911

“This Government Does Not Torture” ~ George Waterboard Bush

George “Waterboard” Bush and Crew

Remember when GWB explained to the world that “this government does not torture“? I bet most of you believed him, right? Just like the Fox News slurping jarhead I had a conversation with not long ago. When I said that it embarrasses me that my country has reverted to what we once prosecuted others for, he asked me what I was talking about. I explained that Iraqi prisoners were tortured. He said I didn’t know what I was talking about. You see, he’s “been there” and there was no torture.

I asked, “What about the waterboarding?”

He laughed and said, “I’ve been waterboarded, have you? That isn’t torture, they did it to us in the Marines.”

Of course, what he went through was hardly torture, even though some ex-marines and Seals say it was. Is it torture if you are doused with water for 10-15 seconds? By your friends and fellow Marines that you know damn well don’t have ill intent for you? When you know it is practice training in case you get caught behind enemy lines?

Well, I would think that IF it were a scared Muslim dude who is held down by steroid laden monstrosities, cursing you, slapping your nuts with batons, causing sleep deprivation by chaining your hands to the ceiling, not allowing you to rest for up to 40 hours or more at a time, being threatened with death and mock executions, threats of killing your loved ones if you don’t “confess”… that it might be a tad bit different than the comparable love-fest initiated by your fellow jarheads.

But to people like him its the same, because, you know, he’s so bad ass and all.

Even the wikipedia tells us that its not the same:

The difference was in the manner in which the detainees’ breathing was obstructed. At the SERE school and in the DoJ opinion, the subject’s airflow is disrupted by the firm application of a damp cloth over the air passages; the interrogator applies a small amount of water to the cloth in a controlled manner. By contrast, the Agency interrogator … applied large volumes of water to a cloth that covered the detainee’s mouth and nose. One of the psychiatrist / interrogators acknowledged that the Agency’s use of the technique is different from that used in SERE training because it is ‘for real’ and is more poignant and convincing.

It appears that we did, in fact, torture others (according to the Constitution Project). In a recent 577 page report (that you can read HERE), the bipartisan committee of 11 (led by Asa Hutchison, ex-DHS undersecretary/DEA Head, and James Jones) explains that we did (this is a death knell for those who that we never tortured).

Let’s review what was done to these people in our name:

The OLC issued a second memorandum signed by Bybee in August 2002 (hereinafter Bybee Techniques Memo) that concluded 10 specific “enhanced” techniques were not torture, and could be used lawfully by the CIA. The techniques were: “(1) attention grasp, (2) walling, (3) facial hold, (4) facial slap (insult slap), (5) cramped confinement, (6) wall standing, (7) stress positions, (8) sleep deprivation, (9) insects placed in a confinement box, and (10) the waterboard.”

In finding that the 10 techniques were not torture, the Bybee Techniques Memo relied not only on a narrow legal definition of torture, but on factual representations about how the techniques would be implemented that later proved inaccurate. To give one example, the OLC memorandum stated the volume of water used to waterboard a suspect would be carefully controlled, and that while enhanced techniques might be used more than once, “repetition will not be substantial.” In fact, one detainee was waterboarded 83 times, and another detainee 183 times, by interrogators who “continuously applied large volumes of water.”

So the report shows that we did torture and that it:

“damaged the standing of our nation, reduced our capacity to convey moral censure when necessary and potentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel taken captive.”

Yeah. No shit. And we killed and maimed many that confessed to stuff they never did in the first place.

The New York Times tells us:

The task force found “no firm or persuasive evidence” that these interrogation methods produced valuable information that could not have been obtained by other means. While “a person subjected to torture might well divulge useful information,” much of the information obtained by force was not reliable, the report says.

One key issue that you ObamaBots need to realize is that your favorite murderer in chief wanted to “look forward, not backward” when he had the chance to hold the Bush criminals responsible. (You two party pukes make me sick.) Nevermind that he didn’t want these torture regimens stopped, because sure as hell, he uses the same schemes.

Hutchison didn’t want to believe it and had to be convinced, but finally had to admit that he now has no doubts about what the US has done:

“This has not been an easy inquiry for me, because I know many of the players.”

Mr Jones chimed in:

“I had not recognized the depths of torture in some cases,”

“We lost our compass.”

A Song For 9/11

Elvis has obviously left the building:

Another parody by DC Dave regarding the real culprits of 9/11.

Based on Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love With You”

Wise men say
Only fools rush in
So why are we so quick in solving major crimes?

Pigs fly high
Santa’s sleigh flies higher
And buildings fall down from a kerosene fire.

Like the water flows
From a high place to a low
The laws of science don’t change
When shills tell us what’s so.

Just this once
Think it all the way through
And ask yourself, “If not them, then who?”

Like the water flows
From a high place to a low
The laws of science don’t change
When shills tell us what’s so.

Just this once
Think it all the way through
And ask yourself, “If not him, then who?”

http://www.dcdave.com/poet15/130407.htm

Video and vocals by BuelahMan

April Fools!

Your Government Is A Joke

Article by horse237:

https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/april-fools-your-government-is-a-joke/

Graphics by David Dees:

http://www.deesillustration.com/index.asp

Video clip (for illustration and education purposes):

Video and narration by BuelahMan:

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/

If I Were President

Greg at The Goon Squad explains what he’d do if he were President:

http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2013/03/if-i-were-president.html

Referenced reading:
The Video Rebel’s “The Bankers Really, Really Want Us Dead”

http://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/the-bankers-really-really-want-us-all-dead-2/

B’Man’s POS Watch: TN Sen Bob Corker

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/bmans-pos-watch-tn-sen-bob-corker/

Video by BuelahMan:

http://buelahman.wordpress.com

Ten Years Later

Written and narrated by B’Man

Additional reading:

Paul Craig Roberts and Washington’s Blog and all of my posts on the subject

The Definition of a Parasite

Adapted from Greg’s work at the Goon Squad.

Ho, Ho, Ho! 9/11 Was An Inside Job!

Ho, Ho, Ho! 9/11 Was An Inside Job!

Commentary • Opinion • ISSUE 48•50 • Dec 12, 2012

By Santa Claus

h/t The Onion and DublinMick (please check out mick’s blog, as well)

B’Man’s Guest Post: DCDave’s Chomsky, the Fraud, on 9/11

Chomsky, the Fraud, on 9/11

With his track record of rejecting one secret-government outrage after another in his trite fashion as just so much “conspiracy theory,” the position on 9/11 of America’s leading pied piper of the left, Noam Chomsky, was as predictable as the sunrise.  “Chomsky dispels 9/11 conspiracies with sheer logic” proclaims the headline of Chomsky’s talk to a rapt audience on YouTube.  As of this writing, almost 587,000 people have viewed the presentation.  Of those weighing in, some 72 percent said they liked what they saw; the others said they disliked it.

One might be dismayed at these numbers, suggesting as they do that a large majority of the viewers of the video found Chomsky’s extremely shallow argument in favor of the government’s case persuasive.  On the other hand, one might take heart in that more than a quarter of the viewers of the video turned thumbs down on it.  The people who really care about what Chomsky has to say are generally committed leftists, mainly of the academic “intellectual” stripe.  These are the ones to whom Chomsky pitches his message and they are bound to make up the lion’s share of the viewers of the video.  On most issues, they could almost all be expected to like what Chomsky has to say.  It is somewhat encouraging, then, to see that 28 percent clearly don’t.  The readers of this article might want to do their part to make that number go higher.

Unfortunately, the opinion of this MIT linguistics professor still carries a lot of weight in some circles, however poorly supported it might be, and it is very poorly supported in this instance.  In fact, were it to be made by someone of lesser prestige and intellectual clout, it might even be regarded as downright trivial and silly.  The “sheer logic” that he invokes is that had people in the upper reaches of the U.S. government been involved, the news of it would have certainly leaked out and it would have been fatal, both for the perpetrators of the outrage and for the Republican Party.

The argument is quite similar to the one that was made to me concerning the murder of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster during the early days of the Bill Clinton administration:

I had just finished describing the outlines of the case for murder to a friend of long standing who I had not seen for a while. He is a professional historian of a somewhat standard liberal political orientation. “I can’t believe,” he said, “that if what you are telling me is true that Republicans like Dick Armey or Newt Gingrich wouldn’t be making all kinds of political hay over it.” The logic is impeccable if one believes that we really do have the vigorous, two-party system that we think we have.

There is something to Chomsky’s logic as well, if we really have the vigorous and aggressive free press that serves as a counterweight to power abuse in government that Chomsky would have us believe that we do.  Two compelling questions immediately come to mind.  Why would anyone involved in such a heinous criminal scheme leak out the information, and who could he or anyone else who got wind of it tell it to?  He is assuming a very different American press from the one that is yet to report the news that the three-judge panel that appointed Kenneth Starr later ordered him to append to his report an addendum submitted by a witness in the case that totally demolished his conclusion that Vince Foster committed suicide.  It is also a very different press from the one that failed to report the news that the long-secret official report on the death of Secretary of Defense James Forrestal had been released and that it exposed an ongoing cover-up.  In fact, the complicity of the press across the board in one major government outrage after another is a hallmark of the times.  It is a fact that seems to have completely escaped Chomsky’s attention, and somehow he still manages to keep a reputation as a leading critic of the American system.

What is on display in Chomsky’s talk is really just a smattering of the “Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression,” particularly no. 11, “Reason backward, using the deductive method with a vengeance.”  As we say, “With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome evidence is irrelevant.”  Indeed, Chomsky acts as if addressing the actual evidence is beneath him.

And this brings us to another of the techniques whose use by Chomsky might not be quite so obvious.  That is no. 7, “Invoke authority.”  It is not obvious because the authority that he invokes is none other than himself, and he does it with his manner.  It has probably intimidated generations of students and colleagues.  It is really hard to imagine anyone else propounding such complete nonsense with such surpassing confidence.

He embellishes his authoritative image by mixing in a hint of no. 10, “Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable.”  He does this by alluding to the various loose ends in the official 9/11 story—without specifying them, of course—and comparing them to the loose ends that one finds in even the best controlled scientific experiments.  The message is that “this is something that ‘we scientists’ know about and you people of lesser intellect had best not bother yourselves with such complexities,” even if the “complexity” is something as obvious as a building falling as in a controlled demolition or a virtually untrained pilot pulling stunts that are beyond the capacity of the most experienced test pilot.

Exalted academic figure though he might be, Chomsky is not above using the old schoolyard bully technique of no. 5, calling the skeptics names.  Well, he doesn’t exactly call them “conspiracy theorists,” but he says that they engage in conspiracy theories, which is pretty much the same thing, and he says it in a very dismissive fashion.  It’s really an unworthy display for someone whose profession ought to give him a fine appreciation of the meaning of words.  The term “conspiracy theory” was coined to contrast with the ever-popular “lone, crazed gunman” explanation for assassinations.  In the case of 9/11 what we have are competing conspiracy theories, the official one with 19 young Arab fanatics armed with box cutters, and various other theories, probably the most popular of which is that it was an American-Israeli secret-government job.  The question at issue is which of the competing conspiracy theories has the most veracity.

To reach that determination there is really no substitute for examining the evidence, which is to say, using the inductive method.  Deduction does have its place, though, and, as it happens, it works particularly well in the 9/11 case, but it leads one to the opposite conclusion to the one reached by Chomsky.  All one need do is put himself in the place of Osama bin Laden as the supposed master schemer.  Is it at all believable that he would sign off on a plan that depended for its success upon the complete incompetence of America’s air defenses?  And how could he count on the passengers and crew unanimously knuckling under to a few guys armed with nothing more lethal than box cutters?   How could he have any confidence that his novice pilots would be able to fly and navigate these large commercial airliners well enough to carry out their very difficult mission?  On its face, the plan would not work, and one really doesn’t need all that great an imagination to come up with any number of schemes that could wreak tremendous havoc that would have a far greater chance to succeed.  They wouldn’t even require that the perpetrators commit suicide in the process.

We are given to believe that bin Laden was some kind of great military leader in rallying resistance fighters against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, but any military leader given to attempting such hopeless schemes as this one wouldn’t have lasted a week.

“Oh, but it did succeed,” you say.  Yes, something succeeded, but believing that it was Osama bin Laden’s plot really requires an exceptional degree of faith in our leaders and our opinion molders.

“Something could have gone wrong with an insiders’ plot,” Chomsky tells us, but the chances of things going wrong with the sort of outsiders’ plot they’re selling us is many times greater.  And it looks like some things did go wrong with the actual plot, as opposed to the official fanciful one.  For instance, Building 7 fell a few hours after Buildings 1 and 2 fell even though it was not even struck by an airplane.  Is that the one that Flight 93 was supposed to hit?  It is evident that Flight 93 did not crash intact into the ground in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.  It really looks like something went wrong and the plane had to be destroyed in the air.  Something has certainly gone wrong, as well, when it can be reported that Building 7 has collapsed when it only has a rather minor fire down in one corner.

When the press is covering up for you, you have the luxury of making any number of mistakes in carrying out your plot.  The president, himself, can even tell the public on more than one occasion that before he was told of the second plane hitting Tower 2, he had seen on TV images of the first plane hitting Tower 1.

As for what might happen to a real insiders’ plot leaker, as opposed to scenario that Chomsky paints, one need look no farther than the case of Eugene B. Dinkin, the Army cryptographic code operator who got wind of the Kennedy assassination plot a month before it took place.  We can find Phillip Nelson’s summary of the story in “Abuse of Psychiatry in the Kennedy Assassination.”

There was a time when I admired and respected Noam Chomsky.  I was wrong.  My eyes were opened to Chomsky’s essential fraudulence when I became aware of his position on the John F. Kennedy assassination.  I put my discoveries in writing in March and April of 2001 with “Chomsky, the Fraud” and “Chomsky, the Fraud, Part 2.”  Those articles follow, with updated links.

Chomsky, the Fraud

Originally, I posted on Usenet a simple statement by Noam Chomsky that I found on the Internet expressing disbelief in any high level conspiracy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. My simply-stated conclusion was that this would-be leading American dissident must be a fraud to profess such a belief. I offered nothing more to back up my conclusion, until I received the following public reply, which prompted me to respond as we see below “Amerikanski’s” statement:

Amerikanski wrote:  “Chomsky is a linguist. As such, he has a fundamental concern for how words are used and the meaning of statements. All he’s basically saying is that, in regards to the Kennedy assassination, there are lots of poorly formed theories around regarding conspiracies but few provable facts. I think he’s stating the obvious. How does that make him a fraud?”

I think Chomsky expresses himself quite clearly, and you have thoroughly mischaracterized it. Is that why you snipped the quote, so people could not readily see how you had mischaracterized it? Let’s look at it again.

Chomsky Comment re JFK Assassination

I haven’t read the [Michael] Parenti transcript you mention or what he has published on the same topic (I understand that there are articles, also a book, if I recall). You asked me to comment on his statement that (1) neither Cockburn nor I “knows a damn thing about the assassination” and that (2) we “are looking at the issue from a left wing perspective…”

I can’t answer for Cockburn, but for me, statement (1) is close to true and statement (2) is gibberish, neither true nor false.

On (1), it’s true that I know very little about the assassination. The only thing I’ve written about it is that the claim that it was a high-level conspiracy with policy significance is implausible to a quite extraordinary degree.

History isn’t physics, and even in physics nothing is really “proven,” but the evidence against this claim is overwhelming, from every testable point of view, remarkably so for a historical event. Given that conclusion, which I think is very well founded (that I have written about, a lot), I have no further interest in the assassination, and while I’ve read a few of the books, out of curiosity, I haven’t given the matter any attention and have no opinion about how or why JFK was killed.

People shouldn’t be killed, whether they are presidents or kids in the urban slums. I know of no reason to suppose that one should have more interest in the JFK assassination than lots of killings not far from the White House.

Given the plain facts about (1), I think it is clear why (2) is gibberish. Parenti or anyone else who reads what I have written can readily determine, if rational, that (2) is gibberish, because of the plain facts about (1). That’s simple logic. One cannot adopt a left-wing perspective (or any other perspective) on an issue that one has no interest in and nothing to say about.

On the single matter just mentioned, there is no “left-wing” or “right-wing” perspective. The evidence is so overwhelming that questions of interpretation hardly arise. If someone can show that they do, I’ll gladly look. But what I have looked at on this question (for example, various elaborate theories about JFK’s alleged intentions on Vietnam, or policy changes resulting from his death, or similar things about Cuba, the Cold War, etc.) simply does not begin to withstand rational inquiry. That’s true even of work by personal friends who are serious scholars on other issues, but who become so irrational on this issue that they cannot even read the words that are before their eyes, sometimes in the most remarkable ways.

As for whether “power elites perceived JFK to be a threat to the status quo,” the statement is close to meaningless. If someone can produce some coherent version of the statement, and then some evidence for that version, I’ll be glad to look at it.

I don’t know Parenti’s work well, but most of what I’ve read is quite good and useful, except on this topic. That’s not unique to him. The JFK assassination has engendered a kind of cult-like reaction, and ordinarily rational people act in what seem to me very strange ways.

Noam Chomsky

He has nothing to say here about “lots of poorly formed theories” about the Kennedy assassination. Certainly there are, which has nothing to do with the fact that there is obviously a high-level conspiracy here. From the first hour to the present, the entire American press has been trying to sell us on the absurd notion that Lee Harvey Oswald, with a wretched excuse for a rifle with a mismounted scope pulled off not just a superhuman feat of rapid-fire marksmanship, but actually performed black magic to kill the President. What’s more, he did it without a single trace of a motive, and then this young man with intelligence-flunky written all over him is silenced by a man with tight connections to Meyer Lansky’s mob. The motive for that, we are given to believe, is that the sentimental strip-joint operator, Jack Ruby, wanted to spare poor Jackie Kennedy a trial.

If you want to see the black magic, go to your video store and rent the Zapruder film, which is now available to the public in its original form. We are told, because of time constraints, Oswald only fired three shots. One of them missed and chipped a curb far ahead of the Kennedy vehicle. It is too wild for it to have been a simple miss by Oswald. Shill Gerald Posner says that was Oswald’s first shot, which he waited until a tree was between him and Kennedy to fire, and the shot hit a limb and wildly ricocheted. Yeah, right. But that’s still not the black magic. That comes on the second shot. That’s the one they say entered Kennedy’s back about 6 inches below his collar, exited upward at his throat (?) and then changed directions somehow to pass downward through John Connally’s back, passed through his wrist, and lodged in his left thigh. This was the “magic bullet.” The real magic of it, though, is that it hesitated a few seconds, as you can clearly see from the film, between the time it hit Kennedy and when it hit Connally. The government/press shills that the would-be dissident, Chomsky, would have us believe in here tell us that Connally manifested a delayed reaction in the film. Well, here, Noam my boy, history is physics. The puffing out of Connally’s cheeks is not neurological, it is purely physical and could not be a delayed reaction. It comes from the bullet blasting the air out of one of Connally’s lungs, the one that it collapsed. Nothing could be clearer than that it is a separate shot, that is, a fourth shot and, therefore, we must have at least two gunners.

The third shot looks like it almost makes Kennedy’s head explode and it knocks him backward and to the left. That that bullet came from the 6th floor of the Schoolbook Depository is about as unlikely as the first one coming from there, but these two unlikelihoods pale behind the utter and complete impossibility of the magic bullet shot.

The Navy then participated in the cover-up with a fraudulent autopsy, and the FBI did its usual job of intimidating witnesses and misreporting what they said in its work for the Warren Commission. Nothing compares, though, to the work done by the press. The best one example of press cover-up you will ever see was performed by Chomsky’s fellow fake leftist critic of the system, Ben Haig Bagdikian, who has matched Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent with his much-cited The Media Monopoly. Bagdikian cut his teeth in journalism by blatant and obvious cover-up work on the Kennedy assassination which you can see here: whatreallyhappened

And this is not a high-level conspiracy? What, pray tell, is it, then? But interviewer Adam Jones is typical of the legions of well-meaning admirers of the man when he says beginning his March 7, 1996, interview, “Noam Chomsky is one of the great moral and intellectual figures of the century.” adamjones.freeservers.com

Now I ask you, could anyone truly meeting such a description have written such pernicious nonsense about the pivotal political event of the 20th century for the United States and perhaps for the world? No, the man is an out and out fraud, fraud, FRAUD.

Chomsky, the Fraud, Part 2

A few days ago I received the following private e-mail in response to my posting of “Chomsky the Fraud” on Usenet and on my web site. My response follows. I had hoped to have an ongoing dialogue, but I have received no response from “Critic” (who left a name, but I don’t know that the critic wants to go public with an identity). I sincerely hope that neither “Critic” nor the other readers will be content with reading only what they see here. The cited URLs and materials related to them are extraordinarily informative.

My Critic

I don’t see how you have proven [Noam Chomsky] is a fraud. Even if he is wrong about Kennedy, is he then a fraud? This sounds all too Robespierre/St Jus to me. I’m sure you might understand why Chomsky might want to avoid this subject, you may disagree, but I think he is more productive attacking the root to many problems of today. You focus on stuff like Cointelpro and I guess there is a great deal of utility to this (it certainly makes for interesting reading) while he attacks the fundamentals, the basic political and philosophical assumptions that created such programs. Exposing massive discrepancies between the nature of US news and the actual events, and what is said in other sources, Chomsky attacks what is commonly accepted, the mainstream media. I will give you the reason he is such a powerful figure in my eyes: simply, because he doesn’t have to do this, I cannot see how he gains, I cannot see hubris here. He is a very public figure. (EX: Defending the holocaust denier guy’s rights to free speech, though a brave show of principle, landed him much controversy: the media picks up on this not his comprehensive treatment of East Timor) He must carefully choose his battles, and his arguments: even you must admit, when you read him in an interview, he really hates speculating on issues he knows less about and is careful to mention when he is just speculating. He uses only public (freely available) sources. He knows that the key for the left- the weak attacking the strong, is in bullets not in caps, in potent/cogent evidence and potent arguments. That he doesn’t focus on Monsanto when he criticizes the WTO doesn’t mean he is on the take from the biotech sector: a journalist must make choices. Overwhelmingly, those that participate in protests and so on, are in some way familiar to his criticisms of globalization/U.S. foreign policy, many are very much influenced by it. He turned me on to politics. He introduced me to Parenti, and maybe to you. Maybe. Fact is, however detailed an analysis of Chomsky’s disavowal of Kennedy plot is: this is still the stuff for an elite group of “anarchist-aristocracy”. It could never be as potent as an argument on why we should not care about Kennedy at all, after all he was not really such a King Arthur as history books try to suggest. Whoever planted this CIA-Chomsky to deny the assassination and hence the “biggest crime of all”, is doing a horribly fucked up job keeping the general public from dissent. I understand what you mean about providing a safe route for dissent but limiting the scope of it.

Chomsky worries about making generalizations. I don’t. I think you are a dangerous element on the left. Planted in the left movement to cause division, mistrust. After all let’s look at the record. Today he writes an article on the Intifada, and provides ZNET with it, I read it and his analysis is a great supplement to the newswires and opinions pieces I scan throughout the day; or Chomsky delivers a talk to the TEAMSTERS on the effects of globalization, signs a few petitions, responds to MY emails (yes he found the time to do so). You write about Chomsky, and how he failed to grasp the importance of the Kennedy Affair: who helps people, and who doesn’t? Who is an effective force on the left, who isnt? Perhaps it’s just a matter of charisma, or webpage design; but I trust him more than I do in you. I am more inclined to think you are an agent of so and so, and a better one than Chomsky would have been.

Can you not see that philosophers like Proudhon, Bakunin, Chomsky BIG ET AL., are correct to suggest that proper revolutionary momentum comes from the bottom up. NO less true, a revolution of any form should attempt to change things from the bottom, the foundation up. Do you accept the one party American state, the electoral college, the pervasion of American aristocrats and special interests in politics, the foreign policy choices: all of this except the existence of the CIA? Or is the CIA nothing but an extension of this cancerous political system? Attack the root not the symptom.

“Critic”

My Response

Dear “Critic”,

I would like to thank you for your very thoughtful response to my attack on Noam Chomsky. This is the sort of reasoned reply—so unlike the usual orchestrated contrived jibes on Usenet—that  permits us to advance toward the truth. I was going to suggest that we take our exchange public, but the only place where one can do so freely is on Usenet, and that would expose us to the host of professional truth-derailers that I have just got through lamenting. Rather, what I am doing, and I hope you don’t mind, is copying Hugh Turley and Michael Morrissey. Mr. Turley was a sort of garden variety Republican until he began looking into the mysterious death of Deputy White House Counsel, Vincent Foster, Jr. You can get some idea as to how far his political education has come by studying the site he co-authored at http://www.fbicover-up.com.  Dr. Morrissey is of that school that included me when I was a subscriber to and believer in The New York Review of Books and The Washington Monthly. He is from among the better-informed academic left. He is also probably the most trenchant critic of Noam Chomsky on the Net. I don’t know if he has come right out and called Chomsky a fraud, as I have, but he certainly comes pretty darned close. Certainly, what he has written reveals Chomsky as either a fraud or a fool, and who could possibly believe that he is the latter.

You say, “I’m sure you might understand why Chomsky might want to avoid this subject,” referring to the Kennedy assassination, suggesting that he has bigger fish to fry and that, were he to do so, he might interfere with this more important larger message. But he has not avoided the subject at all. On numerous occasions he has indicated that he buys into the Warren Commission conclusion of a lone gunman and thoroughly discounts the notion that there has a high level conspiracy. In so doing, he does something that is just as bad or worse. He downplays the charge that there has been a massive cover-up involving the highest levels of the government as well as all elements of the American opinion-molding industry, the newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, and book publishing.

Understand what has gone on with the Kennedy assassination and you understand the forces that rule us. You also align yourself with the majority of the American public that doesn’t believe the official story, not just with a small minority of left-wing academic types who are always harping on the ills of the “capitalist system.” So, no, not only has Chomsky not avoided the subject of the Kennedy assassination, but I certainly don’t “understand why he might want to avoid the subject” if he is interested in getting at the truth and in making a difference politically.

Although Chomsky might not have, in a literal sense, avoided the issue of the Kennedy assassination, you are not entirely wrong in a more general sense. He might as well have avoided it for all of the importance he lends it in his larger thesis. And, you or Michael or Hugh can correct me if I am wrong, but he has avoided other outrages in the wake of the JFK assassination, such as the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Quite logically given his approach to things, he and all the other important opinion molders of the academic left have avoided more recent ongoing outrages like the Foster murder, the Oklahoma City bombing frame-up, the Waco massacre, TWA 800, Pan Am 103, and on and on. One gets the impression that they will still be keeping their powder dry while we are all led off in handcuffs. If Professor Chomsky and his ZNet crew were all fake left opposition it’s hard to see how they would behave any differently.

I can’t help contrasting Chomsky and his crowd to some of the real radical opponents to the system we had in the earlier part of the century. I think, in particular, of Upton Sinclair. I believe that Sinclair was misguided in his support for U. S. participation in World War I, and in his generally socialist orientation, but he was certainly completely genuine in his convictions. I simply do not believe that Chomsky genuinely believes what he has said and written about the Kennedy assassination. He can’t be that stupid. His defenders on Kennedy, I think, probably agree with me, but buy in to his larger arguments and think that he is forgivably dissembling on Kennedy for tactical reasons. Contrast that with this passage in Sinclair’s The Brass Check.

“Also I met one of the high editors of the ‘[Los Angeles] Times,’ and important personage whom they feature. Talking about the question of journalistic integrity, he said: ‘Sinclair, it has been so long since I have written anything that I believed that I don’t think I would know the sensation.’

“My answer was: ‘I have written on public questions for twenty years, and I can say that I have never written a single word that I did not believe.’”

That LA Times editor, I believe, could be any prominent American journalist today, and virtually all who are not so prominent as well. Upton Sinclair, by contrast, had to self-publish The Brass Check. Noam Chomsky gets his stuff widely published, and he is in big demand on America’s campuses. That, unfortunately, is the difference between the real thing and a fraud.

As I said, Michael Morrissey has devoted a lot more attention to Chomsky than I have. Let me call your attention to some of Morrissey’s URLs with an excerpt from each:

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/morrisseyrethinkingchomsky1993.shtml

Rethinking Chomsky

Rethinking Camelot (Boston: South End Press, 1993) is Noam Chomsky’s worst book. I don’t think it merits a detailed review, but we should be clear about the stand that “America’s leading intellectual dissident,” as he is often called, has taken on the assassination. It is not significantly different from that of the Warren Commission or the majority of Establishment journalists and government apologists, and diametrically opposed to the view “widely held in the grassroots movements and among left intellectuals” (p. 37) and in fact to the view of the majority of the population.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010505055330/http://www.geocities.com/mdmorrissey/chomcorr.htm

What does all this mean?

What is the message we are hearing from Chomsky and CAIB/CAQ? It is clear:

No AIDS conspiracy

No assassination conspiracy

No connection between Vietnam and the assassination

Surely it cannot escape our attention that this is precisely the same message we have been hearing from the government, from the mainstream press, and the so-called “scientific community.” Nor should it escape our attention, as I think even this brief summary shows, that the argumentation presented to support these conclusions is patently false in each case.

Of course it is not necessarily wrong to agree with the government. But when “radical dissidents” agree so completely with the government, on such important questions, and the reasoning employed is so clearly wrong, the warning bells should sound.

Ding dong.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020205225821/http://www.geocities.com/mdmorrissey/sal1web.htm

From Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent, by Robert F. Barsky, p. 114, we learned what Prof. Chomsky thinks of us:

Chomsky employs this appeal to reason in probing two important issues; the relevance of the irrational and the role of the intellectual in society. To the irrational he consigns “fundamentalist religion; JFK conspiracy cults…”

Also of interest to me are pages 140 and 141, which tell us about Chomsky’s position regarding his vigorous defense of Walt Rostow returning from governmental service as the quintessential hawk to be a professor at MIT. With an enemy such as Prof. Chomsky, Walt Rostow needs no friends.

Finally, I note your observations about Chomsky’s writings on the latest Intifada. I received it through the Middle Eastern Realities mailing list. I was quite favorably impressed with it and was going to spread it around except for its daunting length. I was particularly impressed with his mention of the USS Liberty incident. Then I read it again carefully. Chomsky’s account of the incident is misleading and inaccurate.

Here’s Chomsky: “There was also another case. There was an Israeli attack on a U.S. spy ship, USS Liberty, which killed about 35 sailors and crewman and practically sank the ship. The Liberty didn’t know who was attacking it. The attackers were disguised. Before they were disabled, they got messages back to the 6th Fleet Headquarters in Naples, who also didn’t know who was attacking it. They sent out Phantoms, which were nuclear-armed, because they didn’t have any that weren’t nuclear-armed, to respond to whoever was attacking it, and they didn’t know who they were supposed to bomb – Russia, Egypt, you know, anybody. Apparently the planes were called back directly from the Pentagon sort of at the last moment. But that event alone could have lead [sic] to a nuclear war.”

Now here’s a much better-informed account:

By James M. Ennes Jr.

June 1993, Page 19

Twenty-six years have passed since that clear day on June 8, 1967 when Israel attacked the USS Liberty with aircraft and torpedo boats, killing 34 young men and wounding 171. The attack in international waters followed over nine hours of close surveillance. Israeli pilots circled the ship at low level 13 times on eight different occasions before attacking. Radio operators in Spain, Lebanon, Germany and aboard the ship itself all heard the pilots reporting to their headquarters that this was an American ship. They attacked anyway. And when the ship failed to sink, the Israeli government concocted an elaborate story to cover the crime.

There is no question that this attack on a U.S. Navy ship was deliberate. This was a coordinated effort involving air, sea, headquarters and commando forces attacking over a long period. It was not the “few rounds of misdirected fire” that Israel would have the world believe. Worse, the Israeli excuse is a gross and detailed fabrication that disagrees entirely with the eyewitness recollections of survivors. Key American leaders call the attack deliberate. More important, eyewitness participants from the Israeli side have told survivors that they knew they were attacking an American ship.

There was never any doubt in the minds of the United States government, from the Liberty to the White House, as to who was doing the attacking. They had seen the earlier surveillance planes and they had heard the radio communications back and forth. Lyndon Johnson personally allowed the attack to continue. For more information on this subject go to  http://home.roadrunner.com/~gidusko/liberty/ and http://www.gtr5.com/ and follow their leads, leads that are not likely to be advertised on ZNet.

As you will see from reading Morrissey, Chomsky has misrepresented the effects on U.S. Vietnam War policy of the Kennedy assassination. I believe the case can be made that the effect on U.S. Middle East policy was even greater. But fake opposition leaders wouldn’t want us looking under that rock, would they?

p.s. The people at ZNet predictably ignored me when I sent them this absolutely definitive information on the cover-up of the murder of Deputy White House Counsel, Vincent Foster.

More Morrissey and Chomsky

Readers should not be surprised that Noam Chomsky’s predictable defense of the government’s 9/11 conspiracy theory has intersected with Michael Morrissey’s continued writing about government outrages.   We found this short piece by Kevin Barrett on the Internet, which begins this way:

In my dialogue-gone-wrong with Noam Chomsky, I was shocked when Chomsky argued that controlled demolition doesn’t mean anything, because that would just mean Bin Laden did the demolitions.

Obviously nobody with a three-digit IQ, much less a four-digit one like Chomsky’s, could fail to realize that only high-level Western insiders would have the access, expertise, and high-tech explosives to take down the three tallest skyscrapers ever intentionally demolished. Even more obviously, Bin Laden, a terminal (circa 2001) kidney patient in a cave, was hardly in a position to order NIST, FEMA and the FBI to cover up the demolitions…

In his new essay Controlled Demolition as Limited Hangout, Michael Morrissey explains why the fairly obvious fact that there were no passenger airliner crashes on 9/11 is…well, important.

And still there are people who score well on IQ tests who follow Chomsky’s lead on important political matters.  I think that this left-wing version of the late William F. Buckley is much better suited for his new cameo role in MIT Gangnam Style (minute 3:21).

David Martin

November 8, 2012

Addendum

A reader has alerted me to the news that the friendly-fire-slain Pat Tillman had been in contact with Chomsky.  Chomsky can be heard very uncomfortably confirming it here.

How about that?  I was going to say it, but I find that J. Bruce Campbell in “Killing Pat Tillman” has already made at least one key point for me:

Tillman had naively made contact with the CIA’s Noam Chomsky to discuss his plans to reveal what he knew about the lies of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in the War on Terror. He was apparently also angry about the US Army’s support of the Afghan opium trade, started up by the army after the Taliban had eradicated it one hundred percent during their four-year reign. The US Army authorized the Northern Alliance to resume poppy production, according to Fox News shortly after we invaded Afghanistan. (Emphasis added)

Campbell doesn’t say how he knows that Chomsky is CIA or what Tillman had said and was planning to say further to Chomsky, but it all sounds very plausible given what we already know.  The parallels with William F. Buckley may well be even greater than we thought, because Buckley was known to have worked for the CIA.

And speaking of Chomsky’s posited 9/11 leaker, as Campbell suggests, Pat Tillman’s attempt to leak to the fake dissident Chomsky might well have been what got him killed.  That’s one of the reasons the secret government creates phony critics.  They serve as magnets for would-be whistleblowers.  It’s really a very devious business.  It’s also pretty obvious that Tillman, unfortunately, had not read my earlier “Chomsky, the Fraud” articles.

David Martin

November 11, 2012

One Jew That Knows That Jews Did 911

9/11 TRUTH, Jewish Ex-Marine SPEAKS OUT on Israeli Involvement (PLEASE WATCH)

2011 Interview of Alan Sabrosky regarding the tragic events of 9/11.
Video the U.S. Mainstream Media WON’T SHOW YOU.

h/t DProgram

Why Are Jews Persecuted?

Adapted from Jayne Gardner’s article at rense.com, entitled “Why Are Jews Persecuted?“

http://rense.com/general80/whj.htm

Most images sourced from Brother Nathanael’s Real Jew News:

http://www.realjewnews.com/

Narrated by B’Man

Kenny’s Sideshow: Sandy and Erin

Sandy and Erin

Sandy is getting a lot of attention.

Sandy’s path is not that much different from the one that Hurricane Erin was on in September of 2001.

Erin stayed out at sea and 9/11 was a beautiful sunny day in New York City.

Had Erin turned west as Sandy is projected to do it would have been a sloppy wet day for a false flag.

Did the perps catch a break? Just lucky I guess. The date was important and the photos needed to be clear to have the proper effect.
 

Timing is everything.

Conspiracy theories and facts aside, best of luck to all those that may be affected by Sandy.

h/t Kenny’s Sideshow (another of my favorite blogs)

The Goon Squad’s Top Ten Lies Americans Believe To Be True

Top Ten Lies Most Americans Believe to be True

10. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a complete surprise.

9. The Federal Reserve is part of the US government.

8. America has two distinct and different major political party’s

7. Israel is an ally of the USA.

6. The Vietnam War escalated because of North Vietnamese aggression.

5. Our gold, being held at Ft. Knox, is safe.

4. President Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

3. America is a democratic republic, run by We the People.

2. Six million Jews died in the Zionist version of WWII.

This is poignant in lieu of a recent conversation with a friend who appears to still believe many of  the lies that have us brainwashed. Even though many are awakening, there are still great thinkers who “believe”.

h/t The Goon Squad (one of my favorite blogs)

The US Has The World’s Greatest Air Defense System

Should we bet our lives on the title’s dubious clam? What could ever keep any real military attack against us from success if this is the best we can do? Does this not deserve full investigation?

September 11, 2001, was a quite remarkable day for the air defense system of the United States.

• The key people responsible for managing a hijacking were absent from their command posts
  right in the crucial hours.
• Important telephone and radio connections didn´t work until after the attacks were over.
• A hijacked plane disappeared in a radar gap, and nobody is willing to explain.
• A wargame projecting a hijacking was taking place simultaneously.
• The airbase that should have protected the capital was not able to send fighter jets within an
  hour of time.
• Interceptors from alert bases were scrambled with unexplained delays and then diverted
  several times.

In short, a whole set of highly improbable events occurred simultaneously on that morning. From a
scientific point of view these anomalies need further investigation. It is not credible that Bin Laden
was responsible for these anomalies, nor that they were sheer coincidences.

Dahlia Wasfi: America Under Israeli Occupation

Dahlia Wasfi explains in very clear, easy to understand terms, who controls the US’s Middle East policy, how, and for what reason. Of course, the depth of corruption and control are much deeper, but understanding these basic issues should be enough to anger and invigorate those just coming to the realization that they lie to us brazenly and without end.

Ariel Sharon: “We, the Jewish People, Control America, and The Americans Know it“!

Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)dvisory board includes such notable figures as Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and R. James Woolsey, while Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton, and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith were all on JINSA’s Board of Advisors before they entered the Bush administration

Jason Vest, writing in The Nation,alleges that JINSA, along with Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, are “underwritten by far-right American Zionists” and both believe strongly that “‘regime change’ by any means necessary in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority is an urgent imperative.”

B’Man’s Guest Post: DCDave’s “Was Katharine Graham Killed for 9/11?”

Was Katharine Graham Killed for 9/11?

RIP KMG

A powerful publisher had a great fall.
Did anyone see it?  No one can recall.
Maybe those who exposed all the president’s men
Will tell us in time, but no one can say when.

 –Originally posted on 9-10-01

Surviving operatives of the old Soviet bloc propaganda apparatus have to be impressed with how complete and thoroughgoing in case after important case in the United States is the suppression of important news by what still manages to call itself a “free press.”  When this writer was able to obtain the long-secret official report on the violent death of Secretary of Defense James Forrestal and the Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library of Princeton University even sent out a press release dramatically announcing its availability, not a single newspaper, magazine, radio, or television station in the country reported it.  The same thing happened when Kenneth Starr issued his long-delayed report on the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster.  It contained an addendum, ordered attached over Starr’s strenuous objections by the same 3-judge panel that appointed him, that thoroughly undermined his suicide conclusion.  I have called the press silence about that addendum “The Great Suppression of ’97.”  The press was similarly silent when Starr’s lead investigator, Miguel Rodriguez, resigned in disgust and when we published his resignation letter.

The phenomenon of news suppression in the American mainstream media is indisputable, but what may be even more important is that those contemplating an outrage like the two mentioned or the murders of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King or the Oklahoma City bombing can be quite confident in advance that not a single major news organization will “go rogue” on them and actually publish salient contrary facts.  It’s like knowing in advance that America’s air defenses would remain completely supine while one airliner after another would stray radically off course on September 11, 2001.  How can they be so sure?  Are there planning meetings in which all the key players are present, especially those in the media, to make sure that everyone in completely on board and everyone understands his or her role?

For the smaller, more routine outrages like, say, the “suiciding” of the DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, press cooperation in advance is probably more or less assumed.  That was just one person.  But what about the outrage of all outrages, the 9/11 “attacks” that killed thousands and has led to the killing and maiming of hundreds of thousands, if not millions?  You really would want to make sure that you had your press ducks all in a row for that one.

If you watch this short video by Brasscheck TV you will see some very well positioned ducks, indeed:  “And then I witnessed both buildings collapse, mostly due to structural failure because the fire was just too intense,” says a New York man in the street, chosen “randomly” by Fox News.  The wise man that Dan Rather goes to for commentary turns out to be a confident expert on both building strength and Osama bin Laden.

In another video of the early TV coverage, we hear a CNN news person suggest that the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine might be responsible for the attacks because the airplane that went down in Pennsylvania was not all that far from Camp David, Maryland, and we were nearing the September 17 anniversary of the Camp David Accords.   The major networks also gave prominence to the false story that West Bank Palestinians were out in the street celebrating the attacks.

I heard a local radio station interview a George Washington University professor on the day of the tragedy who informed the public, “Now perhaps Americans will appreciate what the people of Israel have to go through on a daily basis.”  “How did it happen that they would find this particular guy who would make that observation?”  I recall thinking at the time.

One doesn’t have to follow and accept everything that Simon Shack puts forward in his hour and a half long video, “September Clues,” to believe that prior planning went into the major media’s presentation of the events of 9/11.

Katharine Graham’s Fatal “Fall”

On Tuesday, July 10, 2001, Katharine Graham, chairman of the Post Company, a media conglomerate that publishes The Washington Post, left for Sun Valley, Idaho, for the 19^th annual conference of major movers and shakers that is paid for by New York investment banker, Herbert Allen, Jr.   Allen’s company specializes in the media.  She would not return alive.  She suffered head injuries while at the Sun Valley resort on Saturday, July 14, and died from them three days later in a hospital in Boise.  It was said that she had suffered an accident, falling on a sidewalk.

I had been on vacation and was away from the Internet for a period right after Graham’s death.  Unable to find any actual details about the accident, I made the following posting on the news group, alt.thebird, on August 26, 2001:

Did anyone witness Katharine Graham’s fatal “fall”?  Did any news organ anywhere report any details about the “accident”?    I hate being kept in the dark like this, or have I just been reading the wrong publications?

Thirteen additional posters weighed in in response to the question with a total of 128 posts over a period of 26 days.  Two days and a great number of responses later I made this posting:

What on earth are we going to do about this critical faculty famine in the country?  I ask a simple, straightforward question and no one seems to know how to even begin to answer it.  I did not ask for speculation.  I did not ask for opinions.  My question certainly had nothing to do with whether any of us like Katharine Graham or whether any of you like me.  I asked if anyone witnessed Katharine Graham’s fall.

Still, no one seems to know.  Is there no enterprising reporter out there who showed up on the scene in Sun Valley, Idaho, to ask if anyone saw the fall?  If the fall was witnessed, how do they say she managed to fall so forcefully as to cause fatal brain damage, if that’s what it was that killed her?  I’m having great difficulty picturing it in the one season of the year when you are sure not to have ice on the walk in Sun Valley.  If no one witnessed the fall, how do they know that the apparent brain injury was caused by a fall?

Now one of the blow-hard respondents, behind a smoke screen of insults, said that he had read that there were witnesses, but he seems to have been the only one.  And he has not followed up with an actual news story.  At this point I can only conclude that his memory is faulty or he was lying.  He was also among those imploring me with epithets that I dig up the information myself.  Well, I have looked on Net archives and they all say simply that she fell on a concrete walkway and only imply that she hit her head.  That’s it.  Oh, there was this one from an offbeat story that, like so many mainstream news stories these days, relied on an anonymous source:

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TIPPED GOLF CART KILLED GRAHAM

Despite widespread reports in the Washington Post, New York Times and Associated Press, an eyewitness to the accident that took the life of Katharine Graham insists the 84-year-old former publisher was in a golf cart that tipped over while making a sharp turn on an asphalt walkway.

His claim directly challenges the company’s statement that Mrs. Graham “suffered a head injury when she fell on a concrete walkway outside a condominium in Sun Valley, Idaho.”

According to the source, who works for a major news network, “The story about falling during a walk is bullshit.”

He says resort employees rushed her to a Sun Valley emergency care facility where doctors determined her injuries were beyond the scope of anything they could handle.

She was stabilized and airlifted in a new twin-engine Bell 222 helicopter (known affectionately as “Deuce”) on a difficult 100 mile flight along the ridges of the Sawtooth National Forest.

Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, in Boise, Idaho, which received the critically injured woman late Saturday is touted as the “flagship trauma center of Idaho,” the state’s only Level II trauma center.

Mrs. Graham underwent surgery Sunday for the head injury, which caused massive bleeding in her brain. She remained in critical condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit for nearly two days and never regained consciousness.

Graham’s son, Donald Graham, chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company, was at her bedside when she was pronounced dead at 11:56AM Tuesday.

The funeral service will be Monday at 11 a.m. at Washington National Cathedral.
———–

This strikes me as a false lead.  Why does the source want to remain anonymous, and if she fell from a golf cart, why would they lie about it?  The fact that a bizarre story like this is being floated is the sort of thing that begins to make me suspicious.

Frankly, I must admit that my suspicion began well before I encountered this curious Internet news story.  It was exactly the same sort of almost aggressive lack of curiosity on the part of the news business, particularly in the cases of the deaths of Forrestal and Foster, that prompted my eventually very fruitful inquiries.

Medford Evans, writing in the very limited circulation John Birch Society magazine American Opinion in April 1967, some 18 years after the fact, finally produced what I would consider to be the normal response to the news of Forrestal’s death:

I was living in metropolitan Washington at the time of the defenestration of Forrestal.  I remember being convinced immediately that he had not committed suicide—which was the official story—but had been murdered.  My reason was simple, but for myself, conclusive.  The first report I read, in the Washington Post, said that Forrestal’s body had been found on the hospital roof below the open sixteenth-story window of the tower, clad in pajamas and robe, with the bathrobe cord knotted about his neck.  The theory was, said the Post, that he had hanged himself out the window, and then the cord had slipped from the radiator or whatever it was tied to inside the window.

I didn’t believe it.  I believe that men hang themselves, or that they jump out sixteenth-story windows.  But I don’t believe that they hang themselves out sixteenth-story windows.

But to all other reporters in all the other media, the official story was simply to be believed on its face.  They showed no interest at all in examining the actual facts, and when the official investigation was completed but not released, they had nothing to say.

Similarly, from their reporting on Fort Marcy Park, where Foster’s body was found on July 20, 1993, I have the distinct impression only Christopher Ruddy of the New York Post at the time actually ever even set foot in the park.  More than one of them wrote of the scenic view in the park overlooking the Potomac River.  There is no such view, although the park is not far from the river.  When the Park Police ruled the death a suicide but indicated that their report on the matter would be kept secret, only the late Sarah McClendon of the White House press corps complained, and her complaints were never reported by the mainstream media.

In the case of Graham’s death, is it not entirely natural that one should want to know what sort of fall on a sidewalk it was that could have produced such severe injuries?  If the cause of the fall was completely innocent, what possible reason could there be for the press to fail to flesh out the story and tell us how the fall happened?

Making little progress on the Internet, I sent the following email to the weekly Mountain Express of Ketchum, Idaho, which abuts Sun Valley, and posted it on the news group on August 30:

Dear Mountain Express,

I have been very frustrated by the paucity of details in the national news concerning Katharine Graham’s fatal fall.  The New York Times, for example, uses only the web page of The Washington Post for its source, which, in turn, uses a spokesman for the Washington Post Company.  All he tells us is that she fell on a concrete walk and that she underwent surgery of an unspecified nature.  Then she died.

I’m sure you will agree with me that were this Jane Q. Tourist who died from a fall at Sun Valley this reporting simply would not do.  In the case of the death of the world’s most powerful woman it is unforgivable.

As the newspaper on the spot, perhaps you can tell me:

1.  Were there any witnesses to the fall?
2.  If not, how was it determined that her injuries were caused by the fall?
3.  If so, who were they and what did they have to say about the fall?  What caused it?  How did she land?  Did she hit her head?  If so, on what?  If not, what part of her did appear to land on the walk most heavily?
4.  I should think that the law would require a police report.  What does the police report say about the accident?
5.  Did the Mountain Express report the details of the accident?  If so, could you please e-mail me what you reported.  If not, could you explain why not?
6.  If you did not report the details at the request of the Graham family, could you tell me if you would withhold such details at the request of the family of Jane Q. Tourist, even though the police tell us that in unnatural death cases, immediate family members are generally high among the suspects as to the cause of the death?

I would very much appreciate answers to these questions.

A Research Breakthrough

The Mountain Express did not respond.  However, one of the lurkers on the news group sent me a revealing article written by Rocky Barker of the Idaho Statesman of Boise that stated that Graham had been operated on for “extensive intracranial injuries” (plural).  I don’t believe any other news organ in the country has reported that fact.  Barker also seemed to have asked the questions of the authorities that any good reporter should have done, but received no satisfactory answer, as indicated by the last three paragraphs of his article:

Graham left for the secretive Allen and Co. retreat from Washington, D.C., and arrived in Sun Valley on Tuesday, according to The Washington Post.

The retreat, which included Mexico President Vicente Fox and Microsoft founder Bill Gates Jr., began Tuesday and ended Saturday night.

Sun Valley officials would not comment Sunday night on any details surrounding the retreat, including Graham’s fall. Neither would officials with the private security force hired by Allen and Co.

On September 8 I received a return telephone call on my answering machine from the chief of the Sun Valley Police Department.  He said that Graham had “tripped on a walk on private property” and his department was not involved in the aftermath in any way.  He did not say if there were any witnesses.

The Sun Valley Resort, it would appear, is regarded almost as a sovereign country by local authorities.  The police apparently knew no more about the purported accident than Rocky Barker.  Barker at least pursued the matter up to the “would not comment” point, which the resort, The Post, and America’s great “free” press apparently regard as the end of the public’s right to know.

So let’s think about what might have caused those “extensive intracranial injuries.”  Is it not reasonable to conclude that they were caused by multiple blows to the head?  To those who would say that this is just speculation the obvious response is to ask who invited the speculation with their indefensible secrecy.

The most common objection that has been raised to my speculation is to note that Graham was 84 years old.  Old people, as we all know, are much more likely to fall and to injure themselves badly when they fall than young people are.

Yes, they fall, but my impression from six decades of observation is that they break their hips, not their heads.  People young and old, I gather, most commonly fall and suffer serious head injuries in the bathroom, where water causes slickness and one’s head might strike the edge of the bathtub or the toilet.  They also fall down stairs.  In fact, the best argument that can be made against the speculation of foul play is that if the “fall” story is made up, they would have said Graham fell in her bathroom instead of on a sidewalk, of all places.  Old people may be more fragile, but they also tend to walk more slowly and carefully, making a violent fall on a sidewalk, such as they suggest Graham had, appear to be extremely unlikely.

The writer, as it happens, has been the inadvertent participant in a number of “experiments” of the typical effect on the human body of hard and painful falls on sidewalks and other hard surfaces.  The most relevant occurred about the time of Graham’s fall.  I was jogging—not merely walking—on one of the poorly maintained sidewalks of our nation’s capital.  One unanticipated section of the walk was almost two inches higher than another section.  A shadow from a tree on a bright, sunny day fell right over that area of the walk and my gaze was distracted by an oncoming pedestrian.  When my leading foot was prevented from going forward my horizontal speed was immediately converted into vertical speed downward.  The pedestrian screamed, my glasses flew off, and, as I told friends afterward, I hit the sidewalk so hard I almost bounced.  I suffered scrapes on the elbows and knees and a bruise under one eye, but my cranium remained unmolested.  My hands and arms had cushioned almost all the blow.

Some years before while walking home in the winter at night I stepped squarely on a snowball that had turned to hard ice, turning my ankle and spraining it badly.  Naturally, I fell in a heap on the sidewalk, but only the ankle suffered any injury at all.

Just last year I fell twice in the same place in a hotel lobby in a foreign country where there was about a six-inch step-down into the lobby—I learn slowly.  I landed on exactly the same place on my right hip each time, producing a colorful bruise, but that was the only part of me that was hurt.

So, with all that experience, I was having a very difficult time picturing what sort of fall on an ice-free sidewalk could have resulted in fatal head injuries.  Once it was revealed that Graham actually suffered “extensive intracranial injuries,” my difficulty in picturing the fall became even greater, as did the need for a witness to make sense of the puzzling information.  We learned from our inquiries, though, that either there was no such witness or, if there was, the witness or witnesses would not be made available.  In the unlikely chance that there was no witness, we were also given to believe from the response that greeted the reporter Barker that we would also hear nothing from the discoverer or discoverers of the stricken Graham.

Anyone believing that the complete absence of any public details about Graham’s “fatal fall” was simply a matter of inadvertence can now put that notion aside.   The withholding of the information has obviously been purposeful, but what is the purpose?

An Alternative Scenario

As we see from the opening paragraphs of this essay, our nation’s major news media were deeply involved from the very beginning in selling the phony official 9/l1 story.  Although it was, more than anything, a television production, the major print media had to be in the loop, and that includes Katharine Graham and her Post Company.  If anyone in the media was to attempt to pull the emergency stop cord on a train bound for disaster for the country and the world, the July gathering of media moguls might well have offered the very last opportunity.

There are no doubt those who will argue that anyone with Graham’s record would have been among the last to stand in the way of the 9/11 outrage.  Didn’t The Post go out of its way to sell the phony Forrestal suicide story even 50 years after the fact, and wasn’t The Post the lead news organ in covering up the Foster murder, and hasn’t it been a major participant in practically every major cover-up that one might name?

That may be true, but 9/11 was a diabolical outrage of an entirely different magnitude from any of the previous ones.  In these other cases, there is also a possibility that Graham did not know about them in advance.  We have seen from the way in which they participated in selling the official story from the first minutes, the major media not only had to have been informed in advance of 9/11, but had to have been part of the planning.  That must have included Katharine Graham to some degree.

Maybe she reached her breaking point, and maybe she had been called the most powerful woman in America on so many occasions that it had gone to her head.  Maybe she thought that she really had the power to stop 9/11.  The administering of the blows that produced the “extensive intracranial injuries” would have put a stop to that.

If the plausible story had been disseminated that Graham had fallen and hit her head in the bathroom, others who were privy to the plot and had thoughts of “pulling a Graham” might have failed to get the message.  The preposterous sidewalk-falling story with no witnesses, on the other hand, gave firm notice to any potential backsliders of what might happen to them.

On September 15, 2001 (note the date), one “Tom S.” wrote on the still continuing discussion of Katharine Graham’s death, “If you wait for a few more seconds someone will no doubt blame it on mid-east terrorists.”

The next posting was mine on September 21, “Now I’m beginning to wonder if Kay Graham opposed the 9-11 operation.”

No one responded, and the discussion ended.

David Martin

September 21, 2012

Addendum:

“There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t.  I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”

–  Katharine Graham, speaking at the CIA headquarters in 1988.

That would now include, it would appear, the circumstances of her death.

Original Article found at DC Dave’s site (also featured at Rense.com)