John Glenn - gone 16/12/08

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Glenn, John Herschell, Jr. (1921- ), United States senator and former astronaut, born in Cambridge, Ohio. He entered Muskingum College, Ohio, in 1939, and left in his junior year to take preflight training in the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. As a pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps, he flew 149 combat missions in World War II and the Korean War. As a test pilot, in 1957,he became the first person to make a nonstop supersonic transcontinental flight, from Los Angeles to New York City, setting a speed record of 3 hr 23 min 8.4 sec. On February 20, 1962, Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth in space, in the Project Mercury Gemini capsule Friendship 7. The three-orbit flight covered approximately 130,000 km (approximately 81,000 mi) in 4 hr 55 min. See Space Exploration.
Glenn retired from the Marine Corps in 1965 and became a business executive and consultant to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. His many awards and honors include the Distinguished Flying Cross (five times) and the Air Medal with 18 clusters. In 1974 Glenn was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Ohio; he was reelected in 1980, 1986, and 1992. Glenn unsuccessfully contended for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination. In 1997 Glenn announced that he would not seek a fifth term in the Senate.

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I just saw this on the news. RIP Commander Glenn.

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Yeah .. but if the US Joint Chiefs of Staff had their way, they would have blown Glenn's ass up in space in 1962 .. and called it 9/11 .. ahh .. err .. Operation Northwoods ..

.. and blamed it on Bin Laden .. ahh .. Castro.

U.S. plan to kill astronaut John Glenn

Joint Chiefs of Staff sought to overthrow Cuba's Communist leader Fidel Castro

by Jennifer Monroe

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (OfficialWire) -- 12/21/04 -- In March 1962, President John F. Kennedy was asked to approve a plan devised by his Joint Chiefs of Staff—to overthrow Cuba's new Communist leader Fidel Castro. The proposal, code named "Operation Northwoods," included violent acts of terrorism within the U.S., targeting large cities, the shooting down of U.S. airplanes carrying Americans, blowing up U.S. Naval ships and even the killing an American astronaut—John Glenn.

'No way' you say?

Way.

Don't think your government would plot to kill you, to further their ideals..?

Think again.

America's top leaders even proposed U.S. military casualties when they wrote: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba."

The document suggested killing astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for a war against Cuba.

If his rocket exploded and Glenn was killed, it would "provide irrevocable proof that the fault lies with the Communists," the Joint Chiefs wrote.

Details of the government's plan were described in the bestseller "Body of Secrets", a book by investigative reporter James Bamford. An article exposing these outrageous revelations was first published by ABC News on May 1, 2001 just four months before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001.

According to the Operation Northwoods Memo signed by Gen. Lemnitzer, the plans are "based on the premise that US military intervention will result from a period of heightened tensions which place the United States in the position of suffering justifiable grievances. World opinion and the United Nations forum should be favorably affected by developing the international image of the Cuban government as rash and irresponsible and as an alarming and unpredictable threat to the peace of the Western Hemisphere."

These plans called for the events to be carried out covertly by the U.S. government in order to create public support for a war against Cuba by blaming Castro. The Joint Chiefs claimed, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."

Sounds familiar doesn’t it?
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/2723-john-glenn-to-be-killed-in-kennedys-era/
 
our government has a massive history of corruption, false flag attacks, and war on its own people. Can't disagree with you there.

What I am confused about is, if you know how corrupting centralized power can be, why do you support a large government? If you can see what can happen when such things are in place, I wish you would join small-government type people like myself in having power decentralized. The more decentralized power is, the less these type of things can happen.
 
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our government has a massive history of corruption, false flag attacks, and war on its own people. Can't disagree with you there.

What I am confused about is, if you know how corrupting centralized power can be, why do you support a large government? If you can see what can happen when such things are in place, I wish you would join small-government type people like myself in having power decentralized. The more decentralized power is, the less these type of things can happen.
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Because small-government people vote for people like Donald Trump .. which I would never do in a ga-zillion years.

AND, because I'm a socialist .. I believe government should exist for people, not the other way around.

9/11 .. we did that.
 
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