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Back, and to the Left. Back, and to the Left.

This really should be put in the fiction section of your video store

In the Oliver Stone film JFK Kevin Costner plying the part of New Orleans Jim Garrison screens the Zapruder film to a jury, pausing and rewinding to show the direction that Kennedy’s head appears to move. As he does this, he repeats the phrase, “back, and to the left”, trying to prove the location of the alleged second gunman. It’s a powerful bit of pop culture propaganda, but does it mean anything true?

What you probably don’t know is in Nov. 2008 a team of experts assembled by the Discovery Channel has recreated the assassination of  Kennedy. Using modern blood spatter analysis, artificial human body surrogates and 3-D computer simulations.  In the end the team determined that the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository was the most likely origin of the shot that killed the president. Once again some smart ass scientist ruin a perfectly good conspiracy theory.

The team created the most advanced artificial human heads in the world for the ballistic tests. The heads have three different materials which simulate the brain, skull and external skin, that together respond to the trauma the same way a human head would. The position of the people in the limousine were created exactly, the same sort of rifle was used as was the distance fired. Test shots were also done from the grassy knoll, and four other plausible locations. BUT Only the shot from the six floor school book location matched the actual physical evidence from that day.

This is not the first time some scientist had done experiments looking at the movement of a human head when shot from behind. Richard Trott used melons to show the exit of the bullet creates a ”jet effect” phenomenon that drove the melons back towards the gun shot. Dr. John Lattimer reproduced Trott’s results with human skulls.  All of them showed the ”Back and to the Left” movement that conspiracy theorist love to recite as a religious mantra, it’s like the free-fall chant of the 9/11 truthers, say it long and loud and perhaps it will become true.

But, conspiracy theories sell… and sell big, Not only for a movie like JFK but books and DVDs. Jim Marrs was the big name in JFK conspiracy theorist with his book Crossfire. But just a look at his web site http://www.jimmarrs.com/ and you see a loony who pimps everything from Obama paranoia to UFOs from Mars.  While Vincent bugliosi (yes the Charles Manson prosecutor) Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy which defends the Warren Commission’s conclusion is not exactly flying off the shelves, and it’s the most authoritative book on the subject. Same with Case Closed by Gerald Posner. Posner is well respected as a researcher and writer of everything from Mengele to Motown. It’s is fun to read the conspiracy theorist frothing at the mouth in the Amazon reviews over these two books, you would think you pissed on their god, But to the conspiracy theorist types this is a religion, once you drink the Kool-Aid and worshipped at the alter of fashionable pseudo-skepticism it’s hard to say you were duped by a pop culture fad.

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Fort Hood was an Inside Job, It had to Happen.

Starting to hear rumbling of Fort Hood being and “Inside Job”.  The reality of this event is just not good enough for the conspiracy theorist loonies, they have to concoct a giant plot fitting their particular political or religious ideology. Like JFK or 9/11, They often blames the government, New World Order and of course “The Jews”, every one but the people who in reality, did it. The reality is, it happened inside and the guy who did it was an insider.

http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html

And seeing as it had even turned up at Yahoo Answers http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091107174905AAKzB4m One would have to assume it is true! After all Yahoo Answers is epitome of intellectual insights and logic.

The first to jump on the kook express are of course the 9/11 Inside Job crackpots. The comments over at 911blogger have the same lame “Only asking questions” tactic, Gee! as if the early reports coming out of a hectic event such as this would NOT contain some inaccuracies and confusion.
Fort Hood Shooting ‘Oddities’

Submitted by Orangutan. on Sat, 11/07/2009 One can only assume “Orangutan” is an observation on the posters evolutionary rank.

I saw a comment over on BradBlog that said this was a traditional case of mutiny on the base. After they got things settled, they didn’t want that fact to come out because it might encourage others who are feeling the same way to act out the same way, so they framed this psychiatrist who may have just been injured in the incident. Of course this is all speculation, but with the initial reports it kind of makes sense. We’ll see what comes of it if anything.

So apparently the conspiracy is that soldiers are in an armed revolt and being shot by other soldiers and the entire episode is being covered up and an innocent Muslim Army Major being made the scapegoat.

My question becomes, “How do I cash in on the scam?” Conspiracy theorist being the gullible suckers they are prime candidates for a little fleecing, If I were a scum bag I would write a book, maybe a DVD to sell to the rubes.
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Jim Lehrer responsible for JFK’s Death?

This is one of those little facts you will never hear from conspiracy theorist who promote the idea of a JFK assassination plot. As a young reporter Jim Lehrer was at Love Field that morning, and had asked a secret service agent if the bubble top was going to be removed from the Presidents car. It had been raining, but was now clearing. The agent radioed to find if it was clear downtown as well, so he told others to “Take the bubble top off”.

To me this is far more interesting then any Oliver Stone fairy tail.