Bumping our Heads

[Daveparts]

Bumping our Heads
By David Glenn Cox

Why Assassination is so popular? Because it works that’s why, a candle extinguished will stay extinguished, its solitary light will pierce the indigo darkness no more. One candle will illuminate so much, giving us a center, a point to gravitate towards. However two candles will not double the amount of light but only serve to illuminate the weakness of the other flame.

A candle extinguished will leave those navigating by that light as lost and when left alone in that darkness afraid. Assassination and political murders are as old as Cain and Able, settling the question once and for all of whom God loved best. A light extinguished stays extinguished.

World political history is over filled with assassination, the methods may be new but the reasons are the same and unchanging. A purposeful murder for a political reason, either to protect the status quo or to usurp it, a patriot or a traitor depends only upon your political point of view. Governments or factions will almost immediately move to qualify any assassin as a madman or a lunatic that being the easiest to minimize and the hardest to defend against.

Assassination is a political earthquake, that is the greatest fear for the conspirators. The unintended consequences, the unforeseen events, the ground shifting under their feet. The murder of Julius Caesar was plotted and planned by only two Senators but as his blood spilt out onto the senate floor a decision was required immediately by all, were they with the plotters or against them? An incorrect decision could mean sudden death. The plotters success can embolden imitators, which exacerbates paranoia and can cause the opposite effect of the original murder loosening the hold to power rather than increasing it.

Assassination is not unlike the writing of a mystery novel, it is written backwards. The actual event is small in comparison to the logistical planning leading up to the actual murder. A stage presented as all is as it should be when the exact opposite is true. From the very beginnings of the Nazi party there were plots and conspiracies to remove or kill Adolf Hitler. Some of the plots were fanciful and halfhearted attempts with very little chance of success even if ever attempted. Klaus Von Staufenberg’s 1944 attempt was almost successful, only an oak table leg and open windows saved the Fuehrer’s life.

But that failure meant death for thousands even for those only remotely involved or involved only by their proximity to a plotter. The assassination attempt threw the schizophrenic Fuehrer into a murderous rage, puncturing his delusion of being invulnerable as well as validating his paranoia against the military. The lesson is clear, the assassination of a person in power must be successful, the intended must die or the conspirators most assuredly will.

But what of those whose crime is to draw away light from the status quo, those without the full protection of the state? Those like Ghandi, King and Bhutto who must make nice with the lions, to pretend publicly of their faith and their trust in those whose job it is to protect them. Those on the outside who must be protected by those on the inside, to live each day with the knowledge that it could be their last. Mrs. Bhutto was aware of that, from the day of her return to Pakistan she faced death from the hands of the government that promised her safety.

A passion play that has been rerun through out our human history. How can I be so certain? It’s obvious of course. Those that felt threatened by Mrs. Bhutto had her murdered. Those who stood to lose the most by her taking office took her life, same as it ever was. What did Islamic extremists stand to lose if Mrs. Bhutto were elected Prime Minister? Nothing! Their world would not been changed one iota, but now the sitting Pakistani government, a government run by a military dictatorship stood to lose everything.

Not unlike the murder of Robert Kennedy the status quo could not accept even the possibility of his election. Once elected the chances of assassination would diminish while the trouble that he could cause would soar. An avowed peace candidate far more liberal than his centrist brother. A man with strong ties to the poor and working class he was a lethal threat to the status quo and had to die before election.

Peculiar isn’t it? Martin Luther King could preach about civil rights for America’s suffering African American population for a almost decade but as soon as he branched out to include the poor and the working class of all races in America and began to speak out against the Vietnam War. King was a dead within a matter of months and as always the lone nut with a gun.

Same as it ever was, Lincoln was killed by a confederate sympathizer. Sure he was, and Secretary of State Stanton cancelled his trip to Ford’s theater with the President that night and just happened to lose pages out of his diary. President Lincoln’s reconstruction plan would have put Southerners in control of their state governments within months. Thus denying the opportunity for reconstruction contractors and politicians to make millions far from prying eyes by feeding on the disenfranchised.

As long as we accept the loan nut with a gun theory we never need trouble ourselves with pesky details. Why was the barn with John Wilkes Booth inside it set on fire? Why did the soldiers fire into it when it would be essential to take Booth alive? Why did Lee Harvey Oswald order a gun mail order that could be traced to him when he could have gone into any sporting goods store in Texas and bought a better rifle without so much as giving his name.

Why did James Earl Ray buy a hunting rifle and then take it back to exchange it?
Why did Sirhan Sirhan a Syrian native keep his personal diary in English? Why did the limo driver carrying the wounded Ronald Reagan claim to get lost in his own hometown while looking for a Washington hospital? Why was Al Haig the Secretary of State so quick to claim that he was in control when he knew that constitutionally Vice President Bush was in charge? Why did George Bush Sr. claim that he didn’t know the Hinckley family when he had bought out John Hinckley’s seniors oil company? The senior Hickley had contributed money to the Bush campaign and lived in the same Houston neighborhood as George Bush.

So when the Pakistani government tells me Mrs. Bhutto died from bumping her head on a sunroof I understand. When the US government offers help in the investigation I understand that too. Maybe they can find more 38-caliber shell casings ejected from Lee Harvey Oswald’s revolver. But it’s all just a public show like the Warren commission or the 9-11 commission the object is to obscure the truth not to expose it. That is without a doubt the most essential aspect of any successful assassination, controlling the investigation.

When those who stand to gain from the crime control the investigation the outcome is a foregone conclusion. It’s always best for the alleged assassin to die but if the assassin lives that he be buried far away from public view and never allowed to speak. Because if we listen to the alleged assassins we might find that their story is more credible than the official explanation. Or we might discover as in the case of James Earl Ray a man of limited education whose background calls into question even their ability to commit the crime. A man arrested with a fake Canadian passport who didn’t know the difference between citizen and commonwealth.

We accept that governments around the world use assassination as a tool of foreign policy and even that our own CIA has multiple assassinations to their credit. But always, when it strikes too close to home or is too politically sensitive then we believe what we want to believe, and believe what we are told by those who stand to gain. Maybe Mrs. Bhutto bumped her head maybe she choked on a gumdrop maybe they think we’ve all bumped our head somebody’s bumped their head but it wasn’t me.

[Demeter]

1. That's Why Bush and Cheney Take Such Precautions

They know they've disabled every other device to rein them in.

[yurbud]

2. how many assassinations HAVEN'T served the financial elite?