22-02-2011, 06:13 PM
David Sellers Wrote:Couldn't he simply be speaking about the Communist systems in Russia and China (and elsewhere)?
If you observe Kennedy's pattern he was a clever man who always made sure he rounded things off in order not to draw the predictable political backlash that direct statements would have incurred. He always left a criticism of communism in there to make sure his statements couldn't be taken advantage of politically. However, he also honestly believed the things he said in criticism of the communist system. He wasn't a communist sympathizer.
Kennedy was definitely talking about the CIA and Military Industrial Complex. He gives this away by criticizing their funding source. Now if he was talking about the communist system he wouldn't single out the dubiousness of how they funded their shadow government because the communist system is straight-up about how it funds itself. It funds itself in a totalitarian manner. So there are no variations possible within that system. Kennedy is clearly referring to an unsound funding method that applies to the CIA-Mob underground financing structure that existed in their covert relationship with the US syndicate. So that right there tells you who he is talking about. Why do you think Bobby was going after the mob? And why do you think Wayne January's Cuban pilot said "They're really going after Bobby Kennedy"? When January asked him why, the Cuban said "That you would have to have a need to know". They really hated Bobby because he was going after their money source - the US mob.
Like I said a few posts back, Kennedy has to be talking about the US government because he's referring to a shadow system happening within a government. Since the communist system is straight-up totalitarian it can't be them he's referring to because you can't have a system within a totalitarian system by definition, because that violates the basic principle of totalitarianism.
I don't see why people have a problem connecting what Douglass more than clearly shows Kennedy was doing to this statement. He was clearly trying to rein-in the out of control CIA.
In my opinion we are at the point where overly technical approaches to what Kennedy was saying here are preventing us from seeing the simple and obvious. The reason Douglass's book shines is because he correctly isolates this basic fact.
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