19-09-2011, 07:20 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:A response I made to someone on the Amazon book review who said 'The Unspeakable' was flawed because it omitted LBJ:
I'm amazed at how many people are blind to the best aspect of this book. Douglass doesn't include the LBJ treachery because it would detract from the angelic pantheon he orchestrates within the Thomas Merton, Pope John XXIII, Khrushchev, and Kennedy circle of influence. You are looking at the better angels that controlled the assassination, as Douglass illustrates, and not seeing it. It is the outlining of this fight between good and evil, best embodied by these figures, that is the fingerprint that shows most clearly in the assassination. To miss this in order to gripe about lesser LBJ machinations is to publicly announce one doesn't have the first understanding of what the book, or the assassination itself, is about. The beauty of 'The Unspeakable' is that it captures the undeniable 'proof' for the assassination in this incorruptible realm where it can't be defeated by those who seek to deny it. Kennedy accessed this 'realm' in his power as president to influence the future of the human race. Since nuclear Armageddon was a serious prospect Kennedy was dealing at that level and seeking ultimate solutions equal to the threat. Kennedy went to the deepest spiritual dimensions of his Catholic faith to overcome the forces that were trying to commit nuclear war. It was at these crossroads that all those figures met and LBJ didn't make it to that level, which sort of shows in itself why he wasn't any "mastermind". Like others who have stood down the devil in history Kennedy paid for it with his life...
Knowing so little about the JFK assassination at the time, I was stunned by the mechanics. It took two more readings for me to allow all that to sink into the background.
A thought experiment: if Douglass was Russian and looked at the assassination through the Khrushchev perspective, how would the book been written? Douglass tells of K's use of the Noah's Ark story as a rhetorical device to persuade JFK? Could JFK have used some quote from Marx in a similar vein? Was K even more courageous than JFK? Between the two, who was the most heroic?