Sean Cinnéide

Sean Cinnéide (born John Fitzgerald Kennedy) (May 29, 1917 - May 3, 2002) was an American judge, jurist, and veteran who served as the Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal from 1973 to 1980. Born to the bourgeois Kennedy family of Massachusetts, the young Kennedy grew up in capitalist wealth, attending boarding schools. On the onset of the revolution, Sean was abandoned by his family in their desperate attempt to escape justice. Sean joined the Massachusetts Red Guards and served as a courier for them, before being given permission to enlist in the WFRA and attend West Point as an officer candidate.

He would later see service as an artilleryman in both the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad. After being wounded, he was sent to Moscow for medical treatment and recuperation. Suffering from his injuries, he briefly attended the M.V. Frunze Academy and later was assigned to the JAG Corps to serve as a legal adjutant and enforcer of military discipline. This would give him a pathway to becoming Chairman of the Military Collegium, and then successively a place as a Tribune on the SRT once he retired from the armed forces in January 1968.

He died in his home in DeLeon-Debs at age 84.

Early life
Sean Cinnéide was born on May 29, 1917, at 83 Beals Street in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., noted businessman and politician (later major supporter of MacArthur's attempted putsch and subsequent regime in Cuba), and Rose Kennedy (née Fitzgerald), a philanthropist and pre-Revolution socialite. His paternal grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald, was a U.S. Congressman and former Mayor of Boston. He had one elder brother: infamous Nazi war criminal Joseph Jr., as well as seven younger siblings.

Early revolutionary activity
Sean was sent away to Choate, a prestigious bourgeoisie boarding school in September 1931, isolating him from his family. During the final two years of the Old Republic, Sean began to harbor intense resentment for his father, as well as his older brother, whom had been quite the model student at Choate. Founding The Muckers Club, the young Cinnéide formed the first seedlings of class betrayal among the bourgeoisie students of his school. While the club had initially had the goal of hobnobbing among what would become America's future elite, growing dissent over stifling conditions for younger students, as well as growing militarist and fascist sympathies from among the elder student body caused issues for the young Cinnéide and his mates.

Through several incidents, the school began to boil with resentment and turmoil, particularly after Cinnéide was heavily punished for disseminating literature that ran contrary to 'school values', questioning the basis of capitalism and other things that many landed gentry in the Old United States had come to expect to be given to them.

Second American Revolution
When Douglas MacArthur murdered the President-Elect and launched a putsch to seize power, Cinnéide launched his own revolt against the oppressive nature of the school system, leading his Muckers Club in a direct assault on the headmaster's office, overthrowing the yoke of student oppression at his boarding school. Immediately afterwards, Sean left Choate, to seek his parents and confront them for their neglect. Upon his departure, the Muckers Club reorganized the first student soviet in the United Republics, the Choate Council of Students. Cinnéide was named honorary chairperson of the council, a position he resigned upon acceptance to the officer candidate school at West Point.

Upon returning to their Massachusetts estate, the young Sean was shocked to find that his family had abandoned him, believing him to have been lost to the Reds in the wave of revolutionary fervor. Angered and bitterly not surprised at the greed of his family, Sean discarded his Americanized name, and adopted the Gaelic version of it, Sean Cinnéide, which became his nom de guerre, and later, full legal name.

Immediately following his father's flight from Massachusetts, the young man enlisted in the Massachusetts Red Guard. Due to him being too young to serve as a soldier (being only 16 at the time), Cinnéide was assigned courier roles, running messages and helping in coordinating the response to White insurrection in New England.

West Point cadet
After conclusion of hostilities in the Second American Revolution, Cinnéide was given a recommendation and admission to West Point, becoming part of the first generation of officers to be trained under the new revolutionary banner. Documentation suggests that Cinnéide may have been targeted for his upper-class birth by some fellow cadets as well as some of the new instructors at West Point, but Cinnéide stood steadfast in solidarity with all comrades.

During one such incident early in his career as an officer cadet, he reported several superior officers for 'reactionary values' and harboring sympathy for counter-revolutionary organizations, following an incident in which violent assault on a Negro NCO went unreprimanded and unreported.

Artillery officer, 33rd Artillery Corps
After graduating from West Point, Cinnéide continued his education as an artillery officer, eventually leading to his deployment with the rest of the 33rd Artillery Corps to the front lines of the Great Patriotic War. During the Battle of Moscow, Cinnéide was injured and removed from the front.

Brief tenure at M.V. Frunze Academy
Following his injury in the Battle of Moscow, Cinnéide was taken off active duty and moved to become a military attaché to the Soviet Army, courtesy of the WFRA. He briefly attended the M.V. Frunze Academy to understand just how the American and Soviet military strategy and doctrine aligned with each other. Upon completion of his studies at the Frunze Academy, he was moved back to the United Republics, where he was placed in training to join the JAG Corps.

JAG Corps
From 1942 through to 1968, Cinnéide served to some degree or another as a JAG officer.

Appointment as Chairman of the Military Collegium
In 1958, after nearly 15 years of service to the WFRA as a JAG advocate and lawyer, Cinnéide was appointed to Chairman of the Military Collegium after the term-limited retirement of Norman Cota.

He left the position ten years later in 1968, following the legal mandate of one ten year term for each Chairperson.

Conspiracy theories
Forty years following the death of Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, conspiracy theories grew more common on Cybersyn that Sean Cinnéide and/or other American or Soviet military officers were involved in the artillery attack that killed the late leader, officially contradicting the Soviet and American official recollection of the event, which indicated it had been a German artillery unit on the frontlines that killed Stalin.

In a public statement in 1983, the WFRA condemned the conspiracy as counterrevolutionary, and the matter soon dissolved from the public interest.

1970 - 1973: Associate Justice, S.R.T.
After his ten year term as Chairman of the Military Collegium, Cinnéide was elected to sit upon the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal as an Associate Tribune. Three years into his tenure on the bench, he was elected to the position of Chairman. His spot as Associate Tribune was subsequently filled by David Ormond.

1973 - 1987: Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal
In the winter of 1986, he announced that he would formally retire from active, public service on his seventieth birthday. His resignation was formally tendered to the All-Union Congress of Soviets on May 29th, 1987. The AUC subsequently elected Bella Azbug as his successor.

Liberation: "Posterboy of the Revolution"
Cinnéide's life in the spotlight was not by accident, but by selection. When the WFRA partnered with new revolutionary cooperatives to show the demoralized White insurrectionists that they had no choice but to stand down, Cinnéide and several other young men at West Point of upper-class background were pulled into the limelight. Appearing on the cover of the first issue of 1936's Libertine, the young virile Cinnéide scandalized both the White holdouts, and MacArthurite government in Cuba.

First exposure to cinema
Cinnéide's first appearance in cinema came following his injury in the Battle of Moscow. In the 1942 film "Why We Fight", Cinnéide was interviewed in hospital by the darling young Norma Jean Mortensen, giving a passionate speech as to why the revolutionary fight must never end, and that fascism, and liberal capitalism, must be put on the ropes and beaten into submission-- so that freedom can be enjoyed by every man, no matter what their colour or background.

Star Trek
Cinnéide served as a military advisor on the set of the science fiction television series Star Trek and its successor Star Trek Phase II, as well as making numerous guest appearances as members of Starfleet's top brass...

M*A*S*H
Cinnéide played the role of Colonel David Starling in the 1971-83 television series M*A*S*H, being brought into the cast in Season 4, after the departure of the character playing Col. Jessup Blake. The well-intending, yet stern, fatherly Colonel Starling was well-received, keeping the show on the air after PBS began to debate cancelling the series following the departure of McLean Stevenson in 1975.

Capitol Hill
Cinneide, in one of his final television appearances, appeared as himself in the first season of Aaron Sorkin's Capitol Hill in 1998. He appears in the Season 1 finale "What Kind of Day Has It Been" to advise Premier Will Bailey (John Amos) and Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (Martin Sheen) on a tense legal and military situation involving a spy exchange between the UASR and India.

The JAG Files
Cinnéide starred in his very own television series beginning in the early 1950s-- playing a young, ambitious Army lawyer, the "realistic television experience" that was The JAG Files followed the forty-five year long career of his fictional character, Arthur Wilson, the embittered son of an American aristocrat who betrayed his people during the revolution. With a burning passion for justice and revolutionary success, Wilson's record propelled him from simple JAG lawyer to eventually, Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal.

It effectively served as a public viewport into the life of Cinnéide and many of those who served in higher echelons of power in the revolutionary government, being no stranger to criticisms of those in power who were unbecoming and acting in a manner that contradicted the goals of the American people and nation. The show came to an end in 1998 with the very public retirement of Lt. General Wilson, and his hopeful desire to take up painting and music as he lives out the rest of his days with his family.

This was the final television appearance of Cinnéide, who retired from public life completely soon after.

Personal life
Cinnéide married Norma Jean Mortensen on 9 July 1953, and they had three children, Norman Thomas Cinnéide, Sean Mortensen, and Emma Cinnéide.

He died on 3 May 2002 in DeLeon-Debs, surrounded by his children, wife, and sister. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, an honor afforded to many who had a great impact on America.