The Presidency After the JFK Assassination: Or why Sanders Supporters (myself included) were Destine

[Peter Lemkin]

It is disheartening to me that so few can see how the National Security/Financial State has consolidated its power and grip on all the levers of power and media. 11/22/63 far from being their only operation was IMHO a key moment (as was 911 along with the other big assassinations). Even many 'JFK Researchers' are stuck in the debates on number of shooters, who was where in Dealey Plaza, et al., and not on how that day was a coup d'etat by the NSS against the American People as well as the Constitutional framework of government. It was the castration of the Presidency. Not that we had a fully democratic Nation and lost it....it was always run by the elites and favored them...but rather than moving in a slow positive direction, it started to move in a quick negative direction - which has brought us to today's post 911 U.S. Policestate. Yes, Nathaniel, one could use the Sander's campaign and its summary demise to teach the lessons of Post-WWII history. There is a vast 'untapped' discontent in the USA - but because they don't generally have any idea of the real source of their discontents - nor the history to support that - they can't form an ongoing opposition and force for change. OWS fizzled out after strongarming by the police and covert forces; and now it seems so has the BS movement....but this battle goes back to the Haymarket Affair and long before that. Zinn is a good source on the long history of dissent and destruction of dissenters/reformers and the rise and growth of the consolidation of central and secret power - always there from the days of the 'founding fathers', but now a huge cancer that is poised to kill the host [the Nation/World/Ecosphere]. To those who can see it, it is very clear...but to those who are following the magicians wand, it is just a series of confusing flourishes - and the tricks involved remain hidden.