Posted on 07/12/2007 9:37:39 AM PDT by mojito
The movie was based on the play not the trial.
Some here want to ignore the reality of the early-1960s American left wing and instead choose to disbelieve and excuse the whole culture of the violent left based upon the unpredictability of 'magic bullet' terminal ballistics after it's passed through human tissue. To them, random circumstance vanquishes all logic.
Special thanks go to the 'Lone Gunman' deniers who have been carrying water for the radical left wing for over 40 years.
There is no doubt that Oswald was nutty as a loon but that is true of many of the lefties on the stage today. He was basically a prototype for later '60s radical types like Tom Hayden, John Kerry, SDS, the Weathermen, etc. The main difference was that he was a genuine poor person working alone and they were mostly a country club of spoiled rich white boys.
Lee Harvey Oswald was the father of the modern "Progressive" left and the shot he fired from the Texas School Book Depository was the opening shot of the hard left takeover of the Democrat party that took hold by the end of the Vietnam War.
Most of the alleged "controversy" about the assassination is an attempt to cover up the fact that JFK was killed by the left because he, whatever his VERY great faults, was not a traitor. They have done a very good job of muddying the waters.
I am by no means an expert on Clarence Darrow, but in his career he was closely linked to Eugene Debs and to the ACLU.
(*Pointing at Mad_as_heck while slapping the table*)
Lucky conservatives do no such thing! Well, there I go again.
The opposite of scientism and of mysticism is candor. Rush Limbaugh is candid - he expresses himself openly, and continuously for hours at a time daily. Contrast that with the constricted "news" report which is scripted in advance (if it's not "breaking news") and which in any case is about a defined subject on which the reporter is, putatively, the expert and you and I are presumed to be ignorant. The reporter is always in a race to stay ahead of the rest of us in his knowledge of the story - and when that is no longer possible, the reporter drops the story as "old news" and moves on to another story in which the reporter has the advantage over the audience.
What senses?????
Many of those "segregationist cousins" were, in fact, Southern Democrats. Think George Wallace.
BUMP
Lucky conservatives do no such thing! Well, there I go again.
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Good thing is right. If conservatives, we’d probably be hearing Ronald Reagan’s name a whole lot this cycle. Oh, wait.
Roosevelt did plenty of damage for which we will continue to pay for the rest of our days as a Republic. The killing of John Kennedy was the worst thing that could every have happened because it not only made him a sainted icon, but also left us with his corrupt and imbecilic relatives as “national leaders”.
Must you post this Camelot crap here?
I’m not sure why post #20 was directed at me, but I agree.
JFK campaigned on low taxes. He opposed unionization of public employees. He was a bigtime anticommunist. Once upon a time, Ted Kennedy was anti-abortion. The Democrats really did voluntarily head straight to hell after JFK.
Must you post insulting replies that illustrate nothing but your ignorance and bad manners?
Unfortunately not. Stuck in the sixties holistically. Can’t/won’t grow up.
The one’s who wrote the play are the one’s I am referring to. Sorry for the confusion.
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