Any JFK Fans Out There?
And 60 years later what does JFK have to do with Trump, or anyone or anything else for that matter?
My personal fandom has come mostly through reading; I would recommend two books for starters:
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
This is from the Amazon page:
“At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy’s change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark “Unspeakable” forces recognized that Kennedy’s interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up.”
And, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government.
Also from Amazon:
“America’s greatest untold story of espionage history: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures.”
Dulles was CIA Director under Kennedy, and JFK fired him after the Bay of Pigs debacle; not coincidentally, Dulles ended up on the Warren Commission, “investigating” JFK’s assassination.
But neither of those books is why I am writing, rather, it is this quote:
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence -- on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy began to take on this “machine,” and he paid for it with his life. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it was a coup d’etat, plain and simple. We are still in a Cold War, but our enemy is not the Soviet Union.
Now this is where it gets uncomfortable for many. On both sides of the virtually nonexistent “aisle.” Trump is not battling against Venezuela, or Iran, or the Chinese, or the Russians, per se; while those are pieces of a much larger policy puzzle, Trump has rather picked up JFK’s mantle in the fight to rid the world of the “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy” that JFK described above.
All the goingson must be viewed in that context. You will not find that context on the left, but you also will not find it on much of the right; remember, there is no “aisle” in this fight. The fight is largely economic, but wars are a way of funding the conspirators; as Brigadier General Smedley Butler titled his book, War Is A Racket.
From Amazon:
“Known as “the Maverick Marine” and “Fighting Hell-Devil,” Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler was the most decorated U.S. Marine Corps officer in U.S. military history. Butler’s 1935 lecture “War is a Racket” presents several key arguments against war and its profiteering nature. Among his points, Butler argues that wars are conducted for the benefit of a small group of insiders while the majority bear the costs, and that debt from wars is always paid by future generations.”
Before Kennedy, FDR had been the last President to take on the machine, and …
In 1934, a colossal claim reached the American news media: There had been a plot to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in favor of a fascist government. Supposedly in the works since 1933, the claims of the conspiracy came from a very conspicuous and reliable source: Major General Smedley Butler, one of the most decorated war heroes of his time.
Even more unbelievable were his claims of who was involved in the plot – respected names like Robert Sterling Clark, Grayson M.P. Murphy, and Prescott Bush <father of George H. W. Bush and paternal grandfather of George W. Bush>. While news media at the time mocked Butler’s story, recently discovered archives have revealed the truth behind Major General Butler’s claims.
Smedley Butler and the 1930s Plot to Overthrow the President
Butler had been asked to be President upon FDR’s overthrow; he declined, and reported the conspirators.
Before FDR it was Lincoln, and not coincidentally he too was assassinated.
There have been numerous attempts on Trump’s life.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
So. You can like Donald Trump, dislike him, or hate him outright, I don’t care, but I would suggest that he is fighting the good fight, which really is to make American great again.
To learn more, or at least get you started:
https://www.prometheanaction.com/
https://www.dangerousintellectuals.com/
Those two sources will get you started; go down the rabbit hole as deep as you please. Or not.
All the best, and God bless,
John