Marxmanship in Dallas
Revilo P. Oliver, American
Opinion, Volume VII, No. 2, February 1964, pp. 13-28
(The unedited version of this article appears at http://www.revilo-oliver.com/rpo/Marxmanship1.html,
on Kevin Alfred Strom's web site.)
Revilo P. Oliver is Professor of Classics in the University of Illinois. During World War II, he was Director of Research in a secret agency of the War Department. He has traveled widely. Dr. Oliver is an academician of international reputation who has published scholarly articles in four languages within the pages of twelve learned periodicals in the United States and Europe.
We all know what happened in Dallas on the twenty-second of
November. It is imperative that we understand it.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a young punk who defected to the
Soviet, taking with him the operational codes of the Marine Corps and such other
secrets as a fledgling traitor had been able to steal while in military service.
He not only forfeited his American citizenship by his acts, but also officially
repudiated it under oath in the American Embassy in Moscow. He was then trained
in sabotage, terrorism, and guerilla warfare (including accurate shooting from
ambush) in the well-known school for international criminals near Minsk, and
while there he married the daughter of a colonel in the Soviet military
espionage system (and possibly also in the Secret Police).*
In 1962, after he had been trained for three years in Russia, the Communist
agent and his Communist wife were brought to the United States, in open
violation of American law, by our Communist-dominated State Department.
On his arrival in this country, Oswald took up his duties
as an agent of the Conspiracy, spying on anti-Communist Cuban refugees, serving
as an agitator for “Fair Play for Cuba,” and participating in some of the
many other forms of subversion that flourish openly in defiance of law through
the connivance of the Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy. In April of 1963, he
was sent to Dallas, where he tried to murder General Edwin Walker. The failure
does not reflect on the assassin’s professional training: General Walker
happened to turn his head at the instant the shot was fired. According to a
story that has been neither confirmed nor denied officially at the time that I
write, Oswald was arrested as a suspect, but was released through the personal
intervention of Robert F. Kennedy, and all inquiry into the attempted
assassination of a great American was halted.†
In November, Oswald was sent back to Dallas, where a job in
a suitably located building had been arranged for him. He shot the President of
the United States from ambush, left the building undetected, and would have
escaped to Mexico but for some mischance. He was stopped for questioning by a
vigilant policeman, whom he killed in a moment of panic. Arrested and
identified, he, despite his training, was so vain as to pose for photographs
while triumphantly giving the Communists’ clenched-fist salute; he asked for a
noted Communist attorney, who had been a member of the little Communist cell
that included the noted traitor, Alger Hiss; and he began to tell contradictory
stories. He was accordingly liquidated before he could make a complete
confession.
There are many other significant data, but I have stated
the essentials. They are known to you.
The fact that they are known to you should give you—if
you are an American—hope and courage. You will need both.
Obviously, something went wrong in Dallas—in our favor,
this time. The best laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft a-gley—and so do
schemes of Communists, sometimes. The identification of the murderer was a
near-miracle. If not the result of divine intervention, it was the result of a
series of coincidences of the same order as might enable a bum with a dollar in
his pocket to enter a casino in Reno and emerge with a thousand.
It is highly
significant that, after Oswald was arrested, you learned the facts. That proves
that the Communist Conspiracy’s control of the United States is not yet
complete.
I firmly believe that in our nation as a whole the
overwhelming majority of local policemen, whom we shamefully neglect and take
for granted, are brave and honorable Americans. But I know nothing of the police
in Dallas. It is quite possible that, as is usual in our large cities, they are
subject to great pressures from a corrupt municipal government. I shall not be
greatly astonished if, in the course of the Conspiracy’s frantic efforts to
confuse us with irrelevancies, it should be disclosed that pay-offs had been
made by Jakob Leon Rubenstein, alias Ruby, and other members of the underworld
that pander to human vice and folly. It is by no means impossible that
crypto-Communists have been planted in that police force. But paint the picture
as dark as you will, it remains indisputably true that, at the very least, there
were enough honest and patriotic men on that police force to bring about the
arrest of Oswald, to identify him, and to prevent both his escape and his
assassination “while trying to escape.” It required a gunman from the
outside to do the job.
It is quite true that the Communist Conspiracy, through the
management of great broadcasting systems and news agencies, through the many
criminals lodged in the Press, and through many indirect pressures (such as
allocation of advertising and harassment by bureaus of the federal government),
has a control over our channels of communication that seems to us, in our
moments of discouragement, virtually total. As was to be expected, a few moments
after the shot was fired in Dallas, the vermin, probably in obedience to general
or specific orders issued in advance of the event, began to screech out their
diseased hatred of the American people, and, long after the facts were known to
everyone, went on mechanically repeating, like defective phonograph records, the
same vicious lies about the “radical right” until fresh orders reached them
from headquarters. But the significant fact is that were enough honest American
newsmen, in the United States and abroad, to make it impossible to conceal the
Conspiracy’s connection with the bungled assassination. That is very
encouraging.
The Show And The Sorrow
All that could be done at the moment to obscure the
Communists’ mischance was to stage an elaborate spectacle with all the
technical virtuosity seen in a performance of Aida
in the Baths of Caracalla or the amphitheater at Verona, supplemented with the
cruder devices of Hollywood’s expert vulgarians. Every effort was made to
incite an orgy of bathos and irrationality. For the most part, the good sense of
the American people frustrated the efforts of the showmen. But we need to
consider the facts clearly and objectively.
There are two basic reasons why the American people were
shocked and grieved by the assassination. Neither has anything to do with either
the personal character of the victim or the identity of the assassin.
(1) The victim was the President of the United States; he
was therefore symbolically representative of the nation, and his assassination
was a form of armed attack on our country. The alarm, indignation, and sorrow
excited by such an attack should have no relation to either the private life or
the public character of the person who was President. To put the matter as
clearly as possible, the crime would have been every bit as horrible and
shocking, had it (per impossibile)
been absolutely certain that on the very next day the President would be
impeached, tried, convicted, removed from office, and executed for his own
crimes. That would be tomorrow, and would not affect today, when he is still
legally invested with the dignity of his high office.
All decent men feel instinctively that the order, the
stability, the preservation of civilized society requires that the officers whom
that society has appointed in conformity with its own constitution be inviolate
so long as they are clothed with the dignity of office, however mistaken and
unfortunate their appointment may have been. So long as the officer has not
outlawed himself by violent usurpation, any misuse of the powers legally
bestowed upon him indicates either a defect in the constitution (which may grant
excessive powers or provide inadequate checks) or the fatuity of citizens who
tolerate abuses for which constitutional remedies are available. In either case,
the abuse is primarily evidence that the society must learn to correct legally.
And if the society cannot learn from experience, there is no hope for it anyway.
(2) Regardless of office, political violence is always
shocking and a warning of impending collapse. The Roman Republic was doomed as
soon as it became clear that the wealthy and high-born renegade, Clodius, could
send his gangsters into the streets with impunity; when the decent people of
Rome tried to protect themselves by hiring gangsters of their own under Milo,
that was not an answer: It was a confession of defeat. The assassination of
Kennedy, quite apart from consideration of the office that he held, was an act
of violence both deplorable and ominous—as ominous as the violence excited by
the infamous Martin Luther King and other criminals engaged in inciting race war
with the approval and even, it is said, the active co-operation of the White
House. It was as deplorable and ominous as the violence of the uniformed goons
(protected by reluctant and ashamed soldiers) whom Kennedy, in open violation of
the American Constitution, sent into Oxford, Mississippi, to kick into
submission American citizens, whom the late Mr. Kennedy had come to regard as
his subjects.
Such lawlessness, regardless of the identity of the
perpetrators or their professed motives, is as alarming as the outbreak of a
fire in a house; and if not speedily extinguished, will destroy the whole social
order. That is a fact that all conservatives know, for it is they who read the
lessons of human history and understand how hard it is to build and how easy it
is to destroy—how perishable and precious are the moral restraints and the
habitual observance of them by which civilization shelters itself from the feral
barbarism that is latent in all peoples. That is the very fact that “Liberal
intellectuals” try to conceal with the contorted sophistries that they are
perpetually devising to justify as “social good” or “progress” the
murders and massacres that secretly fascinate and excite them. That is why
conservatives try to conserve what “Liberals” seek to destroy.
The foregoing are two good and sufficient reasons why
Americans were shocked and grieved by the assassination in Dallas. Let them
suffice us. It is imperative that we do not permit ourselves to be confused at
this critical time by a twisted proverb and residual superstition.
Taboo
The maxim, de mortuis
nil nisi bonum, has long been a favorite dictum
of Anglo-Saxons (for some reason, it is seldom cited on the continent of
Europe). Reference books usually attribute it to one of the Seven Sages, Chilo,
who lived in the early part of the Sixth Century B.C.; but that is a mistake. In
his precepts for prudent conduct, roughly similar to Benjamin Franklin’s,
Chilo urges us not to malign the dead
(ton technekota me kakologeỉn). He was interested in our own
integrity, not the comfort or reputation of the deceased, and the precept is on
a par with his advice that we should not utter idle threats in a quarrel because
that is womanish.
Whatever the source of the phrase so glibly quoted these
days, the notion that one should speak only good of the departed is compounded
of various sentiments. It undoubtedly had its origin in man’s deep-seated and
primitive fear of the dead—a fear lest the Manes may somehow hear what we say
and, if angered, use their mysterious powers to work harm upon us. That residual
awe is supplemented by our infinite pity for the dead, and our hope that after
life’s fitful fever they sleep well. Pity is reinforced by the strong impulse
toward generosity and kindness that, although biologically inexplicable, is
found in all decent men. And that kindness is directed in part toward the
living, for even the most odious and despicable beings may be survived by
someone who grieves for them. Even Nero had one concubine who loved him. Acte
wept for him and saw to it that his body was decently buried. And we honor her
for it.
The dictum has become a fixed convention. We all know the
story of the old men in a rural community who attend the funeral of one of their
contemporaries. Having known the old reprobate all his life, they stand silently
in a circle, tongue-tied, uneasily shuffling their feet, eyeing one another and
searching their memories, until one is at last able to say, “Well, when Jake
was a boy, he was mighty nigh the best speller in the sixth grade.”
As an expression of courtesy and personal kindness, the
dictum is unexceptionable. In politics and history it is utter nonsense—and
everyone knows that it is. Were the dictum taken seriously, history would be
impossible, for no page of it can be written without recording the follies and
the crimes of the dead. Not even the sentimental innocents who now, under expert
stimulation, weep over the “martyred President” believe in the dictum de
mortuis—at least, I have yet to hear one of them utter a lament for Adolf
Hitler, although Adolf is certainly as defunct as Jack and therefore presumably
as much entitled to post-mortem consideration.
Taboos are for barbarians, who indulge in tribal howling
and gashing of cheeks and breast whenever a big chief dies or an eclipse
portends the end of the world. We are a civilized race.
In memoriam aeternam
Rational men will understand that, far from sobbing over
the deceased or lying to placate his vengeful ghost, it behooves us to speak of
him with complete candor and historical objectivity. Jack was not sanctified by
a bullet.
The departed Kennedy is the John F. Kennedy who procured
his election by peddling boob-bait to the suckers, including a cynical pledge to
destroy the Communist base in Cuba. He is the John F. Kennedy with whose
blessing and support the Central Intelligence Agency staged a fake
“invasion” of Cuba designed to strengthen our mortal enemies there and to
disgrace us—disgrace us not merely by ignominious failure, but by the inhuman
crime of having lured brave men into a trap and sent them to suffering and
death. He is the John F. Kennedy who, in close collaboration with Khrushchev,
staged the phoney “embargo” that was improvised both to befuddle the suckers
on election day in 1962 and to provide for several months a cover for the steady
and rapid transfer of Soviet troops and Soviet weapons to Cuba for eventual use
against us. He is the John F. Kennedy who installed and maintained in power the
unspeakable Yarmolinsky-McNamara gang in the Pentagon to demoralize and subvert
our armed forces and to sabotage our military installations and equipment. He is
the John F. Kennedy who, by shameless intimidation, induced weaklings in
Congress to approve treasonable acts designed to disarm us and to make us the
helpless prey of the affiliated criminals and savages of the “United
Nations.”
I have mentioned but a few of the hundred reasons why we
shall never forget John F. Kennedy. So long as there are Americans, his memory
will be cherished with distaste. If the United States is saved by the desperate
exertions of patriots, we may have a future of true greatness and glory—but we
shall never forget how near we were to total destruction in the year 1963. And
if the international vermin succeed in completing their occupation of our
country, Americans will remember Kennedy while they live, and will curse him as
they face the firing squads or toil in a brutish degradation that leaves no hope
for anything but a speedy death.
Three Explanations
Why was Kennedy murdered by the young Bolshevik? With a
little imagination, it is easy to excogitate numerous explanations that are not
absolutely impossible: (a) Oswald was a “madman” who acted all alone just to
get his name in the papers; (b) Oswald was a poor shot who was really trying to
kill Governor Connally or Mrs. Kennedy and hit the President by mistake; (c) the
person killed was not Kennedy but a double, and the real Kennedy is now a guest
aboard a “flying saucer” on which he is heroically negotiating with Martians
or Saturnians to Save the World. With a little time and a fairly wide reading in
romantic fiction, anyone can think of sixty or seventy fantasies as good or
better than those that I have mentioned.
On the evidence, however, and with consideration of human
probabilities, there are only three explanations that are not preposterous,
viz.:
(1) That Kennedy was executed by the Communist Conspiracy
because he was planning to turn American. For this comforting hypothesis there
is no evidence now known. Every since January, 1961, some hopeful Americans have
maintained that Jack was a conservative at heart, that he deliberately packed
his administration with Schlesingers, Rostows, and Yarmolinskys so that these
would bring our nation so near to disaster that even the stupidest
“Liberal,” not in the employ of the Conspiracy, could not overlook the
obvious, and when an unmistakable crisis at last made it politically feasible,
Kennedy would carry out a sudden and dramatic volte-face,
sweep the scum out of Washington, and rally the forces of the great majority of
loyal and patriotic Americans.
I wish I could believe that. It is true that the late
Senator McCarthy praised the young Kennedy, but although the Senator was a great
American whose memory we must all revere, he was not preternaturally gifted: He
could have been either deceived by a smooth-talking hypocrite (as have been
greater men than he in the past) or mistaken in his estimate of a person who,
although then sincere in his allegiance to what then seemed to be the winning
side, later thought it expedient to change sides. It is also true that Kennedy
said some fine things in speeches delivered just before his death, but those
statements did not significantly differ from the pro-American flourishes
normally used as seasoning in the boob-bait manufactured by Salinger’s
technicians during the past three years.
If Kennedy did entertain laudable designs, he cannot have
kept them entirely in petto; he must
have disclosed them to a few persons, perhaps including his father, in whom he
had confidence. And if he did, the time for those persons to give evidence is
now, while there is still a chance to clear the reputation of the deceased.
(2) That the assassination was the result of one of the
rifts that infrequently occur within the management of the Communist Conspiracy,
whose satraps sometimes liquidate one another without defecting from the
Conspiracy, just as Persian satraps, such as Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus, made
war on one another without revolting or intending to revolt against the King of
Kings.
Now it was generally suspected for some time before the
assassination that Khrushchev and Kennedy were planning to stage another show to
bamboozle the American suckers just before the election next November. According
to this plan, a fake “revolt” against Castro would be enacted by the
Communist second team, which has long been kept in reserve for such an
eventuality. (Cf. American Opinion, March, 1962, p. 33.) The “democratic
revolution” was to be headed by a Communist agent who differed from Fidel only
in being less hairy and less well known to Americans, so that the New York Times, the State Department, the Central Intelligence
Agency, and our other domestic enemies could swear once again that the vicious
criminal was an “agrarian reformer,” an “anti-Communist,” and the
“George Washington of Cuba.” (It is confidently believed in conspiratorial
circles that the dumb brutes in the United States will never learn—until it is
much too late.)
What is not certain is the script for the third act of the
comedy. Most (but not all) informed observers believe that this performance in
Cuba was to accomplish two things: (a) the reelection of Kennedy and most of his
stooges in Congress, which would, of course, be impossible without some
seasonably contrived and major “crisis”; and (b) the endlessly repeated and
trite device of making the tax-paying serfs in the United States, who have
financed every important Communist conquest since 1917, work to provision and
fortify another conquest under the pretext that by so doing they in some
mysterious way “fight Communism.”
Now, if those observers are correct in their projections,
the scenario called for the “success” of the “democratic revolution.”
And that would involve, if the play was to be convincing, the liquidation of
Fidel and a few of his more notorious accomplices. And that, as is well known to
everyone who has made even the slightest study of Communism, would be merely
commonplace and normal.
The rabid rats of Bolshevism devour one another—and no
one knows that better than the rats themselves. Almost all of the Conspiracy’s
most famous murderers—Trotsky, Zinoviev (Apfelbaum), Kirov (Kostrikov),
Kamenev (Rosenfeld), Yezhov, Beria, and a hundred others, possibly including
Stalin—were murdered by their insatiably blood-thirsty confederates. Indeed,
it is a general rule that only accident or disease can save a Communist
“leader” from assassination or execution by other Communists as soon as his
usefulness to the Conspiracy is ended or his liquidation will provide an
opportunity for useful propaganda.
Cornered rats will fight for their lives. Castro, of
course, knew of the planned “revolution,” and if the dénouement was
correctly foreseen by American observers, he also knew that, whatever solemn
pledges may have been given him by his superiors, he would not survive. It is
possible, therefore, that Fidel arranged the assassination of Jack in the hope
of averting, or at least postponing, his own. Now that Oswald is silenced and
superiors who gave him his orders are unidentified, it may never be possible
completely to disprove that hypothesis, although there are a number of
considerations that weigh against it.
We should note, also, that a few American observers
believed that the Communist scenario had a different third act. According to
their forecast, the Communist second team was to stage an indecisive
“revolt” against the first team. Jack, pretending to carry out after four
years the pledge that he made to get himself elected, would commit the United
States to support the second team. At the scheduled moment on the eve of
elections Nick would “intervene” and yell about a “nuclear holocaust,”
thus producing a “crisis” which would call for a “bipartisan”
cancellation of the election. The gang in the Pentagon, hypocritically wringing
its greasy hands, would claim that we were even weaker then its concerted
sabotage of our defenses had in fact made us by that time. That would suffice to
set craven “intellectuals” and neurotic females to running through our
streets howling for “peace” and the “United Nations.” After much
tension, a great “statesmanlike solution” would be found: surrender of our
sovereignty and weapons to an “international” body, with the Russians
agreeing to do likewise. Then the savages in the “international police
force” would move in, and long-awaited butchery of the American boobs would
get under way.
Those who make this prognosis support it by pointing out
that the Conspiracy has already fallen far behind its schedule for the United
States, and that the slow but ever increasing awakening of the American people
from their hypnotic lethargy makes it necessary for the Conspiracy to adopt
drastic and precipitate measures now, if it is not to fail utterly. If those
observers are right, then interference by Castro is excluded, for the plan
itself would guarantee his safety until the United States had been abolished.
(3) That the Conspiracy ordered the assassination as part
of systematic preparation for a domestic take-over. If so, the plan, of course,
was to place the blame on “right-wing extremists” (if I may use the
Bolsheviks’ code-word for informed and loyal Americans), and “clues” had
been planted to lead or point in that direction as soon as Oswald was safe in
Mexico. These preparations were rendered useless when Oswald was, through some
mischance, arrested—probably in consequence of some slip-up of which we as yet
know nothing. He may, for example, have missed connections with some agent of
the Conspiracy who was to transport him to the airport, and it may be
significant that, when observed on the street, he was walking directly toward
the apartment of the Jakob Rubenstein (alias Jack Ruby) who later silenced him.
Two objections to this explanation are commonly raised, but
neither is cogent.
The first is the assumption that, if the International
Conspiracy had planned the assassination, there would have been no slip-up. That
is absurd. The degenerates are not Supermen. Their agents make blunders all the
time—blunders that could destroy whole segments of the apparatus, if the
conspiracy did not have so many criminals planted in communications and politics
to cover up the blunders and to paralyze the normal reactions of a healthy
society. It would take pages even to list the mistakes that the Conspiracy’s
agents, including their branch manager, Castro, have made in the course of the
Cuban operation. For that matter, a potentially serious and quite unnecessary
mistake was made when the Communist Party’s official
publication, The Worker, yelled for
the appointment of Earl Warren to “investigate” the assassination before
the appointment was made—or at least, before the appointment was disclosed to
the public. Nothing was gained by that mistake in timing, which serves only to
give away the whole show.
The second argument is that the Conspiracy could not have
wanted to eliminate Kennedy, who was doing so much for it. But that is a
miscalculation. For one thing, the job was not being done on schedule. A few
measures had been forced through Congress, but not, for example, what is called
“Civil Rights,” a very vital part of the vermin’s preparations for the
final take-over. Virtually nothing was done to speed up national bankruptcy and
the total economic collapse that is doubtless scheduled to accompany the
subjugation of the American people. The Congress was, on the whole, the most
American Congress that we have had for many years, and it blocked the measures
most cunningly designed to destroy the nation. It was not the fault of any one
man, to be sure, but the record for 1963 was, for all practical purposes, a
stalemate. Our “Liberals,” always impatient for open dictatorship and
terrorism, were beginning to feel frustrated; some of them were screeching in
our more prominent daily, weekly, and monthly liepapers about the
“standpatism” of Congress and hinting that that nasty relic of the
Constitution must be abolished in the interests of “effective democracy.”
Others were beginning to lose confidence.
That is what the Conspiracy cannot afford. It is already
sadly behind schedule. Of course, its secret plans, like the identity of its
master strategists, are undisclosed, but at the end of 1958 some competent
observers, after the most careful and painstaking study of all available
indications, concluded that 1963 was the year scheduled for the effective
capture of the United States. And those analysts—without exception, so far as
I know—still believe that they were right; they believe that the Communist
schedule was retarded and partly disrupted by the awakening of the American
people and their growing awareness of the Communist Conspiracy and its designs.
It is known from past operations that the Conspiracy’s plans always call for
constantly accelerated subversion in the final phase of a conquest, and so even
a stalemate is, from the standpoint of our enemies, an alarming tactical
failure. They cannot afford many more without suffering total defeat.
The Conspiracy, we must remember, does not have the
resilience of a nation at war, which, unless thoroughly rotted, can rely on the
powerful cohesive force of patriotism. To be sure, a frenzied hatred of mankind
and human civilization is an even more powerful cohesive force among the born
Bolsheviks who direct and manage the Conspiracy, and it is has been able to
excite race hatred among certain “minorities” and so acquire some fanatical
shock-troops; but for a very large part of the work of subversion it must rely
on low-grade criminals, opportunistic collaborators, and stupid employees. And
its power of discipline over those groups largely depends on their complete
confidence that the Conspiracy’s triumph is inevitable.
Careful observers were aware of the feeling of crisis in
conspiratorial circles before the assassination. In June of 1963, an experienced
American military man made a careful analysis of the situation at that time, and
in his highly confidential report concluded, on the basis of indications in
Communist and crypto-Communist sources, that the Conspiracy’s schedule called
for a major incident to create national shock before
Thanksgiving. Taylor Caldwell, who combines feminine sensitivity with
artistic perception, sensed in the tone of Communist and “Liberal”
publications a direction that made the assassination of Kennedy “very
probable”—and she said so in an explicit warning published on October
thirty-first and written about a week earlier. Other observers, who saw that
Communist plans called for some sensational act of violence in the United States
naturally considered the assassination of Kennedy (possibly in a crash of his
airplane so arranged as to show unmistakable sabotage) as one of the expedients
that the Conspiracy might adopt, although they did not, so far as I know, regard
it as the most likely at the present
juncture.
But, aside from the Conspiracy’s obvious need for some
drastic means of checking the growth of American patriotism, there is the
consideration that Kennedy was rapidly becoming a political liability. Despite
the best efforts of the lie-machines, it was clear that his popularity was
diminishing so rapidly that some observers doubted whether even the most
cunningly contrived and timed “crisis” could procure his re-election. His
conduct was exciting ever-increasing disgust even among the credulous; and what
was worse, the vast cesspool in Washington was beginning to leak badly.
The bandits of the New Frontier, of whom Billie Sol Estes
was but a puny specimen, had operated a little too openly. It had not been
possible entirely to conceal the theft of wheat worth $32 million in a single
raid or the probable “disappearance” of another $109 million in the same
way. It had not been possible completely to suppress the TFX scandal, which
would incense the entire nation if it were really exposed; it had not been
possible to prevent the public from finding out something
about little Bobby Baker; and a hundred other boils of corruption (including, it
is rumored, some murders thus far successfully disguised as “accidental
deaths”) are ready to burst at the slightest pressure. Only the most desperate
exertions, involving the personal
intervention of two of the most prominent members of the Administration have
kept the lid—precariously and temporarily—on the modernized badger game that
is operated (at the taxpayers’ expense and partly on government property) to
entrap and subject to blackmail members of Congress not responsive to bribery
and other routine pressures from the Administration. There are rumors that an
even more filthy scandal, involving both sadistic sexual perversions and the use
of government powers for the importation and distribution of hallucinatory
narcotics, is simmering dangerously near to the surface. I am told that
documentary evidence of secret shipments of secret munitions of war to the
Soviet by the Administration in treasonable defiance of law is available in a
place in which it is secure from both burglary and bribery. Even so minor a
matter as the recent exposure of “scientists” in the employ of the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare as having forged spectrographic data
for use in a smear-job on an American physician disquieted some theretofore
complacent and somnolent citizens. For aught I know to the contrary, the
assassination of Kennedy may have been necessary as the only
means of avoiding, or even long deferring, national scandals so flagrant as to
shock the whole of our brainwashed and hypnotized populace back to sanity.
In summary, then there is not a single indication that the
Conspiracy did not plan and carry out the assassination of Kennedy. On the other
hand, there is evidence which very strongly suggests that it did.
First of all, there is the suspicious celerity with which
the broadcasting agency sardonically called Voice of America, Tass in Moscow,
Earl Warren, and many publicists and politicians noted for their services to the
Conspiracy in the past, began to screech that the murder was the work of
“right-wing extremists” almost as soon as the shot was fired. One is
justified in asking whether the leaders of this chorus went into action as soon
as they received news that they were
expecting. Or, if they did not know the precise moment, were they not
prepared in advance for news of that kind? Is it conceivable that the same story
would have occurred independently to so many different persons, however intense
their hatred of the American people, or that they would have dared to announce as fact a malicious conjecture, if they had no assurance that their
statements would be confirmed by “evidence” to be discovered subsequently?
Not even the most addle-pated emulator of Sherlock Holmes would pretend to
identify a murderer without a single clue. But the screechers went much farther
than that: What they said was the precise opposite
of what was suggested by the first indications available (the arrest of a Negro,
reported on the radio while the Presidential automobile was starting for the
hospital)—an indication which, although it later proved to be wrong, no
prudent person could have disregarded at the time, unless he had assurance, from
some source that he trusted, that contrary indications would soon be produced.
Persons whose business it is to tamper with the news are
naturally accustomed to lying, but even they do not lightly take the risk of
being caught promptly in a particularly improbable and offensive lie. The case
of Earl Warren is even more puzzling. No one would suspect him of concern for
truth, but surely the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court must be shrewd enough
not to make allegations without some reason to believe that he will be able to
produce some shreds of “evidence” to support them.
It seems that preparations had been made for rioting and
murder throughout the country. Americans known to be opponents of the
Conspiracy, including General Walker, prominent members of the John Birch
Society, and leaders of other conservative organizations, began to receive
threats of death by telephone from creatures who somehow knew that Kennedy was
dead before he reached the hospital.
In many communities, mobs composed of the dregs of humanity and openly proposing
to burn the homes and murder the families of known conservatives, began to form
in the evening, as though in obedience to orders that had not been countermanded
to all sectors. I do not suggest that the local vermin were entrusted with a
fore-knowledge of precisely what was to happen in Dallas, but it seems very
likely that they had been prepared to respond to a signal and told what to do
when the signal came.
It is easy to see what could have happened, had everything
gone smoothly in Dallas. There could have been a complete break-down of law and
order everywhere. The numerous vermin that have been living for years in
ill-concealed anticipation of the glorious day when they will be able to hack
Americans to pieces and drag bodies through the streets, could have
“spontaneously” started looting, burning, and murdering. In many places they
could have mustered strength beyond the control of the police, and even if
checked and arrested, they could have claimed, like Rubenstein, that they had
been “crazed” by “sorrow” for martyred Jack, and, of course, unlimited
funds would have been available for legal defense. What is more, the great nest
of traitors in Washington could have begun a pseudo-legal reign of terror, for
which the infamous “Sedition Trial” in Washington in 1944 was obviously a
small-scale and premature pilot-study. In an atmosphere of hysteria, maintained
by the anti-American television, radio, and Press, all the leading American
patriots could have been dragged in chains to Washington. The “Federal
Marshals,” fresh from Alcatraz and the like, whom the juvenile Czar had used
for his invasion of Mississippi, could have been counted on to beat some of them
to death or murder them while “trying to escape.” The sadists whom we have
imported as “mental health experts” could have tortured others into fake
“confessions” or have destroyed their minds with drugs. There could have
been a national Saturnalia of legalized
violence under cover of which the International Conspiracy could have gained
control of the whole nation that could not subsequently have been broken.
You, who read these lines, may owe your life or at least
your liberty to the vigilance and sagacity of Officer J.D. Tippit, the policeman
who stopped Oswald on the street and was murdered by the Conspiracy’s
well-trained but not infallible agent.
There is other evidence, including definite indications
that certain persons, whom observers have long regarded as members or at least
auxiliaries of the Conspiracy, knew days in advance that something
was going to happen to Kennedy in Dallas. But when one considers the enormous
gains that the Conspiracy would have reaped from the assassination, had it been
carried out without mishap, and when one remembers that the Conspiracy had an
urgent and even desperate need of precisely such an event, one cannot avoid the
conclusion that the weight of probability lies overwhelmingly on the side of the
view that the murder was arranged by the Conspiracy as a strategic operation.
Be Ye Not Comforted
Many Americans, while giving thanks for their deliverance,
strangely assume that the Communists’ mishap in Dallas will give us a respite
from danger of at least several months. On the contrary, the danger is greater
than ever, for the partial failure merely augments the criminals’ need for
some signal victory over Americans to preserve enthusiasm in their own ranks. As
I write, shortly before Christmas, it does not seem that that victory can be
attained before the New Year, but we may be sure that every effort will be made
to attain it as soon as possible thereafter.
The first expedient was primarily defensive. In a hasty and
thus far successful attempt to thwart an investigation by legally constituted
authorities, i.e., the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security and the Attorney
General of the State of Texas, both of whom had already announced their
determination to conduct an impartial inquiry, an illegal and un-Constitutional
“special commission” was improvised with the obvious hope that it could be
turned into a soviet-style kangaroo court. The best-known members of this packed
“commission” are:
(1) Earl Warren, so notorious as the chief of the
quasi-judicial gang engaged in subverting the Constitution of the United States
that many thousands of the finest and most prominent American citizens have for
two years been demanding with increasing insistence his impeachment and trial. A
favorite subject of speculation and debate among some informed observers is
whether Warren, if brought to trial, would try to dodge behind the Fifth
Amendment or would take it on the lam and disappear behind the Iron Curtain.
Warren, who spends his vacations with Little Comrade Tito in Yugoslavia or with
Big Comrade Khrushchev in the Crimea, began to traduce and defame loyal and
informed Americans minutes after the murder in Dallas; and it is easy to see why
the Communist Party, through some indiscretion or mis-timing, officially
nominated him as head of the “special commission” two days before his
appointment was announced in Washington.
(2) T. Hale Boggs, the loud-mouthed agitator who disgraces
the State of Louisiana in Congress. The
Councilor has reproduced a press photograph which shows young Boggs in the
act of giving the Communist clenched-fist salute while he was head of the
Communist-front “American Student Union” in Tulane University, ridiculing
our Army, and urging young men not to fight for their country. The same
publication reports that it has indisputable evidence that Boggs “served three
years before entering Congress” as chairman of a Communist-front “Peace
Drive,” and reports that he is a member of the “Interparliamentary Union,”
a sinister gang which meets annually in some city abroad to plot the liquidation
of the United States. As promptly as Warren, Boggs began to yell that the
“right-wing” (as he and his kind call Americans who don’t want to be
liquidated) was guilty of having shot Mister Jack.
(3) Allen W. Dulles, one of the founders of the malodorous
Council on Foreign Relations and currently its Director. Dulles was the head of
an American spy ring in Switzerland during the Second World War and is said to
have done a fairly good job, although it was believed at the time that this
organization was infested with double agents who were really in the employ of
the Soviet—and even more serious implications can be drawn from the testimony
given in Karlsruhe last July by Heinz Felfe, a Soviet agent who had been Mr.
Dulles’ German counterpart and supposed competitor in Switzerland.
Our Central Intelligence Agency, although it was infected
from the very beginning by the incorporation of scum from the notorious O.S.S.,
was still an American agency while it was under the command of Admiral
Hillenkoetter. Under Mr. Dulles it was transformed into the bizarre gang of
seventeen thousand or more secret and faceless agents, some of them expert
assassins so recently imported into the United States that they cannot speak
good
English. Mr. Dulles’ C.I.A. is also the gang that helped Castro attain power
in Cuba, recently carried out (in close cooperation with the Soviet Secret
Police) the murders in South Vietnam as a prelude to complete and open Communist
occupation, and is known to have served the Soviet in many other ways, while, so
far as is known, it has never done anything at all for the United States, whose
taxpayers provide the gang with unlimited funds. Some perhaps frenetic observers
believe—based upon this and other “coincidences”—that the C.I.A. is now
the major branch of the Soviet Secret Police in the United States.
It was to Mr. Dulles personally that the late Bang-Jensen
trustingly confided evidence that very important members of the C.I.A. were
officers in the Soviet Secret Police, and Mr. Dulles did nothing at all about
it—unless, indeed, it was the C.I.A. that murdered Bang-Jensen to prevent him
from ever giving testimony.
One writer has recently suggested that it was the C.I.A.
that arranged the assassination of Kennedy; I know of no evidence to support
that opinion, but obviously Mr. Dulles’ creation is open to suspicion. Perhaps
that is why he is a member of the “special commission.”
(4) John J. McCloy, of the Council On Foreign Relations,
the Ford Foundation, the World Brotherhood, and other mysteriously powerful
organizations whose un-American or anti-American activities should have been
investigated by Congress long ago. McCloy is reputed to be the principal author
of the present plan to disarm the United States and prepare it for occupation by
Soviet troops and associated savages of the “United Nations,” which he, as
an assistant of Alger Hiss, helped to design and foist on the American people.
Well, these four form a majority of the “fact-finding
commission” and their records offer a guarantee of the kind of “facts”
they will find or devise. Two of the other members are self-styled
“Liberals” of little political experience, and it is obviously idle to
speculate concerning what Senator Russell may be able to do alone in such
company.
It should be noted that the very creation of this
Soviet-style “commission” in violation of our Constitution and for the
express purpose of superseding legal and constitutional procedures represents in
itself a victory for which the Communists have been willing to pay almost any
price, since it accelerates the disintegration of legality and accustoms
Americans to dictatorial acts that subvert the authority of Congress.
The functions of a “commission” so constituted are
obvious. It will:
(1) Cover up for the Communist Conspiracy as much as
possible by claiming that Comrade Oswald was a poor, lone critter who done it
all alone. Probably “psychiatrists” will be produced to prove that he done
it ’cause, at the age of six months, he had to wait an extra five minutes for
his bottle. That will establish the need for more Welfare and Civil Rights.
(2) Suppress permanently the report of the F.B.I, which has
already acted to conceal from the American people, and, if permanent suppression
proves impossible, to have the report watered down or at least kept secret until
a “crisis” can be arranged that will make its publication pass almost
unnoticed.
(3) Smother and suppress the evidence of close contacts
between Oswald and Rubenstein in both Waco and Dallas during the period
immediately preceding the assassination of Kennedy, and other evidence
connecting both of them with mysteriously prosperous persons of unknown
antecedents in the vicinity of New York City. Every effort will be made to
conceal Rubenstein’s connections with Communist Cuba, including such items as
a clandestine visit to Havana about a year ago, when he stayed with a long-time
and close associate of Castro’s named Praskin, who operates as a cover for his
other activities, a “novelty store” on the Prado opposite the Seville Hotel.*
It may even be possible to prevent the public from learning definitely whether
or not the “Jack” Rubenstein who executed Oswald is the person of the same
name who has a published record of Communist associations and activities in this
country going back for many years.
(4) Harass the Dallas police as much as possible. This will
convey to police forces everywhere an understanding of the inadvisability of
interfering with Communists engaged in the discharge of their duties. I doubt
that the “commission” will go farther than this, although I confess that I
am disturbed by the persistence with which the “Liberal” columnists around
the world, from France to Australia, insist that poor Oswald, an innocent little
Communist, was “framed” by the “Fascist” police of Dallas.
(5) Try to smear and intimidate loyal Americans in every
way possible. Much can be accomplished in this direction if the Congress can be
pressured into voting un-Constitutional powers of subpoena to an
un-Constitutional “commission” dominated by persons who should themselves be
on trial for their efforts to subvert and destroy the Constitution. Since no
American cow is wealthy after having been milked by the Income-Tax collectors,
and since the majority of conspicuously loyal Americans are persons of very
modest means, just one item, the cost of employing attorneys, could give the
gang the power to inhibit and even paralyze most of the opposition to treason in
the crucial year of 1964. It is possible, of course, that the “commission”
may simply assume such powers. If so, Congress will probably object; but, if it
should be necessary, the august Chief Justice could dash over to the Supreme
Court Building, put on his black robe, and rule that Congress, like God, is
un-Constitutional. It’s just a ten-minute trip by cab.
(6) To go as much further as may be feasible. It is
reported in the Press that the “commission” has requested the power to
“extort” testimony from “unwilling witnesses.” At the time at which I
write, it seems unlikely that any such un-Constitutional power will be
un-Constitutionally granted. Of course, the original plan, to have been carried
out eventually, if everything went
according to schedule in Dallas, called for nice, rubber-lined torture chambers
(such as you may glimpse in that excellent film, My
Latvia) in which the hated Americans could be scientifically tortured into
“confession,” and the remains of those who proved “uncooperative” could
be efficiently washed down the drains.
(7) To create propaganda for other Communist projects to
facilitate the final conquest of the United States. A number are likely, but the
most obvious is the one that was contemplated when Comrade Oswald was careful to
provide evidence that the rifle used in the assassination had been purchased by
mail. It is eminently desirable that firearms now in the possession of Americans
be confiscated, partly to convince the Conspiracy’s serfs how helpless they
are, and especially to reduce the occupational hazards to the Balubas, Outer
Mongolians, or other beasts who may form the “international police force”
that is to occupy the United States and butcher its white inhabitants.
(8) To co-operate when the Conspiracy arranges for further
violence. We may be sure that such will occur at the earliest feasible moment,
and that every precaution will be taken to avoid a slip-up such as occurred in
Dallas. It is impossible to predict at this moment when such an incident will
occur or what form it will take—except, of course, that the blame will fall on
“right-wing extremists.” The assassination of other high government
officials is an obvious possibility—perhaps too obvious, despite the sudden
yapping of “Liberals” that something must be done quick to prevent the
succession of John McCormack, as now provided by law. (Newsweek,
the weekly liepaper published by
the Washington Post, had the
effrontery to state the cause for alarm: McCormack is suspected of
“anti-Communism”!) The Conspiracy, however, might go so far as to arrange
the assassination of some Justice: That could, perhaps, be made to seem
plausible after the Warren Court has maltreated a number of Americans in its
latest usurpation of un-Constitutional powers, and it is, further more, the only
sure way of preventing an impeachment
and trial by Congress.
But another assassination would seem a bit monotonous,
unless preceded by several other incidents of a different pattern. A hundred
varieties of incidents are possible, such as first-class race riots, an
“accidental” nuclear explosion to pep up agitation for “disarmament,”
or a well planned series of almost
convincing suicides of American “rightists.” A properly timed “crisis”
in Latin America, preferably near to our borders, would be a suitable intermezzo
during the performance, We cannot not predict precisely what arrangements the
unknown Directorate of the Conspiracy will deem most expedient, for it is likely
that their choice of both time and events will be made after they have seen how
much advantage they will have been able to extract from the Kennedy
assassination.
One thing is certain, however: The bungle in Dallas, far
from justifying the slightest relaxation, should summon us to the utmost
vigilance. It should warn us that we have come to the year of decision, and that
only our most devoted and united efforts can prevail against a gang of
international murderers rendered desperate by the awareness that their time is
running out. (End of Part One.)
* If you missed the detail about Mrs. Oswald’s father, see the Congressional Record for December 4, page 22215.
† Reprinted in The Councilor (228 Oil & Gas Bldg., Shreveport, La.), December 20, 1963.
* I understand that a full report on this and other known activities of Rubenstein will probably appear in a future issue of The Herald of Freedom (Box 333, Staten Island 1, N.Y.).