COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
"Why Lyndon
Johnson, a truly awful man, is my political hero"
I am very sorry to read that from anyone.
I know Johnson well, having read several major biographies
and the material touching him in other biographies and histories.
He was, without question, the most evil man ever in the Oval
Office, and that really is saying something.
The most destructive, without question.
Johnson started a gigantic and completely unnecessary war
using cheap tricks. It would eventually kill something on the order of
3,000,000 Vietnamese and leave that land a horror zone of landmines and Agent
Orange, things which are still killing.
Of course, the Vietnam War was also responsible for creating
the conditions which led to the "Killing Fields" in Cambodia. That
country's neutral government was toppled owing to all the American bombing and
incursions. Another 1,000,000 died.
Johnson also has a documented history of election fraud.
Robert Caro documented fraud in his very first election in Texas. He worked
with a very dirty bunch of people. And of course, there was more fraud in the
1960 Presidential election. Johnson and his boys delivered Texas for Kennedy.
Johnson was a king-sized crook with piles of dirty dealings
with the likes of Billie Sol Estes and Bobby Baker, dealings which without
Kennedy's assassination would have ended his career and shortly. Johnson’s
truly filthy associates included a man by the name of Malcom "Mac"
Wallace, a convicted murderer and a dangerously violent man suspected of a
number of paid killings.
Wallace is thought to have killed one of Johnson’s early
political opponents, an honest man who wouldn’t bend. Most interestingly, a
fingerprint of Wallace’s was found on a carton in the Texas Book Depository.
That fingerprint was absolutely identified by a world-class expert, but it has
never been explained in the official version of events.
If not part of the actual plot, Johnson was at least
complicit in the assassination. Kennedy’s death literally changed his whole
fortunes and outlook. Indeed, the Russian intelligence people secretly
concluded that he was part of the plot.
Johnson’s character I think is best exemplified by his
quickie swearing-in ceremony aboard Air Force One in Dallas. It was completely
unnecessary, but he insisted. We’ve all seen the news photo. There is Mrs.
Kennedy, still wearing her blood-stained suit standing near Johnson for the
photo.
He was both using her as a publicity gimmick and, I very
much believe, subjecting her and her family to a degradation ceremony. He truly
loathed the Kennedys for the way he had been treated as Vice President,
shuffled aside with duties of zero importance. Witnesses to his private
conversations testify that his hatred was intense.
Johnson also had the distinction of some kind of
still-secret complicity with Israel in its 1967 War and the ferocious effort to
sink the USS Liberty. There is no other explanation for this man's mild
reaction - and Johnson had a legendary temper - to Israel's deliberate and
serious act of war. So, he willingly saw about forty American servicemen killed
in some dark scheme we still do not understand. Indeed, the belief of a number
of analysts is that Mossad had knowledge of Johnson’s complicity in the
assassination, and that knowledge is what shut him up.
