July 31, 08

Hi from Tex Allen '66 (Email me directly at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):

The tragic Antioch College Ohio closedown is hard to explain, but Antioch College Ohio always had a lot of enemies, always was an embarrassing exception to the rule that cultural institutions agree with powerful political and economic leaders who seize power, as the right wing/ Wall Street people certainly did after Nixon was elected to office in 1968 (been 40 years of solid right wing Republican rule with the two Democrats in office since then, Carter and Clinton, lining up to support the right wing, and never seriously a problem the right wing/ Wall Street power people ever had).

The Antioch closedown could be connected to bigger, darker issues like the fact politicos and power people want it gone.....military/industrial complex people in the Dayton area, old time Nixonites who got CoIntelPro chasing Antioch in the 1970's based at the Cincinnati OH FBI office, President Gerald Ford (who named Antioch as "America's enemy" from the floor of the House Of Representatives when he was Speaker before was USA President) ordering Antioch gone, and ordering his fed. govt. lawyer (HEW Dept) employee Larry Pearl '55 to disrupt Antioch College by publically humiliating the school (Larry Pearl '55 was the 1970's Chairman of the Antioch College Board of Trustees who fired long time Antioch College President Dr. James P. Dixon publically in 1975, the start of Anitioch's fall from prestige and prominance in American higher education...probably the worst PR thing to happen to Antioch ever...bigger than the Strike of '73...bigger than the Sex Permission Policy of '93...bigger than anything until the actual closedown of Antioch starting the first of the month, July 2008).

Antioch has a lot of enemies, and the big money people on the AUBOT could simply be taking orders (and bribes) from big money Republicans/ Wall Streeters intent on cleaning up Amerika....finishing Reagon's promise to wipe out all traces and memory of the New Deal and it's ideals. Antioch is a symbol of all the crazy right wing ever hated, still hates and fears

The death of Antioch could be an example of cultural warfare, pure and simple.

Antioch just wouldn't go away, wouldn't stop marching to the beat of the different drummer.

So....the right wing pays off the (rich people running) AUBOT and its leaders to assassinate the school......assassination from within is an old, old story.

I'm currently screening (re-screening...I've watched it often) the Robert Graves I CLAUDIUS (1935) fiction account (BBC 1975 video of fame created based on the Graves' 1935 novel) of perfidy and back stabbing, assassinations by poison, hit-men, etc. in the Rome of Caesar Augustus, all "described" (fictionally) by Emporer Claudius, put on the Roman throne after Calligula was murdered by the Praetorian Guard, and the Guard put Claudius up to replace him to humilate the aristocrats and show up their degeneracy (Claudius was flawed physically, known as a famous fool and goof-ball type part of the aristocrats in Rome....grew up in Caesar Augustus' house, and watched the whole parade of relatives killing each other for power, etc.....Robert Graves wrote a book fictionally claiming Claudius' account of "what happened behind the scenes" was hidden, then discovered 1900 years later.)

Anyway, ........ assassination by those in power to end the lives of OTHERS in power....old story....could well be part of the end of Antioch.

Not all conspiracy theories are nutty and ridiculous, mainstream journalism and revisionist history notwithstanding.