Jas wrote:
> Yikes, you should read "Reclaiming History." Looks like you need a bit
> more balanced perspective of Scott's writings :>)
>
> Another thing that really cracks me up with conspiracists is that Vince
> Bugliosi writes the ultimate Kennedy assassination book, and the
> conspiracists either only attack him and the book after reading it (or
> not), or completely dismiss it as someone with an LN agenda.
>
> If someone were raised in a complete void and had never heard of the
> Kennedy assassination and its conspiracies, all they would have to do to
> educate themselves is read and study only his book, and that's it.
> They'd know all there is to know not only about the facts of the case --
> in depth -- but also the conspiracy viewpoints, and how they can all be
> shot down.
>
That is the point of propaganda.
To misrepresent the facts to the public.
> I'm curious as to why some conspiracists, if they really wanted to know
> about and study the assassination -- really research it -- are not
> flocking to the bookstores and the web to get their copies of
> "Reclaiming History," if only to use it to learn more in-depth details
Only to see how he lied. It is a horrible book to learn about research
method.
> about the assassination, a reference book for historical facts of the
> era, complete bios of Oswald and Ruby, and generally as simply a
> tremendous source of valuable information from its massive, in depth
> stores of knowledge.
>
Junk.
> Instead, all they want to do is attack him and his book because of its
> LN conclusions and its blasting apart the conspiracy tales.
>
> My gosh, talk about shallow thinking!
>
> James
>
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>> well, I hope she's not your best student, John - otherwise you've got
>> a lot of work to do - she writes:
>>
>> "Scott's failure occurs as throughout the entire book, and even in his
>> conclusion (titled "Who Killed JFK?"), he cannot simply label even one
>> large and all-inclusive unit, like the government, as being
>> responsible for JFK's death. He continually swings back and forth, all
>> in the name of deep political analysis, and seems to draw not one
>> conclusion but several contradictory ones. "
>>
>> classic case of missing Scott's point, which is that the web of "deep
>> politics" is deep and complex, like the CIA's web of contradictions
>> and disinformation. It is to Scott's CREDIT that he does not give a
>> concrete solution, though he is MUCH MORE detailed, in this book and
>> later essays related to Deep Politics 2, than she gives him credit for
>> (sorry John, but this student, like yourself, did too much skimming
>> and not enough reading; must have found the Cliff notes for Deep
>> Politics) Later work by Scott has included a discussion of the CIA's
>> disagreement with JFK on Cuba, on the back channels that were working
>> to subvert his Vietnam policy, etc. He is also brilliant on the Oswald
>> setup. Scott's discussion of Ruby, which she dismisses as having
>> nothing to do with a conspiracy, addresses not just the specifics of
>> conspiracy but the false legend that Ruby was not mobbed up - maybe
>> she needs to read the Warren Re****t, not to mention Seth Kantor (and
>> let's not get back to Reitz's happy citation of Ruby's death bed
>> claim, before his mobster brother, that there was no conspiracy; give
>> me a break) - the point is that the Warren Commission had to dismiss
>> his mob ties in order to de-fang Ruby as a possible consprator; there
>> exists tons of cir***stantial evidence that his action was an
>> execution, but that's another thread. She also ignores Scott's
>> effective linkage of the CIA with the international drug trade, which,
>> ironically or not, the CIA basically set up as a business (see Doug
>> Valentine) and which, in my opinion, was probably even a stronger
>> reason than Cuba for the CIA/mobster/exile renegade hatred of JFK and
>> RFK - (follow the money, as a smart man once said) -
>> My grade: C- (good penman****p, however) -
>> -Allen Lowe
>>
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