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We need to understand that the elite in America, such as Prescott Bush and his Banker Buddies, had been pouring money into Hitler's movement since the 1920's.

This came out in the news in 1942 when Congress seized their assets under the "Trading With the Enemy" Act. But that was way, way too late. As a result of Wall Street's early-on financing, the Nazis' spiffy uniforms and shiny guns had made the Hitler group the most attractive one out of the MANY German political factions vying for dominance in the 1920's.

The "peace terms" after WWI, 1918, had humiliated the German people and caused great inflationary suffering -- so they were absolutely ripe in the 1920's for something "impressive" and "special" and "important" to come along and give new meaning to their lives.

Wall Street invested not only in the politics, but in German industry as well. There developed an astonishing level of technology and luxury for the wealthy. I remember in the 1960's being mind-boggled by a feature in a magazine that focused on breathtaking progress in quality-of-life (for the wealthy) over there, back then.

The only thing that stuck with me was the reality of remote-controlled draperies for their mansions, where at the click of a button, they could open or close all the curtains upon walking into a room. This was something that was way off in our own future in the USA -- and still only exclusively available today.

Why did elite Americans pour so much money into Germany? (As alluded to in the historical movie, "Judgment at Nuremberg." When it came to assigning blame for the Nazi atrocities, the defense attorney thundered in the courtroom: "Are we not to find the American industrialists guilty?!")

We should have -- along with the American bankers -- but they covered it up. Yet everyone ought to know this history:

The Walker-Bush families and their ilk had been leaders in the American Eugenics movement since the turn of the previous century. They were avid horse-breeders (which got them connected to British royalty ever since), and they figured if they could breed superior horses, why not apply that idea to people -- with the rejects being "put out to pasture" or sent to the glue factory. They themselves often arranged marriages, in order to ensure, consolidate, and extend the power they had already gained.

So horse-breeding and people-breeding (or restriction thereof) were attractive ideas for those who desired the eugenics data that would provide them "proof of their superiority" and their "right to rule." But around here we had those annoying little obstacles to such notions, like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution!

In Germany, however, even though the Weimar Republic had been established as a democracy, it was new. And sociopaths like Hitler (and their deeply damaged egos) did not WANT equality -- they wanted POWER -- and in effect, REVENGE upon the world, for all their humiliation and suffering.

Thus came the 1933 inside job on the Reichstag, the German parliament building. They set fire to their own national legislature in order to shock and sway the people. Immediately, it was blamed on "terrorists," whereupon they suspended the Weimar constitution that protected people and their rights.

American 9/11 planners seem to have used this very same playbook -- creating shocking and murderous attacks, blaming "the terrorists" in order to justify invading their lands, and passing "The Patriot Acts" -- which were hundreds of pages of Constitution-restricting legislation that were obviously already written and immediately ready to impose.

It's important to know that American elitists were and are perfectly capable of such treachery. In "Mein Kampf," Hitler gave open credit to the American Eugenics movement for his attraction to and refinement of his "Master Race" theories and practices. And over here, these "superior ones" were just delighted that they had found their champion in little bluster-bag Adolf. The thinking was, once the totalitarian-government model and master-race ideas triumphed in Germany, then it wouldn't be long before the naive American people could be herded into the same mentality.

Perhaps Germany was seen as a laboratory for testing the ideology that came from the virulent, "superiority" strain of consciousness in America. Proof that it existed in the U.S. further popped up in 1933, as detailed by Jules Archer's 1973 book, "The Plot to Seize the White House," re-issued in 2007. It documents the elitists in America who were panicked by FDR's pro-people programs, whereupon they conspired to conduct a coup and replace him with a military dictator.

Fortunately, the war hero they chose as dictator-candidate was Gen. Smedley Butler. But he was an actual American patriot -- he blew the whistle and outright foiled their plans. I think that every American history teacher who fails to assign their students this book about well-known American families attempting to force dictatorship upon the USA is negligent in their duties!

And it seems inexcusable to not assign Gen. Butler's pamphlet, "War Is A Racket," now everywhere online. He explained in 1935 -- from his long military experience -- how financiers PROVOKE all the wars in order to make vast armaments profits, and re-arrange the world more to their liking. The powerful do the provoking; the people do the dying; the powerful get the profits -- and then they get more power.

Back to Germany and the Master Race experiment: The dominant culture in Germany (western civilization in general) had been white male supremacy anyway. But now their self-concepts were bruised by WWI defeat and post-war financial hardship. So of course they were attracted to Nazi notions of official superiority, as a palliative for their hurts. And the first group that had to be firmly established (or re-established) as inferior to them were not Jews, but women.

Hitler stated in 1934 that "a woman's entire world is her husband, her children, her home," and thus "Kinder, Kuche, Kirche" became the law of the land. Women's official priorities now were Children, Kitchen, Church. The Cross of Honor was bestowed upon wives who bore 4 babies or more, and abortion was outlawed. (It was outlawed for Aryan women, but eventually forced upon Jews, gypsies, and other "undesirables.")

Isn't it ironic today that confused anti-abortion activists compare abortion to "Hitler," when in fact, abortion was one of the first things he banned. The point being, of course -- who gets to own women's bodies and offspring.

Bottom line: all the glorious theatricality and egotism of the Third Reich -- with their flags flapping everywhere and their slogans becoming a kind of new gospel -- all went into high gear, and German citizens (of the right, white sort) were constantly reminded now of "how special they are." It was pretty heady stuff after all the hardship that had just preceded.

Another personal memory: as a young teen in the 1960's, I saw some Nazi newsreels on TV, and forever since then I have felt very wary of excited, flag-waving crowds. To me, "that's what the Nazis did!" After 9/11, I was horrified by all the flag fanaticism, and indeed, Karl Rove nailed it at a cheering, flag-waving stadium event for Bush. Time Magazine quoted him happily exclaiming: "Looks just like a Nazi rally!" Exactly what I thought -- but NOT happily.

In October of 1942, even as our soldiers headed out to defeat Hitler -- he had gotten too uppity for his American and British financiers, disastrously going off on his own into Russia and all, and so had to be taken out -- but even as our soldiers were sent to stop him and to suffer and die, it finally came out in the NY Times (but way in the back pages) that Congress had moved against Prescott Bush and fellow banksters under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Congress seized the assets of their money-laundering, Hitler-helping bank and their Germany-to-America shipping line.

There were no screaming headlines about these criminals as there should've been, though, because -- as noted by one of the White House Plot conspirators in the '30's -- "we've got the newspapers." And he referred to "the dumb American people" just going along. By and large, we always have. If it weren't for interventions in our behalf here and there, such as Gen. Butler's, we'd be much deeper into totalitarianism and corporate control than we already are.

And now not only have we allowed The Patriot Act to trump the most important tenets of the Constitution (which was one of the main goals of the 9/11 attacks), but now Israel has replicated aspects of Nazi Germany's reality.

And of course I emphatically distinguish between traitors in the Israeli government vs. the Jewish people, just as I do the traitors in the U.S. government vs. the American people. The aggressive Zionists of Israel and the secret Nazis of America have been very successful at implanting themselves in positions of power and driving our nations deep into wars and chaos, and away from peace and freedom.

From the get-go, the Israeli leaders' displacement and maltreatment of the Palestinians was and is still is so bad that President Truman wrote in 1947: "When they have power, neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the underdog." Even so, the American people allow most of our foreign aid to go to Israel, because it's so "biblical."

And Americans are paying no attention to the fact that it was a team of Israelis who were arrested on 9/11 because witnesses reported them filming -- and jumping up and down for joy -- when the Towers went down. But U.S. authorities let them go! When they were back in Israel, they explained on a talk show that they were in New York at the time "to document the event."

Many in the 9/11 Truth movement understand that Israeli elements probably helped with the plot, if they didn't outright initiate it. There were at least 20 dual-citizenship Israeli-American officials in the Bush administration. Unfortunately, many remain, and they have been effective in advancing Israel's agenda by heavily influencing U.S. policy.

In the case of the 9/11 attacks, their influence has been to ensure that U.S. blood-and-treasure is used to invade and occupy the lands of the Muslims, what with Muslims having been framed for the crimes of that day.

It's practically miraculous that more of the Zionist desires -- for the U.S. to invade and occupy Iran and Syria -- somehow haven't been implemented yet, although there has been plenty of sabre-rattling. And we further are on exceedingly dangerous ground because the American traitors who planned 9/11 -- and their bastard child The Patriot Act -- stand ready behind the scenes to officially suspend all of the U.S. Constitution at any time.

We must be keenly aware that the Weimar Republic went down when the Hitler movement secretly attacked their own parliament building and blamed it on "terrorism." That attack then "justifified" suspending their constitution and supplanting it with strict, intrusive, and deeply unjust "security" laws, which are so much like our "Patriot Acts" that were ready to go immediately after 9/11. It's probably only due to the widespread knowledge and organized resistance on the Internet that we haven't become an open dicatorship.

As Martin Luther King Jr. wisely pointed out: "Everything Hitler did was legal."

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� and thus, many a night I have sat with tears streaming at the irrefutable reality of evil. Its previously incomprehensible (to me) ENJOYMENT of harming others -- while elevating itself -- became painfully and ponderously clear, as did its shocking and prominent presence at the top levels of our government and society.

SPECULATIONS ON THE NATURE OF EVIL

by Connie Cook Smith

Spring, 2008

posted Fall, 2009

I realize that activists in progressive political and religious movements tend to believe there are no evil souls. My own personal metaphysical belief is that the eternal essence of a person is the purest energy.

However, the widespread mental and emotional failure of our population to recognize the reality and the dynamics of human beings who choose to be evil is, in my opinion, exactly why evil is prevailing so disastrously.

This failure to understand and recognize the evil-doers right in our midst allows them to run rampant and triumphant. And the reluctance of our citizenry to comprehend this, is -- at very least -- driving our once-vibrant middle-class into poverty and despair. At most, it is ruining our nation for all of posterity, and wrecking the world as well.

I earnestly believe the only way to stop an accelerating slide into the death of the USA and the deterioration of our planet is to bravely face the reality, presence, and machinations of evil people among us -- and to turn to the helpful awareness and action that "we really do have them outnumbered!"

First, these necessary realizations:

Evil craves power over others, to provide it a sense of superiority.

Evil overtly uses others, for its own security.

Evil enjoys hurting others. The desire and the power to hurt others is a thrill to Evil. (Harming includes everything from teasing, controlling, torturing, and of course, killing.)

Good, by contrast, feels that harming others is repulsive and wrong.

Evil has an aggressive agenda, enjoys planning/manipulating to get what it wants from others, or over others.

Evil pretends to look good in order to get what it wants, and therefore tells chronic lies.

Evil makes you doubt Good people in your life, in order to reduce the protection around you.

Evil pretends to do good, pretends to embrace good causes, socially. Evil pretends to help you, personally. But privately, Evil enjoys sabotaging individuals and causes, behind everyone's back.

Too many people are apparently still �too comfortable� and therefore don't comprehend mass suffering. Thus they don't bother to reflect upon and come to understand the Evil that's often behind it. Indeed, Good�s fatal flaw is the failure to grasp Evil�s enjoyment of doing harm and causing pain.

Thus, Evil has been free to rise to the top of our governments, corporations, military, religions, and many other institutions, as Good � good people � naively fail to acknowledge what�s really going on and �wonder why everything�s gone wrong.�

All the lack of earthly progress -- especially all reversals -- of peace, prosperity, healthcare, clean/advanced technology, and universal brotherly love are most often caused by evil persons' deliberate delight at asserting power over others -- and provoking, disrupting, misinforming, assassinating, and otherwise blocking all fronts of human happiness -- for all but themselves and their allies. (Whom they eventually will betray.)

Evil people's tiny brains and shriveled hearts -- unfortunately, many of our leaders nowadays -- secretly delight in profiting from bloodshed, chaos, inequality, injustice, disease, poverty, and despair for humanity -- while they enjoy wealth, privilege, safety, freedom, and deeply perverted "fun" for themselves. This paragraph so painfully describes our suffering world today.

While these tendencies have always been present on a smaller scale, evil was well on its way to global organization in the previous century. A glimpse of its progress among evil Americans resides in a memo from the U.S. ambassador to Germany prior to WWII. William E. Dodd wrote in 1937:

"A clique of US industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."

American ruling families supporting fascism? Assisting "the bad guys"? Indeed -- as only one example of American Nazi support, it surfaced briefly in the media on October 17, 2003 that George W. Bush's grandfather had his assets seized by Congress on October 20, 1942, due to his decade of money-laundering for Hitler.

Prescott Bush and his Union Banking partners were gung-ho for Adolf, helping to fund Nazi uniforms, arms, and even fuel for their planes. As Ambassador Dodd observed, there were actually a number of American ruling families who outright admired the "superior" Master Race idea and corporate control of society, and they frankly hoped this elitist/traitorous agenda would take hold in America.

They actually attempted a coup, a takeover of FDR and the White House, in the early 1930's. But it failed when the military leader they chose strung them along to determine the plot, then reported and exposed them.

Most of their names -- these "American ruling families" -- were kept out of the media (and they were not hanged for treason!) in exchange for their agreement to stop obstructing legislation for programs such as Social Security for the elderly, the poor, and the sick. Their identities do appear, however, in the 1973 book, now re-issued: "The Plot to Seize the White House."

http://www.amazon.com/Plot-Seize-White-House-Conspiracy/dp/1602390363

Copious evidence further indicates these evil ones' and their "proud descendants" provided shadow support for, and have experienced benefits from, the assassinations of key anti-war figures -- JFK, MLK, RFK, John Lennon, and others. This is only logical since such fervent peace and pro-humanity leaders directly threaten the evil ones' domination of our world via war, deprivation, and chaos.

And the general-public's failure to grasp the nature of evil further explains why most of the American population still cannot, and will not, comprehend the copious and obvious evidence of September 11th -- that the attacks were planned and carried out by traitors high in our government � and that they did this --

1) in order to frame Muslims and thereby control the Middle East through illegal invasions and brutal war, and --

2) in order to consolidate and advance their crimes in America by means of 9/11-destroyed records, and via post-9/11 "law-making," which ultimately erase the people-protections of the U.S. Constitution.

If we want to honor all the souls who so suddenly perished or were grievously injured on 9/11 -- if we want to stop the world going down a darker and ever-darker path -- we need to responsibly wake up to the Truth that a few foreign hijackers could not possibly override every fail-safe within the United States' multi-billion-dollar state-of-the-art defense system -- unless evil men and women at high levels cleared the way and ensured that's what would happen.

At least now, more and more experts and professionals from the fields of aviation, military, government, engineering, law enforcement, and academia have looked at the evidence and decided "the story we've been told" about what happened that day lacks credibility on all fronts.

http://patriotsquestion911.com/

But even though we far outnumber them, we are clueless about what to do until we identify them. And we can't identify them until we see that most of the horrible acts, policies, and problems today come not from inexplicable social conditions -- but from their high-profile promulgators who actually enjoy and directly profit from human suffering.

Then I think we'll know what to do...!

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Wake Up and Smell the Terrorists -- They're HERE!

by Connie Cook Smith

Thousands of researchers, authors, and activists already know it. Hundreds of former military and administration officials are proclaiming it. Numerous reputable scientists are demonstrating it.

At least two FBI agents tried to stop it. Another FBI employee claims that "certain elected officials will stand trial and go to prison" for it. Now it only remains for the American public to get a clue and get on board with it.

What is it? The overwhelming evidence that prominent American leaders, who have risen through our government for years and years, are the ones who masterminded the September 11th attacks -- to plunge us into fear and submission at home -- to enrage us into war and plunder abroad. And it worked.

It's not the first time. But it is the worst time. And I believe it is the duty and responsibility of every American with a brain and a heart to stop enabling our in-house terrorists. It was a BIG CLUE when Karl Rove was featured in a December 2001 Time Magazine article, looking on as thousands of flag-waving Americans wildly worshipped George Bush at Yankee Stadium, and remarked with smug satisfaction, "It looks just like a Nazi rally!"

Yes, it's common knowledge that before Nazi Germany was revealed as the hell-hole of evil it became, it was the "good Germans" who allowed it. It was the good citizens' fear and anger at their Reichstag parliament attack that enabled Adolf to lead them into oppression at home and aggression abroad.

Well-informed Americans KNOW that the Patriot Act is creating oppression at home, and that the Iraq war is not "democracy" but outright occupation abroad. And like the Reichstag fire, there is abundant evidence from reputable scientists and military and former administration officials -- now presented in frequent conferences all over the United States -- that the WTC and Pentagon attacks were inside jobs as well.

It's time to make a choice to be well-informed and responsible Americans, or to go along like "good Germans" and just flag-wave and cheer on George Bush. Like his minion Karl Rove, with total contempt for American values, Dubya has admitted he would like a dictatorship, "as long as I'm the dictator."

For a country that claims to be Christian, it is mystifying how blind we can be to the reality of Evil. An alarm should have gone off in everyone's mind when the monstrous BTK serial killer was revealed as a life-long nice guy who was his church president, was tender with his wife and children, and never passed up an opportunity to witness for Jesus Christ.

We have been given the clearest evidence that evil men and women do indeed exist, that their charm and their proclaimed values are totally phony, that good people are utterly deceived, and that behind these fakers' grins and smirks is the capacity for horrendous acts against one person, or against many.

I am NOT claiming the Bush family masterminded 9/11. I frankly don't think they are that bright. But they have a long history of going along with evil, of profiting from it, and enjoying it.

Their three-generation membership in Skull & Bones, for example -- that's not exactly the Rotary Club, is it? Their logo is the same as pirates, who enjoy looting and killing. Their logo is the same as the insignia on Nazi officers' caps, who enjoyed looting and killing. Their initiation ceremonies are homo-erotic romps in mud-filled coffins -- not exactly the "traditional values" of Dobson and Falwell, who have the outright gall to hypocritically support them.

It was a sign of how foolish Americans can be when the '04 Democratic nomination suddenly was swung over to John Kerry, who is also a Bonesman. The fix was in. Kerry has done some admirable things, but his Senate investigations always stop just short of exposing who and what we really need to know. Like the Bushes, he goes along to get along. And like them, he gets along quite well -- while the American people go progressively down the tubes.

How obtuse and careless can we be? It was reported in Newsweek and the Washington Post that Jonathan Bush, Dubya's uncle, was president and CEO of Riggs Investment Management Company in 2000, and that Riggs Bank was fined $25 million in 2004 for violating regulations that indicate terrorist money-laundering. But we don't get to see exactly what the investigation revealed, because the Bush administration classified it as "national security." More like "cover-Bushes-behinds' " security.

And verifiable facts were widely circulated on the Internet about Dubya's brother Marvin Bush and his electronic security company, which controlled security (or purposely lapsed it?) for one of the airlines that was hijacked -- AND was responsible for security at the World Trade Center -- "up until the day the buildings fell down" ! Hello! Here are the facts, at http://www.populist.com/03.02.burns.html

Even though it was back in 1992, George Bush Sr's off-hand comment to reporter Sarah McClendon -- which, thankfully, she reported -- really makes sense. He said, "Yeah, Sarah, if they ever find out what we've done, they will chase us down the street and lynch us." Followed by the characteristic Bush-family smirk, and oh yes, nice-guy charm.

But this is consistent with the Bush family's false front on equality, democracy. As a House Representative, Bush Sr. is in the Congressional Record on September 4, 1969 -- barely a year after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated -- as saying that African-Americans are "down-breeding the quality of the U.S. population," and advocating a program of "voluntary sterilization."

And of course, THIS is consistent with his father Prescott Bush, and father-in-law George Herbert Walker, who got their wrists slapped by Congress in October of 1942, BECAUSE their Union Banking Corporation had been financing Nazi Germany for over a decade. I mean, really, where did a poor boy like Adolf get all those spiffy, terrifying uniforms, guns, aviation fuel, and more!

No less than the US Ambassador to Germany acknowledged this in 1937. In William E. Dodd's memoirs, he recalled his alarm:

"A clique of US industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."

It's just a fact, folks, that Bushes and DuPonts and Fords and Harrimans and Rockefellers and Morgans and many more illustrious American families have a long history of belief in their Master Race-like "inherent superiority," and they only spout slogans like "freedom and democracy" to get us to bleed and die in their profitable wars. Their children, like the Bush twins, don't serve. When Bush Sr. served, witnesses say he bailed out and let his crewmen die. (Chase him and lynch him, anyone? It was his idea.)

For more information on exactly who were/who are the internal enemies of America and humanity, there's a 1973 book that has become so rare (although it was widely available 20 years ago) that owners of it are offering it for as low as $200 and as high as $800: "The Plot to Seize the White House," by Jules Archer.

Miraculously, the entire book is preserved online. It's at http://www.clubhousewreckards.com/plot/plottoseizethewhitehouse.doc

all 256 pages of it!

A History Channel program on it has been produced, although it sends mixed messages about the plot's authenticity, citing "rumors." (However, the plot is factually indisputable.)

http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=73631

The point is, those ruling families then are the ruling families of today, and with 9/11, they are up to their old tricks. It's time to wake up and smell the terrorists, people -- they are HERE.

"Muslim fundamentalists" would never do something to cause the mighty U.S. military to invade their lands! They've been set up -- just as bad as we have -- to suffer under a totally un-American, worldwide agenda, under which we're all ruled and wrecked by the "inherently superior."

In the U.S., their private ownership of our central bank -- deceptively named the "Federal" Reserve -- has practically accomplished our debt-slavery already.

It's time to read up, learn the truth, and find out what you can do about it. This one website can lead you to all the rest. http://www.911truth.org/ Left-hand column summarizes everything. Don't say you weren't warned.

Connie Cook Smith

Nazis Rule America -- or --

We Have All Been Deeply Deceived

by Connie Cook Smith

Excerpt:

...On the Bush family front, it surfaced briefly in the media on October 17, 2003 about the president's grandfather getting busted by Congress on October 20, 1942, for his decade of money-laundering for Hitler. Prescott Bush and his Union Banking Corporation partners were gung-ho for Adolf! They outright admired the concepts of Master Race and corporate control of society, and they frankly hoped this elitist/traitorous agenda would then spread to America.

No less than the US Ambassador to Germany acknowledged this in 1937. In William E. Dodd's memoirs, he recalled his alarm:

Well, Prescott Bush's assets were seized and the operation was shut down, just as our boys were sent over to Europe to fight Hitler and die. But the Bush Gang agenda never went away, it only went underground...

WE HAVE ALL BEEN DEEPLY DECEIVED

by Connie Cook Smith

I remember childhood friends teasing me for reading World Books on the front porch on summer days -- sometimes actually AFTER my chores were done! I seriously wanted to understand how our world works, so I read everything I could get my hands on.

I'm almost sorry now I kept on investigating. I regret to report that the enormous progress humanity is capable of -- progress that would eliminate war, disease, poverty -- such progress has actually been blocked by men and women who take perverse pleasure in winning while making the rest of humanity lose.

It has happened in my own life -- the shock of someone I loved being a phony, cheerfully lying to my face while operating against me behind my back. But overall, people I personally know act with honesty and good will.

But that's why it may be so hard for good people all over this nation, to believe what's been going on. For example, think of all the folks in Wichita who just learned that the man with whom they shared church suppers for 30 years has been, behind the scenes, a torturer and murderer whose perverse pleasure was dominating other human beings unto death.

Well, the disturbing facts I've learned over my years of non-stop research is that a number of American leaders we have trusted -- for 30 years and more -- have also taken perverse pleasure in presenting themselves as admirable citizens. Yet behind the scenes, they are gleefully and profitably operating against us all, even undermining the foundations of the United States.

Do you know there are over 14 lawsuits against Donald Rumsfeld -- and not just for war crimes in Iraq? In the 1970's, he was CEO of Searle, the manufacturer of aspartame artificial sweetener. But studies revealed that aspartame converts to wood alcohol in the body and aggravates the symptoms of every disease known to man.

Congress was about to go after Rumsfeld and Searle for foisting this poison on the American people. But after the dirty-tricks "October Surprise" of 1980, Reagan/Bush got into the White House -- and they allowed Rumsfeld to proceed unobstructed with poisoning the American people and raking in mighty profits.

Rumsfeld is as reckless today with the lives of our soldiers as he was with American consumers 30 years ago. And I suppose the current Bush White House and "Justice" Dept. will make sure he gets another pass, despite how many people continue to suffer and die.

On the Bush family front, it surfaced briefly in the media on October 17, 2003 about the president's grandfather getting busted by Congress on October 20, 1942, for his decade of money-laundering for Hitler. Prescott Bush and his Union Banking Corporation partners were gung-ho for Adolf! They outright admired the concepts of Master Race and corporate control of society, and they frankly hoped this elitist/traitorous agenda would then spread to America.

No less than the US Ambassador to Germany acknowledged this in 1937. In William E. Dodd's memoirs, he recalled his alarm: "A clique of US industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."

Once you know that the current president's uncle, Jonathan Bush, has been on the board of Riggs Bank, which cleared checks paid to two 9/11 hijackers, and once you know the president's brother Marvin Bush held security contracts for the World Trade Center, you can begin to see flashes of behind-the-scenes activities that continue to sabotage humanity and democracy. (While cheerfully lying to your face about promoting it!)

ALL researchers of 9/11 now understand that far worse skyscraper fires, some that burned for more than a day, never before brought down even one single steel building! It was IMPOSSIBLE for the World Trade Center to collapse after only an hour of fire, without the towers' internal security having been somehow compromised beforehand. And it was Marvin Bush who was in charge of that "security."

(See http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views03/0204-06.htm for the details that were published in a Maryland newspaper.)

Yes, folks, if you've fallen for smiling, smirking pronouncements about "democracy" while corporations are increasingly protected, while programs for people are increasingly abandoned -- and while our dear soldiers are maimed and killed for no legitimate reason -- then you need to wake up and stop allowing all this to happen! You need to stop supporting the gangsters now in charge of our country who gleefully cause, then profit from, war -- and who are actually eliminating freedom in America while spouting "democracy" abroad.

A few books will help you adjust to reality.

If you read "Killing Hope, US Interventions Since WWII" by former CIA-man William Blum, the scales will fall from your eyes about exactly why the American flag is hated almost everywhere abroad. Likewise with "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins. What "our leaders" have covertly done for decades is beyond atrocious -- it's outright evil.

If you read "An Act of State," by William F. Pepper, you will learn about the 1999 trial that proved involvement by the FBI, CIA, US military, and the Memphis police in the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By implication, the same forces were involved in the assassination of JFK a few years earlier -- because the progress for humanity that JFK and MLK represented had to be stopped at all costs -- stopped by stealth-fascists like Prescott Bush and Gang -- all the Bushes, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Kissinger, etc. -- who resumed the gradual take-over of our country after WWII.

(Few people recall that Nixon's memoirs praised Prescott Bush for recruiting and funding Nixon -- basically grooming him for the fascist agenda.)

And if you will read "Into the Buzzsaw" by Kristina Borjesson, you will learn about all the reporters who have been fired or threatened by corporate/government forces for trying to report this information I've shared with you today.

Please consider all these facts -- if for no other reason, for your psychological health when the truth-pot boils over, and you learn how appallingly we've all been deceived.

Connie Cook Smith

link to this article at my blogspot: http://conniescomments.blogspot.com/

WHY my panorama of controversial subjects?

Because it's all about Love.

Even though I've had a lot of exotic experiences, at heart I'm a Midwestern wife and mom who feels like Everybody is family - and that Everybody needs love.

But when bullies show up and start picking on my family - read that, humanity - then I feel compelled to lecture the bullies and do what I can to stop their attempts to control or to harm their fellow human beings.

In the case of ABORTION RIGHTS: I nearly died from a 106.7-degree fever after 30 hours of labor with my very much wanted and beloved daughter. But frankly, because I love her, I hope she never goes through this ordeal!

Pregnancy and childbirth are no "inconvenience." They are potentially always a risk to a woman's life, even when - like me - there were no risk factors and no complications throughout the entire 9 months. (I was often nauseous and increasingly physically miserable, but that's just normal, for pregnancy.)

But the point is, giving life does risk a woman's life, and it begs the question:

If life is sacred, can a woman be forced to risk her life against her will?

Further:

If life is sacred, can a woman be forced to bear a child she can't care for,

or be forced to face the life-long horror of giving a child away?

From a life-IS-sacred point of view, I think the clear answer to these questions is NO.

Most especially a woman cannot be bullied into these life-ruining ordeals, primarily because an abortion or a miscarriage under 3 months of development is far from being a physically separate life.

And spiritually, I believe that the biblical words, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you," mean that all souls exist prior to life on earth (as well as after life on earth). And that if a pregnancy aborts or miscarries - and fully 1/3 of all conceptions DO miscarry! - that soul will still have as many opportunities as necessary for a pregnancy to complete, and for that soul to be born on earth.

And so our primary concern is with respecting life HERE, and never allowing bullies to pass laws that cruelly force a woman to continue an unintended pregnancy -- laws that force her to risk her life and her future against her will. Because -- life is sacred!

That said, humanity's perpetuation can count on the millions of women who are always willing and able to give birth!

As for GAY RIGHTS, I will never understand why some people get upset at how other people have sex. If a guy is attracted to another guy, or a woman to a woman, all of a sudden there is this focus on "how they do it." Yet we don't normally go around (do we?) thinking about couples we know and how they "do it." A LOT of people are really kinky in bed, but who cares? It's not an issue.

As for the Bible on this subject: I know that Lev. 20:13 brands homosexuality an abomination, for which the penalty is death. But also branded an abomination, Lev. 11:12, is the eating of "that which hath no fins nor scales," such as shrimp and crab. And I just wonder when biblically-correct bombers like the fugitive Eric Rudolph will attack Red Lobster restaurants!

Biblically-correct bomber? Yes, the evidence is that this guy is part of the Christian Identity movement, which believes that God means for the United States to be ruled by WHITE, REAL MEN. Thus Rudolph bombed the Olympics because white American males are supposed to rule other cultures, not unite with them. He bombed an abortion clinic, because men must rule women and not allow them to make any decisions about their bodies or their lives. And he bombed a gay bar because of the biblical condemnation of homosexuality. So, according to other biblical condemnations - such as forbidding the eating of shrimp and crab -- it makes sense that Red Lobster restaurants will get hit next!

While we're at it, take note that Lev. 21:7 equates divorced women with whores, that Lev. 21:17-24 denies communion with God for all who are blind or lame or crookbacked. And check out Deut 23:2, which forbids illegitimate children to join a congregation - including their offspring -- for ten generations!

While you're at it, read ALL of Deuteronomy, and learn that God wants you to destroy others' religions, that you must kill family members who turn to other religions, that women wearing men's clothing is another one of those "abominations" (and abominations are punishable by death), that a rape victim must marry her rapist - oh, and of course, there can be "no graven images" in society - no "similitude nor likeness" made of any living thing.

Excuse me, but when I first read this stuff as a church-going teenager, I could see that none of this was loving or intelligent, and I never believed God wrote it. (And years of study later on, how the Bible came to be, have demonstrated to me that indeed, it was really Grumpy Old Men who wrote much of it.)

And that brings up my other main topic under Politics - which is, A FREE COUNTRY - or SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

Our founding fathers of the 1700's were appalled not only by the religious atrocities in Europe, but by the American Puritans of the 1600's, who felt they had the God-given right to kill, not just "witches," but anyone - like innocent Baptists, Quakers, and Catholics - simply because they were not Puritans! To this day in Boston, there stands a statue of Mary Dyer, a woman who was tried, convicted, and hanged by the Bible-thumping Puritans "for repeatedly bearing witness to her faith." She was a Quaker.

Thus we have the First Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits a governmental "establishment of religion." No more religious fanatics, "who represent God's will," controlling THIS nation, thank you!

And we have Article 6 in the Constitution, which states that "no religious test shall ever be required" to hold public office. Thus, a citizen professing any religion, or no religion, can aspire to any U.S. office, if he or she can garner the support.

When the Baptists wrote President Thomas Jefferson to inquire as to the exact meaning of the First Amendment, regarding religion, he enthusiastically described it as "a wall of separation between church and state."

And of course, this works both ways. A bad government at the moment cannot control or depose a good religion. But mainly, a bad religion (like Puritanism or Christian Identity) cannot control or depose a good government, like our democracy - unless the citizens allow it to happen.

And so all caring citizens of the United States, and all supporters of democracy around the world, must be adamant in our support of the ideal of separation of church and state. It protects religion from bad government. And it protects people from being governmentally forced to adhere bad religion.

Which brings us back to some of the horrific, "God says" commands in the Bible - like a death-sentence for cussing -- dammit! (Lev. 24:14)

If we in the United States, and in the world, want to live in a free country anywhere, we must all make a commitment to the preservation and the reinforcement of the most loving protection and greatest safety for humanity ever devised: the Separation of Church and State.

What follows are titles that link to published letters on these important topics - first, abortion rights and how that applies to authentic morality and genuine family values - honoring and protecting LIFE -- wives, moms, daughters, and sisters, and all the men who care about them and need them.

Then there is my published letter that equates the 1998 block of openly-gay James Hormel's ambassadorial appointment with religious tyranny -- followed by my unpublished protest against the bigotry of a former gay man and lesbian woman who insist that gays can change (read that, must change.) To which my husband and I respond, "Christian Bigots Can Change."

And finally, there is the documentation from President John Adams which states, "the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion," along with my own locally published essay, "Thank God for Separation of Church and State." It explains the connection between religious beliefs and racial murders over the Fourth of July in the Midwest.

THE "EXEMPLARARY" GEORGE W. BUSH

by Connie Cook Smith, Canton, Illinois

It�s alarming that a person as mentally impaired as George W. Bush is regarded as a contender for the office of U.S. president. In my mind, "Dubya" is "Dumya." But it�s really not funny to have a candidate whose mentality seems limited to platitudes, and he can�t even get them right.

"We ought to make the pie higher,"and "I know how hard it is to put food on your family," are typical. He campaigns now on the idea that we�re in an education recession, but could that just be his own"subliminable" problem? He worries: "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" He ponders: "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"

The answer to that in Texas, where he�s governor, is "No, they isn�t." A 60 Minutes news program demonstrated that elementary students there mainly study how to pass an annual test. Children unlikely to pass the test are not allowed to take it in order to skew the score upward. And once the students get to high school, many drop out from lack of basic academic skills. But Dumya praises the artificial test-scores as being "exemplarary" models of his education record as governor.

And what will this genius do for the nation with regard to trade? He has just informed us that "more and more imports are from overseas." (That�s why they�re called imports, George.) He�s on record with a promise to end tariffs and barriers � but it came out as "ending terriers." Some reporters heard it as ending "terrors." Huh?

Which leads us to his foreign policy expertise. He won�t allow terrorists to "hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile." And he grasps the budget. He explained, "It�s clearly a budget. It�s got a lot of numbers in it."

Also, his morals and values are not in question. When his twins were born, he promptly quit drinking � 4 years later. He showed up "for work" most days at the ballpark he built for the team he owned. He "got tough" with a woman condemned to execution by mocking her in a sing-song voice: "Please save me." And he has just accepted the Governor of the Year award from the Safari Club International. This is a group that fences in exotic animals so that "big-game hunters" can shoot them down.

But tell me, after 8 years of bitter attacks on Clinton for avoiding Vietnam, are the Republicans going to elect a draft-dodger of their own? Al Gore and his congressman father opposed the war, but young Al volunteered to go, and he served as a reporter in the field. Afterwards he enrolled in divinity school to sort out his beliefs in a God that could allow such carnage.

George Bush�s precious boy, however, was safely placed in the National Guard�s "champagne unit," as a fighter pilot bravely defending the border of Texas from Mexican invasion. And W.�s attitude? He clowned around at Yale as a frat boy. When asked whether he engaged in discussions about Vietnam during this nation�s most divisive days, he responded, "Maybe we did, but I don�t remember."

I think it�s obvious that Senator/now-Vice-President Al Gore has been a serious, intelligent, and good-hearted public servant all his life. He has written "Earth in the Balance," a visionary masterpiece of both literature and policy. But his opponent often can�t think straight and was dumb enough to call a reporter an "a-hole" near an open microphone.

Unless tightly rehearsed, George W. Bush obviously does not know how to conduct himself. If the American people realize this glaring truth by November, then in Bush�s own words: "That puts the final nail on the coffin."

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Below are published letters to the Peoria Journal Star, and one historical document.

AUTHENTIC MORALITY

"Back to Morals" means back to secrecy and hypocrisy

"Mixed-Up Morals" - why anti-choice is anti-life

"Right-to-Life is Right-to-Lie" - the anti's use false photos

GENUINE FAMILY VALUES

"The Only Real Antidote to Violence in Society" - secure, wanted, loved children

"Condemnation vs. Compassion" - women should be blamed vs. women should be protected

"Anti-Gay is Religious Tyranny" - prohibiting a gay U.S. ambassador is unconstitutional

"Homosexuals Can Change?" - religious bigots can change

A FREE COUNTRY...or WHY WE NEED CHURCH/STATE SEPARATION

"The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion" Treaty of Tripoli: 1796-1797, ratified by Congress, signed by President John Adams (document)

"Why Religion Must Never Be Backed by Government" - or, how would you like to be ruled by racist, sexist, and cruel practices from the Bible?

THANK GOD FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

� 1999 Connie Cook Smith

(Sources listed at conclusion)

With Matt Hale's World Church of the Creator in the news, there has never been a better opportunity to understand why the founding fathers separated religion from government.

His follower's brutal murders in the Midwest are recognized as hate crimes, motivated by racism. But even though Hale states, "We don't worship anything," his church of bigotry is a spin-off of a larger and longer-established faction of white supremacists who base their beliefs on the Bible. They're known as the CHRISTIAN IDENTITY MOVEMENT, and their fanatical goals and activities - identical to those of Hale in the final outcome -- are precisely why the Constitution prohibits an "establishment of religion."

In other words, if religion in the United States could become enforced by government, just imagine Matt Hale's World Church of the Creator and its "holy war" against minorities becoming the law of our land! That's just one horrific possibility of religious ideas being established by government's power - something which our founders completely understood and utterly prohibited.

Most disturbingly, the House of Representatives lately has been working to dismantle this safety feature for the American people. In an astonishing display of Constitutional ignorance and outright bad citizenship, the House keeps trying to un-do church/state separation and impose particular religious teachings on everyone. Not only is this flat-out unlawful, it is dangerous. And that's because it opens the door for religious rulership over us all, perhaps by the likes of Matt Hale.

The Constitution certainly does allow Hale and company to profess their puerile prattlings, but thanks to separation of church and state, they can never lawfully control this country. And neither can their cousins in the Christian Identity movement, who similarly believe that African-Americans are equal to "the beasts in the field," and that Jewish people are the "seed of Satan."

Ironically, Hale's church and the radical Christians are bedfellows together, yet they occupy separate sides of the sheets. Whereas Hale thinks that whites-only must rule, based on "the laws of nature" (a disgusting distortion of the Declaration of Independence), the Christian Identity disciples believe that whites are ordained to rule because "the Bible tells me so."

The Christian Identity movement in the United States has a loose-knit following of thousands of adherents. Their numbers are not threatening, but their tyrannical goals and violent tactics certainly are.

Some of these people have been in the news before - the Weaver family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992, David Koresh and the Branch Davidians at Waco in 1993, the "Army of God" bombings in Atlanta in 1996, and most devastatingly, Oklahoma City in 1995.

Although not centrally organized, these eruptions of self-righteous hatred stem from a fierce biblical commitment to "God's Word and God's Law." Essentially this means that a number of domestic terrorists are committed to replacing our secular Constitution -- which protects everybody -- with their religious laws, which favor only a few.

And on what biblical grounds do these people proceed? These zealots believe that before Adam and Eve were created, "the mud races," or people of color, were made along with "the beasts of the field," outside Eden -- and therefore, they are a subhuman and soulless species, according to God's will.

They further believe that Eve conceived Abel by Adam - who was God's crowning achievement (or nature's crowning achievement - The White Male) -- but that when Eve sinned, she conceived Cain by the serpent, or Satan. (This was the first Jew.) And that when Cain killed Abel, he ran away and joined the mud people.

And ever since, there has been this battle between God's white descendants from Adam and Eve - who were the true Israelites - vs. "Satan's seed and the mud people," who are the Jews and all people of color.

(At this point I feel compelled to refer to the Gospel According to Dave Barry and say, "I am not making this up!")

Unfortunately, these are the serious beliefs - the deadly serious beliefs - of quite a number of activist Americans, who also further believe we are in the end-times, and that it's time to carry out God's judgments - read that "death sentences" - against all who are non-believers in "inerrant biblical truth."

Thus you have Waco and Koresh's fanatical followers, who fantasized a flaming, apocalyptic battle against ZOG, the Zionist (Jewish) Occupied Government, and - with rather ignorant federal help - made their dream come true.

Thus you have the horrendous bombing at the Murrah Federal Building, because those innocent employees and children were supposedly lackeys of ZOG -- the seeds of Satan.

Thus you have the Atlanta bombings by the "Army of God" - the Olympics, a gay bar, an abortion clinic -- all spiritually linked by "religiously correct" interpretations of the Bible.

The Olympics represent global unity, which is taboo if you're a white supremacist. Abortion represents women's decisions, which are taboo in a nation that God says should be ruled by white, Christian males.

And of course, there is the "abomination" of homosexuality (Lev. 20:13) - which is right up there with the abomination of eating "that which hath no fins nor scales," such as shrimp and crab (Lev. 11:12). Apparently -- to the biblically-correct people -- being gay and eating at Red Lobster are equal sins - both punishable by death.

But it's really not funny. If it weren't for our Constitution's prohibition against government- sponsored religion, who knows which of these insanities might rule our daily lives? If it weren't for Article 6, which specifies that "no religious test shall ever be required" to hold public office, who knows how oppressed we all might be today?

It's time for every moral American to vociferously oppose such religious fanaticism as Church of the Creator and Christian Identity. It's time for every patriotic citizen to adamantly insist on enforcement of separation of church and state.

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Sources: Harvest of Rage, Joel Dyer, 1997

Gathering Storm, Morris Dees, 1996

A Force Upon the Plain, Kenneth S. Stern, 1996

The Right to Bear Arms, Jonathan Karl, 1995

The Godless Constitution, Kramnick and Moore, 1996

TIME TO STOP OUR AMERICAN HITLER

�2003 Connie Cook Smith

In America right now we are seeing a repeat of exactly how Hitler rose to power. Random House Encyclopedia attributes the rise of fascism in Germany to "intense nationalism, aggressive foreign policy, frightened middle class and conservative elements, corrupt corporations" -- and a tough-talking leader.

Hitler manipulated people with religion and patriotism. In a 1938 speech, he asserted, "I have come to complete the work that Jesus Christ began." And people thought his dedication to Christ was just wonderful!

Flag-flying became a litmus test of whether you are "for us or against us." So it was alarming to read in a major news magazine that Karl Rove, Bush's right-hand man, looked out over a baseball stadium where Bush spoke, with everyone waving a flag and cheering on their leader -- and Rove beamed with approval and exclaimed, "It's just like a Nazi rally!"

For that matter, Bush himself stated on December 18, 2002, "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." Even a passing thought like this from the leader of the free world is both shocking and shameful.

And now we have the man and his minions demanding to roll over Iraq like Hitler rolled over Poland, with absolutely no provocation. Newspaper stories carry the administration's intent to use so many thousands of missiles that Iraq will respond only with "shock and awe." Isn't that called "blitzkrieg?"

Above all, Hitler was granted dictatorial powers because of a terrorist attack. Germany's parliament, the Reichstag, was somehow set on fire, and immediately, Hitler demanded expanded powers to "deal with this threat." The Weimar Republic constitution was suspended and the government was empowered to arrest anyone they wanted to for any reason -- especially for dissent. This is so much like Patriot Act I which was knee-jerk passed right after 9/11, and Patriot Act II which is now proposed, that it is utterly chilling.

People, get a clue! We are in the hands of evil deal-makers, not authentic American leaders.

Individual attitudes and actions are crucial. My husband and I feel that since Karl Rove sees flag-waving and cheering our leader as a Nazi rally, we absolutely won't participate. And since Bush thinks it's funny to joke about dictatorship, we deplore him. And even though we believe in God, we do not in any way support Bush's Vicious Version of Christianity -- and most religious leaders don't either.

Like Hitler, Bush has hijacked the flag, and religion, and patriotism to use for self-profiting, world-destroying purposes. He has hijacked the American people, and I say it's time for all of us to take down this enemy within, who is far worse than any enemy without. "Let's roll." Impeach Bush now!

WHY THE PROTESTERS ARE RIGHT

I�m wondering if people realize our current U.S. situation is nothing like WWII, and nothing like Korea or Vietnam � and therefore our attitude about the Iraq war needs to be different.

In WWII, it was imperative that Americans unite in a war effort, so that neither German nor Japanese declared enemies could conquer and occupy the United States. God bless all those soldiers and civilians who sacrificed so much to save us!

Then came the murkier conflicts of Korea and Vietnam. The draft was in place, so our guys had to go. But there were legitimate questions about the necessity. It is tragic to all who were lost and maimed that history now sees Vietnam, in particular, as being a horrific foreign policy blunder.

During that time, we saw the rise of the protest movement, which ultimately was one of the elements that brought about a halt to the killing. The protesters knew long before the rest of society: our soldiers and our status in the world should not be sacrificed to a totally wrong-headed war.

During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, part of the strategy was to make it so brief that resistance to it could scarcely get organized. The actual war catalyst was Kuwait side-drilling into Iraq, sucking out their oil. Saddam warned Kuwait to stop or he would attack, which he did.

What we heard over here, though, was that Kuwait was innocent and we must run to help. In truth, it was George Bush Sr�s crowd and their shifting financial loyalties in the Middle East � plus a business grudge against Saddam � which caused our soldiers to be cynically used.

Free Kuwait? Spread democracy? Oh sure. To this day, women still can�t vote in Kuwait. A look into Reagan/Bush of the 1980's makes clear how the deals with business-buddy Saddam all fell apart and were the real cause of the grudge-match. But before that? Well, there�s a famous news photo of Rumsfeld practically HUGGING Saddam in 1983!

There was no U.S. condemnation when Saddam gassed his own people in the 80's. No focus on that was permitted because many of the poisonous agents came from American corporations, and politicians, who were making profits from this arrangement.

And this brings us to the monumental deception, the absolute outrage, of Bush II�s invasion of Iraq. Are we so ignorant and uninformed that we turned a blind eye to Saddam�s atrocities before, then suddenly Bush II tells us to be mad about it and go to war?

And even though the media made it clear � the CIA told Bush there�s no connection between 9/11 and Iraq � suddenly we�re told it�s "patriotic" to destroy and re-build that country?

In furious helplessness, I have wept as our first casualties were reported. In shock, I have watched as our military can look like invaders more than liberators. In bewilderment, I have wondered why, when we have no draft, American troops are killing thousands of people who have done nothing to our country.

How can all this horror be called "defending our freedom?" And how is it that protesters -- mainstream Americans who want our troops not to be killed and our country not to be shamed -- are told to shut up? How can we profess belief in American freedom, yet not respect our protesters� most basic rights under the United States Constitution?

JFK said, "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." And he looked forward to that day "when the conscientious objector enjoys the same prestige that the warrior does today."

It is very cold comfort that, once again, the demonstrators are right � are way ahead of society in grasping that our soldiers and our status in the world should not be sacrificed to a totally wrong-headed war.

THE WHITE HOUSE GOES PSYCHOTIC -- AND THE TIGERS ARE TURNING

"What America Needs to Know"

In a complete psychotic break from reality, the White House is fantasizing it can remove power from the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA -- seriously! -- and consolidate it instead under Condoleeza Rice's operations.

First the Bush White House imagined it could go it alone against the world. Now it is hallucinating it can usurp authority from the military, intelligence, and foreign policy divisions -- and somehow survive.

Ms. Rice, of course, whose ties to Chevron resulted in an oil tanker being named after her, is allegedly our National Security Adviser. When Sandy Berger of that same office under President Clinton informed Rice in early 2001 that counterterrorism on American soil should be her highest priority -- and gave her all the documents -- she did NOTHING with all that helpful information, and further, did nothing about all the 9/11 threats that came in right beforehand.

So now Her Incompetency continues to be rewarded (as all Bush administration personnel are rewarded for failure) with a big fat increase in responsibility and funding -- i.e., POWER.

According to CNN/Reuters ( http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/10/06/sprj.nitop.oversight.reut/index.html ), Rice has been placed in charge of the new "Iraq Stabilization Group." Discerning readers understand that, in reality, as the "Iraq Subjugation Command."

The CNN/Reuters report says the "reorganization" announcement occurred in a confidential memorandum on Thursday to Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, and George Tenet. In other words, the State Department, the Pentagon, and the CIA have been informed that THEIR subjugation-of-Iraq efforts are too wussy, and now some real Dictators are being put in place.

The memo, of course, was written "together with Vice President Dick Cheney" -- and with Powell and Rumsfeld, who -- if they want to stay in the administration -- have no choice but to go along.

The new policy was formulated "after talks she held with Bush in late August." Can you just imagine Rice trying to explain to Bush -- just as she carefully had to explain to him a few years ago that yes, South America has black people, too -- that things in Iraq now are desperately out of control -- and there will be no more putting on flight-suit-costumes and doing landing-stunts on aircraft carriers -- unless Georgie's "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq actually gets, well, accomplished!

Indeed, Ms. Rice says to the public this move is "a recognition by everyone that we are in a different phase now." Indeed, truly desperate now.

The "working groups" in the White House will be run by four Deputy Dictators: Gary Edson will oversee economic issues like oil, electricity, currency -- in other words, he's been designated Looter-in-Chief.

Robert Blackwill (are they making this up? Great name for a villain -- Bob Blackwill ! ) is in charge of "creation of political institutions in Iraq" and Afghanistan -- also known as the "Forget About Democracy" Department.

Frances Townsend is in charge of counterterrorism, which means "Operation Crush Iraqi Resistance."

And Anna Perez will head up "clearer messages to the media regarding worries about reports of attacks on US troops, and unrest in the cities." Reports of attacks on our soldiers? Worries about what's going on over there? CAN'T HAVE THAT. We can count on good news from now on, as Ms. Perez sets up her Department of Disinformation.

Gosh, first it was paranoid delusions that caused the neo-cons to be afraid of (or greedy for) Iraq, and to attack without any provocation. Now it must be a psychosis causing the White House to pretend they can usurp power from State, the Pentagon, and the CIA.

I think the Bush administration is going to go down as fast as the towers did on 9/11.

And one more thing -- seemingly unrelated. Y'all have heard the news stories about two tigers lately? In Las Vegas, Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy remains in critical condtion after a tiger in his act nearly mauled him to death. And in New York, a guy who was keeping a 425-pound tiger IN HIS APARTMENT was hospitalized with his leg nearly torn off.

Ya see, these critters have been manipulated and used for their owners' profit and pleasure for a long time. But it seems the tigers are waking up and realizing, "Hey, wait a minute, who REALLY has the power here?"

I can't imagine the power of the military and the CIA much longer putting up with the childish and dangerous policies of the George W. Bush White House.

And like awakening tigers, I can't imagine the American people much longer not "going for the jugular" of the likes of Bush and Cheney. These guys hijacked our government in 2000. They are ruining America and wrecking the world. And I think it's time for us tigers to turn on our manipulative masters.

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