I do believe that RFK Jr. was a man of considerable morality - a challenge given his environment. Such morality from a man who as President would have final say on Intel, Military and ultimately on the Executive's foreign policy- which I suspect was a prime reason for his elimination. In any case, his and his brother's murders deprived the nation of its best chances to begin to correct the mis-steps that were undertaken in the extreme paranoia that began following WWII.
There have been a few others of such principle since then. Dennis Kucinich comes to mind. Here he discusses that troubling question of how the Democratic Party became an even bigger war Party than the Republicans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b079rbpYIzU
John, Martin, and Bobby. Had any of them lived, the world might be very different today. Instead, the dark forces won, the dreams died with those leaders, and we descended to the reign of Nixon and Kissinger.
Wow, thanks for the link to this great interview with Bobby Kennedy. I hardly knew anything about him. His honesty and concern, especially at the end of the interview, leave me speechless... There are few people of his caliber left in politics.
You mention that he understood that war was sometimes necessary. How can this be so for the world's superpower? And with nuclear weapons, can the destruction of civilization ever have a justification?
A little note from history that I read. The Inquisition, notorious as the horror that it was, was responsible for about 13,000 deaths. GW Bush, with the Iraq war, was responsible for how many tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, let alone the 5,000 or so Americans that died. And yet the Iraq war is now ho-hum history and there is no chance, and never was, of GWB being tried as a war criminal. With this in mind, pray tell me what remains of the American way that we would like to think RFK understood? Innocence, once lost, cannot be recovered.
As a 7th Grader in Junior High School at that time we and my HR Home Room Teacher a Art Teacher Miss. Ellen Snyder loved Bobby. She cried and was visibly shaken the next morn. in class after the night he was shot. I remember to this day her passion for RFK in Class HR after he died. Our Generation missed out on having him as President..!
Twice you have mentioned conscience in this article. Conscience is critical. We have buried our collective consciences under the military industrial complex, nra, me first attitudes and on and on.
For 25+ years we have been working with the Golden Rule Project, which brings many formulations of the Golden Rule, from throughout all time, to schools in Utah. Wouldn't that be great if such things like this most common of principles were taught in schools.
I do believe that RFK Jr. was a man of considerable morality - a challenge given his environment. Such morality from a man who as President would have final say on Intel, Military and ultimately on the Executive's foreign policy- which I suspect was a prime reason for his elimination. In any case, his and his brother's murders deprived the nation of its best chances to begin to correct the mis-steps that were undertaken in the extreme paranoia that began following WWII.
There have been a few others of such principle since then. Dennis Kucinich comes to mind. Here he discusses that troubling question of how the Democratic Party became an even bigger war Party than the Republicans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b079rbpYIzU
John, Martin, and Bobby. Had any of them lived, the world might be very different today. Instead, the dark forces won, the dreams died with those leaders, and we descended to the reign of Nixon and Kissinger.
Wow, thanks for the link to this great interview with Bobby Kennedy. I hardly knew anything about him. His honesty and concern, especially at the end of the interview, leave me speechless... There are few people of his caliber left in politics.
Pre-soundbite eloquence, no script, no aides hovering about, no teleprompter. Truly, a man from another age.
You mention that he understood that war was sometimes necessary. How can this be so for the world's superpower? And with nuclear weapons, can the destruction of civilization ever have a justification?
A little note from history that I read. The Inquisition, notorious as the horror that it was, was responsible for about 13,000 deaths. GW Bush, with the Iraq war, was responsible for how many tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, let alone the 5,000 or so Americans that died. And yet the Iraq war is now ho-hum history and there is no chance, and never was, of GWB being tried as a war criminal. With this in mind, pray tell me what remains of the American way that we would like to think RFK understood? Innocence, once lost, cannot be recovered.
As a 7th Grader in Junior High School at that time we and my HR Home Room Teacher a Art Teacher Miss. Ellen Snyder loved Bobby. She cried and was visibly shaken the next morn. in class after the night he was shot. I remember to this day her passion for RFK in Class HR after he died. Our Generation missed out on having him as President..!
Twice you have mentioned conscience in this article. Conscience is critical. We have buried our collective consciences under the military industrial complex, nra, me first attitudes and on and on.
For 25+ years we have been working with the Golden Rule Project, which brings many formulations of the Golden Rule, from throughout all time, to schools in Utah. Wouldn't that be great if such things like this most common of principles were taught in schools.
Maybe this is what Trump means: MAGA