JFK at American University

"The organizing principle of any society, Mr Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers. Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War in his second term. He wanted to call off the moon race and cooperate with the Soviets. He signed a treaty to ban nuclear testing. He refused to invade Cuba in 1962. He set out to withdraw from Vietnam. But all that ended on the 22nd of November, 1963."
--X (JFK)

Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy's famous commencement speech at American University in Washington DC. His topic was world peace and how world powers, particularly the US and Soviet Union, could collaborate toward such a goal.

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There are those who believe that JFK was executed by warfare state interests because of this speech.

JFK could have just as easily angered welfare statists if he would have called for peace at home by ending domestic programs of aggression on US citizens.

Of course, some people such as Ron Paul have done both...

Calls for peace threaten statists of all stripes.