10-08-2011, 03:07 PM
The treason of Summers and Swan -- first indicated by the former's "can't be sure" stance on the JFK assassination years after the publications of Conspiracy and Not In Your Lifetime -- is obvious now in The Eleventh Day.
I'm following my m.o. with this lengthy book: spot-checking prior to cover-to-cover. At this point, I can't help but see The Eleventh Day as the 9-11 version of Case Closed.
The main difference: Posner never purported to be on the side of truth and justice.
The authors' mutliple, vicious attacks on David Ray Griffin are most revealing.
I am not suggesting that David Ray Griffin (or, for that matter, James Douglass in the JFK case; I am alone, to the best of my knowledge, among experienced JFK researchers in publicly taking Mr. Douglass to task for at least one failure of deep political judgment: his take on the Chicago non-plot) -- is above criticism.
But as far as Griffin is concerned, Summers and Swan seem to abandon disciplined, informed intellectual argument and get very personal.
More on this when I find the time -- a part of my life that I"ll never get back -- to swim through this limited hang-out sewage pipe (think that sweet scene from The Shawshank Redemption).
I'm following my m.o. with this lengthy book: spot-checking prior to cover-to-cover. At this point, I can't help but see The Eleventh Day as the 9-11 version of Case Closed.
The main difference: Posner never purported to be on the side of truth and justice.
The authors' mutliple, vicious attacks on David Ray Griffin are most revealing.
I am not suggesting that David Ray Griffin (or, for that matter, James Douglass in the JFK case; I am alone, to the best of my knowledge, among experienced JFK researchers in publicly taking Mr. Douglass to task for at least one failure of deep political judgment: his take on the Chicago non-plot) -- is above criticism.
But as far as Griffin is concerned, Summers and Swan seem to abandon disciplined, informed intellectual argument and get very personal.
More on this when I find the time -- a part of my life that I"ll never get back -- to swim through this limited hang-out sewage pipe (think that sweet scene from The Shawshank Redemption).
Charles Drago
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
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