Remembering Mae Brussell

This Wednesday, October 3, 2018, marks the 30-year anniversary of the death of Mae Brussell.

Brussell, above, was a conspiracy theorist. She was a conspiracy theorist in the good sense; not the kind who feels like a possible con artist but one who was a thinker—and one who did extensive research—and she helped those who paid attention to also do some thinking.

In fact, I find myself wondering what Mae Brussell would think of today’s political climate—and, well, it doesn’t take me long to realize she would have had some of this figured out. I think, from many of her findings, she would not be surprised.

Born May 29, 1922, in Beverly Hills, California, Mae Brussell had her own radio program, Dialogue: Conspiracy. She was known to have read, researched, and reviewed many of the events that struck over recent years—and ones from past generations—and she theorized what and why, and even how, they happened. She was concerned about and covered the history of fascism. That is apparently captured in the book, The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America, published by Feral House, edited by Alex Constantine, and released in 2014. (I used the word apparently because I don’t have the book let alone have I read it. But, I am now considering buying it.)

A standout with Mae Brussell was the 1963 assassination of 35th U.S. president John Kennedy. She did not, not surprisingly, buy into the Warren Commission’s report. In fact, I will provide a link to an uploaded YouTube of Mae Brussell connecting JFK’s assassination to Nazis. It was from November 22, 1981, eighteen years to the date. Due to page layout, I will present that video at the bottom of this blog entry topic. In the meantime, following this paragraph are some quotes by Mae Brussell.

“The word terrorist has become as American as apple pie.” —Mae Brussell, The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America

“I am against the planned political assassinations by our intelligence and defense agents. The CIA–FBI–DIA and DISC (Defense Industry Security Command) were set up originally to protect citizens of the USA. They became their own judges and juries, private servants of corporations with investments at home and abroad. I am against the constant destruction of evidence in criminal matters and political assassinations. Prime witnesses are murdered before or after testifying. Diaries are forged and planted in obvious places. Doubles are created to confuse. The Police Departments manipulate facts in cooperation with conspirators. I am outraged that our judicial system since 1947 has been patterned after Nazi Germany. Patsies are dead or locked away. The assassins walk the streets or leave the country—‘home free.’ I am against using the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren, to cover up the assassination of President Kennedy. When the highest court is corrupt, there is no hope at local levels.” —Mae Brussell

“Propaganda is an important weapon of the fascist state. TV and the media are filled with clandestine agents, some posing as liberal writers, whose purpose is to break the credibility of researchers or discredit evidence that would confirm conspiracies. Colleges and academic institutions offer no courses on agents provocateurs or how to recognize covert operations. When an accurate history of the violence in the 1960s and ’70s is written, facts will reveal that government provocateurs created most of it. A series of our own Reichstag fires was the justification for a sweeping domestic operations program designed to deny liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.”—Mae Brussell, The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America