{"id":269451,"date":"2023-06-02T07:10:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T07:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269451"},"modified":"2023-06-04T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T07:02:07","slug":"america-has-a-political-assassination-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269451","title":{"rendered":"America Has a Political Assassination Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kevin Barrett \u2013 The Unz Review May 27, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"RIP Rashid Buttar (FFWN with Lucy Morgan Edwards)\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v2nltsw\/?pub=rsl3j#?secret=3iDJb1v3EV\" data-secret=\"3iDJb1v3EV\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lucy Morgan Edwards has impeccable establishment credentials (Ph.D International Relations, Exeter; former political advisor to the EU Ambassador in Kabul). She\u2019s calm, sensible, down-to-earth, and blessed with uncommonly good judgment. If the invaders and occupiers of Afghanistan had listened to her, things might have turned out differently. (See her book <em>The Afghan Solution<\/em> for details).<\/p>\n<p>So why, her establishment ex-colleagues must wonder, does Dr. Morgan-Edwards suspect that Dr. Rashid Buttar, the famous COVID dissident physician, may have been assassinated? Does she really take seriously Dr. Buttar\u2019s ravings about a COVID vaccine depopulation plot? What could have led her to wander so far off the reservation?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, of course, is that Lucy Morgan-Edwards has experienced the extreme untrustworthiness of today\u2019s Western elites first-hand. Given the outrageous mendaciousness and utter corruption of the Western oligarchy and its propaganda-pumping mainstream media, the notion that a faction of Big Pharma biowarriors may have simultaneously developed COVID and mRNA vaccines for nefarious purposes is hardly implausible. Indeed, a fair bit of evidence points in that direction. And when one of the most prominent voices warning of such possibilities, Dr. Rashid Buttar, claimed he was poisoned <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v2pyw7u-cnn-anchor-asks-dr-buttar-im-vaccinated.-you-think-there-is-a-ticking-time-.html\">during an appearance on CNN<\/a>, and then <a href=\"https:\/\/rubyraymedia.com\/index.php\/top-stories-all\/oh-the-irony-buttar\">dropped dead a few months later at age 57<\/a>, you don\u2019t have to be paranoid to wonder whether \u201cthey\u201d might have been out to get him.<\/p>\n<p>It is an article of faith in mainstream media that only crazy people worry about politically suspicious deaths\u2026at least in the USA. If an enemy of Putin or Xi or Assad or the Iranian government or any other \u201chostile\u201d regime dies suspiciously, we are supposed to automatically assume the worst. But as we all know, politically-motivated assassinations by insiders could never occur in America. Or as Frank Zappa memorably put it, \u201cIt can\u2019t happen here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do we know that it can\u2019t happen here? Because the CIA told us so! In CIA Document 1035-960, \u201cCountering Criticism of the Warren Report,\u201d distributed in January 1967 to Agency moles illegally infiltrating the media, we learn that only crazy \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d harbor suspicions about such events as the murder of President John F. Kennedy. And since only a conspiracy theorist would care that the CIA invented the whole \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d meme in order to cover up its own murder of a sitting president, we can all sleep well knowing that bad things never happen in America.<\/p>\n<p>One of <a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/rashid-buttar-medical-maverick\/\">Dr. Rashid Buttar\u2019s supporters, Robert F. Kennedy Jr<\/a>.,* knows better than anyone that America has a political assassination problem. His father and uncle, America\u2019s two most promising post-WWII leaders, were shot dead in the two-part coup d\u2019\u00e9tat that defined the 1960s and shaped the course of subsequent American history.<\/p>\n<p>The 1960s were also defined by the assassinations of America\u2019s two most charismatic black leaders, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Both were killed not only because they were mobilizing African-Americans to demand change, but because they had begun to criticize the US empire and side with Third World insurgents rising up against it.<\/p>\n<p>The 1960s assassination epidemic illustrates the fact that the American empire\u2019s domestic assassination problem is related to its murderous activities abroad. The majority of the most prominent suspected political assassinations in America have been related to foreign policy rather than domestic issues, power-plays, or grudges between factions. The reason most of these people have been killed, it appears, is that they were viewed as a threat to the US empire (and\/or to the Zionist occupation of Palestine).<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s consider a few of the most prominent suspected assassinations and the likely motive.<\/p>\n<p>December 21, 1945: Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Target-Patton-Assassinate-General-George\/dp\/1596985798\">shot dead with a blunt object during a rigged car crash<\/a>. William Donovan and his OSS, which would become the CIA, were probably responsible. Patton\u2019s opposition to the genocidal occupation policies in Germany, and his intention to run for president on an off-script platform, were the likely motives.<\/p>\n<p>May 22, 1949: Secretary of Defense James Forrestal plunges to his death from a 16th floor window. Strongly opposed to the creation of Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Assassination-James-Forrestal-David-Martin\/dp\/0967352126\">Forrestal was probably killed by Zionists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>November 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy is murdered in Dallas, almost certainly by a coalition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=jfk+the+unspeakable&amp;hvadid=409971121412&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9018932&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=4800594178647663346&amp;hvtargid=kwd-7256052311&amp;hydadcr=22538_11318434&amp;tag=googhydr-20&amp;ref=pd_sl_68yc1m7ssp_e\">US imperial hardliners<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/book\/michael_collins_piper__final-judgment\/\">Zionists panicking over Kennedy\u2019s efforts to eliminate Israel\u2019s nuclear program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>February 21, 1965: Malcolm X is killed in the Audubon Ballroom, New York, in the wake of his attempts to unite Muslims and blacks with Third World anti-US-empire forces. As usual, elements of the CIA are lead suspects.<\/p>\n<p>June 6, 1968: Robert F. Kennedy is shot from behind by a gun pressed against the back of his head, shortly after a hypnotized Palestinian patsy distracted onlookers by firing randomly from 10 feet in front. The same hardline-CIA-plus-Israel group that killed JFK was almost certainly responsible.<\/p>\n<p>December 10, 1968: Thomas Merton is murdered in Bangkok, Thailand. The world\u2019s most influential Catholic (with the possible exception of the Pope), Merton had turned hard against the Vietnam war before he was killed. Once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/countercurrents.org\/2018\/04\/speaking-the-unspeakable-the-assassination-and-martyrdom-of-thomas-merton\/\">elements of the CIA were likely responsible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>October 16, 1972: US Rep. Hale Boggs (D-LA), a member of the Warren Commission who privately rejected and scoffed at its findings, is killed in a rigged plane crash. He was presumably on the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hit-List-Depth-Investigation-Assassination-ebook\/dp\/B00C7XDYGU\">Hit List<\/a><\/em> of many dozens, if not hundreds, who were killed as part of the JFK-RFK assassination coverup.<\/p>\n<p>July 20, 1993: Vince Foster is murdered in Washington, DC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Murder-Vince-Foster-Americas-Would-Be\/dp\/B08KBCZDN7\">probably for knowing too much about the Clinton crime family and its links with CIA drug smuggling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>April 3, 1996: Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown dies in a rigged plane Croatia after a failed bid to broker a corrupt deal between the CIA-linked Clinton crime family and Croatian dictator Franjo Tudjman. Once again, the CIA and its corrupt international dealings are on display.<\/p>\n<p>October 25, 2002: Senator Paul Wellstone, along with his wife, daughter, and campaign staff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Assassination-Strange-Senator-Wellstone\/dp\/0975276301\">die in a rigged plane crash in Minnesota<\/a>. Wellstone\u2019s desire to investigate 9\/11, and his opposition to the looming war on Iraq, almost certainly motivated his killers.<\/p>\n<p>December 19, 2008: High-level Republican software consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/columbusfreepress.com\/article\/ghost-rigged-elections-past-new-revelations-death-michael-connell\">Micheal Connell dies in a rigged plane crash shortly before he is scheduled to testify against Karl Rove<\/a>. Connell allegedly rigged the 2004 presidential elections by hacking voting machines. (That election was probably rigged in order to prevent the appearance of voters rejecting and rebuking the 9\/11 and 9\/11-wars perpetrators in and around the Cheney-Bush Administration.)<\/p>\n<p>July 10, 2016: Seth Rich, the suspected DNC Wikileaker, is shot dead. Deep State backers of the empire\u2019s anointed candidate, Hillary Clinton, are obvious suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The above list obviously comprises only a minuscule fraction of likely US domestic political assassinations since World War II. Plausible reports that such towering figures as Franklin D. Roosevelt and J. Edgar Hoover were poisoned, that Jack Ruby and Hugo Chavez were dosed with fast-acting cancer, and that the CIA has a weapon that can induce heart attacks indistinguishable from natural ones suggest that America\u2019s \u201cMurder Incorporated\u201d can easily disguise assassinations as natural deaths. So the real number of US political assassinations is quite possibly orders of magnitude larger than even the longest list of suspected hits compiled by the most paranoid conspiracy theorist.<\/p>\n<p>If we asked \u201cBodycount Bill\u201d Clinton why America has so many officially-unsolvable political assassinations, he might perchance reply: \u201cIt\u2019s the empire, stupid.\u201d A cursory review of the above list belabors the obvious: Getting seriously in the way of the empire\u2019s dirty deeds in general, and wars in particular, can get you snuffed. People rarely get offed because of their views or actions on tax policy, social questions, educational reform proposals, or other domestic issues. Messing with your local sheriff or school board or state legislator or even governor probably won\u2019t place your life in jeopardy. But if you stand in the way of empire as an \u201cactionable threat,\u201d you\u2019d better wear body armor and stay out of small planes.<\/p>\n<p>The domestic assassination epidemic represents classic imperial \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=blowback+by+chalmers+johnson&amp;hvadid=241624129164&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9018932&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=17612770053779622314&amp;hvtargid=kwd-377718934258&amp;hydadcr=9368_10387290&amp;tag=googhydr-20&amp;ref=pd_sl_2xqyx3aoyu_e\">blowback<\/a>\u201d\u2014what Malcolm X called \u201cthe chickens coming home to roost.\u201d To maintain an international empire, a great many high-IQ people with psychopathic tendencies are trained to, in the immortal words of Mike Pompeo, \u201clie, cheat, steal\u201d\u2026and, last but far from least, kill. Since the US empire has killed roughly 60 million people worldwide since World War II, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Western-Terrorism-Hiroshima-Warfare-Perspectives\/dp\/0745399312\">the well-documented Chomsky-Vltchek estimate<\/a>, the empire seems to have trained a considerable number of highly proficient murderers. These well-paid liars, cheaters, stealers, and killers are unlikely to magically change their skunk-stripes every time they return across the US border. Trained to commit assassinations abroad, they inevitably find ways to use their black ops skills at home.<\/p>\n<p>The ever-worsening epidemic of foreign political assassinations that accompanied the rise of the US empire post-WWII is ably summarized in Ron Unz\u2019s recent article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/runz\/assassinating-vladimir-putin\/\">Assassinating Vladimir Putin?<\/a>\u201d Unz notes that \u201cthis American policy represented a radical change from the practice of past centuries, with the major Western countries having abandoned the use of assassination in the 17th century after the end of the bloody Wars of Religion.\u201d He aptly remarks that the ascent of neocon supporters of Israel, the worst assassination outlaw state in history, is a likely factor driving the US government\u2019s ever-accelerating assassinations\u2014the great majority of which target Muslim enemies of Israel. Given the palpable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/the-strategic-downside-to-drone-attacks\/\">strategic idiocy of America\u2019s drone assassination program<\/a>, one wonders whether the Israelis are deliberately making the US commit senseless acts that will enrage the Muslim world against America in order to distract from Israel\u2019s crimes against the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Though Unz is right that the West largely abandoned assassination after the Wars of Religion, it\u2019s worth noting that the re-emergence of assassination has coincided with a decline in religious belief and observance among the elites charged with making such decisions. The neocons, the worst offenders, are avowed atheists who believe that the nonexistence of God frees man to be as evil as he wants to be. Whole articles, even books, could be written on the return of political assassination as a symptom of moral and spiritual decline.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not the place for those articles and books. Instead, I will terminate this essay with proverbial extreme prejudice by tersely noting that yes, it <em>is<\/em> the empire, stupid, and that if we want to solve the assassination problem, or at least mitigate it, we need to roll back\u2014or, better yet, end\u2014the empire.<\/p>\n<p>*I\u2019m asserting that RFK Jr. supported Dr. Rashid Buttar\u2019s right to speak his mind and at least some of his claims, not that he agreed with all of Dr. Buttar\u2019s positions. Some of Buttar\u2019s statements, including arguments that all COVID vax recipients will be dead within a few years, were obviously fallacious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate?token=iC38xZcUbMgAbkJVVzEYZ8HldSHcyL-N5b0XlDYgN5Fg0b6INa7DF7InbFEMbCCMKx9c_LKWJbx6NpND\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-175417 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/donate-pp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/kbarrett\/america-has-a-political-assassination-problem\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America has a history of killing those who are problematic for the ruling elite. Often they are silenced by assassination: Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Malcolm X are a few names that come to mind. Was outspoken vaccine critic Dr. Rashid Buttar the latest name on this growing list?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":269454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269452,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269451\/revisions\/269452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}