General Dynamo

moonlight in vermont

2011-07-29T17:24:00.000-07:00

prime cuts of usa culture

2011-07-26T15:20:00.000-07:00

Melange of feelings felt today.

Melange of feelings felt today.

Eminence Front

2011-07-18T17:24:00.000-07:00

Jerry Casale of Devo

2011-04-30T15:42:00.000-07:00

FUNKHADAFI

2011-03-24T20:12:00.000-07:00

The leaders of the world, big and small, can go fuck themselves and die for all I care.

Another Kind of Tea Party

2011-03-18T10:42:00.000-07:00

Nice pop tune, -has wind tower visuals juxtaposed against some interestinglyrics, plus a hand sign when he pulls a high note later in the song and "Sister Awake" seems like some sort of satanic thing going on...But what are you going to do?

Control

2011-02-16T18:21:00.000-08:00

"I think we're property.
I should say we belong to something:
That once upon a time, this earth was No-Man's Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it's owned by something:
That something owns this earth-all others warned off."
-Charles Fort

William Bramley Interview

2011-02-16T16:45:00.000-08:00

Electronic Ascent

2010-12-28T17:43:00.000-08:00

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God"

Even though spoken by the oppressors, it's still true.

Good Morning!

2010-12-26T07:06:00.000-08:00

Civilization

2010-12-21T20:22:00.000-08:00

Memory Hole Lane

2010-12-19T08:37:00.000-08:00

I came across this on one of the larger conspiracy blogs and it brought me back to eighth grade when the school system began to hit us with some actual knowledge.
It it striking, as with 1984 and Brave New World, how much is revealed by the controllers to the controlled.

It is also interesting to note how the very depressing and spiritually dead novel, A Catcher In The Rye, is given to students to read. This is the book that Mark David Chapman was reading after he shot Lennon and was given a place of importance in the awful movie Conspiracy Theory:
(at 8:20 is where it comes up)

Films like the above are much like the shadowplay given to the prisoners in Plato's allegory...
This one is a much better dream within a dream:

Most esoteric and religious teachings tell us that this world is a dream or is as temporary and substantive as a passing cloud. That doesn't make it seem any less real to those of us trapped in this web.
"I just had the weirdest dream..." (at 2:00)

I always like to give examples from Srila Prabhupada, leader of the Hari Krishna Movement. I find it impossible to give myself over to one religion or another due to all the human additions to the basic knowledge of each.
Each religious text loudly declares that it is the only one and that to accept another is sacrilege. Now THAT is mind control and Controllerspeak.
It either hits the heart and mind as true or not, that it the basic premise I work with.

don't crash

2010-12-14T18:44:00.000-08:00

The Winged Beatle

2010-11-12T20:41:00.000-08:00

Is Paul dead or alive? Or is he more of a high-level-trickster-John Dee-type of 007 government agent? And/or did John sell his soul to the devil to be "more popular than Jesus"?
The Process, Manson, The Beach Boys, Polanski, Catcher In the Rye, Rosemary's Baby, The Dakota...on and on the connections go.

Hand Jive

2010-11-11T20:20:00.000-08:00

All crafty and shit.

...and she's "The Beast" too. Wow!

Nine Times

2010-11-02T20:19:00.001-07:00

New Generation

2010-10-26T19:42:00.000-07:00

Sacrificial Bonfire

2010-10-22T21:35:00.000-07:00

Huxleyville

2010-10-19T07:31:00.000-07:00

White China

2010-10-17T21:37:00.000-07:00

Great lyrics for a pop song. I never understood the title back when it came out, but I do now.

Headhunter

2010-10-12T21:34:00.000-07:00

Hmmm...

Police and Thieves

2010-10-10T13:47:00.001-07:00

Rainbow-"Stargazer"

2010-10-05T23:08:00.001-07:00

And then there's this version, which sounds better:

Near-Death Experience

2010-09-30T15:00:00.000-07:00

Gripped By Fear

2010-09-29T21:12:00.000-07:00

Jerkin' Back And Forth

2010-09-27T21:13:00.000-07:00

Squarepusher-Cooper's World

2010-09-23T10:18:00.001-07:00

Beta Band

2010-09-16T19:35:00.000-07:00

Resist the Command

2010-09-14T21:55:00.000-07:00

Word

2010-09-05T19:38:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I think Jesus was a convenient fiction, but I definitely believe that God is personal, if that makes any sense.

Total Invasion

2010-09-03T15:04:00.000-07:00

"As far as trying to go up against the goverment, well, unless the whole country did it , i guess.."

Just enough water
for one third of the world
Oil barons running the government
so I'll start a war

All votes invalid
use any old lie
gonna carve up your wealth
like pumpkin pie

Only fools won't realize it
won't be told that empires run on gold black gold

It's a global abrasion
it's conflagration
United Nations
it's a Total Invasion

Terrify them
complete submission
this our goal
this our mission
Destroy your customs
you'll have no say
We'll clothe your women
the western way

It's a Fucking Crusade
A Lesson In Trade
So all you intellectuals
Were gonna invade

It's a global abrasion
it's conflagration
United Nations
it's a Total Invasion

Mexico city
24 million people
half a litre per
person a day

The final push
the last battle
Eden restored
man is cattle
we want your oil
we want your land
we'll take your wealth
you'll have much less
well change your God
to the bitch goddess.

It's a global abrasion
it's conflagration
United Nations
it's a Total Invasion

Funny Handshakes and War

2010-09-02T21:00:00.000-07:00

Love...and Peace...and

Chainsaw

2010-08-10T07:19:00.001-07:00

Corn Circles

2010-08-06T05:52:00.000-07:00

Transfiguration

2010-08-03T19:52:00.001-07:00

Far 0ut

2010-08-02T19:38:00.000-07:00

A Piece of the Action

2010-08-01T20:14:00.000-07:00

...and how to control a planet.

Mark Lombardi

2010-07-30T18:43:00.000-07:00

New York Times covers his suspicious death.

Popul Vuh

2010-07-24T16:42:00.000-07:00

Second Tooth

2010-07-21T09:07:00.000-07:00

Type O Negative "Haunted"

2010-07-20T09:25:00.000-07:00

Wipe That Sound

2010-07-09T20:31:00.001-07:00

Autechre

2010-06-29T22:34:00.000-07:00

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Electric Fence

2010-06-24T08:01:00.000-07:00

Nice

2010-06-22T19:38:00.000-07:00

fiREHOSE "Understanding" / Minutemen "This Ain't No Picnic"

2010-06-21T21:01:00.000-07:00

Smooth Noodle Maps

2010-06-18T12:12:00.000-07:00

Front Line Assembly "Gun"

2010-06-17T20:29:00.000-07:00

The Chemical Brothers "Rize Up"

2010-06-16T07:14:00.001-07:00

"Who are you?"

Not the exception in Washington, D.C. , the rule.

Yamaha C605 Electone

2010-06-15T20:55:00.000-07:00

Piggies

2010-06-14T08:23:00.000-07:00

Dedicated to Thomas Chittenden.
Actual pigs are sweet and loving animals.

Skylab

2010-06-06T19:11:00.001-07:00

Lene Lovich

2010-06-02T20:49:00.000-07:00

My type of woman.
And if you can make it through the intro (reminds me of a roommate I had a couple of years ago) this is real nice...

and the writing's on the wall:

Zero and One

2010-06-02T09:05:00.000-07:00

That's all we are, a skin chamber for the soul.
I can't wait for this internet to die and all the rest, cell phones and shit.
Ever notice how they make you pay through the teeth for an education? Real knowledge is controlled. Old Vatican books and even old local books and documents are hard to access. Knowledge is not free and open, you are not allowed to wander the (research) library stacks randomly, which is the best way to make some sweet finds.

The real way of education used to be through talking with the old wise man/woman of the village, if you didn't get the full story from your parents first.
Soon enough all this bullshit will be over, so I shouldn't complain...

Here's something on a more positive note:

Mouse on Mars -DiskDusk

2010-06-01T22:20:00.000-07:00

Notice the chemtrails throughout the video. Artists so engrossed in in "expressing the zeitgeist" that they fail to look up and ask questions.
I'm all for nurturing creativity (making art has been the main activity in my life) but the left brain has validity too.

Dreaming by Gianni Proietti

2010-05-31T20:51:00.000-07:00

My Own Way

2010-05-27T07:15:00.000-07:00

Beyond the radio waves

Above the earth

and talking monkeys

turned inside out

I can't be reached there

and it feels great

The Thin Wall -Ultravox

2010-05-26T08:20:00.001-07:00

"Grey men who speak of victory
Shed light upon their stolen life
They drive by night and act as if they're moved by unheard music
To step in time and play the part
With velvet voices smooth and cold
Their power game's a game no more
And long the chance to use it"

Life Is Life -Laibach

2010-05-25T08:48:00.000-07:00

and for the chaser...

The Montauk Project

2010-05-24T21:20:00.000-07:00

An interview with Preston B. Nichols, Duncan Cameron and Peter Moon in 1993, concerning the alleged time travel and mind control experiments that took place in Montauk, Long Island.
Stewart Swerdlow claims to be a survivor of these experiments:

It's always good to be skeptical of this kind of thing but it doesn't hurt to check it out.

"Neutron Scarab Arduino modular bass synth testing"

2010-05-21T21:07:00.000-07:00

"I am fun to make. I am pleasurable to program and tweak. I am a delight to play. NOW OBEY ME."

Nitzer Ebb "Let Your Body Learn"

2010-05-18T09:05:00.000-07:00

Learn...Choose..Build.

Politicians, Serial Killers, the Military and the Occult

2010-05-14T10:52:00.000-07:00

While watching a clip from the film "Man Bites Dog" recently, it occurred to me that the protagonist is just like a politician. He tells you how the world is, or should be, and covers his murderous lifestyle with verbose lectures on aesthetics and culture.

Here he talks about city planning and would fit right in with those he is critical of.

Ted Bundy was the same way...

There is evidence that people like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Lee Lucas and other "serial killers" were all part of military and/or occult terror campaigns used as psychological warfare on the unsuspecting public. All of these guys were military.

"A U.S. Navy psychologist, who claims that the Office of Naval Intelligence had taken convicted murderers from military prisons, used behavior modification techniques on them, and then relocated them in American embassies throughout the world ... The Navy psychologist was Lt. Commander Thomas Narut of the U.S. Regional Medical Center in Naples, Italy. The information was divulged at an Oslo NATO conference of 120 psychologists from the eleven nation alliance ... The Navy provided all the funding necessary, according to Narut.

"Dr. Narut, in a question and answer session with reporters from many nations, revealed how the Navy was secretly programming large numbers of assassins. He said that the men he had worked with for the Navy were being prepared for commando-type operations, as well as covert operations in U.S. embassies worldwide. He described the men who went through his program as 'hit men and assassins' who could kill on command.

"Careful screening of the subjects was accomplished by Navy psychologists through the military records ... and many were convicted murderers serving military prison sentences."

(Harry V. Martin and David Caul "Mind Control, Napa Valley Sentinel, August-November 1991.)

The above quote is taken from Dave Mcgowan's eye-opening article on the subject "There's Something about Henry".

While these guys are in it solely for the kill, politicians may be in it for the power trip, the power over people which can manifest in any number of ways. The psychopathy probably grows deeper as the sexual blackmail (disguised initially as a perk) intensifies.

Politicians may be seen as generally corrupt, such as taking bribes from a favored industry, but the deeper psychopathy does not necessarily reveal itself publicly.

Jeffrey Dahmer appears quite normal and unassuming:

Not every politician is an out and out criminal. Most are involved in at least some shady business deals but there are many levels to this.

The majority of books and films which glut the bookstores and propound to reveal Masonry's secrets exist simply to sell Masonry to the public as a good thing. Underneath it is network that ties the military, religion, business world, politics and the rest of the occult world together.

David Berkowitz was openly involved with Satanists and his monniker was "Son of Sam", i.e. son of Uncle Sam, the government.

Satanism an undercurrent running through so much of the weird happenings in society because its practice allows, using sacrifice, access to earthly power (at least temporarily).

This guy (Marc Almond) is as open as it is possible to be and admittedly it is a catchy tune, but I couldn't begin to cover all that is wrong with this video...

As an artist he is allowed to express openly what is really going on, just out of sight, in the various strata of society.
Same with these guys:

fade to black...

"Talk Is Cheap" Flipper

2010-05-13T05:26:00.000-07:00

Comes from the heart.
This too...

alphas and betas

2010-05-12T08:18:00.000-07:00

Unseen web descends

a twitch in the eye

an itch beckons

silent waves hit

Salt crystal processor

gears grinding

the life-force

The ultimate revolution

arrives too soon

"Threshold" Front Line Assembly

2010-05-11T19:31:00.000-07:00

"All great leaders, the leaders of men...
They lie to us all, they try to pretend.
They tighten the rope around your neck,
distorting all your views, until the bitter end"

Philip K. Dick on Our Programmed Reality

2010-05-05T21:54:00.000-07:00

I recommend his book, Radio Free Albemuth .

Capricorn One

2010-05-05T08:21:00.000-07:00

Mars=Moon
"Morning, Horus!"
"Horus was a popular Egyptian god who was the son of Osiris and Isis. Osiris and Horus were both solar deities. Osiris was the setting sun, Horus the rising sun."
(http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen046.html)

"The tenth sign of the zodiac, Capricorn is ruled by powerful Saturn, the planet of structure and responsibility, but it is the exaltation of Mars, the planet of action and desire. cardinal (creative and original) sign, Capricorn governs public life and organisation, combined with personal ambition and will to succeed."
(http://www.astrologycom.com/cap.html)

Tunnel Vision Special

2010-05-04T23:24:00.000-07:00

Serve it up, six secrets

Six secrets I see and you don't know just how
I see

Hit a nerve and now it stings, so what?

Petty shallows, cold water with manure scum on top

Funny memory of pastoral irony

Revelation in the pasture

Took the bull by the horns

But strange how that cow lost its head

Pasteurized, cauterized

Six ways to the sun god

Clara Rockmore and Leon Theremin

2010-05-03T20:14:00.001-07:00

Clara

Leon

FLA "Dark Dreams"

2010-04-29T19:10:00.001-07:00

Front Line Assembly "Provision"

2010-04-29T07:37:00.001-07:00

"Well I guess there's nothing for us to worry about,
We're the ones who've got control."

Front 242 "Animal Gate"

2010-04-27T20:33:00.000-07:00

Coming Soon

2010-04-26T09:26:00.000-07:00

Read this, about Wernher Von Braun.

Excerpts:

Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going to identify third-world country "crazies." We now call them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would build space-based weapons.


The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it. Asteroids- against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons.

And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. That would be the final scare. And over and over and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving speeches for him, he would bring up that last card. "And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie."

...

There is no doubt in my mind that Wernher Von Braun knew about the extraterrestrial issue. He explained to me the reasons why weapons were going to be put into space, the enemies against whom we were going to build these weapons, and that all of that was a lie. He mentioned that extraterrestrials were going to be identified as the final enemy against whom we were going to build space-based weapons back in 1974. Wernher Von Braun never spoke to me about any of the details that he knew related to extraterrestrials except that one day extraterrestrials were going to be identified as an enemy against whom we are going to build an enormous space-based weapons system. Wernher Von Braun actually told me that the spin was a lie-that the premise for space-based weaponry, the reasons that were going to be given, the enemies that we were going to identify-were all based on a lie.

Nothingness

2010-04-24T22:00:00.000-07:00

Saturn and Uranus in opposition soon.
It happens in clusters every 45 years.
Probably one reason for the Saturnine gloom rising to the surface.

Oklahoma City Bombing: "Terror In The Heartland"

2010-04-19T23:08:00.000-07:00

Let There Be Light

2010-04-17T21:34:00.000-07:00

Every once and a while the government does something right.

The Beta Band -Assessment

2010-04-11T19:48:00.001-07:00

2012-The Future of Mankind by Michael Tsarion

2010-04-08T13:37:00.000-07:00

Artist

2010-04-02T08:49:00.001-07:00

Chi/Energy

2010-04-01T20:29:00.000-07:00

Chemtrails, Lake Champlain, Vermont

2010-04-01T15:51:00.000-07:00

Yeah, normal air traffic over Burlington, Vermont.

Plattsburgh, Montreal, Albany, Manchester, Quebec City, Portland, Boston, New York... Draw straight lines connecting all of these airports and see if ANY of them cross directly over Burlington.

These are not small, private jets making these trails.

And look at the haze.

A little later on...

Others can rationalize it away because they are not critical enough and think anyone who points it out is "negative" and "paranoid".

Think what you want, kids. Nice, pricey education at the University, vacations in pleasant places, concerts, skiing, fucking, getting fucked up, so of course they can't see what is right over their heads.
Too busy being positive to give a shit, I guess.

"Let Your Body Die" Cyber-Tec

2010-03-28T19:34:00.000-07:00

Monomi

2010-03-27T15:41:00.000-07:00

Crazy diggity-danged computers.

Michael Tsarion - Architects of control

2010-03-25T19:08:00.000-07:00

Secret Space 2 -Alien Invasion

2010-03-18T17:11:00.001-07:00

Richard Dolan

2010-03-17T12:53:00.001-07:00

Domecile Conjugal (Bed and Board) by Francois Truffaut

2010-03-15T19:02:00.000-07:00

End The Game by Flipper

2010-03-09T22:04:00.000-08:00

I owe taxes, rent went up $100 a month and the U.S. Military budget is $651 billion?
FUCK 'EM!

Kick To Kill by Noise Unit

2010-03-09T21:01:00.000-08:00

I like the music but there is far too much violence in the world.
"Lawyers, guns and money" -exactly the kind of shit we could do without.
The leaders get us to kill each other with those things.
That Tommy Gun would be nice to own, I have to admit.

I prefer this type of action...

Nice work, lady!

Lifeforms by FSOL

2010-03-05T06:37:00.000-08:00

Plasticity-Front Line Assembly

2010-03-03T06:03:00.000-08:00

Delirium-Stone Tower

2010-03-02T20:19:00.000-08:00

Out of Control

2010-02-17T16:03:00.000-08:00

Very similar to what I experience daily at work...

The Computer is Control

2010-02-08T08:57:00.000-08:00

It records every move

It can hear and see

Information is processed

sent to human managers

reports are filed

and assessed

decisions made

projects

reports made

and back into the computer it goes

A new digital you

interacts with the others

and more decisions are made

The noose is tightened

Electronic light

fades to black

The Cold People

2010-02-05T08:45:00.000-08:00

The crystalline flakes of snow fall lightly
on the brick and pavement

People pass by cold and angry

Anger from selfishness and self-righteousness

Media targeted propaganda saturation is accurate,
complete

Money evaporates away

Leaders full of shit

Television programming

killing our souls

as Religions say "our way only"
spoken from cold and capricious
hearts

failing to build true bridges of warm love
and compassion
to God

That icy fear leads back to The Evil One,
for sure

and he is cold, so cold.

Synthesizers and the Defense Industry

2010-02-04T03:42:00.000-08:00

Midway through this interview one of the guys from Fairlight mentions the Defense Industry trying to get the company to come over to the dark side.
This is unlike Jim Mothersbaugh of Devo who once worked for Roland and now is a U.S. Military contractor:

Jim Mothersbaugh (brother of Mark) built his own synthesized drums which he played in the first Secret Agent Man video and in 1979 he began working for the synthesizer company Roland. He says that he got to work on the development of MIDI, the system which allows diverse synthesizers to communicate with each other.
In the June 1984 issue of Keyboard Magazine is this question by Greg Armbruter to Jim:

"How do the technical needs of Devo affect the development of products at Roland?
A good example of that just happened. I told Devo that in a few months Roland was going to have a master mother keyboard, not the184 system, which would have a piano action and would control different synthesizers offstage. But Devo said 'We can't wait; we're ready for it now. We'll carry the expense.' So we developed it and built it just for Devo, and now we'll sell it (the MKB-1000 keyboard)."

Jim Mothersbaugh began working for a division of Roland called Roland D.G. (Digital Group) which contracts to the U.S. Military but now has his own company called Circle Prime Manufacturing in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. His company designs and tests electronic countermeasures for the military and is "the largest supplier of communications modules for pilots."

Howard Storm's Account of the Afterlife

2010-01-28T09:56:00.000-08:00

Some will say that it was all in his head, a hallucination, but his descriptions fit not only the Christian perspective, it also matches the Vedic texts, as far as I have read (mostly the Bhagavad-Gita).
I find his account very moving.

The War on Democracy-by John Pilger

2010-01-22T09:43:00.001-08:00

Senator Patrick Leahy Trance-Formed

2010-01-20T15:26:00.000-08:00

A controversy surrounds the book entitled "The Trance-Formation of America", by Cathy O'Brian.
O'Brian claims to be a former mind controlled sex slave who served U.S. Presidents and Congressmen as well as passing classified information between them.

Cathy O'Brian

The book reads like a mixture of James Bond and a pornographic romance novel.

The people who control Cathy, "handlers", are mainly in the entertainment industry and many top performers and politicians are named. Jimmy Buffet, Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney, George Bush Sr. and Kris Kristopherson are among those mentioned.

Also mentioned is Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who is portrayed torturing O'Brian by putting a microchip in her eye with a hypodermic needle. All sorts of crazy sexual abuse by him and the others is described.

Here is an excerpt:

"Most of my traumatic encounters with Leahy were alien-themed, but he often relied on my Catholic upbringing to drive his points into my mind. From my perspective, Leahy was unquestionably one of the most intelligent criminals of this entire Shadow Government. His carefully contrived chameleon-like characteristics provided him the latitude of appearing to share the principals and beliefs of whomever he was masterfully manipulating both on a national level and international level. He won Reagan's respect through their shared diplomatic ties to the Vatican, and his Irish-Catholic heritage. While he appeared publicly to oppose Byrd on Senate Appropriations issues, they actually worked together behind the scenes in their shared world dominance efforts. Again from my perspective, Leahy was a loner who had his own agenda and answered to no one I knew. Leahy's intelligence was often manifested to me by triple depth meaning to his words and actions. Everything he did was for a deeper purpose, and this trip to vermont proved to be no different.

...I had seen and experienced basement "spy conditioning" torture chambers before both in the U.S. and Mexico, and Leahy's "torture lab" looked more like a NASA lab. His access to the latest advancements in electronic/drug mind control technology was consistant with his ability to use it."

This is wild reading, to be sure, though it is claimed to be true by the author.

This book has the feel of disinformation to it, but with a twist. It is as if someone on the "inside" has written this book for fun, telling truths as they get their jollies off writing it, because the book has a very salacious way of describing both the sex and the people involved.

Since most citizens would rather not face the nasty underside of politics and politicians, reading a book like this would to them seem like an obvious exercise in fantasy, especially the way it is written.

Many psychopathic criminals have a strong desire to tell the details of their crimes publicly, such as taunting police with details like the Zodiac killer did, in his letters to them.
If one were a politician and a psychopathic criminal, what better way to reveal one's crimes than in a book most would find unbelievable, especially when mixing fantasy and reality.

Glimpses of the sordid reality of politicians sometimes do surface in mainstream media but usually only for the sensationalized story of the week or as filler somewhere on page A19.
These types of stories pass in and then out of the public mind like so many television shows that never make it beyond the first season.

Senator Larry"toilet stall" Craig!

Put together as a whole though it would appear that many, if not most, politicians are up to their necks in criminal activities.

Certain stories come to mind Such as the Franklin County Cover Up or the Marc Dutroux Scandal in Belgium, both of which implicated high level politicians and would be enough to take down whole governments if the mass media was truly independent of the government and military.

In Vermont both Senators Leahy and Sanders are lauded for their work on behalf of the state and its citizens.
They also bring home the bacon, or Pork, the kind of Federal money a state needs but only a Senator can obtain.

The Senators satisfy both the liberals and conservatives of the state by supporting humanitarian and military causes. Many technical jobs exist in the state because of military contracts and are an easy sell in a liberal state because many of the technologies are "dual use", having both military and civilian applications.

Both Sanders and Leahy are blowhards. They are both masterful talkers. This is their job. They have busy days and competent staffs that handle the details, although I'm sure they are controlling micro-managers.

They say what needs to be said to please the state and national audience. Think about how many issues Leahy has taken on during his career. Some local problems are consistent, such as milk prices and the like, but all those flash in the pan national issues just come and go yet it's like he is Mr. Expert Big Man in front of the cameras. (He's also a shutterbug in his spare time, speaking of photography)

People are so starry-eyed about these guys that few take the time to investigate the charges made by Cathy O'Brian, especially since the accusations are so lurid.
This is one effect of her book, making the charges against Leahy appear all the more wild due to the context it is given.

Leahy certainly must run a tight ship as far as employee loyalty is concerned and if there were any improprieties, one would be wary of disclosing such information because few would believe the charges if they were as far out as O'Brian's.
Leahy is also a powerful and well-liked public official and to take him on would be a daunting task.

Leahy is a fan of The Grateful Dead and was a good friend of Jerry Garcia, who was himself possibly connected to the intelligence community.

Dead Thread

Researcher Jim Keith wrote in Mass Control:

"An FBI internal memo from 1968 mentions the employment of the Grateful Dead as an avenue 'to channel youth dissent and rebellion into more benign and non-threatening directions.' [They] performed a vital service in distracting many young persons into drugs and mysticism, rather than politics."

Everybody is aware of how drug use is intertwined with the Grateful Dead and how they never seemed to lose their sixties status or following.

The Garcia/Leahy relationship would fit right in with the template of entertainer as handler and Senator as abuser that O'Brian sets up in her book.

Leahy was State's Attorney for Chittenden County before he ran for Senate in 1974, so does this mean he puffs on the side? Was it that one acid trip (I'm guessing) he took back in '68 or does he just "like the music"? Why wasn't he busting Garcia and band with their bucketloads of Heroin?

Drugs in and of themselves are not necessarily bad, but used in society, en masse, at the appropriate time can distract people, even if momentarily, from the immediacy of pressing problems.

Aldous Huxley writes:

"The twenty-first century...will be the era of World Controllers... The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship education will really work-with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown."

Lightening-bolt flags of British Fascists

The Grateful Dead's heir apparent, Phish, is a talented and creative band but curious in connection as to where they sprang up. It could be nothing-going out on a limb here-but the bar, Nectar's, is directly across from Senator Leahy's office in downtown Burlington, Vermont.

"My lawyers give funny handshakes!"

Placement is everything in this town, just as Senator Sanders' office is in the Masonic Temple that dominates Burlington, physically and spiritually.
Could be nothing, just some philanthropic old farts practicing ritual sun worship magic. Regular folksy things like that.

Corruption in politics is nothing new, nor entertainers and politicians shmoozing together in after hours debauchery.

Here are some excerpts from a 2009 senate speech on the reunion of Phish:

"Mr. President, I want to give recognition to an event taking place in Hampton, VA, beginning tonight, March 6. This weekend, Vermont's own musical group, Phish, will celebrate a reunion not far from our Nation's Capitol, following their retirement in August of 2004.

...What began at the University of Vermont in Burlington, and was nurtured at Goddard College in Plainfield, flourished into an enormous creative musical force that delighted fans from across the world for many years. They spread their music throughout Europe and Japan, from coast to coast in the United States, and rang in the millennium in front of 85,000 people on the Big Cypress Indian Reservation in Florida, playing that concert's final notes as the sun rose over the horizon at the dawn of a new century.

Theirs has been a remarkable journey of musical exploration, improvisation and risk-taking much akin to the early era of the Grateful Dead. From outdoor summer festivals to Halloween celebrations that found the band donning musical "costumes" by playing an album of another musical group from beginning to end, Phish carved a niche in the musical world that was left conspicuously empty with their retirement."

Leahy also is into caped crusader Batman.
and even had a bit part in the Batman film The Dark Knight.

It is not necessary to believe in a world-wide conspiracy to understand that blackmail, bribery, prostitution of all styles, drug running, torture and murder happen behind the scenes in politics and entertainment. It happens locally, nationally and internationally and there may be no outright conspiracy but people simply covering their asses for nasty actions.

Something in the portrayal of Leahy by O'Brian rings true even if the book is a work of disinformation, which it most likely is.
It is only when someone in power trips up in public that the weirder and sicker side shows up on the public's radar, and even then it is usually whitewashed over.

All those in favor, say "eye".

ECHO-Leahy Center