Lecture Notes:  06-29-05

The final triumph of the VICTIMS.

‘The President is not using the Presidency to define the agenda. . . . I think he is like his father,  he is too busy being president  to do the work of the Presidency.  And if you do not set the agenda others will fill the vacuum, the congress, the Democrats, which is what has been going on:  the President’s political opponents have been defining the issues . . .’

----  Dick Morris,  June 28, 2005, Fox Radio

Oligarchy Watch: 06-26-05

The careless rich:

 06-23-05

Counselor:  So how is your gyroscope?

 . . .

Counselor:  Has it been reset?

. . .

Counselor:  Back on course?

 . . .

Counselor:   . . .

 . . .

Counselor:  Both your brothers are pilots aren’t they?

 . . .

Counselor:  Let’s talk about your family . . .

 . . . I’m not prejudiced against pilots . . .

Counselor:  Alright, go ahead . . . explain . . . Let’s hear it . . .

Lecture Notes:  06-23-05

What Mr. Bush should say about the bombings of Baghdad and Iraq:

“From time to time the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and tyrants.”

----  Thomas Jefferson

We support the Free People of Iraq as they struggle for their freedom against the forces of evil and tyranny which hide in secret conspiracy in the dark, afraid to show themselves, because they fear Justice.

People of Iraq, know this, you are not alone.

America has sealed its bonds of friendship with the Free People of Iraq with the blood of our young people.   We even now are at the side of the Iraqi People at this very moment as the ordeal to give birth to the New Iraq continues.

To the people of Iraq I say again, you are not alone.

Your ordeal today is the same ordeal all free people have had to endure to win their freedom.  Recall London, 1942, as the Battle of Britain was fought over their very roof tops.  Recall the Vergeltungswaffe  weapons.

Vergeltungswaffe?   Vergeltungswaffe?  Forgive my German. 

Revenge Weapons?  Revenge?

Revenge for what?  What had the British done to Mr. Hitler? 

People of Iraq, don’t you know what the British had done? 

Yes!   They were free!  That is all it takes to make mortal enemies!   Simply being free causes the evil, disgustingly brutal, the hatful villains to set upon you.  That is all it takes, simply being free, to make such enemies.   

The V1s, the ‘buzz bombs’,  rained down on London in the early 1940s.  Whole families killed in an instant, in an explosion of a 1,000 pound bomb of high explosives.  It was their darkest hour. 

No, sadly, People of Iraq,  I tell you that you are not alone, in your suffering, in your dying, in the daily bleeding ---- this  all free people have  known, have had to endure,  we know your struggle, know your sorrow.

And I tell you that America is your true friend;  we shall stand with you today, as we stood with our British friends in their darkest hour.  (Mr. Churchill called it their finest hour.)

And we shall be there by your side tomorrow, and tomorrow, until the light of Justice is made to shine down on your tormenters.

People of Iraq,  you are not alone. 

Lecture Notes:  06-22-05

Dying among the lost and blind.

The new Clinton controversy shows that our political discourse can always fall lower.

The “rape my wife” story has been published before.  Previously it has been reported as an example of how calculating and cunning and shameless the Clintons are.

Prior reporting of the “rape my wife” story was to the effect that the Clintons, in order to establish the paternity of Chelsea, (Billy “shoots blanks”), contrived to go on a vacation with “friends” and went out of there way, in a manner again retold in this latest book, to involve their “friends”, or at least to make their “friends” aware of, their (the Clinton’s) sex life, so that foresaid “friends” would later be able to testify that procreation had begun nine months earlier when on their vacation.

What makes this story believable is that it is about the Clintons, and the final piece is the story’s novelistic ending with Billy calling his “friend”, months later, and saying, “I’m just sitting here reading the newspaper, and guess what . . .etc. . . . I learn that my wife is pregnant . . . etc.”

Yet, the College Visitor had probably thought that the “new low” in political discourse was the author  Edward Klein, (The Truth About Hillary), and the Visitor is mistaken, has been misdirected by the media.

This low was reached years ago.  The story is 25 years old, (Chelsea is 25!  Why I remember when . . .), and as I say it has been told and published before.

No, not Mr. Klein.

Ask yourself why has his retelling of this old story been made the center of the controversy?

In all the pretended dismay has anyone commented that this story has been published before?

For that matter, why does this “rape” of Hillary figure larger in the press than the earlier  revelation of the rape of Juanita Broadwick?   Indeed isn’t that the explanation?  Because they would not report the Broadwick story their conscience constrains them to sham outrage about this old story.  (And this is why they can not admit it was published before.  (And I live in their midst, watch them lurch about wildly, knocking about, grinning madly, the lost and blind.  What poor wretches.))

This is the new low:  The uniform, (both Left and Right), focus on this old “rape” story, which distorts the focus of the public’s attention, and misdirects the public, away from the real issues which should be examined.

This is a new low only in the sense that as we daily plunge ever lower we incrementally mark new lows not that this one is so much worse than what has preceded it.

For example the largest Clinton scandal that has gone unreported and about which you are here now reading for the first time occurred in April 1993.

Many have wondered what Clinton and his Attorney General, Janet Reno, discussed in their phone conversation just before the final raid on the Waco compound on 19 April, 1993.

Ms. Reno has herself said that Clinton did not order her to move on David Koresh, hold up inside with his so called Branch Dividians and their automatic weapons.  She says that the President said, “It is your decision.” 

Recall though that Reno had allowed the “standoff” to go on for some 50 days, (February 28 to April 19, 1993), yet it was the day after their conference call that she made the “decision” to launch the attack.

The Visitor is not asked to have sympathy for David Koresh only to note the timing of the call to the attack.  (As a purely technical matter I would not have recommended a frontal assault.  Several thousand yards of anchor chain should have been brought in and attached to tractors and then dragged through the wood framed structures slowly demolishing the buildings.  As the roof and walls were slowly opened up the hostages inside could have escaped, or at least had the possibility to escape.  In any case a slow motion attack might have avoided panic and the order to torch the place.)

So what has not been reported?

This takes us back even further when Jimmy Carter was in the White House in the Spring of 1980.  Castro added his prisons to the flood of 125,000 fleeing in the ‘Mariel boat lift’.  The Cubans arrived in the US and Mr. Carter, desperate, phoned the Governors and made a patriotic appeal for their  help in housing them. 

Most Governors refused their President; however, one Governor, an inexperienced first termer in the State of Arkansas, (Ragnat Populus, The People Reign (irony on irony, isn’t it just too much? )) eagerly agreed in answer to his nation’s call.

Several months later, the Cubans, who were incarcerated in an abandoned Army base in Arkansas rioted, and walked out of the lightly guarded camp, their M. P.’s  walking along with the parade trying to persuade them to return to the base. 

Word quickly spread and, (this being Arkansas), men folk pulled their pickups in a line across the road blocking the Cuban parade, and taking their shotguns from the gun racks, (this being Arkansas), and loaded them.

The Cubans, seeing the militia mustering down the road, decided to take the advise of their M. P. advisers and returned to their smoldering  base.  

The incident ended peacefully.  But the story got around, (this being Arkansas), that their young, long haired, (it was down on his ears!), inexperienced, draft dodging governor, had debated and discussed and made repeated phone calls to the feds, to his new best friend President Carter, and then discussed the whole thing further,  but had in fact not called out the State Militia, as he had ought to have done when he got the very first phone call that those Cubans were rioting and carrying on, as any damn fool would have done without a Georgetown or Yale or what the damn all, and why don’t they go back to Florida where they belong!         

And Governor Clinton was turned out of office in the very next election.

And all of this has been published before in the very same biographies that have the “rape” story mentioned earlier.

Counselor: So what is the new news?

Lets make this a class project.  How many prison riots took place in jail and prisons, federal and state, between the February 28, 1993 and April 19, 1993 dates?

Do you think Billy knows how many riots were going on during that time?

Do you not think that every day the young inexperienced President read the reports with growing alarm?

Is it happening again!  Can it be!  How in the  hell . . . !   God can’t I get a break?   Again in my first term?  God . . . !  Texas, Tennessee . . . Ohio!

What was going on in Billy’s mind as he held the phone to his ear and discussed the standoff with the Attorney General?

So what are the “real” issues on which you should be focusing?  Two years later, (exactly, to the day),  a truck bomb attack on the Murrah Federal Building left 168 dead and 800 wounded. 

This is the inevitable consequence of a break down in our political discourse.  Need further proof?  Just look at Iraq.  Every day a bomb.  Not dialogue.  Not reason. Not persuasion. 

In the same stories denouncing Mr. Klein, and his Truth About Hillary, I have read the gratuitous defamations of our Swift Boat Veterans.  Just now Franken has again defamed them.  And as noted so often before, these defamations are made without any explanation, no attempt to summarize the logical steps or facts that have lead to the conclusion.

As regular College Visitors know I have recently been depressed at the empty desert in which we live.  I have despaired for America.  Then I think of all those who are daily defamed in this manner, without so much as an explanation.  Why have I been targeted for 15 years?  Why are the Vets defamed?  Why did they go after Gardner the same way they have oppressed me?  Why do we hear ‘no connection, no connection’ repeated with such numbing idiocy?

Franken shouted, “Bush is a moron” the other day for suggesting that the 9-11 attack had forced war on America.  Mind you, not saying as appears true, that the Iraqi’s assisted al Qaeda, starting with their agent Ramsey Yosef, who along with Yasin  traveled from, and returned to Iraq after the first WTC attack, returning on a Kuwaiti passport which had Yosef’s photo and fingerprints in the Kuwaiti archives,  under his assumed name.  (A legend.  (And later then traveled to the Philippines and recruited a cell of terrorists to bomb planes and to fly them into landmarks.  One of these terrorists was captured with a cell phone which was used to make phone calls to Okalahoma City.  (Small world.))

No, Mr. Bush was merely saying that in a post 9-11 world he felt forced to engage the world of terrorism and its principal sponsors:  Saddam Hussein. 

You can argue against both positions, that Iraq was involved and the President’s position that regardless of the particulars of that one attack, Iraq was an incorrigible state sponsor of terrorism.

Go ahead and argue.  Logic? Reason?  Persuasion?  Franken, who originally supported the war, (to get us in), and then once in  later turned against the war,  himself said of Hussein, “He is the worst of the worst, he is as bad as they come.”

So at most we have removed the worst of the worst.  The Iraqis have gotten a big break.  At worst, by Franken’s logic.

But moron?

But as noted before Franken is acting in bad faith.  It is bad faith which is at the heart of fascism.  He has already said he plans to run for Senate.  He is in the mass media.  Therefore, you have all the elements:  The mass manipulation of symbols for state control, and for no other purpose, i.e. in bad faith.    

Therefore Al Franken is a fascist.

This bad faith, this willingness to defame our veterans, including a retired Admiral, who spoke up to tell what they knew from first hand experience, (statements supported by Kerry’s own contemporaneous notes), can lead to only one terminus.

If you break this compact of reason there is no other means for our reconciliation.  There can be no other result than bloody violence. 

McVeigh broke faith with us. 

But what did Rear Admiral Schachte do?  Why is he also defamed?

I can not count the number of times I have heard  the empty phrase “the discredited Swift Boat Vets” on Air America.  And the vapid,  “no connection, no connection.”  Or “moron!”  Or “shut up!”

Not very persuasive.  But worse . . . what are you doing?  Are you deliberately trying to destroy the nation?

The day after Thomas L. Friedman wrote an article saying that Liberals did not want to talk about Iraq, Franken began his program ranting in the opening about “violence spinning out of control with a bombing in Kirkuk.”  (That morning there had just been a bombing which killed 22 people.)  Franken sounded almost gleeful:  his ‘out of control.’  Why gleeful?  Well, don’t you know?  You see?  It is Bush’s fault.  Every time there is a bombing it is Bush’s fault.  (Never Franken’s fault.  Never the Democrat’s fault.  (For example the party line vote in 1990 to authorize the use of force, about which Senator Biden has said he was wrong not to vote in favor of the resolution.)  Had we had unanimous support we might have removed Hussein 14 years ago.)  But know it is all Bush’s fault.

But now let me ask you to consider just one last thing.  What if McVeigh had not gotten help in building a truck bomb from his contacts in the Philippines?  What if he had gotten help with a bioweapon?

What should you be focused on?  First, reason, how else shall you do anything else?

OHIO PRISON RIOT TOLL RISES TO 7 NEGOTIATORS DISCOURAGED BY PROGRESS OF TALKS WITH BLOCKADED PRISONERS, WHO COMPLAIN BY LOUDSPEAKER

Published on April 14, 1993. Article 1 of 4 found.
SOURCE:    SONJA BARISIC
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The inmate death toll rose to seven Tuesday at a maximum-security prison where eight guards were held hostage and rebellious convicts rigged a loudspeaker to complain about negotiations.

Negotiators also were not encouraged by the progress of talks with the barricaded prisoners, who have been denied food, heat, electricity and water since the riot.

A guard on patrol at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility found the seventh body in a cell of the K cellblock.

The unit is linked by a... 489 words, Rocky Mountain News (CO)

  7 GUARDS HURT IN OHIO PRISON RIOT INMATES HOLDING OTHERS HOSTAGE ASKING TO TALK ON LOCAL TV, OFFICIALS SAY

Published on April 12, 1993. Article 2 of 4 found.
SOURCE:    ASSOCIATED PRESS
Inmates rioted Sunday at a maximum security prison in south-central Ohio, injuring at least seven guards and taking others hostage, authorities said.

It wasn't immediately known how many guards were being held or how many prisoners were involved in the disturbance at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, said Sharron Kornegay of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

Scioto County sheriff's senior dispatcher Phil Malone described the disturbance as a... 241 words, Rocky Mountain News (CO)

5 INMATES DIE, 8 GUARDS TAKEN HOSTAGE IN PRISON RIOT FIGHT AMONG INMATES TRIGGERS MELEE THAT INJURES AT LEAST 15 AT OHIO PENITENTIARY

Published on April 12, 1993. Article 3 of 4 found.
SOURCE:    ASSOCIATED PRESS
A fight among inmates escalated into a riot Sunday at a maximum security prison, with inmates killing at least five fellow prisoners and holding at least eight guards hostage, authorities said.

At least fifteen people were injured at the south-central Ohio prison, including 10 guards and five inmates, authorities said.

Sharron Kornegay, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said the prisoners had apparently been beaten to death.

"They suffered... 513 words, Rocky Mountain News (CO)

NINE GUARDS TAKEN HOSTAGE IN OHIO PRISON RIOT FIGHT AMONG INMATES TRIGGERS MELEE THAT INJURES AT LEAST 13, INCLUDING NINE GUARDS

Published on April 12, 1993. Article 4 of 4 found.
SOURCE:    ASSOCIATED PRESS
A fight among inmates escalated into a riot Sunday at a maximum security prison in south-central Ohio, with prisoners taking at least nine guards hostage, authorities said. At least 13 people were injured, including nine guards and four inmates, they said.

One guard, who was being held hostage, was rescued when prison officials and the Ohio State Highway Patrol took back the recreation yard around 10 p.m., about seven hours after the outbreak.

"The inmates in the yard did not want... 517 words, Rocky Mountain News (CO)

INMATE PREDICTS END OF OHIO PRISON STALEMATE NEGOTIATOR SAYS GUARDS HELD HOSTAGE ARE WELL, SUGGESTS STANDOFF COULD COME TO AN END BY TODAY

Published on April 21, 1993. Article 8 of 200 found.
SOURCE:    ASSOCIATED PRESS
A lawyer advising inmates barricaded inside a maximum-security prison with five guards as hostages said Tuesday that a negotiator for the prisoners believes the standoff could end by today.

Niki Schwartz, a lawyer from Cleveland, was brought in by prison authorities Sunday to advise inmates trying to negotiate an end to the nine- day standoff at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.

One guard and at least seven inmates have died since the standoff began April 11. Two guards held... 312 words, Rocky Mountain News (CO)

OHIO INMATES SURRENDER PEACEFULLY FIVE GUARDS HELD HOSTAGE RELEASED AS HUNDREDS OF PRISONERS FILE OUT CELLBLOCK

Published on April 22, 1993. Article 4 of 200 found.
SOURCE:    ASSOCIATED PRESS
An 11-day siege in a maximum-security prison ended late Wednesday after 450 inmates surrendered and released the last five guards they had held hostage.

Radio station WTVN in Columbus, citing unidentified sources, said an eighth body was found early today in the cellblock where the inmates had been barricaded.

But Jim Mayers of the state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said, "We have no confirmation of any body."

At least seven inmates and one hostage had died in ... 276 words, Rocky Mountain News (CO)

PRISONERS ATTACK INMATES, GUARDS IN CONNECTICUT

Published on April 22, 1993. Article 3 of 200 found.
SOURCE:    ASSOCIATED PRESS
Scores of inmates were holed up in a state prison recreation area Wednesday night after they attacked other prisoners and guards, an official said. Fifteen inmates and three guards were injured.

The disturbance broke out shortly after 7 p.m. when inmates returning to their cells from the cafeteria staged a planned attack against a street gang known as "20-love," said Mary Dunn, a spokeswoman for the high-security Garner Correctional Institution.

Dunn said no hostages were being ... 146 words, Rocky Mountain News (CO)

WACO SURVIVOR SAYS FBI ASSAULT TRAPPED OTHER CULTISTS INSIDE

Published on April 22, 1993. Article 10 of 200 found.
SOURCE:    REUTER
A surviving member of the Branch Davidian cult says the government's assault on the compound near Waco, Texas, blocked escape routes for the 86 other cult members officials believe died in Monday's blaze.

The FBI used tank-like battering rams to knock holes in the buildings in the compound so they could pump tear gas into the living quarters and force cult members to surrender.

But cult member Jaime Castillo told his attorney, Jeff Kearney, that when the tanks rammed the... 149 words, Rocky Mountain News (CO)

References:

Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America by Roger Morris, 1996, Regnery, Washington, D.C.

First In His Class by David Maraniss, 1996, Touchstone,  New York, New York.

Lecture Notes:  06-21-05

We really do not have remedial classes here at New Ruskin.

Counselor:  I thought the whole school was remedial.

 . . . Well, yes, I suppose.  We really do need to start over at the beginning with most of our students,  Mr. Limbaugh .  .  . Mr. Bush . . . I recall that his father was a bit slow too . . . Mr. Beck . . . What happened to Mr. Beck.

Counselor:  You sent him down last term.

Ah, yes.  Perhaps it will be a good experience for him.  One never knows.

However this time we shall make an exception for College Visitors.

Yesterday when Mr. Franken said “sparks fly”, this was a reference to our posting about Bill O’Reilly some . . .  some . . . months ago.  When was that?

Counselor:  April.  April 30.

Ah, (photographic memory, very smart), (http://www.newruskincollege.com/id17.html ) thank you Yvonne.

Counselor:  You are welcome. 

And this proves again that Mr. Franken is a detail sort of person.  Imagine remembering the reference.   . . . though I suppose . . . because about O’Reilly . . . Mr. O’Reilly too bull headed to be a good student . . . a bit of a numskull what?

Lecture Notes:  06-18-05

Breaking News!!!!

Item One:  War in Iraq!

Item Two:

New Ruskin College has obtained confidential documents which show that in the months leading up to war in Iraq then President Bush---

Counselor:  But isn’t he still President Bush?

 . . . ah . . . well  . . . yes . . . but this is how news reporters talk . . . I don’t know why . . .

Counselor:  Why are you out of breath?

Oh, in the news business, you must always be breathless when reporting the big story.

President Bush did not really want to go to the United Nations and find some other way besides invading Iraq, overthrowing Saddam Hussein, trying him and executing him, for crimes against humanity, causing wars of aggression, despicable crimes, sponsorship of terror, the murder of whole towns with chemical weapons, rape . . .

Item Three:  This JUST in!!

New Ruskin College has obtained official government documents  from anonymous confidential sources which show that then Assistant Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz,  said that the Administration emphasized  weapons of mass destruction  because it was an issue that “everyone could agree on.” 

We have learned that Dr. Wolfowitz  said that there were other reasons for War, saying, “The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason. ”

New Ruskin College EXCLUSIVE:  They “FIXED” on WMD!!  Or  “settled” on the one issue: "For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on." (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-05-30-wolfowitz-iraq_x.htm ) 

World Exclusive:

New Ruskin College has learned that the Bush Administration concentrated on the WMD issue to the exclusion of other important reasons for the war!

" “This is what is killing us on Iraq,” one aide says. “We lost focus. The President got hung up on the weapons of mass destruction and an unproven link to al Qaeda. We could have found other justifiable reasons for the war but the President insisted the focus stay on those two, tenuous items.”

{Now this “White House Aid” is not quite right is he?  No one any longer maintains that there was no “connection” between Hussein and al Qaeda.  This is why the 911 Commission changed the terms of the discussion to “collaborative relationship,” the link and connection having been indisputably proven. 

Mr. Bush has, (and in my opinion wrongly),  consistently refused to “link” or “connect” Saddam Hussein with al Qaeda’s specific attack on 9-11.  Why?  Too controversial.  See?  The President is smart.  Even though his own government has proven the connection between Hussein and WTC attacks, (both 1993 and 2001), the Bush Administration continues to avoid speaking about this evidence.  (Nor has the White House Press Corps. distinguished itself by forcing the President to address the evidence.)}

" Aides say the President gets “hung up on minor details,” micromanaging to the extreme while ignoring the bigger picture. He will spend hours personally reviewing and approving every attack ad against his Democratic opponent and then kiss off a meeting on economic issues. "  (Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides By DOUG THOMPSON,Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue, Jun 4, 2004, 06:15)

Counselor:  How can you call this a world exclusive if you are just getting this from Capitol Hill Blue?

Because I had it in Lecture Notes at the beginning of June, 2004! (http://www.newruskincollege.com/id19.html )

Counselor: But-----

Oh, I bet you would think it was news if the British said so,  Miss smarty pants.

World Exclusive !!!  Tic, tic, tack, tic, tack ---

Counselor:  What is that?

Telegraph.  Or teletype.   Item Four:

New Ruskin College can now report that the Bush Administration did not prepare for the rebuilding of Iraq !!

No where else will you learn the truth!!

World Exclusive:  Item Five:

New Ruskin College has learned that the Bush Administration concentrated on the WMD issue to the exclusion of other important reasons for the war!

“This is what is killing us on Iraq,” one aide says.

I bet you did not see that one coming.

She can be so old fashion sometimes. 

Joe Conason criticized his former editor, Michael Kinsley, because Kinsley did not agree that the British Cabinet leaks were “news.”

To justify his criticism Conason quoted Kinsley’s column of July 2002 in which Kinsley speculated that perhaps Bush is only “bluffing” about his intention of going to war.  In other words everyone assumed that Mr. Bush was preparing for war, and only at the insistence of the British did he agree to pause for a UN vote on the question.

And Michael Kinsley says, well, everyone thinks we are going to war, but who knows, maybe everyone is wrong, maybe Bush is only “bluffing.”  It is a contrarian piece.  You know.  Some times people take up contrarian positions to try and attract att—

Counselor: . . .

 . . . attention to themselves . . .

Counselor: . . .

 . . .  you know?

Kinsley’s point was that everyone thinks we are going to war.   Conason is too dim witted to see that his “evidence” exactly makes Kinsley’s point.  The British Cabinet leaks are not news.   And Franken accepts Conason’s  foolish point because he is so grateful to have Conason on his show that he does not dare embarrass him.  But this is just typical of the Al Franken show.  Weak.

And by design.  Because he wants to run for office everything he says has to be vetted.  Calculated.  Boring.   

“I never said I was . . .” ---- Al Franken

Franken said this the day after my post here at this site showing how he had completely changed his position on means testing of the rate of increase of Social Security. 

Recall that Franken had agreed that we should not have to “bribe” the rich in order to provide an old age pension for the elderly poor, i.e. the bottom 60% who would be in poverty without assistance ---- one week.

Then the next week he completely reversed himself and even accused anyone who would suggest means testing the “rate of increase”, ( not means testing the program itself, just the rate of increase), of being “pernicious.”  And I accused him of dishonesty, of being a liar, of bad faith.

So he started to say,  “I never said I was  . . .”   but he did not finish the sentence.  How could he?  It is impossible to finish that sentence.

Try it.

“I never said I was  . . .  consistent? . . . I never said I was . . . telling the truth?  Honest?  Acting in good faith?   I never said I was . . . serious.”

This concludes this exclusive report from confidential anonymous government sources. 

 

Oligarchy Watch

Factory built homes are  in the high end of the market because of governmental zoning and building code restrictions which have blocked the economies of scale, further driving up the cost of housing.(http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2005/05/31/PrefabHome/ )

Sure you have screwed me.  But look:  you are screwing over our troops too!

You are going to let the Syrian kill our young people in Iraq because the President is incapable of rallying the nation.  Incapable?  Or he just can not be bothered?

With me I have heard   one excuse after another.  I am “unimportant.”  I should not have kept a journal.    I am too “controversial,”   that must be why these rich powerful people decided to  interfere with my employment, spy on me, harasse me, torment, oppressed for the last fifteen years.  I should have expected all this when I wrote those letters to the Senate.  “Words have consequences.”

OK

So what did those young soldiers whom you sent to Iraq do to deserve this treatment?  Why are you ignoring them?  Why will Mr. Bush not restate the case for Iraq?  Why will he not speak?

The Army can not meet the enlistment quota, and yet the President, the Commander in Chief, can not be bothered to speak to the nation.  The Syrian are killing them and he can not . . .

But see how this is only one case.

Have you ever heard the Republican speak out against the exclusionary zoning?  Building codes designed to drive up the cost of housing?  Any criticism?  Ever just one thing to expand opportunity?  Have they ever questioned the corruption around the public highway billion dollar bureaucracy?  They say they support vouchers in education but now with the House, and Senate, and the White House (sort of), even now they do not   even mention vouchers.  No Open University of the US. 

This President supports racial quotas, supports “open borders,”  failed to establish a new Iraqi government because he did not want to “impose” a government,  refused to accept the surrender of the old Iraqi army, then disbanded it but failed to provide any alternative, no civil conservation corps. or do anything, anything at all, will not even now speak out . . . review the evidence . . . Oh, but he does think the Patriot Act should be made permanent . . .   God!  What folly . . .  he  opposes stem cell research because some nucleuses when taken from their cells might be “destroyed.” 

Nucleuses!   

When I blow my brains out in front of the KQED building  three trillion cellular nucleuses  will be  destroyed.

But then I think:  I am not alone.

You have betrayed our young people in Iraq too.

I am in good company.

“Death is perfectly safe.”

---- Stephen Levine, A Year To Live 

From: The Age

Feb 1  2003

(http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/31/1043804523375.html?oneclick=true)

Ramzi Yousef is serving 240 years in a US prison for masterminding the 1993 attacks. Raised in Kuwait, he is known to have collaborated with Iraq during the occupation of Kuwait.

Yousef - known as "the chemist" - became crucial to al Qaeda's spread into Asia, setting up links as early as 1989 with Abu Sayyaf extremists in the Philippines.

When police in the Philippines arrested nine members of Abu Sayyaf in 1995, they identified six of the nine as Iraqi agents. They believed this cell had operated under instructions from Khalid Sheik Mohammed, one of bin Laden's senior lieutenants.

In September, 1992, Yousef travelled to the US on an Iraqi visa, and under a false identity. He was granted asylum after claiming to have been beaten by Iraqi soldiers.

Six months later, he fled, having constructed the truck bomb that fellow Islamic extremists drove into the basement of the trade centre. While in hiding in Manila, he then drew up plans to bomb 11 American passenger airliners over the Pacific.

The plot misfired, and in 1995 he was arrested in Islamabad, near the Iraqi embassy, and handed over to the US.

An accomplice of Yousef in the World Trade Centre bombing was Mohammed Salameh, a Palestinian. His maternal uncle, Kadri Abu Bakr, was jailed for 18 years in Israel for terrorism, before being deported.

Kadri took up residence in Baghdad, becoming second-in-charge of the so-called "Western Sector", a PLO offshoot operating under Iraq's direct influence.

Western intelligence sources have claimed Kadri took calls from a dull-witted nephew in the lead-up to the WTC bombing.  [Calls which are monitored by Iraq’s police state security.]

A third co-conspirator in 1993 was Ahmed Rahman Yasin. After the bombing, he fled the US to Jordan. He now works in Iraq for the Saddam Government.

Then, there is Hikmat Shakir, linked to a host of terrorist plots, including the first WTC bombing, and the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. He is being sought by US authorities as one of the planners of September 11.

Shakir is an Iraqi, aged in his late 30s. He, too, has spent time in this region, attending the al Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur in January, 2000. Today, he is believed to be in Baghdad, out of reach of international police.

Another prominent name is Omar al-Faruq, arrested last year in Indonesia and now in US custody. An Iraqi, born Mahmoud Ahmad Mohammed Ahmad, he, too, has travelled on false Kuwaiti passports.