-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.hightimes.com/ht/new/9905/burningbush.html <A HREF="http://www.hightimes.com/ht/new/9905/burningbush.html">HIGH TIMES - Burning Bush: George Jr.'s Cross t </A> ----- Burning Bush: George Jr.'s Cross to Bear FILED 05/24/99 One of the only things preventing George Bush's son, George W. Bush Jr., from achieving a mortal lock on the next Republican Presidential nomination are those pesky rumors that he's used recreational drugs. Unlike President Clinton (whose presidency has been oddly defined by his confession that he once attempted to smoke pot but, as an asthmatic, "didn't inhale"), GWB Jr. did more than just experiment once or twice with cocaine, allege the rumormongers, and the man himself has acknowledged that he was a real party animal until a few years ago, before he allegedly "grew up." So far, Bush has neither confirmed nor denied the nose-candy rumors, which is understandable from his point of view. A denial could exhume eyewitnesses or other evidence, and the denials he would have to issue would make Clinton's "I-did-not-have-sexual-intercourse" fibs look like cake in comparison. Of course, any admission that President George Bush's Own Son ever indulged in any illegal recreational drug would probably spell instant doom for any hopes of him, or any other Republican candidate, getting elected to the White House. After all, no one was tougher on illegal drugs than George Herbert Walker Bush Senior. (Unless you were trading arms for coke in Central America, but that's another story.) While the mainstream press has downplayed these rumors, a George Bush parody Website has been having a high old time with them. Fired up by Bush's refusal to address these rumors, these jolly individuals have launched www.gwbush.com, as a continuous parody of Bush's nascent Presidential campaign. So far on the parody site, Bush has promised to launch a new initiative, "Amnesty 2000," to absolve everyone like him who experimented with cocaine before they "grew up." Interviews are also presented with major Bush contributors such as the corrections industry (who benefit directly from the Drug War). The Website itself was formed by an odd partnership. Zack Exley, the Boston computer consultant who set up this parody website and reserved the domain name, describes himself as "a Christian who loathes hypocrisy." Most of the content on the site was provided by RTMARK, a group that "specializes in calling attention to corporate subversion of the US political and electoral process." RTMARK says it is "primarily devoted to anti-corporate activism, and counts the very companies that Mr. Exley works for as some of its targets." Meanwhile, the parody Website is so successful that it's listed as an unofficial Bush campaign site in Yahoo! and other search engines. This in turn inspired the Junior Bush to try to buy the domain names. Exley asked for $350,000, so Bush filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission on May 3 to prevent Exley & Co. from running their parody--thus proving not only that he has no sense of humor but a very thin skin. Bush's reaction has set all the "Freedom of the Internet" watchdogs loose on this battle, since it could set precedents for the limits of Internet parody and rights to own domain names. Junior Bush also decided to go out and buy any and every website URL that might be confused as one of his own-- there were 60 of them, according to report--including bushbites.com and bushsux.org. (This desperate attempt at damage control was probably inspired by fellow Republican Rudy Giuliani's anti-Hillary-Clinton Website, www.hillaryno.com although one might think that if Bush were successful at preventing Exley & RTMARK from running an anti-Bush Website with a name like gwbush.com, they could turn around and take bushsux.org away from Bush for similar reasons.) According to a press release sent out by Exley and RTMARK: "By reserving the domain names, Exley initially hoped to sell them back to the Bush camp for a small profit. That changed, however, when he [Exley] read news articles that discussed Bush's refusal to deny past cocaine use. His interest in the matter has since escalated into something of a crusade." "Bush won't deny he used cocaine," says Exley, "yet hundreds of thousands of people are serving very long sentences for equivalent or lesser crimes, including many in Texas, where Bush is governor. Clinton just got away with perjury while a hundred people are in jail for that crime. Do we want our children to learn that a crime is only a crime if you don't have power?'" Meanwhile, RTMARK seem more concerned by Bush's attempted power-play on the freedom of the Net. "George W. Bush Jr. apparently thinks small-time folk should have to register with the government before exercising free speech on the Internet," says Rita Mae Rakoczi, a lawyer and RTMARK representative. "The implications of such a precedent could be quite serious." �The full text of the Bush lawyer's letter to the F.E.C., his cease-and-desist letter, and other materials can be found at http://rtmark.com/bush.html. �The pages of gwbush.com that deal specifically with Bush's cocaine use can be found at: http://www.gwbush.com/bushpramnesty.html and http://www.gwbush.com/bushq3.html �For more on Bush's domain-name buying frenzy, see: http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/990513/bn8.html John Holmstrom - Special to HT News ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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