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"Conspiracy Brutha Vince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...>
Date:  Sun Jun 13, 2004  4:40 pm
Subject:  RIP Ronald Reagan - Crying Crocodile Tears for "The Gipper"
 

 
 
 
 
Comments:
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The best commentary I have read on the death of Ronald Reagan came from
Christopher Hitchens at Slate: <http://slate.msn.com/id/2101842>
http://slate.msn.com/id/2101842
 
 
I liked it for two reasons:
 
1. Hitchens makes a point I like to make to many people with simple minded
political opinions about "the need of so many American intellectuals to
prove themselves clever by showing that they are smarter than the latest
idiot in power..." and;
 
 
2. He identifies Reagan as "a cruel and stupid lizard." I don't know if
Hitchens consciously invoked David Icke's imagery of world political
leadership as shape-shifting reptilians, but the reference does reinforce
Icke's over-arching theme that such leadership is never what it seems.
_____
 
 
RIP Ronald Reagan - Crying Crocodile Tears for "The Gipper"
 

By Kenn Thomas
Editor - Steamshovel Press
6-12-4
 
 
 
I would have been more generous about Ronald Reagan. I think he was funny
and charming, only moreso because he was so disconnected from the actual
parapolitical reality of his administration. One TV news feature tried to
make the point that the true Ronald Reagan was inaccessible even to his wife
Nancy, that he kept some deep inner core always to himself. This was a
stretch, of course, to fill the 24/7 television time devoted to Reagan until
after his state funeral. Most viewers know he was a shallow Hollywood guy as
was often parodied. Self-professed shallow, in fact, in that he trumpeted an
administrative style that supposedly provided broadstroke values while
letting bureaucrats execute the details.
 
 
 
Americans like a good show and Reagan gave them one. He was affable and
articulate and he presented a picture of the country that it really wanted.
But the October Surprise brought him to office, a deal made with Ayatollah
Khomeini to hold on to the famed 52 American hostages until Jimmy Carter
lost the 1980 election. The pay-off for delivering that ransom-an
opportunity to illegally profiteer from the super-surveillance PROMIS
software-went to a man whose name Reagan conceivably didn't know.
 
 
The sleeping-with-the-enemy pattern it established led to the Iran-Contra
deals, the US/CIA build-up of Saddam Hussein and the pre-al-Qaeda
mujahadeen, on up to the present awful time of reckoning America now
confronts.
 
 
Reagan's motorcade delayed the arrival of the doctor when my daughter was
born. My then wife considers it the only favor he ever did for her, since
she chose to have the baby using the non-interventionist Bradley method.
Somehow Tim Leary got thrown in jail just before his gubernatorial campaign
in California could compete with Reagan's. Leary took it as a great
opportunity for a break from public life and a chance to work on what turned
out to be his greatest writings.
 
 
Governor Reagan refused to extradite Edgar Eugene Bradley from California
when Jim Garrison sought to prosecute him for involvement in JFK's murder.
It helped cause Garrison to lose the case against the other defendant, Clay
Shaw, but Garrison went on to be more-or-less vindicated in the popular
culture and became a great folk hero to many people.
 
 
I feel very sad for Nancy Reagan. They were a couple that lived in a little
bubble and I am sure their relationship was more real than anything they
supposedly believed in or restored to American culture, like limited
government. Americans had to wait for Dubya to look at spending deficits as
big as Reagan's. And I feel very sad for Americans shedding tears now for
the Gipper, made more poignant by the contrast between the feel-good image
he transmitted and the hell wrought by the same men who used him as what Bob
Dylan called "a front man for a diseased cause."
 
 
The new issue of Steamshovel Press is here. Copies would be ready to ship
Friday if the post offices weren't closed for Reagan's funeral!
 

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