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Monday, January 18, 2010

Why do 'Tea Baggers' and Republicans make such good l'il Nazis?

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

Research repeatedly confirms that Republicans are naturally inclined to exhibit authoritarian personality traits. The research leading to this conclusion is extensive. It was Carl Jung, in his 'The Undiscovered Self' who said that about thirty percent of every population was certifiably psychopathic.
The survival of civilization, he maintains, depends on individual awareness of both the conscious and unconscious aspects of the human psyche. The exploration of the unconscious, in particular, leads to self-knowledge and with it recognition of the duality of human nature --its potential for evil as well as for good. Jung believed that it is this self-knowledge that enables the individual to resist the collective power of mass society and the state and to cope with their possible threats.

--Princeton University Press, Review:The Undiscovered Self, C.G. Jung
Dr. Gustav Gilbert, who had been tasked with keeping Nazi war criminals alive until they could be hanged, concluded that his 'clients' had a defining characteristic in common: all, he said, 'lacked empathy'. Later, Hannah Arendt, founder of the New School for Sociological Studies in New York, coined a phrase to describe what she had observed of "Adolph Eichmann at this trial: 'the banality of evil'.

Jung believed that it was important for the individual to resist the "collective power of mass society". Some of the more recent research is surveyed by John Dean in his "Conservatives Without Consciences". Essentially, conservatives are 'authoritarian' types and tend to sort themselves into strong leaders (fuhrers) and eager, non-questioning followers (good l'il Nazis). I suspect that it is this personality and the various 'props' required of it that results in Republicans having more night mares and 'night terrors' than do normal people.

Liberals and progressives, by contrast, are often independent, creative, original. An 'ENTP' type is one of several types identified by the Jung Personality Test, similar to the Myers/Brigg test. ENTP, specifically, is described thus: "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative."

This kind of personality will not produce good, unquestioning follower-conspirators! This kind of person does not make a good li'l Nazi. The GOP, by contrast, is over run by good li'l Nazis, eager to click their heels and carry out orders from on high, specifically, the GOP national headquarters and the 'johns' who purchase the GOP on K-street in DC.


The 'tea bagger' movement is the 'enemy within', the anti-democratic, pro-fascist brownshirts who may have already destroyed the US ideal of a free and democratic republic --something that we have most certainly NOT seen since the rise of Ronald Reagan.

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, however, came to Carter’s defense on Wednesday. “Jimmy Carter tells the truth about some, not all, but some of the rabid rage against President Obama,” Olbermann stated, “and is thus the recipient of the automatic blowback from those whose livelihoods depend on enabling the ragers to tell themselves it is not racism that they feel.”

In introducing the segment, Olbermann claimed that he could offer “at least 37? cases that he believes “prove President Carter to be correct.” He also noted that Rush Limbaugh had attacked Carter’s statements by saying “Jimmy Carter is the nation‘s hemorrhoid” — and retorted, “”Well, I got to defer to him here, the nation‘s asshole would know about the nation‘s hemorrhoid.”

Some of Olbermann’s examples seem fairly indisputable, like a poster used at tea party demonstrations that depicts Obama as an Africa witch doctor, or Limbaugh’s claim that Obama has made it okay for black kids to beat up a white kid on a school bus.

--Olbermann: 37 racist incidents prove Carter is right
Already losers, a now desperate GOP has made a Faustian bargain with bigots. It is significant that the so-called GOP 'leadership' has yet to issue a tepid reproach, let alone a strongly worded condemnation of a movement that is 1) un-American 2) bigoted 3) made of liars to a person!

Until the GOP leadership steps forward and condemns the 'tea bagger movement', I remain confirmed that the 'tea bagger' movement is encouraged by the highest ranking members of the GOP embittered by the legion of failures chalked up by their party since the inauguration of Ronald Reagan.

We have a right NOT to be intimidated!'

If we are attacked, we will fight back and have a right to do so! Violence must be met by an organized, effective and appropriate response. Tea baggers, having shown the world the face of bigotry, should just crawl back under their slimy rocks. They have very nearly undone the gains we thought we made in the sixties. They have rolled back the clock.

Encouraged by the GOP, bigoted liars like Rush Limbaugh, and, even worse, the hypocrites daring to spew this venom from the pulpit, the GOP resorts to form --encouraging ugly mobs to disrupt legal democratic town hall meetings. I urge that legal town hall meetings be defended by arms and armor. Enough is enough. The Democrats have a right to meet and they have a right to defend themselves against felony violence. They have a right to oppose and defend against a gang of would-be felons!


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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Tea Bagger Bigotry Exposed

The GOP has either allied themselves with the bigot-based 'tea bagger' movement or it is the instigator of it. Just when I had come to believe that the GOP could not possibly sink lower, it is now clear to me that this endemically bigoted party is positioned to exceed all previous lies, idiocy and hate talk spewed on that party's behalf by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and a legion of venom filled wannabes. Indeed, the GOP --apres Bush --is a deluge, a jack-booted army of right wing hate mongers.

Now --let's clear up another issue. A heavily-trafficked site [What Really Happened] which often links to my articles has referenced my article with the following lines:
Yeah, they are really desperate to sell this idea that anyone unhappy with the government must be a racist. [emphasis mine, LH]
Let me make this clear: NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO WRITE! There is no 'they' who dictated any content to me whatsoever! There is no 'they' and I resent the implication that my thoughts and my opinions were dictated to me in any way whatsoever by some mysterious and unidentified 'they' !!

Is that clear?

No one else is responsible for the content of this blog and no one tells me what I can post and what I cannot! I reserve the right to cite sources, quote other writers and/or politicians and analysts as well as numerous official, government sources.

More than three decades later we have Sherri Goforth, an aide to a Republican state senator in Tennessee sending out a mass e-mail of a cartoon showing dignified portraits of the first 43 presidents, and then representing the 44th — President Obama — as a spook, a cartoonish pair of white eyes against a black background.

When a gorilla escaped from a zoo in Columbia, S.C., a longtime Republican activist, Rusty DePass, described it on his Facebook page as one of Michelle Obama’s ancestors.

Among the posters at last weekend’s gathering of conservative protesters in Washington was one that said, “The zoo has an African lion and the White House has a lyin’ African.”

These are bits and pieces of an increasingly unrestrained manifestation of racism directed toward Mr. Obama that is being fed by hate-mongers on talk radio and is widely tolerated, if not encouraged, by Republican Party leaders. It’s disgusting, and it’s dangerous. But it’s the same old filthy racism that has been there all along and that has been exploited by the G.O.P. since the 1960s.

I have no patience with those who want to pretend that racism is not an out-and-out big deal in the United States, as it always has been. We may have made progress, and we may have a black president, but the scourge is still with us. And if you needed Jimmy Carter to remind you of that, then you’ve been wandering around with your eyes closed.

Glenn Beck, one of the moronic maestros of right-wing radio and TV, assures us that President Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people.” Some years ago, as the watchdog group Media Matters for America points out on its Web site, Beck said he’d like to beat Representative Charles Rangel “to death with a shovel.”

--The Scourge Persists, Bob Herbert, New York Times
The conclusions stated on this blog are mine and mine alone. And there is no denying --except by idiots and/or bigots --that bigotry underlies much of the criticism that is leveled by the right wing fanatics inside the 'tea bagger' movement.
Another racist photo [seen above right] showing Obama as a witch doctor is making the rounds with Tea Party activists.

Republicans accuse Speaker Pelosi of inciting racism with her health care comments.

Democrats are unhappy with proposed tax in the Baucus health care bill.

Rep. Pelosi said:
I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco.

This kind of rhetoric was very frightening" and created a climate in which violence took place.

I wish that we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made.

She said some of the people hearing the message "are not as balanced as the person making the statement might assume.

Our country is great because people can say what they think and they believe.

But I also think that they have to take responsibility for any incitement that they may cause.

--Nancy Pelosi, Statement
Mob scenes are now the GOP modus operandi. Paul Krugman asks: "What's behind it?" The answer to that is as clear and present as is the danger to the American republic and every freedom loving American: the leadership of the GOP, the GOP in Congress, the GOP at large:

Some commentators have tried to play down the mob aspect of these scenes, likening the campaign against health reform to the campaign against Social Security privatization back in 2005. But there’s no comparison. I’ve gone through many news reports from 2005, and while anti-privatization activists were sometimes raucous and rude, I can’t find any examples of congressmen shouted down, congressmen hanged in effigy, congressmen surrounded and followed by taunting crowds.

And I can’t find any counterpart to the death threats at least one congressman has received.

So this is something new and ugly. What’s behind it?

Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, has compared the scenes at health care town halls to the “Brooks Brothers riot” in 2000 — the demonstration that disrupted the vote count in Miami and arguably helped send George W. Bush to the White House. Portrayed at the time as local protesters, many of the rioters were actually G.O.P. staffers flown in from Washington.

--Paul Krugman, The Town Hall Mob
Like pre-war Nazis, the American GOP exploited the mob mentality most prominently in the so-called 'White Riot' --in fact and by law a treasonous 'coup d'etat' which stole the election for George W. Bush. In fairness to mere rank and file extremists, however, it is clear that in the year 2000, it was the GOP leadership that bussed to Florida a white-shirted, button-down mob of right wing radical extremists whose purpose and assignment was to disrupt the election process, to stop the vote count while Bush was still ahead.

Typically, Antonin Scalia would issue the absurdity of the decade: "Count first and rule upon legality afterward is not a recipe for producing election results that have the public acceptance democratic stability requires." Robert Novak was just as stupid but more succinct: "The democrats are trying to steal this election by counting votes!" 'Logic' of the same fallacious form was heard even earlier from Barbara Olson who said that Gary Condit was guilty of murder not because there was evidence against him but because there was none! That, she said, was proof he covered it up!

Just words
from an idiot

The 'recipe' is how every election had worked since the invention of Democracy in Ancient Greece. Voting and then counting the votes is how elections, indeed, Democracy itself, is done. Scalia is a not an intellectual. Scalia is a dumb-ass who has learned a 'trick'. The American west was peopled with itinerant 'snake oil salesmen' who had learned a few big words and how to impress the yokels with them.

GOP mob mentality was again in vogue when Sarah 'Wolf Murderer' Palin purposefully appealed to a 'base' which revealed itself to be most responsive to messages of hate and prejudice.

Democrats have a right NOT to be intimidated!

Certainly, the GOP has resorted to form --exploiting ugly mobs, encouraging them to disrupt legal democratic town hall meetings. I urge that legal town hall meetings be defended by arms and armor. Enough is enough. The Democrats have a right to meet and they have a right to defend themselves against felony violence. They have a right to oppose and defend against a gang of would-be felons!

Why do Republicans make such good l'il Nazis?

The answer lies in research that shows how GOP-types are naturally inclined to conspiracies. That's why they would prefer you believe that conspiracies don't exist. Read Carl Jung and some of the more recent research surveyed in John Dean's book "Conservatives Without Consciences". Conservatives are 'authoritarian' types and tend to sort themselves into strong leaders (fuhrers) and eager, non-questioning followers (good l'il Nazis).

Liberals and progressives are often independent, creative, original. An 'ENTP' type is one of several types identified by the Jung Personality Test, similar to the Myers/Brigg test. ENTP, specifically, is described thus: "Inventor". Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative."

This kind of personality does not make good, unquestioning follower-conspirators! This kind of person does NOT make a good LI'L NAZI. The GOP, by contrast, is over run by good li'l Nazis.


The 'tea bagger' movement is the 'enemy within', the anti-democratic, pro-fascist brownshirts who may have already destroyed the US ideal of a free and democratic republic --something that we have most certainly NOT seen since the rise of Ronald Reagan.

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, however, came to Carter’s defense on Wednesday. “Jimmy Carter tells the truth about some, not all, but some of the rabid rage against President Obama,” Olbermann stated, “and is thus the recipient of the automatic blowback from those whose livelihoods depend on enabling the ragers to tell themselves it is not racism that they feel.”

In introducing the segment, Olbermann claimed that he could offer “at least 37″ cases that he believes “prove President Carter to be correct.” He also noted that Rush Limbaugh had attacked Carter’s statements by saying “Jimmy Carter is the nation‘s hemorrhoid” — and retorted, “”Well, I got to defer to him here, the nation‘s asshole would know about the nation‘s hemorrhoid.”

Some of Olbermann’s examples seem fairly indisputable, like a poster used at tea party demonstrations that depicts Obama as an Africa witch doctor, or Limbaugh’s claim that Obama has made it okay for black kids to beat up a white kid on a school bus.

--Olbermann: 37 racist incidents prove Carter is right
Already losers, a now desperate GOP has made a Faustian bargain with bigots. It is significant that the so-called GOP 'leadership' has yet to issue a tepid reproach, let alone a strongly worded condemnation of a movement that is 1) un-American 2) bigoted 3) made of liars to a person!

Until the GOP leadership steps forward and condemns the 'tea bagger movement', I remain confirmed that the 'tea bagger' movement is encouraged by the highest ranking members of the GOP embittered by the legion of failures chalked up by their party since the inauguration of Ronald Reagan.

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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Lessons the GOP Learned from Adolph Hitler: the 'Big Lie' Called 911

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

Those still believing Bush's big 911 lie are of three types plus combinations: crooks, idiots, and liars! There was no fuselage, there was no airliner wreckage, there were no large titanium/steel alloy rotors each some 10 feet in diameter to be found at the Pentagon on the morning of 911. Yet --we are expected to believe the most evil, the most harmful fraud since Hitler coined the phrase: 'Big Lie'!
All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.

--Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA, 1971, pgs. 231, 232
There was no airliner wreckage at the Pentagon --we are told --because a 757 airliner body 'vaporized' in the intense heat. Nevertheless, forensics experts claimed a 97 percent success rate identifying victims using DNA. Now --DNA is very fragile! The heat necessary to 'vaporize' an aluminum airliner body --some 11,000 degrees F --would have utterly destroyed testable DNA. The heat required to vaporize an aluminum airliner body is about 1000 degrees higher than the surface temperature of the sun itself! [See: NASA, Solar System Exploration]

The Bushco liars cannot have it both ways. If Bush were telling the truth about the airliner, then the casualty IDs are impossible. Bushco cannot claim to have ID'd victims and --at the same time --explain away the missing airliner wreckage by claiming it was victim to an extreme heat of mysterious, unknown origin.

Extreme Heat of Unknown Origins?

So effective are Hitler's 'Big Lie' techniques for Bush that millions swallowed the lie despite the fatal contradictions! Millions dared not conclude that a fire of 11,000 degrees F --sufficient to 'vaporize' aluminum --would likewise destroy the fragile DNA upon which the identification of victims was absolutely dependent! Either the airliner vaporized or the victims were identified --but not both!

We were expected to believe that heat sufficient to vaporize an airliner body left intact enough fragile DNA to make possible the identification of 97 percent of victims. If this were true, the age of miracles is not over. That this ludicrous lie --laughable were it not so tragic in its consequences --gained currency for even a second is proof that the American educational system is a colossal failure. Texas, which recently beat Mississippi in a race to dead last in the percentage graduating high school, is the specimen to be studied, the example to be avoided. Apparently, logic is no longer taught in Texas. Yee-haw!

Either the fire was not hot enough and the IDs are correct or Bushco is left to explain the presence of an almost unbelievable and mysterious source of heat. That Bush is still free, un-indicted for the capital crimes of mass murder and high treason, proves Hitler to have been correct. As Hitler himself made clear: the bigger the lie the less likely it is to be questioned, the more likely that the 'perp' will get away with cold-blooded murder for political reasons and the enrichment of a base of filthy rich, elite fat cats.

Bush Confirms Hitler with a Nazi Tactic

Nevertheless, the 'vaporization' theory creates yet another problem for devotees of the Bush official conspiracy theory: if the airline, indeed, vaporized then what is the source of this incredible heat without which the Bush theory falls apart?

Certainly --a mere kerosene fire could not have melted the steel at WTC, NY but 11,000 degrees F is required to vaporize aluminum. Certainly, the dinky, un-impressive Pentagon fires left open books in adjacent offices flapping in the breeze. The axis of GOP/Bush has a problem: how to explain the fatal contradiction, how to hide the truth, how to distract the idiot masses, the poor unwashed, every child that was, in fact, left behind but not before they were exploited for votes!

The Pentagon fires could not and did not -- in fact --vaporize anything on 911. If there had been such intense heat, it begs the question: what is the source of alleged temperatures in excess of 11,000 degrees F? A violation of Occam's Razor, it is a big problem for the crooks, liars and idiots in office.

911: A Day of GOP Miracles and Suspensions of the Laws of Physics

Mysteriously, the remains of alleged hijackers were separated from the remains of Pentagon employees! How was this miracle achieved? Indeed, none of them were ID'd and none of them appeared on the official autopsy list released to Dr. Olmsted in response to his FOIA request.

If Bushco's theory were true, there would have been no DNA to test because no DNA would have survived the 11,000 degree F temperatures required to 'vaporize' an aluminum 757 body. The best explanation --of course --is that there was no airliner and no airliner body. But the GOP cannot seize power with either science or logic. The question is not whether Bush lied! The question is, rather, which lie does he expect you to believe today, this week, this month?

DNA is often said to decompose when heated but, in fact, the effect may be even worse: it literally melts. As heat is applied, bonds that join the two nucleotide strands may break.
The two molecules [nucleotides] are stabilized in this structure due to noncovalent bonds, mostly hydrogen bonds and vanderWaals forces. These bonds are not strong; accordingly, when the temperature rises sufficiently, the double helix is said to "melt" into its two component molecules, and will reassociate upon slow cooling under appropriate salt conditions. So, the issue is not decomposition so much as disassociation upon exposure to too high a temperature; and the reason for the disassociation is that the energy input of the heat overcomes the ability of the noncovalent bonds to keep the molecules together. .

--US Energy Department, Molecular Biology Archive, DNA Decomposition
Take the case of Flight 93. Saeed Alghamdi has been protesting his innocence of 911 since the event. If Saeed were guilty, he would be dead! If Saeed were guilty he would have been blown to smithereens over PA. A dead Saeed might be evidence of Bush's theory. Alive, he is living proof that Bush's official conspiracy theory is a pack of black hearted lies that have harmed the American people, the world and, most certainly, the cause of peace.

FBI Director Robert Mueller had said that there was no evidence to connect the 'said' 19 'hijackers' with the events of 911. His statement alone should have been sufficient cause to re-open a case involving one of the most heinous, cruel atrocities in human history. And there is STILL no evidence to connect ANY 'Arab hijackers' with the crime of mass murder called '911'. As Dr. Olmsted pointed out: mere names on a list is not evidence, certainly not admissible evidence. Anyone can type up a list of anything. But an 'official' list of bodies autopsy is evidence and may be admissible in court upon the sworn statement of the coroner. In this case, such a document does not have on it any Arab names whatsoever. There is, then, absolutely no official or admissible evidence whatsoever that there were any terrorists on board Flt 77. There is no evidence that any 'alleged' hijacker was ever on board any aircraft that is alleged by Bushco to have been involved in the tragic events of 911.

To anyone subscribing to Bush's load of bullshit, I say: show me bodies or a bona fide autopsy report with the names of Arabs on it!

There is none because there were no hijackers on board Fl 77 and there is absolutely no evidence that Flt 77 crashed the Pentagon. If you think so, produce it! Or --as they say in Texas --put up or shut up!

It has been my experience that only those who are guilty of crimes bother to cover them up and lie about them. When Nixon tried to cover up Watergate, he infamously said: "I am not a crook!" But Nixon was a crook and we all knew it.

Reagan lied about Iran/Contra but the concluding statement of Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh left no doubt that Reagan, he believed, was complicit in an act of high treason --'directing' the arming of an avowed and declared enemy of the United States: Iran.
The Iran/contra investigation will not end the kind of abuse of power that it addressed any more than the Watergate investigation did. The criminality in both affairs did not arise primarily out of ordinary venality or greed, although some of those charged were driven by both. Instead, the crimes committed in Iran/contra were motivated by the desire of persons in high office to pursue controversial policies and goals even when the pursuit of those policies and goals was inhibited or restricted by executive orders, statutes or the constitutional system of checks and balances.

The tone in Iran/contra was set by President Reagan. He directed that the contras be supported, despite a ban on contra aid imposed on him by Congress. And he was willing to trade arms to Iran for the release of Americans held hostage in the Middle East, even if doing so was contrary to the nation's stated policy and possibly in violation of the law.

--Lawrence Walsh, Concluding Observations, FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL FOR IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS
Demonized for years, had Iran suddenly become so cozy with Reagan-heads that it was now OK to arm them? It was a treasonous money-laundering scheme in which Reaganheads funneled the profits to an insurrection in South America --the Contras! Reagan was a crook too, possibly a traitor. But in the US bizarro-world, it's only treason if a Democrat does it!

Amid speculation that Vice-president George Bush and numerous other members of the Reagan cabal were involved, Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh investigated the affair over a period of some eight years. Fourteen people were charged, some with 'operational involvement, other with participating in the "cover-up". Oliver North's conviction was overturned but only upon a 'technicality'. It was left to Bush Sr to let six 'suspects' off the hook with pardons. One of them was Robert McFarlane who had already been convicted. Thanks to a Bush, Caspar Weinberger beat the rap. He didn't even stand trial.

More recently, it is the administration of Bush Jr which actively suppressed evidence and quashed every investigation of 911. Bush and Condoleeza lied when they said that the crashing of airliners into buildings could not have been foreseen. In fact, it was precisely that 'scenario' that was the basis for security when Bush attended the G8 Summit in Italy, July 23, 2001 [See: "Italy: Bush Targeted at G8." New York Newsday 19 Sept 2001, unsigned; "Extremists 'Planned Genoa Attack on Bush'", BBC News, 27 Sept 2001]

Flight 77 Did Not Crash into the Pentagon!

Every Bush lie with regard to every facet of 911 can be exposed easily enough. But it is the Pentagon that is most obviously a bald faced lie. No airliner whatsoever crashed into the Pentagon. I defy Bush and Bush-head to prove it, and failing that, cite --at least --one scintilla of verifiable evidence in support of the idiotic idea that a 757 crashed into the Pentagon!

Bush's theory has been utterly disproven, utterly debunked. In the meantime, I submit to you a much better suspect: the US Global Hawk, a pay-load carrying missile. The Global Hawk was, in fact, flown --without a pilot --from California to Australia entirely by remote control. No box cutters, no Arab hijackers were required! It was all computerized from take off to landing. It is a weapon that traitors and 'inside-jobbers' might have only dreamed about. A Global Hawk gives these lying, murderous, treasonous bastards total control. They need only program the co-ordinates and leave the 'driving' to Global Hawk.

The Global Hawk would have had no problems with maneuvers credited to Hanjour but which experienced pilots say is impossible in a 757. The ONLY engine rotor found at the Pentagon --about one third the size of the huge titanium/alloy rotors found in a 757 --certainly came from a GLOBAL HAWK.

Like its larger cousin inside a 757, the much smaller Global Hawk rotor (made by Rolls-Royce) is likewise made of a titanium/steel alloy to withstand high temperatures inside the engine. It would have survived the Pentagon fire and did! It was the only rotor of any sort to have been photographed on the Pentagon lawn following the crash. The murder weapon was found but ordered destroyed by Bush!

The cover-up of 911 consisted largely of the overt destruction of forensic evidence, the bulk of which is seen in the photo to the right. I am confident It followed an obvious pattern. Physical, forensic evidence was ordered removed and destroyed and was, in fact, never seen again. Other evidence, photographs, video footage, and various once-public documents presumably beyond the reach of complicit officials, was suppressed.

I consider the overt destruction of evidence to be 'evidence' of guilt. Certainly --innocent people have no interest in the suppression of evidence in any case whether it be petty theft or mass murder/high treason. Those guilty of crimes have a lot 'riding' on whether or not the evidence proving their guilt is found. Only the guilty are sufficiently motivated to willfully destroy evidence.

'Concerted programs' to remove evidence were largely successful at ground zero in Manhattan, the Pentagon, and the so-called debris fields of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. Much evidence was removed from Ground Zero even before a massive "steel removal operation" was begun.

It is significant that these instances of obstruction of justice and the criminal destruction of evidence was done after the scenes in question had been sealed off and put under the control the Bush administration. Only the Bush administration had an 'interest' (legal sense of the term) in silencing the truth and obstructing the course of justice. Short of extraordinary extenuating circumstances that I am hard pressed to name, innocent people are simply not going to bother covering up a crime, certainly not crimes of this magnitude where the cover up itself has required a panoply of illegal actions, instances of obstruction of justice, and demonstrable overt lies. Are we expect to believe that innocent people will engage in this kind of felonious, treasonous activity willingly?

Only the guilty are motivated to expend this kind of effort and the resources of the entire nation in the cover up of obvious act of high treason and mass murder! This gang should be rounded up now and prosecuted even if should involve the arrest, incarceration and indictment of every member of the Bush administration, their co-conspirators in other branches of the government, the bureaucracy and the lobbyists who benefited from the defense contracts that result from war. The guilty include the complicit elite one percent who benefited from war the war booty, the deliberate transfer of wealth that occurs during every GOP administration.

Obstruction of justice is a serious crime, a felony. Because this cover up is ongoing, I post the following resource: The Citizen's Investigation Team. This 'team' advises that we 'take it to them'. We demand that our Senators, Reps and other officials
  1. stop lying about 911; lies about crimes are crimes if they aid, abet and/or cover up
  2. actively and substantively support active investigations of the crimes called 911
  3. support the prosecution of those who not only conspired to plan and pull off 911 (Bush, Rummie, Cheney, Rice et al) but those who are complicit by their inaction, by their silence.
As St. Thomas More reminded Qui tacet consentire vidétur, silence gives consent. Those inside the the government who are knowledgeable about this crime must come forward. The failures of public officials to act upon verifiable evidence brought to them are, in fact, crimes of obstruction of justice, misprision of treason, and misprision of a felony. If they persist, if they continue to cover up this crime, they must be charged, tried and sentenced.

It's time to take off the gloves and fight or resign yourselves to perpetual slavery, subservience to big brother and the lying bastards who seized the US government and with it the world's largest nuclear arsenal.

Had a 757 crashed the Pentagon there would have been no need to order decontamination procedures that were, in fact, carried out. No such procedures were carried out in New York. Clearly, 'officials' knew at the time that a civilian airliner had not crashed the Pentagon. That decontamination procedures were ordered and, in fact, carried out is evidence that it was not an ordinary commercial airliner that crashed into the Pentagon. If airliners have begun emitting deadly radiation, I strongly suggest you stop flying.

AFTER 911, the BBC interviewed several of the alleged hijackers, 'dead men' according to Bushco. The Washington Post reported that Hanjour was not on Flt 77 because he did not have a ticket. It is hard to imagine short, skinny Hanjour forcing his way on board, overpowering the Captain and crew, and having done so, taking over the controls with force and a mere box cutter! It didn't happen.

As I recall, the BBC interviewed at least one of Hanjour's alleged Flight 77 partners --after 911! Dead men --we are expected to believe --give interviews. In fact, there is no verifiable evidence of any sort to support Bush's absurd lie. There are no Arab names whatsoever on the only official document of Flight 77 passengers: the autopsy report that was released to Dr. Olmsted in response to his FOIA request.

The official conspiracy theory of 911 is more full of holes than Swiss cheese. Among the biggest holes are these having to do with the Pentagon:
  • NTSB data -Flight 77 never dropped below 273 feet [Source: Pilots for 911 Truth, FOIA request]
  • NO WRECKAGE traceable to a 757 was EVER recovered.
  • The ONLY engine rotors SURVIVING, 'officialists' say, WERE VAPORIZED. That's a lie! The rotors are made of titanium/steel alloy in order to survive the extreme interior heat of jet engines.
  • Just one rotor was found; it was about ONE THIRD the size of a 757 rotor. I believe it was the Rolls rotor from the Rolls engine that is found inside the Global Hawk. A Rolls spokesman is on record as having said that the only rotor found at the Pentagon was not from a 757.
Only the guilty try to cover up their crimes'; only the guilty are motivated to cover up this murderous and treasonous act. As David Ray Griffin said, 'no expenditure of time and money would be considered too great.' Certainly, no lie was too great for Bush. In the end, it is the lies he told that convict him daily.

Someone did pull off 911. The best suspects are the usual suspects: Bush, his NEOCON co-conspirators, the leadership of the GOP, various Pentagon brass, and other complicit murderers inside the Axis of the Military/Industrial Complex and K-Street! This gang of crooks, this nest of human cockroaches, liars, and traitors are responsible for perpetrating the treasonous, murderous crime of 911. Bush is the primary suspect for several reasons:
  • Those who lie about crimes do so to cover up guilt. Bush has never told the truth about 911.
  • Bush has not merely lied; he has actively, consistently and deliberately tried to cover up the crime of 911 with overt and identifiable instances of obstruction of justice, lies, and overt intimidation. This --I believe --is persuasive evidence of his guilt and/or complicity.
Major fuck ups; A mass hanging!

Tim Roemer let the cat out of the bag when, like Donald Rumsfeld, he referred to a 'missile' that struck the Pentagon. In addition, there were the early news reports before 'officialdom' was able to insist that the media report ONLY the official conspiracy theory. Those early reports consisted of anchors like Dan Rather and Peter Jennings talking about 'controlled demolitions', field reporters declaring that no airliner had struck the Pentagon, and, of course, the famous BBC report that WTC7 had fallen even as it was seen still standing behind the reporter. Clearly --the press release had been sent to the media in advance of the event. BBC simply read the release even as the building was still standing behind her. It is a major fuck up among several major fuck ups!

The space shuttle broke apart in the stratosphere at six times the speed of sound yet left identifiable wreckage and identifiable body parts strewn over three states. Wreckage was gathered, investigated and a plausible cause for the disaster addressed. Why was not that professionalism seen with regard to 911? The Carvellian quick response: it is because NASA was not covering up the crimes of mass murder and high treason! The Bush administration was doing precisely that. Government insiders and an entrenched bureaucracy are still lying about and covering up the crimes of 911.

The answer to that question is this: the truth should have already indicted half or more of the Bush administration and the DC bureaucracy of the crimes of mass murder and high treason! The US would have witnessed a mass hanging not seen since the Civil War.

Would someone please indict these criminals before they kill again?

While there is absolutely no valid or convincing evidence to support Bush's conspiracy theory, there is some cause for optimism. A growing public awareness of this fraud may yet reach critical mass and may yet result in mass murder indictments against the Bush gang of murderous thugs.
67% (Zogby International) of Americans blame the 9/11 Commission for not investigating the Bush crimes called '911'. At the time of the poll, a large majority of Americans wanted a Congressional investigation of Bush and Cheney, specifically their actions during and after the attacks.

Zogby Poll: 51% of Americans Want Congress to Probe Bush/Cheney Regarding 9/11 Attacks; Over 30% Seek Immediate Impeachment

67% also fault 9/11 Commission for not investigating anomalous collapse of World Trade Center 7

Kansas City, MO (Zogby International) September 6, 2007 - As America nears the sixth anniversary of the world-churning events of September 11, 2001, a new Zogby International poll finds a majority of Americans still await a Congressional investigation of President Bush' and Vice President Cheney's actions before, during and after the 9/11 attacks. Over 30% also believe Bush and/or Cheney should be immediately impeached by the House of Representatives.

--911 Truth.org
For the following video, a hat tip to an assiduous, stalwart seeker of truth, Damien.



Thursday, February 12, 2009

Why Bush Must be Prosecuted for War Crimes and Mass Murder

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

Bush committed war crimes for which he must be held to account if the phrase 'rule of law' is to mean anything in a post-Bush America. To hold every other American responsible for various laws and petty violations while making exceptions for a mass murderers, torturers, or aggressors is absurd and seditious. Either we are going to have a Democracy under the rule of law or we are not! The choice is ours and America is ours to lose.

As he occupied the White House, there were efforts afoot to 'make legal' after the fact the many crimes that Bush had already committed. This is absurd on its face. No other person living in the US has that kind of power --nor would it be tolerated! The issue was pressed when in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the United States Supreme Court ruled that George W. Bush had exceeded his authority with respect to US detainees in the so-called 'War on Terror'. Neither the Congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), nor the so-called inherent powers had authorized Bush to set up military tribunals at Guantanamo.

For those of us who had maintained that Bush is a "war criminal" who violated not only internenational conventions but also US criminal codes, the decision of the court was a measure of vindication. In effect, SCOTUS held that for a period of five years, the Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney gang had been guilty of violating the Third Convention on treatment of prisoners of war as well as a US federal law of 1996 which binds the US executive to those relevant parts of the Geneva convention. [See: US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441]

Predictably, the conspiratorial GOP scrambled to let Bush off the hook. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said that Congress would reverse the Supreme Court's declaration; Sen. Arlen Specter who had much earlier cooked-up a 'magic bullet', went to work on the language of a bill that would, in effect, say that Bush committed capital crimes but would be excused, let off the hook, after the fact. This law would apply to no other accused murderer or torturer in America. Only the so-called 'President' would benefit from it.

I submit to Sen. McCain that Congress does not have the authority to reverse a decision of the supreme court; it can only pass a new law addressing its objections. Such new laws, however, must be consistent with the decision. That is the constitutional function of the court. Moreover, congress may not violate the US Constitution by passing laws which excuse culprits ex post facto!

No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

Article I, US Constitution

Ex post facto is latin for "from something done afterward" or "after the fact". Ex post facto law is retroactive. On it its face, this is unfair and unconstitutional. Ex post facto laws are not to be confused with pardons or amnesty.

Bush and his GOP co-conspirators are routinely at odds with the supreme law of the land but also simple common sense. Because ex post facto laws change —after the fact —the legal consequences of acts already committed, the ex post facto law becomes an instrument of oppression and tyranny. Hoping to crack down on dissenters, for example, a government need only make the voicing of certain opinions a crime but only after they've been printed, broadcast or spoken. These 'frontiers' of tyranny have been explored much earlier but Bush, Cheney and the GOP regime that supported them had learned all the wrong lessons from history. They thought that they had learned how to get away with it.

Such a tyrannical government need only make the law, round up the usual suspects, and prosecute them for actions legal at the time of their commission. Conversely, the dictator-in-chief, in such a society, need only subvert the very foundations of law and order itself and demand that his crimes be made legal —after the fact —after he had already perped them. This is absurd on its face. It allows an executives to rule by decree and make up the laws as he goes along. It removes Constitutional restraints. It gives to mere presidents dictatorial powers that not even British monarchs dared dream of.

Everything Bush knows he got by way of his Grandfather's old trading partner --Adolf Hitler, whose notorious Lesson Number One he summed up himself in one sentence.
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

--Adolf Hitler

Bush learned how to rule ruthlessly though he is hated by the people. Hitler never got more than 37 percent of the vote in several elections called over a short period of time ending with the act of terrorism that Hitler would exploit to consolidate his dictatorship. That act was the Reichstag Fire, Hitler's 911. It's hard to imagine that anyone would dare go back to the well. Nevertheless, the tactic, having proved successful for Nazis, would be tried again.

On February 27, 1937, Hitler was having dinner with Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels when the phone rang to inform the future Fuhrer: "The Reichstag is on fire!" At the scene, Hitler and Goebbels, found Hermann Goring, later Hitler’s air minister, shouting "at the top of his lungs", blaming communists for an act of terrorism.

How Hitler became a dictator is recounted in many sources but William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is still among the very best.
From Goring's Reichstag President's Palace an underground passage, built to carry the central heating system, ran to the Reichstag building. Through this tunnel Karl Ernst, a former hotel bellhop who had become the Berlin S.A. leader, led a small detachment of storm troopers on the night of February 27 to the Reichstag, where they quickly scattered gasoline and self-igniting chemicals and then made their way quickly back to the palace the way they had come. At the same time a half-witted Dutch Communist with a passion for arson, Marinus van der Lubbe, had made his way into the huge, darkened and to him unfamiliar building and set some small fires of his own. This feeble-minded pyromaniac was a godsend to the Nazis. He had been picked up by the S.A. a few days before after having been overheard in a bar boasting that he had attempted to set fire to several public buildings and that he was going to try the Reichstag next.

The coincidence that the Nazis had found a demented Communist arsonist who was out to do exactly what they themselves had determined to do seems incredible but is nevertheless supported by the evidence. The idea for the fire almost certainly originated at the top with Goebbels and Goring. Hans Gisevius, an official in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior at the time, testified at Nuremberg that 'it was Goebbels who first thought of setting the Reichstag on fire' and Rudolph Diels, the Gestapo chief, added in an affidavit that 'Goring knew exactly how the fire was to be started' and had ordered him 'to prepare, prior to the fire, a list of people who were to be arrested immediately after it.' General Franz Halder, Chief of the German General Staff during the early part of World War II, recalled at Nuremberg how on one occasion Goring had boasted of his deed.
At a luncheon on the birthday of the Fuehrer in 1942 the conversation turned to the topic of the Reichstag building and its artistic value. I heard with my own ears when Goring interrupted the conversation and shouted: "The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!" With that he slapped his thigh with the flat of his hand.
The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich (Touchstone Edition, 1990, p. 192-)
Hitler ordered a round up of the usual suspects, in other words, the opposition, consisting largely of communists whom the Nazis could, with but a shred of credibility, blame for an act of bloody terrorism.

Nazis knew what GOPPERS know now --that frightened and anxious people will willingly surrender the blessings of liberty. From Hitler's experience, Bush learned how to use a "Patriot Act" to crack down on dissent.

Hitler wasted no time. The very next day, he was in President Hindenburg's office urging the aging statesman to issue a patriot act, a decree entitled, “For the Protection of the People and the State.” Justified as a “defensive measure against Communist acts of violence endangering the state,” the decree suspended the constitutional guarantees pertaining to civil liberties:
Patriot Act vs, German Enabling Act:

The Decrees of 1933

(a) The February 28 Decree. One of the most repressive acts of the new Nazi government, this one allowed for the suspension of civil liberties ....The president was persuaded that the state was in danger and, hence, that the emergency measures embodied in the decree were necessary. Even though under Art. 48 of the constitution, the decree would have been withdrawn once the so-called emergency had passed, any hope of this happening was prevented by the establishment of Hitler's dictatorship following the Enabling Act (see below). It was in fact never withdrawn and remained until the end as an instrument of Nazi terror against ordinary citizens who ran foul of the regime.
ARTICLE 1. In virtue of paragraph 2, article 48,* of the German Constitution, the following is decreed as a defensive measure against communist acts of violence , endangering the state:

Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty [114], on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press [118], on the right of assembly and the right of association [124], and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications [117], and warrants for house-searches [115], orders for confiscation as well as restrictions on property [153], are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
*Article 48 of the German Constitution of August 11, 1919: If public safety and order in Germany are materially disturbed or endangered, the President may take the necessary measures to restore public safety and order, and, if necessary, to intervene with the help of the armed forces. To this end he may temporarily suspend, in whole or in part, the fundamental rights established in Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 ...........

Patriot Act:

Section 218 which amends the "probable cause" requirement before conducting secret searches or surveillance to obtain evidence of a crime;

Sections 215, 218, 358, and 508 which permit law enforcement authorities to have broad access to sensitive mental health, library, business, financial, and educational records despite the existence of previously adopted state and federal laws which were intended to strengthen the protection of these types of records;

Sections 411 and 412 which give the Secretary of State broad powers to designate domestic groups as "terrorist organizations" and the Attorney General power to subject immigrants to indefinite detention or deportation even if no crime has been committed; and Sections 507 and 508 which impose a mandate on state and local public universities who must collect information on students that may be of interest to the Attorney General.

Bush learned how to suspend civil liberties after a terrorist attack. At the time, only Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio called for a repeal of the Patriot Act.

Hitler had hoped to establish a "permanent" majority of elected Nazis in the Reichstag, a rubber stamp which would pass whatever laws he desired while making it all perfectly legal. Under Bush, Karl Rove spoke of creating a "permanent Republican majority", a 'majority' that would rubber stamp Bush's every decree. A GOP court that would make legal Bush's crimes even after he had already committed them.

Two weeks after the Reichstag fire, Hitler requested the Reichstag to temporarily delegate its powers to him so that he could adequately deal with the crisis. Hitler denounced his opposition, shouting at them "Germany will be free, but not through you!” Hitler won the vote 441 to 84. It gave him a two-thirds majority needed to suspend the constitution. On March 23, 1933, the “Enabling Act”--a patriot act -- made Hitler dictator of Germany. Bush had hoped the 'Patriot Act' would do the same for him.
This would be a whole lot easier if this was a dictatorship ...just as long as I'm the dictator!

--George W. Bush, President-elect

Just as Hitler cut a deal with Thyssen, Krupp, I.G. Farben et al, the triumvirate of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld carved up the oil map of the Middle East for the benefit of big oil and and Halliburton. Hitler coveted Poland's rich coal deposits; Bush coveted Iraqi oil. Bush, was inspired by Hitler's play book. As was the case in 1939, it is still all about energy and for Bushco 'energy' means oil.

The esteemed historian John Keegan believed that Hitler might have won WWII had he kept Rommel supplied. Eschewing an invasion of Russia, Hitler would have been better advised to have ordered Rommel to seize the oil fields of the Middle East.

Bush also learned from his grandfather that there is big money -- a killing in fact --in the industrial murder business. Our own Treasury Department is the source for the following information about how US corporations, primarily US Steel, for whom Prescott Bush was banker, helped Hitler arm and wage war on the world while carrying out mass murder throughout Europe. US steel produced the following percentages of war munitions for Hitler and his Nazi war lords: Pig iron 50.8%; Pipe & tubes 45.5%; Universal plate 41.4%; Galvanized sheet 38.5%; Heavy plate 36%; Explosives 35%; Wire 22.1%.
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

--How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

This is the same firm for whom Prescott Bush acted as banker. In effect, then, Prescott was Hitler’s American banker.

Bush also learned how to outsource murder and atrocity in ways that benefit his right wing supporters. It's called "private enterprise" but in reality it's a form of socialism, farming out work to partners, robber barons, death merchants and hired murderers like Blackwater, a gang of paid thugs whom National Public Radio charges has strong connections with America's radical, religious, fascist right wing.
NPR: The war in Iraq has been partly outsourced to private military contractors which are performing many of the services that used to be done by the military.

My guest, Jeremy Scahill, has written a book about one of those companies, Blackwater, which he describes as "the world's most mercenary army and the embodiment of the Bush administration policy of privatizing military functions." The company, which was founded in 1996, made headlines in 2004 when four of its men were ambushed and set on fire by Sunni gunmen in Fallujah.

The charred remains of two of the men were hung on a bridge for public display. The families of the four men are suing Blackwater for wrongful death, raising a lot of questions about accountability and oversight when private contractors play a major role in war. Jeremy Scahill is a Polk Award-winning journalist who is a frequent contributor to The Nation and a correspondent for the radio and TV show, "Democracy Now." Jeremy Scahill -- if you wanted to write about a private military contractor, why did you focus on Blackwater?

--Blackwater: USA in Fallujah

Bush is ideologically allied with 'state absolutists', for whom the "state" is "God". That notion opposes every "American" value and those of truly religious folk who find the equation of "God" with the "state" a blasphemous notion. And so it is --not merely of religion but of reason.

Bushism is opposite the American ideal espoused by real patriots like Thomas Jefferson whom Bush and Dick Cheney would have derided as "pro-French", "helping the terrorists" or other equally stupid nonsense. James Madison who wrote the first draft of our Constitution would have been demonized as "quaint" by idiots like Gen. Hayden and Al Gonzales.

Bush must surely hate our Declaration of Independence because, in it, Thomas Jefferson sides with the misnamed "insurgency" that is most certainly analogous to Iraqi civilians upon whom the US has waged not a war --but a crime punishable by death under our own federal statutes!

The notion that Congress can somehow exculpate Bush for the crimes he's already committed is not merely absurd, it's seditious and dangerous —a short road to tyranny and dictatorship.

To her credit, Sen. Dianne Feinstein refuted every dubious argument put forward by McCain.

If the US had had a legitimate case for war against Iraq, it might have made a truthful case for it at the UN. Instead, Colin Powell's presentation was a deliberate fraud from start to finish. Powell himself later apologized but not soon enough to avoid every war crime, every death, every murder, every act of torture and mass murder that would follow. It was not only the very worst foreign policy blunder in US history, it is a war crime comparable to those perpetrated by Adolph Hitler and Pol Pot, a 'crime against humanity' comparable to those attributed to Josef Stalin.

It was claimed that the war in Iraq was based on the fundamental concept of removing a tyrant who supported terrorism against the United States. In fact, US foreign policy has never been based upon removing tyrants either tyrants or terrorists. Rather, the US has installed and supported both tyrants and terrorists. The US, itself, may be the world's number one terrorist, a rogue nation, a threat to world peace and humanity. Read prosecutor Lawrence Walsh's final report of the Iran/Contra affair.
The underlying facts of Iran/contra are that, regardless of criminality, President Reagan, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, and the director of central intelligence and their necessary assistants committed themselves, however reluctantly, to two programs contrary to congressional policy and contrary to national policy. They skirted the law, some of them broke the law, and almost all of them tried to cover up the President's willful activities.

What protection do the people of the United States have against such a concerted action by such powerful officers? The Constitution provides for congressional oversight and congressional control of appropriations, but if false information is given to Congress, these checks and balances are of lessened value. Further, in the give and take of the political community, congressional oversight is often overtaken and subordinated by the need to keep Government functioning, by the need to anticipate the future, and by the ever-present requirement of maintaining consensus among the elected officials who are the Government.

--FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL FOR IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS, Part XI Concluding Observations 561
The US invasion of Iraq in which an estimated 1.5 million Iraqi civilians were killed by US forces IS war crime, specifically, a war of aggression under both US Codes, the Geneva Convention and the principles of Nuremberg to which the US is bound by treaty. A first year law student could make the war crimes case against George W. Bush.
(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.

--§ 2441. War crimes, US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441
One wanting or seeking a more dramatic introduction to Nuremberg, I suggest a motion picture from the late 90's: "Nuremberg" starring Alec Baldwin. With minor departures, this film is impressively accurate even to the portrayal of Dr. Gustav Gilbert, the psychologist who concluded that Nazi war criminals were 'evil' in that they 'lacked empathy', a trait that is, of late, found abundantly throughout the American 'conservative' movement, the GOP, the Bush administration. The portrayal of Goring by actor Brian Cox should have gotten an Oscar. Brilliant! As Nuremberg Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, Alec Baldwin, again, proved himself a serious actor.
When for years they have deceived the world, and masked falsehood with plausibilities, can anyone be surprised that they continue their habits of a lifetime in this dock? Credibility is one of the main issues of this Trial. Only those who have failed to learn the bitter lessons of the last decade can doubt that men who have always played on the unsuspecting credulity of generous opponents would not hesitate to do the same, now.

It is against such a background that these defendants now ask this Tribunal to say that they are not guilty of planning, executing, or conspiring to commit this long list of crimes and wrongs. They stand before the record of this Trial as bloodstained Gloucester stood by the body of his slain king. He begged of the widow, as they beg of you: "Say I slew them not."
And the Queen replied, "Then say they were not slain. But dead they are..." If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say that there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime.

--Summation for the Prosecution -July 26, 1946, Chief US Prosecutor, Robert Jackson, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials [See also: The Impact of Nuremberg on Global Justice and Security]
You will find this closing --word for word --in the movie version.

Another observation about the movie is the fact that the producers literally re-created the court room in almost every detail. It has got to be one of the most accurate such re-creations in "filmdom".

I can tell you from sources very close to me and likewise the trial, it was, indeed, a "trial", an extraordinary ordeal that took its toll on the judges, the attorneys, the witnesses, the spectators, the media, the defendants, interpreters and translators, indeed, anyone connected with the trial in any way.

Robert Jackson himself had not wanted to absent himself from the Supreme Court. But Truman was "persuasive" and, once on the job, Jackson was ever hopeful that the principles forged might help prevent the recurrence of such unspeakable tragedy.

Jackson's mocking nemesis was Goring, whose legacy mocks, even in death, Jackson's idealistic hopes for humankind. Goring early on launched a pre-emptive strike in anticipation of a guilty verdict. Before it was returned, he called it "victor's justice", an evil implication that WWII victors were, in fact, no different from the Nazis. How we deal with Bush will either prove Goring correct or it will prove him wrong. If Bush gets away with it, Goring will be laughing at us from his grave.

Writer Kelly Kramer recently compiled a ‘resume’ for George W. Bush. Not every item listed are prosecutable as war crimes; but, certainly, they should be taken just as seriously. That Bush is prosecutable for war crimes is not susprising in context. That 'war crimes' punishable by death are among his many crimes should surprise no one. Following are Bush's 'central accomplishments' according to writer Kelly Kramer:
  • Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history;

  • Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period;

  • Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market;

  • First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history;

  • After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history;

  • In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs;

  • Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history;

  • Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history;

  • Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history;

  • Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed;

  • Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans;

  • Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest a sitting American President, shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind;

  • Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history;

  • First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt;

  • Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world;

  • First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation;

  • Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States;

  • Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history;

  • First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission;

  • First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board;

  • All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations;

  • Biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation);

  • Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history;

  • First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1);

  • Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history);

  • With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years;

  • Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability;

  • First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea;

  • Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts;

  • Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts;

  • Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive';

  • Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months he has no leads and zero suspects;

  • In the 18 months following the 911 attacks he successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States;

  • Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history;
  • Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category straight down.
This is, of course, an edited list. It omits the deliberate lies Bush told in order to wage a war of aggression against the people of Iraq. If so much as one person had died as a result of his lies and the war of aggression that followed, Bush would be subject to the death penalty under federal law, specifically, US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441. But, in fact, Bush death toll, his murder count, is at least 1.5 milllion Iraqi civilians who are dead as a direct result of US aggression. Former LA prosectuor Vince Bugliosi makes still another case that because Bush perpetrated a deliberate fraud in order to commence war, every death of every US soldier is one count of murder. Then, of course, there is evidence that deaths occurred as a result of the acts of torture that followed from Bush's orders. That Bush tried to make these acts legal ex post facto should be compelling evidence that his orders were planned and deliberate. They are punishable by death.


Justice Robert Jackson: Closing Statement,
Nuremberg Trial of Nazi War Criminals

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