and that should tell you something....the Agency was involved, parts of the FBI, CIA and others, who had worked together with the mob for years, were all a part of this....and I have had enough....
It was wrong, and look....the bastards have radicals controlling the government anyway.
“and look....the bastards have radicals controlling the government anyway.”
Exactly! We’ve got a long line of suits standing in line for the Highest Office. What good does killing one do? What did the mafia, the CIA, the FBI, etc. hope to gain from LBJ? Maybe he was a little more corrupt, a little more willing to throw around graft, but come on. It’s such an unbelievably huge risk to take with little or no assurance of any benefit whatsoever.
The only people who truly hope to benefit from political murder (in otherswise peaceful and powerful countries) are fame-whores and/or wacky ideologues. The sort of people, in the latter case, who think the workers of the world unite one day and overthrow the Fat Cats, so long as we give them a little nudge. The are the sort of people Oliver Stone want us to believe are smoking cigars in backrooms deciding the fate of the world when they’re not running giant corporations or shuffling papers in the federal government. Oh, and they also do it for the money, but mostly for vast right-winginess.
In reality, Stone’s people have too much to lose. Plus, Obama’s in office now, so lotta good those reactionary warriors did us. It’s those who are already losers who carry it out.