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COMMENT: Reflecting on this week’s events in Washington D.C., a number of things impressed themselves upon us.
Even Paul Krugman of the staid New York Times characterized the storming of the Capitol Building by Trump backers as “fascism.”
Neither he, nor—frankly—anyone else in this country should be surprised.
Not only has the political momentum of these events been building for decades, but the phenomenon has been propelled in no small measure by amnesia.
In FTR #602—among other programs—we detailed the 1934 coup attempt directed against Franklin Delano Roosevelt by powerful industrial and financial interests. Hoping to enlist Douglas MacArthur as the leader of the plot, the conspirators settled upon General Smedley Butler of the Marine Corps.
Butler betrayed the conspiracy, which was investigated by the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. This chapter in American history has disappeared down the memory hole.
The armed confrontation in the Capitol also reminded us of a confrontation that took place in Parkland Hospital on 11/22/1963.
A contingent of Secret Service agents and Kennedy aide Kenneth O’Donnell confronted and threatened Parkland physicians who were going to autopsy President Kennedy’s body in accordance with law.
(Author Joseph McBride presents convincing evidence that O’Donnell faced probable indictment for corruption. He helped arrange the Kennedy motorcade route through Dealey Plaza, setting JFK up for assassination. O’Donnell succumbed to alcoholism, dying in 1977.)
McBride—drawing on scholarship by numerous authors and researchers—concludes that the Federal agents were intent on preventing an autopsy in Dallas, so that JFK’s body could be surgically altered to obscure the fact that Kennedy was killed in a crossfire.
The “official version” of the murder—an institutionalized historical fiction–maintains that Oswald—the lone assassin—slew Kennedy by firing from the rear.
“ . . . . [Parkland physician Dr. Charles] Crenshaw recalled, ‘A man in a suit, leading the [federal] group, holding a submachine gun, left little doubt in my mind who was in charge. That he wasn’t smiling best describes the look on his face . . . . Kellerman took an erect stance and brought his firearm into a ready position. The other men in suits followed course by draping their coattails behind the butts of their holstered pistols.’ When Dr. Rose insisted on holding the body in Dallas for autopsy, explaining, ‘You can’t lose the chain of evidence,’ one of the men in suits screamed, ‘Goddamit, get your ass out of the way before you get hurt,’ and another snapped, ‘We’re taking the body now.’ . . . .”
. . . . What I found most revealing at the time in The Death of a President is its account of the Secret Service and Kennedy aides, led by the late President’s appointments secretary, Kenneth O’Donnell, stealing the president’s body from Parkland Hospital. Discovering that startling report of a previously unknown event—including a violent confrontation between the White House faction and the Dallas County medical examiner, Dr. Earl F. Rose—was one of the watershed moments in my understanding of the case. . . .
. . . . If Dr. Rose had not been blocked from performing the autopsy, the history of the case might have been radically different. The thoroughness and integrity of the autopsies Dr. Rose performed at Parkland Hospital on both Tippit and Oswald have never been questioned, unlike that of the shoddy, incomplete, and dishonest autopsy of Kennedy by military doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, a key element in the coverup. . . .
. . . . When I read that remarkable and (bizarrely approving) account of criminal behavior at Parkland Hospital by federal agents and members of the late president’s own staff, a brutal act of aggression against a public official trying to do his legal duty, I could no longer fail to recognize, by the spring of 1967, that “something was rotten in the state of Denmark.” . . . .
. . . . The threat of violence in Manchester’s account was left largely implicit. A more explicit account was later provided by Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw, one of Kennedy’s attending physicians at Parkland, who witnessed the confrontation. In his 1992 book, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, Crenshaw recalled, “A man in a suit, leading the [federal] group, holding a submachine gun, left little doubt in my mind who was in charge. That he wasn’t smiling best describes the look on his face . . . . Kellerman took an erect stance and brought his firearm into a ready position. The other men in suits followed course by draping their coattails behind the butts of their holstered pistols.” When Dr. Rose insisted on holding the body in Dallas for autopsy, explaining, “You can’t lose the chain of evidence,” one of the men in suits screamed, “Goddamit, get your ass out of the way before you get hurt,” and another snapped, “We’re taking the body now.”
“Strange, I thought, this President is getting more protection dead than he did when he was alive,” writes Dr. Crenshaw. “Had Dr. Rose not stepped aside, I’m sure they would have shot him. They would have killed me and anyone else who got in their way.” The intervening years “neither erased the fer that I felt nor diminished the impression that that incident made upon me.”
Why were the conspirators so adamant about taking the body out of Dallas that they were willing to resort to murder to do so, if it came to that?
Lifton’s Best Evidence, which caused one of the great paradigm shifts in my understanding of the case, assembles a wealth of factual evidence to prove that Kennedy’s body was surreptitiously altered. The purpose of the alteration was to obscure the original wounds and make it appear that Kennedy was shot only from behind and not from the front. . . .
This is only a tangential remark. The Democrats who are at this moment (17:00 hours EST January 11) initiating an impeachment process against the U.S. President for incitement to insurrection. One after the other, they’re expressing their ire at Donald Trump because of the fact that “he withheld arms deliveries to Ukraine to pressure its officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son”. For the background to the first Trump impeachment in which this was the central issue, see Dave Emory’s article at https://tinyurl.com/y6xorfry The first link inside the target page is important, with an audio archive link, but has been changed, so I’ll put the correct link here: https://tinyurl.com/y6kpby9s
https://abcn.ws/2LonujZ
Starting this week and running through at least Inauguration Day, armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols and at the U.S. Capitol, according to an internal FBI bulletin obtained by ABC News.
The FBI has also received information in recent days on a group calling for “storming” state, local and federal government courthouses and administrative buildings in the event President Donald Trump is removed from office prior to Inauguration Day. The group is also planning to “storm” government offices in every state the day President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated, regardless of whether the states certified electoral votes for Biden or Trump.
“The FBI received information about an identified armed group intending to travel to Washington, DC on 16 January,” the bulletin read. “They have warned that if Congress attempts to remove POTUS via the 25th Amendment, a huge uprising will occur.”
Nearly one week since the attack at the Capitol, key federal agencies “have yet to brief the public directly,” CNN’s Geneva Sands, Jeremy Herb and Christina Carrega report.
The US Capitol Police is mute. The FBI, Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security have all failed to hold a single press conference. “The US experienced a terrorist attack,” Jake Tapper said on Twitter, “and yet not one federal law enforcement agency has held a press conference to give even basic information about what happened. Not DOJ nor DHS nor the WH. A total dereliction of leadership.”
Questions are piling up — but few officials are answering. I began hearing concerns about this late last week, and the complaints reached a crescendo on Monday. “It has been five days since the most significant attack on a branch of the United States government since British forces set fire to the U.S. Capitol in 1814, and yet the American public has not heard from federal law enforcement authorities,” Democratic Reps. Joe Neguse of California and Veronica Escobar of Texas said in a letter Monday.
As if to prove the point, the US Capitol Police did not respond to CNN’s request for comment about this problem. And DHS “did not respond to questions on whether the department plans to hold a news conference in the coming days and why it hasn’t done so already.”
@Mary Benton–
What is the link/reference for this?
That will be a welcome addition.
Best,
Dave
This article is from Wikipedia and is quite long but, well written and comprehensive. To understand how far right the US has become, the National Association of Manufacturers is now a moderating force in our Society. George Seldes used to classify it as a fascist organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol
Some sections from this include the following:
Planning of the storming
Trump announced plans for a rally before the January 6 vote count to continue his challenge to the validity of several states’ election results. On December 18, Trump announced on Twitter, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”[95][96] The “Save America March” and rally that preceded the riots at the Capitol were largely organized by Women for America First, a 501(c)(4) organization chaired by Amy Kremer.[97] Women for America First invited its supporters to join a caravan of vehicles traveling to the event.[97] Event management for Trump’s speech was carried out by Event Strategies, a company founded by Tim Unes, who worked for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.[97]
Ali Alexander, a right-wing political activist who took part in organizing the rally and expressed support for the storming as “completely peaceful” was reported as saying in December that Representatives Paul Gosar (R–AZ‑4), Andy Biggs (R–AZ‑5) and Mo Brooks(R–AL‑5) were involved in the planning of “something big”.[98] According to Alexander, “It was to build momentum and pressure and then on the day change hearts and minds of Congress peoples who weren’t yet decided or who saw everyone outside and said, ‘I can’t be on the other side of that mob.’ ” His remarks received considerably more scrutiny after the events of January 6, causing Biggs to respond with a statement denying any relationship between himself and Alexander.[99][100][101]
Women for America First, the 501(c)(4) organization chaired by Amy Kremerwhich organized the “Save America March”, is funded by America First Policies, a pro-Trump dark moneygroup chaired by Linda McMahon, the former administrator of the Small Business Administration.[97] Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said his media company paid $500,000 to book the Ellipse for the pro-Trump rally immediately preceding the riots and claimed that the Trump White House asked him to lead the march to the Capitol.[108]
Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, said on Twitter that Turning Point had sent over 80 buses to the U.S. Capitol.[109]
Other people attempted to raise funds in December via GoFundMe to help pay for transportation to the rally, with limited success.[110] An investigation by BuzzFeed News identified more than a dozen fundraisers to pay for travel to the planned rally. GoFundMe has since deactivated several of the campaigns after the riot, but some campaigns had already raised part or all of their fundraising goals prior to deactivation.[111]
Representative Zoe Lofgren, who chairs a committee responsible for Capitol security, said Capitol Police chief Steven Sund lied to her before the event about the preparations he had made and the readiness of the National Guard.[11] Representative Tim Ryan(D–OH-17), the chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch (which has budgetary authority over the Capitol Police), announced that he would begin an inquiry into security lapses that allowed the violent mob to overrun the Capitol and breach the legislative chambers. Ryan indicated that he expected some officers in the Capitol Police to be fired, and cited a “lack of professional planning and dealing” and “strategic mistakes” ahead of “the insurrection and the attempted coup”.[431] U.S. Representative Anthony G. Brown (D–MD‑4) called for the establishment of a civilian oversightboard for the Capitol Police.[430]
The National Association of Manufacturers also requested Pence to “seriously consider” invoking the 25th Amendment.[525]
International
Internationally, Trump’s allegations of a “stolen” election found a small audience among conspiracy theorists and fringe groups.[615] In Canada, a few dozen people rallied in support of Trump in Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary.[616] At the Vancouver rally, CBC photojournalist Ben Nelms was assaulted by one of the demonstrators.[617][618][619] In Japan, a few hundred people rallied in support of Trump in Tokyo, with several people carrying the U.S. flag and the Rising Sun Flag, a controversial symbol in East Asia due to its association with Japanese imperialism. The gathering in Tokyo was backed by Happy Science, a new religious movement that has been described as a cult, and took place several hours before the rally in Washington, D.C.[615]
I found this article: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/capitol-police-suicide
to be interesting. Was there mind control going on within the US Capital Police force? Might explain some of the inadequacies of the response?