When JFK was campaigning for the coveted position of President of the United States, he was very critical of the current Eisenhower administration's Cuban policy. Because of this, Americans were hopeful to see JFK remove Castro from authority in Cuba. JFK said:

"We must attempt to strengthen the non-Batista democratic anti-Castro forces in exile, and in Cuba itself who offer eventual hope of overthrowing Castro...thus far, these fighters for freedom have had virtually no support from our government."

So on April 17, 1961, an invasion that was planned, financed, and controlled by the U.S. State Department and the CIA as well as approved by JFK was set in motion. 1400 anti-Castro Cubans, with complete assurance of air cover promised by JFK, invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. Within easy distance, carriers loaded with fighting planes stood by ready for the call to come to their aid. In a summary of the event, U.S. News and World Report, in its September 17, 1962 issue said in part:

"Secure in this assurance of air support, the invaders went ashore...1400 armed men reached the beaches...In the battle that followed, Castro's troops suffered heavy casualties...Castro's tanks, coming up to the battle were sitting ducks for attack by air. Confidently the little invading force waited for its air support to arrive. Its leaders had assurance of that support. It was provided in the pre-invasion planning.

Hours before, on Sunday evening, a small but potent force of B-26's was sitting in readiness on an airstrip 500 miles away, waiting to take off for the Bay of Pigs.  Those were planes of the invasion force with Cuban pilots.

But those planes didn't take off. The reason: President Kennedy forbade their use.

That was the fateful decision President Kennedy made on that Sunday evening. He decided that the anti-Castro Cubans could not have the support of their own air force during the invasion. Without that support, the invasion failed."

Who were the real sitting ducks? Those poor men who had blindly taken the US Government at their word. But this story is still not over. Careful examination of the facts show that the whole plan was a deliberate sabotage!

According to columnist Edith Roosevelt:

"A nearly impossible supply problem was created when the CIA armed the 1400 man invasion force with weapons requiring over 30 different types of ammunition. The guns were purchased in second-hand stores "to avoid identifying the invading forces with the U.S."'

She further shares that the invaders were then supplied with the wrong ammunition for their weapons. An oversight by the CIA? Surely not. These are intelligent men right? I could go on and share more incriminating details that show and obvious deliberate sabotage, or I could go on and tell you about all the money that our government then turned around and gave to Castro just weeks later, but I think this is incriminating enough to make the point I want to make. And that point is this, Can we blindly trust our, or any, government officials to do what they are telling us they will do? Is it patriotism to vote officials into office and then sit back and relax and let them do their job without any interference from us in complete trust that they will do what is best for us? Our Founding Fathers did not believe this. They warned us to be vigilant and never trust anyone holding a position of authority. We Americans have been duped over and over and we are not paying attention. We are in the same position as these poor men confidently waiting at the Bay of Pigs with complete assurance that the US government had their backs. We are being told one thing while our government all the while intends to do something else! We need to learn from our history that we can not blindly follow our leadership but instead we must be watchful of everything they do! Consider the following quotes:

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
~Patrick Henry