25-08-2009, 12:46 PM
Henry Rybka was a Secret Service agent assiged to JFK's Dallas detail. Given what we can see of his actions on 11/22/63, is anyone prepared to suggest that he was complicit in the president's murder?
My point is that we play into the killers' hand when we present blanket indictments of agencies.
The CIA didn't "do it" any more than the Secret Service "did it." Ditto "the Mob," "big business," "big oil," etc.
Individuals who were affiliated with those and other governmental agencies and business and criminal enterprises were indeed complicit in the crime. But we are obliged to be precise with our analyses and the words we choose to communicate conclusions drawn from them.
My point is that we play into the killers' hand when we present blanket indictments of agencies.
The CIA didn't "do it" any more than the Secret Service "did it." Ditto "the Mob," "big business," "big oil," etc.
Individuals who were affiliated with those and other governmental agencies and business and criminal enterprises were indeed complicit in the crime. But we are obliged to be precise with our analyses and the words we choose to communicate conclusions drawn from them.
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