At 12:53 AM 9/22/96, Dale Thorn wrote:
A few years ago, William Torbitt (pseudonym) wrote in part: "Penal codes have had two historic purposes - to deter crime and reform the offender. .....However, when the head of the National Police agency joins with a handful of other govt. leaders, and they both in turn throw in with organized crime to murder the president, and the people have an uneasy feeling that something of this nature has taken place, it is only natural that crime and violence increase, and the basic deterrent to crime has broken down." (quote approximate)
Presumably the same William Torbitt (psuedonym) who wrote the Samizdat-distributed "Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal." (One of the best treatments of the various swirling connections surrounding the JFK assassination and related CIA-Mob-Giancana-Hughes-Castro-etc. connections.) That Torbitt was a pseudonym has some connection to the themes of our list. It is believed by many--and it sounds plausible to me--that the actual author was a knowledgeable Texas attorney who had gained much familiarity with the facts of the case and, circa 1966-68, wrote his extended pamphlet "The Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal." Fearing likely sanctions, both professional and personal, he chose not to use his real name, and pamphlet circulated informally, without a formal publisher. (It is not written in a wacko-style, so I don't dismiss it as the ravings of a loon.) I haven't checked to see if its on the Web. --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."