A Whole New Form of Government

by Joe McLaughlin

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When Chief Justice Earl Warren questioned Jack Ruby in his Dallas jail cell concerning what Ruby knew about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Ruby forlornly looked up and stated, “You can get more out of me than that!”

But Warren, head of the infamous cover up committee known as the Warren Commission, refused to ask the tough questions-questions that might actually elicit information about what really happened on that November day in Dallas, 1963.

What is truly unique about Warren’s visit to Ruby’s cell is that the contrite Ruby wanted to talk. He wanted to tell the truth. He pleaded with Warren to take him to Washington, D.C. - a safe environment where he could tell everything he knew about the assassination. And Ruby knew a lot. It was Ruby who somehow managed to slip into the open garage of the Dallas Police headquarters building and gun down Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President Kennedy.

What is most intriguing about Warren’s visit to Ruby in Dallas is Ruby’s final plea. Ruby told Warren that if he would not take him to Washington to hear the entire truth, a “whole new form of government” would take over the United States. This government would operate in secrecy-not to serve the American people, but rather to serve the interests of the rich and powerful business executives who desired to exercise complete control over the financial affairs of America, and thus the world.

In his riveting book, JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, famed assassination researcher Fletcher Prouty indicates that Ruby was speaking the truth. Mr. Prouty, who worked in the Pentagon, and who knew everything there was to know about the intelligence sector of the United States government, claims that U.S. intelligence officers working for the CIA manufactured the Vietnam War by performing acts of terrorism in North Vietnam. These intelligence officers would go into remote North Vietnamese villages and frighten the villagers with gunfire and arson. The terrified villagers fled from their homes and crossed the border into South Vietnam, where there was not enough food or shelter to sustain them. Violence soon erupted between these hungry North Vietnamese villagers and the natives of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese villagers were starving to death -- and they started to steal food from the natives. The South Vietnamese natives began fighting back, and a civil war soon followed. But the clever operatives of the CIA did not explain it this way to the government of the United States. Instead they claimed that the communists were trying to take over South Vietnam and that only the Armed Forces of the United States could stop them. (A keen observer of history might note the similarities between Mr. Prouty’s description of the origin of the Vietnam War and what is now happening in Iraq.)

The government of the United States, under President Lyndon Johnson from Texas, swallowed the CIA’s line about the “communist takeover” and sent the American military full-force into Vietnam. (Military advisors were already there, but it was Johnson who turned the conflict into an all-out American war against “communist aggression.”) The ten years of war that followed made billions of dollars for American companies that manufactured weapons and supplies for war. It also cost more than 55,000 American lives. In other words, it turned out exactly the way Ruby said it would in his Dallas jail cell. American business executives in the war industry made a fortune while rank and file United States citizens had their lives ruined.

At first I thought that Mr. Prouty’s claims were somewhat farfetched. It’s hard to believe that a secret sector of the United States government working on behalf of the wealthy and powerful would purposely stir up a war to make their benefactors even more wealthy and powerful. But one has only to look at the events of the last seven years to see that Mr. Prouty was on to something. In 1963, the government of the United States, represented by Chief Justice Earl Warren, did not want to listen to the truth. They did not want to hear what Jack Ruby had to say, the man who was closest to the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination. As a result, the American military-industrial complex made a fortune-- while 55,000 American soldiers died.

In the first decade of the 21st century, another American President from Texas, George W. Bush, leads a government that also refuses to hear the truth -- and it makes one think twice about the claims of Ruby and Prouty when they spoke about a “whole new form of government.” When counter terrorism expert Richard Clarke tried to warn the Bush administration months in advance about terrorists who planned to use hijacked airliners to ram into skyscrapers, he was ignored. The result was thousands of deaths on 9/11. When earth scientists tried to warn the government that global warming was real and that action to slow down carbon emissions was needed immediately, they were ridiculed. The result was more death and destruction when Hurricane Katrina levelled New Orleans. When statesmen attempted to explain that there was no connection between the 9/11 terrorists and the Iraqi regime headed by Saddam Hussein, these statesmen were persecuted. And the result is an immoral, unjust war in Iraq that has cost more than 3000 American lives and many more innocent Iraqi lives-and yet making billions of dollars for American oil and weapons companies.

Jack Ruby died in jail not long after Warren refused to listen. The cause of death was listed as “sudden cancer.” (Ruby himself claimed shortly before his death that he had been injected with cancer cells by U.S. intelligence agents.) I suppose Mr.Ruby will be considered a villain by most historians. After all he was a killer, a murderer who butchered another man with a blazing handgun in the basement garage of the Dallas Police Station on national television. And yet it also seems fair to give Ruby his due. He was a killer-yes. Of this fact there can be no doubt. But he was also a weird sort of prophet. Perhaps while rotting away in his Dallas jail cell, something stirred deep within him. Something in his soul told him that it was not right for America to belong to secret government agencies that exist only to make profit for businessmen who manufacture weapons and supplies for war.

It took courage for Ruby to listen to his soul. It took courage for Ruby to try and get the United States government to listen to him. It took courage for Richard Clarke to try to warn the government before 9/11 about terrorists who planned to hijack airliners and slam them into tall towers. It took courage for Ambassador Joseph Wilson to tell the United States government that Iraq did not seek to acquire uranium from Niger to use for making weapons of mass destruction. It took courage for the earth scientists to warn government leaders that global warming is real and that action to curtail it needs to be taken immediately. And it takes courage to live as an ordinary citizen in the United States, where universal health care still does not exist; where young men and women are sent off to die in an unjust war; where disillusioned teenagers, who feel they have been left out of the American Dream, join violent gangs and destroy each other in the streets over a few grams of cocaine; and where anyone at anytime can lose his home and livelihood as a result of a deadly storm caused by global warming.

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In my book, Trail of Death: Alfredo Gomez and the Assassination of President Kennedy, I urge Americans to do what Jack Ruby finally made himself do in that lonely jail cell-listen to their souls. It is the soul part of each man and woman that connects us to God, that makes us see the truth when everything around us speaks a lie, that makes us take right action when everything around us is wrong. President Kennedy said it much more eloquently. Not long before his untimely death, he said, “When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.” I suggest that it is the soul part of us-the poetic part of us-that we must listen to when everything around us is rotten and corrupt. And upon listening, we must continue to press on and make our leaders listen as well. No matter how long our leaders have ignored us, no matter how long they have turned away from us, no matter how many times corrupt and immoral businessmen have pulled their strings as if they were mere puppets, we must continue to try and make them listen. We must continue to ask them to stand up for peace. “What kind of peace do I mean?” President Kennedy asked. “Not a Pax Americana, but a peace for all time.”

This then is our work-to create a peace on earth that will last for all time, a peace that works for all of us, not just the privileged few. It is a good work, a noble work, God’s work that we are up to. This is a worthy goal-to do God’s work. For here today, in the face of insurmountable odds, in the jaws of absolute corruption, we must never deviate from this path, never falter or fail in the face of extreme adversity. And as we face this adversity, as we look pain and sorrow and corruption directly in the eye -- when it seems so dark that the only logical thing to do would be to quit and give up and give in, let us always remember that here on earth, this good work we are doing, this work of love, this work of peace -- God’s work -- must truly be our own.

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