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This vid contains one of the most awesome, inspiring and truthful speeches ever given by a president. This very speech must have caused a lot of panic among the higher echelons of the elite. Kennedy had been in office for only 3 months and he was already taking unprecedented steps to empower ordinary people.
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.
...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.
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
I think he was talking about the Communists. This speech was right after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
I do love Kennedy though.
im not sure...ive read the whole speech and i cant understand why he mentions secret societies and monolithic conspiracies..and that the medie needs to report the truth etc....that doesnt seem to me to be related to communism.
Originally posted by alienesque
im not sure...ive read the whole speech and i cant understand why he mentions secret societies and monolithic conspiracies..and that the medie needs to report the truth etc....that doesnt seem to me to be related to communism.
In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist... We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.