Restless Again
By
Cat West
August 19, 2025
BOO!
Did I skeer ya?
*Sits in rocking chair, Lights up pipe” The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” – Attributed to Mark Twain, but in reality, is a misquote that has carried on long after his actual demise.
You got me. I died “years ago” (please tell me how?) and am now blogging from the spirit world. You correctly pointed out that I got the gender of the baby wrong… well, you try writing from the spirit side. There’s a lot of traffic going through here now. You’d think the nation’s freeways had converged. The noise! My word! The screaming… so, sorry about misgendering the baby. I’ll try to do better when my wings are dry. (They’re at the cleaners here, I flew through some smoke. Looks like a lot of fires out there.)
I took a very long break from the old blog. I had a lot of good friends to bury, and I was tired. I was tempted to restart it a few times. Once when LaRoque’s (spell it for me, I don’t have it in front of me) dumb kid snarked off that her family would hunt me down… I laughed. I know they don’t want me digging through my old files and coming up with the stuff I had on him that I never posted. It just wasn’t worth my time and energy.
Besides, the old blog was one I learned how to build websites while I was doing it. It was a mess! I didn’t want to have to learn how to code all over again. So much has changed over the years. And, me being dead and all.
If you read the “About” page, you’ll see why I fired it up again. And, to make it less of a jalopy, I deleted the old blog, and built a more cohesive and cleaner looking new blog.
I have been contacted by a few of my old sources, developed a couple of new ones and am continuing to get more as I go along. Keep in mind, the old blog ran for over 20 years.
Not sure ever if I get any or all of it right, but that’s where you come in: send me corrections. I made a mistake? Let’s fix it. This is your blog as much as mine, if not more because it’s about where you are, what’s happening around you.
(Oh crap, here comes another update for the rig. Be right back) That was quick and painless. Microsoft is really considerate of the dead. Much appreciated.
I do find it funny that for over a decade in the previous blog I was challenged that “Cat West” wasn’t my real name. Now I have to convince you that I didn’t die. I kinda like the ‘being dead’ part. It feels powerful. Like I can show up in your dreams and make you run from shadows, that sort of thing. I guess I’d be a mean dead person so, take your pick: Am I alive? Or Nah?
BTW, I’d love it if you could tell me how I died and how you knew I died. Hey, I got the baby’s gender wrong, you got my being dead wrong, fair is fair. Fill me in!
We have a lot of work to do, all of us. There is information out there that has to be carried around and looked at. There are people murdering people and a system of law enforcement that puts on a show, but really does nothing and frankly, I don’t trust any of them. That’s why I say: If you report something to the police, share it with me first. I will keep track of it. Tell me who all you shared it with and who at any level of law enforcement, took your report. That way, if anything happens to you, I can blast it out there and people will start asking questions and looking a little closer.
The system is corrupt. The system is oppressive. You’re on your own and you don’t know who to trust.
I will do my best to verify the information I post. If I get it wrong, TELL ME and I can turn it right side up again.
I’m a long way away from dying. Women in my family on both sides, live a very long time. Too long it seems, but I may as well put it to good use. I may as well annoy the bad guys, make the corrupt uncomfortable and help those who think they have no voice.
I am the real Cat West, Dead or Alive.
You know where to find me.
~Cat
August 11, 2025
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Justice is an Illusion
Justice is Elusive
Justice is Mocked
In order to rectify corruption one must fight the very system that nurtures it, which controls us, and by which we must abide.
What I have learned:
Police – most are ego driven, insecure types who when armed with authority, weapons and Qualified Immunity, readily become abusive and/or complicit with abuse.
Detectives, especially Homicide Detectives (most, not all) are more invested on several levels to solve murders, give a sense of safety to the affected community and ultimately a sense of resolution (there can never be “closure”) to families, friends and loved ones of the victim(s). They are dedicated to the community. Even they will look the other way at corruption within the ranks of their agency.
Prosecutors—have to look at all the evidence and decide: Is this the culprit? B: Can I PROVE this case in court? C: Can the Defense unravel my case with facts, witnesses, evidence or alibis?
If they convict the wrong person, it means that the real criminal(s) remain at large and can inflict more damage on the community psyche.
If a prosecutor KNEW there is evidence facts, alibis and witnesses that if heard, could unravel their case, but chose instead to deliberately conceal those facts, that Truth from the Defense and from the Court, that means they A: Know who the real culprit(s) is free and they chose to protect them in total disregard for the community, the People that have put their Faith and TRUST in the system.
They are also making The Court their unwitting accomplice in inflicting a miscarriage of justice upon the defendant and leaving the community with a false sense of Justice and Security.
When revealed, such as in the case of Werner Kunkel, a deep penetrating and spreading stain upon the very courts whose integrity is tarnished, the trust is battered and broken in the eyes, hearts and minds of the communities affected as well as the collective impression of Law & Justice, is diminished.
People already leery and weary of abusive enforcement find even more around them are less trusting of, less believing in, the integrity of the system and the courts who preside over it all in the name of “Justice”.
That such a heinous act of murder and mutilation that was committed upon Gilbert Fassett, meant that the community was under threat. Lonnie Olson, who was the prosecutor at the time, took advantage of that crime to further inflict abuse upon a man whom he had bullied all the way through elementary and high school, for sport, is appalling on so many levels.
By ignoring witnesses, evidence and by employing an uncredentialed hobbyist who knew little to nothing about the lifespan of flies, as a ‘recognized expert’ in the field, to set the time frame of the murder so that it would suit his case; concealed the statements given by witnesses who came forward to correct both the timeline and to alibi Lonnie’s target, shows he had utter disregard for Justice, the Laws, and the community that put him in a high and trusted office. Utter contempt.
That Good People came forward, knowingly or unknowingly putting themselves at great personal risk, to give witness statements to the police and prosecutors, meant that despite the flaws of an imperfect system, they trusted those within it to be the Good Guys. They were callously misled.
The information they gave in their statements directly countered the Prosecution’s case narrative and timeline and proved that Werner Kunkel was the Wrong Guy.
But the Prosecutor, Lonnie Olson, had a personal history with Werner. He had bullied him throughout his school years and he had no business conducting this case.
Whatever blinded Lonnie Olson to violate The Brady Ruling, dozens and dozens of times, more than 200 times in all, whether it was the personal glee of a bully overwhelming his prey yet again, or the political ambition of a man making a name for himself on the blood-soaked coat tails of a murdered and mutilated man, knowing it would raise his profile (and it did), getting all the press for convicting a man of a vicious, brutal killing that had shocked the entire region, I can’t even speculate. And I doubt he has either the character or the integrity to disclose what drove him to it.
There is another, far more evil possible motive that could very well have played out here: Maybe he knew who the real killers were and he was covering for them because they had a level of power and influence that could aid him in his ambitions. They would “owe” him.
I can only think of worse and worse motives for a man entrusted with the collective assumed integrity of the community, who knowingly and deliberately deprived Werner Kunkel of his fundamental rights in order to deceive the jury and the courts, to convict him.
He took away Werner’s freedom. Just as bad, if not worse, he gave the real killer(s) the protection of a wrongfully convicted fall guy, to shield them from further investigation.
Having committed a perverted mutilation in connection with a murder and gotten away with it, do you think they stopped?
What specifically makes me think Lonnie Olson knows who the real killers are? It’s what he did AFTER the conviction: He destroyed the evidence. Gilbert’s bloody shredded clothing was destroyed. Just in case Werner was ever to get a successful appeal, that evidence which could also contain any evidence of the real killers, would put the real killers and Lonnie’s ambitions at risk of crumbling. Destroyed.
He gave cover to his corruption and malfeasance, and prevented future scientific investigations from being able to use that evidence to find the real killers--- who are walking free to this day.
Lonnie has done well for himself. His political star has risen and he is now a judge on the North Dakota Supreme Court. He brings the stain of his corruption with him. If the Supreme Court covers for him, they too are complicit in the scorching of Faith and Trust in the Justice System.
Further, they will have the blood of the victims whom they must now walk over to cover for him, soaking the hems of their robes.
It is in their hands now. Will they restore the integrity of the courts? Or will they abide a corrupt, ambitious man in their midst and at their table? Birds of a Feather? One can either rebuild trust with supreme integrity, or one can just hope the whole thing blows over.
This is in their hands now. A hearing in October will reveal how deep and how badly corrupt the prosecutor’s office is. Their astonishing response to being confronted with over 200 violations laid out in Werner’s legal team’s petition, was childish and insulting to the laws and to the very court that read it. Essentially: “You should’ve known we were lying and cheating and violating the law. Too bad for you.”
We’ll soon learn if their kinship of the robes outweighs any sense of moral decency or not.
Personally, I hope that those who are of better character and integrity will feel a burning sense of outrage over the corrupt behavior and actions of a man who now sits at their table.
Is he one of them? Are they like him? Will they protect him for reasons of their own and that have no earthly connection to Justice or the laws?
Or will they aim righteous ire at him for the damage and disgrace he has brought into their circle?
We’ll find out in October. Werner Kunkel’s attorneys will be heard.
The only real Justice would be to Free Werner, investigate the provably false statements given against him as perjury; investigate the concealing of witnesses and statements and evidence that disproved the Prosecution’s case.
If there was any real Justice, the murder of Gilbert Fassett would be investigated by agents who are not cronies of or compromised by the real killers.
I know that won’t happen. Justice is an Illusion.
But freeing Werner on the spot would bring a sense of resolution to a decades long abuse and miscarriage of Justice.
October.
You know where to find me.
~Cat
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~Cat