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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)First off: Thank you, Mc Mike!
Way back on the original DU, there was an excellent thread about the stolen election of 2000. In the OP, the DUer noted "You don't steal elections to do good things." That is exactly correct and it applies to assassination. The new political powers in the United States shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy found a phony reason to make war on Vietnam. In the current day, an appointed president used his power to make war on an innocent country that had nothing to do with September 11 in order to secure the oil.
Regarding this thread: There is a certain element that shows up consistently when the crimes of the national security state, cough, CIA, are discussed.
For example:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2174482
What's telling is how it's always an interesting coincidence that the workings, cough, criminality of the secret government is an object of ridicule.
The Crimes And Excesses of The National Security State
The Excavator May 8, 2012
EXCERPT...
The National Security State and the entire post-WWII political order in Washington was built on the foundations of totalitarian power and cosmic secrecy. James W. Douglass, author of 'JFK And The Unspeakable: Why He Died And Why It Matters,' explained the legal and political ramifications of the passage of the 1947 National Security Act and NSC 10/2 in June 1948. Douglass wrote:
On June 18, 1948, Truman's National Security Council took a further step into a CIA quicksand and approved top-secret directive NSC 10/2, which sanctioned U.S. intelligence to carry out a broad range of covert operations: "propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas, and refugee liberation groups." The CIA was now empowered to be a paramilitary organization. George Kennan, who sponsored NSC 10/2, said later in the light of history that it was "the greatest mistake I ever made."
Since NSC 10/2 authorized violations of international law, it also established official lying as their indispensable cover. All such activities had to be "so planned and executed that any US government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons, and that if uncovered the US government can plausibly deny any responsibility for them." The national security doctrine of "plausible deniability" combined lying with hypocrisy. It marked the creation of a Frankenstein monster." (2).
The dark powers behind the National Security State increased their control over the American presidency and the American people after the CIA's assassination of JFK, and thereby turned the constitutional republic into a relic.
SOURCE: http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/05/crimes-and-excesses-of-national.html
PS: Thank you, Mc Mike. Your kind and thoughtful post makes me very much aware of why ideas rule the world.