by Starman » Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:38 am
At this late date in history, forty-years after the crime, establishing a sole-source 'reason' for JFK's assassination is obviously a rigged-game. However, looking at those who were in positions to play active roles and analyzing their probably motivations, AND looking at 'who benefitted', provides the most likely reasons, which also have a great deal of overlapping consequences. Among them:<br><br>'Payback' for Kennedy's perceived betrayal of Bay of Pigs invasion, compromising military, organized crime, Cuban guerrilla and CIA assets;<br><br>Kennedy threatened/promised to scale-back and reform the Intelligense agencies, as they were becoming too secretive, powerful and unaccountable before the law and Congress;<br><br>Kennedy planned to pull military-advisers out of Vietnam and disconnect US policy from backing-up Frances' colonial interests, thus eliminating the potential for lucrative supply and weapons/military contracts for major corporations and the struggling Military-defense complex;<br><br>The Kennedy dynasty challenged business-as-usual for the Mafia organizations;<br><br>Western oil companies had a keen interest in exploring and developing Vietnam's land and offshore oil reserves -- thus, Kennedy's plan to extricate the US from Vietnam threatened these oil interests.<br><br>(As Bitscape pointed-out), Kennedy apparently had plans to challenge the Federal Reserve ponzai scheme by transferring monetary authority to a branch of the Federal Government, operating monetary supply more equitably as a national resource -- thereby directly challenging the big Federal Reserve private international banking dynasties -- and confounding plans to make the US dollar a global trading currency, thereby subsiding cheap-imports and serving as the economic basis for subverting 3rd world nations -- creating a form of neocolonial indenture that was to be far more destructive in many ways than the Communism threat that legitimized the US's brutal foreign policy.<br><br>I don't think any one reason by itself would have been sufficient motivation for those who planned, directed and then covered-up the crime (and benefitted from it) with all the tragic consequences that have since become apparant. The Kennedy assassination was a coup that had huge effects on shifting the balance of power in the US towards the military industry, with noteable impact on institutionalizing organized crime and increasing the political-economic power of corporations. The US reputedly killed or seriously injured/maimed and dispossesed some 6 million people in SE Asia, while poisoning and leaving mines in-place over huge swathes of territory (people are still being killed/maimed by mines on a weekly or at-least monthly basis even yet -- the US has also refused clean-up, demining costs or restitution for Vietnamese and Cambodian/Laotian people it has injured, including refusing the past and ongoing consequences of Agent Orange chemical warfare, a war-crime violation).<br><br>Would the US have been 'better-off' if JFK hadn't been gunned-down by the corporate/banking/covert/crime/military interests who executed the master coup that November day in '63?<br>I think it's likely, and a damn good case can be made for where the US began to take a severe, terrible turn toward abuse of power, unprecedented corruption, global hegemony and supporting right-wing military regimes as a result -- but we'll never really know, as America's future and legacy was stolen that day.<br>Starman <p></p><i></i>