10-06-2011, 01:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-06-2011, 02:22 PM by Charles Drago.)
I've read the book and lingered over Jacobsen's breathless tale of how Josef Mengele -- alive and well and working for Uncle Joe -- bred a race of big-headed midget children, stuffed a handful into one of Stalin's Nazi-developed flying saucers, and sent them and it to crash in Roswell. Stalin's motive: Something about scaring the Americans with alien boogymen, or ...
She's serious. She bought that Weekly World News tabloid bullshit.
But here's where she really falls apart: Jacobsen's ingenuousness (as in "lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness") in matters deep political manifests most hideously in her inability to ask the simple, obvious, all-important question:
Why would Stalin gift America with beyond-cutting-edge technology simply to scare Uncle Sam out of his red, white and blue-striped pants?
And it gets worse.
Jacobsen acknowledges that "even" conspiracy theorists (the pejorative usage is noted, honey) find that tall tale impossible to swallow, yet she sticks to her guns and states for the record, "I stand by the veracity of this source who told me this, because he worked out there in the desert foracross three decades working for the Atomic Energy Commission on many top-secret projects, and he was certainly in place and position to work on the project that he said he did."
It follows that she must believe, say, Arlen Specter's Single Bullet Theory because Specter worked for the Warren Commission and had access to Top Secret material and was certainly in place and position to know the truth. Or E. Howard Hunt's confession because blah blah blah.
The rumbling that you're hearing is Hunt laughing his decomposing ass off.
She's serious. She bought that Weekly World News tabloid bullshit.
But here's where she really falls apart: Jacobsen's ingenuousness (as in "lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness") in matters deep political manifests most hideously in her inability to ask the simple, obvious, all-important question:
Why would Stalin gift America with beyond-cutting-edge technology simply to scare Uncle Sam out of his red, white and blue-striped pants?
And it gets worse.
Jacobsen acknowledges that "even" conspiracy theorists (the pejorative usage is noted, honey) find that tall tale impossible to swallow, yet she sticks to her guns and states for the record, "I stand by the veracity of this source who told me this, because he worked out there in the desert foracross three decades working for the Atomic Energy Commission on many top-secret projects, and he was certainly in place and position to work on the project that he said he did."
It follows that she must believe, say, Arlen Specter's Single Bullet Theory because Specter worked for the Warren Commission and had access to Top Secret material and was certainly in place and position to know the truth. Or E. Howard Hunt's confession because blah blah blah.
The rumbling that you're hearing is Hunt laughing his decomposing ass off.
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