03-02-2010, 04:59 PM
Ed Jewett Wrote:It doesn't resonate with me, CD. I've not been at this topic as intensely as some others like you, but I'm up to page 200 of "... the Unspeakable" and I think a very strong case has been made. Thus far, he has said, in essence, we don't know who gave the order, but we know pretty much everything else. And although we can't name a name yet in terms of orders, the list of candidates gets smaller and smaller by the day, and the web grows tighter and tighter. I mention page 200 (what is the reverse of ff ?) because I think Douglass has done the best job I have seen yet of explaining the operational approaches of CIA infiltration and compartmentalization I've read in my short life. And, if we didn't know already, he's explained the history of the post WWII intel world and its impetus and key actors and the connections to Wall Street and the intense anti-Soviet, anti-Communist mindset of the corporate military world. And I love Peter Dale Scott's video on "mindset"...
There is no doubt that much racism ran in parallel with the times and the people involved, but it does not strike me as a primary issue any more than similar commentaries about Obama today having any validity. There's a Venn diagram in here somewhere with some overlap, but I don't think civil rights constitutes the primary circle, or even a secondary one.
It does not resonate with me either. Not that I discount racism. We know from Mr. Bolden that JFK's secret service men were very racist. And we see it today with Obama. BUT if the assassination was about race then why didn't they assassinate LBJ, it was in his admin. that the Civil Rights legislation so close to JFK's heart was enacted.
I have read hundreds of excellent books on the assassination of JFK but I believe we learn the most from James Douglas. Much is what we knew already but the depth and documentation in JFK and the Unspeakable succeds brilliantly in showing both "why he died" and "why it matters". (And thus without naming all the names, points in the right direction of the killers).
JB you make some good points but in this regard you appear to harp on one topic to the exclusion of the rest, the real truth for those of us who have toiled in these woods many a decade .
You are entitled to your opinion certainly but you do need to be open to other views, imho.
Dawn