JFK Blown Away - Hooray!

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http://flagpole.com/News/Features/JFKAssassination/2006-11-22

'Dallas was then, as Matthew Smith notes in JFK: The Second Plot (1992), “the southwest hate capital of Dixie… In its politics and in its people, Dallas represented the right wing as far as it could go.” Before and during his Dallas visit, local right-wingers busied themselves to make JFK unwelcome. They were angry and indignant that JFK was coming to their city. In fact, at the very time shots were being fired at President Kennedy, a right-wing protestor stood a few feet away, heckling JFK by comparing him to Neville Chamberlain.'


'During his presidency, right-wingers utterly detested President John F. Kennedy, and the extreme right-wingers hated Kennedy with a venomous, malignant ferocity bordering on insanity. Because he was a liberal and pro-civil rights, right-wingers - particularly the segregationists and racists, the opponents of civil rights, the states-righters, the free enterprise loonies, the wealthy ultra-conservatives, the religious bigots, the anti-Castro Cubans, the U.N. haters and the lunatic fringe anti-Communists - regarded JFK as dangerous, destructive and downright traitorous.'

'Americans have forgotten that Dallas right-wingers bitterly protested Kennedy’s visit to Dallas; that the presidential motorcade was greeted with signs expressing contempt for JFK; that even as JFK’s limousine came under rifle fire, right-wingers were present taunting him; that even after he was a corpse there were protesters nearby displaying insulting placards. Americans have also forgotten the joy with which right-wingers reacted to the assassination.

But these matters must not be allowed to sink into oblivion. The lesson to be learned is that right-wing elements poison our body politic by practicing the politics of hate, and must be stopped. As Chief Justice Warren said in a eulogy delivered in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda two days after the assassination: “ are commonly stimulated by forces of hatred and malevolence… What a price we pay for this fanaticism… If we really love this country, if we truly love justice and mercy, if we fervently want to make this nation better for those who are to follow, we can at least abjure the hatred that consumes people, the false accusations that divide us, and the bitterness that begets violence.”


Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.

Good article from a tiny oasis of blue in a red state.
The author is a Law professor at UGA.I hope he is instilling real moral values in his students

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"The lesson to be learned is that right-wing elements poison our body politic by practicing the politics of hate, and must be stopped."

Good luck with that.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I can't get over how the RW'ers of JFK's day couldn't even cut

him some slack for preventing Kruschev's missiles in Cuba from being launched at this country. He was the Clinton of his day I guess.

[conscious evolution]

3. He postponed armeggedon

The religous right ,though not as prominent as they are now,were still a factor in how peoples views were shaped,imho.

[yurbud]

7. Military action is always better, even when suicidal. hmmm....who does that sound like?

I guess the terrorists are just another projection of their own self-image, just as they say we'd all be gay if even expresses tolerance of it.

[Nozebro]

4. JFK is gone, but the dangers of RW extremism are still here today.

After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst: nor steel nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further.


Shakespeare, Macbeth,III,2

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5. Bill was the man!

The more things change the more they are the same.
He is an immortal because his work will always be relevant.

[Nozebro]

6. Here's another one, just for you.

RFK, Atlantic City, Dem. Convention, 1964

"When I think of my brother John, I think of the poet Shakespeare when he wrote in Romeo and Juliet: 'When he shall die, take and cut him in little stars, and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

[classof56]

8. And then there was that Catholic thing.

The pastor of the Baptist church I was attending when JFK was elected (not Southern Baptist, and not in the south) preached a sermon detailing how constitutional term limits were going to be done away with so that Kennedy could serve endless terms and thus carry out the Catholic church's plans to take over the country (USA) and doubtless after that the entire world. Good Christian Baptists that they were, the people in that church hated the Kennedys and discounted everything JFK said/did including the PT109 incident and the Cuban Missile Crisis, claiming he "made all that up." They viewed the assassination as God's way of saving the country from the "Catholic menace."

When Dr. Benjamin Spock heard about school children cheering upon receiving the news of JFK's assassination, he began his campaign against violence among kids, starting at the earliest age. He was dissed for that, of course, by RWers of all stripes.

Let there be peace on earth.

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9. The only reason Catholics are tolerated by them

today is because of the Catholic Church's position on Abortion.
They still use religous differances as ameans of controlling the thinking of the sheeple.Probably half of bush's support is because of religous indoctrination.
Yesterday they said the Catholics wanted to control the world.
Today they think that Islam wants to form a Caliphate to take over the world.

The more things change....

[silverweb]

10. Bookmarked to read after work.

Looks very interesting. Thanks for posting!