Re-translation of "JFK" Closing Statement

Elza 2021-11-14 08:01:25

For ten years, the status of "JFK" in my mind is irreplaceable, not for its dazzling editing, nor for the shocking truth it tries to uncover, but because of the following passage of Kevin Costner in The closing statement in the court. For this movie, this passage tells the audience that the prosecutor single-handedly challenged the system and tried his best to break through the dark scenes to reveal the truth. For me personally, this passage is even more an enlightening text, which urges me to break free from the ignorance and self-righteousness of the SB era, and know that I will look at society with my eyes open.

This passage has been translated several times in the past few years. The latest version posted in the past two days is the one that I am most satisfied with so far.




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Hitler always said:"The bigger the lie,the more people will believe it."
Hitler often said: "The more terrifying a lie, the less questionable it is."

Lee Harvey Oswald, a crazed, lonely man who wanted attention and got it by killing a President, was only the first in a long line of patsies.
Lee Harvey Oswald, a lonely man who assassinates the president for the limelight, is only the first in a long line of scapegoats.

In later years, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King...men whose commitment to change and peace, made them dangerous to men committed to war, would follow also killed by such lonely, crazed men. For
several years, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King. . . These people who are committed to change and peace have caused the war mongers to feel in the way, so they have all died at the hands of this kind of lonely madman.

Men who remove all guilt by making murder a meaningless act of a loner
.

We've all become Hamlet in our country, children of a slain father-leader whose killers still possess the throne
.

The ghost of John F. Kennedy confronts us with the secret murder at the heart of the American Dream
.

He forces on us the appalling questions:
He shocked us with a series of questions:

Of what is our Constitution made? What is the
foundation of our Constitution made ?

What is our citizenship more our lives worth? What is our citizenship more our lives worth
?

What is the future of a democracy where a President can be assassinated under conspicuously suspicious circumstances while the machinery of legal action scarcely trembles
?

How many more political murders disguised as heart attacks, suicides, cancers, drug overdoses? How many more political murders are disguised as heart attacks, suicides, cancers, drug overdoses
?

How many airplane and car crashes will occur before they are exposed for what they are
?

"Treason doth never prosper!" wrote an English poet, What's the reason? "Treason doth never prosper!" What's the reason
?

For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Because if it succeeds, no one dare to call it treason.

The American public hasn't yet to see the Zapruder film, why? The American public hasn't yet to see the Zapruder film, why
?

The American public hasn't yet to see the real X-rays and photographs of the autopsy, why? The American public hasn't yet to see the real X-rays and photographs of the
autopsy, why?

There are hundreds of documents that could help prove this conspiracy, why have they been withheld or burned by the government
?

Each time my office or you, the people, asked those questions, demanded crucial evidence, the answer from on high has always been "national security".
Whenever my office or you - the people - to ask these questions, we need to key When it comes to sexual evidence, the official answer is always: "national security."

What kind of "national security" do we have when we have been robbed of our leaders?
If even our leaders cannot be protected, what kind of "national security" do we have?

What "national security" permits the removal of fundamental power from the hands of the American people and validates the ascendancy of invisible government in the United States?
In the United States, what "national security" permit the denial of acts of fundamental rights of the American people, what "National security" recognizes the dominance of an invisible so-called "government"?

That kind of "national security", gentlemen of the jury, is when it smells like it, feels like it, and looks like it, you call it what it is —— Fascism!
When "national security" evolves to Sri Lanka, gentlemen, the essence is-what you call-fascism!

I submit to you that what took place on November 22, 1963 was a coup d'etat
.

Its most direct and tragic result was a reversal of President Kennedy's commitment to withdraw from Vietnam. Its most direct and tragic result was to change Kennedy's commitment to withdraw
troops from Vietnam.

The war is the biggest business in America worth $80 billion a year. The war is the biggest business in America worth $80 billion a year
.

President Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy that was planned in advance at the highest levels of our government and was carried out by fanatical and disciplined Cold Warriors in the Pentagon and CIA's covert operations apparatus, among them, Clay Shaw, here before you.
President Kennedy The murder conspiracy planned by the highest level of government was put into action by fanatical, well-trained, cold-blooded gunmen from the Defense Department and the CIA cover action group, including the Clay Show in front of you.

It was a public execution and it was covered up by like-minded individuals in the Dallas Police Department, the Secret Service, the FBI, and the White House, all the way up to and including J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson——whom I consider accomplices after the fact.
This was a blatant execution, and it was carried out by like-minded people in the Dallas Police Department, the Secret Service, the FBI, and the White House, even up to J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson, who I personally think became an accomplice after a fait accompli. cover.

The assassination reduced the President to a transient official
.

His job, his assignment is a speaker as often as possible of this nation's desire for peace while he acts as a business agent in the Congress for the military and hardware manufacturers.
His work and mission is for military arms manufacturer in Congress and Act as an agent while talking about the country’s desire for peace as high as possible.

Some people say I'm crazy, southern caricature seeking higher office. Some people say I'm crazy, a southern caricature seeking higher office
.

Well there is a simple way to determine if I am paranoid: let's ask the two men who have profited the most from the assassination——your former President Lyndon Baines Johnson and your new President Richard Nixon——to release 51 CIA documents pertaining to Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby, or the secret CIA memo on Oswald's activities in Russia that was "destroyed" while being photocopied. Its
practical and simple method can be used to judge whether it is my unpredictable intention: please take the two most profitable from the assassination-before President Lyndon Baines Johnson and current President Richard Nixon-released CIA files 51 related to Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby, or "destroyed" remakes of confidential CIA memos about Oswald's activities in Russia.

All these documents are yours, the peoples property, you pay for it!
These materials are all yours, the property of the people, and you have paid the tax!

But because the government considers you as children who might be too disturbed or distressed to face this reality, or because you might possibly lynch those involved, you can not see these documents for another 75 years.
But the government of view you as a child, difficult to distinguish non Either it is difficult to suppress the grief and it is not suitable to see the truth, or because you are worried that some people will "confuse the crowd", so you have to wait another 75 years to see these materials.

I'm in my early 40's, so I'll have shuffled off this mortal coil by then, but I'm already telling my 8 year-old son to keep himself physically fit so that one glorious September morning in 2038 he can walk into the National Archives and find out what the CIA and the FBI knew.
I am forty years old, and by then I am no longer alive, but I have warned my eight-year-old son to keep healthy, so that in September 2038 One bright morning, he could go to the National Archives to see what the CIA and FBI had concealed.

They may even push it back then. It may become a generational affair, with questions passed down from father to son, mother to daughter.
Maybe by then they will postpone the time again, leaving the doubts to their children from parents, and turning them into a secret that has been passed down from generation to generation.

But someday somewhere, someone may find out the damned truth!
But one day, there will eventually be a place where someone will find out the hell the truth!

We'd better, we'd better or we might just as well build ourselves another Government - like the Declaration of Independence says to -. When the old one is not work, just a little farther out West
we are the best, We better or we have to build a new government by ourselves—as the Declaration of Independence tells us—when the old government can’t represent the people, it’s a big deal to rely on the west.

An American naturalist wrote: "a patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government ".
an American naturalist wrote:" the Patriots should always be ready to defend the country and fight against the government "! the

I'd hate to bE in your Shoes today.
today I It is not intended to upset you.

You have a lot to think about. You have a lot to think about
.

You've seen much evidence that the American public hasn't never seen.
You have seen a lot of evidence that the American public cannot see.

Going back to when we were children, I think most of us in this courtroom thought that justice came into being automatically, that virtue was its own reward, the good would triumph over evil.
Recall a child, I believe that most people present were I used to think that the realization of justice is as natural as the ripeness of the melons.

But as we get older we know that this just isn't true
.

Individual human beings have to create justice and this is not easy because truth often possess a threat to power and one often has to fight power in great risk to themselves.
Everyone must go to justice, and this is not easy, because the truth It often means threats from power, and people often have to take huge risks to fight against power.

People like SM Holland, Lee Bowers, Jean Hill, and Willie O'Keefe have all taken that risk, have all come forward.
Just like SM Holland, Lee Bowers, Jean Hill, Willie O'Keefe, they all take this risk Come to testify in court.

I have here some $8000 in these letters sent to my office from all over the country——quarters, dimes, dollar bills from housewives, plumbers, car salesmen, teachers, imbeciles...
These envelopes contain about eight thousand dollars, from The items sent to my office from all over the country included two cents, one cent, and one yuan, from housewives, plumbers, car salesmen, teachers, and people with disabilities. . .

These are the people who can not afford to send money but do; these are the ones who drive the cabs, who nurse in the hospitals, who see their kids go to Vietnam, why?
They are the ones not dig much money, but They did. They drove a taxi, worked as a nurse in the hospital, and watched their son go to Vietnam. Why?

Because they care; because they want to know the truth; because they want their country back; because it still belongs to us; as long as the people have the guts to fight for what they believe in!
Because they care about; because they are eager to learn The truth; because they are still looking forward to their country; because as long as the people still have the enthusiasm to fight for their faith, it still belongs to us.

The truth is the most important value we have because if the truth does not endure, if the government murders truth, if we cannot respect the hearts of these people, then this is not the country in which we were born in and is certainly not the country that I want to die in!
The truth is the most important value we have, because if it doesn’t exist anymore, if the government deliberately conceals the truth, if we can’t respect these innocent hearts, then this place will no longer be where we were born, and it is not what I want to be buried in. that country!

Tennyson wrote: "Authority forgets a dying king".
Tennyson wrote: "The authority has no time to take care of the dying king."

And this was never more true than for John F. Kennedy whose murder was probably one of the most terrible moment in the history of our country.
For John F. Kennedy is no more appropriate than this sentence, while his assassination It is also probably the most terrifying moment in our country's history.

You the people——the jury system——sitting in judgement on Clay Shaw, represent the hope of humanity against government power.
All of you who appear in court to try Clay Show represent the jury system and the hope of humanity against the power of the government.

In discharging your duty, to bringing the first conviction in this house of cards against Clay Shaw
.

"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.
"

Do not forget your dying king!
Don't forget your dying king!

Show the world, this is still a government of the people, for the people, and by the people
.

Nothing as long as you live will ever be more important. Nothing as long as you live will ever be more important
.

It's up to you!
It's all up to you!

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JFK quotes

  • David Ferrie: Man, you don't leave the Agency. Once you're in they got you for life!

  • Lyndon B. Johnson: You just get me elected, and I'll give you your damned war.