He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)

Not what we normally do, but I just wanted to share a cool film, It Felt Like a Kiss by Adam Curtis. Okay, okay, so why share it here? Well, there's its attention to conspiracy, its sense of whimsy, it's suggestiveness. And there's the way the director plucks (or perhaps strings & manufacturers) a narrative thread from a pile of data/footage; his selective attention and creative interpretation, presented as if voicing the silenced ... And, well, shit, I dunno foax, hows 'bout you stop being so by god lazy and watch it for your own damn self and then you tell me what the hell you think for a change, huh? Huh!?! How's about that for change, yeah?!?

Sorry, sorry, got a little carried away there. Anyhow, this here's the by goddest documentary I seen in a awhile. Hope you dig it, too.

No body home

First thing I heard on the radio today is that Osama Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan by US forces.  Checking it out later I saw in the NYT that the "Body is Buried at Sea".

The CIA did this disappearing act with Che Guevara--hide the body so there would be no shrine potential....come to think of it, that's why the Russians burned Hitler's corspe, no?

In 1997 Guevera's remains were found, exhumed and transferred to Cuba where they lie in a mausoleum and monument.  Even his hands.  Hmm?  These had been hacked off and sent back to his native Argentina to be preserved in formaldehyde but were later sent to Cuba.  Odd, eh?  Ten years prior, 1987, Argentine leader Juan Peron's tomb was desecrated and his hands cut off with an electric saw.  An investigation into the matter was inconclusive and some involved in it died under "questionable circumstances".  Wikipedia states that "In their book Unveiling the Enigma, writers Damian Nabot and David Cox write that the P2, also known as the Propaganda Due, were involved in the theft, and that there was a ritual involved in the cutting of Peron's hands".

CIA National Security Archive, 1967.

Che has in fact become exactly the folk saint the authorities who hid his body feared: 

"It's like he is alive and with us, like a friend. He is kind of like a Virgin Mary for us. We say, 'Che, help us with our work or with this planting,' and it always goes well."

— Manuel Cortez, a campesino who resides next to the schoolhouse where Guevara was executed.

I find it significant his body was displayed in a laundry, as if to clean Che from collective memory before hiding him away.  But hey, there's nothing like a missing body or empty tomb to base a religion upon....

But I'm getting away from Bin Laden.  I must admit, so quickly disposing of his body raises alarms bells in my prone-to-be-skeptical brain.  I'm not saying there's something, er, fishy going on, but you can bet half the internet will.  Seems like a perfect psy-op to me.  Without any thorough independent examination of a body hastily disposed of, there will always be suspicions that this was like the second Oswald.  This was the biggest manhunt in US history, the capture ten years in coming and now there is no body.  Doesn't seem like standard police procedure to me.

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http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=18055

I remember that Saddam Hussein employed body doubles to throw off would-be assassins.  Some have argued that it was in fact on of these hapless doppelgangers who was hanged in Baghdad....

You see, the seed already has tentative roots.  Won't be so hard for some clever dick to make it blossom.  From the comments on my Facebook homepage, that process is already well underway.  All I can say is, if you want to start a folk legend, kill the outlaw.  If you want to canonize him, hide the body....