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THE LAST CAPITALIST QUEEN

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While you are entitled to hold your own opinion and scream it from the tallest skyscraper, articles like this are why I do not like to read/watch/listen to other people.  Doctress Neutopia, your article is based on heresey and speculation.  No sources are provided and considerable assumptions are made.  Unless you met Jaquiline Kennedy Onassis and/or actually have proof that she was a heartless, greedy swine stuck on power, keep your mouth shut. There are people on this news group who will say she was responsible for choosing her life.  There are those who will say she wasn’t.  Either way, she was born into a rich family, raised in an era where the woman stayed at home and lived for her family, and finally was smart enough to think ahead so that her children could inherit the most of her estate.  Mrs. Kennedy Onassis was not responsible for the welfare mothers.  She was responsible for herself (and in your allegations her property, family, etc) alone.   What ever Mrs. Kennedy Onassis’s decisions, she made them and, providing karma exists is dealing with them.                                                           Alex Fagelson BTW Anyone who feels like flaming my arguement, have fun.  Anyone who feels like flaming me, better met me first.

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BTW Anyone who feels like flaming my arguement, have fun.  Anyone who feels

 like flaming me, better met me first.                          ^^^ Nah, just watch those tenses. kerry — kerry lutz              Currently listening to: Thelonius Monk                           Special thanks to : Kelly and Rob"

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a rich girl and she went too far cuz she knew it didn’t matter any way. Why you took over 300 lines to say that is beyond me, Doc.         you can save money money won’t get you too far

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As a side note, the Steven referenced in the first line is *not* me. —                           |                                                *)

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: BTW Anyone who feels like flaming my arguement, have fun.  Anyone who feels like flaming me, better met me first. Why?  Are you a witch?  Or a really well constructed female body-builder? Well, i’m certainly not going to flame you just to find out.  No siree, you won’t get me that way.  Uh uh. Hawk

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                    THE LAST CAPITALIST QUEEN      At the beginning of the summer, I receive an email from Steven asking me if I would submit to a new journal that he was starting on utopian philosophy.  I wrote him back a reply and said that I would be more than happy to write an essay for his journal.  I told him that I would like to write an essay about the late capitalist Queen, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.  The purpose of the essay is to envision an alternative archetype of a female ruler in order for us to envision a feminist Neutopia (1).      When he wrote me back a reply to my essay idea, I noted that his address was from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  He said for me to go ahead and write whatever I wanted.  When I told my mother that I was planning on writing an essay criticizing the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis for someone at the Kennedy School of Government, mother cautioned me to not write about Jackie because I might offend someone important like Caroline Kennedy Scholossberg who helped finance the Kennedy School and I might want to apply for a job there someday.  So, with the threat of censorship in mind, let me begin this essay.      The Queen is dead; long live the Queen!  Now the Queen is the Queen Jackie’s daughter, Caroline, one of the wealthiest and best educated of America’s royal family who is now writing a book on privacy laws. The press has estimated that her mother left her and her brother 100 to 200 million dollars.  In the July 1994 issue of _Vanity Fair_, Dominick Dunne writes in her article on Camelot’s Queen, "If reports of the size of Jackie’s estate–somewhere between $100 to $200 million–are even close to the truth, Caroline and John will probably be richer than any of the other Kennedys, and will be truly their own people, independent of anyone".        This quotation reveals the basic principle of American democracy.  If you want independence you have to be part of the superrich. If you are not part of the wealthy class well, baby, you better learn to be happy being their servant or let us call it by its other name, their slave. The tabloids write that Queen Jackie insisted her servants call her Madame. In America, don’t forget the oligarchy rules!  The law has been written on their behalf, to keep the few in power as their media experts keep the public dazzled by their riches, seducing them to be envious of their opiate luxury.      Oligarchical queens gain their power through marriage and inheritance, so is it any wonder why Jackie believed the most important value to instill in children are the ideas of family and that of service.  Service is important because once you have all that wealth and power, you’d better act like you are doing something humanitarian with your private wealth, so that the servants don’t get mad at the economic injustice.  Could it be that the  _real_ purpose behind President Kennedy’s famous line in his inauguration speech, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country," was devised to suppress the revolutionary activity of the time? When the government is run by the holders of private wealth, the people are really working for the oligarchy.  If the servants start asking the question of what their country ought to be doing for them to make their lives free, like providing them with public housing, transportation, health care, and free education, then the powers will have a social revolution on their hands.      Queen Jackie was a perfect political mother, who never took a bad photograph.  She knew how to act with elegance and grace by exhibiting her famous smile in public while in private it was been said that she was a chain-smoker, a spend thrift, and a compulsive shopper.  Her elusiveness made her into the world’s most famous and mysterious woman, a woman whose style attracted Aristotle Onassis, an oil tycoon who had the wealth to buy her the privacy and protection she needed to perpetuate her feminine mystique.      Like all good artificial aristocrats, she preferred art over the vulgarity of politics, even though in the end she chose to take her place in history and be buried in the Arlington National Cemetery beside the man who she said "belonged to the people", the man who betrayed her time and again, President John F. Kennedy. Andy Warhol’s prints made Jackie into an icon, the woman who all other women wanted to be, the woman who could buy anything she wanted and gave her money to her favorite charities, like the American Ballet.  The rich love to give to charities to help them get rid of the guilt of being on the top of a world of vast inequalities which have caused immense suffering and vast environmental pollution.      Yes, like the King’s mother, Rose Kennedy, Jackie lived to be the help-mate of her husband.  She is quoted in the May 30th, 1994 issue of _U.S. News and World Report_ about the proper role of a political wife, "You have to do what your husband wants you to do. My life revolves around my husband.  His life is my life.  It is up to me to make his home a haven, a refuge, to arrange it so that he can see as much of me and his children as possible–but never let the arrangements ruffle him, never let him see that it is work.  I want to take such good care of my husband that, whatever he is doing, he can do better because he has me.  His work is so important." And so, Jackie will always be remembered for the wonderful job she did redecorating the White House while the cold war was raging.        Jackie was trapped in traditional stereotypical gender roles. She followed the President’s agenda as she waited for the King of the White House to come home to her loving arms or to the loving arms of one of his mistresses.  Can you imagine Jackie and Marilyn Monroe in a brawl pulling each other’s hair and scratching at each other’s faces in the Green Room of the White House?        After President Kennedy’s assassination and the magnificent funeral she designed imitating the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, she in her black veil which the British royals wear at the death of a sovereign, more thana mere mortal.  To the world, she was now a widow-goddess.  To her fellow Catholics, she was the Madonna.      The press has praised Jackie for bringing her children up to be respectable American citizens, the kind of children who don’t take drugs and obey the matriarchy. One tabloid reported that when John, Jr. told her he wanted to pursue acting, she threatened him with disinheritance if he did not go law school.  Oh yes, this is the way the old wealth works!  Do what your rich mother says or else!  And who would John be without the family name and the family wealth?  Would he still be the sexist man alive if he was dirt poor?  It was also reported that Jackie approved of John’s relationship with Daryl Hannah after she discover that Daryl was not just a Hollywood actress, but she came from a old blue-blood family who had lots of money.  Oh yes, America’s prince charming must marry another blue-blood media superstar!      Jackie gained her power and prestige through the traditional female ways. She was born into a blue blood family, was a debutante, and married into the prestigious Kennedy clan where she became the media Queen of America.  But she was shrewd enough to know that in the days of global capital, power transcended nationhood.  Couldn’t this explain why she married and lived with men who were pirates of international finance? Is it any surprise that she fell in love with Maurice Templesman, the man who turned her small fortune of 26 million dollars which she inherited from her marriage with Onassis to 200 million dollars?  Didn’t he, a diamond merchant, fit perfectly into the mythos she, the capitalist Queen, had spun? You know, diamonds are forever…symbols of true love.        Diamonds present Jackie perfectly as they sparkled in the limelight, dug out of the ground by African wage slaves so that the rich can parade arrogantly around in their polished jewels.  Like her 5 million dollar Manhattan apartment and her 25 million dollar Martha’s Vineyard super chic resort compound, diamonds are the symbol of the successful American family. The dream of every American girl is to someday have a huge rock on her hand. In her life time, Jackie had achieved it all, wealth, power, fame, and men showering her with diamonds.      Finally, Jackie’s lust for power lead her to being a book publisher.  Jackie knew about the power of the image and the word, and, in the information age, these things would determine the new global elite.  Was it any wonder that she chose to publish books on popstars such as Michael Jackson?  Jackie must have known that true art is dead.  In the wasteland of mansions and slums, popculture is all that is left and Jackie was the shining star.      As a glamour queen of international high fashion, she knew how to rule by her image.  A good Catholic who prayed to God the Father, she is praised for raising her children to be normal American citizens of the world’s ruling class.  She taught them how to play the money game, the game of power and material possessions, seek privacy at all cost, and to act gracefully in front of the cameras to give the impression that everything is fine and dandy within the American family.  She stated, "The thing I care most about is the happiness of my children.  If you fail in that, nothing could ever matter very much."      Before her death she even sold her New Jersey estate for 100 dollars to her children.  Jackie, the queen of private wealth, knew like other wealthy matriarchs, to sell before you die to get out of paying death taxes.  She certainly didn’t want to give a penny more to the American government than she had too!  Why should her hard- earned money go to helping some scum-of-the-earth welfare mother? Now, Caroline and John are free to do anything they wanted in the world to make … read more »

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