- Many writers and essayists on the Internet--that last
bastion of a truly free press--have thoughtfully and passionately compared
George W Bush to imperial leaders throughout history. Everyone from Richard
Nixon to Adolf Hitler to Nicolo Machiavelli.
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- "This is a dangerous analogy," wrote Byron
Williams in The
Moral Cynicism of George Bush. "Tragedy, popularity, and bad intelligence
combined to allow this president to consolidate his amoral agenda of power,
selling it to the American people with overtly pious language."
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- Rather sympathetic, wouldn't you say? By contrast many
essayists, like myself, wonder if something far more sinister hasn't been
developing, for a much longer time, here in America. Ever since Eisenhower
realized who wielded the REAL power behind the seats of power and spoke out,
belatedly, in his farewell speech.
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- The recent essay "Informant Names JFK Jrs Assassins?"
would have struck me as only another wacky Internet conspiracy theory if
someone hadn't revealed the exact same thing to me several months earlier.
Indeed my informant, a former intelligence insider, became the inspiration
for the central character my recent novel, the sinister protagonist, Jimmy
Jeremiah. Assassination by aviation, was how the real-life Jeremiah explained
it to me, removing troublesome but charismatic leaders who become problematic
to the status quo.
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- If we Americans realize that those in power are never
hindered by any feelings of conscience or guilt, if we realize that our
rulers freely act in their own self interest, (unless forced to do so by
popular outcry), that they conduct policy as insatiable predators would,
we begin to see them with a new clarity. If we realize profits and personal
agendas, not ethics, forever influence foreign and domestic policies, then
we may finally see how everything seems to make sense in a senseless world.
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- Thus the controlled demolition of a potential rival's
plane--whether John
F. Kennedy Jr. or Minnesota
Senator Paul Wellstone--makes perfect sense. Thus the controlled demolitions
of sensitive buildings (Oklahoma City, World
Trade Center, Building 7), or the controlled demolition of a country
like Iraq, or the controlled demolition of the American media, not to mention
the controlled elections in 2000 and 2004, all make perfect sense and have
always made perfect sense.
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- Which makes the US media accomplices to an ongoing series
of great crimes, stretching over fifty years. As Richard Salent, Former
President of CBS News once admitted, "Our job is to give people not
what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." Clearly controlled,
wouldn't you say?
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- But this sort of cold-blooded criminality speaks less
of Prince Machiavelli or the Borgias
than the Biblical Herod family. The three generations of the Bush family
parallel the uncanny rise to power of the Biblical Herods. Just as the
Herods
conducted ruthless policy--secret assassinations and public executions,
religious plots, terrorism, manipulation of the economic system while seeming
to embrace the religious leaders of their day--so too have our own American
Herods.
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- And all of these crimes have been aided and abbetted
by the American mainstream media for well over fifty years! Indeed, when
has anyone heard or read anything about Patrick
"Bulldog" Fitzgerald, in the American media? US Attorney
Fitzgerald, pursuing corruption in high places, very likely will become
the next "accidental" death, planned by the American Herods.
The details of his death, and the predictable press reports, are all being
worked out behind the scenes as I write this.
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- When we realize that the Biblical Herods wielded limited
but absolute power backed by imperial Rome, we realize that the Bushes,
Clintons, Johnsons and Nixons wield limited power within a framework of
power brokers. Otherwise what stake do our American Herods have in the
Middle East? Certainly not for the benefit of the average US citizen.
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- Likewise our "free press," never seems to ask
the pertinent question of any crime: Who
benefits? Who benefits when a Paul Wellstone or well-respected critic dies
"accidentally?" Who benefits when a 47 story building falls mysteriously?
And who benefits when a country is invaded? Who profits? Aside from cementing
power within the ruling junta--our American Herods, whether Democratic
or Republican--the select group of power brokers continue to reap obscene
profits. Katrina being no exception; witness the spike in petroleum prices.
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- Ironic indeed that far more blame has been leveled by
the complicit US media, against the US government, for slow response to
a predicted natural disaster, than to the predicted un-natural debacle
in Iraq. Thirty months later still no outrage from the embedded US media
to a phony war draining the American treasury and the volunteer armed forces.
Ironic that far more outrage is directed against armed looters in New Orleans
than to well-connected cronies of our American Herods who receive billions
for looting the US citizen in no-bid contracts.
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- The Biblical Herods, like their American predecessors,
once wielded incredible power. Until one day they were swept away, swept
away more completely than Katrina swept away Biloxi. And today the Herods
are remembered as diabolical scoundrels, relegated to the dust bin of history.
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- Amateur historian and Rense essayist, Douglas Herman
is the author of the recent novel,
- Guns of Dallas
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- Comment
M. L.
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- And all of these crimes have been aided and abbetted
by the American mainstream media for well over fifty years! Indeed, when
has anyone heard or read anything about http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6711
- Patrick "Bulldog" Fitzgerald, in the American
media?
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- I said as much [see item 18] to Bob Chapman yesterday:
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- 12. No news shows mentioned that bodies are all over
the place and many were being eaten by alligators.
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- ===Wrong.
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- 13. Looters were being arrested and handcuffed to be
taken to - where?
- === Rendition-land
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- 14. My thought: If it is true that there are internment
camps all over the US (800 supposedly) which are completely supplied, manned
and ready for action. If this is true, then why aren't they being used?
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- Because this is a lie...fear propaganda to keep the Internet
distracted from true events..... These reports come out every few months.
=== Because this is the setup for their use on the next, upgraded synthetic
attack. Everything in its time. You're skipping ahead. Look how people
were begging to go to the Superdome gulag.
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- 18. AND WHAT IS GOING ON ELSEWHERE, IN THIS COUNTRY AND
GOVT. THAT IS KEEPING US CITIZENS DISTRACTED? === Rove et al. are still
subject to indictment in Plame affair.
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- 20. The idiot's main thoughts are about reconstruction
with barely any mention of the people. === Of course.
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- September 1, 2005: The disaster in New Orleans was not
unforeseen. In spite of his too-little too-late bleatings, Bush personally
scrapped a multi-million dollar program to strengthen the dikes around
that flooded mass of tragedy but took the money for his criminal war in
Iraq.
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- We now see a genuine phenomenon with dozens of American
television reporters, on the ground and on the scene in New Orleans and
southern Mississippi, turning against both the Administration and the governments
of both Louisiana and Mississippi for their utter failure to relieve the
terrible suffering of hundreds of thousands of trapped, starving and sick
citizens.
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- I would like to add something to the bubbling pot that
might cast a light on the disgusting official breakdown of rescue and support.
This afternoon, I was having lunch at the Cosmos Club out on Massachusetts
Avenue. A good friend is a member of the posh club (that once was the elegant
town home of Sumner Welles), and while at lunch, I was privy to a very
vocal conversation at one of the big round center tables in the club dining
room.
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- One man was giving an overview of the situation to a
group of his friends. The speaker was an undersecretary of an important
department, well -liked by Bush and often in the White House to consult.
The others ranged from an academic economist whose writings can be seen
in a right wing paper and a number of Washington-based businessmen, all
of whom are active and heavy contributors to the Bush White House.
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- The loud one had obviously had a few drinks at the bar
and this is probably why he was not more discreet. The gist of his comments
was horrible to contemplate and it sounded like a top Nazi discussing Jews.
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- It is well known here that the Bush family and many of
the top advisers at the White House are racists but instead of detesting
Jews, in this case, they all detest blacks. Their rationale, aside from
their view of racial superiority, is that blacks are all "welfare
queens, unwed mothers and drug dealers." It was the very firmly stated
view of the host that it was better for everyone that New Orleans was under
water for the time being.
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- In that way, we were told (and I was not the only person
in the dining room who heard all this), this served to "chase out
the niggers" and permit Bush-supporting businessmen from buying up
the soon-to-be condemned sodden houses for five cents on the dollar from
friendly insurance companies (which one of them was a CEO of) and put up
an enlarged and very profitable combination of industrial park and office
building section. The money for this would, naturally, come from government
grants which a terrified Congress (Mid Term elections are coming) had just
voted for and the contracts to demolish the wrecked low-income slums would
go, as a no-bid contract, to another stellar Bush supporter.
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- As for the refugees, our table of proto-fascists all
commented on the fact that most of them were on welfare and probably all
voted Democratic so they could all be shipped to California or Chicago
at the public expense and allowed to occupy less valuable public housing
there.
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- This conversation went on in a similar vein for some
time and it was difficult for both myself and my host to refrain from making
nasty comments or, for that matter, to enjoy our meal. These people are
greedy and purely evil and I am positive from the overall conversations
that Bush is conversant with this attitude and has no intentions of interfering
with it.
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- He had an unparalleled opportunity to revive his sagging
opinion polls and make an appearance in New Orleans, naturally with an
army of sycophants and eager media, and be seen (in a safe placeprobably
in Baton Rougebecause the desperate black citizens of New Orleans have
taken to shooting at people and Bush is scared to death of violence) holding
a small and photogenic black child whilst comforting its mother. Instead,
Bush, typically, opted to sail overhead in his luxury Air Force One and
having seen the inundated city below, retired to his small but elegant
dining room for a nice lunch with some of his top aides.
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- I should also note here that Bush now has added the Mayor
of New Orleans and a half a dozen irate and very articulate news reporters
to his hate list because they have dared to criticize him to a very large
audience.
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- Maybe this time, the Democrats will organize and nail
him and his friends to a wall somewhere and then open the flood gates and
watch them drown like the rats that they are."
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- http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1802.htm
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- 21. Was this a "training exercise" on a large
scale? === Test for something on a larger scale yet.
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- 22. Why haven't companies like Coca-Cola, etc. offered
free water? === Budweiser has.
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- 23. Is this the start of martial law for the country?
=== A presage to it.
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- 24. Interesting that all military leave had been cancelled
BEFORE this horror occurred, isn't it? === An Iran war was the skinny for
that reason.
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- 25. Something to think about... the TimeTraveller, John
Titor, said civil war began in the US in 2005. Also, I have heard that
this summer was being referred to as "The Summer of Blood"...Why?
=== Be that as it may, that's what the globies want...the timeline may
be a bit premature. This week may have been a tripping point for it, but
I just don't see it going down literally that soon.
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- Since you mention Titor, I'll throw in web bots that
say a beginning point in early Dec. extends its impact through mid-06...so
that doesn't sound like an acute rather chronic event. On the downside,
someone who pegged, generically, New Oreans says something matching it
lies in wait for later in Sept.
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- 26. Where is Cheney? === Probably, just like during 911,
sitting in front of a control panel under a bunker somewhere...rather than
anything being told.
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- Regards,
- M.L. W, DC
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