Monday, September 1, 2014

FBI Raids Kennedy Fundamentalist Compound

> (http://www.theonion.com/issue/5034/) • Aug 25, 2014 The FBI says it
> began keeping tabs on the compound years ago following a string of
> mysterious deaths involving members of the eccentric group.
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> HYANNIS PORT, MA—In a surprise predawn raid Monday, heavily armed FBI
> agents stormed the notorious Kennedy Compound in Massachusetts,
> reportedly arresting more than two dozen key members of the faction
> and exposing many of the bizarre inner workings of this insular fundamentalist organization.
> According to officials, agents in full SWAT gear disembarked from
> patrol boats just off Cape Cod and quickly advanced upon the 6-acre
> oceanfront compound. The raid followed a multiyear investigation into
> illicit activities by the secretive Kennedy group, which are said to
> have included substance abuse, rampant promiscuity, and carefully
> formulated plans to seize control of the United States.
> “At approximately 4:15 a.m., federal agents entered the Kennedy
> premises, apprehending numerous individuals and charging them with
> multiple counts of attempting to infiltrate the government at federal,
> state, and local levels,” said lead investigator Frank Campbell,
> adding that the group’s steadily expanding network of members has used
> the compound as a base from which to extend its power for decades.
> “Our investigation indicates that several charismatic leaders within
> the sect manufactured an intense cult of personality that, over the
> years, they have used to hold sway over many thousands of followers nationwide.”
> “It appears that the people at the top of this structure possessed a
> near-pathological desire to exert control over others and manipulate
> their beliefs,” he continued. “These are ideologues, plain and simple.
> To the many people who got caught up in this so-called family, these
> individuals’ power of persuasion was irresistible.”
> Searching the three clapboard houses that compose the compound,
> investigators said they found numerous symbols consistent with intense
> fanaticism, including framed photographs of their late leader, John F.
> Kennedy, upon whom family members appear to have accorded a sort of
> godlike status. Sources confirmed that the messianic figure spoke of a
> mystical “New Frontier” and believed the future of his people hinged
> upon making a journey to the moon, a mission he ordered his followers
> to carry out as quickly as possible.
> Records show the compound was established in 1926 by Joseph P. Kennedy
> Sr., a man referred to as “the patriarch” and believed to have more
> than 100 descendants. A survey of land deeds determined that Kennedy’s
> children and grandchildren—many of whom were known to take multiple
> wives and produce unusually large numbers of offspring to propagate
> their ranks—later bought up several of the surrounding Hyannis Port
> properties, apparently to keep family members confined in close proximity while keeping outsiders at bay.
> Providing evidence of the group’s eccentric ideology, FBI forensic
> psychologist Ada Willmann told reporters the Kennedy clan’s belief
> system is structured around the central concept of “Camelot,” within
> which the family perceives itself in grand, mythic terms as a kind of
> modern-day American royalty.
> “Given such profound levels of self-delusion, we’re clearly dealing
> with a group of people who have divorced themselves from reality,”
> said Willmann, adding that interrogators have been able to glean
> little new information from the family members now in custody, who so
> far have stuck to similar lines of strange utopian rhetoric.
> “Remember, many members of the Kennedy group have been trapped in the
> compound for decades. They appear to have been subject to the same
> rigid philosophy and forced to repeat the same mantras again and
> again. Over the years, they have become increasingly closed-off and
> paranoid, and the hardliners who remain are fully indoctrinated.”
> “They all look the same, talk the same, and even dress the same,” she added.
> “It’s very unsettling.”
> FBI officials acknowledged the success of the Kennedy raid stands in
> stark contrast to a botched operation two years ago at the remote
> Cheney family ranch in the Wyoming wilderness, where 14 federal agents
> attempting to serve a warrant were gunned down by extremists on site.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If only... nice thought though!

Anonymous said...

I just saw this on CNN and MSNBC lol

What exactly is the purpose of this story ?