Paranoia is for the strong!

Everything is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults & Cover-Ups – Robert Anton Wilson, Miriam Joan Hill (1988)

My man Robert Anton Wilson never disappoints!  His books have blown my mind countless times and altered how I perceive my reality tunnel, all to my benefit.  Robert Anton Wilson (RAW), due to his exposure to so much of the fringe, has compiled a vast storehouse of information on conspiracies, perceived conspiracies, and the people involved in them.  With this book, he has created an encyclopedic collection of most of the important names, places, and events dealt with by “conspiratologists.” 

The listings are alphabetical and nearly every one provides links to further online reading about the subject.  Everything is covered, from the far-right (“The Federal Reserve is run by communists!”), to the far-left (“The Federal Reserve is run by fascists!”), and from ridiculously implausible ideas (“Jesus was an alien from Orion and the Opus Dei organization keeps this a secret”) to actual real-life conspiracies that came to light (The P2 conspiracy where the Vatican, the CIA, and the MAFIA were all hand in hand creating many dozens of fake banks worldwide and laundering cocaine money, or the Iran/Contra conspiracy where the CIA was buying cocaine with guns and selling the cocaine in the USA to buy more guns, in an effort to undermine the elected government of Nicaragua).  The overall effect either leaves you doubting everything you hear or open to anything you may hear.  Either way it is a good change from the norm!

"They" were out to get Hunter S. Thompson too....

There are many people these days that dismiss anything called a “conspiracy” with a shrug, as if the very term “conspiracy” means fanciful or make-believe.  This is part of the ruse!!!  Conspiracies are very real and take place every day all around us.  If they were not real why does every government in the world have laws against conspiracy, and top secret intelligence offices to combat conspiracy?  Only the truly deluded and stupid dismiss outright the idea that conspiracies exist.  The world is full of unscrupulous people, all with specific agendas, and all with the desire to avoid the eye of the government or the police.  It happens every single day, especially IN the government, as organizations like the CIA do not have to report what they do to anyone, and purposefully maintain shields and ruses to deflect attention away from their actual activities.  Those that get too close to uncovering the truth are “exposed” as quacks believing in conspiracy theories, and the idiots who like to live their lives thinking as little as possible automatically dismiss them.  Like RAW quotes in this book, “Just because you’re paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you.”

(To read this book, click here: http://endthelie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Everything-Is-Under-Control-Conspiracies-Cults-and-Cover-ups-0062734172.pdf )

Was the J.F.K. "Zapruder" film a forgery?

"The Great Zapruder Film Hoax: Deceit and Deception in the Death of JFK" by James Fetzer (2003)

Nothing in the past 100 years of USA history sparks more detailed analysis than the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  Nearly every single associated item, person, place and topic that can be pored over has been pored over, with wildly varying results and levels of validity.  This book is by a university professor who took a deep interest in the assassination, and specifically brought his technical filming and photography knowledge to the analysis of the Zapruder film.  Everyone has seen this film as it was disseminated worldwide following the assassination.

 

It blew everyone's mind!

            Mr. James Fetzer makes the claim that the Zapruder film we all know is a forgery, created by the FBI to hide the true events of that day in Dallas, TX.  As a film historian and analyst, he brings to our attention many details that a non-specialist would never notice.

            For one thing, the original Zapruder film was confiscated by the Dallas Police when Mr. Zapruder supposedly turned it in as evidence.  From there it was taken by the FBI, sent for processing to Kodak’s headquarters, and then released to the public later.  The original film has been “lost,” which is straight bullshit considering the primal importance of such a first-person recording of the event.  The film the FBI received back from Kodak and released days later to the media was edited severely, missing frames and whole sequences of frames, being cropped, and in other ways altered.  The question is raised as to why someone would do such a thing, and why, unless there was something to hide.

            Much of the book deals with people and places that are peripheral to the film.  Eyewitness accounts collected by police and media in the days following the assassination, while consistent with each other, are not consistent with what the released Zapruder film shows.

            Like all JFK related literature, this book has to deal in slightly vague terms, because government archives are still classified as top secret to this day, and the FBI will not allow their copies of the film to be viewed by anyone without the proper clearance.  Nothing the government does ever sheds any light on the topic and it just creates more and more issues.

            Mr. Fetzer makes an extremely compelling case for the falsification of the original Zapruder film.  Until there is an actual release of the hidden files, it is up to people like Mr. Fetzer to try and understand what they can about this horrible event, and the reasons and meanings behind it.

( To read another review of this book from Assassination Research click here: http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v3n2/v3n2dellarosa.pdf )