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In reply to the discussion: Octafish to attend JFK assassination conference. Do you think JFK still matters? [View all]CRH
(1,553 posts)In my political lifetime, the JFK assassination and the Warren debauchery was the first installment of our secret government wrapped within our secret history.
I envy your attendance of this conference. It was Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment that opened my eyes to what had actually come down. I located a very dusty copy misfiled in a college library in 1970, and after reading it, I was forever changed. I immediately saw through the RFK MLK 'official story' and became forever suspicious of all my government reported. Mark Lane became a person much respected in my life, and was as close to a hero figure, that I have ever allowed myself.
My perception of patriotism and country was shattered, I became a 'forever skeptical' consumer of supposed history, and learned to have an uncanny bullshit meter for anything reported by the government, politicians, or the corporate press.
The country changed November 22, 1963. An innocence was lost and a government within a government exposed, just two and a half years after the citizens were warned of the MIC and its possible future influence. The country has morphed into different faces of the same charade, sometimes more brutal than others, but never regaining the innocence that was lost or the dream once believed.
So yeah, for me, it still matters. I just don't much give a rat's ass about the country anymore. For me over the years, it has been soiled beyond repair, often with help of the uninformed majority waving flags and supporting mayhem around the globe.
Have a productive conference.