June 05, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

RIGHT WINGERS THEN AND NOW

There was a plot to overthrow FDR when he was president. When Earl Warren was Chief Justice right-wingers worked themselves into a froth about removing Warren from the Supreme Court. We remember Hillary Clinton's statement about "a vast right-wing conspiracy" to bring down the Clinton administration. There is considerable evidence there was such a conspiracy. Back in JFK's administration right-wingers were also crawling from under their rocks. I've been reading David Talbot's fascinating book Brothers about the JFK assassination and Robert Kennedy's search for the truth. On page 77 Talbot talks about JFK responding to the lunatic John Birch Society:

"In periods of high tension like the Cold War, Kennedy told his audience, 'there have always been those on the fringes of our society who have fought to escape their own responsibility by finding a simple solution, an appealing slogan, or a convenient scapegoat.' In the current 'period of heightened peril,' with the world held hostage by the constant threat of nuclear war, this paranoid strain in American politics was flourishing, Kennedy observed. 'Men who are unwilling to face up to the danger from without are convinced the danger is from within. They look suspiciously on their neighbors and their leaders. They call for a 'man on horseback' because they do not trust the people. They find treason in our churches, in our highest court, and even in the treatment of our water.' The last twist of the presidential knife was directed at the colorful theory, popular in far-right circles at the time, that the fluoridation of water was a Communist plot."