Sunday, May 4, 2014

Sunday Globe Special: You Be the Judge of This Conspiracy Theorist

Mine is that he was a disinformation agent working for the US government:

"John Judge, 66; independent investigator of historic events" by Emily Langer | Washington Post   April 27, 2014

WASHINGTON — John Judge — an independent researcher who tirelessly amassed and disseminated evidence supporting alternative explanations, which some called conspiracy theories, for President John Kennedy’s assassination, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and other historic events — died April 15 at a nursing facility in Washington. He was 66.

He died on tax day?

Through years of investigation and activism, Mr. Judge developed a devoted following in the community of skeptics who question official or commonly accepted narratives of the past. He cofounded and directed the Coalition on Political Assassinations, an organization whose activities include investigating the deaths in the 1960s of Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and black nationalist leader Malcolm X.

He turned his Washington home into a repository of thousands of volumes and documents on political assassinations and other matters, supporting himself over the decades through odd jobs and fund-raising work. He was once described as a ‘‘professional conspiracist,’’ but he considered himself an ‘‘alternate historian,’’ according to his website, judgeforyourself.org.

I already rendered mine.

‘‘I tell people you can call me a conspiracy theorist if you call everyone else a coincidence theorist,’’ Mr. Judge quipped to the publication National Journal.

His most noted work involved President Kennedy’s death in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Like legions of others doubters labeled conspiracy theorists, Mr. Judge rejected the Warren Commission’s finding that Lee Harvey Oswald had been the lone gunman.

Geez, anyone believing in that silly theory is the conspiracy nut.

Judge’s working theory, he told interviewers, was that the assassination had been organized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ‘‘I don’t think this is an insoluble parlor mystery,’’ he once told the Dallas Morning News. ‘‘I don’t think we are just flailing in the dark.’’

That's the giveaway. I don't think they were in on an operational level at all, and if you think about those forces that receive the least amount of attention (Israel and the Federal Reserve) you can recognize this for what it is -- although the judgement is yours, readers.

Mr. Judge helped organize in Dallas an annual commemorations of Kennedy’s death. He and others gathered on the grassy knoll, the spot where another gunman, according to some theories, was stationed. Those memorials became the subject of controversy last year when Dallas marked the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s death.

It's not just a theory; handfuls of witnesses testified to it and were told to shut up.

After contentious discussions with event organizers, the Coalition on Political Assassinations agreed to hold its ceremony in a parking lot several blocks away from the usual spot, which was restricted to ticket-holding participants.

‘‘We’ll be here,’’ Mr. Judge had said. ‘‘We may have to crawl through the sewer system and pop our heads up where the assassin was, but we’ll be here.’’

In his work regarding more recent history, Mr. Judge cofounded the 9/11 Citizens Watch to monitor the operations of the official 9/11 Commission, the independent and bipartisan body created by congressional legislation to prepare a full account of the attacks.

He briefly worked as an assistant to Cynthia McKinney, a Georgia Democrat and then a member of Congress who was widely rebuked when she suggested that President George W. Bush’s administration might have had advance notice of the terrorist strike.

Former US representative Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat who met Mr. Judge during his Capitol Hill employment, described him as brilliant and said he had been very impressed by Mr. Judge’s research abilities.

‘‘I may not have agreed with him on everything,’’ Kucinich said in an interview, but he was ‘‘an original, independent thinker and someone who immersed himself in hidden history.’’ 

I think they are wonderful people, but now I'm suspicious of his presence in their offices. 

Don't judge me too harshly; after all, I am a conspiracy theorist.

At the time of his death, Mr. Judge was working toward the establishment in Washington of the Museum of Hidden History, which would include an archive and library. Among other missions, according to its website, it would ‘‘inform and educate the public about little-known aspects of local, national, and international history.’’

‘‘It erodes the rational approach when you talk of conspiracies involving a small cabal in a board room controlling world history,’’ Mr. Judge once told The Boston Globe. ‘‘But it’s a common human trait to want an explanation for all the unexplained things that are happening, some kind of grand unified theory.’’

He sounds like he is debunking the very theories he espouses! 

Where do you think the JCS meet?

John Patrick Judge was born in Washington, and he grew up in Falls Church, Va. Both his parents worked at the Pentagon.

That was the clincher for me, folks! 

I'm not doubting elements of the pentagon were hostile to JFK and wanted him gone. I just do not think they were "in on it" so to speak. That would have risked too much exposure for the perpetrators. 

Do you think they forgot whistleblower Smedley Butler?

Mr. Judge graduated in 1970 from the University of Dayton in Ohio, where he studied theology and where he recalled being obliged to participate in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. He later joined the American Friends Service Committee as a draft counselor during the Vietnam War.

He infiltrated a peace group.

In Washington, Mr. Judge became what the Washington City Paper described as ‘‘the voice of military dissent in D.C. public schools.’’ He sought to counter military recruiting efforts by attending career days and informing students of what he alleged were discrimination and deprivation of rights within the military.

Mr. Judge’s survivors include his companion of four years, Marilyn Tenenoff of York Haven, Pa. She said that Judge had a stroke in March but that the cause of death had not been determined.

I'm not suspecting foul play.

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War paper that savages conspiracists was real easy on him, were they not?

What is interesting is that Mike Ruppert didn't get a eulogy from the Globe. 

The layers of disinformation are sometimes buried and the truth is omitted outright.