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In the discussion thread: I guess Charles Pierce now qualifies as a "wacko CTer". [View all]

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Sun Nov 24, 2013, 03:43 AM

TheJames (120 posts)

105. When I was about 10,

my father took me in his arm, raised me up and had me put my thumb in the chip/hole in the granite wall that the bullet that killed Huey P. Long made. It didn't fill the hole. He then warned me against ever going against the "Feds and those that run them".
Now, my question is, why would an avowed communist assassinate a president that was being attacked regularly, from all sides for being "sympathetic" to the commies?

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106 replies	Author	Time	Post
I guess Charles Pierce now qualifies as a "wacko CTer". [View all]	bullwinkle428	Nov 2013	OP
You seem surprised n/t	sharp_stick	Nov 2013	#1
Not terribly - he reflects my own feelings in that there's a great deal	bullwinkle428	Nov 2013	#6
He did not propose an actual theory--merely surmised there is more about JFK murder than gov.	Pretzel_Warrior	Nov 2013	#2
But it seems there are many that really don't make an effort to	bullwinkle428	Nov 2013	#5
True	Pretzel_Warrior	Nov 2013	#7
still, one should have a theory. because things happen somehow. mechanistically.	Schema Thing	Nov 2013	#20
Almost everything has been released. This STILL hasn't satisfied the CTs.	duffyduff	Nov 2013	#12
How do you know "almost everything has been released"? Is there a list of items to be checked as	riderinthestorm	Nov 2013	#17
The government itself said in the late 70's, that "a conspiracy was probably involved" in the death	whathehell	Nov 2013	#22
Almost everything has been released?	Stainless	Nov 2013	#30
ALMOST everything! Isn't that good enough? ALMOST!	Warren DeMontague	Nov 2013	#47
The law was changed.	HooptieWagon	Nov 2013	#57
+1	treestar	Nov 2013	#74
CT'ers as you try to disparagingly call them, have open minds. It's those	rhett o rick	Nov 2013	#77
"Open minds"? Thats a laugh.	HooptieWagon	Nov 2013	#85
It's very closed minded to categorize all people that are skeptical as some kind	rhett o rick	Nov 2013	#95
This message was self-deleted by its author	HangOnKids	Nov 2013	#106
You are equating DUers to Birthers? Nice, and you deniers wonder why a majority of the people doubt	sabrina 1	Nov 2013	#101
No. CTers to birthers.	HooptieWagon	Nov 2013	#104
Really? What percentage of 'things' have been released?	EOTE	Nov 2013	#43
Wow. ALMOST everything has been released.... and it's only been 50 years?	Warren DeMontague	Nov 2013	#46
How do you know that 'nearly everything has been released'?	sabrina 1	Nov 2013	#96
He proposes a conspiracy of silence	Sanity Claws	Nov 2013	#64
And that is the position of a vast majority of the American people, not to mention the rest of the	sabrina 1	Nov 2013	#87
Expect the usual bullying snark from the Lone Nut Theorists	villager	Nov 2013	#3
It isn't a theory--it's a fact. n/t	duffyduff	Nov 2013	#10
...and of course, their patronizing pronouncements	villager	Nov 2013	#11
Believe what you want, you just sound silly.	duffyduff	Nov 2013	#14
as noted, only snark offered up	villager	Nov 2013	#16
You need to qualify statements like that. Anyone seeking credibility generally makes it	sabrina 1	Nov 2013	#97
Like hell it is...Check out my last post. n/t	whathehell	Nov 2013	#23
How do you explain de Mohrenschildt's friendship with Oswald?	JDPriestly	Nov 2013	#34
"Friendship" is likely a relative term.	HooptieWagon	Nov 2013	#60
Nice conjecture. Possibly true.	JDPriestly	Nov 2013	#62
As someone who renounced his citizenship in the Soviet Union	treestar	Nov 2013	#76
The CIA wasn't the only agency interested in Oswald.	HooptieWagon	Nov 2013	#86
all those alphabet agencies watching him	questionseverything	Nov 2013	#99
Poppy's, too.	Octafish	Nov 2013	#92
LOL, make believe is more fun I realize. But get over it. It was alone nut. n-t	Logical	Nov 2013	#70
It's been investigated for 50 years	treestar	Nov 2013	#75
He doesn't even hide it.	NCTraveler	Nov 2013	#4
Yep.	stopbush	Nov 2013	#8
Yeah. That line kinda jumps out, eh?...nt	SidDithers	Nov 2013	#28
Yes, and he provides a valid reason for that position.	Ace Acme	Nov 2013	#39
How did he know Dulles would be on the commission before it was formed?	Bolo Boffin	Nov 2013	#48
Great analogy, absolutely correct - eom	dreamnightwind	Nov 2013	#50
Why would he hide it? Honest people do not hide things unless there is a very good reason.	sabrina 1	Nov 2013	#90
An opinion isn't fact. Pierce is wrong. End of story.	duffyduff	Nov 2013	#9
He must really be losing sleep over that.	villager	Nov 2013	#13
LOL n/t	whathehell	Nov 2013	#24
I imagine his imagination keeps him up late anyway. n-t	Logical	Nov 2013	#71
In your imagination... he stays up late?	villager	Nov 2013	#94
your opinion has been duly noted.	frylock	Nov 2013	#31
oh..ok	fascisthunter	Nov 2013	#56
Someone on the internetz named "duffyduff" says it's the end of the story...	ElboRuum	Nov 2013	#61
I think he's talking about the government separating itself from accountability to the people.	ancianita	Nov 2013	#15
Some people have something to hide.	LuvNewcastle	Nov 2013	#18
It's an excellent read! Recommend.	KoKo	Nov 2013	#19
Sometimes the correct answer to a question is "I don't know." That's where I'm at and you don't	brewens	Nov 2013	#21
"I think you kind of have to be predisposed one way or the other to settle on believing any set".	whathehell	Nov 2013	#25
Remember...	DirtyDawg	Nov 2013	#26
K & R !!!	WillyT	Nov 2013	#27
...	SidDithers	Nov 2013	#29
JFK wasn't your President.	Major Hogwash	Nov 2013	#33
It's a fucking Onion newspaper. Hilarious as hell.	Pretzel_Warrior	Nov 2013	#37
It is a joke. Look it up.	Logical	Nov 2013	#72
everyone in Canada has the same access to information to have an opinion	treestar	Nov 2013	#88
Nice one.	Pretzel_Warrior	Nov 2013	#38
Pierce is absolutely correct.	meanit	Nov 2013	#32
+ 1,000,000,000,000. n/t	Peregrine Took	Nov 2013	#52
There still might be people alive whose mistakes or bad judgment will become apparent.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2013	#54
exactly!	fascisthunter	Nov 2013	#55
Anyone who watches	proReality	Nov 2013	#35
"CTer" --> CTist. nt	Bernardo de La Paz	Nov 2013	#36
Maybe I'm too suspicious by nature...	WorseBeforeBetter	Nov 2013	#40
Not only was Oswald gunned down in a roomful of cops	Art_from_Ark	Nov 2013	#68
He was a groupie. A police groupie that is. From what I've read about him.	calimary	Nov 2013	#79
In those days you could take a gun onto a plane	treestar	Nov 2013	#89
That's what makes me suspicious, too	MannyGoldstein	Nov 2013	#80
There are too many odd coincidences regarding the Kennedy Assassination for it not to be	Uncle Joe	Nov 2013	#41
The assignation of JFK was the genesis of the CT meme.	zeemike	Nov 2013	#42
it is easier to fool someone than it is to convince someone that they were fooled ...	Tuesday Afternoon	Nov 2013	#81
Yep....n/t necessary	zeemike	Nov 2013	#82
most important point in thread.....	questionseverything	Nov 2013	#100
Charles Pierce doesn't write about the evidence	cpwm17	Nov 2013	#44
Even if what you claim is true	dreamnightwind	Nov 2013	#51
That Oswald and Oswald alone shot JFK is certain well beyond reasonable doubt.	DanTex	Nov 2013	#67
'The problem with articles like the one in the OP is that they abandon even the pretense of reason''	Octafish	Nov 2013	#93
this pretty much sums it up for me	questionseverything	Nov 2013	#103
A dogmatic resistance to what can be known is just as destructive	Bolo Boffin	Nov 2013	#45
That's a wonderful post by Pierce.	scarletwoman	Nov 2013	#49
It is wonderful! n/t	Peregrine Took	Nov 2013	#53
K&R	fascisthunter	Nov 2013	#58
K&R	johnnyreb	Nov 2013	#59
CP Didn't Need to Get Specific	colsohlibgal	Nov 2013	#63
Indeed.	Berlum	Nov 2013	#65
I don't normally buy into much of the CT -	TBF	Nov 2013	#66
What's unfortunate is that people like Pierce simply don't want to look at any of the evidence.	DanTex	Nov 2013	#69
That just sounds like a general anti-government rant	treestar	Nov 2013	#73
Being skeptical about what your government tells you is a bad thing. Blind faith is. nm	rhett o rick	Nov 2013	#78
He's not just skeptical	treestar	Nov 2013	#84
I will agree that skepticism at extremes is as bad as blind faith.	rhett o rick	Nov 2013	#102
and here is the real reason for the rabid anti conspiracy stuff.	TheKentuckian	Nov 2013	#91
It may at times but this guy assumes	treestar	Nov 2013	#98
I'll rec	NBachers	Nov 2013	#83
When I was about 10,	TheJames	Nov 2013	#105

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