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Why would the Kennedy assasination be defined as a conspiracy theory. Most people now accept what was once thought of as a "conspiracy" to be fact.

 

Therin lies the issue. There really is no such thing as a conspiracy theory, its just a name people give to alternative views on/interpetations of, the facts, at any given time.

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Why would the Kennedy assasination be defined as a conspiracy theory. Most people now accept what was once thought of as a "conspiracy" to be fact.

No, you seem to be misunderstanding the meaning of the word conspiracy. There are factual conspiracies as well as imagined ones. Conspiracy means several people secretly planning to do something which is usually illegal. A conspiracy theory is a proposal that a conspiracy has been perpetrated.

 

Because the term conspiracy theory is so widely used dismissively, many automatically assume that the word conspiracy implies lunatic fringe thinking.

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Why would the Kennedy assasination be defined as a conspiracy theory. Most people now accept what was once thought of as a "conspiracy" to be fact.

My point is there was no conspiracy, just a lone madman. The fact that "most people" believe otherwise doesn't make it so. I bought into the conspiracy theory after the film JFK, but when I looked into it, it just didn't stand up. Then I found out that every single "fact" quoted in that film is wrong. Every single one!

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The case of his shooting would be a separate debate. Despite the headline placed on it by the uploader, the reason I used that video was for the context of the speech used within while he was very much alive, not while he was dying, with bullets pumping through him.

If you could just address the content of the speech itself and not the odd nature of his death; as a method of detracting from what I posted then this might give you some insight into the nature of our current situation.

 

So the question is, why would the president make a speech which seems to mark him out as a full blown conspiracy theorist; could it be that given his position, he perhaps had a little more insight into the nature of the game than you do.

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It would be interesting to know more of the context he gave that speech in. It is indeed an interesting script, but when he gave it and whether he introduced it with any reference as to whom he was referring to would make a big difference to its significance.

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JFK -

"The very word secrecy is repugnent In a free and open society and we are as a people are inherently and historially opposed to secert societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings; for we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarialy on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence; on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimadation instead of free choice. It is a system that has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit highly efficient machine, that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. It's preparations are concealed not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced not praised. No expendature is questioned, no secret is revealed. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon, decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people; confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be; free and independent."

 

Or you could trust this creed:

 

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