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“Voici le temps des Assassins.”
— Rimbaud
I write these words less than 48 hours after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in the village of Butler in western Pennsylvania. Not wanting to be guilty of what the illustrious Mark Lane once termed a “Rush to Judgement,” this is a preliminary analysis subject to revision as more information becomes available.
Most noticeable is the diabolic nose-thumbing at the public which the events of July 13 symbolize.
I. The shooter was visible on the roof of a building some 120 yards from Mr. Trump. In news accounts we learn of repeated demands by witnesses for the police to access the roof. The New York Post reported that “the would-be assassin was spotted by police twice, 26 minutes before he shot Trump.”
This has been followed by alternating tales of a policeman going to the roof either via a ladder or, in account no. 2, there was no ladder and the officer somehow crawled up, and while hanging on to the edge of the roof with both hands, spotted the would-be assassin but could do nothing, since both his hands were supporting him precariously on the roof edge.
(In account no. 1 the ladder indicates that the officer likely had one hand free and after seeing the armed man could have reached for his weapon, but did not).
In both accounts the policeman did not engage the shooter and it is allegedly at that point that the shooter turned toward Trump and fired eight bullets from the rifle liberals detest more than all others, the infamous “AR-15.”
II. The Secret Service did not include in its perimeter the building in the vicinity of Mr. Trump’s podium where the suspect, Matthew Thomas Crooks, is said to have fired the shots that hit the former president and three members of the audience, one of whom was killed. They left the crucial responsibility for securing a nearby structure to local law enforcement and then did not bother to ascertain whether or not the regional police forces had indeed secured it.
III. Secret Service audio which would normally be kept classified so early in the “investigation” was broadcast on CNN yesterday evening, July 14. Individual agents could be heard saying that the shooter was down and words to the effect that that there was no further threat. Really? Less than a minute after the ex-president had been grazed by a bullet the Secret Service had ascertained there was no second or third shooter lurking nearby? Who would have this information other than parties to the crime? The 6-foot-3 inch Trump was allowed to stand and become an easy target again, after first crouching and being covered by agents.
IV. The FBI has declared that the shooter was a lone gunman and had no accomplices. A statement like that, made less than 24 hours after the crime was committed is ludicrous. A criminal investigation truly begins in earnest after a perpetrator has been identified. The search for accomplices is something that takes days or weeks, at the least. A declaration like this is equivalent to the mocking jests of the aptly named HellFire Club of 18th century Britain. The FBI’s nearly instantaneous declaration fits a pattern of similar omniscient statements by cops and the media with regard to Lee Harvey Oswald, David Berkowitz and Ted Kaczynski, among others.
Within a few hours of the apprehension of “Son of Sam” Berkowitz, New York police and Newsweek magazine fingered him as indubitably the lone nut who had committed all the killings. Other media followed suit. (The best study thus far of this charade is the film series “The Sons of Sam”).
In the case of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski the lone nut label was even more egregious: the FBI made no search for possible accomplices in the town where he resided (Lincoln Montana), the city he visited regularly (the Montana state capital, Helena), or among the radical environmentalists of Missoula, 77 miles east of Lincoln. How do I know this? I was an investigative reporter on the scene shortly after scapegoat Kaczynski’s arrest (my study of the FBI’s “Unabomber” theatrical was published in Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare).
What is the sub-rosa message being conveyed to the subconscious of the American Group Mind by these rush-to-judgement declarations of sole responsibility within a day of the arrest of the suspect?
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