Lifton on DiEugenio on JFK offering the Vice Presidential nomination to LBJ . . .

[Jan Klimkowski]

The complex drama that was written for and performed in Dealey Plaza boasted many themes, sub-plots, and sub-texts. The motives of those who commissioned its authors were many and varied. Among their goals, I submit the following pair:

-- Demonstrate their true power to all of JFK's successors, allies and enemies (domestic and foreign), and to all others with delusions of power.

-- Create a mind-numbing event that would usher in an age of uncertainty for all with the temerity to think that history can be known and that enlightenment can follow from such knowledge.

In other words: Stage an event clearly conspiratorial in nature, then have the parent state conclude that it was the work of a lone nut.

So no, Jim, the point was not to deceive the public. It was to CONFUSE and FRIGHTEN and COW the public. It is the very UNCERTAINTY provoked by a public execution that to even the most casual observer was the work of conspirators yet was explained by the parent state as the work of a lone nut that best served the Sponsors' immediate and long-term interests.

The public was not deceived then and is not deceived now. Deception was not the point.

Once LBJ and his co-conspirators secured a parent-state endorsement of the LNT, the deed was effectively done. Perpetual doubt was guaranteed.

DOUBT, not DECEPTION.

[T]he time has come to cut his losses and turn his attention to more promising issues.

To paraphrase myself from an earlier post, I ask you: Are you satisfied that the search for the TRUE Sponsors of JFK's murder is over? Are you ready to close up shop? Are you truly prepared to state for the record that in LBJ we have identified the Sponsor -- the Prime Mover -- of the JFK assassination, and that no further inquiry along these lines is warranted?

Truly?

Because I'm not. And I cannot imagine more "promising" or important "issues" than identifying the individuals and systems responsible for the sponsorship and facilitation of JFK's murder as the first step in our campaign to denude them of their power.

In the grand scheme of things, Lyndon Baines Johnson was, as Hyman Roth might put it, small potatoes.

VERY small potatoes.

Your true comrade,

Charles

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