On November 22, 1963, a motorcade turned onto Dealey Plaza and history changed forever.
Ron Paul calls that the day America lost its government.
“The date I say it was concrete that there was a coup, and we lost our government was November 22 —the assassination of John F. Kennedy.”
It sounds dramatic… until you remember who ended up investigating the murder.
Allen Dulles (the CIA director Kennedy had fired after the Bay of Pigs disaster) was appointed to the Warren Commission and tasked with investigating the President’s death.
Yes. The man JFK had removed for misleading him was now in charge of shaping the “official story of his death.”
As Tucker Carlson dryly put it:
“So the guy who was responsible for the murder was investigating the murder.”
Ha. What could go wrong?
Look, whether you believe that’s literally true or not, it’s hard to ignore that this was a situation ripe for government meddling and manipulation.
Things start to look even worse when you realize that only a few months before his death, Kennedy had been briefed by a group of Pentagon and CIA officials on their proposed Operation Northwoods—a secret mission to stage fake terrorist attacks on Americans (real casualties expected!) and blame Cuba as a pretext for war.
Kennedy was reportedly horrified, and sent Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and the generals out of his office with the promise that the United States would not ever wage war on its own people for the sake of politics.
A few months later, he was dead.
It’s no wonder generations of Americans have doubted the neat little package wrapped up by the Warren Commission and presented as the “official story”. I mean, when the same intelligence networks pushing false-flag plans are in charge of investigating themselves, skepticism is more than warranted.
Interestingly, it was after people started asking questions about the Warren Commission findings that the term “conspiracy theorist” began to rise in use. Although the CIA didn’t invent the term, it certainly didn’t mind using it as a way to silence and dismiss those who rightly felt that something wasn’t quite right.
Ed Rankin, in his work, The Conspiracy Theory Meme as a Tool of Cultural Hegemony – A Critical Discourse Analysis noted:
"People who do not accept the official accounts for events like the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy or the attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, are often called conspiracy theorists, and their theories conspiracy theories. Being labeled a conspiracy theorist implies one is delusional or otherwise unable to accurately perceive reality, among other things. Indeed, often conspiracy suspicions are not dismissed at the level of evidence, but simply by applying the label 'conspiracy theory'."
“Conspiracy theorist” has become the go-to insult for anyone who asks uncomfortable questions about the official narrative. The message is simple: stop thinking, stop connecting dots, stop wondering why.
That single phrase has become a kind of linguistic switch that turns off critical thought the moment it starts flickering on.
But questioning power is not insanity. In fact, it’s the foundation of liberty.
It’s what drives honest science, journalism, and civic responsibility. It’s what prevents government power from going unchallenged.
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It walks young readers (and plenty of adults) through real, declassified plots—Operation Northwoods among them—that show how often “theory” turns out to be historical fact.
And this is great, because when kids learn that critical thinking is patriotic, not dangerous, they become much harder to manipulate.
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I think I agree with Dr. Paul on this one.
It’s pretty easy to see how everything started to come tumbling down after the assassination of Kennedy. It’s like he was the dam holding back the crushing wave of government power that we’ve all been drowning in ever since.
It’s why we do the work we do. It’s why I’ve dedicated the last decade-plus of my life to helping families envision a freer, more peaceful and prosperous future.
At the very center of it all is helping people have the courage to ask questions that polite society says they aren’t supposed to ask.
Because once you understand what happened when one president refused to play along, “conspiracy theory” starts looking a lot less like crazy, and a lot more like real history.
— Connor
