me: >> so Freemasonry is the problem? The Illuminati and the gnomes of Zurich >> must be pisses at not getting attention in this video. and the Elders >> of Zion?
Dan: > What video did you watch? One with a speech by John F. Kennedy interspersed with a lot of flashes to George W. Bush, his father, and other members of the enemies list that's shared by many left-liberals and wacko-Rightists. The list included not just Skull & Bones but the Council of Foreign Relations and had a _big_ emphasis on the Freemasons. > I thought JFK nailed it pretty good, sorta like Eisenhower and the military > industrial complex. Professional politicians often make good speeches. That's their job. > He got killed for it, of course. ... Hmm... the JFK conspiracy. That makes me nostalgic. I was at Dealey plaza in 1963, so I know what _actually_ happened. This weird skinny guy asked me if I could spare a few bullets and it just happened to be that I did. I didn't see him again until he showed up on TV being shot by Jack Ruby. I do remember what he said, there on the grassy knoll, as if he said it yesterday: "The Vice-President is paying me to kill JFK because he wants to kill a large number of American boys in a futile and generally pointless war. That damned papist patrician son-of-a-smuggler just won't play ball!" > If NO conspiracies exist, what's the point of teams? _Of course_ conspiracies exist, as I've said many times before.[*] There are lots & lots of them, some successful, some not. Often, two or three (or even more) of them work at cross-purposes so that they often don't attain what they desire. A focus on conspiracies distracts people from the structure of power that allows some groups to be more successful in their conspiracies than others. That is, Ford Motor was much more successful at conspiring to make the Pinto automobile unsafe to drive than was Louis Auguste Blanqui in his conspiratorial efforts to overthrow the French state during the 19th century. The latter had a lot of money and power, while the latter was fighting uphill against the powers that were. And just because someone has a lot of power and money does not mean that their conspiracies are successful. JFK's father was much more successful in conspiring to smuggle booze in from Canada and then laundering money to become publicly respectable than was his son at secretly plotting to overthrow and later kill Castro. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. [*] A "conspiracy" is a group effort to attain some goal through manipulation, murder, etc. where secrecy is an absolutely necessary component of the plot (just as businesses must keep their trade secrets). _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
