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In reply to the discussion: Mark Lane, Early Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theorist, Dies at 89 [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)17. Yours is a great memory.
The United States of America -- the one Mark Lane and President Kennedy worked for -- depends on it.
An example from DU, where someone on mentioned the Jonestown tragedy as if it were Mark Lane's fault. I told the poster not to mix blame for Jim Jones with hate for Mark Lane.
Mark Lanes 93-minute talk about the MLK murder and his subsequent legal representation of both James Earl Ray and Grace Walden (the one person who saw the actual gunman immediately after the shooting and who was put into a mental institution for ten years when she would not sign off on James Earl Ray) is beyond textbook definitive. Being his collaborator, Donald Freed says many of the exact same words as Mark Lane, but with the overview of a Greek tragedist looking for human archetypes in situations that span thousands of years. Jim Jones comments on the Black Panthers, political assassinations, LSD experiments you name it are very ahead of their time and insightful, yet also have an idiotic Gomer Pyle humor to them. (His mispronunciation of hegemony compared to how Noam Chomsky says the same word speaks volumes.) His endless incorrect allusions to Donald Freed being the screenwriter of The Parallax View (rather than the actual Executive Action) are amusing/confusing/strange. Jones double-faced praise and damning of Mark Lane are indicative of the insanity that was to come. Lane is either a saint brought by God to save them or a provocateur/government mole sent to bring their failure and demise.
http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31948
Amazing to think how different the nation once was. If no one remembers what it was like, when we had leaders with guts and vision -- real Democrats -- we'll never see days like those again when anything was possible: going to the moon, peace on earth, prosperity for all.
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Mark Lane, Early Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theorist, Dies at 89 [View all]
Octafish
May 2016
OP
Mark Lane opened our eyes, breaking the myths of democracy and freedom our government was meant to
Kip Humphrey
May 2016
#1
The original paperback edition of Mark Lane's "Rush To Judgement " is still on my bookshelf.
hedda_foil
May 2016
#15
Oh, how I WISHED I had taken the extra day to see him at that conference, Octafish...
MrMickeysMom
May 2016
#42
I admire people who tell the truth. That's why I have a problem with you, Major Nikon.
Octafish
May 2016
#30
Aha, so only 50 years after coming up with his theory, tptb found a way to silence Mr. Lane.
FSogol
May 2016
#5
Excellent book. He refused to believe that a dim-witted former commie, with poor marksmanship,
Doctor_J
May 2016
#6
Lane said J Edgar Hoover naming Oswald the lone assassin within hours was a sign of cover-up.
Octafish
May 2016
#31
I am now conviinced the kill shot came from the car behind, the agent with the gun that
Jackie Wilson Said
May 2016
#26
Actually, it took Mark Lane years to document the CIA - MAFIA Murder Inc. relationship.
Octafish
May 2016
#84
Can GHWBush account for his whereabouts when these alleged "natural causes" occurred?
Bucky
May 2016
#32
Here's who to suspect: Those who've spent the last 52 years covering it up, the BFEE.
Octafish
May 2016
#38
But that's not what the post was about. Here's something else to know, Dude...
Octafish
May 2016
#40
By all means keep on promoting the work of anti-Semites if that's what does it for you
Major Nikon
May 2016
#71
Nice smear. If I was an ''anti-Semite" interested in ''butthurt" I'd be long gone from DU.
Octafish
May 2016
#73
I think you're worried about how close I'm getting to what you're really about
Major Nikon
May 2016
#92
His journal is filled with him parroting out one of the founders of the LaRouche movement
Major Nikon
May 2016
#90
So those who chronicle the crimes of the Bush family are a problem for you. Nice.
Octafish
May 2016
#98
For those that don't know, Webster Tarpley was involved in the LaRouche movement for decades
Major Nikon
May 2016
#104
Why do you keep parroting out works from LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review?
Major Nikon
May 2016
#105
So why do you keep parroting out works from LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review?
Major Nikon
May 2016
#109
I've yet to see you post the slightest proof I've ever expressed fondness for Bush or Cheney
Major Nikon
May 2016
#119
Not really. I side with Mark Lane. You side with Bush and Cheney, Major Nikon.
Octafish
May 2016
#127
If your "truth" was as rock solid as you claim, why go to LaRouche to get it?
Major Nikon
May 2016
#132
Pointing out that LaRouche is a batshit crazy anti-Semite = "defending Bush"
Major Nikon
May 2016
#135
No. I've used alert probably six or seven times in 55,000 posts or whatever it is.
Octafish
May 2016
#142