Nelson's LBJ Mastermind book

[James H. Fetzer]

Charles,

You are disgracing yourself. Your high-handed and authoritarian character has proven to be an insult to this forum and the principles it represents. I dare say the reverberations from this exchange are going to be deep-seated and enduring. It has never been my intention to embarrass you in front of your peers, but my commitment to truth dominates my commitment to friendship. Otherwise, as I have previously observed, there is only friendship and no truth. I have been and continue to be active in JFK research but, apart from your posts on this forum, I am unaware of anything you have done that advances our understanding of the death of JFK in the past few years. I am glad to be measured by my work, including my most recent:

"JFK and RFK: The Plots that Killed Them, The Patsies that Didn't"
http://www.voltairenet.org/article165721.html

"The Dartmouth JFK-Photo Fiasco" (with Jim Marrs)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/THE-DAR...6-941.html

"Conspiracies and Conspiracism"
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/...6047.shtml

"RFK: Outing the CIA at the Ambassador"
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/...6464.shtml

"US Government Official: JFK Cover-Up, Film Fabrication"
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/...5772.shtml

"The JFK 'Head Shot' Paradox"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/fetzer1.1.1.html

"Forrest Gump on the grassy knoll"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/fetzer2.1.1.html

"Who's telling the truth: Clint Hill or the Zapruder film?"
http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/2011/01/...ll-or.html

In addition, of course, I host a two-hour radio program, three days a week, where the archives for the show can be found at http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com. And I continue to make appearances on many other public programs, including, for example, this on Skeptico at http://www.skeptiko.com/james-fetzer-jfk...n-science/ and many other presentations, such as, "What Happened to JFK--and Why it Matters Today", http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/2009/12/httpdotsub.html Now, since you are making libelous allegations that I am the "dottering old fool" on this forum, why don't you provide a comparable list of your contributions to JFK research over a comparable period of time? What justifies your claim to prominence? One of us may be in decline, as you are wont to allege, Charles, but it ain't me.

And if your associates on this forum are unwilling to tell you, let me be the first: you have long since lost your way, Charles, and are now an embarrassment to assassination research in general and The Deep Politics Forum in particular. It may be that they won't tell you, so let me deliver the verdict: It is your retirement that is long past time, not mine. And your feeble attempts to defend yourself are pitiful. I am unaware of any policy that excludes me from membership on the ground that I have disagreed with one of its founding members. That is not a policy that would inspire confidence in the integrity of this forum. Step back, Charles, and seek advice from those who care about you most profoundly. Get a grip! We all hope you can find your way back to the intelligence and good sense for which we have admired you in the past.

With profound concern,

Jim

I am sorry, Charles, but you are "living down" to my expectations as an emperor with no clothes! Rather fascinating, actually.

Jim,

You have become the dottering old fool of this community -- a laughing stock. We all hear it, some of us try to deny it. None of us can deny it. You have lost all credibility, and I no longer will apologize to you or for you or try to cover for you or otherwise attempt to convince others that you are not into your dotage.

No longer address me. Please remove my quote from the front page of your JFK site. Please disassociate me from all of your endeavors.

Your embraces of E. Howard Hunt's "confession" and Phillip Nelson's disinformation are just the latest expressions of a unique, oh so troubling dementia that I have struggled so hard to deny. But now you leave me no choice.

You're done, Jim. And someone has to have the courage to tell you so.

Do you remember when George Michael Evica and I resigned from your first JFK site? We made the excuse that we didn't have time to devote to the enterprise. In point of fact, we didn't want anything to do with your decline. We saw it, we mourned your loss, and we moved on.

There. I've said what I promised myself I never would reveal.

You are no longer welcome in my world of intelligent, sane inquiry. I've had it up HERE with your evasions and, dare I say it, your cognitive impairments.

You are a liability to those causes which you hold most dear. You are more like the Robert Morrows of the world than the old Jim Fetzer.

You broke my heart, Jim. Retire. Go quietly. Stop bringing embarrassment and shame to the communities and, more importantly, the causes you once championed.

You broke my heart, Jim. And the hearts of so many others.

Go in peace.