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6/26/2025, 1:49:31 AM
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The JFK assassination strikes so deep in the American public consciousness because it suggests all this, in however inchoate or confused a way. The average person might not necessarily know specifically who or what or how they did it, whether Castro and organized Cuban crime, Mafia, CIA, specific entities from Dulles to LBJ to George H.W. Bush having a hand in it, Mossad or the Jewish Mafia, etc. But most have a sense that something’s up. The pomp and circumstance, the gravitas of the U.S. federal government, the oaths sworn to “protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic”, the sense that, fundamentally, these are people at least playing by the laws (least of all because in some way they ARE the law, or help make it), by some sense of morality, decency, order, and sanity (even if in ways one disagrees with at times) — that sense exploded in the American public consciousness on 11/22/63 the same way JFK’s head did on live national television.
This I think is why there’s such a mythos around JFK. He might not even have been anything so special himself, he could’ve been another corrupt bastard in his own ways, the Kennedys dirty and up to their neck in their dealings with the Mafia, but somehow him being assassinated openly, and it plausibly being a conspiracy covered up by elements of intelligence and the federal government, feels even dirtier and darker than that.
>Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchmen?)
Juvenal
It showed how the pretense of law and order was just that, a pretense. Where they want to turn their head and let some crime happen, or even fund, support, help carry it out themselves then cover it up, including with loads of disinfo, distractions, and a corrupt Warren Commission report, they can do just that. And what will the average civilian do? Precisely nothing.
Captcha: 4SHART
The JFK assassination strikes so deep in the American public consciousness because it suggests all this, in however inchoate or confused a way. The average person might not necessarily know specifically who or what or how they did it, whether Castro and organized Cuban crime, Mafia, CIA, specific entities from Dulles to LBJ to George H.W. Bush having a hand in it, Mossad or the Jewish Mafia, etc. But most have a sense that something’s up. The pomp and circumstance, the gravitas of the U.S. federal government, the oaths sworn to “protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic”, the sense that, fundamentally, these are people at least playing by the laws (least of all because in some way they ARE the law, or help make it), by some sense of morality, decency, order, and sanity (even if in ways one disagrees with at times) — that sense exploded in the American public consciousness on 11/22/63 the same way JFK’s head did on live national television.
This I think is why there’s such a mythos around JFK. He might not even have been anything so special himself, he could’ve been another corrupt bastard in his own ways, the Kennedys dirty and up to their neck in their dealings with the Mafia, but somehow him being assassinated openly, and it plausibly being a conspiracy covered up by elements of intelligence and the federal government, feels even dirtier and darker than that.
>Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchmen?)
Juvenal
It showed how the pretense of law and order was just that, a pretense. Where they want to turn their head and let some crime happen, or even fund, support, help carry it out themselves then cover it up, including with loads of disinfo, distractions, and a corrupt Warren Commission report, they can do just that. And what will the average civilian do? Precisely nothing.
Captcha: 4SHART
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