I still believe in the idea that the CIA or factions within the bourgeoisie assassinated JFK. It doesn’t matter that JFK was a war criminal who was just as bad as most other Presidents in the United States history. What matters is that his death to this day just comes off as incredibly suspicious and the fact that he wanted to get rid of the CIA just makes me… not really trust the official narrative. I mean, the narrative painting the man who did initially as a communist just seems too convenient…
I’m sorry, I know how I sound, but I used to grow up with 9/11 conspiracy theories as well. In many ways, it made me anti-imperialist, but it certainly did give rise in me to certain suspicious about the US government as well. I know that I shouldn’t be thinking like this, but honestly? I don’t know. And perhaps none of us will know for sure. But I can’t help but get the feeling that the bourgeoisie would easily cannibalize their own.
The US would never kill its own head of state? They’re easily replaceable, don’t have complete control of the federal government, and besides, kings were assassinated by nobles way back when for much less.
Honestly, I get how I sound, and maybe it’s my extreme case of OCD, but I just grew up with this as a fact. Maybe I need to rethink all this.
I’m sorry, comrades, but this is kinda hard for me.
(Also, this is a reply to the previous thread about this topic).
The belief that the CIA assassinated JFK seems plausible to me. For example, if you look at what was happening in the Congo with Patrice Lumumba things start looking suspicious. The Congo had and still has a fuck ton of natural resources worth a huge amount, and they were just getting their independence from Belgium. I’d imagine the CIA’s mission at the time would be to ensure that the Congo becomes another neocolonialist client state of the global north, and while we can talk about the faults of JFK, I believe he had a stronger sense of morality than other presidents (excluding Lincoln), and was a supporter of Congolese independence. Patrice Lumumba was assassinated by the intelligence services of some countries in the global north, and If I remember correctly, his death was kept hidden from Kennedy for some weeks afterwards by the authorities, and was gutted when he learned of the news.
I find myself believing some select conspiracy theories generally associated with the “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” crowd as a commie. There’s also the Dag Hammarskjöld assassination(?) case that ties in with JFK and the Congo, which I find super suspicious, however I haven’t looked into that at length. The UN has even reopened the inquiry into his death (in 1961) at some point in the last decade.
MI6 accused of thwarting effort to solve 1961 death of UN chief
The UN has reopened the inquiry into his death?
Honestly though, they’re probably going to obscure the truth like they usually do, imho
Yep, 2013 they said that new evidence had come to light of what happened in 1961. The UN is pretty useless so even if they do find a few smoking guns, I doubt it’ll do shit. They might try to conceal things, but the people with the most to hide is probably intelligence services like the CIA and MI6.
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/768350?ln=en
Fair enough and all good points.