Robert Maheu and the logic of Assassination I noticed at the weekend that Howard Hughes's old bagman, and Watergate player Bob Maheu had died earlier this month . Howard Hunt , who passed away last year with one last gasp at muddying the waters of the Kennedy assassination with some confabulated hazy tale, now has a companion wherever he is. Maheu viewed his principal quality, in a quite feudal way, as loyalty, and his activities as essential to the maintenance of a free society. Freedom, of course, was defined in his own peculiar way. Like a good many people, I truly despise war. Yet I have no existential need to make things righteous in order to do them. There are evil things in a flawed world, and even more evil things. I would prefer that bad things are done, if they have to be, and that I do not have to know about them, or be drawn into some attempt to pretend that they could be put on a legal footing. Those who consider themselves enlightened secularists, however, have always...
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