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A thought exercise: A Mafia conspiracy is established beyond any doubt ...
Tom Graves:
--- Quote from: Benjamin Cole on January 08, 2026, 02:15:17 AM ---LP--
I like your posts. I do not ignore you.
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How sweet!
Lance Payette:
--- Quote from: Tom Graves on January 08, 2026, 02:23:22 AM ---How sweet!
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It was, wasn't it?
I'm glad to see the cease-and-desist letter from the Caped Factoid Buster's attorneys caused you to quickly abandon you Batman avatar, but I must say the new one doesn't quite work as an avatar. How about QAnon Shaman - wouldn't that be kind of fun?
It occurred to me that my Mafia example was rather perfect. I chose it only because I find it the most plausible CT scenario and the sort of thing that might have some potential to be definitively established.
But what's perfect is that, despite its plausibility, it receives virtually NO attention at all in the JFKA research community. I recall mentioning this once to Pat Speer, who agreed. Oh, the Mafia may be mentioned - but it's always an afterthought in connection with LBJ, the CIA and the other ideologically popular suspects. Why is this?
It's obvious: Because the JFKA research community is almost ENTIRELY driven by ideology. Without the Newman, Morley, Simpich, DiEugenio wing of the conspiracy sanitarium, I firmly believe the research community and public interest in the JFKA would pretty much go poof. The Mafia? Yawn. No, we ideologues demand a deep dark internal conspiracy at the highest levels that will explain the entire subsequent history of the country. Even your own ideology-driven theory just doesn't cut it. The KGB? Yawn.
The Mafia is also insufficiently sexy for the hordes for whom the JFKA is just a hobby. There is simply no need for all the intrigue, the evidence and witness tampering, the massive cover-up. It's just another hit, a puzzle that says "For Ages 6-9" on the box, albeit garnished with a doofus in the sixth floor window to give it a bit of pro-Castro flavor.
Think about that QAnon Shaman suggestion. If you don't adopt it, I may have to.
Tom Graves:
--- Quote from: Lance Payette on January 08, 2026, 12:47:10 PM ---How about QAnon Shaman - wouldn't that be kind of fun?
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Dear FPR,
Problem is, I've heard he's off somewhere with your buddy, Mike "Q" Flynn.
-- Tom
Michael T. Griffith:
Here's a thought exercise for you:
-- JFK, through his brother RFK, was threatening the very existence of several powerful Mafia organizations, especially those of Marcello and Giancana.
-- JFK allowed RFK to humiliate Carlos Marcello by (arguably illegally) deporting him without due process and leaving him stranded in Guatemala.
-- Thus, certain Mafia leaders had powerful motives for wanting JFK dead: revenge and survival.
-- Some Mafia leaders were overheard talking about killing JFK before the assassination.
-- A credible informant reported that Marcello admitted being involved in JFK's death.
In contrast,
-- Oswald had no known motive for killing JFK, and he adamantly denied killing JFK at every opportunity while in police custody.
-- By all accounts, Oswald admired and thought highly of JFK.
-- According to the lone-gunman theory, Oswald tried to kill General Edwin Walker, a fanatical right-winger. It boggles the mind to imagine why someone who wanted General Walker dead would feel any desire to kill JFK, given that JFK had criticized and publicly humiliated Walker, and given that Walker had accused JFK of being a traitor.
Tom Graves:
--- Quote from: Michael T. Griffith on January 08, 2026, 02:24:33 PM ---Oswald had no known motive for killing JFK.
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Dear Comrade Griffith,
Lee Harvey Oswald was a psychologically disturbed self-described Marxist, and he would have killed JFK "to advance The Dialectic" or because he wasn't gettin' any from Marina, or both.
-- Tom
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