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In terms of probability they are all linked and have all
been authorized by the same force -- the military indus-
trial coalescence which now dominates America. The par-
ticular missions apparently were all accomplished or
instigated by the Central Intelligence Agency -- the
hidden alter ego of our nominal democracy which, by
virtue of its clandestine character, its totalitarian
philosophy and its secret marriage to the high command
of the military is free to do many things our traditions
would never tolerate. Each of these victims were effective
opponents of the Viet Nam war and each of them had a large
following in the United States. Thus, the warfare complex
in recent years quite apparently has accomplished the
systematic elimination of eloquent opponents of the Viet
Nam war, such men being more genuinely dangerous to the
warfare machinery itself than the worldwide Communist
conspiracy with which it justifies its expensive existence.
This has not been apparent to most people in America
becaus e the mass news media will not print statements
which suggest that such a thing could happen here.
The timing of Senator Kennedy's assassination indicates
that he had to be removed because it was apparent that
he would be another John Kennedy -- which is to say that
he shared President Kennedy's view that the Pentagon
should not be determining the foreign policy of the United
States. Within minutes after he won the California
primary he was shot by a "lone assassin" and a major oppo-
nent of the Viet Nam war was removed from the Presidential
race. While the modus coerandi in Robert Kennedy's murder
is different from that in John Kennedy's assassination,
this is merely a matter of detail to a powerful intelli-
gence agency.
Even in Robert Kennedy's assassination, however, once again
we find that international factor which does not quite fit
the rest of the picture. Once again we encounter a man
who -- however joyless his boyhood might have been --
has
a background of international travel not shared by most
Americans. Just as Lee Oswald had been to Russia and
Mexico and James Earl Ray had been to Canada and Portugal
and England, Sirhan Sirhan had traveled from the Mediter-
ranean to Los Angeles. The "loneliness" of our assassins
seems not to have prevented them from seeing the world
more than most lonely people do.
In the case of Martin Luther King, the modus (perandi in
many cases resembles that used in John Kennedy's murder.
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