15-07-2009, 06:55 PM
Charles Drago Wrote:And speaking of motive, please tell us why Greer would have done the deed. Just give me a minute while I brace for more suppositions-as-facts.
With pleasure, and all factual:
Let’s begin with the biographical. He came from a land where Irish Catholic life was (and in many respects remains) cheap, and the hatred of Romanists venomous. My interpretation? No: His son’s, as conveyed by Vince Palamara:
http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v4n...pter08.pdf
Second, let us consider the powerful institutional motivation driving the SS bureaucracy along the course of collusion with the Cold Warriors in CIA and at the Pentagon:
David Talbot, Brothers, p.22:
Quote: “Even before Dallas, Bobby Kennedy seemed to be losing confidence in the ability [more accurately, the will – PR] of the Secret Service to protect his brother…At the time of the assassination, Kennedy was backing a bill, H.R. 4158, which would have given the attorney general the authority to appoint the agents who protected the president, instead of the Secret Service. Rowley, the agency’s chief, acknowledged in his testimony before the Warren Commission that he was adamantly opposed to the bill, asserting that the transfer of authority to RFK’s office would ‘confuse and be a conflict in jurisdiction.’”
Stripped of the task of protecting the president, the Secret Service would have lost budget, and, every bit as importantly, face and clout, not, you understand, with the mere politicians they guarded, or the public they purported to serve also, but with real power: and real power would have lost what was arguably its most important institutional cloak, under which cover Nixon was assisted to destruction, Reagan nearly eliminated, and the anti-Clinton campaign furthered.
On the eve of Dallas, the Secret Service, like the CIA, was fighting to preserve its real raison d’etre.
Greer was doubtless chosen for reason the first; because he was a man who obeyed orders; and possessed both the requisite temperament and skill-set to fulfil the task assigned him.
There, all very logical and rational - and light years away from baseless supposition.
Paul