20-07-2012, 08:52 PM
Addendum
Peter Janney did something unprecedented in the history of this site after Lisa Pease's review of his book appeared. He went to Rockwell.com and wrote a long screed against Lisa, myself, and CTKA. In it he compared CTKA to the Spanish Inquisition and Lisa to Torquemada. For good measure, because Lisa criticized his book, he added that we would have burned Galileo at the stake for his heliocentric ideas about the solar system. (Does this mean that he ranks himself with Galileo and Kepler?) But he then went ahead and topped that: He managed to link us to the Third Reich by saying that we would like to resort to book burnings. Whew Peter, get hold of yourself. Isn't that overdoing it a bit?
In his bombastic screed, Janney ignored all the positive reviews we have given out e.g. to (among others) Larry Hancock for Nexus, Jerry McKnight for Breach of Trust, John Newman for the reissue of Oswald and the CIA, to Clint Hill for Mrs. Kennedy and Me, and to Jim Douglass for JFK and the Unspeakable. This last is ironic because Rockwell.com reprinted that review, without permission, on their site. In other words, before Janney, Rockwell.com thought enough of our work to reprint it. After Janney vented his spleen, we are somehow neo-Nazi defilers of truth and justice.
But further, in pronouncing us fanatical persecutors, Janney also ignored all the back articles we have archived from the paper edition of Probe. These extend from 1995-2000. He also ignored the fact that this particular site began as a response to Peter Jennings' 2003 special on the JFK case, and many articles here were done especially in reply to that special. He ignored all the work we have done on the RFK and MLK and Malcolm X cases. He ignored the fact that, thanks to Debra Conway, we are also a news repository on these cases. He ignored all the research essays we publish here, like Seamus Coogan's work on the Majestic Papers, or Robert Harris' work on the Connally Bullet, or J.P. Mroz on Wikipedia. He ignored the fact that we have a special section critiquing the performance of the mainstream media on the JFK case. He also ignored the fact that virtually everyone thought that Probe was the finest journal ever on the assassinations of the sixties. But further, and this is a crucial point, CTKA is not Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease. If one looks at the current banner, three headlined articles are by other writers: Vince Palamara, Gary Aguilar, and Martin Hay. Another example: of the four critiques of John McAdams' book, JFK Assassination Logic, none of them were written by Lisa or myself. Without people like Seamus Coogan, Martin Hay, David Mantik, Joseph Green, Gary Aguilar, and Frank Cassano, this site would not exist in anything like its present form. Are these contributors then also henchmen of Torquemada?
Janney has to ignore all these pertinent facts. Because if he did not he would then have to admit that what he doesn't like about CTKA is that we gave him a bad review. Consequently, in all the work that Lisa Pease and I have done since 1993 on these cases, Janney could only come up with two specific things worth mentioning as positives: my review of Chris Matthews' book on JFK, and the anthology edited by Lisa and myself, The Assassinations. This accounts for less than one quarter of our output in that time period, and everything posted to this site that you see before you. In other words, a generation of fine work done for no monetary gain, a platoon of distinguished and informed contributors, this was now all zapped because Lisa gave Mary's Mosaic a negative review. There's a guy with his priorities in place.
Why did Rockwell.com print what amounts to nothing but a self-serving personal peeve? Lew Rockwell is part of the Libertarian movement. As is Jacob Hornberger. Hornberger and Janney are acquaintances. This can be seen by the fact that Hornberger's "review" of Mary's Mosaic was posted right after Doug Horne's on amazon.com. Apparently, Hornberger, like Janney does not like anyone critiquing him. Therefore, Hornberger went along with Janney's trashing of an entire site, and all its contributors over that. As if it's our fault Hornberger decided to join the lemming patrol on Amazon. Shame on them both. I am sure Janney will wake up one morning feeling badly about it all.
Peter Janney did something unprecedented in the history of this site after Lisa Pease's review of his book appeared. He went to Rockwell.com and wrote a long screed against Lisa, myself, and CTKA. In it he compared CTKA to the Spanish Inquisition and Lisa to Torquemada. For good measure, because Lisa criticized his book, he added that we would have burned Galileo at the stake for his heliocentric ideas about the solar system. (Does this mean that he ranks himself with Galileo and Kepler?) But he then went ahead and topped that: He managed to link us to the Third Reich by saying that we would like to resort to book burnings. Whew Peter, get hold of yourself. Isn't that overdoing it a bit?
In his bombastic screed, Janney ignored all the positive reviews we have given out e.g. to (among others) Larry Hancock for Nexus, Jerry McKnight for Breach of Trust, John Newman for the reissue of Oswald and the CIA, to Clint Hill for Mrs. Kennedy and Me, and to Jim Douglass for JFK and the Unspeakable. This last is ironic because Rockwell.com reprinted that review, without permission, on their site. In other words, before Janney, Rockwell.com thought enough of our work to reprint it. After Janney vented his spleen, we are somehow neo-Nazi defilers of truth and justice.
But further, in pronouncing us fanatical persecutors, Janney also ignored all the back articles we have archived from the paper edition of Probe. These extend from 1995-2000. He also ignored the fact that this particular site began as a response to Peter Jennings' 2003 special on the JFK case, and many articles here were done especially in reply to that special. He ignored all the work we have done on the RFK and MLK and Malcolm X cases. He ignored the fact that, thanks to Debra Conway, we are also a news repository on these cases. He ignored all the research essays we publish here, like Seamus Coogan's work on the Majestic Papers, or Robert Harris' work on the Connally Bullet, or J.P. Mroz on Wikipedia. He ignored the fact that we have a special section critiquing the performance of the mainstream media on the JFK case. He also ignored the fact that virtually everyone thought that Probe was the finest journal ever on the assassinations of the sixties. But further, and this is a crucial point, CTKA is not Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease. If one looks at the current banner, three headlined articles are by other writers: Vince Palamara, Gary Aguilar, and Martin Hay. Another example: of the four critiques of John McAdams' book, JFK Assassination Logic, none of them were written by Lisa or myself. Without people like Seamus Coogan, Martin Hay, David Mantik, Joseph Green, Gary Aguilar, and Frank Cassano, this site would not exist in anything like its present form. Are these contributors then also henchmen of Torquemada?
Janney has to ignore all these pertinent facts. Because if he did not he would then have to admit that what he doesn't like about CTKA is that we gave him a bad review. Consequently, in all the work that Lisa Pease and I have done since 1993 on these cases, Janney could only come up with two specific things worth mentioning as positives: my review of Chris Matthews' book on JFK, and the anthology edited by Lisa and myself, The Assassinations. This accounts for less than one quarter of our output in that time period, and everything posted to this site that you see before you. In other words, a generation of fine work done for no monetary gain, a platoon of distinguished and informed contributors, this was now all zapped because Lisa gave Mary's Mosaic a negative review. There's a guy with his priorities in place.
Why did Rockwell.com print what amounts to nothing but a self-serving personal peeve? Lew Rockwell is part of the Libertarian movement. As is Jacob Hornberger. Hornberger and Janney are acquaintances. This can be seen by the fact that Hornberger's "review" of Mary's Mosaic was posted right after Doug Horne's on amazon.com. Apparently, Hornberger, like Janney does not like anyone critiquing him. Therefore, Hornberger went along with Janney's trashing of an entire site, and all its contributors over that. As if it's our fault Hornberger decided to join the lemming patrol on Amazon. Shame on them both. I am sure Janney will wake up one morning feeling badly about it all.