Category: Kennedy

Freedom Is Slavery?

7/17/2013

JFK, MLK, RFK

Gulf of Tonkin

Vietnam, Desert Storm

The October Surprise, Iran-Contra

Bush vs. Gore

Nine Eleven

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What do all of these and other events have in common?

War mongers profited and chances for peace plummeted

The official story given to the public through the corporate media

Once again trumped the truth

It will keep on happening

Because we think we are free

And we are

Except we have no freedom to change the direction of our nation

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Politicians Should Learn Lessons from RFK Campaign and Inspire Us

4/28/2010

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Are you inspired by any politician?

Common complaints about those who run for office are the promises they make and do not keep, their unwillingness to stand for something and their reliance upon negative campaigning, especially through 30-second spot ads on television.

Recent political campaigns have featured promises in which the public has been told by candidates of both major parties what they want to hear. Nixon promised “peace with honor” in Viet Nam, Carter said he “would never lie” to us and George H. W. Bush told us there would be “no new taxes.”

Candidates offering the most appealing promises have tended to win and have had to focus on keeping them. Some promises have been kept and others not. But it hasn’t always been this way.

Robert Kennedy campaigned for president in 1968 by telling audiences what they did not want to hear: to a group of college students, he said he favored removing the deferment that students had from the draft.

Yet he claimed students as one of his biggest constituencies on election day.

Advisors told Robert Kennedy not to speak to a mostly black audience in Indianapolis after it was revealed that a white man was accused of murdering Martin Luther King, Jr. They told him the crowd could form into a mob and injure or even kill him and others present.

Yet he gave the speech, anyway. Not only did no one harm him, but on that fateful day, Indianapolis was the only major city in the whole United States that did not have rioting.

His opponents used what was then a relatively new forum with which to campaign, television advertising. But Robert Kennedy did not like this approach because he could not articulate the ideas that he based his campaign upon, such as ending the United States involvement in Viet Nam, reducing poverty and promoting civil rights for all.

So he frequently used 30-minute, rather than 30-second advertisements. They worked to help him to detail and clarify his positions and how he would lead the United States if elected.

Kennedy’s campaign of 1968 should inspire us because he chose to run his campaign by what he believed was right, regardless of the consequences. His willingness to do the unpopular and even the unthinkable showed a solid grasp of self-knowledge and gave the voters confidence of his integrity to principle had he avoided the assassin’s bullet and won election.

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Deadline for Restoring Hope in USA: November 2013

4/15/2010

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Hope for the United States of America died many years ago.

Our nation used to have hope for so many and for so much. It used to believe that things were possible, like equal opportunity for all, ending involvement in conflicts that made no sense and serving as a role model for other nations. We used to have politicians who were statesmanlike and who had no fear standing up for unpopular principals at their own risk.

We are running out of time to get that hope back.

In fact, the deadline stares right at us. By November 2013, we must do the following before the spotlight of media and public attention given to those who fueled that hope runs out:

Establish the truth about those who were taken from us. Lies destroyed the hope we once knew. Lies about who killed the Kennedys. Lies about KentState. Lies about 9/11.

Get the truth about JFK's assassination and tell everyone else, regardless of what the media or those in power say. We don't need every detail. We do need the truth that members of our government perpetuated the murder and framed an innocent man, Lee Harvey Oswald. All other facts about the assassination simply fall in line behind these two facts.

We must know the truth about these events for our own survival. If agents of the government can murder the president, presidential candidates and other innocent people, they are capable of murdering anyone. Knowing how they did it can only help us.

Tune out candidates who only give us sound bites. It started with the 1968 campaign, with Richard Nixon and Roger Ailes effectively using spot ads and focus groups to win the election. Nixon said very little about any plans he had for the United States and refused to debate his opponent, Hubert Humphrey.

The last presidential candidate to routinely speak off the cuff about his thoughts for improving our nation was Robert Kennedy. He spoke with passion and paid no attention to polls. He risked his life informing the people of Indianapolis that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been murdered, apparently by a white man. Of all the major cities in the United States, the only one not to suffer a riot that night was Indianapolis.

We must vote out the phonies and tune in the real candidates. If a candidate cannot talk straight to get the job, how will they tell the truth to us?

Stop the Wars! Our long involvement in Viet Nam gave our leaders reason to believe that they could get away with getting into a war over lies. Groups of people I call the "War Party" made a fortune with their stocks and contracts and they shoveled some of it back to those who made the war possible.

History repeats itself with the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and covert actions elsewhere. It is time to stop falling for lies like "weapons of mass destruction," "we have to get bin Laden" and "we must fight pre-emptively." These are just empty sound bites designed to stop reasoned conversation.

We must stop these kinds of wars to save future generations from the agony inflicted upon us.

Don't let November 2013 sneak up on you. After it is gone, no one will care much about JFK because the golden anniversary will have passed. Act upon the truth and for the truth now to bring back hope to our nation.

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Warren Commission Started the Wall of Denial over Government Misconduct

2/11/2010

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As a child, I heard about the Vietnam War. A television program told me that the United States lost the war. Because I had believed my country always won, I disbelieved what the program said for quite some time.

Instead I went to a trusted source: my grandmother. She would never lie to me. She told me that we had, in fact, lost the war and why. Because I trusted her, I reconsidered the subject and later researched it and ascertained facts which confirmed what she said.

It could be said that my analysis of whether we won the war became a contest of trust in my grandmother's logic and honesty versus trust in my prior belief. My belief simply gave way to the facts.

This same battle between logic and conviction divides the public and keeps us from understanding the society in which we live and its history.In the debate over the John Kennedy assassination, facts emerge. Lee Harvey Oswald could not have been at the alleged crime scene because he did not have the time to run from there to where he was positively seen soon after. No one saw him bring a rifle to work that day and the rifle allegedly used was not the same size as the one he allegedly ordered. The only witness who claimed to have seen him shoot a rifle at the president, Howard Brennan, changed his point of view several times and was not thought a reliable witness by the Warren Commission.

I could go on. This set of facts (and others) makes for a completely different story than the official one given by the Commission. But others with whom I discuss this matter cling to their belief in the official version of events and look for ways to explain my facts to suit their conclusion. It seems they cannot bring themselves to believe that our government lied to them about who murdered a president.

Belief can assist a person in feeling better about themselves and their future. But belief itself is not the same as the truth. The truth is like a set of dominos that will fall only in one direction when all relevant facts are known.

The battle between belief and truth continues today. There is a wall of belief that our government would never do anything as horrible as murdering anyone or lying about reasons for starting a war or rig a presidential election. This wall is really one of denial.

Facts again tell the true story that government agents participated in 9/11, that the Bush Administration lied about the lack of threat Saddam Hussein presented to the U.S. in starting the war in Iraq in 2003 and that the Supreme Court used false logic to give the 2000 election to Bush. Instead of reconsidering and possibly accepting the truth, there are those who hold on to the wall.

This is the wall that must come down before we can make wise decisions as to the future of our country. The sooner we quit denying truth, the better off all of us will be.

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Freedom Is Slavery?

Politicians Should Learn Lessons from RFK Campaign and Inspire Us

Deadline for Restoring Hope in USA: November 2013

Warren Commission Started the Wall of Denial over Government Misconduct

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