August 11, 2000
Dear Newswatch Magazine Listeners/Readers:
Are there conspiracies in the world today that can determine the fate of nations and individuals alike? The American judicial system regularly convicts people for criminal conspiracy! Do secret societies truly exist? Is there really a secret government within the United States and, indeed, all nations? Is there a worldwide conspiracy bent on subversion of freedom?
One clue could come from A. J. Liebling, who once said: "...freedom of the press is for those who OWN the presses...or the radio and TV stations." It has been said many times that history repeats itself. Could one reason be that there really are individuals who work in secret, behind the scenes that use the same basic tactics to control the world and its individual nation states regardless of what type of government it calls itself?
A conspiracy is to plan secretly to commit an illegal or evil act. Anyone or any group that conspires to keep such secrets must be carefully scrutinized by everyone if we see a pattern that could take away our individual freedom.
Researchers Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen wrote: "The main resistance to conspiracy theories comes NOT from the people on the street BUT FROM the media, academia, and government - people who manage the national and global economy of information."
Anthony C. Sutton, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute, says that an Eastern Establishment dominates all phases of American life. "During the past one hundred years, any theory of history or historical evidence that falls outside a pattern established by the American Historical Association and the major foundations with their grant-making power has been attacked or rejected - NOT on the basis of any evidence presented, but on the basis of the acceptability of the arguments to the so-called Eastern Liberal Establishment, and its OFFICIAL historical line...Woe betide any book or author that falls outside the official guidelines. Foundation support is NOT there. Publishers get cold feet. Distribution is hit and miss, or non-existent."
Dr. Carroll Quigley wrote the book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time in 1966. He was an Insider for 25 years and examined the books of a secretive group trying to remake the world over to suit themselves. A major New York publisher suddenly withdrew from its agreement to publish the book. He wrote a decade later "I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed..." It was published and is in circulation today.
A French publisher was quoted as saying: "It would NOT be possible to trace ownership of corporations and the power structure in the United States. 'They' would not permit it. 'They' would find a way to hound and torture anyone who tried. 'They' seem to be a fairly small group of people who know each other, but many are not at all known to the public. 'They' move in and out of government jobs, but public service apparently serves to win private promotion rather than the other way around. The Government 'control' that practically everyone mentions cannot be traced through stock holdings, regulatory agencies, public decisions. It seems to function through a maze of personal contacts and tacit understandings." In other words, secret societies or organizations.
When Bill Clinton came into the presidency in early 1993, he asked his friend that he appointed to the Justice Department, Webster Hubbell, to find out who killed John F. Kennedy and the truth about UFOs! The president and his appointee at the Justice Department could not find these answers. The CIA Director could not give them a satisfactory answer either. It appears there is someone or a group even about the president and any government position that knows the answers but is untouchable.
A 1997 Scripps-Howard News Service poll working in conjunction with Ohio University resulted in the following statistics:
*51 percent of those polled believed it is likely that some federal officials were directly responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
*More than a third suspect that the U.S. Navy shot down TWA Flight 800, either intentionally or unintentionally.
*A majority believe that it is possible that CIA officials intentionally allowed Central American drug dealers to sell cocaine to inner-city black children.
*60 percent felt the government is withholding information regarding Agent Orange and the causes of the Gulf War Syndrome.
*Almost half suspect FBI agents set the fire which killed eighty-six Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, in 1993. [This percentage has probably grown much larger since the revelations of government cover-up of the use of pyrotechnic devices prior to the fire].
*After the U.S. Air Force released a report that "aliens" reported at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, were actually crash dummies from tests that first began in 1954, more people now believe that the government is covering up both information and technology from extraterrestrials than before.
Is all this just paranoia? Or is there really someone or group out there conspiring to gain wealth and power which necessitates cover ups to protect the guilty?
There is a growing belief that certain very wealthy individuals who are seeking power are really the masters in the United States and the world. Jonathan Vankin, journalist and researcher wrote: "Power is a fact of life in America, but most Americans are far removed from it. SECRECY IS POWER'S CHIEF TOOL! Government seems distant, yet somehow domineering. We are increasingly isolated from one another - stuck in front of computer and television screens ...There is a frustrating feeling of disconnection to modern American life...Conspiracy theories try to put the pieces back together."
Conservative author Gary Allen wrote: "We believe that many of the major world events that are shaping destinies occur BECAUSE somebody or somebodies planned them that way."
One of our government officials once said: "If we were merely dealing with the law of averages, half of the events affecting our nation's well-being should be good for America. If we were dealing with mere incompetence, our leaders should occasionally make a mistake in our favor...We are not really dealing with coincidence or stupidity, but with planning and brilliance."
How else could Revelation 13 come to pass?
Sincerely,
David J. Smith