ehpolitical

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[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So you're saying JFK was referring to the CIA when he talked about a "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy" from around the world?

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Bookmark worthy, thanks!

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

The world suddenly seems so much smaller.

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Otherwise they'd be spineless floppy people.

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

I guess mine would have to be a pineapple pizza.

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Cool, my stress level wasn't high enough today.

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm getting tired just imagining it.

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I've never even heard of taco trucks, that would be cool.

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

It was mostly before my time, so I don't have that kind of insight. When I read it, it sounds to me a lot like what we see happening in the U.S. today.

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Ok, I didn't know that. I was too young still to remember most of it.

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Makes sense, I was too young to remember most of it. Still, does his description not strike you as resembling what we see happening in the U.S. today?

[–] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (4 children)

He makes reference to it, but also speaks of some kind of opposition from "around the world" that was working on "expanding its sphere of influence". He also described this thing as operating in secret, not out in the open. Was Russia operating secretly? (I don't know much about the Cold War.)

 

What was John F. Kennedy referring to when he said “a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy”?

The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961

Excerpt

For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.

 

Nope, not me... I'm still trying.

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