03-12-2013, 02:08 AM
http://lookingglass.blog.co.uk/2013/11/2...-17065408/
by RAZFX [SUP]Pro[/SUP] @ 2013-11-25 07:37:51
It's been more than two weeks since I last ran a column. Probably just as well since as I was wrestling with several incompetent corporations over the requisites of new phone and electrical hookups, not to mention internet impossibilities more on this soon, probably the nation has been awash in the worst collective media bullshit since the pseudo patriotic blatherings preceding the unprovoked attack on Iraq.
I'm referring, of course, to the magnificent mass delusion accompanying the 50th anniversary of the coup which toppled the U.S. government in Dallas in 1963.
I'm not going to get into details here. For one thing, after unpacking about 70 boxes, configuring furniture, waiting around for technicians who never manage to get here, being shut off the internet for a week due to a confluence of ineptitude between Comcast and, believe it or not, Apple, I am almost able to write again but too tuckered out to get into details. And if I didn't know Judy Hartman Tipple, who lives a short distance away on the outskirts of Sonoma town, I still wouldn't have internet now.
I did not watch the specials. I didn't see the hellacious lies on CNN, PBS, and everybody else. The local papers decided to assume that the matter of Oswald's lone guilt has been settled, thus relieving everybody else of complicity. The 'thoughtful' ones say that we won't ever know, which is both untruthful and cowardly. I didn't watch any of those programs because I just got a new television and don't want to kick the screen in before I've had a chance to enjoy it.
I wrote a book on the general subject of the 'sixties and the assassinations with the same title as this column's blog, confusing no doubt but there it is. You can find it on Amazon. It's a novel but everything in it is true, which is more than you can say for the 'non-fiction' garbage published by idiots like Vincent Bugliosi and heralded by august outfits such as the New York Times. Saw a cover story in Atlantic Magazine, of all places, which asked the question what would have happened had Oswald had a "failure of nerve."
For fifty years, the American people have known better than to buy this crap. For fifty years, every survey showed a majority telling poll takers that Kennedy's murder was the result of a conspiracy, and a majority of those respondents thought the CIA was involved. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary, the powers-that-be have rallied for one last chance at shoring up the Big Lie. Maybe it will even work. After all, most people now alive weren't alive in 1963. They don't remember that day and the days which followed. They have no memory of their country gradually shifting away from the bright dream and honorable initiatives of the Kennedys to the race to the sewer exemplified by the Clintons, the Bushes, and Barack Obama. We were not always hated throughout the world. We did not always attack other nations which had not harmed us. American Presidents did not always think it was fine to draw up death lists and call them 'disposition matrixes,' while making casual jokes about Predator drones.
Of course the mass media would engage in a mass lie. They were not about to say to the people, 'we've been lying to you for fifty years, sorry about that.'
I'm still figuring to put something together here but it will have to wait. First, Apple's got to fix the blunder the Marin County outlet made so that I can use a real word processing application. Second, I've got to get some sleep. Soon, though. Watch this space.
by RAZFX [SUP]Pro[/SUP] @ 2013-11-25 07:37:51
It's been more than two weeks since I last ran a column. Probably just as well since as I was wrestling with several incompetent corporations over the requisites of new phone and electrical hookups, not to mention internet impossibilities more on this soon, probably the nation has been awash in the worst collective media bullshit since the pseudo patriotic blatherings preceding the unprovoked attack on Iraq.
I'm referring, of course, to the magnificent mass delusion accompanying the 50th anniversary of the coup which toppled the U.S. government in Dallas in 1963.
I'm not going to get into details here. For one thing, after unpacking about 70 boxes, configuring furniture, waiting around for technicians who never manage to get here, being shut off the internet for a week due to a confluence of ineptitude between Comcast and, believe it or not, Apple, I am almost able to write again but too tuckered out to get into details. And if I didn't know Judy Hartman Tipple, who lives a short distance away on the outskirts of Sonoma town, I still wouldn't have internet now.
I did not watch the specials. I didn't see the hellacious lies on CNN, PBS, and everybody else. The local papers decided to assume that the matter of Oswald's lone guilt has been settled, thus relieving everybody else of complicity. The 'thoughtful' ones say that we won't ever know, which is both untruthful and cowardly. I didn't watch any of those programs because I just got a new television and don't want to kick the screen in before I've had a chance to enjoy it.
I wrote a book on the general subject of the 'sixties and the assassinations with the same title as this column's blog, confusing no doubt but there it is. You can find it on Amazon. It's a novel but everything in it is true, which is more than you can say for the 'non-fiction' garbage published by idiots like Vincent Bugliosi and heralded by august outfits such as the New York Times. Saw a cover story in Atlantic Magazine, of all places, which asked the question what would have happened had Oswald had a "failure of nerve."
For fifty years, the American people have known better than to buy this crap. For fifty years, every survey showed a majority telling poll takers that Kennedy's murder was the result of a conspiracy, and a majority of those respondents thought the CIA was involved. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary, the powers-that-be have rallied for one last chance at shoring up the Big Lie. Maybe it will even work. After all, most people now alive weren't alive in 1963. They don't remember that day and the days which followed. They have no memory of their country gradually shifting away from the bright dream and honorable initiatives of the Kennedys to the race to the sewer exemplified by the Clintons, the Bushes, and Barack Obama. We were not always hated throughout the world. We did not always attack other nations which had not harmed us. American Presidents did not always think it was fine to draw up death lists and call them 'disposition matrixes,' while making casual jokes about Predator drones.
Of course the mass media would engage in a mass lie. They were not about to say to the people, 'we've been lying to you for fifty years, sorry about that.'
I'm still figuring to put something together here but it will have to wait. First, Apple's got to fix the blunder the Marin County outlet made so that I can use a real word processing application. Second, I've got to get some sleep. Soon, though. Watch this space.