28-10-2010, 07:43 PM
Jack (and by logical extension, Jim),
Imagine this: mutual respect among honorable JFK scholars who yet harbor many significant differences of opinion and conclusions! Next thing you know, we'll be hooking up at the Lancer/Copa Joint Forum!
(And if you believe that, you've had too many joints and attended too few forums!)
I'll take issue with Jack on two points only:
You left out the most important aspect of the case that can be known (forgive me, Dr. Fetzer) to the degree of metaphysical certitude:
John Kennedy was killed by conspirators.
Jack, I NEVER held such a belief. What I have written and said many, many times is that we do not need proof of Z-film alteration to establish conspiracy beyond all doubt.
This distinction, I submit, is critical to a full understanding of whatever it is I bring to our common table.
Warm regards,
Charles
Imagine this: mutual respect among honorable JFK scholars who yet harbor many significant differences of opinion and conclusions! Next thing you know, we'll be hooking up at the Lancer/Copa Joint Forum!
(And if you believe that, you've had too many joints and attended too few forums!)
I'll take issue with Jack on two points only:
Jack White Wrote:5. All we know for certain about the case is that JFK was killed on Elm Street in Dallas at 12:30 on 11-22-63, and that on Sunday, Jack Ruby killed the accused patsy.
You left out the most important aspect of the case that can be known (forgive me, Dr. Fetzer) to the degree of metaphysical certitude:
John Kennedy was killed by conspirators.
Jack White Wrote:likewise, no disrespect for Charles' belief
that the faking of the Z film is totally irrelevant to identifying the killers.
Jack, I NEVER held such a belief. What I have written and said many, many times is that we do not need proof of Z-film alteration to establish conspiracy beyond all doubt.
This distinction, I submit, is critical to a full understanding of whatever it is I bring to our common table.
Warm regards,
Charles
Charles Drago
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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
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