One of the scariest Op-Eds you'll ever read, from The Dallas Observer

[nolabear]

As Trump foments more and more violence, a paper who knows what media and leadership complacency about hate speech can lead to pens a plea.

I've been mad, ashamed, shocked, and many more things as that madman ramps up, but I'v never before been afraid for the current candidate or future president.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/unrepudiated-and-unabated-trumps-climate-of-rage-will-find-its-oswald-8579787

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Trump's dog whistle reminds me of the dog whistle before Kennedy was assassinated.

[nolabear]

2. Yes, it does. I can hear Trump's voice.

[thecrow]

4. ..."betraying our friend Cuba".....

This must be before the missile crisis.
Good catch

[thucythucy]

8. I think this was distributed the morning of the assassination

and the days leading up to it.

"Betraying Cuba" I think meant not backing the Bay of Pigs fiasco with an all-out American invasion of the island in 1961.

[a la izquierda]

12. By that the poster's authors meant their right-wing bros in Cuba...

Battista et al.

[Nitram]

36. No, it was the Bay of Pigs that infuriated the right.

They thought the US should have intervened with air power to aid the CIA-trained paramilitary invasion force. They considered it a betrayal and never forgave Kennedy.

[freebrew]

52. Wasn't the invasion underway already?...

Seems that the big deal was that Kennedy stopped it in its tracks.

As you said, infuriated the PTB including Dulles, Johnson and the BFEE.

[a la izquierda]

55. Yeah, I know.

I have a PhD in Latin American history...I realize the right was infuriated by the Bay of Pigs. However, the "Wanted" poster refers to "our Cuban friends." That's who I was discussing

[Nitram]

71. "Our Cuban friends" refers to the ex-patriot Cuban paramilitary force that invaded

the Bay of Pigs.

[Seedersandleechers]

44. #7

his previous marriage and divorce?

[oberliner]

46. It's not a dog whistle when you literally say that Obama and Clinton are the co-founders of ISIS

And then repeat it in news interviews the next day, even correcting reporters who try to suggest that you may have meant something else.

ISIS is viewed by Americans as the most depraved and despicable terror organization in the world.

Trump explicitly and repeatedly has said that Obama and Clinton founded this organization.

That's no dog whistle.

[gopiscrap]

63. No kidding

Trump should be in a jail cell for solicitating murder

[Buckeye_Democrat]

65. Thank you! I had never seen that "Wanted" poster!

Wow. Right-wingers have been trouble-making pests for so long.

McCarthyism and on and on.

I'm so pleased that Kennedy didn't agree to Operation Northwoods!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government, that originated within the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba.

[FSogol]

3. K & R. n/t

[lillypaddle]

5. And Trump knows exactly what he is doing

What is dumbfounding is that the more sane crazies like Ryan and McConnell continue to support this freak. And DT continues on, suffering no consequences at all.

[nolabear]

6. That, to me, is the most frightening part. People who do nothing.

They're betting peoples' lives.

[Stonepounder]

9. Good men who do nothing

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

-Attributed to John Stuart Mill

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

57. Great quote.

To choose to ignore and not repudiate means silent agreement.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

60. Then we can't be afraid to speak up in public

While standing in line in the markets and stores, engage people in real conversations, respectively of course, but don't be shy.
That's how people change their minds, you have more power than you think.

[saidsimplesimon]

45. agree

Is Mrs. Clinton willing to bet lives on her demonstrated propincity toward regime change? It's a fact, don't flame me for telling the truth. I know she is levels above my intellectual capacity. Perhaps I am a moron?

[yardwork]

15. I don't think Trump knows what he's doing but his handlers do.

When the former director of the CIA says he believes that Trump is an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation, we should believe him.

Putin would love to install Trump as a puppet.

[ymetca]

24. You seem to have missed the point

It's not a conspiracy, but a sociological climate. It's something arising from our collective unconscious, as Karl Jung suggested. And probably best outlined in The Golden Bough. It's the ritualistic "killing of the king" scenario, which humanity keeps repeating, generation after generation. It's the writhing, roiling madness of Cthulhu; the inchoate unfolding of our ancient atavistic desires to lash out, to kill, to devour. All the reprehensible behaviors long suppressed by organized religion and mutually agreed upon social norms. That "darkly-splendid world" Zoroaster warned us to "stoop not down" into...

[PufPuf23]

73. Excellent!. eom

[lillypaddle]

41. ...

[lark]

25. Just shows the malignancy that is the repug party these days.

They know Drumpf will end up getting people injured or killed, but it doesn't matter one bit to them. They know he's crazy and can't be trusted with our nuclear arsenal, and don't give a rat fuck because war is good for them. Guess they think WW111 would be even better than a regional conflict and know that Drumpf could easily push us there by supporting Russia against Europe. They also know people die because of their healthcare policies (or total resistance to them, anyway) and again, think they are actually happy because it's the poor that will die and more minorities than whites, so again, they don't give a shit. They are traitors to the people of their country, but because they are also the rich, they control the media and lead the sheeple by the nose.

[Moonwalk]

33. Sane crazy doesn't mean brave crazy. Or caring crazy. Ryan and McConnell are cowards...

...who feel snug and safe in their corporate financed cocoons, and all they care about is remaining in power themselves. They don't care, have not a thread of moral fiber, and they haven't any courage. They're Ayn Rand incarnate. Think only about yourself and do only what helps you. If something comes along that's trouble, duck, weave and keep out of way. Let it steam roll anyone else, just not you.

Pretty sadly simple.

[MyOwnPeace]

39. Amen, indeed...........

[oberliner]

47. Not dumbfounding at all

Trump is saying he will implement Ryan's tax plan.

[Aviation Pro]

7. The picture....

...of the unhinged Trump supporter is frightening.

[world wide wally]

10. Remember that "vast right wing conspiracy" that Hillary used to refer to?

IF anything happens to her, Trump, McConnell, Ryan, Fox, Hannity, et al. are complicit and should be prosecuted as such.

[oberliner]

48. Hannity is simply awful

I don't know how he sleeps at night. Ditto Michael Savage.

[Hortensis]

11. I was genuinely, gut-clenching afraid for Obama back in 2009-2010

when the Fox blondes and the rest of the right wing media were trolling for his assassination. All day long "will no one rid me of this troublesome priest" messages. A stunning phenomenon.

[Nitram]

37. Yes, Hortensis, so was I.

[Demsrule86]

13. I believe Oswald became infected with right wing hate

and killed Kennedy. They always tried to make it seem like there was some foreign conspiracy...the Cubans or the Russians but there was no evidence of that...nope it was a homegrown assassination... and Trump just called for another one a couple of days ago. I always have thought this. I did a paper in college about Kennedy and the assassination and when I looked at old papers and such...the hatred of Kennedy in Texas was overwhelming. Johnson wrote about how he feared for his life as well and as this article points out, he had reason.

[oswaldactedalone]

16. OTOH

I think he killed Kennedy as a last desperate plea to Castro to allow him to emigrate to Cuba. Oswald's plan after shooting JFK was to bus to Mexico to again plead his case to either the Cubans or Soviets to grant him asylum. He was going to plea that he was a loyal soldier to Communism and look at what he had just done to prove it. During the final few weeks in Dallas, Oswald was a desperate man who was desperately unhappy with his life.
Feel free to disagree.

[Recursion]

31. He called himself a Marxist in a TV interview

He was trying to get to Cuba to live there...

[KingCharlemagne]

40. Oswald could listen to Radio Havana's English-language broadcasts in Dallas and New Orleans. If

he did, he would have heard the Cuban government condemn the ongoing campaign of CIA-backed sabotage against Fidel Castro, even after the disastrous end of the Bay of Pigs and the peaceful stand-down of the Cuban Missile Crisis. (This campaign, code-named "Operation Mongoose," only came to light in the mid-70s as a result of hearings conducted by Senator Frank Church.)

The evidence suggests that Oswald was all too well aware of the ongoing campaign of illegal aggression waged by the Kennedy administration against Cuba, even if most Americans were not.

[GoDawgs]

49. The Church Committee is one of the greatest acts ever undertaken by our Senate

Also, worth keeping in mind it was Dick Cheney's job to disrupt, obfuscate, and interfere with the investigations. Once a Cheney.....

From a great e-book at GWU:
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB522-Church-Committee-Faced-White-House-Attempts-to-Curb-CIA-Probe/

1975, it was then-Deputy Chief of Staff Dick Cheney who spearheaded the Ford White House’s hostile approach to Congress, which required the CIA to submit all proposed responses to Capitol Hill for prior presidential approval and featured the explicit intent to keep investigators away from the most sensitive records

[niyad]

14. k and r.

[yardwork]

17. Good point about how believing in conspiracies blinds us to the root cause.

It's so much more comforting to believe that Oswald was tricked into participating in a vast conspiracy beyond our control, rather than recognizing that we the people set off a lunatic.

[Person 2713]

18. Thank you good read. I remember reading that after the JFK assaination

his wife thought they would try to still kill her while she was still in TX leaving the hospital, she knew they were hated by so many there.

[MichiganVote]

19. K&R

[dem in texas]

20. Folks - Read this article!

What goes around, comes around! So sad that politicians have no moral code and that the Media only care about ratings. Every person, every politician, every newspaper and every cable show should renounce Trump's remarks. Right now, there is some lost soul soaking up all his hate filled words. We are being set up for another terrible tragedy.

[RobinA]

21. This Has Been

a concern of mine since they started on the "hanging in the Mall," "firing squad" rhetoric. Since when is it OK to talk like that????? Talking about it is one step toward making it OK.

[fleabiscuit]

22. K&R

[liberalmuse]

23. Powerful and sobering.

I'm heartsick and disgusted that our media is enabling Trump's hateful campaign.

[Nitram]

38. The media?

Not the media I consult. NPR, BBC and the Washington Post.

[Pacifist Patriot]

26. Excellent article and needs to be more widely understood.

[Cosmocat]

27. Very well crafted article and S P O T O N

thank you for sharing.

[zipplewrath]

28. I fear his thesis is a little off

I'm afraid that unfortunately leaders speaking up may not change things. I fear that it will take another assassination that is not connected to ISIS to change things.

[anamandujano]

30. The media scum will then have a roundtable and absolve themselves of any wrongdoing.

[nolabear]

29. I so wish there was someone I could think of who would do the John McCain thing.

But Trump is so good at fomenting hatred and division and making anyone who disagrees with him suspect that I can't think of anyone who could help.

Now and then I have Dead Zone fantasies about him melting down in a massively self-destructive fashion but I don't think that's going to happen. And his followers wouldn't come around even if he did.

I don't have enough fingers to cross.

[zipplewrath]

32. Pence

I kinda think this is roughly why he was chosen, to do that kind of thing for Trump.

[awoke_in_2003]

64. I think it would take Limpballs

All RW talk show hosts repeat what he says. I have a better choice of winning the Powerball then that happening.

[Moonwalk]

34. Really brilliant article! Put it on your Facebook pages, tweet about it, send it to every....

...media outlet. This should be repeated and repeated and repeated until it becomes a meme that major news organizations can't ignore.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

53. I agree...and I also think the Internet is the tool we need for publicizing social change.

In all the calamities of the past, isolation from the rest of the world's awareness helped the hate and social manipulation to ferment.

The Liberal Truth can now be broadcast in spite of mushroom farms like Fux. We NEED to repeat the truth loudly and often.

Repudiate the media that banks on sensational lies. Get that awareness out there too.

[DesertRat]

35. k&r

[McKim]

42. The Media Has Made a God out of Trump

With the rise of news as infotainment, the media has made a God out of Trump. He would never have gotten this far without the media
hanging on his every word. This is disgusting. I want candidates that are adults who care about the rest of us. Trump is beyond belief and so are the hate mongers who support him. This has been stirred up by years of FOX News and Republican Radio and Hate Radio.
We have to put a stop to this destructive media.

[nolabear]

43. They're subject to a kind of crowd delusion, believing they are a tiny part and so not responsible.

It's amazing to me there's not more responsibility taking in the media. Was I myself deluded in thinking they were the arbiters of fairness? Or did it all change?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

58. Interesting... I can see that

A lot of people just want to belong to something and they will put up with some bad stuff that their group does as long as it doesn't hurt them directly. It's sounds so elementary school to me. You'd think adults would know better and be more mature than that.

[nolabear]

61. You'd think. But sadly, you'd sometimes be wrong.

I think the whole of history is that tension between trying to know better and fighting against it.

[63splitwindow]

50. He has been trying to crack into the Russian market for his projects for years. Is all of this

nothing more than the cost of admission? HIS ONLY CONCERN IS TRUMP!

[DemonGoddess]

51. K&R!

I sincerely hope that somehow, Trump's hate filled rhetoric does NOT cause this to happen.

[Wounded Bear]

54. K & R ......for visibility..nt

[nolabear]

56. Thanks. I hope it's getting a lot of attention.

[CRH]

59. Correct me if I am Wrong, … but,

This article seeks to gain legitimacy by assuming the Dallas company line that Oswald was indeed a sole triggerman, or a triggerman at all, mis representing history, and somehow attaching the lunacy of the social environment of the time, to Trump today.
No matter how hard one tries, if the initial concept is flawed, all that follows is BS. Caveat Emptor.
Trump is sick, and a product of republican voters, but there is nothing to be admired in this article, when assuming Oswald was a lone crazy, effected and infected, by a perverted social environment. It gives life to the bigger lie.
Flame on.

[nolabear]

62. It's your assumption that the initial concept is flawed. And you're deflecting.

I don't care to argue about conspiracies and the newspaper clearly doesn't either. It's making a deeper point and using its connection to an assassin, one of many who have been influenced by inflammatory rhetoric, to express the real fear of the vulnerability of a political candidate.

[awoke_in_2003]

66. Even if you believe in multiple shooters

Which I do, the people behind it needed a Patsy. The environment created the Patsy (Oswald). I do believe he was a shooter, and he scored at least a hit, but his wasn't the kill shot.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

67. Operation Northwoods.

It's possible that Oswald was "stirred up" by local media, but let's not forget that Kennedy had also developed some enemies in the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government, that originated within the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The proposals were rejected by the Kennedy administration.

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20010430/index.html

[mobeau69]

68. Why, growing up, there was never a bottle of Hunt's Ketchup in our house.

None in my place today and there never will be.

[TonyPDX]

69. Dallas is a sewer. Take it from me.

[Javaman]

70. The link within the article showing the insanity at tRumps bund rallies

is fucking terrifying.

[colsohlibgal]

72. Right Wing Hate Was All Over Dallas

But as I have researched that day, aided by some things that have seen daylight after 50 years through the FOIA...I am reasonably sure Oswald was nothing more than a patsy, just as he proclaimed shortly before he was silenced forever right in the freaking police station. Dallas was try 3 after Chicago and then Miami did not work out.

So I firmly believe JFK was hit by the Mafia and right wing lunatics in the CIA etc, all because JFK worked out a deal to avoid nuclear war, crazy as that seems.

That said, in the current climate, with mass shootings happening almost weekly in a different day,it is totally irresponsible for Trump to make any veiled threats. We have seen his thugs brutally attack protesters already.