Reply #218: November 22, 1963

[Octafish]

You're welcome, ocean girl! I'm just relaying what I found online and in the library. And there are lots of people who work to get the Truth out. Many are on DU.

Most importantly: Your words are most kind and appreciated. So are the memories you bring back for me, I was six then.

People who were alive and remember what the United States of America was like during President Kennedy's administration know that something has been very wrong since November 22, 1963 -- and that "Thing" has only gotten worse.

Before I forget: Here's one I discovered while trying answer a question regarding the two FBI-Bush-JFK assassination documents' history, a person who goes by the name of Winterboy:

http://www.winterboy.com/dejavu.html

The following is something I posted on DU in November 2004, and am particular proud to claim as my own:


November 22, 1963

November 22, 1963 is the day President John F. Kennedy died. He was proud to be a Liberal Democrat in the tradition of the Democratic Party of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and President Harry S Truman.

These leaders were statesmen, who believed in using the powers of government to make ours a better nation for ALL Americans. Liberals believe ALL men are created equal and thus have the right to equal Rights and equal Justice under the law.

Liberal Democrats also believe in the Constitution where it says:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

What’s more, Liberal Democrats aren’t afraid of working to make that a reality. Liberal Democrats also are willing to take on the job, personally. Even when it means sacrificing more than their hard-earned tax dollars. JFK sacrificed his time, and was willing to give his life, to serve his country — from the time he led his crew aboard PT-109 to the time he drove through Dallas, on the way to give a speech on the importance of public education he never delivered.

President Kennedy used his time wisely. From the time he was inaugurated on January 20, 1961, to the day he died, November 22, 1963, just 1,036 days passed. That’s 24,864 hours or 1,491,840 minutes or 89,510,400 seconds.

The period’s been called the thousand days of Camelot. Really just a blink of an eye, for America it means more than that. It truly was a legendary time and America truly was a magical place — a place where anything was possible.

Consider what President Kennedy worked to achieve: He raised the minimum wage, cut taxes, kept America from nuclear annihilation at least twice, fired the general who brought him plans to kill Americans and blame it on a foreign government (Operation NORTHWOODS), maintained world peace, set about to bring equal rights for all Americans, got the country to invest in the arts and education, and set out to do the impossible — land an American on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth. JFK did all that in a thousand days.

One thousand days is not much time considering how much JFK accomplished. And President Kennedy used each day to make ours a better nation for ALL Americans.

Here’s a bit of reality programming — what’s happened in the 14,869 days since November 22, 1963:

• Vietnam
• Guatemala
• Chile
• Watergate
• October Surprise
• El Salvador
• Reagan Survives Hinckley and Bush
• Voodoo Economics
• INSLAW/Promis
• Haiti
• Iraq-gate / Banca Nazionale del Lavoro arms
• BCCI International Money Laundering for Terrorists & Intelligence Community
• Savings & Loan scandal in general and Silverado in particular
• Iran-contra Guns/Drugs/Martial Law
• Gulf War I Glaspie Gives Go-Ahead
• Selection 2000 Shreds US Constitution
• Tax Cuts for UltraRich
• Criminal Justice Department
• Suicidal Environmental Policy
• ENRON Energy Policy
• 9-11 Criminal Negligence, at best; Treason, most likely
• Illegal Iraq Invasion

It’s interesting in reviewing the above list, just how much ultra-right, conservative Republican leadership has really been. More than a listing of criminality, the list demonstrates there have been many treasonous activites against “We the People” through “business opportunities” in the finance, energy, and defense industries. That brief listing doesn’t sound like it’s been a good deal for the average American for the past four decades — and each has never been adequately explained to the American people.

And while there have been occasional flashes of the old Democratic magic in the administrations of James Earl Carter and William Jefferson Clinton, the fact of the matter is things haven’t really been the same since JFK’s leadership. It’s as if the Liberal leadership in the White House happened long, long ago.

There is one name that runs through all the history, the four decades since the JFK administration. Since the very hour of President Kennedy’s death, and through the list of sinister events and unrelenting criminality noted above — a record of infamy stretching back 41 years today — appears the name George Herbert Walker Bush, a tradition continued by his son, George Walker Bush.

— Octafish