Letter Never Sent

Okay, I’m not so paranoid now that I think I’ve figured out why the Secret Service has been visiting my site. Apparently, the guy who did www.voxnyc.com is on the lamb from the feds because of some screed he wrote on Bush. That’s to say that the humorless minions of Sauron have been unable to locate this guy and apparently their search for him consists of checking out other websites by googling for the author, Voxfux aka. Mr. Harry “Vox” Stuckey.

I understand that the SS is sworn to protect our beloved leader, but sometimes it seems a little overly paranoid. Showing up with 40 jackbooted thugs at some guy’s house who writes an internet rag? I mean really. Does anyone really think that a person committed to harming the president would go around blabbing about it at all? It’s the height of ridiculousness. You would have to be either a. mentally retarded or b. remarkably insane. In any event, you’d have to be doing it with the full knowledge that you will get disappeared into federal prison forever and even if you do get paroled you’d likely have a GPS transmitter shoved into a sensitive body cavity. It’s beyond stupid.

I think this aggressive stance could really damage the image of the presidency. It comes off like the presidency is some overly paranoid, despotic position always looking for potential would-be assassins. Not to mention that many assassins have come from the ranks of the elite or have at least been employed in some fashion by members of the elite. Why don’t we ever hear about any legitimate assassination plots? All we hear about are people who weren’t careful enough with their words. Something that really only has relevance in printed media.

Anyway, Guerrilla News has a pretty good little article on the whole deal from January 31, 2003. In an interview Vox mentions a conspiracy I’ve never heard before. Seemed worth checking out:

HICKS: Even MSNBC reports that Osama bin Laden worked for the CIA and the United States all throughout the ’80s, when Reagan and Bush were funneling weapons into the region, to Iraq, to Iran, to Afghanistan. Now, on your website you also draw attention to the Bush/Hinckley family association and the 1981 assassination attempt on the life of President Reagan.

VOX: As we know, ex-CIA chief George Bush was v.p. at the time, a heartbeat away from the top slot. Well, in the early hours after the attempt on Reagan it was revealed that Scott Hinckley, the brother of would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr., was scheduled to dine that evening at the home of Neil Bush, the son of then-Vice President George Bush.

NBC’s John Chancellor had the information, but received orders not to mention the dinner date. He defied orders with his newscast, an astonished look on his face. I remember, I saw it as it happened. When I looked for developments and follow-ups to the story, there were none. Zippo. Never mentioned again on the television medium, ever. Newsweek included the fact under some small article about ‘Kooky Conspiracy Theories,’ a sidebar mentioned at the end of their reporting on the attempt.

HICKS: So you think this was a major story that Newsweek and the networks missed?

VOX: There’s an expression, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Well there’s an inferno raging about this one! The most fishy moment in Bush family history. It was further revealed that Papa Bush and Hinckley’s father were friends and fellow oilmen in Texas and Colorado. Hinckley claimed to have supported Reagan, so no suspicion there right? Wrong. Not only did that turn out to be a lie, it turns out that he financed Bush’s bid for the nomination against Reagan!

But there’s more. It was revealed that while George Junior [George W. Bush] was running for Congress in Lubbock, Texas. with his brother Neil as manager, guess who else lived in Lubbock? John Hinckley Junior. When probed as to whether the Bush boys had ever met Hinckley during their Lubbock days, our current president said that it was ‘conceivable’ that they had met. Do you know what that means? That’s politician-speak for ‘they met.’ What should have been the biggest, most investigated story of the Eighties was wiped clear from the face of history.

The video for Johnny Cash’s cover of the NIN song, ‘Hurt’.

By The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP)–At 70, Johnny Cash is rocking out with his cover of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt.” “Most videos are about creating eye candy, a pretty image that can be a marketing tool,” Romanek said. “We just tried to show the simple truth of what’s going on in his life. It’s kind of a sucker punch when you see it the first time because we’re not used to that emotional depth in music videos.”

Interview: Author Daniel Pipes on his new book, “Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From,” and his life
01/25/98
Booknotes – C-SPAN
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Dr. PIPES: Well, cer–certainly conspiracies do take place, and there are even conspiracies to take over the world. And here we get to an interesting point. The only real conspiracies–or almost only real conspiracies are counterconspiracies. In other words, if I’m a conspiracy theorist, I believe that this is a good way of operating, an effective way of operating. And therefore, I’m inclined to operate this way myself, and that’s precisely what you find.

Take Hitler. He believed in a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. What he did to counter that alleged Jewish conspiracy was to create a real conspiracy, the Nazi Party, and he a–apparently took a number of ideas from the alleged Jewish conspiracy and made them part of his Nazi movement, and the Nazi movement was an attempt to take over the world. Take Lenin. He believed in a business conspiracy, a conspiracy of business interests to dominate the world, to extract, steal goods at–at–at cheaper–or for free, for the same reason: Because he believed in conspiracy, he himself organized a conspiracy, the Social Democratic Party in Russia, which, in fact, took over Russian government and was a–an attempt to take over the world.

So over and over again, I find that the–the conspiracy theorist becomes, himself, a conspirator. And that in most cases, the real conspiracy, the one that actually takes place, follows from the actions, the mind of a conspiracy theorist. So there’s a–a circle. And so my policy conclusion from this is when you hear a conspiracy theory being alleged, watch out for the conspiracy.