JFK: November 22, 1963
the national security state's coup d'etat in Dallas
President Kennedy vowed to scatter the CIA into a thousand pieces,
the CIA (and the military high command) scattered President Kennedy into a thousand pieces
The primary motive was to stop Kennedy's efforts to turn off the Cold War. The President changed his mind about the military industrial complex once in office, especially after the Bay of Pigs debacle and worse, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy had started efforts to scale back the War on Viet Nam and initiated an effort to make the "Race to the Moon" a cooperative venture with the Soviet Union -- which were reversed by President Johnson.
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Friday to Sunday, November 20-22, 2009
Open Secrets: the Assassinations of the 1960s
Annual Regional Meeting of COPA - Coalition on Political Assassinations
Hotel Lawrence, Dallas, TX
302 S. Jackson St. (off Dealey Plaza)
Speakers, films, books, resources, email for details
Moment of Silence, Grassy Knoll, 12:30 pm November 22.
Open to public, registration fees paid on site.
"I believe that a true understanding of the Kennedy assassination will lead not to a few bad people but to the institutional and parapolitical arrangements which constitute the way we are systematically governed."
-- Peter Dale Scott
| the coup d'etat against President Kennedy |
On November 22, 1963, the United States of America had a military
coup d'etat -- an event that most people chose not to see (a society of
"not see's").
President Kennedy was removed after changing his mind on the Cold War.
He refused to invade Cuba during the Bay of Pigs debacle, refused to
start nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis (even though his military
advisors were demanding it), stopped atmospheric nuclear testing and began
the process to withdraw troops from Vietnam.
In his farewell address to the nation, President Eisenhower warned that
we should beware the unchecked power of the military-industrial complex.
This speech is one of the greatest in American history, and prescient
in understanding what was coming. Now, in 2005, the future that Eisenhower
warned about is the content of the daily news.
The removal of Kennedy (and later, of his brother on the threshold of
his victory in the Presidential campaign) led to the escalation of the
Vietnam war, Watergate, the
1980 "October Surprise," the
Iran-Contra scandals, BCCI, the invasion of Panama, Desert Storm (1991
war on Iraq), allowing the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, Oklahoma
City, the stolen election in Florida in 2000, 9/11 and the anthrax attacks
on the Democrats and the media, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq,
and the stolen 2004 Presidential election (to cite a few of the many scandals
since 1963).
If our society is going to shift course to use our resources for our
survival -- instead of military dominance -- we will have to convert the
military budget toward peaceful purposes. A key part of the understanding
needed to shift course is an honest discussion of the events in Dallas
-- and how those events led to the permanent warfare
national security state.
Who, How and Why
Perhaps the simplest question to understand who perpetrated the assassination
of President Kennedy is to ask
"Who had the power to change the motorcade route?
(the original route would not have passed next to the Book Depository
nor the famous "grassy knoll")
In the film JFK, the character played by Donald Sutherland (loosely based
on Colonel Fletcher Prouty),
states:
That's the real question, isn't it - why? The
how and the who is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba,
the Mafia - keeps them guessing like some sort of parlor game. Prevents
them from asking the most important question: Why was Kennedy killed?
Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up?
The question of WHY is also important to understand other crimes of state:
the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Robert
F. Kennedy, and Senator Paul Wellstone (to
cite a few victims).
JFK and 9/11
Perhaps the simplest question to understand the level of official complicity
in 9/11, the current "elephant in the living room" of American
politics, is to ask
Who had the power to suppress warnings from allied governments, FBI
agents and other sources that 9/11 was imminent, and then to schedule war games, including a plane-into-building exercise, during 9/11 that resembled actual events?
WHY 9/11 was allowed
and assisted is ultimately more important than the technical details of
HOW it was engineered, although the logistics of suppressed
warnings, manipulation of Middle East politics, overlapping wargames, and remote
control are important to understand to avoid similar scandals in the
future. The use of disinformation against the "JFK
Truth Movement" is also important for 9/11 truth activists to
be familiar with given the large number of false
claims and bait distracting the current efforts to expose complicity
in the American Reichstag Fire.
The underlying reasons for JFK and 9/11 were similar - endless war that
provides vast profit and the excuse to convert aspirations for genuine
democracy into an Orwellian state. The success of the coup against JFK
emboldened the perpetrators to commit many more crimes: the war on Viet
Nam, Watergate, toppling democracies in Chile and other countries, the
1980 October Surprise, Iran-Contra, the wars in Central America in the
1980s, the invasion of Panama, the Desert Storm massacre (Saddam Hussein
was lured by the US to attack Kuwait, and perhaps 300,000 people were
killed in that war), etc.
The Military Industrial Complex
Perhaps the best way to commemorate the anniversary is to read President
Kennedy's speech given June 10, 1963 at American University where he called for an end to
the Cold War. It is sad to fantasize about what this change of direction
could have meant for the United States, and the world, if the shifts recommended
in this speech had been allowed to happen. It is not too late to redirect
the immense flow of wealth and talent and physical resources invested
in the military-industrial complex toward programs aimed at ending hunger,
poverty, injustice, global warming, wasteful energy practices, etc.
But even if the new Democratic majority in Congress was able to perform
the miracle of radical transformation for survival and cooperation instead
of dominance, there is no way to avoid the problems created by decades
of denial and suppression of efforts to make these needed shifts. It is
too late to have a painless transition, but it is not too late to dedicate
civilization for life instead of mass extinction. Survival of the human
race - and the tens of millions of other species - is not a political,
partisan, nationalistic issue - it is the most important task that we
all must work together to achieve. The lesson that our species is slowly
learning is that our survival is dependent on others surviving, too --
the interconnected realities of the global economy, communications and
weapons technologies suggest that the whole human race will either evolve
together or go extinct together. This is the opposite strategy from the
militaristic approach of countless counts, kings, shahs, Popes, Presidents
for Life, Prime Ministers, Chancellors, Party Chairmen, Dear Leaders and
other titles created by extremely hierarchical political systems that
assume that one group's well being depends on oppressing another's.
| the motive: JFK called for an end to the Cold War |
JFK
Commencement Address at American University
June 10, 1963
supporters of the Warren Commission
ignore this speech, which called for an end to the Cold War
www.ratical.org/co-globalize/JFK061063.html
One of the most important policy statements in US history. If its goals had been implemented, it is likely the Cold War could have been ended in the second Kennedy term, without the disastrous War on Viet Nam, the Watergate scandal, the divisiveness of the polarization of the country, and the waste of trillions of dollars toward useless weaponry. The fact that this shift was not allowed to happen (through the pre-emptive removal of the President) is the same reason why decades of warnings about the environmental crisis were deliberately ignored by the powers who really run the United States.
www.ratical.org/co-globalize/JFK072663.html
Radio and Television Address to the American People
by President Kennedy on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
July 26, 1963
| The Warren Commission cover-up |
to believe Warren Commission and its "lone gunman" theory one must believe the single bullet theory created by Warren Commission attorney Arlen Specter (who was rewarded for his work by being made a US Senator from Pennsylvania)
the single bullet - or magic bullet theory is
the only way to pretend that one rifle was used to create all of the wounds, if you don't believe this claim then the Warren Commission thesis of the "lone nut" is invalidated
| Eisenhower's
warnings to JFK and the nation |
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large
arms industry is new in the American experience ... In the councils of
government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential
for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We
must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or
democratic process."
-- President Dwight Eisenhower, farewell speech to the nation, January
17, 1961
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius
of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life
at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging
on a cross of iron."
-- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do
more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people
want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out
of the way and let them have it."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security,
unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you
would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is
a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things.
Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other
Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from
other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower in a letter to his brother Edgar, November 8,
1954
Jim
Garrison, the District Attorney in New Orleans
who
tried to prosecute a conspirator |
Jim Garrison's autobiography "On the trail of the Assassins"
Garrison conducted the only prosecution of a conspirator in the Kennedy
assassination (which was ultimately unsuccessful). His autobiography is
a fascinating expose of how the coup was conducted, who benefitted, who
covered it up, and how the lone prosecution was sabotaged by covert interests
and the media. Oliver Stone's famous film "JFK" is based on
Garrison's story.
today in America too much emphasis is given to secrecy, with regard to
the assassination of our President, and not enough emphasis is given to
the question of justice and to the question of humanity.
These dignified deceptions will not suffice. We have had enough of power
without truth. We don't have to accept power without truth or else leave
the country. I don't accept either of these two alternatives. I don't
intend to leave the country and I don't intend to accept power without
truth.
I intend to fight for the truth. I suggest that not only is this not un-American,
but it is the most American thing we can do--because if the truth does
not endure, then our country will not endure.
In our country the worst of all crimes occurs when the government murders
truth. If it can murder truth, it can murder freedom. If it can murder
freedom, it can murder your own sons--if they should dare to fight for
freedom-- and then it can announce that they were killed in an industrial
accident, or shot by the "enemy" or God knows what. ....
"I think that there are still enough Americans left in this country
to make it continue to be America. I think that we can still fight authoritarianism--the
government's insistence on secrecy, government force used in counterattacks
against an honest inquiry--and when we do that, we're not being un-American,
we're being American. It isn't easy. You're sticking your neck out in
a rather permanent way, but it has to be done because truth does not come
into being automatically. Individual men, like the members of my staff
here, have to work and fight to make it happen--and individual men like
you have to make justice come into being because otherwise is doesn't
happen.
"What I'm trying to tell you is that there are forces in America
today, unfortunately, which are not in favor of the truth coming out about
John Kennedy's assassination. As long as our government continues to be
like this, as long as such forces can get away with such actions, then
this is no longer the country in which we were born."
-- excerpt from closing statement of Jim Garrison in
the prosecution of Clay Shaw for participation in the conspiracy to murder
President Kennedy, February 28, 1969
| the media and the JFK coup |
http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com
/2007/03/i-havent-forgotten-about-e-howard-hunt.html
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
I haven't forgotten about E. Howard Hunt.
by Lisa Pease
The fact that the cover-up continues to this day, over forty years after
the fact, is the best evidence of all that an organization, not an individual,
was responsible, and that the organization has powerful control over
the media and exercises it to keep the lid on this case
www.ctka.net/nbc_cia.html
"Shoot Him Down"
NBC, the CIA and Jim Garrison
by William Davy
www.ctka.net/policoff.html
JFK: How the Media
Assassinated the Real Story
by Robert Hennelly & Jerry Policoff
www.ctka.net/abclies.html
Accessories after the Fact
www.rtis.com/reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/february97/worsham.htm
JFK CONSPIRACY: THE INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY AND COWARDICE OF ALEXANDER
COCKBURN AND NOAM CHOMSKY
by Michael Worsham
Alexander Cockburn and Noam Chomsky vs. JFK: A Study in Misinformation
(Citizens for the Truth About the Kennedy Assassination, May 1994) www.webcom.com/lpease/media/cockburn.htm
My Beef With Chomsky (Michael Morrissey, Sep 2000) www.geocities.com/mdmorrissey/chomcorr.htm
Concerning Chomsky's arrogant evasions of fact and truly bizarre double
standards about trusting official sources, in regards to several critical
conspiracy issues (including the JFK assassination). Also, he points out
Chomsky's change of mind from his keen interest in the JFK assassination
in the late 60s, something he doesn't seem to have anything to say about
these days.
http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/2008/10/dick-russell-is-back-on-trail-of-jfk.html
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2008
Dick Russell is back on the trail of the JFK case
Russell shows his obvious fascination with intelligence agents, the “spooks” who inhabit that netherworld between observable reality and the covert world we civilians rarely encounter, who perform operations most Americans know nothing about, sometimes to their later chagrin. A character who called himself by the pseudonym “Captain Sam” quite aptly describes why pursuing the truth through the people closest to the crime can be a frustrating endeavor:
“[T]here’s one thing you should know from the start. Half of what I’ll tell you might be the truth, and the other half bullshit. But all of it is what I was told. That’s part of the game in the intelligence business. You confuse your own operatives with false information; maybe nobody knows the full truth about a particular assignment.”
And therein lies the rub of investigating covert operations. Even those who want to help can unintentionally mislead, despite the best of intentions. And then there are the others, who mislead on purpose. Russell appears to have walked a fine line between letting the spooks have their say without giving weight to statements that contradict provable facts about the case. ....
One of my favorite articles in the book was “The Media, the CIA, and the Cover-Up.” Russell recounts key points in the media history of the case, and shows the direct connections between key stories in the cover-up and the CIA assets behind those stories. I’ve longed to read just such an article for years. It was a pleasure to find the people behind the media cover-up and their connections to the Agency so clearly laid out here.
1 COMMENT:
ewastud said...
I think that unraveling the mystery behind JFK's assassination, one has to think like the perpetrators who must have planned the cover-up before the assassination itself, and worked backwards. For instance the "only three shots were fired" claim had to have been established by the perps before the assassination itself and became a fixed point around which all other official "facts" surrounding the event had to be reconciled with, no matter what or how facts would have to be twisted -- hence the ludicrous claim about the path of the "magic bullet."
The official claim (and so difficult to defend), I believe, was a consequence of having to decide the official number of shots that were fired before the event occurred in order to get the media cover-up story consistent and avoid conflicts. Witnesses who claimed to have heard more shots could be easily dismissed with the claim that they merely heard "echoes" from the surrounding high rise buildings.
Memo to White House staffer Bill Moyers
regarding the need to coverup the assassination of President Kennedy
discretely written as the need for an official federal investigation
declassified CIA memo on how to cover up the coup
scanned images of this report are available at www.namebase.org/foia/jfk01.html
Countering Criticism of the Warren Report
1 April 1967
Chiefs, Certain Stations and Bases
Document Number 1035-960
for FOIA Review on Sep 1976
SUBJECT: Countering Criticism of the Warren Report
For Oswald file! 2 copies
This was pulled together by ... in close conjunction with.... We furnished most of the source material, proposed many of the themes, and provided general "expertise" on the case. The Spectator article was written 23 Jan 1967
PSYCH
1. Our Concern. From the day of President Kennedy's assassination on, there has been speculation about the responsibility for his murder. Although this was stemmed for a time by the Warren Commission report (which appeared at the end of September 1964), various writers have now had time to scan the Commission's published report and documents for new pretexts for questioning, and there has been a new wave of books and articles criticizing the Commission's findings. In most cases the critics have speculated as to the existence of some kind of conspiracy, and often they have implied that the Commission itself was involved. Presumably as a result of the increasing challenge to the Warren Commission's Report, a public opinion poll recently indicated that 46% of the American public did not think that Oswald acted alone, while more than half of those polled thought that the Commission had left some questions unresolved. Doubtless polls abroad would show similar, or possibly more adverse, results.
2. This trend of opinion is a matter of concern to the U.S. government, including our organization. The members of the Warren Commission were naturally chosen for their integrity, experience, and prominence. They represented both major parties, and they and their staff were deliberately drawn from all sections of the country. Just because of the standing of the Commissioners, efforts to impugn their rectitude and wisdom tend to cast doubt on the whole leadership of American society. Moreover, there seems to be an increasing tendency to hint that President Johnson himself, as the one person who might be said to have benefited, was in some way responsible for the assassination. Innuendo of such seriousness affects not only the individual concerned, but also the whole reputation of the American government. Our organization itself is directly involved: among other facts, we contributed information to the investigation. Conspiracy theories have frequently thrown suspicion on our organization, for example by falsely alleging that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for us. The aim of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit the circulation of such claims in other countries. Background information is supplied in a classified section and in a number of unclassified attachments.
3. Action. We do not recommend that discussion of the assassination question be initiated where it is not already taking place. Where discussion is active, however, addressees are requested:
CS COPY
9 attachments h/w
DATE 4/1/67
1- Satts
8-Unclassified
DESTROY WHEN NO LONGER NEEDED
a. To discuss the publicity problem with liaison and friendly elite contacts (especially politicians and editors), pointing out that the Warren Commission made as thorough an investigation as humanly possible, that the charges of the critics are without serious foundation, and that further speculative discussion only plays into the hands of the opposition. Point out also that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be deliberately generated by Communist propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation.
b. To employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this guidance should provide useful background material for passage to assets. Our play should point out, as applicable, that the critics are (i) wedded to theories adopted before the evidence was in, (ii) politically interested, (iii) financially interested, (iv) hasty and inaccurate in their research, or (v) infatuated with their own theories. In the course of discussions of the whole phenomenon of criticism, a useful strategy may be to single out Epstein's theory for attack, using the attached Fletcher Knebel article and Spectator piece for background. (Although Mark Lane's book is much less convincing than Epstein's and comes off badly where contested by knowledgeable critics, it is also much more difficult to answer as a whole, as one becomes lost in a morass of unrelated details.)
4. In private or media discussion not directed at any particular writer, or in attacking publications which may be yet forthcoming, the following arguments should be useful:
a. No significant new evidence has emerged which the Commission did not consider. The assassination is sometimes compared (e.g., by Joachim Joesten and Bertrand Russell) with the Dreyfus case; however, unlike that case, the attacks on the Warren Commission have produced no new evidence, no new culprits have been convincingly identified, and there is no agreement among the critics. (A better parallel, though an imperfect one, might be with the Reichstag fire of 1933, which some competent historians (Fritz Tobias, A.J.P. Taylor, D.C. Watt) now believe was set by Van der Lubbe on his own initiative, without acting for either Nazis or Communists; the Nazis tried to pin the blame on the Communists, but the latter have been much more successful in convincing the world that the Nazis were to blame.)
b. Critics usually overvalue particular items and ignore others. They tend to place more emphasis on the recollections of individual eyewitnesses (which are less reliable and more divergent -- and hence offer more hand-holds for criticism) and less on ballistic, autopsy, and photographic evidence. A close examination of the Commission's records will usually show that the conflicting eyewitness accounts are quoted out of context, or were discarded by the commission for good and sufficient reason.
c. Conspiracy on the large scale often suggested would be impossible to conceal in the United States, esp. since informants could expect to receive large royalties, etc. Note that Robert Kennedy, Attorney General at the time and John F. Kennedy's brother, would be the last man to overlook or conceal any conspiracy. And as one reviewer pointed out, Congressman Gerald R. Ford would hardly have held his tongue for the sake of the Democratic administration, and Senator Russell would have had every political interest in exposing any misdeeds on the part of Chief Justice Warren. A conspirator moreover would hardly choose a location for a shooting where so much depended on conditions beyond his control: the route, the speed of the cars, the moving target, the risk that the assassin would be discovered. A group of wealthy conspirators could have arranged much more secure conditions.
d. Critics have often been enticed by a form of intellectual pride: they light on some theory and fall in love with it; they also scoff at the Commission because it did not always answer every question with a flat decision one way or the other. Actually, the make-up of the Commission and its staff was an excellent safeguard against over-commitment to any one theory; or against the illicit transformation of probabilities into certainties.
e. Oswald would not have been any sensible person's choice for a co-conspirator. He was a "loner," mixed-up, of questionable reliability and an unknown quantity to any professional intelligence service.
f. As to charges that the Commission's report was a rush job, it emerged three months after the deadline originally set. But to the degree that the Commission tried to speed up its reporting, this was largely due to the pressure of irresponsible speculation already appearing, in some cases coming from the same critics who, refusing to admit their errors, are now putting out new criticisms.
g. Such vague accusations as that "more than ten people have died mysteriously" can always be explained in some more natural way: e.g., the individuals concerned have for the most part died of natural causes; the Commission staff questioned 418 witnesses (the FBI interviewed far more people, conducting 25,000 interviews and reinterviews), and in such a large group, a certain number of deaths are to be expected. (When Penn Jones, one of the originators of the "ten mysterious deaths" line, appeared on television, it emerged that two of the deaths on his list were from heart attacks, one from cancer, one was from a head-on collision on a bridge, and one occurred when a driver drifted into a bridge abutment.)
5. Where possible, counter speculation by encouraging reference to the Commission's Report itself. Open-minded foreign readers should still be impressed by the care, thoroughness, objectivity and speed with which the Commission worked. Reviewers of other books might be encouraged to add to their account the idea that, checking back with the Report itself, they found it far superior to the work of its critics.
JFK by Oliver Stone
The History Channel -- movie
The Men Who Killed Kennedy DVD set (Episodes 1-6)
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=70341
From the Back Cover
A medical technician who was at the autopsy states categorically that
the body he saw was not the one shown in the official photographs. The
mortician who buried Lee Harvey Oswald reveals a startling discovery made
18 years later. A highly decorated Army officer says he was trained to
eliminate key witnesses... Forty years after JFK was shot in Dallas, controversy
rages around his assassination. The Men Who Killed Kennedy, an authoritative
six-part series drawing on exclusive interviews with highly placed government
sources and independent investigators, is the most comprehensive examination
of the case ever filmed.
The Complete Story in 6 Parts:
The Coup d'Etat - A medical technician casts doubts on the official
autopsy photographs, and photo analysis undermines the lone gunman theory.
The Forces of Darkness - See two shadowy figures on the grassy knoll,
and find out about the "lost" home movie that contained key
evidence.
The Cover-Up - An FBI agent confirms that evidence has been suppressed,
and a notorious criminal is confronted about his possible role.
The Patsy - Witness Oswald's reaction when charged with the shooting,
and the mortician who buried the alleged assassin reveals what he discovered
18 years later.
The Witnesses - The people who were there - but who the government chose
to ignore - tell their versions of what happened at Dealey Plaza.
The Truth Shall Set You Free - See conclusive proof that the official
autopsy photos were faked, and hear from an Army Colonel who says he
was trained to eliminate witnesses to the assassination.
| best writers about the coup against JFK |
some of the best writers, not a complete list:
- Daniel Brandt
- Mae Brussell
- William Davy
- Jim DiEugenio
- Jim Douglass
- Gaeton Fonzi
- Jim Garrison
- Michael Green
- John Judge
- Lisa Pease
- Fletcher Prouty
- Dick Russell
- Vince Salandria
- Martin Schotz
- Peter Dale Scott
- Josiah Thompson
Best internet archives of JFK related analyses
www.ctka.net
Citizens for the Truth about the Kennedy Assassinations
www.theassassinations.com
THE ASSASSINATIONS
Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X
Edited by James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/
TOPICS ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATES OF AMERICA
Understanding Special Operations
The Kennedy Assassination
The Clandestine Operations Business
several books, numerous articles (long out of print) about the JFK Assassination
and how the secret government (military - intelligence complex) actually
functions
Daniel Brandt
Brandt runs namebase.org, which has reviews of many of the best books about the JFK assassination, and a database of people indexed listed in these (and other) books discussing deep politics.
www.namebase.org/news04.html
Sidebar from NameBase NewsLine, No. 4, January-March 1994:
The Man Who Wasn't There
by Daniel Brandt
www.namebase.org/news01.html
Clinton, Quigley, and Conspiracy: What's going on here?
by Daniel Brandt
f rom NameBase NewsLine, No. 1, April-June 1993
"the reason why the JFK assassination is so important is this:
It's one thing to believe that there are rich people who become richer
because their environment tells them to behave that way, and quite another
to believe that there is a powerful, secret government that doesn't
have to play by the rules. If you can prove that the assassination was
a conspiracy, then the first notion becomes silly and insignificant.
Essentially, conspiracy theories restore notions of freedom and responsibility
that have been stripped from the "value free" social science
establishment."
Mae Brussell
maebrussell.com
web collection of the writings of the late Mae Brussell, tireless researcher
of the JFK assassination and the nazi-fication of the US
caution: the website archiving her articles is maintained by a person who inserts some of the 9/11 "no plane" claims - Brussell's writings were excellent and deserve a wider audience even if there is some junk on her tribute website.
Jim DiEugenio
www.ctka.net/pr197-left.html
The Left and the Death of Kennedy
By Jim DiEugenio
www.ctka.net/ultimate_final.html
Ultimate Sacrifice
Reviewed by James DiEugenio
(a book that falsely claims the Mafia did it)
Gaeton Fonzi
www.ctka.net/2008/fonzi.html
The Last Investigation
By Gaeton Fonzi
Reviewed by James DiEugenio
Bill Hicks
www.gavinsblog.com/revelations.htm
Kennedy, I love talking about the Kennedy assassination because to
me it's a great example of, er, a totalitarian government's ability
to, you know, manage information and thus keep us in the dark any way
they... Oh sorry wrong meeting... Ah shit. That's the meeting we're
having tomorrow at the docks. [winks] I love talking about Kennedy.
I was just down in Dallas, Texas. You know you can go down there and,
er, to Dealey Plaza where Kennedy was assassinated. And you can actually
go to the sixth floor of the Schoolbook Depository. It's a museum called...
'The Assassination Museum'. I think they named that after the assassination.
I can't be too sure of the chronology here but... Anyway they have the
window set up to look exactly like it did on that day. And it's really
accurate, you know, cos Oswald's not in it. "Yeah, yeh so wow that's
cool." Painstaking accuracy, you know. It's true, it's called the
'Sniper's Nest'. It's glassed in, it's got he boxes sitting there. You
can't actually get to the window as such but the reason they did that
of course, they didn't want thousands of American tourists getting there
each year going [Mimes looking out of window] "No fucking way!
I can't even see the road. Shit they're lying to us. Fuck! Where are
they? There's no fucking way. Not unless Oswald was hanging by his toes,
upside down from the ledge. Either that or some pigeons grabbed onto
him, flew him over the motorcade... Surely someone would have seen that.
You know there was rumours of anti-Castro pigeons seen drinking in bars...
Someone overhead them saying 'coup, coup' Coo. Unbelievable. And you
know what's wild, people's, er, attitudes in the States about it. Talking
about Kennedy, people come up to me: "Bill, quit talking
about Kennedy, man. Let it go. It's a long time ago - just forget about
it." And I'm like alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As
long as we're talking shelf life here. "Bill, you know Jesus died
for you." Yeah, well it was a long time ago. Forget about it! How
about this. Get Pilate to release the fucking files. Quit washing
your hands Pilate - release the goddam files. Who else was on that grassy
Golgotha that day? "Bill, it was just, you know, hur, taking over
of democracy by a totalitarian government, let it go."
John Judge
www.politicalassassinations.com
Coalition on Political Assassinations
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/notAllCequal.html
"Not all conspiracies are created equal" by John Judge
The blindness of Chomsky and the other left
structuralists is that they make the class out to be monolithic and
without mechanisms to carry out its will. They fear that if you think
there was any reason to kill a president then you don't understand how
capitalism works, and that you will be filled with false hope about
the Kennedy clan, who were only more of the same old ruling class. They
can't let themselves think JFK could really have intended to pull out
of the Vietnam war, since he went along with legacy left him by Nixon
and the 40 committee, which included the Bay of Pigs operation already
on the books.
But when JFK saw the CIA and the Cubans in action he refused to be pushed
into sending American troops into Cuba. When the Joint Chiefs were ready
and raring to go into full scale nuclear war with the USSR during the
missile crisis, JFK was almost the only level head in the room who refused.
And he WAS pulling out of Vietnam. He had given the orders and forced
the Joint Chiefs to project that withdrawal by the end of 1964 during
the month of April, 1963.
The Joint Chiefs reversed him 180 degrees plus on the Monday following
his assassination, projecting instead a 10-year war with 57,000 dead
that freaked out my mother enough to take it back up to the Chiefs and
question it, the first civilian protest to the war in Vietnam by their
highest paid woman manpower analyst.
And even today you can go into the homes of poor Black people in the
South and find pictures on the wall of Jesus, Dr. King and the Kennedy
brothers because of the hope for change they represented in their response
to popular movements like civil rights and nuclear disarmament. Kennedy
called for an end to the Cold War in June of 1963. He was going after
the Mafia and threatening the tax writeoffs of the oil rich. He said
in October he would "scatter the CIA to the four winds", and
behind the scenes he was reaching out to normalize relations with Cuba
that last year.
But it's not enough for Howard Zinn and Alexander
Cockburn, much less Max Holland and David
Corn. They want more dirt, and they want us never to notice a tree
for fear we will miss the forest. The hard truth of the matter is that
the left critique of Kennedy, and there is one to be made, is not the
issue. It is the right's critique of him that mattered, what
Generals Curtis Lemay and Lyman Lemnitzer thought of him and what they
did about it.
Chomsky says that such "conspiracies" only exist outside the
mechanisms of state power, are rare and are stopped when discovered
(like Contragate he claims). And yet, when you raise the assassination
of Martin Luther King with him then he becomes
a "conspiracy theorist" too, saying that it was planned at
the highest level of government, maybe using the Mafia, and covered
up. He says they had a REASON to kill Dr. King. So, with them, it's
just a function of how much you liked the guy whether he was done in
by coincidence or not. Gee, maybe they'll start to wonder about the Wellstone plane crash?
Assassination as a Tool of Fascism
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/ATF.html
Nazis in America and the JFK Assassination
What I'm suggesting is that there's this history of the Fascism moving;
that assassination has been its long-term technique for certain
political purposes; and that it's time you took a look around you. Because
they are killing us. They're not killing all of us. But they're killing
people not just at the top government levels, but all the way down to
the activists and the people who are going to try to make a difference.
Which is not to me, again, an argument not to try to make a
difference. Because they can't kill us all. Or if we don't do anything,
they will kill us all. So you see, it's one or the other.
But to me, there's really no choice. ....
.... We're 6 percent of the population, consuming 60 percent of its
energy, 30 percent of its raw materials coming right here, into this
society. All this wealth doesn't come from out of some magic well in
Kansas marked `Capitalism.' It comes from tentacles of exploitation
of labor and resources all over the world. And because we exploit those
societies, they're in worse shape and we're in better shape.
There's enough to go around. There's no shortage. There's surplus,
in fact, if it weren't being used for war; and weren't being diverted
into cash crops instead of growing food, everyone could eat, everyone
could live comfortably. In fact, probably on a third of the budget they
spend on warfare in the world. There is a surplus; the surplus
has to be manipulated in order to disappear.
But there are populations, Rand Corporation studied them. In `68 they
did a study saying that half of the world population, over two billion
people, had to go, in order to make it economically comfortable for
the elites. They studied setting up martial law in many countries where
it came to pass: the Philippines, Yemen and South Korea, Vietnam, Canada
even, and eventually the United States.
How do you set up martial law here? You do it with a terrorist
scenario. I'd suggest a nuclear terrorist scenario. You have
Abu Nidal, who's really Oliver North in drag. They say I'm paranoid.
I don't have an eight foot security fence around my house. And he's
working internationally with the people that financed Nidal. It's not
mano a mano, it's have him over for dinner. That fence is up for us,
in case we figure out who Ollie North really is and what he did to us.
You have this so-called `terrorist,' you know, the guy with the pop
gun that terrorizes you. The nuclear weapons don't terrorize you, the
state control doesn't terrorize you, the massive death and genocide
that goes on in your name doesn't terrorize you. You don't know who
the enemy is, and so you're afraid of a guy on an airplane with a pistol.
But that's a terrorist, and you're shaking in your boots, and now they
are going to be said to have a nuclear weapon. So, `Oh well, what can
we do? We have to suspend civil liberties. We have to put people in
camps. We have to do whatever is necessary in order to stop this "threat".'
So you come up with a scenario that's good enough, and then you move.
And they have the plans, they know how to move, they have it down to
the neighborhood level. If you buy the lie; if you don't identify who's
oppressing whom and who the enemy really is. Believe me, you are not
in danger of Abu Nidal, or the PLO, or whoever the Terrorist of the
Month is supposed to be. Your life is not hanging on a hinge. Yeah,
maybe if you travel internationally all the time you'll be on the wrong
plane at the wrong moment. But I doubt most of you are jet setters.
The threat comes from someplace else. And even the people who take over
the plane, in my experience, have ties to these same military intelligence
networks. But they kill people. And at the same time it is possible
to expose how they do it; and to break the cycle of the lies; and to
catch up with it; and to understand who's assassinating whom, and how.
Because the techniques work and they use them over. They're
not that hard to figure out, once you understand the personnel and the
pattern.
Who Really Runs America? The Hidden History Of The United States (1994)
www.eclecticviewpoint.com/evjudge.html (audio)
Carl Oglesby
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/JFK.html
The Academic JFK Assassination Web Site
Understanding the assassination with principles of evidence, critical
thinking, and physical science
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/the_critics/oglesby/Secret_State.html
The Secret State
Carl Oglesby
[Speech to the Massachusetts Libertarian Party on the 200th Birthday of
the Bill of Rights, December 19, 1991.]
A secret state has set itself up within the darkest corners of the
American government. It is what Nixon adviser John Dean called a cancer
on the presidency, but it has metastasized well beyond the White House.
It is not paranoia to call attention to this, but a simple act of realism.
Lisa Pease
www.consortiumnews.com/2005/112205a.html
The Enduring JFK Mystery
By Lisa Pease
November 22, 2005
Forty-two years ago, on Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was
gunned down in Dallas, Texas. In Bethesda, Maryland, this past weekend,
a group of distinguished journalists, historians, scientists and others
gathered to discuss and debate the evidence of conspiracy in the JFK
case.
www.RealHistoryArchives.com
This site exists because we are not being told the truth about our history.
Are you under the impression that Oswald killed Kennedy? That the Media
is independent? That the CIA never operates without presidential authority?
If so, you need to peruse these archives and find out what you've been
missing.
This site is designed to provide researchers links and leads to finding
solid information about our real history, as opposed to the convenient
- if somewhat fake - history the "mainstream" corporate press
feeds us.
Basic Evidence of Conspiracy
www.realhistoryarchives.com/collections/assassinations/jfk/basicev.htm
www.realhistoryarchives.com/collections/assassinations/jfk.htm
People often ask,
"Why does the Kennedy assassination still matter?"
It's a good question, and one worthy of a longer and more
detailed response than you'll find here. Ultimately each person needs
to answer that for themselves, but here's one response:
When the government can flat out lie to its citizens about the
death of its own President, when the truth is knowable, when the conspirators
still living are not prosecuted, when the accessories after the fact
still grind out the disinformation, when a concerted campaign to publish
books promoting the big lie can go unchallenged, and when the media
is not held accountable for its participation in the 30+ year cover-up,
then our constitution is meaningless, our laws without substance, our
people without hope of ever participating in the pseudo-democracy that
passes for America.
If we allow ourselves to be lied to in
so blatant a fashion about something as important as the assassination
of a president, can we really expect the government or the media to
tell us the truth about anything at all after that? Is that why Watergate happened? Iran-Contra? If no one is held accountable,
than anything goes. We are only just now finding out about an operation
during the Vietnam war to spray nerve gas on deserters. What is going
on now that we cannot know for another thirty years?
George Orwell wrote in his famous book 1984, "Who controls the
past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."
He wasn't being facetious. He was giving us a strong warning, and one
that should be well heeded.
Don't give up your history. It's too important.
Fletcher Prouty
www.prouty.org
Col. Fletcher Prouty was the liaison from the Pentagon to the CIA when
the assassination happened. He resigned from the military afterwards,
and wrote two books and numerous articles -- which are archived at this
website.
www.namebase.org/sources/SG.html
Prouty, L. Fletcher. JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992. 366 pages. With an introduction by Oliver Stone.
L. Fletcher Prouty is a retired Air Force colonel who served in the Pentagon from 1955-1963 as the Focal Point liaison officer for Department of Defense support of CIA covert activities. During the Kennedy years his title was Chief, Special Operations Division, Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was a briefing officer on various special assignments dating back to the Cairo and Teheran conferences of 1943, and has also been a jet pilot and professor of air science and tactics at Yale University. Since first writing on the topic in May, 1970 for the Washington Monthly, he has made a persistent case based on his own experiences that the CIA and other secret elites are out of control. Prouty was portrayed as "Mr. X" in Oliver Stone's movie "JFK."
When Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex, Prouty was in a position to know what the outgoing president was talking about. With the publication of this book, the opening scene in "JFK" and the later interview with "Mr. X" are transformed from fleeting visual images into a coherent impression that is based on Prouty's richly-detailed experiences in the Pentagon. Prouty presents evidence that JFK was removed because he wanted to curtail the CIA and get out of Vietnam, but those responsible remain nameless and faceless, visible only in rough outline.
ISBN 1-55972-130-8
Bertrand Russell
16 Questions on the Assassination
By Bertrand Russell
The Minority of One, 6 September 1964
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/The_critics/Russell/Sixteen_questions_Russell.html
Vince Salandria
http://home.earthlink.net/~jkelin1/vs_text.html
The JFK Assassination:
A False Mystery Concealing State Crimes
by Vincent J. Salandria
www.geocities.com/mdmorrissey/sal1web.htm
Vincent Salandria
VS (11/29/93)
In my judgment the assassins of JFK killed the presidency.
Before JFK there was Eisenhower and his farewell address. Here was a
president who saved us from horrible wars when he dragged John Foster
Dulles back from the brink on several occasions. Here was a president
who would inform us that "until the latest of our world conflicts
the United States had no armaments industry... Now the conjunction of
an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in
the American experience. The total influence--economic, political, even
spiritual--is felt in every city, every state, home, every office of
the Federal Government...In the councils of Government, we must guard
against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or
unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the
disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
In his forward to Fred J. Cook's The Warfare State, in 1962, Bertrand
Russell, a pretty fair philosopher in his own right, said: "There
is only one way of reversing the trend towards preemptive war. It is
to make the truth known to the American public. This is a difficult
task, since the military-industrial fanatics have a large measure of
control over the major means of publicity."
Then we had JFK, who in his American University speech of June 10, 1963
spoke of the struggle for peace as a kind of dialectical process. See
speech attached.
Eisenhower and Kennedy were presidents. Since the killing of JFK I feel
that we have had no presidency. Clinton today must join the 11 to 15%
of the American public who believe the Warren Report. He knows his limitations,
as Johnson knew his limitations, as Nixon knew his limitations, etc.
The CIA even placed its own former head into the President's slot and
with no howls from a public thoroughly conditioned to accepting the
clandestine aspects of the government as essentially the government.
Not only did the killing of JFK destroy the American public's confidence
in the presidency but in essentially all aspects of the legitimacy of
the government. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and respected
members of the Congress and of the American establishment placed their
names on the Warren Report, which the American public considered to
be a fraud. The public lost ist confidence in the media, which refused
to investigate the killing. These changes were significant and important,
and they can be traced and are traced by so many of us to the assassination.
After the killing of Kennedy it was easy to splinter the broad democratic
and Democratic coalitions in the large cities consisting of ethnics,
the poor, the working class and the more liberal and leftish elements.
Racism was fanned. Martin Luther was dispatched. Top demonstrate that
the Kennedy clan was finished, Johnbie was shot away. In 1975 Kirkpatrick
Sale in his Power Shift said "After November 22, 1963, everything
changed."
www.geocities.com/mdmorrissey/sal2web.htm
VS (10/13/99)
The national security state at its highest levels killed
Kennedy. Kennedy was killed because he was viewed by it as seeking to
thwart the national security state from exercising its enormous power
to consolidate U.S. hegemony over the globe through military means.
Kennedy thought that the national security state in its efforts to consolidate
its power over the world through military means was risking the destruction
of the planet. The leaders of the national security state knowingly
combined in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy and following the killing through
its control of the U.S. media sought to control the minds of the U.S.
citizenry by manipulating the debate on the assassination. This debate
was intended to, and did accomplish, through Orwellian mind-control
methods, the paralysis of the U.S. citizenry's thinking.
To participate in this debate, and not to cut to the simple and irrefutable
evidence which points directly to a high level national security state
killing is to enlist in the service of the killers.
The successful assassination permitted the national security state to
slaughter millions in Vietnam, and tens of thousands in South and Central
America through training the military forces there. The killing of Kennedy
and the manipulation of the post-assassination debate facilitated the
assassination by the intelligence forces of the national security state
of decent, freedom-loving popular leaders here and elsewhere. As a consequence
of the assassination the military-intelligence budget has been maintained
in the absence of credible enemies at a rate so high that the society
has seen fit in order to sustain these military budgetary outlays to
cut away many of the welfare benefits.
Anyone who seeks to pervert the meaning of the assassination by urging
that the evidence points to a low-level renegade conspiracy has contempt
for the obvious truth, and by endeavoring to strip away the significance
of the assassination is committing great injustice to the millions whose
deaths have been made easy by that killing.
My dictionary defines evil as morally wrong or bad, harmful, injurious.
Therefore, the national security state is by definition evil.
Every national security state operative, like every Nazi concentration
camp operative, is not completely evil. But every national security
state operative, like every Nazi concentration camp operative, while
in the work of assisting the national security state and concentration
camps is unquestionably involved in evil.
Jeff Wells
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/01/heeeeres-justice.html
reflections on the Garrison investigation
www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm
The Order of Skull and Bones
James Shelby Downard's article, "Sorcery, Sex, Assassination
and the Science of Symbolism ," an underground classic, links American
historical events with a wild, numerological, grand occult plan "to
turn us into cybernetic mystery zombies". The assassination of
JFK, this article contends, was the performance of a public occult ritual
called The Killing of the King, designed as a mass-trauma, mind-control
assault against our U.S. national body-politic.
During Operation Sunrise, Operation Blowback, Operation Paperclip and
others, thousands of Nazi scientists, researchers and administrators
were brought to the United States after World War II. Many were "smuggled"
into the country against direct, written, orders from President Harry
S. Truman.
Project Monarch was the resumption of a mind-control project called
Marionette Programming, which started in Nazi Germany. The basic component
of the Monarch Program is the sophisticated manipulation of the mind,
using extreme trauma to induce Multiple Personality Disorder.
Mr. Downward feels that the perpetrators purposefully murdered JFK in
such a way as to affect our National identity and cohesiveness -- to
fracture America's soul. Even the blatancy of their conspiracy was designed
to show "their superiority" and "our futility".
There have been studies that show a correlation between the JFK assassination
and the rise in violence in society, distrust of government and other
extensions of social ills.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKindex.htm
comprehensive site on the issues of the assassination
| interesting but not as good writers |
caution: the "community currency" website, like many 9/11 "truth" efforts, started off very good but over time became sloppier with facts and perspectives. While there are a lot of things on that website that are not actually truthful, this commentary comparing the JFK coup with 9/11 complicity is still worth excerpting.
communitycurrency.org/Truth.html
Recently, I saw the film J.F.K., again, and realized how insightful
it is into the world of covert operations, and saw how understanding
the assassination of President Kennedy, leads to insights into the why,
and how of the attacks which occurred on September 11th. In the film,
Mr. X, played by Donald Sutherland, meets with Jim Garrison, the New
Orleans District Attorney who bravely launched the only case against
one of the conspirators behind the assassination. Mr. X is based on
the actual person, Fletcher Prouty www.prouty.org who spent 9 of his 23 year military career in the
Pentagon (1955-1964): 2 years with the Secretary of Defense, 2 years
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 5 years with Headquarters, U.S.
Air Force. In 1955 he was appointed the first "Focal Point"
officer between the CIA and the Air Force for Clandestine Operations
per National Security Council Directive 5412. He was Briefing Officer
for the Secretary of Defense (1960-1961), and for the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. X patiently explains how special operations
work to Garrison in the film. In real life after he resigned from the
government in 1964, Fletcher Prouty, wrote many articles and two books-
The Secret Team, JFK, the CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John
F. Kennedy www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ST/, and spoke with my dear friend,
Dave Ratcliffe, who recorded their conversations and edited them into
a book entitled - Understanding Special Operations And Their Impact
on The Vietnam War Era 1989 Interview with L. Fletcher Prouty Colonel
USAF (Retired) www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/USO/ One of the key points
that Prouty, Garrison, Ratcliffe made in the film, book, real life,
was that the fingerprints of a special operation were the things that
"didn’t happen." For example in the J.F.K. assassination,
the Secret Service was called off that day, standard operating procedures
to protect the President "especially in hostile territory like
Dallas" were violated, something that only could have been done
at the highest levels of government, for example, by the General who
sent Prouty out of the way, to Antarctica, when Kennedy was killed in
Texas.
On September 11th, the most damning evidence pointing to the
complicity of top U.S. officials was the utter failure of our multi
trillion dollar Defense Department to stop those planes from crashing
into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It was a violation
of the most standard operating procedures. General Myers, the top Pentagon
official at the time, testified that no planes were scrambled until
after the Pentagon was hit. There were no reprimands or enquiries, no
one lost their job for goofing up that day. Myers was then elevated
to the highest military post in the country. There had to have been
standdown orders issued at the highest level of government on that day.
This was never seriously examined or questioned by the mainstream press
or Congress! The alibi for the general failure of our expensive military/intelligence
complex "We were so surprised, totally unprepared…"
has been shown to be a complete lie.
An interview with 9/11 antiwar author Don Paul
By Bob Feldman www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/061303Feldman/061303feldman.html
The killing of JFK and the attacks on 9/11 both served objectives
that the super elites deemed urgent. JFK was threatening to
pull troops out of Vietnam and to dismantle the Federal Reserve Bank
and to further arms-reduction treaties with the Soviet Union. He'd already
yanked former Wall Street attorney Allen Dulles as Director of the CIA.
He threatened financial and militarist super elites' profits and plans.
So they took him out.
Nine-one-one is more complicated. Nine-one-one was planned for
many years, as pages in Brzezinski's 1997 The Grand Chessboard and the
2000 Project for a New American Century study (Dick Cheney,
Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle and Zalmay Khalizad among its authors) suggest when they imagine that "a new Pearl Harbor"
might be necessary to arouse public support for more military spending
and U.S. wars in Central Asia and the Middle East.
The colossal, crude crime of 9/11 is also a far more desperate
move than the murder of JFK. By August of 2001 the U.S. economy
was foundering even for super elites. Nine-one-one and its subsequent
transfusions of Federal capital gave several months of respite. By July
of 2002, however, material vulnerabilities threatened to sink even the
biggest capitalists. Through their holdings in "derivatives",
the JP Morgan Chase Bank, Citigroup, and the Bank of America are at
risk for a combined amount of over $40 trillion—an amount of liability
many, many times greater than their combined amount of assets. On July
23, 2002—on a single day of trading—JP Morgan Chase lost
18.1 percent of its total value. July of 2002 was also when government
and media drums began to beat for U.S. military action in Iraq and Saudi
Arabia.
What I see more comprehensively is a skein of conspiracies and
pretexts by which the U.S. super elites have ruthlessly killed people
and launched wars and grabbed territories and multiplied their profits
since the late 19th century. The sinking of the Maine, the sinking of
the Lusitania, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the fraudulent "Gulf
of Tonkin incident" are a few of the conspiracies and pretexts
we know. Why Noam Chomsky and other ostensibly moral critics
don't call out these conspiracies is a question they'll have to answer.
It may be that examination of these conspiracies would reveal the real
structures and criminals behind them.
All that said, let me end with hope. Only one force on Earth can directly
confront and defeat the U.S. Corporate State and its criminal government.
That force is us, the overwhelming majority of the people in this country.
Despite the horrors of 9/11, the overwhelming majority in New York City
are with that same majority around the world, I think, in opposing any
American Empire. |
