jimjam wrote:You actually think LHO killed JFK?
Who killed Adolph Hitler? Was it suicide? Was he actually killed by his SS guard under Himmler's orders? Was his death faked, did he escape the bunker? These are interesting questions, but hopefully we should only spend time on these questions when we have established some answers, some correct answers to some other more important questions? Was Hitler basically a good guy? No he wasn't. Was Hitler on the right side of history? No he wasn't? Was the Nazi system a good system? No it wasn't.
The Nazi ascension of power in 1933 was not a good thing. But it is most important to understand that Nazi Germany was not the worst place in the world in the 1930s. I can't tell the amount of abuse, insults, warnings and bans I've received over the years, by less intelligent, less informed and more disingenuous people for trying to make this simple point. Nazism was only such a serious, world scale problem, because of the offensive potential of the German military.
A modest number of Jews were killed in Nazi Germany, prior to world war II, just for being Jews, as opposed to being Communists, trade unionist or for engaging in anti Nazi activities. But there was nothing in Nazi Germany before the war, or in fact during the war to compare to the public lynchings that were still taking place in the Southern States in the 1930s.In Nazi Germany people didn't pour out of their Churches on a Sunday morning to go and attended the lynching of a Jew. Jews were not generally tied to a stake in the village centre and burned to death. On the whole people didn't take Jewish body parts home as trophies.
Its a bitter pill for people to accept, but the culture of the southern states in the United States in the 1930s was more hideous than Nazi Germany.As we came out of World War I, universal adult male suffrage was established as the norm in the West. But the United States which emerged out of World War II as the leader of the free world did not have universal adult male suffrage. The leader of the free world was not itself free. The Jim Crow system had no where near majority support in the United States, but the great liberal heroes FDR and JFK both founded their power on a coalition, on an alliance with the leading perpetrators of the Jim Crow Apartheid terror system. Universal male suffrage democracy was not possible in America in 1865, any more than lean in feminism was possible in 2001 Afghanistan, but after World War I, the establishment of universal adult male suffrage and the destruction of the Jim Crow terror system was the number 1, the overriding internal task of America.
Both FDR and JFK failed this most basic test of American politics. They were both objectively reactionaries. The funeral of JFK in America reminds me of the funeral of Jimmy Saville in Britain. Oh how the people wept. But they mourned the loss of an illusion. A lost age of innocence that never actually existed.