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Fallacies and false assumptions of conspiracy debunkers



This is how lone nut apologists and conspiracy debunkers attempt to discredit the mountainous conspiracy evidence:

First, they commit these logic fallacies and false assumptions:

1) They assume that authority=truth and whatever is official=truth.
2) They claim that conspiracies and cover ups aren't possible because people can't keep secrets.
3) They assume that government lies and falsifications can’t happen.
4) Therefore, all official government data must be correct, and all contrary data incorrect.

These are baseless erroneous beliefs, which have been proven wrong again and again throughout history. Yet like religious fanatics, conspiracy debunkers take the above fallacies as given facts, not to be questioned, as though they were Gospel Truths. They then go on to:

5) Parrot the falsified data created by the cover up as absolute fact. (e.g. fabricated single bullet trajectory, alteration of bullet wounds on Kennedy and Connally, shifted location of their sitting positions, faked autopsy photos, altered eyewitness testimonies, etc.)
6) Declare that no evidence of a conspiracy exists, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary.
7) Argue that the only reason people believe in a conspiracy is that they can't reconcile a great leader like JFK with a deranged nobody like Oswald, thus they have a psychological need to balance out cause and effect with equal weight. (e.g. a great leader can only be taken out by equally great evil forces)

This is their modus operandi, but as you can see, it is based on totally false assumptions that no objective thinker or truth seeker would make. Thus, they are more like the tactics of propagandists and disinfo operatives with a deliberate intent to deceive. They do this to hide the fact that all the physical evidence, forensic evidence, ballistics evidence, eye witnesses, confessions and whistleblowers proves a conspiracy beyond all doubt, which they can’t deal with. Since the evidence isn’t on their side, they have to try to detract from it. But by spouting such falsehoods, they insult the legacy of President Kennedy by assisting in the cover up of the truth about his assassination.

Conspiracy debunkers are fond of parroting the psychological explanation above, of equally weighted cause and effect, to try to discredit conspiracy beliefs, since they cannot refute them logically. But the truth is, while the need to balance out cause and effect may be a psychological factor in conspiracy belief, it ignores the fact that a huge amount of EVIDENCE from multiple areas and sources exists to prove that a conspiracy was at work in the assassination, which when taken cumulatively, becomes conclusive. So the fact of the matter is: The REAL REASON why most people believe that the JFK assassination was the result of a conspiracy, is because of the overwhelming EVIDENCE that points to both a conspiracy and cover up, not because of a psychological need to believe in one. This is what the lone nut apologists don't want you to know.

So for people like Posner, Bugliosi and McAdams to claim that no evidence exists is akin to claiming that the mountain in front of you that everyone sees isn't there. It's a ludicrous insult to your intelligence. What’s very telling is that there tends to be a direct correlation between the amount of time one researches the assassination, and the tendency for that person to conclude that there was a conspiracy and cover up behind the event and that we were lied to. This speaks volumes.

For great articles refuting the lone nut propaganda books of Gerald Posner and Vince Bugliosi, see the ones listed at:
http://www.assassinationscience.com
http://assassinationresearch.com/arindex.html
http://www.jfkhistory.com/review.html

Further, Posner has also written other books arguing that the Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations were also the result of a lone nut only. Now what are the odds that a “truth seeking” investigator could investigate all three assassinations – JFK, RFK and MLK – and conclude in all of them that the government's verdict of a lone nut assassin with no motive was the right one, when there is a lot of evidence to the contrary? It's very unlikely that an impartial honest investigator would come to that conclusion. It's more likely that an agenda-driven investigator with a vested interest would do that. Think about it. (For extensive info on the RFK and MLK assassinations, see the film series "Evidence of Revision")

You also gotta understand that Posner is a lawyer and Bugliosi is a prosecuting attorney. Attorneys specialize in prosecution and have a vested interest in it. They do not specialize in being impartial and unbiased, nor in science and logic. This means that they are highly selective in their search for information. To them, any target to be prosecuted is automatically guilty in their eyes.

Further, Bugliosi reveals his bias in his own book, where he constantly uses ad hominem attacks on conspiracy proponents and ridicules them. Whereas he uses the term “conspiracy theorists” all throughout his book, he never once uses the term “lone nut theorists”, indicating his belief that his position was fact and the contrary was only “theory”.

Lone nut apologists also argue that JFK "conspiracy theories" undermine public trust in their government, and are therefore a bad thing. Well on that I would agree, except that this would only be a bad thing if the "conspiracy theories" were not true. But in this case, they are. So what this point neglects to mention is that it is the government's FAULT that "conspiracy theories" are undermining public trust. If they hadn't lied so much to the American people, and hadn't killed JFK and participated in countless other conspiracies, then public trust in government would not be so undermined as it is today. So the fault lies with the government (or those that run things at the highest level), whose crimes, corruption and deceit have resulted in public distrust and paranoia toward their government. Thus, the public's distrust is well deserved.

After all, the American people did not assassinate JFK, those at highest levels of government and power did, according to all the evidence. Thus, it was THEIR fault. The perpetrators are to blame, not the conspiracy researchers who are only after the truth. Are these lone nut propagandists trying to say that restoring public trust in government is more important than the truth itself, even if the trust is based on a lie? If so, then I would disagree with them. No government who lies and commits murder in secret deserves to be trusted by their people.

Why the controlled major media cannot admit to the truth

Be wary also of the mainstream media. You gotta understand that they are controlled by corporations and the CIA (according to former CIA director William Colby). They are not paid to tell you the truth. They are paid to serve as public relations officials for the establishment and official version of events. Their job is not to get you to think for yourself. Nor do they have the power to say whatever they want without consequence. They have no qualifications in science, logic or reason either, but are mere puppets that tell you whatever the establishment want you to hear. As such, their job is to uphold the establishment, not expose it, which makes them "establishment whores". Their function is to get to you believe that "authority=truth" (which is technically false and only true in the sense that “might makes right”) so that you don't put truth above what the establishment tells you. So don't let them fool you into thinking that they are bastions of truth.

This is why when Oliver Stone's brilliant film JFK came out in 1991, the mainstream media immediately attacked it, calling it a pack of lies and fiction, without ever researching it or looking into the evidence. In fact, they began attacking it even BEFORE the film was released. How can they attack a film they haven’t even seen yet? The reason for this knee jerk reaction was because they were programmed to reject anything that challenges the view of the establishment, which is their job to defend, regardless of what the truth is. You see, the corporate media aren’t interested in truth, facts or evidence, only in parroting whatever the establishment wants them to say. Furthermore, they were not qualified to attack it since they have no qualifications, but are mere talking puppet heads who tell you whatever the establishment wants you to hear. (Would you take puppets as authority figures, or take what they say on faith?)

Oliver Stone's JFK was a moving and eloquent masterpiece, and presented a version of events that actually FIT the data, whereas the Warren Commission's story absolutely did NOT. (If you haven't seen it, you definitely should to understand what really happened) But the media didn't care about that. Truth is not their job. They are controlled, much more than you think. In fact, former CIA director William Colby revealed:

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
– Former CIA Director William Colby

Although a conspiracy in the JFK assassination has been proven, the corporate controlled media and government continue in their denial. The late Larry Teeter, lawyer for Sirhan Sirhan, the patsy arrested in the RFK assassination, explained in an interview why the powers that be cannot afford to admit to the truth pertaining to JFK’s assassination:

http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~dlewis/teeter.htm

“Many in the media would prefer not to stir things up and ask questions. They do not want to destroy the public's trust in the Government as this causes a lot of problems for us all. The European media is much more open and objective. I do not want biased reporting. I only hope for a fair recollection of the facts. In the duration of this case this has never happened. When Oliver Stone made the film "JFK" and the public saw it, they began to think about the real possibility of a CIA cover-up. Which I also believe to really be what happened. This however is not what the US Government is telling us happened. They cling to the fiction that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy on his own. The majority of the people do not believe this, but the Government clings to this stupid, sick fairytale version of the story like a pitbull. Because when just for a moment they backdown and admit to a cover-up, the people will also want to know who was responsible and why they [the Government] have lied to us for so long. And this is exactly the same for RFK. The Government is afraid to admit a cover-up because otherwise people will want to know why they have lied for so many years, who they are protecting and whose orders they have been listening to. And then people will suddenly start to wake up and ask questions about the basic nature of our existence. They would ask: hold on a moment, in school we are taught that we live in a democracy and now we suddenly discover that events in our lives are being manipulated by dark and secret forces ***. And then fantastic lies will be created that obscure the truth."



To the government and media forces who continue to deny the conspiracy and participate in the cover up, I say this:

“Please grow up and start acting like mature adults. If you ever hope to restore public trust in government, then confess to the crime that was committed in assassinating the beloved President Kennedy in 1963. Everyone already knows what really happened. Continuing to lie about it only makes yourself look foolish. And continuing to cover up the truth by contracting authors like Posner and Bugliosi, and having the media produce more “lone nut” specials, to obfuscate the truth only makes yourself look more criminal and nefarious. It also insults the intelligence of the American people. Just look at yourselves. The Founding Fathers would be ashamed of you.

If you ever want us to believe in our government again, then be honest and stop insulting our intelligence. Fess up to your crimes, and punish the perpetrators accordingly. That’s what an honest good mature adult would do. Remember that you reap what you sow. So please start sowing honesty rather than lies, if you want there to be trust again between the people and their government. You may be above the law, but you cannot run from your karma. It will catch up with you sooner or later. So stop making foolish choices and start making right choices.”

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