09-05-2016, 03:12 AM
My local paper ran a story from Politifact on this issue. In addition to the rather flimsy character of the evidence, they also cite that, by the summer of 63, Rafi Cruz was anti-Castro, (he originally started out anti-Batista) having visited Cuba on a summer break from the University of Texas and being shocked (in a bad way) about the changes there after Castro came to power. Cruz was not a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (no duh!) They say there's no evidence that Cruz participated in pro-Castro activities, seeing as how his name has never surfaced in serious JFK research, I'd be willing to bet that there isn't any evidence that he participated in anti-Castro activities either.
However, I'd like to suggest that Oswald associated with many anti-Castro types (Ferrie and Bringuier spring immediately to mind), that Oswald was evidently deliberately building a pro-Castro rep for himself, for whatever purpose (and if his professed purpose was sufficiently anti-Castro) he might have enlisted real anti-Castro types to assist him. To me, Oswald seemed to reflect whatever set of political beliefs he thought suited his needs at the moment (for instance, he claimed to have "studied socialist literature" since his early teens, but when he got to Russia he told people he had "never read Lenin and Marx".
I cannot see how Stone or Trump would think that slamming Cruz' dad in this way could possibly hurt Cruz' campaign or reputation:
A. Nobody really believed it.
B. Cruz' campaign had already been fatally wounded by that point in the primary contests, and even the Hail Mary pass of preselecting Fiorina as VP could not have defibrillated his chances.
C. Nobody really liked Cruz as a candidate (excepting the Koch Brothers), he was just the last guy left that might have caught up to Trump.
D. The idea that the Republicans are reaping what they have sown, over decades of fear and hate mongering, is both nauseating and blackly ironic.
I would be interested to learn if the activists that have been disrupting Trump rallies are continuing to appear.
However, I'd like to suggest that Oswald associated with many anti-Castro types (Ferrie and Bringuier spring immediately to mind), that Oswald was evidently deliberately building a pro-Castro rep for himself, for whatever purpose (and if his professed purpose was sufficiently anti-Castro) he might have enlisted real anti-Castro types to assist him. To me, Oswald seemed to reflect whatever set of political beliefs he thought suited his needs at the moment (for instance, he claimed to have "studied socialist literature" since his early teens, but when he got to Russia he told people he had "never read Lenin and Marx".
I cannot see how Stone or Trump would think that slamming Cruz' dad in this way could possibly hurt Cruz' campaign or reputation:
A. Nobody really believed it.
B. Cruz' campaign had already been fatally wounded by that point in the primary contests, and even the Hail Mary pass of preselecting Fiorina as VP could not have defibrillated his chances.
C. Nobody really liked Cruz as a candidate (excepting the Koch Brothers), he was just the last guy left that might have caught up to Trump.
D. The idea that the Republicans are reaping what they have sown, over decades of fear and hate mongering, is both nauseating and blackly ironic.
I would be interested to learn if the activists that have been disrupting Trump rallies are continuing to appear.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."