tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post6752810307237131817..comments2023-11-05T03:25:20.581-08:00Comments on STOP THE MADNESS: CHAPTER TWENTY THREE. OBAMA IS A POLITICAL PRISONERRick Staggenborg, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-16974390901741213522013-01-13T09:23:32.323-08:002013-01-13T09:23:32.323-08:00I just came across a speech by Jim Douglas, author...I just came across a speech by Jim Douglas, author of JFK and the Unspeakable. In it, he summarizes the array of the forces of the military-industrial forces aligned against Kennedy as he made the crucial shift from commie-baiter to dedicated peace proponent, a fateful decision that cost him his life. Like Lincoln, Kennedy made this decision with full awareness that it was likely to get him killed.<br /><br />Douglas dispels the efforts by revisionist historians to slander Kennedy by implying that his early anticommunist record belies his devotion to the cause of peace. He reveals his secret communications with Kruschev that gave the world its first real hope for peace in a world gone mad with war lust. <br /><br />In the speech, Douglas emphasizes the hope that knowledge of the truth of how close Kennedy came to peace will inspire today's generation to abandon the belief that war is inevitable. This is the first step in getting people to organize to push Obama to take the risk of challenging the corporatocracy knowing that he has the People behind him and that should he pay the ultimate price for freedom, he will not have sacrificed his life in vain.<br /><br />The situation is getting critical. In the question and answer period following the speech, the reporter makes the comment that Obama is in the same situation as Kennedy. This is not true. The military industrial complex has grown exponentially stronger since they killed Kennedy. <br /><br />Getting the truth out is the only hope for freedom and democracy in the world. Should we fail to do so, as Mick Jager said: "Who killed the Kennedys? After all, it was you and me." JFK will not die as long as we keep his memory alive. If we awaken the American people to speak about the unspeakable, the last, best hope for the freedom of Mankind can be revived shall not perish from the Earth: http://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/COPA2009.htmlRick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-59956169962685007222012-03-19T10:12:58.832-07:002012-03-19T10:12:58.832-07:00Thank you, Michael. I could say the same about you...Thank you, Michael. I could say the same about you and your great books on line!<br /><br />http://culturewarclasswar.wordpress.com/culture-war-is-class-war/Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-51516217321378056932012-03-19T10:12:06.235-07:002012-03-19T10:12:06.235-07:00Thanks Pianorama for sharing this essay with other...Thanks Pianorama for sharing this essay with others. I hope that my perspective adds to the conversation. The more widely original ideas are shared, the sooner we can create a united international front against fascism and war with the strength to crush the corporatocracy and dismantle the fascist New World Order.Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-41770555891047619712011-12-04T22:05:20.687-08:002011-12-04T22:05:20.687-08:00Thank you for writing this. Tweeted.Thank you for writing this. Tweeted.PIANORAMAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17365412992213261495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-52374442961329110282011-10-08T10:01:28.119-07:002011-10-08T10:01:28.119-07:00thanks, Rick. A fantastic job...and very much need...thanks, Rick. A fantastic job...and very much needed. It is good to see a rational mind (yours) in the internet mix.SillyMickel Adzemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311823133000013189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-91439739389536263172011-05-18T08:54:46.262-07:002011-05-18T08:54:46.262-07:00Thanks for reading this and sharing, Careyann. I c...Thanks for reading this and sharing, Careyann. I couldn't agree more. You have to believe that people are essentially good to believe that self-rule in the form of democracy is even possible. <br /><br />To hold Obama accountable for failing to free the nation from fascism is naieve in the extreme. Obama made clear in The Audacity of Hope that he recognizes the solution but he needs us to be the change that will allow him to do what must be done to save the nation and give the world a chance to save itself. <br /><br />Until then, we are all responsible for the mess we have helped create through greed, indolence and lack of faith in the essential goodness of Man.Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-60647787416986063802011-03-31T09:43:54.240-07:002011-03-31T09:43:54.240-07:00This is the most persuasive and powerful argument ...This is the most persuasive and powerful argument for working together to make sure that the corporate profiteers don't get rid of Obama. He is not able to do what he wants at this moment, but when he is freed it will become apparent where he stands.Careyannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245499018863951090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484662326396778106.post-4695805414456835202010-09-14T19:04:35.779-07:002010-09-14T19:04:35.779-07:00I wrote this essay when it became apparent that Ob...I wrote this essay when it became apparent that Obama was going to be pilloried as bad by the radical Left as he could expect to be by the fringe Right. As noted above, he always told us the "I cannot be the change, we have to be the change." <br /><br />How can it be that so many people worked so hard for him only to abandon politics when he needed them the most? I knew what he meant and even though I did not work to get him elected, I knew that he was far more fit than McCain to lead us in the post-Bush world. McCain turned into a craven flip-flopper after the Bush slime machine derailed the Srtaight Talk Express in South Carolina in 2000 with the whispering campaign designed to convince racists that he had fathered an illegitimate black child. <br /><br />I am not prepared to argue that Obama is doing his best, but the odds are certainly stacked against him when most of his supporters jumped on his wagon after the election, apparently expecting that he would pull them instead of them pushing him forward.<br /><br />More importantly, Obama is working with an often criminally negligent Senate, most of whose members care little about anything other than being re-elected. They are willing to deal with the devil if the international corporate terrorists who call the shots in Washington promise to keep the campaign dollars rolling in.<br /><br />As I have been arguing from the beginning of the health care debate, Obama can do little to advance democracy in America if we do not hold our Senators to account for their treasonous abandonment of the American People in favor of the corproate Puppetmasters who finance their campaigns. <br /><br />Obama also faces a difficulty few of us have to deal with in our day-to-day lives. I cannot say how many times that I have heard chicken doves say that he should lay down his life to challenge the corporatocracy, if need be. <br /><br />I have only heard this from those who never served in the military, however. Most of them are snot-nosed brats who are too young to remember that a President who tries to prevent or stop a war that the international war profiteers want to start or continue are killed or otherwise deposed faster than you can say Jack Kennedy. These fools do not seem to want to accept that dead Presidents accomplish little other than to represent the dashed hopes of Americans who then turn their backs on politics.<br /><br />I remember the day Kennedy was killed along with the hopes of millions around the world. It is the duty of Soldiers For Peace International to protect our Commander-in-Chief while he walks through a minefield with sniper rifles trained on his head from every direction at every step. <br /><br />President Obama will be our representative in the White House at least until 2012, Insha'Allah. We must do our best to cool our own temperatures and check our own pulses before contributing to the corporate-media inspired hysteria that could get him killed. <br /><br />If you don't believe me, ask yourself why he spoke to an audience of at least 60,000 in a stadium where the attendees were not screened with a metal detector. less well known is the fact that when he spoke at Camp LeJuene, the armories were left unlocked. It seems that the Secret Service has been less than diligent in protecting the man we elected as our President. <br /><br />If he was exposed to the threat of being killed by some PTSD-crazed Marine, we have to ask ourselves if we can trust the military command structure to protect him. Why was this not investigated and the commandant demoted and transferred?<br /><br />If and when we clean up the senate by passing a Constitutional amendment outlawing the purchase of the senate by international corporate terrorists, we are not in a position to judge Obama the man or Obama the President. If we succeed, the voters will judge him in 2012.Rick Staggenborg, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16587630200799702811noreply@blogger.com