From: aq817@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Crocker)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: The Satanic Roots of Rock - Creating the Counterculture
Date: 4 Oct 1992 09:08:19 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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bakerj@gtephx.UUCP (Jon Baker) writes:

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>>   The cat was now out of the bag,
>>but the protests were few and minor. In
>>England, the BBC banned "A Day in the
>>Life,'' and in the U.S.A., Maryland
>>Governor Spiro T.Agnew, who would later
>>be watergated, launched a campaign to
>>ban "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.'' 

>Spiro Agnew was not involved in Watergate.
>He resigned as Vice President of the US when he
>was indicted by the IRS for federal tax evasion.
>The Speaker of the House, Gerald R. Ford, was
>appoint VP in his place.
>Not a big point, but it forces me to shed some
>doubt on the other 'facts' within this posting.

You misunderstand the terminology here. The verb "to watergate"
has gained currency, at least in some circles, meaning roughly
"to discredit and drive from office through an orchestrated media 
campaign of accusations of corruption and wrongdoing". This is the 
sense in which it is being used here. The question of actual substantive
wrongdoing is almost irrelevant here. Nixon was not driven from office
because of whatever he may actually have been guilty of regarding
the Watergate cover-up. He was driven from office because powerful 
people wanted him out of office and sicced their lap dogs of the press 
on him.

>>    The first experimentation with LSD
>> was begun in the early sixties, in the
>> Haight-Ashbury section of San
>> Francisco. The project was run by a
>> joint CIA-British intelligence task
>> force under the code-name MK-Ultra.

>Timothy Leary claims to have been involved in
>experimentation with LSD in medical laboratories
>at UC Berkely in the late 50's/early 60's.  This
>was allegedly the first use of LSD.

O.K. Then say the Haight was the first experimentation with LSD
that organized a mass constituency.

>[ Monterry Pop Festival ]
>>    The concert, including the staging
>>and the huge innovative outdoor
>>amplification, was run by Phillips. It
>>was the first time that an American
>>audience was exposed to such openly
>>demonic British groups as The Who, and
>>Jimi Hendrix. At the conclusion of
>>their act, The Who, in a drug-crazed
>>frenzy, destroyed all their guitars,
>>amplifiers, and drums. Hendrix
>>simulated masturbation with his guitar,
>>on stage, while performing at
>>ear-splitting volume levels. 

>Totally cool!

Philosophically corrupt.


>>   There was a larger scheme in
>>operation. The scheme was tied into
>>MK-Ultra and it involved using
>>Satanists around Phillips, along with
>>agents such as Ken Kesey and Timothy
>>Leary. The plan was to turn nearby San
>>Francisco into a Satanist gaming
>>preserve, mass recruiting and
>>perverting young run-away teenagers.

>I find it difficult to believe that Timothy
>Leary was an agent of anything.  Neither he,
>nor his long-time friend/nemesis G.Gordon Liddy
>have made any mention of Timothy Leary being an
>agent of ANY organization.

Leary has stated "The CIA gave me LSD". This coheres with the
definition of "agent" commonly used in intelligence work which does
NOT imply an employee of an intellegence agencey. These people are 
called "intelligence officers" they "handle" "agents" who are simply
anybody recruited to perform particular tasks, often quite unwitting
as to their true employers.


>>   Phillips had earlier written the
>>music to a song called "San Francisco''
>>which sold over 5 million copies. The
>>song called for youth throughout the
>>country to come to San Francisco "with
>>flowers in their hair.'' The song was a
>>rallying cry to tens of thousands who
>>came flooding into San Francisco in the
>>summer of 1968 to join the new "hippie''
>>movement, misnamed the Summer of Love.

>Great song - too bad SF has gone to shit
>since then.

That "great song" helped entice a bunch of emotionally crippled
kids, probably from dysfunctional families, onto the streets of a 
strange city, often half a continet away from home, with no means
of support. Vultures such as Charlie Manson preyed on them, and 
it took only a couple of years for the Haight to turn into a Meth
and Smack (Heroin) scene. And you're suprised "SF has gone to shit".
Really.

>J.Baker

-Steve Crocker
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