Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

On The 60th Anniversary Of The Deep State's Dark Awakening A brief touch upon some of the many things that could be said. 60 YEARS AGO TODAY, a particular kind of evil stirred in America. John F. Kennedy had just given his wise and powerful speech at American University a few weeks earlier, calling for a grown-up attitude toward the Soviet Union and thereby threatening the growing power of the then-16-year-old "national security" deep-state Leviathan. Kennedy was also making preparations to withdraw US forces from Viet Nam and speaking of dismantling the CIA. Spittle-flecked Strangelovian psychopaths of the same sort who today plump endlessly for ceaseless and escalated current conflict with Russia were wroth at Kennedy's rejection of their aggressive foreign policy and his threats against their power and profits. They began making plans for Kennedy's murder five months hence. Altogether, the events of 60 years ago amounted to an inflection point in world history, at which it could be said that the natural and intended course of the great American Experiment was interrupted, and the country was set on a dark path down which we continue to stumble today. WHAT FOLLOWS BELOW is an article I wrote several years ago, shortly after Donald Trump's second violation of the JFK Records Act of 1992 in service to the deep state. My primary purpose then was to help the out-reaching CtC community leverage into light-switch moments the obvious cognitive dissonance I discuss. I re-post it today due to the occasion of the 60th anniversary of these supremely significant events; due to the fact that the current US demeanor toward Russia and Washington's relentless nurturing of the hugely dangerous conflict playing out in Ukraine harkens so strongly back to the pathologies of that time; and because in posting it the first time I overlooked an opportunity to point out one more irony than those on which I focused to begin with, which I will now append at its conclusion. Please read and give consideration as you enjoy this year's Declaration Day celebrations. Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/246.htm#2