This Is Not America
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EPILOGUE The Kennedy assassination is more than just a few holes in the corpse of a dead president. The Warren Commission was a lie, even though they themselves were a victim of circumstances as both the FBI and CIA, their investigative organs, worked against, rather than with the Commission. The House Select Committee, and especially the Justice Department, failed to identify the culprits. Though they may have satisfied some researchers that finally, sixteen years after the assassination, there was an official verdict of “a possible conspiracy”, the Justice Department, under another staunch anti-Communist, Ronald Reagan, though most probably without him ever knowing what they were doing, a situation almost impossible should Kennedy have been president, disagreed with that Committee. To this day, Oswald is still considered to be the lone, unaided, insane assassin of President John Kennedy. Whether the real culprits, a cast that might include Oswald, are alive or dead, it doesn’t matter; eventually, to satisfy the American public, history will have to be rewritten anyway and perhaps it is easier to rewrite it when they are dead. That history has still not been rewritten perhaps indicates some of them might still be at large, out (t)here. It certainly means that some people within American society are still living inside a glorious fantasy and are unable to come to terms with the sad truth. Even though many citizens accept there was a conspiracy, they reason that “Kennedy is dead anyway, and nothing can be done about it”. Psychologists term this feeling one of helplessness, feeling that no matter what you do, nothing will change. It is Mark Lane, the man who I term the first Warren Commission critic, who said that “democracy is not a spectator sport”. Yet, America was a spectacle. The American public believed its government and therefore let them do what they were doing; it was for the best of the country, wasn’t it? If America has gone the wrong way, the citizens are as much to blame for it as they blame the politicians: the citizens simply allowed the politicians to do whatever they thought needed to be done. Or, even worse, they believed they could change nothing while they hold the key, the right to vote, to change, or at least try to change, a situation, should they think it is wrong. It took the American public Watergate and, in part, the VietNam-war, before they wanted to hear something was wrong with the United States and its leaders, including and perhaps foremost Kennedy. How could Watergate not? Today, the American public watches it government with Argus’ eyes, even screaming murder and rape before the victim has even invited her future murderer and rapist inside. When the Warren Report was accepted as truth, Jack Ruby was among the few who saw a new era had dawned. And like all the others how didn’t perhaps see but were trying to look, he was cut short and not allowed to talk. The Warren Report was the first lie. It’s been said that the American public has been lied to before, but never Oft this large scale. As Dr. Charles Wilber expressed it: “a lie begets further lies... awareness of the devastating results of lying as official policy... No lie can be justified in terms of the end result. For, in the long run, an official lie begins a chain of further lies, so that when the truth finally surfaces, there is revealed a stinking morass of interlocking lies that cause long-term, if not permanent, damage to the government”. The most important message of this assassination should be that the truth, however ugly, has to be dealt with. Otherwise, you are not dealing with reality but with a fantasy, a fantasy that people begin to accept as the truth, thus creating an image of a world from within that unreality. When