16-01-2011, 08:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 16-01-2011, 05:49 PM by Jim DiEugenio.)
Mr. Reynolds:
Looking at your CV, and Fetzer's referrals to your 9-11 essays, I see I was correct in my assumption. I fail to see anything you have done that is strictly on the JFK case.
We have a problem in this community. Namely that it is 47 years old now, and we still get books like Legacy of Secrecy, Nelson's, Reclaiming History, and DVD's like John Hankey's JFK 2.
Whatever these works have contributed in the way of new evidence is zero to negligible. What they have contributed is nothing but a preconcieved notion, and the creators then went and filled in this notion with everything that existed previously that could fit--whether it was logical or not, or whether it was credible or not, whether it was really evidence or not.
THe sum total of these works has not been to elucidate the crime. It has been to confuse the public. For the simple reason that you cannot say that: 1.) the Mafia did it 2.) LBJ did it 3.) Oswald did it 4.) Bush did it. This is what the other side wants us to do and be: a confused morass of nonsense that makes them throw up their hands in frustration. I cannot blame them. I mean this kind of approach takes us back to the Torbitt Document , that classic 1974 piece of CIA disinfo which so many researchers found so bracing.
So when I read someone like you, who probably does not even know what Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal is or was, or doesn't understand what Farewell America is or was, and who Lulu Holmes is or was (Destiny Betrayed p. 363), and then telling us we should buy into the Nelson book, well excuse me. I also find it bracing that you come from the far side of that 9-11 Truth movement split, which was so acrimonious. You know, Judy Wood and her space beams, no planes hit the WTC, giant holograms and BYU professor Steve Jones and his thermite is up a tree. ANd you and Wood were, to put it kindly, rather unsparing in your personal invective toward Jones. I also note that Fetzer came down on your side, which may be why you are here right now--since Jim is getting trounced here in his defense of Nelson/Hersh, McClellan. After all, he was the commentator who was irresponsible and sloppy enough to compare Nelson's book with JFK and the Unspeakable. Which is ludicrous.
So Morgan, I for one have had enough of amateurs on this case. I respect the tradition that the best of the JFK research community has achieved, going back to Weisberg and up to Douglass. Nelson does not figure into it. ANd neither does Sy Hersh.
Looking at your CV, and Fetzer's referrals to your 9-11 essays, I see I was correct in my assumption. I fail to see anything you have done that is strictly on the JFK case.
We have a problem in this community. Namely that it is 47 years old now, and we still get books like Legacy of Secrecy, Nelson's, Reclaiming History, and DVD's like John Hankey's JFK 2.
Whatever these works have contributed in the way of new evidence is zero to negligible. What they have contributed is nothing but a preconcieved notion, and the creators then went and filled in this notion with everything that existed previously that could fit--whether it was logical or not, or whether it was credible or not, whether it was really evidence or not.
THe sum total of these works has not been to elucidate the crime. It has been to confuse the public. For the simple reason that you cannot say that: 1.) the Mafia did it 2.) LBJ did it 3.) Oswald did it 4.) Bush did it. This is what the other side wants us to do and be: a confused morass of nonsense that makes them throw up their hands in frustration. I cannot blame them. I mean this kind of approach takes us back to the Torbitt Document , that classic 1974 piece of CIA disinfo which so many researchers found so bracing.
So when I read someone like you, who probably does not even know what Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal is or was, or doesn't understand what Farewell America is or was, and who Lulu Holmes is or was (Destiny Betrayed p. 363), and then telling us we should buy into the Nelson book, well excuse me. I also find it bracing that you come from the far side of that 9-11 Truth movement split, which was so acrimonious. You know, Judy Wood and her space beams, no planes hit the WTC, giant holograms and BYU professor Steve Jones and his thermite is up a tree. ANd you and Wood were, to put it kindly, rather unsparing in your personal invective toward Jones. I also note that Fetzer came down on your side, which may be why you are here right now--since Jim is getting trounced here in his defense of Nelson/Hersh, McClellan. After all, he was the commentator who was irresponsible and sloppy enough to compare Nelson's book with JFK and the Unspeakable. Which is ludicrous.
So Morgan, I for one have had enough of amateurs on this case. I respect the tradition that the best of the JFK research community has achieved, going back to Weisberg and up to Douglass. Nelson does not figure into it. ANd neither does Sy Hersh.