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Number 117 % Realist Editor: Paul Krassner Nixon claims he read an ad in an I.. A. news­ The Role o f Richard Nixon and George Rush paper, placed by a wealthy group of business­ In the Assassination o f President Kennedy men, led by Preston Bush, the father of George Bush. They wanted a young, malle­ by Paul Kangas Cuban government under Batista. When able candidate to run for Congress. Nixon A newly discovered FBI document reveals Batista was overthrown and fled to Miami, applied for the position and won the job. that George Bush was directly involved in the Rodriguez went with him, along with Frank Nixon became a mouthpiece for the Bush 1963 murder of President John Kennedy. The Sturgis and Rafael Quintero. Officially, group. (Source: Preedotn magazine, 1986, document places Bush working with the now- Rodriguez didn’t join the CIA until 1967, after L.F. Prouty) In fact, Preston Bush is credited famous CIA agent, Felix Rodriguez, recruit­ the CIA invasion of Cuba, in which he partici­ with creating the winning ticket of Eisenhower- ing right-wing Cuban exiles for the invasion pated, and the assassination o f JFK. But rec­ Nixon in 195C. (Source: George Bush, F. o f Cuba. It was Bush’s CIA job to organize ords recently uncovered show he actually Green, Hipocrenc, 1988) the Cuban community in Miami for the inva­ joined the C IA in 1961 for the invasion of Richard Nixon was Vice President from sion. The Cubans were trained as marksmen Cuba when he was recruited by George Bush. 1956 until 1960. In fact, Nixon was given by the CIA. Bush at that time lived in Texas. That is how Rodriguez claims he became a credit for planning Operation 40, the secret H opping from Houston to Miami weekly, “close, personal friend of Bush.” 1961 invasion of Cuba, during his 1959 cam­ Bush spent 1960 and '61 recruiting Cubans in Then “officially” Rodriguez claims he quit paign for President. After Batista was kicked Miami for the invasion. That is how he met the CIA in 1976, just after he was sent to out by the starving people of Cuba, and Fidel Felix Rodriguez. prison for his role in the Watergate burglary. Castro came to power, Castro began telling You may remember Rodriguez as the Iran- Flowever, according to Rolling Stone report­ American corporations they would have to contra CIA agent who received the first phone ers Kohn & Monks (Nov. 3, 1988), Rodriguez pay Cuban employees decent wages. Even call telling the world the CIA plane flown by worse, Pepsi-Cola was told it would now have Gene Hasenfus had crashed in Nicaragua. As to pay world market prices for Cuban sugar. soon as Rodriguez heard that the plane Pepsi, Ford M otor Co., Standard O il and crashed, he called his long-time CIA super­ the Mafia drug dealers decided Fidel had to be visor, who was now Vice President, George I* removed since his policies of requiring corpo­ Bush. Bush denied being in the contra loop, rations to pay market wages was hurting their but investigators recently obtained copies of profits. So the corporations asked then-Vice Oliver North’s diary, which documents Bush’s President Nixon to remove Fidel. Nixon role as a CIA supervisor of the contra supply promised he would, just as soon as he won network. the 1960 elections against some underdog, an In 1988 Bush told Congress he knew noth­ unknown Democrat named John Kennedy. It ing about the illegal supply flights until 19S7, tf would be an easy victory for Nixon. All the yet North’s diary shows Bush at the first plan­ still goes to CIA headquarters monthly to re­ polls had Nixon winning by a landslide. Be­ ning meeting Aug. 6, 1985. Bush’s “official” ceive assignments and have his blue 1987 bul­ sides, Kennedy was a Catholic, and Americans log placed him somewhere else. Such double letproof Cadillac serviced. Rodriguez was would no more elect a Catholic President than sets of logs are intended to hide Bush’s real asked by a Rolling Stone reporter where he they would elect a woman, a black or a Jew. role in the CIA ; to provide him with “plausi­ was the day JFK was shot, and claims he can’t This was 1959. ble deniability." The problem is, it fell apart remember. Nixon told Pepsi, Standard Oil and the other because too many people, like North and George Bush claims he never worked for corporations who lost property, given back to Rodriguez, have kept records that show the CIA until he was appointed Director, by the farmers of Cuba, that if they would help Bush’s CIA role back to the 1961 invasion of former Warren Commission director and then him win, he would authorize an invasion to Cuba. (Source: The Washington Post, 7-10-90) President Jerry Ford, in 1976. Logic suggests remove Castro. To further impress contrib­ That is exactly how evidence was uncovered that is highly unlikely. O f course. Bush has a utors to his campaign, then-Vice President placing George Bush working with Felix company duty to deny being in the CIA. The Nixon asked the CIA to create Operation 40, Rodriguez when JFK was killed. A memo CIA is a secret organization. No one ever a secret plan to invade Cuba, just as soon as from FBI head J. Edgar Hoover was found, admits to being a member. The truth is that he won. stating that, “Mr. George Bush of the CIA ” Bush has been a top CIA official since before The CIA put Texas oil millionaire and CIA had been briefed on November 23rd, 1963 the 1961 invasion of Cuba, working with Felix agent George Bush in charge o f recruiting about the reaction of anti-Castro Cuban exiles Rodriguez. Bush may deny his actual role in Cuban exiles into the CIA ’s invasion army. in Miami to the assassination o f President the CIA in 1959, but there arc records in the Bush was working with another Texas oil man. Kennedy. (Source: The Nation, 8-13-88) files o f Rodriguez and others involved in the Jack Crichton, to help him with the invasion. O n the day of the assassination. Bush was Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that expose A fellow Texan, Air Force General Charles in Texas, but he denies knowing exactly where Bush’s role. The corporations would not put Cabcl, was asked to coordinate the air cover he was. Since he had been the supervisor for som ebody in charge o f all the state secrets for the invasion. the secret Cuban teams, headed by former held by the CIA unless he was experienced Most of the CIA leadership around the in­ Cuban police commander Felix Rodriguez, and well trained in the CIA. (Source: Project vasion of Cuba seems to have been people since 1960, it is likely Bush was also in Dallas Censored Report, Feb. 1989, Dr. Carl Jensen, from Texas. A whole Texan branch of the CIA in 1963. Several o f the Cubans he was super­ Sonoma State College) is based in the oil business. If we trace Bush’s vising as dirty-tricks teams for Nixon, were According to the biography of Richard background in the Texas oil business we dis­ photographed in the Zapruder film. 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Mac, We Hardly Knew Ye coupling o f Greg Bautzer, attorney for Howard Hughes, and Jane This issue is dedicated to the memory of Mac Brusscll— extraordinary Wyman, cx-wifc of Ronald Reagan, who was then governor of Cali­ conspiracy researcher. She began her life’s work in 1963 after John F. fornia. Through my conspiratorial tunnel vision, I began to believe Kennedy was assassinated, and in 1972, when the Watergate break-in that Reagan was somehow connected with the murders, at least on a occurred, she recognized names, modus operands and cover-up efforts. metaphorical level. Recently, however, Gcraldo Rivera interviewed The Realist published her first article, delineating the patterns of that Manson, and their dialogue concluded: conspiracy and naming the names— all the way up to FBI director Manson: But where did the gun com e from that killed those people? L. Patrick Gray, Attorney General John Mitchell, President Richard Did you know that was Ronnie Reagan’s gun? You didn’t even know Nixon— while the mainstream press was still referring to the break-in that, did you? See what I’m saying. There’s a lot of it that you don’t as a “caper” and a “third-rate burglary.” understand. Among those continuing Mae’s work is the author of our cover Rivera: Thanks for your time. story, Paul Kangas, a private investigator. As we go to press, an Geraldo didn’t follow up on Charlie’s revelation, and I was left attorney for Pepsi-Cola has told him to stop claiming that Pepsi had wondering whether Ronald Reagan’s connection was more than mere anything to do with the invasion of Cuba or the assassination of JFK, metaphor? I wrote to Manson and asked specifically what he meant. and threatening to prevent publication. He replied, “I don ’t feel [Reagan] knows that one o f his guns got Reporter Sarah McClendon has informed ABC radio talk-show loose. It had got behind the shelves in the trailer that RR gave George host Michael Jackson about the buzz in Washington, that several Spahn." Family member Sandra G ood told me that Reagan had given scandals involving George Bush arc about to break, including the a gun to the old rancher, helped him financially and donated the trailer Reagan-Bush administration bringing cocaine into the U.S. by way where the gun was found. o f Noriega, and Bush’s involvement in the Kennedy assassination. So much for my paranoid fantasy. I’ll just have to settle for imagin­ Bob Woodward promises to tell the truth about the assassination in ing Nancy Reagan and Frank Sinatra fucking their brains out on the his next book, just as soon as Deep Throat dies. And Oliver Stone’s White House kitchen table. And, of course, he did it her way. next movie will be about the assassination. Former New Orleans district attorney, Jim Garrison— who set out Daryl, We Hardly Knew Ye to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone— will be played The case against Daryl Gates is simple. As chief law enforcement by Kevin Costner, presumably to compensate for his little speech in officer, he has encouraged a climate of vigilante injustice. Naturally, Bull Durham where he told Susan Sarandon, “I believe in long, slow, there arc jokes about the LA PD brutality scandal. The cops have deep, wet kisses that last three days . . . I believe in the small of a arrested Rodney King again, this time for impersonating a pihata. woman’s back . . . I believe in the hanging curve [baseball reference] And they’re now pushing for legislation that would require a 7-day . . . I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. ...” waiting period before a citizen may purchase a video camera. But my Meanwhile, Paul Kangas has been busy briefing the San Francisco favorite joke occurs every time a newscaster practices objectivity Mime Troupe for their upcoming production, which will feature a above and beyond the call of duty by referring to “the alleged beating.” character inspired by Mae Brussell, probing secrets behind the Kennedy There is also a certain fallout of the video witness syndrome. Recently assassination. I can hardly wait for the first annual Conspiracy C on ­ I saw a couple of tough-looking guys in a pickup truck calling out— vention in Dallas. See you at the disinformation booth. “Hey! Hey, you!"— to a guy just walking by. I thought I was about to witness a drivc-bv shooting— and I didn’t even have a camera to Ronnie, We Hardly Knew Ye record the event. I felt like a naked voyeur. But then they called to I came to bury a joke, not to tell one. In 1981, when Ronald Reagan the guy, “Hey! Were you on Love Connection? " He said yes. and was shot by John Hinckley, I used to give as an example o f the they all shook hands and laughed and indulged in some instant male President’s senility the fact that Hinckley came out for gun control bonding. As for me, the relief was worth the tension. and Reagan came out against it. But now, an entire decade later, he has finally come out in support of the Brady bill requiring a 7-day Realist, We Hardly Knew Ye waiting period before an assassin may purchase a hand gun. That From 1958 to 1974, The Realist was a magazine that lasted for 98 would certainly help avoid those sudden spur-of-the-moment political issues. Library Journal called it “the best satirical periodical published impulse killings. in America” and People magazine labelled me “father o f the under­ In 1972, Mac Brussell told me that the ultimate purpose of political ground press.” Naturally, I demanded a blood test. In 1985, we assassinations in this country was to put Ronald Reagan into the resumed publication in this newsletter format. A couple of issues ago, White House. Later, the C IA — never conceiving the possibility that I announced that we would be switching from quarterly to every other their boy George Bush could actually get elected to the highest month. It was a premature ejaculation. office— had John Hinckley hypnotized at the Arthur Bremer School Subscriptions won’t be affected, since they’re figured by the number o f Brainwashing so he would believe that if he killed the President, o f issues, not the date. O ur rates remain: S i2 for 6 issues, or $23 for then Jodie Foster would go bowling with him, a motivation so absurd 12 issues. Please specify which issue you’d like your sub to begin with. that it would travel full circle and become credible. Back issues #99 thru #116 arc available at $2 each. 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The First International Orgasm Conference but we always notice, if only subliminally, by Robert Anton Wilson elderly but had the youthful skin o f a yoga how stilted it all sounds. N obody really feels adept. He told me his name was Indole Ringh that neutral (or that Classical) about their own “Orgasm is very important to all of us,” Dr. and his mission was to raise the governments sexuality, and the dissonance between subject Marlene Vargas said earnestly. “It is a great of the world to the moral level of the Mafia. and style becomes absurd when this stuff is feeling to get a man one day w ho is impotent This was the result of a Shivadarshana vision read aloud, especially if it’s read with a German and make him potent another day.” he had achieved after the worsening Persian accent, which makes it sound like a Monty Dr. Vargas was concluding her keynote Gulf situation had driven him to retire from Python routine. speech at the First International Orgasm C o n ­ the world for spiritual renewal. After fasting The phenomenology of fellatio— i.e., how ference in New Delhi, last February 4. Out­ 40 days and smoking a great deal of charas, he men evaluate blow-jobs— was apparently first side in the streets it was as hot and smelly as had an “astral experience" of Michael Corleonc quantified by a Dr. Dash wood of Orgasm Gunga Din’s loincloth, but here in the Grand and knew what he must do. Research in San Francisco. Dr. Luftkopf Ballroom of the Shivalingam Hotel the air “Bhagwan was right when he called Jesus a showed us a table of Dash wood ’s numeration conditioning was functioning well and the crackpot,” he told me with the serenity of the of this intensely subjective, virtually ineffable assembled delegates all looked cool and pro­ very Enlightened or very Stoned. “Of course, experience. It seems there are three “dimen­ fessional. Nonetheless, I could tell that orgasm Bhagwan was a crackpot, too. So was Gandhi sions," or scales of evaluation: Pure Hedonism, was indeed very important to all o f them. — and Martin Luther King and Mcher Baba measured in Havens on a 0-to-10 scale; Ten­ Their eyes had that ardent glitter you see only and the whole lot of them. All o f them were derness, measured in Chambers on the same in scientists who really love their specialty. a few gallons short o f a full tank.” scale; and Sincerity, measured in Spelvins, on Dr. Vargas went on extolling the Big O, but These religious leaders, Mr. Ringh a 0-to-20 scale. This yields 3D computer 1 knew nothing important ever happens dur­ explained at length, had expected “too much graphics that allow us to “visualize dcr full ing a keynote speech, so I ducked out and evolution in too short a time.” Real change fractal complexity of dcr fellatio orgasm spec­ found the bar. Many delegates have the same only occurs “in geological epochs.” Preaching trum,” as Dr. Luftkopf solemnly intoned, idea about keynote speeches and prefer to just abimsa (nonviolence) and other such ideals is showing some of Dashwood’s pioneering exchange shop-talk; I have found that eaves­ a sheer waste of time, and interrupts the Dance graphs. dropping on them is usually journalistically Now, with quiet pride. Dr. Luftkopf began rewarding. Come Again? to present his ow n research, which he said In fact, as I paid for my vodka-tonic and From Playboy magazine: “wass by a celebrated Schroedinger thinking- started to look for a table, most people 1 could Vinton, Louisiana— A fake orgasm con ­ experiment inspired.” Through the Greek jar­ overhear were talking about the oil fires in test has landed the owner and the manager gon and the German accent, I gradually com ­ Kuwait, which some ecologists said would o f the Star/, night club in court. The event prehended that Dr. Lufikopf’s subjects— 23 create a layer ol pollution over India that was inspired by the movie When Harry graduate students in Heidelberg’s psych de­ might ruin the crops and create another fam­ Met Sally, where in one scene Sally shows partment— had each experienced 17 “fclla- ine— a real bring-down when my mind was Harry how convincingly she could fake an tions” while in a totally dark room. The fcl- on sex. But then I heard som ebody say "vibra­ orgasm. C op s in the audience closed the lators, unseen and unknown, consisted o f 10 tor addiction." club, arrested everyone involved, but prose­ female “professional sexual surrogates" and That was the sort of thing I was there to cuted only the club’s owner and the manager 10 males recruited from the Heidelberg chap­ cover; I honed in. The speaker had a distinct on a misdemeanor charge for permitting ter of Gay Pride, who had “volunteered in dcr British accent, but when I located him he was lewd conduct on a licensed premises. interest o f scientific truth." This was, of a Hindu dressed in California casual. (The course, a double-blind study: neither the sub­ world has more and more o f these multi­ o f Shiva. What is needed is “Fabian spiritual­ jects nor the staff knew, in any given case, cultural personalities these days. I’ve noticed.) ity,” or gradualism. As a first step, we need whether the student was getting fcllatcd by a I inconspicuously took a tabic near him and to persuade the governments of the world to man or a woman. his companion, a stunning woman in a flowery achieve “the ethical level of the Mafia," which Dr. Luftkopf began showing 3D computer sari who proved to have a New Joisey accent is a goal they can understand and might even graphics of the results. Despite the jargon and when she spoke. aspire toward. the German, it gradually became clear that the “It’s a seryus problum,” she said gravely. Well, I thought after I took his leaflet and major difference between fcllators was in the “It’s worse than that. It’s becom ing a pro­ he moved on to share his Vision with others, Sincerity dimension (East-West on the graphics) fessional scandal," the Hindu said worriedly. you can’t go to India without meeting at least and that this difference was “not gender- “Well, yeah, but it’s the best cure we’ve one Holy Madman. But now it was time for correlated.” Some men give more Sincere found faw frigidity." the first seminar I had marked on the pro­ blow-jobs than some women, and some women “Of course it is, but when the women be­ gram— “The Quantification o f Fellatio: An give more Sincere blow-jobs than some men, come addicted, literally addicted, to the vibra­ Approach to Hedonic Phenomenology," by and there is no statistical “tilt" either way. tors instead of their husbands, the legal fallout Dr. Heinrich Luftkopf of the University of Dr. Luftkopf was specific: Gay men don’t can be horrendous. There have even been cases Heidelberg. Since there were 690 speakers at give better blow-jobs than women, contrary where the husbands threatened the therapists this conference, and four or five seminars to their frequent claims; but they d o not lack with pistols instead of lawsuits. We are on being held simultaneously every hour, I knew any degree of Sincerity when compared to hazardous ground here.” I couldn’t cover everything important, so I women, contrary to the Radical Feminist I was making quick notes on my pad, but had just marked my program with checks be­ dogma that males never show Sincerity in any then I got distracted by another voice som e­ side the seminars that I thought might be high­ endeavor. Nor do the men score lower in Ten­ where behind me— an undoubtedly Hindu lights. The quantification o f fellatio sounded derness, Dr. Luftkopf pointed out, a certain voice: “Abimsa will take a few thousand years, like a winner. tone of ponderous Teutonic irony creeping but the Mafia they can understand." Trying Dr. Luftkopf was another ardent-eyed en­ into his voice as the computer sorted the to be covert about it, I pecked. The speaker thusiast, but as he read his paper I discovered graphs by age, economic status and other was obviously not a delegate: he wore only a something about the scientific study of sex: variables. dhoti, like Gandhi, and was handing out you can only take it seriously on paper. The The only difference that appeared, as the leaflets. problem, of course, is that scientific language last graphs showed, was that both males and When he got to my table I invited him to is carefully neutral and usually based on Greek females born in northern Swiss cantons scored sit down and offered to buy him a drink. He roots that nobody knows nowadays except better than anybody else in all three dimen­ explained that alcohol was against his religion, Classic scholars. We can read this stuff, if we sions, but this clustering “wass too small to but he gratefully accepted a joint. As we toked arc seriously curious about some mystery that be zignificant and may be random chance.” and sized each other up, I saw that he was even professional hookers don’t understand. Most of the discussion that followed con-

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ccrncd the software that turned the data into Dr. Williams had his own computer graph­ gion I knew anything about (including Secular graphics, so I left and lounged around the ics (it’s the fad lately) and included more cul­ Flumanism), but it would certainly be a step lobby, eavesdropping. tures (150, actually) and more parameters upward from the way most governments behave Alas, most people were still distracted by within each culture— c.g., “infant bio-survival these days. I stopped in the lobby to buy some the over-organized gang rumble between Mr. tactility" (how often babies get hugged) and pot at the Kashmir Bazaar ("We Taking You Bush and Mr. Hussein. Somebody with a “adolescent orgasmic synergy” (how often Higher”) and then noticed a rumble going on Canadian accent was explaining to a worried teen-agers get righteously laid instead of just in the street. I went to the front window and audience that "every American president has whacking off). His conclusions starkly rein­ saw a lot of picket signs, some Hindu cops to bomb someplace, every two years or so. forced the earlier work of Reich, Heath and holding people back, but no sign of dangerous Otherwise they can’t compete with Freddie Prescott, with more data and graphic (visual- violence. I cautiously stepped outside. and Jason and Rambo and those other Amer­ izable) detail. Looking at his peaks and valleys The first group of protesters was the ican folk-heroes, and their ratings drop.” on the computer, you saw that every society Homosexual Alliance of New Delhi A Mexican woman with a slight Oxford that enjoys a hedonic lifestyle remains mostly (HAND). They had signs saying things accent said, “There’s a fascinating little man peaceful, and every society that tries to stamp like Luftkopf Must Go, Stamp Out Homo­ in a dhoti handing out leaflets. Looks and out pleasure goes loony and starts attacking phobia and Death to All Fanatics. I took one sounds like a total lunatic, but he makes sense, itself and its neighbors, just like the deprived of their leaflets. It seems they were pissed really. His name is Indole Ringh.” monkeys that inspired this whole line of off at Dr. Luftkopf’s research, or press reports “Turn the world over to the Mafia?” a research. about his research, and accused him of Dutchman (with that Amsterdam hashish I went back to the bar to listen to some more “pseudo-objectivity," “a long history of asso­ smell in his tweeds) asked cynically. shop-talk. The TV was on, and everybody ciation with known sociobiologists” and, of “No, no,” the Senorita said. “He just wants was watching CNN. General Schwarzkopi course, “homophobia.” Their leaflets also had to elevate politics to the moral and intellectual appeared on screen and told us how smart the lots of quotes from Masters and Johnson about level of the Mafia. Putting out a contract, as it U.S. “smart" bombs were and why they only Gay men being better lovers than hetero­ is called, instead of killing all the innocent hit military targets, except for minor “collat­ sexuals. I gathered that they didn’t like bystanders. Precision rather than chaos.” eral damage." Peter Arnett came on standing Luftkopf’s research, with its strong suggestion I decided I had to read Indole Ringh’s in front of a residential area that the “smart” that Sincere fellatio “is not gender-correlated. ” leaflet, which was still crumpled in my pocket, bombs had stupidly hit and you could see the The other group was Feminist Organization but it was time to go to "Somatosensory collateral damage (dead children) being hauled of New Delhi (FOND) and they were pissed Deprivation: New Parameters and Para­ away, burnt and black, behind him. I thought off at Luftkopf, too. Their signs said Impound digms" by somebody named Blake Williams. of Dr. Williams and his graphics. Could all Luftkopf, Stamp Out Sexism and Pornography Dr. Williams was the very model of a modern that slaughter have been prevented if George Is Murder. I hired a passing Hindu woman to major Generalist. A burly, bearded anthro­ Bush got laid properly on a regular basis and get one of their leaflets for me (frankly, I was pologist who had made “significant” contri­ had a good blow-job every week? afraid to get too close to them). They accused butions to mathematical biology, topological But the jet-lag of my Los Angeles-New Luftkopf of “pseudo-objectivity," having a psychology and a dozen other nclds, he talked Delhi flight was catching up with me. I passed great-grand-uncle who’d been in the Gestapo, like Marshall McLuhan on crack and had even up a workshop on “Transcendental Masturba­ and, of course, “male bias. "Their leaflets were more graphics than Dr. Luftkopf. His topic, tion: Tantric Therapy and the Long-Term full of the usual sexist quotes from Robin Mor­ he acknowledged— “somatosensory depriva­ Convict,” went up to my room and tell asleep gan and Andrea Dworkin about one gender tion”—followed up on earlier work by Dr. in a chair while I was taking my socks off. (guess which) being evil, inferior and gener­ Robert Heath and Dr. James Prescott. When I woke (with a stiff back, from sleeping ally sub-human, but I couldn’t make out what Heath had discovered that certain crucial in the chair), it was morning. I stumbled down aspect of Luftkopf’s research they found so areas in the cerebellum are intimately con­ to the restaurant and ordered a Belgian waffle infuriating. nected to both pain and pleasure, and that and lots of coffee. I went back inside, imagining how these removing all pleasure (“somatosensory depri­ Everybody was watching CN N on the TV. demonstrations would be described in the sci­ vation”) causes monkeys to get violent and General Schwarzkopf was again rhapsodizing entific language used by all delegates at this crazy. This led him to invent an electronic about how smart his "smart" bombs were. conference: “Dr. Luftkopf’s double-blind gizmo which, by re-aligning the oldest parts U.S. spokespeople were blaming Iraq for the methodology was negatively perceived by of the cerebellum, has actually in some cases oil spill and Iraqi spokesthings (I had gathered some respondents ...” decreased violent behavior of human convicts. from the tube that none of them were human) That morning I attended a lecture on "High Dr. Prescott, contemplating this work, began were blaming it on the stupidity of the Orgasm Yield in Null-G F.nvironments,” i.e., re-examining human societies on the pain- “smart” bombs. fucking in space ships. The presenter, a Dr. pleasure axis. In depth studies of 49 cultures, “He begeens to make sense to me, this Indole La Puta from Madrid, had examined all physi­ Prescott found that in societies where somato­ Ringh," a Frenchman at the next table said to ological data on astronauts and cosmonauts in sensory deprivation is the norm— i.e., where his companions. “If George Bush was as ethical zero gravity and then deduced what coitus almost all forms of pleasure arc forbidden and and, how you say, economical in his theenking would be like out there. Since Zero G affects the cerebellum accordingly malfunctions— as a Mafia don, he would just send a few the palco-ccrebcllum much like marijuana, the war, crime and other violence (including tor­ bazookas to ah take out Saddam Hussein.” picture was hedonic indeed. I think every­ ture) are always common. Similarly, Prescott “Not bazookas,” a grev-haired woman at body came out of the room at the end deter­ found, in societies where somatosensory grat­ the table corrected. “Cannons is what you mined to get a reservation on the first civilian ification is the norm— i.e., most forms of mean. Nowadays, anyway, I think they are space cruiser to blast off. pleasure are tolerated— violence and cruelty called heat men.” I skipped lunch because I didn’t want to arc rare or non-existent. In ordinary language, uAlors. Anyway, my cabbage, the Mafia miss a Dr. Gloria Van dcr Kamp discussing where the brain does not get wired for plea­ way is indeed more elegant, more civilized, "Orgasmic and Sadomasochist Imagery in the sure, it can only get high on sadomasochism. n'est-ce pits?* Rock Videos of Madonna." That was a subject (Dr. Prescott decided that the U.S. was one I finished my coffee, thinking of a wild I myself might have written about by now, if of the sadistic or “somatosensorily deprived” sci-fi idea— the gospel of Indole Ringh reach­ I hadn’t been busy with other work. cultures, and publicized this view. This led to ing every part of the world. Imagine: no more Dr. Van der Kamp began by announcing his getting fired from the National Institute wars. F.vcry national difference settled by pro­ her allegiance to the methodology o f decon­ of Child Health— much like the case of Dr. fessional contract workers, who aim carefully struction. The videos were to be considered Wilhelm Reich, who expressed similar views and seldom take out more than a few innocent more or less as found objects and no assump­ 20 years earlier and got his books burned and bystanders. 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(in whole or in part), whether satire was in­ drearily familiar— it reminded me o f a New testing the “phallic elitism" and “pseudo­ tended or merely imagined by the observer, Left squabble. The Gays and Lesbians denied objectivity” o f certain panelists at yesterday’s etc. With these fashionable caveats— which that they “persecuted" and "dehumanized” squabble. They had signs saying Stamp Out always make me think the art object might the foot-freaks, who insisted that they Genital Chauvinism, feet First, I Love Toes have fallen out o f the sky, like one o f those damned well were made unwelcome and gen­ and I'm Proud O f It! Some far-right Roman Damned Things recorded by Charles Fort— erally disparaged by “those elite minorities Catholics, the smallest minority in India, were the videos were then analyzed in terms of who have already made themselves fashiona­ protesting the “scientific paganism” and most com m on image, second most common ble.” The only lively moment occurred when “pseudo-objectivity” of a sex seminar without image, etc. and so on down to “uncorrelated” a necrophile in the audience began denouncing theological participation. They had signs saying images that appear only once. The Madonna everybody for "vitalist chauvinism” and got Armageddon Is At Hand, Restore the Latin videos then emerged as a visual salad of so unruly the ushers removed him. Mass and Saddam Is the Great Beast 666. D is­ Roman Catholicism, violence against women That evening I attended the major panel of ciples of Archbishop Lefebvrc, obviously. by men, proletarian or deviant clothing styles, the whole conference, “Cybcroticism and the Up front and dominant were the Sadists, dreams o f flying, female sadomasochism, Future of Sex.” Eric Gullichson presented the who were burning Dr. Blake Williams in loneliness, alienation, heterosexuality, les­ latest in somatosensory Virtual Reality hard­ effigy. They had signs saying A Little Disci­ bianism, racism, High Fashion clothing styles, ware and software, in which a cyber-suit takes pline Never Hurt Anybody, Stamp Out porno clothing styles, miscegenation and the subjects into any erotic fantasy they wish, Hedonic Bias and No More Mr. Nice Guy! yearning for love, in exactly that order. both visually and kinesthetically. They didn’t look as threatening as the By entirely evading any speculation as to The panelists and the audience were quickly Feminists, so I went over and took one of their whether this “Madonna montage” should be in violent disagreement about whether this leaflets, which accused Dr. Williams of considered satire, exploitation or mere docu­ kind of Virtual Reality was or was not porno­ “pseudo-objectivity,” of course, and found mentation of American women’s fears and graphic, whether such Virtual Sex presently him guilty of "sadophobia" and "unconscious desires. Dr. Van der Kamp, like other decon­ posed a serious threat to the now seemingly gynocentric bias” against pain and torture. structionists, obviated her own neutrality. old-fashioned “Real" Sex, whether or not this Their leaflet was decorated with a picture of Everybody emerged from the seminar arguing George Bush, grinning, as a supporter of the about which way we should interpret those Gulf War held up a sign saying. Well Done, videos, just as if they hadn’t fallen from the Mister President! I gathered that they believe sky and there was an artist’s mind behind everybody is “secretly" a sadist, just as Gays them. think we're all closet Gays. When I went down for a late lunch, I found There were other groups so far back I couldn’t Dr. Luftkopf holding a press conference in read their signs, but I’m sure they were protest­ the lobby. He was mortified, and a bit an­ ing som ebody’s “pseudo-objectivity,” too. noyed, by the Gay and Feminist protests, and I grabbed a quick breakfast (French toast) insisted both groups had misunderstood his and dashed off to a seminar on “Pornography research. H e also insisted he never had a great- and Mathematics: the M orphology o f Male grand-uncle in the Gestapo. “They hall me Brains,” which sounded obscure enough to be mixed up with some other Luftkopf maybe?” interesting to me. The presenter, a Dr. Marion “What is your attitude toward Gay men?” Crane, was a neuro-anatomist, and she began asked a reporter with a hostile tone. I noticed with more disclaimers and reservations than a his press badge said Gay Times. legal document. When she finally got into her “The same as my attitude toward Presbyte­ data, it appeared that current brain research rians or plumbers," Dr. Luftkopf snapped indicates that women have thinner corpus col- peevishly. losi than men, allowing more communication “Why do you dislike plumbers?” asked a between right and left hemispheres, which is woman from Ms. magazine. why they have more skill than men at translat­ “Gott in Himmel! I didn’t say I dislike ing the visual into the verbal. Men, however, plumbers— " have bigger right hemispheres, which is why I passed on to the restaurant where I scribbled they can retreat into totally visual imagination in my notebook, “Irony incomprehensible to more readily than women. This explains why Ideologists," and had a stiff Martini with my women hardly ever understand such “male” sandwich. Everybody was watching CNN pleasures as advanced mathematics and por­ again. The only thing new was that Saddam technology contained a “strong addiction p o­ nography, both of which rest upon this right Hussein was offering to pull his troops out of tential,” and especially about how many com ­ hemisphere hypertrophy (e.g., intuiting the Kuwait if the Americans would stop bombing puter “generations” it would take before this graphic form of a differential equation or fan­ them, and President Bush was complaining electro-eroticism would literally be “better tasizing a two-dimensional photo into a three- that Saddam hadn’t said he was sorry, so than the real thing.” dimensional woman). It also explains, Dr. George wouldn’t let his troops stop bombing You hear many o f the same arguments, or Crane said, why men have less immunities the retreating Iraqis until the last o f them similar arguments, at any Artificial Intelli­ than women, and generally die younger. crossed the border back into Iraq. Somehow, gence conference. She was about to go on with how this brain the newscasters made it sound like Hussein I went to bed and dreamed about a Cybero- structure relates to the explosive male orgasm was the one who was being unreasonable. botic Playmate of the Month who (or which?) and the more undulatory female orgasm, but Indole Ringh passed through the restaurant, malfunctioned and ate Hugh Hefner. I don’t she had already been drowned out by Feminist still wearing his dhoti and still distributing his mean she (it?) “ate” him in the vernacular sex­ shouts of “Pseudo-objectivity,” "Gender trea­ leaflet about the Utopian impossibility of ual sense; she chewed him up like a distaff son" and “You’re just a sociobiologist in eliminating murder from politics at this stage Hannibal the Cannibal. drag!” The scene was growing ugly, so 1 pru­ of evolution and the pragmatic possibility The next morning, the day the conference dently withdrew. Out in the hall, however, I (and desirability) of limiting it to a Mafia level would end, the pickets outside the Shivalingam found that the foot fetishists had broken o f restraint. He was beginning to make more Hotel had increased exponentially. The Gays through the police line and were vandalizing sense to me. and Feminists were now outnumbered. The the hotel. I took the elevator to my room and 1 went to a panel discussion on “The Plight necrophile was back, all alone, holding a sign began packing. It was time to get my royal o f the Foot Fetishist: Minority Discrimina­ saying Out o f the Mausoleums, Into the Irish arse out of New Delhi. Far below I could tion Against Minorities,” but that proved Streets! A group of foot fetishists were pro- hear the sadists running amok in the halls.

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Fetal Attraction Embryonic Art by Mark Kramer by Lenny Lipton “In December, I99C. “a New York Post reporter recalls, “Shawn The NEA, taken for granted for decades, has been under attack be­ F.ichman called in a lead about this Degenerate Art Show she was cause of its sponsorship of allegedly obscene works. Indeed, the very staging in the Bronx. She said that she’d be exhibiting a sculptural idea of the government’s funding of the arts has been questioned. I heard object that included her recently aborted fetus. She indicated that the a news item on PBS radio the other morning which caused me to think National Endowment lor the Arts had paid lor it. For the show, I about these things. It concerned legislation introduced into Congress mean. All in all, a good Saturday item." to forbid the use of fetal tissue in works of art funded by the NEA. According to Roberta Sklar, a spokesperson for Artists Space, the Most of the time my mental activity barely qualifies as thought, but downtown Manhattan alternative arts facility responsible for funding this news-flash galvanized my mind. For a moment I suspected it had the show, “It was meant to be linked allegorically to the Nazis’ been planted by a PBS staff member to ridicule the position of Senator infamous exhibit of so-called ‘degenerate art.’ Shawn is a very flam­ Helms and his followers. Next I doubted my own hearing. Maybe boyant character, and I assumed luchman was a taken name, like Judy the phrase was fecal tissue. But no, it had been fetal tissue. Chicago or Gary Indiana." Why, I asked myself, limit such legislation to fetal tissue? Why not Form follows dysfunction, and the Nazi motif was further sustained include in this prohibition tissue from children and adults? Did the by artist Ron English, Eichman’s former lover. people who drafted this legislation lack any concern for those of us “When I knew Shawn in Texas," he said, “it was just kind of fortunate enough to have been born? understood that her great-grandfather was the Nazi war criminal. It As luck would have it, I heard from an old friend, Cathy, who had wasn’t an issue there the way it is here, so it really wasn’t spoken of. just arrived in the Bay Area. It just so happens that she is an artist But when it did come up, she was very cagey on the subject of her who is using fetal tissue, having received a grant from the NEA one grandfather. Whenever we went down to her parents’ place, she’d year ago. I knew her in the '60s as a street artist who used pastels to always come up with an excuse not to introduce me to her grandfather, draw dog-shit on sidewalks in what was a brilliant application of the who apparently lived nearby. Once she told me that he was a right-wing technique of trompe d'ocil. Some of these drawings— or paintings, if character who'd hate me from the get-go. Another time she said he you like— were so intricate and bcautilul that they have been repro­ was a Communist. Whatever he was, he was supposed to have been duced in fine arts publications. She felt that an important attribute of active at one political extreme or another.” her work was that it was underfoot and ephemeral by nature. When asked why he was providing this inflammatory update, English It had been years since I saw her and, as I entered her hotel room, explained: “I feel used. Shawn and I were co-recipients of the grant I was pleased to sec that she was as attractive as ever. We exchanged from Artists Space, but she took all the money to pay for her abortion. pleasantries after which, with a flourish, she removed a dark cloth I had to do most of the work for the fundraiser and the downtown covering a long box on the floor by the window. There, within what exhibits, because Shawn needed to be in D.C. to burn flags the day looked like a coffin made of Lucite, were a dozen dolls, dressed in the new law took effect." diaphanous and elaborate costumes. One was a ballerina, another a Later he revealed, “The fetus that Shawn had aborted and put in princess, one a fairy, one a snow queen, one wore a nurse’s costume, the sculpture was partially of my doing, if you get my drift. I was another was dressed like a business woman, and so on. Upon close less than thrilled." inspection I discovered that each was actually a fetus, clothed by Everyone who pays taxes loves a Nazi story, especially if there’s a Cathy in wondrous miniature garments. fetus involved. Its incantatory allure was not lost on a National Enquirer "My purpose— no, my mission— is to show the world that abortion editor, who authorized a generous day-rate for the purpose of tracking is wrong. It is evil. You know it in your heart, don’t you, Lenny?” this Flag-Burning She-Wolf of the NEA to her lair. The lead copy had She placed her hand on my arm for a moment and looked imploringly already been written and filed: “Nazi butcher Adolph Eichmann’s into my eyes. “I’ve had several of them, and I know. It’s a horrible great-granddaughter used your tax dollars to pay for an abortion— experience to endure. Your body and your mind tell you it's murder, and then exhibited the fetus in a taxpayer-supported show of porno­ yet so many of us continue with this barbaric practice. You might see graphic and blasphemous art!” me as a reformed sinner, who, having sunk to the depths, has finally When it comes to keeping the sham in shamanism, Eichman’s risen to the surface to give her fellow woman this message: Don’t artwork, Alchemy Cabinet, exerted a negative whammy that could be terminate your pregnancy. You will regret it until your dying day." felt all the way to Capitol Hill. “What arc these dolls all about, Cathy? It’s grotesque.” In the words of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R.-Cal.): “Alchemy “Yes, grotesque. That’s the point. liach one of these dolls, made Cabinet was a china cabinet containing, among other things, a coat up from fetuses scavenged from the garbage of gynecologists, repre­ hanger placed next to a vial containing fetal tissue from the artist’s sents an opportunity lost, a human life literally thrown away. By aborted baby." He went so far as to introduce legislation to de-fund creating and showing this work, by publicly exhibiting it, I had hoped artistic endeavors “used to promote, distribute, disseminate or produce to make this point. I had hoped to make the world sec that abortion matter that includes any part of an actual human embryo or fetus." should be illegal because abortion is murder. If I could have changed O f the S250 Eichman had squandered, the burden it placed on the only one mind, if I could have saved only one life, I would have individual taxpayer factored out to something like a millionth of a accomplished more than most people accomplish of worth in a cent, possibly less. The question remains, was it art? A friend of lifetime. Eichman recalls: “Shawn was storing her furniture at my apartment, "I came to town with my Coffin o f Life, to exhibit it at a local and she came over the day before the Degenerate show to get this old gallery, but instead it will sit here in this hotel room. In order to cabinet. The next thing, I’m reading about it in the Post gossip column." continue to receive funding from the NEA, the gallery has signed an Indeed, it was Eichman herself who would admit: “So what if I agreement not to show pornographic works of art. They think that used the money for the abortion? That’s the only way I could get the this work, which ironically was funded by an NEA grant, would be government to pay for it. It was a symbol of my belief in every considered obscene.” woman’s reproductive rights. I am a committed revolutionary, dedi­ She stood by the window, gazing toward the sunny street below, cated to overthrowing the established order." grief written on her downcast face. “What of my future work? you Ron English adds: “Shawn has made it known that she’s preparing may ask. Given the present climate in Washington, I’ll never get for the time when abortions will be illegal for everyone. For about a another grant. I’m through. Being in the avant garde has its price, and year, she’s been involved in clandestine abortion self-help support I can accept that. But my friends, or to be more accurate, my former groups, where the necessary skills are being taught to emancipate friends, arc all women’s liberationists and pro-choicers. Now they women from the male-dominated medical establishment. She had her avoid me like the plague. And by some caprice, my support is cut off own procedure performed by a guerrilla abortionist in an illegal clinic. by the conservatives, whose position I support. Why? Why?" This is how she could use the fetus in her Alchemy Cabinet. Certified And what of those warriors who set themselves the awesome task clinics don’t let patients take doggie-bags home with them." of guarding public morality ? They understood the threat of the grow­ As for the Enquirer, that editor called to say that, absent proof of ing menace of fetal tissue art while the rest of us, asleep as usual, went the Adolf Eichmann ancestry— or a fetus, bottled and bonded— the about our daily lives. They might shed a tear for Cathy, but in every story would never “clear legal”—that final arbiter of tabloid truth. war, I know they’d say, there are innocent victims. http://www.ep.tc/realist THE REALIST ARCHIVE PROJECT T h e REALIST Issu e N um ber 117 - Sum m er, 1991 - P a g e 07 scans of this entire issue found at: http7/www.ep.tc/realist/l 17

Rafael Quintero. Quintero has said publicly and the motorcade was changed to pass the JFK PLOT that if he ever told what he knew about Dallas grassy knoll at 3 m.p.h. Hunt and Sturgis shot and the Bay o f Pigs, "it would be the biggest JF’K from the grassy knoll. They were arrested, (Continued from Cover) scandal ever to rock the nation.” photographed and seen by 15 witnesses. But business: Texan Robert Mosbachcr and Texan Meanwhile, in I960, Preston Bush was run­ the media turned a blind eye to the photos, James Baker. Mosbachcr is now Sec. of Co m ­ ning Nixon’s campaign. Nixon was sent to and for 25 years the world has been searching merce and Baker is See. of State, the same job South Vietnam to assure the French-connection for the truth. Dulles held when JFK was killed. (Source: government there that if France pulled out, On the day JFK was murdered, Nixon, Common Cause magazine, March/April 1990) the U.S. would step in to protect the drug Hunt and some o f the Watergate crew were O n the Watergate tapes, June 23, 1972, re­ trade from the Golden Triangle. (Source: photographed in Dallas, as were a group of ferred to in the media as the “smoking gun” Frontline, 1988, “Guns, Drugs and the CIA"; Cubans, one holding an umbrella up, like a conversation, Nixon and his Chief ol Staff, Alexander Cockburn, “Cocaine, the CIA and signal, next to the President’s limo just as H.R. Haldcman, were discussing how to stop Air America,” S.F. Examiner, Feb. 2, ’91; The Kennedy was shot. The Cubans can be seen the FBI investigation into the CIA Watergate Politics o f Heroin in Southeast Asia, Alfred holding up the signal umbrella in the Zapruder burglary. They were worried that the investi­ McCoy, 1972) film and dozens of stills taken during the as­ gation would expose their connection to “the In 1959 Vice President Nixon was flying all sassination. After the murder they can be seen Bay of Pigs thing." Haldcman, in his book over the world, acting just like presidential calmly walking away. The Ends o f Power, reveals that Nixon always material. It was an easy race for Nixon. C on ­ Nixon denied he was in Dallas that day, but used code words when talking about the 1963 gressman Jerry I-'ord was doing a great job new photos and stories prove he was there. murder of JFK. Haldcman said Nixon would fundraising for Nixon, as was George Bush. Nixon claimed to the FBI he couldn’t re­ always refer to the assassination as “the Bay The rich loved Nixon. The media picked up member where he was when JFK was killed. o f Pigs.” every bone Nixon tossed out to them. The (Source: FBI memo, Feb. 23, 1964, published On that transcript we find Nixon discussing biggest problem was that Nixon was afraid to in Coup d'etat in America, Weberman & Can- the role o f George Bush’s partner, Robert speak openly of his plan to invade Cuba. The field) Bush, too, claims he ca n ’t remember Mosbacher, as one of the Texas fundraisers for plan was a secret. N o sense in alerting Cuba where he was. Jack Anderson did a TV special Nixon. O n the tapes Nixon keeps referring to to the com ing invasion. But Kennedy was tak­ in 1988 proving beyond any shadow of doubt the “Cubans" and the “Texans. ” The “Texans” ing a harder line on Cuba than Nixon, because that tw o o f the tramps arrested in Dallas be­ were Bush, Mosbacher and Baker. This is Kennedy was not aware of the corporate/CIA hind the grassy knoll were Hum and Sturgis. another direct link between Bush and evidence planned invasion. After the murder, former Vice President linking Nixon and Bush to the Kennedy Nixon lost the I960 race by the smallest Nixon asked President Lyndon Johnson to assassination. margin in history. At first Bush, Nixon, Cabel appoint N ix o n ’s triend, former FBI agent In the same discussion Nixon links “the and Hunt decided to just go ahead with the in­ Jerry Ford, to run the Warren Commission. Cubans,” “the Texans,” “Helms," "Hunt," vasion, without informing President Kennedy. Nixon also asked LBJ to appoint N ix o n ’s “Bernard Barker," Robert “Mosbacher" and Then, at the last second, at 4 a.m., just two long-time supporter. Judge Earl Warren, to “the Bay of Pigs." Over and over on the hours before the invasion was set to go. General head the Commission. LBJ agreed. Ford inter­ Watergate tapes, these names com e up around Cabel called JFK and asked for permission to viewed all the witnesses and decided which ones the discussion of the photos from Dallas, that provide U.S. air cover for the CIA invasion. would be heard and which ones eliminated. Nixon was trying to obtain when he ordered Kennedy said no. It is no coincidence that Nixon selected Ford the CIA to burglarize the Watergate. (Source: The CIA was furious with JFK, but decided as his Vice President after Spiro Agnew was “Three Men and a Barge," Teresa Riordan, to go ahead with their private invasion anyway. ousted. When Nixon himself got busted in the Common Cause magazine, March/April 1990, Due to poor intelligence, the CIA landed at Watergate scandal, Earl Warren offered to set and San Francisco Chronicle, May 7, 1977, the worst possible beach. A swamp. The inva­ up another special commission if it would help interview with Frank Sturgis in which he sion failed. The CIA lost 115 o f its best men, get him out of trouble again. Ford, o f course, stated that “the reason we burglarized the killed, with another 1100 in Cuban prisons. It pardoned Nixon for the Watergate burglary, Watergate was because Nixon was interested was the worst single blow the CIA ever suf­ but Nixon is still not out of the woods. There in stopping news leaking relating to the photos fered. (Source: E. Howard Hunt, Give Us are 4000 hours of Watergate tapes. O n the o f our role in the assassination o f President This Day) June 23, 1972 discussions with John Dean and John Kennedy.”) Bush, Nixon and Hunt blamed Cabel for Haldcman, there is clear evidence that Nixon After Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972, he asking Kennedy, and blamed Kennedy for say­ is openly “confessing” to hiring Hunt to kill knew he had to centralize all power into the ing no. They were livid with anger. Nixon’s JFK. That is why the Watergate “investiga­ White House to keep his faction in power. corporate sponsors ordered JFK to make any tion" went into secret session after Congress Not only to hold power, but to prevent the deal necessary to recover the 1100 CIA agents heard some o f the tapes. That is why only 12 media from digging into how he secretly shot imprisoned in Cuba. JFK did. O nce the CIA hours of the 4CC0 hours have been released to his way into the White House, just like Hitler had its well-trained Cubans back, they decided the public. shot his way into control of Germany. The to continue the invasion of Cuba just as soon Did Congress realize that Nixon and Bush first thing Nixon did was to demand signed as they could get rid of that S.O. B. Kennedy. had openly discussed killing JFK for stopping resignations of his entire government. “Elimi­ The 1964 election was fast approaching. the air cover for the Bay o f Pigs invasion of nate everyone,” he told John Khrlichman Nixon was running against Kennedy again. Cuba? Remember, Nixon taped virtually about reappointment, “except George Bush. Bush, Ford and Nixon knew that they had to every discussion he had with anyone in his Bush will do anything for our cause.” (Source: get rid of JFK now, or else the Kennedy clan, inner circle, including Bush, in order to Pledging Allegiance, Sidney Blumenthal) with Robert and Ted in the wings, could con­ blackmail people later. There is a photo of The reason why Bush will “do anything" is trol the White House until 1984. They decided Bush reporting to Nixon in the White House because his hands have as much of Kennedy’s not to wait until ’84 to get back in the White- in 1968. It will be interesting to see what they blood on them as do Nixon’s, Hunt’s, Sturgis’, House. The Cuban teams of “shooters” began were talking about on that day, when the full Felix Rodriguez’ and Gerald Ford’s. This following Kennedy from city to city looking 4000 hours arc finally released. The key to White House gang fears that if the public ever for a window o f opportunity to shoot from. unlocking the secrets behind the 1963 murder realizes how they shot their way into power They came close in Chicago, but couldn’t get of JFK is hidden in the 3988 hours of unre­ it could set off a spark that would destroy the cooperation o f Mayor Daley. leased White House tapes. their fragile fraud and land them in jail. But in Dallas they had an ace. The mayor Bush was in Dallas the day Reagan was Other famous Watergate members of the was the brother of General Cabel, whom the shot. (Source: George Bush, F. Green, 1988.) CIA invasion that Bush recruited were Frank CIA blamed for the failure o f the invasion. That must have given Bush a flashback to Sturgis, F.. Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker and The general prevailed on his brother, Earl, November 22, 1963.

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Chief Gates Resigns llumor and the Gulf War by Harry Shearer MEDIA FREAK • O n a Saturday Night Live parody of military briefings, a reporter asked, “Sir, You know me. The closest / normally come could you tell us something that will lower the to journalism is trying to find out why they Life Imitates Cartoons troops’ morale?” didn't deliver my paper. But sometimes, if you The Dooncsbury strip below was over­ • For recreation, C l ’s in Saudi Arabia at­ just sit quietly and do nothing, goo d things shadowed by actual Iraqi soldiers who tended wet veil contests. happen. So it is that the following text has thought that the hand cream they discovered • Billy Crystal told a group of theater ow n­ come into my possession. According to sources was a kind of cheese which they gleefully ers that U.S. pilots ran out of bom bs and were just slightly less reliable than the ones who spread on slices of bread and proceeded to eat. now dropping videotapes of Bonfire o f the report celebrity home transactions to the real Vanities on Iraqi troops. estate page, here is an early draft o f Chief Asshole o f the Month • Argus Hamilton: “I sec we just sent 50 Daryl Gates's resignation speech: Terence Keane, Ph.D., head of the National Patriot missiles to Israel to shoot down the 50 Mr. Mayor, honorable council members, Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, jets wc sold to Iraq." my fellow citizens, and black and hispanics: I was asked by CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl • George Bush whispered to General have insisted for several weeks that I had no whether a wife should wake up her husband Schwarzkopf, “Do n ’t worry about what you intention to give in to pressure tactics from who has returned from the Gulf War and is said, N o r m — w e ’re regarding it as a ‘coerced liberal activists, people who have their own having a nightmare, and he replied, “No, she confession’ obtained by David Frost.” private security services and d o n ’t care if the should let the nightmare run its course." • Bush and S y r ia ’s Hafez Assad arc co-star­ p u b lic ’s police department goes to hell in a ring in a movie, Sleeping With the Enemy. dashiki. Autographs in the Netcs • Saddam Hussein is willing to stand trial It seemed to me that giving in to their lynch Carole Reed, who makes her living as an for war crimes, but only if i t ’s before the U .S. mob mentality— and I know a little something Elizabeth Taylor look-alike, attends auto­ Senate Ethics Committee. about lynch m obs— was wrong. I felt that to graph signings and signs her own name. C on ­ • Saddam is now wearing a T-shirt with a desert the w o r ld ’s finest municipal police de­ versely, Dan Quayle walked through a crowd picture of April Glaspie over the words, partment when it was under savage attack from on the White House lawn giving autographs, “Bitch set me up." the forces of senseless extremism in lawfulness but when someone handed him a piece of • If y o u ’re in a room with Saddam Hussein, would let down the thousands o f men and paper without a pen, the Vice President made Moomar Kaddafi and John Sununu, and women w ho wear the badge, and who would the motions of a signature, then handed the y o u ’ve only got two bullets, what do you do? never beat a suspect while being secretly blank paper back and moved on. Answer: Shoot Sununu twice. taped. I also thought my resignation would let down the citizens o f Los Angeles. As events have proved, I was wrong. Whipped up by the most irresponsible coverage since the My Lai massacre, the people have been deliber­ ately misled into thinking that replacing me will solve anything. I ’ve got news for them, and for the blow-dried anarchists who get paid big money— and I know something about big money, too— to misinform them. The Los Angeles Police Department is, lit­ erally, bigger than one man. No law enforcement agency anywhere has been more frequently depicted favorably in high-quality dramatic presentations. And no law enforcement agency anywhere has been more widely admired by the people whose vote really counts: their peers in the profession. Ask any policeman east o f the Rockies where h e ’d most like to Parker memorial desk, this department will tion since the John Tower witchhunt. rotcct and serve, and chances are three to one maintain its commitment to professional, hu­ But I feel sorrier for the ordinary citizens c ’ll say “Los Angeles.” mane law enforcement as an idealistic goal that of Los Angeles. Next time they find themselves It just ca n ’t be the weather. No, i t ’s the we constantly strive for, though we know that in an emergency, the police officer who comes esprit. Read those computer conversation its achievement within our lifetime is highly to their assistance will be totally intimidated transcripts from that fateful evening in Lake unlikely. by the self-appointed so-called busybodics View Terrace again, and get past the obvious In the meantime, I have every confidence looking over his shoulder. So intimidated that misstatements, and what do you see? You see that unfortunate aberrations, of the kind that he second-guesses his instincts and maybe the camaraderie of men and women working Mr. King will surely never forget, will con­ d o e s n ’t shoot at the first dark thing that together under difficult conditions, doing the tinue to be devoted to just a tiny minority of moves, so intimidated that, even in his private most important thing they know— keeping our population. moments, he dare not call a spade a spade. the jungle south o f Olym pic Boulevard. But what is there to say about a so-called As for me, other opportunities beckon. Even without Daryl Gates sitting at the Bill political leadership that sends a clear signal to Cities from Sydney to Johannesburg have ex­ the gangs and the bad guys, “It ’s okay to pick pressed an interest in my consulting services. on the cops"? D o we really want to live in a I am eager to begin work on my first book, E ditor’s Note city where, every time a police officer con­ tentatively titled Heaven’s Gates. I have been fronts a dangerous crack dealer, he has to take invited to embark on a joint lecture tour with Harry Shearer writes a regular column the chance that the vicious drug peddler may Timothy Leary. And I look forward to finally for the Los Angeles Tones Magazine. This try to taunt him into quitting? catching up on events in the life of my family. one, however, was not published because I feel sorry for political leadership so fright­ So I hereby resign the office of Chief of his editors deemed the subject matter to be ened by the powerful forces that favor disorder Police of the City of Los Angeles. I do so “inappropriate" for a column, even while that they abandon their consciences and sur­ sadly, but without bitterness. If the people the Sunday magazine section was being ad­ render to the most scurrilous campaign of want pond scum to run this place, it ’s fine vertised as becoming “bolder.” guilt-by-association-typc character assassina- with me.

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