beings or simply bots. Probably a mixture of both. But many of them certainly aren’t the sharpest tools in the box.

Despite it being glaringly obvious what I was up to, it took quite a while for the Muttons to eventually figure it out. The account xyzfredsmith posted the following to fellow Mutton Crew:

All his other blogs are ficticious. I'm sure he's fishing, to get quotes from a bunch of people he's already written rubbish about, so he can write another rubbish blog about them!

The misspelling of “fictitious” suggests this Mutton is a human being. The xyzfredsmith comment started the muting of related threads and the blocking of my account. The_Seeadler was among the first to block me:

Most of the other listed Mutton Crew accounts followed suit. They then started posting that I had blocked them. I have done so now, but this was reciprocal. I did not instigate the blocking. The Mutton Crew started blocking me after xyzfredsmith alerted them.

To this point, not one single Mutton—neither those listed here nor any of the others—had offered any kind of rational response to my question. They ran away pretending they had provided some sort of rationale for their totally preposterous, if mendacious, responses.

Having strained every cognitive sinew to avoid answering a very simple and straightforward open question, DrRobertWMarlo1 muted the associated thread it was flouncing around on with the following ludicrous farewell:

I'm going to mute this thread now, for 3 reasons. 1: it's a circular argument 2: When people are so dogmatic over beliefs, there will rarely be any kind of balance or critical thought applied. 3: Since Elon bought twitter, any notification I get makes the App crash and freeze.

To be clear: DrRobertWMarlo1 had offered absolutely no argument nor any “critical thought” whatsoever. It didn’t even acknowledge the question.

The Mutton Crew also spreads disinformation. TBD77 posted a screenshot claiming “Conspiracy theories are cheat codes for ignorant people.” That is not what “conspiracy theories” are.

The “scientific” definition of a so-called “conspiracy theory” was formulated by Professor Neil Levy in Radically Socialized Knowledge and Conspiracy Theories. This is the definition used throughout academic research—most notably experimental psychology—into alleged “conspiracy theory”:

The typical explanation of an event or process which attracts the label “conspiracy theory” is an explanation that conflicts with the account advanced by the relevant epistemic authorities. [. . .] It is because the relevant epistemic authorities — the distributed network of knowledge claim gatherers and testers that includes engineers and politics professors, security experts and journalists — have no doubts over the validity of the explanation that we accept it.

A “conspiracy theory” is any explanation of events that conflicts with the official State narrative ratified by the “epistemic authorities.” A “conspiracy theorist” is a propaganda “label” applied to people who question power.

OldOwlWise is evidently among the Muttons that simply cannot publish the words “Operation Gladio.” But that didn’t stop this account from spreading disinformation about it:

[. . .] a covert operation from 50 years ago, designed to keep Europe safe from the threat of the USSR in the event of war, disclosed over 30 years ago has f-all to do with anyone on this thread?

As highlighted above, OldOwlWise’s description of Operation Gladio objectives is categorically false. Everyone on the thread was engaged in a discussion about Operation Gladio.

OldOwlWise responded to an OP on the specific subject of Operation Gladio. It was evidently compelled to respond to this specific subject. It did so by trying to assert that the specific subject of the thread had “f-all” to do with its own response to that specific subject. In its reply, it not only spread disinformation, it couldn’t even mention the specific subject.

Conclusion

This is my opinion and I do not claim that I am unquestionably right. I recognise that many people are of the view that the Mutton Crew is connected to 77th Brigade. However, following my little online sojourn, I have concluded the following.

The Mutton Crew undoubtedly exists. Its social media behaviour follows a predictable and easily identifiable pattern and its operation is obviously centrally coordinated.

The Mutton Crew is engaged in hybrid warfare in defence of State narratives. Elon Musk’s ‘X’ platform is fully aware of its activities.

The Mutton Crew is engaged in censorship—see Part 1—and spreads disinformation. Its members are either human beings who have agreed to wage hybrid war against us, or possibly AI bots of some kind. It seems likely that these accounts are a mixture of both. I suspect each account can be run by either AI or a human being as required.

The Mutton Crew is not linked to 77th Brigade. It is being run from a separate control center.

The Mutton Crew is an aggressive online psychological warfare unit sowing confusion and discontent wherever it can in order to obfuscate and deny evidence that the State does not want us to discuss or even be aware of.

The Mutton Crew is despicable. All Mutton Crew accounts should be blocked as soon as you identify them. I have reciprocally and preemptively blocked any that come onto my timeline or interact on my posts. This is now my standard Mutton Crew practice and I suggest you adopt the same if you haven’t already done so.

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