Final_Judgment

Final Word?
The Book They Tried to Ban:
Reflecting on the Past, Present and Future
of Final Judgment and its Controversial Thesis
This book began with an extended essay about the controversy over
Final Judgment, so it is perhaps fitting that it should conclude with an
extended essay on the same topic.
Like the opening essay, this "final word" is admittedly more about
what has happened to Michael Collins Piper as a result of writing Final
Judgment than it is about what happened to John F. Kennedy.
Still, though, I think the readers will find it enlightening, for it all really
does demonstrate that there are limitations on what one may—or may
not—say in the debate over controversial issues such as the JFK
assassination.
There are many things to be said. The bottom line, though, is that Final
Judgment is not going to go away. As much as the Israeli lobby may hate to
admit it, the genie is out of the bottle.
The future of Final Judgment will largely be a series of efforts to
repudiate its thesis, but based on the efforts thus far, it doesn't seem likely
that there is anybody out there who will be able to do it—and the reason
may well be because the book is so very much on target.
Final Judgment is, by no means, a demolition of the Warren
Commission Report. The Warren Commission was discredited long ago.
Final Judgment is simply filling in the missing pieces of the
puzzle—providing the missing link in the chain—demonstrating what's
hidden on the other side of the jigsaw puzzle.
The metaphors are endless, but the point is clear. We've known for a
long time now that there was a conspiracy in the JFK assassination—a big
one—and that it reached some very high levels. Now we know in what
horizontal directions the conspiracy also reached.
One JFK assassination researcher, Vincent Salandria, has even gone so
far as to suggest that, from the beginning, "the Warren Commission's single
assassin conclusion was designed to fall to pieces, was designed to be
incredible, was designed to self destruct . . .
"Make no mistake about it, the Warren Commission and its staff were
made up of very able men. If these men had wanted to cover up the
conspiracy more effectively they could have done so . . .
"He suggests that the conspirators who were behind the assassination
ultimately wanted the American people to be demoralized and to know that
they had lost their power over their destiny. And, frankly, in looking at the
big picture, I'm afraid Salandria may be right.