Time to stop and think of other things

I think there may be people visiting this blog hoping for more on Robin Cook's death, whereas I don't intend, apart from this short entry, to write about it again.  It's not that there weren't other questions that occurred to me, or other observations I could have made.  But I think it would have been to labour the point. 

I didn't expect to write so much.  And the longer I looked into it and kept coming up with questions or inconsistencies or whatever, the more nervous, and haunted by it all, I became.  Nervous, spooked, because if there was any truth in what I was implying, then maybe some people wouldn't appreciate my writing about it.  Haunted, because I found that I was thinking about it too much; I was taking myself to Ben Stack, not literally, but in my imagination and with the help of photos, maps and Google Earth; and I even watched the funeral again.  It was time to stop and think of other things. 

Comments

[Sinclair]

I can imagine. I have felt like that when researching many topics. __________________ A quote that always sticks with me is one by former CIA Director William E. Colby to John DeCamp commenting upon De Camp's investigations into uncovering the truth behind the Franklin Credit Union scandal involving senior figures (Bush etc.) in US Power. __________________ "What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how much evidence you have. That is simply one of the hard facts of life you have to face. You have done your part. You have tried to expose the evil and wrongdoing. It has hurt you terribly. But it has not killed you up to this point. I am telling you, get out of this before it does. Sometimes things are just too big for us to deal with, and we have to step aside and let history take its course." __________________ Frightening........ __________________ Colby himself died in an unusual midnight canoeing accident. __________________ It takes strength & courage to write about these subjects & I appreciate your efforts, Shaphan. __________________ I would recommend the blog & discussion board at Rigorous Intuition for a place to discuss Deep politics & similar interesting subjects.......... __________________ Best Regards (No HTML is a bummer!)

[Shaphan]

Sinclair, thank you - the Colby quote is much appreciated. I read Rigorous intuition (and will blogroll it) and I'll check out the boards. Thanks again. (HTML is supposed to be working now but I'm going to have to read the manual.)