[R-G] Bush fulfills his grandfather's dream

[Suzanne de Kuyper]

have been writing letters to the editor since reading the expose books.....

On 8/5/07, Richard Menec <menecraj at shaw.ca> wrote:
> more 'conspiracy' theory???
>
> http://www.spectrezine.org/NorthAmerica/Swanson.htm
>
> Bush fulfills his grandfather's dream
>
> August 5, 2007 16:53 | by David Swanson
>
> It's remarkably common for a grandson to take up his grandfather's major
> project. This occurred to me when I read recently of Thor Heyerdahl's
> grandson taking up his mission to cross the Pacific on a raft. But what
> really struck me was the BBC story aired on July 23rd documenting President
> George W. Bush's grandfather's involvement in a 1933 plot to overthrow the
> U.S. government and install a fascist dictatorship. I knew the story, but
> had not considered the possibility that the grandson was trying to
> accomplish what his grandfather had failed to achieve.
>
> Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895 to 1972) attended Yale University and joined the
> secret society known as Skull and Bones. Prescott is widely reported to have
> stolen the skull of Native American leader Geronimo. As far as I know, this
> has not actually been confirmed. In fact, Prescott seems to have had a habit
> of making things up. He sent letters home from World War I claiming he'd
> received medals for heroism. After the letters were printed in newspapers,
> he had to retract his claims.
>
> If this does not yet sound like the life of a George W. Bush ancestor, try
> this on for size: Prescott Bush's early business efforts tended to fail. He
> married the daughter of a very rich man named George Herbert Walker (the guy
> with the compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, that now belongs to the Bush
> family, and the origin of Dubya's middle initial). Walker installed Prescott
> Bush as an executive in Thyssen and Flick. From then on, Prescott's business
> dealings went better, and he entered politics.
>
> Now, the name Thyssen comes from a German named Fritz Thyssen, major
> financial backer of the rise of Adolph Hitler. Thyssen was referred to in
> the New York Herald-Tribune as "Hitler's Angel." During the 1930s and early
> 1940s, and even as late as 1951, Prescott Bush was involved in business
> dealings with Thyssen, and was inevitably aware of both Thyssen's political
> activities and the fact that the companies involved were financially
> benefiting the nation of Germany. In addition, the companies Prescott Bush
> profited from included one engaged in mining operations in Poland using
> slave labor from Auschwitz. Two former slave laborers have sued the U.S.
> government and the heirs of Prescott Bush for $40 billion. Until the United
> States entered World War II it was legal for Americans to do business with
> Germany, but in late 1942 Prescott Bush's businesses interests were seized
> under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Among those businesses involved was
> the Hamburg America Lines, for which Prescott Bush served as a manager. A
> Congressional committee, in a report called the McCormack-Dickstein Report,
> found that Hamburg America Lines had offered free passage to Germany for
> journalists willing to write favorably about the Nazis, and had brought Nazi
> sympathizers to America. (Is this starting to remind anyone of our current
> president's relationship to the freedom of the press?)
>
> The McCormack-Dickstein Committee was established to investigate a homegrown
> American fascist plot hatched in 1933. Here's how the BBC promoted its
> recent story: "Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in
> 1933 by right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling
> President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans.
> The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families
> in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George
> Bush's Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the
> policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson
> investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat
> to American democracy."
>
> Actually, if you listen to the 30-minute BBC story, there is not one word of
> so much as speculation as to why this story is so little known. I think a
> clue to the answer can be found by looking into why this BBC report has not
> led to any U.S. media outlets picking up the story this week.
>
> The BBC report provides a good account of the basic story. Some of the
> wealthiest men in America approached Marine Corps Major General Smedley
> Butler, beloved of many World War I veterans, many of them embittered by the
> government's treatment of them. Prescott Bush's group asked Butler to lead
> 500,000 veterans in a take-over of Washington and the White House. Butler
> refused and recounted the affair to the congressional committee. His account
> was corroborated in part by a number of witnesses, and the committee
> concluded that the plot was real. But the names of wealthy backers of the
> plot were blacked out in the committee's records, and nobody was prosecuted.
> According to the BBC, President Roosevelt cut a deal. He refrained from
> prosecuting some of the wealthiest men in America for treason. They agreed
> to end Wall Street's opposition to the New Deal.
>
> Clearly the lack of accountability in Washington, D.C., did not begin with
> Nancy Pelosi taking Dubya's impeachment off the table, or with Congress'
> decision to avoid impeachment for President Ronald Reagan (a decision that
> arguably played a large role in installing Prescott Bush's son George H.W.
> Bush as president), or with the failure to investigate the apparent deal
> that George H.W. Bush and others made with Iran to not release American
> hostages until Reagan was made president, or with the failure to prosecute
> Richard Nixon after he resigned. Lack of accountability is a proud tradition
> in our nation's capital. Or maybe I should say our former nation's capital.
> I don't recognize the place anymore, and I credit that to George W. Bush's
> efforts to fulfill his grandfather's dream using far subtler and more
> effective means than a military coup.
>
> Bush the grandson took office through a highly fraudulent election that he
> nonetheless lost. The Supreme Court blocked a recount of the vote and
> installed Dubya.
>
> Prescott's grandson proceeded to weaken or eliminate most of the Bill of
> Rights in the name of protection from a dark foreign enemy. He even tossed
> out habeas corpus. The grandson of Prescott, that dreamer of the 1930s,
> established with very little resistance that the U.S. government can kidnap,
> detain indefinitely on no charge, torture, and murder. The United States
> under Prescott Bush's grandson adopted policies that heretofore had been
> considered only Nazi policies, most strikingly the willingness to openly
> plan and engage in aggressive wars on other nations.
>
> At the same time, Dubya has accomplished a huge transfer of wealth within
> the United States from the rest of us to the extremely wealthy. He's also
> effected a major privatization of public operations, including the military.
> And he's kept tight control over the media.
>
> Dubya has given himself the power to rewrite all laws with signing
> statements. He's established that intentionally misleading the Congress
> about the need for a war is not a crime that carries any penalty. He's given
> himself the right (just as Hitler did) to open anyone's mail. He's created
> illegal spying programs and then proposed to legalize them. Prescott would
> be so proud!
>
> The current President Bush has accomplished much more smoothly than his
> grandfather could have imagined a feat that was one of the goals of
> Prescott's gang, namely the elimination of Congress.
> ----------
> David Swanson is a US-based activist. This article first appeared on his
> blog.
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