The time has come to cheer on those who are willing to come away empty-handed from the coconut shell, to give up their certain reward for a less certain freedom. We must give up retribution for justice, avarice for compassion, more power for ourselves in exchange for a better life for our own and the rest of the world's children.
John F. Kennedy, the Thirty-fifth President of the United States, was murdered forty-six years ago by a conspiracy involving the most powerful factions of the Military-Industrial Complex. JFK was a martyr in the name of the peace process that had stopped the Cuban Missile Crisis, and brought about the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He had found a willing partner in Nikita Khrushchev, who had said after the Cuban Missile Crisis, "They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won." Khrushchev was driven from the halls of power in the Kremlin less than a year later. Both of these men had decided that the price of the food in the coconut shell was not worth it. They were removed from office by those who only saw the coconut's treasure.
My concept of Social Capitalism revolves around three very basic ideas: fairness, cooperation, and hope. In order to achieve these ideas, we human primates must first be willing to let go of the goodies in that coconut shell and get away from the ideas that bind us to the aggression, avarice, violence and fear that control too much of our lives. It is time for us to put into practice the idea of the brotherhood and sisterhood of all of humanity,which is central to every ethical belief system of which I am aware.
I do not wish this knowledge to punish those who are responsible for JFK's death, as well as Dr. King's, or Robert Kennedy's. I leave that to a far higher Tribunal than I might ever sit on or conceive of to mete out justice. But I do wish to know how high the conspiracy went in the halls of government, and who was complicit in the actual crime, and who was responsible for the cover-up.
I wish to know for one reason only: If I know, the whole of the American people will know. If, as I suspect, it was a high level conspiracy involving the military, intelligence, and corporate America, then those institutions will have to earn back the trust of the American people. I think a few years beneath a virtual microscope would do them some good.
They might even learn how to remove their hand from a coconut.
