18-11-2008, 01:57 PM
Jack, Peter,
To quote Fox Mulder: "I want to believe."
And I do accept at face value the sincerity of your representations of what Wilson told you.
If such an ultra-secret repository of JFK evidence is a reality, certain questions arise.
1. Why would the conspirators permit this threat to exist? Their reach extends to the deepest recesses of government -- hell, they are the "government" in the broader sense, and one is hard-pressed to believe that the materials would exceed their collective grasp.
2. Whose agendas are served by the preservation of such evidence? The fact that the interim materials documenting the forgery process are said to be intact profoundly complicates the equation; this gives rise to the wild speculations that the conspirators are being blackmailed and/or kept at bay by the threat of exposure. (The latter hypothesis seems to be rendered moot by the passing of JFK Jr.)
3. Why would EMK permit Wilson to see it?
4. Who else has seen it?
5. Isn't it far more likely that this tale is tall -- and reminiscent of the claim by the French researcher Reymond that he had access to the "real" Z-film, prompting David Mantik to be suckered into a trip to Europe to see footage that never was forthcoming (or at least that's David's story)?
I can offer speculative answers to the above -- but to do so I first would have to don my novelist's attire (see below).
I have no desire to insult the memory of a man of whom you think so highly. And it is the esteem in which I hold both of you that prohibits me from dismissing out of hand the EMK portion of the Wilson story.
That, and the fact that my storyteller's instincts sense something important here. Perhaps it's merely the Book of Secrets-echoing plot line that so intrigues me. On the other hand, during my very first public presentation of a JFK research paper (at Jerry Rose's first Third Decade conference in Fredonia), I speculated on the existence of a "trophy room" of sorts in which the highest-level conspirators (the "sponsors," in the Evica/Drago conspiracy model) kept documentation of their world-historic deed.
After all, to do so would only be inhuman nature.
One more point: The inherent danger in Wilson-like smoking gun stories is that, if proven false, they are utilized by the cover-up artists to argue that all conspiracy "theories" are likewise made of whole cloth.
We don't need Tom Wilson's work to prove conspiracy.
We do need Tom Wilson's work to deliver that proof, in the most emotionally powerful and persuasive manner, to a global population unsophisticated in the ways of deep politics.
To quote Fox Mulder: "I want to believe."
And I do accept at face value the sincerity of your representations of what Wilson told you.
If such an ultra-secret repository of JFK evidence is a reality, certain questions arise.
1. Why would the conspirators permit this threat to exist? Their reach extends to the deepest recesses of government -- hell, they are the "government" in the broader sense, and one is hard-pressed to believe that the materials would exceed their collective grasp.
2. Whose agendas are served by the preservation of such evidence? The fact that the interim materials documenting the forgery process are said to be intact profoundly complicates the equation; this gives rise to the wild speculations that the conspirators are being blackmailed and/or kept at bay by the threat of exposure. (The latter hypothesis seems to be rendered moot by the passing of JFK Jr.)
3. Why would EMK permit Wilson to see it?
4. Who else has seen it?
5. Isn't it far more likely that this tale is tall -- and reminiscent of the claim by the French researcher Reymond that he had access to the "real" Z-film, prompting David Mantik to be suckered into a trip to Europe to see footage that never was forthcoming (or at least that's David's story)?
I can offer speculative answers to the above -- but to do so I first would have to don my novelist's attire (see below).
I have no desire to insult the memory of a man of whom you think so highly. And it is the esteem in which I hold both of you that prohibits me from dismissing out of hand the EMK portion of the Wilson story.
That, and the fact that my storyteller's instincts sense something important here. Perhaps it's merely the Book of Secrets-echoing plot line that so intrigues me. On the other hand, during my very first public presentation of a JFK research paper (at Jerry Rose's first Third Decade conference in Fredonia), I speculated on the existence of a "trophy room" of sorts in which the highest-level conspirators (the "sponsors," in the Evica/Drago conspiracy model) kept documentation of their world-historic deed.
After all, to do so would only be inhuman nature.
One more point: The inherent danger in Wilson-like smoking gun stories is that, if proven false, they are utilized by the cover-up artists to argue that all conspiracy "theories" are likewise made of whole cloth.
We don't need Tom Wilson's work to prove conspiracy.
We do need Tom Wilson's work to deliver that proof, in the most emotionally powerful and persuasive manner, to a global population unsophisticated in the ways of deep politics.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene