tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post1174199577801772664..comments2023-11-05T03:25:20.581-08:00Comments on STOP THE MADNESS: CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MACHINERick Staggenborg, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-64310556249928362962011-02-24T17:11:04.601-08:002011-02-24T17:11:04.601-08:00I just picked up a copy of Jesse Ventura's Ame...I just picked up a copy of Jesse Ventura's American Conspiracies. To my delight, he started with a look at the evidence for the Lincoln assassination as involving a conspiracy that included not only industrial war profiteers who benefited from tearing up his Reconstruction plan, but high level figures in government. <br /><br />Ventura gives a rational argument that Secretary of War (they were less coy in those days)Stanton may have not come to admire Lincoln as much as most historians have concluded and in fact may have been involved in allowing the Booth plot to go forward and covering it up later.<br /><br />He concurs with my assessment that the "amazing" circumstances that contributed to the success of the assassination were not by chance but design. Motive and opportunity established, he goes into more detail about how the lot was carried out, facts of which the average American is totally unaware but which illustrate the cunning of fascists in America willing to make a martyr out of an enemy to achieve total support for their fascist agenda. <br /><br />This may have been the first coup in American history, though some say the bizarre manner of Zachary Taylor's sudden death may indicate that he was poisoned, perhaps because of his stance on containing slavery. This was NOT part of the fascist plan to use slavery to economically subjugate not only Blacks but poor whites.<br /><br />Ventura's book is a good read. I am looking forward to reading the next section, about the conspiracy to murder Kennedy for challenging the international corporate terrorists who lied us into war in Vietnam. <br /><br />I don't like to believe it, but a lot of my friends who know more than me about the subject think that Johnson was involved in that. It is of course widely believed that future Nixon Presidential aide G. Gordon Liddy and future President H. W. Bush were on or near the grassy knoll on November 22, 1963.Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.com