-Caveat Lector- <http://triblive.com/news/news_story.html?rkey=84561+sid=6dabfcba125bb369d5e 6f3025a033c2b+cat=editori> Dateline D.C. Sunday, January 28, 2001 Bill Clinton left land mines for George W. Bush WASHINGTON - Washingtonians have been mulling over the very welcomed Texas invasion and inauguration of President George W. Bush. Few among the young executives in Washington were born when last so many well-mannered people took over the city. So, Howdy y'all! Suddenly there is a need to learn a whole new culture: the difference between Dallas wealth and the Houston fortunes; why you don't decline a lady's offer of a Texas dime; and the etiquette of cowboy hats, which you must learn to call "lids." (Lids made of straw or gray are worn by Texan gentlemen only from Easter to Labor Day, but black lids are de rigueur in every season for formal wear, while white lids are unusual.) Austin, the Texas capital since 1839, once was called Waterloo. Texans being clever, once for all of 11 days they had a floating capital. In that year, the steamboat Cayuga played host to the president and Cabinet of the new republic so that they could continue the business of government as they kept just ahead of an enormous Mexican army, until Sam Houston's resounding victory in San Jacinto. President George W. Bush is now ensconced in the White House and his "landing parties" have arrived in every federal agency, with notebooks, cell phones and laptops at the ready. In contrast to his predecessor, the man who would never apologize, President Bush spoke of personal responsibility and his commitment to "civility, courage, compassion and character." Just minutes before President Bush spoke these words, Bill Clinton, fresh from his taxpayer-funded "legacy lap" around the country, continued to send yet another Democratic crowd into ecstasy by taking vindictive shots at his successor. At Andrews Air Force Base, where the Clinton departure from Washington was timed by Clintonistas still in government to coincide exactly with the start of the inaugural parade, the former president pointed to a sign reading, "Please don't go." Never one to ignore an opportunity, Clinton said, "You see that sign. I left the White House, but I'm still here." What that means is that there is an ex-prez, unfettered by conscience or conventions, ready to roam the world looking for opportunities to undermine the administration of President Bush. A few days earlier in Chicago, the now ex-prez praised Al Gore's sleazy campaign Chairman Bill Daley, saying he did a brilliant job leading Al Gore to victory. "By the time it was over, our candidate had won the popular vote and the only way they could win the election was to stop the voting in Florida." Then, speaking of Washington state, where a Democrat narrowly won over the Republican incumbent, the ex-prez sniggered, "They have this unusual system - they actually count all the votes." After these and similar news bites had made the television shows, night after night, ex-prez quietly said to a reporter, "I wasn't trying to be sarcastic or hateful or even make any deliberate point." Sure, Mr. Ex-Prez, just like you were never a draft-dodger, never inhaled and never womanized. In fact, if the junior senator from New York will permit, the name Monica will be like Gennifer, Juanita, Catherine, Paula, Sally and so many others, expunged from your memory banks - at least in public. Yet, while Bill Clinton hopes to be out of the spotlight when he is in New York or Georgetown (no one in Arkansas appears to care that the favorite son is not coming home), some of us will always be in his self-styled "zone of privacy" to report on his activities. While George Bush is putting together an administration that relies more on the sentiments of George Washington's farewell address, the ex-prez shows every sign of attempting to create an "alternative government," based on the bizarre values of the grungy television show "Friends." Suddenly, the ex-prez has become an authority on values. It is to him (and his spin-doctors) plainly obvious that it's in his interest if the country can be persuaded that the self-serving values-without-morality of William Jefferson Clinton should be accepted by all Americans. "And why not," the ex-prez will ask. He certainly does not think of himself as a mere mortal, but sees himself as a leader, a messiah - though actually a false messiah! Clinton equates his political trials and tribulations with Old Testament ordeals. He has been heard equating himself with an oppressed minority and his biblical quotations remind us that even the devil can quote Scripture. With the kind help of his friends from Hollywood, the ex-prez created a fantasy for himself, played out as "The Man from Hope." He is looking for a role in Part II and can't imagine himself in a supporting role to his spousal senator. The ex-prez prepared a campaign, which our military friends compare to "stay-behind" teams in a war. Clinton land mines are everywhere! There are 30,000 new pages of federal regulations and the Kyoto global warming protocols waiting to fuel a major economic slump. By executive order just hours before he left office, Bill Clinton designated thousands of federal acres as monuments. One, to help his senatorial wife, was Governor's Island in New York harbor. President Bush will have plenty of work to untangle these problems. In the last few days of the Imperial Clinton presence, numerous land mines were entrenched in positions where their future explosion would cause problems for President Bush. Suddenly, without warning, a new president of the Philippines, a left-liberal populist by the name of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, was welcomed into power to replace the ruinous (and now ruined) Joseph Estrada. With suitable prior planning, Russia's senior bagman and Boris Yeltsin's lackey, Pavel Borodin, was pressed to fly to the Bush inaugural. He got as far as New York's Federal Detention Center, where he is awaiting extradition to Switzerland to answer questions about the massive thefts of American and World Bank money by the Russian hierarchy. The government of Vladimir Putin is screaming, "enticement," "conspiracy," "Free Borodin" and so on, so President Bush will have this explosive situation to defuse. Events in Israel, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, the Congo, Kosovo, and the NATO alliance, after months of misdirection or lack of attention, have reached the boiling point. They have a seriously explosive potential for the new administration to contain. Still, our ex-prez, after running up $100 million tabs for tourist travel to China and Africa, while at the same time shortchanging the military, is now campaigning - for the Nobel Peace Prize. On the day that the ex-prez was leaving office, he was thinking about his future, especially about the "values" that he hoped Democrats would inherit from him. Then he produced a last-minute list of criminals, convicted in America's courts, who receive either commutation of their sentence (36) or a presidential pardon (140). It was a strange list. There were a number of convicted felons from Arkansas, folks who had assisted the Clintons in their Whitewater business deals. However, when the name Linda Sue Evans appeared on the list, there was a realization that the ex-prez was revisiting his anti-war student days, when Linda was a Weather Underground leader carrying out a bombing campaign against the people of the United States - she called it "armed propaganda." Linda was doing some 40 years of federal time on a variety of charges, including the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Capitol. Was the ex-prez sending a message to those who sought to impeach him? Did he, like so many of his age group, have contact with Linda in the old days? Did Linda and Hillary Rodham Clinton meet in New Haven when both were organizing support for Black Panther Party killers? The next terrorist he pardoned was Susan Rosenberg, serving a 58-year sentence for possession of more than 740 pounds of explosives, a submachine gun and ammunition! Susan also was a leader of the Weather Underground terrorists. If she had not been given that long sentence for arms and explosives, she would have been prosecuted for her role in the 1981 Brinks armored-car robbery that left two New York cops and a security guard dead. However, Susan also was into the bombing of the U.S. Capitol. Again, was there a personal involvement? Why would then-President Clinton be aware of these particular cases? Was it by random decisions, or was it a Clinton message? Also on the pardon and clemency roster were drug dealers, tax evaders, murderers and thieves. There were rich and powerful criminals and traitors. One, Marc Rich, one of America's richest men, had fled abroad to avoid prosecution. There was Clinton's former CIA director, John Deutch, accused of treating America's secrets as his personal property. There also was the ex-prez's former housing chief, Henry Cisneros, and his girlfriend, Linda Jones. Many, many crimes were represented on the list of those who received pardons - and it is doubtful if the true reasons for each individual pardon will ever become known. In a statement, Henry Cisneros said that "he did not seek or request the presidential action." He said that it was "completely in keeping with the generosity and understanding of President Clinton." Henry, you're right! But Bill Clinton was generous to the last dime of taxpayers' money and so very, very understanding of the values that he was seeking to impose on America. Can't we say that the ex-prez has honored murderers and cop killers, bombers, druggies, child molesters and tax cheats? Are we to treat the man who did this with civility and compassion? Instead, we should have the courage to examine the character of the ex-prez, show compassion to the even more victims that will result from his actions and have the personal courage to show civility where civility is due. Looking at the record of the past three weeks, the ex-prez has never said the magic words, "goodbye," "farewell," "adios," or "this is my last speech." Is this not really hello? Yes, if our ex-prez has his way. It's time to start worrying where he will be on Jan. 20, 2005! ``Dateline D.C.'' is written by a Washington, D.C.-based British journalist and political observer. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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