DA Jim Garrison demonstates the magic bullet absurdity in the movie 'JFK'

I spotted the highly recommended video featured lower down in this article – Back and to the Left – at Suraci’s blog. View it there to watch it alongside footage of the shooting of President John. F. Kennedy.

The comedian, Bill Hicks, had a meteoric career, tragically cut short by cancer in his early 30s over ten years ago. At the time Hicks gave this perfomance, Oliver Stone’s 1991 movie JFK was fresh in many peoples’ minds.

“Back and to the left” were the words used by Kevin Costner, who played District Attorney Jim Garrison, to describe the motion of Kennedy’s head as he was shot on that fateful day in November 1963. This made it obvious to anyone with a brain that Oswald could not have fired the lethal shot from the Book Depository. A ‘magic bullet’ was invented by the Warren Commission to explain away the inconvenient truth.

The young lawyer working for the Warren Commission back in 1964, who invented the absurd ‘magic bullet’ theory, went by the name Arlen Specter. Today, Arlen Specter is the senior Senator for Pennsylvania.

In the immortal words of Sir John Harrington:

Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

To see more of Bill Hicks’ brilliance, check out his website or look him up on YouTube. The atheistic Beyond the Fringe website today has an article Devastation is the Bible’s Fault, which features a Hicks skit about the war-mongering hypocrisy of some ‘Christians’.

Not much has changed on that front since the early 1990s.