... Going back to when we were children, I think most of us, probably all of us here in this courtroom, felt that justice came into being automatically, that virtue was its own reward and good would triumph over evil, that it occurred automatically. And later when we found that it wasnt quite so, most of us felt that, hopefully, that at least justice occurred frequently of its own accord, but now I think that almost all of us world have to agree that there is really no automatic machinery, not on this earth at least, which causes justice to happen automatically. Men have to make it occur, individual human beings have to make it occur, otherwise it doesnt come into existence, and this is not always easy. As a matter of fact, it is always hard, because justice presents a threat to power, and in order to make justice come into being you often have to fight power. ... The governments handling of the investigation of John Kennedys murder was the greatest fraud in the history of our country. It probably was the greatest fraud ever perpetrated in the history of humankind. That doesnt mean that we have to accept the continued existence of the kind of government which allows this to happen. We can do something about it. Were forced either to leave this country or to accept the authoritarianism that has developed--the authoritarianism which tells us that in the year 2029 we can see the evidence about what happened to John Kennedy. ... Orleans Parish District Attorney Earling Carothers Jim Garrison, February 28, 1969, closing argument to Jury in State of Louisiana verus Clay L. Shaw
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:16:19 +0000
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