LBJ the Zionist

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A friend in deed
Sep. 9, 2008
Lenny Ben-David , THE JERUSALEM POST

A few weeks ago, the Associated Press reported that newly released tapes from US president Lyndon Johnson's White House office showed LBJ's "personal and often emotional connection to Israel." The news agency pointed out that during the Johnson presidency (1963-1969), "the United States became Israel's chief diplomatic ally and primary arms supplier."

But the news report does little to reveal the full historical extent of Johnson's actions on behalf of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Most students of the Arab-Israeli conflict can identify Johnson as the president during the 1967 war. But few know about LBJ's actions to rescue hundreds of endangered Jews during the Holocaust - actions that could have thrown him out of Congress and into jail. Indeed, the title of "Righteous Gentile" is certainly appropriate in the case of the Texan, whose centennial year is being commemorated this year.

Appropriately enough, the annual Jerusalem Conference announced this week that it will honor Johnson in February 2009.

Historians have revealed that Johnson, while serving as a young congressman in 1938 and 1939, arranged for visas to be supplied to Jews in Warsaw, and oversaw the apparently illegal immigration of hundreds of Jews through the port of Galveston, Texas.

A key resource for uncovering LBJ's pro-Jewish activity is the unpublished 1989 doctoral thesis by University of Texas student Louis Gomolak, "Prologue: LBJ's Foreign Affairs Background, 1908-1948." Johnson's activities were confirmed by other historians in interviews with his wife, family members and political associates.

Research into Johnson's personal history indicates that he inherited his concern for the Jewish people from his family. His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher, a major influence on LBJ, was a member of the Zionist Organization of America. According to Gomolak, Aunt Jessie had nurtured LBJ's commitment to befriending Jews for 50 years. As a young boy, Lyndon watched his politically active grandfather "Big Sam" and father "Little Sam" seek clemency for Leo Frank, the Jewish victim of a blood libel in Atlanta. Frank was lynched by a mob in 1915, and the Ku Klux Klan in Texas threatened to kill the Johnsons. The Johnsons later told friends that Lyndon's family hid in their cellar while his father and uncles stood guard with shotguns on their porch in case of KKK attacks. Johnson's speechwriter later stated, "Johnson often cited Leo Frank's lynching as the source of his opposition to both anti-Semitism and isolationism."

Already in 1934 - four years before Chamberlain's Munich sellout to Hitler - Johnson was keenly alert to the dangers of Nazism and presented a book of essays, Nazism: An Assault on Civilization, to the 21-year-old woman he was courting, Claudia Taylor - later known as "Lady Bird" Johnson. It was an incredible engagement present.

FIVE DAYS after taking office in 1937, LBJ broke with the "Dixiecrats" and supported an immigration bill that would naturalize illegal aliens, mostly Jews from Lithuania and Poland. In 1938, Johnson was told of a young Austrian Jewish musician who was about to be deported from the United States. With an element of subterfuge, LBJ sent him to the US Consulate in Havana to obtain a residency permit. Erich Leinsdorf, the world famous musician and conductor, credited LBJ for saving his live.

That same year, LBJ warned a Jewish friend, Jim Novy, that European Jews faced annihilation. "Get as many Jewish people as possible out [of Germany and Poland]," were Johnson's instructions. Somehow, Johnson provided him with a pile of signed immigration papers that were used to get 42 Jews out of Warsaw.

But that wasn't enough. According to historian James M. Smallwood, Congressman Johnson used legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle "hundreds of Jews into Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. Enough money could buy false passports and fake visas in Cuba, Mexico and other Latin American countries.... Johnson smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into Texas. He hid them in the Texas National Youth Administration... Johnson saved at least four or five hundred Jews, possibly more."

During World War II Johnson joined Novy at a small Austin gathering to sell $65,000 in war bonds. According to Gomolak, Novy and Johnson then raised a very "substantial sum for arms for Jewish underground fighters in Palestine." One source cited by the historian reports that "Novy and Johnson had been secretly shipping heavy crates labeled 'Texas Grapefruit' - but containing arms - to Jewish underground 'freedom fighters' in Palestine."

ON JUNE 4, 1945, Johnson visited Dachau. According to Smallwood, Lady Bird later recalled that when her husband returned home, "he was still shaken, stunned, terrorized and bursting with an overpowering revulsion and incredulous horror at what he had seen."

A decade later while serving in the Senate, Johnson blocked the Eisenhower administration's attempts to apply sanctions against Israel following the 1956 Sinai Campaign. "The indefatigable Johnson had never ceased pressure on the administration," wrote I.L. "Si" Kenen, the head of AIPAC at the time.

As Senate majority leader, Johnson consistently blocked the anti-Israel initiatives of his fellow Democrat, William Fulbright, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Among Johnson's closest advisers during this period were several strong pro-Israel advocates, including Benjamin Cohen (who 30 years earlier was the liaison between Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis and Chaim Weizmann) and Abe Fortas, the legendary Washington "insider."

Johnson's concern for the Jewish people continued through his presidency. Soon after taking office in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Johnson told an Israeli diplomat, "You have lost a very great friend, but you have found a better one."

Just one month after succeeding Kennedy, LBJ attended the December 1963 dedication of the Agudas Achim Synagogue in Austin. Novy opened the ceremony by saying to Johnson, "We can't thank him enough for all those Jews he got out of Germany during the days of Hitler."

Lady Bird would later describe the day, according to Gomolak: "Person after person plucked at my sleeve and said, 'I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for him. He helped me get out.'" Lady Bird elaborated, "Jews had been woven into the warp and woof of all [Lyndon's] years."

THE PRELUDE to the 1967 war was a terrifying period for Israel, with the US State Department led by the historically unfriendly Dean Rusk urging an evenhanded policy despite Arab threats and acts of aggression. Johnson held no such illusions. After the war he placed the blame firmly on Egypt: "If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other, it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision [by Egypt] that the Strait of Tiran would be closed [to Israeli ships and Israeli-bound cargo]."

Kennedy was the first president to approve the sale of defensive US weapons to Israel, specifically Hawk anti-aircraft missiles. But Johnson approved tanks and fighter jets, all vital after the 1967 war when France imposed a freeze on sales to Israel. Yehuda Avner recently described on these pages prime minister Levi Eshkol's successful appeal for these weapons on a visit to the LBJ ranch.

Israel won the 1967 war, and Johnson worked to make sure it also won the peace. "I sure as hell want to be careful and not run out on little Israel," Johnson said in a March 1968 conversation with his ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg, according to White House tapes recently released.

Soon after the 1967 war, Soviet premier Aleksei Kosygin asked Johnson at the Glassboro Summit why the US supported Israel when there were 80 million Arabs and only three million Israelis. "Because it is right," responded the straight-shooting Texan.

The crafting of UN Resolution 242 in November 1967 was done under Johnson's scrutiny. The call for "secure and recognized boundaries" was critical. The American and British drafters of the resolution opposed Israel returning all the territories captured in the war. In September 1968, Johnson explained, "We are not the ones to say where other nations should draw lines between them that will assure each the greatest security. It is clear, however, that a return to the situation of 4 June 1967 will not bring peace. There must be secure and there must be recognized borders. Some such lines must be agreed to by the neighbors involved."

Goldberg later noted, "Resolution 242 in no way refers to Jerusalem, and this omission was deliberate." This historic diplomacy was conducted under Johnson's stewardship, as Goldberg related in oral history to the Johnson Library. "I must say for Johnson," Goldberg stated. "He gave me great personal support."

Robert David Johnson, a professor of history at Brooklyn College, recently wrote in The New York Sun, "Johnson's policies stemmed more from personal concerns - his friendship with leading Zionists, his belief that America had a moral obligation to bolster Israeli security and his conception of Israel as a frontier land much like his home state of Texas. His personal concerns led him to intervene when he felt that the State or Defense departments had insufficiently appreciated Israel's diplomatic or military needs."

President Johnson firmly pointed American policy in a pro-Israel direction. In a historical context, the American emergency airlift to Israel in 1973, the constant diplomatic support, the economic and military assistance and the strategic bonds between the two countries can all be credited to the seeds planted by LBJ.

The writer served as deputy chief of mission of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Today, an international consultant, he blogs at www.lennybendavid.com.

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As a young adult, Lyndon Johnson taught school in Cotulla, a poor "Mexican" community south of San Antonio.21 Many of his former students marvelled at his spirit, dedication and self-discipline.22 Lyndon strongly encouraged the young Mexicans to learn English in order to get ahead.23 Possibly he truly had a yearning to help those in need; however, that does not fit most historical accounts of Lyndon Johnson the man. From early adulthood, virtually all of his actions were calculated. Given Lyndon's Huffman, Perrin, Ament family line, it is more likely that he was assisting descendants of Sephardic Jews who migrated to Texas from Spain centuries earlier.

Recently it was disclosed that there are many hispanic Jews living in the San Antonio area. Richard Santos, a hispanic Jew and native of San Antonio, wrote a book entitled Silent Heritage: The Sephardim and the Colonization of the Spanish North American Frontier, 1492-1600.24 Santos spoke of his "crypto-Jewish" heritage at the Texas Jewish Historical Society's 22nd conference on May 11, 2001. Crypto-Jews are Sephardic groups of families who secretly retained their religion and culture after the 15th-century Spanish royal decree deemed it punishable by death. Santos has spent his entire adult life trying to educate the masses about the secret history of his bloodline.25

Stan Hordes, a former New Mexico state historian and professor at the University of New Mexico, described his observations at the same conference.

"One person told me, 'My family just doesn't eat pork—we're allergic to pork,'" Hordes said, explaining the pockets of crypto-Jews who maintain Jewish traditions without even realizing it.26

Among the crypto-Jews that Hordes described, some of the women light menorahs without realizing what they're doing.27

Given this new information about crypto-Jews, plus Johnson's heritage; it is highly plausible that he began his early adult life as a teacher at Cotulla not merely to help disadvantaged hispanics students, but rather to help descendants of Sephardic Jews—crypto-Jews—from Spain who migrated to Mexico and what is now southern Texas. And the reason he felt obliged to help these crypto-Jews was because of his own secret ethnicity.

This information about Sephardic Jews in southern Texas sheds new light on the ethnicity of Lyndon Johnson's wife, Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson (aka, "Lady Bird"). She is apparently a Sephardic Jew of Mexican origin. Although her facial features are consistent with Semitic origin, that alone is not definitive proof. Claudia's mother, Minnie Lee Pattillo, was likely a Sephardic Jew from Mexico. Pattillo is a common Spanish/Mexican name; however, there are no records of Minnie Pattillo's parents so it is entirely possible that they were immigrants. It is quite odd that a first lady—one who lived in the White House less than 40 years ago—has maternal grandparents whose identity is unknown and undocumented.

Minnie Pattillo died in 1918 when Claudia was only five.28 Minnie was born in about 1890 in Karnack, Texas (Harrison County);29 however, she apparently lived in Alabama when Thomas Taylor married her.30 All that is known about Minnie Pattillo is that she had a "spinster" sister, Effie Pattillo (also from Alabama), who helped raise Claudia.31

Claudia Taylor's father was Thomas Jefferson Taylor, II, a prosperous businessman and philanthropist.32 He was the son of Thomas Jefferson Taylor and Emma Louisa Bates.33 Historian Robert Caro wrote that Claudia's father was the "richest man in [Karnack, Texas]."34 Caro also indicated that Johnson's previous two girlfriends—Carol Davis and Kitty Clyde of San Marcos and Johnson City, respectively—were also daughters of the richest men in town.

 

1931: Johnson Came to Washington as Congressman Kleberg's Assistant

Lyndon Johnson began his career in 1931 as the legislative assistant of Congressman Richard M. Kleberg, a wealthy Jewish politician representing the 14th District of Texas. Kleberg was not a serious politician, rather an outwardly friendly man who inherited vast wealth. "A sweeter man that Dick Kleberg never lived," a friend said. "But he was a playboy. As for work, he had no interest in that whatsover."35

Richard Kleberg was one of the wealthiest men in Texas. He inherited twenty percent interest in the King Ranch, the largest ranch in the continental United States;36 a 2,000-square-mile estate with influence extending beyond its borders.37 In fact, Richard Kleberg's father, Robert Kleberg, turned much of South Texas into "Kleberg County."38 Although the ranch dealt in cattle and horses, as well as in sorghum and wheat,39 it also built entire towns, railroads, harbors, colleges, and banks.40 In the 1940s, it contracted oil and gas leases to provide additional income. By the mid-1970s, the ranch owned millions of acres of land in such countries as Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and Morocco; but falling market prices caused them to sell off much of this land in the 1980s.41

The King Ranch was founded in 1852 by Richard King (Richard Kleberg's grandfather), and was expanded significantly by King's son-in-law, Robert Kleberg (Richard Kleberg's father).42 In 1922 Robert Kleberg suffered a stroke and Richard was put in charge of the King Ranch. But Richard's lack of business skills soon caused the King empire to fall into serious financial difficulties. In 1927, the executors of his father's estate removed Richard from authority and put his younger brother in charge of managing the Ranch. Soon the empire was back on its feet. This did not bother Richard because he did not relish the notion of being a businessman.43

Richard Kleberg ran for an open congressional seat merely as a favor to friend, Roy Miller, former "boy mayor of Corpus Christi" and lobbyist for the gigantic Texas Gulf Sulphur Corporation.44 Kleberg replaced Harry Wurchbach who died on November 6, 1931. At that time, Wurchbach was the only Republican Congressman from Texas.45 With Kleberg's election, the Democrats gained control of the House. The new Speaker of the House of Representative was John Nance Garner(Footnote 21) of Texas. Miller was a Garner ally, and in Miller's view, the main qualification for the Democratic nominee to replace Wurchbach was electability. And no one was more popular in the 14th District than a member of the Kleberg family.46
Johnson's Mentor, Senator Alvin Jacob Wirtz

Alvin Jacob Wirtz was a lawyer and legislator, first a state senator from Texas, then a United States Senator for the same state. In 1935, Wirtz came to Washington and helped organize the Lower Colorado River Authority. He specialized in oil and water law and was appointed general counsel to the newly established LCRA. Working closely with United States Representative Lyndon Johnson, he helped the river authority secure grants and loans from the Public Works Administration, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and the Rural Electrification Administration.53

More than any one person, Alvin Wirtz helped pave Lyndon Johnson's early rise to power. Ed Clark, a colleague of Wirtz' for years said of him, "What he wanted was P-O-W-E-R—power over other men. He wanted power, but he didn't want to get it by running for office. He liked to sit quietly, smoke a cigar. He would sit and work in his library, and plan and scheme, and usually he would get somebody out in front of him so that nobody knew it was Alvin Wirtz who was doing it. He would sit and scheme in the dark. He wasn't an outgoing person. But he was the kind of person who didn't want to lose any fights. And he didn't lose many."54

As an attorney, Wirtz had a reputation among collegues for being ruthless. A San Antonio attorney observed that he was "a conniver—a conniver like I never saw before or since. Sharp, cunning." Another attorney commented that "He would gut you if he could. But you would probably never know he did it. I mean, that was a man who would do anything—and he would still be smiling when he slipped you the knife."55

In 1917 Wirtz moved his family to Seguin, where he continued his law practice until 1934. From 1922 to 1930 Wirtz served as state senator from Guadalupe County. During his time in the legislature, Wirtz became involved with a group of citizens interested in the development of the Guadalupe River as a source of hydroelectric power.56 As someone driven by a need to obtain power over men, Wirtz viewed dams as a means of acquiring it.57

In 1934 Wirtz moved to Austin after being run out of Seguin by disgruntled farmers who believed his dam projects had cheated them out of their land. This was result of his dealings with businessman Samuel Insull of Chicago. Insull had retained Wirtz to procure land from farmers along the Guadalupe River for the purpose of building six small dams for irrigation. The farmers were unwilling to sell, but through legal maneuvering, Wirtz got the government to purchase the farmers' land at low prices. On February 26, 1934, Tom Hollamon, Sr—a sixty-seven-year-old farmer and former Texas Ranger—walked into Wirtz's office, where he was meeting with Insull representatives, and began shooting. Before being disarmed, one Chicago financier was dead. Hollamon was arrested for murder, but Wirtz was quickly run out of town by the locals.58

In Austin Wirtz organized the law firm of Powell, Wirtz, Rauhut, and Gideon. Things seemed bleak for awhile, but Roosevelt's New Deal gave him a chance to revive his dream of becoming a power mogul. During Roosevelt's "Hundred Days" portion of the New Deal, $3.3 billion of federal money was slowly released into the economy for public works which included dams. Eventually a $10,000,000 dam project, the Marshall Ford Dam, became the vehicle by which Wirtz could acquire the power he sought. The contract was awarded to one of Wirtz' clients, Brown & Root.59

 
Brown & Root: Johnson's Primary Financial Supporter

Throughout Lyndon Johnson's career, Brown & Root was his biggest financial supporter. Today the company is a huge defense contractor. It was founded by Herman Brown in the 1920s. The son of a Belton, Texas shopkeeper, Herman's career had a humble beginning. But Alvin Wirtz and Lyndon Johnson helped Brown & Root acquire huge defense contracts from President Roosevelt in the late 1930s. The company prospered a great deal after America's entry into World War II. Brown & Root returned the favor by giving Johnson virtually any financial help he requested.

Brown & Root continued to grow as the primary contractor for building military bases. When Johnson got America into the Vietnam War, Brown & Root made a fortune constructing military bases in Southeast Asia. They built the Tan Son Nhut Air Base and reportedly built many of the infamous tiger cages used to brutalize and torture suspected enemies of the Saigon regime.60 Tiger Cages were cells constructed below ground with just enough room to fit one person. Prisoners were put in these as punishment for various infractions of the rules.

As of this writing (2002) Brown & Root is owned by the Halliburton Company, a prestigious defense contractor based in Dallas, Texas. Until July 25, 2000, Vice-President Dick Cheney was CEO and chairman of the board of the Halliburton Company. The following is a profile of the Halliburton Company from Yahoo.com stock quotes:


The Rags to Riches Story of Brown & Root

At the age of sixteen (1909), Herman Brown got a job earning two dollars a day carrying a rod to assist surveyors. For ten years, he lived in a crowded tent for members of the construction crew. In fact, when he got married in 1917, he and his wife, Margaret Root, spent their wedding night in a tent, and a tent was their first home.61

At the age of twenty-one, Herman became a contractor. At that time, successful contractors had to know how to handle mules and men. Herman quickly gained a reputation for getting the maximum amount of work from men working on construction contracts. Later, he took on two partners. As a favor to his wife, Margaret Root, Herman made her brother, Dan Root, a partner; along with Herman's brother George. When Dan Root died, the firm's name remained unchanged out of affection to Herman's wife.62

After the success of the Marshall Ford Dam, Herman Brown was looking for even bigger projects for his construction company. Something big was about to happen. In 1938, Congress, at President Roosevelt's request, had authorized the expenditure of a billion dollars on a "two-ocean" Navy. By early 1939 it had become clear that a substantial portion of that billion would be spent on the construction of naval bases and training stations for a greatly expanded Navy Air Force. On April 26, 1939, Roosevelt had signed into law a bill authorizing the expenditure of $66,800,000 for the first of such bases. Brown's attention was already focused on the Navy because Lyndon Johnson was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee. He decided to bid on one of the bases—in San Juan, Puerto Rico—authorized in the April bill. Unfortunately, Johnson did not have enough influence within the White House, and Brown was not awarded the San Juan contract.63

An important political dynamic had developed between President Roosevelt and his Texan Vice-President John Garner. In 1937 the conservative Garner broke with liberal Roosevelt over the latter's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. In 1940 Garner challenged Roosevelt for the Democratic presidential nomination but lost.64

Meanwhile, there was talk of another naval air base for Texas, on the Gulf of Corpus Christi. Obviously Brown wanted that contract, but he had been a Garner supporter for years. So had Corpus Christi's Congressman, Richard Kleberg. In fact, Kleberg's primary handler, Roy Miller, was Garner's campaign manager. Lyndon Johnson too, had long supported Garner. All parties knew that in order to get the Corpus Christi contract, they would have to unilaterally endorse Roosevelt over Garner. The Texans chose to drop Garner by sending a subtle political signal to Roosevelt rather than overtly pledging their support to him.65


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Hippies

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(Editor's Note: Warning: the following rant contains dialog prompted by the emotional application of Truth, Justice and the American Way, and is intended for mature audiences that have managed to retain, at least, a portion of their capacity for critical thought. It also deals heavily in subjects considered to be "taboo". If you suffer from an over delicate comfort zone, you may want to skip what's coming (not only in this essay, but also in the next six months). In order to skip the immediate future, you might have to leave... - JSB)

Talking 'bout my g-g-g-generation...

Today is Saturday, October 22th, 2011. We are quickly approaching the tenth anniversary of the Silver Bear Cafe which will come in January, 2012. Over the last ten years your editor has scoured, sourced, verified, formatted, re-formatted, adorned, posted and archived over twenty thousand essays and articles from the minds of gracious free thinking pundits around the globe. Most of these patriots are ignored by the mainstream media (an industry that, coincidentally, happens to be owned by the "Darkside"). We have researched subjects normally considered as conspiracy theories by those who would rather remain "clueless sheeple", than to actually react to the tyrannical actions of the criminal minions. The nature of many pieces were exposés, that should have led to the indictments, prosecutions, and executions (or at the very least imprisonment) of the perpetrators of the felonious orgy that has been going on for decades. Contained within "the Bear's" immense, archived body of work lies information which will, in part, corroborate many contentions made in this article. If you doubt any of the contentions of the following diatribe, please take the time to follow the linked references.

Back in the "Olden Days"

With the advent of the "Occupy Wall Street" event, which was initiated September 21st, almost exactly one month ago, I couldn't help being reminded of a series of very similar protest events that I took part in, back in the sixties (1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969 to be precise). Your editor will turn sixty-four in a couple of months (will you still need me, will you still feed me...) and I can proudly say, whoa, I'm an old hippy! I can also say, in a bitter-sweet yet regretful tone, 97% of my generation are not. Too bad. My generation, it has turned out, isn't much of anything. We have ended up, for the most part, (at least the ones of us that didn't turn out to be greed head criminal banksters, or even worse; prevaricating politicians) a mindless group of sheeple baby boomers who are currently concerned (obsessed) with our social security payments (to which we have a right, paid in, the funds of which have been squandered by criminal politicians) with our medicare (to which our right is questionable) with gay marriage (which has absolutely nothing game changing to do with anything) with the left-right paradigm (a contrived distraction... after all, they are all criminal politicians, stealing from everybody) with who is "Dancing with the Stars" (now that's important) and above all, with maintaining our individual status quos. Please do not take offense. If you are reading this, chances are, you are not part of the 97%.

We, as a group, also make up the bulk of the American tax payers The upper and lower classes pay very little and seem to be content just to suckle the teats of the government, whether it's bailouts or subsidized housing. As a result, we (middle class Americans) have become "deer in the headlights" of the criminals banksters and politicians that have been, and continue to be, stealing us blind.

The Wonder Years

When I was was experiencing my wonder years (seventeen through twenty) I, like the Occupy Wall Street Protesters (the OWSers) was also protesting the inequities and misdirection of our government's economic and foreign policies. At that time the main issue was the Vietnam War. My personal motivation was to, primarily, meet some groovy hippy chicks, but secondly, to bitch about an unjust war, into which I might have gotten drafted. I also had to be concerned about not getting shot, by some 97 percenter classmate who had joined National Guard. Little did I know, at the time, that, behind the scenes, there were criminals (banksters and politicians) that were waging the Vietnam war in order to garner illicit profits, much like today, only currently not in Vietnam but in four or five other places. It turned out that it would take me decades of the application of an unbridled curiosity and a veracious appetite for research to sort it all out. In time that research allowed me to verify my suspicions.

The OWSers are, as we were, naïve yutes (ala my cousin Vinny) They do not completely understand what is going on, as we didn't completely understand what was going on in the sixties. We did realize that something was very wrong, that is to say, those of us that were involved in the protests thought there was something very wrong. But those of us involved in the protests made up less than 3% of the total population of the country. We were mocked and ridiculed by our peers and our elders, assaulted by the establishment gestapo (the pigs) and dismissed as commies and wackos by the mainstream media.

Today, the OWSers are being mocked and ridiculed by their peers and their elders, assaulted by the establishment gestapo (the pigs) and dismissed as commies and wackos by the mainstream media. As Yogi Berra once put it: "It's like Déjà Vu all over again! "

 

Slime Ball Politicians

This time, however, these kids have, somehow, become much more aware of the source of the problem. Certainly, the internet has played a considerable role. They haven't completely figured it out yet, but they are getting close. For instance, back in 1967, we had no idea, or even suspected that, four years earlier, Lyndon Johnson had been complicit in the murder of JFK. Most of the sheeple have never even considered that possibility, and certainly don't want to consider it today. Lyndon Johnson was one of the slimiest politicians in the history of the United States (or the world for that matter). Aside from Abraham Lincoln, (who was right on up there with the slimiest) Johnson was responsible for more American deaths than any other single individual. Johnson's Mentor, Senator Alvin Jacob Wirtz (a super slimeball lawyer who taught him everything he knew) held a considerable amount of stock in a company that just happened to be one of his clients; Brown & Root. Alvin Wirtz and Lyndon Johnson helped Brown & Root acquire huge defense contracts (non-competitive) from another slimeball politician; President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the late 1930s. When Johnson got America into the Vietnam War, Brown & Root continued to increase their fortune constructing military bases in Southeast Asia (good work, if you can get it). Throughout Lyndon Johnson's career, Brown & Root was always his single biggest financial supporter. His rivals couldn't begin to match his political warchest, which goes a long way towards explaining his political sucesses. Today that company is Kellogg, Brown & Root, and is wholly owned by Halliburton. LBJ and a group of Texas millionaires (crony capitalism) had also, understandably, become large stock holders of Brown & Root. Kennedy's desire to pull American Troops out of Vietnam (and killing the "cash cow") was totally unacceptable to these stock holders. Killing JFK (which would, in turn, make LBJ the President) was, what they considered, a very workable solution. So, with the additional criminal complicity of the Directors of several alphabet soup agencies as well as the Mafia, the Federal Reserve and the Catholic Church () the Dallas Book Depository became Dallas' most popular tourist attraction (beating out the bars on Greenville Avenue by a hair).

False Flag Operations

Johnson got us in to the Vietnam War with a "False Flag Operation". It was / is known as the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident". Our protests of the Vietnam War, although participated in by, perhaps, less than 3% of the population at the time, would finally help lead to the admission, by Robert McNamara (the Secretary of Defense under both Kennedy and Johnson) that the Gulf of Tonkin incident (the justification for going to war with Vietnam) was a false flag event that didn't happen and was made up by Johnson and his aides. McNamara apparently became so ashamed of his involvement with the criminals in the White House, the Vatican, the FBI and the CIA, that he felt compelled to try and appease his conscience (LOL). In January of 2004, during a speech he was giving at Harvard University, McNamara admitted the lie, that the August 4, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, where US warships were supposedly attacked by North Vietnamese PT Boats, was a staged event that never actually took place. This he stated to an audience of several thousand. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was the false flag operation that put us into the Vietnam War where 58,000 of my generation were killed. There were many who suspected the lies of Vietnam long before McNamara's admission. In a March 1968 closed session of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee (the father of former vice president Al Gore) noted:

    "I believe this country has been misled, if this committee, this Congress, has been misled by pretext into a war in which thousands of young men have died, and many more thousands have been crippled for life, and out of which their country has lost prestige, moral position in the world, the consequences are very great."

Too bad such honor and responsibility were not passed on to the Senator's son, Al Gore, Jr. Al, Jr. hasn't contributed much to the human race since he invented the internet...

It is appalling, yet "par for the course", that 37 years after the Gulf of Tonkin/Vietnam debacle, copy cat criminals of the same ilk, occupying the same White House, who were also major stockholders in the same corporation, (Cheney was Halliburton's former CEO) would successfully pull off the same scam by staging a couple of false flag operations (911, and weapons of mass destruction) to justify the invasion if Iraq, where over 100,000 American soldiers, of the OWSer generation, have been killed or wounded, for the exact same reasons. Halliburton received countless government contracts (again non-competitive) for construction and services in Iraq, to the tune of over sixty billion dollars. We are still in Afghanistan after ten years, protecting the poppy crop and trying to figure out how to steal their other natural resources.

For Those who Would be Kings...

It would appear that criminals have been ascending to positions of power in banking and government since the country was founded. As of late, they have gotten much better at it (we learn by doing). As a result of the recent actions of the criminal collusion between the Government and the Banksters, the whole world has been forced to face a cataclysmic shift. It will not be a positive event, but rather one of a contrived and heinous nature. It will be the intended result of a conspiracy for world domination which has been set to metastasize in to a full blown traumatic threat to the freedom, liberty and well being of humanity world wide. The criminal trusts which own the banks reflect the flaws in the regulation of the system and the disintegrating nature of the American Dream. We must, as a nation, know who our enemies are. The Fabians, Pilgrims, Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations and the Illuminati are all working to assume the status of royalty and rule the world. David Rockefeller, Sr., for instance, is a member of all the groups just mentioned and has chaired most of them. He is probably the most powerful person in America. His lust for wealth and power is second to none. But even he bends a knee to the City of London and the Rothschilds. As far as the sheeple (talking 'bout my g-g-g-generation...) are concerned it doesn't seem to matter. They don't seem to know, or even more disturbing, want to know...

Over the Edge

I believe that America may be heading for a, long overdue, confrontation with itself. The problem is not simply the Darkside Marauders, but, just as culpable, the pandemically apathetic sheeple that have allowed this to happen. I have been predicting for years that the day would arrive when Joe Sixpack wouldn't be able to afford a sixpack and would, as a result, lose it. That day has arrived. The problem is that Joe has no idea as to the cause of his dilemma. He doesn't know that the criminal politicians, both republican and democratic, in league with the criminal Wall Street banksters, who are all working for the criminal Pilgrims and the Fabian Socialists, and who are made up, in part, of the elitist owners of J.P. Morgan Chase (the ring leaders) Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and the Bank of England, who have intentionally orchestrated this whole debacle (not the protests, but the economic meltdown) for their personal benefit, and are, almost wholly responsible. They are intent on reducing the world population to five-hundred-million, and reducing those that remain into debt slaves and serfs. All Joe Sixpack knows is that someone has rendered the fruits of his labors inadequate to secure some relief at the end of the week, and he is pissed. Who rendered the fruits of his labors inadequate? Who diluted the value of a dollar so that it only has 5% of its purchasing power compared to 97 years ago? The Tea Party, whose movement has been so co-opted and diluted by the NeoCons that it, long ago reached the point of impotence, have not yet picked up on the culprits. The governmental teat suckling socialists, which include not only the welfare recipients, but also the "evil 1%ers and their bailouts", remain, pretty much, clueless. It is "We the People" confronting the presence of Totalitarian Martial Law, enacted to protect the perps, described above, from the American population (the OWSers, and, thank goodness, others) that will provide a solution. I'm afraid that, at this point, the solution will not be pretty.

It turns out that the OWSers are a combination of hippy war protesters and a collective Joe Sixpack. They are the true patriots of present day America, They, like those of us so many years ago, know that something is very, very wrong. The unfortunate thing is that they too are being co-opted by the very sources and scoundrels that are responsible for the problems. They were first confronted with the massive "dumbing down campaign" that was initiated by the Carnegie Foundation in 1923.

Rewriting History
Oxford

Back in 1923, the Carnegie Foundation conducted a contest. The prize was a scholarship to Oxford, in England for a PhD. The Foundation placed advertisements in magazines and on the radio seeking history teachers with Advanced Degrees to compete for the prize. The contest amounted to writing an essay about the current state of America. The judges of the contest declared that twenty young history teachers had won and then swept them off to London. There, they were lined up and each bestowed with PhDs from Oxford as well a Fellowship with the Guggenheim Foundation. They received no further education (just the honorifics) but, instead, were brought back the the USA and became the core of the American Historical Association.

In 1928, the American Historical Association was granted $400,000 by the Carnegie Endowment to write a seven volume study on the direction the nation was to take. The thrust of these books was that "the future of this country belongs to collectivism and humanism.", The AHA has since then, determined what history books will be used in all public schools. If your school district receives any Federal funds, then they are mandated, by Congress, to teach history from these revisionist volumes. The Carnegie Foundation (in collusion with the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation) has been rewriting history for the last eighty-five years. Their goal was to create a passive, dumbed down society that would not oppose their vision for the future. Pretty much everything you think you know is made up.

    It's not what you don't know that will screw you up, it's what you are absolutely sure of that is absolutely wrong." - Mark Twain

We have been misled by revisionist crap. Our parents and teachers were misled by revisionist crap. Their parents and teachers were misled by revisionist crap. We have now been collectively dumbed down on purpose for over eighty-five years. It's astounding, to me, that these kids (the OWSers) possess cerebral grey matter that has not been intentionally rendered jello, still have the sense to react at all. Of course, they make up less than 3% of the population. We've come forty years since Vietnam and my generation hasn't even had the sense to legalize marijuana yet (although I have reason to believe that it is finally "in the works"). We have been lied to about marijuana. The only drug I personally partake in is Kentucky Burbon although I am very much aware that pot would be, physiologically, a lot better for me than alcohol. I'm not aware of any medicinal value connected with imbibing. This simple act of sanity (legalizing pot) would put a stop the carnage below the border, curtail the criminality of the "fast and furious" BATF, as well as letting tens of thousands of victimless criminals (mostly young minorities) out of prison and, as a result, alleviate our responsibility, as tax payers, of paying for their room and board. Lobbyists for Big Tobacco and Alcohol might take exception to such a plan.

They Say We Want a Revolution...

The OWSers are being maligned by banksters, politicians, and the by pudding-headed bozos, commonly known as newscasters and anchormen. We've got confused bozos like Michael Moore (an obvious product of the America educational system) blaming capitalism. He, apparently doesn't have a clue as to what capitalism is. He is not alone.

Something we all should consider when recognizing what a minority we were in when protesting Vietnam and what a minority the OWSers represent today, who should be protesting not only the corrupt criminals that run the banks, but also, and more importantly, the Federal Reserve (follow the money) and a totally corrupt government, is that the American Revolution (that was financed (both sides) by the Rothschilds and the Bank of England) was fought with the participation of no more than 3% of the colonists. Most of the folks back then were wont to cling to the status quo of that era. It would appear that sheeple are a well established social condition in history.

My generation (a mindless group of sheeple baby boomers mentioned above) have, after all, along with Diebold voting machines, been responsible for electing the miscreants that have been calling the shots from on high for the last 40 years. I truly wish that the notion that the left/right contrived distraction warrants any serious consideration be dismissed, and the up/down collectivists vs. lovers of liberty be acknowledged as the gist of the dichotomy. Until we come together and agree on the cause of the problem, we have little hope of forwarding a solution. A criminal government, bought and paid for by criminal banksters is the problem. Where else to occupy but Wall Street? Maybe the Federal Reserve... and Washington D.C.?

The following is an excerpt from one of your editor's rants, penned in October, 2004, entitled The Patriotic and Moral Imperative for Owning Gold and Silver:

    The name of the game is collectivism, the basic precepts of which promote an ideology which dismisses nation, sovereignty, and individual liberties. It also suppresses notions of an omnipotent presence which stand in the way of our subservient indoctrination.The world is crumbling down around us. And not only economically. We have allowed the orchestrated demise of the world as we know it by a group of misguided, irresponsible power mongers.Why are these guys bad? Why do I often refer to these banksters as "the Dark Side?" Is it simply due to the fact that they are driven solely by a lust for power? While lust, avarice and greed are indeed Basic Biblical Sins, many people lacking moral stamina fall prey to the various turpitudes of modern society. While failure to resist the temptations of the Basic Sins is a mark of diminished character, it is, in itself, not all-damning. No, it is because of their lack of cohesive vision. They have attempted to install themselves as the sole shot callers, attempting to rule the world, with no other qualifications other than their membership in the various "lucky sperm clubs." The passed down institutional wealth that they have amassed, through generations of corruption and successful financial manipulation, has skewed their sensibilities. The ideals that may have seemed noble to their grandfathers have been set aside. Their sole motive for world domination has digressed to one of the lowest common denominator. Absolute greed, like absolute power, corrupts absolutely. With no benevolent vision for the future, they have systematically decimated the planet's resources. The resulting imbalance is one that can now only be righted by the severe suffering of all of humanity, including themselves. They are maniacs who have painted humanity in to a corner that is, for all intents and purposes, inescapable.

    Central banking is the vehicle through which the most heinous rip off ever conceived in the history of the world has been perpetrated. The U.S. Federal Reserve is the most successful of all central banks in history. Since 1971 it's unfettered issuance of money has continued to debase our currency and as a result adulterated our living standard at an ever increasing rate.

    "The Dark Side" has successfully placed their agents in positions as politicians ranging from school board members to U. S. presidents, newspaper publishers, columnists, church ministers, university presidents, professors, textbook writers, labor union leaders, filmmakers, radio and television commentators and many others.

    These agents control the information available to our people. They manipulate public opinion, elect whomever they want locally and nationally, and never expose the crooked money system. They promote school bonds, expensive and detrimental farm programs, "urban renewal," foreign aid, and many other schemes which place the people more deeply in debt to the bankers. Thoughtful citizens wonder why billions are spent on one program and billions on another which may duplicate it or even nullify it, such as paying some farmers not to raise crops, while at the same time building dams or canals to irrigate more farm land. Crazy or stupid?

    Neither. The goal is more debt. Thousands of government-sponsored methods of wasting money go on continually. Most make no sense, but they are never exposed for what they really are: siphons sucking our Nation's economic lifeblood.

    Is it still possible that as Americans we will find our virtue, reinvent our Republic, and restart our essential activity of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property"? Yes, but first the issuance of money must be returned to "We the People" and taken out of the hands of "the Dark Side". We must open the Mint to gold, as ordained by the Constitution. Only then will we be able to insure the preservation of our Liberties and our Freedom. It is, IMO, the only solution.

    Know thine enemy.

Sins of the Fathers...

I will continue to dwell on the sins of our fathers because that is, after all, how we got to where we are today. What is happening now is the result of a conspiracy that was put in motion long ago. It is the pandemic apathy exhibited by those that cling to the status quo that has allowed it to happen, along with the unbridled greed that comes when the regulatory functions of government become superceded by felonious bribes and kickbacks provided to morally bankrupt politicians.

The Punch Line

Here is the punch line: the vast majority of the members of the Federal Government have "rolled over" and are absolutely culpable for the state of the American economy as a result of their unwillingness to regulate the Federal Reserve and Wall Street. After all, the Federal Reserve invents the currency (only gold and silver are money) to pay for the salaries and the pork of the less than worthless criminal deadbeats that occupy the White House, the criminal deadbeats that occupy both houses of Congress, the criminal deadbeats that occupy the Supreme Court and the criminal minions employed by the criminal alphabet soup agencies.The leadership (CEOs, CFOs) of the big banks are absolutely culpable for the state of the global economy. After raping the American taxpayer, they moved on to the Sovereign States of Europe (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, Ireland and, almost Iceland). This contagion will soon destroy the economy of a country near you. So many assholes, so few lamp posts.

So then, wake up, I say, and toast the OWSers. They may not know exactly what they are doing, but at least the're doing something, They are bringing more attention to the fact that there is a problem, they are exploring the nature of that problem, and who might be responsible. The perps will not go quietly in the night. They will have to be "run off". And, until they are "run off", it will only get worse. Perhaps it is once again, torch and pitchfork time...

ostritchIts not what you don't know that will screw you up, it's what you know that is wrong. The spin you hear from the mainstream media is intended to mislead you. Open your eyes and face the future. If you leave your head in the sand and ignore it, you are only leaving your butt exposed for the world to kick. This all may sound like gloom and doom, but when you get a handle on what is going to happen, you will have a future filled with opportunity. Fortune favors the Informed.

Johnny Pic

 

Kenneth Parsons, aka Johnny Silver Bear, is an IT professional in Texas and the President of Silver Bear Communications, Inc. Mr. Parsons has been involved in the advertising and promotion industry for over thirty years. He is the editor and publisher of the Silver Bear Cafe and, as such, is responsible for shaping the content of "The Bear". Mr. Parsons has served as CEO for Fiberscape Communications, Inc., a web site development / hosting and streaming multi-media company in Richardson, Texas since 1997. He is a Jeffersonian and a passionate supporter of the U.S. Constitution. He is also an outspoken advocate of gold money and equal tax rates. You can contact Mr. Parsons with questions or comments via email at mailto:johnny@silverbearcafe.com">johnny@silverbearcafe.com

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Johnson's Mentor, Senator Alvin Jacob Wirtz

Alvin Jacob Wirtz was a lawyer and legislator, first a state senator from Texas, then a United States Senator for the same state. In 1935, Wirtz came to Washington and helped organize the Lower Colorado River Authority. He specialized in oil and water law and was appointed general counsel to the newly established LCRA. Working closely with United States Representative Lyndon Johnson, he helped the river authority secure grants and loans from the Public Works Administration, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and the Rural Electrification Administration.

More than any one person, Alvin Wirtz helped pave Lyndon Johnson's early rise to power. Ed Clark, a colleague of Wirtz' for years said of him, "What he wanted was P-O-W-E-R - power over other men. He wanted power, but he didn't want to get it by running for office. He liked to sit quietly, smoke a cigar. He would sit and work in his library, and plan and scheme, and usually he would get somebody out in front of him so that nobody knew it was Alvin Wirtz who was doing it. He would sit and scheme in the dark. He wasn't an outgoing person. But he was the kind of person who didn't want to lose any fights. And he didn't lose many."

As an attorney, Wirtz had a reputation among collegues for being ruthless. A San Antonio attorney observed that he was "a conniver - a conniver like I never saw before or since. Sharp, cunning." Another attorney commented that "He would gut you if he could. But you would probably never know he did it. I mean, that was a man who would do anything - and he would still be smiling when he slipped you the knife."

In 1917 Wirtz moved his family to Seguin, where he continued his law practice until 1934. From 1922 to 1930 Wirtz served as state senator from Guadalupe County. During his time in the legislature, Wirtz became involved with a group of citizens interested in the development of the Guadalupe River as a source of hydroelectric power. As someone driven by a need to obtain power over men, Wirtz viewed dams as a means of acquiring it.

In 1934 Wirtz moved to Austin after being run out of Seguin by disgruntled farmers who believed his dam projects had cheated them out of their land. This was result of his dealings with businessman Samuel Insull of Chicago. Insull had retained Wirtz to procure land from farmers along the Guadalupe River for the purpose of building six small dams for irrigation. The farmers were unwilling to sell, but through legal maneuvering, Wirtz got the government to purchase the farmers' land at low prices. On February 26, 1934, Tom Hollamon, Sr - a sixty-seven-year-old farmer and former Texas Ranger - walked into Wirtz's office, where he was meeting with Insull representatives, and began shooting. Before being disarmed, one Chicago financier was dead. Hollamon was arrested for murder, but Wirtz was quickly run out of town by the locals.

In Austin Wirtz organized the law firm of Powell, Wirtz, Rauhut, and Gideon. Things seemed bleak for awhile, but Roosevelt's New Deal gave him a chance to revive his dream of becoming a power mogul. During Roosevelt's "Hundred Days" portion of the New Deal, $3.3 billion of federal money was slowly released into the economy for public works which included dams. Eventually a $10,000,000 dam project, the Marshall Ford Dam, became the vehicle by which Wirtz could acquire the power he sought. The contract was awarded to one of Wirtz' clients, Brown & Root.

 
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/10.11/wirtz.html

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how did LBJ get onto the JFK ticket in 1960 ?

the Jews (Israel) knew that if they got rid of JFK, the US presidency would fall into sympathetic hands.

perhaps as an insurance policy, JFK should have chosen a running mate who wasn't obedient to Israel.  i'm not sure who that would have been in 1960.