Politics & Power Quote by Lee Harvey Oswald

The line reads like a press release drafted by someone auditioning for history, not just notoriety. Oswald’s “we” is the first tell: a solitary figure laundering himself through a collective voice, as if membership in an imagined movement could disinfect the uglier fact of individual violence. “We do not support the man” is a preemptive alibi embedded in rhetoric, a way to insist on ideological purity while keeping a safe distance from the messy, inconvenient reality of actual people. It’s the language of factions and pamphlets, where “the individual” is always expendable and the “idea” is the only thing allowed to look noble.

The specific intent is twofold: to deny personal allegiance (and the criminal liability that can trail it) while reaffirming a political identity that sounds principled rather than obsessive. He frames the Western Hemisphere as a stage for “independent revolution,” borrowing the romance of anti-imperial struggle, then sharpens the target with “free from American intervention.” That last clause is doing the emotional heavy lifting: it channels Cold War resentment, Bay of Pigs fallout, and a broader Latin American critique of U.S. power into a single, righteous-sounding demand.

The subtext is less about Cuba or sovereignty than about self-importance. By elevating “the idea” above “the man,” Oswald tries to convert personal extremity into geopolitical argument. It’s a maneuver that flatters the speaker: if he’s not acting for a person, he must be acting for history. The chilling part is how tidy it sounds. Ideology becomes a costume in which a criminal can briefly pass as a revolutionary.