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 The planning for the creation of the current Empire began with the public murder of the Republic that started with the swearing-in of Gerald R. Ford on August 9, 1974. That was almost 28 years before September 11, 2001. Ford brought many of the players, from the current Nest of Vipers into the US Government for the first time; including Dick Cheney, as Ford-the-puppet began this final scene in
‘The Death of this Republic.’
Gerald R. Ford:
Name at birth: Leslie Lynch King, Jr.?
“Gerald Ford became president of the United States after the Watergate scandal forced
Richard Nixon from office in 1974. Though he served as president for only 29 months, Ford is now widely credited with restoring public faith in the office of the president after the scandals of the Nixon years. Ford graduated from the University of Michigan (1935) and the Yale University law school (1941) before serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was then a U.S. Congressman from Michigan from 1948-73. Known as a steady and loyal Republican, Ford was appointed vice president in 1973 when Nixon's previous vice president,
Spiro Agnew, resigned after pleading no contest to a tax evasion charge. Nixon himself resigned on 9 August 1974, and "Gerry" Ford took office the same day, telling Americans that "our long national nightmare is over." One month later Ford granted Nixon a full pardon for any crimes. Ford chose as his vice president
Nelson
Rockefeller, the former governor of New York and grandson of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller. Ford ran for re-election in 1976, dropping Rockefeller as his running mate in favor of
Bob Dole. They lost to the Democratic ticket.”
 It was just four years later, in California 1978, that this hard-core battle-plan to take over the nation began to take shape. For decades police and prosecutors in this country had been outraged over the granting of Miranda Rights to and for US criminal suspects. It was almost ‘policy’ to oppose all rights, within the justice system, for the accused, while continuing to press for evermore police freedoms to ‘arrest & investigate’ without hindrance of so many of the protections
from the government that were beginning to be seen by the public as “necessary.”
In 1978, in Ronald Regan’s California the foot-soldiers of the Reagan machine began to create their treasonous plans to change all this, and to do away with those they saw as having been “too soft on crime & criminals.” To accomplish this they settled on using an unusual ploy; they decided to nationally emphasize the plight of “The Forgotten Victims of Violent Crime” in order to eliminate the citizen’s protections from the government that these victims actually required, if anything was to ever change.
The California Chamber of Commerce and the California District Attorney’s Association decided to put together a book on this topic that would highlight Elder Abuse, Child Abuse, Rape Victims, Youth Violence, Recidivism and
“Terrorism”? I was asked to illustrate this project. So, believing that I was helping those without a voice, I did the illustrations. A Victims Bill of Rights for California was later created thanks in part to this effort, but what was clearly established by this book and its various applications, was the public mindset that is currently known as
“victimhood.’ (*)
In the course of trying to flesh out the topics for the book, I met with a woman in Sacramento, or rather I spoke to someone inside a sealed room, who remained on the other side of an inch thick bullet-proof glass partition as she tried to warn me about ‘the very real threat of Terrorism’ as this topic was “seen-then” by those insiders that mattered in 1978. I was somewhat puzzled that the prosecutor’s and their political-paranoia had reached this apparently extreme
place – but the deadline for publication was near, and they were impressed with the image –
so I finished it.
I had been told that this project would be something that California could use toward creating a California Victims’ Bill of Rights; but not that 100,000 of these books would be quietly circulated in Washington, behind the scenes to enhance the political clout of George Deukmejian, who was then California’s A.G., but who was also running for Governor at the time. Apparently the Terrorism piece in this ploy was to assist the Regan Machine that began the Regan Revolution in 1980 that ultimately led to meltdown we’re now living in.
After the book was published I read with horror, the article that went with the illustration that reads in part:
“The expectation that the US government can eradicate terrorism is predicated exclusively on the implied intelligence capability of the law enforcement community – but the vitality of that erstwhile superior capability no longer exists. It has been gutted by the US Congress in an avalanche of expedient legislation alleged to soothe citizen concern over real and imagined intelligence abuses. The law enforcement community has been stripped of efficiency by governmental edict and can no longer guarantee protection of the American public. The baby has been thrown out with the bathwater.
The mania over privacy has become a fraud on the American public. Whose civil liberties are being protected – the bombers or the victims? Does a terrorist have a legitimate right to privacy? Is it possible that the civil liberties of a bomber could be offended by a wiretap?
For practical purposes, the federal government has backed itself into the unfortunate position of keeping Americans safe and secure from the FBI while at the same time guaranteeing their position as potential victims of the terrorists.”
When we look back over the political lives of Cheney & Rumsfeld, along with the other ‘crazies’ that have been with us since Ford opened the flood gates of this continuing treason against us all – it’s easy to see how our defenses were destroyed, one-by-one. With George Bush Sr. in charge of the CIA massive amounts of damning evidence disappeared in government shredders; while the public was focused on things like the abuses of power that surrounded the whole of the Nixon administration. The Empire began to perfect this idea of pointing one way while they acted on the exact opposite of what they demanded that the public be concerned with.
While Congress was enacting protections from the government in the wake of Watergate, the real criminals were imbedding themselves ever-deeper in the treason of stealing the actual functions of the government from any oversight by what then-remained of a representative democracy.
The above illustration is how I chose to recycle the image from 1978, in order to atone in part for how I might have assisted in bringing on this nightmare in the first place. As for Nixon; his impeachment was halted by his ‘voluntary’ resignation because Tricky Dick had warned the congress that if they went through with their threat of Impeachment; he would take all of them down with him. That was a very real possibility even then, because the corruptions of the government had already gone far beyond anything imaginable at that time.
These are just a few of the thoughts that came to mind yesterday, while I was thinking about how this nightmare came to be even remotely possible. Or how it happened that Dick Cheney (Halliburton, KBR & Blackwater) had his own private shadow government and private intelligence services that he used throughout the run-up to the Iraq War –
to silence any opposition to our stated purposes for that invasion. Or Rumsfeld and his connections to a hugely corrupt Pharmaceutical giant (mandatory vaccines), as well as to the arms and munitions suppliers that were getting filthy rich as they supplied the wars: Does Rummy still have an office in the Pentagon under Obama? But ultimately: regardless of whether or not these cave-men are actually in-office or just in the basement somewhere: they have never really been out of government since August 9, 1974.
No wonder we remain firmly rooted in denial as we very slowly discover that we have, in realty, been buried in treason and tyranny for decades now. The fact that Cheney is treated as someone in authority; instead of as the war-criminal and the public-enemy that he is in actuality; pretty much says it all!
Jim
Kirwan
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