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Joining the JFK truthers

The 50th anniversary of the shooting death of John F. Kennedy is the perfect time to let you know that you are actively reading the blog of a person who believes Kennedy was NOT shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Oswald was, as he claimed to be in the hours following his death, a patsy. It is completely implausible to me that Kennedy could be shot dead from such a distance by an untrained marksman using a gun with a skewed sight who had been spied on for months and years before by the CIA; that the victim’s entire physical frame would lurch backwards-- towards the bullet, and that his wife’s dress would be splattered with blood seated to his right when he had been shot, supposedly, from behind to his right; that his assailant, alleging a frame-up, would be shot coming out of the jailhouse by a man who, despite preposterous claims of motive involving vengeance for the widow and proving that Jews can be tough when it counts, also happened to be mobbed up larger than Nucky Thompson.

It is infinitely more plausible to me to believe that Oswald, during the most dangerous time period of the four decade-long Cold War, was encouraged by an undercover operative to shoot at the president and to also have an expert shooter positioned elsewhere working on behalf of anti-Castro, anti-Communist, CIA military types that either wanted to punish Kennedy for going too soft on Castro, or to pin the blame of the assassination directly on the Cuban leader, or both. And then the CIA files regarding the case ordered closed for one half century and counting. If you think it impossible that the CIA would do such a thing as to undo the political will of the populace by attempting to assassinate an elected official, then you really don't pay close attention to the news, do you? John may be seated next to Abraham and Martin in heaven, but if he is, he's also seated close to Salvadore Allende and Hugo Chavez.

I stake the entire reputation of this blog, such as it is, upon this decision today to join the ranks of “conspiracy theorists” on the JFK shooting, and I wonder if Bob Schieffer and other doubled-down media members of the privilege class, who have otherwise thrown in entirely behind the military-industrial complex on all other CIA-official stories since, would be willing to place their reputations, such as they are, on the contradictory conclusions of the Warren Commission. I suppose that they each continue to cling to the original story because, well, if they’ve been wrong, they at least have had plenty of company. But if it turns out that they have been wrong (and you could make a case that the Warren Commission findings have already been publicly discredited), then it won’t be simply a mistake of demanding too little evidence at the time or being drawn in, over time, by consensus beliefs. Instead, it will require, for each member of the traditional media, a personal admission to being part of the half-century-long journalistic bungling of—and even complicity in -- the largest and loudest criminal conspiracy in American history.

You can stand for government secrecy or you can stand for open inquiry, but you can’t stand for both. The historical record is important, and since you are one of my very few readers, I’ll just let you know right here that this shit on the blog today is entirely about posterity.

posted by CM @ 7:26 PM