05-11-2013, 02:54 AM
King is promoting the lone gunman theory in this book, disregarding common sense and mountains of evidence to the contrary. He also has a larger theme about one random event or one person radically changing the future. This is also elaborated upon at the end of the book where he claims that Jack Ruby only shot Oswald because he happened to be in the right place at the right time by a series of chance occurrences involving one of Ruby's employees. He claims this employee is the reason for the proliferation of conspiracy theories, since her actions kept Oswald from going to trial (hogwash of course).
He claims to subscribe to the debunker's theory that so-called "conspiracy theorists" only engage in such speculation because they need to draw meaning from events and can't stand the fact that a "random person" like Oswald could have brought down a great man like JFK. The ongoing theme in this book is that "if only" this or that hadn't happened, JFK would have lived.
This is nonsense of course, when you know how many forces were at work in the case of JFK's death. If they hadn't succeeded for some reason on 11/22/63, they would have done it some other day. They had already had an earlier plan in Chicago.
This attempt to make life seem like a series of random occurrences is an obvious weak attempt to deflect blame away from the shadow government. It also serves to keep peons feeling like they have no control over the present or the future, since there are random nutcases hiding around every corner.
The redeeming factor in this book is that he admits his wife subscribes to JFK conspiracy theories, after saying that no reasonable person could possibly do so. The fact that he made this contradiction public gives me a little bit of hope.
He claims to subscribe to the debunker's theory that so-called "conspiracy theorists" only engage in such speculation because they need to draw meaning from events and can't stand the fact that a "random person" like Oswald could have brought down a great man like JFK. The ongoing theme in this book is that "if only" this or that hadn't happened, JFK would have lived.
This is nonsense of course, when you know how many forces were at work in the case of JFK's death. If they hadn't succeeded for some reason on 11/22/63, they would have done it some other day. They had already had an earlier plan in Chicago.
This attempt to make life seem like a series of random occurrences is an obvious weak attempt to deflect blame away from the shadow government. It also serves to keep peons feeling like they have no control over the present or the future, since there are random nutcases hiding around every corner.
The redeeming factor in this book is that he admits his wife subscribes to JFK conspiracy theories, after saying that no reasonable person could possibly do so. The fact that he made this contradiction public gives me a little bit of hope.