Jim Garrison on "The Steve Allen Show" in 1971: Just think where we'd be now if "our free press" would always give such mavericks a respectful hearing, instead of jeering them (as the CIA requires)
Jim Garrison on "The Steve Allen Show" in 1971: Just think where we'd be now if "our free press" would always give such mavericks a respectful hearing, instead of jeering them (as the CIA requires)
Garrison was a great man and a patriot-- one of the true heroic figures of the last 100 years and one of the first to have his reputation so unfairly destroyed by the CIA propaganda machine. Here is a great quote from a Playboy Interview he did in 1967:
"I was with the artillery supporting the division that took Dachau; I arrived there the day after it was taken, when bulldozers were making pyramids of human bodies outside the camp. What I saw there has haunted me ever since. Because the law is my profession, I've always wondered about the judges throughout Germany who sentenced men to jail for picking pockets at a time when their own government was jerking gold from the teeth of men murdered in gas chambers. I'm concerned about all of this because it isn't a German phenomenon; it's a human phenomenon. It can happen here, because there has been no change and there has been no progress and there has been no increase of understanding on the part of men for their fellow man.
What worries me deeply, and I have seen it exemplified in this case, is that we in America are in great danger of slowly evolving into a proto-fascist state. It will be a different kind of fascist state from the one of the Germans evolved; theirs grew out of depression and promised bread and work, while ours, curiously enough, seems to be emerging from prosperity. But in the final analysis, it's based on power and on the inability to put human goals and human conscience above the dictates of the state. Its origins can be traced in the tremendous war machine we've built since 1945, the "military-industrial complex" that Eisenhower vainly warned us about, which now dominates every aspect of our life. The power of the states and Congress has gradually been abandoned to the Executive Department, because of war conditions; and we've seen the creation of an arrogant, swollen bureaucratic complex totally unfettered by the checks and balances of the Constitution.
In a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you can't spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You can't look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they won't be there. We won't build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effective in keeping the populace in line. We're not going to wake up one morning and suddenly find ourselves in gray uniforms goose-stepping off to work. But this isn't the test. The test is: What happens to the individual who dissents? In Nazi Germany, he was physically destroyed; here, the process is more subtle, but the end results can be the same.
I've learned enough about the machinations of the CIA in the past year to know that this is no longer the dreamworld America I once believed in. The imperatives of the population explosion, which almost inevitably will lessen our belief in the sanctity of the individual human life, combined with the awesome power of the CIA and the defense establishment, seem destined to seal the fate of the America I knew as a child and bring us into a new Orwellian world where the citizen exists for the state and where raw power justifies any and every immoral act. I've always had a kind of knee-jerk trust in my Government's basic integrity, whatever political blunders it may make. But I've come to realize that in Washington, deceiving and manipulating the public are viewed by some as the natural prerogatives of office. Huey Long once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism." I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."
"The clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effective in keeping the populace in line." -- I always thought this observation was bloody brilliant...and this was 1967!
I have my issues with Steve Bannon. He says and does many things I agree with. And he says and does some things I don't agree with, and don't trust him on. That said, when people finally hear a side of a debate they've never heard before, been told horrible things about and avoided they can change their minds. This video is from a debate held in Canada in front of a VERY liberal audience, an audience that was outwardly hostile to Steve Bannon and supportive of David Frum throughout it. An audience that groaned at Bannon, mockingly laughed at him, applauded all of the liberal talking points they shared with Frum and the moderator, who is an "elite" liberal, not a populist. The audience was surveyed at the beginning and the end of the debate about which side of the issue they were on. The shift was dramatic and unexpected.
The future is Populist or Liberal?
From pre-debate: Populist 28% - Liberal 72%
To post-debate: Populist 57% - Liberal 43%
Steve Bannon vs David Frum - The Rise of Populism - Munk Debate Nov 2, 2018
Because when people hear a side they have never heard before, from the mouth of the person who holds those ideas instead of through a filter that applies a bias, they become more open-minded to an idea they thought they knew their position on before. And this debate is an example of why we are so censored. The powers, government and industry, know the power of free speech reaching ears that haven't heard censored ideas before. And they fear a population that does hear them. For good reason. They know their ideas are losers in free and fair debates. Even in front of liberal, progressive, "elite" audiences.
Wonderful piece and fun flashback for old timers who have been paying attention in real time. The next point you mentioned in the Jimmy Dore segment and elsewhere but it will nag me forever not to note it at every opening.
"leftist luminaries as Alexander Cockburn and Noam Chomsky. "
Covid showed Chomsky to be anything but true liberal by casting everyone opting out of liability free mRNA transfection experiments as unfit to enjoy basic human rights... eff that unapologetic poser!
In the evening of November 22, 1963, when my husband (a psychologist) & I were watching the on-going assassination news on San Francisco TV, we kept saying to one another...this picture does not work (in today's parlance "this does not compute"). I grew up in a scientific family & loved mysteries & my husband was aways analyzing people's behaviors. From Lee Harvey Oswald, to Jack Ruby, to?... we kept saying something is wrong. Then there was a report from Jim Garrison, a few days later, & his overview worked for us. We were then called "conspiracy theorists" but in the long run & when Garrison became more of a popular news item, the conspiracy part began to dissipate. Of course, just about then Bobby Kennedy & Martin Luther King were murdered! ALL CIA???
It appears that every generation has its false flags. For me it was Waco, 9/11 and Sandy Hook. I kind of ran out of gas after that. As GW Bush said, "Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me." I can't wrap my head around the idiots who continue to believe officialdom. If the media lied about Kennedy's assassination, why should they be trusted ever again. Mass double think going on.
Steve Allen was one of the largest real estate holders in California besides Gene Autry and Bob Hope, and I believe he was a Republican, at the very least an Independent...he made a series on PBS in the 70s something about "the greatest minds in history", because he wanted everyone to have knowledge...in other words he had f u money, so being cancelled didn't affect his bottom line so to speak...also of note is Harry Connick Jr's father was the DA in New Orleans when Pres Kennedy was killed and they knew Garrison well...Mort Sahl had a kind of breakdown as he was supposed to do comedy, but was reading from the Warren Commission Report, which in a way I suppose was a kind of twisted "comedy", but anyway, the audiences didn't appreciate it...eventually he ended up in DC doing a radio show for many yrs, and somehow became friends with Alexander Haig and Reagan...he moved back to LA in the 90s, and I met him at the local farmers market in Westwood Village, where UCLA is, that is where I was living at the time, it was around 1999 or 2000, his son was performing in a jazz band at the market...
The day may come when time seems to hang suspended, when weeds cover our deserted streets and when the only sound is the arrogant squeak of the rat swarms, eager now for their turn at evolution. Someone from a distant place, searching through our artifacts, may chance upon a human skull. Perhaps he will pick it up, looking through the goggled sockets at the dusty hollow where a handful of gray tissue once took the measure of the universe.
“Alas, poor man,” he might say. “A fellow of most infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where are your gibbets now? Your thumbscrews and your gallows? Your treasured hates and your fond cruelties?
“What happened to your disinterested millions? Your uncommitted and uninvolved, your preoccupied and bored? Where are their private horizons and their mirrored worlds of self? Where is their splendid indifference today?
Simply great post.. The US will never escape its' downward spiral until the cold case of 1963 is reopened and the perpetrators whether living or dead are tried and convicted.
It's funny, I have been thinking about the assassination all day. I've been reading another book on the subject and it had occurred to me that the National Security State is the elephant in the room. I was reading Seymour Hersh's substack this morning--an interview with Tom Frank--and became really irritated at their description and interpretation of the political landscape (their incomprehension and inability to come to terms with Trump and their interpretation of January 6th, to be precise). It seems clear, startlingly so, that their failure to comprehend the deep anger and distrust of a large portion of the constituency stems from the refusal to acknowledge any truth about JFKs assassination. By now it's a long litany of crimes, both foreign and domestic and for me, as well as many Americans, the hypocrisy coupled with the sanctimony of government, politicians and our National Security State has simply become too much to bear.
Great compilation and I can tell you that there once were many of these videos available on-line. That has changed. We all know why. They continue to erase and rewrite history. They will fail! Libraries of Alexandria are all over the world. Let's just hope that real history is being passed down to the youth they are sure won't have a clue of the how, why's and who responsible for their own enslavement.
The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848; there were European believers scattered among small active groups of abolitionists in the USA. Bankers have created every financial panic we have had. Politicians who opposed them ended up dead. Almost every single one. How many of the influential people of the plandemic are participants at WEF? Every single one? Wild Bill Donovan certainly worked to fulfill an agenda, one that was not only his. There was a plan written long ago, that spoke of taking over all media, among other actions; the free press has undergone a coup, and it is wholly bought and paid for now. The conspiracy is very old, the new era has some new features, but the underlying aims remain the same. This is a spiritual war, the same attempt to overthrow the God of Creation that has existed from the beginning.
Garrison was a great man and a patriot-- one of the true heroic figures of the last 100 years and one of the first to have his reputation so unfairly destroyed by the CIA propaganda machine. Here is a great quote from a Playboy Interview he did in 1967:
"I was with the artillery supporting the division that took Dachau; I arrived there the day after it was taken, when bulldozers were making pyramids of human bodies outside the camp. What I saw there has haunted me ever since. Because the law is my profession, I've always wondered about the judges throughout Germany who sentenced men to jail for picking pockets at a time when their own government was jerking gold from the teeth of men murdered in gas chambers. I'm concerned about all of this because it isn't a German phenomenon; it's a human phenomenon. It can happen here, because there has been no change and there has been no progress and there has been no increase of understanding on the part of men for their fellow man.
What worries me deeply, and I have seen it exemplified in this case, is that we in America are in great danger of slowly evolving into a proto-fascist state. It will be a different kind of fascist state from the one of the Germans evolved; theirs grew out of depression and promised bread and work, while ours, curiously enough, seems to be emerging from prosperity. But in the final analysis, it's based on power and on the inability to put human goals and human conscience above the dictates of the state. Its origins can be traced in the tremendous war machine we've built since 1945, the "military-industrial complex" that Eisenhower vainly warned us about, which now dominates every aspect of our life. The power of the states and Congress has gradually been abandoned to the Executive Department, because of war conditions; and we've seen the creation of an arrogant, swollen bureaucratic complex totally unfettered by the checks and balances of the Constitution.
In a very real and terrifying sense, our Government is the CIA and the Pentagon, with Congress reduced to a debating society. Of course, you can't spot this trend to fascism by casually looking around. You can't look for such familiar signs as the swastika, because they won't be there. We won't build Dachaus and Auschwitzes; the clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effective in keeping the populace in line. We're not going to wake up one morning and suddenly find ourselves in gray uniforms goose-stepping off to work. But this isn't the test. The test is: What happens to the individual who dissents? In Nazi Germany, he was physically destroyed; here, the process is more subtle, but the end results can be the same.
I've learned enough about the machinations of the CIA in the past year to know that this is no longer the dreamworld America I once believed in. The imperatives of the population explosion, which almost inevitably will lessen our belief in the sanctity of the individual human life, combined with the awesome power of the CIA and the defense establishment, seem destined to seal the fate of the America I knew as a child and bring us into a new Orwellian world where the citizen exists for the state and where raw power justifies any and every immoral act. I've always had a kind of knee-jerk trust in my Government's basic integrity, whatever political blunders it may make. But I've come to realize that in Washington, deceiving and manipulating the public are viewed by some as the natural prerogatives of office. Huey Long once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism." I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."
"The clever manipulation of the mass media is creating a concentration camp of the mind that promises to be far more effective in keeping the populace in line." -- I always thought this observation was bloody brilliant...and this was 1967!
I have my issues with Steve Bannon. He says and does many things I agree with. And he says and does some things I don't agree with, and don't trust him on. That said, when people finally hear a side of a debate they've never heard before, been told horrible things about and avoided they can change their minds. This video is from a debate held in Canada in front of a VERY liberal audience, an audience that was outwardly hostile to Steve Bannon and supportive of David Frum throughout it. An audience that groaned at Bannon, mockingly laughed at him, applauded all of the liberal talking points they shared with Frum and the moderator, who is an "elite" liberal, not a populist. The audience was surveyed at the beginning and the end of the debate about which side of the issue they were on. The shift was dramatic and unexpected.
The future is Populist or Liberal?
From pre-debate: Populist 28% - Liberal 72%
To post-debate: Populist 57% - Liberal 43%
Steve Bannon vs David Frum - The Rise of Populism - Munk Debate Nov 2, 2018
https://youtu.be/qA50BE7d1X8
Because when people hear a side they have never heard before, from the mouth of the person who holds those ideas instead of through a filter that applies a bias, they become more open-minded to an idea they thought they knew their position on before. And this debate is an example of why we are so censored. The powers, government and industry, know the power of free speech reaching ears that haven't heard censored ideas before. And they fear a population that does hear them. For good reason. They know their ideas are losers in free and fair debates. Even in front of liberal, progressive, "elite" audiences.
Wonderful piece and fun flashback for old timers who have been paying attention in real time. The next point you mentioned in the Jimmy Dore segment and elsewhere but it will nag me forever not to note it at every opening.
"leftist luminaries as Alexander Cockburn and Noam Chomsky. "
Covid showed Chomsky to be anything but true liberal by casting everyone opting out of liability free mRNA transfection experiments as unfit to enjoy basic human rights... eff that unapologetic poser!
In the evening of November 22, 1963, when my husband (a psychologist) & I were watching the on-going assassination news on San Francisco TV, we kept saying to one another...this picture does not work (in today's parlance "this does not compute"). I grew up in a scientific family & loved mysteries & my husband was aways analyzing people's behaviors. From Lee Harvey Oswald, to Jack Ruby, to?... we kept saying something is wrong. Then there was a report from Jim Garrison, a few days later, & his overview worked for us. We were then called "conspiracy theorists" but in the long run & when Garrison became more of a popular news item, the conspiracy part began to dissipate. Of course, just about then Bobby Kennedy & Martin Luther King were murdered! ALL CIA???
It appears that every generation has its false flags. For me it was Waco, 9/11 and Sandy Hook. I kind of ran out of gas after that. As GW Bush said, "Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me." I can't wrap my head around the idiots who continue to believe officialdom. If the media lied about Kennedy's assassination, why should they be trusted ever again. Mass double think going on.
Steve Allen was one of the largest real estate holders in California besides Gene Autry and Bob Hope, and I believe he was a Republican, at the very least an Independent...he made a series on PBS in the 70s something about "the greatest minds in history", because he wanted everyone to have knowledge...in other words he had f u money, so being cancelled didn't affect his bottom line so to speak...also of note is Harry Connick Jr's father was the DA in New Orleans when Pres Kennedy was killed and they knew Garrison well...Mort Sahl had a kind of breakdown as he was supposed to do comedy, but was reading from the Warren Commission Report, which in a way I suppose was a kind of twisted "comedy", but anyway, the audiences didn't appreciate it...eventually he ended up in DC doing a radio show for many yrs, and somehow became friends with Alexander Haig and Reagan...he moved back to LA in the 90s, and I met him at the local farmers market in Westwood Village, where UCLA is, that is where I was living at the time, it was around 1999 or 2000, his son was performing in a jazz band at the market...
We certainly could use Jim Garrison now.
"Disappointing" doesn't really cover it. It was all so much worse than most of us had any clue about.
The complete copy of the 197 A HERITAGE OF STONE paperback is available here in HTML, PDF, and text-only formats:
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/HeritageOfStone/index.html
from Chapter 9, Nightfall:
The day may come when time seems to hang suspended, when weeds cover our deserted streets and when the only sound is the arrogant squeak of the rat swarms, eager now for their turn at evolution. Someone from a distant place, searching through our artifacts, may chance upon a human skull. Perhaps he will pick it up, looking through the goggled sockets at the dusty hollow where a handful of gray tissue once took the measure of the universe.
“Alas, poor man,” he might say. “A fellow of most infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where are your gibbets now? Your thumbscrews and your gallows? Your treasured hates and your fond cruelties?
“What happened to your disinterested millions? Your uncommitted and uninvolved, your preoccupied and bored? Where are their private horizons and their mirrored worlds of self? Where is their splendid indifference today?
“Now you can be silent forever.”
SEE ALSO:
3rd Mvmt: Jim Garrison’s Heritage of Stone
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/DtoPviaXR.html#s3-JGsHoS
Simply great post.. The US will never escape its' downward spiral until the cold case of 1963 is reopened and the perpetrators whether living or dead are tried and convicted.
Thanks Mark. This is a wildly important piece.
It's funny, I have been thinking about the assassination all day. I've been reading another book on the subject and it had occurred to me that the National Security State is the elephant in the room. I was reading Seymour Hersh's substack this morning--an interview with Tom Frank--and became really irritated at their description and interpretation of the political landscape (their incomprehension and inability to come to terms with Trump and their interpretation of January 6th, to be precise). It seems clear, startlingly so, that their failure to comprehend the deep anger and distrust of a large portion of the constituency stems from the refusal to acknowledge any truth about JFKs assassination. By now it's a long litany of crimes, both foreign and domestic and for me, as well as many Americans, the hypocrisy coupled with the sanctimony of government, politicians and our National Security State has simply become too much to bear.
Thanks for posting this, Jim Garrison was a good guy and very brave.
Another fake virus will be coming soon. In 2025, I think. I hope more people will be aware.
Great compilation and I can tell you that there once were many of these videos available on-line. That has changed. We all know why. They continue to erase and rewrite history. They will fail! Libraries of Alexandria are all over the world. Let's just hope that real history is being passed down to the youth they are sure won't have a clue of the how, why's and who responsible for their own enslavement.
The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848; there were European believers scattered among small active groups of abolitionists in the USA. Bankers have created every financial panic we have had. Politicians who opposed them ended up dead. Almost every single one. How many of the influential people of the plandemic are participants at WEF? Every single one? Wild Bill Donovan certainly worked to fulfill an agenda, one that was not only his. There was a plan written long ago, that spoke of taking over all media, among other actions; the free press has undergone a coup, and it is wholly bought and paid for now. The conspiracy is very old, the new era has some new features, but the underlying aims remain the same. This is a spiritual war, the same attempt to overthrow the God of Creation that has existed from the beginning.