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In reply to the discussion: Justice for JFK [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)when I posed, for example, the question about Oswald calling himself a 'patsy'. He gave an alternate interpretation of it, for sure, but it was offered calmly and without vituperation. I don't think he has convinced me exactly, but he has given me more to consider.
What would be really cool, imo, would be to turn the enormous intellect and knowledge and skill of DU onto a point-by-point examination of all issues related to the assassination, sort of a Point-CounterPoint debate. Don't know how we'd go about arranging this or even if there is sufficient interest.
But I agree with your larger point that active citizens who take their lives in the republic seriously are honor-bound to ask questions. When citizens fail to ask questions (and demand answers), travesties like Vietnam and Iraq are the inevitable result. Rather than being made the object of scorn for asking questions, those who ask questions should be lauded from the rooftops.
Along those lines, I have been trying to think of some good questions to pose to stopbush to cause him to question or rethink some of his premises. One that comes to mind is, "What evidence would you need to see to conclude that JFK's assassination was the result of a conspiracy?" Alternatively, "What portion(s) of the WCR would need to be discredited before you lost faith in the WCR in its entirety?" I think stopbush's answers to those questions (and questions like those) would help move the conversation forward.