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(Yeah, I worked on this one too.)

The details in this book about how the FBI paid the Tennessee State Prisons $40K for Ray's release, and then moved him around for a year and a half before the assassination alone is worth the price of the 600-page book. Not to mention his manipulation in the days leading up to the shooting.

Before he was sprung from jail, the FBI already has four aliases for him: down to the scars on his face. The four men whose name Ray used were all Canadian, all from the Scarborough area around Toronto ... all working for defense contractors.

Here at last is the long-awaited sequel to James Douglass's bestselling work, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. That book, unlike most books that posit a conspiracy in JFK's assassination, focuses less on "who dunnit" as on "why they dunnit." Douglas's answer was to trace the steps by which JFK moved from being a traditional Cold Warrior to a prophetic commitment to peace, willing to risk his own life in order to avoid nuclear war. In particular JFK's partnership in pursuit of peace with ostensible adversary, Nikita Khrushchev, caused him to be regarded as a traitor by elements of the military-industrial-intelligence complex who deployed the mechanisms of the National Security State--which had previously targeted foreign "threats"--to neutralize the President of the United States.

This new volume necessarily returns to the story of JFK, and demonstrates how the same story was enacted again and again in the deaths of his brother, Bobby Kennedy, as well as the killings of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. In each case, American figures who made a prophetic commitment to peace and social transformation were regarded as enemies of the state who had to be eliminated. Douglass believes that this hidden history holds a key to recovering and advancing their mission, and setting our country and the world on a path to peace.

27.

You need to read this.

I'll give everyone else in this thread until the end of the day to address the question.

#179 | Posted by sentinel

This isn't a freaking game show with a timer, boss, and this site is full of hall monitors. I'm not going to go back to unpack what "this sort of behavior" means. I got work to do.

Violence by individuals with or without badges sucks.
Racism sucks.
AR-15s in the hands of unhinged mental juveniles suck.
Murder sucks. Most deaths suck.
History shows that most civilizations become sucky sooner or later, and that history is even written by the winners.
Imagine if history were written with the input of the 99 percent of the people who lived through it. It would be much different.

Can we agree?

178.

So what? It's not a competition for who is at the bottom of the barrel.

Remember Truth, Justice, and the American Way? And what it was supposed to stand for?

The shining city on the hill?

Making the world safe for/from . . .

Don't Americans perceive themselves as better than, well, just about anyone?

That's a problem. Because we have big armies 'n' stuff. And crazy people willing to heap violence on individuals, nations, or religions because it gives them a ------.

165. One more. I was thinking about treatment of Native Americans.

No, I wasn't talking about Blacks and slavery. I'm talking about the Americas.

People around the world think their own country is the most important. Which many Americans can't fathom at all.

"Language is nothing but a dialect with an army."

165. I'm not comparing. I'm an American. I live here. History is not a tale of happy events. Humans are not a happy people.

Rubio's roles:
Secretary of State
National Security Adviser
U.S. Archivist
Head of USAID

Flag: frightening as hell.

"deification of George Floyd."

--Bellringer

You use words loosely and then backtrack when others hold you to account for them.

I don't think anyone deified George Floyd. I think a lot of people are glad he was killed that way, and lots more are horrified at every aspect of the scenario and what it means for the United States, given that it represents in a nutshell a pattern of behavior that's been clearly present since, oh, Europeans came to the Americas.

"Maybe if [poster] hadn't logged into his computer that day, people wouldn't be following [poster's] comments to tell them how misguided they are."

Nobody is glorifying Rittenhouse.

#147 | Posted by BellRinger

Rittenhouse is a hero and on that day he made the world a better place.

#119 | Posted by visitor_