Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Kennedy OK'd the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. He then got destroyed by Khrushchev at the Geneva summits - both led to boosting Russia's and Cuba's confidence and led to The Cuban Missile crisis. He ok'd the assassination of Vietnam's president which was the spark that led to the Vietnam War.

He argued that the US presidency must be the center of moral leadership for the country while screwing any famous starlet who had a pulse. When the United Steel Workers raised prices he ordered wire taps, IRS audits, and FBI raids on Steel Executives homes.

JFK rarely let legal specifics deter his exercise of presidential power. At his behest in 1961, the Internal Revenue Service set up a “strike force,” the Ideological Organizations Project, targeting groups opposing the administration.

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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.