I’ll talk about that part tomorrow. Theoretically. Likely.
A Saturday, the 17th.
It made it up to 45 degrees today, but it was a gloriously sunny 45, the kind of day on the edge of winter that gives me another reason to love this place, Place broadly speaking. It was also as a bonus uncommonly windless. Tomorrow they say it will be momentarily unsettled and cloudy, with even a slight chance of a flurry.
I was well-positioned to fix a very small problem that had grown to massive proportions in my head, or maybe my heart. My spirit. To the extent that I could fix it, I succeeded; to the extent that there’s no way to fix it, I’m still recovering from the mess it left inside me.
I was going to give you all the minutiae and detail, but in the end they don’t matter.
This does though.
“The CIA’s murder of my uncle was a successful coup d’état from which our democracy has never recovered.”
–Robert F. Kennedy Jr.https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1604139690629730304?cxt=HHwWgMC44ZWjhsMsAAAA
In 1992, Congress passed a law that said: Release it all, yes, all. Every damn thing related to the assassination, come clean and dump it. You, uh, have twenty-five years to do it. No nonsense now. The deadline is firm.
Eventually and incredibly enough, 2017 finally did roll around. Trump did authorize a release.
But under pressure from the cartoon villain Mike Pompeo, the release was not complete–still some stuff redacted or hidden away completely. (Maybe in that closet at Mar-a-Lago too, in case of a need for leverage.)
Hero Joe Biden to the rescue!
Biden put off the release, because “Covid”, whatever the fuck that had to do with it. A couple of days ago on 15 December, he let go of a little more of the pile of files, but again parts of it were heavily redacted, in direct contravention of the law as passed.
What we know for a certainty now is that the 3Letter agencies were lying through their asses when they said they had no previous contact with Lee Harvey Oswald.
Why would that be a thing worth illegally lying over? I can think of a few reasons …
But the major one is just that they lie and they lie and they lie about everything, to keep you and me stupid and feeling like we might be the only ones feeling uneasy and at a loss about what to do.
Whatever it is you think, about Murika being so much better than those shithole countries, because Our Freedoms, because Our Glorious Standard of Living, because oh Lord Democracy–it’s bullshit.
Oh yeah you’re free all right. To play ball with Moloch like a good Do-Bee, or to go live under a crumbling interstate bridge. To get an experimental medical procedure called The Jab, or get fired. To parrot the right opinions or get muzzled by the corporations who are all in bed with the people who did Kennedy, and Kennedy, and King.
“Our” opportunity, our standard of living, wouldn’t be possible without a war machine to exploit all the poors of the world.
And as for Democracy–RFK said it all. As does Biden, every time he keeps withholding the truth and trying to vaccinate you against that truth and what it really means by drip-feeding you the half-truth, so that by the time all the cards are on the table, if ever, you won’t care much anymore and you won’t have eyes to see that 1963 and 2023 are proof that nothing’s changed.
My darlings, John Kennedy was no revolutionary, no communist, no socialist, not even a leftist in the historical sense. Like FDR before him, came from money, believed in the System that lifted him to power, and was a hardcore capitalist.
But he was just dangerous enough to stand up for the possibility of actual freedom, and real democracy.
So they killed him. Just like they killed dozens, hundreds of others, who stood for those things too, all the days of your life and mine.
“But your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore
We’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like killin’, no matter what the reasons for
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore”
—John Prine, most likely before you were born
It may interest you to know that the term ‘conspiracy theory’ first appeared in 1964, planted in the pages of the New York Times by some faceless machine bureaucrat servant of evil, and applied to anyone who felt the official version of the murder didn’t wash.
But if the conspiracy was real, then they’re just theorists, right? Not loons. Truthdiggers, at least as good as Don Lemon, or Chris Hayes, or insert your favorite corrupt pundit here; at least as good as the people who benefit in every way there is to benefit from carrying the lie forward every night on a thousand different subjects, paid well to gently wash your brain and provide reassurance that you’re one of the good ones, and that your country is still the best.
That progress exists, and giving proof through the night that our flag … was still there. Land of … thFree!
This is Home and … you’ve been so brave. So brave, now Sleep.
Sleep.