12-08-2011, 08:36 PM
Charles Drago Wrote: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).
First off, only Summers wrote Conspiracy and Not In Your Lifetime update, not Swan, and Tony never retracted what he wrote and the "can't be sure" quote refers to the evidence of conspiracy that is admissible in court.
As for the "conspiracy theories" regarding 9/11, they are clearly referring to the ideas that no planes were flown in to buildings, that George Bush organized the attacks and that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolitions. I too am reading the book, and I agree with them that the nonsense of these claims detracts from the real issues that should be given attention - the financing of the operation by Saudis, the Pakistani connections and the failure of the US intelligence to stop the attacks, as well as the failures of the administration and DOD during the attacks. The idea that three Saudi princes were assassinated within a week has yet to be fully investigated, along with the destruction of records and the continued withholding of relevant documents.
Tony's books on the JFK assassination are among the best on the subject, and this one goes far beyond the 9/11 Commission whitewash, dispenses with silly theories that distract from the real issues and tries to focus on what really happened, how they did it and why they weren't prevented from doing so.
If Tony and Robbyn are traitors, then count me as one too.
Bill Kelly