09-03-2013, 08:00 PM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Charles, here's another adage:
Those who weren't there don't know what happened.
I wasn't commenting on the accuracy -- or lack thereof -- of Peter's narrative, but rather on the wisdom -- or lack thereof -- of your "forget the past, nothing to see there" admonition.
As for your statement quoted above: I wasn't in Dealey Plaza at 12:30 PM CST on 11/22/63, but I damn well know what happened then and there.
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