01-01-2011, 06:04 AM
And so the floodgates open.
No matter where these exchanges lead us, let me state for the record and as powerfully as I am able that:
1. Nothing herein disagreed upon will have the power to negate my friendship with and respect for Jim Fetzer.
2. Nothing I post should be construed as a respectful disagreement with Nelson and his acolyte Morrow. The LBJ/"mastermind" construction is a product of, at best, ignorance -- and at worst, of a wilfull attempt to disinform and protect the guilty.
3. The Fetzer/DiEugenio contratemps is best understood as an intentional byproduct of Nelson's horrific endeavor -- a manufactured conflict between natural allies. Jim F., Jim D. -- Stop it. For the love of all that is just in our shared endeavor, understand that Nelson and his idiot son Morrow are not worth the consequences of our disagreements. In my educated opinion, Nelson accomplishes a major part of his mission by weakening our alliance.
My goals in this thread and everywhere else I can engage the Nelson obscenity/absurdity are to expose it as such and to heal the rifts it is causing.
Is Nelson an enemy agent of disinformation? A simple-minded executioner of the mother tongue? Both?
In the final analysis, the distinctions matter not a hell of a lot. All of Nelson's arguments are, by their nature, sophistic: THEY ARE BASED ON A FALSE PREMISE.
Does Nelson know the premise is false, or is he honestly arguing a patently and demonstrably idiotic point?
In the final analysis, it matters not.
If a man wants to shoot you in the head because he hates you, or because he honestly believes that to do so will cure your headache, you still end up dead as Julius Caesar.
Here are the bottom lines:
1. Neither Nelson nor his factotum Morrow define "mastermind." With this context, they dare not/cannot.
2. To ascribe to any 20th century president OTHER THAN JFK the power Nelson ascribes to Johnson is to fatally and almost comedically misunderstand deep politics.
3. I reiterate: To declare that LBJ was the "mastermind" of the JFK assassination -- within reasonable parameters of the definition of "mastermind" -- is tantamount to claiming that a welder designed the Petronas Towers.
Charles Drago
No matter where these exchanges lead us, let me state for the record and as powerfully as I am able that:
1. Nothing herein disagreed upon will have the power to negate my friendship with and respect for Jim Fetzer.
2. Nothing I post should be construed as a respectful disagreement with Nelson and his acolyte Morrow. The LBJ/"mastermind" construction is a product of, at best, ignorance -- and at worst, of a wilfull attempt to disinform and protect the guilty.
3. The Fetzer/DiEugenio contratemps is best understood as an intentional byproduct of Nelson's horrific endeavor -- a manufactured conflict between natural allies. Jim F., Jim D. -- Stop it. For the love of all that is just in our shared endeavor, understand that Nelson and his idiot son Morrow are not worth the consequences of our disagreements. In my educated opinion, Nelson accomplishes a major part of his mission by weakening our alliance.
My goals in this thread and everywhere else I can engage the Nelson obscenity/absurdity are to expose it as such and to heal the rifts it is causing.
Is Nelson an enemy agent of disinformation? A simple-minded executioner of the mother tongue? Both?
In the final analysis, the distinctions matter not a hell of a lot. All of Nelson's arguments are, by their nature, sophistic: THEY ARE BASED ON A FALSE PREMISE.
Does Nelson know the premise is false, or is he honestly arguing a patently and demonstrably idiotic point?
In the final analysis, it matters not.
If a man wants to shoot you in the head because he hates you, or because he honestly believes that to do so will cure your headache, you still end up dead as Julius Caesar.
Here are the bottom lines:
1. Neither Nelson nor his factotum Morrow define "mastermind." With this context, they dare not/cannot.
2. To ascribe to any 20th century president OTHER THAN JFK the power Nelson ascribes to Johnson is to fatally and almost comedically misunderstand deep politics.
3. I reiterate: To declare that LBJ was the "mastermind" of the JFK assassination -- within reasonable parameters of the definition of "mastermind" -- is tantamount to claiming that a welder designed the Petronas Towers.
Charles Drago