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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 78
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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This past week (Dec. 1-7, 1996) we heard that "experts" are
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deciding that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is too high and
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should be lowered by about 1 percent. One effect of this CPI
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lowering will be a decrease in Social Security payments. Local
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radio program "News From Neptune" points out another aspect in
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this, that this lowering of the CPI will enable other "experts"
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to "prove" that "the economy is good."
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In the latest issue of the monthly, hardcopy Conspiracy
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Nation newsletter, mention is made of Adolph Hitler's "Big Lie"
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technique. In that issue I suggest one of the current "big lies"
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is that "the economy is good." With a lowering of the CPI, this
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falsehood is enabled to be propped up: "proof" is now
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forthcoming that, regarding today's workers, "no, it turns out
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that they don't have to work longer than their parents to achieve
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the same standard of living after all; see, here's 'proof' based
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on the lowered CPI."
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Look for "experts" to appear in the future "proving" that
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"the economy is good" based on wooden-leg CPI figures.
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The newsfakers argued this past week that, for example,
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people are not buying new cars as often and therefore high prices
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for new cars are not what they seem. Yet this is a "chicken or
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egg" argument (a la "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"):
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people don't buy new cars as often because they can't afford the
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new cars! It's not like it's some new chic lifestyle choice to
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drive the same car past 100,000 miles.
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In CN 9.77, mention was made of the enfuriated reader who
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believed that the Rev. Chiniquy and Jack Chick were actually the
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same person. Responding to my scoffing, the enfuriated reader
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responded:
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Oh yeah? Then who is this Chiniquy guy? Why does Chick
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hold the copyright on Chiniquy's book? How can Chick hold
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the copyright on a book that he didn't write?
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Chiniquy<-->Chick: can you say "pseudonym?" Care to put
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your money where your mouth is with a little wager? How
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about 25 bucks, donated to the winner's favorite charity,
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that the book WAS written by Chick. Game?
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(Enfuriated Reader)
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As it turns out, I should have taken "ER" (Enfuriated Reader) up
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on the proposed wager. For I now have in my possession an
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ancient, mouldering book (the kind whose pages you must turn
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carefully, lest they crumble), entitled *Fifty Years in the
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Church of Rome* by Rev. Charles Chiniquy, St. Anne, Kankakee
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County, Illinois. The copyright is from the year 1886. I have
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photocopied the relevant pages, and am prepared to send said
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copies to "ER", should he still wish to wager on the matter.
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Say good-bye to "dry spells"; I have a copy of the
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Congressional Record from 1910, from which I ought to be able to
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extract items of interest to conspiratologists. Here is one:
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Congressional Record, House, Jan. 26, 1910, p. 1043.
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[Regarding HR 13410, Mr. Hull of Iowa states] Mr. Speaker,
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this only changes the present law to conform to the recent
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laws as to the militia and volunteers. When the Articles
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of War were adopted by the Congress, the militia included
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all able-bodied males between the ages of 18 and 45. Now
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we have a law organizing what is called the "organized
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militia" or "national guard." This bill puts in before the
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word "militia" the word "organized." In addition to that
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it recognizes what our volunteer law recognizes as a third
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line, called the "volunteers" and it simply adds the words
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"or volunteers"...
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(Partial transcript of an interview of Don Freed, author of
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Killing Time, a new book about the O.J. Simpson case. Freed is
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interviewed by Sherman H. Skolnick.)
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DON FREED: Killing Time is a study made by a group of
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researchers, and published by MacMillan, which attempts to
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substitute an idiom or an alphabet of forensic timelines -- of
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facts -- in place of the temper tantrum of race and rage which
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greeted the jury verdict.
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We first create a timeline. And we ask the question, and the
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reader is in the place of the juror. And you follow the
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blood-red footprints into the murder killing time -- into the
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timeline. And if you find that Simpson could not be in that
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killing time, that there is "something wrong" (in Dr. Henry Lee's
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words), then you have no choice but to look at other
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possibilities, other scenarios.
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK: What other scenario, for example?
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DON FREED: For example, organized drugs and vice in the wealthy
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west side of Los Angeles.
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK: Which are known to the authorities, and were
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known to Judge Lance Ito through his police captain wife,
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Margaret York, who was in charge of internal investigations in
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the L.A. police.
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DON FREED: That is true. And one of the first reports linking
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the killings in Brentwood to other murders in the same lifestyle
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circle -- cocaine -- was the Chicago reports from your
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headquarters. [Mr. Skolnick chairs the Citizens' Committee to
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Clean Up the Courts, in Chicago.]
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK: In other words, is it possible that what they
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claim is his special footprint there, in the blood, that he could
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have come on the scene after the crime was committed?
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DON FREED: That's one of the possibilities. And we have about a
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half a dozen options for the reader and the juror to follow.
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK: Do you raise that question, that he could have
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come on the scene after the murder?
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DON FREED: Yes, we do. On the scene before, or during, or after.
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK: But not having committed it [the murder(s)].
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DON FREED: That is right. And we also pose the question that,
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since we do not know who the killer was, we do not know who the
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target was. And that could be Mr. Goldman, it could be Ms.
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Simpson, it could have been Ms. Resnick, the house guest, or it
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could have been O.J. Simpson himself.
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I think you have been on the right track from the beginning.
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I think we're looking at a corner of the canvas of big-time
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sports and sports gambling, which involves big-time narcotics.
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK: The public has to know that in the early '70s,
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you helped edit a book on the corruption and dirty business of
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the L.A. Police intelligence, called The Glass-House Tapes. What
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do you make of the judge's police captain wife, who was liaison
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to DEA, to Drug Enforcement?
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DON FREED: That's right. And that is why, I think, neither the
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prosecution, the defense, nor the judge, wanted to get anywhere
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near drugs.
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK: But the point is that you believe that many of
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those involved in the trial knew what was really involved.
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DON FREED: Well I think so, including some of the lawyers and
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investigators!
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK: What do you make of one of the victim's
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father, Fred Goldman? That's screaming all the time?
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DON FREED: He interrupted me on "Larry King Live" [Cable news
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program] with a furious monologue. And I told him that I
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understood his position but that he had no monopoly on justice,
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and that we have to start from scratch. And the fact that his
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son may have been the target in no way justifies his murder.
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Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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