Organization: Penn State University
Date: Friday, 17 Apr 1992 01:03:57 EDT
From: <SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Silence of the Lambs

In article <1992Apr16.201008.24138@swbatl.sbc.com>, jburnes@swbatl.sbc.com (Jim
Burnes - 235-7444) says:
>Would you would like to quote sources that prove that Oliver Stone is lying.
>Maybe they will be sources other than NY Times/Newsweek/Time Magazine
>or whatever.  Those really arern't sources, they are pointless
>propaganda rags.

Who needs documentation for this?  He never identifies "X" as a fictitious
montage of L. Fletcher Prouty and assorted Garrison contacts.  The
rendezvous in Washington NEVER HAPPENED.  If you don't investigate
further into the movie, you could easily believe it had.

L. Fletcher Prouty gives me the screaming heebie jeebies.  I saw him
on CSPAN and he sounds like a typical paranoid weirdo.  At first he
volunteered to spill the beans on the CIA assassination program, but
then when specifically asked about it, he hedged and only mumbled
one assassination incident and blurted "That's Enough!".  See this guy
live before you make any conclusions about his veracity.

How about that little "Alright, you get me elected and I'll give you
your damned war." quote by Lyndon Johnson.  Can you document this
happened?  Well?

Although it's not a lie, he doesn't mention that ANY of Garrison's
testimony was gained through hypnosis.  We wouldn't want to throw
any water on the fire, now would we?

There's a hell of a lot of interesting stuff in JFK that is true and
that's the most frustrating aspect of this movie.  A woman really was
thrown out of a car several days before the assassination and insisted
that "they're going to kill the president" and she really did turn out
to be linked to Jack Ruby.  And she really did get killed several years
later.  Clay Shaw really was a CIA operative.  But by allowing in
the half truths and the outright fabrications, the movie is too
misleading to be useful.  You should hear the loonies that now swear
by that movie as gospel and have bought EVERY WORD OF IT.  It's sad,
they haven't learned anything, they've just switched demagogues.
Silence of the Lambs was one cool flick.  I'll bet you Hannibal Lecter
knows who shot Kennedy :-)...

I read Plausible Denial recently.  Although it certainly gives you food
for thought on the whereabouts of E. Howard Hunt on Nov. 22, 1963, it
proves little else.  Mark Lane's interesting statements about Willis
Carto don't exactly inspire me either.  This opinion of Mark Lane
was bolstered by his recent appearance on The Mc Laughlin Group
where I thought he was a dork.  I wasted $17.00 on this rag...

Although I think he is overzealous in his defense of the Warren
Commission Report, I would really like to read David Belin's
Final Disclosure.  Unfortunately, it appears to be out of print.
Talk about conspiracies...

>I think Stone could have been a little more thorough, but all in all
>its a wonderful job.  For lies, see the Warren Commission, the FBI,
>J. Edgar Hoover, the CIA, The Presidents.  You know, all the usual
>sources.

Then again, maybe you're one of the loonies...

Scott

"You see Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't in the schoolbook depository because
um er I was, yeah that's the ticket.  I was there, working under deep
cover with my wife, Morgan Fairchild, who I have seen naked on many
occasions." - Tommy Flanagan