GENERAL EDWIN WALKER, 1909-1993

GENERAL EDWIN WALKER

WHO WAS GENERAL EDWIN WALKER?, PART I  Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2022

General Walker was one of the founders of the Conservative Movement with WF Buckley and Barry Goldwater.  Walker is assigned, against his better judgment, to Little Rock, Arkansas to escort The Little Rock Nine into the school, and he doesn’t want to do it but he’s following orders of his Commander in Chief, Dwight D. Eisenhower, as he said.  Massive crowds, huge event in Little Rock, they were anticipating riots.  1957, the same year he gets his star as Brigadier General, tells Eisenhower he’s not happy about it but he does it anyway.  Already he’s starting to think that his political job is getting politicized.  This is the first inkling he gets what he perceives to be the misuse of the military.  This is a social problem he says, get the police, the state police but the military for this event is overkill.  Walker was revered as a fighting general. His men would have willing fought behind him.  He felt humiliated by having to do this social engineering project for Eisenhower.  He will later turn against Eisenhower, hinting that even Eisenhower is a pinko.  The term pinko comes in at this time.  Red was Chinese communist, and blue was true blue American  Pink was a compromise of the two, not a full-on commie but identify yourself critical of American policies.  1959, he gets assigned by Eisenhower to the 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany.  Why is the 24th important?  Wikipedia explains,

After serving in World War II and the Korean War Walker became better known for his white supremacism and extreme political opinions, often made on-duty and in uniform for which he was criticized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Walker resigned his commission in 1959, but Eisenhower refused to accept his resignation and gave Walker a new command of the 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany.

The 24th is the tip of the spear against the Soviets if they make a run on Berlin.  These men are all going to die.  Their job is to hold off the Soviets as long as is humanly possible through what is known as the Fulda Gap, a gap between two mountain ranges, even Napoleon had come through the Fulda Gap down to the Rhine River, and his job was to hold off Soviet tank divisions, they all know they’re cannon fodder until military back up arrives and we get our troops in there.  Ye agrees and that’s when he creates Project Blue.  Wikipedia refers to it as Pro-Blue.  He believes that his men don’t know what they’re fighting for.  For most, probably not.

Walker was then assigned as commander of the Arkansas Military District in Little RockArkansas. In 1957, he implemented an order by President Eisenhower to quell civil disturbances related to the desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High SchoolOsro Cobb, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, recalls that Walker “made it clear from the outset … that he would do any and everything necessary to see that the black students attended Central High School as ordered by the federal court… he would arrange protection for them and their families, if necessary, and also supervise their transportation to and from the school for their safety.”[5]

Walker repeatedly protested to Eisenhower that using federal troops to enforce racial integration was against his conscience. Although he obeyed orders and successfully integrated Little Rock High School, he began listening to segregationist preacher Billy James Hargis and oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, whose anti-communist radio program Life Line was supported by conservative activist and publisher Dan Smoot. Anti-communist activists in the late 1950s claimed that communists controlled important parts of the U.S. government and the United Nations and that some Soviet spies and agents occupied prominent jobs within the federal government, for example, some of the Silvermaster group.

In 1959, Walker met publisher Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society who taught his followers that President Eisenhower was a communist and that the civil-rights movement was a communist plot.

On August 4, 1959, Walker submitted his resignation to the U.S. Army on grounds of an alleged international conspiracy. President Eisenhower denied Walker’s request, however, and instead offered him command of the more than 10,000 troops in Augsburg, Germany, in the 24th Infantry Division, which Walker accepted. He began promoting his “Pro-Blue” indoctrination program for troops, which included a reading list of materials by Hargis and the John Birch Society. The name “Pro-Blue”, said Walker, was intended to suggest “anti-red.”[6] He later wrote that the Pro-Blue program was based upon his experiences in Korea, where he saw “hastily mobilized and deployed soldiers ‘bug out’ in the face of Communist units with inferior equipment and often smaller numbers. American soldiers, unprepared for the psychological battlefield, needed to know why they had to beat the enemy as well as the how.”[7]

He wants to teach psychological patriotism.  He begins Pro-Blue with films, pamphlets, books, and material provided by the John birch Society.  He’s one of the original members of the John Birch Society, founded in 1958.

Billy James Hargis, 1925-2004

WHO WAS GENERAL EDWIN WALKER?, PART II

Posted Friday, April 22, 2022.  Charles Burris offers up his own notes related to the presentation.  Find them here.

WHO WAS GENERAL EDWIN WALKER?, PART III

Charles Burris posted this article on May 28, 2022.  Burris had this video as the 3rd installment on General Edwin Walker, but that discussion doesn’t gain traction until the 49:27 mark.  This is the second time that I’ve heard Barnes mention the book, Red Nurses, White Nurses.  I’d searched for it before to no avail, and now this morning I see a Reddit discussion on it.  Psychologists wanted to know if you could predict who would be a Nazi and who would not be based on soldier diaries of World War I.  And it turns out you can.  Barnes explains that soldiers who were emasculated by their fathers adopted the Maddona/whore complex toward women.  But I have yet to find the book anywhere.

CIA’s Project Operation Bluebird, 1952.  MK ULTRA was a series of CIA programs that started with the NAZI program, Operation Bluebird.  And accelerated in 1950 with the Korean War when the Koreans were capturing U.S. soldiers.  Ted Kazinski . . . it leads to William Bryan, the hypnosis psychiatrist who deals with Sirhan, who deprograms the Korean prisoners of war, who writes The Chosen Ones, William J. Bryan, 1971, on how to read the body language of jury candidates for jury selection.  He’s worked with F. Lee Bailey.  George Hoben Estabrooks, Spiritism, 1947.  The Nightwatchman, David Atlee Phillips, the CIA station chief in Mexico City, who framed Oswald to be in Mexico City trying to get a Visa to Cuba.  Phillips’ brother wrote a 1958 film called Thunder Road, starring Robert Mitchum.  In the 1975 film, Three Days of the Condor, what does Robert Redford’s character do?  He reads books.  British publishers were MI6 fronts.  Same as here.  Marina Oswald was taken under the wing by Patricia McMillan, who was the CIA biographies.  Later, she wrote the biography of Kruschev’s daughter,

59:08  Holy Shizzle!!!  Groubert explains that it was the Kennedys who stripped Edwin Walker of his General position PUT IN A STRAIGHT JACKET by Robert Kennedy and taken to a mental institution in Missouri.  You want to talk about motive!  No man has the motive that General Walker had.  Psychiatrist, Thomas S. Szasz explains,

Arrested on four federal charges, including “inciting, assisting, and engaging in an insurrection against the authority of the United States,” Walker was taken before a U.S. commissioner and held pending the posting of $100,000 bond. While he was making arrangements to post bail, Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered Walker flown, on a government aircraft, to Springfield, Missouri, to be incarcerated in the U.S. Medical Center for Prisoners for “psychiatric observation” on suspicion that he was mentally unfit to stand trial.

This is astounding.

I summarized the evidence for my view that psychiatry is a threat to civil liberties, especially to the liberties of individuals stigmatized as “right-wingers,” illustrated by the famous case of Ezra Pound, who was locked up for 13 years while the government ostensibly waited for his “doctors” to restore his competence to stand trial. Now the Kennedys and their psychiatrists were in the process of doing the same thing to Walker.

59:45  Groubert says that Walker had access to the Davey Crocket tactical nuclear missiles.

1957, September, Eisenhower ordered the Arkansas National Guard to escort a black student, 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford, in a Little Rock high school.

1961, Walker resigns from his post, and JFK accepts it, whereas Eisenhower refused and instead reassigned him to Germany.

1962, September, student James Meredith gets a national guard escort into Mississippi University.  More on General Edwin Walker.

After the riots, Attorney General Robert Kennedy called for Walker’s arrest, and he was charged with insurrection. The Justice Department asked that Walker be committed for a psychiatric evaluation, as the chief psychiatrist at the Federal Prison Bureau stated that Walker’s past actions indicated paranoid mental disorders.

To Walker, however, he was a political prisoner at the hand of the Kennedys. Walker was eventually released on a $50,000 bond. Upon release, he was met by a crowd of about 200 supporters at Dallas Love Field, waving confederate flags and holding signs that read “Walker for President ’64.” In January 1963, a federal grand jury declined to indict him and his charges were dismissed.

In February 1963, Edwin Walker joined anti-communist televangelist Billy James Hargis on a tour to warn the American people about “the enemy within and without.” Both men hated Communism but arguably hated President Kennedy more. On this public tour, Edwin Walker begins to publicly call on Kennedy to use military might to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba, and to assassinate Castro.  Hargis and Walker were considered founders of the American Right movement.

1:13:30  Woody Harrelson’s dad was a mob hitman that was convicted of killing a federal judge.  The book, The Man on the Grassy Knoll, alleges that he was one of the three hobos rounded up in Dealey Plaza.

1:23:05  Michael Payne works at Bell Helicopter which was run by a Nazi and ends up selling a million helicopters for the Vietnam War.

1:24:50  Friday, May 27, 2022, may be the end of the #MeToo movement with the win going to Johnny Depp verdict against Amber Heard.  Final, official, legal, because nobody . . . is going to want to go through this again.  It should have been done over 2 years ago if somebody had the cajones to do what Depp did.  Hunley says that “The proof will be Marilyn Manson.”  What does he mean by that?