A bit of a post-script to the Kennedy myth:
…The documents include a December 28, 1961, State Department memo describing a tour of several Latin American countries taken by then-Assistant District Attorney of Suffolk County Kennedy. This document as it was originally made public was almost completely redacted. After an initial challenge by Judicial Watch, a version with fewer redactions was released. Judicial Watch continued to argue that the blackouts were baseless and, after six more months, the FBI relented. Among the statements previously withheld but now made available to Judicial Watch:
* “While Kennedy was in Santiago he made arrangements to ‘rent’ a brothel for an entire night. Kennedy allegedly invited one of the Embassy chauffeurs to participate in the night’s activities.”…
Shows two things – there are still plenty of people willing to go a long way to protect the Kennedy family. It also shows how utterly debased and nauseating the whole thing is. This it the liberal hero – the liberal Lion of the Senate; the fighter for the working man…
Ted Kennedy, of course, is not the first man to visit a brothel. Nor is he the first politician found to be less than moral. But it is high time we knocked the Kennedy family off the pedestal – they never deserved to be there. At best, John Kennedy was a mediocre President; being killed was what made him in to a liberal icon…and his younger brother Ted milked that for an entire career. A career in which he did nothing but advance the cause of a corrupt Ruling Class while also poisoning our political discourse with hateful attacks.
The best lesson we can draw from this is that no politician is to be entirely trusted – and any politician who gives evidence of serial lapses of judgment must be put out to pasture. What is most astounding is that Ted Kennedy was a Senator when he died – nearly a half century after the events now related from 1961, and 40 years after he drove a car off a bridge, resulting in a woman being killed. Its not like the Kennedys lived in a closet…but people protected them and burnished their image. Some, no doubt, out of fear (the Kennedys have a reputation for getting revenge), but others out of a misguided loyalty to a flawed vision.
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