The World in our Time – Part 3
TimeWatch Editorial
November 30, 2015
In our very last editorial, we showed how John F. Kennedy, who was President from 1961 to 1963, in his speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961 warned of a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy.
“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies 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.” President John Fitzgerald Kennedy before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961.
How amazing would it be if I told you that in the same year, the outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower gave a warning that dovetails with John F. Kennedy’s concerns? He describes an America that, prior to World War II and the Korean War, did not have an armament industry. He described a changing world in which the United States must stand ready at all times, to defend and protect itself and its allies. He further describes an American military expenditure that exceeds more that the net income of all corporations. This was indeed a tremendously huge political and economic shift. But with all this, came a warning from the President.
“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex.” The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” Public Papers of the Presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960, p. 1035- 1040
Eisenhower saw the military industrial complex as a controlling threat to political decision making. Kennedy saw the threat as a subtle, covertly calculating manipulation. Both men saw the power of external influence upon the so-called elected minority. Before both of these Presidents mentioned here, there were those who warned. Theodore Roosevelt, who served as president from 1901-1909, said this:
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography , page 614. Published 1913 (Appendix B)
Theodore Roosevelt belonged to the Progressive Party. The Progressive Party at the time was the only Party willing to stand against controlling power of the Sugar Trust, the Steel Trust, the Harvester Trust, the Standard Oil Trust, and the Tobacco Trust. Way back then, corporate control ruled the day. Not the elected officials, not even the President of the United States.
By now you might have realized that there are elements at play that influence and direct your life, without you being aware of the manipulation. The question would be why is this being done? As important as that answer might be, the one thing that would supersede it would be this; we must take charge of our existence in a way that we might not have considered before. First of all our choices, our decision making, must be based upon a more reliable reality. We’ve been told that to trust in God and his word is primitive. Those who have told us this are the very imbeciles who have been proven to be deceptive and uniformed in every facet of their so-called learning. So here is the choice. Do we trust them to tell us how to live our lives while their covert manipulation seeks only to control and degrade, or do we trust the One they seek so desperately to undermine? The answer seems rather clear.
Men like Kennedy and Roosevelt and Eisenhower were by no means perfect, but these men, it would appear, truly belonged to another generation. They probably did not have a clear picture, but regardless of their personal affiliations with secret societies etc, they were willing to warn concerning the lurking dangers. Today, it would appear, only stupidity or duplicity rules the day.
To be warned therefore is to be forearmed.
Cameron a. Bowen
