Getting The Facts

WITHIN MOMENTS after JFK expired at Parkland General, or wherever, assuming he expired, conspiracy theories started multiplying like stray cats in a small southern town. The list of people who done it came to include LBJ, the CIA, Castro, the ubiquitous, always available Russians (Russian scapegoatery has a long and distinguished pedigree, long predating the now confirmed election interference and Trump's alleged collusion therewith), the mob, et al. As the years turned into decades, the list of conspirators lengthened, Culminating in the Oliver Stone film in the early nineties in which we all might as well turn ourselves in as co-conspirators. Mick and the boys had it right all along. I shouted out: who killed the Kennedy's? When after all, it was you and me. I was eight years old when Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, accomplished something way above his pay grade, and grew up concocting my own conspiratorial assassination theories, like all good Americans, but by the time Stone's movie came out, I was ready to give Oswald full credit, by default, from exhaustion. People wanted, and still want, big people getting credit for doing big things, not some little nobody like lee Harvey. The JFK tangled web, after more than half a century, has finally died down a bit, laid to rest as never to be resolved, replaced by newer, even sexier conspiracy upgrades. The tangled web of folks and groups in collusion to get Trump is remindful of the Kennedy mess, and Donald has sworn to get them all. Good luck with that. They include the Democrats, the media, the imaginary deep state, et al. Stay tuned for more. In actual reality, which these days people tend to eschew, the conspiracy out to get Trump consists of one group; the majority of the American people. We're perfectly willing to await our turn to vote, and to do it the right way. Speaking of conspiracies, what's with this business of the Attorney General having in his possession the entire Mueller report, but not letting anyone else look at it? He seems to have mistaken it for his personal diary. Didn't the House of Representatives vote, something like four hundred twenty to noting, to get a copy of it? And, am I dreaming, or did Mitch McConnell, using his Senatorial majority leadorial agenda setting powers, just block any attempt in the Senate to facilitate the sharing of Mueller's information? Is this all a bad dream, or what? Now, look. I, as well as the next man, and the next, no matter how much I despise Donald J. Trump, which I can assure you, is considerably, am perfectly willing to accept the fact that there was no Russian-Trumpian collusion of any form or fashion. In fact, I personally hope and pray there wasn't. The last thing i want is to have a president of the United States indicted, arrested, tried, convicted, and executed for treason, great reality TV though that would make. I mean, the Nixon thing was bad enough. But I cannot accept the results of an investigation which I cannot see. And, chances are, Barr's four page letter is basically telling the truth, summarizing Mueller, but; how do we know? We don't, and won't, until, as Bernie Sanders inelegantly put it, we see the whole damned thing. What if Trump and a few of his enforcers visited Mr. Barr, and offered to let him live, instead of swimming with the fishes, so long as he redacted and redacted to Trump's heart's content? I mean, what if? Is it true what the rumor says, that first the full report will be given to "The white House" for "redacting", and then released? Or is this another of my bad dreams? Trump first, then America? What? To quote John McEnroe, you cannot be serious! Just to let you know; right wing Trump supporter nut cases are not the only ones with vivid imaginations. There are millions of us who can see it now; Donald Trump, switching off FOX fake news for a brief spell, glancing through the Mueller thing, and magic marking out the part about collusion, and leaving the rest, good to go. I mean, if you were Trump, wouldn't you? Sorry, that isn't a fair question. No, this is not the way it needs to happen. No way, no how. I'm ready to take to the streets over this one, and I already have my hand painted sign ready to go, cardboard nailed to two by four. To quote Donald Trump, who said it twice in a row during his mercifully brief inauguration rant: "America first. America first".