Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

A Few More SOTFPWTWGB Thoughts ...that is, continuing to sit-on-the-front-porch-and-watch-the-world-go-by thoughts, this time on "National Security" secrets and the JFK assassination; on using accurate language in public discourse (and refraining from reflexive, counter-productive virtue-signaling; on fixing the "Section 230" problem; and a little bit more. On the JFK assassination and the secretive "National Security' state. ON ONE OF HIS 'JUDGING FREEDOM' VIDEOS A FEW WEEKS AGO (all of which are generally excellent and highly recommended), Andrew Napolitano said that in the last days of the Trump administration he reminded Donald Trump of his promise (and his obligation under the law) to see that all the remaining Kennedy assassination records were released. Trump, Napolitano said, replied that if Napolitano knew what Trump had seen in those unreleased records, he wouldn't want them to see the light of day-- and then, of course, defied the law, broke his promise, and left the file hidden from public view. This is outrageous. Frankly, even leaving aside all the other reasons why no one, not Trump or any other president, has any business withholding such information from the American public no matter what it is, the very idea that it is so horrendous or momentous as to prompt that kind of response simply adds to the necessity and importance of its release. The American people need and are entitled to know whose oxen are gored in such records and how, no matter the positions of those malefactors. Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/248.htm#2