Decadent Worker #99 – 16Dec87

Posted on December 16, 2007 by worker

Decadent Worker 99ATTITUDES

Supposing you found me in your home, uninvited. If you shot me dead, in many states it would be justifiable homicide.

Or imagine that someone, say the Queen of England, plants a bugging device on you — up inside your sinus, say, or near your inner ear. And then suppose this same individual or organization invites individuals they have recruited in one way or another, any number of them, to monitor your movements at all times, in your home and out. Is the second outrage better than the first?

Are not both instances of intrusion? And isn’t the second, if anything, worse — to have to deal not with ust one prowler in your house, but with numerous intruders in your life.

That is the situation in which, since 1976, I have gradually found myself. You Masons and Jesuits and Elks and whatever, you initiates in secret societies, recruits of the Neighborhood Justice Centers, you disciples of mediums and pawns of Nixon, Howard Hunt, Griffin Bell and/or whoever else — you infufferable Lights (as one faction dedicated to making themselves into living high-pressure advertiseents is called) — all you who surveil me regardless of how or why — you are intruders in my life. Were the facts known or provable in court, most juries would not blame me for killing you.

Does it never occur to you that you are in violation of your own laws and of Natural Rights as well as of every commonsense conception of justice?

In my particular circumstance, battling a clique of genocidal Nazis as I am — though precious few of you seem to comprehend that much about it — I am glad there is an audience. You happened to intrude uninvited into a life where great crimes were happening already, greater than yours, and I want someone around afterwards to tell the world what happened.

So even though you arrived in my life uninvited and by the most despicable of means, I prefer to tolerate you as guests rather than to rent about your spying per se.

However, yhou are, at best, guests — not gracious hosts. I am the host. You are tromping around in my life. Try to remember your manners.

Especially, do not expect you are in any position to tell me how to live my life. Do not try to tell me, for example, which cafes I may or may not frequent or which radio stations I should or should not listen to. For arrogance like that is not in any way called for by the nature of the situation. If you want to enlist my cooperation, allow me to suggest that cooperation breeds cooperation. Tell me who escalated the Indochina War and how they went about it and the composition of that conspiracy now, instead of bombarding me with your totalitarian demands, your annoying gossip and your thought policing. Think about what you will tell your grandchildren when they ask, as the young in German do the old, why you heedlessly tolerated — in fact aided and abetted — a holocaust far worse than Hitler’s. So far it’s been of what asinine, trivial thing to say next time you see me so as to continue your desperate imperialist filibuster about anything and everything but crimes against humanity. — Kerry Wendell Thornley

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Decadent Worker #98 – 11Dec87

Posted on December 11, 2007 by worker

Decadent Worker 98WHO KILLED JFK?

Charles de Gaulle and the Royal Arch Masons is my guess. (You thought I was going to say Castro; it was people who supported Castro because he is Caucasian who utilized the assassination conspiracy at the time.) But why de Gaulle?

How often have U.S. Senators speculated that when the CIA tried to assassinate Castro, he turned the conspiracy around to kill JFK, instead. Where did they get that idea? Why not say he sent his own assassins after Kennedy? How many other conspiracies in history have been turned around? I’ve been trying to turn the conspiracy persecuting me around for more than twelve years, with no luck at all.

“Guy Bannister (of 544 Camp St., New Orleans) dispatched Maurice Brooks Gatlin, Sr., on behalf of Permindex, with $100,000 in cash of the FBI’s money and delivered it to the Fascist French generals plotting against de Gaulle. Gatlin was the general counsel of the Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean. In 1964 Gatlin was thrown, pushed or fell from the sixth floor of the El Panama Hotel in Panama during the middle of the night,” wrote Jay Pound. Accounts differ as to which country Gatlin was in when he plunged to instant death; my opinion is that there was no Gatlin, that Maurice Brooks Gatlin was simply the name E. Howard Hunt used to infiltrate pro-Castro U.S. groups, one of which may have included some of LBJ’s racist cronies in Texas — who may have co-opted Hunt. And/or Hunt-Gatlin may have been, by 1963, working for de Gaulle. Listing contentions of the Torbitt manuscript, Jay Pound also said in “Who Told the Truth About JFK?” in Critique #21/22: “Maurice Gatlin, who the FBI tied in with Jack Ruby — involving the sale of army surplus jeeps to Fidel Castro in the spring of 1959.” Misinformation? Disinformation? The FBI reports its own agents? Or a CIA man unknown to the FBI under that cover name?

Whose war did we take over as a result of the assassination? Whose political style did the sophistication and diplomacy of the Kissinger era most resemble? We Americans have never been able to match the Europeans for political realism. Consider Woodrow Wilson at Versailles. Our naivete must have annoyed the French during WWII and thereafter. With Kissinger, it became a thing of the past. And I’ve heard many rumors linking both Henry Kissinger and Jean-Paul Sartre with Royal Arch Masons.

“De Gaulle had real professionals after him for years and they didn’t succeed, because his bodyguards knew what they were doing. That’s the point — they would never have let anyone get that close to Le General… De Gaulle’s bodyguards were up against army officers with money and weapons and knowing how to use them — not .22 pistols! And they tried and they tried but they never got him… Of course, the protection from a rifle with a telescopic sight is not easy. But de Gaulle’s men — they covered all the buildings on the route… That Ruby and Oswald thing stunk to high heaven, the whole thing…” — William S. Burroughs, Re/Search p. 26

Royal Arch Masons are a branch of Masonry as well as the name of the 13th Degree. Contary to popular belief, I am not an initiate. I believe, however, they comprise a Satanist secret society within Masonry. Cover-up artist G. Gordon Liddy is also much linked with them. Working through the RAMs, de Gaulle could have far more easily turned an assassination around than could have Castro. (c) Kerry Thornley, 1987

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Decadent Worker #97 – 9Dec87

Posted on December 9, 2007 by worker

Decadent Worker 97PROPERTY AND PRIVILEGE

“Property is theft.” — P.-J. Proudhon
“Property is liberty.” — P.-J. Proudhon
“Property is impossible.” — P.-J. Proudhon

…Proudhon, by piling up his contradictions this way, was not merely being French; he was trying to indicate that the abstraction ‘property’ covers a variety of phenomena, some pernicious and some beneficial. Let us borrow a device from the semanticists and examine his triad with subscripts attached for maximum clarity.

‘Property(1) is theft’ means that property(1), created by the artificial laws of feudal, capitalist and other authoritarian societies, is based on armed robbery. Land titles, for instance, are clear examples of property(1); swords and shot were the original coins of transaction.

‘Property(2) is liberty’ means that property(2), that which will be voluntarily honored in a voluntary (anarchist) society, is the foundation of the liberty in that society. The more people’s interests are commingled and confused, as in collectivism, the more they will be stepping on each other’s toes; only when the rules of the game declare clearly ‘This is mine and this is thine,’ and the game is voluntarily accepted as worthwhile by all parties to it, can true independence be achieved.

‘Property(3) is impossible’ means that property(3) (= property(1))creates so much conflict of interest that society is in perpetual undeclared civil war and must eventually devour itself (and properties (1) and (3) as well). In short, Proudhon, in his own way, foresaw the Snafu Principle. He also foresaw that communism would only perpetuate and aggravate the conflicts, and that anarchy is the only viable alternative to chaos.

It is not averred, of course, that property(2) will come into existence only in a totally voluntary society; many forms of it already exist. The error of most alleged libertarians — especially the followers(!) of the egregious Ayn Rand — is to assume that all property(1) is property(2)/. The distinction can be made by any IQ above 70 and is absurdly simple. The test is to ask, of any title of ownership you are asked to accept or which you ask others to accept, ‘Would this be honored in a free society of rationalists, or does it require the armed might of a State to force people to honor it?’ If it be the former, it is property(2) and represents liberty; if it be the latter, it is property(1) and represents theft. — Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Leviathan, Part III of the Illuminatus! Trilogy, Appendix Zain

Former guests include Eugene V. Debs and Alexander Berkman. Recently scene of an instance of spontaneous combustion, these historic accommodations are now back to business as usual. Debs maintained he could not himself be free as long as anyone else was in prison. Berkman said: “I had to leave.”

“As we shall see, secret societies did play a far more important role than is commonly realized in the life of Karl Marx as well as in the birth of communism generally,” says David Tame in “Secret Societies in the Life of Karl Marx,” Critique #25. Marx seems to have belonged to so many secret societies that the problem is determining which, if any of them, were relevant.

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Decadent Worker #96 – 4Dec87

Posted on December 4, 2007 by worker

Decadent Worker 96A sense for the potential of… leadership among the ranks of anarchist/Left SR forces arrayed against Bolshevism can be found where the Cheka had little influence. One of the peasant revolts during this period that was more than a mere revolt occurred in the Ukraine under the leadership of the anarchist, Nestor Makhno. The Ukraine had been ceded as an independent national territory by the Brest-Litovak treaty and the Ukrainian Nabat Confederation organized as an independent government for the region, its first proclamation being the redistribution of landed estates by the peasantry. The German/Central Powers occupation of the Ukraine until November 1918 served to foster both the ‘White’ counterrevolution of Denikin and Mahkno’s anarchist insurgents….

Return of the Ukraine to Russia with the nullification of Brest-Litovak did not prevent Makhno from militarily securing a broad area in the southern Ukraine within which the peasants were encouraged to form libertarian communist communes. The Bolsheviks were not outlawed, but their commissars were stripped of all their powers. Denikin’s ‘White’ armies soon threatened. From March to December of 1919 Mahkno fought Denikin, finally defeating the ‘White’ general with superb guerrilla tactics. His forces mixed extreme democracy with a tight-fisted discipline by Makhno and his personal commanders. Burying arms in strategic locations, his troops would disguise themselves as peasants to move freely through enemy lines to rearm and regroup. He used horse carts to transport guerrilla infantry for lightning attacks. Makhno’s anarchist conception of partisan peasant guerrilla warfare and peasant communism in many ways foreshadowed much of early Mao’s revolutionary experiences.

Makhno did not permit his forces to pillage, loot or rape. He respected the Ukrainian peasantry highly and did not force grain from them in an anarchist requisition. The peasantry supported Makhno’s army, and his army in turn protected the peasantry, neither censoring the peasantry’s political expression nor obstructing their political organization. Makhno forbade anti-seminitism from the ranks of his forces, but Makhno’s army could not be eveywhere at once. Pogroms occurred against the Jews by Ukrainian peasants during this period, though Makhno’s army intervened and protected Jewish communities where possible. The Bolsheviks, who were allied with Makhno in the fight against Denikin, at first considered him a partisan worthy of leading an autonomous Ukrainian national region within an overall Russian socialist revolution. Lenin and Trotsky realized by the middle of spring, 1919 that Makhno would not accept his strategy or his orders from the Red Army command, that he would continue to ignore or abolish the political power of Bolshevik Commissars in the Ukraine and worst of all that he would have the full support of the Ukrainian peasantry in doing so.

Trotsky took the opportunity of a lull in the fight against Denikin to raid Makhno’s headquarters and send Cheka agents to assassinate him, only to renew the alliance with Makhno in the summer of 1919 when Denikin once more became a threat. Makhno defeated Denikin, Trotsky ordered Makhno to the Polish Front as… an independent unit of the Red Army, Makhno refused, and Trotsky ordered the imprisonment of Makhno and his anarchist army in December, 1919. Makhno reslated the Bolshevik Red Army militariliy for nine months until Wrangel’s invasion in October, 1920. The Bolsheviks made another alliance with Makhno, promising the release of anarchist prisoners and freedom of propaganda, and Makhno’s anarchist army was instrumental in defeating Wrangel in November, 1920.

Makhno’s personal military commanders were then invited to a victory conference in the Crimea. All except an escaping cavalry unit were arrested or shot by the Bolsheviks. — Socialism: A Brief History, UCSD, pp. 40-1

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Decadent Worker #95 – 2Dec87

Posted on December 2, 2007 by worker

Decadent Worker 95In February of 1968 when D.A. Jim Garrison questioned me before the grand jury in his JFK murder probe, there were names he asked me to identify that meant nothing to me, in addition to those I recognized. A few of the names that failed to ring a bell got repeated many times — insuring that I at least would remember them from then on. One of them was: Dave Chandler. Going down his suspect list, the D.A. would return every so often to Dave Chandler. At one point I said, regarding one of these recurring names, “I believe you mentioned him before.” Garrison nodded and stared accusingly. Obviously, he was sure I knew somebody named Dave Chandler.

Sometime later on, in a conversation with Lane Lake, a French Quarter friend, Dave Chandler’s name came up again. “Who was he?” I asked. “Oh, you remember — that friend of Jim and Bootsie.”

When I returned in the late summer of 1963 from California to New Orleans I became close to Jim Dyer and Bootsie Culp, ecause they were as much into Ayn Rand as I was — unlike most French Quarter bohemians. Dave Chandler, I now recalled, was also an admirer of Ayn Rand. One morning, probably in October or early November, he bought me breakfast in a small cafe near Pat O’Brien’s on St. Peter. What did we talk about? O Jesus, we were sitting there agreeing that the President should be assassinated!

When I asked Clint Bolton, who knew nearly everyone, if he knew Dave Chandler, he said, “Sure, he was a stringer for Life Magazine.”

Shortly after my grand jury appearance in 1968 I spoke to Richard Billings, who had originally contacted me for an interview for Life. When I asked him about Chandler, he answered, “I was his boss at the time, and I got the feeling then that he knew more about the assassination than he was telling me.” At around the same time, Billings quit his job at Life and went to work for the Congressional Record. “One of the reasons I quit,” he told me, “was that I got the feeling they were being less than honest about the Kennedy assassination.”

In the early eighties when I was living with Paula Petty in Tampa, Florida, I dreamt that a Time Magazine cover expanded in front of my eyes until filling my field of vision. A seductive female voice said: “Time for romance!” This cover faded and another appeared in the same way. “Time for adventure!” And so it went, just like a t.v. commercial, until I woke up, terrified. And there are people who want to trust landlords and other capitalists to investigate mind control.

A persistent intelligence community rumor says Pope John Paul II belongs to a Time Magazine secret society, in which he is solemnly sworn to murder me — in full public view with full public approval! When the deadline is and what happens if he failes is not made clear. But it sure makes a nifty contingency program for the assassinations in the meantime.

Time seems to have usurped the functions of both the State and the Mob.

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Decadent Worker #94 – 27Nov87

Posted on November 27, 2007 by worker

Decadent Worker 94…I have describe it (the Iroquois Constitution) in some detail, following (Lewis H.) Morgan, because here we have the opportunity of studying the organization of society which still has no state. The state presupposes a special public power separated from the entire body of the permanent members of the given society… (p. 112)

And a wonderful constitution it is, this gentile constitution, in all its childlike simplicity: No soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles, kings, viceroys, prefects or judges, no prisons, no lawsuits — and everything takes its orderly course. All quarrels and disputes are settled by the whole of the community affected, by the gens or the tribe, or by the gentes among themselves; only as an extreme and exceptional measure is blood revenge threatened — and our capital punishment is nothing but blood revenge in a civilized form, were many more matters to be settled in common than today — the household is maintained by a number of families in common and is communistic; the land belongs to the tribe, only the small gardens are allotted provisionally to the households — yet there is no need for a trace of our complicated administrative apparatus with all its ramifications. The decisions are taken by those concerned, and in most cases everything has been already settled by the custom of centuries. There cannot be any poor or needy — the communistic household and the gens know their responsibilities towards the old, the sick and those disabled in war. All are equal and free — the women included. There is no place yet for slaves, nor, as a rule, for the subjugat- of other tribes. When about the year 1651 the Iroquois had conquered the Eries and the ‘Neutral Nation,’ they offered to accept them into the confederacy on equal terms; it was only after the defeated tribes had refused that they were driven from their territory. And what men and women such a society breeds is proved by the admiration inspired in all white people who have come into contact with unspoiled Indians, by the personal dignity, uprightness, strength of character, and courage of these barbarians.

We have seen examples of this courage quite recently in Africa. The Zulus a few years ago and the Nubians a few months ago — both of them tribes in which gentle institutions have not yet died out — did what no European army can do. Armed only with lances and spears, without firearms, under a hail of bullets from the breech-loaders of the English infantry — acknowledged the best in the world at fighting in close order — they advanced right up to the bayonets and more than once threw the English into disorder and even put them to flight…

That is what people and human society looked like before the division into classes… It is by the vilest means — theft, violence, fraud, treason — that the old classless gentile society is undermined and overthrown. And the new society itself during all the 2,500 years of its existence has never been anything else but the development of the small minority at the expense of the great exploited and oppressed majority; today it is so more than ever before. (p. 112-6) — Frederick Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1978)

LANGUAGE IS THEFT/Indian giver: A term coined by early white settlers to designate anyone who gives you something — such as the Western Hemisphee — and then wants it back afterwards. — Ho Chi Zen

ASSASSINATION BY LIST (ABL)

So who do you assassinate by list? Not the obvious targets the politicians narcs and pigs. They are servants who obey orders. So the targets are not the front men but the higher-ups behind the scene. You announce that you have a list of these secret controllers and that they will be killed one after the other. The list is guesswork of course but the real higher-ups will soon expose themselves. So for a start we assassinate a Swiss banker, never wrong on that. Just get a list of high Swiss bankers and pull his name out of a hat. This is Assassination By List (ABL). The rich an powerful cower behind guards and electric fences.

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Decadent Worker #93 – 25Nov87

Posted on November 25, 2007 by worker

Decadent Worker 93“Despite the efforts to break up the coal and steel empires into smaller units, most of them have in fact come together again. The one victory the Allied ‘decartelisers’ can point to is that the Verinigte Stahlwerks, the notorious giant steel cartel that dominated the Ruhr before the war, has not been re-formed. But even that is only a hollow victory, for the Thyssen Group, welded in 1963 out of just two segments of it, is today far bigger than the old VS ever was. Similarly with IG Farben, the mammoth chemical concern, which was split into three by the Allied ‘trust-buster’ — now each of the three offshoots is larger than its former parent!..” (p. 280)

Significantly, it was John J. McCloy, who later served on the Warren Commission and who had worked for Morgan banking interests (which I believe are involved in financing the Vril Burgs) who pardoned from war crimes the notorious German industrialist, Alfried Krupp: “He had also to many people’s surprise decided to cancel the order confiscating Krupp’s properties — it had not been expected he would go quite that far. McCloy’s justification for his generosity was that no other war criminal had been punished this way: ‘Confiscation of personal (sic) property does not belong to the practices of our legal system and in general is in contradiction to the American conception of justice.’…” (pp. 233-4) No other war criminal was rich enough to be punished that way!

These quotes are from The House of Krupp by Peter Batty (Stein and Day, 1967), a book that also explains how the Russians became post-war customers of Krupp steel and uranium, although not as soon as they would have liked. Evidently American bankers were alarmed and many negotiations “broke down on credit terms.” Not to be daunted by that much, however, “Kruschev himself took a hand in the next stage of the wooing when, at the Leipzig Trade Fair in the following March, that is March of 1959, he made the East German press drop their usual denunciations of Krupps as warmongers, and of Alfried in particular as a convicted war criminal. Moreover, he visited the Krupp stand at the Fair and drank a toast to the firm out of a Krupp stainless steel tumbler filled with French Cognac, expressing regret that the head of the House was not there in person, but sending Alfried his good wishes all the same. Today, Alfried’s name no longer appears on the Soviet list of war criminals and until quite recently the House of Krupp maintained a permanent office in Moscow…” (pp. 257-258) Was Chernobyl built for the Russians by Krupp? I am asking.

“Luce too was to be a good friend of Krupp’s, for in August 1957, on the occasion of “Alfried’s fiftieth birthday, a largely complementary cover-story entitled The House that Krupp Built appeared in Time magazine. Time’s proprietor was also believed to be instrumental in Alfried’s getting a visa to attend a conference for international businessmen and statesmen which his magazine was sponsoring in San Francisco that same autumn, at which Alfried had been invited to speak on ‘The Partnership Approach.’…” (p. 253)

LANGUAGE IS THEFT/Fabian Socialism: An ideology which even George Bernard Shaw failed to anticipate might produce a society with capitalism’s looks and Communism’s brains.

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Decadent Worker #92 – 20Nov87

Posted on November 20, 2007 by worker

Decadent Worker 92STATE CAPITALISM VS. TRUE COMMUNISM

“Today, along with a host of western companies, General Motors and Ford both have factories in Russia and supply the Red Army with much of its transportation. One bit of knowledge that the public is carefully protected from, on both sides, is the fact that the trucks that carried over 50,000 Russian troops into Afghanistan were built by American companies. And the computers that organized the invasion were built by IBM, who supply both the KGM and the CIA with their intelligence technology. American ambassador to Russia at the time of Afghanistan was Thomas Watson Junior, son of the head of IBM. Vague Magazine #18/19: Programming Phenomena and Conspiracy Theory (BCM Tanelorn, London WCIN 3XX 2 pounds)

The Kronstadt soldiers and sailers soviet, a strong fortress with 15,000 men, called for immediate reforms in War Communism — and to grain requisitions, free peasant markets, and to the Cheka’s terror and terror within the military, democratic elections of a new Soviet government, revitalizing the power of the soviets over state and the economy — that amount to an insurrection against the Bolshevik state from March 5 to 18, 1921, in solidarity with the stiking Petrograd workers. The Kronstadt revolt was under the influence of anarchist/Left SR elements and allied with the revolutinoary Petrograd soviet, both demanding ‘All Power to the Soviets’ and “Soviets Without Bolsheviks.’

Trotsky, under Lenin’s command, removed Red Army units sympathetic to the revolt from the Baltic area and assembled a large, select force of Red Army troops, first moving on Petrograd, suppressing the workers’ insurrection and killing its leaders. The Bolshevik command decided to act before the ice melted around Kronstadt, permitting the Kronstadt sailors to move their battleships to the aid of the Petrograd proletariat. Red Army troops led by General Tukhachevsky transported cannons across the ice and attacked Kronstadt relentlessly, killing thousands, until its downfall March 18, 1921. Even survivors and prisoners were executed in the move to stifle all remnants of the insurrection. The Cheka went to work in Petrograd to stamp out all remaining sympathies.

The Petrograd workers and Kronstadt sailors, who had prepared the ground for the 1917 Revolution with 1905, who had supported the Bolshevik October Group with strikes and an armed uprising, found themselves starving, exhausted, war-weary and unable to dislodge the Bolshevik regime they had aided to power. Revolutionary soldiers, sailors, workers and peasants had little choice but to accept the one-party Bolshevik rule after 1921. Radical peasant socialists and anarchists considered 1921 the final betrayal of the Russian Revolution, though in point of fact the Bolsheviks had centralized all economic, political and military power in the country and suppressed democractic freedoms well before 1921. The Bolshevik regime tried to mask this phase of the Civil War by calling Makhno a kulak, the peasant revolts, workers’ strikes and soldiers’ mutinies a product of ‘White’ agitation, and Kronstadt a ‘White’ General conspiracy. Anarchism celebrated these events as the high point for the anarchist movement in modern socialism. New Indicator Collective, Socialism: A Brief History, USCD

“For the multinationals, a cheap strike free workforce held tightly in control by a firmly entrenched authoritarian regime.” — Vague Magazine, Ibid.

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Decadent Worker #91 – 18Nov87

Posted on November 18, 2007 by worker

Decadent Worker 81“Kerry, do you believe someone can be subjected to mind control technology and yet retain their own identity?”

“Yes I do, because of the definition of man. We define man in terms of his behavior. So a man is everything that influences him to the extent that it influences his behavior, because that is what we mean when we say ‘he did this or that’ — the collection of impersonal forces, both within and without, causing him to do ‘this or that.’” This metaphysical realization first occurred to me intuitively, one night at Subic Bay in the Philippines, when I was standing under a tree in a light rain storm, watching lightning flash in the sky beyond a distant horizon. I discovered confirmation for it in The Upanishads and in discussions with fellow Marine, Raoul Gayon, and placed a rap about the whole notion in the mind o one of my fictional characters, Raoul Santana, in a novel I started in New Orleans — leaving it unfinished because my friends all said Santana was too intellectual to be convincing.

I regarded my discovery as the answer to the debate about free will versus determination — neither side being correct because the determining forces are what we mean by the will. And I was so proud of my great idea (which I fancied was heretofore uncontemplated in the West) that I could not be bothered, just then, with the common sense implications of what I was saying in sanctioning mind control — which seemed both to amuse and please Brother-in-law.

Recently I had written a poem about this experience of penetrating the relation of will to environment and when I tried to explain it to anyone who did not immediately grasp it, I became impatient. Swept up in the beauty of an abstraction, I was not paying attention at all to what was happening with this man in this room in this particular here and now. So I freely granted him permission, in effect, to brainwash me. (I imagine a Zen master could cite this as an example of the dangers of partial enlightenment!)… (pp. 72-3)

“Kerry, the Fascists are now experimenting with advanced thought control techniques. You know, there are Fascists in this country/. Among them is Henry Luce, who publishes Time and Life magazines. They are planning to build a society comprised of nothing but human robots, with transistors installed in the backs of their heads, so that they will be absolutely obedient to subliminal messages.”

“Yeah. There are people who say it can’t happen here. But I guess it can.”

“Remember the saying about how you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink?”

“A friend of mine used to say, ‘You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.’”

With characteristic unfairness about such things, Brother-in-law seemed annoyed at the irrelevant nature of my remark… (p. 141)
— The Dreadlock Recollections (c) by Kerry Wendell Thornley, 1984

A pathetic desire to believe I’m expressing myself cryptically continues. Unless I “tag” my communications with a clearing of my throat or by saying “quote end quote” they aren’t cant — to which I almost never resort anyway. Confusion often arises when what I say in plain English coincidentally sounds like I’m saying that I’m talking in cant. What is more, I’m telling the truth and the gullibility of people who believe those who say I am lying for some incredible ulterior reason not only makes me look like a monster who would lie (illegible after this point)

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Decadent Worker #90 – 13Nov87

Posted on November 13, 2007 by worker

Decadent Worker 90…That upon other occasions I was placed in a formal hypnotic trance is also a distinct possibility. Once Brother-in-law discussed the Bridey Murphy case with great enthusiasm and asked me if I thought further examples of reincarnational memory uncovered with hypnosis should be researched — but adequately, he emphasized, by someone with resources.

When I objected that I did not believe in reincarnation, he replied with sympathetic approval, “Neither do I, Kerry, but I think the possibility should be investigated anyhow, by someone with more money than those guys who wrote the Bridey Murphy book, someone who could conduct a very thorough investigation.

He made sure to obtain my agreement. But I do not remember personally volunteering to be the subject of any such probe.

I do possess a distinct memory of sitting with Slim, late one afternoon, close to twilight, in a corner bar in some podunk Louisiana town, waiting from Brother-in-law to return. That we were sipping beer in a place that resembled in structure the Napoleon House (with openings to the streets instead of walls on two sides) but was plainer – with Seven-Up signs instead of wrought-iron frills. I cannot at this point recall how we got there or where we were afterwards. Possibly related to an earlier time in the same day is a memory of breakfasting with Slim one blazing morning in a tiny restaurant on Lake Pontchartrain, with Brother-in-law inside a houseboat just across the narrow dock from the front window of the cafe. Again I don’t recall how we got there or where we went afterwards.

More than once I have wondered, though, if I was hypnotized aboard that houseboat that day, perhaps by means of drugs, and then methodically programmed. For I have a number of memories which are dream-like in quality and seem unrelated to anything else ever happened to me, except that they are vaguely associated with Brother-in-law. Woody Guthrie singing about the “arch and the stones” in one of his albums reminds me vividly of these disassociated fragments of memory, of a few pertaining to images of myself as the “first post-revolutionary man” of uncharacteristically utopian and romantic Marxian rhetoric, and as a lonely anarchist harmonica player wandering in America. Also I seem to recall in the same sense having received instructions regarding a future mission of saving the U.S. from a Russian invasion, and of being told that I would be able to rely on the radio for help just by listening to the music.

Such things cause me to speculate that Brother-in-law may have been a high-level double agent who sold projects to hypnotically program me to both Russian intelligence and Division Five of the FBI — without telling anyone but Slim what an outrageous practical joke he was playing on us all. An alternative possibility to his involving the Russians is that he might have sold such an idea to an Eastern European bloc nation, perhaps Albania or Bulgaria or Poland.

“The only thing wrong with Communist theory as the Russians practice it, Kerry, is that they have no mechanism in their system to guarantee the withering away of the state.”… (pp. 70-2) The Dreadlock Recollections (c) Kerry Thornley, 1984

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