Return of Our Country

by David M Burke

  Morgenthau spoke up. “Do you really believe the president can run a surplus that fast?”

  The Senator appeared confident. “Until now, he could never get it through Congress. But don’t underestimate him. If the next election doesn’t go our way, and we give him time to use information from the NSA database against others in Congress, they’ll have no choice but to vote with him. We’ve seen it with one or two already. But to answer your question, our people inside the White House say he can run a surplus the first year of his re-election.”

  The senator spread his hands on the table in front of him and continued. “He’s already aware that we’re funding the caravans through the UN, so he can easily cut four hundred billion there. That government waste group that we’ve never had to worry about before, outlined another four hundred billion in waste. His people also uncovered the research budgeting line items that allow us to spend up to one hundred percent of our budget without oversight. If he makes that public, he’ll get support to make cuts. Then, with the balance of trade and even a slightly fairer trading, he’ll be at a surplus, and if these things drive the economy to its potential, the surplus will be sizeable.”

  The silence was palpable.

  Turning to The Cleric and changing the subject, the senator adjusted his tone to match the calm demeanor of the one he was addressing. “I heard you had a close call in Dearborn. I’m glad to see you’re okay.”

  The Cleric appeared calm. “Alas, the circumstances were unfortunate. We were not prepared for such a disruption of our plans. It was a setback.”

  The Senator knew he needed to ask a tougher question. He had other people to answer to. “What about ammunition and arms?”

  “Ahhh, that is another matter. We have other supplies, although as you know the incident was an unexpected complication.” He was referring to Krieger and Briggs taking down their munition’s distribution center.

  The senator was empathetic. “We understand. We’ve had similar setbacks at his hands.”

  The Cleric nodded and took a sip of his tea. He was aware that Krieger had retrieved the EMP device.

  The senator wanted to know how the arms supply was going to be recouped. “What about the supply to the northeast?”

  The Cleric simply said, “We’re working on that.”

  Chapter 24

  Krieger addressed the group. “President Kennedy had uncovered the reason behind the massive amounts of money disappearing and the unexplainable cost of the government.” He had their undivided attention. “In 1962, Kennedy proposed across-the-board tax cuts for corporations and all individual tax brackets.” Looking at George he said, “Similar to what you did, sir.”

  Krieger picked up the remote and turned on the large television screen. It lit up with a larger than life still shot of Kennedy.

  Krieger said, “I’ve put together a series of pictures and video to substantiate everything I’m about to explain. I’ll switch between the video and pictures and I’ll fill in the blanks.”

  George briefly looked at Adam and back to Krieger. “Okay Colonel, let’s see what you have.”

  Krieger began. “On June 4, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed executive order 11110, which authorized the US treasury to start printing a new form of the silver certificate, called the United States Note.

  “John F. Kennedy issued four billion dollars’ worth of this new cash money free of debt, free of interest, and it was enough money to allow the nation to conduct its business without needing to involve the private Federal Reserve Bank. Only five months later, John F. Kennedy was shot by the crazed lone nut, Lee Harvey Oswald.8

  “At least the government and others want us to believe that he was shot by a lone nut. What most people don’t know is,” Krieger took a breath, “as soon as Kennedy was buried, the United States notes were pulled out of circulation and destroyed.”9

  Eyes around the room widened and no one spoke a word as Krieger continued.

  Krieger’s tone was extremely serious. “If there was no link to these notes, why was John J. McCloy, former president of the World Bank, former president of Chase Manhattan Bank, appointed to the Warren Commission? For those of you who don’t know, the Warren Commission was the group put together to give the official report of the Kennedy assassination.”

  Krieger advanced the recording on the television and stopped it, showing a picture of McCloy.

  “McCloy was also a former trustee of the Rockefeller foundation. Why would a financial person be on a presidential murder investigation, allegedly committed by one lone shooter?

  “In 1976, the US House of Representatives Select Committee on assassinations was established. They determined a shot was fired from the grassy knoll and, in summary believed, I quote, ‘on the basis of evidence available, President Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee is unable to ID the other gunman or extent of the conspiracy.’”10

  Krieger advanced the screen and showed the picture of an aging man. “Right before his death in prison, a man named James Files, a known organized crime hit man, confessed on video tape to shooting Kennedy, and later passed a lie detector test. He went on to say that organized crime was contracted to do the hit, though no one knows who contracted them. The man was interviewed twice, the last time being in 2003, when this picture was taken.

  “A guy named Joe West was doing an investigation and wanted to exhume Kennedy’s body to look for traces of mercury, because Files claimed that Kennedy had been shot in the head by a special round made with mercury. Since the traces of mercury would still be there, it could be detected in an autopsy.”11

  The room maintained absolute silence as Krieger continued. “The court had accepted the case.”

  Krieger paused and then showed a small screen shot of an obituary. “Shortly after the court accepted his case, Joe West passed away after accidentally being given the wrong medication.”12

  Krieger turned back to the television. “This part of the video is a compilation of clips from a top-secret report on the Kennedy Assassination.”

  Before the sound began, Krieger teed up what they were about to see and explained that a woman named Beverly Oliver (known as the babushka lady) said she’d seen the man who had shot Kennedy, and had actually filmed him with a brand-new high-quality movie camera. She had filmed Kennedy from the street light, at an angle, with the grassy knoll perfectly in the background. He asked them to listen to what she said. Krieger pushed the button on the remote again.

  The screen showed the woman being interviewed at the scene. “I had Kennedy right in my zoom lens when I first heard a noise. I was not aware that that was a shot being fired, and maybe, perhaps that’s why I continued to film because I thought it was a backfire or a firecracker. I mean, I wasn’t used to being around guns. I did not realize those were shots until I saw in the frame of my camera, President Kennedy’s head come off, the back of his head, then I realized that that was a shot. Uh, I don’t know how many I heard, I know that where I thought the shots came from (she was pointing to the grassy knoll), uh, the picket fence area in that… around that large tree, somewhere on the other side of those steps, but in the picket fence area. There was a figure there and there was smoke there. I will always believe that the man that shot President Kennedy was standing somewhere in the picket fence area and no one will ever convince me any differently.”13

  “After the assassination, Beverly was contacted at work by FBI agents, who took her undeveloped film and promised to return it within ten days. She has not seen it since.”14

  Krieger looked around the room. Everyone was listening intently, wondering where he was headed with this.

  The video continued. “Fortunately, a few feet to Beverly’s left, Mary Anne Moorman, in the dark coat, took her picture a split second after the President had been fatally struck in the head. In that picture, there is convincing evidence of a
gunman up on the knoll.”15

  What the picture revealed was a man who was probably wearing a police uniform or some type of uniform that was close enough to what the Dallas police were wearing so that he could pass as a police officer.16

  Krieger froze the screen and added, “You can see this photo isn’t too clear because the area of the photo had to be enlarged so much, but you can undoubtedly see what the secret service dubbed as ‘badge man’, referring to the man in the uniform pointing the gun from the grassy knoll.”

  Krieger pushed play again. “Behind the picket fence there is a car park, and in 1963, Gordon Arnold was a twenty-two-year-old service man, just out of training camp and on route to a posting in Alaska. He was filming the motorcade from the grassy knoll, and at approximately seven minutes and forty-five seconds into the film he said, “A shot came right past my left ear, and that meant it would have to come from this direction.”17

  The man in the video was standing on the grassy knoll, reenacting what happened and pointed to the same tree that Beverly had pointed out.

  He said he instinctively went down and added, “to me it seemed like a second shot was fired over my head.18 While I was laying on the ground, it seemed like a gentleman came from this particular direction and I thought it was a police officer because he had a uniform of a police officer, but he didn’t wear a hat and he had dirty hands… Literally what the man did was kicked…” The man on the screen was trying to compose himself, “kicked me and asked me if I was taking a picture. I told him that I was, and when I looked at the weapon, it was about (holding up his hands) that big around and I decided I’d go ahead and let him have the film. I gave it to him and then he went back off in this direction.”19 The man was pointing behind him to the parking lot.

  Krieger paused the film. “To corroborate Gordon Arnold’s story, you can see the Moorman photo shows Arnold on the grassy knoll with his movie camera.”

  Gabby gasped. “Oh yes… I see him.”

  Krieger moderated again. “Further verification of Gordon Arnold’s presence came from a Senator… Senator Yarborough.” Krieger pushed play, letting the others see and hear for themselves the Senator’s own words.

  “During that shooting, my eye was attracted to a movement, and I saw a man just jump about ten feet. I thought to myself, there’s an infantryman who’s been shot at in combat, or he’s been trained… trained thoroughly. The minute you hear fire you get under cover.”20

  “By the way, the Senator retired a very, very wealthy man,” Krieger added before he paused the video. “Are you ready for the next piece of the puzzle? In the same photograph, you can see another image standing directly behind the badge man. This appears to be a person in a hard hat. Because the photo was blurry and they didn’t have the technology we have today to rebuild a photo, it was important to those not skilled in photography to have corroboration from other sources.”

  Looks were exchanged around the room as Krieger pushed play again and showed the digitally enhanced photo, which made the images unquestionably clear. Krieger heard a gasp and continued. “There was a railroad signal man named Lee Bowers who testified to the Warren Commission that, when Kennedy appeared in Daley Plaza, there were two men behind the fence.21

  “Two years later, a reporter following leads met with Bowers and was set to interview him for a piece he was putting together with local witnesses that day.” Krieger pushed play and then stopped the screen with a blown-up FBI report. “Lee Bowers died in a mysterious car accident, two and a half years after the assassination.”22 Krieger let that resonate for a moment, then added, “Bowers’ story was confirmed by a man named E.F. Hoffman.”23

  Krieger pushed play, to show Hoffman at the scene being interviewed and explaining that he’d seen two men who looked suspicious, over in the car park.24

  The classified CIA documentary video started, and the man walked to the fence where he had stood during the assassination, and reenacted the incident. “I saw a man standing here wearing a black hat and a blue jacket. I saw a puff of smoke and I thought it was a cigarette, but it wasn’t. He had a gun and he walked towards the railroad. He tossed the gun to the second man, then he turned and straightened his jacket, adjusted his hat and walked casually away.25 The man with the railroad shirt walked over to the electrical box with the gun. He took the gun apart. He put it in a toolbox. He then walked slowly away in the direction of the railroad track.26 I went to the FBI to tell them what I had seen. They didn’t want me to say anything. They offered me money to keep quiet.”27

  Krieger confirmed, “The FBI has over fifty reports saying the shot came from that area.” Krieger let the moderator in the video continue.

  “The FBI started the investigation right away, and they had all these reports, over fifty reports from eye witnesses, saying at least one of the shots came from that area and here all of a sudden they’ve got a photograph that shows the precise area within a sixth of a second of when the President’s head exploded… They knew the evening of the assassination that there was a second gunman up on the grassy knoll.28 That means the medical evidence has been altered.29 The question then is, who was involved?”30

  Krieger paused the video. “There was a French man named Christian David Ire Anavied, who was an intelligence agent for a number of intelligence agencies in Europe, turned drug smuggler, who was also in Leavenworth Penitentiary. He says while he was over in Marcay, France, he was offered the contract to kill Kennedy. He went on to say that there were three men involved and the contract was managed by European mafia. These men came across the border in Brownsville, Texas, and were picked up by a member of the Mafia and taken to a safe house.

  “These men spent several days taking photos of Daley plaza, studied the photos and arranged a crossfire. This man, without ever seeing evidence of the photograph, described how the hit men wore uniforms. Ten days later the men flew out of the country to Montreal.” As the video continued, Krieger added, “This is Colonel Fletcher.”

  The Colonel explained that the assailants had used an explosive bullet known as a frangible bullet, which is designed to fragment into dozens of pieces upon impact. He explained that during that time, only the CIA and a few others knew of this technique. He further explained that the assassins were paid with a substantial amount of heroin.

  “Colonel Fletcher Prouty believes even more powerful forces were responsible. They needed sufficient money to undertake the mission, then they needed sufficient ongoing capital and influence to keep it covered up for years.”

  The video continued with Colonel Fletcher saying, “You’re dealing with a very high echelon of power. It doesn’t necessarily reside in any government.” Then he posed the question of who would have the power to put together the Warren Commission, get the police and judges in Dallas to go along with the cover up and control the media. “All the media, not just one or two newspapers, but none of them will print the story other than Oswald killed the President with three bullets, something that’s absolutely untrue.”31

  Krieger turned the television off and looked at George. “Mr. President, Kennedy bucked the Federal Reserve and paid for it with his life. That is without question. We wanted you to see this before you undertake what’s most likely a war with the most powerful, ruthless and well financed presence on the planet.”

  President Carnegie addressed Krieger. “Let me get this straight. Kennedy was taking the power of making money away from the Federal Reserve, by having the country print its own money and by doing so it was eliminating the interest — or profit — the families who own the FED charge the US taxpayer. In addition to that, by the simple fact that the FED prints the money, there are countless documented times when billions have gone missing. Simply put, they take truckloads and just keep it.”

  Krieger affirmed his summation. “Yes sir, and you’re obviously talking about the reoccurring examples, like the $9,000,000,000,000 (trillion) missing from the
Federal Reserve during just one incident towards the end of your predecessor’s reign.”

  George nodded in agreement. “Yes, and it’s more than $50,000 per person paying federal taxes, and we believe it’s over eleven trillion.”

  “I remember being part of that investigation,” Madison said. “Rep. Alan Grayson questioned the FED inspector General about where $9 Trillion dollars went.32 He already knew, he said, ‘Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman hasn’t a clue.’33 He also knew that when they were giving testimony under the previous administration, they said, they have no jurisdiction to investigate the FED!34

  George was pointed. “So, you believe that the people in charge of the Federal Reserve had Kennedy killed… a sitting president!”

  Krieger didn’t just believe it, he knew it. “Yes sir, and he’s not the only president to meet his fate at the hands of these men. As I was told, it’s the drive for power on the part of men in high places to use any means to bring about their desired aim – Global Conquest.35

  Krieger punctuated his point by naming other presidents who had met similar fates. “Jaime Roldos, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama… Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads, whose goal is global empire.”36

  Madison added, “This goes way back, sir. It’s well documented that Lincoln was having disagreements with the international bankers who eventually became the Federal Reserve. The disagreements were over the excessive interest they wanted to charge to finance the Civil War. The details are a story for another day, though the principle is the same.”

  Madison paused and wanted to punctuate a point Krieger had made. “They’re getting even more brazen. They’re just printing money.”