Reply #4: I agree with you about Bobby getting his own place [View All]

[Ken Burch]

He wasn't a saint(and, I suspect, wouldn't want anyone to see him as such), but he was an example of the sort of figure you don't see in national politics anymore and that we may not ever see again in that sphere: A mainstream, establishment politician who, through personal tragedy, allowed his mind and spirit to be opened and was willing to acknowledge most of what he'd been wrong about in the past. As a result of JFK's death, Bobby let himself be cleansed of the bullshit of our ruling elite, realizing finally...

-That this country has no right to act as if the world exists solely for our priveleges and our "right" to overconsume ratheer than for the majority of its people who spend their days struggling to just to survive.

-That the building of a decent society within this country meant getting those who are without to break through the barriers of race and religion to make common cause with each other.

-And that our wars are NOT automatically justified simply because our political and military elites tell us they are.

I'll always believe that that is why he was killed(and, btw, those who hold to and defend the establishment theory on that act need to look at the simple truth...from where he was standing in the Ambassador pantry, it was physically impossible for Sirhan Sirhan to have fired the shot that killed Bobby. Sirhan may have wanted to, but he simply couldn't have done it. You can't shoot someone in the back of the head at point-blank range at a sharply upward angle while you're in front of that person, jumping off of a steam table, and your the barrel of your gun is three feet away from the guy. It really is that simple. And there really does need to be a new and full investigation into the assassination).