Bush Fulfills His Grandfather's Dream
Posted by PIMPIN TURTLE at 6/30/2008 11:42 AM and is filed under THE WAR MACHINE,Money,Politics,Big Business,THE NEW WORLD ORDER,Things you may not have heard of,Corruption and Lies 
AMERICAN CHRONICLE
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, 2007, 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
so little is known about this so called coup because it's a bunch of bull. no president can do away with congress and no president can control the media. let's get real.
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Yep, definitely BS, that's why the BBC did a documentary on it. (ROLLS EYES)
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What the hell do you think Bush has done the past 8 years? You are rediculous Kenny. Let's get real
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in the first 6 years of bush's term we had a republican majority congress. the democrats promised change in their last election and the american people made the mistake of believing a democrat so they voted them back into being the majority. ever since then bush has jumped their ass telling them to do their jobs. anything...something. now the democratic majority congress is known as the "do nothing congress". maybe thats why you think bush did away with them. believe me they are still there. its just that the democrats are in charge now and they dont do a thing so it looks like we dont have one. if you dont believe me look up congresses budjet. you will find all of their six figure pay checks for doing nothing. dont take my word for it, look it up. its public information. where do you get the information that makes you believe the things you believe. because, with all due respect, i just dont get your way of thinking.
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oh, by the way, for the last 7 years bush has been fighting a war against the evil sadistic whacko's who are trying to destroy the western world. me and millions of people are thankfull for what he has done in his presidency. he's a good president who has had a tough war to fight. i'm proud of him.
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Bush is Hitler reincarnate... except illiterate and one with the brainpower of a 6 year old... you literally have no idea what you are talking about....
I agree the congress is a "do nothing" congress, but it does mean that Bush has not circumvented their approval on everything from the economy to the war...
Pelosi is Bush's little step-dog... once she said "impeachment" is off the table... you had to know that...
F-ing CLINTON WAS IMPEACHED AND IS ALL HE DID WAS GET A F-ING B.J.
BUSH HAS RUINED THE UNITED STATES AS WE KNEW IT....
HE HAS KILLED MILLIONS OF INNOCENT IRAQI CITIZENS AND 4,000 PLUS OF OUR YOUNG TROOPS...
IRAQ HAD NO WMD'S... AND NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THE SUPPOSED HIJACKERS IN 9/11 (WHICH IS WAS AN INSIDE JOB, DID YOU EVEN TAKE TWO SECONDS TO LOOK UP WTC7? HOW THE FUCK DID IT FREE-FALL FROM A FIRE? NO PLANES HIT IT) WERE FROM IRAQ...
GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL YOU ARE AN IGNORANT BUSH-WAR-MONGERING-LOVING SHEEP...
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saddam, his sons and their murderise squads killed iraqi's by the hundreds almost everyday. even without the wmd's i'm glad we went in their. somebody needed to stop the evil going on there. its a dirty job but somebody had to do it. yes, i took more than 2 seconds checking out this "inside job" theory. when i first heard people talking about it after 9-11 i looked into it. as i said before. i dont see anything even indicating that something like that happened much less prove it. i asked you to tell me what purpose would it serve the government to do such a thing. you haven't told me. i asked you to show me the proof you must have because you believe it so strongly. you haven't showed me anything. you must know a lot about buildings and how they are put together. explaing to me why you think that building shouldnt have come down. i remember that day and the firemen came out of wtc7 saying it was going to collapse. are you saying the firemen did it. what do you think caused that building to come down. i would really like to know. all the videos show is a building collapsing. it doesnt show why. i'm not trying to be a smart @#*. i really want to know. if you can show me the proof i would be on your side over this matter. just show me the proof or atleast something that would indicate that something fishy went on there. please give me your theory as to what happened. thick skulled, your probably right. i refuse to believe nonsense. and i wont believe things without facts and good hard evidence. if thats being thick headed than yes i am. ignorant, yes i am. everybody is. ignorance is the lack of knowledge. we all have lack of knowledge about a lot of things. thats why i dont believe 9-11 was an inside job like you want me to believe. share your knowledge and maybe i will choose to believe you. i will tell you that i am an intelligent person with good commen sense. as i said i'm not, what you call a sheep. i call it a "coolaide drinker". if you dont have facts to back up you theories about bush and 9-11... than i would venture to say you are the coolaide drinker. prove to me that you think on your own.
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Here's some basic things that should at least make you question the official story. If not then you really must be ignorant.
Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
Nothing found at Flight 93 crash site
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99rcYiG_Syw
BBC Reported Building 7 Collapse 20 Minutes Before It Fell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGOt9f3gKk
Where’s the plane at the Pentagon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH21gKbEllM
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if any of the accused were found alive than all that proves is the fbi made a mistake. what would be so new about that. i didnt have to see the video about flight 93 to wonder where the plain was. i was wondering that the day it happened. it was spread over a huge area. many square miles. they found a piece of an engine that weighed over a ton miles away. this is not the first time that's happened. also during the interview of the photographer he said there was no smoke. at the exact time he said that they were showing smoke rising from the scene. i thought that was rather funny. the video you showed me to prove your point about wtc7 said it collapsed due to damage from the towers falling. where is the plane at the pentagon... i wondered that the day it happened also. i can see where conspiracy theory advocates can come up with something from the planes not being visible. my question to you is what do you think happened at the pentagon and the wtc and what is your theory on a motive. i havent heard one person talk about that. all i hear is "it was an inside job". i dont know what happens to planes when they hit the ground or a building. i've never studied that or seen anything on it. for all i know the pentagon building might have tore the plane to bits instead of the plane tearing up the building. i dont know what happen to the plane of flight 93 but thats not the first plane crash i've seen that did that. as far as the video's go at the pentagon, i'm sure that those are classified. the pentagon is a secure building you know. i'm sure they won't just put them out for everyone to see.
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You don't see a motive? What has happened the last 7 years?
The U.S. has invaded the entire Middle East.
Our civil liberties have been demolished.
We are 2 seconds away from martial law.
Our currency is destroyed...
Perpetual war equals perpetual power...
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no, the u.s. has not invaded the entire middle east. they invaded afghanistan to destroy the safe haven for the terrorist and now we are protecting afghanistans rightfull government. whats wrong with that. we invaded iraq to take out the baath party who was a danger to the world and the iraqi people. whats wrong with that. theres far more countries than that in the middle east. i dont know where you live but my civil liberties haven't been violated by our government. the only people i worry about violating my civil liberties are the local police. they are the ones we need to crack down on. the average everyday cop. they think they can do what they want. two seconds away from martial law. where did that come from. martial law for what. the value of our dollor has been falling for decades but its not destroyed yet. thats the only problem you've mentioned yet that i'm concerned about. thats not the fault of any one person though. who's fault is it? that depends on who you talk to. i dont think anyone knows for sure. i'm not an economist. i dont know. the private sector and the government, probably.
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