The Age of Incompetence Chapter 36

Senator Arlen Spector, evicted by Pennsylvania voters, will soon be history as a political figure in America, but the imprint he has left behind represents an age that spans almost half a century. He represented not so much a politician as a class of people who came to influence American life like no other class in American history.

He won national attention in 1963 when he was invited to serve on the Warren Commission by Representative Gerald Ford, a member of the commission. It is unknown how they knew each other, but they were in a sense spiritual twins in that they both were defenders first and foremost of the political class rather than the Republican or Democratic Party, although Ford was a life long Republican.

On the Warren Commission Spector was assistant counsel to the commission. He was sent to Dallas in the wake of Kennedy's murder to gather facts. When the facts began to conflict with the official theory of one lone nut shooting Kennedy, Spector's talents for creative writing became famous. He co-authored what became known as the Magic Bullet Theory. This was because the facts revealed that if different bullets struck Kennedy and then Gov. Connolly only 1.3 second apart, as the film confirmed, then there was more than one shooter involved.

This magic bullet it turned out not only could go through two bodies, break seven or eight bones and yet lodge in Connolly's leg with hardly a scratch or dent in it. This could never be duplicated in any of the shots into goats or cadavers as all those were badly deformed. It also defied every known law of physics by somehow suspending in air for over a second and taking a radical right turn. No matter. With a straight face this Philadelphia lawyer signed his name to this document. For the official version had to be defended at all costs. No doubt Spector saw it not as a Republican or Democratic thing
but a class thing. So truth be damned, justice be damned, democracy be damned, the political class must be protected.

Sen. Arlen Spector

Sen. Arlen Spector

the magic Bullet

It is well worth reviewing what people like Spector represented for over 40 years in America and the carnage and chaos they brought about. Let's return to 1963 and the Warren Commission installed by fiat by one man, Lyndon Johnson, to short circuit any true investigation of the John Kennedy murder. All the members of the commission were from the political class, including one member who was a former head of the CIA who Kennedy had sacked. There was one hearing that involved a witness in Dallas and she was invited to give testimony, although the commission counsel clearly would have been pleased if she had not been there. Her testimony reads as both comedy and tragedy because it reveals how once the official version becomes a substitute for truth men behave cowardly.

The witness on this day was a woman named Wilma Tice. The following narrative comes from her testimony that day in 1964.

"Kantor was not the only witness to testify to Ruby's presence at the hospital. Wilma Tice also told the FBI agents that she had seen Ruby there about the time the President's death was announced. As Kantor's corroborating witness, her testimony was of great importance, but counsel showed little zeal for questioning her. Before she had related one word of her encounter with Ruby, counsel, taking advantage of her reluctance to testify - she apparently did not wish her husband to know - advised her as follows.
Q. Now, if you would prefer not to testify about this, why I think we are not going to ask you to do it.
Tice; You mean I don't have to testify? I don't have to say anything if I don't want to?
Q. No; if you would prefer not to testify, why, I am not going to compel you to do it.
Mrs. Tice asked, "Will I be subpoenaed later for something?"
Counsel assured, "We will not subpoena you." Mrs. Tice then referred to a statement she had given to FBI agents, saying, "There is nothing I want to retract." After she said that she would testify voluntarily and indicated that she was ready to proceed, counsel urged her to give further consideration to the matter: "Would you rather think about this? There is no reason why you have to make a decision today about it. "
The witness insisted she was ready: "Well, go ahead and ask me whatever you want to ask me now, whatever it is you want to know."
Instead of proceeding, Commission counsel seemed to counsel delay: "Now, I might also advise you that you are entitled to be represented by counsel and consult with an attorney if you would like before you come in here. Also, you are entitled to have 3 days' written notice before you come to testify. Did you get a letter from us, incidentally?" Mrs. Tice acknowledged receipt of the letter, and counsel continued, "So if you would like to consult with an attorney before you testify, we can let you do that too. Be happy to."
Mrs. Tice reiterated, "Well, what do you want to know?"
Counsel prepared to administer the oath to her but interrupted himself to ask, "Do you have any reservations about testifying?" After Mrs. Tice indicated again that she was ready, counsel said, "Let me put it this way. Would you prefer not to testify?"
She against stated her willingness to testify and finally was permitted to do so. Mrs. Tice swore that she saw Ruby at Parkland Hospital on November 22. Counsel responded: "Mrs, Tice did you know that Jack Himself has denied very vehemently he was out at the hospital?"
She replied that she knew Ruby had denied being there, but "If it wasn't him it was his twin brother."
Q. Do you think you could have been mistaken about the man you saw?"
Tice: "It could have been somebody else that looked just like Jack, named Jack; yes."
Mrs. Tice testified she had been standing just three feet from Ruby when another man said to him, ‘How are you doing, Jack?' She added, ‘At that point Jack turned around and started talking to him. At the time, he was facing right toward me.'
Q. You think you might be mistaken, or don't you?
Tice: No; I said I thought it was either him or his twin brother.
Q. You still feel that way?
Tice: I still feel that way.
Q. But you have only seen him on television?
"Counsel appeared to be quarreling with the witness at this point, but she continued to maintain that she had seen Ruby at the hospital...I believe the Commission was reluctant to accept her testimony from the outset; and in a sense, it never did. She was disposed of in one sentence - in which her name does not appear - of the 888 page Report: The Only other person besides Kantor who recalled seeing Ruby at the hospital did not make known her observations until April 1964, had never seen Ruby before, allegedly saw him only briefly then, had an obstructed view, and was uncertain of the time.

"There are three incorrect statements in that summary. It was not April 1964 but in January or February 1964 Mrs. Tice made her observation known. Two, she testified her view of Ruby was not obstructed but they faced each other directly. Three, she was quite certain of the time when she saw Ruby."

But this is how the Commission hundreds of times reacted to eye witnesses who testified to something that did not fit into the official scheme of things. I should say a witness who was allowed to testify. Mrs. Tice was one of the few witnesses called to testify who had an opposing view. But she was given the Russian Communist historical treatment. In Communist Russian history when someone has a contrary view of that of the State they become non-persons. They are simply deleted from the history books and cease to exist. They fall into a kind of black hole, such as Trotsky and others.
This is the real meaning of the Kennedy assassination. It became the pattern of the U.S. Government whenever some unpleasant truth surfaced to threaten government policy then those who dared to speak the truth were first discredited as trouble makers or worse as mentally unstable and if nothing else then the information was simply classified as secret and put into a black hole away from the scrutiny of the public and thus shutting down any possible democratic debate. In short, it was no different than what the Soviet Union did in Russia for all the years of its existence.

This is the age Spector represented: class above truth, justice, democracy or any consideration. It was a kind of open season for witch hunting only the witches in the eyes of the political class were those who insisted on telling the truth or even wanting to know the truth. The truth was what they said it was.

Imagine the chagrin of that counsel at the hearing for Wilma Tice, at some point he must have been thinking, "Why does this dolt insist upon telling the truth? How many times do I have to invite her to leave?"

Yet as noted even that was not good enough: the commission falsified what she had actually testified to under oath and completely omitted her name. Truly she became a non-person in the Russian sense for merely wanting to tell the truth about what she had witnessed.

That is why the Kennedy cover up is still important almost half a century later. If it is important for the Polish to have a truthful recording of the Katyn Forest Massacre of its soldiers by Stalin's KGB in 1940, if it is important for the Jewish people to have a truthful recording of what happened to Jews in all the German death camps under Hitler, and to still prosecute any of those war criminals who still survive today, then it must still be important for any real American to know the truth about what happened to our elected president on November 22, 1963. And prosecute.

It is also worth noting that all those like Gerald Ford and Arlen Spector who helped cover up the true facts of Kennedy's murder were richly reward by Pres. Nixon when he came under fire for the Watergate cover-up. It was as if their willingness to cover-up a murder made them welcome members of the Nixon inner circle and long after Nixon.

When Gerald Ford died he was predictably called an honorable man by the main stream media, the same main stream media who looked away and pretended not to notice when time after time witnesses in the Kennedy murder, like Wilma Tice, were badgered or ridiculed or worst of all completely ignored by people who swore to find the truth in the name of American people.

Seeing this, the American political class became emboldened. The Gulf of Tonkin fabrication followed which opened the doors to sending innocent Americans to Vietnam to be slaughtered. Nixon and Watergate followed. Then Iran Contra followed and with presidential pardons as in the Kennedy murder there was no trial, no cross examination, no dirty secrets revealed.

Many of those involved in Iran Contra were those involved in the last outrage, the election fraud that brought America George W. Bush and then the great Iraq lie about weapons of mass destruction that sent American soldiers to die in Iraq. Once again the main stream media rolled over and gave cover to the political class. And today we see the same old class struggle in Congress over some who want to be able to audit the money and notes of the Federal Reserve and learn where the money went to the banks. It is still the truth is what I say it is against we the people's right to verify truth by examination.

Arlen Spector is gone or will be in January. Americans finally seem angry enough to see how corrupt the whole system is. But one wonders if by some miracle the economy recovers and people get their old jobs and life styles back, will they allow the same old rotten system to roll on only with different names and faces?

In the immortal words of Mrs. Tice,"If it was not him it was his twin brother." No doubt we have many twin brothers waiting in the wings to become the next Arlen Spector. A half century of corruption has lead to a way of life that can only be cauterized by a true revolution, not a tea party.