04-02-2011, 04:05 AM
Greg Burnham Wrote:It is an important subject and of paramount urgency especially when viewed in light of current events, such as the crisis in Egypt...
Without question.
But within the context of the title of this thread, there is no evidence on the literal level that JFK was knowingly describing the supra-national, supra-ideological force that took him out.
On the literal level, everything he spoke of was highly "thinkable" then and now. That's "thinkable" as in "conventional."
Again, who can say for certain what was written between his lines?
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