Jim Fetzer - The Tehran Tiger -- Strikes Again

[Charles Drago]

The significant danger posed by James Fetzer to our shared struggles to ascertain truth and effect justice for the extended victims of John F. Kennedy's assassination could not be rendered more clearly than in the boldface passage below taken from a post Fetzer made earlier today on another Internet forum:


I have just returned from the 3rd International Hollywoodism Conference held in Tehran. My plan was to explain how Hollywood-style techniques have been used to alter history using the assassination of JFK and the atrocities of 9/11 as my illustrations:

Regarding JFK:

(1) the backyard photographs: There are multiple indications of fakery, including the wrong chin, an insert line between the chin and his lower lip, and the missing tips of his right hand. When Lee was shown one of the four photos, he stated that it was his face pasted on someone else's body, which has been shown to be correct by multiple lines of proof. (See, for example, "Framing the Patsy: The Case of Lee Harvey Oswald" with Jim Marrs.)

(2) the Zapruder film: The driver pulled the presidential limousine to the left and to a halt after bullets had begun to be fired for an interval of several seconds, but it was removed from the film. More than 60 witnesses--and other research--has confirmed it. We have established what happened to the film, where and how it was altered and by what agency. (See "JFK: Who's telling the truth: Clint Hill or the Zapruder film?")

(3) the Altgens6: AP photographer James „Ike" Altgens took a famous photograph looking toward the presidential limousine as JFK is clutching his throat from the second hit. In the background in the doorway, a figure can be seen whom the government claims was Billy Lovelady. But recent research substantiates that it was actually Lee Harvey Oswald. (See "JFK believe it or not: Oswald wasn't even a shooter" with Richard Hooke.)


Two points must be addressed:

A. Fetzer herein offers three mini-analyses of JFK evidence. His first and second examples offer hard facts (if some hyperbole and false association, as in the latter's claim that "[w]e have established what happened to the film, where and how it was altered and by what agency"). Fetzer's third example, alas and all too predictably, conflates the pseudo-science and outright chicanery of Ralph Cinque with the disciplined, honestly conducted and presented, science-based research and conclusions of those whose studies have established forgery in the so-called "backyard photos" of LHO and the Zapruder film.

Fetzer, wittingly or otherwise, has given aid and comfort to the accessories-after-the-fact to JFK's murder charged with maintenance of the cover-up. They will target the Cinque/Fetzer snake oil, savage it, and then argue that it is indicative of the failures of ALL JFK assassination-related science.

B. One cannot overstate the counter-productiveness -- the sheer tactical lunacy -- of Fetzer's Tehran conference attendance and subsequent reference.

What might Fetzer have gained by publicly taking part in such an event that could have outweighed the destructive impact of his association with the Iranians on the public perceptions of our aforementioned goals and the methods we utilize to achieve them?

Do not misunderstand me: To paraphrase Muhammad Ali, I ain't got nothin' against them Persians. Further, a conference organized to expose imperialist-supported propaganda in popular culture, is in and of itself a good thing. But Fetzer, because he either is ravaged by physical and/or emotional diseases, or is operating as a deep cover asset of the conspirators, or both, continues to make every available effort to taint our own work by his association with liars and demonized (unwarranted or otherwise) political entities.

Jim Fetzer is an abomination -- a major, relentless threat to all that the community of honorable JFK researchers has worked for and achieved over nearly 50 years.

[Jan Klimkowski]

The DPF Founders said it clearly, when casting Fetzer out.

DPF Bans Professor James H. Fetzer: The Rationale.

The Oswald Innocence Campaign, in their own words, is "a gathering of researchers, and concerned individuals, committed to spreading the truth that Lee Harvey Oswald was the "Man in the Doorway" in the famous photo, by Ike Altgens, which thereby exonerates Oswald of having shot at President Kennedy. In this case, a picture really is worth a million words, since it trumps the massive media effort to the contrary. We are taking a stand for what, upon close examination, the photo clearly reveals and cannot be denied by rational thinking people. The founding of the OIC marks a sea change in JFK research. A new breed of JFK researcher has emerged. Nevertheless, there are those on the internet, such S.V. Anderson and other "lone gunman" shills, who comb internet forums and cannot quite figure out why I, and others, of this new breed of conspiracy theorist, are so persistent and will not be silenced. The moment for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth has come."

As research on the Deep Politics Forum and elsewhere has demonstrated, the photograph known as Altgens 6 is simply incapable of being used as "proof" that Lee Harvey Oswald was standing in a doorway on the streets of Dealy Plaza, and thus could not have been on the sixth floor shooting at President Kennedy. There is not enough "information" in the image to make the definitive judgement claimed by Fetzer and co. The claim also contradicts the most reliable witness evidence, which places Oswald in the vicinity of the Book Store's coke machine.

However, more fundamentally, such analysis of Altgens 6 is entirely irrelevant to Oswald's innocence. Decades of research into the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, into the circles in which he moved, into the plots prior to the assassination, into the nature of the deep political coverup after the assassination, and into the real historical context of JFK's presidency, expose the claim that "a picture really is worth a million words" as crude disinformation.

This promotion of "Oswald in the doorway" as the smoking gun that proves Oswald's innocence is deeply disturbing, as it will inevitably be shown as a massively overstated interpretation of the available evidence and thus tarnish the efforts of the entire research community.

Indeed, why is it that just before the 50th anniversary of the public slaughter of JFK, Fetzer and co announce the ridiculous vehicle known as the "Oswald Innocence Campaign"?

It feels more media stunt than serious research effort, and perhaps belongs in the faux and ephemeral sphere of the Blair Witch Project - an Oswald Innocence Project to entertain and titillate the masses.

We, the founders and owners of DPF, are deeply suspicious.

Here is how it is likely to play out.

MSM will be delighted to invite the sexily named Oswald Innocence Campaign members into newsrooms and onto anniversary documentaries. MSM will be delighted precisely because they know this supposed smoking gun, the interpretation of Altgens 6 as proof that Oswald was in the doorway, can be demolished in a moment. The claim can be demolished because the research community, of which DPF is a part, has already destroyed it.

Fundamentally, Altgens 6 cannot support the weight of interpretation placed upon it by the OIC.

End result: MSM has its cake and eats it. The self-proclaimed "Conspiracy Theorists" of the OIC are invited to make their best case, they put forward Altgens 6, MSM feigns interest then destroys the argument without raising so much as a sweat. And thus the meme that "you can't trust a Conspiracy Theorist to get anything right" is reinforced.

The circus continues.

The show goes on.

Fetzer and co chirp: "The founding of the OIC marks a sea change in JFK research. A new breed of JFK researcher has emerged."

Indeed. An incredibly stupid breed.

For some time, the founders and owners of DPF have been dismayed at the declining quality of Jim Fetzer's research in all deep political areas. The ludicrous and thoroughly debunked "Oswald in the doorway" theory is the final provocation.

We, the founders and owners of DPF, remain committed to shining light into the dark and shadowy reaches of deep political structures.

We also remain committed to exposing disinformation publicly, in stark daylight.

Once disinformation has been exposed, we will refuse to allow DPF to be used for the purposes of propaganda or Sunsteinian psy ops.

After reflection and discussion, we have decided upon the following courses of action:

i) to lock the "Oswald in the Doorway" thread, so it is not open to further comment. However, it will remain online in the interests of public education and exposure of the theory's total lack of credibility;

ii) to ban Jim Fetzer, as we have now concluded, with sadness, that his self-proclaimed "Conspiracy Theories" are the very worst examples of that discredited form, causing only damage to legitimate, considered, rigorous research.