A new theory of the assassination

[Ed Jewett]

FYI a coup d'etat also includes one group within a government taking over from another group, as in the Diem coup.

Exactly what I meant...that's why Nixon's role is important. Remember also, during Watergate, Nixon attempted to hire damn near the entire Warren Commission to strategic places within the investigation in order to cover it up...

Not wishing to argue or detract from anyone's theory or thesis in this post or thread... or certainly to be specific to critical aspects of the Dealey Plaza event... but what is alluded to in the quoted material and elsewhere is the use by various parties and elements of the state's means, mechanisms and tools to seize control of the power to direct the state itself.

I would not certainly be the first to suggest the presence of mutiny (using a ship of state theme), or treason. Had it involved foreign influence, action, etc., it would have been been an act of war. Indeed, some of the disinformation seems constructed in a way to force a focus on external "foreign" perpetrators rather than internal domestic ones, or perhaps a different foreign perpetrator than the guilty culprit. Some of the early machinations seem focused on "shaping" the perceptive or investigative lens to make sure it was out of focus enough to disable clarity, a thematic approach that has been honed and sharpened in its exercise over time (but which also appears to have become more sloppy or transparent in its execution). In any coloration, it is an act to discount or dislodge or deny the normal empowerment of the American people.

What troubles me is that there are clear indicators (perhaps unproven) that the success of events in and after Dealey Plaza generated expansive mimicry in later events, each getting larger and more powerful and pervasive, and which have taken the country (and the world) in a direction to the benefit of only a few and to the detriment of the nation and the world. Whether with JFK, or MLK, or RFK, or other events (including 9/11), the desired end-result seems to have been extended war. To whose benefit?

But this is all probably another thread entirely, a bigger question than the narrowly-defined thesis at the beginning of this thread.