(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . WTFU Merrick Garland: Either Channel the Original RFK as Attorney General, or Resign [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-06-28 People argue about Merrick Garland and the DOJ. Some say Merrick is a competent professional doing everything right when it comes to handling the ongoing seditious criminal conspiracy run by Putin, Trump, and the GOP, as well as Trump’s other criminality. Others say he is too timid, weak, and frightened to be the attorney general we need right now to stop America from becoming a fascist state. The facts back this up, and so does history. The kind of attorney general we need right now is someone like the original RFK, not the anti-vaxx egomaniac idiot, RFK Jr. The real RFK was the exact opposite of Garland. He didn’t wait for criminals and traitors to commit dastardly deeds so public that they had to be prosecuted. Instead, as soon as his brother made him attorney general in 1961, Bobby declared war on the mafia, especially mafia inside corrupt organized labor. He also declared war on the segregationist, racist South as it murdered, injured and otherwise disenfranchised black Americans. This wasn’t a quiet crusade. It wasn’t like Garland waiting too long to even start investigations and push for search warrants and arrests. It wasn’t like Garland’s pathetically shy and lame public persona and lack of fire. Bobby went on national and local media bluntly, repeatedly calling out mobsters, racists, corrupt politicians, Teamsters and other enemies of America. He warned America of the evil in its midst and told the evil people he was coming after them and no mercy would be shown. This came at a huge political price that JFK worried about. Organized Labor was a big Democratic voting bloc, and Southern Dixiecrat Dems were also. Unlike Garland, Bobby was motivated by integrity, character, and outrage about the rampant criminality at the highest levels of power. And he did everything possible to investigate, immediately arrest, oppose bail, and otherwise stomp the criminals. Garland does the opposite. Of course, RFK haters slag his office personality, private behavior, and what even Bobby acknowledged was intermittent excess of zeal in going after criminals. These same people slag his brother JFK for being a womanizer. The one truly legit professional criticism of RFK was he authorized wiretaps on MLKJr. He and his brother were being blackmailed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, so Hoover had a lot of leverage, and Hoover presented the brothers what looked like credible allegations that some of MLK’s aides were traitors to America. The wiretaps were a terrible violation of MLK’s privacy and rights, no doubt, but here’s what else I know about Bobby Kennedy: he volunteered for wartime military service and risked his life to defend our country. Merrick Garland used student deferments to avoid military service, just like Trump did. Bobby Kennedy condemned Joseph McCarthy to his face, and sent soldiers to defend black people in the racist South. Merrick Garland can’t even be bothered to quickly investigate and lock up a Putin puppet and his gang of seditionists. And when I repeatedly contacted Garland via DOJ’s website and by snail mail after Jan. 6th and ongoing, begging him to realize that Trump and his gang could ruin our democracy and do something about it, I only got one reply, two months after my final communication. It said: “The Attorney General appreciates your kind words.” It was obvious they had not even read what I wrote. Following is the full text of the speech that likely got Bobby killed. RFK Jr. peddles the claim that Bobby thought the CIA killed JFK. If the Rogan-promoted anti-vaxx fool had a brain and conscience, he’d ask if one guy named Sirhan was a lone assassin, or if it was more likely that people Bobby pursued as attorney general were eliminating him before he could be elected president. We need another Bobby Kennedy as attorney general, now more than ever. Bobby Kennedy was known worldwide as a tireless visionary. Merrick Garland is no visionary—based on how his DOJ has mishandled the ongoing Trump conspiracy, he’s deliberately blind to the multiple crises facing America. Merrick Garland, if you can’t find a way to immediately show us the zeal, energy, dedication, effectiveness, and public persuasiveness of Bobby Kennedy, do the right thing—resign, and let Joe chose an AG who can get the job done. It’s way past time. Bobby’s speech was made a few weeks before he was murdered. Compare the poetry, passion, intelligence, and vision of what Bobby Kennedy says to the milquetoast words and persona of Merrick Garland: This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity to speak briefly to you about this mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives. It is not the concern of any one race. The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one - no matter where he lives or what he does - can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on. Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by his assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people. Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded. "Among free men," said Abraham Lincoln, “there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the costs." Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire weapons and ammunition they desire. Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach nonviolence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some looks for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear; violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleaning of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul. For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter. This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all. I have not come here to propose a set of specific remedies nor is there a single set. For a broad and adequate outline we know what must be done. When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies - to be met not with cooperation but with conquest, to be subjugated and mastered. We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community, men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear - only a common desire to retreat from each other - only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force. For all this there are no final answers. Yet we know what we must do. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens. The question is now what programs we should seek to enact. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of human purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence. We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of all. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge. Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanish it with a program, nor with a resolution. But we can perhaps remember - even if only for a time - that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short movement of life, that they seek - as we do - nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. Surely this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our hearts brothers and countrymen once again. 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