there is only a small margin of justice in that the POS was chair bound and could only cry and soil itself for the last eight years of it's life
Posted on 02/03/2018 6:44:24 AM PST by beaversmom
You are correct.
No he gained immense wealth bootlegging whisky into the US through Canada during prohibition with his buddies Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano. A tidbit they left out oif the article.
Joe Kennedy, Sr. was Boston’s version of Al Capone. He should have been charged with treason during WWII when he was ambassador to GB.
America’s biggest regret is that SOB wasn’t sterile
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Fully agree! ...Also noticed there was no mention in the article of Joe’s activities during the prohibition years, when he was using boats to take Canadian liquor across the lakes to the USA, a felonious activity that helped to make him a very rich man.
There is a curse on the person who serves, who sells, who gives liquor.
“Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.” Hab. 2:15,16
Kennedy made his fortune through bootlegged liquor . . .
It was self-imposed
Live by the sword, die by the sword
This family is the biggest fraud in American history
Beating out the Clintons and Obamas by a hair
I’ve always imagined Joe making the mistake of bargaining with the Devil.
“Let my sons rise to power”
Only to lose 3 of them and a daughter, and have babbling Ted the lone survivor.
“The article skips how many people were killed as Old Joe took control of Scotch Whiskey importing during prohibition. Joe was in bed with the NY mob to distribute the Scotch Whiskey he made $millions on.”
I don’t fault him for that. Prohibition was an evil law and should have been disobeyed by everyone.
Don Kennedy will make you an offer you can’t refuse.
That is a sickening story (I previously read about it in depth). If I recall correctly, the real reason for the lobotomy was that Rosemary was beginning to have relationships with men and Joe felt that if she got pregnant or caught up in a scandal, that it would damage the political careers of his sons. She might have been a bit of a dullard (like Chelsea Clinton) but there is no reason that Rosemary couldn't have had a normal life, found a man for herself and been a wife and mother. But she just didn't meet the "Kennedy standard" for women.
Even more sickening is the fact that so many women worshipped this family over the decades.
The Kennedy men by and large were very contemptuous of the women in their lives. Not just lobotomizing an adult daughter out of fear she might embarrass the family but using them like sex toys, dumping them into rivers (and leaving them for dead) and treating their wives like doormats. I can go on.
Yet even to this day, the same women who show up to protest President Trump in pink pussy hats because he evidently engaged in some off-color locker room talk, will throw themselves at the feet of these Kennedy men and grovel.
That’s his great-grandson, Robert’s grandson.
Or his private life as a woman chaser...for which he was famous elsewhere.
there is only a small margin of justice in that the POS was chair bound and could only cry and soil itself for the last eight years of it's life
Even when they are supposedly telling the truth about the kennedys it's a whitewashed truth. Starting at least with Joe Sr. they were criminals, mobsters, murderers, rapists, addicts and thieves.............and that was on their good days!
No matter how much lipstick the kennedy worshipers try to put on it
In MA of the “Southies” I have met an been able to discuss “things” over a beer. They seem to be the ones most taken in by the Kennedy myth. Many of them also think Whitey Bolger is Robin Hood. Which I find “interesting”!
The book, "Sins of the Father" by Ronald Kessler explains Rosemary's problem the best.
She was not mentally-ill, she had a learning disability and she was sort of a klutz. When the Kennedy's would all gather on the lawn to play sports, Rosemary did not excel. And old Joe thought that was not normal and he could not fathom having someone in the family who was not athletically perfect. (Eugenics much?)
Some have written that she was mentally retarded, however she could do higher-level math with ease.
What old Joe worried about was that she was so beautiful, he thought that she would become a loose woman and "embarrass" him by getting pregnant and flaunting herself. She did tend to be a bit erratic at times, but then if you were the family klutz in a family where physicality was a top priority, you'd be a bit upset too.
Because she was deemed a "problem" he decided to act without his wife's knowledge and found a doctor who would lobotomize her in order to straighten her out. The procedure caused her to become mentally incapacitated.
Yes, her father paid for someone to cripple his daughter mentally.
So, the Special Olympics, supposedly created in the honor of a mentally retarded Rosemary Kennedy, has a very crippled foundation.
He had more than one of those. In the big thick bio of JFK around here, there's an interesting vignette -- JFK and Joe Sr are arguing that the slightly older German photographer (the one with some Hitler connections) JFK was dating at the time wasn't right for him. She recounted that, when JFK would storm out to cool down, Joe Sr would hit on her. Thanks beaversmom.
I read “Sins of the Father,” by Ron Kessler a while back. He had to be the biggest scoundrel of his era. He was an unapologetic adulterer even regularly bringing his paramours to the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port. Rose even became close friends with some of them. Although he made a fortune bootlegging and importing during Prohibition, he wasn’t an alcoholic. He usually limited himself to one after-dinner Irish whiskey on the rocks. He also made a fortune in the manipulation of securities.
I finished it in three evenings. Fascinating, but sad and anger-provoking. I needn’t dwell on Rosemary as Slyfox covered that ground completely and accurately.
And, when the Kennedy brothers and sisters changed into their bathing suits for swimming they all did it in the same room, boys and girls. They got naked together and didn't think anything of it.
That just creeps me out. I came from a large family and we always dressed separately out of respect for our bodies.
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