Shadow1980 said:
If I'm "blind" for not believing in obviously transparent bullshit, then so be it. The claims of crank movements like conspiracy theorists are not deserving of respect, and quite frankly neither are the people themselves who perpetrate this X-Files-esque view of the world. They drag down the quality of discourse with their paranoid ravings. Theirs is a worldview impervious to all facts and reasoning, where their pet theories are deliberately insulated from disproof. Any evidence that contradicts their pet theories is dismissed as coming from "they." Any and all "official stories" are reflexively dismissed out of hand. Moreover, they refuse to believe that they live in a world where some random lone maniac or person with a grudge can cause immense tragedy and even change the course of world events, all because they just happen to be in the right place at the right time. To them, JFK couldn't have possibly been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. It had to have been the CIA or Castro or the KGB or the Mafia or Mossad or whoever (literally dozens of individuals and groups have been named by conspiracy theorists; they can't seem to agree on who the "real" perpetrator was). Nevermind that Oswald had the motivation and the political and criminal background to be the kind of guy who'd try to kill a president. Nevermind that he had the training and skill to pull off a shot that was so easy that someone of far lesser skill could pull it off. Nevermind all the evidence being totally consistent with there being a single shooter (Oswald) in the sixth floor of the book depository at Dealy Plaza (see below for a video debunking the "magic bullet" theory). Some people just absolutely refuse that we could live in a world where a lone gunman could murder the most powerful head of state in the world. They think everything has to be under someone's control, that everything happens for a reason, and every major event must have a major cause, a cause perpetrated by some nebulously-defined but almost certainly nefarious group of individuals in positions of power. Put short, they don't want to believe they live in a world where "shit happens," and therefore invent elaborate conspiracies to place the world in a twisted sort of order, but an order nonetheless. But shit most certainly does happen, and it's not "The Powers that Be" that causes it. Sometimes a random nobody or a small group of dedicated radicals can cause more damage than even the mightiest governments.
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Look imo not questioning the offical story when the CIA and government agencies were not forthcoming at all to invesigators about this case.
'In the same 2003 interview, Robert Blakey, issued a statement on the Central Intelligence Agency:
...I no longer believe that we were able to conduct an appropriate investigation of the [Central Intelligence] Agency and its relationship to Oswald.... We now know that the Agency withheld from the Warren Commission the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro. Had the commission known of the plots, it would have followed a different path in its investigation. The Agency unilaterally deprived the commission of a chance to obtain the full truth, which will now never be known. Significantly, the Warren Commission's conclusion that the agencies of the government co-operated with it is, in retrospect, not the truth. We also now know that the Agency set up a process that could only have been designed to frustrate the ability of the committee in 1976-79 to obtain any information that might adversely affect the Agency. Many have told me that the culture of the Agency is one of prevarication and dissimulation and that you cannot trust it or its people. Period. End of story. I am now in that camp.[24]'
Imo to slam the book on this file suggest when clearly the entire facts of this case were never collected and never will be collected.
As a result neither yourself or I can say we are right about the offical story, so you can stop with your BS moralizing that all conspiracy theories are bunk.
