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Longer Than That, Thomas...
...Cheney and Rumsfeld were complicit in covering up this horrifying crime that occurred in the early 1950's. Granted that they were doing this bit of wet-work in Gerry Ford's administration, it was nevertheless part of the same criminal conspiracy.
What got Frank Olson murdered, most likely, was his inability to detach from the horror that was Operation Paperclip -- the importation of Nazi "scientists" from Germany as part of a national security move to keep technology and information from Josef Stalin and the communist empire.
But what is less well known is the fact that Nazi spies were ALSO imported under Operation Paperclip. And in classic cover-yer-ass fashion, these silver-tongued megalomaniacs convinced our OSS to view the communists as a monolithic threat to free enterprise, and to recruit agents from only the top echelons of society (the filthy rich, IOW).
Thus began a long and pathetic decomposition of American democracy into a haven for rich oligarchs and a foil for the corporate interests who wished to continue exploiting the lower economic classes for profit. Frank Olson's mind could not handle the cognitive dissonance of being a true patriot while also conducting terminal interrogations in the interest of national security (ie the economic interests of the filthy rich). Olson finally blew a fuse when he learned that chemical and biological weapons were being used in the Korean War without UN or greater government approval. Not to mention any governmental necessity.
Thus was the beginning of extra-governmental authority and the usurpation of any meaningful ability of American democracy to conduct foreign policy. Our foreign policy would be dictated out of the board rooms and by the executive class, not out of the US Senate. The Shadow Government grew to such massive power and position within our own government that Ollie North was able to jet around from rich person to rich person in plain sight collecting funds to roll into drug and gun running transactions where profits were, and remain, obscenely high.
What the American people do not understand is WHY the Islamic, or Arabic, world despises us so. The American people do not realize that if what they saw on the news was actually the truth, then, yes, the Arab world would have no great cause to refer to our country as, "The Great Satan." But what appears on the news no longer bears even a remote resemblence to the how and why of US foreign policy. Our foreign policy for the past 75 or more years has been about furthering the economic interests of the superrich, not the best interests of the American people.
The best interests of the American people are inextricably tied to the best interests of all people who inhabit this globe. Taking a binary perspective of, "us" versus "them" only exacerbates this problem, it does not foster any real solutions. The real solutions come from a continued effort to reign-in large-scale greed and capitalism by capping profits and feeding those profits into the productive betterment of the entire species, not just the bank accounts of people who have remained socially and economically stagnant for well over 200 years.
I believe in capitalism, but not to the degree that it becomes a distraction from one's own pathological ideosyncracies. The middle and lower classes should never become the valets for the inevitable mental illnesses of the rich inbreds produced by the "wealth" of unproductive capital accumulation.
posted by
Volaar
on September 26, 2004 at 6:34 PM
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Alliance of the Wicked
The actions of this administration have been criminal from the first day in office. Only a long and ugly investigation into the facts will deliver the truth to the general public. Even then some will simply choose not to believe it. This investigation would reveal the ugliest crimes ever perpetrated by government officials. Absolutely nothing of this magnitude has ever taken place in the American government before. If this investigation were a complete investigation it would take us all the way back to the early 1960's when Cheney, Rumsfeld, and George senior were building the foundation for this "Alliance of wicked".
posted by
ThomasWelch
on September 26, 2004 at 11:35 AM
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Baloney!
Your assertions are simply not supported by the relevant facts.
At no time since the Revolutionary War has so much power and control been concentrated in the hands of the few. And these few individuals have complete control over significant portions of the resources that will determine the survival of the human species, not to mention the future of American democracy.
We have become just another banana republic under George W. Bush, with his wealthy friends walking away with obscene sums of money. Because of the moronic and toxic behavior of the Republican Party and its minions, Democrats have been completely stifled and our ability to influence or control the flow of oil through the Middle East, squandered away because of the insane beliefs of a few.
posted by
Volaar
on September 22, 2004 at 2:12 PM
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bush administration
I must conclude that the idiocy you refer to is contained in this article. The same circumstances we find ourselves in today have existed in every administration since the end of WW ll in varying degrees and have been responded to in as many ways. Your venom for the republicans and suggested remedies for thier demise is juvenile and irresponsible. If the party that is in control of the nation is doing something illegal they should be proscecuted. However the people will have the say at election time and I'm sure we will all abide by the collective decision.
beejay
posted by
beejay
on September 22, 2004 at 10:59 AM
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