7:03 pm CST
THE LBJ ROBOT
Part Four


But before we encountered the robot, we encountered Luci Baines Johnson, one of the daughters of Lyndon Johnson.

It was not the first time I had seen a member of the Johnson family in the library. Back in the 1970s when I worked there, I sometimes saw Lady Bird who had an office on the top floor. But these days Lady Bird is elderly and does not leave the LBJ Ranch as often as she once did; Luci Baines is now the most visible of the Johnson family at social events in Austin, and at the LBJ Library.

When we saw her, she was conducting a guided tour for a group of church ladies and had just reached the display dealing with the Kennedy years. We attached ourselves to the group and listened as she described her father's relationship with President Kennedy. "It's true that they had their disagreements," she said, "but my father always had the highest respect for John F. Kennedy. Theirs was a great friendship, and a great working relationship."

"Except for that little matter of killing him," I whispered to my daughter.

We left Luci Baines' tour group and walked upstairs to the second level to find the Lewis and Clark exhibit. On the way we passed the kiosk labeled "The Humor of LBJ."

"Let's look at that," said my daughter.

We stepped inside the kiosk. To my surprise, I did not see the bank of video screens I remembered from the 1970s. Instead, there was a life-size mannequin of Lyndon Johnson, dressed in a cowboy outfit and posed, like Will Rogers, leaning on a wooden fence and holding a lasso.

"This is new," I said. Suspecting it might be an audio-animatronic like those at Disneyland, I looked around for a button to make it work, but did not see one. So, as an experiment, I sat down in one of two empty chairs facing the mannequin.

As soon as my buttocks hit the chair, a spotlight lit up the mannequin and it came to life. My daughter quickly sat down beside me.

The mannequin opened its mouth and began lip-syncing tapes of Johnson telling funny stories. He began with Winston Churchill drinking stories. As he spoke, his hand would gesture and his head would turn, sometimes looking you right in the eye, with creepy effect. The intent, no doubt, was to simulate life-like movement, but the stiffness and unnaturalness of these movements were instead robotic.

The effect, too, was like a corpse that had been reanimated by some hideous Frankensteinian method—which reminded of my dream of decades earlier—the one in which I saw Johnson's corpse sitting in the Oval Office replica.

At first we did not know how to react to the LBJ Robot, but after a few minutes we began to laugh, nervously. Luci Baines was leading her church ladies past us at that moment, and, if she noticed us at all, might have thought we were appreciating the Humor of LBJ. However, we were only reacting to the grotesqueness of the presentation.

The Humor of LBJ went on. And on. And on and on and on. It is quite possible that the LBJ robot would have gone on telling jokes for hours. But we did not have hours to spend, and, after the surreal novelty wore off, soon grew weary of the Humor of LBJ. Finally, I said, "Let's go," and stood up.

As soon as my buttocks left the chair, the spotlight went out and the darkened LBJ robot froze and fell silent.

"If only it had been that easy to shut him up in the Sixties," I said.

1:30 pm CST
TODAY'S HEADLINES:

CIA rat in Kucinich camp

Daniel Hopsicker - Interview Excerpts from 12/29/03

Return of U.S. War Dead Kept Solemn, Secret

Khatami denies Iran's killer quake caused by nuclear test

6:37 pm CST
2004: The Year of the Law and of Living Dangerously

2004: The Year of the Slave

6:40 pm CST
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

1:01 CST
Willie Nelson has written a new song which will debut this Saturday at a concert for Dennis Kucinich to be carried by webcast live on Kucinich's site. For the full story behind the song, read this story. For the lyrics go HERE.

My favorite verse:

And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth

11:14 am CST
On this last day of the month (and year), the stats show that MackWhite.com received 15,708 visits in December, and 28,741 visits since September when this site was remodeled. An average of 506 persons per day are now visiting this site. In December, most of these were from the U.S. and Canada, followed by Czechoslovakia, the U.K., Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, and Finland. Significantly high numbers are also coming from Brazil, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, France, Argentina, Sweden, Belgium, Taiwan, Singapore, Poland, and Denmark.

In December, the most popular search strings leading to this site were related to the John Lennon assassination, the JFK assassination (particularly regarding the LBJ connection), Operation Northwoods, mass media brainwashing, the hive mind, and Illuminati weirdness at the Bohemian Grove and in the film Eyes Wide Shut.

Most intriguing search strings:

"influence of ghost encounters in construction sites"
"handcuff woman university" (!?)

Most amusing search strings:

"make of barneys gun used in andy Griffith"
"pow wow the indian boy cartoon" (I'm glad to know someone besides me fondly remembers Pow Wow.)

As mentioned in my 12/12/03 blog entry, the reference to Nicole Kidman's nude scene in Eyes Wide Shut in my article The Beast System yielded the search string "nicole kidman's medical history." In that entry, I wondered what could possibly be interesting about her medical history and jokingly suggested she might be a transsexual. I then added that the belated discovery of her transgendered status by Tom Cruise might be the reason he divorced her. Well, now, as a result of this joke, I'm getting search strings like this: "nicole kidman and tom cruse why divorced." These search strings will likely increase now that I have talked about it a second time. Also, eventually someone is going to take my joke seriously, and before long the rumor will spread that Nicole Kidman is a transsexual. Remember you heard it here first, folks.

11:14 am CST
Alex Jones just reported on his radio show that during the holidays an Austin airport employee observed Austin's Channel 8 news interviewing people for their opinions on the increased airport security. One person after another expressed displeasure with the searches of baggage, shoes, etc. and in general being treated like criminals by security personnel, many of whom are not even Americans. Finally, after a full day of interviewing, they found one old woman who was pleased with the "security." When the segment was broadcast, her interview was the only one that was used, and it was played over and over and over for the next 24 hours. Channel 8 is the local Time Warner 24-hour "news" channel. Make no mistake about it, the producers, anchorpersons, and reporters of television news are not your friends. They are not in the business of reporting the news either; they are propagandists working in the service of Police State America.

11:14 am CST
Many thanks to the fine folks at LibertyThink for including MackWhite.com in LibertyThink's new Meme Stream 2.3. Lots of other great sites listed as well.

11:10 am CST
Headlines from Parapolitics:

Kucinich calls terror alert a government scare tactic

DARPA's Plan to Spray Us with "Vaccines" (i.e., Poison Us)

10:24 am CST
So this is why Mad Cow Disease has been hyped over the past week:

USDA calls for implantable chips to prevent mad cow outbreaks

More on the implantable microchip:

VeriChip Corporation Records First Sales of Subdermal RFID VeriChip Products to Countries in Europe

7:26 pm CST
A Reader Writes: Thank you for your work. In your opinion, if Gore had "become" president, would 9/11 have proceeded as planned?

It seems to me that the New World Order agenda moves forward regardless of which party is in the White House.  For instance, under the Democratic president Bill Clinton's presidency, at least two staged terrorist incidents occurred:  the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing.  In the wake of the latter, Clinton's Anti-Crime and Terrorism Bill passed, seriously eroding our freedoms and paving the way for the even worse Patriot Act.

Thus, given Gore’s connection as vice president to the Clinton administration, I do not imagine the past few years would have been significantly different under a Gore administration.

Also, I strongly suspect that the election crisis of 2000, which led to the selection of Bush as president, was a contrived crisis--that is, yet another example of the Hegelian Dialectic, or Problem-Reaction-Solution.  The "solution" to the election "crisis," as we have seen, has been the installation of electronic voting systems nationwide--a solution which on the surface seems good, but which in fact is a Trojan Horse, as these systems make elections even more susceptible to fraud.

The election crisis also further eroded the faith of Americans in their system of government--an outcome which conveniently serves the New World Order agenda.

It is possible that Gore was never intended to be president, and that he knew it.  It is also possible that, for a long time, the outcome of presidential elections has been decided not by the American people, but by the denizens of the New World Order.  For instance, it is my understanding that Clinton's presidency was decided at a Bilderberger meeting in the early 1990s. Who knows, maybe when George Bush Sr. was told he would not be winning the '92 election, he complained, which resulted in someone slipping poison into his food, causing him to throw up on the Japanese prime minister. This may have convinced him to go along with the decision, which would account for his apparent lack of interest in the campaign, much commented upon at the time.  Also, he may have been told that, after Clinton had spent his eight years carrying the ball for the New World Order, Bush Jr. could take over and there would be profit aplenty for Bush companies such as the Carlyle Group and crony Dick Cheney’s Halliburton. But this is only speculation.

What is not speculation is that there is no significant difference between the Clinton and the two Bush administrations. For instance, the investigation of the Branch Davidians, which culminated in the holocaust at Waco under Clinton's presidency, began during the Bush administration. The sale of nuclear technology to Red China, for which Clinton has been blamed, began under the Bush administration. Also, the shipment of cocaine into Mena, Arkansas, during Clinton's governorship, was part of the Bush Gang's Iran-Contra operation. And, it has been well documented that not only did the current president, George W. Bush, ignore warnings about bin Laden's terror network, so did Bill Clinton.

None of this is surprising, when you consider that financier Jackson Stephens was a top contributor to both the Clinton and Bush campaigns, and that Stephens' name turns up in matters such as Mena, BCCI, and September 11. For more information on Jackson Stephens, see these articles:

Bush, Clinton and the CIA

Gore and Bush Tied to WTI Financier

Bush's Former Oil Company Linked to bin Laden Family

Intimidated by FBI, Witnesses Claim 9/11 Coverup in Florida

The above links are just a few chosen at random from a quick Google search. Much more can be found with search strings such as "Jackson Stephens Bush Clinton."

Therefore, based on all the above, I must conclude there is no essential difference between Bush, Clinton, and Gore. It is the money behind these men that matters, and the money appears to be promoting the New World Order agenda.

1:22 pm CST
Back from Portland. It was a great trip. We arrived at the Austin airport at 4:45 am, two hours before flight time, due to ORANGE ALERT and the possibility, as the newspaper had warned, of cars being randomly searched. But our car was not searched; the only indignity I suffered was being told to pull off my boots and place them on the conveyor belt to be X-rayed. As for the flight, we left on time, flying northwest over the dark, pre-dawn earth. I fell asleep, waking as the sun rose over the Panhandle. The shining icy patchwork below looked like a Study in Linoleum by some abstract artist. We changed flights in Denver and continued northwest-ward to Portland, where the next few days were spent in a hillside house surrounded by Christmas lights and spire-like cedars, the weather damp and dark. In the evenings we played pool—“drunk pool,” as we called it, with its own peculiar rules--while listening to vintage rock LPs. One night three raccoons came up to the porch, looking for a handout. They ate well, for we were eating well. In the daytime we wandered the wet streets of Portland, visiting pubs and drinking ale, and buying books at Powell’s to weigh down our luggage. Then, there was another pre-dawn flight, and within hours we were back in Texas, the dark and damp and cedar-covered hills of Portland a dream. Today it is cold outside and the sky is clear, and from my window I can see the Central Texas Turnpike being built. The cat has forgiven us for leaving her so long and sleeps curled up in the chair beside me while I sit at the computer, getting caught up on the news and writing …

5:52 pm CST

Early in the morning I will be leaving town to spend the Christmas holidays in Portland, Oregon. Therefore, this blog will be inactive until I return on the 28th. Anyone waiting for an email reply from me will have to wait till then as well. When I return, I will post the final installment of “The LBJ Robot” and many other new features. In the meantime, you are invited to visit my other website Bison Bill’s Weird West for a very special Christmas story which I just posted.

2:04 pm CST

I’ve been busy the past couple of days, so haven’t had much time for blogging. I’ve been laying the groundwork for a book of comics journalism (not yet titled) which I will edit and Fantagraphics will publish this September; cartoonists here in the U.S. and around the world, including myself, will each contribute a chapter on the history of the Bush Crime Family. More news about this later. I’ve also been writing the next installment of “The LBJ Robot,” but may not have it ready to post before Christmas when I’ll be out of town. However, tomorrow, I will definitely post a very special Bison Bill Christmas story. So stay tuned. In the meantime, you’ll find TODAY’S HEADLINES below. But, first, be sure to check out Dishonest Dubya: Lying Action Figure.

Administration Increases Terror Threat-Warning Level to Orange; E-mails Cited

Fake Terror Alerts Archive

Photo Tricks Betray the “Saddam” Psyop

Bush Cabal Hides Patriot II Police State in HR2417

Tanks Roll into Tikrit

Resistance attacks continue in Iraq

Tapes Show Abuse of 9/11 Detainees

FBI framed men for murder to keep real killers free

6:10 pm CST
TODAY'S HEADLINES:

18 Unarmed Protesters Shot Dead by U.S. Soldiers in Iraq

Feds: We'll imprison you without trial as long as we like

3:22 pm CST
THE LBJ ROBOT
Part Three


Lyndon Johnson was also a killer. His first victims were animals. As a young man, he is known to have tortured and killed a dog, on another occasion a mule. These incidents are described in Blood, Power, and Money, the book written by Johnson's lawyer, Barr McClellan, who points out that, though the information is readily available to researchers in the LBJ Library, it has for some reason been ignored--even by Johnson biographer Robert Caro, whose critically acclaimed, multi-volume work paints a vivid picture of the moral depravity of the man.

It is a fact, well known by criminal psychologists, that children who torture and kill animals are at high risk to grow up and do the same to human beings. This was Johnson's destiny. However, his killings of humans were perpetrated not so much from a sadistic impulse as from practical necessity, to cover up his other crimes. Also, as an adult, Johnson did not need to dirty his own hands with murder; he could order the killings, using as the executioner one Mac Wallace.

One of Johnson's earliest victims was Department of Agriculture inspector Henry Marshall, whose investigation of Billy Sol Estes' cotton allotment schemes was leading straight to Estes' partner in crime, then-Vice President Johnson. In 1984, in grand jury testimony for which he had been granted immunity, Estes described a 1961 meeting between himself, Johnson, Cliff Carter, and Mac Wallace, during which the Marshall problem was discussed. Johnson told Wallace, "Get rid of him."

Later, Marshall was found dead. According to the official version, he committed suicide by first beating himself unconscious, then while unconscious he attached a hose to the exhaust pipe of his pickup and stuck it in his mouth. Then, for good measure, after asphyxiating himself, he got a rifle and fired several shots into his own unconscious body.

It is no surprise that many persons, including Texas Ranger Clint Peoples, questioned the suicide verdict. Yet it remained the verdict for a long time.  Then, in 1984, following Estes' testimony, Marshall's death certificate was changed to read, "Cause of death—murder by gunshot."

Estes detailed other Johnson murders carried out by Wallace. One of the victims was Johnson's sister, Josefa, whose involvement in late-night sex orgies in Austin's Zilker Park had long worried Johnson. He was not, you understand, worried for her safety, or chastity; rather, he was worried that it was just a matter of time before the Austin vice squad raided the park and a scandal erupted which would destroy his political career. So, Johnson had the ringleader of these parties murdered by Wallace, then later had Wallace murder Josefa.

Another person Johnson murdered, according to Estes, was President John F. Kennedy.

In Blood, Power, and Money, McClellan presents compelling evidence linking Johnson to the Kennedy assassination. Mac Wallace's fingerprints, for instance, were found on a box on the sixth floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository. McClellan also delineates the money trail from oil barons Clint Murchison and H. L. Hunt, who financed the assassination, to Johnson lawyer Ed Clark, who organized it. And he describes the motive: Due to the federal investigations of Johnson's criminal associates Billy Sol Estes and Bobby Baker, Johnson was soon to be dropped from the 1964 presidential ticket; he was also likely to be sent to prison. His only hope of escaping this disaster was to kill Kennedy and assume the office of the presidency. As president, he would have the power to stop these investigations.

On the day of the assassination, Don Reynolds, a Bobby Baker associate, gave sworn testimony to the Senate Rules Committee, in which he described a $100,000 payoff to Johnson for his role in securing a $7 billion defense contract for General Dynamics in Fort Worth, Texas, to develop the TFX fighter plane. When news of the shooting of Kennedy was received, his testimony was terminated. It was not resumed. In addition, shortly after taking office, Johnson halted further investigations into the Billie Sol Estates matter, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy's investigation of Mob figures such as Carlos Marcello, another Johnson crony, suddenly lost steam as well.

There is no doubt of Johnson's involvement in the killing of President Kennedy. However, it would be an over-simplification to say the killing was solely his idea, or that its sole purpose was to end these troublesome investigations into Johnson’s affairs. Other men besides Johnson had much to lose by a continuation of Kennedy's presidency, and much to gain by his death.

Kennedy had eliminated the oil depletion allowance, signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, begun withdrawing troops from Vietnam, was refusing to go along with Pentagon projects such as Operation Northwoods, had made known his intention to destroy the CIA, and had signed Executive Order 11110, ending the power of the Federal Reserve to loan money to the government at interest. With each new transgression, Kennedy was costing too many men too much money, and severely limiting their power. Thus, in many sectors of the military-industrial complex, and among international bankers, there had begun to be talk of killing him. But, that was all it was--talk. What was needed was for someone whose hatred of Kennedy was greater than anyone else's, someone whose desperation was greater, someone whose Machiavellian nature was greater, to act as catalyst and turn words into action.

Johnson was that man of action. Having committed crime after crime in the acquisition of power--voting fraud, financial shenanigans, blackmail, murder--and having committed more murders to cover up all the other crimes, he was now, despite all his efforts, about to lose it all and go to prison. He was a scared animal, backed into a corner, quivering and snarling--the most dangerous kind of animal, as any hunter of predatory beasts will tell you.

But he had friends--Murchison, Hunt, Marcello, and J. Edgar Hoover--and knew others in the CIA and Pentagon who hated Kennedy and were already motivated to kill him. Thus, when he approached them for financing and other assistance in the plot, he did not need to apply his famous technique of persuasion--there was no need at all to get right in their faces, and grab and jab, and twist arms. All he had to do was point out that he was their boy--he had represented their interests all these years--and if he went down, things would only get worse for them. But, if he were president, they would all be sitting pretty once again.

So Kennedy was killed, Johnson became president, and today the LBJ Library looms over the University of Texas campus. The library would, of course, not exist had Kennedy lived. Thus, in a sense, as McClellan points out, it is a monument to the assassination.

In the 25 years that have passed since I worked at the library, I have often walked or driven past it, but rarely gone inside. Once, about 14 years ago, I took my daughter there; she was in middle school and had a class assignment to visit the library. That was the last time I entered the building, until a few months ago. My reason for returning was to see the Lewis and Clark exhibit with my daughter, now grown. On this occasion, we encountered the LBJ Robot …

(To Be Continued)

10:29 am CST
Saddam Hussein is being shown videotapes of anti-Saddam protests in Iraq, unearthing of mass graves and torture and execution of prisoners. This sets a good precedent. Next, Bush and sons, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and all the other criminals of the military-industrial complex should be strapped into chairs, with their eyelids pinned open (as in Clockwork Orange), and be shown anti-Bush protests, unearthing of mass graves in Central America, murders of Iraqi civilians by U.S. soldiers, and the torture of innocent prisoners at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo. Perhaps then they might be conditioned to denounce these things and begin living useful lives instead of creating a Hell on Earth.

Today's links on the made-for-tv Capture of Saddam Hussein:

Sherman Skolnick: Saddam, Prisoner of Carlyle Group

Pakistani Paper: Bush Met Saddam on November 27

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.): Saddam Capture Timed to help Bush

Capture Created and Fabricated for Public Consumption

Is the made-for-tv capture (or killing) of bin Laden next?

Madeline Albright Thinks Bush is Hiding bin Laden, Waiting for Most Politically Expedient Moment to "Capture" Him

Alex Jones: Intelligence Sources Confirm bin Laden is Dead and Being Kept on Ice Till Right Before the Next Election

More on 9/11 Foreknowledge:

White House Admits Pre-9/11 Warnings; Bush Still Denies It

9:19 am CST
A riveting Power Hour show this morning. Joyce Riley interviewed Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness, who described her arrest while protesting at the infamous School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. Read how this 50-year-old, non-violent schoolteacher was hogtied and beaten by U.S. soldiers HERE. As Kelly points out, this experience gave her a glimpse into the abuses she had come to Fort Benning to protest.