文档介绍：The following essay by Michael Parenti was penned in the wake of the furor over Oliver
Stone's JFK, but it contains many points about prevailing mindsets that are perfectly
relevant to the current refusal of some otherwise activist and politically-minded people to
allow honest and open consideration of the growing evidence for official prior knowledge
of 9/11 and covert planning and manipulation behind the so-called "War on Terror." It
was emailed to me out of the blue by a visitor to , and much to my
delight follows much of the same line of reasoning that I have been pursuing in past
articles such as And Now... Will the Real Skeptic Please Stand Up? — albeit much more
expertly, of course, and with more historical depth.
As a preface and for background, this article may be of interest as well:
JFK Conspiracy: The Intellectual Dishonesty and Cowardice of Alexander Cockburn and
Noam Chomsky, by Michael Worsham
As reported in the Washington Post, a top-notch scientific study of audio recordings from
the JFK assasination recently presented its findings: it is more than 99% certain that shots
were fired by at least one additional gunman from the notorious "grassy knoll." So how
does it look now, seeing that Chomsky and Cockburn have stood behind the Warren
Commission's findings of a lone gunman and "magic bullet" and, as you will read below,
have simply refused to e acquainted with the mountains of evidence to the
contrary?
Does "America's leading dissident" have anything to say?
In any case, Parenti's writing affirms for me a disturbing conclusion at which I had
already arrived some time ago: that the adamant, knee-jerk critics of "conspiracy theory"
on the old ideological Left are, under the sly rubric of guarding against "extremism" and
"captivating populist myths," waging war on real truthseeking. I have personally seen,
over and over, what Parenti laments here: those who most loudly disparage "conspiracy