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In reply to the discussion: My take on JFK Conspiracy Theories and Theorists. [View all]ancianita
(43,307 posts)is a case of the public being denied agency in managing a government of, by and for the public. To call people who want the government to stop hiding...or archiving, as it's now called -- facts and information in no way makes them conspiracy theorists. The act of hiding in archives information of national concern to people who experience any national event -- that archiving event is itself a conspiracy.
Archiving is "national," which presupposes that the nation has known information that it shelves for future reference and future generations -- not to shelve information it isn't allowed to know. That's a denial of public agency right there.
Theorist presupposes that one has full freedom to access the same information as everyone else. It presupposes that multiple versions of a broad set of all the known facts are tested or replicated. None of that activity has existed in the Kennedy assassination.
So, on this occasion of Kennedy's murder, I hereby reject all stigmatizing labels of CT to people whose agency has been betrayed by their own leaders. I stand by the people who experienced that event directly and support their right to know right now, everything that's been conspiratorially hidden away in the National Archives.