Most Dangerous: A True Story
By Sherwood Kent and Kris Millegan
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The year is 2013, the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, and Kent discovers that he and the rest of the unwitting citizenry of Tupelo, Mississippi, are enmeshed in a year-long series of scripted events meticulously planned and brilliantly executed by some of the most ruthless, diabolically creative, powerful psychopaths on the planet. From a critical look at the suspicion-arousing Boston bombings to new revelations about the Kennedy assassination and the Zapruder film, the author weaves tantalizing insights into a range of historical events that help the reader better understand the breadth and depth of the villainy with which Kent is faced.
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Most Dangerous - Sherwood Kent
Most Dangerous
– A True Story –
Sherwood Kent
Most Dangerous
Copyright © 2015 Sherwood Kent. All Rights Reserved.
The images are commentary and do not denote any endorsement.
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Kent, Sherwood.
Most Dangerous—1st ed.
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1. John F. Kennedy Assassination. 2. Psychological warfare -- United States -- History -- 21st century. 3. Occultism -- Political aspects -- United States. 4. Secret societies -- United States. 5. Conspiracies -- United States. 6. Political corruption -- United States. I. Kent, Sherwood. II. Title
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Forethought
Once Upon a Time
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.…We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.…In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons … who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
– Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
– Ivan Pavlov
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Walter Lippmann
Hollywood is a place where they pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50¢ for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe
Youthful idylls, cut bare by flim-flam shenanigans partnered with the constant meme-drama-drone of apocalypse and jubilee, are seemingly cut short. Out of the ashes … a new covert slavery is being birthed.
We now live in much different world than we were born into.
Where it stops … nobody knows?
This book, Most Dangerous, is a tale of aftereffects – from the writing of Kent Bain’s book, The Most Dangerous Book in the World, to the consequences of years of psychological abuse directed at the American people.
From sales techniques to sophisticated political control, the American population has been and is being subjected to massive amounts of propaganda and psychological manipulation – meme warfare.
What is a meme? According to the Urban Dictionary: [1] An idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media). [2] A pervasive thought or thought pattern that replicates itself via cultural means; a parasitic code, a virus of the mind especially contagious to children and the impressionable. [3] The fundamental unit of information, analogous to the gene in emerging evolutionary theory of culture.
Sherwood Kent examines the arena using images, words and humor in this commentary about today’s pressure-cooker bombastics that overwhelm us with cultural effrontery emblazoned across our shared consciousness daily.
A sly attempt to foist upon us a contrived reality based not upon mutual liberties and freedoms, but through the deliberate and conscious manipulation of personhood – thralldom. As Goethe, stated: The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
Time is a-coming, time when we must make choices, to kneel in fealty to the corporate masters, genuflecting on cue in our assigned roles … or do we stand up? Be human beings with the courage and understanding that what we accomplish is: Mankind’s future.
Many excuses are used to do nothing, to disengage from our responsibilities. But as Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita says, Shake off this base faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of enemies!
And as Christ scourged the moneychangers in the temple decrying it, A den of thieves.
Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country!
So please take our slaughtered president’s words below to heart, and understand … you can make a difference. The future is yet to be made!
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
– John F. Kennedy
Onward to the Utmost of Futures,
Peace,
Kris Millegan
Publisher
TrineDay
August 18, 2015
Table of Contents
Title page
Copyright page
Once Upon a Time
And So It Begins
Hitting Home
September 30, 2013: Blue Mountain, Mississippi
Payback is a Bitch
Washington, DC
An All-Star Cast
Difficult Adjustment
Nights at the Roundtable
A New Pearl Harbor
Payback?
Dire Consequences
Not the First
Twelve Days of Terror
The Boston Massacre, Part II
Monday, April 15, 2013: Boston, Massachusetts
The Big 5-0
No Link?
Masters of Illusion
A Faulknerian Feud
Tuesday, April 16, 2013: Washington, D.C. and Tupelo, Mississippi
Hometown of the King
I Approved This Message
It Just Keeps Getting Better
Suspicious Minds
Drug Through the Mud
I Approve This Cell
Up in Flames
Gone West
Wednesday, April 17, 2013: West, Texas
Third and Three
Orwell Strong
More Theatrics
More Holes
I don’t even eat rice.
The Puppeteers’ Toolbox
Hidden Meaning
Memes-r-us
You Want Cream and Sugar with That?
This Place is Crazy
Crime Scene Revisited
April 25, 2013: Dallas, Texas
Grand Opening
Triumph!
The Rise of the…
Why Mobile?
Mr. Not-So-Funny Guy
April 27, 2013: Washington, D.C.
Another Marathon Explosion
That’s Not Funny
In the Crosshairs
Staged Terror Plus
The Golden Jubilee of the Killing of the King
Hoffman Lenses
A Blunt Instrument
Fidelity. Secrecy. Silence.
November 22, 1963: Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas
No Closer
How Big?
Abundant Signs
The Temple of Doom
The Ultimate Who-Done-It?
A Crafty Affair
A Collective Trauma
The Subjugation of Humanity
Funhouse U.S.A.
Quite a Day
Number Two
Brave New Insanity
Happy Birthday, Edward!
The Ultimate Threesome
Our Grand Master
Brave New Trinity
Craftiness Applauded
A National Knightmare
Under the Dark of Knight
Not-So-Good Friday
Some Sirius Sh*t
Bush-Whacked
Self-Incrimination
Bloody Elm
Unhealthy Obsession
The Bickle Finger of Fate
World’s Creepiest Love Letter
Delayed Ambitions
Gettin’ Hinkey with the Hinckleys
Sure You Would
Did You See That?!
Too Technical
A Second Version
Yellow Streak
A Unique Anomoly
Well, I’ll Be Damned
Twelve Days
As Mass Ritual
Bending Reality
It’s On, Baby
Justified Suspicions
Three Kings
The Bitch is Back
Let’s Get the Party Started
Funny Guy
Pre-Twelve Days
An Ode to Oswald
February 2, 2013: Glen Rose, Texas
A Carefully-Crafted Approach
Gettin’ Crafty
Ode to Oswald (Bootylicious Mix)
February 3, 2013: New Orleans, Louisiana
Crap Shoot
February 14, 2012: Pretoria, South Africa
Oz Squared
The Golden Jubilee Birthday Boy
Mega Drive-By
April 9th, 2013: Tupelo, Mississippi
Making the Connection
The Worst Thing in the World
Tuesday, April 16, 2013: San Jose, California
System Failure
A Weak Link
The One-O-One
What’s Next?
Lettin’ It All Hang Out
The New Great Age
Post-Twelve Days
Not Even Halfway
Is It Over Yet?
A Crowning Achievement
May 10, 2013: New York City
Mega-Symbol
Timing is Everything
A Royal Pain-in-the-Ass
Zombie Apocalypse
May 30, 2013: New Boston, Texas
The Intelligence Non-Apocalypse
June 5th, 2013
Of Course Big Brother is Watching
The Exorbitant Price of Freedom
Project Echelon
An Unusual Sight
Flashback
We Know Where You Live
Happy Birthday, Mr. President
July 6, 2013: San Francisco, California and Lac-Mégantic, Quebec
Very Concerned
Blinded by the Light
Recipe for Calamity
City of Saint Francis
Home Sweet Home
What’s Not to Love?
Up in Flames
Le Train d’Enfer
Hell on Earth
Hell on Wheels
Connecting the Black Dots
What a Party!
We Too Low
JFK, Mothman and Mount Hope
July 15, 2013: The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve outside of Mount Hope, West Virginia
It Never Ends
Postscript: Be Prepared
Postscript to the Postscript: Show’s Over
Interlude
Southern-Fried Apocalypse
Confronting Racism
I Love Mississippi
Walker, Texas Racist
Red Scare, Continued
I Will Be There!
Unlucky Shot
Trick or Treat!
Standing at the Crossroads
Over the Edge?
One Little Record
Dangerous Curves
Little Chicago
The Curse of Pusser’s Curve
Long Live the King
Elvis Stories
Elvis is Alive, etc., etc.
The King and I
Secret Agent Man
The Greatest Living American
Thank Ya’ Very Much
Rebel, Rebel
Elvis and the Undead
Elvis, Conspiracy Theorist
MK-Elvis
Elvis, WMD
Elvis, Prototype
The Firstest
Wizard Times Two
The Wizard Speaks
Women’s Heritage for Men
RFK’s Last Supper
Hinkey Squared
Roman Is Guy
Roman, High Priest
The Grand Canyon
Better Lookout
Bombshells, Blonde and Otherwise
MK-Marilyn
Died Like a Dog
MK-Ultra Rules
Happiness is a Warm Gun
The Not-So-Fab Four
Beatlemaniacs
Time to Go
The Other Paul
Paging Dr. Kinkey
Alfred and Kenneth’s Excellent Adventure
Aiding and Abetting
In the Attic
The Father of Lies
Un-Holy Trinity
Full Circle: Franco’s Tennessee
The Fun Continues
Message Received
September 11, 2013: Blue Mountain, Mississippi
Taking His Time
Night Terrors
Keep on Truckin’
Pedal to the Metal
Bending Reality
A Turn for the Worse
Holy Moses!
September 16 and October 3, 2013: Washington, D.C.
The Promised Land
Better Off This Way
Meat Puppets
Lights, Camera, …
All in Fun
No Taking It Back
…And Your Little Dog, Too
Personal Insecurity
Shut the Hell Up
A Messy Business
Fifty Years To-The-Day
November 22, 2013: Dallas, Texas
Marking the Occasion
Heckuva Release Date
Extended Metaphor
Strike Zone 1
Don’t Even Pretend
Twisted Sister
Witness to Carnage
A December to Remember
Spouting Devil
December 1, 2013: The Bronx, New York City
Inhuman Error
Hooked on Crowley
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…
The Curse of Spuyten Duyvil Curve?
A Timely Death
December 5, 2013: London, England
An Embarrassing Spectacle
He Owes the World an Apology
The Word of the Year, the Selfie of the Year and the Stink-Eye
I See Angels…
Certain Death
Deadly Clockwork
Death of a Statesman
Warm-up Act
Senior Senator
The Gentleman from Hawaii
Stinks to High Heaven
Eighty-Eight
Don’t Mess With the Shadow Government
Losing His Head
December 17, 2013: Tucson, Arizona
JFK at the J-Six
Io, Saturnalia!
Ho, Ho, Homo for the Holidays
December 21, 2013: Semmes, Alabama
Solstice Festivities
Return to Mobile
Return to Tupelo
December 23, 2013: Tupelo, Mississippi
Blue Christmas
The Phoenix Rises, Again
Dishonoring Kennedy
December 29, 2013: Washington, D.C.
The No-Sh*t Zone
Hollywood for Ugly People
The Hip-hop-i-fication of America
The Fist Bump Heard Round the World
Disrespecting JFK
The Dogg Star
Doggie Style
Game Over
Too Close for Comfort
January 22, 2014: Blue Mountain, Mississippi
It’s for You
Finger Lickin’ Good
A Letter of Responsibility?
That Sounds Familiar
Encore, Encore
No Way Out
Is that You?
Say It Ain’t So
Lucifer Rising?
Received and Acknowledged
The Dark Side
Jesus Hates Me, This I Know…
The Year from Hell
Living Up to Its Name
Most Unusual
Shadow of a Doubt
The Cosmos Speaks
That’s It
The Future’s So Bright ...
In Memoriam
PART ONE
And So It Begins
Chapter 1
Hitting Home
September 30, 2013: Blue Mountain, Mississippi
11:10 p.m. – William’s mother, Amy, kneels on the concrete floor of the garage, cradling her 16-year-old son’s head and broad shoulders in her arms as his taught torso stretches out in front of her. He is having a grand mal seizure, his first, and as his 220-pound frame jerks violently and he gasps desperately for air, his father, Kent, can only watch in horror.
Amy works in mental health and has seen patients having grand mal seizures; Kent had never seen one in real life, and, even if he had, it wouldn’t have prepared him for the sight of his only son writhing helplessly on the ground.
Can we get him in the car?
Kent implored his ex-wife, knowing that it might take an ambulance some time to reach them in their small, rural northeast Mississippi community. The seizure hadn’t begun as a full-blown grand mal, and they’d been trying to get William to the car when he’d gone completely rigid and began convulsing.
No,
answered Amy in a reassuringly calm voice, call 911.
Are you sure?
Kent replied with growing desperation.
At that moment, William, who had been struggling for air, suddenly ceased breathing altogether. My God, Kent thought, was he watching his son die? After what seemed like minutes, Will jerked and drew one short breath, then another. He began gasping in air, slowly relaxed and started breathing again—not normally, but at least he was breathing.
Kent ran into the house and dialed 911. As he paced anxiously back and forth at the end of their street waiting for the ambulance, he could only wonder what had just happened. Resting in his mother’s arms, Will was breathing, but completely motionless and unresponsive.
When the paramedics finally arrived, Will was somewhat alert, but had an alarmingly uncomprehending stare in his eyes and resisted the rescue workers as they attempted to take his vital signs and establish an I.V. He couldn’t speak and reacted like a frightened animal.
Having barely gotten over the specter of his son seemingly dying before his eyes only minutes earlier, Kent was now faced with the very real possibility that his son might have some type of brain damage due to lack of oxygen or the seizure itself.
As the ambulance drove off with Amy sitting beside her son in the back, Kent hurried inside to grab the car keys. He made sure not to follow the ambulance too closely, and as he drove, the freshly imprinted image of his son taking what could have been his last breath replayed in a continuous loop in Kent’s mind.
This was Will’s first grand mal, his third seizure altogether. The two previous episodes, though frightening, had been far less severe. The first had happened on the evening of September 11, 2013, just a few weeks earlier.
As he drove into the darkness, Kent had the awful realization that he might well know why all this had happened—and it had everything to do with the date of William’s first seizure.
11:55 p.m. – By the time the ambulance arrived at the emergency room ten minutes away in Ripley, William had already become more alert and coherent. After Kent completed registration and walked into the examining room, he was filled with relief to see that familiar spark in Will’s eyes and hear his voice. William didn’t remember much of the last hour, but, Thank God, he was back.
Kent and Amy made the decision to have their son transported by ambulance to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis. Tippah County, Mississippi, only has two ambulances, and one was tied up with a patient delivery in Jackson, so the other was unavailable to transport William. Le Bonheur dispatched one of their ambulances, but it was more than a two-hour drive each way.
They arrived in Memphis just in time to hit the early side of rush hour. When they finally pulled up to the Le Bonheur E.R. doors, a wave of relief washed over Kent. William was now at one of the finest children’s hospitals in America. Although William had undergone previous tests at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Kent knew that his son would be under the care of some of the best pediatric specialists in the nation.
William had shown no prior signs of a seizure disorder. Neither the previous CAT scan done in Tupelo nor the one at Le Bonheur showed any sign of brain injury, but the Le Bonheur EEG did show brain activity consistent with epilepsy. William was officially diagnosed with this condition and immediately started on anti-seizure medication.
For the first night in weeks, Kent was able to relax and get some sleep, even with the regular interruptions of the nurses as they checked on William. All three of Will’s seizures had been nocturnal, and Kent had heard every little bump in the night since the first episode.
Kent reflected that he hadn’t slept so lightly or been so sensitive to noises in the night since William was an infant. But now he was just thankful; thankful that William was alive and receiving the best medical attention available.
Chapter 2
Payback is a Bitch
Washington, DC
Kent Bain had worked as art director for the Weekly Standard magazine in Washington, DC, from the inception of the publication in the fall of 1995 until the spring of 2001.
The magazine was owned by the News Corporation, the Chairman and CEO of which was media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who Kent met his first day on the job when Murdoch stopped by to wish the staff well.
The Weekly Standard had been started by a trio of Washington political insiders: William Kristol, Editor; Fred Barnes, Executive Editor; and John Podhoretz, Deputy Editor.
The son of the godfather of neo-conservativism,
the late Irving Kristol, William served as Chief of Staff to former Vice-President Dan Quayle (The New Republic magazine dubbed Kristol Dan Quayle’s brain
).
Kristol has been a regular panelist on ABC’s This Week, Fox News Sunday and Special Report with Bret Baier, as well as a columnist for Time magazine and the New York Times. Kristol is also associated with a number of prominent conservative think tanks, including the Project for the New American Century, which he co-founded in 1997.
Political commentator Fred Barnes was a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group for a decade and co-host of The Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel. A widely recognized television personality, Barnes has made cameo appearances in several Hollywood films, including Independence Day.
John Podhoretz is the son of another famous neo-conservative, Norman Podhoretz, who was a protégé of Lionel Trilling and Editor-in-Chief of Commentary magazine for 35 years. John served as a speechwriter to former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and has appeared as a political commentator on Fox News, CNN’s Reliable Sources and The McLaughlin Group.
He has worked at Time, the Washington Times and U.S. News & World Report, and has a regular column at the New York Post. Podhoretz wrote the book Hell of a Ride, which offered an unfavorable assessment of Bush Sr.’s administration; was a consultant for the popular television series The West Wing; and, in 1986, became a five-time champion on Jeopardy!
An All-Star Cast
The editors of the Weekly Standard also assembled a roster of conservative heavy hitters including Tucker Carlson and David Brooks, who helped the magazine become a ubiquitous presence inside the Beltway.
Tucker Carlson is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller and a former host on CNN’s Crossfire. Known for wearing a bow tie during much of his career, Carlson was once asked by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, How old are you?
Thirty five,
Tucker answered. And you wear a bow tie,
Stewart retorted.
Carlson did eventually give up wearing bow ties a couple of years after that exchange, saying that he’d found that If you wear a bow tie, it’s like a middle finger around your neck; you’re just inviting scorn and ridicule … the number of people screaming the F-word at me … it wore me down after a while so I gave in and became conventional.
In 2006, Carlson decided he’d give his public image another boost and agreed to be a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. He was expeditiously voted off the show, stating afterwards that teaching him to dance was like Einstein teaching addition to a slow child.
When asked why he accepted ABC’s invitation to perform, Tucker offered the following: I’m not defending it as the smartest choice…
David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times and a commentator on the PBS NewsHour. He has worked for the Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly and has also been a commentator on National Public Radio.
Brooks, not your typical conservative by any stretch of the imagination, has frequently expressed admiration for Barack Obama, even before he became president. The New Republic ran a profile of Brooks in August 2009, which describes his first encounter with Obama in the spring of ’05:
Usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don’t know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense he knew both better than me. […] I remember distinctly an image of—we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant, and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.
With his enthusiasm running high, Brooks penned a column in the New York Times entitled Run, Barack, Run
two days after Obama’s second autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, hit bookstore shelves, in which he urged Obama to seek the presidency.
Difficult Adjustment
A number of other conservative luminaries worked for and contributed to the Weekly Standard , including Pulitzer-Prize-winning syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. Kent was always interested to see whose familiar face from the news circuit or Capitol Hill would show up at the weekly editorial meetings. It also never ceased to impress him how far-reaching the influence of the Standard was, and in how many different venues its writers and editors appeared. It seemed as if he couldn’t turn on the radio or television, day or night, without seeing or hearing one of his colleagues.
The magazine went to press on Friday evenings, and the staff would work late getting the book ready to send to the printer. Kent would interact with the editors throughout the week, Fridays in particular, and he never quite got accustomed to seeing his bosses around the office, then sitting down in the break room to eat supper and watch Fox News—where he’d routinely see Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes or both—and then encounter them walking back into the office half an hour later.
He also never really felt comfortable sitting around at home in his skivvies on Sunday mornings and hearing Bill Kristol’s voice and/or seeing his face on the Sunday news shows. Damn unnerving, he always thought, like the nightmares where you find yourself in your underwear in the middle of a classroom.
Nights at the Roundtable
The office building in which the Weekly Standard was located sat three blocks from the White House and just around the corner from ABC News. The American Enterprise Institute, a prominent conservative think tank, was in the same building, and the Philanthropy Roundtable moved its offices right next door to the Standard a couple of years after the magazine started.
As it turned out, Kent was given the opportunity to art direct for Philanthropy magazine, published by the Roundtable, which he did for a couple of years. It was a bi-monthly publication, so he was able to effectively handle the additional workload.
During the time that Kent worked for Philanthropy, the Roundtable was under the leadership of John P. Walters, who went on to be appointed by President George W. Bush as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, or, as the position is more commonly referred to, the Drug Czar.
A New Pearl Harbor
Like the Philanthropy Roundtable, the aforementioned Project for the New American Century (PNAC) that William Kristol co-founded also had its office on the same floor as the Standard . In fact, it was co-located with the magazine’s offices and shared a workroom with the publication.
Although now defunct, PNAC promoted American global leadership and advocated for a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity,
maintaining that, "American