10 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:

When one googles OSARN you are led only to Le Cagoule. Is OSARN a latter day name for it? 

Vice versa, Paul. Organisation Secrète d'action Revolutionnaire Nationale morphed into La Cagoule, the cowl, although I think some continue to use the names interchangeably.   

On October 9, Lafitte appears to use Osarn as a rallying cry. 

OSARN

 On October 9, 1963, Pierre Lafitte, while in New Orleans, Louisiana, wrote in his datebook, “OSARN- OSARN-OSARN . . .” before getting down to the business of progressing the operation destined for the city of Dallas. 

            Another close associate of the murderous Filliol was Jacques Correze, a man who over the past half-century has consistently been labeled a bloodthirsty racist and shapeshifter who causally oversaw Filliol’s homicidal activities. Correze had been a high-ranking member of La Cagoule and the personal assistant of Eugene Deloncle, and served as a critical link in the funding of La Cagoule by Eugene Schuller, founder of the L’Oréal cosmetic company. 

            During World War II, Jacques Correze and Eugene Schuller were staunch supporters of the pro-N-azi Vichy regime. Earlier on, Correze was associated with the pro-fascist militant groups, Camelots du Roi, the Secret Organization of National Revolutionary Action (OSARN), and the Knights of Gladiators, whose members wore costumes whose design was taken from the Ku Klux Klan in the United States. OSARN was closely aligned with Benito Mussolini and Hitler. OSARN’s purpose was stated: “We want to build a new Europe in cooperation with national socialist German and all other European nations freed from liberal capitalism, Judaism, Bolshevism and French Masons… to regenerate France and the French race… to ensure that Jews who stay in France are subject to harsh laws, preventing them from infesting our race… to create a socialist economy which guarantees a fair distribution of production by simultaneously increasing both wages and production.” OSARN was also closely associated with Reinhardt Heydrich, head of Hitler’s dreaded National Socialist Gestapo whom Otto Skorzeny had occasion to interact with.

Out of curiosity, considering recent vehement defense of Hungarian revolutionary hero and convicted assassin Lajos Marton who is suspected of having traveled with Jean Rene Souetre in 1963, I’m tracking the breadcrumbs from Hank's “Hungarians” who surfaced in his investigation into the assassination in Dallas — the scene of the crime — and possible implications for current events.

Out of curiosity, considering recent vehement defense of Hungarian revolutionary hero and convicted assassin Lajos Marton, I’m tracking the breadcrumbs from Hank's “Hungarians” who surfaced in his investigation into the assassination in Dallas — the scene of the crime — and possible implications for current events.

A researcher recently brought to my attention that Christopher Simpson's Splendid Blonde Beast details the machinations of certain US authorities, including Bill Donovan, to ensure that Hitler’s (former) favorite banker Hjalmar Schacht was acquitted following indictment for war crimes. Despite Judge Robert Jackson’s objections, Schacht was released to resume his career. I urge all to read those sections if you have the book, bearing in mind that Robert Storey (director of RNB Dallas) and Leon Jaworski (attorney for Houston-based Schlumberger who maintained a Dallas presence in RNB Dallas) reported to Judge Jackson.  Storey’s recently released diaries indicate he dined with Donovan on occasion during the Nuremberg ordeal. Storey later served as the exclusive Dallas liaison to Allen Dulles and the Warren Commission.

According to the Lafitte records, Jean Souetre was brought on board by Otto Skorzeny.  

We're considering the strong possibility of an overlap with George Joannides, via ZRRifle, and Jean Souetre via QJ/WIN. If so, we have further evidence to support the argument that this was an international operation and that Skorzeny was not a simple "tactician" working for THE C.I.A.

If elements of the OAS which had not yet been fully disbanded were involved, and if de Gaulle had gotten wind of the plan and did nothing to interfere, we're looking at a decades-long major rift in US-French relations with reverberations across Europe and NATO. Is this why the Souetre/INS files remain under lock and key? Is there correlation with the Joannides files?

Further, we now have several candidates — including a QJ/WIN operative within the highest echelon of INTERPOL — who could have affected a furlough for Hungarians Marton and Varga in order for them to travel with Souetre, all the way down to DFS Mexico City.  The vehement resistance to Hank's investigation by some — including active members on Ed Forum — is perplexing to say the least.

According to the Lafitte records, Souetre was brought on board by Otto Skorzeny.  

We're considering the strong possibility of an overlap with George Joannides, via ZRRifle, and Jean Souetre via QJ/WIN. If so, we have further evidence to support the argument that this was an international operation and that Skorzeny was not a simple "tactician" working for THE C.I.A.

If elements of the OAS which had not yet been fully disbanded were involved, and if de Gaulle had gotten wind of the plan and did nothing to interfere, we're looking at a decades-long major rift in US-French relations with reverberations across Europe and NATO. Is this why the Souetre/INS files remain under lock and key? Is there correlation with the Joannides files?

Further, we now have several candidates — including a QJ/WIN operative within the highest echelon of INTERPOL — who could have affected a furlough for Hungarians Marton and Varga in order for them to travel with Souetre, all the way down to DFS Mexico City.  The vehement resistance to Hank's investigation by some — including active members on Ed Forum — is perplexing to say the least.

6 minutes ago, Matt Allison said:

 

And there it is. Well, that didn't take very long, did it? lol

 

 

A Cosmic Joke!

18 minutes ago, Chris Barnard said:

Thanks, Leslie. 

You're welcome, Chris.

41 minutes ago, Chris Barnard said:

Another lie, which the transcript confirms. You personally sent me 2 more messages after I asked you to stop. And then another generic message which seems to be at Ben and I, totalling 3 messages.  I will also note that after asking you to stop you waited a cool 33 mins (approximately) to start replying again, ignoring our requests.
 

What is wrong with you?  
 

What we are establishing here is that facts and data go against your assertions. 
 

 

Chris, are you asking me to copy and paste the full exchange? I think you might be frustrated that there is a record of your continuing to engage yet refusing to say whether you had asked Mr. Koch.  It would have been so easy and efficient to simply state you were uncomfortable doing so.

fyi, I'm still experiencing a learning curve with EF messaging software.

As far as I'm concerned, the discussion with you is concluded. I look forward to hearing from Koch personally. 

9 minutes ago, Chris Barnard said:

Just try being honest, Leslie. I am pretty sure the moderators have access to PM’s. You sent at least two more messages disregarding Ben & I’s request. Before being reported. Then sending a third.

I am starting to doubt your credibility on just about everything. That’s my opinion, however, I am far from alone at this point. 

Chris, if I sent Ben an additional email after his request to be dropped, it was an oversight on my part. You on the other hand, continued to engage, stating you know with — I believe you said — 99% certainty Koch wouldn't make a menacing, threatening phone call. You said that you know his voice, indicating you've spoken with him personally. I asked four times if you would confirm with him that he didn't leave a 3 a.m. threatening call. Why didn't you simply say from the outset, "I'm uncomfortable asking my friend such a question," which would have ended our discussion?

5 minutes ago, Chris Barnard said:

Leslie,

You tried mither @Benjamin Cole and I via private message regarding this. Your usual tiresome tack meant that both of us requested that you cease and desist, ie stop messaging us. You continued to harass. At which point I reported you. 

 

 

I disengaged when you requested.

You remarked that you were "indulging" me. I asked three more times if you would be willing to ask Koch about the matter since I don't have direct access to him. You asked me to take your word that he wouldn't leave a menacing call. Why, precisely, would I do that?

This could have been avoided had you suspended your mind games, which I've learned to expect in lieu of productive exchange of information.

2 hours ago, Chris Barnard said:

@Mark Knight I do hope this doesn’t break a rule and that my message will be taken on face value and in the way that is in intended.

@Matthew Koch has asked me to communicate with you, as he has received a ‘private message’ from you which requires a response. The problem is that Matthew can’t respond to the message because of whatever ‘block’ or ‘censoring mechanism’ the forum currently has in place which prohibits him messaging you back. He has made it abundantly clear that he would like to respond to libellous allegations. May I forward him your direct email address which you wrote to me on, or could you permit him to reply on the site, by lifting whatever blocking mechanisms you have in place. 
 

Thank you. 
 

@James R Gordon @Kathy Beckett @Sandy Larsen 

 

@Chris Barnard You're well aware that I've messaged you privately regarding the possibility Matthew Koch left a menacing voicemail because you responded several times.

You are welcome to provide Koch with my personal gmail, lesliemsharp17@gmail.com.


@Mark Knight@James R Gordon @Kathy Beckett@Sandy Larsen
 

Roger Stone Identifies a Vice President that President Trump Might Consider – This Will Surprise You

' . . . The first mention [of Caretaker] is on March 7, just days after Lee Oswald was introduced to Ruth Hyde Paine in the home of Socony Mobil Oil chemist Everett Glover. Everett had known both Ruth and her estranged husband, Michael, through Madrigal choir practices and performances, a passion shared with Hungarian-born Fr. Ralph March, who cofounded Our Lady of Dallas, the Cistercian Abby located in Irving, Texas. Fr. March also served on the faculty of the University of Dallas, located on the campus of the Abby, during the tenure of President Robert Morris, the head of the regional chapter of the ultraconservative John Birch Society (JBS), and legal counsel to General Edwin A. Walker. (Morris’s history has been pursued in depth earlier in this book.) Michael Paine testified that out of curiosity, he attended a John Birch meeting in October at the invitation of a JBS advocate who was part of the Madrigal choir. . . . 

So How Does It All Come Together?

Roy Marcus Cohn, identified as one of the most powerful attorneys in Senator Joseph McCarthy’s stable during the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the ensuing Army-McCarthy hearings—and Robert Morris of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee who would later become a senior executive of the John Birch Society—each epitomized the philosophical argument that the only bulwark against the scourge of the earth, communism, was unregulated capitalism functioning in league with a fully sympathetic and compliant government apparatus, the generally accepted definition of fascism.

In the early 1950s, Cohn had caught the eye of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who soon recommended the twenty-four-year-old attorney to his personal friend, Joe McCarthy, to fill the role of his chief counsel. For assistant counsel, McCarthy fulfilled another request, that of his good friend Joseph P. Kennedy who was looking for a spot for his young and restless son, Robert F. Kennedy. McCarthy designated RFK as assistant counsel to his committee, working alongside Hoover’s professional protégé, Roy Cohn. 

Perhaps concerned for his political future as a liberal Democrat, or perhaps out of genuine disgust, Kennedy began to object to the aggression with which the committee, especially Cohn, was pursuing intelligence on suspected communists. He would eventually resign his duties as minority counsel, and although he managed to maintain a cordial relationship with McCarthy in deference to his father, a seismic rift developed between him and McCarthy’s counsel, Roy Cohn, one that would fester for a decade. When Robert took over the reins at the justice department in 1961, Cohn’s close association with FBI Director Hoover factored into the acrimony caused by Kennedy’s shift of focus from domestic surveillance to organized crime. RFK’s decision hampered Hoover’s obsession with a young minister and Black activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. who he had been spying on, and set the stage for what would become a virtual standoff between the attorney general and the director of domestic intelligence. After the assassination of Bobby Kennedy’s brother, Hoover was free to pursue his fixation with King and, brazenly, his bureau initiated attempts to blackmail the unflinching, charismatic leader of the civil rights movement. . . .

. . . In a stroke of synchronicity in September 1963, just weeks after suspected East German spy and seductress Ellen Rometsch was quietly shipped out of the US, Roy Cohn was indicted in the Southern District of New York with the blessing of Attorney General Robert Kennedy. US Attorney Robert Morgenthau, a good friend of the Kennedy family and an early appointee of President John Kennedy, had been aggressively investigating Cohn since taking office in 1961. That investigation culminated with the late 1963 indictments for perjury and obstruction of justice. According to Cohn’s oral history taken by James Oesterle for the Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Program of the Kennedy Library, when Robert Kennedy received the fateful call that his brother had been assassinated in Dallas, he was at home in Virginia having lunch with Bobby Morgenthau to discuss the Roy Cohn case. History records that the call came from Cohn’s old friend, Director Hoover.  

Indigo Olivier/April 10, 2023

Today’s Paranoid Right Has Surpassed the John Birch Society

Matthew Dallek’s “Birchers” traces how conspiracy theories went from being a fringe pastime to the right’s defining feature.

. . . During their most active years, Birchers formed dozens of chapters across the country. Their predominantly wealthy, white Christian membership was looking for a vehicle outside of the two-party system with which to make an impact. Members operated in relative secrecy and independence, organizing letter-writing campaigns to lawmakers, running for school board elections, and rallying behind local causes. Members fought against civil rights legislation, school integration, sex education, taxes, and public health measures like water fluoridation which they believed was a plot to poison Americans. They self-published right-wing literature, hosted talk radio shows and grew through word-of-mouth referrals. The John Birch Society pioneered the use of front groups to shape public opinion and policy, and counted Fred Koch of Koch Industries among its founding members. . . .

https://newrepublic.com/article/171736/todays-paranoid-right-surpassed-john-birch-society

Note: Matthew Dallek, author of prizewinning histories of the twentieth century, is the son of Robert Dallek, esteemed historian and author of "An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963". The senior Dallek is noted for having succeeded as no other biographer has done in striking a critical balance -- never shying away from JFK's weaknesses, brilliantly exploring his strengths -- as he offers up a vivid portrait of a bold, brave, complex, heroic, human Kennedy.

 

28 minutes ago, Michael Griffith said:

Humm, well, Clarence Thomas showed bad judgment in accepting the luxury trips from Harlan Crow. When Thomas and his wife went on the trips, he was not technically or specifically required to report them as part of his annual financial disclosure statement, but he should have done so anyway. All this being said, I hope nobody is suggesting that Thomas harbors any sympathy for the Third Reich or N-azism. Nothing in his writings or history lends the slightest credence to such a belief.

The subject, Michael, is the Thomas couple's close friend Harlan Crow, son of Dallas developer Trammell Crow who manifested Robert G. Storey's* brainchild — an international trade mart in Dallas.  As you likely know, the Crow dynasty's Dallas Trade Mart was the final destination of Kennedy's motorcade as it passed through Dealey Plaza. Awaiting with a formal welcome to Dallas was mayor Eric Jonnson, co-founder of military contractor Texas Instruments. As an aside (and further evidence of the high strangeness of interconnectedness of characters and events in the lead up to the coup), Jonnson also cofounded the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest. The managing director at the time, Lauriston Marshall, had played host to a small gathering in early January 1963, including George de Mohrenschildt's close friend Sam Ballen, and Everett Glover of Mobil Oil who then set in motion the eventual introduction of Ruth Paine to Lee and Marina Oswald. Both Glover and de Mohrenschildt appear in the 1963 datebook maintained by Pierre Lafitte, as does Robert Storey, and Otto and Ilse Skorzeny on numerous dates. 

*Storey had known SS Otto Skorzeny since the war.

Returning to "real time", in context of the aforementioned history, according to eyewitness Danah Boyle, Harlan Crow collects N-zi memoribliia. Are you arguing that the Thomas couple never visited Crow's home in Dallas?  

The 1963 records of Pierre Lafitte provide indisputable evidence that Dallas was always the designated scene of the crime to overthrow the US government as President Kennedy prepared to run for reelection. 

The rationale for selecting Dallas may seem complex and even controversial, in particular to those that believe the Chicago, Miami or Tampa plots were meant to succeed. Lafitte’s entry on November 1, “Trial runs . . . mistakes aplenty – Not Good” sets that record straight. 

            This chapter will explain that of all American cities, including Miami, Tampa, or Chicago, Dallas had “everything going for it”: a right-wing Republican climate that considered Kennedy an anathema to its political goals; a social and religious community that embraced segregation and recoiled at the suggestion that a Roman Catholic could navigate the delicate balance between church and state; a law enforcement apparatus with allegiance to the city’s ultraconservative political agenda; a crime syndicate that manipulated both sides of that law; and a thriving corporate and financial cabal operating in symbiosis with the oil industry and military contractors all of whom aligned far more with the ideologies of fascist regimes than with democracies. Adding to the assertion is a Lafitte note, “Rene says oil smooths the way to silent, and sometimes deadly, change.” Above all, as Renee told the author, Dallas was the “arms and legs of the CIA,” a truth borne out.

4 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

My goodness.

It's all one big octopus of corruption!

Tentacles everywhere!

Don't forget Clint Murchison's Del Charro resort in La Jolla, Ca.

Where guests there included members of organized crime and from time to time, J. Edgar Hoover and his live in friend Clyde Tolson, Nixon, Joe McCarthy and on and on.

Texas was a virtual "corruption incorporated" state.

Where if you needed to, one could get trial verdict convicted murderers off scot-free ... LBJ and Malcolm Wallace!  Now THAT's "Texas Style" corruption.

And monsters like Skorzeny and his wife are resurrected, protected and used by Texas connection interests?

The connection mentioned regarding Ginny and Clarence Thomas "friend" Harlan Crow and JFK/Texas times Trammel Crow are valid and should not be cause for moving this thread off the main forum ...imo anyways.

 

Joe, I agree. The disconnect is perplexing to say the least.  

3 hours ago, Paul Brancato said:

Leslie - where does the reference to collecting N memorabilia come from?

Paul, ProPublica broke the news of the lavish trips enjoyed by Clarence and Ginni Thomas paid for by their dear friends Harlan Crow and his wife.  
I followed the story to Salon to read a first-hand account of the N-azi collection. (seen here.)  From there I read the Washingtonian report which includes photos. (see link below.)

In a series of tweets written on Saturday morning, sociotechnical researcher, Danah Boyd describes visiting Crow's home years ago while attending a meeting about the future of Democracy, during which she viewed his collection first-hand.

"I didn't know who Harlan Crow was at the time," says Boyd. "I was told he was a major GOP fundraiser . . . Years later, I still shudder thinking about the National Socialist uniform decorations in Harlan Crow's house. And the painting. And the book. And the statues. And the "antebellum" (pro slavery) artifacts. I'm glad others are questioning the acceptability of those materials."

As detailed in the Washingtonian report, Crow's collection contains "two of [Hitler's] paintings of European cityscapes, a signed copy of 'Mein Kampf,' and assorted National Socialist memorabilia—plus a garden full of statues of the 20th century's worst despots."

According to Crow, he collects such things because "he hates communism and fascism."

https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/07/clarence-thomass-billionaire-benefactor-collects-hitler-artifacts/

High strangeness and circular serendipity . .  a kind of rolling coup. 

Coldwell Banker Previews International Turns 80! — [1983]
It was the height of the Great Depression and stately million dollar properties were languishing on the market and sales professionals had limited funds and resources to market them properly. Enter entrepreneur Henderson Talbot, who leaned on his work experience with Time and Forbes to create a marketing program for prominent properties; showcasing them in all their grandeur in an elaborate magazine named Previews . . . 

https://blog.coldwellbanker.com/coldwell-banker-previews-international-turns-80/

CB Richard Ellis Announces Acquisition of Trammell Crow Co.

1 hour ago, Kirk Gallaway said:

Whoa! Back to Dallas again! and "The Trammell Crow Company was privately held until 1997 when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol TCC. In 2006, the firm was sold to CB Richard Ellis group (NYSE:CBRE) for approximately $2.2 billion.

That buys a lot of National Socialist memorabilia.

And Thomas entering his fourth decade now!

Thomas's appointment was from George Bush SR., under some Republican political pressure to appoint a Black Conservative Justice, which became very apparent at the hearings to be scraping the bottom of the Justice barrel!

****

Joe, it looks like you got your wish.    heh heh

Cohen looks like that Jewish comedian actor who can be pretty funny!. Is it Richard something?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try this, @Kirk Gallaway
Coldwell Banker Previews International Turns 80!
It was the height of the Great Depression and stately million dollar properties were languishing on the market and sales professionals had limited funds and resources to market them properly. Enter entrepreneur Henderson Talbot, who leaned on his work experience with Time and Forbes to create a marketing program for prominent properties; showcasing them in all their grandeur in an elaborate magazine named

https://blog.coldwellbanker.com/coldwell-banker-previews-international-turns-80/
 

@Coup in Dallas
' . . . For now, in light of the Ellen Rometsch scandal, which was first widely exposed by Mollenhoff who was first to compare the pending scandal to the Profumo Affair, and the possibility that more than blackmail was in play, it is important to draw attention to several Lafitte entries:

NYC Rest guide ad.

Talk of Ella R. photographs

. . . in NY at Previews

—Lafitte datebook, September 17, 1963

Meet with Willoughby at

(Ella R) others at

49 East 53rd St.

NYC

—Lafitte datebook, October 15, 1963

As the reader will learn in a later chapter, Manhattan based real estate firm Previews Inc. provided Ilse Skorzeny “employment,” whether as an independent contractor, a salaried agent, or perhaps nothing but a cover for her travel in and out of the US. Among the founders of Previews were those behind the popular weekly magazine, CUE which at the time covered theatre and arts and New York’s social scene. . . .

Founded in 1932, Cue (the precursor to New York magazine) cemented itself almost overnight as the go-to theatre, arts and entertainment magazine for New York society, from “Bohemia” to Park Ave. Reading between the lines, Talbot of Previews, Inc., along with Oliver Keep and Archbold van Beuren, both of whom were on the ground floor of Cue AND of Previews, saw the potential for a quid pro quo arrangement . . . use the slick magazine, Cue to promote exclusive real estate to the target markets of Previews, and in turn, Cue would benefit from the advertising revenue and the panache of being associated with those who could afford the unique national and international properties that Previews represented.

            A portion of the van Beuren family fortune had been derived from land that was developed into Union Square in Manhattan in the 19th century. Archbold’s biography, including his role in the founding of Previews and Cue before WWII, may not seem relevant to our story, that is until one considers that at the close of WWII and before the OSS was circumvented by the Central Intelligence Agency, Archbold van Beuren had served as Chief of Security for William “Wild Bill” Donovan’s Office of Strategic Services.' 

@Benjamin Cole@John Cotter@Chris Barnard@Charles Blackmon
So, in light of Harlan Crow's collection of N-AZI memorabilia, can we approach the relevance of current events to the Kennedy assassination in Crow's home town from this angle?

That would be Harlan, son of Trammell, developer of the Dallas Trade Mart, and close friends and colleagues with among others, Clint Murchison who did business with SS Otto Skorzeny.  Does that work?  Harlan, who lavished hospitality on MAGA stalwart and 2020 coup conspirator Ginni Thomas whose husband is entering his third decade on the Supreme Court, known for rulings in lockstep with Ginni's extreme wing of the GOP.

Otto Skorzeny funeral, 1975 — 12 years following the coup in Dallas, 2 years after Nixon's impeachment, 41 years after Trump rode down that golden elevator, and 48 years after Trump's Waco-Nuremberg Rally - less than two full generations removed from the overthrow of the Kennedy presidency.  Note any relevance here? Would you teach your grandchildren about Chris Columbus but not this history?
 

Clarence Thomas’ benefactor collects Hitler memorabilia 

@Benjamin Cole@Chris Barnard@John Cotter@Charles Blackmon
According to Harlan Crow, he collects such things because he "hates communism and fascism"

. . . In a series of tweets written on Saturday morning, sociotechnical researcher, Danah Boyd describes visiting Crow's home years ago while attending a meeting about the future of Democracy, during which she viewed his collection first-hand.

"I didn't know who Harlan Crow was at the time," says Boyd. "I was told he was a major GOP fundraiser . . . Years later, I still shudder thinking about the National Socialist uniform decorations in Harlan Crow's house. And the painting. And the book. And the statues. And the "antebellum" (pro slavery) artifacts. I'm glad others are questioning the acceptability of those materials."
https://www.salon.com/2023/04/08/clarence-thomas-benefactor-collects-hitler-memorabilia/?fbclid=IwAR2yOjRsP7906GxeBOPJ6eM2jl63vd14Jp3sKsrilwPoB61NIAlGubPOpbs

@Sandy Larsen Sandy, under what circumstances does this kick in?

Oops!

On 4/5/2023 at 5:37 AM, Benjamin Cole said:

I think the moderators did the right thing in re-formatting the EF-JFK so that the focus is on the JFKA, not current politics.

Up until recently, a casual newcomer might have thought he landed in a permanent anti-Trump stomp-fest. 

The EF-JFK needs members, and to welcome people from across the political spectrum. A hardcore Trump supporter should feel very welcome at the EF-JFK, just like the strong Bidenite. 

Indeed, I encourage participants, when you see a new participant, to engage that participant in civil conversation. Make them feel welcome. 

The EF-JFK should not be a small, windowless club. It should be a big tent. 

As for Koch, I think if he pays his dues, perhaps the moderators should relent and let him back in.

The new EF-JFK format is a form of damage control, containing Koch and his adversaries. 

What thinking historian, credentialed or amateur, would pose the absurd argument that current politics should be excluded from examination of major historical events?

Which prompts the questions ... Is an active, ongoing effort to dissemble John Simkin's original mission in process? Are the rumors I've heard over the past some months being confirmed? Are the moderators under persistent fire from those who would prefer the JFKA forum be dissolved?

for the record, @Benjamin Cole I posted the following on Facebook, and thus far, I've had 42 researchers weigh in with anger and frustration related to the lavish hospitality of the son of the developer of Kennedy's final destination - the Dallas Trade Mart  - showered over a Supreme Court Justice (sitting on the court in real time — i.e., current events) and his wife who was actively involved in attempts to impede the peaceful transfer of presidential power, a.k.a. the 1963 coup in Dallas.

Son of Dallas Trade Mart developer hosts Ginni and Clarence Thomas on $500k vaca. The rolling coup.