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A serious question: why is it so critical that EVERYONE come around to the absolute conviction that there was not and could not possibly have been a conspiracy? After all, it is logically impossible to "prove" that there was not some sort of collusion, even though the evidence for it is pretty weak.

There are people I know who believe that the Gub'mint has aliens in cold storage at an Air Force base. There are folks who honestly think that they have been taken up into spaceships and had colonoscopies done by little green men from the sixth planet of Betelgeuse. There are people who believe that Uri Geller can bend spoons by mind power (what a useful talent to have, by the way. Everybody needs more bent spoons).

I think- no, I KNOW FOR CERTAIN- that these people are terribly misguided, even perhaps a little dotty. But their peculiar beliefs do not affect me, and I don't spend any time at all trying to talk them out of holding them.

I think that a mildly skeptical attitude (like mine, for example)towards the circumstances surrounding one of the great crimes in this Nation's jistory is a harmless thing, even if some of the "conspiracy theorists" cite the weakest of evidence, or none at all. Even if a bunch of con artists are making a buck off the more credulous among them.

It is just unimportant, like an Art Bell show, or a WEEKLY WORLD NEWS story about an Elvis sighting in Peoria.

Hey...watch what you say about Peoria! I used to live there!

I can't speak about all those other things you mention. All I can say is I do think knowing the truth about this case is important (didn't we go around about this earlier?...everything is starting to blur). And I think an unbiased examination of the evidence...O, you know what I mean!
Good Night!

I said why in a previous posting.

For decades Democrats have been winning in the public arena by appealing to emotion. Republicans have always tried to appeal to logic and reason and not always successfully. I too, felt that the Posner book was the straw that broke the camel's back of the conspiracy theories. No one should have their mind clouded by the awful ideas that the conspiracy theorists put forward -- when they do think that way they are setting themselves up for recruitment by the Democrats. Look at the arguments used against our actions in Iraq. They are similar -- based on a conspiracy by Halliburton, or a plan to impose martial law, or other nonsense.

Know the truth and the truth shall set you free someone once said. If you don't know the truth you are setting yourself up to be a possible slave to demagogues. "The government wasn't telling the truth in 1963, therefore they are not telling the truth now -- Vote Dean!"

I know! What is so wrong with not agreeing with the WC proponents? Why are they so bent out of shape about this?