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pete blose's avatar

I agree that America has never recovered from the assassination of JFK. It has remained an open wound. Why? Because everyone knows Oswald did not kill Kennedy even if they don't know who did.

Peter J. Nickitas's avatar

Sir, Peter N from Saint Paul, MN here. I became a naval officer and earned my commission from Annapolis on account of President Kennedy’s example. I have his comments at Annapolis on the pride of being an officer in the US Navy in my law office.

Dennis Kucinich's avatar

Thank you for your service to our nation, Peter. Best wishes, Dennis

Tedder130's avatar

I am not too proud to admit that this meditation on American goodness brought tears to my eyes, and towards the end, it was hard to read. I was on the Stanford campus, right next to the Memorial Fountain (Mem Claw), when I heard of Kennedy's death. Even though I was flirting with Ayn Randian Libertarianism at the time, the news hit me viscerally. I felt betrayed, "How dare they do that to my President." This assassination was a coup conducted by the most vicious elements of our country, and they have held power ever since.

Matthew Evans's avatar

....and?...and you keep giving them your name, your, money, your soul...why?

Tedder130's avatar

Who in this great green Earth do you refer to? Whom do I give my money and soul to?

Do you have trouble with my characterization of the JFK assassination as a coup? Either that or you mistake me for someone else.

Elaine Roddy's avatar

Thank you Dennis. I’ve been an ardent supporter of yours since you ran for POTUS and still am. If you had been elected this would be a far better country and world. Keep on keeping on. We need you.

Gayle Wells's avatar

I appreciate this. I know a number of years ago something was terribly wrong. What? Chaos and injustice kept growing. I had to find out what was unfolding and started with Kennedy's murder. It wasn't the beginning of the unraveling but saves time to start there and all we're facing down rears its ugly head. May everyone of us make a resolution to ourselves that we will keep growing in courage no matter what they try to do. The more they do the faster the courage will grow. That is an American. my American commitment to my country and my children. It becomes automatic and the fear doesn't stand a chance, hasn't a molecule of oxygen to take up. Are we all turning into real heroes we were always meant to be now for the first time in our lives? I say we are and it is a far, far more rich and profound life indeed.

Gary R Kent's avatar

The America I loved, never was. The America of today is host to the "Earth's Greatest Enemy", the American Military Empire. The trust we once shared that allowed us to become a Nation has been shattered many times before and since the shots that rang out in Dallas. Every aspect of our global human culture screams distrust, like the famous painting "The Scream".

Sun Tzu stated, "All warfare is based on deception". President Kennedy once said, "The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society." I couldn't agree more. Like you, Dennis, I still have hope for a better America, but only for an America that embraces Truth. Truth will ultimately prevail. An America that embraces half truths, lies, intentional deceptions and secrecy will perish. Whether or not America survives will depend entirely on how quickly Americans recognize and embrace universal Truths.

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Gary R Kent's avatar

Indeed!

The discovery and embracing by each of us of our shared common ground is our only hope for a future built on universal truth. Embracing #Article25 is where we can begin to build a future where trust might take root and begin to flourish.

Paulo Kirk's avatar

Hmmm. The talmudist elephants in the room and lurking in every bedroom, office, boardroom, situation room, hotel, phone and computer and bank account.

From Sam H.

https://husseini.substack.com/p/evidence-on-israel-and-jfk-assassination

How does Israel get away with genocide?

MTG just announced she will be resigning from Congress. She’s the only member of Congress I know of to have willfully talked about Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal — anyone else who talked about it was compelled to do so because I asked them1. After Trump bombed Iranian nuclear facilities this Summer, she wrote: “There was once a great President that the American people loved. He opposed Israel’s nuclear program. And then he was assassinated.”

Early this year, I questioned the State Department about the JFK documents and exposed how they still refuse to acknowledge the Israeli nuclear arsenal JFK was trying to stop when he was killed. The nukes JFK was trying to stop are still unacknowledged. The conspiracy effectively continues.

Israel’s nuclear arsenal was born out of the 1956 war — with Israel, Britain and France invading Gaza and Sinai. That was resolved using Uniting for Peace — what should be used now — the UN being used to stop aggression.

Israel needed a way to prevent that from ever happening again and their solution was to threaten the world with nuclear weapons. Israel did that in 1973 and is has almost certainly done so with the current Gaza genocide. This has been tacitly acknowledged by even the most extreme Israel fanatics like Ben Shapiro and Jonathan Pollard, who spied against the US (Israel reportedly tried to use information on Clinton and Lewinsky to get Pollard’s release) and just met with US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who lobbied for Pollard’s release.

Therefore Israel is committing genocide and has a nuclear weapons arsenal, which it is waving around. So of course, the UNSC just backed them up and put sanctions on…Iran, which isn’t committing genocide and has no nuclear weapons to wave around.

Back in 2023, I wrote the piece “Israel and the Kennedy Assassinations” which highlighted JFK trying to halt Israel’s acquisition of nuclear weapons and RFK tried to designate a precursor to AIPAC as a foreign agent. It laid out some of the evidence I’d come across of Israel as a motive in their assassinations. Since then, such thinking has become more widespread.

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Later that year, Rick Sterling wrote the piece “From Dallas to Gaza: How JFK’s Assassination Was Good for Zionist Israel” which highlights an additional motive by Israel: The return of Palestinian refugees.

Sterling has since co-authored the book JFK and RFK’s Secret Battle Against Zionist Extremism: The Documentary Evidence. Last month the Electronic Intifada published the piece “Israel was part of the conspiracy to kill JFK.”

I recently came across this widely overlooked document, summarized by the Mary Ferrell Foundation thus: On November 21, 1963, a government informant named Thomas Mosley was negotiating the sale of machine guns to a Cuban exile named Echevarria. In the course of the transaction, Echevarria said that “we now have plenty of money - our new backers are Jews” and would close the arms deal “as soon as we [or they] take care of Kennedy.” The next day, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

Bill Samuel's avatar

My memories of Kennedy are different. The 1960 Presidential election was the first one I followed. I was barely a teenager but very interested in public policy. He scared me with his warmonger campaign, attacking the Republicans for not being militaristic enough and promising to build the "Green Berets" - the Special Forces that were the shock force of American imperialism. He made the war against Vietnamese nationalism a big war. He threatened the Soviet Union when they were only doing exactly what we were doing - having missile bases near the other's country.

As a result of the Cuban missile crisis initiated by JFK, our family was going to leave the country. My father got a job in New Zealand, but we couldn't get together the funds to get there so remained here.

And civil rights was a big cause of mine. He had promised to wipe out housing discrimination with "the stroke of a pen." When he didn't do it, I participated in the big campaign to send pens and bottles of ink to the White House. It had no effect. He was determined to make the Democratic white supremacists happy. He even appointed a Klan leader to a Federal judgeship.

So, in my view, he was a particularly horrible President. That does not make assassination in any way acceptable, but someone being killed does not suddenly change what their record was when they were alive.

We didn't get civil rights legislation until LBJ was President - I still remember watching him say "We shall overcome" in a national televised speech. We didn't get the Vietnam War ended until Nixon was President.

Bette's avatar

Heal the divide.. 🙏

Paul Edwards's avatar

America, which has long been a vicious, immoral, Capitalist Empire, is now failing and all that was once potentially good is irretrievably lost. We have been internally raped and betrayed and soiled, sold, and degraded and are now in the death spiral all empires suffer as they die. Have courage, fight for justice, never yield in spite of the coming dark. Do it not in false hope, but because it is right.

Lyndia's avatar

You are an amazing man Dennis…. I’m happy we are on planet earth at the same time!

Steve Winkler's avatar

The nagging pain of what might have been never goes away.

E2's avatar
Nov 23Edited

Today President Kennedy would have plenty to say. Today President Kennedy with his knowledge, experience and hind sight of the past decades could say many things.

Today President Kennedy could say as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince - author) did say it is time to build a boat for humanity. Not that kind of boat where people learn how to craft a boat. Rather people would learn to dream of sailing to far off places like a beautiful nurturing restorative planet. A planet Earth where people help out, take good care. It is this great desire not the boat that allows people to craft boats and so much more to get to their desire - their shared desires.

To day President Kennedy could say increase the desire.

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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Olivia Koppell's avatar

Thank you. Beautifully said. I needed your expression of loss and hope. We are certainly adrift, rudderless, with safe harbor way, way in the distance it seems. Let's hope when we find our way we will not again allow ourselves to be so unmoored from our "better natures.

Anaylsis Stack's avatar

A mustard seed requires a soil to take root and a rain to nurture the seedling.

The parable itself is a mustard seed of action.

There is an immense importance in rebuilding the free speech and debate areas which allow music and arts to flourish, exactly the firmament to give root to the parable’s magic of individual actions growing abundantly among peers.

In the effort to move towards the light and the new national image of America renewed, the people again become the mustard seed of Democracy.

Free speech debate areas, venues to enable music and arts, poetry and acting are the joyous sound of sprouting mustard seeds and gardens of freedom to a world in need of American goodwill.

To succeed in such growth there must be a freedom of policial party viability without duopoly subjugation by legislated Jim Crow 3rd Party exclusion, which Democrats championed to effect some purchase in decades of platform irrelevance to the People.

We see a new era coming, a new vision which can take root - and it depends on the end of political subjugation by the forces of capital-managed duopoly profiting the rich at the suffering of the less capitalized poor.

We need a rebirth of political platforms and political dreams to manifest into the new American goodwill among nations.

A subjugation by false systems of exclusive politics will end, or the nation will end like a failed crop of hopes and dreams.

Alanna Hartzok's avatar

Dennis - the poem says "redeem our land." Let us take this literally. We must share the actual land, the earth. We need Earth Share not Warfare. We met briefly before your talk at the Turning Point 911 conference and I met with you and Elizabeth years ago in your DC office. You also called me one evening to thank me for reminding you of the important connection between Tom Johnson and Henry George. I very much want to talk with you about the land value tax / commons rent public finance movement. I want t to work with you on this starting with tax shift for Cleveland. Please call me in PA at 717-357-7617. And if you would like i will find a way to come to Cleveland to meet with you and Elizabeth. - Alanna Hartzok