JFK on secret societies

[Camille]

I would encourage people to listen to this speech by
John F. Kennedy speaking to a association of
journalist on Secret Societies. He basically exhorts
the press to examine the role of secret societies and
their threat to national security.

http://www.911podcasts.com/files/audio/jfk_secret_society_speech.mp3

Coincidentally, tonight on the news a CNN journalist
claimed that the Miami terror cell "homegrown black
terrorists" (Anderson Cooper) hatched its plot from a
Masonic temple. Interesting.

-- Camille

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[skep...@pacbell.net]

This is merely Kennedy warning of a world wide communist threat to a
group of publishers. He started his talk talking about Karl Marx.

He asked for the publishers not to expect for his administration to
censor the press, that it would be better that we not emulate our
enemies, that instead, that the press ask themselves if the item is
newsworthy and would it hurt our national interests by publishing
sensitive information that gets in the hands of our enemies, who read
our press. He was basically exhorting our press that in this Cold War
that we should not be so open with national security matters.

His speech is not a good example of concern of secret societies in the
common use of the term in the minds of conspiracy theorists. Communist
organizations are not really secretive in their goals, they have been
quite open about what they want. To the degree that they have been
secretive, it has been for the protection of their membership or for
factional/political maneuverings.

What is quite interesting is the observation of the similar concerns
with regard to the Bush administration's call for the protection of
government secrets as regard to methods used to find terrorists and not
revealing information that highlights the governments infiltrations of
suspected terrorists groupings, and how much information has been
revealed in our press, not only about the methods and techniques of our
government agents but also about our most vulnerable national targets.

Many people are concerned about government or industry secrecy. Yet it
shouldn't be too hard to see some reasons why secrecy should be
necessary. It is a balancing act in an open society between
secrecy/security and free press/democracy. Those who are opposed to
secrecy have probably never been in a position of responsibility
before. Yet, we just don't know to what degree that we can trust a
government, whether the Bush administration, or some previous one, to
do what is right for our democratic and justice principles. History has
shown repeatedly that the leaders, and others, can be corrupted to do
the bidding of those who are opposed to the common welfare.

I would like to thank Camille for bringing this speech to our
attention.

Vincent Sauve

[Paul Rea]

Greetings, Vince ~

Well done! Well reasoned and well written, too. You're at the top of your
game here. One might add that many communist cells at the time were very
secretive, and that the communist threat was regularly described as "the
world-wide communist conspiracy."

Paul

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