President Kennedys assassination was not only the ultimate human rights violation against a good man, who died for his political beliefs, and his power to prominently act on them. It was not only high treason, the usurpation of the American form of democracy (such as it was.) It was also the violation of the rights of millions of voters to choose their government. What died that day was the ardent hopes and will, the blood, sweat and tears of millions of Americans, who had chosen that this mans spirit and ideals should direct the most powerful nation in the world. We at Justice For Refugees From the US would like everyone to take a moment today to imagine what the world might have been like, had John F Kennedy completed his term in office. If neither of the Kennedies had been violently taken from us. Kennedy had decided to end American military intervention in Vietnam. Imagine all the people who were killed, maimed, crippled, raped, destroyed physically, psychologically, emotionally, by the war in Vietnam. That they had gone on living. That there would have never been any escalation of the war in Southeast Asia. Without the intervention of assassins in our right to choose our president, John Kennedy would have been president from 1960 to 1968. In all likelihood, his brother Bobby would have then run, and but for assassins, would probably have won the presidency after him, and held it from 1968 to 1974. Imagine all those who died in Cambodia and Laos. Consider the impact of secret military campaigns in third world, in the same period, from Asia to Central America. Think of the murder of President Salvador Allende, and the extermination of practically an entire generation of young progressives in Chile which followed. Think of COINTELPROs secret war on American activists, which continues to this day. Think of Martin Luther King, Fred Hampton, Popeye Jackson, Judi Bari, Karen Silkwood and others done to death by the CIAs domestic death squads. Consider the regime of clandestine kidnapping, torture and death squads which have become the norm, under those who profited by the Kennedies assassination. Under the administration of a former head of the CIA (Geo Bush I) and his son (Geo Bush II). The considerable body of evidence indicating government agencies involvement in his assassination points to renegade elements in highest levels of the military, and quasi-military agencies such as the CIA (which got its start as wartime military intelligence.) Political persuasions who fear a discussion of such issues are keen to label the debate with derogatory catch-words like consipiracy theory. The issue is not merely a theory, but has merited congressional investigation; although the insitutions charged with protecting the public from such crimes have lagged far behind independent investigations by individuals and agencies motivated only by a passionate need to know, and to see justice done. Consider a world in which the Kennedies had lived, and fulfilled all their great promise. Consider the 1960s and 70s with a USA, dominating international politics with an agenda which opposed dirty little wars for profit around the world. Which supported an international community based on dialogue, social justice and civil rights.
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