liberty

november, 1999


A nation at sea - it's appropriate to say some words on the
passing of John F. Kennedy, Jr., if only because John-John was a true
celebrity, someone who is famous only for being well-known. Aside
from that, he will likely be remembered only for having above average
good looks, slightly below average intelligence, a lack of piloting skills,
and the connections to start a lame magazine which attempts to glorify
politics.

And, of course, for being better than the average Kennedy, a family best
known for its high rate of reproduction, and high population of rapists,
drunks, politicians, child molesters, liars, and junkies. Most Kennedys go
into some kind of "public service" partly because they don't appear
capable of actual productive labor, and partly because their progenitor,
the notorious hypocrite Joseph Kennedy, made enough money that they
don't have to do honest work.

The saddest part of the whole sorry episode, other than the huge amount
of press coverage and the pathetic spectacle of large numbers of
Bochum Americanus blubbering away as if their mothers had died, was
the extensive search for the lost plane by the US Navy, followed by a
military burial at sea, with 21-gun salute. The best comment on this that I
heard came from a friend's Mexican gardener: "Yeah, my brother's a
pilot. If he'd crashed they wouldn't have had even a rowboat out looking
for him; they'd just say 'So what? The stupid spic shouldn't have been
flying in the fog."' -DC

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