Commentary by Ru Mill, Editor of RMNews SALON MAGAZINE, THE ONLINE PROTECTOR OF PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, HAS RUN AN ARTICLE ON THE ARKANSAS BLOOD SCANDAL THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER IS SET TO RUN A STORY ON HILLARY BEATING BILL, AND BILL'S JUNK FOOD ADDICTION IS THIS NEW WHITE HOUSE STRATEGY? AND IF IT IS, WHERE IS IT LEADING? * * * * * http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1998/12/cov_23news. html">Salon Newsreal <A HREF="http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1998/12/cov_23news.html">Salon Newsreal | Blood money</A> This is the link for the Arkansas Blood Money story, as told by Salon Magazine. I have also inserted the text of the article at the end of my comments to make it easier to forward. * * * * * "CLINTON FRIENDLY MEDIA" LEAKING STORIES There are now two articles from "Clinton Friendly" media resources that make me question what is coming in the NEAR future. I don't have any answers, I am only pointing out a change in the wind, or in the "spin". Matt Drudge ran a story stating that the National Enquirer is going to be running an article about Hillary hitting the President so hard that he had to wear make up to cover the bruises. The Drudge Report also stated that Bill told the Secret Service, "Get that bitch out of here before I do something I can't get out of" (or words to that effect) The Drudge article closed with reference to the fact that Bill has returned to his "junk food binges". Later that night, on FOX News, one of the "psychological commentators" said that eating junk food was a substitute for his sexual addiction. In other words, if he can't get sex, then he is going to spiral down, psychology, and have to feed his addiction in the only way he can, i.e. binging on junk food. THIS SOUNDS REMOTELY SIMILAR TO "THE TWINKIE DEFENSE" I had just moved to Carmel from San Francisco when Mayor Moscone was gunned down by Dan White. I still considered myself a San Franciscan, therefore the murder of my mayor hit me very hard. I followed the case as well as I could in those days, (BI... Before Internet). My memory is fuzzy right now, I can't remember if Dan White, the man who murdered Mayor Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk, was convicted of manslaughter or second degree murder. Whichever it was, he was out of jail in 7 years or less. What defense did he use? He used what we would now call, "The junk food" defense. Dan White's lawyer convinced the jury that Dan White was suffering a "sugar high" from eating too many Twinkies. This tactic is now called "The Twinkie Defense" At the time the lawyer was making this ridiculous defense before the jury, no one believed it would work. San Francisco and the nation were horrified when Dan White was let go with a slap on the wrist. Shortly after Dan White was released from prison, he "conveniently" committed suicide. There are other, more sinister stories tied to the Dan White story. Many CIA operatives I have spoken to tell me George Moscone knew too much about the Jonestown Massacre. Jim Jones had been an active member of the San Francisco community before he moved to the jungles of South America and started Jonestown. The government operatives I have spoken with regarding the whole incident tell me that the Jonestown operation was a government experiment in mind control. They also tell me Dan White was a "Manchurian Candidate" who had been programmed to kill Moscone, and any witnesses who happened to see the murder. * * * * * (All of this is covered in Volume 1 of RMNews. Unfortunately, RMNews, Volume 1 is not on the Internet. It is available from Pigeon Point Publishing. If you want more information on how to obtain a copy, send me an email and I will send you a list of products which are available from Pigeon Point Publishing. Or click on the soon to be website of Rumor Mill News Agency <A HREF="http://www.rumormillnews.com/">RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY - Home Page </A>http://www.rumormillnews.com/" There is a short list of products for sale on this page.) * * * * * Getting back to the information reported in the Drudge article, I can foresee "a junkfood" defense being used in the future in regards to Bill Clinton. The question is, "What crime will he use it to cover?" Is the White House setting us up for the murder or the beating of Hillary Clinton? Are we being prepared for foreign policy that is so dangerous to the world that it brings us to the point of nuclear annihilation? Will we see Bill Clinton's lawyers tell us that "the stress caused by the Republicans and Ken Starr threw the President into a fit of junk food binging that affected his mental capacity and diminished his ability to judge right from wrong." This tactic sounds vaguely similar to Dan White's "Twinkie Defense." I have not yet seen this weeks edition of the National Enquirer. I don't know if they will run the story. But if they do, you must remember that the story was run, with permission from Bill Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall. David Kendall is also the legal counsel for the National Enquirer. When the White House needed to smear Mary Bono, they turned to the National Enquirer. The Enquirer ran a story on Mary's extramarital affair while she was married to Sonny. Before this story, Mary Bono, who is on the Judiciary Committee, was rapidly becoming the rational voice of the common people. The White House effectively silenced this voice of reason! If the President's own lawyer has allowed his magazine to print the story of the First Lady's attack on the President, what is the White House preparing the American public for? I find it strange that the Drudge Report included the reference to President Clinton's return to junk food binging. Everyone must keep an eye out for references to the President's junk food problem. This could be the avenue that is used to remove him from the White House. Four brave men have already made reference to Clinton's precarious psychological makeup. Representative Tom Campbell called for his removal by way of the 25th Amendment. I just can't help feeling that we are being led down the path one more time. Now, I discover that Salon Magazine, * the very same magazine that broke the Dan Burton sex story... * the very same magazine that had Bill and Hillary Clinton give an interview for their very first issue... * the very same magazine that has become known as the Internet defender of the President. ...Salon Magazine has run a story on the Arkansas Blood Scandal. Even though they make scant reference to Bill Clinton's involvement in the scandal, they have brought this scandal to the attention of millions of Clinton supporters. Clinton supporters believe that all the Clinton scandals are products of the imagination of "The Vast Right-wing Conspiracy" Salon Magazine dashes this 'leftwing belief" with the article on the Arkansas blood Scandal. With this article being introduced in a "Clinton Friendly" media outlet, it is sending a signal that there has been a subtle change in "The Clinton Strategy". So far, my sources have not told me where this "subtle change" is leading. But it is evident to RMNews that the American people are being set up for "The President's Defense". I am sure that this defense, if it is successful, and it probably will be, will set a precedent in American law, whose reverberations will be felt forever. Will the Twinkie Defense be replaced by "The Junk food Defense?" Will President Bill Clinton be the first president to ever be removed from office by using the 25th Amendment? Will Bill Clinton's name forever be tied with "The Junk Food Defense?" I don't have answers to these questions, It's just obvious to me that the White House is "spinning" a new defense for the President.... just in case. Today, in a press clip regarding the attack on the Iraqi missile sites, the President's voice sounded strange. It sounded weak, almost programmed. Watch the President carefully in the next few days, and let RMNews know of any changes you notice. Thank you, Ru Mills, Editor, RMNews >From Salon Magazine salonmagazine.com Blood money An Arkansas prison-plasma business protected by Clinton cronies led to a scandal that almost toppled the government -- of Canada. BY SUZI PARKER | Even the residents of Grady, Ark., call it "godforsaken." It's an enclave of poverty where rampant drug dealing contributes at least as much to the bleak economy as the main legitimate business -- farming -- does. But looming among the rows of cotton outside this dismal Arkansas River Delta town, there used to be a more profitable form of agriculture: human plasma farming. At the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas penal system during the 1980s, while President Clinton was still governor, inmates would regularly cross the prison hospital's threshold to give blood, lured by the prospect of receiving $7 a pint. The ritual was creepy to behold: platoons of prisoners lying supine on rows of cots, waiting for the needle-wielding prison orderly to puncture a vein and watch the clear bags fill with blood. Administrators then sold the blood to brokers, who in turn shipped it to other states, and to Japan, Italy, Spain and Canada. Despite repeated warnings from the Food and Drug Administration, Arkansas kept its prison plasma program running until 1994, when it became the very last state to cease selling its prisoners' plasma. In a year when Arkansas scandals dating back to his governorship have returned to haunt Clinton, this one nearly toppled the government -- of Canada. Arkansas' prison-blood business created a health crisis in Canada that nearly brought down the Liberal Party government last spring. At least 42,000 Canadians have been infected with hepatitis C, and thousands more with the HIV virus, thanks to poorly screened plasma. Some of it has been traced back to the Cummins prison in Arkansas. More than 7,000 Canadians are expected to die as a result of the blood scandal. The Canadian Krever Commission, established in 1993 to investigate the tainted-blood epidemic, concluded the government did not adequately supervise the Red Cross of Canada, the agency responsible for making sure that blood suppliers maintained adequate screening standards. As a result of the scandal, the Red Cross has been stripped of responsibility for the blood system. Compensation was offered to 1,000 people with AIDS, but the Toronto Star estimates nearly 2,000 are suffering. More than 20,000 tainted-blood victims with hepatitis C filed a class-action suit against the Canadian government, alleging that sloppy screening protocols allowed tainted blood products from Arkansas prisons and elsewhere to make their way into Canada. Last week the Canadian government established a $1.1 billion (Canadian) fund to compensate some hepatitis C victims, but advocates say the fund won't be enough. Former Arkansas inmates who claim they contracted hepatitis C and AIDS as a result of improper procedures are also planning to bring a lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Corrections, Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA), Pine Bluff Biologicals -- the two companies that held the prison's plasma contracts -- the state of Arkansas, Clinton and his administration at the time. The White House did not return calls seeking comment on the lawsuits. The scandals have received little media attention here, but they tainted Clinton's years as governor. Some newspaper columnists at the time said it could jeopardize his reelection. Two longtime friends of Clinton's were embroiled in the mess: Leonard Dunn, a former Pine Bluff banker and now chief of staff for Lt. Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller, served as HMA's president; and Richard Mays, a Little Rock lawyer, judge and Clinton ally, was hired in 1985 as an "ombudsman," an ill-defined position that was supposedly created to help bring the prison medical system into compliance with state standards. The exact payment Mays received, or what his duties were, was never established, and became the subject of a state police investigation because of allegations that it was actually a "bribe" paid to a Clinton supporter to allow the program to continue. Problems with the prison plasma program were well known to Clinton throughout the 1980s. The FDA cited HMA for safety deficiencies and shut it down for over a year in 1983, following a recall of hepatitis B-tainted products that had been shipped to Canada and distributed to hemophiliacs. In 1984, the FDA revoked the center's license to operate, and in 1985, an inmate filed a lawsuit against HMA for inadequate medical care. In 1986, Clinton's state police investigated problems at the prison and found little cause for concern, while an outside investigator looked at the same allegations and found dozens of safety violations. Now, more than a decade later, those old Arkansas scandals are getting new attention, thanks to lawsuits and agitation in Canada. To date, the scandal has gotten almost no media attention in the United States. While reporters are riveted by the Monica Lewinsky mess, they've ignored a real Clinton scandal, maybe because it involves two groups no one cares much about -- people who aren't Americans, and prisoners.
