Chris Floyd: In 2009, expect "healing national wounds", "coming together again", "moving on."

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just one more time


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2269467


By Chris Floyd
November 9, 2007



.....At his Harper's blog, Scott Horton demonstrates how the architects of George W. Bush's filthy torture regimen are now holding positions that allow them to protect themselves and their masters from the legal consequences of their actions. ..... And yet these sinister wretches -- blood caked all over their thousand-dollar suits -- are still treated, even respected, as the legitimate custodians of the constitutional Republic they have brutally defiled. .....the only honorable and self-respecting thing an legislator could do in these degraded times is simply to say of every single nominee offered up by the blood-caked suits: "Anyone who would agree to work with this criminal enterprise is automatically unfit to hold office, whatever other qualifications they may have."


Oh, but the Democrats are being cagey, we are told; they're being savvy, being tactical. They're holding their fire, playing it cool, not wanting to appear divisive or partisan, just waiting for the presidency to fall back into their hands in 2008. And then, and then....
Then what? The Democratic nominee looks certain to be Hillary Clinton -- whose husband buried a whole boatload of previous Bush crimes after he took office in 1993, as Robert Parry reports in his book, Secrecy and Privilege. If Clinton I had allowed justice to pursue the various Bush I scandals to the end, we would have been spared the hideous, murderous farce of Bush II's reign. The name of Bush would have been so rightly tainted that L'il Pretzel would never have gotten anywhere near close enough to steal the 2000 election. Is there anyone who believes that Clinton II would pursue Bush II's manifold crimes any more diligently than her husband?

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No mainstream Democrat will ever allow full-fledged criminal investigations and prosecutions of Bush II officials for torture and the war crime of military aggression. You know and I know that's not going to happen. We will get, at most, some soaring rhetoric about "healing national wounds" and "coming together again" and "moving on." (With the outside possibility of a few small fry being offered up as sacrifices, to let the Dem president preen as the "restorer of the rule of law" -- and also purge the Republicans, and Bush, of the worst taint: "Hey, it was a few bad apples, and now they're gone. We've got a clean slate!")

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And let us at last be done with the fatal pretense that what we are witnessing today in the war of aggression and the torture program are some kind of aberration, the result of "bad apples" in the White House and Pentagon. .....
It's not just Mukasey. It's not just Haynes. It's not just Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld or Rove (or Hillary or Bill). It is the all-pervasive system that is crushing us. Or as another writer once put it:


For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.













Jackson Stephens


http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID60/27138.html

Stephens, Inc. may factor in somewhere
Stephens, Inc. is the Arkansas bank of Jackson Stephens. He was a fund-raiser in Arkansas for Jimmy Carter and also bankrolled Bill Clinton's early campaigns. But he switched over to the Republicans with the 1980 Reagan campaign and his wife managed Bush, Sr.'s 1988 campaign in Arkansas.
Stephens, Inc. was involved with BCCI in the late 70's, helping them gain control of American banks. It was Stephens, Inc. that arranged the sale of Bert Lance's National Bank of Georgia to BCCI frontman Ghaith Pharaon in 1978.

Stephens, Inc. became involved with Harken Oil in the late 80's, at about the same time as Bush, Jr., and arranged Harken's 1987 stock offering through BCCI-related banks in Europe.

Stephens then brought in a Saudi real-estate magnate, Sheikh Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, to acquire those shares, amounting to 17.6% of Harken's total stock. Bakhsh was a partner of Ghaith Pharaon and his banker was Khalid bin Mahfouz, whose name comes up so often in BCCI and bin Laden-related matters.

Bakhsk's investment manager, Talat Othman, became his representative on Harken's board of directors and gained access to Bush, Sr. as a result, being part of a group of Arabs who met with him two days after Iraq invaded Kuwait.

I mention all this because Jackson Stephens and Stephens, Inc. are the one clear link I know of between Jimmy Carter/Bert Lance/Bill Clinton and the whole BCCI-related complex that figures so strongly in the later Bush dealings. And because there definitely seems to have been something screwy going on in Arkansas (and possibly Missouri) -- although the extent of Clinton's knowledge of it still appears problematic.





George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens, c. 1979–90, 5th Version, 1999, by Mark Lombardi




http://archive.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=216

Whole chains of Florida hospices and nursing homes to which Jackson Stephens is the ultimate owner, along with Carlysle Groupies, run with front men in charge. These companies are interbred with funeral homes and graveyards where bodies get disinterred and bones sold.
The FuneralGate scandal was a big thing before 911.

How many hops between this hospice, and the nearest FuneralGate figure?
Damm few, betcha.

... with Ken Lay, his giving the finger to Clearwater protesters, Florida's criminal
purge of LEGAL voters, the Menorah Gardens Funeralgate scandal, and on and on ...






BCCI frontman Jackson Stephens



http://www.slate.com/id/2094848 /

Jackson T. Stephens—$60.5 million to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, and St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center; and a $20.4 million pledge of which $13.26 million was paid in 2003 to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Stephens, 80, owner and operator of Stephens Inc., a brokerage house in Little Rock, Ark., gave $48 million to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, in Little Rock. The gift will finance a building at the Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute at the university, purchase equipment for the institute, and support programs and research. Stephens also gave $10 million to the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, in Annapolis, Md., for renovations at the Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium there. The gift is the largest ever to the naval academy. Stephens graduated from the academy in 1947. Stephens also gave $2.5 million to St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, in Little Rock, to purchase equipment for the health center and to support completion of the hospital's new heart center. He also pledged $20.4 million to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to construct a center for the university's athletics department and basketball and volleyball teams. The center is scheduled to open in spring 2005.