06-10-2010, 07:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2010, 05:05 PM by Albert Doyle.)
Who is killing the great chefs of Europe?
My view of Mae's writing is that she probably never took any LSD herself and had a rather naive pedantic understanding of it and how it was used by the culture she studies. Mae writes from the perspective that the counter-culture/music personalities of the 60's she highlights were innocent victims of a CIA plot to flood this movement with LSD. While probably partly true originally, the movement in question was quite capable of doing so on its own and did. A lot more than Mae admits in any case. I think Mae writes from a perspective of trying to indict the government at all turns and omits the rock generation's own involvement and enthusiasms at promoting its own drug use. She does so to her own detriment in my opinion. I have no doubt CIA helped things along in many cases, however the movement she isolates was one where reckless drug consumption was known and such behavior is usually accompanied by car accidents, OD's, and other casualties on its own. What this comes down to is FBI and CIA had admitted programs where they intended to use covert tactics to fight a broadly-defined domestic group. The question then is how much did they carry-out this plan and who did they use it on? So it doesn't help when an over-generalized critic points out what were most probably genuine car crashes and other such deaths as being covert hits. Mae would have done better by studying Timmy Leary and his influence on this movement. After all there was a segment of this group that genuinely enjoyed the effects of LSD and promoted it. Many people took LSD without the permanent psychosis Mae speaks of.
If Mae lived longer she could have included Texas guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in a helicopter crash while being flown from a concert in Wisconsin in 1990. Hendrix bass guitarist Noel Redding was found dead in his bathroom in Ireland at 57 while in the middle of a 5 million dollar lawsuit against the Hendrix estate. Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell died in his sleep in a Portland, Oregon hotel room at age 62 after completing a Hendrix tribute tour. Both deaths were listed as 'natural' and Redding was not given a cause of death. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead died at 53 in 1995. These could all be equally added to Mae's list but how much COINTELPRO business applied is anyone's guess. I'm sure there's a long list of others since Mae's death and the lack of continuation of her list. But her basic premise is right, and SOMEONE has to look into to this, especially when FBI and CIA had their intentions in writing. Jimi Hendrix's murder, on the other hand, is PROVABLE and that's why people stay away from it.
There's some genuinely creepy aspects to the Hendrix case that don't get covered in public because of their libel potential. If you want to see some of the weirder aspects of the Hendrix case study drummer Mitch Mitchell's wife Dee Mitchell as told by Hendrix girlfriend Kathy Etchingham in her book Through Gypsy Eyes. While Dee Mitchell was instrumental in helping Etchingham expose Monika Dannemann's role in Hendrix's murder, Etchingham later discovered horrible things being said about her that were being used by Dannemann in her defense during Etchingham's libel case against her. Etchingham later discovered that Dee Mitchell was the source of these horrible innuendos, such as Etchingham being found on heroin in an alley by her husband and married only to save her etc.. This shocked Etchingham so she researched Dee's background only to find her claims of British upbringing to be false and that Dee was actually an American named Dolores Cullen who had thrown herself at a British citizen while waitressing in Cambridge, Mass only to divorce the Brit upon being taken back to England. Dee then sought out British rock stars to ingratiate herself with and ended up in the Hendrix clan. Before marrying Mitch Mitchell Dee tried to land Noel Redding only to attack Noel's girlfriend and carry on an equally bizarre defamation campaign against her as well. Was Dolores Cullen a nut or was she a COINTELPRO infiltrator? This stuff is all out there and available, but has been successfully shut-off from investigation by the castle wall set up by Scotland Yard with its denial of any re-opening of the case.
My view of Mae's writing is that she probably never took any LSD herself and had a rather naive pedantic understanding of it and how it was used by the culture she studies. Mae writes from the perspective that the counter-culture/music personalities of the 60's she highlights were innocent victims of a CIA plot to flood this movement with LSD. While probably partly true originally, the movement in question was quite capable of doing so on its own and did. A lot more than Mae admits in any case. I think Mae writes from a perspective of trying to indict the government at all turns and omits the rock generation's own involvement and enthusiasms at promoting its own drug use. She does so to her own detriment in my opinion. I have no doubt CIA helped things along in many cases, however the movement she isolates was one where reckless drug consumption was known and such behavior is usually accompanied by car accidents, OD's, and other casualties on its own. What this comes down to is FBI and CIA had admitted programs where they intended to use covert tactics to fight a broadly-defined domestic group. The question then is how much did they carry-out this plan and who did they use it on? So it doesn't help when an over-generalized critic points out what were most probably genuine car crashes and other such deaths as being covert hits. Mae would have done better by studying Timmy Leary and his influence on this movement. After all there was a segment of this group that genuinely enjoyed the effects of LSD and promoted it. Many people took LSD without the permanent psychosis Mae speaks of.
If Mae lived longer she could have included Texas guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in a helicopter crash while being flown from a concert in Wisconsin in 1990. Hendrix bass guitarist Noel Redding was found dead in his bathroom in Ireland at 57 while in the middle of a 5 million dollar lawsuit against the Hendrix estate. Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell died in his sleep in a Portland, Oregon hotel room at age 62 after completing a Hendrix tribute tour. Both deaths were listed as 'natural' and Redding was not given a cause of death. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead died at 53 in 1995. These could all be equally added to Mae's list but how much COINTELPRO business applied is anyone's guess. I'm sure there's a long list of others since Mae's death and the lack of continuation of her list. But her basic premise is right, and SOMEONE has to look into to this, especially when FBI and CIA had their intentions in writing. Jimi Hendrix's murder, on the other hand, is PROVABLE and that's why people stay away from it.
There's some genuinely creepy aspects to the Hendrix case that don't get covered in public because of their libel potential. If you want to see some of the weirder aspects of the Hendrix case study drummer Mitch Mitchell's wife Dee Mitchell as told by Hendrix girlfriend Kathy Etchingham in her book Through Gypsy Eyes. While Dee Mitchell was instrumental in helping Etchingham expose Monika Dannemann's role in Hendrix's murder, Etchingham later discovered horrible things being said about her that were being used by Dannemann in her defense during Etchingham's libel case against her. Etchingham later discovered that Dee Mitchell was the source of these horrible innuendos, such as Etchingham being found on heroin in an alley by her husband and married only to save her etc.. This shocked Etchingham so she researched Dee's background only to find her claims of British upbringing to be false and that Dee was actually an American named Dolores Cullen who had thrown herself at a British citizen while waitressing in Cambridge, Mass only to divorce the Brit upon being taken back to England. Dee then sought out British rock stars to ingratiate herself with and ended up in the Hendrix clan. Before marrying Mitch Mitchell Dee tried to land Noel Redding only to attack Noel's girlfriend and carry on an equally bizarre defamation campaign against her as well. Was Dolores Cullen a nut or was she a COINTELPRO infiltrator? This stuff is all out there and available, but has been successfully shut-off from investigation by the castle wall set up by Scotland Yard with its denial of any re-opening of the case.