02-12-2011, 11:37 AM
Phil,
Thank you.
I admire the manner in which you summon cool detachment from passionate commitment.
I am capable of same -- but not, apparently, when I cannot ascribe benign motive to de facto hostile actions by a once highly valued comrade.
You distill simple truth from complex brews.
Why a past master of our shared craft cannot do the same is a mystery that leads me to a Conan Doyle rationale: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
But that's only half of the famous quote.
"It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you."
I'm many things, but "stupid" ain't one of them.
Ed,
We're at war with the killers of JFK. I find recognition of this truth to be consistent with my previously expressed plea: Until the life of the assassin is held to be as sacred as the life of the assassinated, the assassinations will continue.
Again, this is not a matter of "I'm OK, you're OK." As Phil and others clearly demonstrate -- and as I have attempted to explain elsewhere and in detail within these and other cyber-pages -- the "LBJ-as-mastermind" gambit is enemy action, pure and simple. Even if, as may be the case of Nelson's hideous literary excretion, it emerges initially as the product of a simpleton's reading of complex events.
In this instance, within the conscious choices to use and defend the usage of the word "mastermind" to promote False Sponsor status for LBJ in the JFK assassination, the game is given away.
To all appearances, Nelson is, at best, a fool.
Is he a witting tool? In the final analysis, if a friend chooses to shoot you in the forehead because he wants to cure your migraine, you end up just as dead as John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jim Fetzer should know better. That he doesn't know better is beyond disturbing.
I'm not asking you or anyone else to make any sort of choice here. Except, that is, the choice between accepting our current shared circumstances as those attendant to a state of war or those that arise from debate over purely academic issues.
That the "LBJ-as-mastermind" gambit represents a danger that is close upon us is, for me, a fact beyond reasonable doubt. If you or anyone else choose to appreciate it as the honorable expression of an honest difference of opinion, you put yourself and others in the path of grave danger indeed.
Thank you.
I admire the manner in which you summon cool detachment from passionate commitment.
I am capable of same -- but not, apparently, when I cannot ascribe benign motive to de facto hostile actions by a once highly valued comrade.
You distill simple truth from complex brews.
Why a past master of our shared craft cannot do the same is a mystery that leads me to a Conan Doyle rationale: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
But that's only half of the famous quote.
"It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you."
I'm many things, but "stupid" ain't one of them.
Ed,
We're at war with the killers of JFK. I find recognition of this truth to be consistent with my previously expressed plea: Until the life of the assassin is held to be as sacred as the life of the assassinated, the assassinations will continue.
Again, this is not a matter of "I'm OK, you're OK." As Phil and others clearly demonstrate -- and as I have attempted to explain elsewhere and in detail within these and other cyber-pages -- the "LBJ-as-mastermind" gambit is enemy action, pure and simple. Even if, as may be the case of Nelson's hideous literary excretion, it emerges initially as the product of a simpleton's reading of complex events.
In this instance, within the conscious choices to use and defend the usage of the word "mastermind" to promote False Sponsor status for LBJ in the JFK assassination, the game is given away.
To all appearances, Nelson is, at best, a fool.
Is he a witting tool? In the final analysis, if a friend chooses to shoot you in the forehead because he wants to cure your migraine, you end up just as dead as John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jim Fetzer should know better. That he doesn't know better is beyond disturbing.
I'm not asking you or anyone else to make any sort of choice here. Except, that is, the choice between accepting our current shared circumstances as those attendant to a state of war or those that arise from debate over purely academic issues.
That the "LBJ-as-mastermind" gambit represents a danger that is close upon us is, for me, a fact beyond reasonable doubt. If you or anyone else choose to appreciate it as the honorable expression of an honest difference of opinion, you put yourself and others in the path of grave danger indeed.
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