--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: > <snip> > > > > However I did have to chuckle when Jimmy Carter tried to take > > > > a poke at Bush when he referred to illegal wire tapings and > > > > spying on of citizens Martin Luther King and wife. What was so > > > > funny was Ted Kennedy was sitting not 30 feet from Carter and > > > > it was John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy that ordered the wire > > > > taps on the Kings. > > > > > > > > OOOPs! Who was Jimmy trying to embarres? > > > > > > > You've just "embarressed" yourself. Here's the Church > > > Commission report on the wiretapping of Dr. King: > > > > > > http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/churchfinalreportIIIb.htm > > > > > > Read it and weep. > > > > ***************** > > > > From the link you cite, Robert Kennedy did approve wiretaps on > > King, although the FBI went further than Kennedy had in mind, > > evidently: >
> That's the understatement of the month. > > Obviously Kennedy shouldn't have approved the wiretaps > in the first place--at least morally; it was legal for > him to do so--and apparently he did so reluctantly. > > But how MDixon thinks the FBI's vastly worse behavior > reflects badly on *Teddy* Kennedy, who has been outspokenly > opposed to Bush's ILLEGAL wiretapping of many thousands of > Americans, is really hard to figure. > > ******************* Of course, Dixon's comments about Ted Kennedy were irrelevant, but the point is that Robert Kennedy did do multiple approvals of the wiretaps. As far as Robert Kennedy's character supposedly making him only a reluctant supporter of the wiretap campaign against King, he was a mutt who loved Sen McCarthy's witchhunt and worked for that lowlife alongside the execrable Roy Cohn. Kennedy defended both his work for McCarthy and McCarthy himself long after even middle of the road Americans were totally disgusted with both: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/progjfk2.htm ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
