20-12-2008, 09:09 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:Or: How censorship by obituary.
Here's the Torygraph's obit:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...ed-91.html
Conor Cruise O'Brien dies aged 91
Odd how opposition to the Warren Report absurdity is routinely removed from mainstream biogs and obits.
The New Statesman, 30 September 1966, pp.479-481
Books: No One Else But Him
By Connor Cruise O’Brien
* Rush To Judgement by Mark Lane Bodley Head 42s & Inquest by Edward Epstein Hutchinson 30s
The Minority of One
December 1967 – Number 97 (Volume 9, No 12)
Connor Cruise O’Brien, “Veto by Assassination?,” pp.16-18 - O’Brien’s lengthy review of Sylvia Meagher’s Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities & the Report (NY: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967, 477pp).
Page 18:
Quote:“Any serious investigation such as Mrs. Meagher demands must explore hypotheses of this character [Garrison’s – PR] instead of looking studiously away from them as the Warren Commission did. It is not merely for the historical record that this is necessary. If indeed a conspiracy of this kind did kill Kennedy, then a future President who incurred the displeasure of the same or similar circles would be likely to meet the same fate…
“The conspiracy hypothesis about Kennedy’s death is probable; if it is correct, then there are people in existence who possess the experience of having mounted a successful assassination conspiracy with impunity, probably with the complicity from inside several law-enforcement agencies and certainly with distinguished “accessories after the fact” in the persons of the Warren Commission and their counsel.
“If this is so then the American Right will have acquired a kind of veto by assassination over future American policy. Once the “lone assassin” theory of Kennedy’s death has been discredited – and it is thoroughly discredited in this book – then veto by assassination becomes more than a possibility, it becomes a probability. And it is the existence of this probability, affecting not merely the past but also the present and the future, that makes it urgently necessary to call for a serious and independent investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy…”
September 1968 – Number 106 (Volume 10, No 9)
Connor Cruise O’Brien, “How Many Conspiracies?,” p.16:
Quote:“I am incline to think that the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King belong essentially in the same pattern of veto by assassination – in that in each case a right wing group – not necessarily the same one – deliberately eliminated a personality whom they believed to be giving leadership in a direction of change, contrary to their interests, or prejudices. However on present information I doubt whether Robert Kennedy’s assassination fits into the same picture…
“But regardless of the outcome in the Sirhan case or that of James Earl Ray, justice remains to be done in the Oswald case. Oswald stands wrongfully and cruelly stigmatized as a lone assassin in a crime which was committed by a conspiracy. He is the victim of a governmental commission whose depraved “investigation” signifies an official policy of falsehood and abuse of trust. As every part of the fabric of American life shows increasing tension and threatens to disintegrate completely, we are forced back to Dallas, where the frightening chain reaction started, and to Los Angeles, where the prospect was diminished for some moderation or reversal of the ferocious policy of carnage abroad and attrition at home against protest and dissent. While the Warren Report remains a gangrenous stain on the history books, it is a license to the Government to mutilate truth and justice, to frustrate the great yearning for a return to a humanistic ideal, and to mechanize and conform society by the force of clubs, bullets, mace and napalm.
“While that big lie endures in its official wrappers, there will be new assassinations again and still again, until the earth at Arlington groans under its burden of martyrs.”