Nelson's LBJ Mastermind book

[Jan Klimkowski]

I am not an expert on MLK, but my point is rather simple. When you claim that
"The same powers that killed JFK killed MLK and RFK and are still in power as we
speak", what you are saying cannot be literally true. Most of those who were in
on JFK and RFK, for example, are among the dear departed. They are dead.

If they are dead, then they are not "still in power". My point was not to deny the
continuity of institutional interests, but rather to observe that abstractions do not
have the kind of explanatory power that you, among others, tend to ascribe to
them. It is specific individuals who make specific decisions and take specific actions.

There is no need to feel offended. My concern is that there is a tendency on the
"Deep Politics Forum" to treat entities like "the national security state" as though
appealing to it could explain specific events on specific occasions. It has a place
in inviting our attention to enduring interests but cannot explain specific events.

It is likely that JFK was assassinated because he was one of a very few American Presidents who was attempting to make use of the constitutional powers of the Presidency to effect change which threatened deep power structures (whatever label one chooses to use to describe them).

For instance, there is increasing evidence that JFK was attempting to prevent war in Vietnam, to limit the powers of the Federal Reserve, and to clip the wings of various intelligence agencies.

Such actions threatened deep political structures, and their accumulation of vast quantities of treasure at the cost of the pointless slaughter of millions of men, women and children, and the destablization of countries around the globe, through false flag wars and coups, economic strangulation and narco-trafficking.

In other words, JFK took the powers of the Presidency seriously, and was attempting to use them.

This marks him as entirely different from the actors and apparatchiks - eg LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes, Clinton - who understood that the powers vested in Presidential office are not to be used by the incumbent except in the interests of their real masters. The only acting they did was in disguising the real nature of power and providing a folksy face to a corrupt and uncontrolled beast.

Of course people perform actions.

Of course people die.

However, the location of true power has not changed in decades.

And it is only theoretically located in those who rule our countries, be their name Barack Obama or Tony Blair.