25-03-2011, 12:46 PM
I do have thoughts on all; the value of those thoughts I leave for others to assess.
I am persuaded by the weight of the evidence that David Atlee Phillips played a role in the JFK conspiracy. I find his literary proclivities to be extremely interesting and relevant -- as are those of Angleton and Hunt -- insofar as the conspiracy was structured as a drama. And the fact the, just prior to his exit, he expressed the "belief" that a CIA faction helped kill the president indicates to me that, at the very least, he was an accessory after the fact.
Michael Collins Piper offers extraordinarily compelling information regading Lansky and the complicity -- at some level -- of Israeli interests. When he identifies "Israel" as, in effect, the Sponsor of the plot, he loses me. BUT NOT BECAUSE I'M READY TO PLAY THE "ANTI-SEMITE" CARD AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE.
For too long apologists for Israel have deflected legitimate charges of criminality and imperialism levied against that country by accusing the accusers of anti-semitism.
(Not exactly on point, but: A Jew walks into a restaurant and orders a tuna sandwich. The waiter says, "We're out of tuna." And the Jew says, "Look, buddy, my people have been persecuted for two thousand years!!!")
Again, for more on the money angle, read Donald Gibson.
Let the evidence come forth, and let the chips fall where they may.
As for Don Thomas -- He bugs the hell out of me, too.
If his work is not intentionally disinformative, it nonetheless has the impact of disinformation on all who read it.
The disconnect between the intelligence and insight we encounter in Thomas's acoustic analysis on the one hand, and in his flawed, naive analyses of the SBT and additional deep political matters on the other, is difficult to explain away as innocent naivete.
If we dismiss the acoustic argument because the rest of Thomas's work is worthless, we throw out the baby with the bathwater.
And wouldn't that stand quite well as the ultimate goal of this book?
I am persuaded by the weight of the evidence that David Atlee Phillips played a role in the JFK conspiracy. I find his literary proclivities to be extremely interesting and relevant -- as are those of Angleton and Hunt -- insofar as the conspiracy was structured as a drama. And the fact the, just prior to his exit, he expressed the "belief" that a CIA faction helped kill the president indicates to me that, at the very least, he was an accessory after the fact.
Michael Collins Piper offers extraordinarily compelling information regading Lansky and the complicity -- at some level -- of Israeli interests. When he identifies "Israel" as, in effect, the Sponsor of the plot, he loses me. BUT NOT BECAUSE I'M READY TO PLAY THE "ANTI-SEMITE" CARD AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE.
For too long apologists for Israel have deflected legitimate charges of criminality and imperialism levied against that country by accusing the accusers of anti-semitism.
(Not exactly on point, but: A Jew walks into a restaurant and orders a tuna sandwich. The waiter says, "We're out of tuna." And the Jew says, "Look, buddy, my people have been persecuted for two thousand years!!!")
Again, for more on the money angle, read Donald Gibson.
Let the evidence come forth, and let the chips fall where they may.
As for Don Thomas -- He bugs the hell out of me, too.
If his work is not intentionally disinformative, it nonetheless has the impact of disinformation on all who read it.
The disconnect between the intelligence and insight we encounter in Thomas's acoustic analysis on the one hand, and in his flawed, naive analyses of the SBT and additional deep political matters on the other, is difficult to explain away as innocent naivete.
If we dismiss the acoustic argument because the rest of Thomas's work is worthless, we throw out the baby with the bathwater.
And wouldn't that stand quite well as the ultimate goal of this book?