Since November 22, 1963...

[Octafish]

62. America was touched by the lowest demons in our nature, setting us on a different course.

On Nov. 22, 1963, the national security state demonstrated who runs the nation and it isn't "We the People." Realpolitik (Might Makes Right) beat out Idealism (New Frontier), leading to the present day's "Money Trumps Peace" mentality.

Because President Kennedy was working to keep the peace by going around the warmongers -- at the Bay of Pigs, in refusing to launch World War III, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in Vietnam and Southeast Asia -- key figures in the national security state evidently found the President himself to represent threat to national security. Therefore, to protect America, they did what they saw as the "patriotic" thing.

It's clear from the attempts on JFK's life in the weeks leading up to Dallas -- in Chicago and Miami -- that the FBI and Secret Service were not doing what they should to protect the President's life. Some in CIA and the Pentagon all they could to tie Lee Harvey Oswald to the communists, even fabricating evidence the guy was Castro and Krushchev's stooge, a story repeated to the present day.

James Douglass detailed the above in "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters." Interestingly, all of the above also can be found in the DU, DU2 and DU3 archives, as well, posted by DUers who give a damn.

It seems to me that today's Wall Street on the Potomac Set, having no real global enemies or domestic challengers, would act murderously to protect their privileged positions and bank accounts from a clear and present danger. Otherwise, they wouldn't talk about wars without end, let alone defunding public education, with a straight face.