Reihan Salam, executive editor of National Review, says conservatives need to embrace more government now because if they don’t, progressives could come along in the future and implement even more/worse government.

From: A
Sent: Sat 7/22/2017 7:36 AM
To: wblock@loyno.edu
Subject: essay
Doctor Block, I enjoyed (with IMMENSE pleasure) your essay on the Canadians this morning. I have the same thoughts every time someone mentions a ‘hero’ who has been killed in ‘service to our country’ in Afghanistan or Iraq or Yemen or some other place 7,000 miles from America’s shores. I have great empathy for the man’s family, but why the hell did the man sign on the dotted line to go kill for Uncle Sam those who have not attacked or invaded one square inch in America? Sorry, but he’s not my hero. Sincerely, A

Dear A: You are entirely correct. If there were a military draft, then, at least, there would be some excuse for soldiers to “bomb, burn, rape and kill” innocents abroad. Duress, and all that. I don’t say they would be innocent; only that there would be some mitigating factor involved. But the U.S. now has a voluntary military (Canada too). Why in bloody blue blazes do so many young people travel in this manner to foreign countries? Why does everyone thank them for their service when they do so? I’d like to recommend to you, and to everyone else for that matter, the important work of Laurence M. Vance, on this topic. He has made this case over and over again, brilliantly, that U.S. soldiers engaged in war with countries that have never come within a million miles of attacking our nation, are not exactly heroes.

Almost 50 years ago (I’ve been at this for a while now) I wrote this essay attacking Milton Friedman. I think it is still relevant:

Block, Walter E. 1969. “Against the Volunteer Military,” The Libertarian Forum, August 15, p. 4; http://www.mises.org/journals/lf/1969/1969_08_15.pdf

Here is The Intercept document, The Art of Deception: Training For a New Generation of Online Covert Operations, discussed in the video.

“History will vindicate us,” gloated Tony and W, watching their war grind on.

Well, that history won’t be written in Mosul any time soon. “Mosul is completely destroyed,” says Syriac-Catholic Archbishop Petros Mouche of Mosul.

At the turn of the century, Mosul had a population approaching two million. It was the second-largest city in Iraq. “We [Christians and Moslems]have always lived together and this never was a problem,” the archbishop tells Aid to the Church in Need.

But then came the Christian Bush and Blair’s war to end evil in the world. Pope Saint John Paul II warned Bush that his invasion would cause “chaos”; Bush ignored him. Catholic neocons turned Church teaching upside down to justify the war – the worst of them straining to imply that, by 2007, Pope Benedict has realized Bush was right and John Paul II was wrong.

Tony Blair,  proven a liar by the Chilcot Report, went on to make untold millions, apparently proud that Brits commonly refer to him as a “whore.” George W. Bush went into hiding, and has never publicly addressed his role in destroying the lives of millions of Christians in the Middle East, endangering there very future of Christianity there.

He has never apologized, although his brother Jeb! now admits publicly that the war was a mistake. (So was Jeb! – a hundred million dollar mistake –  but that’s another story.)

In spite of this treachery, Christian bishops in the Middle East have urged their flocks not to abandon their ancestral home. Slowly Christians are coming back to Mosul, but it is in ruins – they can only visit.

Meanwhile, Bush languishes in Texas, waiting for history to knock on his door.

No wonder he has bodyguards.

From: D
Sent: Fri 7/21/2017 8:48 PM
To: wblock@loyno.edu
Subject: Re: 4 questions blog entry 20 July 2017
Dear Dr. Block,
In yesterday’s blog entry
(https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/four-important-challenges-libertarian-
theory-responses/) the answer to question 3 regarding nuclear weapons was blank. I don’t believe that was intentional, was it? Defending the Undefendable, and your other articles, are great resources when debating my socialist-leaning colleagues. It’s amazing the level of shock and disbelief when I mention something as simple as competition among gas stations. This in relation to their statements that government regulation is necessary to keep gas stations from charging whatever they want, since we HAVE to buy gas at any price, among other examples. Thanks for your work, D

Dear D: Thanks for your kind comments. Sorry, it was inadvertent. Here ‘tis:

Block, Walter E. and Matthew A. Block. 2000. “Toward a Universal Libertarian Theory of Gun (Weapon) Control,” Ethics, Place and Environment, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 289-298; http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/theory_gun_control.pdf; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228127780_Toward_a_Universal_Libertarian_Theory_of_Gun_(Weapon)_Control_A_Spatial_and_Georgraphical_Analysis?ev=prf_pub; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228127780_Toward_a_Universal_Libertarian_Theory_of_Gun_Weapon_Control_A_Spatial_and_Georgraphical_Analysis; http://www.walterblock.com/publications/toward-a-universal-libertarian-theory-of-gun-weapon-control-a-spatial-and-geographical-analysis/

From: H
Sent: Wed 7/19/2017 5:46 PM
To: Walter Block
Dear Walter, Here are a series of nine questions I and my friends would like to ask you.

Dear H: See your questions below, interspersed with my responses. Thanks for all of them. Some are very challenging.

1. What are the rights of a dead body immediately upon death if nobody is established as an inheritor of the person’s estate? Assume the deceased has no family and no will.

Dead people, of course, no longer have any rights, as they no longer exist. Given that this person dies intestate, in the free society a (private) court would then determine what is to be done with this person’s estate.

2. What should a libertarian member of a jury do if the crime is aggressive (and guilt is proved beyond reasonable doubt), is there any reason to vote not-guilty based on the belief that the state is illegitimate and the punishment necessitates further aggression (taxes to pay for imprisonment, not restitution for the victim)?
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Not so much because of the senseless killing of Justine Damond but more because of past tensions with the Minneapolis mayor and city council now coming to a head.  How convenient for them.

Then don’t forget to feel sorry for his victims: the Vietnamese he killed for absolutely no good reason on 23 combat missions during the Vietnam War. Is he a war hero or a war criminal? I answered that question here.

The Hill reports that “Fox News’s Sean Hannity will no longer receive the conservative Media Research Center’s (MRC) William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence after Buckley’s son expressed disapproval, CNN reported on Friday.

“Christopher Buckley reportedly called the MRC expressing “great dismay” at the announcement that the award would go to Hannity, who regularly insults conservatives who don’t support President Trump.”

The Media Research Center (MRC) is a politically conservative content analysis organization based in Reston, Virginia, founded in 1987 by activist L. Brent Bozell III.  Bozell was among ten children of L. Brent Bozell Jr. and Patricia Buckley Bozell. He is a nephew of the late conservative writer and National Review founder, William F. Buckley Jr. and former United States Senator James L. Buckley, through Buckley’s sister, Patricia, and is the grandson of William Frank Buckley Sr.

Bozell’s cousin, the #NEVERTRUMP Christopher Buckley, son of WFB, supported Barack Obama in 2012.

This latest “tempest in a teapot” imbroglio is very characteristic of that inbred lumbering dinosaur called the conservative movement, which is stumbling pitifully on its last legs vainly trying to prove its relevance and self-importance.

Brendan Brown: Shinzo Abe’s party has recently suffered some stunning electoral defeats. But that doesn’t mean “Abenomics” and its easy-money policies are over.

In a free society there are no free-speech rights, only property rights. Colleges don’t have “free-speech” zones and words don’t constitute violence. Peter Klein explains. 

Thanks to The American Conservative for running my article “Republicans Never Grasped the Healthcare Challenge.”

The GOP has always been more concerned about scoring political victories, and thus wants only to repeal some Obama-specific laws. The much larger issue of the state’s destruction of health markets means nothing to the GOP.

As a follow-up, with a few more details, check out “To Fix Healthcare, We Need to Repeal a Lot More than Obamacare”  at mises.org.

Legalization of pot is good, right? The governments of those states liberalizing their anti-drug laws are at least granting their serfs a bit more liberty.

But are they really? Consider this letter from “governors of the four states that were first to legalize recreational marijuana —  [John] Hickenlooper in Colorado, Jay Inslee in Washington, Kate Brown in Oregon and Bill Walker in Alaska” to “Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, urging them to respect the rights of the states to pass such measures…”

And why are these rulers suddenly so keen on “states rights”? Because they wish “to [maintain] control over marijuana in our states.” Indeed, it’s all about control and which set of officials will exercise it, as they make clear later in the same paragraph: the existing framework, they say, “strike[s] a reasonable balance between allowing the states to enact reasonable regulations and the federal government’s interest** in controlling some of the collateral consequences of legalization.” [Emphasis added.]

If we wish to regain our liberty, why waste our time on “legalization”? It leaves politicians and bureaucrats firmly empowered over our bodies (and our wallets, since taxation is integral to legalization). Rather, we must prohibit these despicable leeches from dictating what we may or may not ingest.

**By the way, any time rulers mention the government’s “interest” in something, it’s an admission that the Constitution never so empowers them. “Interests” are legal fictions that courts or sometimes politicians or bureaucrats dream up out of whole cloth to grab authority. For example, in the late 19th century, the Supreme Court invented an “interest” for the Feds in controlling immigration; no Constitutional mandate allows them to do so. Likewise, the Court decreed in the 20th century that the Feds have an “interest” in “safe” aviation—and that resulted in the anti-Constitutional, Fourth-Amendment-destroying TSA.

Is it true that Cohn is 6’3″?

Dr. Christopher Manion and I have posted many articles and blogs here at LRC concerning the brilliant insights of one of the greatest political philosophers of the 20th Century, the late Professor Eric Voegelin. In three very important new articles, First Church of Intersectionality; Intersectionality As Religion; and Is Intersectionality a Religion? analysts have continued following in the Voegelian tradition of dissecting this latest form of gnostic political religion sweeping academia and campuses coast to coast. Author Elizabeth C. Corey notes:

In 1968, the political philosopher Eric Voegelin published a little book called Science, Politics and Gnosticism. In a section of that book entitled “Ersatz Religion,” he argued that modern ideologies are very much like ancient Gnostic movements. Certain fundamental assumptions, Voegelin wrote, characterize both ancient and modern Gnosticism.

The gnostic, Voegelin observed, is fundamentally dissatisfied with his situation and believes that the world is “intrinsically poorly organized” and that salvation from the world’s evils is possible. The gnostic further thinks that “the order of being will have to be changed in an historical process” and that this is possible through human effort. Finally, the gnostic looks for a prophet who shares saving knowledge about how to make the transformation happen. It turns out that the intersectional project accords in every detail with Voegelin’s description.

Intersectional scholars are, by definition, unhappy with their situations in life. From an outsider’s perspective, this seems more reasonable for some than for others, though it’s apparent that everyone feels it to a greater or lesser extent. Most affectingly, at the Notre Dame conference, several black feminist scholars from South Africa described the explicitly repressive measures they had endured at their universities, where the prejudice against them is overt and sometimes results in violence. As one scholar put it, “It’s not like I’m full of despair.” Then she paused and thought for a moment. “But, of course, I am full of despair.”

I would put the modern source of this elitist scientism back to the Enlightenment.  There is a dark side of the Enlightenment and its social engineering progeny that many libertarians (particularly those enamored by Ayn Rand’s militant atheism) do not acknowledge.   (more…)

According to the talking heads of NPR, algebra is the biggest barrier that sits between “people of color” and low-income folks getting good jobs. So algebra is, apparently, racist, as well as discriminatory based on social class. Even civil rights activist Bob Moses understood the teaching of math in the public schools  – cramming and regurgitating on state tests – was seriously flawed. But that discussion wouldn’t make for a good victim piece for NPR.

I hope every reader at LRC today carefully reads the important article by the Bionic Mosquito on The Redeemer Nation. This dangerous concept is one of the seminal themes in American history.

In the last decades of Murray N. Rothbard’s life, he developed an important interpretative framework in understanding this American history. This was prodded on by his careful study of the emerging “new political history” which was reinterpreting the dynamics of the ebb and flow of ethnocultural and ethnoreligious groups. This bold synthesis became the central focus of some of his greatest scholarly endeavors, particularly when it came to understanding progressivism as a secularized version of this postmillennial religious zeal.

I believe Rothbard provided the Rosetta Stone to understanding the orgins of the welfare state in America: the role of postmillennial Protestant pietistic intellectuals and activists born in the crucial decade surrounding the Civil War who, because of the seductive influence of the evolutionary naturalism of Darwinism, came of age increasingly secularized, but who did not forsake their faith in statism and elitist social control.

An excellent book which takes the reader on the panoramic journey in understanding how this central idea arose and its continuing impact on shaping our civilization today is The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism, by George McKenna, professor emeritus, City College of the City University of New York. 

As these three powerful and distressing articles elucidate (Madness in the Med: how charity rescue boats exacerbate the refugee crisis; NGOs are smuggling immigrants into Europe on an industrial scale; Blackwater founder returns to save Europe from refugees) one cannot help but be reminded of the stentorian warning to the West emblazoned in the apocalyptic novel by Jean Raspail, The Camp of the Saints (.pdf). In one of the most divisive and controversial works of the 20th Century, Raspail chillingly predicted and prophesied forty four years ago precisely what is occurring and its suicidal consequences for the diseased remnants of that civilization. It is unquestionably the most powerful novel I have ever read.

The late Ralph Raico brilliantly summarized its plot.

Insidious egalitarianism, destructive welfarism, aggressive multiculturalism, Third World invasions by the wretched of the earth, militaristic imperialism posing as humanitarian liberation, and mindless parousiatic atheism in the name of a hallowed pluralism, have blended into cultural Marxism promoted by a Latin American pontiff in the novel. Other prophetic voices have followed Raspail: Oriana Fallaci, Pascal Bruckner, Bruce Bawer, and most notably Patrick J. Buchanan (here, here & here). The culture vultures have indeed come home to roost and are flailing away at the twisted torso of the corpse that was once the West.

In her pathetic smearbook, Democracy in Chains, Duke University historian Nancy MacLean attempts to libel and smear not only Nobel laureate economist James M. Buchanan, but also the Austrian School and classical liberalism in general.  This has generated some questions about Buchanan:  Was he really a libertarian?  Was he a fellow traveler of the Austrian School?

After Buchanan won the Nobel Prize I was asked to write an article for the Review of Austrian Economics, edited by Murray Rothbard, about Buchanan’s relation to the Austrian School of Economics.  I was asked because I was a student of Buchanan’s;  I had been a colleague of his for a few years at George Mason University; I had published widely in both public choice and Austrian economics; and Buchanan had also published some important work in Austrian economics, although his main reputation was in public finance and public choice.

Here is my article, published in 1990.  Here is Murray Rothbard’s devastating critique of Buchanan’s Magnum Opus, The Calculus of Consent (with Gordon Tullock).

—–Original Message—–
From: FL
Sent: Mon 7/17/2017 10:52 AM
To: wblock@loyno.edu
Subject: Some Questions
Hello Dr. Block, My name is LF, and I’m a graduate student studying math at the University of ZZZ. I came across your positions while listening to Sam Seder’s podcast. I usually align myself with the left when it comes to American politics, but I have to say that I found many of your arguments very interesting. I still have some questions though, and I would really appreciate it if you answer them, or direct me to materials that will answer them.

1) As a more general point, who is deserving of property rights? For this, I’m less concerned with rights to exterior property like land, a car, etc., and more concerned with the right to one’s own body. Are brain dead individuals deserving? What about mentally handicapped people? Babies? Animals? The way I see it, one tenable position might base property rights off free will. I think even this requires some caveats though. First, if I own a pet, is it ethically allowable under deontological libertarianism for me to torture this animal? What about small children, who can exercise some amount of free will? I would conclude that many entities are deserving of property rights to their own bodies, but there may be rankings to such rights.

As a thought exercise, let’s assume there is a super intelligent alien species, and this species possesses some form of higher consciousness as compared to humans (one that we cannot fathom just as cows cannot fathom the concept of free will). Would the aliens be ethically justified in using human beings as human beings use animals?

2) How would you address the problem of climate change? Let’s assume for the sake of argument that the basic principles of anthropogenic global warming are true (something that I think most reasonable people would accept). Would you be open to the idea of using force to limit the emission of greenhouse gasses? Based on your answer to the vaccine question raised by Sam, I would assume that you think in some cases this would be justified. As a concrete justification, if you own beachfront property in Miami, and you can prove to your court that my factory is emitting greenhouse gasses which contribute to sea level rise that harm your beachfront property, I think you would have justification in forcing me to stop. Do you agree with what I’ve concluded?
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—–Original Message—–
From: L
Sent: Sun 7/16/2017 2:36 PM
To: wblock@loyno.edu
Subject: Are Creeps Defendable?
Dear Dr. Block, I have been a fan of your work since I was in high school 8 years ago. Particularly, I am a fan of your *Defending the Undefendable* series to which the theme of this email relates. I am writing to you because I am trying to parse out whether it is deontologically libertarian to support private sting operations that publicly expose potential child sex predators (i.e. Creep Catchers, POP Squad, Internet Interceptors) and if so, to what degree? If you are not familiar with the trend, it is when a group of private citizens pretend to be a child, known as a “decoy”, online and wait for a potential predator to initiate the first chat and subsequently inform the potential predator within the first 3 messages that they are an underage child. If the potential predator continues the chat knowing that they are speaking to a child, the vigilante then sets up a usually public meeting place, films, and publishes the interaction which usually leads to a public or private shaming and/or police arrest if they so choose to contact the police. I assume you agree with me that, per libertarian ethics, an individual cannot be punished, by the state or otherwise, if he or she has not aggressed against anyone. This includes one who has merely typed some messages to an imaginary person. Would I be acting within libertarian principals if I complete the sting and publish the video/chat log while maintaining to never contact the police or hurt the potential predator for the duration of the meet? If yes, one can argue that by publishing the materials, the police will inevitably get involved and subpoena all parties to court anyway, which would then increase the likelihood that the potential predator, who has not committed aggression against anyone, would go to prison thus violating libertarian ethics. So, I ask you, would “creep catching” be a pointless endeavor to ruin the lives of innocent people or a courageous way to use the private sector to raise awareness?
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If cops aren’t shooting us dead, they’re planting evidence to “find” at crime-scenes. Fortunately, Officer Genius seems not to have understood how body-cameras work, so he inadvertently taped his assistance to the prosecution: “Police cameras have a feature that saves the 30 seconds of video before activation, but without audio.”

Ergo, the device was silently recording when, “during a drug arrest in January,” Genius “plac[ed] a soup can, which holds a plastic bag, into a trash-strewn lot. … the officer [then] walks to the street, and flips his camera on. ‘I’m gonna go check here,’ the officer says. He returns to the lot and picks up the soup can, removing the plastic bag, which is filled with white capsules.”

Imagine the damage these cretins would do us if they could walk and chew donuts at the same time! (And thanks to Bill Martin for the link.)

Second, in “The Cops Strike Again,”  I argued that calling the cops is suicidal. A reader reminded me, “You don’t HAVE to call the cops! Sometimes, some other fiend calls them on you.” He’s suffered that problem twice, when “concerned citizens” reported him for “alleged crimes THAT DID NOT TAKE PLACE.”

Indeed, the woman in our story had done exactly that: she called the cops because she heard a rape in the alley behind her home. And she died, in her pajamas no less, when the cops shot her, not the assailant. (As Mark, another reader, wrote, “If armed government agents in any South American country acted in such a manner they’d be called what they really are, Death Squads.”)  

Finally, with regards to “Cops Strike, II,” yet another sharp reader noticed there’s more to the story than the Boston Globe reported. It seems the dead man’s father has long been a thorn in the side of the local PD. Casts a whole new light on the cops’ extremely provocative and way-over-the-top “help,” doesn’t it? 

Raven Rock Mountain Complex; Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center;  Cheyenne Mountain Complex;  Continuity of Operations; For additional background resources on Continuity of Government (COG) see: Continuity of Government? by Ron Paul; Continuity of Government: Is the State of Emergency Superseding Our Constitution? by Peter Dale Scott; The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11; by Peter Dale Scott;  9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics, by Peter Dale Scott;  911 and Continuity of Government (COG);  U.S. MILITARY CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLANNING: THE WAR AT HOME;  National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive;  REX 84;  Rumsfeld Updated Army’s Continuity of Operations Plan before 9/11;  HOW THE DOOMSDAY PROJECT LED TO WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE AND DETENTION AFTER 9/11;  Executive Orders; Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness; and Fema Continuity of Operations. Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb –Stanley Kubrick Feature Film; Secrets of War: The Cold War: The Strangelove Factor – Documentary.

Lew, our brilliant mentor and philosophical lode star at LRC, the always prescient Murray Newton Rothbard, had Reagan’s number decades before anyone else. Take a look at this choice selection: The Roosevelt Myth A Review of FDR, 1892–1945: A Centenary Remembrance, by Joseph Alsop; Ronald Reagan: An Autopsy; The Reagan Phenomenon; Ronald Reagan, Warmonger; The Two Faces of Ronald Reagan; Are We Being Beastly to the Gipper? and The Real Reaganomics.

—–Original Message—–
From: V
Sent: Sun 7/16/2017 5:46 PM
To: Walter Block
Subject: Re: Feedback

Last year I emailed you a week after Mises U with the query of which major to select for the PhD (finance vs economics), however, I found your response
shocking as I would thought that you will aggressively advocate for economics, you replied “Whichever is the most fun for you” , this got me thinking and all themes and topics of interest for me where related to internationalization, so after a year of giving a lot of thinking I decided to purse my PhD in International Business which I will start on August 2017. I will like to thank you for your response because I’m now pursing the PhD I that I find the most fun, without any hesitation and/or second thoughts.

Dear V: I’m delighted your happy with your choice. I have several coauthors with whom, at any given time, we have 3-4 articles in the works. Sometimes, one of these coauthors asks me, “What should I work on first, and in what order?” My answer, invariably, apart from cases where an editor is breathing down our necks with deadlines, is: “Do whatever is the most fun!” We Austro-libertarians are supposed to have FUN in our professional (and personal, too) lives. I get this from my friend and mentor Murray Rothbard, who was just about the most joyous person I have ever met. I try to emulate him in every way I can.

Generally I love Andrew Klaven and his sardonic video presentations that lampoon left-wing pretentious idiots. But in this “lecture” before naive  students who have probably not done the in-depth scholarly research on the Kennedy murder, his remarks concerning “the communist Oswald as lone assassin” border upon the criminal. Rather than take his uninformed rant for gospel, I ask students to find out the truth for themselves.

(For the record I am not some self-absorbed progressive navel-gazer, liberal numb-skull, or SJW snowflake but simply an educator who wants students (Klaven’s target audience) to not be enraptured by the masterful way he disseminates his message and investigate the veracity or truth of its content. Don’t be part of some Klaven Kult of mindless drones like Antifa or BlackLivesMatters.)

Question authority, even Klaven, on this and all serious issues of public importance.

There is an ever-growing scholarly consensus among presidential historians, distinguished political analysts, and JFK assassination researchers that on November 22, 1963, an insidious coup d’état by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and the highest echelons of the National Security State was accomplished with the brutal murder of President John F. Kennedy.

The official full 889-page report by the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, about the assassination of President John Kennedy on November 22, 1963, established the cover-up of this coup. Their landmark final report was presented to President Lyndon Johnson on September 24, 1964, and made public on September 27.

What happened on that fateful day in Dallas over fifty years ago led to perhaps the single most important series of events affecting the subsequent history of our nation. It lies at the inner most depth, the dark clotted heart, of what observers now describe as the deep state.

Andrew Gavin Marshall has written an exceptional online summary article, “The National Security State and the Assassination of JFK,” which builds upon the path-breaking research of author James W. Douglass in his widely-acclaimed book, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. These are the first analytical studies serious scholars should examine in depth, followed by the entire five volume series of Douglas P. Horne’s Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK.

Horne is the former Chief Analyst for Military Records for the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), established by the JFK Records Act of 1992, which was tasked with defining, locating, and ensuring the declassification (to the maximum extent possible under the JFK Act) of all Federal Records considered “reasonably related” to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The ARRB was established by Congress as a result of the wide-spread overwhelming response to Oliver Stone’s movie which Klaven demonizes. The Act requires that each assassination record be publicly disclosed in full and be made available in the collection no later than the date that is 25 years after the date of enactment of the Act (which will be October 26, 2017), unless the President of the United States certifies that: (1) continued postponement is made necessary by an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations; and (2) the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

Horne details the numerous anomalies and interrupted chain of custody and destruction of key evidence regarding the president’s body, in the autopsy report(s), the autopsy photo collection (particularly the JFK brain photographs), the deliberate alteration and forgery of the extant Zapruder film, and the supposed “magic bullet” found at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.

Watch Douglas P. Horne’s definitive five part video documentary series here which summarizes his exceptional research, Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK, Assassination Medical Evidence. Horne has also written the concise authoritative summary volume, JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated.

Jacob G. Hornberger has authored three pertinent books which compliment Horne’s pioneering research, Regime Change: The JFK Assassination; The Kennedy Autopsy; and The CIA, Terrorism, and the Cold War.

Other highly recommended books on the Dallas coup d’état include David Talbot’s The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government; Peter Dale Scott’s Dallas ’63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House; Roger Stone’s The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ; Philip H. Nelson’s LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination; and Nelson’s follow-up volume, LBJ: From Mastermind to “The Colossus.”

In the increasingly bizarre, politically correct, gender confused world in which we live, I think the next thing we will see is a man to woman transsexual crowned Miss Universe. It will happen. The only question is how long will it be before it does.