(This excellent essay by Melody Clark doesn't go to the obscure historical fact detail as many of the posts of
some of our wonderful DU posters, most notably, Octafish. Instead, it it goes more to address the motives of aristocracy, American, European and Corporate. It Rocks! )
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_melody_c_070713_the_bush_family_and_.htmThe CIA called him the Ice Pick, because of the cruel callousness with which he meted out tragedies for his enemies and any hapless innocents who got in their way. The general US public knows him as "Poppy Bush" -- that smiling and occasionally elderly weeping shell of a man whose son has finished the job many feel he was to begin in his second term. It's a commonly held opinion that Bush the Elder was somehow a more benevolent President. If he was, it was an accident of history.
Truly, in one way or another, the Bush family has ruled this country like an unseen monarchy since 1980. Before that, they were strongly represented among the ruling class. It's commonly accepted that Ronald Reagan -- probably already suffering from early Alzheimer's disease when he was elected -- was merely a puppet for his then-Vice President, George the Elder.
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Shall we do away with idiotic reservations about Royalty's compulsion to murder their opponents? They have done so for ages. I feel John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert were both murdered by elements of the same cabal that then brought Nixon into power, setting up Watergate, to say nothing of sinking our country into the worst morass of CIA misdeeds ever carried out by a single nation. All this, at the behest of the Bush family. When you look at all the names surrounding Watergate, the CIA involvement in murder and espionage, and the present administration, you see the same names cropping up: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld. Nixon was amongst them until his death.
We must ask ourselves for whom has this been good? Who stood most to gain from the post-JFK attack on our government (under the guise of Reagan wanting "small government"), our educational system (to dumb us down), our media via mass corporate buy-ups? Arabs? Hardly. Jews? Please! Aristocrats, my friends ... aristocrats -- European and American aristocrats have always hated the USA because of the sense it belongs to its people. We've done many good things, we've accomplished much, we are in possession of vast resources which are ours by right of our forefathers' sacrifices. How else to bring us down like the common trash we are?
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Bush. That's the only name you need to know -- Bush. The same Bush family who are strongly allied with the UK Tory government and its most staunch right-wing. You may remember our country's history with Tories.
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We have only to look into the connections between these "neoconservatives" and their international brothers to see the face of the enemy shaping up. PNAC in the US, the Henry Jackson Society in the UK, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard whose one-man campaign against Bill Clinton certainly seemed oddly-timed, and others.
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My European friends have much to be proud of in their own cultures. I share those cultures. My ancestral homeland is Great Britain (except for the 1/4 of me that belongs to the Cherokee). My heart is and will always be with the people of Europe and the government of Europe that serves those people, but just as we have a solid US aristocracy plotting against the populace, they have one as well.
The US represented a formidable opponent to them -- truly people-run power. That is why we were taken apart by the international aristocrats and the corporate whores that serve them. Is the US the "best country in the world"? Hardly. How can we be? We brought here the cultures of Europe and we have made all the same mistakes.
The difference is this is our country. It is the only heritage we have. We have no great historical depths ... no castles or heroic quests, beyond ones that have been denied us by history. It is one Constitution, one government, one idea that propels us. It is a small and fragile trust, but a mighty one. Our very planet has survived in a violent, turbulent universe because it is small. It has changed to accommodate us because its ecosystem is fragile. Its' smallness and fragility is its central strength, very like this country governmental concept.
For those Europeans (like Eddie Izzard) who celebrate the US' downfall while they speak of their "country Europe", I would suggest a similar fate might befall you as the one which befell my stepmother. She had always sneered at the idea of unions (she was a solid Republican). She worked at a company without unions, she always pointed out -- a company which paid just as much as the other companies that were unionized and SHE didn't have to pay for a union -- but the very instant the unions were broken in those companies (due to the pressure from non-union companies), everyone's pay was cut, layoffs were massive, and benefits were a thing of the past. She didn't understand what had happened.
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