03-01-2011, 05:22 PM
In my mind the reason people are so able to make a case for Johnson being the mastermind is because the conspiracy was so deep and robust, and spread-out so widely, that any individual member could be assigned causatory status. It should be immediately apparent that the reason the mafia, CIA, Cubans, right-wingers, oligarchs, military etc have all been accused of being the guilty party is because they were. Each and every one of them.
Those trying to place the initiating control on Johnson are ignoring the clear fingerprint of another organization that specializes at these things. I give you just the one example of Johnson blackmailing his way onto the Kennedy ticket. Masterminders suggest it was Johnson who practiced sexual compromise blackmail as his specialty. I find it rather bizarre to ignore the fact there was a much more able and practiced entity practicing that craft that was much more known for doing it than Johnson. How masterminders could ignore the fact the blackmail dirt came from Hoover - which was a source outside of Johnson and directly from the very influencing agencies that were responsible, is somewhat confounding. Isn't it obvious that those powers influenced Johnson getting on the ticket in order to hedge their bets against a Nixon loss? And that they did it through their usual methods. To credit Johnson for what is obviously a classic intel manuever is somewhat short-sighted in my opinion.
Another thing, Johnson's promotion of the Civil Rights Bill was the assuming power's means of throwing the public a placating biscuit while they swept-in the table full of chips they rewarded themselves with for the slaughter of Kennedy. It cost them very little but allowed them to look like progressives. And maybe even justify allowing the blacks to be drafted into the Viet Nam cauldron in order to pay for their newly-won freedom. Tricky fellows these...
Those trying to place the initiating control on Johnson are ignoring the clear fingerprint of another organization that specializes at these things. I give you just the one example of Johnson blackmailing his way onto the Kennedy ticket. Masterminders suggest it was Johnson who practiced sexual compromise blackmail as his specialty. I find it rather bizarre to ignore the fact there was a much more able and practiced entity practicing that craft that was much more known for doing it than Johnson. How masterminders could ignore the fact the blackmail dirt came from Hoover - which was a source outside of Johnson and directly from the very influencing agencies that were responsible, is somewhat confounding. Isn't it obvious that those powers influenced Johnson getting on the ticket in order to hedge their bets against a Nixon loss? And that they did it through their usual methods. To credit Johnson for what is obviously a classic intel manuever is somewhat short-sighted in my opinion.
Another thing, Johnson's promotion of the Civil Rights Bill was the assuming power's means of throwing the public a placating biscuit while they swept-in the table full of chips they rewarded themselves with for the slaughter of Kennedy. It cost them very little but allowed them to look like progressives. And maybe even justify allowing the blacks to be drafted into the Viet Nam cauldron in order to pay for their newly-won freedom. Tricky fellows these...