03-12-2011, 05:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2011, 06:12 PM by Charles Drago.)
James H. Fetzer Wrote:Because I am the author of this piece, I included suggestions in which I firmly believe (about two books I regard as masterpieces). But why in a situation like this, where I am laying out so many points on which students of the assassination ought to converge in agreement, would a man in his position instead cite the only apparent point of disagreement between us, which functions as a gratuitous diversion and promotes division instead of unity?
Why, Jim?
Because, Jim, of the potentially terrible impact of Nelson's "mastermind" conclusion -- and your bizarre, discomforting endorsement of it -- on what I'll yet conclude are our shared goals of revealing truth and bringing about justice in the assassination of JFK.
You are a gifted user of rhetoric. And so you save your positive Douglass-Nelson comparison for the prime rhetorical kill spot. You thus deftly coerce your readers to conclude that, based on your authority, they dare not reject Nelson's disinformation. For Jim Fetzer says that, if they do, they reject the works of James Douglass and -- God save us -- Jim Fetzer.
In the full post above you're reducing yourself to schoolyard taunting of the "I know you are, but what am I?" variety. Compelling stuff.
But the fact remains: You know your way around rhetoric, and for the most part it all works for you. But I've got your number the same why I've got Nelson's number.
And as they say in that aforementioned schoolyard, "Don't try to bullshit a bullshitter."
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
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-- 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.
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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