Who Shot JFK?

I have always wondered who shot John F Kennedy. Although I am not American, I find his assassination very cruel.

For instance, what part did the CIA play in his assassination? Was the Mafia involved? Was George Bush Sr, who was working in the CIA at that time and oversaw the Bay of Pigs invasion feel threatened by the young Catholic upstart who was about to withdraw from Vietnam, and who had a pacifist policy, who was also about to clean up the CIA and splinter it into a thousand pieces for its Roswell debacle - who was not in favour of the invasion of Cuba in the first place?

Having studied ancient history, I've always been an admirer of Greece and its civilization and what it has given us : the most important of which is the ideal democracy.

I admire Socrates most of all among the Greek philosophers, and in these cynical times, perhaps it is wise to contemplate what true democracy is. Is it the right to speak without fear the concerns of a society and what is troubling us as citizens of a very wicked world, or is the right to express oneself freely at all times, but only during the election period? Or is it the right to cast a vote for a new government, a right that can be exercised only once in four years, in an atmosphere of absolute silence?

Is democracy as it is practised in America and in the Orient a tribute to a great martyr like Socrates who died for the Truth as he saw it, without flinching away from it? Or is it little better than an overused condom with a nice latex label, one of millions found floating in a bizarre sea of sin and scandal? Are democracies today filled with corrupt politicians? What are we as ordinary citizens doing to obliterate corruption from our electoral process? Is corruption more rampant in the Orient or does it happen in America as well?

Is Truth important - and if it is not seen to be practised today, is there a need to relook at the entire bizarre way democracy is practised today, and tolerated by a bewildered confused world?

Are we no better than slaves to a system that instead of offering us a better and more prosperous life today?

Where is the nobility and grandeur of vision of the ancient Greeks who dreamt up this concept of allowing the citizens to vote in their own leaders and exercise their liberty to speak in the Acropolis without fear today?

Do we do something about it - do we make movies about it - or do we accept that Mortal Man has become a victim of his own vanity and greed and hypocrisy?