5/11/2009
Larry King: Joining us now, Jesse Ventura, former wrestler, former governor of Minnesota, former Navy SEAL, the author of “Don’t Start The Revolution Without Me.” That book is now out in paperback. Welcome to have you back, Jesse. Now, you see the cover of the book. How is Obama doing?
Jesse Ventura: Too early to tell, Larry. Really, and you know, in my opinion, George Bush is the worst president in my lifetime [...], so Barack Obama, President Obama inherited something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. You know, two wars and an economy that’s borderline depression, so it’s far too early to judge him in 100 days in. I think if you have me back about two years from now, I can give you a much better idea of how he is doing.
Larry King: He poked fun at himself at the White House correspondents there at Saturday night. Let’s watch.
Barack Obama: Finally, I believe that my next 100 days will be so successful I will be able to complete them in 72 days.
(LAUGHTER)
Barack Obama: And on the 73rd day, I will rest.
(LAUGHTER)
Larry King: He’s very likeable.
Jesse Ventura: Oh yeah. He’s very intelligent, which is a change from our previous president.
Larry King: All right already with Bush, okay?
Jesse Ventura: No, no, no. I live in Mexico now, Larry, so I do a lot of reading. I don’t watch much TV and in this year’s reading, I covered Bush’s life. I covered Guantanamo and a few other subjects and I’m very disturbed about it. I’m bothered over Guantanamo because it seems we’ve created our own Hanoi Hilton.
Larry King: Yeah.
Jesse Ventura: And if we can live with that, I have a problem. I would criticize President Obama on this level. It’s a good thing I’m not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it because torture is against the law.
Larry King: You’re a Navy SEAL.
Jesse Ventura: That’s right and I was waterboarded, so I know – at SERE school, Survival Escape Resistance Evasion, it was a required school you had to go to prior to going into the combat zone, which in my era was Vietnam. All of us had to go there. We were all, in essence, every one of us was waterboarded. It is torture.
Larry King: Well, what was it like?
Jesse Ventura: It’s drowning. It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning and it’s no good because you… I’ll put it to you this way. You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
Larry King: (LAUGHS). Even though you know it’s not going to happen. Even though before it, you know you’re not going to drown.
Jesse Ventura: You don’t know it. If it’s done wrong, you certainly could drown. You could swallow your tongue. You could do a whole bunch of stuff to you if it’s done wrong or… it’s torture, Larry.
Larry King: So you…
Jesse Ventura: It’s torture.
Larry King: Do you think United States-Mexico relations are improving?
Jesse Ventura: I can solve that problem for you, too, Larry.
Larry King: Go.
Jesse Ventura: Well, if we have anybody with some courage out there, a politician with courage, there’s an old saying that you study history or you’re destined to repeat it.
Well, what we have now is identical to the prohibition of alcohol and all you have to do is lift the prohibition on drugs and all of that stops at the border. My question is this, are we more offended over murder or marijuana?
Larry King: So you’re saying let the drugs come in and then the cartels…
Jesse Ventura: No. Let our country legalize.
Larry King: Oh, and then the cartels…
Jesse Ventura: Legalize. The cartels are then out of business. Just like Al Capone with the prohibition of alcohol. Capone became more powerful than the government. People are going to do drugs, Larry. It’s that simple and we need to take our heads out of the sand and treat it like an adult.
Larry King: I meant to ask you. You’re a Navy SEAL.
Jesse Ventura: Yeah.
Larry King: And they have a tremendous image.
Jesse Ventura: Yeah.
Larry King: Was there ever a time in your life when you thought fear would overcome you?
Jesse Ventura: Sure, the first time I jumped out of an airplane. I was afraid of heights. I joined the Navy SEALs so I would conquer that fear.
Larry King: Why didn’t you join the parachutists?
Jesse Ventura: The what?
Larry King: The parachutists.
Jesse Ventura: Because I was 18 and at that time you joined the military if you wanted to.
Larry King: Well, I mean, if you have a fear of heights, you’ll join the Air Force and be a paratrooper.
Jesse Ventura: Why, I was a paratrooper.
Larry King: Well… that’s part of the Navy SEAL’s training.
Jesse Ventura: SEAL means Sea, Air, Land, Larry.
Larry King: Oh.
Jesse Ventura: We go to Fort Benning right where the Army does and jump out of the same planes with them at Fort Benning, Georgia and we cause them a multitude of problems because we can’t be prosecuted out on Article 15. The only thing the Navy has is a captain’s mast. In fact, when we were sent to Army jump school, we were told by the old guys we better go there and cause trouble, so we did.
First thing we did, we scaled up and spraypainted “SEAL Team 1″ on the water tower and then, of course, denied it, because as a good SEAL, Larry, “admit nothing, deny everything and make counter accusations”.
Larry King: We’ll be back with Milk Toast Jesse Ventura.
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Larry King: [Your book is] one terrific read. I didn’t tell you that the last time. It really is. Now, what with the Al Franken story? Who is going to sit in the Senate in your state? You only got one senator.
Jesse Ventura: Well, that appears Mr. Franken will. He’s ahead and the last I heard it goes to the Minnesota Supreme Court in June and whenever they rule on it, that should be the end of it because the feds should have nothing to do with it, Larry.
Now, the Coleman people have said they’re going to take it to federal court, but I think it should be thrown out because…
Larry King: You don’t think the precedent was Bush and Gore?
Jesse Ventura: What’s that?
Larry King: That they will hear a state question.
Jesse Ventura: They shouldn’t on an election like that because that’s a states’ right issue. The states determine who they want to send to Washington. Now, the Bush v. Gore thing, that was the president, which was national.
Larry King: Do you think it’s embarrassing to Minnesota?
Jesse Ventura: No, not at all. It’s the procedure. When you have an election that that’s close, you want to make sure you get the right decision, I would think.
Larry King: You’re not criticizing the incumbent for taking it higher?
Jesse Ventura: Well, I criticize him only that Coleman has always been a hypocrite. He never does what he says. He said on election night when he won, that Franken should drop out and he should be the senator. Well, then the same should hold true after the recount.
Larry King: Right back with more of Jesse Ventura on this edition of Larry King Live. A Supreme Court seat is open. Justice Ventura, by the way, you don’t have a lawyer to be on the Court. We’ll talk about it next. Don’t go away.
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Larry King:A lot of things to go into this, Jesse. What do you make of Cheney-Limbaugh? Limbaugh is a better Republican than Powell?
Jesse Ventura: Well, you know, I don’t have a lot of respect for Dick Cheney. Here’s a guy who got five deferments from the Vietnam War. Clearly he’s a coward. He wouldn’t go when it was his time to go and now, he’s a chicken hawk. Now, he’s this big, tough guy who wants this hardcore policy and he’s the guy that sanctioned all these tortures by calling it enhanced interrogation?
Larry King: Do you think Rush Limbaugh is a better Republican then Colin Powell.
Jesse Ventura: No. Not at all. In fact, if you compare the two, let’s look at Colin Powell who was a war hero who strapped it on for his country.
Larry King: Twice.
Jesse Ventura: And didn’t run and hide and then you look at Dick Cheney who ran and hid. Why, I have no respect for Dick Cheney.
Larry King: Okay.
Jesse Ventura: I have tremendous respect for General Powell.
Larry King: Are you going to run for office again?
Jesse Ventura: No, but I would tell you this. I’d like to put out right now that if relations get good with Cuba, I wish Barack Obama, President Obama would make me the first ambassador to Cuba if we get to that point because I went there as a governor. I felt comfortable with the Cuban people. I met with Fidel Castro when I was there as governor. In fact, Fidel Castro’s quote to me, he looked me in the eyes and said, “You’re a man of great courage.”
And I said to him, “Well, you don’t even know me. How can you say that?”
He said, “Because you defied your president to come here.”
Larry King: Do you think it’s time that this non-recognition ends?
Jesse Ventura: Absolutely. It’s ridiculous. I mean, we have relations with Vietnam now. We have relations with every other country around the world, but this island 90 miles off our coast we still have this ridiculous embargo. You know, one thing interesting about Cuba, the Cuban people have never ever burned an American flag down there. They love the American people. They just dislike our government.
Larry King: Do you think it’s coming, though, to an end, that we will have relations?
Jesse Ventura: I would like to think so. It’s long overdue.
Larry King: And letting relatives go?
Jesse Ventura: I think it should be opened up. Why? We are supposed to be in a free country, Larry. How come I can’t go there on vacation?
Larry King: Because the State Department says it’s regulated.
Jesse Ventura: Exactly, but we’re supposed to be a free country. We’re not at war with them.
Larry King: We’re announcing it here tonight that maybe if we open relations, you would be happy to be the ambassador.
Jesse Ventura: I would love to be the ambassador to Cuba.
Larry King: Would you ever want to run for office again?
Jesse Ventura: I don’t so. I’m enjoying myself attempting to become the best surfer I can be down in the Baja in Mexico. Always remember this, Larry. Surfing is a dedication and it’s a life dedication to do it, and if someone were that dedicated to religion, would they call him a religious bum?
Larry King: Okay, but you’re a very big man. Is surfing…
Jesse Ventura: That’s why I’m losing weight.
Larry King: Is surfing difficult?
Jesse Ventura: It’s harder, but I want to get my weight down another 30 pounds, but let’s remember the greatest surfer in the world, Laird Hamilton, is 6 foot 3-1/2 and weighs 220 pounds.
Larry King: Is it true that once a SEAL, always a SEAL?
Jesse Ventura: Aabsolutely. Would you like my poetry?
Larry King: In a minute.
Jesse Ventura: Okay.
Larry King: Wanda Sykes, the comedienne took a hard hit at Rush Limbaugh during her performance last night, Saturday night at the White House Correspondence. Watch this and we’ll have the governor to comment.
Wanda Sykes: To me that’s treason. He’s not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight.
(LAUGHTER)
Jesse Ventura: She might be right. She might be right.
Larry King: Pretty funny. Have you always been outspoken, even when you were a SEAL?
Jesse Ventura: No, I was known as…
Larry King: Even among your SEALs, among your SEALites?
Jesse Ventura: No, no. Well, with the guys I served with, I was probably outspoken. But I wasn’t in situations where you took orders from your officers and things like that when you’re in the military.
Larry King: You took orders.
Jesse Ventura: Absolutely you did.
Larry King: You’re a good soldier.
Jesse Ventura: Absolutely, sailor.
Larry King: Sailor, sorry.
Jesse Ventura: Now, my poetry, Larry.
Larry King: Following this message. Hold on while I want tease it.
Jesse Ventura: Okay, all right. Okay.
Larry King: Your calls, too, but poetry from Ventura is next.
This is just in from Roger Neal. He’s with the PR firm that represents the Miss California Organization. Carrie Prejean nor any of her reps ever asked permission of Miss California USA Pageant officials for Carrie to appear at the National Organization for Marriage press conference. There was never any behind-the-scene talks. This statement by Miss Gallagher is 100 percent untrue.
For Maggie Demas suggested this happened as an untruth. Everything Carrie has done from two days after Miss USA through today has been without permission from the directors of the Miss California USA Pageant.
What do you make of that squabble?
Jesse Ventura: I think it’s much ado about nothing.
Larry King: What do you think of gay marriage?
Jesse Ventura: I don’t think marriage should even be in government. I think it should only be decided in the private sector. That way if the church doesn’t want to recognize it, they are the private sector and they can so choose. The government should only recognize civil unions.
Larry King: What do you…
Jesse Ventura: And that way you don’t have to put down what sex you are.
Larry King: Would you go into the Supreme Court? You don’t have to be a lawyer.
Jesse Ventura: Would I go on it? No.
Larry King: No.
Jesse Ventura: It would take me too much from surfing.
Larry King: Yeah.
Jesse Ventura: Are you ready for my poem now, Larry?
Larry King: Go, poem, poem of Ventura.
Jesse Ventura: Here we go. On the night that Jesus Christ supposedly rose from the dead, the Navy SEAL shot three pirates straight through the head.
Larry King: That’s right. That was the day, right?
Jesse Ventura: That’s right.
Larry King: Wooo, you’re going to make it a song. What about that story with the SEALs? Is that…
Jesse Ventura: Because that is how they did their job. They’re highly trained. They’re the best we have and it didn’t surprise me a bit that they were that successful because they are the best trained men we have.
Larry King: Boulder, Colorado, a call for Jesse Ventura. Hello.
MAN FROM BOULDER, COLORADO: Hi, Governor Ventura, I was just wondering. You said you have moved to Mexico. Is that because you’re so dissatisfied with politics in general, in the United States, and would you consider moving back because we really need people like you and your voice here in the United States?
Jesse Ventura: I still live here half the year. No, I moved to Mexico because of the weather and the surfing and the lifestyle. I live an hour from pavement and an hour from electricity. I live off the grid down there and that changes your whole perspective of the world when you do that.
Larry King: Lakewood, California. Hello. Lakewood, are you there?
MAN FROM LAKEWOOD, CALIFORNIA: Yeah, Mr. Ventura.
Jesse Ventura: Yeah, go ahead.
MAN FROM LAKEWOOD, CALIFORNIA: Why don’t you get involved with the Congress in the discussion about waterboarding since you have the experience and the personal knowledge that it’s torture, disputing Cheney on this.
Jesse Ventura: Well, first of all, they didn’t ask me and second of all, anybody that’s ever been waterboarded will tell you it’s torture. Dick Cheney has never even been in the service.
And in fact, had Dick Cheney gone in the service, he would had never shot that guy because there’s not an accident with a weapon. You don’t have an accident. It’s, you don’t know what you’re doing.
Larry King: Did the Vietnamese, North Vietnamese, Vietcong used waterboarding?
Jesse Ventura: I assume they did.
Larry King: Has it been widely used in war when you capture prisoners?
Jesse Ventura: Well… we were using it at the SERE school back in 1970 when I went to SERE school, Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion. That’s where I was waterboarded. All of us were and apparently that’s what they were using there because they were trying to prepare you for it.
Larry King: What was the purpose of waterboarding our own servicemen?
Jesse Ventura: I don’t know. I guess so you’d know if you got captured that this is what you could face, I guess. I know for a fact that it was worthless to us because everybody in my platoon, we all took a vow that we’ll go out in a blaze of glory. We’ll never get captured.
Larry King: Is it true that a lot of time extreme torture works in reverse and they lie?
Jesse Ventura: Oh, absolutely, and that’s why torture is no good in a court of law because if you’re torturing someone, they’re going to tell you what they think you want to hear to stop the torture.
Let me say this, they say it has prevented things by us torturing.
Larry King: Yeah.
Jesse Ventura: If that’s the case, then why haven’t we caught Bin Laden? Because we got his people and if we torture them, they ought to be able to tell us where he is at. You see, it don’t work. We haven’t captured Bin Laden. We haven’t done anything. Torture does not work.
Larry, it’s my pleasure.
Larry King: Thank you, my man. Jesse Venture. Don’t forget, “Don’t Start The Revolution Without Me” is out in paperback.
Hello Jesse doing a good job keep it up. I was watching one of your T.V shows back in Feb or March of 2010 about how the government hypnotizes people to kill? Well, I do believe this happen to the IC security guard on 03/17/2010 at the IC office in Portsmouth, Ohio. I had a hearing 03/17/2010 and I did bring my recorder and little camera because I knew something was going to happen? But, my so called Attorney told me he knew this hearing officer and not to worry. I gave the recorder and the camera to my wife thinking that I didn’t need it. They called me to go to room #3 As I entered the room there were no attorney’s present, only the hearing officer? He ask me were was every body? I said, “I don’t know I did see them walking around out in the halls early”. And the hearing officer said, ” I need you to go back into the waiting room”? Was the guard suppose to kill me at that time? Well, about 10 minutes later they called my name again to room #3 and this time the attorney’s were present? Jesse I wish you could look into this ?The security guard walked in the hearing room and shut the door and pulling his gun out and said, “are you f**k**G with me.” The gun was about 1 foot from my head through this hole hearing? But, the gun was not pointed at me, it was pointed at the employer’s chest? All of this is very true. My e-mail is Nbaker14@columbus.rr.com. Can some body give me a response because, I don’t know if my messages are getting out? Thank you. Neal Baker
You write in “Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me” “What frustrates and angers me more than anything is this: It’s my generation. We’ve been led down the primrose path once already, with Vietnam. Shouldn’t we, of all people, know about being deceived? How dumb can we be? Now we’ve gone and done the very thing we protested so vehemently against in our youth. We’ve become what we feared.” (pg26)
As I read this paragraph I at first burst out laughing because your anger is so spot on. And then by the end of it, felt this overwhelming sadness. My parents were of your generation. I am just starting to learn a little bit more about this world we live in and what it means to form my own opinion. I feel very passionate about things that are going on and the fact that most people just don’t care. Why don’t they??!
I have a feeling that if I had been alive during the Vietnam war I might have been full of hope, anger, and passion protesting the war. I think back to that time when the people were actually awake and ALIVE. This is the reason why your paragraph saddened me. Your anger at the fact that these people who had once been young and alive, have grown to lose everything they once stood for. The hope. The anger. The passion all died. We need a new generation to wake up.
3 years ago i didn’t know the difference between a Republican and a Democrat. Now I know that, there is no difference. And that’s why we are all in trouble. Unless we wake up and realize the difference is us, PEOPLE. You and me. Thank you for making us heard.
Asked about Palin, Ventura responded with, “She quit.” Wonder what she and Todd quit. Was it their role in getting gas energy via BP to HAARP? Did they quit Andrew Marshall’s grand transformation of imperial power? Did they have a tiger by the tail? Ventura, rsvp.
Jesse,
I want to personnally thank you for all that you have done for the regular people of this country. As a member of Architechs for 911 truth I couldn’t be more happy about your statements of what really happened on that day. I would be happy to support you in any political endeavors you might consider in the future. Our country needs leaders of your stature that aren’t afraid of the truth.
As a 100% Service Connected Disabled Vietnam Vet I also lived in Mexico, Cabo San Lucas during the first Gulf War which reopened a lot of wounds for me. Most of the people of this country that support these wars which are based on lies, have no idea what a war is like. Our country however is pushing the world to the point that they may soon find the horrors of war on our very own doorstep. Maybe then they will no longer play the role of executioner of the innocent.
Wishing you the best, Michael Allison
i got proof jesse is right.
I recently ran for mayor of Jupiter, FL. as an Independent. I witnessed the dirty tricks of both party’s . Our country is being destroyed by the party system! They waste so much time fighting each other, that nothing gets done. We are in for either a holocaust or a revolution. I strongly believe in Jesse Ventura’s theory and insight to what the Goverment is doing. Surely, our forefathers who signed our Constitution must be rolling over in their graves.
If anyone can tell me how to contact Mr. venture, please do, as his ‘contact’ page has been ‘lost’. Go figure!
I think in many ways you are right, It is sad to think that Our Government would do such things, but when there is money to be made. It turns people into Devils!
Our Only hope is in Christ the Lord, and that is Where my Trust is!
God Bless
C Surrett
Jesse
I never liked politics and never voted until lately….the only people I know who I would trust in politics is…YOU, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul…I am sure there are more out there, but they are so few and far between…the three of you would be super as one…
Thanks (you are the man) to you
Dartanian
Jesse said that government workers make higher “average” salaries than the private sector. I heard that report last week, too, but I have a lot of questions about the data and the source of the analysis.
First, define “average”. Federal employees’ salaries are adjusted for different locations. It costs more to live in New York City than it does to live in Manhattan, Kansas. Also, working for the government shouldn’t require a vow of poverty. So, government salaries (although set very low) still have to be sufficient to generate competition and attract capable people. So, before spouting a “statistic” you need to be very clear about the definition of the terms used in the conclusions,
Second, in 12 years of Repububbacan control, federal employees were stripped of resources. The government stopped paying for training to keep employees current in best practices. They reduced the workforce through attrition, which has left fewer people doing more work. They instituted a bell curve in evaluations and restructured the pay scale to feed nepotism, cronyism, sexism, racism, ageism, christianism and party loyalty. The result of cutting resources and playing games with compensation is that the most experienced people left in frustration to work in the private sector. This left a gap in institutional knowledge which allowed consultants and government contractors to tell the government employees what they need and those employees have no ability to push back.
Third, be skeptical of the source of the analysis. Right now, government is having to find ways to cut expenses. One of the easiest expenses to cut that the public thinks it will not feel is labor costs. So, by creating this fiction that government employees are “grossly overpaid” it is easier to reduce their salaries and calm the taxpaying public (which, by the way, includes those same government employees). Government employees are extorted into silence because jobs aren’t easy to come by and they dare not speak out and disprove their employer’s lies.
So, Jesse, just as you have researched conspiracies, please research before spouting statistics. As my dad used to say, “there are lies, damn lies and statistics.”
Jesse Ventura is a prideful, hateful, ignorant man. He spews out his hatred on shows like Alex Jones (a so called Christian). His self righteousness on Larry King Live (even Larry was shocked at the following). I was appalled when I heard him spit out the denial about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. How can anyone take this damaged piece of hardware seriously? Too many body slams and turnbuckles Jesse. I pray you repent and get right with the Lord Jesus Christ, your maker.
Jesse,
17 books read in Mexico you mentioned that about yourself.Please add to the list :Eduardo Galeano.Start off with the book that Hugo Chavez gave to Obama in Trinidad called: Open Veins of Latin America,500 years of pillage.Then his older book:Patas Arriba or Upside Down world and his latest one :Mirrors.
Hope you can listen to Mya Shone and Ralph Scheonman.Go to their webcite:TakingAimRadio and left scroll their archives and know some more of the missing pieces to the Puzzle.Uncompromising facts ONLY heard on 100% listerner-sponsored free speech radio from Pacifica Foundation.
There are people that I know who have the “Dust Samples” that lived two blocks away from ground zero,collected it,distributed it to international scientist that show the manufactured nano-thermite.Potential for a follow up to your initial story.Have a staff member contact me and we can have a cup of coffee
I would be proud to serve alongside such a US patriot as Jesse Ventura, and don’t start without me either!!! I will help Jesse awake the sleeping giant if called upon, and believe me, there is a sleeping giant! It’s time to go haze gray, and underway.
DON’T TREAD ON ME.
I too, have questions that demand answers.
Hey Jesse,
When I first started watching you I was a little skeptical about some of the stories. Fair enough. The more I actually look into the subjects you choose to discover, the more I want to say “I’d like to thank you for asking the questions.” My dad was a navy man, Underwater Demolition Team. They called themselves the blue berets. Sounds like a precursor to SEALS. You know the type, guys who lied to get IN to the service because they were underage and wanted to protect America from ALL enemies, foriegn and domestic. If you run, I’ll vote for you.
God Bless.
kj
I think the things you have done are wonderful. I believe in your sincerity; however with the new show and the way they present you dressed it looks to me like the are trying to make you out a nut… This I find ashamed… I think you are a regular guy who’s lived a wonderful full and knowledgeable life; and a person who brings much to the table… To be dismissed because of image would be our loss… They dress you like a gangster from the North End of Boston like I was in my youth or a Westie… You are Governor, Ventura, Military Seal Ventura not some gangster… Sorry if I offend, but I like you as a representative and whether we like it or not image matters; I put away my mafia clothes. I try not to be threating because i care about people I know you do: I think you should rethink your current image..
Conspiracy FACT (theories which turned out to be true)
from: http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/07/02/28/the-9-most-shocking-conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true.htm
What follows are some of these most shocking modern conspiracy theories that were apparently right all along.
The Dreyfus Affair: In the late 1800s in France, Jewish artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully convicted of treason based on false government documents, and sentenced to life in prison. The French government did attempt to cover this up, but Dreyfus was eventually pardoned after the affair was made public (an act that is credited to writer Émile Zola).
The Mafia: This secret crime society was virtually unknown until the 1960s, when member Joe Valachi first revealed the society’s secrets to law enforcement officials.
MK-ULTRA: In the 1950s to the 1970s, the CIA ran a mind-control project aimed at finding a “truth serum” to use on communist spies. Test subjects were given LSD and other drugs, often without consent, and some were tortured. At least one man, civilian biochemist Frank Olson, who was working for the government, died as a result of the experiments. The project was finally exposed after investigations by the Rockefeller Commission.
Operation Mockingbird: Also in the 1950s to ’70s, the CIA paid a number of well-known domestic and foreign journalists (from big-name media outlets like Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CBS and others) to publish CIA propaganda. The CIA also reportedly funded at least one movie, the animated “Animal Farm,” by George Orwell. The Church Committee finally exposed the activities in 1975.
Watergate: Republican officials spied on the Democratic National Headquarters from the Watergate Hotel in 1972. While conspiracy theories suggested underhanded dealings were taking place, it wasn’t until 1974 that White House tape recordings linked President Nixon to the break-in and forced him to resign.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The United States Public Health Service carried out this clinical study on 400 poor, African-American men with syphilis from 1932 to 1972. During the study the men were given false and sometimes dangerous treatments, and adequate treatment was intentionally withheld so the agency could learn more about the disease. While the study was initially supposed to last just six months, it continued for 40 years. Close to 200 of the men died from syphilis or related complications by the end of the study.
Operation Northwoods: In the early 1960s, American military leaders drafted plans to create public support for a war against Cuba, to oust Fidel Castro from power. The plans included committing acts of terrorism in U.S. cities, killing innocent people and U.S. soldiers, blowing up a U.S. ship, assassinating Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees, and hijacking planes. The plans were all approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but were reportedly rejected by the civilian leadership, then kept secret for nearly 40 years.
The Iran-Contra Affair: In 1985 and ’86, the White House authorized government officials to secretly trade weapons with the Iranian government in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in Iran. The plot was uncovered by Congress in 1987.
1990 Testimony of Nayirah: A 15-year-old girl named “Nayirah” testified before the U.S. Congress that she had seen Iraqi soldiers pulling Kuwaiti babies from incubators, causing them to die. The testimony helped gain major public support for the 1991 Gulf War, but — despite protests that the dispute of this story was itself a conspiracy theory — it was later discovered that the testimony was false. It was actually the creation of public relations firm Hill & Knowlton for the purpose of promoting the Gulf War.
Hi Jesse… Great effort in trying to expose some of the worst crimes in our nations history. As far as the “Firsts” you refer to regarding 911, the list is huge! You probably would benefit by getting the Jersey Girls involved in your investigation of 911. If any group has motivation to see an honest and comprehensive investigation it’s them.
Just an aside… I hope at some time you cover the mysterious death of the late senator from your state, the late Paul Wellstone. Wellstone, as you probably know, was a thorn in the side of the neocons in DC for quite some time. He very well may have been the 2004 democratic candidate for president had he lived… Your thoughts?
Give us a reason to HOPE, Jesse.
Just would like to let you know that telling it like it is as you profess is the only way to go. The TRUTH shall set us free. People do not have faith in their country because the Country lacks faith in it’s people. They (politicians) think we can’t take the TRUTH. They are sadly mistaken. You represent what a true leader must do and say. Count me in. I want to be on your team. If you should decide to accept this mission the American people will more than respond. Take care. L.B.
Dear Governor,
If I had an OUNCE of your dignity, my life would be 1000 times better. You are an inspiration.
Bills in North Korea rescuing planted hostages
Hills in Somalia critizing Iran
GWB 43 almost caught red handed by chinese payee in Australia
The Chinese and UK haven’t been paid, http://www.worldreports.org
Time to unmask the truth to Americans and level with us about who the IRS is and what we actually are as a country – -
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Look at the heritage of GWB and Osama even though he is ‘smart’ cunning is always a trait or smart people, look at Dick Cheney.
We need to wake up the world Jesse – you are a champion and they scared you down but their wave of power is ending soon, help us be more courageous as you once were when their strangle was more powerful.
They got to Bernie Mac, George Carlin, Isaac Hayes, Michael Jackson, all of these men died recently all of a sudden with wierd coincidences surrounding their deaths… There is a mysterious force but it’s going to be unmasked as the recession and tide comes in, you are needed to sound the alarm bells and get our politicians heads on straight. I pledge my allegiance to you cause and rights to our freedoms as United States Citizens… we the people should stand up starting with our military heroes and ordinary citizens.
BTW, do you think we should leave LA?
Mr. Ventura,
I have been watching all of your interviews on youtube and I must say that I cannot believe and am somewhat confused on how you without any reservation fire the facts with no hesitation or fear. On that note I admire your passion to face the problems and challenge them head on, I think that the Unites States is in dire need to take a breath of fresh air not only as a nation but world wide as well, lets face it the U.S is the beacon for the world if the United States is doing well so will the rest of the world. I believe that you are the man who is capable of rejuvenating the United States and from the majority of people whom at least 75 percent have shown support just from all of the comments posted on your videos, will help you achieve the goal for your up coming political role if you so desire. I just wanted to thank you it is a pleasure to listen to you and if the people would just take an objective point of view from your opinions and knowledge I believe that real change can happen. All the best Jesse and best of luck.
Johnny.
Gov. Ventura,
You have my support, should you decide to run in 2012. Thank you for your service to our country, and government. I am not from your state, but do support you in case you decide to run for elected office.
Thank you,
Ronin Kannushi.