Addendum re Barry Goldwater: As a student in my first year of college I went to hear him talk, expecting to be one of his hecklers. Much to my surprise I came away with the understanding I had been priviliged to meet (I stumbled right into his face on the stairway out of the auditorium) a true anomaly, an honest man in politics who spoke his mind. I did not agree with him on everything, such as leaving racial problems to states for a few more years, but I knew he understood the threat of the Soviet Union better than Johnson.
There was an old joke going around in some quarters shortly after that election. "They told me if I voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964 we would have a huge escalation of the Veit Nam war...well, I did, and we did." Barry was like Geroge McGovern, his political opposite a few years later, an anomaly and hence a loser, honest and candid men in American politics. Rare breed, and they never win. And no Dolinar, I do/did not hate Johnson enough to think he had JFK killed, but I do believe Johnson did a large part of what he did with respect to the war because he was astute enough to know that were he not to do so he would have suffered Kennedy's fate. There was to my mind a huge conspiracy we will never learn of, and that it all revolved around money to made form conduction the war. I am a rifle shooter and defy anyone to do what Oswald allegedly did with the Italian Carcarno bolt action. Years later as a medical student I was doing a neuropatholgy rotation and had been turored on electron microscopic morphology of neurons being attacked by certain neurotoxins. I can say all of this without fear fro reprisals against anyone because everyone concerned but me is now dead. And I am too old and isolated to count except as an opinionated izzslu-hating crank.
I was shown the slides of a brain and asked what killed the person. Obviously it wast identical morphology to the toxic effects I had been shown previously. The source of the tissue? None other than Oswald's assassin Jack Ruby. BUY HE DIED OD CANCER DON'T YOU KNOW? I was told to tell no one for many years if ever. Dirty times, but then what times are not. So I have no shame in proclaiming Caligula's utterance, "Oderint dum metuant"...what matter if they hate (me) so long as they fear (me)...end of Sunday rambling. The market opens tomorrow and we will all have better thngs to do than skip over the ramblings of a suspicious old fart.
Jim Black |
