From dfox@fc.net Sat Jan 21 07:14:46 1995 Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [198.6.198.2]) by bigboote.WPI.EDU (8.6.9/8.6) with ESMTP id HAA18195 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 1995 07:14:45 -0500 Received: (from dfox@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) id GAA10048 for mikecap@wpi.edu; Sat, 21 Jan 1995 06:11:48 -0600 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 06:11:48 -0600 From: Malik Al-Rashim Message-Id: <199501211211.GAA10048@freeside.fc.net> To: mikecap@wpi.edu Subject: JAUC-File12 Status: O LEE HARVEY OSWALD DIED FOR YOUR SINS By Gordon Fagan, Conspiracy Editor (flyer@io.com) With all the hubbub over the OJ Simpson trial currently getting under way, I thought it would be a good idea to get people to rethink their conception of what justice is about in another matter. Where there was no trial, not even real charges - just accusations, a bullet and 30+ years of government approved postmortem derision as an insane killer. We've all seen the movie JFK which is probably more than most of you want to hear on the subject in the first place, so I'll just leave each of you - in particular, those who have no interest in the JFK assassination conspiracy but can't get enough of that OJ, with the following... It has been said that the American people are the only jury that Lee Harvey Oswald will ever have. It is our responsibility, then, to examine with utmost care and objectivity the evidence for and against him, and to reach an independent verdict - Sylvia Meagher Jim Garrison's closing statement to the jury State of Louisiana vs. Clay Shaw, 1969 May it please the court. Gentlemen of the jury: I know you're very tired. You've been very patient. This final day has been a long one, so I'll speak only a few minutes. In his argument, Mr. Dymond posed one final issue which raises the question of what we do when the need for justice is confronted by power. So, let me talk to you about a question of whether or not there was government fraud in this case. A question Mr. Dymond seems to want us to answer. A government is a great deal like a human being. It's not necessarily all good, and it's not necessarily all bad. We live in a good country. I love it and you do, too. Nevertheless, the fact remains that we have a government which is not perfect. There have been since November the 22nd of 1963, and that was not the last, indications that there is an excessive power in some parts of our government. It is plain that the people have not received all of the truth about some of the things which have happened, about some of the assassinations which have occurred, and more particularly about the assassination of John Kennedy. Going back to when we were children, I think most of us, probably all of us in this courtroom, once thought that justice came into being of its own accord, that that virtue was its own regard, that good would triumph over evil. In short, that justice occurred automatically. Later, when we found that this wasn't quite so, most of us still felt hopeful that at least occurred frequently of its own accord. Today, I think that almost all of us would have to agree that there is really no machinery, not on this earth at least, which causes justice to occur automatically. Men still have to make it occur. Individual human beings have to make it occur. Otherwise, it doesn't come into existence. This is not always easy. As a matter of fact, it's always hard, because justice presents a threat to power. In order to make justice come into being, you often have to fight power. Mr. Dymond raised the question; "Why don't we say it's all a fraud and charge the government with fraud, if that is the case?" Let me be explicit, then, and make myself very clar on this point. The goverment's handling of the investigation of John Kennedy's murder was a fraud. It was the greatest fraud in the history of our country. It probably was the greatest fraud ever perpetrated in the history of humankind. That doesn't mean that we have to accept the continued existence of the kind of government which allows this to happen. We can do something about it. We're not forced either to leave this country or accept the authoritarianism that has developed. The authoritarianism that tells us that in the year 2039 we can see the evidence about what happened to John Kennedy. Government does not consist only of secret police and domestic espionage operations and generals and admirals. Government consists of people. It also consists of juries. And in the cases of murder, whether the poorest individual or the most distinguished citizen in the land, should be looked at openly in a court of law, where juries can pass on them and not be hidden, not be buried like the body of the victim beneath concrete for countless years. You men in recent weeks have heard witnesses that no one else in the world has heard. You've seen the Zapruder film. You've seen what happened to your President. I suggest to you that you know right now that, in that area at least, a fraud has been perpetrated. That does not mean that our government is entirely bad - and I want to emphasize that. It does mean, however that in recent years, through the development of excessive power because of the Cold War, forces have developed in our government over which there is no control and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice; meaning, they will let you know what justice is. Well, my reply to them is that we already know what justice is. It is the decision of the people passing on the evidence. It is the jury system. In the issue which is posed by the government's conduct in concealing the evidence in this case, in the issue of humanity as opposed to power, I have chosen humanity, and I will do it again without hesitation. I hope every one of you will do the same. I do this because I love my country and because I want to communicate to the government that we will not accept unexplained assassinations with the casual information that if we live seventy-five years longer, we might be given more evidence. In this particular case, massive power was brought to bear to prevent justice from ever coming into the courtroom. The power to make authoritarian pronouncements, the power to manipulate the news media by the release of false information, the power to interfere with an honest inquiry and the power to provide an endless variety of experts to testify in behalf of that power, repeatedly was demonstrated in this case. The American people have yet to see the Zapruder film. Why? The American people have yet to see and hear from real witnesses to the assassination. Why? Because, today in America too much emphasis is given to secrecy, with regard to the assassination of our President, and not enough emphasis is given to the question of justice and to the question of humanity. These dignified deceptions will not suffice. We have had enough of power without truth. We don't have to accept power without truth or else leave the country. I don't accept power without truth or else leave the country. I don't accept either of these two alternatives. I don't intend to leave the country and I don't intend to accept power without truth. I intend to fight for the truth. I suggest that not only is this not un-American, but it is the most American thing we can do, because if truth does not endure, then our country will not endure. In our country the worst of all crimes occurs when the government murders truth. If it can murder truth, it can murder freedom. If it can murder freedom it can murder your own sons, if they should dare to fight for freedom, and then it can announce that they were killed in an industrial accident, or shot by the "enemy" or God knows what. In this case, finally, it has been possible to bring the truth about the assassination into a court of law, not before a commission composed of important and politically astute men, but before a jury of citizens. Now, I suggest to you that yours is a hard duty, because in a sense what you're passing on is the equivalent to a murder case. The difficult thing about passing on a murder case is that the victim is out of your sight and buried a long distance away, and all you can see is the defendant. It's very difficult to identify with someone you can't see, and sometimes it's hard not to identify to some extent with the defendant and his problems. In that regard, every prosecutor who is at all humane is concious of feeling sorry for the defendant in every case he prosecutes. But he is not free to forget the victim who lies buried out of sight. I suggest to you that, if you do your duty, you also are not free to forget the victim who is buried out of sight. Tennyson once said that "authority forgets a dying king." This was never more true than in the murder of John Kennedy. The strange and deceptive conduct of the government after his murder began while his body was still warm, and has continued for five years. You have even seen in this courtroom indications of interest of part of the government power structure in keeping truth down, in keeping the grave closed. We presented a number of eyewitnesses as well as an expert witness as well as the Zapruder film, to show that the fatal wound of the President came from the front. A plane landed from Washington and out stepped Dr. Finck for the defense, to counter the clear and apparent evidence of a shot from the front. I don't have to go into Dr. Finck's testimony in detail for you to show that it simply does not correspond to the facts. He admitted that he did not complete the autopsy because a general told him to not complete the autopsy. In this conflict between power and justice, to put it that way, just where do you think Dr. Finck stands? A general who is not a pathologist, told him not to complete the autopsy, so he didn't complete it. This is not the way I want my country to be. When our president is killed he deserves the kind of autopsy that the ordinary citizens get every day in the state of Louisana. And the people deserve the facts about it. We can't have the government power suddenly interjecting itself and preventing the truth from coming to the people. Yet, in this case, before the sun rose the next morning, power had moved into the situation and the truth was being concealed. And now, five years later in this courtroom the power of the government in concealing the truth is continuing in the same way. We presented eyewitnesses who told you of the shots coming from the grassy knoll. A plane landed from Washington, and out came ballistics expert Frazier for the defense. Mr. Frazier explanation of the sound of the shots coming frm the front, which was heard by eyewitness after eyewitness, was that Lee Oswald created a sonic boom in his firing. Not only did Oswald break all of the world's records for marksmanship, but he broke the sound barrier as well. I suggest to you, that if any of you have shot on a firing range, and most of you probably in the service, you were shooting rifles in which the bullet travelled faster than the speed of sound. I ask you to recall if you ever heard a sonic boom. If you remember when you were on the firing line, and they would say, "ready on the left - ready on the right - ready on the firing line - commence firing," you heard the shots coming from the firing line, to the left of you and to the right of you. If you had heard as a result of Mr. Frazier's fictional sonic boom, firing coming at you from the pits, you would have had a reaction which you would still remember. Mr. Frazier's sonic boom simply doesn't exist. It's a part of the fraud, a part of the continuing government fraud. The best way to make this country the kind of country it's supposed to be is to communicate to the government that no matter how powerful it may be, we do not accept these frauds. We do not accept these false announcements. We do not accept the concealment of evidence with regard to the murder of President Kennedy. Who is the most believable? A Richard Randolph Carr, seated here in a wheelchair and telling you what he saw and what he heard and how he was told to shut his mouth, or Mr. Frazier and his sonic booms? Do we really have to actually reject Mr. Newman and Mrs. Newman and Mr. Carr and Roger Craig and the testimony of all those honest witnesses, reject all this and accept the fraudulent Warren Commission, or else leave the country? I suggest to you that there are other alternatives. Once of them has been put in practice in the last month in the State of Louisiana, and that is to bring out the truth in a proceeding where attorneys can cross-examine, where the defendant can be confronted by testimony against him, where the rules of evidence are applied and where a jury of citizens can pass on it, and where there is no government secrecy. Above all, where you do not have evidence concealed for seventy-five years in the name of "national security." All we have in this case are the facts. Facts which show that the defendant participated in the conspiracy to kill the President and that the President was subsequently killed in an ambush. The reply of the defense has been the same as the early reply of the government in the Warren Commission. It has been authority, authority, authority. The President's seal outside of each volume of the Warren Commission Report, made necessary because there is nothing inside these volumes. Men of high position and prestige sitting on a board, and announcing the results to you, but not telling you what the evidence is, because the evidence has to be hidden for seventy-five years. You heard in this courtroom in recent weeks, eyewitness after eyewitness after eyewitness and, above all, you saw one eyewitness which was indifferent to power, the Zapruder film. The lens of the camera is totally indifferent to power and it tells what happened as it saw it happen, and that is one of the reasons 200 million Americans have not seen the Zapruder film. They should have seen it many times. They should know exactly what happened. They all should know what you know now. Why hasn't all of this come into being if there hasn't been government fraud? Of course there has been fraud by the government. But I'm telling you now that I think we can do something about it. I think that there are still enough Americans left in this country to make it continue to be America. I think that we can still fight authoritarianism, the government's insistence on secrecy, government force used in counterattacks against an honest inquiry, and when we do that, we're not being un-American, we're being American. It isn't easy. You're sticking your neck out in a rather permanent way, but it has to be done because truth does not come into being automatically. Justice does not happen automatically. Individual men, like the members of my staff here, have to work and fight to make it happen, and individual men like you have to make justice come into being because otherwise it doesn't happen. What I'm trying to tell you is that there are forces in America today, unfortunately, which are not in favor of the truth coming out about John Kennedy's assassination. As long as our government continues to be like this, as long as such forces can get away with such actions, then this is no longer the country in which we were born. The murder of John Kennedy was probably the most terrible moment in the history of our country. Yet, circumstances have placed you in the position where not only have you seen the hidden evidence but you are actually going to have the opportunity to bring justice into the picture for the first time. Now, you are here sitting in judgement on Clay Shaw. Yet you, as men, represent more than jurors in an ordinary case because the victims in this case. You represent, in a sense, the hope of humanity against government power. You represent humanity, which yet may triumph over excessive government power. If you will cause it to be so, in the course of doing your duty in this case. I suggest that you ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. What can you do for your country? You can cause justice to happen for the first time in this matter. You can help make our country better by showing that this is still a government of the people. And if you do that, as long as you live, nothing will ever be more important. --------------------------- Since you read all the way through, you might be interested in more information. You can check out alt.conspiracy.jfk at your favourite USENET site and see the still active coverup covering up. Now including a phoney "Oswald did it alone" FAQ posting from a .mil address. The internet equivalent to Gerald Posner's "Case Closed." Though less well written, it includes about the same amount of real research. There are some good people on the newsgroup as well and they have a large and growing body of info on display regularly. Another excellent source is the web site for Fair Play magazine: http://www.kaiwan.com/~ljg/fp.html -31 and counting-