ALAN writes:

On the night of Jan. 31, 1968, I sat down in front of our TV to watch Johnny Carson speak with New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison on “The Tonight Show”.  The topic was Garrison’s claim that John Kennedy was taken out by a conspiracy, including elements of the CIA, and that the Warren Report was a Fairy Tale.

Those were hard possibilities for most Americans to consider in 1968.

The CIA responded to Garrison by advising its assets-pretending-to-be-“journalists” to ridicule and smear Garrison as a “conspiracy theorist” or “conspiracy buff” or just plain wacky.  They were happy to do so.  Ad hominem attacks were launched in place of addressing the murder of the president.

Johnny Carson was incredulous. Why, he asked Garrison, would so many “experts” and “authorities” and a blue-ribbon panel and President Johnson endorse the Warren Report if it were not valid?  It was too much for Carson and other Americans like him to imagine that all those prestigious men could be wrong or were liars, or that some of them were liars and the others decent but much too gullible.  “Nice” people could not imagine that their government could be so evil or that lawyers and doctors in finely-tailored suits and with impressive-sounding credentials could be party to such a fraud.

That appeal to authority did not impress Garrison, or me.  At that time, I neither accepted nor rejected what he said.  I listened to weigh and consider.  Two years earlier I learned that some doctors are liars.  Medical authority and political authority ceased to impress me.  So when one man spoke in opposition to what such authorities claimed to be the truth, I was willing to listen.

Doubtless Garrison made mistakes and was purposely led astray at times.  But he was a rarity in late-20th century America:  An independent thinker.  He was not bought or up for sale.  He was in no one’s pocket.  He read history.  He read and quoted Orwell, Koestler, and Shakespeare.  How many attorneys today could do that?

If he were here today, what would he see?

— A whole new set of fairy tales about a killer virus, mask mandates, lockdowns, and vaccine passports—asserted to be true by (what a coincidence) the Government and the “mass communications” industry;  just as the Warren Report fairy tale was said to be true by (another coincidence) the Government and the “mass communications” industry.

— Calculated attempts to smear and demonize Americans who question those fairy tales and prefer instead to think for themselves as “conspiracy theorists”.

— Americans’ trust in government agencies, the president, doctors, “experts” and “authorities” that is orders of magnitude greater than it was in 1968, even when proof is readily available that the Virus/Vaccines Fairy Tales were planned and discussed years in advance.

— A “war on COVID” that is much more ominous than the takeout of an American president because it tells Americans that their very survival is threatened by the killer virus.  Big Lie.  The truth is:  It is the “experts”, “authorities”, doctors, and government who threaten their survival. Lyndon Johnson’s thirst for power in the 1960s pales by comparison with men like Biden and Fauci who aspire to become Supreme Dictator.

Among the lessons to be seen here is how Americans react:

When told that a Fairy Tale concocted by the Warren Commission was the truth, most Americans believed it “because the government said so”, “experts” said so, and “authorities” said so.

When told that Fairy Tales about a Killer Virus and Safe Vaccines, concocted by wealthy and powerful men in suits and with impressive-sounding credentials, are the truth, most Americans believe it “because the government says so”, “experts” say so, “authorities” say so, and “doctors” say so.

Jim Garrison would be appalled by the absence of gravitas and masculinity in American life today and by the stupidity of television and public debates.   By contrast, his discussion with Johnny Carson was a model of civility:  They addressed each other in a civil manner, and there was no shouting, name-calling, or histrionics.

He might be equally appalled by how naïve and gullible Americans have allowed themselves to become.  But he would not be surprised by their government’s seizure of ever more power.  In some ways, he predicted it.  If Americans do not hold their government fully accountable for the lies it told regarding the murder of their president—for the distortions and misrepresentations, for the non-investigation that was called a comprehensive investigation, for announcing their “findings” even before their investigation began, and for concealing information at odds with the Washington Party Line, Garrison wrote in 1970, then they will end up living in tyranny.

Endless expansion of the Warfare State is what he expected, and he was right.  What he did not expect or foresee is that Americans would also be tyrannized by government “wars” on abstractions (“terrorism”, “hate speech”), a cradle-to-grave Welfare State, and a Therapeutic State that practices tyranny and calls it do-goodism.

We are now Jim Garrison — we who are confronted daily by Authority asserting lies and dishing out orders for us to surrender our rights, our liberty, our freedom of commerce and freedom of travel, and our future to that Authority.  The extent and depth of this evil goes far beyond anything Garrison could have imagined.

Most Americans laughed at Jim Garrison—the “Liberals” and the “Conservatives”, the Government and the “mass communications” industry, the newspapers and the radio and TV networks.  But today the laugh is on them, now that they have multiple tyrannies to choose from.

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