John R. Houk, Blog Editor
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December 26, 2022
YOU must
become aware the current Elitist government overlords are more interested in
perpetuating a godless fundamental transformation of America than in protecting
Individual Liberty, Religious Liberty and honest information for WE-THE-PEOPLE
to make informed decisions – or at least while we can make decisions.
It is
evident that corruption among all the Branches of government (Executive,
Legislative & Judicial) set up by the Founders’ Constitution is so
pervasive that WE-THE-PEOPLE no longer can rely on the so-called Checks and
Balances to promote the domestic/social/political welfare of American citizens.
Currently
government promotes a power structure that keeps Elitist-transformists in control
and WE-THE-PEOPLE in a darkness that nears a slavery of the Sheeple. The
sadness of it all is that the Sheeple have become so brainwashed, most are
unaware of the darkness that increasingly – step-by-step – erases Liberty. The
darkness has moved so slowly, the Sheeple are not deciding if they should leap out of
the frying pan of tyranny before they are totally cooked.
In light
of the frying pan of tyranny, here are some cross posts of a corrupted government.
Will Sheeple embrace American Patriotism AND JUMP out tyranny’s frying pan?
JRH
12/26/22
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Who
Killed President Kennedy?
December
26, 2022
In a
remarkable television broadcast on December 15, 2022, Tucker Carlson made an
explosive charge. He pointed out that, contrary to law, the White House was
refusing to release thousands of pages of documents about the assassination of
John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Carlson said that these documents proved
CIA involvement in the assassination and that someone within the government who
had looked at these documents made a direct statement to this effect.
Here is
what Carlson said: “Not long after Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on camera
in the basement of Dallas police headquarters, a lot of Americans started to
have some questions about the Kennedy
assassination. It was, you’d have to admit, a pretty extraordinary
sequence of events. A lone gunman murders the president of the United States.
And then, less than 48 hours later, that lone gunman is himself murdered by
another lone gunman.
What are
the odds of that? It’s one thing if you get struck by lightning – rare but
possible. But if every member of your family also gets struck by lightning, all
on different days, you might begin to suspect these are not entirely natural
events. But oh, replied the U.S. government, they are. This bizarre chain of
killings was all entirely natural.
So less
than a year after the JFK assassination, the Johnson White House released
something called the Warren Commission Report. And the report concluded that
while their motives remained unclear, both Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby had acted
alone. No one helped them. There was no conspiracy of any kind. Case closed.
Time to move on.
And many
Americans did move on. At the time, they had no idea how shoddy and corrupt the
Warren Commission was. It would be nearly 50 years before the CIA admitted
under duress that in fact, it had withheld information from investigators about
its relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald.
But even
then, at the time, before that was known, the government’s explanation didn’t
seem entirely plausible. And some people started asking obvious questions about
it. It was at that point, as Americans started to doubt the official story,
that the term ‘conspiracy theory’ entered our lexicon. As Professor Lance
DeHaven-Smith points out in his book on the subject, ‘The term conspiracy
theory did not exist as a phrase in everyday American conversation before 1964.
In 1964, the year the Warren Commission issued its report, the New York Times
published five stories in which ”conspiracy theory” appeared.’
Now,
today, of course, the term ‘conspiracy theory’ appears in pretty much every New
York Times story about American politics. It’s wielded, now as then, as a weapon
against anyone who asks questions the government doesn’t feel like answering.
But despite 60 years of name-calling, those questions have not disappeared. In
fact, they have multiplied with time.
And here’s
one of them. In April of 1964, a psychiatrist called Louis
Joylon West visited Jack Ruby in his isolation cell in a
Dallas jail. According to West’s written assessment, he found that Jack Ruby
was ‘technically insane’ and in need of immediate psychiatric hospitalization.
Those are conclusions that puzzlingly no one who had spoken to Jack Ruby
previously had reached. Ruby had seemed perfectly sane to the people who knew
him. Louis Jolyon West pronounced him crazy.
But what
West did not say was that he was working for the CIA at the time. Louis Jolyon
West was a contract psychiatrist for the spy agency. He was also an expert on
mind control and a prominent player in the now infamous MKUltra program in
which the CIA gave powerful psychiatric drugs to Americans without their
knowledge.
So of all
the psychiatrists in the world, what in the world was this guy doing in Jack
Ruby’s prison cell? The media did not seem interested in finding out. In fact,
the New York Times, in an extensive 1999 obituary of West, never mentioned the
fact that he had worked for the CIA, much less his time in Jack Ruby’s cell,
which seems relevant. So you can see why non-crazy people would wonder about
what really happened. And of course, many have wondered.
In 1976,
long forgotten, the House of Representatives impaneled a special committee to
reinvestigate the JFK assassination. Their bipartisan conclusion? Jack Kennedy
was almost certainly murdered as the result of a conspiracy. But the question
is a conspiracy by whom? Well, the obvious suspect would be the CIA. Why else
would the agency withhold critical evidence from investigators? Is there a
benign explanation for that, for maintaining this level of secrecy for this
many years? Not that we’re aware of. And it is illegal.
In 1992,
Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection
Act. That act mandated full disclosure of all documents by 2017, 54 years after
JFK was killed. The last administration promised to comply fully with that law.
But under intense pressure from CIA Director Mike Pompeo, withheld, in the end,
thousands of pages of CIA documents.
Today,
this afternoon, the Biden
administration did exactly the same thing. That would be
thousands of pages of documents after nearly 60 years, after the death of every
single person involved. But we still can’t see them. Clearly, it’s not to
protect any person. They’re all dead. It’s to protect an institution. But why?
Well,
today we decided to find out. We spoke to someone who had access to these still
hidden CIA documents, a person who was deeply familiar with what they
contained. We asked this person directly, ‘Did the CIA have a hand in the
murder of John F. Kennedy, an American President?’ And here’s the reply we
received verbatim. Quote, ‘The answer is yes. I believe they were involved.
It’s a whole different country from what we thought it was. It’s all fake.’
It’s hard
to imagine a more jarring response than that. Again, this is not a ‘conspiracy
theorist’ that we spoke to. Not even close. This is someone with direct
knowledge of the information that once again is being withheld from the
American public. And the answer we received was unequivocal. Yes, the CIA was
involved in the assassination of the president. Now, some people will not be
surprised to hear that they suspected it all along. But no matter how you feel
about it or what you thought about the Kennedy assassination, pause to consider
what this means.
It means
that within the US government, there are forces wholly beyond democratic
control. These forces are more powerful than the elected officials that
supposedly oversee them. These forces can affect election outcomes. They can
even hide their complicity in the murder of an American president. In other
words, they can do pretty much anything they want. They constitute a government
within a government mocking, by their very existence, the idea of democracy. As
cynical as we have become after 30 years of watching government officials
ignore the voters who employ them, we were shocked to learn this. It’s not
acceptable.” See this.
After this
broadcast, Robert Kennedy, Jr, JFK’s nephew, tweeted: “The most
courageous newscast in 60 years. The CIA’s murder of my uncle was a
successful coup d’état from which our democracy has never recovered.”
If the CIA
was involved, the obvious next question is why? Why did they want JFK
eliminated? The best answer has been provided by Professor Jim Douglass in his
book JFK and the Unspeakable. In brief, JFK didn’t trust the
CIA and planned to dismantle it. For that reason, the CIA got rid of him before
he could do it.
I
interviewed Douglass over a decade ago, and her are some of the things he told
me:
“Now, Jim,
you were close to Thomas Merton, influenced by Thomas Merton, and part of this
title comes from Merton. Would you explain that to us?
DOUGLASS: Yes, Lew. Thomas Merton wrote a
book called Raids
on the Unspeakable, a series of essays. He talked about the
unspeakable as a kind of power and a kind of reality that went almost beyond
the power of speech. It was suggested for him by the nuclear arms race, by the
Vietnam War, and by the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Malcolm and
Martin and RFK. It was a kind of evil where we don’t want to go. That might be
one way of coming up with what he meant by the unspeakable.
ROCKWELL: Well, Jim Douglass, thank
goodness you have gone where maybe others have feared to go. And all the people
that I’ve talk to – and I’ve read, myself, a good amount of Kennedy
revisionism, but I was extremely impressed by all you’ve done. And the people
I’ve talked to who are the real experts tell me this is the best book and the
most important book ever written on the Kennedy assassination. So not only do
you go over why, clearly, this was a conspiracy, it just wasn’t a typical lone
nut who appears from time to time in American history and is of great use to
the power elite, but you show us why he was killed, why this is so important,
and why we should all be concerned about it, not simply a historical event we
can forget about, but why it continues to have impact on the nature of American
society, of the wars that the government fights, what’s happening in terms of
the police state here at home, and why it affects every person here today
listening to this show
DOUGLASS: Yes, I really appreciate your emphasizing
the whys, because all I hoped to do was to tell the story of the why. I, of
course, included the plot, but the only reason I did that was to fill in the
picture. My point is not, and I did not write an analysis of the Kennedy
assassination. It was to tell the story of JFK, and of all of us, for that
matter. It was representing everyone in this country and, because of the nature
of the conflict, in some sense, everybody in the world. We’re talking about
weapons that could destroy the world. And that story, and of his turning – I
use that word advisedly. It comes from the Hebrew Scriptures – his turning away
from that kind of destructive power, towards peace, that’s the ‘why’ of his
assassination.
ROCKWELL: You know, we hear, for example,
about his speech where he said he was going to undo the CIA as an organization.
Was that part of it, I mean, in terms of what the CIA did then, what it does
today, what the Pentagon does, the Military-Industrial Complex?
DOUGLASS: He underwent a break with the CIA
relatively early in his administration at the Bay of Pigs because he understood
– he was not a stupid man. He was a very shrewd person. (Laughing) And he
understood that he was being manipulated and set up at the Bay of Pigs so that
he would have to call in the U.S. troops to win against Castro, and the CIA
lied to him to set him up, they lied about the conditions of the uprisings that
they told him were going to occur in Cuba and all this kind of thing. And the whole
Bay of Pigs invasion had been organized during the Eisenhower administration.
But when Kennedy realized afterwards the extent to which he had been lied and
set up, he said, I want to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it
to the wind. And he very deliberately did take steps to impair the CIA from
doing that in the future. He fired the man in charge, Allen Dulles, who had
been the cold warrior up to that point, and fired his main subordinates who had
set him up in the Bay of Pigs. And then, of course, after his assassination,
who does Lyndon Johnson, his successor, appoint for the so-called Warren
Commission as the major influence within it, but Allen Dulles. He should have
been considered, rightly, as the main suspect in the assassination rather than
appointed to investigate it. That’s the fox investigating the murder in the hen
house.
ROCKWELL: Can you look at the Kennedy
assassination as a coup d’etat?
DOUGLASS: Yes. But it’s a very subtle coup
d’etat in that the propaganda is so enormous and the transition is done so
fluidly into an administration under Lyndon Johnson, that is reversing all of
Kennedy’s main decision. That happens with so little disruption. I mean,
Kennedy’s main advisors don’t all surrender and say this is a coup d’etat or
anything like that. Everybody sort of surrenders. This is Cold War thinking.
This is the mission to the Powers That Be, if you want to put it in biblical
terms. And so, although it is, in fact, a coup d’etat in terms of the power –
and the way Kennedy was moving, he had become so isolated, and even his closest
– well, most of his closest advisers were so subordinate to the Powers That Be
that it was not seen as anything like that.
ROCKWELL: Did Robert Kennedy see it as a
murder by the Powers That Be, and is that why he himself was
murdered?
DOUGLASS: Yes, he did. But he could not, as
one individual – even though he was attorney general of the United States, he
could not see a way to do anything in the extreme isolation that he and his
brother together had been before the assassination. But now it was Robert
Kennedy alone. He, on the very day of the assassination, within an hour, he was
suspecting – well, within minutes – (Laughing) – he was suspecting it was the
CIA. And he actually confronted people in the CIA that afternoon, asking them
about their role in the assassination. But this was all kept very much under
the visibility of anyone. And he did not come out with that view. He said to
his friends that he would wait until he became president himself. That was a
very tragic and fatal decision. He needed to speak up long before that. And, of
course, he was never given that opportunity. And he was assassinated 15 minutes
after he took the turn by winning the California primary toward becoming president
of the United States.”
Isn’t it
time the cover-up ended? Let’s do everything we can to release the missing
documents and then get rid of the evil, war-mongering CIA. But let’s not stop
there. Let’s get rid of the NSA, the FBI and the other agencies that are
terrorizing and spying on the American people. [Blog Editor Bold text
emphasis]
The
Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [send him mail], former
editorial assistant to Ludwig von Mises and congressional chief of staff to Ron
Paul, is founder and chairman of the Mises
Institute, executor for the estate of Murray N. Rothbard, and
editor of LewRockwell.com.
He is the author of Against
the State and . Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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When
the FBI Attacks Critics as “Conspiracy Theorists,” It’s Time to Reform the
Bureau
December
26, 2022
Below is
my column
in the Hill on the need for a new “Church Committee” to
investigate and reform the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after years of
scandals involving alleged political bias. In response to criticism over its
role in Twitter’s censorship system, the FBI lashed out against critics as
“conspiracy theorists” spreading disinformation. However, it still refuses
to supply new information on other companies, beyond Twitter,
that it has paid to engage in censorship.
Here is
the column:
“Conspiracy
theorists … feeding the American public misinformation” is a familiar attack
line for anyone raising free-speech concerns over the FBI’s role in social
media censorship. What is different is that this attack came from the country’s largest
law enforcement agency, the FBI — and, since the FBI has made combatting
“disinformation” a major focus of its work, the labeling of its critics is
particularly menacing.
Fifty
years ago, the Watergate scandal provoked a series of events that transformed
not only the presidency but federal agencies like the FBI. Americans demanded
answers about the involvement of the FBI and other federal agencies in domestic
politics. Ultimately, Congress not only investigated the FBI but later impaneled to
investigate a host of other abuses by intelligence agencies.
A quick
review of recent disclosures and controversies shows ample need for a new
Church Committee:
The
Russian investigations
The FBI
previously was at the center of controversies over documented political
bias. Without repeating the long history from the Russian influence
scandal, FBI officials
like Peter Strzok were fired after emails showed open bias
against presidential candidate Donald Trump. The FBI ignored warnings that the so-called Steele
dossier, largely funded by the Clinton campaign, was likely used by Russian
intelligence to spread disinformation. It continued its investigation despite early refutations of key allegations or discrediting of
sources.
Biden
family business
The FBI
has taken on the character of a Praetorian Guard when the Biden family has
found itself in scandals.
For
example, there was Hunter Biden’s handgun, acquired by apparently lying on federal forms. In 2018, the gun
allegedly was tossed into a trash bin in Wilmington, Del., by Hallie Biden, the
widow of Hunter’s deceased brother and with whom Hunter had a relationship at
the time. Secret Service agents reportedly appeared at the gun shop with
no apparent reason, and Hunter later said the matter would be handled by the FBI. Nothing was done despite the
apparent violation of federal law.
Later, the
diary of Hunter’s sister, Ashley, went missing. While the alleged theft
normally would be handled as a relatively minor local criminal matter,
the FBI launched a major investigation that
continued for months to pursue those who acquired the diary, which reportedly
contains embarrassing entries involving President Biden.
Such a massive FBI deployment shocked many of us, but the FBI built a federal case against those who took possession of the diary.
Targeting
Republicans and conservatives
Recently
the FBI was flagged for targeting two senior House Intelligence Committee staffers in
grand jury subpoenas sent to Google. It has been criticized for using the Jan.
6 Capitol riot investigations to target conservative groups and GOP members of
Congress, including seizing the phone of one GOP member.
The FBI
also has been criticized for targeting pro-life violence while
not showing the same vigor toward pro-choice violence.
Hunter’s
laptop
While the
FBI was eager to continue the Russian investigations with no clear evidence of
collusion, it showed the opposite inclination when given Hunter Biden’s
infamous laptop. The laptop would seem to be a target-rich environment for
criminal investigators, with photos and emails detailing an array of potential
crimes involving foreign transactions, guns, drugs and prostitutes. However,
reports indicate that FBI officials moved to quash or slow any investigation.
The computer repairman who acquired the laptop, John Paul Mac Isaac, said he struggled to get the FBI to respond and that agents made thinly veiled threats regarding any disclosures of material related to the Biden family; he said one agent told him that “in their experience, nothing ever happens to people that don’t talk about these things.”
The
‘Twitter Files’
The
“Twitter Files” released by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, show as many as 80 agents targeting social-media
posters for censorship on the site. This included alleged briefings that Twitter officials said was the reason they
spiked the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop
story before the 2020 election.
The FBI
sent 150 messages on back channels to just one Twitter official to
flag accounts. One Twitter executive expressed unease over the FBI’s pressure,
declaring: “They are probing & pushing everywhere they can
(including by whispering to congressional staff).”
We also
have learned that Twitter hired a number of retired FBI agents, including former FBI general counsel James Baker, who was a
critical and controversial figure in past bureau scandals over political bias.
Attacking
critics
It is not
clear what is more chilling — the menacing role played by the FBI in
Twitter’s censorship program, or its mendacious response to the disclosure of
that role. The FBI has issued a series of “nothing-to-see-here” statements
regarding the Twitter Files.
In its
latest statement, the FBI insists it did not command Twitter to take any
specific action when flagging accounts to be censored. Of course, it didn’t
have to threaten the company — because we now have an effective state media by consent rather
than coercion. Moreover, an FBI warning tends to concentrate the minds of most
people without the need for a specific threat.
Finally,
the files show that the FBI paid Twitter millions as part of this censorship
system — a windfall favorably reported to Baker before he
was fired from Twitter by Musk.
Criticizing
the FBI is now ‘disinformation’
Responding
to the disclosures and criticism, an FBI spokesperson declared: “The men and
women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is
unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American
public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the
agency.”
Arguably,
“working every day to protect the American public” need not include censoring
the public to protect it from errant or misleading ideas.
However,
it is the attack on its critics that is most striking. While the FBI denounced
critics of an earlier era as communists and “fellow travelers,” it now uses the
same attack narrative to label its critics as “conspiracy theorists.”
After
Watergate, there was bipartisan support for reforming the FBI and intelligence
agencies. Today, that cacophony of voices has been replaced by crickets, as
much of the media imposes another effective blackout on coverage of the Twitter
Files. This media silence suggests that the FBI found the “sweet spot” on
censorship, supporting the views of the political and media establishment.
As for the
rest of us, the FBI now declares us to be part of a disinformation danger which
it is committed to stamping out — “conspiracy theorists” misleading the public
simply by criticizing the bureau.
Clearly,
this is the time for a new Church Committee — and time to reform the FBI.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at
George Washington University. You can find his updates online @JonathanTurley.
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14
Signs of Totalitarianism
December
25, 2022
We all
know the cons of Twitter, but one of the pros is discovering new and
interesting people.
One of my
favorite new follows is Benjamin
Carlson, a public relations guru and former editor at The
Atlantic. Carlson’s tweets are among the best you’ll find on Twitter, and
he clearly has a keen understanding of the intersections between media and
government, power and propaganda (both current and historically).
One of his
recent tweets caught
my eye, and I share an adaptation of it below.
1. Dissent is equated to violence
2. Media is controlled
3. The legal system is co-opted by the state
4. Power is exerted to quash dissent
5. State police protect the regime, not the people
6. Rights—financial, legal, and civil—are contingent on compliance
7. Mass conformity of beliefs and behaviors is demanded
8. Power is concentrated in inner ring of elite institutions and
people
9. Semi-organized violence is permitted (in some cases)
10. Propaganda targets enemies of the state regime
11. Entire classes singled out for persecution
12. Extra-legal actions are condoned against internal regime
opponents
13. Harsh legal enforcement against unfavored classes
14. Private and public levers of power are used to enforce
adherence to state dogmas
The list
is a bit troubling. At the very least, some of these techniques are playing out
before our eyes. This is certainly not to say that the US is a totalitarian
state, however.
There are
many definitions
of totalitarianism, and I don’t believe one can seriously argue
that the United States has arrived there. But authoritarianism is certainly in
the air, and it emanates most strongly from our nation’s capital.
While both
the political Right and the political Left accuse each other of harboring
tyrannical ambitions, the philosopher Karl Popper offered a clue as to when a
legitimate government crosses the line and becomes a tyrannical one.
“You can
choose whatever name you like for the two types of government,” Popper wrote.
“I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence
‘democracy,’ and the other ‘tyranny.’”
Popper’s
quote is an important reminder: the people ultimately have the right to choose
their government. In his seminal Two Treatises of Government, John
Locke carved out what would become the foundation of America’s founding
philosophy, as FEE’s Dan Sanchez recently
explained.
Equality, in the original sense, not of equal abilities or equal
wealth, but of non-subjugation;
Inalienable Rights, not to government entitlements, but to life,
liberty, and property;
Democracy, in the original sense, not of mere majoritarian voting,
but of popular sovereignty: the idea that governments should not be masters,
but servants of the people;
Consent of the Governed: the idea that governments can only
legitimately govern by the consent of the governed, i.e., the sovereign people;
Limited Government: the idea that the sole purpose and proper
scope of legitimate government is only to secure the rights of the people;
Right of Revolution: the idea that any government that oversteps
its limits and tramples the very rights it was charged with securing is a
tyranny, and that the people have a right to resist, alter, and even abolish
tyrannical governments.
As the
state drifts further and further from its moral purpose, it becomes more and
more important to understand the rights of man and the limits of government.
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