Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

It's amazing to me that we live in a country that, to a great extent, has banned controversy. Oh, you can debate Trump and Kavanaugh, if that's your thing, but that's about it.  There are many controversies that are completely ignored by the mainstream media. It's as if they don't exist. 

For example, on television, radio, and all mainstream magazines and newspapers, antivaxxers are given no voice. And if a celebrity becomes an antivaxxer, his career is in jeopardy, such as Rob Schneider from Saturday Night Live. He makes statements that are true, such as, "The idea that vaccines don’t injure people is a fallacy. Two billion dollars have been paid out to people who have been vaccine injured or killed in the United States. This is a real thing." He might have added that that two billion dollars came from U.S. taxpayers because that's the law: that you can't sue a pharmaceutical company for vaccine damage or death; you can only sue the government. 

But, let's move on. Global warming is another thing that can't be debated. Here we are having the coldest March ever in Texas, at least since I've lived in Texas, and I've lived here since 1978. There are many respected scientists who not only do not believe in man-made global warming- they don't believe in global warming, period. They think it's global cooling that's on the menu. So, why not have a television debate between a climatologist who believes in global warming versus one who believes in global cooling? Sounds interesting, don't you think?  Sorry, it ain't going to happen. It's global warming 24/7/365. 

Obviously, 9/11 is off limits to debate. Even though there is an organization of 3000+ architects and engineers who say that the Building 7 could not have collapsed from "office fires" as NIST said, you don't hear a word about it.  The 9/11 truth movement is huge, and it is world-wide. But, you don't hear a word about it in the mainstream media. 

And naturally, another example that is appropriate for me to point out is the JFK truth movement in defense of Lee Harvey Oswald. You would think from the mainstream media that not one American doubts that Oswald did it. According to them, some Americans think he acted alone while others think he was part of a conspiracy, but nobody doubts that he shot JFK. But, the truth is that Oswald was standing in the doorway of the Texas Book Depository during the shooting, and we have a photograph of him there. There is NO CHANCE that he shot Kennedy. 

But none of these examples are what I really want to talk about. What I really want to talk about is the absence of debate about the ugliest topic of all: WAR. That is another controversy that has been banned. 

Return with me now to 2002--2003 in the run-up to the U.S. invasion and decimation of Iraq.  There was public discussion of it, such as Bill O'Reilly calling for changing "french fries" to "freedom fries" because the French were dragging their feet about supporting the war. But, freedom fries, Bill? Killing an Iraqi, whether he was a civilian or some 19 year old inductee in the Iraqi Army was not going to free him- unless you think that life itself is a burden from which we should all be freed. According to Johns Hopkins University researchers, the U.S. killed 650,000 Iraqis by 2006. That's just 3 years. The total number of Iraqis we have killed or gotten killed is surely over a million. But, how about them freedom fries, Bill? 

So, as the mainstream media was fanning the flames for war, there was a lot of discussion of it, but who did they bring on to argue for peace? And I mean to debate with pundits, generals, think tank blowhards, etc. They brought on actors. And don't get me wrong, I have great respect for actors. They are very interesting; very diverse; and very multi-talented. Mike Farrell and Janeane Garofalo were repeatedly brought on to represent the peaceniks.  And they did fine. They held their own. They did what they could to try to stop the insanity, but to no avail. But, my point is that by bringing on actors, the media implied that there were no professors, no historians, no credentialed academics, researchers, and experienced diplomats or, for that matter, military people who opposed the insane, criminal and monstrous invasion of Iraq. But, you see, there were, and they just didn't want to admit it. So, they brought on these activist actors to imply, "Who else but these leftist actors would oppose our kick-ass war?"   

But, I don't recall there being any debate with anybody over the bombing and invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. That war wasn't even debated with actors. George W. Bush said that Osama bin laden was behind 9/11, and he demanded that the Taliban turn him over. He provided no evidence- to us or to them. And even though they offered to turn bin laden over to a third country for trial, where presumably, we could have presented our evidence, the megalomaniac, and really just plain maniac Bush crossed the ocean to launch his war that is still going on to this day. 

That George W. Bush walks around a free man today is amazing. We put people in prison for killing just one person. We put people to death for killing just one person. His death toll is over a million people easily. 

The point is that we live in an Orwellian world. Political correctness has run amok to a nightmarish degree. Why do I say nighmarish? Because there are other countries left to decimate, I mean, liberate; that's why. Obama took care of Libya the American way, but there is still Syria. We have already killed thousands in Syria, but our blood thirst has yet to be quenched over there. And what about Iran? Don't you find it bizarre that the one nation that actually dropped nuclear weapons on two population centers in Japan gets to threaten war to another nation over its nuclear technology, even though that nation has never attacked or threatened to attack anyone? The only war that Iran has been involved in, in the modern era, is the Iraq/Iran War, which was started by Saddam Hussein at our behest.  He attacked Iran; not vice versa. 

The American culture is dying. Hey, when rational thought is disappearing, being replaced by mindless talking points, such as citing something that happened in 1988 to justify starting a war in 2003,  it means the rationality of your culture is gone. I don't know if it can be brought back, but I do think the lives of the people who are next up to be killed by us ought to be saved. So, when the next big drive for the next big war revs up, I am going to scream bloody murder. That's a promise.