THE CURRENT ATTORNEY GENERAL’S MENTOR WAS ALSO A STRONG A.G.



…The out-going Attorney General, Eric Holder

 

An A.G. from decades ago has the highest respect of the today’s Attorney General.

When the departing Attorney General, Eric Holder spoke of Robert F. Kennedy this week, Kennedy was described as the AG’s inspiration for believing that the US Justice Department, “can, and must, always be a force for that which is right.”

Being someone that at a very early adult age was a serious believer and supporter of RFK, I immediately took serious note of what the AG was saying.

You see, I am one of those conspiracy believers that believes that it was due to RFK, JFK’s strong Attorney General, due to his strength as the AG, that JFK was assassinated.

In the latest version of JFK’s assignation, as told by the investigative authors, Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann, you will realize in their very complete and well research book titled; Legacy of Secrecy, the long shadow of the JFK Assignation, RFK was the main reason for the killing of the US president, John F. Kennedy.  

 

…JFK’s Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy

This well-documented book explains that the president’s assignation was actually due to the president’s brother, the US Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy’s efforts against the then major US organized crime-mob leaders.

The basis for the aforementioned “Legacy of Secrecy” investigation was that RFK’s major national concerns were not only of the issues of race, but were also for going after the nation’s internal mafia organizers.  At the time, one of the worst individuals was a mob leader located in Louisiana. 

The mobster, Carlos Marcello, whose territory ran from New Orleans, across the southern US regions of Texas, and he was constantly running from the Justice Department, the FBI and other federal agencies.  Throughout the investigation, it is also shown where Marcello had direct connections to multiple sharp-shooters that could have done the job on the president.  Those connections also included meeting and dealing with both, Lee Harvey Oswald, and his eventual killer, the nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. 

…New Orleans’s Mobster, Carlos Marcello

The theory goes that all the regional US mob bosses wanted to get rid of US Attorney General, Robert Kennedy.  But they also knew that if they were to put out a contract on RFK, that would only inflame his brother, the US president.  Then, JFK would just appoint another, even worse, AG to go after the organized crime bosses and to find RFK’s killer.  So, the idea was, just get rid of the president, not the AG. 

 

The concept was that they were also aware that vice president Lyndon Johnson hated RFK, and with JFK being gone, Johnson would have gotten rid of RFK as the AG.  Of course, history clearly shows that is exactly what happened.

But I digress.  The issue today is, why was RFK so special to the current Attorney General?

As the Washington Post Columnist E.J Dionne wrote this week, “Few white men were as searing as Kennedy in describing how the world looked to a young black man in the late 1960s. “He is told that the Negro is making progress,” Kennedy wrote, following the racial etiquette of his time. ‘But what does that mean to him? He cannot experience the progress of others, nor should we seriously expect him to feel grateful because he is no longer a slave, or because he can vote or eat at some lunch counters.  How overwhelming must be the frustration of this young man — this young American,’ Kennedy continued, ‘who, desperately wanting to believe and half believing, finds himself locked in the slums, his education second-rate, unable to get a job, confronted by the open prejudice and subtle hostilities of a white world, and seemingly powerless to change his condition or shape his future.’ ”

Obviously, based on the recent past efforts of the nation’s first African American AG, he obviously saw Kennedy as his focused guide.  As Mr. Dionne also wrote, “If ever a public figure was exempt from Holder’s much contested depiction of our country as a “nation of cowards” on race, it was RFK, a man who was in constant struggle with his own demons and his conscience.” 

Attorney General Holder had obviously developed a great respect for what RFK must have gone through in his generational role as the then, US AG.

But, as a civil rights attorney that was focused on issues of racial fairness, and with such respect for RFK, when Eric Holder’s close friend, a constitutional lawyer, became the new US President, Mr. Holder became the obvious choice of the first black president for his new Attorney General.  Yes, AG Holder has shown his strength as an AG for race issues, voting rights for all minorities, for dealing with US border issues, gay marriage, gun-smuggling crimes and terrorist activities.  Mr. Holder will now go down as one of the strongest and most effective United States Attorney Generals…..ever.

Robert Kennedy once spoke to young blacks that they should work their way up, as other minorities have done, and that only by their own labor would the black man come to full equality.  This was the reason that the civil rights attorney Holder became such a follower of RFK and his vision for this great nation.

RFK is the appropriate individual for becoming a life-long guide for the current Attorney General, both today and for the AG’s future civil rights endeavors.

Copyright G.Ater  2014