“Binding us all together is love, because love unites, and it recognizes we are endowed by our Creator with dignity and honor.” – RFK Jr.
Here are some thoughts from RFK Jr. on love:
Today’s recommended podcast: Censorship Industrial Complex with Matt Taibbi | RFK Jr Podcast on Spotify
Some historical Christmas material from the presidency of John F. Kennedy:
December 17, 1962 – President John F. Kennedy remarks at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree
RFK Jr.’s Christmas message:
No matter what your faith tradition is, or is not, Christmas is a time to stop and consider the universal longings we all share together: hope, joy, peace, and goodwill to all. Binding us all together is love, because love unites, and it recognizes we are endowed by our Creator with dignity and honor. These values I learned from my grandmother Rose. Many of you learned similar values from family and friends – many of whom lived through extremely tough times. My grandmother’s testimony is still valid today, and I hope you are inspired to imagine an America that values all, includes all, and welcomes all. Together you and I can build a stronger, more prosperous and freer America.
Sincerely,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
We close with the thought that Christmas is, of course, a celebration of the birth of a child. I have always found this song meaningful.
What child is this?
What child is this who laid to rest on Mary’s lap is sleeping?
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet while shepherds watch are keeping?
This, this is Christ the King, whom shepherds guard and angels sing.
Haste, haste to bring Him laud.
The babe, the son of Mary.
Why lies He in such mean estate,
Where ox and donkeys are feeding?
Good Christians, fear: for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading.
Nails, spears shall pierce him through,
The cross he bore for me, for you.
Hail, hail the Word made flesh,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh,
Come, peasant, king, to own him.
The King of kings salvation brings,
Let loving hearts enthrone him.
Raise, raise a song on high,
The virgin sings her lullaby
Joy, joy for Christ is born,
The babe, the Son of Mary.
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing:
Haste, haste to bring Him laud,
The babe, the son of Mary.
Lyrics by William Chatterton Dix
One of RFK Jr.’s promises is to end the scourge of chronic diseases affecting our nation’s children. One of the these is autism. I have two children with autism. That is how I came to know Robert F. Kennedy Jr., through his work for our community over fifteen years ago.
The legacy media has failed to address the staggering increase in autism over the past twenty-five years. The CDC issues a statement every year saying that there is no real increase in autism. The CDC’s claim is that today’s diagnosticians are better at identifying it today than the clinicians in the 1980s. So, no real increase. No cause for alarm.
However, that line of reasoning falls apart very quickly when you read stories like this: New Mexico: 20 percent of students have special needs | Anne’s Substack. It seems that special education costs are exploding all around the country, largely driven by the increase in autism. In this article, we learn that State by State, the Burden of Autism Services is Unsustainable | Anne’s Substack.
Is it an investigative journalist at The New York Times or The Washington Post compiling all of these stories? Nope. It is a teacher and mother from Chippawa Falls, Wisconsin, named Anne Dachel. Anne has been doing this work for over twenty years. She has a great family and a wonderful son named John who has autism. Please visit her work at the AGE OF AUTISM and Anne’s Substack.
Who is paying for the increase in autism that we are told is not happening? Middle-class taxpayers through their school property taxes. Take a look at the growth in special education funding, year after year, in your local school budgets. Wherever you live, I bet you will find staggering increases.
But that is the budgetary reality of autism. The human reality is that many people with autism will need our support throughout their lives. They will need a country that embraces them and remembers that the promise of America is that we take care of our own.
Years ago, RFK Jr. received an unexpected visit from a woman named Sarah Bridges who has a son with autism. Bridges gave Kennedy a pile of research papers and pleaded with him to read the studies because there was a problem with mercury in vaccines that he needed to devote his energy to.
Kennedy told Joe Rogan during a three-hour podcast interview, “I just thought someone should listen to these mothers.” He has noted that doing so may not have been a good career move. But RFK Jr. is not wired to look away from injustice and suffering. He is not wired to deny truth. He took up the burden of this troubling issue – autism and vaccines – and never stopped speaking out on behalf of a segment of America that virtually every other person in our nation’s leadership has shunned for over twenty years. Kennedy has been censored and vilified for doing so but has never backed down. RFK Jr. lives by the American promise that we take care of our own.
What child is this?
Kennedy’s answer is clear: Ours.
May all the children born hereafter have lives of meaning, accomplishment, and joy. May they add their voices to this amazing American experiment with freedom and democracy. May they live in peace in an honorable and just land that they can be proud of for the rest of their lives, whatever their race, color, or creed.
That is the hope for America that Christmas reminds us of.
On behalf of everyone here at The Kennedy Beacon, may you have a blessed and peaceful Christmas.
Louis Conte, Headlines Editor
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On autism: please see the late Dr. Rashid Buttar's site https://autismdefined.net/
I don't know if Dr. Buttar's clinic continues his work of helping autistic children, but I do know he helped a lot of children including his own son, so he knew what he was doing.
These values are great. Dignity and love and the sovereign nature of all, yes! Merry Christmas and on to the Whitehouse--forward ever!