Kerry Thornley - The Dreadlock Recollections

So it is another Gandhi death day, like the opening of Ape and Essence , only this Gandhi wasn't much of a mahatma. According to rumor, she was killed by the Singhs of Pallistan, like the Odums of Texas or the Landrys of New Orleans, the Singhs are a large family, among the Sikhs, very large, whose name translates as Lion in English.

People who are being lied to are the worst problem in the intelligence community that I encounter. Trying to figure out exactly what about takes all my time. By then it is usually too late; they've already carried out their idiot orders. In showering them with rose petals of data in self-defense they usually accuse me of trying to smother them.

Besides that, everybody is trying to change the subject from war crimes to banking. I'm no Mickey Mouse. I spent years ranting about usury. As soon as I figured out that wasn't the most relevant issue in relation to my own history, the whole world took up one or the other side. The story of my life. Maybe there is a rule in the Order of Dogblood or whatever it is that requires them to be gung ho about whatever my last crusade was, ignoring the present one. When I got into libertarian anarchy everyone else became a limited government Objectivist. When I got into LSD, they became anarcho-capitalists. When I got into Edgar Cayce, they got into non-mystical LSD trips. When I gave up mysticism they began prattering about reincarnation. When K115 FM persuaded me to postpone the "spring" until last, everybody who'd thereto began opposing my efforts to attain a retribution on moratorium for the assassins if they'd tell the truth became zealously intolerable advocates of that cause. So it goes. So it has always gone. So now they want to play cops and bank robbers. There just must be a secret rule. The only way I could get a war crimes probe would be to give up and get into something else. "Now that I'm against 'em, I like 'em." Mac Hall about Blacks.

Once Robert LeFeure may have implied cryptically that Dwight Ferguson was being mind controlled by land monopolists. Then again, he may have been talking about Robert C. Macdonald or someone else or even no one.

Glimpses: a threat to kill all the Proudhonians if I make my case a higher priority than my ideology. Page 57 of Alexander Berkman. We are losing. The Nazis are grinding us into the ground with their boot heels.

The Doors of Perception . Barbara Reid gave me a copy she autographed "with defiance" as well as with love. The Doors rock group said they derived their name from the Huxley title. Was Jim Garrison and Samuel de Lessup Morrison's secret society involving "doors" a peyote cult?

I could probably dig it if it was.

Of course all these discouraging battle reports could just be a plot to drive me to suicidal despair. When I examine the macro-analysis of the planetary milieu, though, I conclude that opposing genocide is like taking on the United States Marines with peashooters. So it is equally possible to me things are as terrible as they indicate. Last night I felt like saying, "Send us more Japs." Duncan says, lamentingly, that the Japanese are staunchly supporting the Vietnamese. That was the way I'd've meant it, if I'd said exactly that.

Actually, as much of a raving communist I am at heart, I cannot honestly say I'd rather live in China than Japan. Also I'd rather live in Japan than here. It's the culture I like, though, not the State or the economic system. I've never seen what problem anarchists envision in my testifying at war crimes trials. Had John Dean been an anarchist, for example, anarchism would by this time be understood by everyone in the country. What they want, I guess, is a Jack London style Assassination Bureau thing, instead. I probably could've opted for that old anarchist dream of radical anarchist assassins slaying everyone in authority without themselves taking power, just maintaining a permanent universal power vacuum for as long as it took for people to discover how to live without political bosses. Smedly Butler got to me first, though. George Lakey got to me first. The Quaker mafia got to me first. Corporations tend to be more powerful than governments. Right libertarians, who tend to maintain assassination bureau fantasies more than, say, Red and Black Action, are blind in their analysis there. They ignore multi-national corporations as a coercive factor. So they usually think I'm betraying the Cause of Liberty when I'm only trying to elevate consciousness about The Oppressor.

So I'm like Omar Khayyam instead of Hassan-i-Sabbah, although I'd much prefer a reality that permitted me to be a Hassan-i-Sabbah. Khayyam was just an old drunk, a loser. Hassan enjoyed the benefits of a cool neighborhood. No pot busts. No vice cops. No cultural quibbling. Atop Alamount a prince could smoke his grass in peace and fuck as much as he wanted. I took a harder path. Bloody and beaten, it seems, I'm straggling toward its end.

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Publication History

In 1992 Sondra London traveled to New Orleans with Kerry Thornley to produce an interview on the television program A Current Affair , continuing to interview him during the six years before his death in 1998. This book was edited by Sondra London with Thornley's authorization and participation from a 1989 manuscript. Thornley lived long enough to see the first eight chapters published under on the Internet in 1997. The Dreadlock Recollections was previously published as Sondra London Presents Confession to Conspiracy To Assassinate JFK and was copyright 2000 by Sondra London. In 2006, Sondra London granted OVO permission to publish this book in the public domain. In 2011, OVO published a revised version of that 2006 book. In 2012, the 2011 OVO revision of the 2006 book was published for Kindle.