Thanks to Dan Stoper for pointing out the
significance of a statement by Tim Rutten, in his LA Times review of Russ Baker’s
book on the Bush family.
Tim Rutten wrote:
“Here it’s necessary to declare a personal bias. I regard the belief that Lee Harvey Oswald
acted alone as an important indication of mental health. In fact, I think there are three things that every
serious American needs to believe about our recent history: Kennedy was killed
by a lone lunatic, Americans really did land on the moon and the Twin
Towers were destroyed when they were struck by two fully fueled airliners that
had been hijacked by Islamic extremists organized by Al Qaeda. People who do not believe in these things
are, within reasonable limits, entitled to sympathy. They are not entitled to a
seat at the table where serious discussions occur.”
Well that is a personal bias, as even mentioning the
assassination of the president with moon landing deniers and self-imploding
skyscrapers diminishes the reality of the fact that President Kennedy was the
victim of a conspiracy.
And I believe it is worthy of a mental health study
– but not of those who don’t belive JFK was killed by a lone lunatic, but those
who do. There are many good reasons why the majority of people do not belive
that the President was killed by one deranged man.
It is the conspiracy deniers who should be lumped in
the same category as Holocoust deniers, as they refuse to accept what is
obvious to most people – JFK was the victim of a cover intelligence operation
perpetrated by his enemies in Washington, and instead believe and promote the
idea the president was murdered by a crazy man for his own irrational motives
that we will never know.
Well their desogmated deranged lunatic – Lee Harvey
Oswald – is the most historically studied and documented individual in the
history of the world. More information about him has been collected, reviewed,
analyzied and destroyed than any other person, yet there are radical
perspectives of his character.
Dave Reitzes says Oswald must have been crazy since
he killed the President and a policeman, but that’s a big assumption and a big
jump you can’t make without assuming Oswald was the motiveless killer.
Now if, as has been proclaimed, the assassin of the
president was a certified nut case, then those who make this claim should be
able to review the records and determine exactly what kind of nut case he was -
psychotic, autistic, dyslectic, paranoid, sociopath, homicidal, and what have
you? What was he?
Those who were close to him did not notice any
psychological issue – the marines who served with him, his friends in Russia
and Texas, Ruth or Michael Paine. Ruth Paine wrote to her father a few weeks
before the assassination saying what a good father Oswald was to his kids. She
didn’t say she concerned she was putting up with a homicidal maniac.
You would think those who make this claim would
follow up on their theory and determine what the diagnosis is. But they won’t
because they know they are wrong in the first place, not only for their
mis-diagnosis of Oswald as the Sixth Floor Sniper and assassin – a very big
assumption and mis-judgement – but for trying to attribute a psychosis to the
Patsy as if he was the assassin.
As Dave Ritzies said, Oswald must have been crazy if
he killed the president, but that he killed the president is a major assumption
that can be shown to be wrong – so the resulting psycho-analysis is also wrong.
One illogical pronouncements is that lone sniper
Oswald killed the president all by himself, but rather than the world’s best
and most proficient assassin – he is a wife beating loser who couldn’t hold a
job and just got lucky to succed in killing the president when he failed at
everything else.
Back in the 1990s the Secret Service commissioned a
study of assassins and those who have assaulted the president over time – looking
for common characteristics that they could use to spot potential assassins.
Unfortunately, their study was incorrect in that it
did not include a very specific profile – the covert operational personality
(COP) profile.
Oswald pretty much set the prototype COP profile –
and many have come to be recognized since then, but they comprise a very
distinct class of assassins – as they all share many comparative attributes –
unsettled family life, military background (usually USMC), trained in a
specialty and fluent in a foreign language, travels easily, fits into
divergent backgrounds, keeps a residence apart from family, and uses a P.O.
box, operational aliases, crypts and trained covert intelligence lingo and
techniques.
Besides Oswald, others who fit this covert
operational profile include Frank Forini Sturgis, Gerry Patrick Hemming,
William Morgan, Antonio Veciana, Gordon Novel, David Ferrie, Tosh Plumlee,
Eugenio Martinez,…and many others, but you get the idea.
Now there’s no senses in trying to diagnose these
guys as their psycho motive was their beliefs, patriotism – ideological rather
than psychological.
So it really doesn’t matter if Oswald was the lone
assassin or the Patsy, he was just a small pawn in a much bigger game – one
that we are only now just figuring out.
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