29-08-2013, 05:58 AM
Nathaniel Heidenheimer Wrote:What I stressed at the very beginning of the 50th anniversary "planning" thread was the need to create hubs. i.e., places from which many threads emerged and linked to wider traffic non-specialist political sites with links that made connections e.g. between NSA surveillance and defiance of elected government in 1963. Ignore one the other is eventually cause.
Now Marlene has a means of exponentially expanding listener, reader base in a key demographic both for further research, history, and potential actions re Truth and Reconciliation Committees etc., if you think it is possible or even if you think it might be useful politically at some point in order to rebuild a public sphere, whenever that might be possible.
What we need is people with a mic audience and web sites to ACTIVELY PROMOTE THE CREATION OF THESE HUBS so that when Citizen John Doe on November 11th 2013 hears something curious about .. for example JFK and Diem Coup he WILL AT LEAST HAVE A CHANCE of going to a good site to check it out. The official story holds stratospheric media advantages over us. A completely decentralized whatever will be will be attitude in the face of that massive, corporate propaganda campaign will be the death of history.
I sincerely hope that either Len or Jim will ask their listeners on BOR to spread the threads, create a much higher viewership and and also much higher traffic to DPF and CTKA. Without building these three hubs, everything will be a disaster. I have been doing everything I can posting on more than 100 group sites, but if all people here care about is satisfying INDIVIDUAL PRIVATIZED CURIOSITIES and never even give a damn about the public acknowledgement of the historical truth of the National Security State in 1963 AND WHAT THAT IMPLIES ABOUT WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS TEACHING INTO THE BRAIN OF EVERY SCHOOL-KID NY TO CALIFORNIA RIGHT NOW... if that personal curiosity is all they care about then maybe the term buffs is apt.
I agree with you Nate, you tirelessly post more then is almost humanly possible on the Facebook group alone!
I feel that most of what can be known - we know - what little is left at the Archives will be sanitized before we ever get our hands on it and yes some juicy nuggets will be there but basically - we know. Now it's time for everyone else to know.
One small digression about the National Archives. I was there in June researching the Eisendrath Report for Jim D. - I had never been there before so I had to go through the whole process of getting an ID etc.. I finally got to the JFK area and spoke to the guy who helps you there. He couldn't find anything related to the report and said there is a specialist there who deals only with the JFK stuff. I'm sure you all know her - Lisa something or other. He calls her and she magically appears within I would say a minute, she says she will go get the box I requested herself and it was available to me in the time it took me to walk over to the desk where they deliver the boxes. Now, I wouldn't have found this a bit curious except that everyone else had to wait an hour to 3 hours to get their boxes. I search through the box and there is only a 2 page reference to Eisendrath - I check the info Jim sent me and realize that I have the wrong box. I go back to the guy who calls Lisa - who couldn't have appeared faster if she had been sitting next to me - and again the box is brought out immediately. It was creepy instead of "wow, cool" that's amazing service. Not long after I got back from Washington I heard an interview that Len did with Barry Ernest on the release of the paperback version of "The Girl On The Stairs" and he mentioned that he had gone to the Archives between publication of the hard cover and paperback on a tip from a reader and I think it was an audio tape that had been there last time he visited was suddenly missing. I find this disturbing and it says to me that they will do anything and everything even after 50 years to cover up the truth.
I think our only hope is to have people to pass the torch to - like Jim Garrison told his children to stay healthy so that they could be alive when the records were released - so that they could carry on after him.