I’ve been trying to leave alone the whole high-level executive branch stuff involving JG, EM and co. The Colorado angle, however, is intriguing and annoying because given the evidence I’m rolling around on my tongue, which tastes pretty foul anyway, it seems to bring the government back in again if only on a peripheral level.
See, according to the interviews I’ve seen/heard and accounts of what happened to JG shortly after his abduction, he was sold to a guy who took him to Colorado. Maybe he was passed around, because there were again various alleged sightings of JG throughout the country. But the guy who took him to Colorado was this Aquino character who supposedly was a high muckety-muck in the military, so obviously he must have had some peripheral connection to the government. Some have said he was high enough to have had some dealings with the White House. Dunno.
Absent this governmental assertion, however, is the following: The story goes that some friends of NG and Gosch Sr. claimed that while they were in Colorado, they were in a Mexican restaurant. Obviously the guy of the couple must have gone into the men’s room, for he found the words “Johnny Gosch was here” written on a wall in red nail polish. I believe that according to some accounts, there were actual witnesses who saw JG and a couple other teens doing their nails in the restaurant. They made fun of the boys, and so the boys went into the bathroom where JG apparently wrote his name.
So far, we’re leaving out the PB angle, or at least I haven’t discussed it. But wait.
Tenn years after the Goschh case first arose, there was a program on NBC that used to air. Ironically enough, I believe it was called “A Closer Look” — the same name as that radio interview ten years thereafter.
But I remember the show very welll because my office in the Court building was just around the corner from where I lived. We attorneys never had to do anything inside the actual courthouse, stuck as we were in our own offices and doing appeals. But we had a lot of freedom to come and go, if only for a few minutes. I took advantage of that freedom and wennt home to tape the show (didn’t have a VCR back then; just a boom box with a radio/television.)
That show was the first time I’d ever heard of PB (Paul Bonacci). He claimed that he had seen JG in March of ’86. A private detective on that same show, who incidentally believed PB’s account(s), brought up the Colorado bathroom incident. At the end of the show, the anchorwoman pointed to evidence in the form of a letter from a boy who was presumably part of that same ring. He (the unnamed boy) claimed that he had been with JG when the two went into the bathroom. The boy claimed to have seen JG write his name, and that at some point in time he knew that JG had been taken to Mexico by “The Colonel.” This, apparently, was Aquino.
Now we have the November ’92 segment about JG. I didn’t see that show, but my mother did. She spoke of the ’88 letter the Gosches received, allegedly from their son. Dunno if I remember right, but I venture to say I probably do. But my mother said that JG had signed his name to that letter. She also thought she remembered that again, forensics experts confirmed the handwriting again as JG’s. Coincides with that dollar bill incident in ’85. That is, unless someone can point to evidence that it wasn’t his handwriting.
I saw the May ’93 segment involving PB and Jimmy Gibson. (Anyone think it weird that there are so many JG’s involved in this case?) My belief is that if we’re going to consider PB’s account(s), we can’t necessarily dismiss them in their entirety. He seemed, during this segment, to have reacted rather emotionally to having viewed the house where the boys were allegedly kept. I conclude one of three things, from which everyone is free to pick (this is still America.) One is that PB’s a great actor, and none of it ever happened. One is that it didn’t happen, but for some reason PB is so out there that he isn’t lying because he really believes it did. The third, unfortunately, is that it did actually happen the way NG says it did. So there’s your Colorado angle.
I said earlier that I was going to go all over the map here.. Maybe I’m just prattling on for no apparent purpose.. But I just have to wonder about a couple points. That whole “Conspiracy of Silence” embroglio. Supposedly it was to have aired on the Discovery Channel in ’94. Supposedly nobody in the government was ever involved in some giant pedo ring. I gotta wonder something. We can leave JG totally out of any connection having to do with this video that was never aired, and that was supposedly bought and destroyed at someone’s instigation. I’ve seen a lot of this video seeing how it was on the Net and all. I don’t think JG was mentioned on the parts that I did see. But even if JG was never a part of this deal with the video, I wonder why someone relatively high up, no matter who it was, would have even bothered to snag this video in order to prevent its airing if some parts of it didn’t wash. Leaving JG totally out of the picture, shouldn’t we nonetheless be concerned that something was going on? Seems to me that at least a few lives were ruined here, and all because of a few highly-placed dirty rotten hogs with no regard for simple human decency.
