From: f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: mortal error
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:13:16 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

In article <1992Oct7.043253.5025@qualcomm.com>, karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes:
> In article <92280.073201U54778@uicvm.uic.edu> <U54778@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>>Looks like we got ourselves another genius.  This one is an expert on
>>auditory illusions. Wow.
> 
> No, I am only a reasonably well educated layman who has read both the
> WC report and some of the conspiracy theories, and who has found the
> methods and conclusions of the WC report far more complete, thorough,
> self-consistent, plausible and persuasive than any of the conspiracy
> theories.  Given that none of us were actual witnesses to the
> assassination, information provided by others is the only evidence we
> can go on. I have to form my own conclusions just as though I were a
> juror at a trial being presented with physical and testimonial
> evidence.  in fact, if I *were* a witness, I'd be disqualified as a
> juror, and for good reason.
> 
> Oh heck. I was going to respond to the rest of your posting, but
> what's the use. I might as well question somebody's fervently held
> religious beliefs. You conspiracy theorists remind me of those who
> insist that because biologists still argue among themselves about the
> minute details of evolution, the entire theory of evolution is invalid
> and ergo, creationism "must be" (by default?) the "correct" answer.
> 
> You can believe whatever you want -- it doesn't make any difference to
> me or any one else. I will say, though, that if you are truly
> concerned with governmental malfeasance, there are many real problems
> much more worthy of your time than chasing conspiratorial illusions in
> the JFK assassination. The bloated defense budget, the sustained
> attack on the bill of rights and individual freedoms, the sorry
> scandal that is US public education, etc. There are lots of
> *present-day* authority figures much more deserving of public
> challenge than the long-defunct Warren Commission.
> 
> Phil

	You make some excellent points in your post and indeed a
conspiracy theory can become like religious dogma and therefore
unassailable.  But not everybody who is interested in the assassination
of JFK is stuck in the past and concerned only with this possible
malfeasance on the part of the government.  What concerns many of us
is that it appears to be only a small part of what has become a familiar
pattern.  It bears striking similarities to other assassinations:
MLK and Robert Kennedy to name a couple of big ones.  Then there's
the attempted assassination on George Wallace.  Then throughout the
years there are strange disappearances, "apparent" suicides, and
murders such as in the Casalaro case.  The list goes on and on until
one realizes that the murder of JFK is quite relevant to today.  In
fact, whenever public interest in it is reignited, the disinformation
band wagon also gets in full gear.  Intelligence services refuse to
give Congress pertinent information.  Coverup, missing persons, scandal,
murder, etc., etc., seem to be a way of doing business in Washington.
	Perhaps the real importance of the JFK assassination, when the
history books are written a hundred years from now, will be that it
marked the forceful emergence of a powerful and sinister force under-
lying much of our government activity that no way reflects the will
of the people.  Hopefully the history books will also record that today
was the time when the slumbering public awoke and did something about it.
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