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Assassinations, phony wars, cooked polls, corporate crooks and stolen elections By Bev Conover Online Journal Editor & Publisher >From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in Washington, good people, deliver us!�with apologies to the Scots for paraphrasing their old saying. October 31, 2002�Once again, despite cooked polls, it's all going badly for the junior George Bush. The economy becomes worse by the day. The corporate crooks go unpunished. His friends, Russian President "Pooty-Poot" Putin and Mexican President Vicente Fox, have deserted him. What really happened on 9/11 looms larger than ever and people are now even questioning whether Senator Paul Wellstone's death was an accident or murder. Worse, the grand old man of the left, Gore Vidal, has joined with us "conspiracy nuts" in saying the evidence points to George W. either being complicit in or letting the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, happen. Vidal, after pondering the obvious, has decided that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. In a lengthy article, The Enemy Within, that appeared in Sunday's print edition of the UK's Observer, Vidal wrote, "Post-9/11, the American media were filled with pre- emptory denunciations of unpatriotic 'conspiracy theorists,' who not only are always with us but are usually easy for the media to discredit since it is an article of faith that there are no conspiracies in American life. Yet, a year or so ago, who would have thought that most of corporate America had been conspiring with accountants to cook their books since�well, at least the bright days of Reagan and deregulation. Ironically, less than a year after the massive danger from without, we were confronted with an even greater enemy from within: Golden Calf capitalism. Transparency? One fears that greater transparency will only reveal armies of maggots at work beneath the skin of a culture that needs a bit of a lie- down in order to collect itself before taking its next giant step which is to conquer Eurasia, a potentially fatal adventure not only for our frazzled institutions but for us the presently living." He goes on to follow the trail that Michael C. Ruppert, Michel Chossudovsky, Nafeez Mossaddeq Ahmed, and many others of us, all of whom have been trashed by the Establishment Left as nutty conspiracy theorists, have been following and concludes there is something very rotten in the Bush administration. Moreover, in any past administration, just the fact alone that the military failed to follow procedure in scrambling planes on that fateful monring would have resulted in courts-martial and impeachment. Of the corporate media, Vidal said, "The media, never much good a analysis, are more and more breathless and incoherent. On CNN, even the stolid Jim Clancy started to hyperventilate when an Indian academic tried to explain how Iraq was once our ally and 'friend' in its war against our Satanic enemy Iran. 'None of that conspiracy stuff,' snuffed Clancy. Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth." Indeed. But while Bush and Dick Cheney labor to thwart any investigation into 9/11�much less a meaningful independent one�their plans to grab the rest of Eurasia, now that they have (or think they have) Afghanistan, are coming unglued, or as the headline on Ruppert's Oct. 28 article reads: Wheels Come Off U.S. War Plans for Iraq. Ruppert wrote that "Bush administration responses to recent events appear to be moving a tense international situation into a new phase where chaotic, scattered and increasingly bloody violence may spread risk to civilian populations and the estimated 80,000 to 100,000 U.S. troops that have been forward-deployed in anticipation of the attacks for months. U.S. troop deployments in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Djibouti, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and a Kurdish controlled region of northern Iraq� once offensive staging points or strategic postings�are now becoming vulnerable defensive liabilities as world sentiment mounts against the U.S. invasion. Britain is also reported to have troop deployments in Oman on the Southeast tip of the Arabian Peninsula." A reported recent coup attempt in Qatar, "perhaps the most vital country to a successful U.S. invasion plan, has raised serious questions about whether the administration can afford to wait much longer without risking the entire collapse of both its prestige and a plan which has recently been shown to be years in the making." Adding to Junior's woes, Brazilians delivered another slap in the face to the Bush administration by electing, in a landslide, Worker's Party candidate Luis Inacio "Lula" de Silva, a former Marxist, president of the largest democracy in South America. That follows on the heels of a second coup attempt against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has dared criticize Bush policies in Latin America. In the midst of the Republicans bearing their fangs and unleashing every dirty trick in the book in the hopes of assuring themselves of controlling all three branches of the federal government, comes the very convenient death of Minnesota's Paul Wellstone, one of the last liberal Democrats in the US Senate. Wellstone was a bad boy in voting against the resolution that gave Bush authorization to wage war on Iraq. He was the only incumbent up for reelection to vote no. The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air A100 carrying Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia and five others crashed and burned under mysterious circumstances last Friday, just two miles short of the Eveleth, Minn., airport where it was to have landed, killing all aboard. In 2000, the Democratic governor of Missouri, Mel Carnahan, who was battling John Ashcroft for a US Senate seat, also died in a small plane crash. The difference was that Carnahan's wife, Jean, was not with him. Jean agreed to fill the seat for her late husband should he win it and Missouri voters delivered a blow to Ashcroft, now Bush's attorney general, by casting their votes for a dead man. Coincidence? Possibly. But Wellstone's death comes at a time when too many strange things are happening in this country. Also bear in mind, Junior declared that anyone who isn't with him is the enemy. The World Socialist Web Site put it this way: "One might say, paraphrasing Oscar Wilde, that to lose one senator is a misfortune, but to lose two senators, the same way, is positively suspicious." Besides all these goings on and the unrelenting effort to keep Americans in a constant state of fear�relentless announcements of alleged imminent, but unspecified, terror attacks and the Washington-area sniper shootings (which may be hung on our latest Lee Harvey Oswalds)�George W. has the all important task of helping his equally criminal brother, Jeb, get reelected as governor of Florida or suffer his greatest humiliation, that is, if Junior is capable of suffering anything other than temper tantrums. Of course, it helps when the voting equipment being used not only in Florida but throughout much of the country is provided by Republican-controlled companies. Florida Republicans also get a boost from the fact that the tens of thousands of black voters wrongly deemed felons and purged from the voter rolls in 2000 will not have their voting rights restored until the beginning of 2003�long after the race between Jeb and his Democratic opponent, Bill McBride, is decided. Yet, the Florida corporate media are telling voters what a great guy Jeb Bush is, while again burying his criminal past and erasing from their memory banks Jeb's hand in helping brother George steal the Sunshine State's 25 presidential electoral votes. Then there are the dirty tricks. Had it not been a mistaken call to Florida Democratic Chairman Bob Poe, few people would know that someone is phoning registered Democrats and urging them to cast absentee ballots on Nov. 10�five days after the election. In a letter to US Attorney John Ashcroft, asking him to investigate the misleading call, Poe wrote, "When I questioned the caller about the November 10th election date, he was adamant that I wasn't to cast my absentee ballot until November 10th. When I inquired about whom he was making the call for, he said 'the McBride campaign'� apparently unaware he was speaking with the chair of the Florida Democratic Party. When I asked what company he worked at, he said 'California' and then said something I couldn't understand. Upon asking him again, the caller said he was calling from 'CSS.' When I asked to speak to his supervisor, he disconnected the call." Jeb and the Florida GOP have been running patently false ads to paint his opponent, Bill McBride, as a "tax and spend" Democrat, when McBride has made it clear that the only new tax he would impose is 50 cents on a pack of cigarettes to pay for additional public school construction, should the smaller class size initiative on the ballot pass. Yet, stuck in the back pages of a local paper is an article that Jeb's brother Neil�the same Neil who got a slap on the wrist for his part in the Silverado Savings & Loan debacle�is hoping to sell Florida schools software made by his company, Ignite, Inc., to allegedly help students prepare for mandatory the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), championed by Jeb as a measure of school performance. What was left out of the Associate Press article is the fact that Ignite surreptitiously promotes a right wing Christian approach to education. So if Jeb loses next Tuesday, it will be a blow to not only brother George and Jeb's hopes of succeeding him, but to brother Neil's pocketbook, as well. In a series of efforts to make sure that doesn't happen, the state Republicans are mass mailing flyers containing whoppers about McBride's performance as the managing partner of the Holland & Knight law firm. The Miami Herald, which endorsed Jeb's reelection, reported that the latest flyer, sent out over the weekend, "contains an unflattering photo of McBride, mouth open, and says he 'borrowed so heavily against the assets of his failing law firm he had to get out fast.'" It further claims, the Herald said, "McBride has begun to 'mortgage his own campaign' by making billions of dollars in promises demanded by the 'special interests' funding his campaign, and is promising new sales taxes." Then there is the little money swap the National Republican Senatorial Committee engaged in with the Florida Republican Party. Despite the lack of a Senate race in the state this year, the NRSC sent the Florida GOP $3.2 in soft money to help Jeb, In exchange, the Florida GOP transferred $2.7 million in hard money to the NRSC to be used to help senatorial candidates in close races in other states. Perhaps Jeb revealed the sleaze of the Bush family's character in a remark he made to whistleblower and former Office of Naval Intelligence officer Al Martin, who had been involved with him in Iran-contra. According to Martin, his attorney had sent him in February 1986 to discuss with Jeb his (Martin's) upcoming grand jury testimony in regard to Iran- contra. Martin said the meeting took place in the office of Jeb's Miami real estate business. In an interview with author Uri Dowbenko, Martin contended, Jeb warned him about telling the truth with these chilling words: "The truth is useless. You have to understand this right now. You can't deposit the truth in the bank. You can't buy groceries with the truth. You can't pay the rent with the truth. The truth is a useless commodity that will hang around your neck like an albatross�all the way down to the homeless shelter. And if you think that the million or so people in this country that are really interested in the truth about their government can support people who would tell them the truth, you got another think coming. Because the million people in this country that are truly interested in the truth don't have any money." (Bushwhacked, P. 162) Martin further told Dowbenko, "In the past, I've talked about George Bush Sr.'s famous quote that "truth will get you broke�or dead." There is no honor among these thieves and their supporters. There is nothing they won't say or do to gain their ends. Is this the kind of country we want for ourselves, our children and our children's children? If your answer is no, the only means we have now of halting them is the ballot box if it isn't rigged. No matter how angry or disgusted many of us are with the Democrats, this is not the time to stay home on election day or vote for a third party candidate, no matter how attractive that candidate may be. If the Republicans get control of both the House and the Senate, get used to living in a police state where you are nothing more than a worker ant�or a "useless eater" to be done away with if you can no longer work�and your offspring are looked upon as nothing more than cannon fodder for the Bush regime's endless wars. And that's the truth�unspeakable or not. Download a printable version. For a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here. The views expressed herein are the writers' own and do not necessarily reflect those of Online Journal. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright � 1998-2002 Online Journal�. All rights reserved. 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