Why the John F. Kennedy legacy is so important today!
Why the John F. Kennedy legacy is so important today!
We are seeing now how dangerous the world becomes when democracy and moral values collapse and unaccountable psychotic power structures prevail.
In the1960’s America suffered an insurrection persisting now 60 years later. It killed the American Dream. It killed JFK and the peace movement he led trying to save the dream.
His legacy still lives today, as ideals waiting to acted on for those willing to pick up the torch and rekindle the dream.
When John F. Kennedy was assassinated I was a twenty year old art student. It was only a few years later when his brother Robert was assassinated. The sixties was a decade of many assassinations in America and abroad all directed at those who spoke for peace and civility. There were also murders directed at those who knew too much; not always proven but highly suspicious.
It was many years later after reading books and articles I realized the context of those times and the culture of assassinations that had occurred. I am still learning the context of those times as history for me is a giant jigsaw puzzle where new pieces/new information from a variety of sources are fitted in, such that context becomes more detailed, enriched and credible.
These were shocking murders as they were in the post war years when people were finally free from the devastation of World War ll. But even before it ended there were dark clouds gathering. The Cold War came into being and America was under going a great reset from nation to empire.
What better time to carry out an insurrection than immediately after the greatest war ever fought when the world was rebuilding and recovering from the tensions and chaos of war? Dark forces works were hard at work preparing for the Cold War and even greater wars. To do so, they had to steal peace and democracy to establish their warfare empire and declare war on the world. Today is the day of reckoning, a culmination, and essential new beginnings.
Imagine yourself….
As a newly inaugurated US president arriving in office. You are welcomed by powerful lobbyists, cunning powerful bureaucrats who know the system too well, and vested interests that demand your indulgence. You are surrounded by generals and lobbyists lusting to fight to wars and serialize warfare with no regard for consequences or the progressive of Humankind. War puts human progress in the deep freeze.
You are the temporary CEO presiding over a powerful cabinet where too many decisions have been made that are immutable, where the ship of state has an unalterable course. At the same time your high office is considered the most powerful political position in the world. You have to make one very big decision very quickly. Are you going to be a nominal leader, or an agent of change where the agenda is preset with a daunting momentum? This had to be among the first questions Kennedy asked himself.
Harry Truman and the buck stops here…
Harry Truman was US president from 1945-1953. Truman had a famous sign on his desk announcing “the buck stops here,” in other words claiming everything crossing his desk would receive careful scrutiny and decisions would be carefully considered. Truman though let too many bucks pass over his desk and made some reckless decisions.
When he received word at a Potsdam, meeting with Joseph Stalin America had successfully tested the nuclear bomb he was delighted and his response was, “Now we can do anything we want.” It was also Truman who approved the gratuitous bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In all their obscene aspects these bombings can be seen as a 4th of July fire works celebrating a victory that was really Russia’s, and grotesque triumphalism as the US, unscathed by war, was in a position to pursue global hegemony. Russia (formerly the USSR) even then was being setup as the nemesis the US needed to justify its emerging warfare state. The new Cold War was being birthed even before WW ll ended, as per the dictates of the Dulles brothers, where the world was divided into good and evil and they its messianic saviors. Today we see the legacy of the Dulles brothers as they laid the cornerstone for US policy as it exists today.
It is a daunting irony that JFK who suffered crippling back pain all his life had more back bone than most other US presidents. He was the very antithesis of Truman where there would be no buck passing during his tenure. As a former US senator he became president in 1961, when then, like now, the world was going through tumultuous change. World peace was at the top of the agenda as the Cold War was well under way.
Kennedy arrived as a peacemaker in a sea of militarists and very ambitious war mongers. There were generals who wanted to wage all out nuclear war against the newly minted USSR and China. As Eisenhower warned in his 1960 farewell speech the Military Industrial Congressional Complex (MICC) was taking root and these decades later it has become the de facto government of the US in too many ways. Prior to taking office Kennedy and Eisenhower had lengthy discussions—it would be of great interest to have been a fly on the wall!
The Cuban missile crisis…
The 1962 Cuban missile crisis was an early test for his presidency. The USSR had moved troops and nuclear missiles in to Cuba which were a unacceptable threat to US security and posed the threat of nuclear war. Kennedy realized the crisis had to be defused quickly by diplomatic means. Because he distrusted his own hawkish diplomats he established back channel contact with his Soviet counter part Nikita Khrushchev, through an exchange of letters the threat was neutralized. Both leaders wanted peace and made a commitment to further pursue it.
It revealed the USSR installing of missiles in Cuba was not unilateral but retaliatory to US missiles already installed in Turkey targeting the USSR. At Kennedy’s request the existence of the Pershing missiles in Turkey were removed secretly so as not to publically embarrass the hawks in his administration.
Kennedy’s Dilemma, sixteen years to late…
It can be said that Kennedy arrived in office sixteen years too late. The empire had already put down some deep roots since war’s end.
Both Truman and Eisenhower were passive presidents where there executive authority was subverted by powerful bureaucrats, namely the Dulles brothers, both served under Eisenhower, John Foster as Secretary of State, Allan Wallace as head of the CIA . There were also blood thirsty generals who wanted to wage nuclear war on both China and Russia, the Korean war had been fought, the Vietnam war was looming on the horizon and Eisenhower had just delivered his famous farewell.
Against the tide of his times Kennedy embarked on a vigorous campaign for world peace, further to what FDR was going to undertake, but stalled by his premature death in 1945.
Kennedy and the peace community he led quickly became targets for the insurrectionists who were hell bent on empire and war on the world. Those times have been very well recorded and demand review.
Why the Kennedy legacy is so important today…
The answer is so painfully obvious it is willful ignorance and treachery to avoid the answer.
History has shown ad infinitum wars are for losers, the downfall of empires and erasure of cultures. Empires destroy lives and humanist values. Too much of what is happening is the destruction of our humanist legacy as psychotic elites dragging whole cultures into unconscionable barbarism.
Mankind can only survive by being rational. Playing the silly childish game of who are the good guys and who are the bad guys is pubescent thinking devoid of the mature rationality our planetary survival requires. Common sense is a good part of what is rational.
Ruinous ideologies like imperialism, neoliberalism, neocolonialism and others are anathema to rationality, as they are steeped in greed,exploitation, and endemic racism.
The collective West has to face the stark reality a rogue empire has been plundering the world for the last half century with impunity. Faced with a rapidly changing world and new balances of power emerging it is desperately trying to maintain global dominance and its impunity— not only maintaining it, but locking it down with dangerous nuclear brinkmanship and atrocities in Ukraine and genocide in Gaza—
They don’t care about being respected or moral, as long as they can maintain cultures of fear and repression. For them human life is no more than a commodity wagered in their service.
During the Covid pandemic there were endless lock-downs, now there are more internal “lock-downs” as national governments increase censorship, propaganda, suppress civil liberties and human rights and attack societal norms and values; fragmenting the cohesion of societies into total passivity. Dissidence is being criminalized. These are the agents of chaos and anarchy—- for them both are strategies to attack and break the human spirit.
In the1960’s America suffered an insurrection persisting 60 years later. It killed the American Dream. It killed JFK and the peace movement he led trying to save the dream.
As Kennedy said himself (knowing he was a prime target for assassination) you can kill the person the but you can’t kill the ideals they espouse.
His legacy still lives today, as humanist ideals waiting to acted on for those willing to pick up the torch and rekindle the dream.
Read More Here— “The Life and Public Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the CIA”
A magnificent, powerful piece to shake the foundations!
What democracy? Where? The will of the people = democracy, has been usurped long time ago by the powerful/rich.