Why was the death of the elderly Pontiff
necessary before JFK could be murdered? Stalin had once cynically asked "How
many divisions the Pope had?" The oligarchs knew that while the Pope might not
have a single division of troops, he had millions of voters around the World,
voters who would have listened intently if the Pope had questioned the death of
the young man he lovingly called "Giovanni." John XXIII would not have accepted
so slapdash an investigation as was done by the Warren Commission in the matter
of JFK's assassination, and if he did not accept it, neither would millions of
American Catholics. The Vatican has the oldest intelligence service in the
world, supplemented by thousands of Jesuits, who know well the importance of
keeping their eyes and ears open and their mouths shut. (Read Robert Ludlum's
book The Gemini Contenders for a glimpse into the world of the Vatican
Secret Service.) If John XXIII had been around to say "Find out the truth," I
believe it would have been discovered. The eighty-two year old Pontiff had to
pass away before JFK could be murdered.
President Kennedy's commencement address
at American University was his signal to Chairman Khrushchev that Pope John
XXIII's death made no difference: he was still committed to the cause of peace.
It was also the last straw for the hawks in the Pentagon, the CIA, and the
industrialists of America's military-industrial complex who had not been
directly affected by Kennedy's assault on Big Steel, Big Oil, and Wall Street.
There was no money to be made in peace.
There were others who wanted President
Kennedy dead: Organized Crime, who the oligarchs had used for years to keep the
blacks and Latinos in their place, and the powerful unions under some semblance
of control, were now being actively prosecuted by JFK's brother Robert, who was
the Attorney General; anti-Castro Cuban refugees who thought Kennedy had
abandoned them at the Bay of Pigs (which technically he did); White Supremacists
who were frightened to death that the Negroes were going to take over everything
if Kennedy wasn't stopped. All of these foes were facing a young President whose
popularity was rising in almost every poll, who would almost certainly have rid
himself of Lyndon Johnson as Vice President over the growing Bobby Baker
scandal, thus leaving the oligarchs without an "inside man" in JFK's second
term. There was also J. Edgar Hoover, who had helped the oligarchs maintain
their control since before the end of FDR's administration, using secret files
that went back four decades. The FBI's director was facing mandatory retirement
from Federal service in 1965, and the animosity between Hoover and the Kennedy's
made it a certainty that Hoover would receive no special dispensation from
them.
Only three Presidents have ever faced
comparable opposition in their first term: Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, and Barrack Obama. John F. Kennedy knew he faced a daunting level of
opposition in November 1964; he probably never realized that his enemies were
unwilling to wait that long.
The
Roman historian Tacitus wrote of the assassination of the Emperor Galba
( The Histories, Book 1, section
28,) "A shocking crime was
committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing
of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all." The "all" of which Tacitus
wrote was Rome's One Percent. The People of Rome had by this time been so cowed
into submission by tyrants such as Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero, they would
rarely play a role in Rome's politics until the Western Empire fell in 476
C.E..
The
Murder of President John F. Kennedy is the beginning of the decline that we see
continuing with such vicious speed and certainty today. JFK is for the American
Republic what Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was for the Roman: the first casualty
in the war between the optimates and the populares , Rome's names for the One Percenters and its
struggling working and middle classes. This struggle reached its crescendo with
the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 B.C.E., and ended
almost anticlimactically at Actium thirteen years
later.
There is still time to save our
Republic, if only just barely. But first, we must accept the truths of President
Kennedy's death, and the consequences that we are living with
today.
The first truth is that JFK was going to
get the United States completely out of Vietnam. CIA attempts at intervention in
Laos and South Vietnam in 1961-2 had proven that the U.S. backed governments had
no support among the majority of people in those two countries, due to extreme
corruption. Douglas MacArthur had warned JFK against becoming involved in a war
in Vietnam. The General may have been an egomaniac, but he was no fool. As
Oliver Stone pointed out in his movie JFK , one of the first things that
Lyndon Johnson did when he became President was rescinding President Kennedy's
order to pull 1000 military advisers out of Vietnam.
The second truth is that President
Kennedy was murdered as the result of a far-ranging conspiracy of America's
power elites. This included Texas oilmen, Wall Street bankers, high-ranking
current and former military officers, select members of the American
intelligence and law enforcement community (both at the Federal and local
level), White Supremacists, members of the political establishment,
anti-Communist Cuban exiles, right-wing political extremists, and members of
Organized Crime from around the world. If LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover were not
complicit in the actual assassination, they were in the
cover-up.
The third truth is that it was the
opening round of a series of events which was meant to regain control of the
country for the power elite. Malcolm X, Dr. King, and the President's brother
Bobby were the next sacrifices made on the oligarch's altar to wealth as power,
together with nearly 60,000 Americans in Southeast Asia.
The fourth truth is that Nixon tried to
push through a program of oligarchic control under the guise of "law and order."
The oligarchs learned their lesson, and have spent the last four decades doing
slowly what Nixon rushed. By undermining the New Deal, our civil liberties, and
every related program that made a large, robust middle class possible one piece
at a time, Reagan, Bush 41 and 43, and today's pro-oligarch Supreme Court are
close to establishing a new order in our nation: an order of the idle rich and
working poor. Edmund Burke would be so pleased.
The final truth is we must admit that if
men such as John and Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
can be publicly killed, and if a criminal such as Richard Nixon can commit
heinous crimes against the people of the United States and the World, and no one
is held to account for these crimes; if after such lackadaisical investigations
(like those that occurred in the murders of JFK, RFK, and MLK), we can somehow
still have a summary "Rush to Judgment" (as Mark Lane's book called JFK's
assassination) with events such as Oklahoma City and September 11, 2001; how can
any American hope for justice or feel unthreatened in their home
tonight?
The answer is we cannot. These
oligarchs--both the blood and spiritual descendants of the dark conspirators in
Jack Kennedy's death--can have us arrested, or murdered in our beds, with
complete impunity if it suits their unholy purpose. We must solve the murder of
President Kennedy, even if no one ever pays for the crime, as a simple act of
self-defense. We must explicitly say to these oligarchs once and for all, "No,
your wealth and power does not place you above this nation's laws." We must
close the festering wound of JFK's assassination.
We must do this for our children, and
our children's children.
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