Terror From The Past

(Conspiracy Nation, 8/22/04) -- J. Edgar Hoover was dead. Of that there can be no doubt. Tom Ridge, the Homeland Security czar had just finished a Christmas Eve dinner. He returned to his home.

For a moment, at his front door, he imagined the doorknob looked like J. Edgar Hoover.

Ridge ascended the stairs and went to bed. The clock struck midnight. An eerie voice bellowed out, "R-I-D-G-E... R-I-D-G-E..."

"Code Yellow. Who goes there? Let's see some I.D." the Homeland czar fearlessly called out.

It was the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover, come to warn Ridge. "Ridge... Ridge... Three spirits will visit. Expect the first spirit when the clock strikes one..."

"Just some undigested beef," the Homeland czar told himself.

The Ghost Of Terror Past

1910. Anarchists bomb the offices of the Los Angeles Times newspaper.

March 4, 1913. Inauguration day for Woodrow Wilson. 8,000 women suffragists, many on horseback, want the right to vote. There are riots near the Treasury Building.

March 1917. America at war, the "War to end all war," World War I. We fight against Germany. At home in the U.S., thousands of German-Americans, derogatively called "Huns," are viewed with suspicion. Homeland defenders organize the American Protective League. This "clothesline patrol with neighbors reporting neighbors" has a membership of 250,000. For a mere 75-cents they get a neat badge.

1919. There is fear that a communist revolt, similar to that which has recently occurred in Russia, impends here in the Homeland. The newspapers fan the fears. "In the early months of 1919, homemade bombs began exploding across the country -- left on doorsteps, placed in crowded terminals, and shipped in packages." In June of that year, the "terrorists" go so far as to explode a massive bomb outside the home of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. "The blast was apparently the work of a suicide bomber who was killed in the explosion."

1921. Dickerson Hoover, father of J. Edgar Hoover, has been committed to an insane asylum by his wife, Annie Hoover. When son J. Edgar comes to visit dad, Dickerson "wails in pain at the sight of his son." Somehow, Dickerson has been terrorized.

1922. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) terrorizes blacks in the southern Homeland. In the White House, president Warren G. Harding is inducted into the KKK in a secret ceremony. This is ironic, since Harding is a mulatto who "passes" for white. (See, "Tug Of War For Harding's Soul," www.shout.net/~bigred/TugOfWar.htm)

1933. In the midst of economic despair, "The Great Depression," highly mobile outlaw gangs terrorize bankers. George "Machine Gun" Kelly, cornered by FBI agents and lacking his machine gun, reportedly raises his hands and exclaims, "Don't shoot, G-Men! Don't shoot!"

Post Cereals begins a "Junior G-Man Club." Inside boxes of cereal, Homeland Security fans discover a metal Junior G-Man badge.

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Source: Puppetmaster: The Secret Life Of J. Edgar Hoover. by Richard Hack. 
Beverly Hills: New Millenium, 2004. ISBN: 1-893224-87-2

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