Robert F. Kennedy Jr and the Irony of Conspiracy Theories

Over the past few years, the use of the words "conspiracy theory" has become ubiquitous, particularly in the era of COVID-19 when anyone who did not swallow the publicly acceptable vaccine and masking narratives was branded with this moniker.  In this posting, we'll look at how the U.S. intelligence community made use of this phrase and how it is ironically being used to label a potential candidate for the President of the United States in the 2024 presidential election.

  

For those of my readers that were either alive during the John F. Kennedy assassination or who follow the ongoing saga, there has long been a wide ranging disbelief in the narrative promoted by the Warren Commission which was taxed with investigating the death of America's 35th president.  As background, according to the Warren Commission's analysis, the trajectory of one of the bullets that hit both President Kennedy and Texas Governor Connally looked like this:

 

This is known as the "single bullet theory" or the "magic bullet" by those who are inclined to disbelieve the Warren Commission's conclusions.  This is just one of the many aspects of the Kennedy assassination which continues to lead to distrust in the American government to this day.

 

The Central Intelligence Agency did its best to discredit anyone who did not swallow the "Warren Commission company line".  This document dated April 1, 1967 entitled "Countering Criticism of the Warren Report" outlines the concerns that the CIA had about who was responsible for the murder of President Kennedy and how this was leading some critics to speculate that there was a conspiracy:

 

 

Notice the second last sentence of the second paragraph on page 1:

 

"The aim of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit the circulation of such claims in other countries."

 

There you have it - conspiracy theorists. In this specific case, the CIA was invoking the term because "conspiracy theories have frequently thrown suspicion on our organization" and that the aim of the document was to protect the reputation of the CIA whose Director, Allen Dulles, had been fired by John F. Kennedy's Administration on November 29, 1961. 

 

For decades, Americans have been skeptical of the Warren Commission.  This distrust still stands today.  In fact, in the 2022 National Voter Poll About JFK Assassination, pollsters found the following:

 

1.) 50 percent believed that other people were involved in a conspiracy to kill JFK and that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the only man involved.

 

2.) when asked who was primarily responsible for the planning of the act to kill JFK, respondents believed that the following actors were involved:

 

a.) CIA - 31 percent

 

b.) The Mafia - 13 percent

 

c.) Cuban government - 7 percent

 

d.) Government of the USSR - 6 percent

 

3.) when asked if President Biden should release all of the files on the JFK assassination on December 15, 2022, respondents answered as follows:

 

a.) release all files - 71 percent

 

b.) postpone release - 10 percent

 

c.) don't know/no answer - 19 percent 

  

Now, let's look at the irony of the use of the word "conspiracy theorist" in today's context which is particularly pertinent given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent announcement that he was running as the Democratic Party candidate for President in 2024.  Here is a screen capture from Rolling Stone about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who, for personal and well-researched scientific reasons is very skeptical of Big Pharma and its vaccine programs:

 

 

Here is a screen capture from ABC News:

 

Here is a screen capture from the Washington Post:

 

 

Here is a screen capture from the Independent:

 

Here is a screen capture from the New York Times in which the author states that RFK Jr is guilty of repeating "...a popular conspiracy theory that 5G high speed transmission towers are being installed across the nation "to harvest our data and control our behaviour"."

 

 

Isn't it ironic to see the nephew of the man whose assassination is the subject of so many conspiracy theories that it concerned the CIA being branded as a conspiracy theorist himself?    I wonder if any of the writers of these articles have taken 5 minutes out of their lives to actually investigate why Robert Kennedy Jr. has concerns about vaccines, particularly the large number of vaccines mandated for American children" or if they are just parroting talking points that are provided to them by God knows who?  From what we can see, the lame stream media has already made up its mind about RFK Jr. and my guess is that they will do want ever they can to ensure that the only coverage that he gets from them will be negative, largely because the advertising revenue from Big Pharma forms such an important part of their overall business model.

 

At the very least, I find the use of the word "conspiracy theorist" as a tool to brand people who don't whole heartedly swallow the accepted narrative as a lunatic fringe offensive.  As the past three years have taught us, the only difference between a conspiracy theory and reality is three months.