> The Covert War Against Rock
> Book Review
> by Jaye C. Beldo
> Anonymous Magazine
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> Think you've got the scoop on the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious
> B.I.G.? If you're getting your info from Corporate controlled media, what
> you've been fed is most likely more of the same canned lies dished out on a
> daily basis. However, thanks to the efforts of Alex Constantine, one of the
> foremost conspiracy writers going and author of such compelling titles as
> Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. and Virtual Government (put out by Feral
> House: www.feralhouse.com), the mysteries behind the demise of these stars and
> others such as Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley is cleared up once
> and for all. Constantine unveils a music industry controlled by a Mafia
> with CIA, FBI and NSA connections so powerful that any maverick musician who
> dares to confront the powers that be ends up getting iced in the most
> unsavory of ways. The author exhibits much courage in describing the deaths
> of rebellious rock stars through the thoroughness of his research and
> documentation of the testimony provided by those who personally knew and
> worked with the musicians included in the book.
> One of the more harrowing chapters in The Covert War Against Rock is
> that devoted to Reggae superstar Bob Marley who passed away on May 11, 1980.
> Surviving an attempt on his life by a well armed death squad at his Hope Road
> home in Jamaica, Bob was later given a 'gift' of a new pair of boots by
> Carl Colby, son of the late CIA director William Colby. When the
> unsuspecting Marely put them on , something pricked his foot. He then
> reached into one of the boots and pulled out a piece of copper wire. Many
> of his closest friends suspected that the wire contained some carcinogenic
> substance as Marley contracted cancer shortly thereafter. It is a well known
> fact that the CIA has often employed such devious tactics to silence
> dissidents like the conspiracy researcher Mae Brussels for example, who
> contracted stomach cancer after her lifelong dedication to empirically
> exposing Project Paperclip, a U.S. Government sponsored program which insured
> that top Nazis scientists were smuggled into the United States shortly after
> WWII to work in mostly the aerospace industries.
> After a heroic bout of non stop touring in spite of the disease and Bob
> refusing to have his leg amputated based on Rastafari creed, he was
> eventually sent to a 'holistic' practitioner, Dr. Josef Issels, who, as it
> was later ondiscovered, worked at the Auschwitz Concentration camp alongside
> the infamous, as well as inhuman, Dr. Mengeles. How Marley got linked up
> with a known Nazi doctor is an irony beyond comprehension. Perhaps it was
> somehow his personal destiny to come face to face with archetypal evil in
> such a way. I'll spare the reader the horrorific things done to him by this
> so called Doctor in the name of eugenics (genocide) disguised as therapy and
> commend the author for bringing this disturbing information to the public
> domain.
> Over and over again, Constantine cuts through the malignant allure which
> veils the deaths of celebrities and continues to perpetuate a kind of morbid
> fascination that is fully exploited by mainstream media as a means to
> distract us from the more important political matters at hand. His book
> offers us a much needed, sobering perspective on the motives behind the
> murders of the rock stars themselves. While reading The Covert War Against
> Rock, it becomes harder and harder to ignore that the Military-Industrial
> complex is very much threatened by musicians dedicated to raising the
> political awareness of young people and will do whatever it can to stop
> them. The Covert War Against Rock should be used as a kind of
> assassination Field Guide for those who want to head for the front lines and
> 'Fight the Power'. Perhaps then the deaths of the musicians described within
> will not be in vain.
>
>
> Jaye C. Beldo writes for Anonymous, The Konformist, Disinfo.Com and
> elsewhere. He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ©2001 Jaye C. Beldo
