The Republican Party is a Criminal Enterprise

by **sunny** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:05 pm

Duh, right? But reading the following linked article, I suddenly had a moment of clarity. Finally, I truly understand the term "Octopus." Today's Republican party has been overtaken, for the purposes of gaining a legitimate "front", no better or different than Tony Soprano's "Waste Management" firm or "Bada Bing", by a band of criminals so depraved as to compete with the worst in the history of the world. And they have co-opted so called "good citizens", like Evangelicals, into becoming complicit in their crimes by instilling fear of communism, and now terrorism. Murderers, rapists, thieves, perverts, on and on ad nauseum, and those who cover for them, engaging in black ops, wet ops, extortion, propaganda, dirty wars, theft on a massive scale, protection rackets, intimindation of dissenters, support of genocidal maniacs, subversion of laws and the constitution, money laundering,(massively-Cunningham et al, were involved in steering money to defense contractors, who in turn, filled Repub coffers with taxpayer money. Ingenious and evil) and plans to eliminate all opposition to their deeply demonic plans. On this point: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>It was also in defense of Reagan's Central American policies that the various branches of the country's intelligence agencies joined forces to intimidate domestic dissenters, anticipating many of the practices - FBI and CIA file-sharing, for instance - that would be institutionalized by the Patriot Act and the creation of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (filled by John Negroponte, who presided over the Contra war as ambassador to Honduras, where he reportedly covered-up death-squad murders). And the logic that today justifies Gitmo contains more than a whiff of Oliver North's plan to suspend the Constitution and place domestic opponents of the Contra War in concentration camps.<hr></blockquote> People who stand a chance of credibly opposing the syndicate are in danger: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>For instance, New Right militants, advised by PR experts under government contract, focused much of their work on unseating the congressional anti-militarists elected in the wake of the Vietnam disaster, particularly those who opposed Reagan's Central American policy. If you "cross" Reagan, said a Republican aide, "they're going to carve you up publicly." That's what happened to Maryland Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes during a failed Senatorial bid. He fell victim to a smear campaign organized by International Business Communication, a Republican PR firm that worked closely with Public Diplomacy and the independent Anti-Terrorism American Committee. "Destroy Barnes," said the notes of one of the Committee's operatives. Watch out, John Murtha.<hr></blockquote> The entire structure of the Right is implicated: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Democratic and public opposition to the Contras, which was strong, proved to be a blessing in disguise for the conservative movement. It forced the White House to rely on its social base to execute its "off-the-books" Nicaraguan war, thus thickening the connections between diverse New Right groups. It created a dense network of intellectuals, action groups, and social movements, uniting mainstream conservatives with militants from the carnivalesque Right. Urbane sophisticates like Ambassador to the UN Jeanne Kirkpatrick and businessmen like Rite-Aid heir Lewis Lehrman (today a member of the infamous neocon Project for the New American Century) made common cause with Soldier of Fortune wet-op lunatics, Sunbelt evangelical capitalists like Pat Robertson, and end-timers like Tim LaHaye (who, long before he hit the best-seller lists with his Left Behind series, was hawking Reagan's Central American crusade to the evangelical rank-and-file).<hr></blockquote> The Democratic party had an opportunity, and did make the effort to hack out this disease, but dropped the ball, as we now know: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>But in the wake of Vietnam, just as Foggo's generation of conservatives was beginning to taste power, the Democratic Congress, along with the State Department and even much of the Pentagon, was not in a fighting mood. Congress had enacted a slew of laws, set up oversight committees, and designed prohibitions to limit the White House's ability to wage war and execute covert actions. Congress now claimed the power to regulate presidential decisions related to military aid, arms sales, and the sending of troops abroad; it also demanded that the CIA inform up to eight committees of its activities. Banned were peacetime assassinations of foreign leaders, as were covert operations against American citizens at home. Worse yet, the USSR, the "evil empire," was proving to be an uncooperative opponent - or rather, it was being too cooperative, willing to negotiate on a range of security issues. In order to implement a policy of "rollback," as the neocons and militarists wanted to do, one needed an enemy to rollback.<hr></blockquote> More on Dusty and his criminal compatriots: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Dusty, of course, is not the only veteran of Reagan's Central American policy who has resurfaced to help fight George W. Bush's "Global War on Terror." The list includes John Negroponte, Elliot Abrams, Otto Reich, John Poindexter, John Bolton, Oliver North, Robert Kagan, and Michael Ledeen. They can also be found in the highest levels of the White House: Dick Cheney cut his political teeth in Congress in the 1980s plumping for Reagan's Nicaragua policy, thundering that any attempt to prohibit Contra aid was a legislative "abuse of power." And on the frontlines, James Steele, who led the Special Forces mission in El Salvador and worked with North to run weapons and supplies to the Contras, was sent to Iraq to help train a ruthless counterinsurgency force made up of ex-Baathist thugs. (Steele is batting two for two: As in El Salvador, such training has produced not security but widespread death-squad atrocities.)<hr></blockquote> Anyway, as you can see, the article is mostly about Iran-Contra; but: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Don't fret though if you are having trouble separating this particular crime {me<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/embarassed.gif ALT=":o"> r any other Repub scandal} from other Republican offenses. There's a good reason - they're all one scandal, part of the same wave of militarism, fraud, and ideology that has swamped American politics of late. While this wave of scandal seems now to be heading for tsunami proportions, its first swells date back decades. Just take a look at Dusty's rèsumè.<hr></blockquote> Obviously, the whole swamp of activity that was Iran-Contra, was the breeding ground for the black-lagoon creatures we have to endure today, and if they had been brought to justice then, when such a thing was still possible, before the tendrils had too deep a hold on America, we might have stood a chance. <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206O.shtml">www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206O.shtml</a> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=sunny@rigorousintuition>sunny</A> at: 6/3/06 10:11 am

by **chiggerbit** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:21 pm

I know I harp a lot about Ed Luttwak's book, written back in the 60's about how to perform a coup d'etat bloodlessly, but it is the same structural social dynamics that you're talking about, sunny. It's not about guns and bombs, but about taking control of strategic positions in the civil service, for instance, as one tactic. Luttwak understood that people care more about their paycheck than about what's going on in their government at the top levels. Think more refined, more sophisticated today, and you have the same picture that you're talking about. Don't forget, Luttwak has been advising this administration, may still be doing it, for all I know. The coup has been of the Republican party. "...Today's Republican party has been overtaken, for the purposes of gaining a legitimate "front",..." I wouldn't doubt that they have people in place in the Democratic party, too. It's very spooky, because these people really are a little crazy...or a lot crazy. Too many people view anti-Patriot Act alarmists as croaking Cassandras, and that no one would do what you're thinking because that would be...crazy. Wellllll....? I think one of the tactics that this group might have refined from the time that Luttwak's book was published has been control of the media--buying up media companies, changing FCC rules, that kind of thing. It's been very effective, hasn't it? Another tactic more recently has been the development of a brand new Homeland Security, new civil service structure. Wow, just think about those key jobs that this administration has been able to fill with it's muggers. Give me enough time, and I could probably re-write Luttwak's book for him. I really am going to have to dig that book out of the box and read it again.

by **dbeach** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:42 pm

war is a racket and the repukes ALWAYS want wars to cull the masses and CONTROL our lives. Wall St. businessmen recruited Butler in 1934 to remove FDR ina coup He refused and later demonized by the MM . SOUND FAMILAR?? <a href="http://www.corporatemofo.com/stories/030928warracket.htm">www.corporatemofo.com/sto...racket.htm</a> "Smedley Darlington Butler knew war. A spare, gaunt man, he stares hollow-eyed into the camera in old photos, as if he were still seeing in his mind's eye the faces of boys whom he led to fight and die in China, the Philippines, Latin America, Haiti, and wherever else foreign policy and business interests led the United States to speak softly and carry a big stick. Nor were his battles solely fought on foreign soil: In the 1920s, Butler led a Prohibition-era campaign against Philadelphia's speakeasies that resembled our latter-day modern "war on drugs." A Marine since the age of sixteen, he had won two Congressional Medals of Honor and one Marine Corps Brevet medal for conspicuous gallantry and leadership under fire. Odd, then, that in his later years this man, known as one of the most-decorated warriors ever to serve in the American military, should turn so against war. In the spring and summer of 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, twenty thousand impoverished World War I veterans descended upon Washington, D.C., begging the government to honor the cash bonuses that had been promised them. The so-called "Bonus Army" erected a "Hooverville" across the Potomac River, where they slept under lean-tos made of newspaper, tin, bits of cardboard, or whatever they could scrounge. Then-retired general Butler, whose Quaker roots gave him a strong sense of social justice, addressed the "troops," expressing his support for their cause. Others in the military, however, were not as sympathetic: Under the command of President Herbert Hoover, General Douglas Macarthur, assisted by then-Major Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, used tanks and tear gas to flatten the Hooverville and rout the Bonus Army. Three died, including an eleven-week-old-baby; thousands more were injured by the gas. The treatment that Butler saw meted out to the homeless veterans of World War I by the U.S. government was no different than that he had seen dealt out to countless others of the poor and powerless. In 1935, he remarked on his illustrious military career: "I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." He had, in short, been the muscle for the American government's mafia-style foreign policy. Of course, Haitians and Mexicans don't vote in the United States, and the Bonus Army incident did little to endear President Hoover to the masses. He was booted out in the 1932 election, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was replaced him. The new President immediately began making reforms, including a whole-scale restructuring of the nation's economic infrastructure and vast concessions to labor—changes that hardly endeared him to Big Business. In 1934, Smedley Butler told a Congressional committee that several Wall Street brokers, represented by one Gerald C. MacGuire, had approached him, seeking his leadership for another group of veterans to march on Washington—this time, an armed force that would make it clear to Roosevelt that it was either Wall Street's way or the highway. America had seen its own attempt at a Fascist coup. Why, then, is this incident in U.S. history not better known? Why don't children learn in school about the plot to seize the United States government? The answer is obvious to anyone familiar with how the American political system and press work. Those Butler accused treated the affair as a joke, a "cocktail party" suggestion that the uneducated, backwoods rube of a Marine had taken seriously. The press was quick to turn on the general, as well: Time magazine called his accusations a "plot without plotters," and the New York Times, after initially reporting the events on the first page on November 21, 1934, buried them in the middle of the newspaper on the 22nd—leading off the story with a denial by MacGuire. Nonetheless, the battle lines were drawn. Butler had spent his life being an attack dog for business, but in his later years, he turned around and bit his masters in the ass. For him, Fascist strong-arm tactics and capitalist strong-arm tactics were one and the same. Writing of World War I, he said, "It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits. That is how the 21,000 billionaires and millionaires got that way. This $16,000,000,000. . . . went to a very few." It was abundantly clear that the men he had led had died for no other reason than to line the pockets of those who would never have to fight themselves. The parallels between Butler's life and times and our own are obvious: Recession, entanglement in foreign affairs, and business interests who have realized that it is cheaper to buy Washington than to storm it. For example, Halliburton, Vice President Cheney's former company, has won billions in uncontested contracts in Iraq. The slaves in the war factories owned by those who cozied up to the Nazi elite at least knew they were slaves and there was no hope for them. We, on the other hand, are kept enmeshed in the system by a series of false promises, encouraged to dream big as an opiate to mask our true condition."

by **sunny** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:04 pm

I truly believe that only a few prominent Democrats, like Joe Lieberman, Chuck Schumer, and Hillary Clinton (there are a few others) are in on the scheme. I really believe that most dems, tho they may be cowed, blackmailed or otherwise threatened, and certainly intimidated by the certainty that they will be swiftboated- <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200605260016" target="top">see here for analysis on that</a> and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200606030001" target="top">here,</a> some are trying their best and never get enough, or any, coverage of their efforts. For instance, John Conyers on the theft of Ohio. So, in other words, while there may be bad apples, cowards, and some complicit among the dems, they simply are not a crime syndicate like the Repub party. Absolutely the only hope we have is some brave, almost suicidally so, intrepid US Attorney taking on THE PARTY ITSELF, naming media conglomerates as co-conspirators, with massive RICO prosecutions. Not gonna happen. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=sunny@rigorousintuition>sunny</A> at: 6/3/06 12:06 pm

by **dbeach** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:28 pm

blackmial extortion and sexual balcmial is how these mon/mobsters remain in power I believe someone like Teddy Kennedy is being blackmailed. Goodness knows he gots lots of ghosts in the closet so to speak . HOWEVR WHEN is he or anybody in the Democratic party going to come forth and call out bush for the nazi fascist that he is ??/NEVR happen cuz both parties have evolveed into fascist arms to serve the masters even though I thik the Bush dyansty are the corporat masters as powerful as it gets in these US of A. Its a great cover EVRYONE thinks bush is a puppet BUT he is actually the puppetteer.kinda like the movie "usual Suspects" BTW Bobbie Kennedy jr called bush a fascist in 2004

by **sunny** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:40 pm

Bobby Kennedy Jr. is a good start, but he has some sort of speaking disability which makes it difficult for him to make his points clearly and succinctly. (This does not apply to his writing, of course) Slick Repubs talk all over him before he can get the words out. dbeach, I'm always hoping some brave fellow will get on teevee and say something like: "These people are blackmailing me for >insert peccadillo here< and I am here today to tell you about it, and to tell you these people are blackmailing, lying, criminal scum; here is what they have done >insert crime here< and here is the proof." This hypothetical brave fellow could expose them and innoculate himself at the same time.

by **dbeach** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:54 pm

BE very nice Butler told his story before CON gress and the PTB ridiculed him SO not much has changed in warville

by **HMKGrey** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:39 pm

It's all theatre. Pure theatre. The old adage about how if voting changed anything they'd have banned it years ago has a lot of merit. I knew this when Kerry rushed out from behind the curtain to throw in the towel in 04. Until then it was just something my father told me after a few drinks. That evening in 04 there were so many stories about long lines, faulty machines and caging and then on top of that the media were calling it all too quickly despite what they'd supposedly learned in 2000. At one point I was watching CNN and they were getting reports from Ohio of tens of thousands of people still in line to vote as well as direct reports of tens of thousands of votes still to count - in fact, their own correspondent said words to the effect of "This election is far from over!" and then they went back to Wolf in the studio and he thanked the guy, touched his ear-piece and called it! That's one of the reasons why I personally DESPISE DU and sites like it. They're as much a part of the problem as any crucifix toting, loony from the south IMHO. Deluded is still deluded, whichever way your allegiances happen to fall. IMHO, government is a criminal enterprise. Ruling others is a criminal enterprise. It starts with local councils and spreads out like a web from there with everybody from local parking lot contractors at one end to Boeing and Lockheed at the other on the take. And this is just the world we live in.

by **sunny** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:55 pm

HMK: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>That's one of the reasons why I personally DESPISE DU and sites like it. They're as much a part of the problem as any crucifix toting, loony from the south IMHO.<hr></blockquote> Hey! not all southerners are crucifix toting loonies. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>I knew this when Kerry rushed out from behind the curtain to throw in the towel in 04. Until then it was just something my father told me after a few drinks.<hr></blockquote> My friend George and I decided months before the elections that Kerry was a "put up job" There was just no way a person of sincerity would have stood for that swift-boat job. <blockquote>Quote:<hr>IMHO, government is a criminal enterprise. Ruling others is a criminal enterprise.<hr></blockquote> Anarchy is hardly the answer. And the reason that our gov't is now a criminal enterprise is because of the criminals running it, the criminals who have attempted to run it since WWII and killed Kennedy, (and are now in charge) and the criminals who have systematically taken control of the media in order to promote bottomless profits by pushing drugs, making wars, stealing oil, building prisons, and hawking religion.

by **dbeach** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:38 pm

1913 and the Fed Reserve sytem was the first HUGE sell out . since then its endless wars and corporat control and ownership of you ... not your SOUL and thats the problem THEY WANT TO OWN your very SOUL! and they cannot do it unless you get microchipped into zombie land til then Its still free thinking and free will for many.. the scions of privlege are the reasons why we are in this big ole mess .. 4 dead presidents have something in common .. not to mention the few who died in office they wanted to be a lil kinder to us peasants BTW the 4 have Irish ancestry as did Ronnie Raygun who was nearly murdered by Hinckley. The Hinckley family was friends with the bushies since the oil days in Houston in late 1960s NO COINCIDENCES

by **HMKGrey** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:34 am

I agree that anarchy isn't the answer - or, at least, it's hard to imagine it is. I was more commenting on the fact that the moment somebody decides that their career is to be made out of deciding what's good for others, all kinds of alarm bells should be going off. The fact that George W Bush stole the election in 00 and 04 proves the ultimate fallacy of democracy. He may have stolen it but tens of millions still voted for him! And there's the problem. "Democracy" as we're taught it from birth implies this morally level playing ground from the very beginning. We're lead to believe that everything and everyone is similarly just within it. Well, we know now that this is utter bullshit. We need a new way. And that's probably why the Democretins are so eager to play ball. They're dinosaurs too and the only answer is a comet.

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