Crazy, yes. But crazy enough to be true?

Call it Poppy's First Law of Incumbancy: a Bush in the White House means truth is stranger than science fiction. "imagine if my name had been Mungo," the President teased a Scottish farmboy the other day. Sure; why not? No more will I dash my imagination upon the rocks of his strange truth. So Mungo the Merciless it is.

The "Gannon" scandal is proving one helluva shape-shifter. GOP shill? - whoa! don't blink - pornographer? - nuh uh; too slow - rent boy.... Are we there yet? Maybe not.

There is some mindbending speculation afoot here that is quite likely, and after a fashion, half-cocked. But if correct, would establish more than the mere pattern recognition of the Craig Spence debacle.

What if "John Gannon" isn't really "James D Guckert"? (And why should he be, since he's lied about everything else?) What if he proves to be Johnny D Gosch?

In 1982, Gosch was a 12-year old Des Moines paperboy abducted into a paedophile ring which practiced ritual, Satanic abuse and enjoyed covert sanction. Paul Bonacci, himself a child victim to Omaha's Lawrence King of Franklin Credit Union notoriety, testified that he had helped lure Gosch from his paper route. "Evidence links this same porno/paedophile ring to the 80's 'congressional call boy scandal', money laundering, drug running, illegal arms deals and more," says The Johnny Gosch Foundation:

Like so many others, before and since, Johnny was subjected to severe trauma and torture of a satanic and sexual nature, in order to intentionally destroy the conscious personality.... This intentional application of trauma is a systematic procedure used to control these victims, in order to use them in sexual slavery, pornography and more. In February 1999, in Federal Court testimony in Omaha Nebraska, Noreen Gosch testified that Johnny Gosch came to see her in 1997, providing information about his experience, asking for his mother's help and pleading for her to not reveal his visit.

Johnny, says his mother Noreen, is living under an assumed identity.

Gosch would be 35 or 36. "Gannon" claims to be 47. But his "male4male" escorts profile lists him as 31 in 2000. That would make him, today, 35, or 36.

Here is Gosch at 12, and "Gannon":



An "age progression enhanced" picture of Gosch, as he may have appeared at 18, and "Gannon":



And something just discovered here that makes the room seem to spin: Noreen Gosch appealed to the editor of the Des Moines Register, the paper Johnny delivered, about police negligence in her son's case. He printed her private letter on the front page in mockery, and invited the police to dissect it. The editor's name? James Gannon.

I was afraid to open up the newspaper each morning, because I didn’t know who would be attacking us next. Nor could I understand “why!” I kept asking this question daily how could they do this and why … what was their motives? Why would Gannon, the editor of the Des Moines Register encourage and assist in the attacks against parents to find their child. Today, we know many important people in business and in government are themselves pedophiles or for one reason or another are sympathetic to those who are.

Crazy? Yes. But we went through the looking glass a long time ago. So there's no reason why this shouldn't be right, unless it's dead wrong.