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Octafish

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29. How the Elite Talk in Code - Take Silverado Savings Neil Bush, please.
Sat Sep 26, 2015, 09:41 PM
Sep 2015

Did you see this one, antigop? It's almost an ENIGMA, what the rich and powerful say. It's to hide what they do.



Case in point: One Neil Mallon Pierce Bush, son of then-president George Herbert Walker Bush and caught with his hand in a billion-dollar S&L cookie jar called Silverado Savings & Loan. Here's what Poppy did for his Number 3 Son:



How the Elite Talk in Code

EXCERPT...

A perfect example of code talk comes from a true master insider, George H.W. Bush, when his son, Neil, was caught red handed in the middle of the S&L crisis as a director of Sliverado Bank.

Did Bush lay out his cards and call in his operatives and say pull some strings, get my son out of this investigation (Remember Bush was president at the time.) No. Bush is too smooth. In his published collection of letters, All The Best, George Bush, he shows us how the heat is delicately taken off Neil. On page 449, there is this letter to Thomas Ludlow Ashley.

Ashley is a Yale University grad, and member of the secret society Skull and Bones along with Bush. Here's the letter:

The Honorable Thomas Ludlow Ashley
Association of Bank Holding Companies
Washington, D.C. 20005

Dear Lud,

Thank you for your good memo December 8th.

I would appreciate any help you can give Neil. He tells me he never had any insider dealings. He got off the Board early--long before I was elected President. The Denver paper apparently ran a very nice editorial about him on that. He is an outside director, and thus I guess has liability, but I can't believe his name would appear in the paper if it was Jones not Bush. In any event, I know that the guy is totally honest. I saw him in Denver and I think he is worried about the publicity and the "shame". I tell him not to worry about that but any advice you can give as this matter unfolds would be greatly appreciated by me. If it turns out there has been some marginal call, or he has done something wrong, needless to say there will be no intervention from his dad. But, I'm quite confident this is not true...

Warm regards,

George


Notice how smooth. No talk about getting Ashley anything for taking care of the matter. The nice touch about if Neil "has done something wrong", but the clear finish, he didn't.

CONTINUED...

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2009/07/how-elite-talk-in-code.html



The best thing I can say about her is she is a first class grifter in a second rate wardrobe, a natural warmonger.

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Got it! Thanks! Ilsa Sep 2015 #1
Neil Bush got a billion dollars worth of free stuff, plus he didn't go to jail. Octafish Sep 2015 #14
Yep, an SBA loan as well, for Ilsa Sep 2015 #20
Are not campaign contributions "free stuff"? ZX86 Sep 2015 #2
Great point, ZX86. Takes money to make money. Octafish Sep 2015 #15
K&R. Well said. Overseas Sep 2015 #3
''Free Stuff'' doesn't mean free for all, just the criminal enterprise. Octafish Sep 2015 #16
Wow, the seemingly mild mannered sensible guy has been on the take for a long time. Overseas Sep 2015 #59
Oh, the BFEE is all about free stuff lark Sep 2015 #4
Amazing success, liberating all that loot from its rightful owners. Octafish Sep 2015 #18
Yet W. charges $100,000 a pop to "speak" to veterans of his criminal wars-that's freedom! bobthedrummer Sep 2015 #23
Rich people get free stuff all the time from republicans, but B Calm Sep 2015 #5
Rich through inside dealing and national policy, made a sure-thing by NSA etc War Inc racket. Octafish Sep 2015 #22
Hey, Jeb, go talk to Carly antigop Sep 2015 #6
How the Elite Talk in Code - Take Silverado Savings Neil Bush, please. Octafish Sep 2015 #29
Thanks, Octafish...great thread. nt antigop Sep 2015 #32
.... trusty elf Sep 2015 #7
Look at all the free footwear! Ed Suspicious Sep 2015 #8
I love that photo. Did he just say his brother kept ''us'' safe? Octafish Sep 2015 #30
Hey Octafish! trusty elf Sep 2015 #37
Ha! I wonder... Octafish Sep 2015 #45
Some of that "free" stuff vankuria Sep 2015 #9
That's the conservative way. Octafish Sep 2015 #31
Thank-you for the info! vankuria Sep 2015 #44
K & R AzDar Sep 2015 #10
You know who else is a top rate grifter? CEO Carly the CIA Clotheshorse... Octafish Sep 2015 #33
Free stuff? abelenkpe Sep 2015 #11
The $32 Trillion Hidden Offshore Needs IRS Attention. Octafish Sep 2015 #34
Like the Billions of Dollars Stryst Sep 2015 #12
Cheney Privatized Modern War Octafish Sep 2015 #35
Post removed Post removed Sep 2015 #13
Jeb. What you call "free stuff" the rest of us call "relief and opportunity. Ironically, and solely jtuck004 Sep 2015 #17
Guy's never worked a day in his life. Octafish Sep 2015 #39
thank you. niyad Sep 2015 #19
Hypocrisy, once exposed, really stands out. Octafish Sep 2015 #43
there are days it is hard to fathom the depths to which the bfee sinks. niyad Sep 2015 #57
Fair makes your head spin, doesn't it? LongTomH Sep 2015 #21
Free Stuff in Iraq. Octafish Sep 2015 #46
K & R. The Bush Family, nothing spells Free Stuff like them $$$. Thanks for this Ace post. appalachiablue Sep 2015 #24
Lots of Free Stuff falls off the Quarter Ton Truck o' War all the time! Octafish Sep 2015 #58
But it is just the BFEE! Tee hee giggles! Rex Sep 2015 #25
Bed wetters never explain why they love fascism. Octafish Sep 2015 #36
But they've worked hard scamming, conniving, conspiring, manipulating for all of our money..... Dont call me Shirley Sep 2015 #26
Four Generations of War, Wealth and Oil Octafish Sep 2015 #40
The evil runs deep in that family. bvar22 Sep 2015 #27
When Poppy laughed at 'deluded gunman' in reference to JFK assassination, it became obvious. Octafish Sep 2015 #48
Southern whites sure as shit loved the FREE LABOR they got for over two centuries! eom MohRokTah Sep 2015 #28
Bush family linked to slavery. Octafish Sep 2015 #42
Rothschild family linked to slavery. Octafish Sep 2015 #49
Bush and Rothschild families linked. Octafish Sep 2015 #50
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Sep 2015 #38
CIA Banks on Intelligence...(Betcha that led to lots of Free Stuff) Octafish Sep 2015 #51
The feeling is mutual, Octafish, Uncle Joe Sep 2015 #53
Trudeau hit that one so far out of the park Art_from_Ark Sep 2015 #41
Grand Slam. Octafish Sep 2015 #54
Heh MFrohike Sep 2015 #47
Tax Cuts are Free Stuff, especially the more stuff you already got. Octafish Sep 2015 #55
K&R&bookmark nt JEB Sep 2015 #52
BFEE cronies got MEGATONS of Free Stuff. Octafish Sep 2015 #56
K & R Quantess Sep 2015 #60
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