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Originally Posted by markroxny
If you are going to write Oswald off as a lefty loon and a communist, you need to do a little homework, and read up on his connections to the US govt buddy.
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No, why don't YOU tell us about his "connections" to the US government? We know he was a Marine. What else?
Also, why do you imply that "connections" to the US government means he is not a left-winger? The government is and always has been FULL of left wingers of varying stripes - from the light pink to the deep red. Ramsey Clark? Bill-Hillary? Rahm Emanual? George McGovern? Ted Kennedy? Dennis Kucinich? Bernie Sanders? Anyone elected from a San Francisco district in the last 40 years?
In fact, a good case can be made that government connections means you are more likely to be left of center than right of center. Especially if you are in a government employee union.
Oswald dropped out of 10th grade and joined the Marines in October 1956 when he turned 17. He was given a hardship discharge in September 1959.
He fell for Marxist ideology, defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959 when he was barely 20. He got disillusioned in a hurry and came back to the US in less than 3 years (June 1962).
About 17 months later (November 1963) he was dead - barely 24 years old.
But, in the meantime, he tried to assassinate (March 1963) retired US Major General Edwin Walker, a fervent anticommunist who was also a John Bircher and a segregationist. Oswald considered Walker a fascist.
He had psychiatric problems as a kid and even the Soviets had him under psych evaluation in a hospital after he cut his wrist in a hotel bathroom.
He was a pathetic loser with delusions of grandeur.
Exactly who in the US government would have hired such a reject for any important purpose and when would they have had the chance to do it?
I can't wait to see the conspiracy theorist nonsense you post that insinuates some master plan for controlling the world. No doubt Jewish bankers are behind it all.
And I'm not even saying he was a "real" lefty and more that I think Timothy McVeigh was a "real" righty. Narcissistic sociopaths are quite common in society, but they don't rise to the level of true psychopaths that are so obviously crazy to everyone who meets them.
As the Warren Commission stated:
"It is apparent, however, that Oswald was moved by an overriding hostility to his environment. He does not appear to have been able to establish meaningful relationships with other people. He was perpetually discontented with the world around him. Long before the assassination he expressed his hatred for American society and acted in protest against it. Oswald's search for what he conceived to be the perfect society was doomed from the start. He sought for himself a place in history—a role as the "great man" who would be recognized as having been in advance of his times. His commitment to Marxism and communism appears to have been another important factor in his motivation. He also had demonstrated a capacity to act decisively and without regard to the consequences when such action would further his aims of the moment. Out of these and the many other factors which may have molded the character of Lee Harvey Oswald there emerged a man capable of assassinating President Kennedy.."
So, there is no denying his dabbling in left-wing ideology, as you are trying to do.
But, if not Marxism, I think he would have found some other excuse or ideology to use to commit some heinous act in order to draw to himself the attention he craved.
In our more modern era, he probably would have done something like - oh, I don't know, maybe shot up a theater full of people during the premier of a Batman movie. Just saying.
