I just don't get why people can't accept that a punk-ass loser killed JFK

[pacalo]

10. Ironically, DU was founded on the wide belief that GWB stole the 2000 election...

while detractors from the right naively continue to believe otherwise because the media reported that he won it, no questions asked. Adding to the slate of shady circumstances regarding that campaign is the fact that, for such a mediocre talent, GWB curiously had the clout to successfully ward off any criticism or investigations. Remember the opening scene from Fahrenheit 911 -- not one senator would co-sponsor an investigation into the election.

After 8 years of witnessing the daily business of GWB & his babysitter/puppet master, are you still convinced that the government -- using a stacked deck to support a contrived perception that favors its own interest -- always tells you the truth?

Over sixty percent of the American people who were recently polled continue to believe there was a conspiracy involved in JFK's assassin. That's a huge percentage.

What I find revolting is that there are people posting on a Democratic discussion board who are trying to minimize & derail those DUers who question the "evidence" presented to us by the Warren Commission. JFK was adored by the public for so many reasons; it was the 1% who didn't adore him, & there's a lot more evidence pointing toward them -- the PTB -- than to the lone-mediocre-gunman, magic bullet theory stamped by the WC as "evidence".

Those of us who doubt the WC's findings do so based on logic, common sense, a healthy dose of skepticism, as well as consideration of a long list of suspicious circumstances & facts -- just as we did when GHWB's son was handed the presidency without a completed counting of the vote; just as we did when we were told that Iraq was responsible for 9/11; just as we did when we were told Hussein had WMDs; just as we did when GWB said he was not directing any barbaric, third-world behavior in the form of torture or by rendition.

Our stubbornness in believing there was more to the JFK assassination than what we were told to believe is based on stubborn facts like these that were published just yesterday by salon.com:

•After returning home from his grim duties, Dr. James Humes, the Navy pathologist in charge of the Kennedy autopsy at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, burned his original autopsy report in the fireplace in his family room. Humes’ superior officer was so concerned that the pathologist himself might be eliminated by the plotters who killed JFK that he ordered Humes to be escorted home that night.

•Arlen Specter, the Warren Commission lawyer (and future U.S. senator), first presented his soon-to-be infamous single bullet theory to Chief Justice Warren while the two men were standing at the sixth-floor window of the Texas Book Depository where the mediocre marksman Oswald allegedly committed his historic crime. After listening silently to Specter explain the magical trajectory of Oswald’s bullet, Warren simply turned on his heel and walked away without saying a word. Warren – a distinguished chief justice with a monumental record on civil rights – had resisted serving on the presidential commission. He knew that his duty was not to find the truth, but to suppress dangerous evidence that – as LBJ had warned him – might lead to World War III. Still, it must have dismayed the 73-year-old jurist to see how his historic report (and his reputation) would be tied to a patently absurd ballistics theory.

•In the years following the Warren Report’s release, several of the commissioners and staff members distanced themselves from their own report and publicly criticized the manifold deceptions of the agencies on which they had relied, namely the FBI and CIA. Among those who suffered grave doubts was lawyer David Slawson, the man who had been the Warren Commission’s lead investigator into whether JFK was the victim of a conspiracy. In 1975 Slawson aired his criticisms to the New York Times, attacking the CIA for withholding vital information from the commission and calling for a new JFK investigation. Within days of the story breaking in the Times, Slawson received a strange and threatening phone call from James Angleton, the spectral CIA counterintelligence chief. Angleton – who had not only closely monitored Oswald for several years before Dallas, but later took charge of the agency’s investigation into the alleged assassin – adopted a decidedly sinister tone during his call with Slawson, making it clear to the lawyer that he would be wise to remain “a friend of the CIA.” Slawson and his wife were deeply unnerved by the call. He thought the message was clear: “Keep your mouth shut.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/06/the_jfk_assassination_we_still_dont_know_what_happened/

Imagine 50 years from now when, at various times, you might encounter a minority of people presenting themselves as Democrats but declaring that GWB, without a doubt, won the 2000 election without any extraordinary help behind the scenes because the media said he won. Add to that simplistic attitude the fact that this small group of detractors berate those who have a healthier dose of skepticism &, oddly, the detractors seem to be the most upset about the difference of opinion. What would you think of them?