Reply #55: Enjoyed listening to this --

[defendandprotect]

While I'm fairly up on the JFK stuff, there's always something to be learned
and did pick up a few things I didn't know. Will hope to have more time to
get into these tapes.

As for Chomsky - yes, Parenti is well worth listening to re he and Cockburn -
And the oddity of their complete anti-JFK fervor. Also agree that "The Nation,"
is not a reliable liberal organ. Also their willingness to admit that they know
nothing of the JFK assassination and refuse to amend that situation.
Parenti, in fact, says they "are unable to grasp" what the coup really means.
He also points to their hatred for JFK and their fear that we will like him!

Still it doesn't answer the question of "why?" --
Originally, I thought it was because you can only get so many messages out -
and it is a lot of work to be aware of all that goes on with JFK coup - actually a
coup on "people's" government - and defend your position.

Cockburn is very often a complete idiot -- yet I have to congratulate him for pointing
to the destructive force of "Manifest Destiny" and "Man's Dominion Over Nature" --
two licenses for exploitation which I've always looked at askance.

I guess this is kinda like the argument between the "Plane Huggers" and the "NO Planes"
9/11 blocs. Are any on either side actually counter-intel?

Are Chomsky or Cockburn counter-intel or just stupid about some things.

The fact that Chomsky not only defended 9/11 against challenges of conspiracy, but
actually wrote a book defending caused me to feel a chill about him.

And for whatever sense either of us might make of this, it kinda reminds me of Ben Bradlee
whose comments on JFK I often find ring the wrong note -- and of whom I'm always somewhat
suspicious. But that did come to mind as I began to close here.

Thanks again --



Edited to add that I went looking to see if you had a "Journal" and evidently not -
but I will be looking for your posts!


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