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In reply to the discussion: RFK children speak about assassination in Dallas [View all]Selatius
(20,441 posts)7. For the America we know of today to exist, people like RFK, MLK, and JFK had to be eliminated.
Our current government, overrun by corporate lobbyists where many bills are written by corporations, probably wouldn't exist as it is today if progressive leaders were allowed to challenge that dynamic and break the power of the corporate oligarchy. Eisenhower gave the country fair warning as well about the undue influence of the military-industrial complex.
Even if all those assassinations were mere coincidence, the benefactors from the death of progressive leaders would undoubtedly be the oligarchy. Their profits are secure. Our misery is assured.
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I would never discuss this with them, of course(the whole subject would naturally be too painful)
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#1
well, they didn't have actual footage of the shooting, just people freaking out in the ballroom
Ken Burch
Feb 2013
#44
That's why there are many books written like, "Why bad things happen to good people"
karynnj
Jan 2013
#11
There's no healing a country with a system like this. For the grandchildren of the assassinated
ancianita
Jan 2013
#9
For the America we know of today to exist, people like RFK, MLK, and JFK had to be eliminated.
Selatius
Jan 2013
#7
Still waiting for the studies that support your claim that the "science is not settled"...
SidDithers
Feb 2013
#56