Leonid Andreev
Phoenix (USA) / August 04, 2024
This speech by President Kennedy was delivered just a few months after his inauguration and a few months before the birth of Barack Obama - on April 27, 1961. It kept puzzling historians, speechwriters, and politicians for decades. Kennedy clearly knew something and wanted to convey it to the public back in 1961. This speech is not just about "secret societies," but about a "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy" against humanity. Many agree that this long-standing address refers to what is happening right now. I would call it: "The fall from the heights of democratic idealism of 1961 to the reeking toilet of democratic surrealism of 2021"...
This speech may help understand why the president was assassinated and why the organizers of this murder were never found.
I propose an excerpt from the aforementioned speech:
“Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:
I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight.
…The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.
Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know...
…Today no war has been declared-and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired....
It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions--by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. 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...
…No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed....”
The full text of President John Kennedy's speech made on April 27, 1961, in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, can be found here.
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