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  1. That must be what was meant by those "legalize skateboarding" bumper stickers I see. What ever happened to the Posse Comitatus Act?
  2. Thanks, Jim...much appreciated. I am always amazed that John Armstrong and I seem among the few interested in the two Oswalds. I think it is the key to understanding the case, but oddly very few study it or are even interested. For instance, the fact that there were two Marguerites is very intriguing to me and I do not understand why others are not interested. Jack The TWO Marguerites are at the least very intriguing. Shockingly so. Strongly suggestive of a long-term program of two "lee oswalds", as was your poster. In that photos and the attending issues are your area of expertise I defer to yourself and others whom I do respect. Your own Work as opposed to my opinions that do concur for the vast majority of issues. When we consider the fairly well established 2 Lee Oswalds it shouldn't surprise that 2 Marguerites appear in the record too. These possiblities and probabilities beg the question: "Were there on-going programs to create assassins as sleeper assets in place in 1963"? Were Manchurian Candidate programs part of the real politics long before Sirhan B. Sirhan and 1968? Sirhan Sirhan and his "case" is easy to establish the possibility of mind bending assets creating an assassin's patsy. Who was the murdered Lee Oswald really and for myself a question arises about multilingual children and possible uses there of very long before 1963. But my research is only an on-going thing unconcluded but far enough along to foster opinions about a shadow operation touched apon by the the primary particpants lives, i.e. the LeeS and Robert and THE MargueriteS Oswald as well as others named Paine as watchers/handlers and so forth. Why would the doubles as assets idea be so hard to consider in 1963? It is not. Jack, much more than you and Mr. Armstrong are very curious about what the heck was going on in Dallas that November concerning doubles and further what the heck was going on in the lives of the primary participants before that culmination of operations? It is not a stretch to say that this particular area of interest has ignited others' interests in who really was killed in Dallas and such. Research has been spawned of these unanswered questions conducted by myself and others, further it is on-going both for myself and others. I can think of no higher compliment to any researcher's work than to see that work used as a beginning point for digging deeper. As always Best Health and Regards to you Jim
  3. Kudos Jack Thanks for all your efforts and the part your Faces poster played in my own evolution about the Murders of November in Dallas. Quite Sincerely and Best Regards Jim
  4. We don’t need your freaking tea either. When in the passage of time and American Political lassitude it becomes clear that the various faces of the US Government know little of the current securing of meaningful life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; When repeated demonstrations of the values of BOTH political parties show a complete lack of understanding of the impact of the last five-years on the quality of life for the American People, moreover the politicos show only a concern for the “corpocracy” and media “presentations” always paramount over the needs of we-the-people. When no one seems to even momentarily consider the ever mounting debt that will be used to secure “wage-slavedom” for not only we-the-people but also the children and grandchildren of same, it is clearly time for a change. Look it, more than enough proof of altered evidence exists in a non-corrupted system to open the John Kennedy MURDER case. This state of affairs has existed since 1979 AT LEAST. This perverted law condition has existed since the House Select Committee on Assassinations requested formally for the US Justice Department to develop the unanswered questions in the case. That request went ignored. Few clearer examples exist of proof of a dysfunctional governance than this inexcusable history. Examples are many though. The HSCA’s desire for the “IN-Justice department” to investigate deeper was aborted by the 1980 October Surprise that empowered RReagan/EMeese/WCasey et. al and the ever familiar “back to the past” political/economic philosophy. Sure all this is only a radical socialist’s view of the last half of the 20th Century. Altered evidence is nothing new, witness the junk attending the CE 399 Magic CIA Bullet and the CE 139 Carbine and the Z film as depiction of reality all compliments of the US Government's supposed investigation version 1.0. Ample cases exist but the trend culminated in the DOD overseen “911 Commission Report”, the Department of IN-Justice promoted and USG endorsed empire building “Patriot Act” and the NSA abrogation of OUR CONSTITUTION and organic law. The most up-front of all has been the NSA whistle blower coming forward with the revelations of the NSA and the major Telecos jumping in bed with each other to keep records of ALL telephonic communications of American Citizens. Echelon coronated with the full power and authority of a stolen executive office. There are no limits to the imperial desire for Americanized Fascism of the US Government. That was 6 years ago and only now is coming out of cover. However that exposure culminated in my personal decision to halt the participation in any telephonic over-sight in my home. The evidence exists to prove all these abortions of the American Political process, though one must bother to find out for one’s self. Katie Couric and CBS are NEVER going to tell you. Few educational institutions of “higher learning” will touch the issues either. Witness the Jack Kennedy, Martin King, Robert Kennedy lies taught as truth. As for public schools? Public money is used to dictate policy as “taught” in this country. It is a rare teacher in a public school that can or will teach history as reality. “Education” can do better and is honor bound in my opinion to educate. Disseminate knowledge – ALL Knowledge. The weaponry used in Fallujah should not be ABLE to be kept unmentioned by the US Unfree Press. The reality of both WTC towers falling into their own footprints and at the speed of free-fall should not be excluded from the TV pabulum too many take as reality. Operation Mockingbird is alive and well in the US and globally also. In short We The People don’t need and cannot afford the tea being peddled and taxed by our own Government and the MICComplex and the Media. The tax on freedom is the toll I have in mind. Fiduciary issues are not excluded In that the money of our children, grand children and etc. is put up as collateral for war. The freedom and liberty has already been stolen for that war. A war based on lies as usual in my own lifetime, witness the “Ed Lansdale and Lou Conien Show” of pre 1965 “south” Vietnam games to secure war in asia. Lies for war and empire are not new experiences. Seeking answers and seeking exposure of crimes should never have interested the NSA. In a non-corrupted government it would NOT. I would offer compliment and encouragement to the serious researchers here and elsewhere, but I for one have had enough. Until the people decide they don’t need the USG’s tea either I am done. Decide and take meaningful action to voice objection and I do not mean a further decline of poll numbers for W Bu$h nor his replacement by another face of corpocracy. More than enough “evidence” has been developed to long ago have empanelled a grand jury in the Jack Kennedy case ALONE. The exposure of the FABRCIATED X-Rays should, in any NOT corrupted system, have secured a judicial opening of the cases. Absent agenda it would have. I would emphasize my use of the word “OPEN” not “REOPEN” the case. Absent agenda and cult of personality it would have opened the case just once. As Fletcher Prouty said long ago the NSA does whatever it wants worrying only about legalities later if forced to do so and NOW finally the tip of the iceberg is being exposed and American “freedom” is exposed as a sham, at long last admitting that American Freedom is only a perception of Liberty. I am sending encouragement to all that have advanced what we all know about the murder of the 35th President. If I had but one wish for the community it would be victory, victory in exposing the “china-hands” and what the OSS hands evolved into that culminated its empire power in November 1963. It is my hope that that exposure would result in a total overhaul of the American Political Empire in its own domestic policies and in its global policies outside the US. After all only a complete idiot would cavalierly discard the good will of the world after 9-11 to pursue empire and money. W qualifies as a moron but has done idiotic things in abundance. All these things are not done in my name with my consent, i.e. my own Consent of the Governed. We-The-People are a better people than evidence by the government. We-The-People are beginning to pay the price for not giving a damn. Giving a damn about LIES for cover up of the Jack Kennedy murder and LIES for empire. Giving a damn and making the conscious decision to think for one’s self. We can feed and clothe and educate our people IF WE GIVE UP THE AGENDA OF EMPIRE AND CORPOCRACY. I will never give up the political research – NEVER – and I’ll be back in the cyber-world after the shakedown of the NSA scandal. I am so very tired of hearing from the denial crowd when I bring up domestic ILLEGAL spying “I have nothing to hide”. That is not the point, I too have nothing to hide but liberty has a flavor to those that defended it that those that never defended can NEVER EVER know. It is mine – what is left of it, and I guard it more than any material possession can ever be secured. Liberty is not something that can be locked in a safety deposit box. It must be defended personally and often and further often with legal counsel. I’ll be back when I find a smaller ISP that is not willing to jump into bed with the NSA as “SBC-ATT” did in 2001. I am party to the class action suit brought by the EFF not for monetary gain but to set precedent for all American’s freedom, SBC was my ISP. I suppose I can go buy a dial-up modem if I must. We-The-People may owe the EFF again. Qwest Co. refused the NSA so there have to be more even in the land of RCA/NBC red and blue radio and Uncle Eli Lilly – Indiana. All played a role in the birthing of the entity that became the NSA – but that is another post for another day. Keep my own “account” open John please, but I have “had enough” long ago. Too damned long ago. However I'll be back when I find an ISP that is willing OBEY THE LAW as I do, as well as to provide real security from criminals on line. Law as in: "Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." That is the law of the land but IS only selectively applied. That is aborted and corrupted LAW. LAW does apply to the Government and the 4th amendment was specifically written TO the Government to protect WE-THE-PEOPLE from abuse of power by a government. Always the radical socialist that cannot tolerate the abuse of citizens and residents without knowing we-the-people deserve better. Always refusing to give away liberty for Empire without knowing we-the-people deserve better. People should NOT fear their Goverments, Governments should fear their people. Amen and God Bless Jim
  5. From Lisa Pease's Real History Blog RE: NSA SPYING 1. I hope Ms. Pease doesn't take offense but the exposure of the issues is too important to miss and she writes better than I. 2. I endorse every part of this post. 3. I have more to say personally a little later. ================================ Why illegal NSA taps on Americans must be opposed I'm shocked to hear that 2/3 of Americans don't mind if their phones are tapped illegally in the fight against terrorism. Let me give you some reasons why you should absolutely care. 1. Any time we say the law doesn't matter, we slide towards dictatorship. 2. There are legal ways for the government to obtain permission to tap anyone's phone. That legal method, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). FISA came about in the wake of the Church and Pike Committee investigations of the intelligence agencies in the 1970s, where the CIA and FBI were found to be spying on Americans because they represented a political threat to their interests, not a physical threat to Americans. We can't go back to the pre-FISA lack of oversight, as that led to egregious abuses to people's privacy. 3. Your phone calls can and will be used against you. If you think that, just because you are a law-abiding citizen you have nothing to fear, think again. If your politics don't exactly match those of the president, you could be targeted for harassment, or have your vote selectively erased, or have your taxes selectively audited because when you allow unmonitored, unpermissioned surveillance, you're basically unlocking the door to the henhouse in front of the fox. 4. What would you say if you found out the White House had monitored Kerry's phone conversations in order to best defeat him in the last election? That's what this is about. I don't know if that happened. I simply know it could have happened. No one would have given Bush the legal authority to tap a political opponent. But since the Bush administration claims the law doesn't apply to them, what's to stop them? Absolutely power corrupts absolutely. 5. See the film V for Vendetta to understand the type of society we are becoming when we allow the party in power to break the law in the name of protecting our security. 6. The parallels between the acts of the Bush administration and Nazi Germany are frightening. People there were persuaded to give up their freedoms for security, protection against their version of the war on terror, which became a war on Communism. When more and more labor was needed to support the machine of perpetual war, the Jews became the sacrifice that Germany was willing to pay to support its empire. Jews were imprisoned and used as slave labor in concentration camps. In V for Vendetta, homosexuals and Muslims were the sacrificial lambs. What would it be in America? Aren't liberals the most undersirable people to the ruling elite? You have more to fear from your own government than you have to fear from terrorists when the government is given unaccountable power. In the film, V takes over the emergency broadcast system to invite the people of London to wake up: ...the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance, and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, think, and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillence coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the [ruling leader]. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. We don't have a V. But we have a nearly parallel society to the one that created him (see the film for the reference.) That's what Bush wants of you now. Your silent consent. In return, he offers you peace. But what kind of peace? A prison cell offers peace, safety, and security. But is that where you'd want to live? Wake up, people. As the wise Benjamin Franklin warned us, "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." =====================================================================
  6. "The Last Investigation" is also in my opinion one of the best books on the assassination. Mr. Fonzi is to be commended for his efforts as well. We can never say we were not told or presented primary evidence of conspiracy. Maybe it is all just too da**ed uncomfortable to consider what has been developed as fact since 1963, so too da**ed many people fall back into the denial mode? That denial is only the comfort of the velvet hangman's noose, IMHO the nation still pays for that chosen denial. Jim
  7. Hear Hear and Amen Thanks Mr. Clark Jim Me thinks some doest protest too much borne of an impossible to defend position.
  8. I would add the excuses the world has been handed as "investigations" by the US Government. WC and HSCA to be more specific. This state or states of affairs emphasizes the role of the independent political researcher in knowing what we do know and can prove about cover-ups. I think many deserve a round of applause and a dash of recognition for those efforts. Some individuals in the research arena DO NOT. Some turned, some are driven by something other than a desire for networking and furtherance of knowledge and dissemination of that knowledge. Some rip off the work of others and seemingly think nothing is amiss in that situation. Some refuse to consider or even acknowledge another's time and effort for reasons not publicly known. However the postive effects of independent researchers work is that both the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee on Assassinations were brought forth as replies to interest of the American and Global public in unanswered questions about the death of the 35th President. Because the "investigations" produced more cover-ups cannot be blamed on the efforts of the independent researchers - we all Americans as Americans have to accept that predicament. We let it stand and didn't hold the Govt.'s feet to the fire to secure honest answers. Why should we have to wait for authors to expose the connections to the MIICC from players in Dallas in 1963? Why can't the US Government do its job representing the interests of We the People? The last straw or two for me personally has been the complete ignoring of the HSCA's formal request of the Dept. of Justice to investigate the areas left untouched and unresolved questions in the murder of the President by the DOJ under RReagan. Too sleepy to have noticed the request of Congress expressing the will of We the People? Nothing new for the GOP in that. Witness the GHW BU$H ignoring the JFK Act until it was no longer in his power for him to halt the LAW all the while passing out pardons to Iran-Contra CRIMINALS before he was disempowered in 1993. Same old junk. Parallel the son today reclassifying materials. How the heck can we know if we are holding reclassified materials today? Wait for Blackwater Security punks to snatch us away in the night to some Halliburton built underground Gitmo? In AmeriKKKa it is legal now. Questions re the 911 Fables? The new boss in the same as the old bosses. Neither party has any effective answers. More lies and more cover up and non denial denials to follow I bet. Simply put We the People are too gullible and too intimidated to be able to seek redress of grievance. That exact thing is my second pet peeve aluded to above. However I would ask the Americans to go Vote today in the Primary. I did. You Should. If allowed a third, it would be the sometimes expressed lack of respect for another's views in the research community. Agreement isn't the issue, disagreeing agreeably is. Attacking a position without sliding down the slippery slope to slander, name calling and inneundo is not that difficult is it? Not for most human beings I know. That is my long winded post about things about the JFK murder and attending issues that bother me. Jim
  9. Yes Ma'am, er Francesca, ('Scuse) I am indeed the one from Prouty's forum hosted by Len Osanic. I too think highly of Phil Melanson's books both RFK related and the Oswald Spy Saga book. I think Spy Saga is indeed out of print. I didn't check the online book outlets though. I had found copies of Spy Saga and his RFK book in a used books shop at less cost than some places I have seen. Best Regards Jim
  10. Ms. Akhtar, I suppose it is worth a look IF one can view it for free. It is another limited hang out IMHO. In this location it was rebroadcast at the same time as ABC's Beyond Conspiracy trash on the evening of Nov. 22, 2003. Maybe so PBS could join the anti-conspiracy party the media was throwing on that date. For what its Worth Jim
  11. BOR interview for Mr. Sobel about the film "The Commission", it is good and in archive I believe. I haven't seen the film and seek it to be released on DvD in the future. I would buy it. Jim
  12. This is a good film. Worth a little time to see. I won't spoil it for those that may go see it. Other films I found good were "Good Night and Good Luck" (as I had said before) and Syriana. I didn't know I was a George Clooney fan, but I guess I am after the 2nd and 3rd films mentioned above. Have others seen good films come out of "hollywood" of late? Somewhat unrelated to political research is the film "Crash", it too deserved awards. FWIW Jim
  13. Let me take a short moment to thank all for this thread and replies. And Mike Hogan as I'll order that book as soon as affordable. In a few weeks. It is Mr. John Simkins decision as to if "suicided" journalists deserves a new thread. Could just be an oddity of chance. I was not aware Mr. Antony Lukas had taken his life. Mr. Steve Kangas' death I find so damnably uninvestigated, to be meeting with the known right wing asset of empire R. M. Sciafe and turn up dead should have made some honest officer curious. There are "left" thinking officers that try to abide by our organic laws (Declaration of Independence and Constitution) as I have learned to shed my own characterization of all officers as always being less than honest officers of the court. To not dig deeper into Mr. Kangas' murder? That is walking between raindrops to me. A thing mr. sciafe knows very well. Not that I suspect the jerk of the murder but it is too easy and comfortable for my ease of spirit about the events to see no "set-up" in the matter. Again thanks for the pointer to the book and thanks to all for the discussion of the ideas above. Sincerely Jim
  14. Just yesterday I was told "they" identified deep throat - again. The life of a legend and another limited hang out doesn't surprize me. What does amaze me is how few people bother to do their own thinking. So they exposed deep throat? But did they? No clearly not. The legend of Woodstein is exactly that. A created legend and limited hang from the hand of a known ONI asset, (Bob Woodward). How better to CYA than to promote the legend of a functional "free" press a la Ed R. Morrow? I doubt Carl Bernstein knew of Woodward's past back in 1973. FWIW I agree with Ms. Meredith and Mr. Simkins that the real tale of watergate has never been told or taught in post high school education nor high school education. The "free" press did not save the Republic in the Watergate abdication of Dick Nixon any more than the NY Times and CBS ever EVER reported the realities of the fallacy of the Warren Commission and its bullcr*p report. Neither did the abdication of Nixon stop the SE Asian covert war and the attending issues of empire. I am seeking a good book on the real issues attending Watergate titled Nightmare by a Mr. Lucas. Another good source I loaned that never remembered where its way home, yet. Jim
  15. Jim, you are clueless... OH SO TYPICAL. FO CRAIG. You are exposing your agenda again. Clueless because I don't agree. TYPICAL AND EXPECTED. I have for 3 decades suspected films are altered with or without anyone else's book or pontification by internet experts. I refuse to surrender the right of freedom of the mind to jackasses as you are conducting yourself to be. Jason Vermeer pointed out IT IS POSSIBLE FOR TWO CAMERAS TO RUN AT DIFFERENT FRAME RATES. Rather than dictate meaningless ad hominem attacks as tranparent as your motives are Craig you might address the points raised. AGAIN AS USUAL. You sir and this topic as it is being treated reveal and agenda about reputation and something other than truth. Otherwise why refuse to produce refered to but never produced "experts". AGAIN OH SO TYPICAL. The issues atending the cover up and LIES attending the murder of Jack Kennedy are too important to be treated so cavalierly as you do. Rather be what you call "clueless" than agenda riddled. I don't have to agree with your view and not doing so doesn't designate me as clueless, it labels the attacker as out of mental ammunition for discussion. NUFF SAID AND VERY CLEARLY! I retain my own freedom of thought, Sorry. Clueless...Laughing all the way to truth past disruption and refusal to address questions asked by those that are not aware of agenda. I am and you are more than clueless, much more insidious than clueless - obfuscating. Or you would in a civil manner discuss the issues attending film alteration. Or write your own book. Yeah Right. I'll watch the B & N for it. THE QUESTIONS STARTED ABOUT ALL FILM ALTERATION ****** LONG*** BEFORE**** JIM **** FETZER*** PUBLISHED ** A BOOK*** ON *** THE*** QUESTION! Any new member would never know this point is not new. A point you seem to have forgotten in your narrow focus of ad homenim attacks of NO MERIT WHAT SO EVER, aside from demonstrating you are at present incapable if civil discussion of the matter. I am not of that "club" Craig. Have a great deluded life Craig. EVER hear the old R n R song about "Don't ask me what I think of you..." Some serve research and some bear agenda. I serve reality and research and those engaged in the real research agenda free. I can change my mind can you? Obviously not. Save your meaningless ad homenim attacks for those so easily impressed. I'll keep integrity and freedom of thought as an independent historian of these matters, you can keep your own chosen level of conduct ever clearer as to your own choice. Discussion in civil manner wins out over dictation of view and ad homenim attack EVERY SINGLE TIME. One of those three states of human interaction promotes LEARNING - the other two halt it. This is the education forum REMEMBER?
  16. If those two proffered frames depict the same actions and implying the same "time" and or the same version of events, someone else needs glasses far worse that I ever did or will. FWIW Jim
  17. So typical... Why am I not surprised by this barely relevant commentary Ron? So you don't like Fletcher Prouty? Or Len Osanic? Or myself? Or all of the above and more. Or just feel the need to support Gary Mack and the 6th Floor Ad Naseum? And the promotion of LN junk? Whichever, whatever... As you wish Ron. I knew something like that was coming . Too bad, so sad. Jim
  18. The Nation is not the Rag it once was or they wouldn't tolerate the outright LIES of the right wing like Max Holland's lunatic ravings in support of the Warren Commission after all these years. Clear enough a demonstration of asset function for me. Boycott? It worked for Cesar Chavez. Also just know thy enemy in the media and out, in educational systems and out, in the body politic and out. Also I like Antony Sutton's works more than just S & B stuff. He is right to my opinion about the parties don't matter a d*mn, it really is "us n them". This is how all police state operate and Us and Them is also an effective concept for any political organizer. Not being a member of the Bar, I wonder if We The People (Yanks) could effectively sue a corporation of news LIARS for their exercise of choice as to material covered. If we can CBS and the NYTimes should have been bankrupt by the cover ups back to the early 1960s. If that were possible it would be great. I can think of a couple of thousand uses for Rupert Murdock's billions like feeding the needy in the USA and see that people have medical coverage in this country. Older folks in too d*mn many cases are doing without EFFECTIVE medical care an issue both parties have refused to address all my 50 year life time. Too many of our grandparents and parents are eating pet food for lack of money to get the "new" medicare Rx "benefits" after taxes and bills. To many children of them are too willing to pretend they do not know or are also too poor to help. There can be little more effective or rapid way of killing the elderly poor off to save Social Security money to be stolen for the NYSE as per GW Moron Bu$h's desires. Think about it high stress, poor diet and no real medical care equals a quick blameless death. Who are the politcos fooling? This is inexcusable in a nation as wealthy as the USA. Cry the Beloved Country! It is my position that the country was stolen when We The People weren't paying attention. Long before 2000. Citizens should have the SAME Medical coverage as the members of Congress. All the conditions that so offend thinking people are directly tied back to the Op Mockingbird like deceptions of the Media and both parties. Or do any folks really thing that Americans approve of pre-emptive war and torture? The majority most assuredly DO NOT. The majority are not aware of the trillions of dollars given away as Corporate Welfare but are very much aware of supposed "welfare mothers" living off "my" taxes. And that fallacy too is a product of the CIA mouthpieces like The Nation and CBS and NY Times and Fox Nazi News. I wonder when the democrats will recall the GOP campaign slogan "Had Enough Yet?" (1948 or 1952?) and mount an effective campaign against the Fascists that have taken over the GOP. It is no longer the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower. But of the "US" that have. A "party" of thieves and robber barons as it was once before. FWIW Jim
  19. Agreed. I offer a couple of Ed Morrow quotes that I find significant. The US is in dire need of a really "free" press, without the press' cover ups the Bu$h Crimes would have been exposed in the 2000 Campaign. A damn deserter as President? Not in my America only in AmeriKKKa. Go look up "Harvest of Shame" a CBS "White Paper" broadcast instigated by Ed Morrow about the illegal immigrants not as "Criminals" but victims of corporate farms 40 damn years ago. He saw and WE KNEW IF WE BOTHERED TO KNOW. Like April Oliver and the Sarin gas used in theater on deserter GIs. CNN copped out but the truth is out there and some know and saw the reality of DoD hate for dissent let alone from inside its own drafted ranks. So 30 years later we "select" a deserter as my "P"resident?? Not in my name nor in my definition of the consent of the governed. An amazing Empire isn't it? Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather both known liars are not even in the same zip code as Ed Morrow and the original CBS news "gang". Consider the foresight of Ed Morrow's words below. ============================================== "No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we all are his accomplices. Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only the end of the bar. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. The speed of communication is wonderous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information which we know to be untrue. We cannot make good news out of bad practice." =============================== Case Closed as for the real function of todays Unfree Press. Jim
  20. Sir, Check your mail. I sent the letter from Len Osanic's Collected Works CD. Best to you Jim PS if that doesn't show up, let me know.
  21. Good Night and Good Luck? Anyone seen this film? Bill Paley was to me handled much too respectfully. From my own research Paley was part of the "network" John wrote of that grew out of China Hands. Other than that one point I thought the film is good and I paid to see it and then paid for the DvD. Too many today don't know who Joe McCarthy was or what his game was about. Too many don't know that a handful of reporters/journalists stopped a fascist jerk cold. Ed Morrow was only the talking head for a CBS news department that did a good for the public. No one was willing to confront the abuse of citizens rights. The power brokers to include Dwight Eisenhower advocated a wait and let the abuse go on as "McCarthy will self destruct sooner or later." In the end of the film it is impled that the rise of Eisenhower/Nixon after McCarthy's fall was only the continuation of the Fascist agenda of fear mongering and promotion of the "Cold-War". That same fear mongering ought to be familiar today. I agree that the rise of Ike-Nixon was only more of the same. I think we all could use a "freer press" and a group of reporters like the original CBS news crew headed by Ed Morrow. FWIW. Jim
  22. John, This passage is important. "However, as we saw in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the 1930s, in a crisis, the ruling elite will resort to fascism. Would this happen in the US in the future? For example, what would happen if the full story of “Assassination, Terrorism and the Arms Trade” was fully exposed in the US in the next couple of years? How would American people react if they really believed that Bush invaded Iraq in order to make money for his financial backers (in the same way that LBJ did in Vietnam)? This is a difficult concept for people to grasp. I am sure that even most conspiracy theorists think I have gone too far to suggest that a politician would act in such a way. Yet I belive this is the key to understanding these events. At the moment a large percentage of the American people believe that Bush made a silly mistake by invading Iraq. However, if the majority of American developed the opinion that Bush took this decision as a result of pressure applied by Halliburton, Bechtel, etc., I would like to think the American public would demand reform of the system and to break the link between politicians and the arms manufacturers. At a time like this the ruling elite would no doubt consider the possibility of a military dictatorship. After all, China is now showing how a military dictatorship can successfully run a capitalistic system. The main test will be the way the rest of the advanced world would react. Bush might be able to rely on Tony Blair to defend this military coup (maybe one would take place in the UK at the same time). However, other European countries have a more sophisticated understanding of the political process. I think the power of the European Union is important here. We also still have the internet (something that China is still finding impossible to control). I therefore thing a military coup in the US would end in failure. I would be interested in how others see this developing situation." -------------------------end excerpt from Mr. Simkin's post above ----------------------------- As refreshing as the rising tide of backlash in America is after 6 years of rubber stamping Fascist agendas, I worry that nothing substantive will come of it all. I see so many politicos running for cover and assholes of both parties screaming at the top of their voices "Vote for me, I'm not like him!" Not in those words but the intent is clear. I saw a billboard recently that someone paid for, it read: "Will someone give this man a blow job so we can impeach him?" superimposed over a unflattering picture of GW Bu$h. Someone put up good money for that billboard seen by many thousands everyday. It stopped me cold, I turned around to see if I had seen what I thought I saw. I did. A huge difference from 2001-2002 when I was flipped off by Bu$hite Fascists for a thing in my car window with an upside down flag and the caption "BUSH KNEW!". Today I get no such redneck display but many thumbs up from the same population that was so blinded by the right in the lust for war in 2001-03. IF the opposition to Bu$H solidifies into a confrontational newly elected House of Representatives in 2006, THEN Articles of Impeachment will follow. Iraq alone isn't the issue, it is the string of arrogance, errors of policy, repeated claims of being above the law and being the law. Again an unbroken string of governance for the War-Profiteers has worn thin. I'll date myself right here: I have been saying for 2 years after 2004's second consecutive stolen US election that the arrogance and attitude of beng above reproach is only a mirrored reflection of the Nixon White House after the STOLEN election of 1972. Nobody could touch them or stop their war. THEY THOUGHT. My question is: Will the American People stand for another dose of limited hang-out and create another pair of manufactured heroes as Woodward and Bernstein became? Time will tell IF the Empire of the Bu$h Crime Family will fall. IF it does, will the American Republic be subjected to a repeat in another 30 years? Will the new boss be any different than the old boss? America once had more products to offer the world markets than WAR, WEAPONS and EXPORTED WARS. Just too much manipulated profit today in war for corporate international interests to ignore for the sake of the "investors". Investors, so it comes full circle back to the Fascists and lovers of war promoting the system that creates the power base and the piles of dead people and even larger piles of profits for ready cash. Jim PS I am a registered independent voter and I will vote again in 2006 and beyond. They made the white boy (me) mad enough to act. Citizenship and the attending responsibility doesn't stop when leaving the voting booth or kiosk ever other year as the last 5 years show. Go VOTE YANKS, you may not get another chance in your lifetime if you don't.
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