President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about it and obliquely mentioned in his speech, his warning to incoming President John F. Kennedy.
Sherman Skolnick's Report - The Public Execution of John F. Kennedy
LONDON
The setup for the wars of the Antichrist to come to power included the assassination of the most popular, and staunchly opposed to tyranny, President that the United States ever had.
One of the major elements in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy:
Communism Socialism, including especially Gorbachev fifth column infiltration into the West and his point man Vladimir Putin is exactly part of the overthrow of all the West by Zio-Communism. That is all Illuminati-Zionist Socialist Communist Dialectic and meant to destroy the West and nothing else.
Excerpt -
Idolatry of Mammon
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Secrets of the Federal Reserve Bank Eustace Mullins is a PDF link to Mullins work by the same name.
‘It is commonly believed that Communism is the opposite of Capitalism, so why would these capitalists support it? Respected researcher, Gary Allen, explains it as follows,
"If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but it is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite."’Money changing is the core of Communist/Collectivist control over nations.
End of Excerpt see link for rest.
And see: Look up, your redemption is at hand: The New American: The Grasp of Socialist International
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When Gunther Guillaume, boon companion and closest aide to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, was exposed as a communist agent of the Soviet KGB/East German Stasi, Brandt was forced to resign as Chancellor. The Guillaume-KGB connection helped explain the incredible political positions Brandt had been taking vis-à-vis Moscow and the communist world. But Brandt’s KGB revelations didn’t phase the SI leadership, who allowed him to continue in office as the longest-serving president of the SI.Not much has changed there; “reformed” communists and communist parties are welcomed with open arms and hold top posts in the SI. The aforementioned SI Commission for a Sustainable World Society is a case in point. Its members include Aleksander Kwasniewski, the former President of Poland, who was a die-hard Communist Party member until it became expedient to switch to the “reform” label. Likewise for CSWS member Sergei Mironov, who was an apparatchik in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and remains a stalwart supporter of Russia’s top KGB man, Prime Minister -Vladimir Putin.
End of Excerpt see link for rest.
JFK, a hero cut down by evil Zionist Ben Gurion.
JFK, a hero cut down by evil Zionist Ben Gurion. « BellesHeures's Weblog
[The French and British had supplied the initial nuclear weapons components to Israel at least as early as 1958 - in 1956 President Eisenhower had angrily forced the French, British and Israelis out of the Suez.]
And a few years after that Ben Gurion and the rest of the conspirators involved, [under orders from Nahum Goldmann of the World Jewish Congress] had President John F. Kennedy assassinated because, amongst other things, Kennedy was a Pan Arabist and wanted Israel stringently controlled and if they got out of control he had already had military plans drawn up to destroy Israel; Kennedy also stood in the way of Israel ever getting Nuclear Weapons. For all of these reasons and his opposition to Communism and the Federal Reserve, Ben Gurion and the rest, ordered the Mossad and others to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Which the Mossad, with the help of Meyer Lansky (Jew Mob Boss of Murder Incorporated) and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson and George Bush Senior and the CIA, did in 1963.
President John F. Kennedy was against involving the U.S. in the war in Vietnam, he knew what it would lead to – toppling Democratic rule and paving the way for the Communists to take over.
Ho Chi Minh was a puppet of Mao Tse Tung. Ho was responsible for murdering 5% of the entire population of Vietnam AFTER the United States left. He did it on purpose to steal their lands from them. Viet Communists still brag about this today. The people Ho murdered were innocent people – the only reason they were killed was to take their lands; it was called an ‘anti-Capitalist necessity’ by the murdering bastard Communists. Today Iraq is being murdered and some people claiming to represent the Iraqis are actually siding with Communists, who if they had the chance, would kill far more Iraqis. My Iraqi friend, nearly 20 years ago, told me the U.S. should stay out of Iraq and let Iraqis handle Iraq. He was absolutely right. The only way to make it worse would be if the Communists got in. Get the U.S. out and KEEP both of them, the U.S. and the Communists out. Give Iraq back to the only people it belongs to: THE IRAQIS.
The exact crux of the whole matter is the criminal invasion and destruction of the Holy Land by the Zionist entity. Before they came to Palestine they, the Zionist Kahal who comprised the ruling class of the Communists, were the plotters and saboteurs that destroyed the Russian Nation and the Czar and the Russian Orthodox Church. That is why the “formerly soviet countries” rank the worst in treatment of Christians.
Via the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the influence of the Zionist neo-Fascists for several decades, the Zionist-Communists have destroyed Constitutionality and true National Republicanism throughout the world. They are all under the aegis of the ruling Illuminati Black Nobility Elite.
The Houses of the Dragon are what promoted the Roman aligned religion of Saturn, read Satan, in Europe. These were the houses of nobility in Medieval Europe that continued the secret power of the dragon, that serpent of old (Revelation 20, verse 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. [a thousand years is not literal]) This was the same Satan worship that was part and parcel of the Ancient Cretan Double Eagles of the Mediterranean, embedded in the ancient Graeco-Egyptian religion from 3,500 years ago to the present. That, in turn was based on the Mesopotamian religion of Ur and Babel and Nimrud in Chaldaea of Mesopotamia, the land of Shinar, from twenty five centuries before that, in other words 6,000 years ago. The Haburah of the Jews is a recent version of this, which is only 2,500 years old. The Haburah is the basis for Zionism and the Jew form of Freemasonry (which is the arm of Talmudic Judaism into Gentile religion and government).
The Talmudic Judaists are used and controlled by the Illuminati, both are utterly evil.
The houses of the Dragon are the European controlling nobility of the Illuminati. The Illluminati are throughout all of Eurasia. The arms of the Illuminati to pollute all other religions and political bodies are Freemasonry and Zionism.
The ancient Mesopotamian Satanism is the ancient religion of Gnosticism which opposed the Old Testament Patriarchs and Prophets and the Church. This ancient religion of Gnosticism is that which seeks to pervert Islam as well. Some of the current forms of this Gnosticism are Communism, Zionism, Christian Zionism, Vatican Ecumenism and Evolution.
The Habara is a small cultic sect of Jews during the Babylonian exile (6th century B.C. – aproximately 2,500+) years ago. They rearranged certain belief systems they encountered and made up a religion out of it. At the core of what they invented is their own racist self worship.
The Habara invented the Mishnah or “oral teachings” that Jesus Christ condemned repeatedly and totally. During the time of the Rabbinic Palestinian academies in the first and second centuries A.D., the Jews began the composition of the Gemara. When that was combined with the Mishnah it became the Talmud. The companion to that is the Zohar. The Zohar is a book of sorcery. Both utterly blaspheme God and His Christ. There have been several Jew false Messiahs, since the true Messiah, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ walked the earth. And he did walk the earth. He also walked on water and raised the dead and, as the Noble Qu’ran says, God made him to die but raised him up and he lives and he ascended into heaven and at the Nuzul i Isa, his Parousia – his Second Coming, he will raise and judge all men.
The false Messiahs that have come include Bar Kochba in the second century A.D., Sabatai Zvi in the 17th century A.D. and Theodore Herzl in the 19th century A.D. All three were Jews. All three were imbued with the Pharisaism of the Habara and the Talmudic teachings of the Mishnah, Gemara and Zohar – all three of which have their roots in the Harbara’s original blasphemous, racist, self worshipping religion of the Jews who apostasized from the true God. Today these are the Talmudists and Herzl is the Antichrist that used this blasphemous system to create political Zionism.
Political Zionism has as its core Lurianic (from Ari Luria) Caballistic Talmudism, which is the mainstay of the Likkud’s “religion” of “Israel’s” genocide and pillage against the Palestinians and, by the proxy of the United States and Iran, against Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan. The gentile arm of all of this is the Freemasonic Illuminati Black Nobility who today own the Banks and the Vatican and The World’s Capitals amongst other groups and people. The Kahal is the progenitor of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist Communism and its Gramscian-Gorbachevian revitalized 4th International. The Kahal is the Jews’ older organized form of Zionism and is responsible for hundreds of millions of dead gentiles due to Zionist Judaist Communist and Nazi organized owned and operated genocides committed against the gentiles.
Today, this Illuminati-Judaist wanton murdering of vast numbers of peoples by the Zionists and their puppet American War Machine is taking place against Palestine and Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Communism and Nazism are both totalitarian and both Socialist inventions, and both are opposed to Islam and Arab civilization and true Catholicism and the Religion of the Old Testament Prophets.
Socialism is racist. Communism is racist. Nazism is racist. All three are inventions of Apostate Jews. Marx, Bakunin, Herzl, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin etc. are the Jews behind Communism. Herzl is one of the main founding fathers of Zionism. Herzl is also one the main founders of German Socialism, out of which sprang National Socialism which is Nazism. Socialists are Communists and Communists are Socialists. All three of these hate the true God.
Both Muslims and Christians worship the true God. This secular socialist nonsense is the complete domain and developement of an Anti-God Illuminati Judaist dialectic which was used to disrupt European society and furnish the means to invade the Holy Land and brutally and savagely oppress the Palestinians. Socialism will never be anything more than an instrument of oppression by Judaists and their masters, the Black Nobility. In reality it is nothing more than Totalitarian Diabolic Tyrannical Collectivism.
Here is the last 3,000 years of the Illuminati Terrorism
The First Amendment: Terrorism and the Illuminati – A Three Thousand Year History – Index
And a few years after that Ben Gurion and the rest of the conspirators involved, [under orders from Nahum Goldmann of the World Jewish Congress] had President John F. Kennedy assassinated because, amongst other things, Kennedy was a Pan Arabist and wanted Israel stringently controlled and if they got out of control he had already had military plans drawn up to destroy Israel; Kennedy also stood in the way of Israel ever getting Nuclear Weapons. For all of these reasons and his opposition to Communism and the Federal Reserve, Ben Gurion and the rest, ordered the Mossad and others to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Which the Mossad, with the help of Meyer Lansky (Jew Mob Boss of Murder Incorporated) and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson and George Bush Senior and the CIA, did in 1963.
President John F. Kennedy was against involving the U.S. in the war in Vietnam, he knew what it would lead to – toppling Democratic rule and paving the way for the Communists to take over.
Ho Chi Minh was a puppet of Mao Tse Tung. Ho was responsible for murdering 5% of the entire population of Vietnam AFTER the United States left. He did it on purpose to steal their lands from them. Viet Communists still brag about this today. The people Ho murdered were innocent people – the only reason they were killed was to take their lands; it was called an ‘anti-Capitalist necessity’ by the murdering bastard Communists. Today Iraq is being murdered and some people claiming to represent the Iraqis are actually siding with Communists, who if they had the chance, would kill far more Iraqis. My Iraqi friend, nearly 20 years ago, told me the U.S. should stay out of Iraq and let Iraqis handle Iraq. He was absolutely right. The only way to make it worse would be if the Communists got in. Get the U.S. out and KEEP both of them, the U.S. and the Communists out. Give Iraq back to the only people it belongs to: THE IRAQIS.
The exact crux of the whole matter is the criminal invasion and destruction of the Holy Land by the Zionist entity. Before they came to Palestine they, the Zionist Kahal who comprised the ruling class of the Communists, were the plotters and saboteurs that destroyed the Russian Nation and the Czar and the Russian Orthodox Church. That is why the “formerly soviet countries” rank the worst in treatment of Christians.
Via the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the influence of the Zionist neo-Fascists for several decades, the Zionist-Communists have destroyed Constitutionality and true National Republicanism throughout the world. They are all under the aegis of the ruling Illuminati Black Nobility Elite.
The Houses of the Dragon are what promoted the Roman aligned religion of Saturn, read Satan, in Europe. These were the houses of nobility in Medieval Europe that continued the secret power of the dragon, that serpent of old (Revelation 20, verse 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. [a thousand years is not literal]) This was the same Satan worship that was part and parcel of the Ancient Cretan Double Eagles of the Mediterranean, embedded in the ancient Graeco-Egyptian religion from 3,500 years ago to the present. That, in turn was based on the Mesopotamian religion of Ur and Babel and Nimrud in Chaldaea of Mesopotamia, the land of Shinar, from twenty five centuries before that, in other words 6,000 years ago. The Haburah of the Jews is a recent version of this, which is only 2,500 years old. The Haburah is the basis for Zionism and the Jew form of Freemasonry (which is the arm of Talmudic Judaism into Gentile religion and government).
The Talmudic Judaists are used and controlled by the Illuminati, both are utterly evil.
The houses of the Dragon are the European controlling nobility of the Illuminati. The Illluminati are throughout all of Eurasia. The arms of the Illuminati to pollute all other religions and political bodies are Freemasonry and Zionism.
The ancient Mesopotamian Satanism is the ancient religion of Gnosticism which opposed the Old Testament Patriarchs and Prophets and the Church. This ancient religion of Gnosticism is that which seeks to pervert Islam as well. Some of the current forms of this Gnosticism are Communism, Zionism, Christian Zionism, Vatican Ecumenism and Evolution.
The Habara is a small cultic sect of Jews during the Babylonian exile (6th century B.C. – aproximately 2,500+) years ago. They rearranged certain belief systems they encountered and made up a religion out of it. At the core of what they invented is their own racist self worship.
The Habara invented the Mishnah or “oral teachings” that Jesus Christ condemned repeatedly and totally. During the time of the Rabbinic Palestinian academies in the first and second centuries A.D., the Jews began the composition of the Gemara. When that was combined with the Mishnah it became the Talmud. The companion to that is the Zohar. The Zohar is a book of sorcery. Both utterly blaspheme God and His Christ. There have been several Jew false Messiahs, since the true Messiah, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ walked the earth. And he did walk the earth. He also walked on water and raised the dead and, as the Noble Qu’ran says, God made him to die but raised him up and he lives and he ascended into heaven and at the Nuzul i Isa, his Parousia – his Second Coming, he will raise and judge all men.
The false Messiahs that have come include Bar Kochba in the second century A.D., Sabatai Zvi in the 17th century A.D. and Theodore Herzl in the 19th century A.D. All three were Jews. All three were imbued with the Pharisaism of the Habara and the Talmudic teachings of the Mishnah, Gemara and Zohar – all three of which have their roots in the Harbara’s original blasphemous, racist, self worshipping religion of the Jews who apostasized from the true God. Today these are the Talmudists and Herzl is the Antichrist that used this blasphemous system to create political Zionism.
Political Zionism has as its core Lurianic (from Ari Luria) Caballistic Talmudism, which is the mainstay of the Likkud’s “religion” of “Israel’s” genocide and pillage against the Palestinians and, by the proxy of the United States and Iran, against Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan. The gentile arm of all of this is the Freemasonic Illuminati Black Nobility who today own the Banks and the Vatican and The World’s Capitals amongst other groups and people. The Kahal is the progenitor of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist Communism and its Gramscian-Gorbachevian revitalized 4th International. The Kahal is the Jews’ older organized form of Zionism and is responsible for hundreds of millions of dead gentiles due to Zionist Judaist Communist and Nazi organized owned and operated genocides committed against the gentiles.
Today, this Illuminati-Judaist wanton murdering of vast numbers of peoples by the Zionists and their puppet American War Machine is taking place against Palestine and Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Communism and Nazism are both totalitarian and both Socialist inventions, and both are opposed to Islam and Arab civilization and true Catholicism and the Religion of the Old Testament Prophets.
Socialism is racist. Communism is racist. Nazism is racist. All three are inventions of Apostate Jews. Marx, Bakunin, Herzl, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin etc. are the Jews behind Communism. Herzl is one of the main founding fathers of Zionism. Herzl is also one the main founders of German Socialism, out of which sprang National Socialism which is Nazism. Socialists are Communists and Communists are Socialists. All three of these hate the true God.
Both Muslims and Christians worship the true God. This secular socialist nonsense is the complete domain and developement of an Anti-God Illuminati Judaist dialectic which was used to disrupt European society and furnish the means to invade the Holy Land and brutally and savagely oppress the Palestinians. Socialism will never be anything more than an instrument of oppression by Judaists and their masters, the Black Nobility. In reality it is nothing more than Totalitarian Diabolic Tyrannical Collectivism.
Here is the last 3,000 years of the Illuminati Terrorism
The First Amendment: Terrorism and the Illuminati – A Three Thousand Year History – Index
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John F. Kennedy Secret Society Speech (Part 1/2)
John F. Kennedy Secret Society Speech (Part 2/2)
President John F. Kennedy’s chief assassin, who ordered all the rest to do the foul evil Satanic deed was Nahum Goldmann.
Goldmann (right) with another mass murderer, Heinz Kissinger (left).
Nahum Goldmann on left, founding president of the Claims Conference - the beginning of the "Shoah Business," and Saul Kagan on the right, its executive director at a 1958 meeting in London
JANUARY 19, 1944
Dr. Nahum Goldmann Arrives in London
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, member of the executive of the World Zionist Organization, arrived here today from New York Palestine
As chairman of the administrative committee of the World Jewish Congress, Dr. Goldmann will also utilize his stay in London
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Chapter one The man with eyes of i.c.e.
Later, the Church Committee reforms targeted agents like him for setting up American Citizens as patsys for the shadow CIA operating illegally in the United States, and since it was for murder for hire, Andy's specialty that he claimed, illegally in the first place anywhere; not that the CIA cared, since the agency always had an "above the law" belief about themselves. That played into the Triad's shadow organization perfectly. Earlier, John F. Kennedy was going to end that, but they got him first.
The local Mafiosi got out of Andy's way on the street. So did the drug dealing bikers who were under the Mafia's wing, but they responded to whatever he wanted.
Guns and drugs and murder for hire of political leaders in a small town where a President of the United States lived. This was only six years after John F. Kennedy's assassination. The hit on Kennedy had been planned and carried out by the Triad in its Moscow base under London's orders and with its agents in the United States. Israel's Ben-Gurion provided the cover by "issuing" the demand that Kennedy be killed. Not all assassinations and other crimes that Mossad was accused of were actually their doing. Many were the Mossad's doing, but many others were done by organizations that used Israel as a dumping ground to blame for what they themselves had done. Israel is a vicious entity, but owned and controlled by others in London's MI5,6 and Langley's "basement" and the Kremlin and Peking's secret foreign interests division. Lawyers have a saying, "follow the money." In this case it is "follow the major nuclear arms possessors," starting with the big five (the U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Red China) and then the big three (the U.S., USSR, Red China). Israel's payoff was nuclear arms made to begin with in the late 1950's by Britain and France well before Johnson in the 1960's, for Israel's help in the burgeoning post World War II transnational drug trade. Not the last time such a pay off was to be made. Andy was tied into the cabal responsible for that. They had even planned and caused to be carried out the major portion of the cold war's MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction, to cover their activities. The evil "other" was always the reason for secrecy and unaccountability on the part of the Triad's agents within their own governments. George (codename "Walkerman"), a young operative specialized in knowing such things and acting with them. He had major political ambitions which were realized later for him and his son. He came from the same area that Johnson did. The drug dealing nexus to the south was Cuba (the attempts on Castro's life got through to him and he was then in the Triad's pocket permanently) and to the Far-East was the Southeast Asian drug triads and to the Middle East were the lucrative Libyan-Lebanese-Syrian-Afghanistani-Iraqi growing and trading centers. Mules, especially in the U.S. Military, were utilized regularly beginning in the early 1950's. They were protected by the transnational cabal. The lowest enlisted man, if he proved valuable, could rise through the ranks to become an officer with a career all mapped out for him, but owned by them forever after. The protection of these mules and others was rife in every field where they might otherwise be rightfully targeted by honest law enforcement. The big nexus arranged in the 1950's and carried over into the decades after that was the Japanese Yakuza and the Southeast Asian triads and South and Central American dictators, like Panama's Manuel Noriega at one segment in time, and their puppet regimes of Kissinger's planned incursions into their countries. War and crime were not just big business but the last half of the twentieth century's and beyond transnational business. Their unmarked aircraft could be mistaken, even by experienced pilots, for Air America, the CIA's covert air operation which was allowed to fly in the United States and its overseas bases without Alpha Numeric markings required by all other aircraft in the world by law. Any danger, even by accidental knowledge or observation, to their operations would be silenced if they thought the danger to them or their mules was such that it would go public.
Shadows within shadows.
Andy had enemies neither he nor the organization he worked for knew of ... there were still the honest police who made it their business to stop these criminal shadow dwellers. They were serious and organized.
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What started with the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy has now become a "business" None: Private Spies: DOD Investigating Use Of Contractors To Track, Kill Militants
The Illuminati: SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS: SNORDELHANS: THE PANIC ROOM
Note the dependent heirarchy -
2) Covert Intelligence Organizations and their One World, operating through Secret Societies and Subversives/Anarchists which are the controller/operatives of the Illuminati
3) Military Industrial Complex, which with the elite Illuminists, spawned number 2) above and the one which holds all the overt power of force, which is the key to the Zionist plan to take it all over and rule it and the whole world.
4) Drugs are the glue and the primary way of secret monetary power and control to the "One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." - the final ring of power...
Throughout out it all the sorcery (pharmakeia) of these Satanists especially includes drugs and the power, as in the allusion adapted from Tolkien's "The Ring of Power," especially includes the Diabolic devices known as Nuclear Weapons and their offshoots - plasma weapons etc.
"... monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means ... military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations ..."
ILLUMINATI MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
John F. Kennedy made this speech on April the 27th, 1961, before the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. This speech and his opposition to rogue lawless non-state Israel and to the Federal Reserve, is why the Corsicans were hired by "Nahum Goldmann, founder of the World Jewish Congress and its president in 1963," to Assassinate 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy. "The assassins were Lucien Sarti, François Chiappe, and Jean-Paul Angeletti—all French-Corsicans."
Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex speech. The Military Industrial speech of Eisenhower and its background including the invasion of the Holy Land and the Vatican by the Jews.
Entire Text Transcript Of Speech of John F. Kennedy on secret societies and military industrial complex
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen:
I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight.
You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I read some time ago reminded me of how particularly heavily the burdens of present day events bear upon your profession.
You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx.
We are told that foreign correspondent Marx, stone broke, and with a family ill and undernourished, constantly appealed to Greeley and managing editor Charles Dana for an increase in his munificent salary of $5 per installment, a salary which he and Engels ungratefully labeled as the "lousiest petty bourgeois cheating."
But when all his financial appeals were refused, Marx looked around for other means of livelihood and fame, eventually terminating his relationship with the Tribune and devoting his talents full time to the cause that would bequeath the world the seeds of Leninism, Stalinism, revolution and the cold war.
If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him more kindly; if only Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different. And I hope all publishers will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricken appeal for a small increase in the expense account from an obscure newspaper man.
I have selected as the title of my remarks tonight "The President and the Press." Some may suggest that this would be more naturally worded "The President Versus the Press." But those are not my sentiments tonight.
It is true, however, that when a well-known diplomat from another country demanded recently that our State Department repudiate certain newspaper attacks on his colleague it was unnecessary for us to reply that this Administration was not responsible for the press, for the press had already made it clear that it was not responsible for this Administration.
Nevertheless, my purpose here tonight is not to deliver the usual assault on the so-called one party press. On the contrary, in recent months I have rarely heard any complaints about political bias in the press except from a few Republicans. Nor is it my purpose tonight to discuss or defend the televising of Presidential press conferences. I think it is highly beneficial to have some 20,000,000 Americans regularly sit in on these conferences to observe, if I may say so, the incisive, the intelligent and the courteous qualities displayed by your Washington correspondents.
Nor, finally, are these remarks intended to examine the proper degree of privacy which the press should allow to any President and his family.
If in the last few months your White House reporters and photographers have been attending church services with regularity, that has surely done them no harm.
On the other hand, I realize that your staff and wire service photographers may be complaining that they do not enjoy the same green privileges at the local golf courses that they once did.
It is true that my predecessor did not object as I do to pictures of one's golfing skill in action. But neither on the other hand did he ever bean a Secret Service man.
My topic tonight is a more sober one of concern to publishers as well as editors.
I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed large on the horizon for many years. Whatever our hopes may be for the future--for reducing this threat or living with it--there is no escaping either the gravity or the totality of its challenge to our survival and to our security--a challenge that confronts us in unaccustomed ways in every sphere of human activity.
This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern both to the press and to the President--two requirements that may seem almost contradictory in tone, but which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril. I refer, first, to the need for a far greater public information; and, second, to the need for far greater official secrecy.
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.
But I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.
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.
If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.
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.
Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security--and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion.
For the facts of the matter are that this nation's foes have openly boasted of acquiring through our newspapers information they would otherwise hire agents to acquire through theft, bribery or espionage; that details of this nation's covert preparations to counter the enemy's covert operations have been available to every newspaper reader, friend and foe alike; that the size, the strength, the location and the nature of our forces and weapons, and our plans and strategy for their use, have all been pinpointed in the press and other news media to a degree sufficient to satisfy any foreign power; and that, in at least in one case, the publication of details concerning a secret mechanism whereby satellites were followed required its alteration at the expense of considerable time and money.
The newspapers which printed these stories were loyal, patriotic, responsible and well-meaning. Had we been engaged in open warfare, they undoubtedly would not have published such items. But in the absence of open warfare, they recognized only the tests of journalism and not the tests of national security. And my question tonight is whether additional tests should not now be adopted.
The question is for you alone to answer. No public official should answer it for you. No governmental plan should impose its restraints against your will. But I would be failing in my duty to the nation, in considering all of the responsibilities that we now bear and all of the means at hand to meet those responsibilities, if I did not commend this problem to your attention, and urge its thoughtful consideration.
On many earlier occasions, I have said--and your newspapers have constantly said--that these are times that appeal to every citizen's sense of sacrifice and self-discipline. They call out to every citizen to weigh his rights and comforts against his obligations to the common good. I cannot now believe that those citizens who serve in the newspaper business consider themselves exempt from that appeal.
I have no intention of establishing a new Office of War Information to govern the flow of news. I am not suggesting any new forms of censorship or any new types of security classifications. I have no easy answer to the dilemma that I have posed, and would not seek to impose it if I had one. But I am asking the members of the newspaper profession and the industry in this country to reexamine their own responsibilities, to consider the degree and the nature of the present danger, and to heed the duty of self-restraint which that danger imposes upon us all.
Every newspaper now asks itself, with respect to every story: "Is it news?" All I suggest is that you add the question: "Is it in the interest of the national security?" And I hope that every group in America--unions and businessmen and public officials at every level-- will ask the same question of their endeavors, and subject their actions to the same exacting tests.
And should the press of America consider and recommend the voluntary assumption of specific new steps or machinery, I can assure you that we will cooperate whole-heartedly with those recommendations.
Perhaps there will be no recommendations. Perhaps there is no answer to the dilemma faced by a free and open society in a cold and secret war. In times of peace, any discussion of this subject, and any action that results, are both painful and without precedent. But this is a time of peace and peril which knows no precedent in history.
It is the unprecedented nature of this challenge that also gives rise to your second obligation--an obligation which I share. And that is our obligation to inform and alert the American people--to make certain that they possess all the facts that they need, and understand them as well--the perils, the prospects, the purposes of our program and the choices that we face.
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.
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers--I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.
Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed--and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.
This means greater coverage and analysis of international news--for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security--and we intend to do it.
It was early in the Seventeenth Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world's efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.
And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
AND THE GLUE THAT HOLDS IT ALL TOGETHER:
The Diabolic nuclear insanity of "Israel":
