"RFK, Jr. Gets Stoned"
"Antisemite!" "Racist!" "Vaccine denier!"
"Conspiracy theorist!" And other baseless, nonsensical claims...
by Bill Bonner
"Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good.
They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home,
Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned..."
~ Bob Dylan
Poitou, France - "Robert F. Kennedy is undergoing a modern day lapidation…a stoning…by an angry mob. Another rock landed yesterday; Kennedy reports: "The New York Society for Ethical Culture @EthicalNYC just CANCELED my event with @RabbiShmuley scheduled for tomorrow night. They're evidently under tremendous pressure since they violated a binding contract and canceled without explanation…"
The Military/Industrial/Spook Complex: Some are angry because he has dared to challenge his own party. They think he may be playing into the hands of evil Republicans. Some are angry because he threatens the medical/pharmacy/insurance industry – by wondering if its vaccines are all they’re cracked up to be.
Some are mad at him because he menaces the military/industrial/spook complex, with its forever wars, body bags and trillion-dollar budgets. This just in from the Fabius Maximus website: "Summary: The Department of Defense uses obscure accounting to conceal its true cost from America’s citizens, assisted by the mainstream press. Long-time DoD expert Winslow Wheeler shows the real cost for our War Department. Like all debunking of our mad military industrial complex since President Eisenhower warned us in 1961, he has been ignored. The US National Security Budget for 2023/24 is …approximately $1.5 Trillion."
Fabius Maximus was a Roman consul and dictator who saved Rome from the Carthaginians. First after the battle of Lake Trasimene. Second, after the disastrous encounter at Cannae. He is called the ‘Cunctator’ – the delayer – because he realized that it was unwise to meet Hannibal in open battle. Better to harass him…to cut his supply lines…and to wait for him to run out of supplies and soldiers. Generations of military leaders have studied The Cunctator.
Meanwhile, some people despise Kennedy simply because ‘the system’ has made them rich and powerful, and they don’t appreciate his criticisms. He’s betrayed his class, (the liberal elite), they say. Even his own cousin, Jack Schlossberg, says he’s a disgrace to the Kennedy clan. The New York Post: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 presidential run is a “vanity project” and an “embarrassment” that’s “trading in on Camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories and conflict,” his cousin Jack Schlossberg decried Friday.
The 30-year-old son of Caroline Kennedy - and only grandson of her late father, President John F. Kennedy - went one step further and officially endorsed President Biden, who “shares his grandfather’s vision for America” and is “the greatest progressive president we’ve ever had.” Really?
Contra Empire: But the most dangerous characters in the mob are those with the black masks. They say nothing. They admit nothing. They claim they don’t exist. While the superficial ‘political’ reasons for wanting to discredit Kennedy are obvious, the deeper, megapolitical reasons are more important: RFK, Jr. is not just running against Joe Biden, nor only against the swamp…the military/industrial/spook/medical/university/media complex…and the entire elite Establishment of both political parties…and the Deep State. Kennedy is at odds with The Empire.
That’s where the fight really matters. It was a battle his uncle and his father took up more than half a century ago, a fight to keep a decent republic from turning into a rapacious empire. They lost. Now, the contest will determine how the empire declines – peacefully…or disgracefully.
America’s rendezvous with imperial greatness came with the end of WWII. After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US was cock of the walk. Then, for half a century, it was the world’s hegemon. But it peaked out in the late ‘90s and has since become the ‘late, degenerate empire’ that we see in the daily news.
Kennedy lived through this period, as most of us did. But he saw it taking place up close, and far too personally. His father and his uncle, both were murdered. He then watched as the empire grew and corroded. The Tafts, Cabot Lodges, Dirksens and the Kennedys were mostly driven out of politics. In their place came Biden, Hillary, AOC, Santos, Taylor-Greene. America’s military posture grew larger and larger while Congress turned into a convention of midgets.
A Threat to ‘The System’: Small wonder! It is not hard to see why good men and women stay away from politics. Who would want reporters checking out his high school yearbook…or what he wrote in a letter to the editor in 1985? Who would want political hacks calling up ex-wives…disgruntled former employees…or jealous rivals? Who would put his family through the kind of malign media attention that Donald Trump…and now Robert Kennedy…endure? What kind of power-mad, pathological egomaniac would want it for himself…let alone the people he cared about?
Joe Biden spent his whole life as a hack politician. For him, the move to the White House was merely the natural summa of a tawdry career. Likewise, Donald Trump always craved fame and fortune. He had no real plan, no principles and no program for the US; he had only a goal for himself – to dominate the headlines and prove that he really wasn’t the loser that everybody thought he was.
Kennedy? His is a more complex personality. But whatever it is that drives him has so far made him the victim of the most vicious and hysterically dishonest attack we’ve ever seen. The antagonists – politicians as well as the propaganda press – know perfectly well that Kennedy does not hate Jews. They know he is no more ‘racist’ than they are. They know too that he’s not intentionally spreading ‘misinformation’ about vaccines. He says the things he says because he believes them to be true. Right? Wrong? Who knows? But worth discussing.
But Kennedy represents a threat to ‘the system’…to the empire…to the Deep State, and all the malignant jackassery that comes with it. So, they try to bury him in a pile of rocks. Antisemite! Racist! Vaccine denier! Conspiracy theorist! Kennedy says he is being slammed much harder than even Donald Trump ever was. But Trump was never a real threat. Kennedy is. Today, no sparrow can tumble off a limb without setting off sensors in Langley, Virginia. And no politician can challenge the Empire without being struck by a granite rock."
Joel’s Note: "What you can hear and what you can’t. What you might like to read, versus what you’re “protected” from viewing. Disinformation, misinformation and so-called “malinformation”… all are curtailments on your right to hear, read and think whatsoever you wish… and to make up your mind for yourself on any given matter of importance.
The Founding Fathers, much maligned today, and after a similar fashion to RFK, Jr. (racists, misogynists, anything-a-phobes, etc.), were unequivocal in their determination regarding the paramount importance of freedom of speech… so much so, that they enumerated it as the very first, and most important, amendment in the Bill of Rights… the basic freedom upon which all others depend. For anyone in need of a quick refresher, it reads…
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
~ First Amendment to the Constitution fo the United States of America
Agreed with him or not, RFK, Jr.’s campaign represents adult Americans’ right to determine for themselves what they agrees with… and what they does not. It stands for the right not to have “The Message” dictated to you by some faceless, nameless, deep state cronies. To hear that which may be challenging, upsetting, even…gulp!… “offensive!”
As always, feel free to opine in the comments section below… What do you agree with? What to you shudder at? What would you like to see more or less of? What resonates with you, as an American voter, in the upcoming electoral campaign?"
o
Bob Dylan, "Everybody Must Get Stoned"
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