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Published: Oct 12, 2016
Author: ghostdogtxn
Post Date: 2016-10-12 14:34:01 by ghostdogtxn
Keywords: war, debt, surveillance
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#1. To: ghostdogtxn (#0)
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Perfect sit-rep, thanks. And forwarded to the campaign. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
here here. well said.
______________________________________ Suspect all media / resist bad propaganda/Learn NLP everyday everyway ;) If you don't control your mind someone else will.
Perfect!
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Good rant.
#2. To: ghostdogtxn (#0)
#3. To: ghostdogtxn (#0)
#4. To: ghostdogtxn, *Post Of The Day* (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: ghostdogtxn (#0)
Unless more people become aware of all that, we are screwed.
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination
#6. To: ghostdogtxn (#0)
Well Said Dog ! If only we had a media source that reported the truth , instead of the scripted HorseShit that spews over the waves all day and of course the Sheep lap that shit up like it's the gospel. I believe that Trump is going into the next debatewith a flame thrower mentality & is going to do his damnedest to expose that lying bitch Hillary. Lets hope he get help on his talking points and his technique and lose that dam sniff sniff thing he seems to have to do - maybe he should go with a wireless receiver to keep him on point , it's obvious that the lying bitch is using one
#7. To: ghostdogtxn (#0)
Well I do give a shit about the way Trump talks about women. I want a gentleman running this country not another Bill Clinton. And I don't want Hillary either. Therefore, I am not putting in my vote for either of these game show clowns. Put those two out in a ring with mud in it and just let them go at each other slinging mud at each other like a pair of rabid animals. Both of them disgust me.
#8. To: purplerose (#7)
I do believe that every politicians sold their soul somewhere down the line so the romance idealism of a gentleman running the country is akin to admitting on the scientifically point on view that Unicorn, the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, The easter Bunny, leprechaun... do actually exist as real entities. Did I like what he said, hell NO, not from a women point of view but as a realist, this is how boys are and will be, what he said in public is no different of what is said in a frat house and when it comes to sex for a man, there is no age or scale table as to what is acceptable at what age. Is Trump the ideal candidate for the US, I still ponder that question but from what i've observed from the beginning is that Trump is not a team player, mot part of all the shenanigans that is happening in the WH, congress/senate, there is no rub my back and i'll rub yours to stay in power, to keep the comfy perks that those rats are accustom to either asses or olifants (dems or reps). Being stuck with a prime here in Canada who obsesses with selfies and want to populate Canada with everything under the sun but core canadians in order to get more votes in the near future, same goes for the liberal party of Quebec, we are left here pondering why should we accommodate others over ours and forget out culture and traditions to soothe newcomers. If any of us say any thing against this policy, we are labeled racists or worse, the new anti semite buzz word islam style. I envy you to have someone who is willing to stand, to see this, to denounce it publicly and by god, to seem earnestly willing to do something about it if not stop it to a screeching halt. You have a priceless tool in your hand right now and I pray to god you use it. I am Truly thrilled that Trump is willing to scrap Nafta because this shit has not been too kind to either the US and Canada. I am thrilled to see someone who is not afraid to treat islam as a religion and not a race, I am thrilled to see someone who is willing to practice an isolationism policy instead of poking the russian bear. In a far distant dream, I do hope the Clintons will get EVERYTHING that is coming to them, indictments, rape charges, collusion, money laundering through a foundation.....That will not happen if the Clintons take the white house again, same shit, different gender. On my end, if Trump comes in, it might help Trudeau grow a brain cell or 2 and snap out of his celebrity ruling over this country, go to the table and act like a man instead of a boyish sky instructor/camp counselor when it is time to renegotiate NAFTA. Trump might be a pig, but hey, he is an honest one and if someone were to weigh files on the Clintons vs Trump wikileaks style, the Clintons would drown and trump be like a feather floating on the water's buoyancy dragging both Bill and Hillary in the pitch black depth on the political ocean. On this, good night y'all, gonna hit the hay :) Well I do give a shit about the way Trump talks about women. I want a gentleman running this country not another Bill Clinton.
Some people work hard at being offended
#9. To: ghostdogtxn (#0)
Most excellent rant ghostdogtxn, 3 cheers. Hip hip Hourra, Hip Hip Hourra, Hip Hip Hourra!!! Hit the nail right smack on it's head
Some people work hard at being offended
#10. To: SilverStorm (#8)
well said :)
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Suspect all media / resist bad propaganda/Learn NLP everyday everyway ;) If you don't control your mind someone else will.
#11. To: purplerose (#7)
Do you really want to know all about the pedophile ring on Crapitol Hill?? This stuff is very mild versus what is really going on behind the scenes. The faux outrage of various Republicans about Donald Trump was laughable. Hell, the news media did everything in their power to NOT report on Senator Menendez and his activity with prostitutes off the coast of Florida. There's more dirt in Washington D.C. that the news media full well knows about, but they won't dare tell the American people what they know.
-Alex Kurtagic
#12. To: purplerose (#7)
You took the bait. Way to go. Fidiot.
"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning
#13. To: SilverStorm (#8)
Trump has recanted, apologized and by many accounts, REPENTED. But this F*%£ed up country of hypocritical, self righteous-neanderphucks truly deserves what is coming.
"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning
#14. To: X-15 (#11)
that's a good point. we should bring up the Franklin scandal, Obama's bath houses, his tranny partner "michael" and Vince foster. as I always say the general public lives in a make believe wonderland where reality completely eludes them.
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
#15. To: X-15 (#11)
If Trump was involved in pedophilia, than that is a major national security concern. And if our media is going to put a black out on this issue then, believe me when I say that Putin has got the goods on every candidate and he will us it to destroy us.
#16. To: X-15 (#11)
Yes I most certainly do! It's called an FBI background check. Do you really want to know all about the pedophile ring on Crapitol Hill??
#17. To: SilverStorm (#8)
Your point is well-stated.
#18. To: purplerose (#16)
The FBI rarely "investigates" a congresscritter for anything, you've noticed this I'm sure. The FBI investigates The People, not their Masters....witness what just Did Not happen with Hillary Clinton.
-Alex Kurtagic
#19. To: purplerose, Artisan, christine, Ada, Lod, randge, All (#7)
My friend, we never disagree, and I usually see your point of view. And, (I believe that) your points are always valid and cannot be readily dismissed by honest folks. And, I take no exception with your point about the current state of affairs. I hope you can understand one point of mine. I didn't think the God-cursed Clintons would ever leave The White House, and the thought of the most corrupt couple in my lifetime getting another shot at dismantling the last vestiges of sovereignty and freedom gives me night sweats. And, (if I still voted) I'd vote for any viable candidate who can hopefully beat Hillary, and collapse her final aspirations at the brass ring. I'm not opposed to a woman president-just that soulless individual with a long list of bodies in her (and Bale's) wake. She is the default candidate for all who oppose (and despise) whites in general, and white men in particular. And those of us who like/own/drive motorcycles and/or trucks and ATVs with mud tires and gun racks can hear her footsteps in our nightmares. If she's elected (The Goddess forbid) this nation will be populated by effete men and SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED and her testosterone-infused ilk will swagger about, stamping out all that we men take for granted as God-given, constitutionally guaranteed rights. And once the govt is responsible for our health she will attempt to proscribe any and all activities deemed (by committees of penthouse dwellers) to be needless risks and unacceptably expensive. (such as football injuries requiring ortho surgeries) And, finally, "DON"T COME HOME A 'DRINKIN' WITH LOVIN' ON YOUR MIND" will be a federal criminal statute with mandatory GITMO time for offenders.
#20. To: HOUNDDAWG, All (#19)
The Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in a recent interview with CNN's Amanpour: Amanpour: Russia had its own Pussy Riot moment. What do you think of Donald Trump's pussy riot moment? Lavrov: Well, I don't know whether this would ... English is not my mother's tongue and I don't know whether - I don't know - whether I would sound - I mean - decent. There are so many pussies around your presidential campaigns on both sides that I prefer not to comment. (Amanpour cracks up & camera cuts away.) Phunnie to see this otherwise grave diplomatic bear cut it up in perfect English. If we had half a dozen guys at the top that could speak diplomatic languages at this level we'd be in a lot better position in many ways. As it is we're stuck with a lot of parochial partisan suck ups whose main expertise is stroking the yokels along with knowing what political / financial roped to pull to keep their fat pockets full. Greasy scheming swine the lot of them.
It’s All About The Supreme Court
#21. To: X-15 (#18)
Well they should be. That's their damn job!
#22. To: HOUNDDAWG (#19) (Edited)
You know what I really hope will happen? That Trump will win. But while in the process of him running for president that he sues the hell out of all the press and individuals responsible for spreading lies and toxic garbage about him. His only remedy to this is to sue all those bastards and to clear his good name. Because to be honest, I really like what he stands for. I do not believe is settling for the lesser of two evils.
#23. To: randge, Ada, purplerose (#20)
Actually, I know more about the Russian punk band P**** Riot than I do about the country's political principals. Although I'm long retired as a threat to the virtue of young, unsuspecting women, the band has intrigued me for several years. Like The Bangles' bass player Michael, aka "Mickey" those Russian chicks posture a huge set of ovaries, and I like that.
#24. To: randge (#20)
Never heard of it. I'm about substance of the candidates.
#25. To: purplerose (#22)
Unfortunately truth is an absolute defense, and Trump hasn't a leg on which to perch. He was not only recorded in the throes of adolescent self ego manipulation, but he admitted as much and apologized. It amazes me that he'd consider his conquests and liberties worthy of bragging rights, for two reasons. First, money looks good on any man, and second, the generosity of women never ceases to amaze me. Hell, the ugliest troll producers in Hollywood display goddesses on their arms, and I doubt that it's natural, biological attraction working for those men. You know what I really hope will happen? That Trump will win. But while in the process of him running for president that he sues the hell out of all the press and individuals responsible for spreading lies and toxic garbage about him. His only remedy to this is to sue all those bastards and to clear his good name. Because to be honest, I really like what he stands for. I do not believe is settling for the lesser of two evils.
#26. To: HOUNDDAWG (#25) (Edited)
Yes, but Hollywood is not running for President. The Hollywood movie industry and their starlets are full of perverts, high class model prostitutes, pedophilia of the young and old, and narcotics. Same old jaded trade of the times. But the President of the United States represents the nation as a whole and the President cannot afford to have their image destroyed and used by our enemies to blackmail and extort as the means to overthrow this country. It can be done you know. You can learn a lot from your enemies. Never turn your back on them and never underestimate them. This is especially true when their military capabilities are more apt to take us out than we can ever imagine. Hell, the ugliest troll producers in Hollywood display goddesses on their arms, and I doubt that it's natural, biological attraction working for those men.
#27. To: purplerose, Artisan, christine, Ada, Lod, randge, All (#26)
Yes, but Hollywood is not running for President. The Hollywood movie industry and their starlets are full of perverts, high class model prostitutes, pedophilia of the young and old, and narcotics. Same old jaded trade of the times. But the President of the United States represents the nation as a whole and the President cannot afford to have their image destroyed and used by our enemies to blackmail and extort as the means to overthrow this country. It can be done you know. You can learn a lot from your enemies. Never turn your back on them and never underestimate them. This is especially true when their military capabilities are more apt to take us out than we can ever imagine. Good post. Nothing meaningful to add, although I can always think of sumthin'. (My, aren't I the witty one?) For instance, When "Hollywood did run for president" it just happened to be the former prez of the Screen Actors' Guild and the FBI's number one cheese eatin', commie fingerin' rodent Ronald Reagan. (Hey, Trump was undeniably indiscreet but what kind of Democrat turned Republican kinko got off on fingerin' commies?) l guess Reagan wanted to be on the side of the blue-eyed Jesus, once the RT. Rev. Dr. (and P.I.T.A.) MLK was gone, thanks to Mr. And Mrs. J. Edgar Hoover-Tolson and of course CIA's Monarch Mind Control Program. Hell, the ugliest troll producers in Hollywood display goddesses on their arms, and I doubt that it's natural, biological attraction working for those men.
#28. To: HOUNDDAWG (#27) (Edited)
What most people are unaware of is that it was under the Reagan administration that NAFTA/GATT was being implemented to become trading partners with Mexico and bring down their peso and economy. NAFTA of course is code meaning for free trade of human trafficking and narcotics. The US control Mexico's narcotics underworld because our State Department and US Dept of Justice is bed with their kingpin operatives. I guess Reagan wanted to be on the side of the blue-eyed Jesus, once the RT. Rev. Dr. (and P.I.T.A.) MLK was gone, thanks to Mr. And Mrs. J. Edgar Hoover-Tolson and of course CIA's Monarch Mind Control Program.
#29. To: HOUNDDAWG (#27)
As a young cheese eatin’ anti-communist, I looked up to Reagan when he was president but at the time was unawake and unaware to the cockroaches and other insects that had crawled into power with him. Who knew how deeply the globalists had their hooks into him? (How many of us at the time knew what a globalist was??) It was when I began listening to Tom Valentine’s Radio Free America that I became aware of the vermin infesting Reagan’s administration like Edwin Meese and of course George HW and how Reagan’s personnel choices nearly cost RR his life. Someone had a hold on him, and he is on the long list of the compromised to hold the “nation’s highest office” (which don’t look as lofty to me today as they did in my starry-eyed yout’). There are dark stories of color porno films that still exist somewhere starring RR. These were said to have been made at the times when Reagan (and a lot of other **stars**) were working at Lookout Mountain Laboratories, the world’s most advanced & fully contained movie studio which was dedicated to the war effort. Over 19,000 classified films were made there as well as most of the wartime training movies. The labs were built adjacent to Laurel Canyon which has its own dark history and is a bridge between military intelligence and the creators of much of our popular culture. With footage like that hanging over his head, there is no telling what a politician will – or won’t – do. l guess Reagan wanted to be on the side of the blue-eyed Jesus, once the RT. Rev. Dr. (and P.I.T.A.) MLK was gone, thanks to Mr. And Mrs. J. Edgar Hoover-Tolson and of course CIA's Monarch Mind Control Program.
It’s All About The Supreme Court
#30. To: randge (#29)
I remember reading about the dark history of Laurel Canyon in San Fernando Valley. I lived in that area for 23 years. Had many friends in the movie industry that would tell me stories about the underworld drug culture that hung around Laurel Canyon and the Studio City location. I know it very well. Over 19,000 classified films were made there as well as most of the wartime training movies. The labs were built adjacent to Laurel Canyon which has its own dark history and is a bridge between military intelligence and the creators of much of our popular culture. With footage like that hanging over his head, there is no telling what a politician will – or won’t – do.
#31. To: purplerose (#30)
Dave McGowan's expose' of Laurel Canyon/hippie movement (and most other conspiracy topics) has been one of the most eye-popping sources for me ever. I highly recommend any interested in such to examine Dave's studies. dark history of Laurel Canyon
#32. To: purplerose, CadetD (#30)
By the way, McGowan's last work before he passed was Why Everything You Think You Know About the Lincoln Assassination is Wrong. Parts of it were posted for free on his website, but his daughter has taken it all down and makes the book along with all his other stuff available to order there. His historical writing is fresh, original, astute and often funny. There's great writing in his Lincoln book and a lot of McGowan sleuthing that uncovers the often uncanny and hitherto unrecognized relationships and coincidentally strange crossed paths between government officials like Stanton and Seward and assassins like Booth and his associates as well as those caught up in the ensuing investigative dragnet like the unfortunate Dr. Mudd. Chapter 2 is still up on a site called Just Chillin' on History. Here's part of it. I know what you must be thinking here: “How the hell could you leave Francis Tumblety out of the previous post? Compared to him, guys like Boston Corbett, Henry Rathbone and Edwin Stanton seem perfectly sane. And whose name was in the news in a weirder way in the years following the assassination than the esteemed Dr. Francis Tumblety? And in addition, doesn’t he deserve honorable mention for the ridiculous facial hair alone?" I can’t really argue much with any of that. I think it was probably a subconscious omission so that I would have something really good to start this post with. Because as stories go, the Francis Tumblety story is pretty damn good. And seriously strange. But before getting to that, I must also quickly add Father Wiget to the list. Not much can be dug up on him other than that he was assigned as Mary Surrat’s spiritual adviser during the brief period that she sat in her cell waiting to be executed, and he died shortly thereafter. Moving on now to the man of the hour, Francis Tumblety was arrested on May 5, 1865, on suspicion of being complicit in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Tumblety was an associate of – and by some reports a sometime employer of – executed conspirator David Herold. His arrest was ordered by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. To be fair to Tumblety though, it should be noted that he was only one of some 2,000 people who were arrested as possible conspirators. That’s how things work in a democracy, you see – falsely imprison first, ask questions later. The esteemed Dr. Francis Tumblety In any event, Tumblety was held for nearly a month before being released on May 30, 1865. Prior to his arrest, he had lived a very colorful life. Born circa 1833 and raised in New York, Tumblety was widely viewed as a charlatan and a kook. While still a minor, he reportedly peddled pornographic materials. He soon transformed into a quack “Indian herb doctor” who was run out of various parts of the country for running cons. In one reported case, he was directly involved in the death of a ‘patient,’ though he suffered no repercussions for his actions. According to one account, he kept a collection of human uteruses on display in his Washington, DC home. Some twenty-three years after his arrest in Washington, Tumblety took up lodging in, of all places, a boardinghouse in London’s Whitechapel district. He was identified at that time, and has been identified by various researchers since that time, as being a prime suspect in the still unsolved Jack the Ripper murders. Following an arrest on November 7, 1888 for “gross indecency,” Tumblety fled the country on November 20 under an assumed name and quickly made his way back to the US, where he died some five years later. What are the odds, one wonders, that the very same guy would be suspected of involvement in two such completely different and seemingly unconnected crimes? Two crimes separated by a vast ocean and the passage of nearly two- and-a-half decades? Probably about the same odds that a guy like John Phillips would have connections to both the Black Dahlia murder and the Manson bloodbath. ******************************************************* Pictured below is the single-shot derringer that, according to the legend we all know so well, John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. One of the most iconic pieces of historical memorabilia that this country has to offer, it has been displayed for decades, viewed by millions, and written about by thousands. But after the passage of 149 years, it doesn’t appear that anyone has ever thought to question why Booth, an intelligent and educated man by all accounts, would choose such a ridiculous weapon to take with him on his mission. Let’s imagine that it is the evening of April 14, 1865, and you are John Wilkes Booth. Your mission is to assassinate the president. In a crowded theater. In the middle of Washington, which, at the time, is heavily fortified and militarized. Because there is, you know, a war going on. And the enemy’s base of operations – in Richmond, Virginia – is only 100 miles away. So the nation’s capital is crawling with armed military personnel, armed police patrols, and armed thugs in the employ of Baker and Stanton. Your mission then is not going to be an easy one. The president is under armed guard, or at least he’s supposed to be. He’s also supposed to be in the company of General Ulysses S. Grant, who is known to always be armed. Of course, Grant has fortuitously opted to get the hell out of Dodge just hours before he was to have accompanied the Lincolns to the theater, but you shouldn’t have any way of knowing that, just as you shouldn’t have any way of knowing that Parker will desert his post. And there will be no shortage of other armed personnel in Ford’s Theater, including Army Captain Theodore McGowan (no relation), who is seated very near the door to Lincoln’s box seats. So you have to assume that you’re going to have to get past at least two armed attendants, and probably more, to get to the president. And you’re going to have to do that without firing a shot, since you only have one and you will need to save that for Abe. And since the only realistic chance you have of actually killing Lincoln with your wildly inaccurate weapon is by sneaking up behind him and delivering a contact wound to his head, you’re going to have to get past any guards without making any noise. And since Grant is supposedly also on the hit list, you’re going to have to kill him as well, which I guess you’ll have to do by bludgeoning him with your empty gun. That should work out pretty well. Ford's Theater, circa 1865 You’re not on a suicide mission, by the way, so even if you somehow manage to successfully assassinate the president, and presumably General Grant as well, you’re still going to have some major problems on your hands. First of all, you’re going to have to make your escape from a theater full of people, many of them armed. Because in April 1865, the beginning of the era that will be mythologized as the ‘Wild West’ days, there are guns everywhere and everyone is packing heat. And you, of course, will have blown your wad and will be unarmed. If you somehow manage to make your way out of the theater, then you will face the daunting prospect of making your way out of the city and across the Potomac. And as I may have mentioned, DC is swarming with armed soldiers, armed spies and armed police, as well as armed citizens. And your only means of defending yourself will be with a dagger, which probably isn’t going to be very effective. Your goal is to reach the Navy Yard Bridge, which will get you across the Potomac and to relative safety. But even if you reach it, you’ve still got a big hurdle to overcome: the bridge has a strict curfew and the armed guard is under standing orders not to allow anyone to cross without explicit authorization. If you attempt to cross without anyway, you will be shot. A gun might come in handy, but you won’t have one. The Navy Yard Bridge, John Wilkes Booth's passage out of town To recap then, you have set a very ambitious goal for yourself. You must first get to the president, who is sitting in a private box in a crowded theater with at least two armed attendants. You must then kill the president with a single shot, because your weapon doesn’t allow for second chances, and also somehow kill General Grant. You must then, in an unarmed state, make an escape first from the theater and then from the city, and you must get past an armed guard at the bridge. And you have to do all of that with just one bullet. It’s hard to see how anything could go wrong with such a brilliant plan. Of course, it doesn’t have to be this way. There are other weapons available. Weapons better suited to your mission. And as an alleged Southern operative, you should surely know that. It was, after all, Confederate guerilla groups that pioneered the shock-and-awe tactic of using overwhelming force in the form of multiple revolvers. We’ve all seen images of Wild West gunslingers riding hard with their reins in their teeth, six- shooters blazing in both hands. It’s only natural to dismiss such images as a hackneyed Hollywood creation. But strangely enough, it’s actually not. Rebel groups like Mosby’s Rangers and Quantrill's Raiders really did train to do exactly that. And they wore custom-made holsters that could hold as many as six revolvers, three on each side. That allowed them to get off as many as 36 shots before their overwhelmed Union adversaries, armed with muskets, could reload and get off so much as a second shot. Those semi-mythical figures in American history that we know as Frank and Jesse James, and Jim, Bob, John and Cole Younger, and Bill, Grat, Bob and Emmett Dalton, learned the skills they later employed as Wild West ‘outlaws’ while riding with the likes of William Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson. But that’s not really the point here – the point here is that revolvers are easy to come by and might serve you better than a nearly-worthless single- shot derringer. And according to the official story, you definitely have access to at least two of them (pictured below). There are other things you might want to consider as well, such as not committing the crime as John Wilkes Booth. You are, after all, a famous stage actor, which means that you are also a wardrobe and makeup guy. Because in your era, you and your contemporaries have to handle those duties yourselves, so you travel with a couple large trunks full of stuff like wigs and fake beards. You could easily don a convincing disguise so as not to be easily recognized. Then you don’t have to worry about getting out of the city alive; all you have to do is make it out of the theater, quickly ditch the disguise, and then you can circle around and rejoin the crowd at Ford’s without arousing any suspicion at all. And you do, after all, have a lot at stake. Even if you manage to make an escape from DC, your lifestyle and career will be distant memories. All the fame, all the female adoration, all the success, all the wealth … it will all be gone if you commit the crime as John Wilkes Booth. So you might want to put on a disguise. And replace that derringer with a revolver or two. And maybe bring an accomplice or two along for additional firepower. You have quite a few co-conspirators to choose from. You also might want to reconsider whether Ford’s Theater is the best place to do this. According to numerous historians, Lincoln has a bad habit of ignoring advice from aides and strolling around Washingtonunescorted at times, leaving him seriously vulnerable. That might make it a bit easier to successfully pull this off. I know what you must be thinking here: “How the hell could you leave Francis Tumblety out of the previous post? Compared to him, guys like Boston Corbett, Henry Rathbone and Edwin Stanton seem perfectly sane. And whose name was in the news in a weirder way in the years following the assassination than the esteemed Dr. Francis Tumblety? And in addition, doesn’t he deserve honorable mention for the ridiculous facial hair alone?" I can’t really argue much with any of that. I think it was probably a subconscious omission so that I would have something really good to start this post with. Because as stories go, the Francis Tumblety story is pretty damn good. And seriously strange. But before getting to that, I must also quickly add Father Wiget to the list. Not much can be dug up on him other than that he was assigned as Mary Surrat’s spiritual adviser during the brief period that she sat in her cell waiting to be executed, and he died shortly thereafter. Moving on now to the man of the hour, Francis Tumblety was arrested on May 5, 1865, on suspicion of being complicit in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Tumblety was an associate of – and by some reports a sometime employer of – executed conspirator David Herold. His arrest was ordered by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. To be fair to Tumblety though, it should be noted that he was only one of some 2,000 people who were arrested as possible conspirators. That’s how things work in a democracy, you see – falsely imprison first, ask questions later. The esteemed Dr. Francis Tumblety In any event, Tumblety was held for nearly a month before being released on May 30, 1865. Prior to his arrest, he had lived a very colorful life. Born circa 1833 and raised in New York, Tumblety was widely viewed as a charlatan and a kook. While still a minor, he reportedly peddled pornographic materials. He soon transformed into a quack “Indian herb doctor” who was run out of various parts of the country for running cons. In one reported case, he was directly involved in the death of a ‘patient,’ though he suffered no repercussions for his actions. According to one account, he kept a collection of human uteruses on display in his Washington, DC home. Some twenty-three years after his arrest in Washington, Tumblety took up lodging in, of all places, a boardinghouse in London’s Whitechapel district. He was identified at that time, and has been identified by various researchers since that time, as being a prime suspect in the still unsolved Jack the Ripper murders. Following an arrest on November 7, 1888 for “gross indecency,” Tumblety fled the country on November 20 under an assumed name and quickly made his way back to the US, where he died some five years later. What are the odds, one wonders, that the very same guy would be suspected of involvement in two such completely different and seemingly unconnected crimes? Two crimes separated by a vast ocean and the passage of nearly two- and-a-half decades? Probably about the same odds that a guy like John Phillips would have connections to both the Black Dahlia murder and the Manson bloodbath. ******************************************************* Pictured below is the single-shot derringer that, according to the legend we all know so well, John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. One of the most iconic pieces of historical memorabilia that this country has to offer, it has been displayed for decades, viewed by millions, and written about by thousands. But after the passage of 149 years, it doesn’t appear that anyone has ever thought to question why Booth, an intelligent and educated man by all accounts, would choose such a ridiculous weapon to take with him on his mission. Let’s imagine that it is the evening of April 14, 1865, and you are John Wilkes Booth. Your mission is to assassinate the president. In a crowded theater. In the middle of Washington, which, at the time, is heavily fortified and militarized. Because there is, you know, a war going on. And the enemy’s base of operations – in Richmond, Virginia – is only 100 miles away. So the nation’s capital is crawling with armed military personnel, armed police patrols, and armed thugs in the employ of Baker and Stanton. Your mission then is not going to be an easy one. The president is under armed guard, or at least he’s supposed to be. He’s also supposed to be in the company of General Ulysses S. Grant, who is known to always be armed. Of course, Grant has fortuitously opted to get the hell out of Dodge just hours before he was to have accompanied the Lincolns to the theater, but you shouldn’t have any way of knowing that, just as you shouldn’t have any way of knowing that Parker will desert his post. And there will be no shortage of other armed personnel in Ford’s Theater, including Army Captain Theodore McGowan (no relation), who is seated very near the door to Lincoln’s box seats. So you have to assume that you’re going to have to get past at least two armed attendants, and probably more, to get to the president. And you’re going to have to do that without firing a shot, since you only have one and you will need to save that for Abe. And since the only realistic chance you have of actually killing Lincoln with your wildly inaccurate weapon is by sneaking up behind him and delivering a contact wound to his head, you’re going to have to get past any guards without making any noise. And since Grant is supposedly also on the hit list, you’re going to have to kill him as well, which I guess you’ll have to do by bludgeoning him with your empty gun. That should work out pretty well. Ford's Theater, circa 1865 You’re not on a suicide mission, by the way, so even if you somehow manage to successfully assassinate the president, and presumably General Grant as well, you’re still going to have some major problems on your hands. First of all, you’re going to have to make your escape from a theater full of people, many of them armed. Because in April 1865, the beginning of the era that will be mythologized as the ‘Wild West’ days, there are guns everywhere and everyone is packing heat. And you, of course, will have blown your wad and will be unarmed. If you somehow manage to make your way out of the theater, then you will face the daunting prospect of making your way out of the city and across the Potomac. And as I may have mentioned, DC is swarming with armed soldiers, armed spies and armed police, as well as armed citizens. And your only means of defending yourself will be with a dagger, which probably isn’t going to be very effective. Your goal is to reach the Navy Yard Bridge, which will get you across the Potomac and to relative safety. But even if you reach it, you’ve still got a big hurdle to overcome: the bridge has a strict curfew and the armed guard is under standing orders not to allow anyone to cross without explicit authorization. If you attempt to cross without anyway, you will be shot. A gun might come in handy, but you won’t have one. The Navy Yard Bridge, John Wilkes Booth's passage out of town To recap then, you have set a very ambitious goal for yourself. You must first get to the president, who is sitting in a private box in a crowded theater with at least two armed attendants. You must then kill the president with a single shot, because your weapon doesn’t allow for second chances, and also somehow kill General Grant. You must then, in an unarmed state, make an escape first from the theater and then from the city, and you must get past an armed guard at the bridge. And you have to do all of that with just one bullet. It’s hard to see how anything could go wrong with such a brilliant plan. Of course, it doesn’t have to be this way. There are other weapons available. Weapons better suited to your mission. And as an alleged Southern operative, you should surely know that. It was, after all, Confederate guerilla groups that pioneered the shock-and-awe tactic of using overwhelming force in the form of multiple revolvers. We’ve all seen images of Wild West gunslingers riding hard with their reins in their teeth, six- shooters blazing in both hands. It’s only natural to dismiss such images as a hackneyed Hollywood creation. But strangely enough, it’s actually not. Rebel groups like Mosby’s Rangers and Quantrill's Raiders really did train to do exactly that. And they wore custom-made holsters that could hold as many as six revolvers, three on each side. That allowed them to get off as many as 36 shots before their overwhelmed Union adversaries, armed with muskets, could reload and get off so much as a second shot. Those semi-mythical figures in American history that we know as Frank and Jesse James, and Jim, Bob, John and Cole Younger, and Bill, Grat, Bob and Emmett Dalton, learned the skills they later employed as Wild West ‘outlaws’ while riding with the likes of William Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson. But that’s not really the point here – the point here is that revolvers are easy to come by and might serve you better than a nearly-worthless single- shot derringer. And according to the official story, you definitely have access to at least two of them (pictured below). There are other things you might want to consider as well, such as not committing the crime as John Wilkes Booth. You are, after all, a famous stage actor, which means that you are also a wardrobe and makeup guy. Because in your era, you and your contemporaries have to handle those duties yourselves, so you travel with a couple large trunks full of stuff like wigs and fake beards. You could easily don a convincing disguise so as not to be easily recognized. Then you don’t have to worry about getting out of the city alive; all you have to do is make it out of the theater, quickly ditch the disguise, and then you can circle around and rejoin the crowd at Ford’s without arousing any suspicion at all. And you do, after all, have a lot at stake. Even if you manage to make an escape from DC, your lifestyle and career will be distant memories. All the fame, all the female adoration, all the success, all the wealth … it will all be gone if you commit the crime as John Wilkes Booth. So you might want to put on a disguise. And replace that derringer with a revolver or two. And maybe bring an accomplice or two along for additional firepower. You have quite a few co-conspirators to choose from. You also might want to reconsider whether Ford’s Theater is the best place to do this. According to numerous historians, Lincoln has a bad habit of ignoring advice from aides and strolling around Washingtonunescorted at times, leaving him seriously vulnerable. That might make it a bit easier to successfully pull this off. In summary then, your best bet is probably to make the attempt on Lincoln’s life when he is alone and unprotected. And you should probably bring along some more impressive firepower, just in case. If you are determined to do it in the theater, you should don a disguise and bring along a couple other gunmen in case one or more of you are killed or physically prevented from reaching the president. The dumbest thing you could probably do would be to go it alone, as John Wilkes Booth, and arm yourself only with a derringer. But I guess you can’t argue with success … right? Thursday, May 29, 2014
Why Everything You Think You Know About the Lincoln Assassination is Wrong
Part 2
By Dave McGowan
Anatomy of a Presidential Assassination, Part II
Thursday, May 29, 2014 Why Everything You Think You Know About the Lincoln Assassination is Wrong Part 2 By Dave McGowan Anatomy of a Presidential Assassination, Part II
It’s All About The Supreme Court
#33. To: CadetD (#31)
Yep, thanks for that link. A fellow friend of mine and I would drive around Spahn Ranch, where Charles Manson and his devout followers camped out during the time of their murderous sprees. Just driving around that area kind of gave me the creeps. But when you live in this area and get acquainted with many of those during the hippie days, many of them recount on this and some knew him personally. In the clubs I worked at many, singers and actors (some well known) would come by, and some of them were wasted away with the years of cocaine and heroin abuse. We also drove in the Brentwood, Ca neighborhood and viewed the house that Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered in. When I first viewed that house, I knew her spirit was still there. We went to visit it again and noticed the house had been bullzed over due to the stigma attached to it. I used to hang out in Studio City with some of my friends who worked on the studio sets at CBS. When they'd have a live audience during taping of their shows, it was always the after parties that meant more and where you made your "real connections" in the industry and not your talent agent. And that was the real happening scene in Laurel Canyon. One guy I met was Steve Randall a musical guitarist. He sat with me and my long time friend and advised me not to pursue acting. He knew something about it that just wasn't right. It was not even about talent at all.
#34. To: purplerose (#28) (Edited)
Good stuff, pr. Wanna guess which privately owned (reportedly with suspected secret Class B stockholders like former Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands) reserve banking system has rinsed the majority of the hemisphere's drug cash? Once cash is deposited in an "approved" offshore bank (like Granada) it's flown to Miami and transferred to armored cars, free of oversight. But "domestic dealers" (think SCARFACE) who deposit in Florida probably still pay mucho points for laundry service. How many American banks have been seized when their deposits went from an average of two billion to twenty billion samolians in a year or two? Nope, nothing to see here, folks. Neither the DEA or the state narcs are the least bit curious about exponential increases in bank deposits. EDIT: Two weeks before the Granada invasion the commie govt had nationalized the island's banks that were stuffed with drug cash, and Reagan sent in the marines. The commie govt had been in power for four years so that was not the catalyst, despite what I was led to believe back then.... What most people are unaware of is that it was under the Reagan administration that NAFTA/GATT was being implemented to become trading partners with Mexico and bring down their peso and economy. NAFTA of course is code meaning for free trade of human trafficking and narcotics. The US control Mexico's narcotics underworld because our State Department and US Dept of Justice is bed with their kingpin operatives.
#35. To: randge (#29) (Edited)
I registered to vote for the first time in 1980 to vote for Reagan. So, I know what you're saying, my friend. By the time Ollie North was courageously defending the old man for Iran Contra (just as G. Gordon Liddy did for Nixon and Watergate) I was disappointed in the Out-Of-The-Loop President. It wasn't because I wanted the commies to win, but I wanted to believe that the president believed in and abided by the law! Geez, how naive was that? Afterthought: I read about Lookout Mountain Laboratories and the Laurel Canyon "coincidences" years ago, before Dave McGowan pulled it all together in a book. His research was confirmed when he too suddenly contracted an aggressive cancer, as did Dr. Steven Greer and his two associates who helped launch the Disclosure Project. Dr. Greer is the only survivor, of the several I can name who succumbed. (including Dave, last year) But, who would ever think to wand their refrigerators with Geiger counters before drinking some milk? It would have killed Karen Silkwood years before, but they couldn't very well poison her with a more deadly isotope than those she worked with at Kerr-McGee. So, she obliged the bastards by dying in a one car accident-no witnesses. The evidence she was carrying disappeared, too.
#36. To: randge (#32)
FYI, "Henry Deringer (October 26, 1786 – February 28, 1868) was an American gunsmith. He is best known for inventing and giving his name to the derringer pistol."__wiki Lincoln was reportedly shot with an original .41 cal Deringer made by the famed Philadelphia gunsmith, not with a .44 cal "Derringer". (with three "Rs") This is the type of worthless trivia that I used to instantly recall before my brain went downhill a few years back. Pictured below is the single-shot derringer that, according to the legend we all know so well, John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
#37. To: HOUNDDAWG (#35)
Oh Ollie North. Another brown stain to remember.
#38. To: HOUNDDAWG (#36)
They's nothing you can do about language change. English teachers, prescriptive grammarians and cyclopedists struggle to stem the tide, but it's just vanity to imagine that any mortal force will halt mutations of syntax, spelling or pronunciation in the common tongue or pen. These things have a life of their own, and they become standard conventional American or Canadian or British or name your other dialect or language. Just as "bowie knife" (little b) is part of Texas law, "derringer" (with three r's) is found in official documents. (Michigan State Police Firearms Identification Guide) Interestingly, I find that the "three r's" derringer name resulted from many others cashing in on Deringer's name. Deringer never claimed a patent for his pistols and the public bought them as fast as he produced them.[1] Further development and copying of his design resulted in the derringer (note the double-r) pistol that was generically manufactured widely by other companies.[5] There was widespread copying of his designs, included outright counterfeiting with his proofmarks being copied. One company even hired a tailor called "John" Deringer so that it could put the Deringer name on its firearms. Some of Deringer's workmen also left the company to set up their own duplicates, whilst others copied his pistols as closely as possible with some even putting on its Deringer name and trademark. Deringer fought these infringements for most of his business life. The Derringer vs Plate ruling, in which the California Supreme Court ruled in the company's favor, became a landmark in trademark law.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Deringer Henry Deringer was a badass. I'll bet he could work a forge like no man's business. Name and trademark[edit]
It’s All About The Supreme Court
#39. To: randge (#38) (Edited)
I thought I'd made that clear but I didn't! ;) More trivia: Nearly all handguns except revolvers are considered pistols. (Sherlock Holmes to Watson: "Doctor, take precautions! Bring your revolver!") Despite the law I wouldn't classify a hand held (but not shoulder fired) AR-15 with a barrel of less than 16 inches and less than 26 inches overall as a pistol. The NFA of 1934 resulted in some strange production compromises to manufacturers who wished to avoid the federal clink! Example: There is absolutely no reason for a shotgun barrel to have a mandatory minimum of 18 inches in length. And When Sullivan missed his SCOTUS court date he let us all down by failing to offer evidence that abbreviated shotguns were invaluable in the trenches against Kaiser Wilhelm II. The court in that info vacuum incorrectly concluded that sawn-off shotguns (British spelling) had no practical military utility, and Randy Weaver was charged with selling a shotgun with a 17.5" barrel to a govt snitch. (They wanted him to infiltrate a group of "haters", and the rest is prologue.) In 1934 Prohibition had been repealed so the Treasury Department needed a make work program to channel the energies of idle liquor agents, which resulted in the National Firearms Act of 1934. The court stated that Sullivan's short shotgun did not qualify as a militia weapon because of its barrel length. 50-odd years later Clinton tried to ban an entire class of firearms because they had no sporting use! Obviously AR-15s, Ruger Mini 14s, etc., are well suited to military service, and now the presumed criterion (tortuous logic) for citizen militia weapons is, "so the national guard can hunt ducks", or something like that. Interestingly, I find that the "three r's" derringer name resulted from many others cashing in on Deringer's name.
#40. To: purplerose (#37)
Thank you for that succinct observation. You remind me of Churchill! ;) Nixon was as crooked as a DAWG's hind leg and yet he re-emerged as a "senior statesman" when we were normalizing relations with China (selling them megatons of our debt paper. They refused the offer of hinterland real estate. They wanted city property that would be protected in any eventuality, preferably next door to Chase, JP Morgan, The New York Federal Reserve, etc.,. ) And Ollie was mysteriously rehabilitated, presumably because of the unspoken understanding among upstanding conservos (such as the BOD of The United Fruit Company In the Americas) that "criminal zeal in opposition to creeping communism is no vice!" And now despite a law that confines "involuntary regime changes to foreign soil" the CIA's domestic critics (investigative reporters) die in ways that has "Company hit" all over it. We never should have meekly permitted Gordon Liddy to celebrate, after falling on his sword for Nixon. It was neither laudible nor honorable. It was pragmatic, just as (the admiral's son) John McCain's refusal to accept early release from Hanoi while leaving his mates behind. He and Liddy knew that disloyalty would have made short work of their future aspirations, like a sweaty mohel on Betty Friedan's foreskin. Oh Ollie North. Another brown stain to remember.
#41. To: HOUNDDAWG (#39)
I just refer to them all as sidearms.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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