04-02-2013, 06:24 PM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:Jim and Charles,
No I do not think JFK died in vain. Far from it. I do think that if the Kennedy family treated the 50th as an opportunity to set the record straight, it would be seen as by the enemy as going to war and the gloves come off. The most likely outcome would be an extended curfuffle with the whole thing blowing over -- just like the MLK family. How many people know or ever care about that story? Is it even mentioned on MLK day?
The Kennedys -- including Caroline -- must do more than make one-off statements and disappear.
Members of the King family never were in positions to afford access to hidden material evidence. Nor do they possess the gravitas -- which is to say, the power to touch and embolden hearts and minds -- possessed by certain of the Kennedys, starting with Caroline.
As for the gloves coming off -- I'm not sure that JFK, JFK, Jr., and RFK would agree that they've ever been on.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene