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LIVING IN WONDERLAND: TIRED OF THE LIES, PROPAGANDA AND HYPOCRISY
by Gavin Phillips
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act.
- George Orwell
"Please would you tell me," said Alice a little timidly "...why your cat
grins like that?"
"It's a Cheshire Cat," said the Duchess, "and that's why. Pig!"
In Lewis Carrolls wonderful novel, "Alice in Wonderland," talking rabbits
dash around wearing a waistcoat and a fob watch. Cats disappear and reappear
with amazing alacrity. Alice explores a beautifully fantastic and eccentric
world, but a world of fiction.
Let us take a look at 3 major incidents in Clinton's 6 1/2 year presidency
and determine if the official/mainstream media versions belong in our world,
or in a wonderland of their own making.
THE VINCE FOSTER "SUICIDE"
The official story of the Vince Foster death is that Foster shot himself on
July 20 1993 in Fort Marcy Park, Washington. But the enormous amount of
evidence collected by investigative journalist Chris Ruddy leaves the
official version in tatters.
Ruddy has documented many dozens of major and minor inconsistencies,
loopholes and massive incompetence in the government's investigation. I have
listed below a small sampling of some of these.
1 No suicide note
2 Another torn note was found in a briefcase that previously had been searched
3 Three handwriting experts, including one from Oxford University, concluded
the note was a forgery.
4 Body so neatly arranged, arms at sides, head straight up, as "if it was
ready for the coffin," according to two paramedics.
5 No fingerprints, though gun found in hand
6 No visible blood splatter or blow-back on gun
7 Gun remained in hand
Vincent Scalice and Fred Santucci, two homicide experts formerly with the New
York City Police Dept. say:
"Red flag indicating possible foul play...In our 50 years combined experience
investigating homicides, we have never seen a gun so neatly arranged in a
suicide's hand. We believe the gun was staged."
8 Gun not sent for testing until one week after official ruling of suicide
9 Police underexposed key 35mm crime scene photos, other Polaroid's missing
10 Relied on autopsy of Virginia medical examiner, who has been challenged in
two suicide rulings - in one case the murderer later confessed
11 Patrick knowlton , a witness who officials said was the first to spot
Foster's Honda in the parking lot, claims the FBI "lied" in his witness
statement; they claimed he could not identify a man he saw in the park; he
says he can.
12 Foster's glasses were found with gunpowder on them 19 feet from his head.
Vincent Scalice and Fred Santucci say:
"It is physically impossible for the eyeglasses to have moved 19 feet, or any
significant distance from the body, as a result of the gun's explosion."
I have only given a dozen examples of what Ruddy's investigation unearthed,
there are nearly a hundred documented at his website www.newsmax.com, (or see
his book, The Strange Death of Vince Foster)if you want further evidence.
Another very important question is why was the Park Police, real life
equivalents to the keystone Cops and little more than nightwatchman,
initially put in charge of investigating the death of the highest public
official to die in suspicious circumstances since JFK? Also unprecedented is
the fact that the lead investigator had never handled a homicide case before.
I suppose he needed the experience!
When journalist and author Ambrose Evans-Pritchard located key witness
Patrick knowlton he found out that the FBI had lied about Knowltons
statements. Below is a small part of an interview between Wesly Phelan and
Knowltons lawyer John Clark:
CLARKE: ...Pritchard located and interviewed him. And Pat was telling the
story, and Pritchard said "Are you telling the truth?" And Patrick said "Yes,
why?" And Pritchard said "Because that's not what it says in your FBI 302
reports." And Patrick had never seen them, and so he said "Let me see them."
So he went through them, and he said "This is a lie...This is a lie...This is
a lie...A lot of lies in there."
Another surprising coincidence is that the day before Foster committed
suicide Bill Clinton dismissed FBI director William Sessions. He replaced him
with errand boy Louis Freeh, a man who made his name by obtaining a very
dubious conviction of a mail bomber. Later testimony showed that the FBI
laboratory had manufactured evidence to make the prosecution's case stronger.
Freeh is another Clinton lap-dog, a totally unprincipled bureaucrat who has
helped orchestrate several large government cover-up's in the last 6 years.
THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING
The Oklahoma City bombing has a special interest for me as I have recently
finished writing a book on the subject (The Oklahoma City Bombing: Searching
For the Truth: ).
The official/mainstream media version about the April 19 1995 bombing of the
Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma is that Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols
and a home-brew fertilizer truck bomb are responsible for the worst act of
terrorism carried out on U.S. soil. They say that McVeigh was alone on the
day of the bombing.
But immediately after the bombing many people said that they either heard
and/or felt two distinct explosions.
Jim Ferguson was in the U.S. Federal Courthouse located just south of the
Murrah Building, he stated, "Everyone in town, everybody who was there, knows
there were two blasts."
In Michelle Marie Moore's book, "Oklahoma City:Day One" pg 46 she states:
"Two attorneys with offices in downtown Oklahoma City were both dictating
correspondence at the time of the explosions. The taped records of the two
explosive events and the rumbling of the collapse of the Murrah Building are
clearly discernible on their audio cassettes."
The most important question in the Oklahoma bombing is whether an ANFO
(ammonium nitrate and fuel oil) truck bomb placed about 15/20 feet from the
building can destroy about 25% of the building?
Prominent explosive, engineering and scientific expert's say it is totally
impossible.
Brigadier General Benton K. Partin, U.S. Air Force, retired, has 25 years
experience in explosives and ballistic weapons design and testing. Partin
studied hundreds of photographs of the bombed out building and has no doubt
whatsoever that demolition charges were placed at major columns inside the
building. He says in part:
"The total incompatibility with a single truck bomb lies in the fact that
either some columns collapsed that should not have collapsed or some of the
columns are still standing that should have collapsed and did not."
He concludes;
"This is a classic cover-up of immense proportions."
Sam Cohen, inventor of the Neutron bomb and one of the last men alive who
worked on the Manhattan Project says:
"I don't care how much fertilizer and fuel oil they used, it would never be
enough. Demolition charges placed at key column did the dirty work."
Robert Frias, President of Frias Engineering of Arlington, Texas, a
practicing engineer for over 40 years, registered in Texas, New Mexico and
Louisiana stated, "Explosives had to have been placed near, or on the
structural columns inside the building to cause the collapse that occurred to
the Murrah building.”
I spoke with Partin in April of this year and he again re-iterated the
impossibility of the ANFO truck bomb scenario. He also stated how
over-the-counter fertilizer is virtually useless for ANFO bombs because of
it's high water content. Ammonium nitrate has to be kept bone dry otherwise
it will not explode, that is why explosive grade ANFO is primarily used for
bomb making. (for more information see
www.thenewamerican.com/focus/okc/index.htm)
There is also plenty of evidence that the government had prior warning about
the bombing in Oklahoma. The BATF's own undercover agent Carol Howe spent
most of her time at Elohim City (neo-nazi compound in East Oklahoma) and
talking to Dennis Mahon, a virulent anti-government white supremacist, and
Andreas Strassmeir, a German (probably another government
informant/provocateur)who constantly spoke of terrorist actions.
By November 1994 Carol reported Strassmeir and Mahon were discussing making
direct government attacks such as "assassinations" and "bombings". Carol told
the BATF that the "Federal building" in Oklahoma City was a possible target.
She also mentioned that something called the "Morrow Building" was a possible
target..
When it became public that Howe had given the government prior warning they
arrested her on trumped charges of possessing bomb making material. She was
aquitted on all charges.
Shortly after the blast Bruce Shaw rushed up to the remains of the Murrah
Building looking for his wife who worked there. Bruce asked an ATF agent
about his wifes whereabouts. Bruce told KFOR's Brad Edward’s that the agent
"started getting a little bit nervous. He tried reaching someone on a two-way
radio...He said they were in debriefing, that none of the agents had been in
there. They'd been tipped by their pagers not to come to work that day. Plain
as day out of his mouth. Those were the words he said.". Bruce’s employer,
Tony Brasier was with Bruce at the time and verified his statement to Brad
Edward’s.
Dr. Frederick Whitehurst used to be in charge of the FBI crime laboratory.
Whitehurst went public saying that his colleague’s at the lab were constantly
manipulating evidence in order to favor the prosecution, basically framing
them. The Inspector General's office independently investigated Whitehurst’s
allegations and agreed with him. The Inspector Generals 450 page report is a
scathing indictment of the Crime Labs investigation into the Oklahoma City
bombing and confirms everything Whitehurst said.
In summing up, the Inspector General’s report said the FBI crime labs had
"repeatedly reached conclusions that incriminated the defendants without a
scientific basis" in the Oklahoma bombing case.
After going public, Whitehurst was demoted and transferred. Whitehurst
resigned from the FBI and recently settled his whistleblower lawsuit against
the FBI for approximately 1.65 million.
The official version of events in Oklahoma is one of the most blatant works
of fiction ever perpetrated on the American public. A colossal amount of
evidence exists proving that the government/mainstream media story of a
couple of disaffected men and a homemade fertilizer truck bomb is utterly
absurd.
TWA 800
TWA 800 exploded at about 8.31 pm on July 17 1996, some 12 minutes after
taking off from Kennedy airport, 10 miles south of Long Island killing all
230 people aboard. The government theorizes the cause was an unknown
spontaneous ignition in the fuel tank. They still do not know for sure. The
FBI had closed it's 16 month investigation into the incident on November 13,
1997, and found "absolutely no evidence" of criminal involvement, or of a
missile being responsible.
Investigator James Sanders, author of the book, "The Downing of TWA Flight
800," came to a completely different conclusion, along with other
investigators. Sanders' conclusion was that the U.S. Navy was involved in
wargames on the night of July 17, and were testing a highly sophisticated,
recently upgraded, anti-missile missile system called the AEGIS-CEC . The
system was supposed to be able to differentiate between friendly, enemy and
commercial aircraft, in the often very confusing airspace that you have in a
war type situation. The system was meant to pick out the enemy's from all
other aircraft despite radar jamming by the enemy. (see The Downing of TWA
Flight 800 pg 15 through 25)Unbeknownst to the passengers and crew aboard TWA
800, the Navy was using them and other commercial aircraft coming and going
from Kennedy airport as neutrals.
According to Sanders the Navy launched a BQM-74E drone in the vicinity of
Shinnecock Bay. Linda Kabot was taking photographs from Westhampton Beach and
inadvertently caught an image of what looks like a drone missile on one of
her pictures. The Navy then launched an antimissile missile at the drone, but
according to Sanders, the AEGIS-CEC system malfunctioned and went "blind,"
and the missile locked onto the closest available target, TWA 800. A long
Island FAA radar technician said he saw, "conflicting radar tracks that
indicated a missile," just before TWA 800 disappeared. (IBID pg 26)
James made contact with Terrel Stacey who was involved in the official
investigation but was unhappy with the way it was being run. Stacey acquired
two small pieces of seat covering which were covered in a reddish/orange
colored residue. This substance was only on seats in rows 17 though 19 in the
forward section of the plane, near where the nose section blew off. Sanders
gave one piece to CBS so they could run tests on it, they promptly returned
it to the FBI. The other piece he had tested by West Coast Analytical
Services, who broke it down into a list of chemical components. Sanders says
on page 136 of his book that, "All of these elements (listed) are consistent
with residue from a solid fuel missile." The FBI said it was seat glue. Why
it was only on those seats was never explained. The NTSB had it tested by
NASA scientist Dr. Charles Bassett and said that he had proven that the
residue was seat glue. But this was a lie, Basset later swore under oath that
his tests did not link the residue to seat glue.
The FBI were enraged at Sanders' revelations. They immediately seized his
phone records so as to ascertain who his informant was. James and his wife
Elizabeth were arrested in December 97, just prior to the NTSB hearings in
which Sanders was going to speak. James Kallstrom, the FBI's lead
investigator said:
"These defendants are charged with not only committing a serious crime, they
have also increased the pain already inflicted on the victims' families."
Of course Kallstrom is doing everything he can to ease the families pain and
suffering. What a squirming hypocrite Kallstrom is, for he also took a piece
of the wreckage and gave it to a family member of one of the crash victims as
a memento. Kallstrom is guilty of exactly the same "crime" the Sanders were
found guilty of, but don't hold your breath waiting for him to stand trial.
They also charged Terrel Stacy alongside James and Elizabeth Sanders. Stacy,
who took the cloth, testified for the government and was given leniency, he
pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, while James and Elizabeth were charged with
a felony. James and Elizabeth Sanders were found guilty on April 13 1999 and
were sentenced on July 16. Sanders was given three years probation and 50
hours of community service. His wife received one year probation and 25 hours
of community service.
This is the kind of malicious selective government prosecution you expect to
find in Beijing or in one of Stalin's purges. The heavy handed iron fist of
Big Brother making it abundantly clear that journalists exposing government
lies will not be tolerated. Speaking of lies, the government has committed
several during their "investigation."
The Navy said that the closest government ship to TWA 800 when it crashed was
the U.S.S. Normandy, 185 miles away.
The Village Voice reported Dean Steward and his girlfriend Susan Smith saw a
naval warship about 3 miles offshore at about 3.10 pm on the day of the
crash. Steward is an 8 year Navy vet and says he thought the ship was an
Aegis class cruiser. Barbara Pacholk also says she saw a surfaced submarine
and two Navy ships prior to the crash.
(see www.villagevoice.com/features/9928/davey.shtml)
The Navy said their only only asset in the area was a P-3 Orion aircraft.
The Navy later admitted that there were three submarines in the area at the
time.
The Navy said that the there were no military maneuvers in the area at the
time of the crash.
Later they admitted that there were classified maneuvers being carried out.
James Kallstrom in a recorded interview with Reed Irvine on September 14
1998, said that three of the surface radar contacts "were Navy ships on
classified maneuvers."
James Kallstrom told Congress that the FBI's investigation had included
"tracking of all air and waterborne vessels in the area at the time of the
explosion followed by appropriate interviews." Kallstrom also said, "We
turned over every stone, not once but 10
times."
But the FBI failed to turn over one of the most important stones of all, an
unknown radar blip which became known as "the 30 knot track." This object
turned out to be a boat some 30 feet long which rapidly leaves from under the
burning debris of TWA 800 as other boats turned to render assistance This is
obviously highly suspicious and could well be where terrorists launched
shoulder mounted SAM missiles. This is the opinion of William S. Donaldson
USN (Ret.). Donaldson has also thoroughly investigated the TWA 800 case and
his conclusions are that TWA 800 was taken down by one or two SAM missiles
launched by terrorists, probably affiliated with Osama Bin Laden. Donaldson
has excellent credentials, former Officer in Charge of Carrier Battlegroup's
Air Traffic Control Center, pilot and military accident investigator(see
twa800.com/). Admiral Thomas Moorer, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said "All evidence would point to a missile." (USA Today: Retired
Officers Fire Missile Back Into Case. 1/9/98) The NTSB's Peter Goelz was not
interested in the boat, he said, "It does not intrigue me." This is like a
policeman saying that a car seen speeding away from a hit and run doesn't
interest investigators.
The FBI, in their desperation to explain why dozens of reliable witnesses saw
a missile like object rise in the sky, proposed a theory that a stream of
fuel had ignited and this is what they had seen. This explanation worked well
as a stunt in the movie Die Hard II, but is totally ludicrous in the real
world. Undaunted, the FBI turned to the masters of deceit, the CIA, to see
what they could cook up. The CIA presented a video showing a noseless 747
maintaining stable flight and actually climbing about 3000 feet before
crashing. The witnesses were supposedly mistaking a burning rising 747 at
over 13000 feet for a missile like object rising from the surface.
Unfortunately for the CIA they forgot about the laws of aerodynamics and
physics. Engineers and pilots had a good laugh at this preposterous work of
fiction. The fact is that the second the 747 lost it's nose it would stall
and drop like a brick, end of story.
The FBI interviewed 154 "credible" witnesses who saw a missile like object
rising through the sky and then suddenly exploding. During the NTSB's only
public hearings on TWA 800 in Baltimore, December 1997, Kallstrom asked the
NTSB not to include the well over a hundred eyewitnesses who reported seeing
a missile like object rise from the ocean surface. The red residue was also
not displayed or accounted for in the hearings.
Major Frederick C. Meyer of the New York National Guard's 106th rescue wing
was piloting an HH-60G helicopter over Gabreski airport in Westhampton Beach
at the time TWA 800 crashed.
Meyer is a Vietnam vet and flew helicopters in Vietnam and knows what
missiles and flak look like. On March 12 1998 he told the Granada Forum:
"My purpose in being here tonight is to tell you that what I saw explode in
the sky on July 17, 1996 was military ordnance...We're here to say it's no
accident - somebody shot this aircraft down."
(plenty of information at www.accessone.com/~rivero/CRASH/TWA/twa.html)
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Repeated large government cover-ups are impossible to contain when you have a
nosy, questioning and confrontational free press tenaciously digging for the
truth. The mainstream media today are an embarrassment to themselves and the
profession of journalism they purport to represent. The last 30 some years
they have become hand and foot maidens for the government and are now a de
facto fourth branch of government.
Bill Clinton's favorite pets, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los
Angeles Times, Time magazine have slipped through the looking glass into
their fantasy-land and want you to join them there. This is a world where
"home-brew" fertilizer truck bombs rip apart concrete and steel. Where
commercial jets blow up in mid-air and it is blamed on unknown spontaneous
ignitions, a virtually unprecedented occurrence, while dozens of highly
credible eyewitness testimony pointing to a different cause is ignored.
Anything can be conjured up in their world. A world of gobbledygook and
flying ching-a-lings. A world where scrilinks flip you wonky donks and
iridescent 7 headed say bays float lazily along on moonclouds. The mainstream
media world is one in which the truth (never mention the word truth around
them, it's been known to induce catatonia)in any event is molded, changed,
re-invented, abstracted, distorted, glossed over and finally emerges in
whatever configuration the mandarins of power want it shaped. They slavishly
sit at the White Houses knee, jaws drooling, waiting for the command to
obfuscate the truth in another incident; off they dash, tails wagging in
anticipation of a new opportunity to spread deceit and falsehood.
I often wonder what happened to the ideals and aspirations of the editors and
journalists of the mainstream press, what happened to their dreams of blazing
their own path? I suppose they dispensed with them the second they found out
that The Washington Post, New York Times et al are not in the truth business;
they are in the making people believe in 3 winged glofats business. They
ditched any noble thoughts they once had of informing people about the truth
on important issues once they realized it was a despised trait by the editors
of the mainstream media. They replaced integrity with venality, replaced
principles for prestige, replaced scruples with social standing, replaced
self worth for self importance. Anyway, now they can go to fancy cocktail
parties and brush shoulders with Senators and Congressman who have also sold
out. But that is who they feel most comfortable with, for they also believe
in purple and green spotted zigomuffins.
Unfortunately for the mainstream media fewer and fewer people take them
seriously anymore. The Internet is their nemesis, the mere mention of which
gets them highly agitated; flailing of the arms and wild snorting has also
been witnessed. Once they compose themselves they sniff imperiously, 'they
are all conspiracy nuts.' Of course there are rumors and gossip on the
Internet, but the vast majority of people know how to differentiate between
the two. All theories are open to the harsh criticism of thousands who openly
and honestly debate incidents such as the ones discussed in this article.
They have been tested by the fire of honest public debate and the conclusions
are that the government/mainstream media are lying through their teeth. The
Internet is flourishing and news websites such as Worldnetdaily.com and
freerepublic.com are getting millions of readers weekly. "Reporting" in the
Post and Times has become the laughing stock for many, the only use they
serve now is to see just how far from the truth they will go whilst trying to
propagate the governments latest 60 legged vay jay story.
But the propaganda and lies keep on coming and being exposed. There must be
some very red faces at the Pentagon lately. Yes, it turns out that NATO's
great victory in Kosovo is nowhere near as great as we were led to believe.
Two thousand Serb civilians were "collaterally damaged." Just prior to war's
end NATO claimed it had destroyed about 60% of it's artillery and about 40%
of their main battle tanks. But the London Times reported on June 24,
"hundreds of Serb dummies managed to fool the NATO brass dummies into
believing they were bombing hundreds of Serbian tanks and artillery." The
Times goes onto say, "NATO's 79-day bombing campaign against
Yugoslavia...succeeded in damaging only 13 of the Serbs' 300 battle tanks in
Kosovo." After all the rhetoric and chest thumping by the Pentagon war
mongers about how sophisticated and efficient our technology is, they were
fooled by the simplest and oldest trick in the book, decoys made of plastic
and wood. "When you're traveling at 500mph at 15,000ft, it is easy to be
fooled," a KFOR (NATO's Kosovo Force) told The Times. Col. David Hackworth
(Ret), (author of "About Face")the most decorated American soldier alive
recently wrote an article for Worldnetdaily, entitled "How the Serbs Outfoxed
NATO,"in part he says;
"During the conflict, smart bombs and missiles costing from 50 grand to 2
million bucks repeatedly blew up decoy "tanks," "artillery pieces" and other
"targets" made of sticks and plastic, some of which included primitive heat
sources for faking out gold-plated
thermal-image systems in NATO aircraft.
"U.S. aircraft flying at 15,000 feet had a field day blowing up these "Serb
air defense units" and other dummy targets, while their spinners back at NATO
headquarters daily chanted to the world, "We are significantly degrading
their air defense and combat ability."
And after 6 1/2 years of lies, dishonor and betrayal, Bill Clinton still sits
on his throne. A depraved and morally bankrupt master con-man whose only
legacy is having run the most corrupt administration in the history of the
United States and the only sitting President to be accused of rape. And by
his feet sit his most loyal supplicants, the mainstream media, whose power to
deceive is rapidly diminishing
I can hardly wait for their next work of fiction though; glowing, cappuccino
slurping Jazzmavens perhaps?
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