“This country was built by giants. They died, and midgets moved in. Tiny people were walking around inside this republic like a nine-year-old boy wearing his father’s suit. When the tiny people got in power, they changed what was taught in school. No great books. No big people, everybody’s tiny now.” ~ John Patrick Shanely, Sleeping Demons
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the benefits of remembering President John F. Kennedy is that I can remember leaders who believed in humanity and the possibilities of mankind – Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. I can remember leaders who dreamed of a more fruitful world for all mankind, of going into space, of traveling the stars, of peace on earth.
I have spent a lifetime watching the mediocre rise by killing the brilliant, the charismatic and controlling and manipulating the innovative. And now this week I am watching an outpouring of major media trash on Kennedy and his family to distract this anniversary from the major point. The United States experienced a coup d’etat. We need to face that, deal with that, talk about it. We need to let the covert forces explain their side of the story. Indeed, they have one and it needs to be heard.
It is time to rise to the occasion without Washington and Wall Street and leadership that has been boxed by secrecy and shadow governments and shadow banking systems into the role of lilliputians. It is time to remember that authentic leadership is where we find it:
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.”
– John F. Kennedy
Related Reading:
Fortune’s Warning to President Kennedy:
Beware The Ides of April
