The Decadent Worker

Any attentive reader of this wall newspaper must ask sometimes — besides: “Is this guy nuts or what?” — how did I ever get involved in conspiracies to begin with? You and me, we both wonder. When I was in the Marines with Oswald, I used to think. But even then a gnawing uncertainty caused me to ask Co-Man Ra in the mid-seventies how I originally became involved, a question to which he made no reply.

In 1978 I began creating my own cant language with which to communicate with agents without their seeming to the casual observer to be passing on information — a precaution upon which they insist. Before long I realized there was already an older language, much like my own — consisting of puns, both unique symbols and universal ones, free associations and archtypes, innuendos, archaic meanings, ambiguities in syntax, etc. — of which I eventually picked up a smattering.

Speaking in canted double entendre is, for example, called going inside in the older cant, whereas expressing yourself as nearly all ordinary non-conspirators do is called talking outside. (Since I wrote up one of my first codes in a notebook with an Almond Joy ad on the cover, to speak of something in my cant language is called, to “enjoy” it.)

A result of my studies has been the gradual realization that all my life I have been surrounded by individuals who were communicating with one another in the older language. Why? I think my more recent studies in American Nazism are furnishing clues.

According to Sander A. Diamond’s The Nazi Movement in the United States 1924-1941 (Cornell University Press, 1974): “Goebbels maintained…the German element in America should not be bombarded with Nazi literature; racial awareness would have to be achieved by means of a ‘well-camouflaged German propaganda network.’… By the all of 1933, then, two alternative — though not necessarily contradictory — methods of approaching Americans of German ancestory had emerged. On the one hand, men like Bohle, Hess, and Hoffmann hoped to create a German bloc in America favorable to Nazi ermany by using a broadly-based, German-sponsored party or a bund movement. On the other hand, Goebbels discounted the need for either a political party or a bund movement and favored a well-organized but camouflaged propaganda campaign directed at thousands of German-American organizations throughout the United States.” (pp. 126-7)

Now it so happens that although my father’s family is of English ancestory, their perchant for marrying people with names that sound German to me is notable: Switzer, Geiger, Minnix, Orim and Doering. Only my dad’s youngest brother, Rex, married someone definitely not German, and that wasn’t until after World War II. There are nagging additional factors: all through the war as I was growing up the Switzers claimed they were Irish; ater the war my uncle Will Switzer went to Ireland and returned with the news: our ancestors were only there for a generation, having migrated from Germany. A switzer is a royal guard among European monarchs; the Pope is guarded by Swiss soldiers called switzers. Intelligence community rumors indicate that Richard Nixon and the Switzers in my family were involved in the deliberate, racist conspiracy to escalate the Vietnam war. My maternal grandfather, Ed Switzer, was perhaps the most bigoted man I’ve ever known.

– Kerry Wendell Thornley

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