Morley Goes Aftter Ruth Paine

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Wow, "they" even got to Ruth's family ... nah, this was probably written (a few months ago) on a keyboard at Langley ...

I'm a member of Ruth's family, and I guarantee you that she is a devout Quaker, and an unusually honest, generous, and indeed naive woman. I've been close to her for decades, though I was a small child at the time of the assassination. Her marriage to Michael was falling apart during the early 60s, and in fact they divorced not long after. She raised her two children as a single mother, and worked as the principal of a Quaker school in Pennsylvania and later as a school psychologist in Florida. She has been active in Quaker causes all her adult life. As she says, she is an extremely independent person. There's no possibility that she would have helped the CIA in any way at any time in her life, because it would not have lined up with her politics or her ethics. In fact, throughout her life she's been one of the most strictly ethical people I've ever known, even going so far as withholding taxes (in escrow) so as not to contribute to military spending. If she has a significant fault, it is her earnest naivety and over-generosity, which led her into this calamitous situation.

Does the CT community actually not realize what utter fools they make themselves when they decide to make Ruth Paine - RUTH PAINE??? - into a dark and evil figure? This is the JFKA counterpart to UFO lunacy of the level "Queen Elizabeth was actually a shape-shifting reptilian alien."

There are a few CTers who are appalled at the allegations. But they are drowned out by the mob, the radicals.

This has been the problem starting with the Garrison claims: the radicals, the Garrisonites, simply shout down the more reasonable types, those that saw through Garrison's abuses. They intimidate them, silence them, accuse them of being CIA agents, of helping the "nutters", et cetera. It's a microcosm of the political/online debate we have between the MAGA Right and the Woke Left. It's all name calling and character assaults with little discussion about actual policies or issues.

[Lance Payette]

There are a few CTers who are appalled at the allegations. But they are drowned out by the mob, the radicals.

I have been dismayed, though, at the Evil Ruth Bandwagon, which includes some CTers I would not have expected. An awful lot who aren't as far into the ozone as Michael Griffith nevertheless seem to have dark suspicions and that sort of thing. It all fits with the pattern I've observed over the past few years, of even CTers I once thought to be more or less reasonable revealing themselves to be considerably wackier than I had appreciated.

[Fred Litwin]

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/jefferson-morley-platforms-max-good

Jefferson Morley Platforms Max Good

Here is my reply to Max Good about Ruth Paine.

[Richard Smith]

Of all the unhinged JFK conspiracy theories the notion that Ruth Paine, a Quaker housewife, was the mastermind behind a conspiracy to kill JFK has to rank.  CTers, however, are in a bind since the chain of events that led to Oswald working in the TSBD goes through her and tea parties.  So it must be so, or the chain is broken and their fantasies about a conspiracy disintegrate.