Birds of a Feather

If you really want to find out about someone, don't believe what they, or their PR people, say--look at what they do and, especially, look at who they consider friends. Like the old saying goes, "birds of a feather, flock together."

Take our "president," for example. The MIC-owned media, and even Bush himself, try to paint our president as a champion of freedom and democracy, but his actions and associations paint a very different picture. Our country has been heading toward fascism for decades, but his administration has carried the agenda forward with astonishing speed, and the world leaders he considers his best friends and allies preside over some of the most repressive regimes on the planet. The one that comes to mind first is Saudi Arabia.

That the Bush family has long-standing ties to the bin Laden clan is a well-documented fact, and the bin Ladens are very close to the Saudi royal family, being one of, it not the, largest construction firms in that country. So how much of a coincidence can it be that we trained, equipped and funded one of the family scions in his fight against the Russians in Afghanistan? (Personally, given the US's penchant for turning allies into enemies--Noriega, Saddam, Osama, to name just a few--I'm amazed that we can get anyone to be our friends. It seems to me that it would be a little like grabbing on to a two-edged sword held by someone with Parkinson's--sooner or later, you're going to lose some fingers.) The fact that the Saudi government is extremely repressive to it's people is also a well-documented fact. It practices one of the "purest" forms of Islam and prides itself on how severely it punishes crimes and subjugates its women. The Saudi clan has been Wahhabi since the family married into the sect in 1774. Now why is it that it's ok for the Saudis to belong to the Wahhabi sect, when the Taliban was so vilified for it in Afghanistan?

Remember the flak in the press (short-lived as it was) about the Saudis giving money to the family of suicide bombers who killed Americans? And that 14 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi? And that it was Saudi Arabia who imposed the oil embargo that caused such a crisis here in the 70's? And that there is as much, if not more, state-sponsored terror coming out of Riyadh than out of Tehran? And let's not forget Osama.

I can't think of a single reason we would have these people as allies, when everything their religion teaches and their government practices is so completely opposite from everything our country is supposed to stand for, unless it's because our president's thinking is right in line with theirs. Oh yeah, I forgot: it's the oil. Except for the fact that, if he wasn't a short-sighted, greedy bastard of an oil baron himself, he could put the vast resources of the US government to work to find alternatives so that we could free ourselves of the need for foreign oil, thereby freeing ourselves from the need to kowtow to the producers of that oil. But that would actually strengthen our national security, and wouldn't serve the agenda of control through fear that this Administration finds so useful, would it?

But it's not just George Jr--it's the whole family:
Brother Jeb got Daddy to pardon his friend, Orlando Bosch, when he was accused of killing 76 people in Cuba by blowing up a plane, and Columba, Jeb's wife, got away with merely being embarrassed when she was caught smuggling nearly $20,000 worth of clothing and jewelry into the country from France.
Brother Neil--Mom donated money to the victims of Katrina, but only if the money was used to buy computers from Neil's comany.
Uncle Prescott Jr., who owned the only company allowed to do business in China (exporting communications satellites) and had ties to Manuel Noriega (I'm assuming that was before we decided he was public enemy number one and invaded his country to remove him, but who knows for sure?)
Grandpa Bush managed to not only avoid prosecution for giving aid and comfort to an enemy during wartime (otherwise known as treason) but managed to get himself elected a Senator for the State of New York. Some reports say there is no evidence that Prescott Bush supported the Nazi agenda, but to me that would make him even more of a soulless bastard. Claiming it was "just business" isn't much of a defense when that "business" funds the murder of millions and people and the terrorizing into mute silence of millions more.

So the next time our President gets on TV, look past the baby face and innocent demeanor to the monster lurking behind the mask. Look past his public statements and ridiculous rhetoric to his actual record. Look to who he hangs with and considers his buddies, and look to his family. What more do you need to know?