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In reply to the discussion: JFK Conference: David Talbot named Allen Dulles as 'the Chairman of the Board of the Assassination' [View all]Mc Mike
(9,248 posts)2 of the 'official story' advocates upthread weighed in with a fallacious 'financial motivation' assertion to impugn researchers and authors they disagreed with. It reminded me of a real piece of trash book Michael Crichton wrote about the 'global warming conspiracy'. (I think the book was 'State of Fear', it really stunk.) But the plot involved a shadowy SMERSH-like group of environmentalists who had world wide reach and pushed the myth of global climate change, because they made big money from environmental organizations. They were involved in bombings and assassinations, etc.
Mike thanked the CATO Institute in his afterword for their help and research.
The same projection tactics, coming from the same right wing sources -- birchers and hugely profitable big oil -- projecting their own power and motives onto people who expose the criminality of the Hunt Koch bush Standard Oil of New Jersey crowd's obscene lust for profits and political control.
I'm not accusing the two post-ers of collusion with the nazi bircher repugs, but the ideas they assert are exactly the same as Crichton's, and serve the exact same cast of bad actors. Imagining Greenpeace and the Sierra Club running a group of paramilitary operatives and hitmen, instead of imagining the same about the oil companies' extremely well-financed security staffers, is insultingly disingenuous.
On the other hand, though, Yul Brynner did put in a top notch performance in Crichton's 'Westworld'.