7:56 pm CST
Dept. of Pre-Crime:


It may not be long before you hear airport security screeners ask, "Do you plan on hijacking this plane?" A U.S. company using technology developed in Israel is pitching a lie detector small enough to fit in the eyeglasses of law enforcement officers, and its inventors say it can tell whether a passenger is a terrorist by analyzing his answer to that simple question in real-time.  Read more HERE.

7:54 pm CST
DREAM: Somehow I receive an invitation to a party honoring George W. Bush. "Surely they don't want me at this party," I think. At best, it sounds like a snafu; at worst, some kind of trap. Either way it promises to be a bad time.

"I think I'll decline," I say.

An old sea captain shakes his head, saying, "No, that would be unwise--maybe even dangerous."

So, reluctantly, I go to the party, which turns out to be a beachside clambake. People are fawning over the president--a shameless spectacle which causes me to shake my head. "What a bunch of sycophants," I mutter.

Someone whispers to me: "The Boy King has no friends. Everyone has been bribed, or threatened, to be his friends."

It's a bad scene. I decide to leave. I step inside the nearest building, a lighthouse which also happens to be the Texas State Capitol, and in a stairwell encounter the president himself, big as life, grinning like the day he was holding the Thanksgiving turkey. He presses money into my hand--a huge wad of century notes--and invites me to come back any time.

I walk away, thinking he's not such a bad guy. As I step out the back door, I see a broadcast tower and wonder if the dream is being beamed into my head by microwave. "Maybe they're beaming the same dream into everyone's head," I think. Sub-audible voices pulsing outward in the night: "Bush is a good man … Bush is a good man …" All across the continent people are receiving the voices, dreaming similar dreams. This is MK-Ultra, baby. Realizing this, I hurry away from the broadcast tower.

Later I'm back in my apartment, but it looks different in the dream. For one thing, the swimming pool is right outside my bedroom window. The sun is coming up and people are going for a morning swim. I go outside and test the water with my foot. It's warm. "What the hell," I think, and jump in. Most of the women in the pool aren't wearing tops. I look at their breasts, thinking: "This is a pretty good way to start the day …"

I wake up, with the feeling that I have really met the president. Now when, exactly, did that happen? Then I realize it never happened. It was only a dream. I have never met George W. Bush in my life. But, I remember, I met his old man once …

It was 1970. I was 17. Bush was running for reelection to Congress. He made a campaign stop in Cleburne, Texas, where I was living at the time. My father wanted to interview Bush for his weekly newspaper, the Johnson County News, so we went to the airport where Bush's plane was scheduled to land.

There was a large group of local Republicans there with welcoming signs and banners. When Bush got off the plane, he shook everyone's hand, mine included. Then he gave a short speech, after which there was a motorcade into town. My father rode in the chartered bus so he could interview Bush. I was conscripted on the spot to drive the convertible with the local teenage beauty queens.

I was not yet a confident driver, thus nervous to be driving an unfamiliar car with three beauty queens watching and George Bush in the bus behind me. But it was not as difficult as I expected.  All I had to do was follow the cop car that was leading the parade. The beauty queens sat up high in the back seat chattering and giggling and waving to the surprised people on the street. Meanwhile a loudspeaker on the car behind me blasted a message urging everyone to vote for Bush.

As we drove around the courthouse square, a friend of mine did a double-take. Later, he told me he was tripping at the time and wasn't sure he was really seeing Mack White driving some beauty queens around in a parade for George Bush.

In the courthouse basement, Bush gave another speech. Then he got back on the bus and returned to the airport to fly away to the next campaign stop.

A couple of weeks later, while cleaning my father's office, I found a letter from Bush in the trashcan. My father was always receiving letters from politicians and he always threw them away. I decided to save this one because I thought it might become valuable if Bush became president some day. The letter also fascinated me because it mentioned me in a postscript: "Say hi to Mack for me."

I showed it to my father. "Look," I said, "George Bush remembered me, and he spelt my name right." My father was cynical: "Yeah, these politicians hire people to remember those things for them. He probably didn't even write the letter."

I saved the letter anyway, then forgot about it until a few years ago when I found it in a box full of other things from that era--postcards, ticket stubs, and so forth. Nowadays, I keep the letter inside my copy of Peter Brewton's book George Bush, the Mafia, and the CIA. I'm more cynical than my father ever was …

Riding the bus into central Austin this morning, the memory of the dream and that day in 1970 stay with me. I doze off and they intertwine: … a beachside clambake … a day in 1970 … a lighthouse which also happens to be the Texas State Capitol … the beauty queens chattering "The Boy King has no friends" … broadcast towers … "No, that would be unwise--maybe even dangerous" … Sub-audible voices pulsing "Say hi to Mack" … a shameless spectacle the Thanksgiving turkey … politicians hire people to remember … This is MK-Ultra, baby … "Bush is a good man" … follow the cop car … courthouse basement different in the dream … old sea captain shakes his head … conscripted on the spot … local Republicans aren't wearing tops … welcoming signs and broadcast tower beaming the same dream into everyone's basement, Bush gave another speech "Bush is a good man" … old sea captain shakes his head … most of the women in the pool beauty queens. I was nervous … Sub-audible voices pulsing my name right … a large group of Republicans there, a beachside clambake … lighthouse which also happens to be the convertible with the local teenage president himself, big as life, giggling and waving … I receive an invitation into my head by microwave … Sub-audible voices pulsing some kind of trap. Either way it promises money into my hand--follow the cop car … "Bush is a good man" … old sea captain shakes his head … "The Boy King has no friends" … it looks different in the dream town. My father rode the chartered bus outside my bedroom window ... I was conscripted on the spot to swim. I go outside to test the water with my beauty queens thinking "This is a pretty good way to start the parade hire people to remember" … postcards, ticket stubs … a huge wad of century notes … old sea captain shakes his head … This is MK-Ultra, baby … "The Boy King has no friends" …

The bus comes to a stop. I wake up and see the pink granite dome of the Texas State Capitol lit by the morning sun. It looks different in the dream town …

6:30 pm CST
An Infowars Exclusive:

Silverstein, FDNY Decided to 'Pull WTC 7': An In-Depth Analysis

Hear Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson discuss this issue tonight on the Jeff Rense Show.

8:29 pm CST

Flashback: Jury: MLK Assassination a Conspiracy

8:24 pm CST
My friend and fellow cartoonist David Paleo Nunes (see his work here) writes from Argentina with the following anecdote:

Hey Mack, just a quick anecdote, cause I don't think it was reported over there, my president, Nestor Kirchner met with Bush a few days ago, in the course of the conversations, and I guess to put a hold on Junior's unending labial drivel about defending democracy and freedom, Kirchner told him that not only him, but several of his aides and ministers present at that meeting, spent time in jail back in the 70's because of their political activism; Bush was reduced to tell Kirchner that the only time he was in jail, was because of being caught driving drunk!

Oh well, the lameness of it all...

David will be a contributor to the comics anthology I am co-editing with Gary Groth, tentatively titled The Bush Junta, to be published this September by Fantagraphics. Other contributors include Bill Griffith, Penny Van Horn, Mark Landman, Ken Smith, Seth Tobocman, Carol Lay, Spain Rodriguez, Marcel Ruyters, Sasa Rekazic, Albo Helm, Scott Gilbert, Ted Jouflas, Jaime Crespo, Ethan Persoff, Alejandro Alvarez, Larry Rodman, and myself. The introduction will be written by Alex Jones. Stay tuned for more information.

8:20 pm CST
Jeff Rense has posted stills from what is being called the Apache Killing Video (see the 1/18 blog entry below to follow a link to the video), as well as comments about this controversial subject. Go HERE.

8:18 pm CST
Paul Krassner writes: Journalist who brought Bush Nazi link to mainstream media runs for President

2:28 pm CST
A READER WRITES: Unpleasant stuff, Mack, but a MUST SEE for Americans. The rest of the world has seen it and it is naive to think that there will be no future repercussions.  Civilians are being murdered here. There is definitely no visible threat from these people and by the look of the vehicles they are probably farmers engaged in "suspicious agricultural activities". Also, as Michael Rivero of WhatReallyHappened.com points out, the body language of the people suggests that they did not expect the helicopter to open fire.

What the reader is referring to is this video which shows the U.S. military cold-bloodedly gunning down Iraqi civilians. Yes, it is a must-see.

2:25 pm CST
Today's News Roundup:

It took four years for the American death toll to hit 500 in Vietnam. The Bush administration has accomplished the same thing in Iraq in less than a year: U.S. toll in Iraq over 500

John Pilger writes: "Two years ago a project set up by the men who now surround George W. Bush said what America needed was 'a new Pearl Harbor.' Its published aims have, alarmingly, come true …" Read the rest HERE.

Behind our backs, Northwest Airlines has already begun sharing passenger information with the government (specifically, the creepy, Nazi-infested agency, NASA): Confidential Passenger Data Used for Air Security Project

A new series on the Nazi origins of the U.S. National Security State: The US Recreated the Nazi War Crimes Machine / Part 1

Cover-up in Sweden: The Anna Lindh Murder Trial

4:54 pm CST
SIEG HEIL!


The Memory Hole has posted the Bush-Hitler ads which MoveOn.org removed from its site. See what the Republican party, the ADL, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center don't want you to see: HERE.

4:52 pm CST
DREAM: In a toy store, stuffed animals and other dolls come to life. They grow to human size and leave the store. At first they are funny, like characters in a Disney movie, but gradually their behavior takes on a threatening aspect. They knock over trash cans and throw things; they shout and jump up in people's faces, trying to scare them. Any second they are going to get completely out of control. Just then a woman who has seen the dolls cavorting on the street walks up, smiling; she seems to think it is some kind of harmless costume party. I try to warn her to get away from them, but it is no use—I watch in horror as a teddy bear bites off her head and eats it. Then I realize it's just a dream, and walk away thinking it would make a good story. I decide to give it the title "Andy Pandy Ate My Brain." Scene shifts to a cocktail party where I'm talking about my idea for a story. When I tell everyone the title, no one sees the humor in it except me. The conversation shifts to Iraq and the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction. "Yeah," I say, "we know who really has the weapons of mass destruction, and it ain't Iraq." Just then, a young man walks in, carrying knives, pistols, rifles, and a machine gun. He is carrying them rather carelessly, which makes me nervous. At one point a rifle swings around and I find myself looking straight down the barrel. I push it away and try to continue my conversation—but I cannot because I'm distracted not only by the guns, but the young man's behavior. He is not acting right. He is agitated about something and seems to be getting angry, which is causing a bad vibe in the room. I realize that, whether by accident or design, someone is going to be shot. Well, it's not going to be me, I think, and leave by a back door. On the street I encounter an old woman who tells me that Errol Flynn lives down the street in an old shack. She reminisces about the golden days of Hollywood when it was different …

4:49 pm CST
A READER WRITES: hey, i think your site is awesome. and yes it is really sad how most people are asleep like on autopilot. keep up the nice work all the way around you are very talented.

Thanks for your positive feedback! Yes, it is sad how many people are asleep. But more and more are waking up—not fast enough, though. Too many, I'm afraid, are like the following individual who recently wrote …

A READER (?) WRITES:

Immediately after reading your story in "Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions", I said out loud to myself, "That's one of the best comic stories I've ever read."  I got on the internet later in hopes of locating more of your work.  I'm sorry now that I did that, because "Operation Northwoods" soured my enthusiasm.  The charge that George W. Bush was behind the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks is spurious and irresponsible.  Too much has been made of the links between the Bush family and the bin Laden family.  Osama was one of 54 or so children by 12 wives of Mohammed bin Laden.  I doubt they're all on the MCI Friends & Family plan.  The other link is with terrorist financier Khaled bin Mahfouz.  Conspiracy theorists appear incredulous that U.S. oil companies, of which the Bushes are a part, have dealt with rich Saudis, like Mahfouz.

I regret that I will be unable to pursue your previous and future work.

Now that is unfortunate. Your readership was the one thing standing between me and starvation. I do not know what I will do now. I'm too proud to stand on the street corner with a cardboard sign reading, "Will Draw Outrageous Conspiracy Comics for Food." So, I guess I'll just have to starve.

But before I shuffle off this mortal coil, I'll say this: If the Bush-bin Laden links are so innocent, why was the FBI investigating those links in the months leading up to 9/11? Why did the Bush administration tell the FBI to "back off" those investigations? Why did George Bush Sr. meet with bin Laden's brother the day before 9/11? Why were bin Laden family members flown out of the US on 9/11, at a time when no one else was allowed to fly?

If you want documentation, go HERE and HERE. Educate yourself. Wake up while there's still time, you poor addled Coincidence Theorist.

4:47 pm CST
A reader sent this link at Aztlan.net with the comment: "The fact that this article comes from a radical Mexican source makes it interesting." Yes, it is interesting and encouraging that Bush's proposed legalization of illegal aliens is being seen by those in the Aztlan movement for what it is: a step towards enslaving the Mexican people. However, they are unable to see the big picture, which is that, by flooding the US with immigrants, Bush—or, rather, the globalists—are destroying the middle class in this country with the ultimate goal of enslaving everyone.

5:59 pm CST
Today's News Roundup:

A new technological advance that will keep us "safe" (but who will keep us safe from the people keeping us safe?): CIA Has Technology that Can Perform a Retinal Scan through a Wall

More on the color-coding system coming soon to an airport near you:  Now Buckling Up Next to Big Brother

Surpise, surprise: Tests Show Iraq Mortar Shells Contained No Chemical Agents

Another "shameful, beyond the pale, vile, outrageous" comparison: US Army War College Report Likens Bush "War on Terror" to Germany's War Plan

The Bush administration's investigation of itself continues:  9/11 Director Gave Evidence to Own Inquiry

Who are the real conspiracy nuts? People who believe in Al'Qaeda and Weapons of Mass Destruction, That's Who

5:54 pm CST
A Reader Writes: What about linking to this article Mack? I think that Bowles dissects propaganda really well particularly the insidious stuff we get in "liberal" newspapers like the Independent.

Yes, it's a good article. Here's the link: Legitimacy Denied by William Bowles

10:10 pm CST
Well, I listened to my interview on Angela Keaton's Liberated Space. It was a pretty good interview, if you can get past some of my irritating speech habits. If I had a dime for every time I said "uh" in that interview I could make a nice down payment on 007's Aston-Martin, or the Adam West Batmobile.

Making a down payment on a car is on my mind tonight because all day I've been dealing with the unpleasant reality that my old car is dead and I must buy a new car. I don’t know much about cars. The best advice I've been given is to buy a Toyota or Honda, and to avoid American cars at all costs. Which is a sad commentary on America, when you think about it. Anyway, the only cars I ever really had an affinity for are 007's Aston-Martin and Adam West's Batmobile, and both spring readily to mind tonight, probably because I watched "Goldfinger" on tv the other night and because Adam West and his Batmobile came to Austin a few days ago. I remember putting those model kits together when I was a kid and I sure wouldn't mind owning the real thing—but, hey, let's be realistic, I will probably have to settle for a Toyota or Honda. But at least I can dream.

I spent the whole day fretting over my car problems, so don't have much to blog about tonight. But I did find this news story Homeland Security Technologies in the Pipeline which I'm sure will give everyone sweet dreams tonight. As for me, I prefer to dream of this (the car, dammit, not those guys running around in tights):

 
10:02 pm CST
A Reader Writes:

I realized today after my fifth time clicking my favorites to look at your Blog that I am thoroughly addicted. A few hours into the day and there is no post from you, I start to twitch.

I have no great and deep questions. I do not need anything, except to let you know just how much I appreciate your wit and information, and your very presence in this world.

Thanks

Thanks for writing!  It means a lot to receive feedback such as yours.  Your kind words help to keep me motivated.  I will do my best to post often so that you do not suffer those awful twitches!

6:02 pm CST
A reminder: My radio interview (described below) will be broadcast (and webcast) in 30 minutes. So, gather around your radios and computers for my Fireside Chat. (If you miss it, the program will be archived so you can hear it later.)

3:37 pm CST
Tomorrow night, January 15, at 6:30 pm, I will be interviewed by Angela Keaton of Liberated Space on her KOOP radio show. In Austin, you can hear it on 91.7 FM; elsewhere in the world it can be heard by webcast HERE.

3:34 pm CST
TODAY'S HEADLINES:

Justices Refuse to Review Case on Secrecy and 9/11 Detentions

Court Upholds Use of Random Roadblocks

Airport Color-Coding Called 'Illusory Security'
Privacy groups outraged at anti-terror move

The Homeland Security Neighborhood Watch

Rumsfeld Warned of US War Crimes

Revealed: Bush Planned to Invade Iraq 9 Months before 9/11

Gun Group Defends Homeowner Who Stopped Burglar with Bullet

Some Dare Call It Treason: Average Illegal Costs US $55,000 a Year

The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave

Immigration and the Economy

Bush's Free Ride For Illegals: Biggest Treachery In US History

Powerful Letter to President Bush from American Border Alliance

Illegals Are Destroying America: A Letter to Rep. Tom Tancredo

BETRAYAL: Bush's immigration legacy

9:28 pm CST
From Picasso Dreams: The Bush-Hitler Comparison

7:45 pm CST
Continued from previous blog entry …

The smiling young woman is happy because CAPPS II will "keep her safe." She takes the government at its word; she believes the information collected will never include bank records, credit ratings, or medical records. But, give it time. Eventually, the government will find reason to include all that information, and more—much more.

Political beliefs, for instance, will very quickly become part of the database. In fact, this has already happened. Peace activists have already found themselves on federal "No Fly" lists. (See this story.) The government says they were detained, not because of their politics, but because their names were similar to terrorists' names. This, of course, is a lie. But it does not matter. In time, the government will not have to lie; the government will stretch the definition of "terrorist" to include anyone who is against the War on Terrorism, anyone who disagrees with the government about anything, anyone who has ever attended a protest of any kind, anyone who has ever subscribed to an activist publication or visited an activist website, anyone who has ever written a letter to a congressman or a newspaper objecting to such things as the Patriot Act and No-Fly lists—and these people will lose their Code Green rating.

And it will not stop there. If you have ever gotten into trouble with the law, ever been busted for a joint of marijuana, ever failed to pay a speeding ticket or a parking ticket or a library fine, ever gotten behind on your child support or income tax payments, ever gotten behind on your bills, ever been treated for depression, you will be pulled out of the line at the airport and interrogated, and you will miss your flight and have to take another one—that is, if you are allowed to fly at all.

Soon, the government will find reason to extend CAPPS to non-air travelers. Soon, your color code could determine whether or not you are allowed to ride a bus, or a train, or have a driver's license, or be a passenger in a car, or ride a bicycle, or walk—at least walk somewhere other than a prison yard.

Code Red people will be sent to prison, and either executed or used for slave labor. Code Yellow people will not go to prison, at first, but they will be subject to constant harassment by the police at routine checkpoints and will eventually end up in prison.

If you are Code Yellow, you will not be able to obtain credit or a checking account, or to enter certain public places, like grocery stores, thus you will not be able to feed yourself or your family.

Not that you will have a family. For, if you are Code Yellow, you will have already been declared an unfit parent and your children taken away from you.

Thus, without family, income, and a place to live, you will begin living on the streets.

But you will not have to live there long. You will be arrested for vagrancy and sent to a work camp where you will spend the rest of your life on an assembly line making doo-dads for Code Green yuppies.

But, if the truth be known, Code Green yuppies will not have it all that good. For there will be so many laws—vaguely defined hate crime laws, drug paraphernalia laws, impossibly complex tax codes, rules and regulations governing every aspect of human behavior—that, at any time, anyone could be arrested for anything and their Code Green rating revoked. The only way to regain your Code Green rating will be to buy it back at an exorbitant rate, thus the Code Green ranks will finally shrink to a small, wealthy elite.

And it all started by color-coding the "threat level" of air travelers.

8:07 am CST
DREAM: A newscaster is speaking: "And a reminder, tomorrow is a High Terror Alert Day. You are advised to wear your Green Smiley Button at all times and to report any person you see not wearing one. Your Green Smiley Button identifies you as a Good Citizen 'With Something to Smile About.' Also, remember, your i.d. chip alone will not be enough to gain admittance to a Safety Shelter, in the event of a Terror Attack; you must also be wearing your Green Smiley Button. If you are not wearing your button, you will be refused admittance and then you will have nothing to smile about. (turns to the weatherman) Not much to smile about it in today's weather is there, Tom? …"

After waking up from this dream a little over an hour ago, I turned on the television. A newscaster was saying, "Air travelers we interviewed were evenly split over the proposed new safety system." Cut to a man in a suit expressing reservations about color-coding passengers and requiring more personal information. Cut to a smiling young woman saying she does not care, because it is only inconsequential information the government requires—mailing address, birth date, and so forth. Therefore, she sees no problem with the system and in fact likes it, because it makes her feel safe. End of report.

To be continued …