Censorship and AI: Colson and Anderson

Even though this story is but a theological and ethical commentary on a well established story that ran in mainstream newspapers and is further supported by testimony under oath, Google's Anti-Intelligence (AI) software has chosen to flag it - undoubtedly due to the fact that it perceives some kind of controversy or conspiratorial angle, suggesting I might be misleading the public or promoting some kind of dangerous idea. Or perhaps Google is simply concerned about the reputation of Chuck Colson - but I doubt it. Welcome to the future people - the age of of AI is upon us and already it's wreaking havoc in the world of banking, insurance, and many other spheres. We can only hope its failures and inadequacies will become self-evident and the project (mostly driven by greed) will be abandoned. Here's the story that was censored:

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While traveling down one of my recent rabbit trails, I re-encountered the story that in 1972, G Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt had plotted to assassinate columnist Jack Anderson (1922-2005) - a figure akin to Seymour Hersh in his investigative reporting and aptitude in breaking big stories. Liddy a former FBI agent and Hunt, a 'former' CIA operative were given the order by Charles Colson. They admitted to this under oath.

Long hated by figures like Nixon and J Edgar Hoover, Anderson was also a target of CIA surveillance. But it was the Nixon administration that decided to finish him off. Whether the orders came from the Oval Office or not, Colson was involved in commissioning the hit.

Liddy and Hunt had considered poisoning Anderson but another option discussed was a murder made to look like a mugging.

None of their plans came to fruition because both of these men were arrested weeks later in connection with the Watergate break-in.

Two things immediately came to mind regarding this story.

1. Seth Rich and the fact that his death is officially considered a mugging gone wrong, or fatal mugging. Nothing was taken from him so the explanation is that the mugger got scared and ran. The only other explanation is that it was an assassination.

This ties in with the larger story about the DNC materials that appeared on Wikileaks. Was it a case of data 'hacked' by Russian agents and the passed on to Assange - that's the narrative the Establishment would have us believe. Assange has always denied this and yet due to his commitment to protecting the identity of leakers he will not name the source.

The other possibility is that it was not a hack but a leak - one made by a disgruntled DNC worker, such as Seth Rich. If he did in fact leak the material, he might have been prepared to talk further. The threat of such an expose' in the midst of a highly contentious and consequential election meant that he was a risk. We don't know what additional information he possessed.

The fact that his family stands by the official story doesn't mean much. They could actually believe it and resent the way in which their son was appropriated by and used by the Right - or there could be additional factors. We just don't know.

2. Once again I marvel that Charles Colson who in his post 'conversion' narratives would talk about what an awful person he was, how he'd sell his own mother and the like - but then whenever a specific situation or scenario was raised, he would defend his and Nixon's conduct. He still defended the whole Vietnam War sham - knowing full well what Nixon had done to sabotage the peace deal in 1968 and what the Pentagon Papers revealed. He's played a major role in going after Daniel Ellsberg and never repented about any of that criminality or the role he played in perpetuating the lies of Vietnam. He condemned the protesters and how they were blocking the Nixon administration's attempts at bringing 'peace' to the world. This is delusional stuff and a sign of someone unreflective and unrepentant. I can remember him being on Focus on the Family and speaking with pride of his time and 'service' in the Nixon administration.

Apparently he did not regret the really dirty stuff either - the stuff he wouldn't talk about. You know if he had actually been converted and regenerate he could have used his platform as an opportunity to expose the rottenness and corruption of American politics - he certainly knew all about it. Instead he helped cover it up, continued to function as a GOP operative in his attacks on the Democrats, and became (functionally) a lobbyist. He exhibited no signs of repentance but every sign that he was a sociopathic deceived deceiver - a wolf in sheep's clothing, a false Christian. He was thug and a scoundrel and I think the only thing he was really sorry about was that he got caught. The bitterness he expressed when Mark Felt was revealed as 'Deep Throat in 2005 was just further proof that he was a man still bearing a grudge, thinking in terms of 'loyalty' (not to truth or Christ) and maintaining his enemies list.

Around the time of his indictment in March 1974, he was soon 'converted' through the efforts of the 'Christian' Chairman of Raytheon (another Murder Inc.). Pardon the cynicism here but it's just too much. It is with good reason that many news outlets, commentators, and others viewed Colson's conversion with no small degree of cynicism - an attempt on his part to deflect from the charges and reduce his sentence.

As I've expressed before even his narratives surrounding his plea deal were bogus and deceptive. He paints it as some kind of noble move on his part to plead guilty to other (and lesser) charges. The prosecutor Leon Jaworski took the deal because the whole situation was a mess and complicated and they needed results and to move on. They didn't want lengthy trials. Colson said he couldn't plead guilty to something he wasn't guilty of (covering up the Watergate burglaries and the break-in at the office of the psychiatrist treating Ellsberg) and so instead took a plea on the Ellsberg-related obstruction charges - which led to the Pentagon Papers leak case being thrown out. Only James McCord served less time than Colson.

Colson was deeply involved in the cover-up and all but commissioned the burglary.

Colson was an unrepentant liar and a fraud.

See also:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nixon-white-house-plot-to-kill-journalist-jack-anderson/