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One of the things that perplexed many assassination buffs is why Chief Justice Earl Warren and the Warren Commission and many of Kennedy’s friends wanted to believe that Oswald acted alone.  Specter’s heavy involvement with the Kennedy Assassination investigation implies he has important tidbits, especially since President Bush declassified Lee Harvey Oswald’s back and forth dealing with both the US and Soviet Governments.  Those of us in Philadelphia, or who are part of causes Specter participates in, have less problems reaching him, or talking to people who might be able to, then those far away. 

Today many Americans including in part our President are renouncing Secret Government.  Some think more would be accomplished if former Vice President Cheney were indicted for his torture memos, but Cheney’s lack of respect for democratic principles, has many historic precedents.  Due process and most other rights were infringed on under Nixon, Reagan, McCarthyism and during both World Wars.  If the JFK assassination came back into focus, many more Americans would wake up to the dangers of secret government.  Specter’s role as healer between the Republican and Democratic Party is now over, perhaps he could be encouraged to become America’s educator on history instead. 

Specter’s Single Bullet Theory to the Kennedy assassination was suggested to delay the government having to publicly examine the false trail that led to the erroneous conclusion that Fidel Castro was involved to get even with the CIA for trying to assassinate him, as the Miami anti-Castro community was screaming.  This back when the average American had no idea that the US government was involved in assassination attempts.  President Johnson was expressing fear that this blaming of Fidel Castro might lead to war with the Soviets. 

Among other things the government hired the Mafia to kill Castro.  Several Mafia leaders were disturbed that both JFK and his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy were making a concerted effort to put crime leaders in jail, they felt it was a betrayal of trust. 

Using gangsters for political purposes dates back to World War when after the Mafia was very helpful to the war effort by exposing the agents that Hitler had infiltrate on the docks in the guise of pretending to be Italian-Americans.  The Mafia and Jimmy Hoffa were encouraged to take over the then internationalist antiwar Teamsters Union to stop a wartime strike.  Then, at the start of the Cold War, without contemplating the long-term consequences, the Mafia was encouraged to infiltrate the record industry to chase radicals and communists out.  Communists during World War II were the most gung-ho for the war after the Hitler-Stalin Pack ended, and it was part of the war effort to encourage gung-ho haters of Hitler who had been slow to join the war effort to have prominent places in the media.  Much later during Contra-gate the US government sold drugs to gangsters to raise money to support the Contras in Nicaragua. 

Dick Cheney is preaching that secret government kept us safe from a second 9/11 attack and only secrecy and rough treatment of suspects can protect the US from future 9/11 assaults.  He will say the same thing to any jury and if convicted will still preach that giving rights to suspects is making America vulnerable to another 9/11 attack.  Incidentally Cheney has been accused of other things such as ordering the two 9/11 planes heading for Washington DC not to be shot down, if not actually a crime the relatives of the four who died on the ground could sue Cheney in civil court like the relatives of O.J. Simpson have done.  Perhaps its best to find out things that Cheney has done that he wouldn’t be able to brag about to a jury or Truth Commission.

It’s true after many years of southern resistance the courts finally proved racism wrong, so I may be wrong, and thus that trying people like Cheney in the long run might end up having a positive effect.  However another possibility is when Americans tire of Democrats Republicans still believing is secrecy will take over again.

Incidentally after Bush, in 2003 withdrew US troops from Saudi Arabia, bin Laden would have had to worry that an adrenaline-charged US after a second attack, would among other things, rush troops back into Saudi Arabia.  Today Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, and Beck and others on Fox News are claiming that civil liberties for suspects will lead to another attack, while almost everyone one else acts like the danger is over.  Cheney claiming he is a martyr for national security from a prison cell would be a way to make the possibility of a person craving secrecy to become President when the Democrats lose control again.  Senator Specter has the inside information to prove that Cheney is wrong in his claim that our secrets protect us more than they hurt us. 

I believe that a war with Russia was possible if the false leads to Castro were pursued which is why Chief Justice Earl Warren, and several close friends of Kennedy wanted to believe the possibility that Oswald acted alone.  Arlen Specter may have some important information.  But remember Specter knows only the nuances of the false trail to Castro.  However all the Kennedy Assassination documents President Bush declassified (if Specter would put them in focus) would let many Americans know that Cheney and Limbaugh’s call to return to secret government endangers us all. 

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/morley6.htm 
http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/McCoy/book/08.htm 
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