The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

REBUILDING THE REICH, AMERICAN-STYLE 243the departments of energy and education, Carter apparently failed to satisfythe globalists.The mass media were already focusing on conservative California governmentRonald Reagan as the man of the hour. Reagan’s nomination asGOP presidential candidate for the 1980 election seemed assured.Carter asked for and was granted a national television spot duringprime time, and many media pundits predicted that he was about to announcesweeping changes in government as well as new initiatives thatwould move his upcoming presidential reelection campaign off highcenter. But before his televised appearance, Carter journeyed to California,where he was to address a Hispanic crowd in the Los Angeles CivicCenter Mall celebrating Cinco de Mayo, the day the Mexicans defeatedthe French Army in 1862. A few days later, a handful of newspapers carrieda small story stating that a “grubby transient” had been arrested thereand was being held on suspicion of the attempted assassination of thepresident. A Secret Service spokesman downplayed the arrest, stating theincident was about as “nothing as these things get.”However, a few days later, another news item appeared, which reportedthat the thirty-five-year- old Anglo suspect was being held in lieu of$50,000 on charges of conspiring to kill the president. Finally, a one-timestory in the May 21, 1979, edition of Newsweek revealed more details ofthe incident. According to the news magazine, the suspect was arrestedafter Secret Service agents noticed him “looking nervous.” A .22, eightshotrevolver was found on the man along with seventy rounds of blankammunition. A short time later, the suspect implicated a second man, atwenty-one-year-old Hispanic, who also was taken into custody and subsequentlyheld in lieu of $100,000 bail. The second suspect at first deniedknowing the other man, but finally admitted that the pair had test-firedthe blank starter pistol from a nearby hotel roof the night before Carter’sappearance. Both men said they were simply local street people hired bytwo hit men who had come up from Mexico. They were to create a diversionwith the blank pistol, and the two hit men were to assassinate PresidentCarter with high-powered rifles.Lending credence to their story, both suspects led authorities to theshabby Alan Hotel located near the civic center. Here investigators found