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In reply to the discussion: Has DU Turned The Corner On The JFK CT BS? Apparently So. [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Ruby's peripheral acquaintance with some minor organised crime figures is not evidence that Ruby himself was involved in organised crime (and there's not any evidence that he was), or that he was acting on behalf of organised crime when he killed Oswald (because there's no evidence of that, either). There's likewise no evidence that Oswald was acting on behalf of anyone at all. (If he were, why weren't they paying him? Why didn't they give him a better weapon? Why didn't they provide him with an escape route?) Random connections are utterly meaningless without evidence, and it all adds up to the sum total of jack shit when you factor in the totally coincidental timing that rules out any actual planning.
But hey, feel free to believe that everything can be explained as the coordinated action of some conjunction of CIA and Mob interests working in concert if it makes you feel better. Even though in fifty years not one bit of evidence has come out to support that, whereas we have quite a lot of evidence of other things that did happen, like the CIA coup against Mossadegh in Iran, Operation Northwoods, CIA assassination plots against Castro, CIA complicity in the assassinations of Trujillo and Diem and Lumumba and Allende, Iran-Contra, and lots else besides; if they're so awesome at covering things up, why couldn't they keep all that secret? This ONE thing they manage to successfully cover up for fifty years, but not all that other stuff. Again, it's just not credible.