WALKING ACROSS THE PAGES OF HISTORY
(EDITOR'S NOTE: There were several comparisons between himself and President Kennedy that SVC's President, Phil Sutton, did not state on January 14, 2023. Chief among them were they did not have to serve in the US Navy, but chose to. That experience, especially in SVC President's case, was a key flashpoint in History he participated in.
Second, the assassination attempts against them were strangely International. Usually, political assassinations have a domestic cause, but the communists from the Soviet Union and Cuba killed Jack Kennedy; al Qaeda operatives, including those from the Philippines, Japan and Ukraine have tried to kill SVC's President.
Third, SVC's President did his best explaining why the conspiracies against them even existed. But to no avail. They clearly have been detrimental to the United States. The International Tribunals have made sure that SVC's President No Tolerance Terrorism Policy will be strictly enforced and those who have participated in the conspiracy against him will be brought to Justice no matter what!!!!!!!
Perhaps, most important, they both shared the experience of having large portion of the Countrymen and Women turned against them, just like with Jesus.)
First, my Father-in-law, John Hancock “Jack” Thornton, Sr., was part of the entourage that John and Robert Kennedy usually traveled around with, so there is a family connection involved.
Second, the primary reason I have been talking so much regarding parallel between me and John Kennedy is we have a lot in common. Chief among the similarities is our appreciation for history. He attained that appreciation from his Mother and I did from my two Grandmothers. All three Women made sure their Children and Grandchildren appreciated American History and our Families' role in it.
Kennedy biographers often quote Rose Kennedy telling her nine Children that “to whom much is given much will be required.” This is a paraphrase of Luke 12:48.
Biographers mistakenly believe Rose was referring to the Kennedy Family wealth when in reality she is referring to the wealth America and Americans enjoy. Even the poorest among us in the United States are wealthy compared to most of humanity.
Third, as history would have it, we also were witnesses to the “crime”. I will explain that later.
In my own studies of history, particularly of the American Revolution, I very quickly learned that some of us have special callings from our Creator. That we are not only making history, but we are history.
John Kennedy began his special walk across the pages of history when he visited Nazi Germany in its formative stages. He realized almost instinctively the dangers that Hitler and company posed to world peace and sanity.
Jack returned to Great Britain where his father was US Ambassador. He expressed concern about what he had witnessed. Joe was not moved. He believed the policy of appeasement that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain advocated was the correct one.
So appalled was Jack that he wrote his Senior Paper at Harvard on the subject. “Why England Slept” would became a seminal work in understanding what caused World War II.
Future Prime Minister, Winston Churchill Agreed. He would later claim, “It is my purpose, as one who Lived in these days, first show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by weakness of virtuous."
I utilized this quote in my Hastings Trailblazer Day Declaration to likewise advise the world of the dangers present in our world today: (https://www.svctrailblazerpublications.com/hastings-trailblazer-day-declaration)
Years later, President Kennedy would augment this understanding with what he learned from Barbara Tuchman's book, “Guns of August,” which outlined the causes of World War I: https://www.svctrailblazerpublications.com/the-coming-rapture
The lessons the 35th President had learned from his own experiences and through his study of history contributed greatly to his ability to avert Armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.
History intervened again on August 12, 1945, when his older Brother Joe was killed while flying a secret mission over France. According to the tradition of primogeniture, Joe Sr's aspirations for his namesake Son to become President passed to Jack.
Jack himself had been severely injured when the PT boat he commanded had been rammed by a Japanese destroyer on August 1, 1943. He managed to save all but two crew members, but severely injured his back. That's the reason you often see the famous rocking chair in the pictures of the Kennedy White House.
When asked about his act of heroism he quipped, “It was involuntary, they sunk my boat.” This lesson was not lost on this Sailor. I drilled those under my command during the Persian Gulf War and the initial sorties into Afghanistan after 9/11 until they dropped. Under any circumstances, warriors must be so well trained they will act instinctively because if they have to stop to think about what they will do next they are already dead. Everyone of the 5,000+ Sailors and Marines under my command went home. This is a fact I am most proud.
When SVC International Viewpoint Publications, which is now SVC Trailblazer Publications, first started in 2000, I wrote a series on the closest Presidential Elections since World War II because I predicted in the very first SVC International Viewpoint that the 2000 Election between George W Bush and Al Gore would eclipse the 1960 Election between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon as the closest in American History. I was right.
When I did the research for the article concerning the 1960 Election, every commentator bemoaned the fact that these two young bucks would try to replace the venerable Dwight Eisenhower and it would be a disaster. The 1960 Election is the only election in which a President under the age of 50 would be elected.
History would prove the critics wrong. Both the Kennedy and Nixon Presidencies would be tragically cut short and both Men were on track to becoming Great Presidents. We will never know, particularly in Jack's case, what would have happened if they had been President for a full eight years.
The Kennedy Administration began with probably the best Inaugural Address in history. He called for increased defense spending and for tax cuts. Republicans Ronald Reagan in 1981 and George W Bush 2001 reiterated that message. The Republicans reminded younger Brother Ted of that every time he voted against their tax cuts.
Whenever SVC would visit the Kennedy Presidential Library when Ted was alive, he would ask me which one of the Kennedy Brothers I felt like most like that day. Inevitably, it was the President. He knew that before he asked.
Ted knew I was more conservative than he or Bobby were. His Brother the President and I are Decorated Combat Veterans and Jack witnessed his Father struggle to make his great wealth. Something Ted, who was 15 years younger than the President, never witnessed. That's why Jack would ask for increased defense spending and tax cuts as President and Ted would always oppose it while in the US Senate.
But that doesn't always mean Presidents who are Veterans necessarily are in favor of increased defense spending. Perhaps the most well-known Presidents who were Army Generals severely bit the hand that fed their fame and made them President.
Ulysses S Grant balked at sending the very same Troops he had commanded during the American Civil War into the former Confederate States during Reconstruction. The very idea was abhorrent to him. You would think he would want to continue to punish the south, but that kind of garbage wasn't in him. The 1876 Presidential Election to replace him was decided by agreeing to end Reconstruction. President Grant got his way.
George Washington utterly refused to consider having an aggressive Foreign and National Defense Policy. No American would die on his eight-year watch as President as they did on his eight-year stint as Commanding General of Continental Army. Washington developed the now infamous isolationism that has plagued US Foreign Policy ever since and was an impetus to World War II.
The Supreme Allied Commander in the European Theater during that war was a gem here. Ike would readily talk about how many hospitals America could build versus tanks when he was President. He cut the defense spending to absolute minimum to the point Jack accused him of allowing a “missile gap” with the Soviet Union during his 1960 campaign.
Jack's own love affair with what Ike called the “Military-Industrial Complex” ended with the Bay of Pigs Fiasco. Worse, Jack had been an eye-witness to the “crime”. The Nazis believed they could achieve anything they wanted through brute military force.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Pentagon bought into this idea. They had learned that the Great Depression finally ended with the mobilization for war and somehow that mobilization had to continue for America to remain strong.
The day after World War II ended on September 2, 1945, the Pentagon set things in motion to continue the mobilization through fighting limited wars in Korea and Vietnam.
If you have ever seen the final episode of M*A*S*H, they play a Report from Robert Pierpoint already discussing the coming conflict in Vietnam as the one in Korea was ending in July 1953. North Korea invaded the south in June 1950 and Americans joined an UN Coalition to send the communists back above the 38th parallel (38 degrees north latitude). The Vietnam conflict would begin with the battle at Dien Bien Phu in March 1954, a scant eight months later.
After the Bay of Pigs, Jack reversed his call for an increase in defense spending and began to close military bases in areas that were not Democrat-friendly. He kept a campaign promise and sought a nuclear arms limitation deal with the Soviet Union. In a word, became an unexpected threat to the Pentagon's desired perpetual mobilization.
Then came the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Pentagon wanted to invade Cuba and remove the Soviet nuclear arms by force. Jack demurred. He saw the danger of all out nuclear war if that invasion took place. He decided to blockade Cuba, hoping he could force Nikita Khrushchev 's hand without armed conflict.
It worked and ended the crisis, but it permanently damaged the Commander-in-Chief's relationship with those he would command. No one knows exactly when or who, but the Pentagon brass conspired with the communists to assassinate the President and they were successful.
One of the last things Jack did as President was withdraw the 50,000 “military advisors” from Vietnam. On the same day Americans buried their President, the new President, Lyndon Johnson, reinstated those advisors feeling they would come after him if he didn't.
That decision would ruin LBJ's Presidency and send him to an early grave. Ditto for Richard Nixon. The release of the “Pentagon Papers” led to the creation of the “plumbers” which in turn led to the Watergate Scandal.
My walk across the pages of history began when I was a Counselor at the Billy Graham Crusade in Denver in July 1987. I worked with Children that answered the alter call. A pair of adorable Twin Girls were among them.
Their Parents had been Mexican Immigrants and they had encountered prejudice in their new Country and turned to their Faith to help them endure their ordeal and explain their problems to their Daughters. They were three-years old.
Our Church had an Outreach Program and I referred them to our Pastor. This led me to encounter Americans who were working to convince the Reagan Administration to support the International Boycott of the Apartheid Government in South Africa. In this project I excelled.
It is fitting I am recounting this story on this weekend. The first Martin Luther King Day Holiday was 18 months before on January 20, 1986 and many of those who had worked on that project were working on this one. Ditto with those who opposed it.
The effort actually had started during the Great Depression and eventually gained United Nations support after World War II, but languished until the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign took form. Nelson became the poster child of the Boycott Movement.
The key moment in the Movement was the 70th Birthday Tribute to Nelson on July 17, 1988. The tribute culminated in Hyde Park, New York, where the Membership Drive I led reached 17,500 Members in the USA alone. It was my idea that we needed to focus on getting Nelson and other members of the Africa National Congress freed.
Then the great moment. On February 11, 1990, Nelson was freed after 27 years of imprisonment. President George H W Bush invited me to a Reception he held for Nelson at the White House in June 1990.
When Nelson saw me, he made a B-Line in my direction. He knew who I was. I will never forget how grateful he was for our support and how much he wanted to continue our association. He would become the single most important mentor in my life and I am likewise eternally grateful for all his support.
History, as it always does, intervened again. In August 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. President Bush mobilized over 30 Nations under the United Nations Charter to eject Iraq from Kuwait. It was only the second time the UN had authorized force, the first was during the Korean conflict.
I had been in a training accident on the USS Corral Sea and been discharged from the US Navy because the injuries I had sustained prevented me from continued service. But all the sudden, I was fit again and the Navy invited me back and promoted me to full lieutenant.
But before I left Montana to go to war, South African Bishop Desmond Tutu spoke in Helena. After that speech, he was asked what would happen if someone assassinated him. He rose up on his tippy-toes and said, “It doesn't matter because God will send someone to take my place.” Indeed.
Desmond virtually visited SVC on his 90th Birthday, October 7, 2021, and reiterated my Four Universal Thematic Principles of the American Dream. At length, he discussed why the United States and then the rest of world must adopt the lessons from the creation of the United States from which these principles sprang and adopt the Key Guiding Thematic Fundamental ”Always Do What Is Right.”
In all my Books from “Revival of the American Dream” to “Trailblazer To Revival of the American Dream”, I have outlined instances where the Creator's People overcame tremendous odds to do the right thing. Like the American Colonists. Like the South Africans. Like SVC now. As Jesus remarked: those things which are impossible for humans are possible for the Creator.
https://www.svctrailblazerpublications.com/trailblazer-to-revival-of-the-american-dream-1
Just like Jack Kennedy, my encounter with the “crime” - the belief might will defeat right – came at a young age. The Persian Gulf War had been America's most efficient war. We accomplished our objective in five weeks and 100 hours. There were 500,000 Americans in harms way and we lost just over 300. We didn't want to lose anybody, but as any Military Person can tell you, losing only 0.06% of your Personnel in a war is just stupidly good.
Osama bin Laden didn't care at all for 500,000 “infidels” on Saudi soil. He was just as strong in his beliefs and I was in mine. We weren't getting anywhere. Eventually, I Recommended that bin Laden be exiled. I had seen first hand a diabolic genius at work and just like Jack thought about the Nazis, I knew al Qaeda was an imminent threat that had to be cut-off in its infancy.
And just like Jack, my concerns found their way into my academic work. I developed my “No Tolerance Terrorism Policy” based on my experience with bin Laden. On the night of 9/11, President George W Bush introduced the world to my philosophy towards organized terrorism when he quoted directly from my Doctoral Dissertation and my first book's manuscript: “The United States should 'make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.'” This became the Bush Doctrine.
I spent the afternoon of 9/11 calling all my Sub-Commanders of the US Naval Reserve Unit I commanded because I knew we would be called-up. We were ready to go before the Orders came. After the NATO forces began our assault in Afghanistan, we led the first American sorties into the Afghanistan eastern front where bin Laden was believed to be. Just like with Saddam Hussein, we didn't bring bin Laden to Justice for around a decade. Fellow Montanan and Sailor Rob O'Neill finally got him in May 2011.
I had no idea bin Laden had been tracking me all this time and knew we were once again at loggerheads. In the Foreign Policy Chapters of my books, I have always described the Sutton Doctrine and the Five Steps to World Democratization right before my No Tolerance Terrorism Policy. This is where Round 3 against bin Laden started.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was interested in giving International Law teeth. The Statutes of Rome created the International Criminal Court and the Office of the International Prosecutor in 2003. He Proposed the Responsibility To Protect Statutes (now Principle) and asked me to be the author.
The task was completed right before Christmas 2005. After lengthy debate before the UN General Assembly, the Statutes became law later in 2006. The statutes struck at the heart of what bin Laden wanted to accomplish and build a worldwide terrorist network.
It was by no mistake that all my difficulties with the Make Victims Units in Missoula began at that time. In 2007, bin Laden would declare war on me and named me as his “only worthy Adversary.” From March 2006-April 2012 I would be accused of one Federal crime and four State of Montana crimes.
In the only case that ever reached anything close to a legitimate trial was the Federal charge and I was acquitted with no attorney, no preparation and no witnesses, including Missoula County Deputy Sheriff Jonathan Stineford, who was the arresting officer and was required by the US and Montana Constitutions to be there, but wasn't. I only had the truth. That's how it is supposed to be.
Stineford had gotten Missoula County sued at least twice for using excessive force prior to being hired by US Forester Al Hilshey to come up to Poe Meadows and shoot me dead. They admitted as much in their Reports of the incident and nothing has ever been done to bring them to Justice.
Fact of the matter is that Stineford tased me instead. Two weeks before a teenager died after being tased in Fredericksburg, Virginia and the US Justice Department suspended the use of tasers by US Law Enforcement, which Stineford technically was because we were on Federal Land, as a result. The Bush Administration received Federal Grand Jury Indictments against them prior to leaving office, but the Obama Administration never pursued those Indictments. These Indictments would be the first of over a thousand Indictments mysteriously never prosecuted.
A relative of a Black Lives Matter Movement Founder died of tasing by an LA Police Officer this week. It will be interesting to see what happens with that.
When I motioned Justice of Peace Karen Orzech to dismiss the State charged she refused. US Attorney General Michael Mukasey had the case dismissed at the Federal level due to multiple violations of my Civil Rights and put me in a Witness Protection Program.
When I didn't show up for the next Hearing for obvious reasons, Orzech revoked my bail and had me arrested just before she went on vacation for two weeks, leaving the message to the jailers not to release me under any circumstances because Orzech was “going to deal with him personally.” That meant I had to stay in jail for at least 17 days without the possibility of bail and I was accused of a misdemeanor, not murder or any other violent crime.
During the my wrongful incarceration, an IED went off in Iraq killing 17 people that I could have easily saved. Orzech and company will be Judicially Executed for those murders as though they committed them themselves under the US Federal Conspiracy Statutes. And they think I had “mental health issues?”
Later that year, right in the middle 2008 Presidential campaign, the al Qaeda concocted financial crisis hit. It was the worst International Economic crisis since the Great Depression. I was the Chief International Economist in the State Department charged with the duty of advising the President of the United States and Secretary of State what to do about it. And Republican Candidate John McCain, put an exclamation point on this by quoting Herbert Hoover almost verbatim after the 1929 Stock Market Crisis that everything would be OK.
In 2009, the wheels on the al Qaeda conspiracy began to come off. In March the Public Funds Embezzling scandal came to light; in June, the Make Victims Unit (MVU)'s; and in August the illicit drug scandal which led to the sexual assault scandal. If the Obama Administration had acted as they should have then, at least 8,000 people would have been spared having their Lives and reputations systematically ruined; over a 100 Woman would not have been raped; and Missoula and the University of Montana would not being ensnared in a endless set of scandals that require its sequestration from the rest of America.
Actually, al Qaeda, which means “the base” in Arabic, set-up shop in Colorado Springs in 2003. They did so because cannibas became legal and they could raise funds for their terrorist activities through the sell of pot. Al Qaeda took over Afghanistan by operating its opiate trade and raising billions in cash. They were going to do the same in the USA.
The only time anything looked like I committed a crime in Missoula was when my Special Agent Double Gary Norman fell asleep in the Skaggs Building while Investigating the Pharmacy School producing performance-enhancing drugs for the University of Montana football team and 47 other Division I athletic programs to raise money for their terrorist activities.
Gary also was trying to get out of the rain. He entered the building at the time the building was open. He failed to get out by the time building hours were over and a Campus Policeman found him. Normally, the Police would warn a person not to be in the building after hours and escort them out. But because they were already after me, it became solving a great whodunit as per their own report of the incident.
Gary spent the night in jail and was released. When the Formal Charge was made of criminal trespassing, I was surprised to learn a Female Professor had caught me in a Woman's bathroom and I had assaulted this poor guy twice in the University Center. I don't know where the former came from, but the latter incidents were not even possible. SVC was bouncing around the world on our World Democratization Conference at the time I was allegedly on the UM campus.
Then the City Court began with their MVU gambits. They sent me a Notice to Appear two days after the fact. Naturally, they issued a bench warrant for my arrest and took my right to jury trial away.
Once I actually received the Notice, I called the Court. I was told that the Judge had dismissed the case. Fine.
I didn't hear anything for almost eight months and pretty much had forgotten it. Then on Holy Thursday, April 5, 2012, Missoula Police Officer Chris O'Leary stopped me and told me one of my prospective Business Clients had called and complained. He was a lead generated by my company. I still don't know what his problem was.
O'Leary ask me for ID and he checked for warrants. I had been found guilty in absentia and he used the expired warrant to proceed to arrest me. I didn't know anything about it. It was a rouse.
Kurt Trowbridge had arrived and he and O'Leary threw me down on the hard concrete to supposedly cuff me. Instead, Trowbridge began beating me and injected me with a still unknown substance.
Trowbridge was a Marine and he was using what was later identified as Soviet Gulag Technique he learned while in the service. My point here in answering the young Lady's question is this is yet another parallel between what happen to Jack Kennedy and what has happened to me.
Lee Harvey Oswald was also a Marine and another example of a Veteran using what they learned in the military and turning it on the Civilian population.
Oswald was a trained sharp shooter and quite capable of shooting the President. He was a Soviet National at the time of the shooting and undoubtedly part of the Pentagon/communist conspiracy to murder John F Kennedy.
Oswald was murdered himself by Jack Ruby, but no other individual has ever been brought to Justice in the case.
Hitler committed suicide rather than answering for the holocaust. Two dozen of his henchmen were Judicially Executed after the Nuremberg Trials.
Bin Laden has also figuratively been brought to Justice; 19 of the 9/11 hijackers committed suicide by crashing the planes and Zacarias Moussaoui is spending life in prison.
Even more scary, Trowbridge is still at-large, still wears a badge in Missoula and has successfully murdered 24 others.
Instead of the Pentagon, the Information Age Industries have actively conspired against me and SVC along with organized terrorism. Those who I should be naturally allied with me are in fact some of my worst adversaries, at least in the United States. It doesn't make sense.
I understand I am a threat to bin Laden and his henchmen and women. That is the idea. But what I cannot understand is why nearly a half million of my fellow Americans have joined them any more than anyone can understand why the Pentagon brass would join up with the communists to kill to such a promising President?
The traitors/terrorists of American Opprobrium (formerly Qaeda-gate) will all be brought to Justice one way or the other.