("Quid coniuratio est?")
[From an interview with Linda Thompson on the For the People radio show, Feb. 11, 1994. Host is Chuck Harder.]
[Continued...]
CHUCK HARDER: To order Linda Thompson's new "Waco, the Big Lie Continues," or "Waco II," if you please, you can call 1-800-888- 9999, around the clock. If busy, keep trying.
Uh, O.K. Let's go ahead. Back with Linda Thompson.
And we've talked about the Scott case, and what we've talked about is, is there is a potential, underlying desire for assets. Uh, this was certainly true in the Scott case (this is coming out, now), and we also know that here in Florida there was a county in, oh, I'm gonna call it "east central Florida," where the sheriff's deputies were stopping cars. And if they found cash, they took it.
You probably heard of that, didn't you?
LINDA THOMPSON: They do that at the airports fairly regularly.
HARDER: Yeah. And so if somebody was travelling and they had cash in their vehicle and they got stopped, they wouldn't get the cash back! One lady had been travelling from Georgia, with cash to help her family that was a victim of hurricane Andrew, and they grabbed her dough!
So essentially, what we have here is a... Here's my impression, if I may...
THOMPSON: It's an alternative tax.
HARDER: ...Exact... What we have here is...
THOMPSON: "Fund raiser."
HARDER: ...O.K. What we have is this:
-+- The Harder Statement -+-
We have a country, in my opinion, that is on the road to national suicide. We are on this road through what I call "free trade at any price." In other words, we have moved our factories overseas; we are putting Americans out of work; the products are being made by 19 cent or 50 cent an hour peasants, in the various countries. The products then come back into the United States as consumer goods, [and] are sold at the same price as if they were made in the USA. The super-elite, whether it's at Nike or whether it's at General Electric, or whatever, are able to make millions of dollars a year and make the stockholders happy.
However, the American workers are put out of work and wind up on welfare. People on welfare can't pay taxes. So when you have a government now that has lost its tax base, the only way it can get money (when it's lost its tax base) is by taking things. What's left?
We saw in the medical industry (and I've talked to a doctor who essentially admitted this), the medical industry has survived for many years, one way or another, from generations of people who had savings. And when grandma was in the hospital, or grandpa, the last 2 weeks of their life on the respirator, they essentially sucked up their life savings!
You... Correct?
THOMPSON: Yes, absolutely.
HARDER: ("The Harder Statement" continues)
O.K. So we have had confiscatory medicine. {1}. Unfortunately, those, those generations of people with life savings are now disappearing. And the people who are getting sick today don't have any money.
So we have this terrible downward spiral of a country that has very little manufacturing left. Last week, if you heard, 442,000 people signed up for unemployment. {2}. And we have all these re-training programs, but regrettably there are no jobs. And so, consequently, we have a country on its way to national suicide. And at the same time we're doing this, we have all of these "sideshows" running around, with rogue elements of governmental agencies, that are killing our own people and seizing assets!
The problem of it is, -- whether you agree or disagree (and this is my opinion, based on what I've seen and read and heard) -- when the government seizes this stuff, it's only for the moment! They are only "rich," in their mind, for the moment. Because the government never sells the assets for any amount of money, because of the downward spiral.
Are you with me?
THOMPSON: Yes, I am.
HARDER: In other words...
THOMPSON: You realize the local law enforcement agencies, though, get to keep the cash that they seize. Or at least a large percentage of it, depending on whether they seized it themselves or with a federal agency. This is a funding mechanism for local police departments that can't be beat! They've come up with equipment they never would have been able to afford to purchase otherwise. That's why all of 'em have SWAT teams now.
HARDER: Yeah, but you see, the nonsense that has happened -- especially in the state of Florida, that, dear Lord have mercy, it's awful -- not only the murders of the tourists. And of course, the bad guys in the state of Florida know not to "hit" Floridians because a lot of Floridians, that are driving, have got guns!
THOMPSON: Um-hmm. [Affirmative]
HARDER: So the bad guys leave the natives alone and they zero in on the tourists. And hopefully now that is coming under control. And Lord have mercy, I hope so. But this other nonsense that's hit the national press {3} has really hurt tourism in Florida. So they're killing the golden goose!
Your thoughts.
THOMPSON: They have not been known for their intelligence...
HARDER: No.
THOMPSON: ...best I can tell.
HARDER: No. It's just greed. {4}.
THOMPSON: And it's greed... and it's greed... They're no different than any other criminal. They're not real bright. They're just greedy. And that's what we're seeing: We've got criminals running our government!
And that's my hue and cry. This is the thing I'm trying to expose here: Why are these people... if for no other reason than the fact that when you're in a position of trust, when you are an elected official, you have a very, a burden of trust and honesty to your... the people that you're supposed to be serving. We can prove conclusively that every one of our leaders has just lied to us, directly LIED to us. If nothing else, if we can't prove they've committed murder, rape, robbery, theft, anything, we can prove they've lied.
So why are they still in office? That's my point. Why are these liars in their jobs?! They should be out.
HARDER: Well, regrettably, I think you know that ever since the Nixon administration and prior, prior to Dick Nixon, of course, uh, you had people after him. You had Lyndon Johnson, of course, and you've got all of these other administrations that have used "damage control," they call it. They call it "damage control." Isn't that lying by omission?
THOMPSON: Right, well it's lying, period. And when you fraudulently... When you misrepresent things to the public because it might look bad -- you're lying!! And that's what they've done.
Now one of the things that was... I think the alarm has not been sounded on, that I think it's important to sound on your show; it ties into things: Last Thursday, we had Janet Reno, Al Gore, Cisneros from HUD [Department of Housing and Urban Development], and Lee Brown gave us the "crime briefing" is what they called it, on February 4th [1994]. And in that crime briefing, each one of them presented one piece of information. It was as if, O.K., Gore gets up and he says 20 paragraphs. And there's one line in there that's real important. Then Reno and Bentsen get up. Each one of them said 15 or 20 paragraphs with one line that's important. But what they all said was, our government is going to do house-to-house searches in all of the housing projects around the country; that Cabrini Green and New York had been "test tubes," "test grounds," for this; and that they're going to use the Secret Service to go in and inspect light bulbs and exits and so forth at these projects. And they're going to use the ATF to do just like they did at Cabrini Green.
And you may remember that. They went in these projects [e.g. Cabrini Green, in Chicago], they arrested anyone who didn't have identification, they seized guns. They did illegal searches and seizures in every single one of those places.
Now what's even worse than that, all of them said things like -- and this is a direct quote from the transcript [of the "crime briefing"] -- "We're really talking about an entire area of cities, entire neighborhoods." They are not speaking of limiting this strictly to housing projects. Housing projects, to me, is bad enough. The people that live in those projects are citizens, the same as anyone. They have the same rights as anyone. But we have a federal court that has upheld these searches and seizures as legal, and they have already said they are going to expand this beyond the housing projects.
People, that was our warning. That's it. They've laid it on the table. It doesn't get any plainer what they're about to do.
HARDER: Well, I can remember. There was a little, a little poem... Or not a poem, but a little dissertation:
First they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up 'cause I wasn't a Jew.
And then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic.
And they came for the trade unionists. I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
They came for the Communists. I didn't speak up 'cause I wasn't a Communist.
And by the time they came for me, there was nobody left to speak up.
And that was a... That came out of World War II, at the time Hitler had the death camps open.
We'll be right back.
(to be continued)
----------------------------<< Notes >>--------------------------
{1} "...we have had confiscatory medicine." Juxtaposed with the
more recent "alternative tax," i.e., confiscatory raids by the
Sheriff of Nottingham and crew.
{2} "442,000 people signed up for unemployment." These are
people signing up for the first time. In other words, 442,000
people in addition to those already registered as unemployed.
{3} "This other nonsense that's hit the national press..." i.e.,
police confiscations of cash.
{4} "It's just greed." Worth taking a look at: What is greed?
Excessive acquisitiveness, according to my dictionary. As Kahlil
Gibran writes in The Prophet, "What is fear of need but need
itself?"
I encourage distribution of "Conspiracy Nation."