23-11-2013, 06:59 PM
Don Jeffries Wrote:I'm shocked that Jones passed by John Judge without recognizing him. He mentioned COPA several times that I saw, and had a long interview with someone named Johnson(?), who he said worked with John Judge at COPA. They spoke about Penn Jones starting things 49 years ago- clearly Jones knows about them and has a high opinion of them.
Jones and a group of fellow protesters were assaulted by Sheriff's deputies, to the evident silence of the msm. The little I caught of the absurd, controlled ceremony centered around how great Dallas is, and how they bounced back so well from that little blip in 1963. It was nauseating and offensive to see the odious Mayor talking like that, instead of paying tribute to President Kennedy.
The 'official ceremony' was like the 'official version of the Assassination' - REVOLTING and supporting a coup d'etat that remains a stake in the heart of Amerika.......
The place where John F. Kennedy was shot and killed has both a gloomy and festive air on the eve of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of a shocking crime that most Americans regard as unsolved.
The crime scene is being scrubbed.
The weather is foggy, warm and humid. Temporary seating has been erected and the loudspeakers occasionally play the music that will be played at the one-hour ceremony scheduled to take place tomorrow around 12:30 pm, the time when the 35th president died in a hail of gunfire. Everywhere people huddle in conversation, point and debate, talking about the fatal gunfire and the causes of Kennedy's death.
But this conversation takes place outside the barricades that surround the grounds of the official ceremony.
Erasing the evidence
The white "X" painted on Elm Street marking the place where Kennedy's limousine was passing when he suffered a massive gunshot wound to the head has been removed.
The speaker's platform has been situated so that the Texas School Book Depository where accused assassin Lee Oswald allegedly fired three shots at the presidential motorcade will not be visible to camera crews from around the world. The sight lines have been constructed to capture Dallas' gleaming corporate towers and not the infamous grassy knoll, where more than 30 people (including 21 law enforcement officers) thought the fatal gunshot originated,
The admirers of Kennedy who have gathered on this spot every November 22 since the 1960s have been systematically spurned by a civic committee whose leaders have said they hope to hold an "uplifting"event about a murder in broad daylight.
A man slightly injured by a missed gunshot that day, James Tague, has been denied a ticket to the event.
The program will make no reference to the vitriolic hatred of Kennedy that pervaded the civic and political leadership of Dallas in November 1963.
Historian David McCullough, biographer of Harry Truman, will speak. Exactly a month after JFK died, Truman published a piece in the Washington Post calling for the abolition of CIA. But McCullough will not talk about that remarkable response to JFK's murder. McCullough will read excerpts from Kennedy's speeches.
Of course JFK should be remembered with the solemnity due to a fallen statesman, and dignity and controversy are incompatible. But to hold a ceremony in the place where he died and deny the evidence of his death speaks to the deep ambivalence and enduring denial that still surrounds the most painful day in American history between Pearl Harbor and September 11. LIke the continuing secrecy around the CIA's records related to JFK's assassination, the dressing up of Dealey Plaza betrays an impulse to exclude the painful reality of the JFK story from public discourse.
The weirdest thing
"Spectacle is likely to trump substance," wrote Dallas native James McCauley in the New York Times. "Not one word will be said at this event about what exactly the city was in 1963, when the president arrived in what he called, just moments before his death, nut country.'"
"It's just the weirdest thing," Deb Conway, whose group, JFK Lancer, puts on one of the largest conferences of researchers around the anniversary of his assassination, told the National Journal. "It's like if you went to a funeral but no one talked about the person who was dead."
Jim Schutze, columnist for the Dallas Observer weekly, who has written some of the sharpest commentary on this impenting ritual of forgetting, used the same analogy.
"Its like going to your parent's funeral and your brothers and sister say We're not going to funeral or say the word death." If that happened you would say, You need to see a shrink.' Not in Dallas. Its the way we deal with things. Is it the culture? Or is it mind control?"
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass