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[Dave Monroe]

>From David R. Wrone, The Zapruder Film: Reframing
JFK's Assassination (Lawrence: U of Kansas P, 2003),
"Introduction," pp. 1-5 ...

   "A comment about that word: the word 'conspiracy'
has acquired a lot of emotional baggage over the
years, usually in dismissive reference to those who
wail about alleged high-level corporate or federal
misdeeds or to the overheated paranoia of Hollywood
films and television shows ....  Indeed, to argue
'conspiracy' is to invite direct association with teh
so-called lunatic fringe, which would be anathema to
any serious scholar.  But, for those who are well
versed in American history, the concept of a
conspiracy is a familiar one, in part because it
represents a common phenomenon in American society,
politics, and law--ranging from the revolutionary
generation through teh cabals of Federalists, the
treason of the Confederacy, the theft of public
resources by various robber barons, the rise of
organized crime, the plunder of savings and loans
institutions, the demise of Enron and Worldcom, and so
on.
   "The word itself has Latin roots--'con,' meaning
with or together, and 'spire,' meaning to breathe--and
derive from the practice among the Roman legions of
soldiers entering or leaving camp to voice the
password to guards by whispering into their ears to
avoid listening spies.  From this curious origin it
evolved under Roman and then European and American
usage and law to mean two or more persons working
together to do what the law says is wrong....  All in
all, such things have been a more frequent part of the
Anmerican landscape that most of us might think." (pp.
2-3)

http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/book1.html

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> No signs of a conspiracy.


		
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