BOOM!!- Jesse Ventura: The LIFE & CRIMES of Dick Cheney

[Octafish]

65. Thank you for sharing her with us, mountain grammy.

Medgar Evers -- and the others -- were extremely courageous.

"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea."

The 50 years since Dallas have only shown how correct your mother's words. Rather than a world where every human life is valued, it's a place where there's welfare for the wealthy and wars without end for profit.

And our selected leaders behave as if there's nothing wrong. Pretzeldent George W Bush remembers JFK for ''Service":

"Today we remember a dark episode in our Nation's history, and we remember the leader whose life was cut short 50 years ago. John F. Kennedy dedicated himself to public service, and his example moved Americans to do more for our country. He believed in the greatness of the United States and the righteousness of liberty, and he defended them. On this solemn anniversary, Laura and I join our fellow citizens in honoring our 35th President." -- George W Bush, Nov. 22, 2013



That was pretty much the official company line in Dallas on the 50th anniversary of the assassination:

"Let's remember his service." How perfectly vacuous.

Anyway, the public beneficiary of the Rehnquist-Scalia 5-4 election theft also said:

""Money trumps peace."." -- George W Bush, Feb. 14, 2007

Some concept from the latest in the long line of treasonous warmonger is missing there.


------------- HOW THOSE AROUND JFK REMEMBER HIM --------------

On November 22nd, 1963, my uncle, president John F. Kennedy, went to Dallas intending to condemn as "nonsense" the right-wing notion that "peace is a sign of weakness." He meant to argue that the best way to demonstrate American strength was not by using destructive weapons and threats but by being a nation that "practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice," striving toward peace instead of "aggressive ambitions." Despite the Cold War rhetoric of his campaign, JFK's greatest ambition as president was to break the militaristic ideology that has dominated our country since World War II. He told his close friend Ben Bradlee that he wanted the epitaph [font color="blue"]"He kept the peace,"[/font color] and said to another friend, William Walton, [font color="blue"]"I am almost a 'peace at any price' president."[/font color] Hugh Sidey, a journalist and friend, wrote that the governing aspect of JFK's leadership was "a total revulsion" of war. Nevertheless, as James W. Douglass argues in his book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, JFK's presidency would be a continuous struggle with his own military and intelligence agencies, which engaged in incessant schemes to trap him into escalating the Cold War into a hot one. His first major confrontation with the Pentagon, the Bay of Pigs catastrophe, came only three months into his presidency and would set the course for the next 1,000 days. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Nov. 20, 1963

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/john-f-kennedys-vision-of-peace-20131120