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Introducing Dead Men Talking: Consequences of Government Lies, due Summer 2009

Oswald...innocent
Sirhan...innocent
bin Laden...innocent

Read Dead Men Talking and get real history...so it won't repeat itself!

Free the United States (6/26/09)
Read my article on Op Ed News

Excerpt from Book Explains Why Real RFK Killers Escaped (6/6/09)
Click here to read about Sandra Serrano, a key witness


Attention Dick Cheney (5/27/09)

Read my open letter to Dick Cheney, published on OpEdNews.com -
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The former Vice President is a "person of interest" in
Dead Men Talking.

Make History Tell the Truth (4/22/09)

Suppose there are murders in your city.  Suppose they go unsolved.  Suppose the public fears going out because the killer or killers could strike again.

 

Suppose the town leaders name a suspect.  Despite widespread rumors of the planting of evidence, deprivation of constitutional rights of the suspect and other unethical conduct on the part of the city, an official commission put together by the city declares the suspect guilty.  The leaders tell the public the case is solved and they can go about living their lives.

 

Who among us would take that for an answer?

 

Yet that is what is happening.  Not just in one city but in the United States.  The crimes have happened over a long period of time and have taken the lives of many people, including certain elected officials.

 

The federal government, through a commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson, declared that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder of President John Kennedy.  Despite a wealth of exculpatory evidence and proof beyond a reasonable doubt that it took more than one shooter to kill JFK, the Warren Commission created an official history with its report falsely condemning Oswald.

 

The Los Angeles Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation accused Sirhan Sirhan of murdering Senator Robert Kennedy almost five years after his brother’s death.  A jury, given proof that Sirhan could not have fired the fatal shot, convicted him anyway, in part due to a lackluster performance by his defense attorney and in part because the prosecution ignored key facts.  He still sits in prison, a victim of politics rather than the truth.

 

The federal government has told us that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were orchestrated by Osama bin Laden but the FBI has still to this day not placed bin Laden on their “Most Wanted List” for this crime.  Almost three thousand people died from the attacks and the government cannot give a straight answer as to who is responsible for their deaths.

 

After each of these incidents, despite dissenters who pointed to reasons for disbelief, the public has largely accepted the false versions of event.  Historically, we have the answers to what happened, but in reality we have killers who got away with it and who are at large.

 

Where is the outrage?

 

Dead Men Talking proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the official stories above are all myths.  It uses “counter-myth” as a way to break the spell of false history by rejecting the lies given to us and providing alternatives much more likely to be true.  The reader will be able to visualize the true history of government involvement in each of these crimes as well as cover-up.

 

A truthful understanding of history provides the public with the knowledge of where our nation heads next.  It warns us of danger ahead if we do not change our beliefs and may even allow us to capture the real criminals and prepare them for their indictment.

 

This is not a book for those who do not want to hear theories that accuse the government.  They already have plenty of books like that to choose from.  This book is an indictment of the criminals who cower under the deep cover provided to them by official lies and a wake-up call to the rest of us as to how to stop the next tragedy.

Why the JFK Murder Matters (4/1/09)

Some will ask why we should care whether the government conspires against its own people.  I would say that if the government can murder President Kennedy, it can do the same to any of us.

But, in fact, it already has.  Consider the National Guard shootings of four college students at Kent State in 1970.  A large group of students organized to protest President Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia.  The Guard showed up in riot gear, anticipating a clash.  However, none of the students injured or killed there were in any way a threat to the Guardsmen.  The fact that the Guardsmen involved were acquitted in court does not detract from the fact that our government will use force against perceived agitators.

Consider the Tuskegee Experiment, in which the Public Health Services (PHS) and the Tuskegee Institute in 1932 invited 400 poor black men to participate in a study.  All of them had syphilis but did not know it.  Even when penicillin was found to be the cure for the disease in the 1940s, the PHS and the Institute never told the men of their status nor did they treat them.  They instead waited for scores of them to die so that they could research their autopsies.

Consider the sluggish government response to the inception of the AIDS crisis.  While thousands of people died from AIDS-related illnesses, President Reagan would not say the word and watched as misconceptions of the disease spread throughout the world.  The government had spent millions of dollars on flu shots just a few years before, declaring it an epidemic, but when a disease perceived as a “gay disease” went out of control, the government turned a deaf ear for many years about treatment, education and sympathy.

Government conspiracy occurs in lesser ways as well.  Viet Nam draft resisters went to prison after they tried to “put the government on trial” by saying that they could not support an immoral policy.  The courts, representing the government, simply disallowed this defense.

The murder of President Kennedy was not the first instance of government misconduct nor the last one.  How people can ignore these government lies is the real mystery.

Dead Man Talking (3/7/09)

Chief Justice Earl Warren:  Mr. Lee Harvey Oswald, we, the Commission find you guilty of the murders of President John Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit.  Before I pronounce your sentence, do you have anything to say to the Commission?

 

Lee Harvey Oswald: Yes, Your Honor.  I do.  I never received a trial, let alone a fair trial.  You will violate my due process rights by punishing me.

 

Warren: We could not try you because you had an abortive transfer while in custody of the Dallas Police.

 

Oswald: You mean I was murdered!

 

Warren: Wait, Mr. Oswald.  You must not prejudice the rights of Mr. Ruby!

 

Oswald: What about my rights?  I asked for counsel several times but the Dallas police never stopped interrogating me.

 

Warren: You should have told them to stop until your lawyer arrived.

 

Oswald: The only way my lawyer could have gotten past the police is if he was Jack Ruby!

 

Warren: Watch it, Mr. Oswald!  I warned you that you must not comment on Mr. Ruby.  Your lack of counsel complaint is denied.  What else would you like to say?

 

Oswald: You took Captain Fritz’ word for it about what I said during hours and hours of interrogation.  He could have asked anyone standing outside the room for a tape recorder.

 

Warren: That is not for you to decide.  Besides, some people are gifted with great memories and we had to give Captain Fritz the benefit of the doubt.  Any other complaints?

 

Oswald: Your commission used my wife Marina’s testimony against me.  What happened to the spousal immunity?

 

Warren: It ended when you expired.  Tough break.  What else?

 

Oswald: When the police brought me in, they told me something about a policeman being killed.  Then they kept asking me questions about the President!

 

Warren: Yes.  It was a neat way of getting around the right to counsel problem.  Come on, Mr. Oswald.  The Commission’s time is precious.

 

Oswald: Those line-ups the police used caused undue prejudice against me!  They brought in people that did not look a thing like me and the witnesses had all seen my face on television!

 

Warren: Those police officers were just refreshing the memories of the witnesses, Mr. Oswald.  We are sure it was harmless error.

 

Oswald: Where was the evidence against me?  I read your Report several times and I do not believe a reasonable person could find me guilty of anything.  I do not recognize the murder weapon, so tell me how I used it.

 

Warren: The experts found your prints on it.

 

Oswald: Yes.  The FBI put my prints there – when I was in the morgue!

 

Warren: Maybe, Mr. Oswald.  But we know the public still trusts the government enough not to buy your defense.

 

Oswald: I was nowhere near the sixth floor when the President was shot.  I was downstairs on the first floor.

 

Warren: Sorry, Mr. Oswald.  You just weren’t believable.

 

Oswald: But you believed Mr. Brennan, who said that from on the ground he could describe the height of a man on the sixth floor even though you concluded that I was in a crouch.  He admitted he had lied to the authorities about whether he recognized me.

 

Warren: We believed him, but we did not base our case against you on him.

 

Oswald: And you chose not to believe Mr. Arnold, who saw a colored man on the sixth floor close to the time of the shooting.

 

Warren: Mr. Arnold told lies to his classmates at school.  We couldn’t have his testimony as it would have sent the wrong message to high school kids.

 

Oswald: Do you mean the same high school kids who will hear that I committed a crime that I never committed?

 

Warren: Dispense with the sarcasm, Mr. Oswald.  Get on with your complaints.

 

Oswald: Why did you rule out every witness who provided exculpatory evidence as “mistaken,” “lying” or providing hearsay?

 

Warren: Who are you talking about?

 

Oswald: Mr. Frazier, for example.  He told you that my bag could not have carried the murder weapon.  You said he and his sister were mistaken.

 

Warren: There is no other way you could have gotten the murder weapon in.

 

Oswald: That is circular logic!

 

Warren: You know what I mean.  Eyewitnesses make mistakes all the time.

 

Oswald: Like Mr. Brennan?

 

Warren: You’ve had your say about Mr. Brennan.  What else?

 

Oswald: Your Honor:  What would it take for me to prove my innocence to you?

 

Warren: Mr. Oswald, don’t you understand?  You had the word “scapegoat” written all over you.  You were an avowed Marxist, you went to the Soviet Union and tried to defect, you belonged to a pro-Castro group.  When someone is killed, someone else must be to blame for it.  Since no one appeared to like you, anyway, we decided that you were the man for the job.

 

Oswald: Job?  I got killed trying to plead my innocence.  Didn’t you care about the facts?

 

Warren: Facts are a stubborn thing, Mr. Oswald.  We have the whole case locked up somewhere but we can’t reveal it now.

 

Oswald: Why not?

 

Warren: OK.  Let me level with you.  We need to maintain a history of the President’s death that lets the public know that it can trust its leadership.  Letting the public believe a conspiracy took the President’s life would be an unmitigated disaster!

 

Oswald: Worse than an innocent man being accused of an infamous crime?

 

Warren: Look, Mr. Oswald.  I am truly sorry for your plight.  Now, if you don’t mind, the Commission must get back to its job of maintaining law and order in the United States.

 

Oswald: What about my sentence?


Warren
: The sentence is this: “The Warren Commission, having ascertained all relevant facts and circumstances in the murders of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit, concludes that both murders were the act of one man, Lee Harvey Oswald.”

 

 

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