08-08-2015, 07:07 AM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Was everyone aware of this episode I describe in the essay:
"Before leaving the subject, it's interesting to speculate on another possible aspect of the pressure campaign brought to bear on Carter to let the Shah into the United States. Everyone knows that John McCloy served on the Warren Commission. In May of 1979, Carter was visiting Los Angeles to make a speech at the Civic Center. He had still not allowed the Shah into the country. The police apprehended a man with a starter's pistol in the crowd. When they questioned the suspect, he told the authorities he was part of a four-man assassination team. His function was to fire a diversionary shot into the ground while the other members shot at Carter from a nearby hotel. Although the police were skeptical, they later found that a room at the hotel was rented by a man the suspect had named as part of the plot. In that room was a shotgun case and three spent rounds of ammunition. Further, the occupants had checked out the day of the assassination attempt. The apprehended suspect's name was Raymond Lee Harvey. One of the men he named as a co-conspirator was Oswaldo Espinoza Ortiz. (Time, 5/21/79)About four months later, Carter admitted the Shah."
Coincidence or conspiracy?
One of the more obvious [to students of history] cases of Deep Political 'arm twisting/treats' on a President...but not the only one, by far. The names used were SO obvious and SO outrageous, but the MSM ignored them or laughed them off as some proof of the lack of a 'real threat'...I'd say, quite the opposite. It is my guess that such things go on quite often with top political and other figures, but that they rarely are reported. Carter still won't talk about this incident, as far as I know. This along with the October Surprise shows how out of the Deep Political loop he was and how much they manipulated his Presidency. While far from a perfect President, he is the only one who really has done something positive toward Peace efforts while in office and with his life after being President - further distancing him, morally/ethically, from the selfish/brutish slobs behind the Deep Political tarpits.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass

