10-12-2008, 01:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-12-2008, 02:50 PM by Charles Drago.)
Cliff Varnell Wrote:Charles -- excellent dialectics afoot.
Let's run your model thru Dr. Scott's framing of the JFK assassination within the international narcotics trade.
1. Sponsors -- the people who controlled the international narcotics trade, or powerful people who sought control of same.
2. Facilitators -- wide variety of useful people kept like a stable by the Sponsors.
3. Mechanics -- Professional killers brought up within the international narcotics trade.
Cliff, the controllers of the global drug trade were/are, by definition, Facilitators.
They were/are in service to the larger -- much larger -- and overriding agenda: the maintenance of minority control over the majority population.
All power and profit stem from such control.
And those agendas reflect the needs and wishes of the Sponsors.
I hope that this crystallizes the Sponsor/Facilitator distinction for you.
Your take on Facilitators is, I believe, on-target.
Alas, your proffered Mechanics definition suffers from the same fatal malady afflicting your Sponsors model.
Drug dependency.
This is enjoyable.
Charles Drago
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Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene