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WHEN OUR REPUBLIC CEASED TO BE

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JERRY TENUTO
And, most conveniently, the prime ? only ? suspect was dead.

Virtually all witness testimony that indicated it could have been anyone beside Oswald was either altered or disregarded completely.

Within a matter of months at least a dozen people with eyeball or firsthand knowledge that would have disputed the Government's official story died unexpectedly in violent or suspicious ways ? mysterious accidents, shootings, sudden "heart attacks," et alia.

Watching "JFK" 15 years after Oliver Stone crafted it has now become an ethereal experience.

It's like looking at America backward through a crystal ball.

The murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the first salvo in the War on the American Citizen.

The man wanted no part of VietNam, among other things; the Military-Industrial Complex needed a place to sell weaponry and assorted sundry associated goods.

Bottom line, the men who killed Kennedy needed to get him out of the way.

FYI: George H.W. Bush is apparently the only living person on Earth who doesn't remember where he was when John Kennedy was shot. A memo dated Nov. 22, 1963 places him at the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel that night.

How else could nearly bankrupt Bell Helicopter sell billions of dollars worth of rotary-wing aircraft to the military?

Who's been able to keep track of the corporations and combinations thereof that have profited in the thousands of billions over the past 43 years supplying weapons of mass and micro destruction to our military and satisfied consumers worldwide?

I sincerely doubt Halliburton has missed one day of being under government contract in all this time.

Even Mattel and other toy manufacturers got in on the VietNam gravy train. The M-16s issued to me at various Army units were designed and built, at least in part, by Mattel ? the very same company that made the best guns in my arsenal without death.

I knew an old radio station engineer, whom I'll call Wyatt, in Arizona who worked as a toy designer at Mattel in the 1960s or early '70s. He was the sort of old geezer one would expect to find in a small border town like Douglas -- a bit paranoid so he still made sure his 1860s model Colt .45 cap and ball six-shooter and holster were always nearby, kind of handy for whatever came up.

One of his pet projects was a scale model guided missile system. Now, Wyatt was quite happy at his work ? the man loved his job ? until he discovered the end result wasn't going to be quite as expected.

Once Wyatt got the system to work reasonably well, the overseers came along and told him to put the specs and dimensions on steroids, so to speak. They wanted his "toy" increased in size many times over.

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An erstwhile Philosopher and sometime Educator, Jerry Tenuto is a veteran of seven years service in the U.S. Army. He holds a BS and MA in Broadcast Communications from Southern (more...)
 
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