Oswald, Brain, and Behaviour (the mental state issue)

[Dillon Rankine]

How do you fit or place the shooting of JFK into your thesis? Why JFK?

His attempt on Walker and to a lesser extent his shooting of JFK were deliberate, measured acts. He certainly carefully planned out the attempt on Walker. This is less so with JFK but he made some plans before hand.

Neither of the attempts on Walker or JFK were sudden explosions of anger driven by a damaged brain. They were, again, deliberate acts. The other examples you cite are, for the most part, explosions of anger and not planned acts.

My own view is that both acts had a political component or reason behind them: Oswald was a political person, he hated the American political and economic systems, he called himself a Marxist (however crudely he understood that word) and the evidence is he admired Castro.

As Volkmar Schmidt said about his conversation with Oswald, "Oswald was seething with hatred towards Kennedy" over the Bay of Pigs and other policies. The radical publications he read were reportedly filled with critical stories about JFK's policies towards Havana. Marina said that she found Oswald on their porch one day dry-firing his rifle. He told her, "Fidel needs help." Three weeks later he goes to Mexico City in an attempt to defect to Havana.

Saying Oswald was prone to uncontrolled violence because of brain malfunction doesn't explain, to me, these political, deliberate acts. In fact, they contradict one another.

What you say about his politics jibes completely with my thesis (not saying it?s correct, but it works). PFC disruption is the most common defect seen in psychopathic offenders who meticulously plan their attacks. Ask yourself this: plenty of people hated Kennedy, why did only this one actually do it? (Of course, there were others who tried but most people who loathed JFK didn?t kill him or even try to).

We all hate some political figure somewhere, and in times of ideological anger many (perhaps even most) people would consider a world in which this person was no more. It?s the PFC that comes online, reminding us of the legal and moral implications of such behaviour. If the political end is true, Oswald?s PFC would have failed to activate, though, more often that not, the causality is reverse?the defective neuroanatomy is what gives rise to the political motivations, which themselves arise from the brain.     

[Barry Pollard]

Oswalds's interest in Communism marks him as illogical?   Strongly dissagree.
Communism of course, as most of us know it, means repression and exploitation of the working stiffs, that's not true communism, or socialism, LHO never promoted that. What he was asking for is the rights of ordinary people, the complete opposite of what you'd expect from a psycho.  When he was asked on tape whether he was a communist, bpoth times you can hear the nervous laughter because he knew very well the stigma that handle brought you in American society. That stigma is mostly due to pure propoganda and you know it too. Reds under your bed BS was still under effect, bigtime.

Also on another point, Buell Frazier tells of a Lee who very much wanted to associate with his fellow workers and at first tried to but because he was different, thought differently and talked differently they laughed at him, so he gave up, that's freakin' normal, not freaky.
"Worker's rights, minimum wage, no forced overtime?  Give us a break, this is Dallas USofA".  Now who's for Domino's?
Frazier's habit was to eat alone in the gloomy basement and look what became of him.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

"The Soviets have committed crimes unsurpassed even by their early day capitalist counterparts, the imprisonment of their own peoples, with the mass extermination so typical of Stalin, and the individual suppression and regimentation under Khrushchev."

Who wrote that? One Lee Harvey Oswald.
Source/link: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/notesonCPUSA.htm

That he thought otherwise before going there and that he ignored all of the evidence indicating how brutal the regime was - people were fleeing from the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries NOT fleeing to them - tells us a lot about his thinking.

Insane? I don't know, I'll leave that up to the trained people. But quite naive. To his credit, he quickly learned otherwise.

Oswald said he was a Marxist not a Communist. He believed, he wrote, that both the capitalist and communist system were "slave" systems and needed to be replaced. With what exactly? He didn't say. But he insisted that both had to be destroyed.
Source/link: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/undeliveredspeechnotes.htm

Marxism/Communism are evil, bankrupt systems. They belong in the dustbin of history.

[Dillon Rankine]

How often must it be said: the reality of neurological pathologies goes beyond the meaningless phrases like insane, mad, unstable or psycho?which if referring to psychopathy, is completely inaccurate?and lay expectations of such gibberish. It?s time for big boy talk?use actual jargon or GTFO. Do your research?no, Rob, not the 26 volumes?which, shockingly enough had been provided for you (those handy links go to scientific papers).

Not a single item in the vexatious profusion of ?rebuttals? has answered my main question: how did Oswald?s brain survive his childhood adversity when the evidence suggests it shouldn?t need have?
The question requires an understanding of neuroendocrinology, not what some random who knew Oswald thought (like we should care).