Pat Shannan's MUSINGS
Sowing Seeds of Truth in the Field of Deception
What really happened to JFK, Jr.? Talk show host Anthony Hilder called it "A Hint of Homicide." Investigative reporter John Quinn was outraged at the stonewalling. FAA Air Traffic Control Specialist Ed Meyer referred to the news reports as, "Garbage. Nothing but garbage."
As the news developed during the first four days, the managed media led the minds of Americans far away from the possibility of foul play by showing hundreds of hours of stock footage from the Kennedy family archives. Any information and all discussion which might have been contrary to the establishment spin story was carefully avoided. Powerful people behind the scenes were apparently directing the course of the story from the first hour onward. Was it because the facts of the case showed such a high likelihood of foul play and everything but an accident? If so, then who was protecting whom, and why no outcry from the Kennedy and Bessette families? If an honest investigation took place, we are yet to hear about it.
However, some very dishonest reports began to surface immediately. Edward A. Meyer, FAA Air Traffic Control Specialist at New York's La Guardia Sector, says, "I was asked (through intermediaries) by Jane Garvey, FAA Administrator, to create a report of the weather conditions JFK Jr. was flying in. I created such a report. . . The weather along his flight was just fine. A little haze over eastern Connecticut." This, of course, disputes the worldwide report that JFK, Jr. "became lost and disoriented in the low-visibility haze, causing his eventual graveyard spiral."
Meyer further said, "Last but not least, JFK Jr. was certified (therefore licensed) to fly the flight. Any mention of "daring" or "inexperience" is absolute nonsense."
Several potential motives for murder have surfaced. Rumor has it that Kennedy had been contacted by the conservative wing of the Democratic Party in New York (is there really such a thing?) and/or an independent party to take on Hillary Clinton in the upcoming senatorial race. Also, George magazine may have been stepping on some NWO toes with JFK's penetrating interviews of politically incorrect subjects.
Strange that the air force, navy, and CIA (why was the CIA involved in a domestic search for a civilian pilot?) would spend five days searching the ocean for the three bodies and then hastily autopsy, cremate, and toss them back into the ocean - all in less than 24 hours. Would time constraints allow this to even be possible or were the women never autopsied? Why was the military in charge of the medical autopsies of three civilians in the first place? The sealing of records by the FBI until the year 2029 reeks of something sinister. Yet all this is circumstantial stuff that could be explained away.
But if the truth is really being sought, more blatant evidence should be addressed. Such as:
1] Published and televised reports that several witnesses saw a flash in the night (in the immediate proximity of the crash) and heard an explosion.
2] Kennedy calmly spoke with the tower at 9:39 p.m., saying he had the airport in sight, and was coming in. Yet only one minute later he had plummeted off the radarscope.
3] The headrest, steering yoke, pieces of the cowling, plexiglass and carpeting were literally torn apart from the plane, floating up on Gay Head Beach. Debris from the crash, including Lauren Bessette's night case, had washed up on the West end of Martha's Vineyard, suggesting a very wide spread area of destruction. All this tends to indicate a mid-air explosion -- not a stall and crash.
Watch this magazine next month as we search for some definite answers. ======
Ann Coulter writes: "Remember this name: Thomas Glenn Terry." It won't be bandied about quite as much as "Mark O. Barton" over the next few weeks, but it should be. A few years ago two armed men burst into a Shoney's Restaurant in Anniston, Alabama and herded the patrons and employees into a walk-in refrigerator, at gunpoint. The robbers kept the manager behind for his assistance as they looted the restaurant. One patron, however, also remained behind. Thomas Glenn Terry had opted against being locked in a refrigerator, and hid from the attackers under a table. As one of the armed robbers ransacked the cash register, another patrolled the restaurant. When he came across Mr. Terry, he pulled his gun. But unlike the recent victims in Atlanta, this victim was armed. Using his own legally concealed handgun, Terry shot and killed the robber. The other armed robber, who had had his gun trained on the manager, then opened fire on Terry. Terry shot back, mortally wounding the second robber. The two dozen hostages were released unharmed. Only the criminals -- who had been armed with stolen guns by the way -- didn't make it out alive.
You probably hadn't heard of the Shoney's incident. In the news media's boundless capacity to stultify the public with anti-gun bias, they have made places like Littleton, Colorado household names. But to those who would disarm us, the Anniston occurrence is not very important.
A massacre is a story. Thwarting a massacre is not. But once one learns about this and the many similar averted tragedies, something leaps off the pages of the news accounts of gunmen shooting scores of innocents. The black ink of the massacre story always includes a terrifying account of how the killers proceeded from victim to victim, pausing to reload, and shooting again. Only the white part of the newspaper serves to remind us that mass murder requires that the victims be unarmed.
Thomas Glenn Terry is not unique. Two years ago in Pearl, Mississippi a deranged student shot and killed two classmates. Fortunately, Joel Myrick, the assistant principal, had a gun in his car. He prevented the shooting from becoming a Littleton-level massacre by retrieving his weapon and holding the student at gunpoint until the police arrived. A year later, in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, a 14-year-old boy opened fire at an eighth-grade graduation dance, killing a teacher and wounding three others. A single murder did not become a mass murder only because a near-by restaurant owner, James Strand, happened to be armed. As the shooter stopped to reload, Strand immobilized the boy, holding him for over ten minutes, until the police appeared. A lot of killing can be accomplished in ten minutes when none of the victims is armed.
How long did it take the police to arrive in Atlanta? Mark Barton walked into one office building in Atlanta shot four people dead, then left the building, ambled across the street, entered another building, and killed at least five more people. There are film clips of policemen scaling the building's walls to rescue terrified and completely defenseless people inside.
Most striking in the news reports of Barton's shooting spree was this: Fully three hours after the shooting, some people were still hiding in the building. Hiding and waiting like pigs before the slaughter. Because none was armed! None but the psycho. Yet for some reason, the government's response is always to disarm the innocent. Not to disarm its own officers, who show up 15 minutes after the shooting has begun. This is not to complain about the police, they simply can't be everywhere at once. It's a plea for more citizen guards. There may be bad citizens, but there are also bad police. Why should they be the only ones not hiding when madmen with guns show up? Fewer guns will strip more protection from honest citizens. Guns do not make us criminally insane.
Consider Mr. Barton. The initial reports have been that he killed his children because his stock portfolio had declined. Well, if that is not the irrational response of a maniac, what is? Whether it was his stocks or his wife or the weather -- he killed his children. This is a madman. He didn't shoot his children, incidentally, but beat them to death with an ordinary hammer. Is there a move afoot to banish household hammers?
How about the machete? One of the most efficient murder sprees of this century was accomplished not with guns, but with machetes. Madmen in Rwanda murdered almost one million people with machetes in four months. How many (or rather how few?) handguns amongst those victims would it have taken to stop that whole carnage? ===========
Dear LAPD: What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand? Any attempt to pass or enforce an unconstitutional law - especially any law that violates the first ten Amendments to the Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of Rights -- is a crime punishable by ten years in prison and a ten thousand dollar fine for each offense (Title18 U.S.C, Sections 241 and 242).