Tim Cavanaugh | September 10, 2004
Brian Doherty goes behind the grassy knoll to find Oswald's unsung accomplice.
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Just goes to show you never can be sure -- that smelly nut walking down the street talking to himself just might be an authentic American cultural icon.
The juxtaposition of this story next to the "Skull and Bones"
story is really, really suspicious.
Fnord.
"ONE of the Lee Harvey Oswalds acted alone." - Final conclusion of the conspiracy panel at the 4th world Sub-Con 1992, dobbstown malaysia
Excellent piece---I just wish Doherty would have mentioned
Thornley's fascinating essay "Is Paranoia a Form of Awareness?"
which appeared in Adam Parfrey and Jim Keith's excellent conspiracy
anthology Secret and Supressed (Feral House, 1993)
In a gripping first-person account, the article chronicles his
journey into the far-fringes of conspiracy culture.
Apparently the Idle Warriors was initially going to be a "poor
man's Ugly American" that would reflect his newfound embrace of
Marxism.
However, "as a result of reading Ayn Rand's polemical novel Atlas
Shrugged" on a ship home to the states, his politics started
heading in a different direction.
Nonsense; using a vintage '73 Selectric our highly trained typists have reproduced the "impossible memo" dozens of times
Here's a link to a short bio of Thornley (with picture):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Thornley
He's out there, man!
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