American Conspiracies - Jesse Ventura [0]
Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us
Jesse Ventura
Copyright © 2010 by Jesse Ventura and Dick Russell
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ventura, Jesse.
American conspiracies : lies, lies, and more dirty lies that the government tells us / by Jesse Ventura, with Dick Russell.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
9781602398023
1. Conspiracies--United States. 2. Conspiracy theories--United States. I. Russell, Dick. II. Title.
HV6285.V46 2010
973--dc22
2009052309
Printed in the United States of America
“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
—Albert Einstein
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Praise
INTRODUCTION - WHY I’M WRITING ABOUT CONSPIRACIES IN AMERICA
CHAPTER ONE - THE FIRST NOT-ALONE-NUT: JOHN WILKES BOOTH
CHAPTER TWO - THE BIG-MONEY PLOT TO OVERTHROW FDR
CHAPTER THREE - THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: BIGGEST COVER-UP OF MY LIFETIME
CHAPTER FOUR - THE ASSASSINATION OF MALCOLM X
CHAPTER FIVE - THE MURDER OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
CHAPTER SIX - THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT KENNEDY
CHAPTER SEVEN - WATERGATE REVISITED: THE CIA’S WAR AGAINST NIXON
CHAPTER EIGHT - THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE
CHAPTER NINE - ″OCTOBER SURPRISE″: THE FIRST STOLEN ELECTION
CHAPTER TEN - YOUR GOVERNMENT DEALING DRUGS
CHAPTER ELEVEN - THE STOLEN ELECTIONS OF 2000, 2004 (AND ALMOST 2008)
CHAPTER TWELVE - WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 11?
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - THE WALL STREET CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - THE SECRET PLANS TO END AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
EPILOGUE - “TRUTH BEING THAT WHICH IT IS CAN NEVER BE DESTROYED”
FURTHER READING
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
WHY I’M WRITING ABOUT CONSPIRACIES IN AMERICA
First of all, let’s talk about what you won’t find in this book. It’s not about how extraterrestrials are abducting human beings, or the Apollo moon landing being a colossal hoax perpetrated by NASA, or that Barack Obama somehow is not a natural-born American citizen. I leave these speculations to others, not that I take them seriously. What this book will delve into are a number of things you don’t see on TV or read about in the papers. The fact is, the media—the fourth branch of government that our founding fathers anticipated would speak truth to power and keep our democracy on track—has at least since the assassination of President Kennedy systematically ignored any “conspiracy theory” that might rock the Establishment’s boat. We are, excuse my French, in deep shit today because of this head-in-the-sand mentality.
Let’s start out by defining what a conspiracy is. My 2,347-page Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary says: “a planning and acting together secretly, especially for an unlawful or harmful purpose, such as murder or treason.” Synonyms include plot, cabal, connivance, collusion. Hard to swallow? Think of the Roman senators who knocked off Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. But I guess we’ve come a long way since then, right? Think Operation Northwoods, circa 1962. We’ll get to that in due course—Seven Days in May, that novel about a military takeover during the Kennedy years, wasn’t far off the mark.
Clearly, there’s something going on in our national psyche that the New York Times and the Washington Post don’t want to examine.