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From: Jasper
Date: 4/11/02
Time: 2:44:01 AM
Rovaan,
You and others may still be wondering why I made such a fuss about Dick Wagner's "young engineer" approach to constructing the Heidstra Timeline. One would think that I would be delighted instead of vexed that his independent work on the project confirmed the conclusions I made four years ago. There is more to my obvious pique than I posted. And some of it has nothing (directly) to do with the Heidstra Timeline or the O.J. Simpson case in general. It has to do with me being out of step with time in general.
It's a highly personal issue because it affects everything I say and do. At the same time the consequences to this country's entire economy could be devastating. I'm talk about a potential economic 9/1/1. Enron was only a warning like the bombing of a few passenger planes and the American Embassies in Africa that killed "only" a few hundred people - most of them "foreigners."
One "9/1/1" is enough for a lifetime. If you don't think I called that one and the bigger problems it grew from, you haven't read Invisible Warriors lately. It's the same book I started in '86 and finished in '94 with a slightly different title and some corrected typos. I couldn't finish it in the '80s because real events kept getting ahead of my predictions (I had the same problem with the Random Factor trilogy). Most of the predictions I made then were based on the patterns I saw of powerful governments allowing genocide in places that "nobody" cared about…in the name of peace.
I know that my process for building any kind of model works because my "war and piece" predictions based on my war and peace models are now history - just as the cars based on my models are now on the road. You should be able to plug any complex issue that you choose into any valid model of reality and get a valid result. If you can't count on a valid result every time something is wrong with the model.
I am in a high-stakes lawsuit with Ford that began in 1992 as a class action race discrimination suit. It is nearing its final round of play as a race AND aged discrimination suit. The only two survivors of the original suit have been legally barred from bringing the case to trial OR challenging Ford's assertions in the press. That's because a federal judge's gag order prevents us from disclosing any documents related to the case wile Ford has always been free to plant misleading "diversity" stories and images in the media.
It was clear to some of us from the start that race wasn't the most import issue to Ford. It was age. We saw that African-American's were simply being used as stalking goats to get around ALL of the federal anti-discrimination laws on the books. The ultimate objective was to trim as many older (high-salary) workers as possible and replace them with complaint younger workers. The African-American group consisted mostly of older employees, who came to work for Ford in the '60s and '70s in positions like design and engineering formerly reserved for "connected" white males and a small, highly visible number of "others."
In the forties and fifties this practice used to be called "tokenism." By the mid-sixties tokenism was such a transparent tactic for excluding blacks and "others" that everybody could see through it. Now things have changed, in no small part because of majority opinion in the O.J. Simpson case. The character, the intelligence and the judgement of African-Americans AS A GROUP are now POPULARLY viewed as inferior to whites. There are, of course, some highly visible exceptions to the rule as there were with Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and a few other black guys who could play baseball with the pros.
Welcome back to 1952. --Jasper