Jesse Ventura On 'Conspiracy Theory,' Plum Island, Biological Weapons, Sarah Palin

Well, I think that there are a lot of things going on there that probably the public would become very frightened over, you know, over the fact that they would be testing biological things like that. The thing that I find most disturbing is that it's 75 miles from downtown Manhattan and about 80 miles from downtown Boston. It's the most heavily populated area of the United States and to be experimenting with biological experiments on mosquitos, ticks, things like that — it just doesn't seem like a very smart place to be doing that all these years.

Oh, the creator, the godfather? Yeah. Every time I say that to people, they're stunned. Totally stunned when I say, well the godfather of Plum Island was a Nazi right underneath Hitler. He probably should have stood trial at Nuremberg.

Not really, they all had their own things they were into. Traub was into biological weapons – ticks and mosquitos, you know, to turn them loose on an opponent or another country or a foreign country. The thing that I find disturbing about it is the fact that we are such hypocrites in this country, over the fact that we will have all these weapons and yet we think we're outraged if someone else has them.

Yeah, I think if we're dabbling in biological weapons. Let me give you an example: one of the reasons we invaded Iraq supposedly was that Saddam had chemical weapons that he used on the Kurds. Well, I'll ask you, what's napalm? That's a chemical weapon and we've been using it for 40 years. We used it tremendously in Vietnam. Now that's a chemical weapon. So how come it's okay for us to use chemical weapons but it's not okay for anyone else? I guess because we're the world power, we can dictate that.

Well, I don't know. They're planning on moving Plum Island out to Manhattan, Kansas, which is right in the heart of our food belt. And supposedly what they legitimately do out there is they work on animal stuff and I just don't — I would think that maybe moving it up to where Sarah Palin's from would be much safer. Somewhere in Alaska where nobody's around. I mean this is pretty dangerous stuff amongst the population.

Well, the first reported case was in Lyme, Connecticut, that's why they call it Lyme Disease and Lyme, Connecticut is right across the water from Plum Island. Is that circumstantial? And then you find out that Erich Traub, that was his specialty for the Nazis: ticks and mosquitos. Well, you start adding the little bits and pieces together and it kind of makes a picture, doesn't it? There you go. You don't know for certain, but on all of these conspiracies — it's basically like taking a jigsaw puzzle and throwing all the pieces on the floor. Each piece is a clue or a piece of evidence. You start to put the puzzle together — now can you complete the puzzle? Absolutely not. But like a jigsaw puzzle you can put enough pieces together where you get a good idea of what the picture is.

No, no, no, no, no, no. I was never a politician. Let me correct you. I was a statesman. here's the difference: a politician makes his career out of running and holding office. A statesman comes from the private sector, serves and then goes back to what he or she used to do. That's a statesman, so I refer to myself as a statesman, not a politician.

First of all, most of our politicians have no idea when they vote for bills what's in them. I've discovered that clearly on multiple occasions. And even the sponsors of these bills don't even know what's in them and they vote for them, not even knowing what's in it. Like we met with this congressman that is a co-sponsor of this Homeland Security bill that states unequivocally that they will build a minimum of six FEMA camps, internment camps throughout the country, and this guy, before we showed this to him, insisted to me that FEMA is not building any internment camps, that it's all a big lie. And then we confronted him to say House bill such and such, of which you're a co-sponsor, and we show him – "will build no less than six FEMA internment camps." He was stunned. Go back to Michael Moore's film [Fahrenheit 9/11] when he comes up to John Conyers, the congressman from Michigan, and asked him, "Congressman, how could you vote for the Patriot Act?" And he grabs Moore by the elbow and says, "Let me set you down, young man. We don't read any of the bills we vote on." When he said that, I almost fell out of my chair in the theater. I must've been a stupid politician – I actually read them.

Well I haven't looked at them, so I really couldn't answer whether they would be or wouldn't be but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter. As long as this country continues to elect Democrats and Republicans, we're going to get the same thing we've had for 50 years or more. I don't even advocate for the third party anymore because my belief is that any third party, in order to compete, because the system is so corrupted, they will have to be corrupted in order to compete. And so therefore, instead of two-headed monster, you'll then have a three-headed one. I now advocate the abolishment of political parties. We should turn them into political action committees and not allow political parties.

It's nice that they're causing trouble because I'm a believer that dissension is the greatest form of patriotism. But I think that they're orchestrated. They've been taken over by a right-wing group of Republicans. Many of the Tea Party people are legit. But the problem is they've been infiltrated, just like the Reform Party. It happened to us. Remember when Pat Buchanan came in and got our nomination? Well, that was by design to destroy us, and it did. Oh, I think the Tea Party is there to get the Republicans to go even further right than what they are. Again, any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support. Sarah Palin's a quitter. You know, I don't know what control they have over our media, but can you imagine if halfway through my term as an Independent, I would have quit just to go become a millionaire? What the press would have did to me? How come they gave her a pass? I've got news for the people of America: if she runs for president, make sure you're happy with the vice president because within two years, she'll quit and that person will be president.

Too much heat or more money to be made – one of those.

I'll never say never, but at this time I'll tell you no. I really don't have any desire. One of the reasons is because I like my freedom and being the president's truly an oxymoron. You represent freedom but you yourself have none. And I don't think I want particularly to live that way again. I did it as governor, where you've got bodyguards around you all the time 24/7, you can never be alone hardly. And I prefer living in Mexico like I do now for half the year, I live where there's no electricity and no paved roads and I surf. I would rather do that for half the year and then the other half, I come up and raise hell doing these TV shows and then I get out of here and let you guys get the collateral damage.

We're doing a show on John F. Kennedy's murder this year, and many of the press have asked me what could you possibly bring that would be new? Well, how about a oral, audio and written confession? That's at the end of the show so you gotta watch, but we have a confession. We have someone who confessed to it on their deathbed to their son. The person's pretty prominent and he made his son promise to go public with it – the mainstream media won't touch it. In fact, 60 Minutes passed on it.

I hope it gives the other side of the story and lets people know that you can't necessarily trust your government. Government's made up of people and people lie, people want money, people want power and we have some sort of belief in this country that our government can't be corrupt.