Pat Shannan's MUSINGS
We Are Past That!
Remember when we thought that Republicans and Democrats were opposites? Of course they never really were, at least not in our lifetimes, but wasn't more comfortable believing it? We're past that. I remember when I still had a lot of faith in the justice system before U. S. Marshals murdered Gordon Kahl and the crooked judge sent Gordon's son to jail for life. I lost a little more when they shot little Sammy Weaver four times in the back, the day before an FBI sharpshooter murdered the boy's mother with impunity. After the Waco atrocity and the Oklahoma City hoax came along, the shards of marble were showering upon us from the pillar of belief.
We have not become cynical. We're past that. Cynicism is skepticism without knowledge. Now that we have seen the facts, the truth is not nearly so scary to us as our protectors believe it would be; or as big a hurdle as are the numbed multitudes, inured to the enveloping presence of tyranny. Politicians have always been actors, speaking their white-lie-sprinkled lines with sincerity. Like the lawyers most of them are, 99 per cent of politicians give all the others a bad name.
But what, in all our wildest cynicism, ever prepared us for a Washington D. C. based, bipartisan crime ring? The governor of Arkansas hooked up with the vice president of the United States as the two biggest drug kingpins in America? Who would have believed it? The obvious murder of a top White House aide successfully passed off as a suicide? Fiction is not so strange!
Fellow journalist-with-a-working-brain Joseph Sobran says, "When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him off to bed an hour early. When he tearfully accuses you of breaking the rules, explain that you made the rules and you can interpret them in any way that seems appropriate to you, according to changing conditions. This will prepare him for the Supreme Court's concept of the U. S. Constitution as a 'living document.'"
I know I've said this before, but I won't stop. The Oklahoma City ruse is the biggest cover-up in the history of America. I used to say ". . . since the Kennedy assassination, but this one has become even more far-reaching in four years. At least in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, we had prominent establishment columnists and reporters asking intelligent questions. In the 90s, there was even a movie made about the baloney-filled government cover story. But try to get just one someone with credible mass media acceptance to utter or write a single sentence about the cover-up in Oklahoma.
The politicians and media talking heads know all about the internal combustion at Murrah and the impotence of ANFO; the absolute existence of John Does 2,3, 4, 5, and more; and the suppression of evidence at the grand jury and two petit jury trials. They know all about, because we have told them, yet they continue to suppress it. They have known about Cary Gagan, too, but the world has not. Come next month, they will.
Here we have not only a witness to the conspiracy but a player! The U. S. Attorney gave Gagan immunity from prosecution at a time when he was inside and closer to the real conspiracy than was Tim McVeigh. Gagan was paid a quarter million bucks to smuggle across the Mexican border timers and detonators obtained from IRA terrorists. He then did his best to help prevent the OKC incident, but the authorities ignored his reports and "let it happen." Then he was attacked and beaten and even shot at later, in obvious attempts to shut him up. Too late did he realize that the fox he had been tipping was all the time in charge of the henhouse murders. Don't miss our illuminating story in the upcoming issue. McVeigh defense attorney Stephen Jones spoke the truth at least once when he told us that once we knew the truth, we would never look at the government in the same way again, and we won't. We are past that. (See OKC section, this website.)
While the bells were still tolling for the dead in Colorado, Clinton was already proposing major gun controls "to protect the children." Does he mean the same way he protected the children in Waco and Oklahoma City? On the Saturday following the Columbine massacre, Clinton said he would ask Congress to crack down on gun shows and illegal gun trafficking, ban violent juveniles from ever buying guns, and close loopholes permitting juveniles to own assault rifles. Some of the proposals have been made previously, including extending the 1993 Brady Law which requires background checks of handgun purchasers and the penalizing of adults who let weapons fall into the hands of children.
Remember -- there is no factual basis for the call for more gun control. The statistics are clearly on the side of those who wish to own firearms for self-defense.
WSB-Atlanta talk show host Neal Boortz reports: "Turkey established gun control in 1911. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. The Soviet Union established gun control in 1929. From 1929 to 1953, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Germany established control in 1938. From 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill people, and other `mongrelized peoples,' unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million `educated people,' unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated."
The propagandizing media blitz with which we have been inundated since the Littleton tragedy has now reached the threshold of nausea. Bear this in mind: Clinton has not made on single proposal that would have any effect whatsoever on keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. And those in the hands of the police officers almost always arrive too late. Sometimes the officers themselves lack the courage to use them.
Columbine High School coach and teacher, William Sanders, lay dying from blood loss for three hours while SWAT teams delayed entering the building. Students who were with Sanders treated his wounds to the best of their ability and then hung a banner in the window saying, "Help, Bleeding to Death!" Despite this plea, the sheriff's Swat team did not make any attempt to rescue Sanders. When questioned about the incident, Sgt. Jim Parr of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department replied, "You just can't run blindly down a hallway!"
Oh really? Why not? You do it every time the IRS or BATF asks your help in busting down the door of some innocent old lady whose property they want to confiscate. The blatant fact was, as the world kept watching and waiting, the officers, or at least their superiors issuing the orders, were unwilling to take the necessary risks required to stop the carnage and activate the rescue. Did they forget their slogan of "To Serve and Protect," or does that just "mean each" other these days?
Whatever the reason, Bill Sanders died when his life might have been saved. In those three hours, there must have been others, too. This does not even address the issue of how much sooner the killers might have been stopped, if Sanders had had access to a weapon. We are past that. Will the world ever be?