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In reply to the discussion: Kennedy's assassination: Conspiracy or lone killer, I think the fact that we even ask the question [View all]Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)That means that these people do not believe in the possibility of conspiracies.
There was a conspiracy to kill Lincoln.
There was a big conspiracy by the Nixon White House. It was called Watergate. Everybody denied everything and would have gotten away with it, sans the tapes.
There was a conspiracy to steal the 1980 election from Jimmy Carter. The exiled Iranians later told the story of Reagan's devil's bargain with Khomeini to hold the hostages til after the election, in exchange for spare parts for weapons systems the Iranians had bought from the US under the Shah.
There was a conspiracy to take the money received from the illegal selling of arms to Iran and illegally transfer it to the insurgents in Nicaragua.
There was a conspiracy to overthrow the elected leader of Iran, Mossedegh, by the CIA in 1953.
There was a conspiracy to overthrow Arbenz in Guatamala in 1954 over the takeover of the United Fruit Co. Both Allen Dulles and his brother John Foster Dulles, were major stockholders in United Fruit.
There was a conspiracy by the CIA to lie to Kennedy about the Bay of Pigs invasion and at the last minute to attempt to force him to send in the Marines and the Air Force.
There was a conspiracy within the CIA and military to overthrow Allende in Chile.
There was a conspiracy within the CIA and military to overthrow Sukarno in Indonesia.
There was a conspiracy to remove Henry Wallace from the Democratic ticket as vice president in 1944.
There was a conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States by fascist industrialists in the '30s. The names were stricken from the record, but DuPont is known to be one. The group tried to hire two-time Medal of Honor winner, Gen. Smedley Butler, to be the figurehead President after they removed Roosevelt. Butler went to Congress, where secret hearings were held, led by a man who would one day be House Speaker, John McCormack.
The Lewinsky Affair was a vast right-wing conspiracy. Linda Tripp, anyone? Lucianne Goldberg?
Any murder-for-hire is a prima facie conspiracy. It happens every day.
However, it's not everyday when the conspirators are the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who thought JFK was a traitor for not starting a nuclear war with Russia "while we had the lead in nuclear weapons," and the Director of CIA, recently fired by JFK. Johnson was in on the cover-up, but whether that was because he was part of the conspiracy, or just scared shitless of the perps, we don't know that. But he did give him their damned war, in spite of saying over and over that he didn't want to go into Vietnam but he HAD to.