05-02-2012, 08:10 PM
Some years ago I delivered a major paper at a Lancer conference in which I argued that Dealey Plaza, as much as Gettysburg or Little Bighorn or the Alamo, is not only hallowed ground but also a battlefield.
I quite seriously proposed that the site be renamed the JFK Assassination Battlefield National Monument.
I then called for us to find ways to "return the fire."
Make no mistake: The proposed desecration of the site of John Kennedy's assassination -- or, if you prefer, crucifixion -- is just that: the act of denying a place its sacred nature.
This is not primarily about defacing evidence.
This is a spiritual matter.
As such, it is hardly unprecedented in American history. It is akin to the widely celebrated desecration of a sacred mountain in the most sacred land of the Lakota peoples: Imagine if post-Renaissance Rome had been sacked by barbarians who proceeded to paint crude likenesses of their chieftains over Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.
It happened here.
It's called Mt. Rushmore.
The Thieves' Road passes through Dealey Plaza.
I quite seriously proposed that the site be renamed the JFK Assassination Battlefield National Monument.
I then called for us to find ways to "return the fire."
Make no mistake: The proposed desecration of the site of John Kennedy's assassination -- or, if you prefer, crucifixion -- is just that: the act of denying a place its sacred nature.
This is not primarily about defacing evidence.
This is a spiritual matter.
As such, it is hardly unprecedented in American history. It is akin to the widely celebrated desecration of a sacred mountain in the most sacred land of the Lakota peoples: Imagine if post-Renaissance Rome had been sacked by barbarians who proceeded to paint crude likenesses of their chieftains over Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.
It happened here.
It's called Mt. Rushmore.
The Thieves' Road passes through Dealey Plaza.
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