The Official Enemies Racket by Jacob G. Hornberger February 15, 2022 An essential element in any national-security state is the need to keep the citizenry afraid. If people aren’t afraid, they won’t be so eager and willing to continue flooding large amounts of taxpayer largess into the coffers of the national-security establishment. Therefore, central to any national-security state is the need for official enemies, rivals, and opponents. Fear was used to justify the conversion of the U.S. government from a limited-government republic to a national-security state after World War II. At that time, the official enemy was “godless communism” and the Soviet Union, principally Russia. (Yes, the same Russia that is an official enemy today.) U.S. officials scared the American people to death with the notion that the Reds were coming to get them, take over America, and teach communism to their children in communist-controlled public schools. Never mind that the Soviets had been America’s World War II partner and ally. And never mind that the Soviets had ...
Where is JFK When You Need Him? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 26, 2022 President Kennedy had a unique way of viewing his communist adversaries during the Cold War. He would put himself in their shoes and try to figure out what was motivating them to take the actions they were taking. He would then attempt to fashion a solution to a particular crisis that satisfied the other side’s concerns. America’s Cold War generals lacked the mental capacity to think at that level. Their mindsets were always in terms of black and white: Communists are bad and cannot be trusted. There can never be negotiation with communists. Kill all communists. A good example of this dichotomy occurred during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the United States and the Soviet Union to within an inch of all-out nuclear war. When Pentagon and CIA officials discovered that the Soviets were installing nuclear missiles in Cuba, their position was that Kennedy needed to ...
Max Boot’s Rant Against Oliver Stone by Jacob G. Hornberger December 22, 2021 Max Boot, a conservative who has long favored regime-change operations on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, is going after Hollywood producer and director Oliver Stone. His beef with Stone? He’s upset because Stone has long maintained that the U.S. national-security establishment employed one of its patented regime-change operations here at home, against President John F. Kennedy. The title of Boot’s piece, which was published in the Washington Post, is "Oliver Stone Just Can’t Stop Spreading Lies About JFK’s Assassination.” In his article, he attacks Stone not only for his 1991 movie JFK but also for Stone’s latest update to the movie, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. Interestingly, Boot makes a reference to Stone’s accusation “that Kennedy’s autopsy reports were falsified.” Actually, the more accurate way to put it is that the U.S. national-security establishment conducted a fraudulent autopsy. That fraud was reflected in both the autopsy photographs as well as ...
The Fear of Those Still-Secret CIA Records on the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger December 20, 2021 One of the amusing aspects of the ongoing controversy over those still-secret CIA records relating to the Kennedy assassination has been the reaction of lone-nut theorists. Hardly any of them, if any at all, are publicly calling on President Biden to disclose those records now rather than delaying disclosure for another year. What’s up with that? Surely, lone-nut ...
A Great Opportunity to Restore the Republic by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2021 With the debacle in Afghanistan, the American people have been presented with one of the greatest opportunities in our lifetime — an opportunity to dismantle the national-security establishment and restore our founding system of a limited-government republic. Opportunities like this do not often present themselves. Now is time to seize the day, before the national-security establishment is able to ...
November 22, 1963 by Jacob G. Hornberger November 22, 2021 On this day 58 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down on the streets of Dallas. Almost immediately, federal officials enunciated what has become known as the lone-nut theory of the assassination. It holds that a supposed communist former U.S. Marine, without any ostensible motive, suddenly decided to kill Kennedy. Over the decades, however, as ...
Will the CIA’s JFK Assassinated-Related Records Ever Get Released? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 11, 2021 By this time, it should be sinking into everyone’s consciousness that the American people are never going to be permitted to see the rest of the CIA’s 60-year-old secret records relating to the JFK assassination. Yes, I know, President Biden says that the new deadline for disclosure is December 22, 2022, which just happens to fall after ...
What If a President Is a Threat to National Security? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 9, 2021 Now that President Biden has granted the CIA’s demand for continued secrecy of its 58-year-old Kennedy assassination-related records, it’s worth asking some important questions, ones that hardly anyone ever asks: What if a president really does pose a threat to national security? What are the CIA and the Pentagon expected to do about it? What would Americans want ...
The Evil Rot at the Center of the Empire by Jacob G. Hornberger October 27, 2021 Given President Biden’s decision to succumb to the CIA’s demand for continued secrecy of the CIA’s 60-year-old Kennedy assassination-related records, this would be a good time to remind ourselves of how President Kennedy felt about this type of secrecy: The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently ...
Why the Mainstream Media Remains Silent on the JFK Records Deadline by Jacob G. Hornberger October 13, 2021 With the October 26 deadline only two weeks away for releasing the 60-year secret records of the CIA relating to the Kennedy assassination, the silence from the mainstream press is deafening. The great mainstream defenders of transparency and openness in government, at least when it comes foreign dictatorships, cannot bring themselves to openly advocate for the release of ...
The Kennedy Autopsy Selected for Amazon’s Prime Reading Program by Jacob G. Hornberger September 22, 2021 Last month, Amazon sent us an email asking if we would consider permitting FFF’s book The Kennedy Autopsy, which I authored, to be considered for Amazon’s Prime Reading program. According to the email, “Prime Reading promotes authors and their books to Amazon’s most engaged customers. We have a limited number of spots available in the program ...
JFK’s Peace Speech by Jacob G. Hornberger July 23, 2021 Pat Buchanan has just published an article on President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University on June 10, 1963, just a few months before he was assassinated on November 22. It’s an article worth reading, as it shows the relevance of Kennedy’s vision for America even today.
