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Ted Kennedy’s Last Will and Testament
Senate succession rules, Camelot-style.
“It is vital for this Commonwealth to have two voices speaking for the needs of its citizens and two votes in the Senate in the approximately five months between a vacancy and an election,” an ailing Ted Kennedy wrote the leaders of the Massachusetts General Court in a letter made public yesterday. “I therefore am writing to urge you to work together to amend the law through the normal legislative process to provide for a temporary gubernatorial appointment until the special election occurs.”
Five years ago, with high hopes of electing their junior U.S. senator to the presidency, the Massachusetts state legislature stripped the governor of the power to fill senatorial vacancies. Every Democrat voted for the measure. Then, the governor, Mitt Romney, was a Republican. Now, the governor is a Democrat.
Welcome to the banana commonwealth of Massachusetts, where more than fifty years of one-party dominance has fostered a make-up-the-rules-as-you-go-along mentality among those who make the rules. Almost a half century ago, in the infancy of the Democrats’ Bay State hegemony, Jack Kennedy maneuvered his baby brother Ted into a Senate seat, though he had never held a steady paying job (save a stint as an army private) prior to that point.
After his election to the presidency, John Kennedy refused to resign his Senate seat until the outgoing governor, a Democrat, agreed to appoint a seatwarmer senator — John Kennedy’s Harvard roommate — who would essentially cede the seat to Ted once he became constitutionally eligible. President-elect Kennedy threatened to allow the incoming Republican governor to make the appointment if the outgoing Democrat didn’t do his bidding.
With both nephew Joe Kennedy and wife Vicki Kennedy reportedly interested in the seat, Ted Kennedy seeks to orchestrate for the benefit of his relatives a repeat performance of the skullduggery that helped make him a senator in 1962. The banana commonwealth way of doing political business a half-century ago is still the way of doing political business in Massachusetts today. So is Ted Kennedy’s habit of abandoning professed principles for personal benefit.
Today, Ted Kennedy earns the moniker Senator Abortion. Thirty-four years ago this month, Kennedy wrote that “the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life.” He added that society has a “responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.”
“The president is not above the law; he is not King George,” Kennedy wrote of George W. Bush in the Boston Globe in 2005. “Yet, with sorrow, we are now learning that in this great land we have an administration that has refused to follow well-crafted, longstanding procedures that require the president to get a court order before spying on people within the United States. With outrage, we learn that this administration believes that it does not have to follow the law of the land.”
Where was the “outrage” from Ted Kennedy when Attorney General Robert Kennedy authorized warrantless wiretapping on American citizens during John Kennedy’s Administration? Back then, Ted Kennedy rationalized that the snooping that his brothers proposed involved “wiretaps which would be in cases of national security” — the same argument advanced by “King George” forty years later.
By the early 1970s, Ted Kennedy claimed that President Richard Nixon prolonged the Vietnam War to enhance his chances of reelection. When the Vietnam War became unpopular in Massachusetts, he lamely claimed to have always opposed it. But in the mid-1960s, when the Vietnam War was still seen as fulfilling John Kennedy’s commitment to containing Communism in Asia, Ted Kennedy rallied hawks against the war’s critics, saying, “I wish they had raised their voices against Viet Cong terrorism, against Viet Cong murder, kidnapping, and political assassination.” Channeling his inner-Curtis LeMay, Senator Kennedy argued: “Any facilities in North Vietnam strengthening the Viet Cong should be bombed.”
As on Vietnam, abortion, warrantless wiretapping, and a host of other issues, Ted Kennedy has found a new position on filling Senate vacancies to better serve his interests. Brad Jones, Republican leader of the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, claimed he was “shocked and appalled by the blatant hypocrisy being displayed in regards to the potential replacement of Senator Ted Kennedy.” Anyone following the career of Ted Kennedy might be appalled at this latest instance of hypocrisy. But “shocked”?
If Ted Kennedy, who has cast ballots on just 3 percent of the votes in the 111th Congress, were really concerned about Massachusetts losing full representation in the Senate, he would have resigned his seat fifteen months ago. Instead, the absentee senator’s motive, like his brother’s almost a half century ago, is to bequeath a Senate seat belonging to the voters of Massachusetts to a Kennedy heir. You can’t take a Senate seat with you. But you can will it to your wife or nephew — at least in Massachusetts.
About the Author
Daniel J. Flynn, the author of The War on Football: Saving America’s Game, blogs at www.flynnfiles.com.
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Drudge ette obama| 8.21.09 @ 6:38AM
Teddie is role-model for Barney Frank. Now he wants to rule from the grave. If he is so gung-ho about a quick transition, I could make a suggestion about one way he could accelerate the process, but being a good Christian woman (like Dorothy's Aunt Em), I won't say it.
Lawler Nicoteri| 8.21.09 @ 6:56AM
Should anyone be surprised by this latest example of bottom-feeding by the repugnant Kennedy? Massachusetts deserves what they get for continuing to elect low-lifes like the Kennedys, Kerry, and Frank, et. al. The rest of the country however does not.
stuart| 8.21.09 @ 7:00AM
Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
Melvin| 8.21.09 @ 7:58AM
The Kennedy Clan is a pox upon this Country that needs to be expunged. I get so irritated that many Americans get all weepy eyed, when the start reflecting on Camelot, because after all the Kennedy's are Americas royalty.
Royalty my backside if the Kennedy's are royalty where is King Richard when we need him? After all Ted Kennedy is more akin to Richard's brother John, a conniving, deceitful, opportunistic back stabbing little SOB.
Gomer Pyle| 8.21.09 @ 8:01AM
The only thing that comes close to electing empty souls like Ted Kennedy and empowering him further is enabling Al Franken to cozy up to him like vipers in a woven basket.
Joniegirl| 8.21.09 @ 8:30AM
Ted "a blonde in every pond" Kennedy dares to pull THAT one again? How dare he? How dare they!!!???
Ryan| 8.21.09 @ 8:44AM
Alas, we were left with the worst Kennedy brother. RFK was no saint, but he was the saintliest of the bunch.
Phil| 8.21.09 @ 8:55AM
My question, what is wrong with the people in Massachusetts? They continue to vote for the same type of representation.
Larry| 8.21.09 @ 9:00AM
I'm waiting for Teddie to kick the oxygen habit." Mary Jo Kopechne
Joe| 8.21.09 @ 9:11AM
Is it not great? Here, "The banana commonwealth of Massachusetts", just another liberal mecha falling down around us like NY, Cal., Michigan, New Orleans, and Oregon.
Jim| 8.21.09 @ 9:20AM
Is Massachusetts part of the United States? Just wondering?
janet| 8.21.09 @ 9:40AM
The wrong man died from that brain tumor.
RIP, Mr. Novak.
Tim| 8.21.09 @ 9:53AM
Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
Son of Taz| 8.21.09 @ 10:06AM
Phil, there are many of us that have no use for the Kennedys or their liberal politics. Unfortunately, we have a disproportionate number of colleges and universities here, producing moonbats by the truckload. Add to that the powerful special interests such as the unions and the Democraps continue to have a free ride here.
Years ago, the town of Wellesley, a bastion of the affluent, was solidly a Republican town. Now, it's as blue a place as anywhere in the US. It seems to me that as income and status increase, critical thinking becomes a casualty.
I've lived here all my life, but as soon as my last kid is out of high school, I am so outta here. It's an embarrassment to say I live in Mass, and can only offer an apology for the crap the moonbats of this state have inflicted on the US.
Anthony| 8.21.09 @ 10:24AM
This article clearly reveals the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of liberalism. They will say and do anything, no matter how hypocritical, to achieve their "ends". Their hypocrisy grows ever bolder and more disgraceful by the day, now that Obama and the Left are in control.
This is why having a rational debate with a leftist is impossible; they operate in a parallel universe of morality and decency.
One of the few things the Left has not been able to contaminate and corrupt, is the mortality of us humans. Ted Kennedy will soon face his Maker who is not the least bit taken in by the hegemony of the Left. There will be a special Canto in Hell for Mr. Kennedy upon his arrival.
Dolores Inferni| 8.21.09 @ 10:36AM
Could we have expected anything other than the moral and intellectual bankruptcy from this saint of the Left and the scourge of the Right?
gay correnti| 8.21.09 @ 10:43AM
Ted kennedy cannot take the senate seat with him. itis very important that the State of Ma. has 2 senators to support our voters. I do not want to ammend the law that he now wants to change. Per the legislature the governor has been stripped of his power to fill senatorial vacancies. No more make up the rules as you go along. If he loves the State so much he should realize that it is time for him to resign. To spend time with his family and go in peace.
Ned| 8.21.09 @ 10:46AM
Ditto Son of Taz, regards WA and OR... I weep for what once was... Scoop Jackson and Tom McCall would recoil in revulsion...
Jack Frost| 8.21.09 @ 10:47AM
I don't even know why I am surprised by this. This man's hypocrisy knows no bounds.
jatho| 8.21.09 @ 11:43AM
Ready the barf bags mates. When the White Walrus completes his ice floe adventure, Doris Kearns Goodwin will be popping up on TV like a wack-a-mole to regal us with Teddy stories, except for THAT one. Keep the remote loaded and be ready to fire. You'll be longing for reruns of MJ's extravaganza.
juanderunner| 8.21.09 @ 12:06PM
Ted Kennedy was kicked out of Harvard for cheating on a exam in a Spanish class. He did his time in the Army and went back to Harvard. evidently, his lack of ethics and character has remained unchanged.
jeremias| 8.21.09 @ 12:06PM
I love these articles that show up the liberals as stupid, sleazy and satanic. You insult them so good! They are the bad ones, they are, they are. Compared to them, our "rowdy" friends are next to blameless. They are the ones who are ruining America and it's all their fault.
Richard, Dubuque| 8.21.09 @ 12:15PM
Admiral Oldsmobile (D-Smirnoff ) is one of the most dispicable individuals to hold office in our contemporary history. I did not peg him as the most dispicable as there are numerous others in his category. He managed to skate through life without having to work a real job. Wonder if he ever called a plumber or electrician, changed the oil in his car, had utility services connected at his house, or painted the shudders? He was certainly one of the intellectual elites, although I think there may be an issue about a Spanish exam while he was at Harrrrvvvvurd. Now he is at the end of his life and instead of reflecting on the "good" that he did he is again manipulating the system to get what he wants, and not what is delegated to the people. Make that the "little people." He wants Socialized medicine for all of those who are unable to choose for themselves, which means everyone except his cronies. Notice that he did not go to Canada or England for his treatments but got the best of the best at Duke and other major medical centers. He is remembered for leaving a young lady to suffocate in the back seat of the car that he drove into the bay, and he continues to advocate the constitutional killing of unborn babies. Here, however, the little people have not yet noticed that this is in fact not constitutional, but what the hey, the Admiral got his way. It is very much time for him to move on, and he is now at the door for a new journey to the afterlife. I hope he has the correct passport.
djn| 8.21.09 @ 12:29PM
kennedy is pure scum. Wasn't he the one that insisted an election be held when then Gov.Romney wanted to fill a vacant seat in MA? Now, he wants the MA governor to fill the seat immediately. The sooner he goes, the better for our country. Keeping him alive is costing taxpayers'.
Cris Worth| 8.21.09 @ 12:41PM
Where will they bury Ted? Arlington? Chappaquiddick? next to Mary Jo? Does anyone know?
Dean| 8.21.09 @ 12:50PM
I recall John Huston's classic line from the movie "Chinatown": Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
The universe is estimated by astronomers to be approximately 14 billion years old. Even that is not enough time to make Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, et al. respectable.
Dagny Taggert| 8.21.09 @ 1:11PM
Phil, I'm with Son of Taz on this one--very, very sorry for the damage our moonbat-majority electorate here in the Commonwealth has inflicted upon the nation. Kennedy's career represents the absolute worst of liberal politics, much like Obama's health-care plan: Absolute disregard (or lack of understanding) for the basic laws of economics. Where Obama doesn't understand that gov't meddling with the free market has limited what insurance companies can do for health care coverage, Kennedy has made a career out of messing with the irrefutable laws of supply and demand.
To wit: He has been behind two major amnesties for illegal aliens (and working on a third), and constantly raising the minimum wage throughout his career. You cannot allow the supply of unskilled labor to grow unchecked and insure an above-market price for their labor without disasterous consequences. It is such a basic concept to anyone who gives it a minute of thought. Liberal politics always seem to ignore economic reality--no wonder they have to cheat and distort to stay in power.
GB| 8.21.09 @ 1:14PM
Sad thing about this entire mess is that what he wants will happen. Mass. lefties will do this to preserve a dem in the senate. Business as usual.
janet| 8.21.09 @ 1:38PM
All the Kennedy family has ever cared about was power and preserving THEIR WEALTH. They have lived off the interest of Papa Joe's crooked money and have hidden and safeguarded their own cash. They live by the old socialist rule of "what's mine is mine and everybody else's is negotiable. He'll rot in hell soon enough.
Dean| 8.21.09 @ 2:04PM
If the Kennedys are "American royalty," then I think I would prefer the Romanovs, Habsburgs, and Hohenzollerns.
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Tim| 8.21.09 @ 2:59PM
I can hate his sins without wishing him in hell. Consider the beam in your own eye and pray for grace.
Jack| 8.21.09 @ 3:13PM
Gee, I've never seen so much vitriol directed at one person. Great job! Thank y'all!
DIEP COCKRILL| 8.21.09 @ 3:46PM
How many tragics that happened in their families caused them tears and sorrows....and 'till this day, the Kennedy's still haven't learned the lessons. What the Kennedy's have done to others all came back and haunted them.
Ted - please leave the MA people alone, so they can live with dignity. Nobody wants a disgrace individual likes you exists anywhere anymore. Obama is one of disgrace beings was pumped up by you into the W.H, and that's plenty of pain for us to deal with right now.
Oldefarte| 8.21.09 @ 3:59PM
The Kennedys [at least the males] are dispicable, deplorable white trash, and Lil Teddy is at the top of the heap. Stuart's accurate comment excluded the possible comment from the female that was raped at the Kennedy compound in Florida by Kennedy's nephew ["stuart| 8.21.09 @ 7:00AMMary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment"]. Additionally we all have Teddy/Kennedys to thank for the current DICTATOR-in-Chief and his socialistic policies and proposals currently destroying this country!!!!!!!
jr| 8.21.09 @ 4:41PM
Excellent posts, kiddies. Oldefarte sums it up in a few short sentences but those in Mass. will have the blemishes on their lives and souls forever. Anyone like to pull the plug on this obese politician who tries to get the rest of us to live under the healthcare thumb of the goobermint. You would think that he would be going to, or currently living within the confines of a VA hospital where he could get that excellent care from the goobermint docs and staff. Please, Mass residents who voted for him the last time, please explain why!!!! I cannot understand it -- I = one of the little people.
jack| 8.21.09 @ 5:31PM
the sooner Obama health care plan kicks in the sooner this crook will be gone,in fact under Obamas plan this scumbag would never have survived this long. Hard to believe W actually did bus with this lowlife. These are very dark times,with the evil empire ruling our country
Al Adab| 8.21.09 @ 5:56PM
It seems at long last that Barry Goldwater was right. We should have sawn off New England and let it float out to sea.
TimothyJ| 8.21.09 @ 9:14PM
I hope that they do this, and give it to Fatso's wife, kids, whatever. That way, when the Repubs mount their ad campaign against the Dems, they can put this forward and blast the Dems for it over and over and over again.
Dean| 8.21.09 @ 9:44PM
I recall the scene in the movie "Animal House" in which Dean Wormer counsels a young student that "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." That assertion can be disputed; it seems to have worked well for Ted Kennedy!
Staton Rabin| 8.21.09 @ 9:48PM
The amount of venom I see in Mr. Flynn's article and in almost every comment above speaks volumes-- about the authors, not Senator Kennedy. I am a Democrat who admires Ted Kennedy. But I would never make hideous comments like those I see here about any Republican, especially not one who is ailing, and who has recently lost a beloved sister. Ted Kennedy has many friends in Congress, and among them is Senator Orrin Hatch. Have any of you here ever asked yourselves why Ted Kennedy is respected and loved even by some who share your political beliefs but who know him far better than you do?
Richard Baker| 8.21.09 @ 9:51PM
Please, is he dead yet? Soon? What a waste as a human being. He's a rich Communist. Good riddance when the day comes.
Richard Baker| 8.21.09 @ 10:10PM
Rabin:
To answer your last question. Moral obliviousness and that the Senatorial Princes and Princesses love each other. Respected? A murderer? Imagine your disgust if he were a Republican with this background.
Sue| 8.21.09 @ 11:19PM
Rabin: Where is your head? Any republican that murdered a "staff" woman, then tried to cover it up (his drinking) by waiting hours to call anyone (he then called his lawyer), then going on national T.V. and crying about his actions and how we could "forgive him," would be tarred and feathered by the Democrats and the media. He should have resigned and slithered back into his snake hole.
There are some things that shouldn't be forgotten and this is one. Mary Jo Kopeckne may she rest in peace.
Ted Kennedy didn't even know who Obama was and called him "Osama bin Obama." Then, the scumbag and his niece issued calls for all sheepie Democrats to support him. He's disgusting.
He has no friends in Congress. Democrats don't have friends; they have "users" and "cronies."
Friends is not word they know. But, when the old "lyin" of the Senate passes away, watch all the pretend tears and tributes.
Chili Relleno| 8.21.09 @ 11:50PM
"I would never make hideous comments like those I see here about any Republican"
You couldn't because Mr. Kennedy's sins, which prompt such comments, are in a class by themselves.
loulou| 8.22.09 @ 12:11AM
I say that the bloated murderer Kennedy is already dead. I want proof that he's still alive.
Texan2| 8.22.09 @ 12:12AM
If I were Teddy (am I am so glad I'm not) I'd be worrying about how I am going to explain myself to Him about Mary Jo when I reach room temperature. "I was just trying to save my political a**e, it meant more to me than the life of a fellow human being " isn't going to cut it.
Gomer Pyle| 8.22.09 @ 1:21AM
Rabin; There is room for each of us to examine our own moral certitudes before being too zealous in casting heinous aspersions regarding the life of Ted Kennedy. It does cause me to step back for a moment and consider that my Maker is also keeping a log of my motives and actions as well. Mercifully, His grace shed upon me will enable me to stand before Him, pardoned. But only because I recognize that I must meet His standards and not my own. Those who value integrity can make reasonable judgments where it is noticeably vacant. As you observed, many of the posters here have made that judgment and...ground their heels a little more forcefully than perhaps...they should. So regarding the Senator, let the facts speak for themselves. There is ample evidence.
The Right Squad | 8.22.09 @ 6:21AM
Ted is a joke. The "lyin" of the Senate. He is, as Ann Coulter puts it, the Fredo of the Kennedy clan. I love watching his speeches, they are truly better than Comedy Central
JeffT| 8.22.09 @ 7:50AM
Hey, when you've gotten away with murder, you feel you can do anything. It's so liberating. Right, Teddy-boy?
Rmm| 8.22.09 @ 10:14AM
The people of MA get what they deserve, a dried- up has been who should have been shown the door a generation ago. TK is the poster boy for TERM LIMITS!!!!
MichaelSSEC | 8.22.09 @ 11:24AM
Kennedy is just being a typical Liberal Democrat. Hooray for me and screw you. That's their motto. When will people finally wake up and realize that these thugs don't care AT ALL about doing what's right? In fact, one of their basic beliefs is that there no such thing as right and wrong. Should we expect anything better from people who believe such idiotic crap?
America Last President JFK| 8.22.09 @ 4:52PM
WAS JFK JR. MURDERED?
Many unbiased researchers have spent the years since JFK Jr.'s July 1999 plane crash and untimely death, carefully gathering the facts about what really happened, and this investigation leads them to only one conclusion: MURDER, from a bomb placed aboard his aircraft. Their painstaking investigations reveal a massive cover up by the controlled national media. They expose the false statements and lies that were fed to the apathetic and gullible American public, who only too gladly will swallow the swill dished out daily by the managed news and disinformation networks.
Here are the raw, cold facts that they have come up with. Contrary to what the puppet media claim, JFK Jr. was a good, experienced pilot who always played it safe when operating his plane. Visibility was good as he made his approach to Martha's Vineyard, his destination point. Kennedy made contact with the airport at 9:39 p.m., and stated that that everything was normal, and that he was commencing his descent to the airport. Seconds later, radar indicated his plane started making a nose dive into the ocean at 6,000 feet per minute. Kennedy's plane had autopilot, capable of flying itself to within 100 feet of the airport. All a cautious and methodical pilot would have had to do was sit back and let the plane fly itself. At least three witnesses reported seeing an explosion in the sky at that time, and in exactly that part of the sky where JFK Jr.'s plane disappeared from radar. The media were not allowed to get anywhere near the scene of the recovered wreckage, and no photographs were permitted of the recovered bodies. Kennedy's emergency locator was removed, the cockpit recorder was disabled, and the flight log was taken. Add to this the strange rushed autopsy (done in less than four hours), then the weird request for cremation and burial at sea (to remove all evidence, of course!), and you have a powerful case for criminal conspiracy to cover up a crime scene.
Who would have killed JFK Jr.? The same people that murdered his father. The International Bankers, the Shadow Government, the One Worlders, the Illuminati, the secret societies, those who will not hesitate to get rid of anyone who gets in their way in building their socialistic One World Government. JFK Jr. was the only Kennedy to ever acknowledge a conspiracy in his father's death. He not only acknowledged it, he published an article by Oliver Stone in his magazine about assassination conspiracies, and lying history books. He planned on turning his magazine ?George? into a true political vehicle for change. For the American public, not the New World Order. In fact, he had already begun this process by publishing factual exposes on George Wallace, and the Rabin assassination. This alone is enough to have gotten him killed. And according to people close to JFK Jr., he was looking into who was behind his father's death. According to them, he was convinced that because his father was about to pull the plug on any US involvement in Vietnam, the people who run the international war machine, and get rich off of it, had him assassinated.
Apparently he was in the process of documenting and proving with facts that these hidden forces, along with the international bankers and their operatives, the CIA, were responsible for the foul acts against his father, and his uncle RFK. Facts such as on October 11, 1963 John F. Kennedy signed national security memorandom no. 263, which ordered 1000 American advisors home from Vietnam by December 25, 1963, and that the remainder of the U.S. military be withdrawn by 1965. The day after Kennedy's funeral, on November 26, 1963, Lyndon Johnson signed national security resolution no. 273, which completely reversed Kennedy's plan for a withdrawal from Vietnam. Then Johnson fraudulently used the gulf of Tonkin resolution as a blank check to fund the massive military buildup in Vietnam, an agreement Johnson apparently made with the CIA in exchange for them taking out Kennedy, and handing the presidency to him. JFK Jr. was intending to publish these details in his magazine GEORGE. Several investigator's have asserted that JFK Jr. was planning to announce that he was running for President as a traditional Democrat, or even possibly as a third party or independent candidate in the 2000 election. This incident represents another nail driven into the coffin of the free republic of the United States of America.
It appears that neither JFK, RFK, or JFK Jr. would do the bidding of the secret government ruling the U.S. These shadowy figures include the "Grand Masters" (a reference to those who control freemasonry, and the secret societies) and the "moneychangers" (International Bankers). The Federal Reserve Bank system, is owned and operated by the major Banking families. These private individuals and families own and print the U.S. currency for their own power, profit and gain, and maintain the federal government in a state of bondage to them through their corrupt system of loans and credit, and the creation of the national debt. The modern banking system is a fraudulent system wherein the bankers create money out of thin air and then charge the governments and the people interest on something that was created with the stroke of a pen. Who authorizes them to do this? The government that they control
American Last President JFK| 8.22.09 @ 4:55PM
LIKE HIS FATHER, JFK Jr. WAS APPARENTLY MURDERED BY THE FORCES BEHIND THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT
JFK had plans to abolish the Federal Reserve system. He wanted to use United States Notes, and he signed a presidential document, called Executive Order 11110, on June 4, 1963. This gave JFK, as U.S. President, legal clearance to create true money, that would belong to the people, and eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank, and their false money. Kennedy had already begun issuing U.S. government money that was free of debt to replace the Federal Reserve dollars we have been using. A number of "Kennedy bills" were indeed issued - with the heading "United States Note", instead of "Federal Reserve Note" - but were quickly withdrawn after Kennedy's death. Records show that Kennedy issued $4,292,893,825 of true money. It was clear that Kennedy was out to eliminate the criminal Federal Reserve System. The day after Kennedy's assassination, all the United States notes which Kennedy had issued were called out of circulation. All of the money President Kennedy had created was destroyed, and not a word was said to the American people.
International Bankers along with the Rockefeller's have been planning a One World Government for a long time. David Rockefeller and these international banker's secretly rule the United States. These incomprehensibly greedy and corrupt individuals are working to build a world government. All of the mainstream politicians are merely puppets of the money manipulators. Anyone of them who gets out of line, who wants to be his own man, gets discredited in the news media, which they also own, and which performs the function of sedating the masses so they can't think for themselves. If that doesn't work, then blackmail will usually do the job. In extreme cases, like JFK, RFK, JFK Jr., they must be eliminated.
According to government whistleblower Sherman Skolnick, JFK Jr. planned to reveal a well-kept secret that on or about August 1, 1999, he was to announce he was running for president, as a traditional Democrat or in view of the distrust of both parties, to run as a independent on a third party ticket. John F. Kennedy, Jr., made one grave mistake. He trusted the presidential campaign officials of Albert Gore, Jr. to know about his plans. That would have interfered with the plans of Gore as well as George W. Bush, the Texas Governor. The Gore campaign reportedly promised total secrecy, a pledge they never kept. Gore's people had asked him if he would run as second fiddle on the Gore presidential ticket. He said he originally thought to run against Hillary Clinton for U.S. Senator from New York but decided instead to run for President. The secret got out. George W. Bush, likewise would most naturally have an interest in the demise of JFK Jr.. About three days before John?s plane took off and exploded in mid-air, Michael Harari, and another Mossad agent were seen with former President George H. W. Bush and his son, Texas Governor George W. Bush at the Essex County, New Jersey airport where John Jr. kept his plane. This fact was also confirmed by separate U.S. intelligence sources who are also willing to testify before a grand jury. All four were positively identified by an aircraft mechanic and a maintenance worker. A coincidence? JFK Jr. was a captivating speaker and unlike other members of his family was unscarred by scandal. He would have most likely swept the field of Presidential candidates. Conservatives and liberals, both could join together to support him.
The FBI covered up the bombing of JFK Jr.'s plane. Skolnick obtained the details of the secret FBI report which was not to have been disclosed for 30 years. The National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, released a report claiming the JFK Jr. plane crash was due to "pilot error". Over the years, the federal crash investigators have covered up several sabotaged plane crashes, for example, FLIGHT 800, and FLIGHT 587. John F. Kennedy, Jr. was murdered before he could get to his planned announcement of a presidential run. If he lived and ran for President, he would have been 40 years old just after the 2000 election. Sherman Skolnick's secret FBI report:
Americans Last President| 8.22.09 @ 4:57PM
Excerpts from FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REPORT ON THE RECOVERY OF PIPER SARATOGA AIRCRAFT OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, Jr.
1. No declassificatin until 7/22/2029.
2. This is in deference to the wishes of a senior member of the Kennedy family.
3. Also in deference to the order of the national government and in respect to certain foreign intelligence agencies having reciprocal agreements with the U.S.
4. POTUS order and national security findings attached.
5. The recovered aircraft shows evidence of an explosive device having been glued or affixed within the tail luggage compartment.
6. Device was apparently actuated by a barometric trigger. Radio signals not ruled out.
7. Tail of aircraft was dismembered from the plane making it front heavy.
8. Study of radar shows the plane fell in excess of 6,000 feet per minute up to radar cutoff.
9. Satellite images supplied by the National Reconnaissance Office record an outbursting flash from the aircraft just prior to it going into perpendicular descent.
10. Tail structure was dismembered just prior to descent.
11. Recovery of a piece of luggage from beyond the flight path of the aircraft correlates with it being hurtled out of the tail luggage compartment at outburst.
12. Preliminary examination of the aircraft shows residue of an explosive device the Laboratory identifies as being the type used by certain foreign intelligence agencies. Refer to POTUS order and findings.
13. Study of Air Traffic Control and other radio signals shows no Mayday report from the aircraft, explained by rapidity of descent.
14. Investigation and examination has been strictly compartmentalized.
15. A short, perfunctory examination of the recovered bodies was completed. Examination revealed that Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was in third trimester pregnant, the fetus a boy. The four bodies were transferred to a senior member of the Kennedy family. The Bureau was not informed whether the bodies were actually cremated. Indirect advisories report that the bodies may have been shipped in untagged containers to foreign destinations. Reliable assets are to submit reports.
The conclusion? JFK Jr. was a qualified pilot, in control of his flight, flying a reasonably new aircraft, in excellent condition. Visibility was 8 miles. Wind: calm. All indication from forensics and physical evidence investigations lend themselves to a violent explosion from a bomb placed aboard the aircraft. The aircraft exploded in mid-air, as evidenced by the eyewitness accounts, and the widespread debris gathered from the ocean and several different beaches, and the nature of collateral damage to recovered aircraft parts, and items on board such as the headrest, foot pedals, steering yoke carpeting and so fourth. All showed signs of violent damage, having been "ripped" or blown from their normal positions/locations. This could only have been caused by an onboard explosion. Considering the nature of the current political atmosphere in America, and the before mentioned facts, there is little doubt that JFK Jr. was murdered. In all likelihood, it was a political assassination of the highest order, meant to alleviate a potential threat to the ruling elite.
America The Last President| 8.22.09 @ 5:36PM
John and Carolyn Kennedy
JFK Jr. - Why the official story is in doubt.
Let's get something clear. The purpose of this article is not to suggest an alternative explanation for the crash of JFK Jr's plane. The purpose of this article is to suggest that it is reasonable and prudent to examine all possibilities, not settle on the first explanation forced upon the public to the exclusion of all else.
Part 1. An Age Of Lies
We live in a time of very unpleasant realities. Truth has become such a valuable commodity that the government of the United States and the media have started (to put it politely) economizing it. Documented cases of media deception over the years have made it clear that the media lies to the public on important issues. As Richard Salent, Former President of CBS News has stated, media's job is to feed the public what media thinks the public ought to know. Clearly, anything that happens that the media doesn't think the public needs to know about will simply not be reported.
By way of example, let's take a look at the JFK assassination. For years, the government and the media sang a uniform chorus of "lone assassin" and "Magic Bullet", even though careful analysis showed that the media was using fraudulent photos to sell these claims. Finally, last year, trapped by his own handwritten notes uncovered in the National Archives, Warren Commission member Gerald Ford admitted that the Warren Report altered the official location of the entry wound on JFK's back. While the admission was made to appear quite trivial in the media, a moment's consideration reveals that this confession triggers some important consequences.
JFK had an entry wound down on his back, over by the shoulder blade. The photo of JFK's shirt showed clearly where this entry wound was. Gerald Ford's (and the Warren's) official version placed the wound up by the base of the neck. The hole in the shirt was explained away by suggesting that the normally fastidious John Kennedy had allowed his shirt to come un-tucked and ride up his back under the suit coat sufficient to place the back of the shirt up around the neck. Now, however, the original source document showing the back wound to be right where the (properly tucked in) shirt indicated it was.
What does this mean? The theory of the lone assassin is based on the "Magic Bullet" theory, that one single bullet accounted for all of JFK's wounds except the head wound, plus all the wounds on Texas Governor John Connelly. In order to work, the entry wound on JFK's back had to be up at the base of the neck to line up with the purported exit wound in the front of the throat. If the entry wound wasn't where the "Magic Bullet" theory requires it to be then there is no "Magic Bullet". If there is no "Magic Bullet", then there is no "lone assassin".
But more to the point, even ahead of the implications for the "Magic Bullet" theory, the irrefutable fact is that the Warren Commission lied to the public about that back wound. Though they may try to explain it away as some bizarre attempt at historical "clarification", the plain simple fact is that a wound lower in the back and out on the shoulder blade was reported to the public by the Warren Commission as being at the base of the neck.
The Warren Commission lied to the public about the location of that wound. There is no other way to put it. It cannot be candy-coated. It cannot be "spun". It cannot be excused. The wound was in one place, but the public was told it was someplace else.
Just take a moment and think that through.
Once you accept that the Warren Report lied to the public, you'll realize you knew it all along. After all, the last official government verdict, rendered by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, was that there had indeed been a conspiracy, and John Connelly went to his grave insisting he was not hit by the same gunshot that had hit John F. Kennedy. The Zapruder film bears him out, showing Connelly, after John Kennedy has clutched his throat, still holding his Stetson hat in the hand which was just moments later, struck by a bullet. A different bullet.
For those of you old enough to remember, recall how the media unabashedly signed onto this lie of a "magic bullet" and a "lone assassin". The mainstream media, who purports to be the watchdog against government abuse on behalf of the American people, stood up to be counted with what may be the most monstrous lie told to the American people in the last half century. People tend to believe what they hear over and over again. And over and over again we heard the steady and unrelenting litany of "lone assassin", "lone assassin", "lone assassin". It wasn't news; it was a hypnotic sales pitch.
Silent coup The Last Kenney| 8.22.09 @ 5:43PM
When Robert Kennedy was killed, yet again the people were told over and over again that it was a lone assassin. The government and the media spoke with a single voice of reassurance that nobody else had taken part in the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Yet it was clear from initial police reports that one other suspect did exist, a girl in a polka dot dress who was seen leading Sirhan around early in the evening, then running from the scene of the assassination. Probably few would have paid that much attention to her, since the investigation appeared not to be interested, until an official LAPD audio tape surfaced from the lie detector test of witness Sandy Serrano. Serrano was one of the witnesses who saw the woman in the Polka-dot dress leading Sirhan around prior to the shooting. Yet as can be heard on this tape, the police investigator is clearly trying o coerce Serrano into changing her story!
One more Kennedy death. One more cover-up.
In those innocent times, the American public was naïve, perhaps dangerously so. Americans never dreamed that our government and the media would lie to us all about something so important as the killing of our leaders. But, as history has shown, they did just that. We never dreamed that our nation's future was being shaped, not by the ballot box, but by the hired assassins of secretive powerful individuals. Yet it was, and still is
Obama the last illusion| 8.22.09 @ 6:15PM
JFK was the last of American Democracy, and the last of any elected government, by the people for the people. Obama is the final illusion, health care is the same as a farmer with his cattle, and the vet, deciding when to dispose of a sick animal.
The American people is no more than sick animals. Like Horse Racing and Dog Racing, so is Human Race =Human Racing for money to benefit, advertising companies, and cirtain Businesses. Sports industry for the elite, people treated as wild animals, police behaving like packs of dogs, and young people in Europe behaving like packs of wild animals.
It seems that we are in the final count down, to one world government, and Communism/Nazism.
Mentally controled by the media, and false governments.
JFK, warned the people of this time, a secret government, that controls America, objective to run America, and ultimate take over. Control of who lives & dies as the ultimate control.
Lies about the economy, to give the false sense of security, false terror attacks, to get people to give up their freedom.
The promotion of mass murders around the world and Americans hungry for blood.
And people behaving like wild animals, because of chemicals in their food.
Revenge of the Kennedy| 8.22.09 @ 6:20PM
Ted Kennedy, Last will to see a Black man as President for a laugh before he dies. Because the elite killed his brother.
Bob Harris| 8.22.09 @ 10:53PM
I will dance a Jig the day that SOB dies.
Until then, I wish him constant excrutiaing pain.
Dag| 8.23.09 @ 3:11AM
It will be real interesting when he is gone. First we will have the media coronation and then after awhile all sorts of stories will come out. There are lots of people who owe Ted for favors but they do not owe the kids.
CaptDMO| 8.23.09 @ 8:49AM
Golly...
If the honorable Senator from Massachusetts foresees an imminent hurdle to his representation of the citizenry of his electorate, perhaps he should recognize the onus of IMMEDIATE resignation of his position of public service, and
initiate the procedure recognizing "We The People of the Common Wealth", thereby ASSURING representation of the CURRENT
interests of the people of Massachusetts. If the process began TODAY, then it MIGHT be "resolved" five months from RIGHT NOW. ANY delay certainly reveals the honorable Senator's
true intentions.
It would certainly reassure the nice folks of neighboring New Hampshire that there MIGHT
be some maturity ABOVE "business as usual"
there, aside from the nice folks in Southern NH that decided to vote with their feet. Regrets that the Caroline thing proved to be impractical for the "other" State that worked out so well as an (ultimately lateral) stepping stone for Ms. Clinton.
By the way, how's that MANDITORY "wellness insurance" progrom that the honorable Senator so DESPERATELY needs to see nationalized (without State-by State Validation) , complete with "fines" for non participants, working out in Mass.? Better than Tenn.? Better than Maine? Better than Hawai'i? Any unintended consequences from that" feel good" bit of..um.. Legislation?
Yosemite Sam| 8.23.09 @ 10:22AM
Testing, testing - 1,7,7,6
Nunya Business| 8.23.09 @ 10:27AM
Teddy will soon be in hell and the media will be touting his great life and many accomplishments.
At least he'll still be in hell!!!!!!!!!
Eric Dondero | 8.23.09 @ 12:24PM
Why have we not seen any discussion at all, anywheres, as to who the likely Republican candidate will be, if there is a special election?
I vote for Mass. State Sen. Bob Hedlund, a solid libertarian Republican from Weymouth, with pizzaz.
Rabies for Freedom | 8.23.09 @ 3:22PM
I am a former resident of Massachusetts. Do not hold that against me. I was privy to why the law was changed in Massachusetts regarding Senate succession. There is a radio talk-show host named Howie Carr, who has made a name for himself in deriding and infuriating the powers that be in Massachusetts. One afternoon in 2004, he was conducting a conversation with then governor Mitt Romney and the subject was Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid. They where talking about what would happen if Sen. Kerry won the election ("Shudder!") and Howie asked Mitt if he could be appointed to fill out the remainder of Sen. Kerry's term in the senate if he won. Governor Romney said that he would appoint Howie to fill out the remainder of Senator Kerry's term in the U.s. Senate if Kerry won. When he said that, the Mass General Court changed the law regarding senate succession in order to prevent Gov. Romney of even having the slim chance of appointing Mr. Carr to the senate. Howie is hated by the powers that be that much that they (the Hackerama) would commit an ex-post facto law to be passed.
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cabinetmeeting.net » Blog Archive » Ted Kennedy, idiot and lucky SOB links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
tp| 8.24.09 @ 8:42AM
FYI, I come from MA. Part of the way the Kennedy's continue their reign is through the underhanded practice of propaganda through the disguise of the entity known as "The Kennedy" Library. in this "library" whose president is none other than Caroline Kennedy, you will find all sorts of short romanantic half truths. Things like "Edward Kennedy and is wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy have 5 children between them". They never remember to mention Joan??? Hello?
This is one of thousands of examples. The official name of the propaganda "Marketing campaign library" is actually the JFK Library. But here it is referred to as the "kennedy library" , it leaves room for expansion, like ted's waist line. As I write there are exhibits on Stephen Smith, a brother in law?? and Teddy's "Writings" are now in the process of being tranfered to the library for archiving and preservation at the expense of the American tax payer. Yes, this costs 10's of millions to transfer. He is such an "effective senator" this body of vital work needs preservation.
The JFK Library, One spin after another in the shadows of BAD FAITH.
Rigal Terra| 8.26.09 @ 6:23AM
The United States of America can rest easier today, for one of it's greatest enemies is dead.
Bruce| 8.26.09 @ 11:29AM
Good riddance! 1 down and 3 to go. (pelosi, ried & obama)
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Ted Kennedy Not As Praiseworthy As They Make Him | The National Scene links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
deaddemosgooddemos| 8.27.09 @ 8:07PM
Don't bury him. Flush him. Too bad the SOB didn't suffocate in horror like Mary Jo. Kennedys and democrats all belong in the sewer. They stink up the place.
Pat| 8.29.09 @ 1:50PM
MA is way behind other states in having a woman in Congress, or even in the State Legislature. Part of that may well be due to the patriarchy of the Kennedy clan which allowed its men to use women so poorly, but continue to earn the respect of men. MA has become an embarrassment in gender politics.
Doggiedoo| 9.1.09 @ 9:16PM
Unfortunately, I live in the state of MA and I have never understood how ol' Ted, and his sidekick, John Kerry who does NOTHING get re-elected for years on end. I have NEVER voted for EITHER of them, and all of you are right about this state....it is an absolute embarrassment of the "good ol' boys" club. I have written every single MA senator that they would not only be an embarrassment of the absolute hypocrisy of gov't in this state, but that Kennedy's dying wish is that WE die under the Obama Death Care Bill. I really need to move to the Bible Belt where I really belong.
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Vernon Lawton| 12.3.09 @ 1:12AM
Mr. Ted Kennedy this message is sent to you on December 2nd, 2009. When you were still alive I wanted to just shake your hand and say hello Mr. Kennedy how are you today? I would have been satisfied but I did not have that opportunity. Jehovah had other plans for you. So I guest the visit to the White House will not be, and now I'm 61 years yound perhaps my last chance had another job with the Almighty God, Jehovah. I now know that dream will not come to be. Sir I pray and when I do , I will mention you and your family in my dreams and prayers by saying Jehovah, the Almighty God in the heavens, I ask please to take care of one more of your fallen children's soul until you are ready for him to stand before you. Jehovah please receive his soul and hold on to it until that day, if it pleases you. Mr. Ted Kennedy I'm a black man who enjoyed listening to you speak. The ring of your voice says there is hope for mankind, however we must show that we love him to and he will take good care of you until you and Jehovah meet. There are many people that will morn over your lost in this country. Mr. Ted Kenney your soul has returned to the giver safe keeping. May God bless all of your remaining family that you left behind. It will be hard for them sometimes to cope with your lost, and I did not get that chance , hopefully in the new order. Mrs. Ted Kennedy rely on Jehovah God for peace, just pray to Jehovah each and every day, express ypour self to him and give him your name. My brother rest, just rest you have done all any man could have done so rrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssstttttttt
Vernon Lawton.
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Morgan Fox| 1.25.10 @ 3:31PM
How sad that so many hold so much hate for a man who is no longer here to defend himself. Regardless of your views relating to Kennedy's political choices, to say to "flush his body down the toilet" is disgusting, disrespectful and irresponsible. Funny how I am sure many of the individuals saying this would consider themselves religious--the God I adhere to wouldn't stand to hear such vitriol and hatred spit towards any one of his creatures. Shame on you.
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