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The JFK conspiracy theory is the conspiracy

by Mojambo ( 152 Comments › )
Filed under Cold War, Communism, History, Politics at November 22nd, 2013 - 7:00 am

The left has never come to grips with the fact that  in the words of Jackie “He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights… it had to be some silly little Communist”. That is why they need more and more outlandish conspiracies concerning stereotypical  right-wingers i.e Cuban exiles, corporate honchos, CIA, John Birchers, etc.

by Daniel Greenfield

Sometimes a conspiracy theory exposes a conspiracy. Sometimes the conspiracy theory is the conspiracy.

JFK assassination plots are the only conspiracy theories to be widely accepted by the general public. The moon landing filmed in a studio, the Lincoln conspiracy or the World Trade Center being blown up by lasers from outer space never gained much credence because they lacked mainstream backing. Conspiracy theories ordinarily remain on the margins. The JFK theories were too important to the liberals who were really running things to allow them to die out.

There are probably more Americans who could tell you the ins and outs of the “magic bullet” than can recite the Bill of Rights from memory. More books have been sold about the Kennedy assassination than about any of the real government abuses taking place today.

The 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination brings with it the usual weighty tomes, speculative articles and nostalgic reminiscing about the utopia that might have been. The political messianism of JFK was as doomed as that of any other liberal savior. Unlike Obama, it conveniently ended in a martyrdom which excused a generation of liberal failures.

[…….] Oliver Stone’s JFK was a laborious effort to connect the murder of a liberal icon to the despicable conservative villains that his political martyrdom demanded.

The endless search for the real killers was not done to find them, but to perpetuate the myth. The search could never be complete; the conspiracy theories could provide no closure; though the lynching of Nixon for daring to try and make JFK’s ideas work helped put to rest the ghosts of Camelot for many angry liberals.

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The directions in which the JFK conspiracy theories point reveal what they are trying to hide. John F. Kennedy was not murdered by a miasma of hatred on the right, but on the left. Before liberals became leftists, leftists had a propensity for killing liberals.

And Lee Harvey Oswald was as far to the left as you could go.

There was never really any disagreement about Lee Harvey Oswald’s politics. The media has avoided the issue by characterizing him as a screwball, but Lee Harvey Oswald was a militant Socialist screwball who defected to the USSR and plotted the murders of people he considered “right-wing.”

Lee Harvey Oswald was part of a continuum of left-wing terror in America. The murder of JFK was a bridge between the explosions of violence in the twenties by anarchists and by the Weathermen in the seventies. Oswald was the leading edge of American left-wing violence.

Like so many radicals, Oswald was bored and shiftless. The reality of the Soviet Union with no revolution, just factories to work at, did not appeal to him. Instead he drifted back to America, a weapon in search of a target. The actual murder may have shocked the nation, but it would not be very long before left-wing violence would once again become part of life in America.

JFK was not killed by a military-industrial complex or a vast right-wing conspiracy. No group of men in suits sat around a table plotting his death. The forces that killed him were the same political ideas of the left that led young American men and women to cheer for the Viet Cong, plant bombs and wage war against their own country.

To understand why JFK died, you must understand the Weathermen and Leon Czolgosz who murdered President McKinley. You must understand the Atom Bomb Spies and Sacco and Vanzetti and a century of left-wing sabotage and terrorism in America.

It’s much safer to talk about magic bullets, than magical thinking ideologies that promise that a workers’ paradise is only a bomb away.

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JFK was the martyr of the dangerously unstable new America that the left was bringing into being.

Three years after the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, an engineering student and another former marine would climb a tower at the University of Austin and open fire. The killing spree would become a starting point in an accelerating trend of mass killings.

The murder of John Lennon, another liberal icon, in a new decade that closed the door on the chaos of the counterculture, would be a death undignified by any larger meaning. From Charles Manson to Jim Jones, these were the mad horrors spawned by a damaged culture where the monsters and madmen were suddenly the only ones who understood the rules.

Kennedy was killed in a more innocent time when it was still possible to deny that the wave of change was not ushering in a brave new world, but the destruction of a culture that had kept the worst human instincts in check.

The real Kennedy conspiracy was an effort to suppress the basic truths of what had happened and to replace them with a recursive loop of conspiracy theories that could never resolve anything while convincing everyone that the basic truths of what happened could be safely ignored.

The conspiracy did not cover up the work of the secret organization that killed JFK, but the secret organizations of the left whose ideas led to his murder. The real JFK conspiracy concealed the deeper secret that the left is destructive and that its ideas carry a dark wind of violence.

The left cannot make history come out the way that it wants to, but it can always lie about it. Its myths of the past are tawdry attempts at refusing to learn the lessons of history so that it will be given the freedom to repeat its terrible mistakes.

Lee Harvey Oswald was the stepchild of the left’s destructive ideas. The same madness that led to Guyana and the bombing of the Pentagon had its day fifty years ago in Dallas.

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As The 50th Anniversary Of The Kennedy Assassination Approaches – The Conspiracy Nuts Grow Even Nuttier

by Flyovercountry ( 122 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, The Political Right at November 20th, 2013 - 12:00 pm

Political Cartoons by Robert Ariail

It really can not be avoided this year, as the number of candles on the cake equal that milestone known as 50. The thing about conspiracy theories is that they not only fall apart under the slightest scrutiny, being based on nothing more than a bizarre stringing together of handpicked disparate, “facts,” but more often than not, some false assumptions are necessary and must be overlooked in order to continue the narrative. In the case of the Kennedy assassination, Texas Governor, John Connaly, not only had to have his seating position moved, but his orientation as well. Several physicists have conducted numerous experiments in which they were able to prove that Kennedy’s head would travel towards the shot after being struck by the caliber of ammunition used, but that has done nothing to deter the Zapruder Film from being used to some how bolster this nonsense. The claims have been made ad nauseam that no man could fire a bolt action rifle accurately 3 time in 5.6 seconds, even though the Warren Commission places the timing at slightly over 8 seconds, all of which is pointless. It is all pointless because our ever helpful Marine Corps has chimed in on several occasions, including in testimony to the Warren Commission that Oswald’s not nearly so super human feat did not even rise to the level of minimal qualifying capability for graduation from Marine Corp Boot Training, which is something that Oswald had actually accomplished. A second shooter from the grassy knoll has been claimed, and yet not one spent cartridge, nor a slug from that direction had ever been recovered, in what has to be the single most investigated criminal event in American History. As a matter of fact, no actual evidence has ever been presented which shows that anyone other than Lee Harvey Oswald committed this murder.

Oswald was not originally arrested for the Kennedy Murder, but his seemingly bizarre and without motivation murder of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippet. It was not until his questioning in relation to that murder that the pieces of the Kennedy Assassination were put together. For those of you, and you know who you are, who would out of hand dismiss the Warren Report, ask yourself honestly if you’ve even read it. If not, why would you dismiss it out of hand? Every piece of actual evidence that has ever been presented to any law enforcement authority points to one person and one person only. Even further than that however, this persistent need to reject that a man of such low standing, such as Oswald was, could have affected the life of a man of such high standing, as Kennedy was, is nothing more than a clinical psychosis. People need to feel secure in their Universe, and part of that security is the need to believe that great people seen as good, can only be harmed by equally great people seen as evil. The thought that a seeming nobody can take down our nationally elected leader represents the introduction of unwelcome chaos into the universe of those who need such security.

There were 9 forensic pathologists on the Warren Commission, and of those 9, total agreement was held by 9 of them. The angle of trajectory of all three shots, what each shot did, the final disposition of each shot. In 1986, a mock trial was held in England, based on American Law, in which Lee Harvey Oswald was tried for the Murder of John F. Kennedy, and done so as if Oswald had not been assassinated himself. The prosecutor of that case was none other than Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angelos Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson and the first members of the Manson Family to be brought to justice. (It should be noted that since Manson’s conviction, 35 subsequent members of the Manson Family have been prosecuted and convicted of various murders in California, Nevada, and Arizona. Since the most recent of those occurred in this century, Bugliosi has not gotten them all.) After that conviction, Bugliosi wrote the book on his prosecution entitled, “Helter Skelter.” Since that time, he has published several true crime books, one of which was, “Reclaiming History,” which covered the Kennedy Assassination. His book is several thousand pages long, not because of any complications in the actual case, but because he addresses and debunks each and every publicly stated objection to the Warren Report.

It is a source of never ending amusement to me that the same people who have chosen not to trust the government’s investigation into this, 911, our moon landing, what have you, are the very same people who trust the government implicitly with respect to total and equitable wealth redistribution and our entire health care system. Literally, the mind reels. If you have hour and ten minutes to spare, Vincent Bugliosi, while he may be a tad long winded, is also a compelling and entertaining speaker. So O.K. conspiracy theorists, let me have it, but bear in mind that somebody somewhere has already debunked totally what you are about to say.

Watch this video on YouTube.

Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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The day when liberals became scolds

by Mojambo ( 168 Comments › )
Filed under History, Progressives at October 10th, 2013 - 2:00 pm

The Left never could accept the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist through and through, and their disappointment that he was not a member of the  K.K.K. or John Birch Society still resonates to this day with their ever bizarre conspiracy theories. Several authors have come to the conclusion that the JFK assassination turned liberalism form a sunny, optimistic philosophy into a lecturing, moralistic creed that we see today.

by George F. Will

“Ex-Marine Asks Soviet Citizenship”

— Washington Post headline,

Nov. 1, 1959

(concerning Lee Harvey Oswald)

“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It’s — it had to be some silly little Communist.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy,

Nov. 22, 1963

She thought it robbed his death of any meaning. But a meaning would be quickly manufactured to serve a new politics. First, however, an inconvenient fact — Oswald — had to be expunged from the story. So, just 24 months after the assassination, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the Kennedys’ kept historian, published a thousand-page history of the thousand-day presidency without mentioning the assassin.

The transformation of a murder by a marginal man into a killing by a sick culture began instantly — before Kennedy was buried. The afternoon of the assassination, Chief Justice Earl Warren ascribed Kennedy’s “martyrdom” to “the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots.” The next day, James Reston, the New York Times luminary, wrote in a front-page story that Kennedy was a victim of a “streak of violence in the American character,” noting especially “the violence of the extremists on the right.”

Never mind that adjacent to Reston’s article was a Times report on Oswald’s Communist convictions and associations. A Soviet spokesman, too, assigned “moral responsibility” for Kennedy’s death to “Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right.”

Three days after the assassination, a Times editorial, “Spiral of Hate,” identified Kennedy’s killer as a “spirit”: The Times deplored “the shame all America must bear for the spirit of madness and hate that struck down” Kennedy. [……..]

Hitherto a doctrine of American celebration and optimism, liberalism would now become a scowling indictment: Kennedy was killed by America’s social climate, whose sickness required “punitive liberalism.” That phrase is from James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute, whose 2007 book “Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism” is a profound meditation on the reverberations of the rifle shots in Dealey Plaza.

The bullets of Nov. 22, 1963, altered the nation’s trajectory less by killing a president than by giving birth to a destructive narrative about America. Fittingly, the narrative was most injurious to the narrators. Their recasting of the tragedy in order to validate their curdled conception of the nation marked a ruinous turn for liberalism, beginning its decline from political dominance.

Punitive liberalism preached the necessity of national repentance for a history of crimes and misdeeds that had produced a present so poisonous that it murdered a president. To be a liberal would mean being a scold. Liberalism would become the doctrine of grievance groups owed redress for cumulative inherited injuries inflicted by the nation’s tawdry history, toxic present and ominous future.

Kennedy’s posthumous reputation — Americans often place him, absurdly, atop the presidential rankings — reflects regrets about might-have-beens.  [……..]

Under Kennedy, liberalism began to become more stylistic than programmatic. After him — especially after his successor, Lyndon Johnson, a child of the New Deal, drove to enactment the Civil Rights Act , Medicare and Medicaid — liberalism became less concerned with material well-being than with lifestyle and cultural issues such as feminism, abortion and sexual freedom.

The bullets fired on Nov. 22, 1963, could shatter the social consensus that characterized the 1950s only because powerful new forces of an adversarial culture were about to erupt through society’s crust. Foremost among these forces was the college-bound population bulge — baby boomers with their sense of entitlement and moral superiority, vanities encouraged by an intelligentsia bored by peace and prosperity and hungry for heroic politics.

Liberalism’s disarray during the late 1960s, combined with Americans’ recoil from liberal hectoring, catalyzed the revival of conservatism in the 1970s. As Piereson writes, the retreat of liberalism from a doctrine of American affirmation left a void that would be filled by Ronald Reagan 17 years after the assassination.

The moral of liberalism’s explanation of Kennedy’s murder is that there is a human instinct to reject the fact that large events can have small, squalid causes; there is an intellectual itch to discern large hidden meanings in events. And political opportunism is perennial.

 

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The JFK family does not believe in the lone gunman theory

by Mojambo ( 200 Comments › )
Filed under Assassinations, History at January 17th, 2013 - 8:00 pm

In my opinion they  still hope that it was a crazed right winger rather than in the  words of Jackie Kennedy Onassis:

In the hours following Kennedy’s assassination, aides assumed a right-wing radical was responsible. When Robert Kennedy informed Jacqueline about Lee Harvey Oswald’s leftist background, she felt sick. “He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights,” she said. “It’s – it had to be some silly little communist.” Eventually, the Warren Commission found no direct connection between Kennedy’s assassination and the city’s “general atmosphere of hate.”

Michael Gerson “Small man, terrible act

The dream of the Left (see, Bloomberg, Michael) or Johnson, Charles F.)  is that a white, Christian, tea partier man would be the one to plant a car bomb in Times Square, not a Pakistani Muslim immigrant

 

DALLAS (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced that a lone gunman wasn’t solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a “shoddy piece of craftsmanship.”

Kennedy and his sister, Rory, spoke about their family Friday night while being interviewed in front of an audience by Charlie Rose at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas. The event comes as a year of observances begins for the 50th anniversary of the president’s death.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his father spent a year trying to come to grips with his brother’s death, reading the work of Greek philosophers, Catholic scholars, Henry David Thoreau, poets and others “trying to figure out kind of the existential implications of why a just God would allow injustice to happen of the magnitude he was seeing.”

He said his father thought the Warren Commission, which concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president, was a “shoddy piece of craftsmanship.” He said that he, too, questioned the report.

“The evidence at this point I think is very, very convincing that it was not a lone gunman,” he said, but he didn’t say what he believed may have happened.

Rose asked if he believed his father, the U.S. attorney general at the time of his brother’s death, felt “some sense of guilt because he thought there might have been a link between his very aggressive efforts against organized crime.”

Kennedy replied: “I think that’s true. He talked about that. He publicly supported the Warren Commission report but privately he was dismissive of it.”

He said his father had investigators do research into the assassination and found that phone records of Oswald and nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who killed Oswald two days after the president’s assassination, “were like an inventory” of mafia leaders the government had been investigating.

He said his father, later elected U.S. senator in New York, was “fairly convinced” that others were involved.

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Rory Kennedy, a documentary filmmaker whose recent film “Ethel” looks at the life of her mother, also focused on the happier memories. She said she and her siblings grew up in a culture where it was important to give back.

“In all of the tragedy and challenge, when you try to make sense of it and understand it, it’s very difficult to fully make sense of it,” she said. “But I do feel that in everything that I’ve experienced that has been difficult and that has been hard and that has been loss, that I’ve gained something in it.”

“We were kind of lucky because we lost our members of our family when they were involved in a great endeavor,” her brother added. “And that endeavor is to make this country live up to her ideals.”

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