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The Case for Sedition: High Crimes of the Bush Cabal (Part 1) by Al Martin A case for sedition can be made against the Bush Cabal, including George Herbert Walker Bush, James Baker, Cappy Weinberger, and the late Bill Casey et al. They perpetrated a series of frauds against the public purse under the thinly disguised veil of political policies, to wit, the tremendous increase in military and defense expenditures, in order to try to defeat the "Evil Empire" of the Soviet Union, which in itself was a ruse. This enormous multi-trillion dollar increase in defense spending was used by the Bush Cabal to suck money out of the public purse by the commission of a variety of schemes and to bleed money out of defense appropriations by incessant payments from defense contractors to a shadowy network of Republican-controlled arms companies, security research consultant companies, and offshore research institutes. This can be ascertained when you look at the big Research and Development (R & D) expenditures that were done on the so-called Star Wars missile defense program. You can see the endless list of "security consultants" that were put on as subcontractors, most of whom had absolutely nothing to do with the development of the weapons. These security consultant firms would put together proposals for estimated usage of weapons, etc, but since they knew the weapons were never going to work, they knew it was really meaningless anyway. In addition, there was the "spare parts industry" that goes along with the Bush Cabal, which increases the cost of spare parts (which don't work) by ten or twenty times. These actions of the Bush Cabal then constitute gross economic malfeasance, which, in my view, could rise to the level of sedition. The definition of sedition is four pages long, and it can be found in Statute 792 of US Title Code 18. In other words, the Bush Cabal knew that what they were doing would severely weaken the United States, both militarily and economically. The country is weakened militarily by loading US military inventories with a lot of high tech weapons systems that don't work. The country is weakened economically by many years of purported multi-hundred billion dollar deficits, claimed to be $350 or $400 hundred billion dollar deficits, but which were actually (as we have pointed out before) twice as high as claimed at any given time. The Bush Administration just disguised the numbers through a series of smoke-and-mirror accounting tricks, as we have said before. (See Numbers Don't Lie, Bushes Do.) The premise of the case is that this malfeasance was created, not under the Reagan-Bush Regime, as referred to before, but by the Bush I Regime. The Bush I Regime, the period from 1980-1992, is so named because Ronald Reagan was simply a figurehead. Reagan never formulated any policies on his own and he hardly had any of his own people in the cabinet. When you think about it, the only pure Reaganite was Donald Regan, and he was intimidated by George Bush. He even publicly said so. The big powerhouses in the administration, like James Baker, Bill Casey, Cappy Weinburger, Brent Scowcroft, were all old Bush Cabalists. These were not Reaganites. We need to remember that prior to 1980, before the use of the word "Reaganite," Ronald Reagan didn't have any political faction of his own. He wasn't a politician. He was a two-term governor of the state of California. When he left office, the State of California was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. That says a lot for his ability to manage things. People should have known then. When he first came in as governor of California, the state budget had a record surplus and all state accounts had surpluses. When he left two terms later, the state was nearly bankrupt and had a record deficit. California had asked for federal assistance to bail out several state agencies, and the surpluses were all gone. Reagan never had a vested political constituency of his own. People ask -- where did this term "Reaganite" or "Reaganomics come from? It was the Bush people in the Reagan Administration, who fostered the use of these terms. James Baker used it all the time, and that was to lay all the crap in Reagan's lap. In marketing, it's called branding. They knew Reagan was the popular figurehead, not George Bush -- so why not name everything after him? It was easier to sell because of Reagan's popularity, and it also disguised the real power in the administration. The Bush people knew that what they were doing would severely weaken our government and our economy, but later on they'd have some political dodge by being able say, "Hey, Reagan was the president." In fact, everyone knew that George Bush controlled things, which was particularly true in Reagan's second term, when Reagan frankly didn't have any idea what was going on anymore. Regarding the sedition issue, we must remember what George Bush said in 1992, when he was asked what Iran-Contra was all about. This was all done, as George Bush Sr. himself once said, for "the continuous consolidation of money and power into higher, tighter and righter hands." The implication is that there was a grand design behind this illegal covert operation of government, the greatest ever committed by the US Government, which had nothing to do with providing a bulwark against the growing Red Tide in Central America. In fact, it was a covert operation and like all other covert operations, which is what Bush implied, its real agenda was simply to form a political machine under the guise of an illegal covert operation of State to suck ever-increasing quantities of money out of the US Federal Treasury. The "plan" was well publicized. To build an envisioned 50,000-man contra-army. That never happened. To impede the Soviet build-up of arms and influence in Central America. That never happened. To shore up our right wing dictatorial regime friends in Guatemala and El Salvador. That never happened. All the stated goals of the stated cover story were not accomplished because nobody cared about accomplishing them. It was just a ruse. Star Wars was the same thing - just a ruse - and they all knew that Star Wars was just a ruse. Jack Verona, then chief of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), probably could have gotten himself assassinated because he had loose lips. He used to like to drink at these Republican cocktail parties, and he was often reported off the record in the Washington Post, saying that the weapons systems we're spending hundreds of billions on are pie-in-the-sky. He stated that they either won't work, or in the case of the few that do have a chance of working, we wouldn't have the technology to make them work for another fifteen or twenty years. The billions and billions (an aggregate $2.77 trillion dollars) that was spent on Star Wars programs at the time (the so-called "Brilliant Pebbles," "Bright Star" the ASAT program) was all wasted. The Bush people would say that you have to commit to research and development in order to make a weapons system that works. That seemingly would make sense, but they knew going into it that it was untrue, based on what Verona kept telling them. Since he was the technical guy (the chief of DARPA), that was his job. He was supposed to tell the administration what was technically possible with technology at the time and what wasn't. And he told them that the technology to build what you want to build just doesn't exist - and it won't exist for decades. The Star Wars program then had contractors making enormous soft-money donations to Republican institutions. You saw all these newly created companies in 1985 with names like VigiTech and SynDyne and SolarPlex -- names that would imply "high tech." In fact, they were just shell companies with offices in McLean, Virginia with offshore accounts that were run by Republican interests. They had enormous subcontracting fees. And what does this have to do with sedition? You must realize that most of the big, big Republican money (the trillion-dollar type money) was made by huge short positions in the market during the time frame of 1987-1989. This was extensively discussed by Jeb Bush and others in 1985 -- and rather openly so. They were shorting entire indexes, and that's what distorted the markets. That's why there was so much distortion in '87, '88 and going into '89, when all these different types of spreads came up, and people couldn't figure out what they were. In other words, the Bush Cabal entered into a policy, which they knew would weaken the economic marketplace, the capital marketplaces of the United States, and hence worldwide, since when we sneeze, the rest of the world gets the flu, economically speaking. They capitalized on it further by instituting enormous short positions in a market because they were themselves the ones causing the economic damage to the underpinnings of the nation, which would eventually be felt in the nation's capital marketplaces. The companies used were the same old list of favorites. Merrill Lynch. Goldman Sachs. Practically every Republican I knew at the time did business there. They would form offshore investment groups that they would all pool into. Trilateral Investment Group Ltd. was one name I remember. The Omni Investment Group Ltd. They would all be Republican-controlled, and they would institute huge short positions in the markets. A lot of times they were dealing with Republican controlled institutions, so if they got into an unsecured debit balance position, nobody ever put the arm on them for the money. They could carry positions much longer, outside of market rules. They made enormous amounts of money. Alan Greenspan sent a series of secret memorandums to George Bush, prior to the market crash of 1987. He was very nervous during this time. He knew what they were doing, and he told George Bush secretly that you're undermining the capital markets of the United States. Where do you think this is all going to lead? I have made this contention before-that the stock market collapse in October of 1987 was caused by a massive draining of capital out of the United States, principally due to a variety of schemes originally proffered by the Bushites. The market did not reach its bottom until December 4, 1989, and enormous amounts of money were made in that period of time. It's a zero sum game. What was being done again is shifting money from the American citizen, this time in his capacity as an investor, to the all-powerful Bush Cabal. Previously we had simply been shifting money to the all-powerful Bush Cabal through citizens wearing their hats as taxpayers. The Bush idea was (I remember Jeb used to say this) that, "Look, you hit them in every single hat they wear." That was the idea. He used to call them fodder. You hit the fodder in their hats as Taxpayers. You hit them in their hats as Investors and Savers. You hit them in their hats as Insurance Policy Owners through all these insurance scams his brother was involved in. Then there was, of course, Jeb's International Medical Corporation. Jeb also liked health care scams. But that was the idea the Bushes had, that you take the American taxpayer (which they called "One Fodder Unit," or OFU) and you hit them in every single hat they wear. I don't know where the term came from, but "One Fodder Unit" became a popular term on the Republican cocktail party circuit in 1985. According to them, each individual American citizen equals One Fodder Unit. Today we have the results of that. When George Bush left office, the federal budget deficit was actually twice what they claimed it was. They were able to hide about half of the federal budget deficit through the Bush Regime. Then Clinton came in, and he had a pretty good idea of what the problems were up front. That's one reason why he kept Alan Greenspan, by the way. It was because the marketplaces both here and abroad had a lot of faith in Greenspan. He told Greenspan early on that we're going to have to bring interest rates down and flood the market with money, which was done in '93. Interest rates fell precipitously, and then there was the sharp spike in '94. This was necessary to bleed some of the problems out of the economy. After Bush got out of office, it was important that the economy be re-liquefied as quickly as possible, regardless of the inflationary impact. You can always control the inflationary impact later on by raising the interest rates. |
