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It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
--- John Adams
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Tuesday July 13, 12:37AM
George Washington: Deadbeat Dad and Rapist?
Americans know George Washington as the father of their country. But now the
New York Times wants to know: Was he the father of West Ford?
As the Times reported last Wednesday, Ford was born in 1784 or 1785 to a
slave named Venus who lived on the Virginia estate of Washington's
half-brother, John Augustine Washington. Now, two of West Ford's
descendants, Janet Allen and Linda Bryant, claim that the oral traditions
handed down in their family reveal that Ford was actually the illegitimate
son of Washington and Venus.
In fact, the alleged liaison seems to have been something less than
consensual. Bryant says that it was during Washington's April 1784 visit to
his brother's plantation that "Venus was made available to him for his
comfort."
In other words, George Washington, the man who legend has it could not tell
a lie, now stands accused of being a deadbeat dad - and even perhaps a
rapist?
So far this bizarre allegation has been the subject of at least two
substantial reports in the New York Times and one television interview by
CNBC's Brian Williams, who talked to Linda Bryant Friday night. That's some
pretty hefty coverage considering the question marks that hang over this
story.
As even the Times admits, there's absolutely no documentable evidence that
Washington and Venus ever met. Nor is there any record that he ever visited
the estate where she lived. By all accounts, Washington was extremely
jealous of his reputation - making extramarital sex, let alone an encounter
with an unwilling slave-girl, even less likely.
And finally, as if this tale weren't already thin enough, historians have
long believed that George Washington was sterile. That notion is amply
supported by the fact that Martha Washington had four children by a previous
marriage yet none during her time with America's Founding Father.
Such serious media treatment of the George Washington love-child allegation
is even more astonishing considering the way the Times, NBC and almost all
the rest of the mainstream press declined to touch another recent report of
presidential paternity.
Last November NewsMax.com interviewed Lucille Bolton, the aunt and one-time
guardian of Little Rock teen Danny Williams. Bolton revealed that Danny's
family was ready to seek proof that his mother, Bobbie Ann Williams, had
conceived him during one of thirteen sexual encounters she alleged with
then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton.
At the time, Williams' case was far more compelling than the one the Times
is currently touting against Washington.
First, all the principles were still alive and available for interviews.
Witnesses could and did place Clinton in Bobbie Ann's company. She and
Bolton both passed lie detector tests. Bobbie Ann could accurately describe
unique locations of her liaisons, such as the interior of the lakeside cabin
owned by Clinton's mother.
Moreover, Clinton and his aides treated the story from day one as if it were
true. After word leaked in late December that STAR magazine had Danny's
family under contract and intended to compare his DNA to Clinton's, denials
were not forthcoming. The history of the story also includes what looks like
a bribe to win the silence of Robert "Say" McIntosh, a Little Rock community
activist who first forced news of Danny into the public domain in the
mid-80s.
Just days away from the commencement of the President's impeachment trial,
the New York Post front paged news of the DNA test with the headline,
"Clinton Paternity Bombshell." White House watchers went wild with
speculation. But with the exception of the Post, others in the prestige
press, like the Times and NBC, refused to report a word.
Danny's DNA did not match Clinton's after all - or at least not the version
of Clinton's genetic material published by the Office of Independent Counsel
in its impeachment report. When asked by NewsMax.com last January whether
Clinton's DNA information might have been altered in public documents for
national security reasons, an FBI Lab spokesman turned defensive and said,
"We're not going to answer a question like that."
Still, most consider STAR's Danny-Clinton DNA comparison to be conclusive.
Though if Danny were West Ford, the New York Times might require a
full-blown, court ordered DNA paternity test before it decided to drop the
story.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover.shtml
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