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Give me Liberty
Rodger Williamson
While our continent has been peopled by many tribal nationalities for millennia, our nation, as we know of it today, with written law and civil rights, had the planting of its seed with the establishment of Jamestown and the Colony of Virginia in 1607.
From there, more and more colonies were established by the British. Until, in April of 1775, the British overplayed their hand and ignited a spark that led to a revolution, that led to the gathering of some of the greatest intellectuals of all time into a single room inside of the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Their meetings led to the uniting of 13 independent colonies into becoming 13 states, united into one nation. As time marched on we expanded westward. We added more states, and we solved some of the old problems while creating many newer ones.
By the time John F. Kennedy was elected as our president in 1960, the U.S. had survived a second war with Great Britain, a war with Mexico, a very uncivil Civil War, Indian wars, a war with Spain, two world wars, a Great Depression, a “conflict” in Korea fighting the North Koreans and Chinese, and we were headlong into a Cold War opposite our nemesis, the U.S.S.R.
These United States, now numbering 50 in total, had grown from coast to coast and into an empire, with the largest GDP per capita in the world. John Kennedy’s time as the head of state over the U.S.A. has been referred to Camelot, in comparison to the 1960 Broadway musical play “Camelot” that inspired the later 1967 film musical “Camelot.”
If you were not old enough to remember life in the early 1960s, may I suggest the lyrics of the 1986 song “The Future’s so Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” by the band Timbuk-3, except tainted with racial protests at home and a potential nuclear world war. Kennedy was both America’s youngest president and America’s first Catholic president, and he was seen as a threat to the status quo.
Before being sworn in, Kennedy’s predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, warned the citizenry in his farewell speech against the “unwarranted influence… by the military-industrial complex.” Young J.F.K. took that advice to heart; after all, Eisenhower had been the supreme allied commander that won World War II, while Kennedy had merely been a PT boat skipper that heroically got his boat sunk out from under him.
Fresh into his presidency in 1961, Kennedy allowed himself to be naively convinced to approve the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. If you missed that in your history class, it was a fiasco that cost the lives and liberty of the invaders and tarnished the prestige of the United States.
In October of ‘62, the U.S. collectively held its breath during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was the closest we ever came to triggering a full-scale nuclear war. Kennedy believed that yet another failure to gain control and stop Communist expansion would irreparably damage U.S. credibility.
Kennedy’s solution to his problems with Communism was to “draw a line in the sand” and prevent a Communist victory in Vietnam. By November 1963, Kennedy had put 16,000 American military personnel in Vietnam, but he was still reluctant to order a full-scale deployment of our troops. The U.S. generals were unhappy with the performance by the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam), thinking that the war as it then existed could not be won.
In response, Kennedy recommended scheduled troop withdrawals, down to 1,000 by the end of ‘63 and complete withdrawal in 1965. The CIA, a partner of the Military Industrial Complex, disagreed with Kennedy’s assessment, and in order to keep the U.S in Vietnam, signaled to the ARVN leadership that the U.S. approved a coup to overthrow Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam. The coup took place on the first, and Diệm, with his brother, were assassinated on November 2, 1963. Kennedy was shocked by the news.
Historians disagree on whether the Vietnam War would have escalated if Kennedy had lived and won re-election in 1964, but both Secretary of Defense McNamara and Vice President Lyndon Johnson stated that Kennedy intended to drawdown the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Johnson is on record as opposing Kennedy’s plans. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and Johnson assumed the presidency. Was Lee Harvey Oswald the lone gunman, or a patsy? We may never know for sure.
In 1964, a reporter asked Chief Justice Earl Warren whether the records of the panel he chaired, that investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, would ever be made public. Warren responded, “Yes, there will come a time. But it might not be in your lifetime.”
Every president and every head of the CIA has known the truth, yet both offices have ignored the congressional orders to declassify information and for it to be made public. Donald Trump, the tenth U.S. president to serve since Kennedy’s assassination, had made a campaign promise to release the Kennedy Files.
When asked by former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano, and Trump confidant, about following up on his campaign promise, Trump answered that “If you saw what I saw, you wouldn’t release it either.” Napolitano added, “What the hell did he see, …I don’t know. It must have terrified him, and he’s one of the strongest characters I have ever known in my life, and suddenly he became afraid to follow through on a promise he made, not just to me, but the American public several times. It had to be the CIA.”
Every U.S. president from L.B.J., to Joseph Biden, as well as every head of the CIA, has known what information is within the Kennedy Files that is being withheld from “We the People,” and every one of them has remained “mum.” Imagine for yourself, what information is so damning that it is still being withheld almost 60 years after Kennedy’s assassination, when every major player has long ago already passed away?
Fast forward to today. It is 2023. Joseph Biden is our president. The Kennedy Files are still sealed. Biden, like every president since Johnson, has been compromised by the CIA, and/or the Military Industrial Complex. And then Russia invaded Ukraine, putting Ukraine in a life-or-death struggle to retain their independence.
The only reason Ukraine is still in the fight is because of support from the West, most notably the United States, and our donations of over a hundred billion taxpayer dollars. With the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, bolstered by fears of a looming war between China and Taiwan, U.S. military spending is at a record high.
Now ask yourself: who benefits from all this fearmongering and unaudited foreign aid being thrown about? I’ll even give you a clue, it is not you, the taxpayer, who is being burdened with this debt. We must remember the end of Eisenhower’s warning against the influence of the Military Industrial Complex, where he added: “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”