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That afternoon I stepped across the street for some refreshments and when I returned I was told that it had just come over the radio that Ronald Reagan had been shot. My immediate response was the same as that of everyone else I had occasion to speak with over the next forty-eight hours– "You gotta be shittin' me!" The next thing I said, only halfway in jest, was that I'd probably better telephone home before returning from work this day... just in case. As it turned out later, I wasn't far from right. I was informed close to midnight that the gunman had been associated with the Nazis. At that the mood became very expectant but very, very light. We were in for something the next day or so but, since we at least knew no conspiracy existed, we figured whatever it could be would amount to no more than a break in the boredom.
But all that first afternoon I wondered who in the hell shot Reagan and why. Then the name of John Hinckley came out but failed to ring any familiar bells. From the first I expected it would turn out to be some scarified pink pansy type alarmed by the media's theme of Reagan's involvement in El Salvador becoming a second " Vietnam ". I'd seen many, many writings on the wall– literally– in men's rooms, etc., to the effect that Reagan was a "fascist" and if he were to be elected, "he daid". Then after Reagan won the election, there were stories like the one about a certain KKK group that disbanded because they felt we had been "saved". NEVER did I seriously think a Right Winger or a Nazi would go after Reagan.
Why? Because I hoped that most of our people were better informed and would know that the last time there was a President worth shooting it was Franklin D. Roosevelt. To have killed Roosevelt would probably have changed the course of history. But, largely because his work was not terminated in time, all succeeding U.S. Presidents have been nothing but puppets, simple front men with a thousand ready, interchangeable replacements lurking in their shadows. Faceless bureaucrats, Big Brother's marionettes.
Hinckley: Nazi Triggerman?
However, for the garden-variety assassin, shooting the President is like playing the Palace Theatre. Very little real importance but huge headlines. Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter are in fact co-equals with the only difference being "image". Reagan's image is hard to hate while Carter's was very easy. Maybe those with a mind to waste a President thought Carter just too miserable to bother with. I don't know. But because of image, I would have considered Reagan a poor target for assassination from the Right. Regardless, nowadays taking out a U.S. President will not change a damned thing even slightly because that is not where the power lies.
In discussing targets we can draw a parallel with Atlanta . We still don't know who or what is at work there but we can say that the masses of Whites would view it more favorably if it were big, black bucks turning up dead rather than little, black bastards. You and I may know that the little ones grow up to big ones but that is beside the point. As far as public relations are concerned, you must lay off kids. That of course is under ideal settings. The setting we have at present is about as far from ideal as can be imagined. Somebody who knows whereof they're speaking once commented in an interview that, "It doesn't matter who got it; just that somebody got it." And I can go that one further and say that it doesn't matter who's doing it; just that somebody's doing it with regard to Atlanta. In comparison, just as I wouldn't ideally choose kids to be getting it in Atlanta, neither would I choose Reagan to get it as President. But this is where Big Brother and his hot-house conditioning have brought us. The situation is STARVED for action, ANY action. And beggars can't be choosers.
Another parallel, by way of the Russian Revolution, is that during the course of the entire sixty-year-long struggle phase, only one Czar was assassinated (Alexander II, not Nicholas II who got his after the Revolution). Since their efforts were ultimately crowned with victory, as power over the State, we might take a lesson. The object was not to handstand for the press but rather to cripple the regime. The Czar's life may have theoretically been in constant jeopardy but it was lesser government ministers that they had a tough time hanging onto. As pervasive as the Ochrana (Czarist FBI-CIA) was, nobody in government was safe.
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