NIck on Macintyre

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[…] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] if the trial was conducted by the book, he must have been.) The Swedish police are pretty dodgy, too; look at the mess they made over the murder of Olof Palme. (Don’t go by Kurt Wallander.) The police, press and politicians seem to be allowed to prejudice trials in advance. Again, Assange is an […]

View from 92

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[…] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.40 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]

NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]

A Memoir of Injustice by Jerry Ray

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] the patsy in Memphis. It may illustrate certain peripheral items, such as Ray’s experience of the judicial system, but brother Jerry knows no more about the actual murder conspiracy than we do. The only thought the book provoked in me, reading once again about the mysterious ‘Raoul’ who financed James Earl Ray’s travels around […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] official receipt of DPD’s evidence on November 27. Furthermore, DPD’s supposedly ‘suspicious’ public silence about the fingerprint evidence during the 48 hours between the assassination and Oswald’s murder is easily explained as being caused by the precedence given by Texas state law enforcement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (a situation that, by coincidence, […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] a number of people have shown that the photographs were taken between 2.20 and 2.30 pm. The first trio of tramps were arrested before news of the murder of officer J. D. Tippit reached Dallas police HQ at 1.15. See . 22 It didn’t help that his posthumous memoir was mangled by its publisher. […]

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