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Boston Bombing False Flag Crime Scene Manipulation

There have been plenty of anomalies regarding this false flag event in Boston. It doesn’t take too many of these to convince a thinking person that it is bogus to a large extent.

Boston Crime Scene Enhancement – the Busted Bench?

It would seem that the area in front of the Lens Crafters store and  the Marathon Sports Center were never crime scenes. Anyone could just go in and alter the scene. Police were indifferent to what was going on, that is unless an unauthorized person came into the area. Then, they would get active, yelling at them and chasing them out.

Hollywoodpastels and others, including many people posting, here, have pointed out that there is an issue with the benches. After the smoke-pyrotechnic bomb blast, the benches were in a specific conformation, one upright and the other leaning against the railing. They were free of all damage, no breaks or splinters.

It doe seem untenable that a bomb-blast of the proposed proportions, one capable of blowing off feet and legs, splintering and splitting bone, would do essentially no damage to the blast site: no chairs overturned, no tables upended, no scorch marks on the buildings, no damage to infrastructure or trees. Yes, windows were broken and street debris blasted about. Yet, this is the only damage that can be fully seen.

It is patently illegal to commit any alteration of a crime scene, which this purportedly was, as fatalities were reported, as were dire injuries, although the only known on-site reporter of fatalities, giving details and essentially method of death, was the spy Carlos Arrendondo.

Regardless, all law enforcement know it is not only wrong but also criminal to manipulate the crime scene structures or evidence with malicious intent. That appears to be precisely what occurred at the Boston Marathon event.

Here is relatively early photo; there is still smoke or dust in the air. No one is attending to the wounded, the benches in the background, some slight damage, apparently, to the Marathon entryway roof; no glass damage at this store, though; the railings, apparently made of wood, are fully intact.

A side view. There is no damage of any kind to these benches. Nor are they splattered with blood or considerable debris. Note the coordinator pointing to one of the operatives. The paper hanging sign has damage; could easily have been torn. No one in this frame, by the way, as a drop of blood on them, which seems untenable considering the reported nature of the bomb, that is shrapnel, nails, and ball bearings (or BBs).

A close-up view proving its intact nature mere seconds after the bombing.

Caption: an important, clear picture, which will prove alteration of the crime scene

Not any longer. By the time the scene was taken over by crime scene investigators the bench had been smashed. It’s splintered parts can be seen clearly; it was crushed with considerable power, the parts spread out nearly to the entrance:

Who Is Bruce Mendelsohn?

The “hero” speaks:

BRUCE MENDELSOHN: It was terrible. My first thought when I heard the initial blast was well I wonder if this is a cannon signifying someone important had finished and then I smelled the gun powder (the cordite) and knew this was an explosive device and I rushed in to help. This is what we do, this is what I was trained to do in the military. This is what we would ask our law enforcement officers to do and I executed.

Exit Stage Left: The Actors

It appears that there are actors involved with the False Flag Event in Boston. And if you don’t believe this old redneck, maybe you’ll believe the Boston Police Commissioner:

How about the cowboy and fake blood?

How about the fake bombing victim?

You can always check this video at the 9:14 mark, just before the intentional blue screen when they realized how fake it looked from that angle:

close up

Did you see where CNN interviewed the same woman immediately after the bombing, then again, elsewhere, the same woman on a different subject. Amazing how she witnessed both events:

Watch it all, but especially the 2:45 mark.

Something is not right.

And if you still doubt that actors can be used, then you really need to watch this video:

EDITED 6AM, 4/26 (Info provided by Greg at the Goon Squad)

h/t Digger, Marcell and NODISINFO

Falujah, Massachusetts

A few things to discuss regarding my previous posts on the “Boston Bombing” incident (here, here, and here).

First and foremost, for those people who accuse me of being a moron and “fucking idiot”, I immediately spam your comment and add your IP address to the Akismet spam filter, in case you wonder where your garbage went. If you can’t at least be polite when you come to my blog, I won’t be polite and allow your comment which adds nothing to the dialog, to stay. And, no, I don’t care if you don’t like that. I wouldn’t allow you to do such in my house, either.

Secondly, for the accusers that suggest I know nothing about trauma (not being a doctor, EMT or trauma nurse) this is true and I tried to make that clear from the outset. It is why I asked for input from professionals in the first place. But just because someone comes here and writes that they are EMT, trauma nurse or doctor, doesn’t make it true. The fact is that I don’t know you and you could simply be paid trolls and disinformationalists. Hence, this is why I trust the few I do know or converse in private with. The medical commenters are about even in agree vs disagree, but the personal acquaintances I know are almost 100% in agreement with me that some of this seems faked.

The truth is that I don’t really know. But what does seem evident is that wheelchair dude and hospital dude (supposedly Jeff Bauman) don’t appear to be the same guy to me. I may be wrong about that, but they sure as hell don’t look the same to me. Speaking of Mr Bauman (or the guy in the hospital picture), I am not attacking him or denigrating him. For all I know, he was hurt in the bombing. All I am saying is that the guy who is deemed an “obviously fake double amputee” by a retired Forensic Scientist with decades of law enforcement experience, riding in that wheelchair (one of the last to be taken by medical personnel at the scene) and Mr Bauman are two different people.

One person who wrote me personally says this is not true. She also said that I was “abusing my freedom of speech” (which is a telling statement) and asked me to pull the post (which I will not). I don’t know her and all I can do is go by the photos and the fact that we are duped by the powers that be continuously. I ask that people review the pics for yourselves and come to your own conclusions.

I want to thank all visitors (polite ones) for their visit, commenters (agreeing or disagreeing), new subscribers and regulars who have shared this information. My piddly little blog’s biggest day was 6,700 before yesterday and I had about 146,00 hits, over 50,000 from facebook (who has since banned my post, as I understand it, which, too, is telling). To me, this is important because apparently it struck a nerve. I also suspect that after many of you new subscribers see more of my regular content, I’ll see a huge falling away. Some things are still verboten in the American psyche, but I learned a while back that virtually everything that our government and lapdog media tell us are lies. Many of you are still believers and it will be hard for you to grasp my final statement.

Even those who seem to agree and say that the government lies with abandon will quickly close down when I address Israel and Jewish control, or point out that almost everything we were told about WWII Germany is propaganda. I would ask you right off, “when did America begin lying to her citizens?”. Was it right after WWII? Was it before forcing the Federal reserve upon us with its usury based system of money printing out of thin air, which can never be paid back?

The thing about this blog is that I am not afraid to look behind the curtain. I want to know the truth. I have my opinion and share it.

This blog is not an investigative reporter’s blog (even though I do research the things I write about). It is an opinion blog. If you go into it with that understanding, try to follow my meager thoughts and research the issues for yourself, then maybe you’ll learn something. Better yet, maybe you’ll teach me something. Just like David’s comment:

I am all for looking at all possible scenarios, but some of the people commenting here – have you actually seen all the images around showing twisted and maimed bodies and the actual shots of “feet” that have been blown off.

** NSFW. Images are graphic & upsetting.**
Here are some of Krystle Campbell who died, the same girl in blue t-shirt against the fence in the images posted at the top of this thread:
http://i.imgur.com/jzyzx7T.png
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/9915/liveleakdotcomfffbd2f02.jpg (this is after the fence has been pulled down)

If you are telling me the double amputee was faked, then what about this girl? If it was not a bomb that caused these horrific injuries to her, then what was it? Are you telling me she is not dead and this was faked too? Look at the damage to her lower extremities in the 2nd image.

And here you see rescuers covered with blood – something else that has been questions in previous comments.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311118/Boston-bombing-brings-tourniquet-Once-doubted-medical-device-stop-bleeding-saved-countless-lives-amidst-bloodshed.html

And just one of the many 1st responders who explains about the injuries: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Boston-Marathon-Explosion-Injuries-Casualties-Limbs-Legs-Severed-New-Jersey-Doctor-Martin-Levine-Medical-Tent-203133461.html

Looking at all the footage and images – I am sure 2 pretty powerful bombs exploded in Boston that day. Who planted them or why are other questions.

Related articles

• Are You Just A Believer Or Do You THINK? (buelahman.wordpress.com)
• The Man Behind The Curtain Is NOT In Boston (buelahman.wordpress.com)
• Is There A Kroll Advisory Solutions Connection To The Boston Bombing? (buelahman.wordpress.com)

Like White On Ricin: Kevin Curtis

Looks like some dude from my old stomping grounds has been accused of sending letters with the poison ricin to some politicians (a MS judge, Roger Wicker- MS Senator, and Barack Obama). At first, I thought it might be another crazy with some sort of grudge, but after being educated by Dr Doug, I find that there may be a setup.

Kevin Curtis

It appears that Mr Curtis has been dealing with a long-term episode with the big hospital in the area (North Mississippi Medical Center) where he was working from 1998-2000. He apparently was asked to work on a stopped up drain in the morgue and found a refrigerator full of body parts (I wonder if the hospital is owned by Jews, since they have some such affinity in dealing with such items).

He documented the story, with all its twists and turns in a book called “Missing Pieces” (the book link is strangely undergoing maintenance at the same time Mr Curtis is incarcerated… imagine that):

Missing Pieces By: Kevin Curtis

Let the record show that on this date, March 05, 2008, I, Paul Kevin Curtis, being of sound mind, am attempting once again to expose various parties within the government, FBI, police departments, legal & healthcare systems, etc. that a conspiracy to ruin my reputation in the community as well as an ongoing effort to break down the foundation I worked more than 20 years to build in the country music scene, began on the day I accidentally discovered a refrigerator full of dismembered body parts & organs wrapped in plastic in the morgue of the largest non-metropolitan healthcare organization in the United States of America, AKA

North Mississippi Medical Center where I was employed from 1998 until March of 2000.

The purpose of this online documentary of photos, police reports, as well as my 1st & only online petition, publications & events surrounding my life & the actions of what I believe to be that of a secret shadow government in which I feel have been put into place by higher powers to be in order to hide the truth behind the illegal organ harvesting market which I began investigating in 2000 after being “banned” for life for simply questioning the hospital administration on what they did with so many dismembered body parts?

What am I hoping to accomplish?

1. I would like a qualified & experienced attorney with no affiliation with the Tupelo hospital, WTVA News Station, Tupelo Daily Journal, Wizard 106 Radio, or any employee’s or persons affiliated with said parties to look over the 7 year paper trail, photos and events I have collected & documented & then be given a fair trial by jury once and for all. There is no statute of limitation on illegal court proceedings and obstruction of justice (even in Mississippi)
2. A public apology by the CEO of the North Mississippi Medical Center & the opportunity to clear my name, character & overall reputation within the community and country by hosting a public Q & A towns meeting to be broadcasted via radio & television stations.
3. I would like to have my book “Missing Pieces” published by a reputable publishing company so that I may pack my things and move as far away from Mississippi as any human being could before I disappear, or as a high profile Mississippi attorney joked with me one night when he said “If I were you, I’d be scared I’d be thrown into the Mississippi river one night with a pair of cement boots on“!

You can visit the link to see the substantiating documentation.

Mr Curtis fills in more detail in a “Rip-Off Report” submission:

North Mississippi Medical Center North Mississippi Medical Center Tupelo Mississippi fired banned me after accidentally discovering refrigerator full of body parts Ripoff Tupelo Mississippi

After owning & operating a commercial & residential cleaning business for almost 8 years, I landed a contract with the largest non-metropolitan hospital in America, AKA North Mississippi Medical Center, which fronts itself as a “not-for-profit” charity hospital in Tupelo, Mississippi.

I was immediately put in charge of the highest traffic area of this 650 bed facility & cut costs by 30% in the first 3 months of employment. I was also written up in various newsletters and made the front page of the local daily newspaper which read “People Well Met…Kevin Curtis, local entertainer does more than make tile floors shine at NMMC”–Staff writer, Scott Morris went on to publish several other articles surrounding my music and work accomplishments.

After about a year and a half of employment, I questioned management about unfair employment practices & work ethics involving Hispanics, who did not speak English working excessive hours & off the clock each day, while non-hispanic’s were being sent home and/or written up for not having his/her “nametag”.

Then, one night, the drainage system backed up in the morgue. I was asked by a new supervisor to go into the morgue (which was located on the ground floor which I had been in charge of for more than a year.

Unthinkable things washed back up through the drainage system under the autopsy table. I put on a face mask and gloves and began the extraction process to prepare the floors for maintenence.

About 4 hour into the job after I laid down the first coat of sealer, I became very thirsty. I was unable to exit the morgue due to floor finish not drying as fast as I had anticipated with the humidity level, so I opened the dor to a small refrigerator located to the right of the autopsy table. I assumed I might find some water or anything to drink as I was dehydrated.

What I discovered, changed my life forever! There were dismembered body parts & organs wrapped in plastic. A leg, an arm, a hand, a foot, hearts, lungs, tissue, eyes and even a severed human head! I guess I was in a state of shock when I rushed out of the morgue because a physician asked me “What’s wrong”?

I told him exactly what I had seen & asked him what they did with so many body parts? He looked very strange & did not answer me. Instead, wrote something down on a piece of paper. I suddenly became a prime “person of interest” where my every move was watched & video-taped.

I escorted a young radiology technician to the morgue as she did not believe me. When she saw the body parts and severed head, she could not believe it either. We told every single person in Radiology what was in the old upright refrigerator.

I immediately noticed a change in the atmosphere. Security guards were all of a sudden around me…walking behind me and I could hear video camera’s zooming in on me as I walked down the hallways that night. Security followed me to the time card machine that night for the first time in 14 months.

The following day, I was called over the loud speaker for the first time since joining the team at NMMC. I was questioned by men I had never met in my life. I was asked to sign several false documents stating I was in an area of the NMMC that I was not authorized to be in and would be hereby suspended without pay while the matter at hand was investigated. I did not go to law school like my sister but I knew better than to sign something like that.

After refusing to sign the false documents, I was on my way to the CEO’s office, Dr. Jeff Barber (who was later terminated) and before reaching his office, 6 security officers grabbed me and held me while placing hand-cuffs on my wrists and walked me out of the hospital in front of all of my friends and co-workers. I was informed to not appear on company property until notified in writing. (seemed they had practice in this area)

I researched court dockets & discovered thousands of lawsuits filed against this so-called “not-for-profit”, charity healthcare system. I went public with my story and lawsuit. I contacted various media outlets but was unable to get my story in print. I was notified via U.S. mail that I was terminated and banned for life but no reason as to why.

3 Years of research lead to countless court battles, cops harassing me weekly, death threats, personal & financial losses, several thefts, my home burned down, car exploded, marriage dissolved & bankruptcy. You can imagine how helpless I felt the day I found out my attorney dropped my case & represented the very hospital I filed suit against?

The attorney’s name was Jim Waide. My brother said he was the best of the best and specialized in areas such as this. He kept telling me “don’t mention the body parts you discovered until we get a grand jury trial”. He focused on the illegal immigrant issues and wrongful firing.

He held onto the case for 18 months and dropped it one day after a team of attorney’s and members of the hospital’s administration offered me $10,000.00 and said I would have to sign a “gag order” stating that I would never talk about my lawsuit or the body parts I discovered to ANYONE. I refused.

I sent letters to State Representative Roger Wicker, Senator Trent Lott and Thad Cochran. I never heard a word from anyone. I even ran into Roger Wicker several different times while performing at special banquets and fundraisers in northeast, Mississippi but he seemed very nervous while speaking with me and would make a fast exit to the door when I engaged in conversation leading up to my case against NMMC.

On May 23, 2003, an intoxicated assistant district attorney pushed me backwards during a debate about corruption in northeast, MS. and then put a loaded 9 mm bereta to my head in front of my (then) wife and 2 sons, ages 7 and 9.

I didn’t know at the time he was an assistant DA in Tupelo. All I knew was that the city hired him to play rythem guitar in a special new production that I developed including my older brother Jack. The show was gaining attention as we are the only brother duo Elvis Presley Tribute act in the world.

Pat Rasberry, executive director of the Tupelo Convention & Visitor’s Bureau drove up right at the moment he put the gun to my head and cocked it. I had my hands up in the air. She jumped out of her car and he threw the gun into his truck like nothing ever happened.

I filed charges against him for assault but instead of HIM going to jail for almost killing me in front of my family, the police showed up at my door and arrested ME.

There is no jail time for simple assault. He physically assaulted me by putting his hands on me just before putting the gun to my head. I have been to jail various times on this same charge and was made to stand trial with no legal representation for 7 hours in justice court, yet there is NO RECORD of this or any trials.

I feel this and everything that has been happening since 2000 is a direct result of my finding the dismembered body parts and being terminated from the largest employer in the state.

I am watched by police officers, followed, my trash taken, harassed, threatened my city officials and put on the no hire list. I don’t have much more to lose and was notified last week that the charges for simple assault have been re-instated.

“State of Ms Vs Paul K. Curtis” in Justice court, Tupelo, Mississippi on October 10, 2007 at 9:00 am

I have no faith left in the Mississippi Justice system. I feel my coming forward with my story and releasing it to news media all over the USA in 2001 has helped expose the illegal body parts and organ trade market world-wide.

I personally sent out more than a million emails in one year detailing what happened to me when I found the body parts at NMMC. In 2004, 4 arrests were made in New York City. In 2006, another illegal body parts scam was discovered in North Carolina. I am confident that although no local media has agreed to put in print what happened to me in Tupelo or the trigger-happy, intoxicated assistant DA, I know in my heart that my coming forward has brought national attention to this terrible and illegal black market.

This is Kevin Curtis and I approve this report.

Kevin
Booneville, Mississippi

Now who knows what is going on. But until this incident, obviously the local news hasn’t touched this story or I would have heard about it (its just too close to home).

Dr Doug explains that this guy is an awesome Elvis impersonator and even though I don’t know him, I have no reason to doubt his accusations, simply because the North Mississippi area is known for its corruption. Like everything else that comes from the MSM lackey media, what you hear about this dude is not the whole truth. They lie. It is what they do.

h/t Government Slaves

The Man Behind The Curtain Is NOT In Boston

Did you see the footage of the “bombing” in Boston? I don’t see how you could have missed it… it is all over every network and papers. But am I the only person wondering why it was such a small blast? I mean, in comparison to blast footage seen at other types of these events (such as in Iraq or even the Murrah Building), it is a firecracker.

The official story coming out of the Washington Post is that the bombs didn’t go off like they should have. The same article almost immediately begins to suggest “patriot groups” as culprits, citing the SPLC’s contention that “the threat of violence appears to be looming”. Funny coincidence, as I traveled yesterday, the person I was riding with interrupted our conversation because he heard the Fox News source on the radio say something about a bomb blast in Boston. We listened intently to find out what was going on, but within the first 10 minutes I said, “What do you bet that some ‘patriot group’ is blamed for this.”

And voila, there you have it.

Now, I have jumped on to conspiracy theory bandwagons before, but with due cause, because virtually everything we are told stinks like a skunk. Trust is gone in this thinking brain, no matter how much others seem to trust our government and lackey propaganda outlets like the Post, Fox News, CNN and the like. So, I immediately begin to question motive. I also wonder if groups are acting in such situations, as if it were a play, orchestrated for whatever brainwashing program they have in store for us.

Much like the Sandy Hook deal, which reeks, too, of disinformation and even seemingly is chock full of “crisis actors” (aren’t those pictures some amazing coincidence?), it seems like this Boston “bomb” is also being acted out. Why do I say that? Maybe its because the media is doctoring the TV footage?

Maybe, its because we are seeing actors being used?

B’Man’s Patriot Watch: Sheriff Shayne Heap

A Colorado Sheriff Responds To President Obama

President Obama visited Denver on April 3, 2013 to push his excessive gun legislation. Not one sheriff in the state of Colorado was included in the event. The sheriffs of Colorado representing 62 counties were kept out of the event because their legislative needs were not useful to the president. Obama’s purposeful shunning of the state sheriffs could not silence them. Listen as Sheriff Shayne Heap from Elbert County Colorado responds to the president’s comments.

I took a second or two to thank the man for calling it like it is:

shayne.heap@elbertcounty-co.gov

Dancing With The Elephant In The Room

Derived from the original article provided by Augureye Express:

http://augureye.blogspot.com/2013/03/dancing-with-elephant-in-room.html

Video and narration by BuelahMan:

Graphics provided by David Dees:

http://www.zetatalk6.com/dees.htm

….then you’re an anti-semite

(Video derived from diggerfortruth’s article entitled, “….then you’re an anti-semite“.)

If you object to the imposed gun laws …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You are saying you have not vaccinated your children …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You don’t wholeheartedly support our troops, our heros …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You are not in alignment with our ‘leaders’ Middle East policies …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You eat organic food grown from local farmers …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You try to avoid paying taxes when you can …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You dislike Obama’care’ …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You are not happy with the new police state and Orwelian structure …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You try to not shop in supermarkets …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You grow your own food in your garden …. then you’re an anti-semite.

Ohh, now you don’t like the polluted rivers, streams, water tables and oceans …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You refuse to use pharmaceutic drugs; instead favor natural medicines and to look after your health …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You don’t want a smart meter in your home …. then you’re an anti-semite.

If you home school …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You are putting your noses up at the idea of us all having microchips implants …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You’ve decided to voice your concern about all the weird spraying in the skies …. then you’re an anti-semite.

Have you dared to refuse the flue shot …. then you’re an anti-semite.

If you dislike the CCTV cameras breathing down your neck …. then you’re an anti-semite.

You don’t frequent the main stream cinema and don’t even have a TV …. then you’ve just got to be an anti-semite.

Article found at:

https://diggerfortruth.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/then-youre-a-anti-semite/

Additional Reading:
Are you an anti-semite?

http://diggerfortruth.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/are-you-an-anti-semite/

Anti what?

http://diggerfortruth.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/anti-what/

First they came for

http://diggerfortruth.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/first-they-came-for/

What exactly is an anti-semite?

http://diggerfortruth.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/what-exactly-is-anti-semitism/

More of Digger’s Ditties

http://diggerfortruth.wordpress.com/verses/

B’Man’s Blog:

https://buelahman.wordpress.com/

Backing Music from ccMixter.

http://ccmixter.org/files/th3rd3y3/22327

Artist: Echoes Of A Supernova
Song: Emergence(VirUnisFusion)

Vince Foster, Richard Cory, and Abe Lincoln

Vince Foster, Richard Cory, and Abe Lincoln

We really didn’t need any better signs that something was seriously amiss in the case of the mysterious violent death of Deputy White House Counsel, Vincent W. Foster, Jr., on July 20, 1992 than was provided by the curious early behavior of the press.  From the very first day they called it an “apparent suicide,” when to anyone capable of thinking for himself it was not the least bit apparent.  Rather than exhibiting any of the natural curiosity that even the ordinary person possesses, they showed what can only be described as an aggressive lack of curiosity, which is particularly odd for people whose job it is to be curious.

Nobody reporting on the death seemed even to have gone out to the old Civil War relic, Fort Marcy Park, to look at the very unlikely place where the body was found.  The suicide conclusion had been reached, apparently, by the presence of a gun in Foster’s hand, but no evidence had yet been presented that the gun even belonged to Foster.  We had not been told if anyone in a position to know, particularly his two sons, had been asked about the gun.  Neither had there even been any speculation about how Foster, newly moved to Washington with the Clinton administration, might have found his way to such an obscure place.  I had been living in the Virginia suburbs of DC for ten years and I had never heard of Fort Marcy Park.

To me, the early clincher was the rare opinion piece by the Washington Post’s young national political reporter, David Von Drehle.  It contains no useful information.  Rather, it is an attempt to sell the public on the notion that Foster committed suicide in the complete absence of any supporting evidence.  It is a cry that we should take it on faith.  That is to say, it is an obvious piece of propaganda.

That article might have told me that foul play was involved—the press treatment in itself represented foul play of a sort—but at that point, like most of the country, I was not yet online.  Where could I share my suspicions?  My place of work in DC was only a few blocks from the office of The Post, so I took out my frustration by writing a letter to Von Drehle, saving a copy for the drawer like a Soviet dissident.  Later, in 1995, I would include it in a self-published book of essays and poems entitled The New Moral Order.  Finally, when I got online with a web site, I would publish it for a larger audience:

Excerpt from The Washington Post, Sunday August 1, 1993, p. C5, editorial section, twelve days after the discovery of the body of Vincent Foster, Jr. in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia. The author is national political reporter (now Style Section editor) David Von Drehle.

The Muse in the News
I Confess–T. S. Eliot Matters More to Me Than the Thomasons

And this was one of the Washington Post reporters who was supposed to be looking into what happened, one of the sets of eyes and ears of the public, as it were. Instead, he gave us this. So I was immediately moved to write him a letter, which I hand-delivered to The Post the next day.

Since I wrote that letter we have learned a lot more about the Foster case, and I have learned a lot more about what’s going on around us, prompting two more related poems:

I have not shared these last two poems with Mr. Von Drehle.  Should I?

David Martin, March 9, 1998

Since Von Drehle had quoted Alexander Pope, I wished I had known at that time the Pope quote that the renowned manuscript authenticator and Oxford English professor, the late Reginald Alton, gave me upon reading The New Moral Order, “Ask you what provocation I have had?  The strong antipathy of good to bad.”  I would have thrown it back at Von Drehle.  Instead, I had to settle for using it to lead off Part 2 of “America’s Dreyfus Affair.” (Alton was one of three handwriting experts who declared the torn-up “suicide note” a forgery.)

Readers might forgive me now if I express my skepticism that Von Drehle is really so credulous as to believe what he wrote.  If he volunteered the piece, he no doubt did it to curry favor with his employers by writing what he knew they wanted to hear.  More likely, though is that he was assigned to write a suicide-selling story, and this was the best he could come up with.  Later he would have a much bigger assignment along those lines, and I would later sum up his efforts in “The Press and the Death of Vincent Foster.”

Accompanying the [Michael] Isikoff article on that crucial first Sunday after the authorities had, they hoped, laid the Foster death controversy to rest, was a massive, front-page 159-column-inch article by David Von Drehle, syndicated to newspapers around the country, whose purpose is indicated by its title: “The Crumbling of a Pillar in Washington, Only Clinton Aide Foster Knew What Drove Him to Fort Marcy.” The article set the tone for virtually all that would follow in the American press. Dropping all pretense to objectivity, Von Drehle gives us nothing more than a serious sales effort for the tenuous thesis that Vince Foster killed himself because he was depressed. It is the prosecutor’s case for the murder of Vince Foster by Vince Foster. The case for the defense is completely absent. Nowhere in the lengthy article, for instance, are we told about the withheld official report or that the authorities are not even allowing release of photocopies of the torn-up note attributed to Foster that belatedly turned up mysteriously. Freely drawing conclusions about Foster’s state of mind as reflected in the uncharacteristically sophomoric and disjointed note, a note that had been supposedly found in a briefcase that had previously been thoroughly searched, Von Drehle also avoids any mention of authentication of the note’s handwriting.

Thanks to good organization men like Von Drehle, the cover-up of Foster’s murder has succeeded with the general public.  But thanks to two people more than any other, the witness Patrick Knowlton and Kenneth Starr’s erstwhile lead investigator, Miguel Rodriguez, it has failed utterly with anyone who actually wishes to be informed.  For Rodriguez’s very telling resignation letter, never published in any newspaper, either on paper or online, go here.

We have described Von Drehle as an organization man.  But what is his organization?  If you gave the obvious answer, The Washington Post, I believe your scope is too narrow.  The following quote from the British journalist, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard more likely gets us closer to the right answer:

The Washington Post ceased to be a newspaper of liberal activism a long time ago, if it ever really was. “Its anti- establishment image is one of the most absurd myths in journalism today,” said Jeff Cohen, from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting in New York, a liberal group that monitors the Post closely and accuses it of an incestuous relationship with the governing elite. “It has been an instrument of state power for many years.”

From his Wikipedia page we find that Von Drehle left The Post some time ago to become editor-at-large at another longstanding “instrument of state power,” Time magazine.  Explaining his job history, Von Drehle says, “I like to change gears every four or five years.”  But has he really been changing gears…or organizations?  The following is from the 1987 book, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, by Yale history professor, Robin Winks:

In the fall of 1942 R&A (Research and Analysis of the CIA precursor OSS) began to contract out research projects to specialized institutes, first at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley, and soon after to the University of Denver, Columbia, Princeton, and Yale. No one at the universities appears to have protested these ties, and university presidents and professors courted contractors and consultantships, at times going well beyond the supplying of analysis and information, as when Cal Tech manufactured rockets for the army. (p. 79)

Of the universities listed, there is one that stands out for its lack of prominence.  It is the one place where the OSS and later the CIA would be a very big fish in a small pond.  It also happens to be the alma mater of David Von Drehle.  We are talking about the University of Denver.  Condoleezza Rice also received her Ph.D. there, where she studied under Madeleine Albright’s father, Josef Korbel.

High Priest for the Lincoln God

What could be more fitting for a man with “a way with words” who has also shown himself to be more than willing to serve “instruments of state power” than Von Drehle’s latest gear-changing?  Now he’s playing the historian, having written a tribute to the president most beloved by the neocons for his willingness to make war on his own people in the name of consolidated state power.  It is called Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year.

From reading the reviews of the book, which I have not read, I gather that the “greatness” label, according to Von Drehle, deserves to be pinned upon Lincoln because organizing and motivating those on his side to pursue the war on their fellow Americans was a much bigger feat than is generally appreciated.   But here is how Thomas DiLorenzo describes what Lincoln accomplished:

How odd that anyone would equate the killing of some 850,000 Americans (the latest estimate of “Civil War” deaths), the bombing, burning, and destruction of entire cities, the mass killing of tens of thousands of civilians, the rape, pillage and plunder of thousands more, the suspension of Habeas Corpus and imprisonment of tens of thousands of Northern civilians, the shutting down of hundreds of opposition newspapers in the North, military conscription, the daily execution of deserters (by the Lincoln regime), and the rigging of Northern elections as “civilization.” And how odd that anyone would think that the secession of a state (or states), under the correct belief that the union of the founding fathers was a voluntary union, would somehow “destroy” the government in Washington. In fact, the government in Washington grew exponentially after the Southern states seceded, fielding the largest and best-equipped army in world history up to that point.

As the latest Lincoln hagiographer, organization man Von Drehle might just be in his perfect gear.

David Martin

January 3, 2013

I want to thank DCDave for his Guest Post originally found here.

It’s All A Hoax

What if I told you that the recent mass shooting in Newtown, CT didn’t happen? That it was a test or a drill to see how big a lie “they” could pull? I’m crazy right? At first I thought it was a Manchurian incident or false flag to get majority support for gun control in this country. Now I’m leaning on the idea that it was a complete lie. Whatever it was, it was not played out how the media showed us on the constant barrage of scenes and interviews that followed in the days after. I didn’t watch any of the MSM reports after this happened, but I was informed by co-workers and friends who let me know what happened. Even my dear Mom said that there had to be more than one shooter. I believed there had to be, after seeing and hearing what was being said about the perpetrator. A border line autistic child.  A loner, who was withdrawn and quite.  A mother that had a Bushmaster, a Sig, and a Glock.  Hey, those were the same weapons used in the Aurora, CO. theater shooting.

The Joker; James Eagan Holmes

This guy looks like the joker from the Batman series.  The movie playing in the theater where, he supposedly committed this mass shooting, was The Dark Knight.  At best,  this guy looks like he is on some kind of mind altering drugs.  Maybe a mind control killer?  MK Ultra experiment?  However, he was said to have a Sig, a Glock, and an AR 15 .  All have high-capacity magazines and are the target of gun control.  Then in Newtown, this mentally disturbed kid uses the same weapons.  What got me concerned first was the medical examiner interview.

This guy looks like Rob Reiner, meathead from Archie Bunker.  Whoever he is, he is a loose cannon, and is not professional.  He also stated that the shooter was wearing kids clothes.  The MSM reported that he was dressed in black with body armour.  He also mentioned a rifle was found next to his person, when it was reported that the Bushmaster was found in the car.  They all seem to have trouble getting their facts straight.  Could “they” really pull off a lie so big?  Take over an entire community?  Several people believe this to be a hoax.  Whatever it was, it was not what was told to us.  I’m not telling you for sure this was a hoax.  Think about it though, if “they” can bring down buildings in our largest city and deceive the majority of the people for the purpose of war, then this would be easy to do.  They want to disarm us and there is no question about that.

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Grandpa Paul Blames The People

How FDR Dragged Out WW II for Stalin

DCDave’s “How FDR Dragged Out WWII for Stalin“

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Carl von Clausewitz

 

For more than half a century, every sixth of June, countless patriotic Americans, Britons, Canadians and others gather to pay homage to thousands of young men who “gave their lives for their country” on the beaches of Normandy. More than 200,000 American fighting men were killed in World War II, together with 375,000 British and millions of other nationalities. Most of these deaths occurred after mid-1943, when it was clear to all concerned that the Axis and Japan had lost. Why did the fighting continue for two years after the issue had been decided?

John Dombrowski

Suppose the United States had been presented with the opportunity to end World War II in 1943 on far more favorable terms than it was able to get after the sacrifice of so many lives in the subsequent two years.  The countries of Eastern Europe, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Albania would have been kept out of the hands of the Communists.  Perhaps even the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia would have regained their independence from the Soviet Union.  Adolf Hitler would have been deposed and either killed or turned over to allied authorities, and a united, non-Communist, anti-Nazi Germany would have peacefully given up its European conquests.

That we would have passed up such an opportunity is next to inconceivable to anyone who has received the standard education in American history.  It would not be at all shocking, though, to anyone familiar with what has been revealed about the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration on this web site.

The fact is that we were given just such an opportunity, but the president didn’t so much as give it a second look.  The conveyor of the message from the German power brokers to FDR, his friend and special envoy to neutral Turkey, former Pennsylvania governor George Earle, was as dumbfounded and disappointed as most Americans would have been.   He didn’t know what we now know—but most Americans still don’t—about Roosevelt and his administration.  Governor Earle had no way of knowing, for instance, that FDR had been told on good authority in 1939 that his government was laced with Stalin’s agents, throughout the State and Treasury Departments and right up to the White House, and he did absolutely nothing about it.  He even allowed the named agents to rise to positions of greater power and influence.

Governor Earle would not have known that when Rep. Martin Dies had similarly presented the president with wholesale Communist infiltration of the government in 1940, Roosevelt had responded:

I do not regard the Communists as any present or future threat to our country, in fact I look upon Russia as our strongest ally in the years to come.  As I told you when you began your investigation, you should confine yourself to Nazis and Fascists.  While I do not believe in Communism, Russia is far better off and the world is safer with Russia under Communism than under the Czars.  Stalin is a great leader, and although I deplore some of his methods, it is the only way he can safeguard his government.

Governor Earle would not have known that FDR had also told Dies, “I do not believe in Communism any more than you do, but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country.  Several of the best friends I have are Communists.”  Neither would Earle have known that FDR had confided to then Archbishop Francis Spellman that when the war was concluded he thought that the Communists would control about 40 percent of the world and that was pretty much as it should be.

Most importantly, Governor Earle would not have known that Roosevelt’s closest adviser on both foreign and domestic matters, Harry Hopkins, was, in all likelihood, an espionage agent for Joseph Stalin.

It may be a novel idea these days, our Middle Eastern policy being what it is, but when Governor Earle went to Turkey he no doubt thought he was representing a government that put the interests of his own country first.  Any foreign policy moves that appeared to run completely counter to U.S. interests he would have probably chalked up to stupidity.  He would not be aware of what would lie behind the statement that then Navy Secretary James Forrestal would make to the newly elected Senator Joe McCarthy in 1946, “McCarthy, consistency has never been a mark of stupidity.  If they were merely stupid they would occasionally make a mistake in our favor.”

What follows is a long excerpt from Appendix III of the little-known 1976 book by Hamilton Fish, FDR, The Other Side of the Coin: How We Were Tricked into World War 11 entitled “Interview between Curtis B. Dall and Former Governor George Earl [sic] of Pennsylvania Regarding Secret Efforts of High German Officers and Officials to Surrender Eighteen Months before the End of the War”:

Colonel Curtis B. Dall, the author of FDR, My Exploited Father-in-Law, very kindly gave me permission to use parts of his interview with former Governor George Earl of Pennsylvania, a close friend of President Roosevelt and his appointee as minister to Austria and minister to Bulgaria.  In 1943 Earl was the special envoy of the president as naval attaché to neutral Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey, to keep the White House informed of what was going on in the Balkans and in Germany.

Colonel Dall lunched with Earl many years after the war.  The latter opened the conversation by saying, “Dall, I told your father-in-law, FDR, when I was his naval attaché in Istanbul, how we could greatly shorten World War II.  The governor then proceeded to unfold an amazing story.

Governor Earl arrived in Istanbul in the spring of 1943.  He told me one morning there was a knock on his hotel room door.  He opened it and there stood a broad-shouldered, medium-sized man in civilian clothes who requested an informal conference.  He presented himself as Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the German Secret Service.  The gist of the conversation was, there were many sensible German people who loved their fatherland and who greatly disliked Adolf Hitler, feeling that Hitler was leading their nation down a destructive path.  Admiral Canaris continued, saying that the unconditional surrender policy recently announced by Roosevelt and Churchill at Casablanca was something the German generals could not swallow.  He said, however, if President Roosevelt would merely indicate he would accept an honorable surrender from the German army to American forces, such an event could be arranged.  That the real enemy of western civilization (Soviet Communism) could then be stopped.  The German army, if so directed, would move to the eastern front and stop the Communist army’s march into eastern Europe.  The Soviets’ main objective was to establish themselves as the supreme power in Europe.

The governor remarked that at first he was staggered, but was extremely cautious of his reaction to the admiral and to the startling proposal.

Then followed a meeting with the German ambassador Fritz von Papen, a devout Roman Catholic and strongly anti-Hitler in his feelings.  The governor told me that he soon became convinced of the sincerity manifested by the anti-Nazi Germans.  Becoming further informed concerning the hidden designs of the Soviet forces, he promptly dispatched a coded message to FDR in Washington via the diplomatic pouch reporting the whole matter.  He then waited for the requested prompt reply.  None came.  Thirty days later, as agreed, Admiral Canaris phoned him and asked, “Have you any news?”  The governor replied, “I am waiting for news but have none today.”

The same question was again posed to Governor Earl by Baron von Lersner, who headed the Orient Society.  If the anti-Nazi forces in Germany delivered the German army to the American forces, could they then count on allied cooperation in keeping the Soviets out of central Europe?  Hence, if Roosevelt would merely agree to an “honorable surrender,” von Lersner stated, even if Hitler was not killed by his group, he would be handed to the Americans.  Furthermore, the Soviet army could be held in check and contained in suitable areas.

Again, the governor said, he dispatched an urgent coded message to the White House, pleading with President Franklin Roosevelt to explore what the anti-Nazis had to offer.  Still no reply came back to him!

Then followed another meeting with von Lersner, who came up with an added plan to surround Hitler’s remote eastern military headquarters, then move the German army to the eastern front until a ceasefire could be arranged.

Governor Earl said he then prepared and sent a most urgent message to Roosevelt in Washington, not only via the diplomatic pouch but through Army-Navy channels, this time to make sure the important message got through to FDR.  He said he felt that FDR and his top advisers were under the spell of Joe Stalin, or that he, Roosevelt, mistakenly felt that he could “charm” Stalin.

A plane had been readied in Istanbul, he said; upon receipt of the hoped-for favorable reply from Roosevelt Governor Earl was to fly to an undisclosed spot in Germany, there to receive more details leading to surrender terms to be sent at once to the White House for further action.  The plane near Istanbul awaited the next step—and it waited and waited.

The governor said he was getting more and more discouraged and frustrated when no reply came from Washington in response to his urgent messages.

Finally, in effect, a purported answer did come.  It was the he should take up with the field commander in Europe any proposals for a negotiated peace.  Could any procedure have been more impractical or tragic?

Governor Earl continued, “I was shocked, greatly disheartened, and felt my usefulness was about over.  So I returned to the U.S.A., came back home, and World War II proceeded along its scheduled course until the Soviets sat astride Europe.”

He then added, after a while, “However, I decided to make known some of my views and observations about our so-called allies, the Soviets, so as to wake up the American people about what was really going on.  I contacted the president about it, but he reacted strongly and specifically forbade me to make my views known to the public.  Then, upon my requesting active duty in the Navy, I was ordered to Samoa in the distant South Pacific.  There my extensive experience with the double-faced Soviets and our lost opportunity to stop needless carnage, to prevent a great Soviet victory in Europe would not make any impression on the friendly Samoans.”

Here is a truthful account by former Governor Earl of Pennsylvania, a friend and supporter of FDR, as to how he conveyed to President Roosevelt, eighteen months before the end of the war, a direct offer from the German army to surrender to the American army and kill Hitler or turn him over to American control.  In return the German army offered to fight to prevent Stalin and the Communists from taking over the free and independent eastern European nations and bringing communism [sic] into central Europe.  What a tragedy!

The freedom and democracy for which we fought was destroyed in eastern Europe.  FDR refused to accept a black-out of Nazism, the protection of Poland and eastern European nations from Communist domination, and to save the lives of scores of thousands of American, British and French soldiers and enormous additional war costs.

The American public has probably never heard of Governor Earl’s repeated attempts to end the war against Germany through the surrender of the German army and the trial and execution of Hitler by our armed forces.

If Roosevelt had accepted this capitulation, practically on his own terms, it would have been the end of Hitler and Nazism.  Freedom and democracy would have been restored to Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and other nations.  It is enough to make you weep….  (pp. 237-241)

This 1943 peace overture was far from the only one made by high German officials to the U.S. government.  John Dombrowski, in his December 1997 Culture Wars article, “The Greatest War Crime,” lists a number of them.  Canaris, himself, as Dombrowski notes, hardly put all his eggs in the George Earle basket.  He also made contact with the head of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor of the CIA, William J. Donovan, through a subordinate of his who was an old friend of Donovan.  Donovan received about the same reaction from Roosevelt that Adolf Berle had received in 1939 when he brought the revelations from Whittaker Chambers of massive Communist infiltration of the government.  “In spite of Donovan’s pleadings ‘President Roosevelt… flatly declined to negotiate’” with key men such as Canaris whom he characterized as “these East German Junkers.”

Standing as an obstacle to any negotiated surrender, as noted by Admiral Canaris, was Roosevelt’s stubborn adherence to the “unconditional surrender” demand that he had announced at the Casablanca Conference in January of 1943.  But what could have lain behind a policy that made the achievement of the political aims of the war so much more difficult for the United States?  Roosevelt’s fundamental anti-German prejudice has been offered as one explanation.  But that would not explain the rigid application of the same policy toward Japan, as well.  Maybe one could credit that to the anti-Japanese attitude of Roosevelt’s Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, but no one forced Roosevelt to put the Republican war hawk Stimson in that position.

When FDR propounded his “unconditional surrender” policy at Casablanca, it was opposed by both Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.  Looking at who benefitted from it most, one can’t help but suspect that Stalin’s objections were insincere and cosmetic.  Communist gains and American military costs both human and material in the Pacific theater rivaled those in Europe from our adherence to the “unconditional surrender” doctrine.  Advised by the same people who advised FDR, President Truman responded to his own Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, and his peace efforts the same way that Roosevelt responded to George Earle.

One might conclude from all this that we simply paid too little heed to the von Clausewitz dictum and lacked a clear vision of our political objectives in the war.  The preponderance of evidence indicates, however, that Forrestal’s suggestion to McCarthy was right on the money, that we weren’t just bunglers.  The objectives of those with the power were all too clear in their minds; they just weren’t those that served the best interests of the American people.

David Martin

October 31, 2012

Original article presented at DCDave’s Blog

“The Establishment’s Contempt For The Truth” Finally Gets Some Big Media Illumination

My friend, Mike Campbell, has been working for nearly a quarter century to tell people the real truth about the death of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. I have tried to help with this itty bitty blog by highlighting the story, DCDave’s review, and Mike’s insistence that very large publications get the story right.

Thomas Devine

Don’t think the man hasn’t done his homework, either. He has interviewed many US Military veterans who testified that they saw the plane long after the official story says it was lost. He has spent countless hours with other researchers and authors, combing through files and correspondence, finding discrepancies with the official story, and working to write two books on the subject.

His first was “With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart,” written in 2002, but subsequently after years of research with Earhart author and Saipan eyewitness Thomas Devine (Eyewitness: The Amelia Earhart Incident) searching through hundreds of files left by the deceased iconic newsman Fred Goerner (The Search for Amelia Earhart) and many others, he was privy to additional information that led to his second book, “Amelia Earhart: The Truth At Last“.  I happen to be reading the book right now and it is an amazing page turner that had me hooked immediately.

He begins the book by explaining the “official story,” with acute details I never knew and then gets

Fred Goerner

into the eye-witness testimony of people who claimed they saw the Earhart plane on Saipan. You can hear several of the witnesses in videos I shared here. One key witness certainly isn’t a nobody: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, American naval forces commander in the Pacific during World War II, said that “Earhart and her companion did go down in the Marshalls and were picked up by the Japanese.”

These people knew what they saw and were frustrated that very few are telling the whole truth.

Mike is trying to make amends to this and hasn’t gotten much help from Big Media, until now, if one can categorize the Knoxville News Sentinel as “big media.”

The Knoxville News Sentinel, with a daily circulation of 123,000 has featured two prominent stories that you should read and share, if possible. The best is by Joel Freedman, entitled, “Campbell’s Book Shatters Earhart Disappearance Theories” and the second is by Melissa Priode, called, “Knoxville Man Works 24 Years To Reveal ‘Truth’ About Earhart’s Disappearance” (notice how “Truth” is set off in quotations, as if to avoid responsibility for the use of this word in a headline, because it might be a conspiracy).

No matter what, the book is excellent and a Must Read, as far as I am concerned, and as far as truth is concerned.

The Ultimatum That Gave Us Pearl Harbor

The Ultimatum that Gave Us Pearl Harbor

During the nearly quarter of a century since 1944, and despite a series of official investigations, the defenders of Roosevelt among historians, journalists and politicians have been able to keep the vital information about the responsibility for war with Japan and the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor from the American people. – Harry Elmer Barnes

It doesn’t matter how many times you prove it. Wait five years and you have to prove it all over again. Take Pearl Harbor. The fact that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack is something that should by now be as solidly established in American historiography as William Randolph Hearst’s famous order to his photographer, “You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war,” (the conflict under discussion being the Spanish American war). – Alexander Cockburn

From all that we have now learned about what happened on that fateful day of December 7, 1941, there might still be some small room for debate as to how precise was our leaders’ knowledge of the impending Japanese attack in the hours just before it took place.  Beyond debate is the fact that Franklin Roosevelt very badly wanted the attack to occur so that he would have an excuse to involve the United States militarily in the war in Europe, that he had taken precisely the steps needed to make sure that an attack was imminent, and that he kept the news that he had taken those steps away from the people who most needed to know it.  Foremost among that latter group were our military leaders in the Pacific, most specifically, General Walter Short and Admiral Husband Kimmel in Hawaii.  What no Americans were told, outside a tiny handful of people, was that we had effectively ended negotiations to temper or end our crippling economic embargo on Japan, and we had ended them with what amounted to a slap in the proud Japanese face.  Furthermore, the key commanders in the Pacific were not informed that the inevitable Japanese military response, which we had learned from intercepted messages, was forthcoming in short order.

Roosevelt might have miscalculated with respect to the degree of damage that the attack on Pearl Harbor would inflict.  His failure to share with the commanders in Pearl Harbor the information they needed to prepare for the attack, though, was not a miscalculation or a matter of inadvertence.  He knew that the Japanese had a very good spying apparatus, and the last thing that Roosevelt wanted was for them to see that we were so ready for the attack that it would be called off.  There is a lot more evidence, but all one really has to do is to read FDR’s speech of December 9, 2012, the day after the “date that will live in infamy” speech, to see just how badly Roosevelt wanted us into the European war.

Among the Americans kept in the dark were all the members of the U.S. Congress.  As the quote above from historian Harry Elmer Barnes suggests, most of the American people remain in the dark to this day.  With his 1976 book, one of the previously deceived congressmen made an effort to rectify that situation for the public.  Unfortunately, but perhaps predictably, illustrious though the author might have been, the book failed to find a “reputable” publisher and it consequently continues to be obscure.  The man was Rep. Hamilton Fish who represented Roosevelt’s home district in New York and the book is FDR, the Other Side of the Coin: How We Were Tricked into World War II.  The following is from his introduction:

This book is an agonizing reappraisal written by the author, the Honorable Hamilton Fish, a member of Congress for twenty-five years, ranking Republican member of the Foreign Affairs Committee 1933-43, and ranking member of the Rules Committee 1940-45.

The author is one of the very few former members alive who participated actively in the Congressional foreign policy debates between 1937 and 1945.  I made the first speech advocating war with Japan on December 8, 1941 (the first speech ever made in Congress over the radio).  The speech was heard by over 20 million Americans and it upheld President Roosevelt’s theme of the “Day of Infamy.”  I now publicly disavow that speech as a result of subsequent historical evidence.  I believe that not only the American people but everyone interested in the truths of history is entitled to know the naked truth: that Roosevelt incited and provoked Japan into war by the issuance of an all-out secret war ultimatum in defiance of the Congress, the American people, and the Constitution of the United States, ten days before Pearl Harbor. (emphasis in original)

Even now, every Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, American newspapers editorially denounce Japan for provoking and causing the war in the midst of peace negotiations.  This is entirely contrary to the historical facts.  The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce was right when she said that President Roosevelt lied us into war by the back door in order to get into war with Germany.  Sir Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Productions in Churchill’s cabinet, speaking before the American Chamber of Commerce in London in 1944, let the cat out of the bag: “Japan was provoked into attacking the Americans at Pearl Harbor….  It is a travesty on history to ever say America was forced into the war.”

Emperor Hirohito has been falsely attacked for being responsible for the war.  In fact, he consistently urged peace by diplomacy and offered unprecedented concessions, including withdrawal of Japanese troops from China and Vietnam. (pp. xi-xii)

We pick up the story in the middle of chapter 15, “How the United States Became Involved in World War II.”

American public opinion in 1940-41 was bitterly opposed to involvement in another world war.  In a democracy, where free speech prevails, the voice of the people creates public opinion.  The percentage was reduced from 97 percent to approximately 85 percent when Hitler invaded Poland* due to massive consistent administration propaganda, remaining at that level until the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The question is often raised, what would have happened if we had not entered the war, that is, if there had been no Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor?  The question deserves a detailed answer.  I am convinced that we could have easily made a peace treaty with Japan in which she would have agreed to a mutually friendly withdrawal from China and Indochina in return for the right to trade with all nations in the Far East including the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies.

The extensive memoirs of Secretary of State Cordell Hull are a treasure-house of historical information, although naturally highly slanted in covering up his responsibility and that of FDR for the war ultimatum that caused not only the war with Japan, but also with Germany and Italy.  In referring to the war ultimatum it seems appropriate to have it preceded by the word “infamous,” derived from Roosevelt’s designation of the attack on Pearl Harbor as a date to live in infamy.

This epithet was acclaimed by all of us at the time and was repeated all over the world.  The full story of the infamous ultimatum will be related in detail in this chapter.  There never was, in the history of America, such trickery, deception and double-crossing of the American people.

The all-out war ultimatum, approved by FDR and presented to the Japanese ambassador [Kichisaburō] Nomuro [sic] on November 26, 1941, demanded that Japan withdraw all of its armed forces—army, navy, air force and even police—from China (Manchuria) and Indochina immediately.  Like cornered rats, the Japanese had no alternative than to fight.  If they hadn’t, their leaders would have had to commit suicide or be killed by their own people. (emphasis in original)

Hull’s memoirs do not even mention the crucial November 25 meeting at the White House.  According to [Secretary of War Henry] Stimson’s diary, the only question considered at this meeting was how to maneuver, incite and provoke Japan to fire the first shot.  The next day Secretary Hull scrapped the modus vivendi, or truce for ninety days (which had been acceptable to Japan), and handed Ambassador Nomuro the infamous war ultimatum.  It was not released until after Pearl Harbor, when it went unnoticed.  Very few of the American people ever even heard of the war ultimatum.  FDR, Secretary Hull, and Secretary Stimson were the main instigators but Secretary [of the Navy Frank] Knox, [Chief of Staff] General [George C.] Marshall and [Chief of Naval Operations] Admiral [Harold] Stark were lesser collaborators.  They all knew it would force the Japanese to attack immediately without warning.

It is only fair to the leading officers of the American armed forces to emphasize that even as late as November 26 they still counseled and cautioned against war.  On the morning of November 26 there was a meeting of the Army-Navy Joint Board at which Admiral [Royal] Ingersoll presented a series of arguments against precipitating a war.

Evidently the protest of the Army-Navy Joint Board had little effect on President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull.  So on that afternoon, Hull, representing the president, abandoned all thought of a truce with Japan and rejected any idea of compromise or conciliation.  With the full approval of FDR, he presented to Numuro the demand that the government of Japan withdraw all military, naval, air and police forces from China and Indochina.

Admiral Nomuro was accompanied by Saburo Kurusu, who had served as a consul in New York and had recently been the Japanese ambassador to Berlin.  He was married to an American girl, which gave him an added interest in maintaining friendly relations between Japan and the United States.  After he had read Hull’s proposals, Kurusu asked if this were the American answer to the Japanese request for a modus vivendi or truce.  Secretary Hull gave an evasive and virtually negative answer.  Kurusu replied that the secretary’s statement was “tantamount to meaning the end.”  It was obvious to Nomuro and Kurusu that this was a war ultimatum and that the next step would be war.

The undisputed fact is that even those Japanese militarists who had no love for the United States realized the tremendous potential strength of our country and wanted to avoid such a ruinous war if a peace with honor could be found.  They were willing to make unprecedented concessions and to accept virtually all our terms in the proposed modus vivendi, which included a ninety-day truce.  Secretary Hull for eight months had been stringing Ambassador Nomuro along, stalling for time to permit our army and navy to strengthen their defenses in the Philippines and in our other Far Eastern possessions.  Hull in his memoirs made it very clear that he was playing for time at the request of both the army and the navy.  His dilatory tactics finally became apparent to the Japanese cabinet, which set November 29 as the final day for ending negotiations.  Hull knew definitely that the showdown on peace or war had been reached through the intercepted Japanese messages to Nomuro, as we had broken the Japanese code.

Hull had been working on a modus vivendi which would not only have postponed the war, but might have averted an unwanted, unnecessary, costly and bloody war with Japan completely.  President Roosevelt received protests from Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek.  FDR’s administrative secretary, Lauchlin Currie, friendly to the Communists,** received an urgent cable from Owen Lattimore, another apologist for communism.  Lattimore had been appointed by Roosevelt as an adviser to Chiang Kai-shek.  Naturally Soviet Russia was opposed to any peace terms and favored war between the United States and Japan.

Churchill realized, as did Roosevelt, that if we became involved in war with Japan it would automatically bring us into war with Germany.  Consequently, the modus vivendi was scrapped.

Roosevelt used his tremendous presidential powers to deceive the American public and succeeded in keeping the existence of the war ultimatum a secret from everyone, including all members of Congress, until after Pearl Harbor.  It was a conspiracy of silence.  Later the administration refused to institute a nonpartisan, impartial court-martial of Admiral Kimmel and General Short, at their own request, to ascertain the true responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster.  It was denied by the Roosevelt administration because it would have exposed FDR’s ultimatum and likewise his responsibility for provoking the war secretly. (emphasis in original)

Although the Congress was totally ignored, and only a handful of Americans in the cabinet knew of the existence of the war ultimatum, Winston Churchill and the British high command were kept informed of every move.

FDR secretly maneuvered us into war.  The responsibility for the deadly blow to the U.S. navy was his, as well as the deaths of 3,000 American sailors at Pearl Harbor—America’s greatest naval defeat and disaster.

The tragic fact is that few Americans know about FDR’s ultimatum to Japan.  It is still America’s greatest and best-kept secret, part and parcel of the perpetuation of the Roosevelt myth, and the greatest cover-up in American history.  (pp. 135-139)

As the old sports cliché goes, records are made to be broken.  If Israel and our neocon-controlled leaders can maneuver us into World War III, then certainly the 9-11 cover-up can claim the new record as greatest in American history.  No one can deny that the United States plunged into the Middle East militarily because of that “second Pearl Harbor” that the people at the Project for a New American Century longed for so badly.

Hamilton Fish’s Publisher

As we saw from his introduction, Hamilton Fish was an important American politician.  He was also a very learned man who wrote well.  From the publisher’s blurb on the back, we learn that Fish was of a distinguished lineage:

Hamilton Fish was born in Garrison, New York, on 7 December 1888, the son of a Congressman, the grandson of a former governor of New York, U.S. senator, and secretary of state; and the great-grandson of a colonel in Washington’s army, who was an intimate friend of Lafayette and Alexander Hamilton.  He attended Saint Mark’s School, and was graduated from Harvard t the age of 20 with a degree cum laude in government and history.  he was also offered an appointment as an instructor of history at Harvard.

Mr. Fish was elected three times on the Progressive (“Bull Moose”) ticket to the New York Assembly, served as an officer in the 369^th Negro infantry from New York in World War I in France, where he was decorated with the Silver Star and the French croix de guerre, and served in Congress from 1920 to 1945 as a Republican.

Ordinarily publishers would be clamoring for such a man’s writings.  But the subject of his book is not a popular one.  He had to settle for an equally unpopular publisher, the Institute for Historical Review (IHR).  Although there would seem to be a considerable mismatch in public repute between author and publisher, very much in favor of the former, it is the latter that sees fit to issue a disclaimer in the publisher’s blurb on the back:

The Institute for Historical Review is a non-profit, educational foundation dedicated to bringing history into accord with the facts.  We present this book as a valuable, first-hand account of corruption in high places, even though the author appears to support the now discredited notion of the “Holocaust” and was even involved in some of the initial U.S. moves to support the Israeli conquest and colonization of Palestine.  We publish this book in the interests of historical objectivity, in the knowledge that Revisionist scholars are able to distinguish first-hand experience from sentimentality.

At this point, reflecting upon our own experience with the IHR and upon the central point of our previous article, “The Pearl Harbor Betrayal and James Forrestal’s Death,” we must offer a quibble with Fish’s conclusion.  Pearl Harbor might still be our greatest secret, but it is not our best-kept one.  The Pearl Harbor subterfuge has been written about extensively, as noted by the Cockburn quote at the top of this article, but even IHR director, Mark Weber, has participated in keeping the truth about James Forrestal’s death away from the public.  When we emailed him the first installment of “Who Killed James Forrestal?” he responded curtly that he believed that Forrestal committed suicide, and that was that.  Undeterred, I later sent him Part 2, which incorporated the findings of the long-secret official investigation of Forrestal’s death.  He responded that he would look into the matter, but I have heard nothing from him, and, to my knowledge, he has written nothing on the subject.

Not only does the experience tell us a lot about best-kept secrets, it also, to my mind, tells us a lot about the IHR and its director.  Could it be that they are intentionally feckless, along the lines of the John Birch Society?

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*The Soviet Union, our future ally in World War II, invaded Poland as well, only 16 days after Germany did.

**Currie was not just friendly to the Communists, but he spied for them, as Roosevelt had been told two years before by Whittaker Chambers through FDR’s aide, Adolf Berle.

David Martin

October 17, 2012

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