The Daily News
1 It is again yesterday afternoon as I begin.
2 It is right around 3:30, and all is well.
3 The babies are sleeping, cooing, and making little grunting noises.
4 They're so pretty. Plus their sounds are the sounds of Christmas Carols. And then they fall silent again.
5 I'm not used to the silence.
6 Love it.
7 Moving On, Part One: Yesterday I took a walk around the park near Josh and Caitlin's house. The overcast sky made for an easy hike. As I headed back to the house, some car bombed and screeched down the street. Then an odd thing happened. Take this one seriously.
8 I thought: "What if that car has people in it who want to shoot me?"
9 I don't ordinarily have thoughts like that. It really unnerved me. I never think that someone might do that.
10 It wasn't the first time; it was the first time since the Paris killings.
11 I need to confront that, and not live in fear.
12 It's so sad the world has come to this.
13 My hope is that the younger generation will rise to this sort of abuse.
14 I'm convinced a lot of this stuff might be orchestrated. I recently listened to some lectures by Russ Baker, author of the outstanding work, Family of Secrets.
15 Baker was a free-lance reporter who wondered how George W. Bush ever got elected. Baker knew that even people who voted for the guy wondered about him.
16 He knew little about Bush, his Dad, or his grandfather, Prescott. He knew almost nothing about the JFK assassination. I know LOTS about this stuff. That's what makes this book monumental, in my eyes. Baker was an innocent.
17 What he didn't consider was the confusing maze he had wandered into. I know it all too well.
18 What he came away with was the mystery of the dynasties who control and have controlled the world for a long time now.
19 I won't go into all he reported, but it was fantastic, and often terrifying reading.
20 Most of his book was accurate, particularly the chapters on the JFK assassination, which I have studied for years. He admits that he knew nothing about the JFK assassination, so it was interesting for me to follow the story of a guy stepping into that massive and enigmatic puzzle.
21 He talked about how when he travels now, he sometimes is asked by airport officials to come with them.
22 Can you imagine? That's where we are. A man gets pulled out of line at an airport because of things he wrote.
23 I won't go into the JFK stuff right here, but I do know that one lone nut did not kill Kennedy. Most people even remotely familiar with the murder of Kennedy know it wasn't done by one guy.
24 There is lots of evidence in Baker's book that points to the Bush family, and trust me, there's a lot of smoke, much of it easily accessible. Google and search. That easy.
25 He calls Prescott Bush out on his associations with Nazis, and of trading with the enemy.
26 He brings in the Dulles brothers, Allen Dulles, who was the CIA director who JFK fired after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and his brother, John Foster Dulles.
27 My own recollections of the Dulles boys is that both were executives in a New York law firm called Sullivan and Cromwell. One of Sullivan and Cromwell's largest clients was a company called I.G. Farben, of Germany.
28 Among other things, I.G. Farben was a chemical company that produced Zyklon B, the gas used in the Nazi concentration camps in World War II.
29 After JFK was assassinated, Allen Dulles was chosen to be a member of the Warren Commission, the governmental group who investigated the murder. Gerald Ford was also on the Commission. When Gerald Ford became President, his CIA director was George Herbert Walker Bush. You can't make this stuff up.
30 The Bay of Pigs, incidentally, is located immediately west of Cuba. George Herbert Walker Bush owned a company there called Zapata Oil. He also owned three large ships: one named the Barbara. A second called the Houston, and a third called the Zapata. Barbara was Bush's wife's name. Houston was where the lived. Zapata was the oil company.
31 I won't bore you with too much more. I will, however, share some of Baker's observations.
32 Baker didn't realize the stigma that has been attached to anyone trying to tackle the JFK murder. It has always been considered unspeakable.
33 It is rarely brought up in polite conversation. Baker couldn't believe how people responded to his meticulously researched book.
34 It's time that sort of thing stopped. Listen: we have been manipulated and controlled too long now to underestimate what is happening in America, and in the world. Young people need to get off their butts and read. There aren't two sides to every issue. The people of Germany underestimated the evil of Hitler.
35 Baker believes that these insidious people can and will get scared. One or two arrests and seeing some people thrown in prison might be the ticket.
36 In the course of each school year, I taught about propaganda, and the differences between fiction and non-fiction. Over the years, I would teach my students about the JFK assassination each November, November 22, 1963 marking the date he was assassinated. Many students couldn't understand why more arrests didn't happen.
37 Some didn't understand how a murder over 50 years ago could affect what is happening today. History, to many people, is something that took place.
38 More young people today understand about the CIA's mind-control experiments in the 50's and 60's. It was called MK-Ultra, and was quite real.
39 It occurred to me only recently that MK-Ultra didn't just fizzle out. Trace the history of all the Presidents we've had since JFK, and you will find some scary connections. To a man. Or to a woman.
40 Baker recently has shaken his head that there is a possibility that we once again may have a Clinton v. Bush race.
41 A lot of these guys are in secret societies with odd handshakes, rituals, and all that good stuff.
42 These Democrats and Republicans party together. Some don't even know how to go to the supermarket, because they have people shop and cook for them. Baker points this stuff out in his lectures. He even mentions that you could find more out about people by finding out about social engagements, parties, weddings, and who hangs out with whom, than you can researching them.
43 I'm not trying to be an alarmist here. There are plenty of good, knowledgeable people out there who are on to this stuff.
44 Nor am I paranoid. I just want to see people open their eyes to this stuff. I have been at war protests. When Operation Desert Storm happened, I was one of the first to protest, and went downtown where I met a small group of people at the Federal Building. We met, chatted, and then talked about how to orchestrate the protest. I suggested that we stay quiet and hold candles; that we should let the public realize that we were normal citizens concerned about our children's future.
45 Most of that small group agreed that screaming and yelling, or burning flags, or chaining ourselves to trees wouldn't work with the public. We agreed that as more people would arrive downtown, that we could re-define what "protesting" could be. Any outrageous behavior wouldn't work. That was how we defined the protest, and as more people would show up, we would help get that word out.
46 My personal vision at the time was simply this: I wanted to see thousands of people holding candles, and perhaps signs that would say things like "Peace for our children," or "No war," or even, "Voter." I wanted San Jose to be different in its approach, and so did this small group.
47 Looking back, I can see now how we were pretty naive. People started showing up who had a bit of a sinister side to them. For example, I met one guy who had one name in the afternoon and another the following morning. One protester boasted that his five-year old son could identify military planes.
48 One evening, a van pulled up with a bunch of people who hadn't even been at the war protest, and they acted like lunatics. One guy jumped out of the van and climbed up a flagpole and began waving the American flag. Those of us who had been there all along told him to get down.
49 Another guy from this white van set up a podium and began getting people worked up.
50 Several people came over and started taking pictures of many of us who had been there all along.
51 It occurred to me only too late that "peaceful protests" were probably infiltrated with phony activists. As I said, we were all pretty naive, innocents, if you will.
52 I look at Russ Baker's book, and he brings much of that stuff up. It's good knowledge.
53 As a G-pa, I don't want to see those little girls, nor do I want to see their generation having to face this stuff.
54 I'm proud of myself for never wavering with this sort of material. People don't want to read it because it is, admittedly, depressing.
55 Ignorance is more depressing.
56 Anyway, time is fleeting. I have a small window of time to research, write, edit, and then publish this stuff. And I want to get over and see those babies.
57 I'll return to my goofy self tomorrow. And fear not, I won't clobber people with this. I just thought I'd share a resource, and perhaps a personal story just to get people thinking.
58 Thanks for listening.
59 See you again.
60 Peace.
31 I won't bore you with too much more. I will, however, share some of Baker's observations.
32 Baker didn't realize the stigma that has been attached to anyone trying to tackle the JFK murder. It has always been considered unspeakable.
33 It is rarely brought up in polite conversation. Baker couldn't believe how people responded to his meticulously researched book.
34 It's time that sort of thing stopped. Listen: we have been manipulated and controlled too long now to underestimate what is happening in America, and in the world. Young people need to get off their butts and read. There aren't two sides to every issue. The people of Germany underestimated the evil of Hitler.
35 Baker believes that these insidious people can and will get scared. One or two arrests and seeing some people thrown in prison might be the ticket.
36 In the course of each school year, I taught about propaganda, and the differences between fiction and non-fiction. Over the years, I would teach my students about the JFK assassination each November, November 22, 1963 marking the date he was assassinated. Many students couldn't understand why more arrests didn't happen.
37 Some didn't understand how a murder over 50 years ago could affect what is happening today. History, to many people, is something that took place.
38 More young people today understand about the CIA's mind-control experiments in the 50's and 60's. It was called MK-Ultra, and was quite real.
39 It occurred to me only recently that MK-Ultra didn't just fizzle out. Trace the history of all the Presidents we've had since JFK, and you will find some scary connections. To a man. Or to a woman.
40 Baker recently has shaken his head that there is a possibility that we once again may have a Clinton v. Bush race.
41 A lot of these guys are in secret societies with odd handshakes, rituals, and all that good stuff.
42 These Democrats and Republicans party together. Some don't even know how to go to the supermarket, because they have people shop and cook for them. Baker points this stuff out in his lectures. He even mentions that you could find more out about people by finding out about social engagements, parties, weddings, and who hangs out with whom, than you can researching them.
43 I'm not trying to be an alarmist here. There are plenty of good, knowledgeable people out there who are on to this stuff.
44 Nor am I paranoid. I just want to see people open their eyes to this stuff. I have been at war protests. When Operation Desert Storm happened, I was one of the first to protest, and went downtown where I met a small group of people at the Federal Building. We met, chatted, and then talked about how to orchestrate the protest. I suggested that we stay quiet and hold candles; that we should let the public realize that we were normal citizens concerned about our children's future.
45 Most of that small group agreed that screaming and yelling, or burning flags, or chaining ourselves to trees wouldn't work with the public. We agreed that as more people would arrive downtown, that we could re-define what "protesting" could be. Any outrageous behavior wouldn't work. That was how we defined the protest, and as more people would show up, we would help get that word out.
46 My personal vision at the time was simply this: I wanted to see thousands of people holding candles, and perhaps signs that would say things like "Peace for our children," or "No war," or even, "Voter." I wanted San Jose to be different in its approach, and so did this small group.
47 Looking back, I can see now how we were pretty naive. People started showing up who had a bit of a sinister side to them. For example, I met one guy who had one name in the afternoon and another the following morning. One protester boasted that his five-year old son could identify military planes.
48 One evening, a van pulled up with a bunch of people who hadn't even been at the war protest, and they acted like lunatics. One guy jumped out of the van and climbed up a flagpole and began waving the American flag. Those of us who had been there all along told him to get down.
49 Another guy from this white van set up a podium and began getting people worked up.
50 Several people came over and started taking pictures of many of us who had been there all along.
51 It occurred to me only too late that "peaceful protests" were probably infiltrated with phony activists. As I said, we were all pretty naive, innocents, if you will.
52 I look at Russ Baker's book, and he brings much of that stuff up. It's good knowledge.
53 As a G-pa, I don't want to see those little girls, nor do I want to see their generation having to face this stuff.
54 I'm proud of myself for never wavering with this sort of material. People don't want to read it because it is, admittedly, depressing.
55 Ignorance is more depressing.
56 Anyway, time is fleeting. I have a small window of time to research, write, edit, and then publish this stuff. And I want to get over and see those babies.
57 I'll return to my goofy self tomorrow. And fear not, I won't clobber people with this. I just thought I'd share a resource, and perhaps a personal story just to get people thinking.
58 Thanks for listening.
59 See you again.
60 Peace.
~H~
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