Reply #27: Operation Northwoods -- Operation Mongoose -- JFK Assasination

[Beam Me Up]

I'm just an ignorant grunt in the working world trying to make sense of it all. As the saying goes, I KNOW N O T H I N G compared to those whose business it is to know E V E R Y T H I N G, if you know what I mean.

I think we could tack on the list started in the subject line several other important dots on the map. Watergate, for example. There are side tendrils preceding that in the assassinations of RFK, and MLK. There was a curve of strangeness in the Sixties -- something got out of a box that wasn't supposed to have. Timothy Leary comes to Mind, for one. But I was thinking more along the lines of, oh, say, The Simbionese Liberation Army. The shaping of public perception has always been of interest to those who seek to govern but it took a little while for them to get their footing with electronic media. I believe my moment of awakening came some 20 or so years ago while watching a TV news report showing a small, hand made bomb go off in Beirut. It was a little shock but it was a shock none the less, I could feel the tiny shiver of fear run through me even though my mind knew this was a portrayal of something far, far away. No direct danger to me. And then it occurred to me: That little shock was felt by millions of people.

How much more devastating the big shock are. I've been watching the progression for, gee, I don't know how long but most of my life. 9/11 shocked me but it did not surprise me. And yes, it scares me a little to think about that.