JFK's Only Grandson Doesn't Want Trump Declassifying the Assassination Files, Calling it 'a Political Prop'

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In the four days since Donald Trump got (re)sworn into office, he's made a bold, sweeping moves that have been popular with most of his constituents and loudly opposed by others. That's the nature not only of being President, but of radical change in general. A lot of people go through life hating the status quo; but hate watching the status quo get upset even more. 

But there's one order Trump signed that all Americans should be able to agree on. And that was his Executive Order declassifying all the records on the assassinations of the 1960s:

On a personal note, thanks to my pal Dante for acknowledging my own journey from staunch believer that Lee Harvey Oswald was a nutjob who acted alone to someone who is now convinced in a massive coverup. I think it's the height of intellectual honesty to do further research on your firmly held beliefs and be willing to change your opinion when confronted with contradictory evidence. 

You would think that Trump's willingness to finally release all the records after 62 years would be appreciated by the Kennedy family most of all. And in the case of Robert Kennedy's son (and nominee to be Trump's HHS Director), you'd be right:

But not everyone agrees. JFK's only grandson believes Americans don't deserve to know any more than what we've already been told:

Listen, I'm not about to go all ad hominem on Jack Schlossberg. Even though literally the only thing I know about him is who's DNA he has and the fact he's done a "Who's hotter?" between the Vice President's wife and his own grandmother:

It's actually not a bad question. And frankly, a tough call. The K in this trio is a slam dunk, but the F and M are coin flip in my opinion:

But that's neither here nor there.

The fact remains that his is without a doubt the stupidest possible opinion on this entire issue. What, we're not entitled to know what happened? What's in those files? What the federal government learned six decades ago but refused to tell the people who are supposed to actually get a say in how their country is run? 

On the basis of what, exactly? I mean, what argument is Schlossberg making here? That the public already knows everything it needs to? That the people who did know the whole story are the only ones who deserve to? And the rest of need to shut and go about our business? 

Horseshit. Pure, Grade A USDA prime horseshit. Schlossberg doesn't get an extra vote because of his family ties. Especially since the assassination happened 30 years before he was born. 

JFK might have been this guy's grandfather, but he was the President to the entire United States. What in his day used to be called Leader of the Free World. He was wildly popular. According to my sainted mother, the only politician my father (a fellow WWII US Navy vet) ever liked and trusted. His murder altered the entire trajectory of history in ways we'll never be able to comprehend. We're just supposed to accept the crumbs thrown before us by the official narrative?  

Nope. The world is done with that. Everybody who's name appears in those files has long been dead and buried. And even if they were in the prime of life, we'd still have every right to know the full truth. Forget this weak, limp-wristed, mealy-mouthed language about "conspiracy theories," "sadder" and "tragedy." 

The very term "conspiracy theory" was invented during the covered up "investigation" to discredit anyone asking legitimate questions and pointing out the inconsistencies in the Warren Report. If we've learned anything in the last 60 years - the last five especially - the difference between "conspiracy" and "widely accepted, verifiable truth" is often about six months. 

"Sad" is when your beloved granny dies peacefully in her sleep after saying her last goodbye to her family. It's not the word you reach for when the Commander-in-Chief gets his brains splattered all over the First Lady. Very likely due to a bullet from the front:

Which was the original finding of the doctor on the scene at Parkland Hospital who examined the President. And the consensus opinion of the dozens of medical staff in the room, all of whom observed the back of JFK's head blown almost completely off. Only much later did the theory become all the shots came from Oswald's rifle in the back, one of which was the infamous Magic Bullet" that produced several wounds in POTUS and Texas Governor Connally, but was found in pristine condition in the limo.

"Tradegy" is how we describe a natural disaster, and act of God, or an accident caused by human error. It's not applicable to an assassination that took out a democratically elected world leader and the subsequent investigation that lied, covered up, told half truths, fudged the data, hid evidence, and destroyed the lives of people who didn't go along with it. (See the case of Ralph Lee Yates, who passed several polygraph tests about giving a ride to someone who looked exactly like Oswald on the day in question, but was committed to an insane asylum against his will by J. Edgar Hoover.)

The simple facts Oswald had ties to the CIA, and the FBI kept a file on him - which they refused to divulge - alone are enough to make this declassification the fundamental right of every American. Regardless of how much a 30-something relation would rather we be kept in the dark. Delaying this another day would be more than a conspiracy or sad tragedy. It would be an outrage.