American Conspiracies - Jesse Ventura [18]
Getting back to the Bilderbergs and the scary notion: is this attempt to control the world real? I don’t think it’s necessarily a case of a dozen guys sitting around a table deciding our future. But I do think that these power brokers, bankers, money men of the world, have the power to try to control the direction we’re going. Can they guarantee it? Never, because you’ve always got the human element, and they don’t seem to want to rouse the ire of the masses. They’re sneakier than that.
I found it interesting that, they same day that the Bilderberg expert, Daniel Estulin, was to meet with me in New York, our filming schedule got thrown off. I had to wait an extra day because he happened to be on the no-fly list. It took 24 hours for him to be cleared and come talk to me. I was trying to figure out why they would deem this guy a terrorist. I mean, he’s a writer. Who would have the power to put him on that list? What are the qualifications? Like Shakespeare once put it, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave.”
It makes me want to run to the Baja for six months and get away from it all. But by the time I’m ready to go, I’ll probably be on the no-fly list, too! I’ll keep you posted.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO NOW?
We need real heroes for our young people to emulate, individuals who weren’t afraid to take a stand for the sake of our country. The story of Major General Smedley Butler needs to be as widely known as those of Washington and Lincoln. If this means making us think about the fact that wealthy people can sometimes be out for evil purposes, so be it. I’d rank Professor Quigley as a hero, too, for his willingness to expose the secret machinations of the rich and powerful. Again, let’s revise our history textbooks!
CHAPTER THREE
THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: BIGGEST COVER-UP OF MY LIFETIME
THE INCIDENT: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, riding in his limousine in Dallas, on November 22, 1963.
THE OFFICIAL WORD: Lee Harvey Oswald, an ex-Marine and Communist sympathizer, shot the president twice from behind, firing a rifle from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. He was captured later that day in a theater, and killed two days later by Jack Ruby.
MY TAKE: The cover-up of what really happened to JFK starts with the Warren Commission’s “lone assassin” conclusion, and continues to this day with the help of the big media. A second gunman assassinated the president from the grassy knoll, while Oswald was set up as the fall guy. The perpetrators behind Oswald are tied into the CIA, the Pentagon, and the Mob, along with right-wing extremists who tried to make it look like Cuba was behind it. Oswald himself was part of an intelligence operation that involved a look-alike “double.”
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.”
—Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address as president, 1961
There are two official government reports on the assassination of President Kennedy, and they directly contradict each other. The first was, of course, the Warren Commission Report, which concluded that a disgruntled Marine-turned-Communist named Lee Harvey Oswald took out JFK on his own, using an old Italian-made rifle and connecting with two out of three shots in 6.3 seconds from a sixth-floor window. The second was a report