John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY EDWARD CURTIN IN THE UNZ REVIEW
“The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control”
https://www.unz.com/article/the-art-of-doublespeak-bellingcat-and-mind-control/#comment-3605068
Is there anyone we can trust?
Perhaps not.
Is it just part of the human condition that as any writer or any publication gains a reputation for truth and revelation and dependability, that that reputation is sooner or later leveraged for gain or influence or access?
I can think of a number of examples where I’m almost certain that that is the case, although I’ll avoid writing their names.
In the end, we are all of us really quite alone in the universe, enjoying only periods with the illusion of support and fellowship.
On the example of the Kennedys, the assassinations provide perhaps the greatest illustration of how things work.
I should say that I regard them as two chapters in one book. John’s killers had to be Bobby’s killers also because that intense younger man, once holding the powers of the presidency, would have relentlessly hunted down his brother’s killers.
We know that he did not believe the Warren Commission, though he did not go around saying that. He even apparently had some idea of who the killers might be, never telling others any details of his suspicions.
Books have for decades been churned out by either the CIA or friends of the CIA or unwitting assets of the CIA arguing for the truth of the Warren Commission.
On the other hand, as someone with a long interest in the events, I believe that a great many of the books against the Warren Commission were also written by the same interests. Not all of them, but many.
Books especially that either are so preposterous or poorly written and edited that they effectively discredit those who do not accept the (absurd) findings of the Warren Commission.
After all, it was some CIA disinformation officer who came up with the term “conspiracy theorist” in the 1960s to discredit genuine critics of the Warren Commission, a term of such lasting power, it is still widely used, its application having spread to a large number of topics.
Those with power do tend to keep guiding events no matter how hard we struggle to understand and correct the course of affairs.
Power is a very real thing, almost physical in its presence, and it is rarely overturned by truth or justice or fairness.
It's not an inspiring view, but I fear it is reality.
