25-05-2012, 11:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 25-05-2012, 02:15 PM by Charles Drago.)
Don Jeffries Wrote:Jan,
I only used the term "CTer" because that's what commonly used in the research community to distinguish one from an "LNer." I am all too aware that the term is used disparagingly by the mainstream media to demean seekers of the truth. We'll have to come up with another term- maybe we can just use Truthers and apply it to JFK researchers.
Don,
To hell with "common usage." It's killing the truth.
"CTer" is damaging not only because it was created and is being skillfully wielded as a weapon to disparage us and lampoon our efforts.
It also characterizes the truth that has been revealed thanks to our historic, courageous work as mere theory.
It implicitly supports the misconception that said truth and the Lone Nut lie are equally viable theories that must be argued with academic dispassion and mutual respect.
Worst of all, it accomplishes the enemy's main goal: preserve doubt.
And "Truthers" is a more overtly sarcastic and disparaging term than "CTer."
Again: Anyone with reasonable access to JFK assassination evidence who does not conclude conspiracy is cognitively impaired and/or complicit in the crime.
The same statement is valid for and must be made about the assassinations of MLK and RFK.
No more "theory." No more disparaging epithets.
Proclaim truth. Defend truth. Set free the truth so that it may set us free.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
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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