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                             From The Ramparts ~ Junious Ricardo Stanton ~

“The media literally spent years on the case of Chandra Levy and never stopped asking ‘Who killed JonBenét Ramsey?’ They’ve obsessed on Amanda Knox’s convoluted story and eagerly entertained various theories about the death of Princess Diana. And they even jumped headfirst into the feeding frenzy around the murder of J.R. Ewing! On the other hand, when faced with the crime of the 20^th Century—the murder of President Kennedy—those selfsame establishment mediacrats have relentlessly and effectively mutated the term ‘conspiracy’ into a dismissive, all-purpose epithet: the ‘conspiracy theory.’” JFK and the Anti-Conspiracy Conspiracy http://newsvandal.com/2013/11/the-conspiracy-conspiracy/

November 22, 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. His murder was essentially an American coup d'etat that set the stage for a blatant usurpation of power by the ruling elites. Kennedy’s assassination triggered a cascade of events that still impact us to this very day. A massive disinformation campaign and cover up at the highest levels of government and journalism about the assassination and the concealing of evidence by the government has left a sour taste in our mouths and makes many feel something definitely was fishy about the Warren Commission Report aka the government’s “official version” of the assassination.

 In addition to the loss of JFK, his assassination also had an unintended impact on Black America. It caused an open dispute between Malcolm X and his leader Elijah Muhammad which I will discuss in this commentary. The dispute between Malcolm and Elijah Muhammad deteriorated into open hostilities which were then used by the US government as a cover to (using a CIA term) neutralize El Hajj Malik El Shabazz aka Malcolm X.

To this day the corporate media which are owned lock stock and barrel by a tight inner circle within the ruling class refuses to present any creditable alternatives to the Warren Commission fabrications about Kennedy’s murder.  There have been no investigative exposes or refutations of the government’s office report or any demands the collected and stored evidence about Kennedy’s death be declassified and revealed. I am convinced declassification of the evidence would debunk most of what we were told by the government leading up to and including November 23, 1963 in Dallas Texas. 

For Africans in America the Kennedy assassination in addition to the graphic violence of the murder shown over and over on national TV (it was part of the coup plotters plan the killing would be a psychological operation to stun and traumatize the nation and be an example to other politicians), Kennedy’s assassination was also the tipping point in the life of Malcolm X and his relationship with the Nation of Islam. NOI leader Elijah Muhammad gave strict instructions to all of his ministers not to say anything about the assassination because he knew Negroes (as we were called back then) held Kennedy in high esteem and he didn't want any backlash against the Nation of Islam from black folks or the white media.  

When Malcolm X was asked by a white reporter about his opinion of the assassination Malcolm disregarded Mr. Muhammad’s orders and truthfully replied “It was a case of the chickens coming home to roost.” By that Malcolm who was an astute researcher of history and current events implied the US CIA had overthrown so many rulers and undermined so many foreign governments around the world they had just successfully done the same thing here at home.

For his insubordination, Malcolm was suspended by Mr. Muhammad. Malcolm’s suspension began a rift between the two that was never repaired, one that had unintended consequences that still resonate today. Malcolm was the best known spokesman for the Nation of Islam although there were numerous eloquent orators and leaders within the organization, Malcolm was their national spokesperson.

 Politically conscious non members people like me who were being made conscious by the Nation of Islam’s newspaper and radio programs Muhammad Speaks who respected what the Nation of Islam was doing, were often forced to take sides; to either support Malcolm or support Mr. Muhammad.

Their eventual split and Malcolm’s assassination by alleged followers of Mr. Muhammad was a watershed moment in Black history just as Kennedy’s assassination was in American history. I believe Malcolm’s departure from the Nation of Islam and his eventual murder were augmented by the US government as part of the FBI’s counter insurgency program aimed at according to FBI Director J Edgar Hoover at “Preventing the rise of a Black Messiah”.  The Nation of Islam was most likely infiltrated by government agents and I’m sure they had informants inside the organization. The same thing they did to the NOI they later did to the Black Panthers, US, SNCC and many other Black groups such as the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM). The FBI and CIA (in violation of its charter) also targeted the anti war movement, the American Indian Movement, La Raza, and organized labor, it was classic divide and conquer class warfare.

Kennedy was killed because of his policies. Here are some of the reasons Kennedy was killed. He was not willing to expand the war in Southeast Asia which angered three powerful groups: US CIA (they were running opium out of the Golden Triangle in Thailand Laos and Myanmar), the military industrial complex Eisenhower had warned the nation about and the Wall Street bankers who were laundering the opium trafficking money and making money off the war. Kennedy fired Allen Dulles the Director of the CIA for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and other reasons. Kennedy had issued Executive Order 11110 which mandated the US Department of Treasury to issue Silver Certificates creating actual government money for circulation that would have put an end to the Federal Reserve Bank’s (a privately owned banking cabal) usurious stranglehold on money and credit. He allowed his brother Bobby as Attorney General to wage an assault on organized crime. Kennedy was flirting with doing away with the oil depletion allowance which infuriated Texas oilmen. Finally Kennedy proposed sweeping Civil Rights legislation that worried and angered Southern Democrats. Kennedy’s legislation would have shaken up the status quo big time.

Looking at this list of Kennedy’s policies, you can see who had the motive means and opportunity to execute his assassination; hint the US CIA was started by Wall Street bankers. These Wall Street banksters stood to loose everything once Silver backed money was put into circulation. Looking at the list you can easily see who else had the means motive and opportunity to pull off Kennedy’s murder yet only Jim Garrison the DA from New Orleans had the gumption to investigate the Kennedy assassination as a crime in an attempt to determine who was really behind the plot.

 The Warren Commission’s “investigation” was a total sham and cover up just like the George W. Bu$h's 9-11 report. Allen Dulles who Kennedy fired as CIA Director was a commission member! So were representatives from Wall Street. People like the late Arlen Spector who is credited with the single bullet theory and Dan Rather an unknown small Texas station TV reporter who described the assassination even though he was not there told his audience Kennedy’s head lurched forward when the film actually shows Kennedy’s head going back! Both gained fame and eventually rose in prominence as a result of their parts in the cover up; deliberate or unkowing. In a criminogenic culture you get rewarded for going along with or contributing to the elite’s program.

The role of government commissions is to obfuscate the facts and cover up for those who really did the crimes. The corporate media did its job by failing to follow leads, support an honest investigation or demand all the Kennedy (John and Robert as well as Martin Luther King Jr.) files be declassified. Fifty years later the cover up is still being perpetuated.

Malcolm X was not murdered because of his rift with the Nation of Islam that was merely the cover for his murder. Malcolm was killed because he was following up on Paul Robeson’s plan to take the US government before the UN for human rights violations against people of African descent!

 After he left the Nation of Islam, Malcolm’s trips to Africa and Arabia were designed to garner the support of an Afro-Asian block of leaders/delegates to back his play. At that time the US government and their corporate masters were attempting to fill the global colonial vacuum left by European imperialists following WWII. Malcolm’s plan would have been disastrous for US PR propaganda and Neo-Colonial goals. So he too had to go.

Both the Kennedy and Malcolm X assassinations were the result of conspiracies at the highest levels. A conspiracy is defined as: a combination of two or more persons to commit a criminal or unlawful act or to commit a lawful act by criminal or unlawful means.” From Barron’s Law Dictionary page 99. Both Kennedy and Malcolm were executed with the approval and complicity of the government using patsies, organized crime influence and government agencies.  Both assassinations caused psychic trauma to Black people and both murders altered the course of US history.

The subsequent assassinations of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, the attempt on the life of 1968 Presidential candidate George Wallace and the war in Southeast Asia were part of an era of unbridled psychopathy and state sanctioned violence that continues to this day. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was a seminal event in US history. It was the first of several post WWII domestic coup d’états done either via assassination, political intrigue (like Nixon in Watergate) or financial market manipulation. Welcome to third world, banana republic USA.

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