16-05-2011, 09:56 PM
James Lewis Wrote:Actually, Pease makes a case for both, as she sheds light on the connections that members of Sirhan's defense team, particularly Grant Cooper and Al Wirin, a notorious Warren Commission apologist, had with the U.S. government. She also raises serious questions about the defense team's investigators, particularly Michael McCowan, who had a shadowy past as an ex-LAPD officer and private investigator. Interesting reading, and the most complete argument yet for RFK's death being a conspiracy that involved the LAPD and elements of the government/CIA.
Steve Franklin Wrote:So what are you guys saying, the defence was in on the coverup? Or they were just criminally incompetent?
Personally, I think this is just another case of everyone being so hypnotized by the media that they couldn't even imagine the possibility that anyone else was the murderer. Charles Fort spent 4 volumes describing how difficult it is to think outside of the collective paradigm. He pointed out that someone as talented as Lavoisier couldn't even imagine that rocks could actually fall from the sky.
Well I read the articles, so I know what Lisa Pease thinks. I was hoping for some third party opinions here. The fact that everybody in the legal business knows each other is a given. This would certainly allow for conspiracy, but it doesn't demonstrate it. I still think there's confusion here between orchestrated misdeeds and our simian ancestral tendency to follow the leader. Now I'm not saying the murder itself was not a conspiracy. I'm saying the purported coverup wasn't necessarily orchestrated. It may have simply flowed from the inability of the average human to see through the pronouncements of a small group of authority figures, an inability that would have been assumed by the perpetrators of the crime. I think they learned from the JFK assassination that the general public is infinitely gullible and that they really don't have to construct a hermetically sealed storyline. They just have to seize the most important evidence and issue a press release about what is supposed to have happened--and let the press fill in the blanks.