I wonder what the Kennedy clan think now. I wonder what people in his father’s generation would think of a Kennedy actively working to hide information from American citizens. I can’t say. I can say this is not the type of act I think of when I admire the Kennedy family. Not even close.
Robert Kennedy promised to be a good guy. An outsider who wasn’t tainted by Washington. Someone who fought for the little guy and wouldn’t let big government get away with things like making decisions in secret without any transparency.
Big surprise: it was a lie.
His catchphrase was “radical transparency” Sounds really cool, don’t it? This will be a new era when Government works for the people! Like this press release:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are committed to promoting radical transparency to make sure all Americans know what is in their food.
One could be forgiven for thinking that Mr. Kennedy planned to be radically transparent. That the government would be radically transparent. Let’s be clear Radical transparency is for other people. Not Mr. Kennedy. Who is now consolidating his position as a DC power broker.
One of the backbones of transparency in the U.S. government is the Freedom of Information Act. FOIA. This allows people outside the government, people like Mr. Kennedy only a few months ago, to ask the government to provide information on what it is doing. It’s based on the idea that we the people are the government and the information they generate belongs to us.
That was when FOIA served Mr. Kennedy’s purpose. Those days are now gone. FOIA will stand in the way of Mr. Kennedy, so it’s being gutted. Per Rolling Stone (Health Secretary RFK Jr. Promised Radical Transparency. Now He’s Closing FOIA Offices)
Or they did until Tuesday, anyway. Officials at the FDA and NIH have confirmed that many civil servants who work on FOIA in those offices have been let go, while the CDC’s FOIA desk has been completely eradicated, according to the agency’s chief operating officer. An email from Rolling Stone to foiarequests@cdc.gov returned an auto-reply that read, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” Emails to several other addresses for FOIA requests at HHS agencies – to check whether they are still active – did not receive immediate replies.
For those of us who have followed Mr. Kennedy and his anti-vaccine community for decades, his dishonesty comes as no surprise. I didn’t expect his hypocrisy to be so blatant so early.
We’ve already seen the Kennedy family distance themselves from Robert Kennedy on numerous occasions. Here’s a recent quote on that:
No prominent Kennedy has publicly endorsed RFK Jr., and the list of those who have shunned him politically is a Who’s Who of the Kennedy family: Caroline Kennedy, Joe Kennedy III, Victoria Ann Kennedy, Patrick J. Kennedy, Rory Kennedy and Jack Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy.
I wonder what the Kennedy clan think now. I wonder what people in his father’s generation would think of a Kennedy actively working to hide information from American citizens. I can’t say. I can say this is not the type of act I think of when I admire the Kennedy family. Not even close.
I wonder about the hypocrisy of his supporters. People who decried the lack of transparency in the government. Will they stand against this move by their hero? Smart money says no.
By Matt Carey
Left Brain Right Brain 
If you watch the two Senate committee hearings to pass RFK JR as Health Secretary you can see the alarm in peoples faces as they tried to question a sociopath and a liar.
This man has always been a biological terrorist. The cult leader of a fanatical Fatih-based belief system. By the end of the century the Anti Vaccination cultists will go the way of other groups that held beliefs simply not rooted in reality. The people running it and subscribing will die off.
Why? Because there has to be something tangible to maintain these ideas aside from a lot of rich benefactors. Which is how RFK Jr has come to power. Money.
What is tragic is that the entire pathetic phase of history has been so reported and exposed. The cult still operate as if no one is watching and if anything, they are encouraged. In fact inventing proof is what is visible.
As someone who claims no depth of science compared to those he knows who see through the Anti Vaccination cult, it remains very odd how people with real insight and qualifications agree with and endorse my perspective. All I know is that I am very straightforward. I want proof. I want the Anti Vaxxers to prove they are right. But they never do. I give them a chance. I listen. But all I see are a lot of conformational bias projections onto the perfect medical scapegoat for having mentally disabled children.
Sure people have vaccine reactions. Hannah Poling for example. But STILL NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH to justify the insane scale that is claimed.
The third Vaxxed film was taken out of Andrew Wakefields hands by Children’s Health Defence. Its narrative claims that all American hospitals – all – put covid sufferers on ventilators in order to make up to millions in insurance and then kill them. That this process amounted to mass murder.
That is how much RFK Jr’ is rooted in reality.
When the FOIA litigations begin, the jurist will not be interested in the excuse that the FOIA offices were closed. It’ll be a simple order of, “Comply or contempt of court”.