25-02-2011, 12:52 AM
Albert Doyle Wrote:They then attempted to coopt Vinson by offering him a CIA job.
What else could they do?
Kill him?
Come on, Albert, the Vinson story is pure drama -- a fictive construct designed to confuse.
We can't afford to believe in mistakes. Not at that level.
WHY would the killers of a president hesitate to kill a witness to the conspiracy?
Play it out. The comedy of errors is as you describe it. WHY, then, wouldn't "they" have just whacked Vinson?
Perhaps because he knew just enough to muddy the waters way down the line?
If it all happened in the first place.
I would humbly suggest, my friend, that you instinctively seek to over-complicate already complex scenarios.
Finally, a word about James Douglass is in order.
Like so many others I am enamored of JFKU. But its author would be the first to tell you that he is not flawless in his reasoning. I don't buy this good and great man's interpretations of the Chicago plot and the Vinson case. For starters.
Let us not cannonize James Douglass. Thinking he has produced holy writ is equivalent, for example, to thinking that JFK truly knew what hit him.
And in very real if very different manners, I love both of them.
Charles Drago
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-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
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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