Statists and Conspiracy Theories
I find it absolutely fascinating how died-in-the-wool statists simply cannot bring themselves to accept that their beloved national-security establishment orchestrated and carried out the assassination of President Kennedy.
The statist mindset can be summed up with what I call the “Inconceivable Doctrine.” Statists believe that it is just inconceivable that the national-security state would assassinate a U.S. president, even if protecting “national security” required it. Therefore, no matter how much circumstantial evidence — with the fraudulent autopsy that the military conducted on JFK’s body being the best example — establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the statists continue to hew to the national-security state’s official lone-nut theory of the JFK assassination.
For example, consider the recent revelations regarding former CIA operative George Joannides. It has now been revealed that ever since the assassination, the CIA has been knowingly, deliberately, and intentionally lying about Joannides’s relationship with an organization called the DRE, which the CIA was secretly funding and which Joannides was secretly supervising.
Why would the CIA lie about that? Why would the CIA spend more than 10 years litigating in federal court on the taxpayer dime to keep that lie covered up? Why would preserving that lie be so important to the CIA?
The statists don’t ask those questions. They don’t want to know. Reflecting the Inconceivable Doctrine, their standard response is simply to exclaim “Conspiracy theory!” and then tell everyone that it’s time to “move on.”
Or consider that during the time the House Select Committee on Assassinations was reinvestigating the Kennedy assassination, the CIA appointed Joannides as a purported “liaison” to the committee. In fact, as things turned out, his real role was to serve as an obstructor, one whose job was to prevent committee investigators from accessing relevant CIA records.
To the statist, that’s just CIA “business as usual.” Nothing to see here, folks. More conspiracy theories. Time to move o
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