11-06-2011, 03:35 AM
Jim, this is what happens when people let their personal prejudices override good sense. No, anti-Semite is not a negative slur in connection with the Piper book or most other Israel-did-it theories. The simple fact is, these theories have no basis in fact. And that's why they shout so loudly about them...to drown out simple logical thought.
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Mark and Al:
It is not a negative slur to use the word anti-Semite with the Piper book.
Why?
Two reasons:
1.) It is pretty much alone on the bookshelf isn't it? And at conferences, correct? Therefore it comes form a very unique background. And it comes from nowhere and leads to nowhere, that is it has little or no influence.
2.) Now the reason for this is easy to detect when you look at the author's background. He used to be part of the Carto group and wrote for Spotlight. That is correct. You know, those people who say the Holocaust was a hoax? Its the same place that another deceptive author came from, Gregory Douglas.
As Seamus pointed out, the whole nuclear reactor thing has so many problems with it, that its hard to believe Piper did not understand them.
But let us give him the benefit of the doubt. Which he does not merit.
It is not enough to say Kennedy had a dispute with some country or group and therefore they offed him. Why?
First, because Kennedy had enemies just about everywhere. I mean this guy rankled the Establishment like no one since FDR. (Who the Eastern Establishment also tried to get rid of.) Just because there is some dispute, or perceived dispute, that does not mean it was the reason for his death. I mean this kind of logic leads us to the Triangle of Death crap: the South Vietnamese killed JFK.
Second, it is very important to be able to trace movements and players in the plot. See, this is a legal requirement of the conspiracy law. I am not saying we have to follow it strictly, but we should follow it generally. If not, how are you ever going to convince anyone of your case?
This was one of Blakey's great failures in his nutty "Oswald was a hit man for the Mafia" thesis. Where was the connective tissue between Oswald and Trafficante, or Marcello? Blakey never developed anything real. Now Waldron takes up the challenge and gives us a completely senile Marcello babbling away in his own closed world. Only Waldron would use this stuff, and only someone as uninformed as DiCaprio and his father would buy it.
We have to go beyond this stuff now. If we don't its going to squander probably the last chance we have.
"Logic is all there is, and all there is must be logical."
"Truth is logic, and logic is truth."
"In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely." - Hunter S. Thompson
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." - William S. Burroughs
"Truth is logic, and logic is truth."
"In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely." - Hunter S. Thompson
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." - William S. Burroughs