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September 6, 2007 at 05:57:03
A New and Improved Irish Jesus by Melody Clark Page 1 of 2 page(s) |
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The Bush Cadre's Fight to Destroy the Iconic Kennedy Legacy and Replace it with Ronald Reagan's
The Grand Poobah of political humor sites, the Onion, once featured a plea to Barbra Streisand from the fictional Collector's Plate Society. "The Society" beseeched Babs to voluntarily die young so that they could better merchandise her. It had been years since Presley, they pointed out, and the collectibles world needed another tragic early death of a celebrity legend.
I am reminded of the Onion whenever I look at the carefully cultivated mythology that has sprung up around Ronald Reagan.
Ten years after Cape Canaveral was renamed Cape Kennedy, the Kennedy name was stripped away and the cape renamed Canaveral. JFK's name was deliberately and methodically tainted and turned into fodder for bad gossip columns and movie magazines while Ronald Reagan was hyped up into more-than-movie-star proportions. JFK (and his family) were the "bad Irish". Ronald Reagan was the "good Irish".
I really would like to know why it is so blessed important which American President is popular in Ireland. I've always found it deeply fascinating why the American President's opinions on Northern Ireland are so central to discussions. What should Ireland care about an American President, beyond the normal familial ties we have with Ireland in return? He/she is our problem to deal with, but yet it always seems to come down to the US President passing muster with the Irish or they with him.
During the 60s, Irish homes proudly displayed portraits of Jack Kennedy. In the 90s, those portraits were removed in favor of Ronald Reagan. He would be the conservative JFK. A pro-Royal Irish President.
A previous piece of mine opined on the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. I also gave my opinion that the attempt might have been engineered by the one with most to gain from Reagan's fall -- his Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush. The attempted assassination was carried out by John Hinckley, an old friend of the Bush family. (An excellent novelized account of the overall hand of Bush in these matters can be found in Nathaniel Blumberg's The Afternoon of March 30th)
The usual explanation for this odd convergence include "the Bushes know a lot of people" and "Hinckley was drawn to the act by virtue of his father's relationship with the Bush family", etc. These are the very kind of articles of plausible deniability put forth by CIA white papers while also being potential explanations for the weird coincidence.
Another point often made is that "certainly the Bush family would have hidden any connection", had there been one. Would they have? And what if that connection was divulged? Especially if Reagan died and members of his own people smelled a Brutus among them? Wouldn't it have been far better for there to be an obvious "oh, it's just a coincidence" connection that the press could then easily ignore?
Oh, yes, we've already looked at that. Nothing to see here, carry on.
Had this been a run-of-the-mill murder with a suspect connected to someone who stood to gain greatly from the murder, on whose doorstep would detectives have been within hours of the shooting? It's the old legal question again ... for whom is it good? George Herbert Walker Bush would have been a strong suspect for a co-conspirator and yet he was never investigated. No one even followed up the leads on Hinckley despite the fact that Vice President Bush's son Neil was scheduled to have dinner with John Hinckley's father the very next night.
It's also well-known that Nancy Reagan spent the night at her husband's bedside, fearful that another assault on her husband was imminent, and yet John Hinckley Jr, the ostensible lone nut, was nowhere in sight. Who did Nancy fear? What did she know that we don't know? Only Nancy Reagan knows and she can't tell us.
If Reagan had died, there would have been their little "conservative" JFK all ready for an orchestrated veneration.
George Bush could then come in with unquestioned carte blanche to launch the attack his son took up because Reagan had the temerity to not die. One can imagine that Cape Canaveral might even have been re-christened Cape Ronald Reagan.
Who are these faceless people pulling strings? The late political researcher Mae Brussell (who was definitely stone paranoid but who came up with some amazing revelations in her time -- including breaking the Watergate story) called the US-based group "The Gang of 10". This was a band of young men in Texas who despised Kennedy and who called him, a full year before Kennedy's death, "the late Jack Kennedy".
Who else was involved? We know now, thanks to the death bed declaration of E. Howard Hunt that he was not only a key player in Watergate but also in the JFK Assassination. What? You haven't heard about that? Small wonder -- it made it to Rolling Stone and a handful of edge-oriented radio shows and that is it. Hunt confessed to helping to kill JFK. There was a conspiracy. We have it in his own spoken word tape given to his son who has made the tape public. 
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JFK & The Irish
Liked your perspective, especially the latter half of the article. JFK was "removed" from office for trying to act as though he really were the President of the republic. Recall some things about his brief time in office: nuclear test ban treaty with Russia; peaceful settlement of the Missile Crisis; his American University speech in June of 1963 when he spoke out against a Pax Americana; NSAM 265 which began disengagement from a place called Viet Nam. Too much for those powerful interests that Ike called the "military industrial complex." But his assassination did not end with his death. It continued for many years afterwards through the good offices of convicted liar and former head of CIA dirty tricks, Richard Helms. The press was--still is--only to glad to go along with the hatchet job. Doubt me? Read Carl Bernstein's article written in the October issue of Rolling Stone on the CIA and the media. Ah, hell. No wonder we're in such a terrible fix today. by Tom Sciamanna (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 25 comments) on Thursday, Sep 6, 2007 at 8:13:10 PM  (0+)
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The assassination goes on until this day, absolutely. The Cape Kennedy betrayal, the many years of tabloid fodder, the Marilyn Monroe assertions that are taken as gospel, and many things on through the years. Somebody in power, somewhere, really hates the Kennedy family. It has something to do with Ireland. by Melody Clark (13 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 46 comments [11 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Sep 7, 2007 at 4:31:51 AM (0+)
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Reagan V JFK
I think you should write a book it would be a best seller. I’m not sure that I believe too much of the uber conspiracy theory. Good yarn though. From a practical perspective having read a bit about both presidents I wonder why anyone would want to deify either. Much has been claimed for them by their respective cheer squads but in truth they were both deeply flawed people. And the best that can be said about them was that they were there at a time when history was being made. I know some Americans will view this as I’ve just metaphorically spat on two of America’s latter day heroes I’m not I’m bemuse why this is still an issue no decades later. I apologise for being a foreigner who has had the temerity to do so. In my defence I am an Aussie who as a division of humanity is an irreverent lot with an innate distrust for the concept that anyone is greater than anyone else. If one were to dispassionately dissect both presidencies they both would reveal dangerous and dark corners. I wonder how JFK would have handled Vietnam had he lived long enough. The Bay of Pigs and some of his political allegiances were questionable. A personal moral code akin in excesses to that of a late teenage jock, MM was not the only one. That alone would concern the GOP base. Like it or not a public person like the President should seen as above such licentious, lascivious liaisons if they are to maintain confidence with the public. If you don’t want to set an example don’t be president its part of the job. Reagan was so extreme he participated in the McCarthy witch hunts (by Aust standards that would have made him unelectable) then there was Iran gate, Contra gate, and was unfairly given credit for the Iranian hostages and the collapse of centralized Russian Communism. The best that can be said with the latter two was that he was there. The fact that Republican want to tear down JFK is simply that he represented a non-conservative and like all those who need extremely rigid doctrinal ideologies to salve their fears his “legacy” had to go and who to replace it with Good ole Reagan. They are trying to feel that their values are valid. The Irish connection is simply human nature referred importance Much Like Aussies claim the Bee Gees who were born in England raised in Aus but haven’t live there since 1979 and carry British passports. In the final analysis it's about the GOP trying to entrench their relevance. Patting their base on the head to stop leakage in what may be hard times. by Andris (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 531 comments) on Saturday, Sep 8, 2007 at 2:13:42 AM (0+)
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Thank you for taking the time to read and comment. I'll take the novel comment as a compliment, though I doubt it was meant that way. :) It's fairly clear you have a low regard for Americans. Unfortunately, there's usually no way to get around prejudice, but I'll try. The CIA/MI5 White Papers show that these people have carefully seeded the sneer factor regarding "conspiracy theory" in the public mind. They also count on the lower-pattern-seeking abilities of most people who simply can't see the connections. The Ops folks also love throwing around accusations of "paranoia", which usually backs off a lot of people. The simple fact is paranoia is the act of seeing self-relevant patterns where none exist. When you see patterns that do exist, it's called "intelligence". A type of intelligence itself is measured, in one sense, by our ability to see patterns. Pattern blindness is as perspective-skewing as pattern perception. Every government interacts on the basis of conspiracy. It's the nature of governance. I fear you've fallen into a couple of stereotypes where Americans are concerned. You've obviously not read one of my previous articles, as one falls into the other, explaining the Bush connection to both men. Trust me -- Americans don't deify our leaders. Where this stereotype came from, I'm not sure. Neither did I deify either man in my piece. I loathe and detest everything Ronald Reagan did throughout his entire political career. I own a Ronald Reagan doormat to this very day. The difference is Reagan genuinely thought the things he espoused publicly. I disagreed with him, but I honored the genuiness of his perspective. Conversely, George Bush and Dick Cheney are NOT conservatives. They're fascists. They're using the GOP as a disguise. Kennedy was a human being, but aren't we all? Aren't you? I know I am. I screw up all the time. But that doesn't render unimportant the good that we do. I think the element you are missing is an American perspective -- we're in the midst of a silent civil war in this country. Many of us feel personally imperiled on a daily basis by George Bush. So yes, I view such people as Kennedy in a happier light than I do Bush. Bush is the thing that was forced upon us -- it would have happened many years ago had Reagan died. would reveal dangerous and dark corners Please! Don't we ALL have dangerous and dark corners? The Irish connection is simply human nature referred importance I'm an anthropologist. Culture doesn't stick to real estate, it flows with a people. I have as much right to the culture of my ancestors as does someone living in the original country. So do you. by Melody Clark (13 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 46 comments [11 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 8, 2007 at 3:25:55 AM (0+)
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