A Nation of Patsies, 50 Years On

An essay by Chris Floyd about some of our wilder fantasies, including the murder of JFK:

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2359-distant-mirror-a-nation-of-patsies-50-years-on.html

All the “official” stories -- 9/11, both Iraq Wars, Iran-Contra, Libya, Kosovo, the Osama rub-out, on and on -- are full of holes. Holes, evasions, misdirections, outright lies: black oil-smoke to hide the enormity and ubiquity of state crime, which each scandal and catastrophe threatens to expose, whether or not there is some direct official culpability in the particular matter at hand. The whole business of empire is carried out in a rolling, heaving hairball of infinitely tangled connections between the upperworld and the underworld, where ruthless factions use, betray, fight and ally with each other in ever-changing combinations. Any sliver of light falling anywhere on the hairball must be snuffed out immediately, lest it illuminate the true nature of the system.

As Cox notes in his new book, The President and the Provocateur, he was 8 years old when John Kennedy was killed. (I was five, but I remember it too; or rather, what I most remember was not Kennedy's assassination but Oswald's, being reported on our grainy black-and-white television as we came home from church.) Even then, Cox was struck by the strangeness of the event; shortly after reporting Kennedy was shot, he writes, the BBC suddenly went off the air for several hours -- an unprecedented event. Afterwards, the entire bipartisan British Establishment, mimicking its American counterpart, closed ranks around the official account, locking out the questions even of such redoubtable figures as Bertrand Russell.

It's a simple system ... it's called mafiocracy. Anointed insiders rule, wretched outsiders die, and the "official" fabric of our society can and does nothing to stop that; in fact it mainly serves to perpetuate our criminal state.

By the way (in case you wondered what Floyd and Cox meant), here is Bertrand Russell's essay "16 Questions on the Assassination":

http://22november1963.org.uk/bertrand-russell-16-questions-on-the-assassination