I am a supporter of Democracy Now. I am a Dorothy Day activist protestor. But you lessen my respect with an unquestioned run of Oliver Stones views. I wrote a review on JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by fellow peacenik traveller (to me, Jim DouglasI could apply as well to Stone. .... just listening to a Mr Aynsworth at the Texas book festival (10/16/13) - the irrefutable evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone shooter- Jims otherwise great book is hence undermined to the extent that he pushes a conspiracy theory altho- I agree w the tenor of the book- why make up stuff that did not happen? Many have explained how Oswald could have done what he did (and imagine how much MORE lucky to have him AND shooters on the grassy knoll coorinate in the days before cell phones. Its enough that capitalism and the military industrial complex are the grand conspiracy- the unspeakable. Isnt enough to know that rifles are still very accessible (even by instagram?). Stone and Kuznick give alot of plausible enough theories about the US in their series- from the Spanish Citil War on- but they have to go far afield re Kennedy- the (according to them) peacnik. Action for non violence now is what matters- not obscure, unproven conspiracy theories. What is the NSA and CIA doing now. I realize they are quite capable of evil, horrible things. Talk to those who protest drones now- talk to Chelsea Manning. Again, how were shots from Oswald and the grassy knoll coordinated? What about absurd theory that a person was in a storm drain? Amy asks no real hard questions. If these guys are so sure somebody else did it- who? Are they afraid to name names? Douglass does name names but does not follow up. Allen Dulles? Richard Helms? The CIA? Oswald did not know he was a patsy? Give me a break (brake). Douglass naive at best....thus he gets away w little facts by referring to an unspeakable. Not enough for me. And then top go on and claim conspiracies for ML King, Malcolm X, Robert K? Good Lord. Nor Amy nor Jim D not give enough credence to the counter arguments (and neither does Oliver Stone). If he has the facts let him prove it. Be bold enough to say Im speculating. Kennedy enabled war and lived by the sword- thus did he die.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:48:11 +0000
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