Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com http://www.konformist.com/1999/john-john/john-john.htm http://www.konformist.com/1999/jfkjr.htm http://www.konformist.com/1999/john-john/jfkblank.htm http://www.konformist.com/1999/john-john/kthomas.htm http://www.konformist.com/1999/john-john/ritual.htm http://www.konformist.com/1999/john-john/anarchists.htm The John-John Conspiracy Robalini's Note: For The Komplete John-John Conspiracy Story, you must visit the site. Here is but a sampler. Richard Metzger of Disinformation ( http://www.disinfo.com ) wrote, concerning the JFK, Jr. death (and a nasty piece yours truly wrote on it, "Why JFK, Jr. Isn't the Victim of a Conspiracy"): Robert, Why are you so down on the guy??? It's very unseemly to kick a man when he's DEAD. Yours affectionately, Richard Well, Richard, it's a nasty job, but somebody has to do it. Do you think I like being the one who has to point out what a dumbass John-John was? Do you think I like being the one who had to point out that Mother Teresa was a fraud? Well I don't. OK, I'm lying. I REALLY, REALLY do enjoy it. But seriously, I must say that few have been rewarded as much as I have from the Kennedy family tragedy, so much that it's amazing I'm not a suspect in one of those wacky internet conspiracy theories. (Man, where do these people come up with this shit?) Still, to the credit of those internet investigators, they keep on coming up with some interesting facts to back up the claim of a supposed John-John conspiracy. The Konformist official position remains that JFK, Jr. was too much of a dumbass to be worth being killed by the power structure. Having said that, here are some theories and evidence that are contrary to that, and other amusing bits. Stay tuned. Much credit must go to The Konformist friend Ru Mills of the Rumor Mill News Agency ( http://www.rumormillnews.com ). Please visit her site and join her mailing list to get the latest goods from dear Ru. http://www.konformist.com/1999/john-john/kthomas.htm Thursday, July 22, 1999 01:51:22 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Battle of the JFK Jr. Conspiracy Theories By Kenn Thomas The news of JFK Jr.'s demise came to me while I was in Seattle, Washington lecturing on the JFK assassination. A friend commented that the Kennedy family had made a great sacrifice for the sake of publicizing my talk. He apologized later for the grim joke, but it had already served as a reminder that this lecture would have to be more sensitive than the last several. The lecture looks coldly at the Zapruder film, describing as objectively as possible mysterious aspects like the Umbrella man and his radio-controller companion, the direction of the shots, even the significance of the dying president's flailing arms. From repeated practice, the lecture puts distance between these details and the emotional reaction that accompanies such a graphic presentation of a brutal murder and also from its personal context for many Americans. That became less possible on the weekend that JFK Jr. had suffered an early and brutal end like his father. The news would re-ignite passions about the assassination and, as it turned out, the crowd was especially attentive and alert. Many questions were asked about the possibility of conspiracy in the death of JFK's son. By then, of course, several competing theories had arisen, and my friend's tasteless joke became tame by comparison. The first to reach me, courtesy of Jim Martin of Flatland Magazine, was that the Kennedy family had suffered a curse of water. John, Jr.'s plane had crashed into water, just as Joseph Kennedy, Jr. died in a flight over water during World War II. John Kennedy's PT 109 was on the water; Ted Kennedy drove off bridge into water at Chappaquiddick. (JFK Jr's flight took off from Caldwell, NJ, whose only significant alum was Chappaquiddick's Mary Jo Kopechne) That JFK Jr.'s death came on the 30th anniversary of Chappaquiddick, of course, escaped little notice; neither did the anniversary of the downing of Flight 800. The "water theory" started silly and got worse, eventually betraying a partisan bias. It also held that Michael Kennedy's fatal skiing accident involved snow, a form of frozen water, and concluded that the Democrats will soon propose legislation banning water. The theory to take seriously, however, argued that John F. Kennedy, Jr. had plans to run for the senate seat in New York and threatened the campaign of either Hilary Clinton or Rudolph Guiliani In the first scenario, the death of John Kennedy Jr. becomes the latest in a long line of deaths connected to the Clinton administration, an anomalous list that has circulated among conspiracy theorists for many years. Reported marriage tension between the Clintons in the wake of the Lewinsky affair, however, casts that theory in doubt. The second view, the Guiliani theory, holds that the plane crash was sabotage by mafia elements. Mobsters loyal to the New York mayor blew up the plane. The idea that this tragedy was an outgrowth of conspiracy politics first emerged in an online newsletter produced by someone named Ru Mills. It was seconded and distributed through mainstream news services by radio host Sean Morton, who noted that Hilary Clinton was "the person who would most benefit from JFK, Jr.'s death." It was not limited to the conspiracy rumor mill, however. Before long Matt Lauer, host of NBC's Today show, was discussing the possibility of a Senate run for John Jr. with a George Magazine executive. John Jr. himself could not have avoided conspiracy theories by virtue of the fact that his father's death was so steeped in them. In fact, he devoted an issue of George Magazine to the topic. His writers even interviewed me, in my role as publisher of the conspiracy magazine Steamshovel Press, and several other conspiracy writers for a feature that the magazine never published. Instead, its "conspiracy theory" issue included warmed-over rumors about the death of rap star Tupac Shakur. That George eventually shied away from publishing interviews with writers of substance on the issue of conspiracy has been seen as symptomatic of the magazine's lightweight intellectual quality. The same quality found in its publisher, JFK Jr., has helped squash other conspiracy rumors. One noted researcher, Robert Sterling of the Konformist web site, felt that the death involved no conspiracy "compelled by one simple fact that just can't be ignored: John F. Kennedy, Jr. was a pea-brained moron." Sterling called the late Kennedy a "dim-witted pretty boy" whose "career in politics may have been already out of the question" because he "had already risen to his level of certifiable incompetence by being the Editor-in-Chief of the atrocious George Magazine." This would, of course, eliminate the theory that JFK Jr. was killed for his political ambitions. The argument did not differ much from those put forward by Rush Limbaugh and other columnists of the right. Limbaugh, in fact, even attacked the media spin put on the famous photo of the young John John saluting his father's funeral precession. The vitriolic radio host suggested that it was less a spontaneous act than a conspiracy by Jaqueline Kennedy to create a photo opportunity, for the Democrats or for her family. Conspiracy theories are often dismissed as injecting too much intelligence into random events. Those rejections more often than not fail to stand up to the rigors of historical review. And, of course, being a pea-brain does not exempt anyone from also being the victim of a conspiracy. Most observers agree also that it also rarely exempts anyone from running for public office. After the inevitable question, "Did John F. Kennedy, Jr. lose control of his plane because he was distracted by an unidentified flying object?", the JFK Jr. theories took more of a turn toward science-fiction. Noting that Kennedy was an inexperienced pilot, one researcher argued that he nevertheless had intimate knowledge of the area and was making an easy flight in a very reliable craft. According to the argument, the only other thing which could realistically bring down the plane would be hostile fire, perhaps from an ultra-top-secret particle beam weapons system at a subterranean base at Montauk, near where JFK Jr. crashed. Montauk has a reputation among some readers of paranormal literature as the place where the U.S.S. Etheridge was moved through time in something called The Philadelphia Experiment. Perhaps the most bizarre conclusion reached about JFK Jr. was that he flew the plane through the Montauk time vortex in an attempt to change history and "make the assassination attempt against his father in 1963 succeed , burdened as he was by that shadow of celebrity." The web site making this clain promised further updates as the space-time continuum resettled Conspiracy elements of this tragic event no doubt exist. Thirty years of study of the JFK assassination has demonstrated nothing else if it has not shown the involvement of a conspiracy, even several interlocking conspiracies involving transglobal connections that still exist. In Seattle, I explained that the question of "who killed Kennedy" is really only the first of many questions that the notorious assassination poses, answers and still leaves issues of importance relevant to contemporary politics. One person in attendance at my lecture asked, "How many Kennedys need to die early and under unusual circumstances before people begin to understand that the very powerful Kennedy family has equally powerful forces that conspire against it?" It was a good question and I am left wondering along with the questioner what real shape the JFK Jr. disaster will take. The news needs to emerge, however, before a serious analysis of its conspiracy elements can be made. Kenn Thomas publishes Steamshovel Press, a magazine devoted to conspiracy and parapolitics. It is available for $28 for a four-issue subscription (overseas; $22 in the US), from POB 23715, St. Louis, MO 63121. Thomas' new book, Maury Island UFO, examines a 1947 UFO case involving witnesses who were subpoenaed by Jim Garrison as part of his investigation of the JFK assassination in 1968. Thomas' previous book, The Octopus, details the existence of an international power cabal of that name. He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Steamshovel Press is found on the web at www.umsl.edu/~skthoma. http://www.konformist.com/1999/john-john/ritual.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Robalini, I hear ya on the John-John issue, which is similarly felt by the people at the World Socialist Web Site (Media sensationalism and the Kennedy crash: http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jul1999/kenn-j19.shtml) However, indulge me a bit to lay out an assassination scenario. According to William S. Burroughs in The Book of Breeething (Blue Wind Press, Berkeley, 1980) pictures have a way of controlling one's destiny: "Question: What secret did Hassan i Sabbah learn in Egypt that enabled him to control and activate his assassins from a distance? Answer: Energy from virus. (...) And what is a virus? Perhaps simply a pictorial series like Egyptian glyphs that makes itself real. Before the pictures conceived in opposition to Alamout could make themselves real the assassins struck, deriving their energy precisely from these hostile pictures. A general who planned an expedition against Alamout was killed by an old man who had worked in his garden for ten years. Caliphs, Sultans, Emirs were killed in their palaces by trusted servants." And further on: "This operation applies the curse formula. Recall that the death glyph is a man splitting his head with an axe. To what forms of self-destructive behavior is the target liable? Is he a fast reckless driver? Smoke too much? Eat too much? Drunk too often? Prone to loss of temper or other emotional excesses? Alternative programs can be set up and the operation computerized. (...) A curse is activated by hate. Mixture of sexual and hostile elements in the basic death formula. (...) [Potential assassins] Anyone with whom the good and soon to be lamented General comes into direct contact ... servants, friends, associates and above all sexual partners." That said, let us look at the facts, er, pictures: In the current (July 1999) issue of JFK, Jr.'s magazine George, there are a number of foreboding images and statements related to his coming death. >From the beginning: page 8 Staff page - sidebar: "Move over, John Kennedy: A MYSTERY MAN takes George's helm ..." page 9 NRA ad: Insert photo of woman aiming rifle being coached by man pointing way. Both wear headphones. page 10 Editor's Letter: Photos of JFK, Jr. with various celebrities. page 11 Versace ad: Two males models and one female dressed in black. (Reference Versace death conspiracy) page 21 leaks and gossip page: Top - Photo of President Klinton dressed in black gown saluting skyward. (Reference JFK Jr.'s famous salute to his dead father and film clip of Klinton shaking JFK, Sr.'s hand.) Below - Photos of former Clinton staffer Mike McCurry looking askance at other photo of man in dark glasses on airfield in front of plane. page 30 Time capsule (insert): Pop culture from July 1984 (when JFK was 23 years old!) shows Ghostbusters logo ("I ain't afraid of no ghost!"), Bob Woodward's book Wired on John Belushi (Reference Belushi death conspiracy) and Prince's song "When Doves Cry". pages 42 & 43 Top Ten: Photos of three Republican congressmen with index fingers pointing upwards. page 44 Players: Title: Warrior princess. page 90 Best Little Mayor: (Reference JFK, Jr.'s Great Grand Daddy John F. Fitzgerald elected mayor of Boston) Pullquote reads: "... a priest said Mass over the hole." ( Reference Massachusetts: Boston, Martha's Vineyard, Woods Hole and Catholics.) page 99 Comics: Bottom right-hand comic shows Dan Quayle with inflight magazine in pocket, titled "CRASH". That's all I could find so far after just picking up the issue. There may be more. And to top it all off, JFK, Jr. was facing East when his plane went down, just like the Great Sphinx in Egypt. "Emerging through the false door on the eastern side of his tomb, the Pharaoh was instructed to set his course eastward. Lest he misunderstand, he was explicitly warned against going west: "Those who go thither, they return not!" His goal was the Duat, in the "Land of the Mountain Gods." He was to enter there "The Great House of Two ... the House of Fire"; where, during "a night of computing years," he shall be transformed into a Divine Being and ascend "to the east side of Heaven." - Zecharia Sitchin, The Stairway to Heaven, Avon Books, 1980. And of course, this could all be a ruse to take the public's attention away from the nationwide protests against the Pacifica Foundation's attacks of free speech. peace, Edwin Johnston http://www.konformist.com/1999/john-john/jfkblank.htm Thanks to Greg Bishop ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) for forwarding the following. JFKJr Fill In the Blanks: John Shirley on JFKJr. John Shirley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:42:12 EDT I wonder how long before the conspiracy theorists start in on JFK jr's demise--they probably already have. It didn't take long for Princess Di. Here's a form they could fill in: JFK Jr's death was actually a murder carried out by (fill in blanks)______________ because JFK jr found some secret papers on __________ in his father's effects and/or because he was regarded as dangerous by_____________ because ___________ and they fabricated his death through means of ___________ but in fact he's really alive and being kept prisoner until_______________ and/or arranged for his own apparent death because he knew of the conspiracy against him by ____________ who are really part of the secret society of ____________ who ________ the Pope and are in _________ with _________ and the CIA and former members of the ________ who discovered that he had found out that UFOS are ______________ and was about to publish it in George Magazine. Another element in the conspiracy is the revenge against his father by __________ and the part played by Ted Kennedy in order to cover up his own complicity in the ____________ affair and to avoid reprisals by international drug cartel operatives working with the ___________ agencies in league with mind controlled ____________ from the _________constellation, as a direct result of World War Two era secret-science research into _____________ which was covered up by ____________ using hirelings from the _________ mob and the Asian___________ until the world's gold supply should be _________ by the international banking conspiracy which used JFK jr for a _____________ until he realized he was being used and pulled some strings in the military in order to create the apparent________ in the cold waters of the Atlantic near Martha's Vinyard. http://www.konformist.com/1999/john-john/anarchists.htm JFK DEATH A "TRAGIC WASTE" SAY ANARCHIST DISSENTERS "MUNIR HUSSAIN SOCIETY" FOUNDED IN CRASH AFTERMATH "NO COMMENT" SAYS JELLO BIAFRA NEW YORK, July 20, 1999 (CP) - An unorthodox controversy is currently raging in anarchist and radical circles about the recent plane crash and deaths of John Kennedy Jr, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette. Not suprisingly, many in the radical milieu have mocked the mainstream media's "fawning" coverage of the affair. "Get a life!" was the response of one leftist caller to the distraught listeners of a popular New York City talk-radio show. A Washington-based anarchist media source announced the missing JFK plane story with a headline reading, "Worthless rich person pilots plane into ocean." Many self-described "class struggle" anarchists have expressed morbid satisfaction in the occupations of the crash victims. They worked, respectively, as a former New York City prosecutor, a Calvin Klein PR executive and, most appropriately, a Wall Street investment banker and venture capitalist. Other extremists criticized John Kennedy Jr's widely-reported charity efforts as the "cleansing of liberal guilt" and "poverty pimping." "If you provoke us with yuppie hagiography, we're going to continue to take wicked glee in this so-called tragedy," threatened Chicago-based radical, Lucy Parsons. The anarchists are blaming "inane commentaries" for their hardline and seemingly heartless stance in the face of national and international mourning for America's "crown prince". One man keeping vigil at JFK's apartment in New York City described John Kennedy Jr as "just a normal guy" as he laid flowers at an ad hoc memorial. This prompted one anonymous bystander to yell, "Ya, a fucking normal guy who owns a $300,000 plane and has multi-million dollar trust funds set up by his anti-Semitic bootlegging granddaddy and Greek fascist capitalist pig shipowning stepfather." The heckler was promptly arrested by the NYPD, and criticized by some Greenwich Village Ralph Nader-supporters for "divisive, ideological rhetoric." North of the border, Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, ran a front-page column which uncritically quotes from Kennedy biographer, John Collier. He writes of the Kennedys, "There is something riveting about people who live and die more dramatically than we do." The quote caused one Montreal activist to unceremoniously vomit his eclectic breakfast of soy milk, bananas, croissants and fresh raspberry jam. Dissenting anarchist opinions, however, are being heard above the predictable radical din. Michael Eikhenbaum, a Long Island anti-authoritarian, described the crash as a "tragic waste." He explains: "From what I can gather, the plane was six-seater, so the crash was really 50% effective from my point-of-view. Using a simple math formula, I've determined that at least three others could have fit into the plane comfortably." His colleague, Mollie Steimer, agrees: "Too bad they couldn't have flown at least a few more annoying Kennedys, or at least one of those pasty white Gore kids." Eikhenbaum and Steimer's sentiments were countered by Paul Bousse, another anarchist agitator, "It's all relative really," he said. "I'm an optimist, so I like to think the plane was half-full rather than half-empty." Oddly, some Buffalo-based activists have announced the formation of a "Munir Hussain Society" in the aftermath of the crash. The society is loosely modeled on the secretive "Henri Paul Memorial Society" formed in the immediate aftermath of Princess Diana's 1997 death. Henri Paul was the driver of Diana's limousine, which helps explain the society's motto: "Every royal parasite deserves a drunk French chauffeur!" Munir Hussain is believed to be the man who sold John Kennedy Jr his ill-fated plane three months ago. He is not known to be an anarchist. Meanwhile, Quebec media sources are reporting that the statue bust of John F. Kennedy Sr in downtown Montreal has again been defaced with graffiti reading "Ho, Ho, Ho ... Ho Chi Minh!" It was apparently written by a local anti-imperialist with a black marker, an irrational grudge and a long memory. 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