Archive for the 'Co-Man Ra' Category

Decadent Worker #62 - 7Aug87

Decadent Worker 62FURTHER ILLUMINATIONS FROM CO-MAN RA

“On the right wing bit. This was a necessity, as the C.I.A. and F.B.I. were giving me a lot of trouble and until I assumed the identity of a rabid right winger I was in considerable trouble. The Fascist Jesuits dominated both outfits but I am likely to get into trouble as the Jesuits have gone over to the goddam Communists of late so I guess I have to become a rabid left winger now.” (12/2/77 letter to Kerry Thornley)

“If you can equate Jesuitism with Nazism, then there has been a great influence on China by Nazi style thinking.” (9/15/76 to Kerry)

“Please do not be offended, but if you have income again it is almost sure you are a government agent in one of your roles. Well, this is alright. On the ‘right wing’, I see I did not give you much information, and they will cut of your income unless you give them information. ‘Ve hafe vays of givink you information’.” (11/26/77 letter to Kerry Thornley)

“Ha! You are so right about the clowns getting off my back. I had to act pretty hairy to make it work, but it worked… Well, the conspirators tried to kill me before and it did not work. They, are indirectly responsible for the death of my first wife… On my harassment, I think of it as training I could have got no other way. They cut your income off by telling lies and you are supposed to commit suicide because you are as poor and flat as a plate of skimmed piss. Well, it gave me time to study and to learn to live with no visible means of support. That is, it is not visible to them.” (9/27/76 letter to Crabb)

“Jesuit infiltration of the 7th Day Adventist organization took place in 1888. Of course, the object of the Catholic Church ever since 325 A.D. is to promote the old Babylonian Trinity doctrine in the guise of Christianity.” (9/9/76 letter to “Present Truth”)

“That Kirstein fellow comes through as a Nazi on the surface of it, but this program is run by triple agents. That is, the libertarian revolution. You cannot tell a ‘real’ agent without a program.” (9/15/76 letter to Kerry Thornley)

“Any bunch of idiots could band dogether and steal their wives’ bed sheets and ruin them by cutting eye holes and harass some unpopular person, black or white. This depredation was then called ‘KKK activity’. Bullshit! The real Klan is not so crude. If (and this is rare indeed), it becomes necessary to waste somebody the job is handled by one man, like the old ‘hatchet man’ of the Chinese Tongs. The problem then becomes disposal of the body. The one place they never look for a body is in a graveyard. So the honored guest is taken to a graveyard at night and the dirt carefully removed from an already occupied grave. The corpse is then placed on the casket and the dirt in excess loaded and removed and the top very carefully replaced.” (11/28/77 letter to Kerry Thornley)

“‘Co-man-Ra’ is not an identity, it is a handy moniker for a person who is doing the work. It means ‘with man, power’ is all. This is true of anybody who wants to get off their ass.” (12/2/77 to Kerry)

“I am sending you some dope on the Kennedy thing. I think by now you know that this thing is a whole lot bigger than anyone knows. Some elements are strongly racist in this movement, a condition which strikes me as unscientific as the polar view… The split comes from a different orientation based on the great work of Spengler. Our direction is that of Korzybski, the other is that of Francis Parker Yockey. We agreed to work together, as the basis is the extreme unworkability of the present economy… You might say his whole movement is an iceberg, and presently the only visible part is Liberty Lobby in Washington.” (7/3/70 letter to Rev. Ray Broshears)

Decadent Worker #48 - 19Jun87

Decadent Worker 48A CO-MAN-RA MISCELANY

“A fnord is a major premise which is overlooked.” (11/27/77 letter to Mohandas and Freda)

“On the election, our computer ‘FUCKUP2′ indicates my changes are 5-2…. The computer is not much, a $300 unit located in Fulton, Union County, Kentucky next to the U.P. office. Since the computer is named the ‘Final Universal Cybernetic Kinetic Unitary Programmer’ it is called as the square of the initials of the location.” (Ibid.)

“You want a good strong sisal fiber made rope, and it should be well waxed with wax from plant origin so the knot slips freely up and down the rope. The rope should be pre-stretched, using a sand bag of the same weight as the Commie Satanist to be disposed of… The knot is put behind the left ear of the customer, the object is not to strangle them, it is to snap the vertebrae at the base of the skull.” (Undated letter to Sally Ballard)

“Right you are, there is no need for putting on the government agents any more. The object of this was to keep the heat off yourself as an individual by hinting at the ‘organization’ behind the great revolutionary conspiracy. Then they did not ‘bust’ you, but kept you on surveillance in hopes of finding the top leaders…

“On the Jesuits, you may be right but the proviso to tell no lies may stumble them. They are so used to telling lies that it is a difficult habit for them to break. I do not trust them as potential co-workers for this reason.

“The political program of the Jesuits would turn the world into one big vast peaceful graveyard. They believe the basic nature of man to be evil and man must be kept under control. This is anathema to an anarchist, who believes the basic nature of many is good — which is true.” (Letter to Kerry, 5/5/’76)

“I did find out the working mechanics of the conspiracy. It comes from the prosecution of Elanore Hemstreet, who worked for the State of California and found two payroll checks to non-existent people were being cashed by a judge. She blew the whistle and the effect was the judge sentenced her to three days in jail for ‘contempt of court.’ She had a friend who was a legal clerk, Bill Lowery. Bill spent months trying to find out what was going on by checking out the legal library. He finally found out. Our legal system is founded on English Law circa 1608. This was a ruling by High Justice Lord Coke that the Crown and the Agents of the Crown were immune to prosectution for their crimes. This is used by judges who throw out iron clad cases brought by serfs against some big corporation. It is thrown out as ‘without merit’ by the judge. You can check on this easy enough and find out it is true. I wrote to the Blackstone College of Law in Chicago and got their brochure which bragged on the law being exactly the same in South Africa, Britain, India, Australia, etc. BRITANIA VAIVES THE RULES!” (9/27/’76 letter to Crabb)

“Pershing’s group identified a secret society in India as the moving force behind all the horseshit going on. Sure Brahamins. This outfit held the world in subjection for several thousand years and I guess they long for the ‘good old days.’…

“Those Feebies and such who spy on you figure to learn what is REALLY GOING ON! They gave me considerable attention so I pulled a Joe Valachi on them and spilled the beans. The trouble was that there were so many pots of beans of so many different flavors that they got their computers all fucked up. Thank God for the kids in Berkeley inventing a resurrection of the Bavarian Illuminati. It gave me another bullshit story to tell the government agents.

Decadent Worker #43 - 3Jun87

Decadent Worker 43SORRY, WRONG LEON

“There was no Castro involvement in the Kennedy killing to the best of my knowledge. If so, it was very indirect. That is, those who wished to curry favor with Castro might have got in it for this reason. This would be the Mafia. They want to get the gambling going again in Cuba. The Mafia gambling joints are in top shape and ready to go. They have caretakers and were undamaged during the ‘revolution.’” — Co-man Ra (9/15/76 letter to KWT)

My respect for Co-man Ra’s expertise on the JFK murder is related to his ability to furnish logical explanations for evidence which otherwise makes little sense. Take, for example, the Second Oswald cases. As one of the people suspected by Warren Report critics of impersonating Lee Oswald just prior to the assassination, I’ve thought more about this subject than many.

These impersonations were exceptionally crude or inept — therefore seeming hardly the work of professionals who could, on the other hand, insure that even the U.S. Government and media would cover up their crime. How would anyone smart enough to get Earl Warren to furnish them an alibi, so to speak, be stupid enough to try to incriminate Oswald before the fact with: individuals using his name who drove cars when Oswald could not drive; impersonators who were older and heavier than Oswald and, most puzzling, why did one of the two impersonators who actually looked something like Lee Oswald insist upon calling himself, instead, Leon Oswald?

Co-man Ra said the crude Oswald impersonations were the work of people within the conspiracy who wanted the truth to come out. For that to happen, the complacent and trusting American public had to be sensitized to the reality of conspiracies. In order to accomplish that, the framing of Oswald was botched by means of overproduction and deliberate ineptitude.

Within a few years of accepting this explanation, I came to realize that fake names are seldom selected among intelligence professionals randomly — especially when they are trying to expose operations in which they are involved. So the next question was: Who was Leon? Probably one of the higher-ups in the conspiracy.

Having by the early eighties gone through a number of convoluted experiences regarding JFK murder studies at the hands of nominal Marxists, among others, the notion of Communist involvement no longer seemed the manifest absurdity it once had. My reading of Murrow’s Betrayal and the Hugh McDonald books, Appointment in Dallas and LBJ and the JFK Conspiracy, lent weight to such a hypothesis. Among serious scholars of JFK’s death, these volumes are not reputable. In substance they are deemed bogus confessions. Among conspirators themselves the first is rumored to be the work of the Illuminati while the other two are said to represent David Rockefeller’s version. What I found convincing about them, notwithstanding, was how much they resembled in content my own assassination-connected experiences. There was present a ring of truth, a certain atmosphere I recognized, not to be found in the more abstract works. If they were disinformation jobs, it was still the disinformation of those who knew what they were talking about. Betrayal says JFK was killed to keep him from learning that Soviet missiles had never actually been removed from Cuba. Appointment and LBJ say the assassination was instigated by the KGM, more or less further implying the CIA found out about it beforehand and either assisted or did not oppose.

As for the Leon mystery, nowhere in my assassinationology readings was it solved. Leon Trotsky? “Oswald Armed for Murder” is shown holding two copies of The Militant, a Trot newspaper. Note as well that the shadow under his nose fails to jibe with the shadow of his body on the ground. When confronted by the police with this photo, Oswald said it was obviously his head pasted on somebody else’s body. So it is possible somebody was trying to imply that Oswald was working for Trotskyists, or they were trying to smear the Trots who, in any case, were high on J. Edgar Hoover’s shitlist.

Then, circa 1981, I read a book called The U-2 Affair with a footnote that seemed to settle the Leon question. As I was to write in the October 1984 issue of The New Libertarian: “At the time of the events in Dallas, the Russian ambassador to Cuba was Sergei N. Kudryavtaev — arrested in Canada many years earlier for participating in the spy ring that stole the secret of the atom bomb from the U.S. at which time he operated under the code name, ‘Leon.’”

This opinion I also previously expressed over the air on KPFA in Berkeley on Doug Wellman’s “SubGenius Hour Radio Show (More Than an Hour, Less Than a Show).”

Any suspicion that I might have fallen in with the assassinations to begin with because I was the fair-haired destiny’s tot of Nazi eugenic plots, was as yet, far from my mind. And while this Leon theory seemed to contradict Co-man Ra’s opinion, it certainly coincided with what Brother-in-law said to me about the desirability of the war against an Asian race instead of against Caucasian Cuban Castillians.

Now although Sam Konkin, who publishes The New Libertarian, is rather too much the anarcho-capitalist for my Bakuninistic tastes, we are friends — and he has never made any secret of his connections with the Institute for Historical Review, with many of whose personnel and ex-personnel Sam is on good and close terms.

One of the reasons I dislike Konkin’s (and Ayn Rand’s) Austrian Economics is that they are so Austrian — part and parcel with them, almost inevitably, come the Holocaust Revisionist Historians who, if they are not practitioners of Hitler’s Big Lie Technique, sincerely believe Hitler was framed for a Holocaust that never was.

Enter Leon Number Three via the Klaus Barbie trial: one of Barbie’s closest post-war associated, also a friend of Otto (Werewolf) Skorzeny, was Belgian nationalist Nazi, Leon Degrelle. Says Charles Higham in American Swastika (p. 291f): “Leon Degrelle is still at it. He appears on the pages of The Journal for Historical Review, published in Torrance, California,” by the above-mentioned Institute. I blush to say, “which states among other things that the Holocaust was an invention of the Jews.” — Kerry Wendell Thornley

LANGUAGE IS THEFT/ Law and Order: A contradiction in terms.

Decadent Worker #14 - 23Feb87

DecadentWorker14“Castro, of course, is one of our agents. He conned the Council on Foreign Relations into the loot to finance him at first on the promise to turn ‘communist’ and help ‘communize’ the United States.” — Co-man Ra (30 April 1970 letter to Mal-2)

“I was sent to the Council on Foreign Relations banquet carrying the credentials of a Pinkerton detective; my supposed role as private dick was to keep an eye on the jewels of the ladies and other valuables. My real job was to place a small bug on the table where Robert Drake would be sitting…. There was a hawk-faced wop at Drake’s table, very elegant in a spanking new tuxedo, but the cop in me made him as illegit… I associated him with images of piracy on the high seas or the kind of gambits the Borgias played. Somehow the conversation got around to a new book by somebody named Mortimer Adler who had already written a hundred or so great books if I understood the drift. One banker type at the table was terribly keen on this Adler and especially on his latest great book. ‘He says that we and the Communists share the same Great Tradition’ (I could hear the caps by the way he pronounced the term) ‘and we must join together against the one force that really does threaten civilization — anarchism!’

“There were several objections, in which Drake didn’t take part (he just sat back, puffing his cigar and looking agreeable to everyone, but I could see boredom under the surface) and the banker tried to explain the Great Tradition, which was a bit over my head, and, judging by the expressions around the table, a bit over everybody else’s head, too, when the hawk-faced dago spoke up suddenly.

“‘I can put the Great Tradition in one word,’ he said calmly. ‘Privilege.’

“Old Drake suddenly stopped looking agreeable-but-bored — he seemed both interested and amused. ‘One seldom encounters such a refreshing freedom from euphemism,’ he said, leaning forward. ‘But perhaps I am reading too much into your remark, sir?’

“Hawk-face sipped at his champagne and patted his mouth with a napkin before answering. ‘I think not,’ he said at last. ‘Privilege is defined in most dictionaries as a right or immunity giving special favors or benefits to those who hold it. Another meaning in Webster is “not subject to the usual rules or penalties.” The invaluable thesaurus gives such synonyms as power, authority, birthright, franchise, patent, grant, favor and, I’m said to say, pretension. Surely, we all know what privilege is in this club, don’t we, gentlemen? Do I have to remind you o the Latin roots, privi, private, and lege, law, and point out in detail how we have created our Private Law over here, just as teh Politburo have created their own private law in their own sphere of influence?… There is no more Free Market here than there is on the other side of the Iron Curtain. The priviliges, or Private Laws — the rules of the game, as promulgated by the Politburo and the General Congress of the Communist Party on that side and by the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve Board on this side — are slightly different; that’s all. And it is this that is threatened by anarchists, and by the repressed anarchist in each of us,’ he concluded, strongly emphasizing the last clause, staring at Drake…” — Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Golden Apple, Part II of Illuminatus! (Dell Books, 1975)

Decadent Worker #7 - 29Jan87

DecadentWorker7Any 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