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FTR #626 Interview with Paris Flammonde: “A Whole New Form of Government”

Record­ed Feb­ru­ary 24, 2008
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In this pro­gram, Mr. Emory and author and radio pro­duc­er Paris Flam­monde rumi­nate about the polit­i­cal effects of the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion and the Amer­i­ca that evolved out of that event. The title of the broad­cast is tak­en from Jack Ruby’s inter­view with the War­ren Com­mis­sion, in which he observed that “A whole new form of government’s going to take over this coun­try . . .” (For more about this top­ic, see FTR#579.) That new form of gov­ern­ment is—to make a long sto­ry short—fascism. Mssrs. Flam­monde and Emory dis­cussed a num­ber of ways in which Amer­i­can domes­tic and for­eign pol­i­cy have changed: the elim­i­na­tion of habeas cor­pus; the sta­tion­ing of mas­sive num­bers of troops around the world; the ero­sion of democ­ra­cy and Amer­i­can polit­i­cal process and a lega­cy of cor­rup­tion that defies both effec­tive judi­cial action and viable jour­nal­is­tic inves­ti­ga­tion.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Review of Kennedy’s attempts to with­draw the U.S. from Viet­nam; review of Kennedy’s attempts at effect­ing a diplo­mat­ic rap­proche­ment with Cuba; dis­cus­sion of the role of the oil indus­try and the Hunt fam­i­ly in par­tic­u­lar in Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion; dis­cus­sion of Kennedy’s attempts at elim­i­nat­ing the oil deple­tion allowance; a trib­ute to the first gen­er­a­tion of Kennedy assas­si­na­tion researchers and inves­ti­ga­tors.

1. In this pro­gram, Mr. Emory and author and radio pro­duc­er Paris Flam­monde rumi­nate about the polit­i­cal effects of the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion and the Amer­i­ca that evolved out of that event. The title of the broad­cast is tak­en from Jack Ruby’s inter­view with the War­ren Com­mis­sion, in which he observed that “A whole new form of government’s going to take over this coun­try . . .” (For more about this top­ic, see FTR#579.) That new form of gov­ern­ment is—to make a long sto­ry short—fascism. Mssrs. Flam­monde and Emory dis­cussed a num­ber of ways in which Amer­i­can domes­tic and for­eign pol­i­cy have changed: the elim­i­na­tion of habeas cor­pus; the sta­tion­ing of mas­sive num­bers of troops around the world; the ero­sion of democ­ra­cy and Amer­i­can polit­i­cal process and a lega­cy of cor­rup­tion that defies both effec­tive judi­cial action and viable jour­nal­is­tic inves­ti­ga­tion.

2. Short term domes­tic and for­eign pol­i­cy changes stem­ming from the Kennedy assas­si­na­tion include: the can­cel­la­tion of Kennedy’s plan to with­draw from Viet­nam; an effort at détente with the for­mer Sovi­et Union; can­cel­la­tion of Kennedy’s diplo­mat­ic effort aimed at nor­mal­iz­ing rela­tions with Castro’s Cuba and, of course, a change in the 1964 elec­toral land­scape.

3. One of the most impor­tant of Kennedy’s domes­tic ini­tia­tives to be destroyed by his mur­der was his plan to can­cel the oil deple­tion allowance—a major tax loop­hole exploit­ed by Big Oil to the detri­ment of the soci­ety as a whole. Mssrs. Emory and Flam­monde high­light the role of pow­er­ful inde­pen­dent oil men in the assas­si­na­tion. The pow­er­ful Hunt fam­i­ly was deeply involved in the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy. As not­ed by Mr. Emory, the Hunt fam­i­ly fig­ures in some of the con­spir­a­to­r­i­al pow­er pol­i­tics man­i­fest­ing itself on the very trou­bled “oiled waters” flow­ing through the con­tem­po­rary polit­i­cal land­scape. As not­ed in FTR#’s 513, 556, 611, the Hunt fam­i­ly and asso­ciates fig­ure promi­nent­ly in the events in and around the Bank al-Taqwa milieu, as well as in the petro­le­um land­scape around the Iraq war.

4. One of the major goals of Mr. Flammonde’s for­mi­da­ble tomes and one of the major goals of Mr. Emory’s inter­views with Paris is to com­mem­o­rate the orig­i­nal gen­er­a­tion of JFK assas­si­na­tion researchers. Men like Bernard “Bud” Fen­ster­wald, Harold Weis­berg, Penn Jones, Joachim Joesten, Seth Can­tor and the oth­er authors and inves­ti­ga­tors were peers of Mr. Flam­monde and they—along with Paris—inspired and informed Mr. Emory’s work. For more about Paris and his work, see FTR#’s 619, 620, 621, as well as “The Guns of Novem­ber, Part IV.”

5. Paris’ four-vol­ume set can be obtained from Scanuscrip­tion; Tarot; RR 6, Box 6199; Strouds­burg, PA 18360. Vis­it the web­site at: www.assassinationofamerica.com. Paris can be reached at: flammonde@assassinationofamerica.com.

6. Two video pro­duc­tions are being gen­er­at­ed by a cou­ple of doc­u­men­tary film­mak­ers. One is a DVD of a three-lec­ture series called “The First Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Rela­tion­ship Between Fas­cism and Reli­gion.” In addi­tion, there will soon be a doc­u­men­tary about Mr. Emory, titled “The Anti-Fas­cist.” For more about this project, vis­it TheAntiFascist.com.

Discussion

One comment for “FTR #626 Interview with Paris Flammonde: “A Whole New Form of Government””

  1. I have always been shocked and deeply
    intrigued by War­ren’s out­right
    lack of con­cern and sur­prise by
    Mr. Ruby’s state­ments and Ruby’s
    state of mind...Perhaps it is Mr.
    War­ren’s state of mind that we should have con­cerned us. Here is the man who was, sup­pos­ed­ly, been giv­en tac­it and expressed lead­er­ship in inves­ti­gat­ing the JFK assas­si­na­tion. I feel that when
    the Supreme Court Jus­tice was vis­it­ing Ruby in his (Ruby’s) jail
    cell or an adjoin­ing room, per­haps War­ren him­self may have been set up
    to actu­al­ly hear Ruby plead with him, lit­er­al­ly beg him to take him
    to Wash­ing­ton!!!! It is high­ly indica­tive that at one point War­ren
    response to Ruby, “you know what is at stake here...”(para-phrase) intersting...is that a ques­tion, a state­ment or an actu­al
    acknowl­edge­ment as to what “real­ly is at stake”... At anoth­er point
    The Supreme Court Jus­tice waves off
    Ruby and tells him that he can’t take him (Ruby) to DC. This was the
    SUPREME COURT JUSTICE OF THE UNITED
    STATES!!! I am sure some fil­ing or pro­ce­dure could have enact­ed War­ren
    to have Ruby (at least on lim­it­ed
    basis) tak­en to DC. Make no mis­take
    War­ren was work­ing for LBJ, and that is the veil that most peo­ple
    fail to recognize...Warren was appoint­ed to “ordain” and “annoint” Lee Har­vey Oswald as the lone and
    sole assas­sin of JFK. War­ren must
    have felt, after see­ing Ruby,(“what
    on Earth was I doing here? who’s
    idea was it for me to see Ruby?)
    This was way too much for War­ren
    to hear, direct­ly and in the same
    room (!) see and hear Ruby plead
    & beg him to save and help and trans­fer him, the man who killed LHO !!! What does this tell you???
    A major sham is being put in-place
    and War­ren real­izes that Ruby knows
    a por­tion of the plot, (ruby) knows sev­er­al of the mob­sters that were involved and most assured­ly some
    who had direct links to LBJ, anti-
    JFK busi­ness men, not to men­tion
    CIA and/or mil­i­tary assets/agents.
    (Dal­las-NewOr­leans-Mia­mi links...)
    Besides RFK, who knew what clos­ets
    to look in, Ruby could have opened
    a few him­self if giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty. War­ren denied Ruby
    that chance...as War­ren said
    in so many words, “The stakes here...” Com­bine Ruby’s pleas with
    War­ren’s inactions....and that opens a vast por­tal and avenue of
    inves­ti­ga­tion itself. If any­body at this point who can’t or who refus­es to believe that some type (some-type???) of crim­i­nal enter­prise
    (oh God ! a con­spir­a­cy) result­ed
    in the mur­der of the 35th Pres­i­dent
    of The Unit­ed States is either
    igno­rant of the facts, a buf­foon,
    or intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­lenged...
    Imag­ine what was going thru
    War­ren’s mind (with all that legal
    & inves­tiga­tive train­ing & expe­ri­ence-not to men­tion his own pol. and legal con­nec­tions) lis­ten­ing to Ruby pleas. Think
    about this !!! Part of him (War­ren) while walk­ing out that
    Dal­las Jail House must have been
    “sweat­ing his pants), as in
    “get me out of here”. I’m sure War­ren felt safe back in DC. or so he thought. He nev­er gave Ruby that feel­ing. HEAR EVIL, SEE NO EVIL...
    LBJ prob­a­bly loved “watch­ing” and
    hear­ing about War­ren squirm­ing”
    dur­ing and after the exis­tence of the WC.
    Regards,
    David T. Krall
    truthatlarge@hotmail.com

    Posted by David T. Krall | May 26, 2013, 8:54 pm

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