13-08-2013, 09:18 PM
Nixon also advocated a national minimum income and a lot of other things that would be called communism today by the Republicans. In fact, if you look at the right-wingers back in Nixon's day (the Birchers, far-right preachers, etc.), they were already convinced that "someone had done a job" on him (William F. Buckley's description of Reagan after the latter got friendly with Gorbachev). Which is why many of them weren't sad to see him resign.
I do think that JFK favored free trade - not as defined today with multinational corporations overruling national laws and exploiting cheap labor, but in the sense of accepting the reality of a world economy. Kennedy was not an America First-type isolationist or protectionist.
As I've said before, I think that if Wall Street/the Eastern Establishment had killed Kennedy, they would have poisoned his food, caused his plane to crash, switched some of his medications so he would die in his sleep (like Pope John Paul I), etc.
But picking a patsy that could be linked to Castro and the Soviets narrows the range of suspects, IMO. Would would want to blame Castro and the Soviets? Three groups:
Military-industrial-intelligence complex
Mafia
Cuban Exiles
Actually, only the first group would want to blame the Soviets. The other two would only want to blame Castro so they can take back Cuba. But they also don't have the ability to carry out the assassination on their own. There may be a few Wall St. types involved in the plot (Allen Dulles certainly qualifies), but who knows at this point?
I do think that JFK favored free trade - not as defined today with multinational corporations overruling national laws and exploiting cheap labor, but in the sense of accepting the reality of a world economy. Kennedy was not an America First-type isolationist or protectionist.
As I've said before, I think that if Wall Street/the Eastern Establishment had killed Kennedy, they would have poisoned his food, caused his plane to crash, switched some of his medications so he would die in his sleep (like Pope John Paul I), etc.
But picking a patsy that could be linked to Castro and the Soviets narrows the range of suspects, IMO. Would would want to blame Castro and the Soviets? Three groups:
Military-industrial-intelligence complex
Mafia
Cuban Exiles
Actually, only the first group would want to blame the Soviets. The other two would only want to blame Castro so they can take back Cuba. But they also don't have the ability to carry out the assassination on their own. There may be a few Wall St. types involved in the plot (Allen Dulles certainly qualifies), but who knows at this point?
