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Presidents and "royalty" have been getting bumped off for quite some time. And the
Kennedy assassination has been the subject of speculation , dramatization and
allegation for going on three decades. Unless one has a notion that there is a
threshold at which point these
depictions tip over into some "a-ha" realization among the general public, at home or
abroad, of what US democracy is, adn they at that point say, "To the barricades," I
can't see that emphasis on the tabloid/water cooler/hollywood sort of conspiracy
scenarios amounts to much
political education or inspiration.
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CB: No,the idea is not to rely on this particular incident alone to inspire people to
the barricades. It , along with other experiences, (more recently the election in
Florida) would be hoped to contribute to the undermining of some people's belief in
the "system". I'm pretty sure that the Kennedy assassination did contribute to a lot
of people's disillusionment with the system which became the "60's".
There is no proposal at all for emphasis on this, and certainly not on the tabloid
reports. It is just an ordinary aspect of the capitalist rule, and should be given
appropriate weight in political discussion. But it shouldn't be ignored or left to the
tabloids.
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The beast is so evil that one one hand it tells the world it is the champion of
democracy, but on the other, when caught out unmasked, it struts around and brags
about its hardboiled omnipotence. Remember how Nix-inger wanted the Soviets to feel a
madman was at the Button?
I'm not knocking continuing identification of the beast as the Problem, but simply
saying one can go overboard in expecting expose' to do the job of politics. One can
also think that something big should happen as a result-- that the masses will stir
and rise, if they are
treated to dosages of high-powered alarms about what this or that event--a vote fraud,
an assassination, a tree-cutting, etc.--reveals.
If the claim is exaggerated or unfounded or unproved, then people actually get
anesthetized against baying attention to such charges. They begin to sound like the
ultra right fantasies, with some other Bugaboo replacing the U.N.
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CB: Of course, this dimension can be exaggerated, but I myself, don't discuss it much,
except in contexts such as this thread,where it is historically relevant context to
the Florida coup.
Charles Brown wrote:
> It is helpful in undermining the U.S. claim to superior democracy, as is sort of the
>theme of this thread. It is a glaring example of a defect in U.S. democracy,
>franchise , etc.
>
> It is very important to emphasize the career of J. Edgar Hoover, as a stock in trade
>of U.S. selfaggrandizing/anti-communist propaganda is the "secret police" forces in
>"dictatorships" , the "absence" of which in the U.S. is thereby more evidence of U.S.
>superior democracy.
>
> It would be pretty difficult to overdescribe an event like the Kennedy assassination
>which is perhaps the prime publically undeniable example of transition of president
>without an election or impeachment.
>
> CB
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> I don't see how it is helpful to any understanding of US politics to cast the
>Kennedy assassination as a coup or to speculate on how far the secret police and
>whoever
> presumably runs them would favor Johnson over Kennedy, etc. To over- describe such
>an event, including events like the vote corruption in Florida, tends to set lots of
>folks
> sniffing down the trail of red herrings while the prey luxuriates in its lair.
>
> Charles Brown wrote:
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> > Charles Brown wrote:
> > > CB: It was not announced as a coup d'etat, but it was in fact a coup
> > > d'etat.
> >
> > Are you saying that Lyndon Johnson authored a coup d'etat?
> >
> > (((((((((((
> >
> > CB: No. Some superiors of the shooters in the CIA ? J. Edgar Hoover's approval for
>the assassination probably had to be had before hand, if he was not in on the
>planning.
> >
> > Johnson was acceptable to which ever reactionary section of capital decided to ice
>Kennedy.
> >
> > By the way, Hoover's as a secret police boss for fifty years, spanning several
>presidents is another chink in the U.S. democratic mask
> >
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