Abe and Bobby

After John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, he is said to have shouted “Sic semper tyrannis (thus always to tyrants)”. The phrase is on the Great Seal of the State of Virginia and is thought to have originated from the assassination of Julius Caesar:

As we have seen in my previous post “America’s Sacrificial Kingship”, the killing of Lincoln is both consistent with Jefferson’s 20-year plan for nourishing the Tree of Liberty and with the way Lincoln conducted his Civil War and ran the country.

Lincoln’s rise to national prominence included his well-received “house divided speech”, which dealt with the issue of slavery by comparing the Union to the divided house referred to by Jesus at least eight times in the New Testament of the Bible. I think the most revealing of these Biblical passages is the following:

And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? (Matthew 12:26 KJV)

The house (or kingdom) of which Jesus spoke is Satan’s house. God’s house will last forever, and He deals with division by casting out and destroying any dissenters. If He wished, He could destroy the entire universe and start all over again. Satan on the other hand needs all the help he can get. He cannot create or destroy anything without God’s permission; all he will ever have is the deceived souls he can capture. If the fallen fight among themselves, then he has no kingdom at all. The point here is that in his speech Lincoln was acknowledging that the United States is Satan’s kingdom, not God’s.

The other provocative thing about Lincoln is that he was shot in the head on Friday, April 14, 1865, which happened to be Good Friday. This suggests that like John Kennedy he was put to the test to determine whether he was the antichrist (or worthy to be anointed as The Messiah):

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (Revelation 13:3 KJV)

Unfortunately Abe failed the test, and now he belongs to the ages.

Bobby Kennedy, on the other hand, never had an opportunity to take the test. His killing was similar to that of David Koresh (i.e., killed for the crime of being “not worthy”). Had he been elected to the Presidency, America might have gone down a completely different path. We’ll never know.

But I would like to point out three interesting things about Bobby’s death:

(1)    The 2006 film Bobby begins with a fire alarm which emptied the Ambassador Hotel where Bobby was killed. False fire alarms are one of the ways that the CIA and other clandestine groups gain access to buildings to steal records or to plant something in the building. If there were additional assassins that day (in addition to Sirhan Sirhan), the fire alarm would have given them ample opportunity both to test the building’s security and to plant weapons for later use.

(2)    In his 2002 memoir Secrets Daniel Ellsberg described a visit he made to Bobby just before his assassination. He said that he found Bobby walking unescorted down the corridor of the hotel. When asked what happened to his Secret Service protection, Bobby said he sent them away because he feared they were spying on him.

(3)    Although all the witnesses and the existing film records of the assassination agree that Sirhan was standing in front of Bobby while shooting him, the autopsy showed that all the bullets which struck Bobby entered from the back of his head. This would only be possible if Sirhan had fired blanks and someone else had shot Bobby from the rear.

America is a strange place. Magic bullets change course in mid air, bullets fired from the front enter from the back, skyscrapers with robust central support cores collapse as if the cores were not even there, assassins and/or terrorists (a.k.a. patsies) who were completely unknown to the authorities before doing their earth-shattering deeds are suddenly known COMPLETELY within a few hours. How does all this happen? And more to the point, why do we believe it over and over again?

Here’s something I wrote on the evening of September 11, 2001, and which is still valid today:

Rep. Gary Condit (D-Ca) is a member of the House Permanent Intelligence Committee. His sub-committee assignments are-

(1) Human Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence

(2) Technical and Tactical Intelligence

As you may have noticed, Rep. Condit has been harassed for the past several months because of the Chandra Levy "disappearance" and probably has been unable to do his job.

Today, a terrorist attack took place, in part, because America lacked (1) Human Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence and (2) Technical and Tactical Intelligence at the highest levels of government.

What's the probability that Rep. Condit was harassed so that this terrorist attack could proceed? And if he was, what nation is capable of such harassment?

Some compare the American people to sheep. Some of the potential differences between us and sheep are that we are capable of rational thought and also capable of resisting those who would send us to the slaughter house; sheep have neither of these capabilities.

Unfortunately, although we periodically sing about living in “the land of the free and the home of the brave”, that phrase no longer represents the reality of our lives.