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| Why JFK Was Deemed a Threat to National Security |
| 2023-06-17 |
| [The Future of the Freedom Foundation] Three days ago — June 10 — was the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University. Reading or listening to the speech today, it is not difficult to see why the U.S. national-security establishment deemed Kennedy to be a grave threat to national security, just as it did with certain foreign leaders, such as Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran, Congo leader Patrice Lumumba, Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz and, later, President Salvador Allende of Chile. For some 150 years, the federal government had been a limited-government republic. After World War II, however, the federal government was converted to a national-security state. The difference was day and night. With a limited-government republic, there was openness and transparency in governmental operations. Moreover, there was only a relatively small, basic military force. No Pentagon, no vast military-industrial complex, no CIA, no NSA, and no empire of foreign military bases. Governmental powers were limited and tightly constrained. No power to assassinate, kidnap, torture, or indefinitely detain people. No power to initiate coups or regime-change operations in foreign countries. No power of mass secret surveillance. With a national-security state, dark-side secrecy became everything. "National security" became the two most important words in the American political lexicon. A large, permanent military establishment, along with the CIA and the NSA, came into existence. This vast national-security establishment vested itself with omnipotent, totalitarian-like powers, including assassination, torture, coups, secret surveillance, kidnapping, and indefinite detention. It established a vast empire of military bases, both foreign and domestic, and initiated a program of regime change in foreign nations. Foreign wars in faraway lands, such as Korea and Vietnam, became the norm. The Cold War was actually one great big racket, one that became a cash cow for the vast military-intelligence complex and its ever-growing army of "defense" contractors who loved feeding at the public trough. This enormous racket was justified under the rubric of keeping America safe from a supposed vast communist conspiracy that supposedly was based in Moscow, Russia. Yes, that Russia! |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 I don’t think the Administrative State liked the way that Ike signed off so their main goal was to block Nixon. They accepted JFK with a side order of their main man Johnson. Demonstrably, they have dropped their standards. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-06-17 13:55 |
| #4 Once upon a time, the "intelligence community" watched a national election get stolen and did something about it. Now, they help engineer it. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-06-17 12:46 |
| #3 Hard for me to believe in Saint John the Kennedy. He was a man with many character flaws and weaknesses. His poor judgement is exemplified in his choice of Lyndon Johnson to be his vice-presidential running mate. OTOH, this country went off the rails in the 1960s and has yet to get back on track. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-06-17 12:44 |
| #2 [Daily Caller] 'Life of a Lone Gunman' REVIEW: ‘The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee’ by Paul Gregory |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-06-17 06:19 |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-06-17 03:20 |