Mark Lane, JFK assassination expert, has died.

[Octafish]

94. This I will tell you: Your life is better for Mark Lane having lived.

Some people are like that. Others, no. It'd be better for all of us the other way.

Mark Lane, though, was a real Democrat. He was friends with Jack and Bobby Kennedy. And his work brought to light some of the things our government does with its powers -- particularly secret agents and secret agencies -- to destroy Life, Liberty and Justice for private gain, profit and power.

You don't have to believe me about Mark Lane. I know what he was talking about. I lived for some of the time when President Kennedy and Senator Kennedy lived. Look around with your own eyes and listen with your own ears, this is not the world they envisioned and worked for.

President Kennedy told the warmongers in his administration, Congress, the Pentagon, Wall Street and beyond, "No." when they demanded war -- including war over the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam. As President he set the nation's sights on the moon, achieving what had been considered impossible. On earth, he was willing to try more of the same, working to limit the spread of nuclear weapons and to create a prosperous economy that served all Americans. Of course, following in his footsteps, Sen. Kennedy had just won the California primary on a platform of peace in Vietnam.

The people leading America since those days have largely put things the exact opposite: Today, "money trumps peace." Listen to George W Bush express the philosophy that obviously his Poppy and Granddaddy Prescott also believed:

"Commercial interests are very powerful interests," said George W Bush on Feb. 14, 2007 White House press conference in which he added, "Let me put it this way, ah, sometimes, ah, money trumps peace." And then he giggled and not a single member of the callow, cowed and corrupt press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up.

Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan tried to bring it to our nation's attention back in 2007. I don't recall even one reporter from the national corporate owned news seeing it fit to comment. Certainly not many have commented on how three generations of Bush men -- Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush, President George Herbert Walker Bush and pretzeldent George Walker Bush all had their eyes on Iraq's oil.

I wish the Press had done its job. Those in authority would have to do their job. Millions might still be alive, the People might use the money spent on wars in better ways, and the Republic might see a return to Justice. To get that started requires jailing those who lied America into war, not making them into heroes cough Bush.