12-06-2013, 02:15 PM
Albert Rossi Wrote:these two books, however, are paragons of thoughtful and meticulous analysis (not to mention powerful indictments of our recent past which speak directly to our present) -- precisely what historical explanation should always strive to be even if historical certainty can never be attained in any objective sense.
I think the American people have enough evidence to act. We clearly need a refurbishing of government. As the Garrison case proves we have a force in this country that has subverted democracy to its interests. The government itself is guilty of high crimes against the state and the people. America was never meant to be 'guided' by a coven of military fascist fixers making sure things went according to their dictates.
Albert Rossi Wrote:As for what led to JFK's death, his own "three strikes, you're out" reaction to Seven Days in May impresses me as particularly apt in terms of the Cuban situation: 1. Bay of Pigs; 2. Missile Crisis; 3. Back-Channel. But we can factor in any number of subsequent "Bay of Pigs" in other areas during the course of his final year in office, like the finalization of the Vietnam withdrawal plans, the Test Ban Treaty, etc., as contributory; as Douglass himself states, there is an embarrassment of choices.
I think the March 31 1963 intervention in the JMWAVE station to prevent the Cuban exiles from spoiling Kennedy's Missile Crisis agreement was important because it convinced the exiles that Kennedy really was working against them. This caused players at the mechanic level to work with the CIA facilitators in an operation to assassinate JFK and probably was the final input to start the real Dallas machinery going.