The Kennedy Assassination(s)

People often ask "Why does the Kennedy assassination still matter?"

It's a good question, and one worthy of a longer and more detailed response than you'll find here. Ultimately each person needs to answer that for themselves, but here's my response:

When the government can flat out lie to its citizens about the death of its own President, when the truth is knowable, when the conspirators still living are not prosecuted, when the accessories after the fact still grind out the disinformation, when a concerted campaign to publish books promoting the big lie can go unchallenged, and when the media is not held accountable for its participation in the 30+ year cover-up, then our constitution is meaningless, our laws without substance, our people without hope of ever participating in the pseudo-democracy that passes for America.

I, for one, do not wish to live in such a place. I want to hold my government accountable. I want to point out the lies, to call them on their disinformation campaigns, to publish what the mainstream media will not. If we allow ourselves to be lied to in so blatant a fashion about something as important as a Presidential assassination, can we really expect the government or the media to tell us the truth about anything at all after that?

Orwell said "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." He wasn't being facetious. He was giving us a strong warning, and one that should be well heeded. Don't give up your history. It's too important.

If we will not fight for the truth now - when our President has been shot down in the streets and his murders remain untouched by justice - it is not likely that we will ever have another chance.

- District Attorney and Judge Jim Garrison