07-08-2013, 11:50 AM
I don't think 9/11 changed politics. It was more a change in amplitude. It's not as if we had a working democracy and transparent government which was not in service to corprations and the empire agenda. The DOD has and had at the time all mnner of war plans ready to role out at any opportunity of excuse.
JFK appears to be quite different... more like a coup since it appears that JFK was trying to demilitarize the US, get out of Nam, rapproachment with the USSR and not interested in invading Cuba and giving to the Cuban facists who Castro toppled and of course can the CIA. He probably had plans to move foreward with civil rights too. All of this was a threat the NSS and the right wing fascists and they were not having it. Once JFK was out of the way the agenda moved forward, the religious right spread distraction and distracted the people with lifestyle issues... MLK and MalcomnX were offed to bust up the black movement... RFK was taken out so none of this would ever come to light. The cold war ran trillions to the defense industry, unions were destroyed, media was consolidated and neutered and empire moved into advance mode... which included plans for full spectrum dominance and control of or access to energy resources and blocking other nations from same.
Part and parcel with Empire is dealing with restless natives... who need to be put down at times and this is the perfect opportunity to advance the boundries of the Empire... excuse being to control the insurgencies at the borders (conceptually). Once the Empire is out and about the process is self sustaining... it feeds itself.
So 9/11 was an instance of empire in stimulus repsonse action and 9/11 was more like clearing the decks so empire could roll out its new world domination machine. The proxy wars with the USSR were a strategy to whittle it down and then go after the former client states and their resources. This is happening even as the Russian bear rises and tries to check Uncle Sam's march. Childish mentalities playing with the percs of power. That will never change.
JFK appears to be quite different... more like a coup since it appears that JFK was trying to demilitarize the US, get out of Nam, rapproachment with the USSR and not interested in invading Cuba and giving to the Cuban facists who Castro toppled and of course can the CIA. He probably had plans to move foreward with civil rights too. All of this was a threat the NSS and the right wing fascists and they were not having it. Once JFK was out of the way the agenda moved forward, the religious right spread distraction and distracted the people with lifestyle issues... MLK and MalcomnX were offed to bust up the black movement... RFK was taken out so none of this would ever come to light. The cold war ran trillions to the defense industry, unions were destroyed, media was consolidated and neutered and empire moved into advance mode... which included plans for full spectrum dominance and control of or access to energy resources and blocking other nations from same.
Part and parcel with Empire is dealing with restless natives... who need to be put down at times and this is the perfect opportunity to advance the boundries of the Empire... excuse being to control the insurgencies at the borders (conceptually). Once the Empire is out and about the process is self sustaining... it feeds itself.
So 9/11 was an instance of empire in stimulus repsonse action and 9/11 was more like clearing the decks so empire could roll out its new world domination machine. The proxy wars with the USSR were a strategy to whittle it down and then go after the former client states and their resources. This is happening even as the Russian bear rises and tries to check Uncle Sam's march. Childish mentalities playing with the percs of power. That will never change.