Liars Must Be Believed

<pre>
POLITICAL ESSAYS
Liars Must Be Believed
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
Associated Press
Intel Chief Says Personnel Number 100,000
`
A.
`
The Superpower's National Intelligence Di-
rector "challenged those who say his office
has become another bureaucratic layer…."
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Those who say that are stating a fact.
`
For instance: last week a NID deputy let it
be known that the NID has "requested more
than 1,500 people for his office next year."

To challenge that fact is to lie.
`
But how did the NID go about challenging
the fact?
`
Here's one way.
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AP quotes the NID:
`
"Intelligence reform has not been a theory-
based experiment…."
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Laying on another bureaucratic layer is not
intelligence reform.  That's first!
`
It's plain corruption.  As such the phony re-
form isn't an experiment –it's been proven
to work time and time again!
`
There's nothing theoretical about it –it's
eminently practical: it lines pockets.
`
But how did the NID then go about chal-
lenging the fact?
`
Here's the other way.
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AP quotes the NID:
`
"Intelligence reform has not been…an ex-
ercise in bureaucratic bloat."
`
Laying on another bureaucratic layer is not
intelligence reform.  That's first!
`
It's also not an exercise –marching up the
hill, marching back down the hill.
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It's not unmindful bloat.  It's grab all ya can
get.
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That's how the NID went about upholding
his implausible denial.
`
B.
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The NID is backed up by The Superpower's
true believers.
`
The NID claims "Nearly 100,000 Americans
are working in intelligence…."
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So…
`
A Federation of American Scientists secrecy
expert "welcomed the disclosure" as though
it were really so; and as though NID is code
for GOD.
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AP quotes the scientist-believer:
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"Think about all the things going on that we
don't know about."  O blessed mystery!
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The media join the hallelujah chorus.
`
For instance.
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AP reports a NID deputy (there's more than
one) claims "the overall…intelligence budget
is $44 billion," explaining that this disclosure
got out only because the deputy "goofed" –
thus treating the disclosure as though it were
really so.
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And the NID Himself lays it on: "Public under-
standing is important."
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Pray tell.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042001088_pf.html
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</pre>

Abramoff Ledgerdemain – Part 10

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POLITICAL ESSAYS
Abramoff Ledgerdemain – Part 10
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`
May 2006 [media preview]
Texas Monthly [1]
Without DeLay
`
Texas Monthly reports that in early January
this year a DeLay staffer phoned the chair-
man of the Fort Bend County Republican
Party who's in charge of running the March
primary in DeLay’s congressional district.
`
"At what date, asked the staffer, could De-
Lay withdraw as a candidate?
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"Was there a way for the GOP to replace
him on the ballot after the primary?"
`
The chairman told the staffer that "county
chairmen from the four counties in DeLay’s
district…[can] pick a replacement for a
seat that becomes vacant due to death, re-
signation, or ineligibility."
`
TM remarks that "When [the chairman]
hung up, [he] knew what no one else in
America would know for three months: The
end of Tom DeLay’s political career was at
hand."
`
The article rambles on…
`
In passing, TM does mention *part* of the
Russian connection.
`
"The details of DeLay’s relationship with
Abramoff are breathtaking in their brazen-
ness.
`
"Take the short (1996 to 2001) history of
the U.S. Family Network….
`
"The [Washington] Post has detailed how
the USFN didn’t have to scramble to raise
funds;
`
"most of its $3.02 million in contributions
came from Abramoff clients: $1 million re-
portedly from Russian oil executives by
way of a London law firm…."
`
London law firm.  Is that a developing
newsstory?
`
`
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Associated Press [2]
DeLay Charge Stays Out, [Texas] Appeals
Court Says
`
"An appeals court…upheld a judge's ruling
throwing out a  conspiracy charge against
…DeLay.

"DeLay…still faces a money-laundering
charge and another conspiracy charge stem-
ming from the financing of state legislative
races in 2002."
`
Texas Monthly points out:
`
"The case cannot proceed in the trial court
until the appeal is resolved, and even then
the losing side is likely to seek a review by
the [Texas] Court of Criminal Appeals."
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`
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The original Abramoff Legerdemain post:
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/694
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[1]
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http://www.texasmonthly.com/csc/486feature.php
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[2]
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/19/AR2006041901097_pf.html
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</pre>

Long War Forever

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POLITICAL ESSAYS
Long War Forever
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`
Monday April 17, 2006
Reuters
Experts ponder a future of new sex gizmos,
robots
`
`
"A field dubbed 'teledildonics' already allows
people at two remote computers to manipu-
late electronic devices such as a vibrator at
the other end for sexual purposes."
`
Reuters quotes the president of Sinulate En-
tertainment:
`
"The Iraq war…was kind of a boom for our
company."
`
"…without the hardware, costs [are] $29.-
95 a month…."
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Without hookup hardware?  Oh, how awful.
`
`
Support The Superpower's invaders and oc-
cupiers so far away.
`
Support their families here at home.
`
Do it the practical way.  Cough up the green
for hookup hardware.
`
You'll be part of the patriot crowd!
`
`
There's more to come–
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"…advanced devices will be able to stimulate
the brain to create a sexual experience with-
out manipulating genitalia."
`
Reuters quotes "a pioneer in the study of ar-
tificial intelligence":
`
"It's…not as far off as some people think."
`
"…if the game (industry) people got involved
in some underdeveloped country that didn't
have any laws against it, it could all happen
twice as fast."
`
We're already in Afghanistan and Iraq.
`
Oh, goody!
`
It'll be the practical application of Bu$h's de-
mockracy:
`
"…artificial sex partners could cater to every
fantasy."
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Just don't be overcurious.
`
`
`
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http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=11861977&src=rss/scienceNews
`
`
Lyrics for "Long Way To Happy" from Pink's
*I'm Not Dead* album:
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http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pink/longwaytohappy.html
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</pre>

Teacher Threats

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POLITICAL ESSAYS
Teacher Threats
`
`
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Associated Press [1]
5 Students Charged With Teacher Threats
`
"Five middle school students have been
charged with making threats _ including
death threats _ against teachers in separ-
ate incidents."
`
All five attend the same middle school.
`
Maybe it's in the water?
`
No…
`
"…in two separate incidents in January…
a liquid was placed in a teacher's coffee
pot."
`
AP quotes the prosecutor:
`
"Where we don't think it…was life-threat-
ening, it did make the teacher sick…."
`
Classroom purity was compromised.
`
AP quotes the prosecutor, who uses other
words:
`
"Teachers have a right to feel safe in their
classrooms."
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Classroom purity must be inviolate.
`
`
From Franco Ferraresi's book *Threats
To Democracy* [2]:
`
"The theme of purity, as anthropologists
have made clear, is connected to the con-
cepts of order, structure, and pattern,
[which are] threatened by destructuring
factors of several kinds, which produce
such negative effects as impurity, defile-
ment, pollution, dirt.
`
"Hence in primitive cultures [in middle
schools, perhaps], where the social sys-
tem is structured with greater force
[by prosecutors, say] and with more
total comprehensiveness [well, up to 5]
than in the modern ones, concern with
impurity  is that much stronger.
`
"Modern societies , that is, where struc-
turing is blander and operates in separ-
ate spheres of life, have learned [!] to
live with differentiation, indeterminacy,
and ambiguity, which programmatically
are not perceived as threats.
`
"This is precisely what the Right rejects.
`
"The Right is in favor of firmly establish-
ed roots, of *Blut und Boden,* of origi-
nary liens, of organic social units, of the
community of destiny (*Schicksals-
gemeinschaft*), of the homogeneous
ethnic groups, and sees all of them
threatenened by the advent of ethero-
geneity, by the destructuring and inter-
mixing brought about by modernization.
`
"The quest for purity (for the people,
the race, the group [for classes in a
middle school, yet]) follows from such
premises."
`
`
Modern societies learn?  Some.  Not
The Superpower.
`
`
`
`
[1]
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/15/AR2006041500680_pf.html
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[2] At page 181 of–
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Franco Ferraresi
`
Threats To Democracy: The Radical
Right In Italy After The War
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Princeton University Press
`
1996
`
312+ pages
`
ISBN 0 691 04499 6
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</pre>

Highest Bet Wins

POLITICAL ESSAYS
Highest Bet Wins
`
`
Wednesday April 12, 2006
New York Times [1]
From the Back Office, a Casino Can Change
the Slot Machine in Seconds
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`
"With a few clicks of his computer mouse,
[the executive director for slots at Treasure
Island in Vegas] can reprogram the 1,790
slot machines on the casino floor, adjusting
the denominations required to play, pay-
back percentages, even game themes."
`
"...[the] casino executive...is the point man
in a high-technology experiment that could
alter the face of slot machines, and their in-
sides, too."
`
Betcha this ain't no "experiment"!
`
The odds?
`
"...casino operators want to win back more
of the money their customers are now
spending elsewhere...food, lodging," etc.
`
`
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Associated Press [2]
More Americans Frustrated With Politics
`
"Analysts say the public may be getting an-
gry enough to give the U.S. political system
a jolt, one way or another.
`
"Voters could toss Republicans from power
in Congress this fall,
`
or turn the White House over to Demo-
crats in 2008."
`
Maybe this fall.
`
But by 2008--
`
With a few clicks of his computer mouse,
the Black House Executive Director for
Adjusting Elections can alter the insides
of voting machines in key states and thus
save the night for the benighted.
`
`
WALL STREET SMILES.
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`
`
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[1]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/12/technology/12casino.html?pagewanted=print
`
[2]
`
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041200161_pf.html
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`

Noticing The Unnoticed – Part 5

POLITICAL ESSAYS
Noticing The Unnoticed - Part 5
`
`
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Associated Press
Symposium Asks if Americans Watching Iraq
`
Question:
`
"What are the implications if a nation goes
to war and its people barely pay attention?"
`
Answer:
`
They are The Superpower's Evil People with
hatred for all, including themselves.
`
But who wants to admit to that!
`
So let's palaver...
`
"Roughly 150 military leaders, policy analysts
and academics gathered at the Army War
College...to address that question...."
`
...and ask what-if.
`
"A main concern...is that Americans may...
decide that the fight is costing too much in
money and lives."
`
That'll never happen: hatred for all is the
name of the game.
`
But who wants to admit to that!

So a teacher at the National Defense Univer-
sity turns to "the longer term" and frets:
`
"I'm just worried we're going to get com-
placent."
`
Get complacent?
`
Love of hate *is* complacency.
`
`
`
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041201569_pf.html
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`

Reality Check – Part 3

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POLITICAL ESSAYS
Reality Check – Part 3
`
`
A.
`
From my Wednesday July 23, 2003 "Reality
Check" essay [1]:
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{start}
`
Associated Press July 17th [2003] reports
from St Louis:
 `
"…national monuments such as the [Gate-
way] Arch have been cited as potential
terrorism targets."
`
The Arch in particular has lots of such po-
tential.  AP explains why:
`
"…[it's] part of the Jefferson National Ex-
pansion Memorial that commemorates the
westward growth of the United States."
`
The kill all, burn all, loot all "westward
growth" of America is a major reason why,
when America died August 6, 1945 while
giving birth, its hellion was
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THE SUPERPOWER
`
and none other.
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{end}
`
`
B.
`
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Associated Press [2]
U.S. Wants Judge Off Indian Case
By JENNIFER TALHELM
`
"The government petitioned to remove
[US District Judge Royce] Lamberth after
a July [2005] decision, in which he order-
ed the [Interior Department] to tell In-
dians that its information on trust assets
may not be credible.
`
"The 34-page opinion is a scathing con-
demnation of the department."
`
AP quotes from the opinion:
`
"Alas, our 'modern' Interior Department
has time and again demonstrated that it
is a dinosaur _ the morally and culturally
oblivious hand-me-down of a disgrace-
fully racist and imperialist government
that should have been buried a century
ago, the last pathetic outpost of the in-
difference and Anglocentrism we thought
we had left behind."
`
No wonder The Liar's bureaucrats wish
to remove this "Texas native and Reagan
appointee."
`
Lamberth dared
`
TO TELL THE TRUTH
`
about the kill all, burn all, loot all "west-
ward growth" –though he's not aware
that things are worse, not better under
The Superpower: that racism, imperial-
ism, indifference, Anglocentrism are now
triumphantly globalized.
`
To top it off:
`
"[Gale] Norton, who stepped down from
the [[Interior Department] last month,
watched from the back of the courtroom
…."
`
`
C.
`
Need I remind you of my Saturday March
18, 2006  "Abramoff Ledgerdemain – Part
6" essay [3]:
`
"…under investigation is Norton's friend
Italia Federici and a public interest group
she heads — the Council of Republicans
for Environmental Advocacy, known as
CREA…– which Norton co-founded with
conservative anti-tax advocate Grover
Norquist in the 1990s."
`
"…Abramoff developed close ties with
Federici and directed his casino-rich tribal
clients to give $500,000 to CREA."
`
"J. Steven Griles was Norton's deputy
secretary, now former deputy secretary,
now under investigation for 'discussions
with Abramoff at a time when the lobby-
ist was seeking departmental actions on
behalf of his tribal clients.'"
`
`
D.
`
If you wish to inform yourself about the
"Indian Case," as AP calls it, first URL to:
`
http://www.indiantrust.com/index.cfm
`
Name of the case: Cobell v. Norton.
`
In the left frame: a Welcome that brings
you pretty well up to date, signed Elouise
Cobell, Lead Plaintiff.
`
The website's well designed.  If you'd
like to read Lamberth's July 2005 opinion,
for example, hover the cursor over the
Documents box toward the top of the
page; then when Court appears, click on
Court Opinions.  The opinion's fourth item
down.
`
You should be aware the case does NOT
involve tribal trusts, only Individual Indian
Monies Trust beneficiaries.  How's that?
URL to:
`
http://www.indiantrust.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Overview.Home
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And if you wish to continue on–
`
Here's a 1996 article, "From War to Self-
Determination: A history of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs":
`
http://www.americansc.org.uk/Online/indians.htm
`
Here's a 2005 article "Gaming in Indian
Country":
`
http://www.americansc.org.uk/Online/Gaming.htm
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`
`
`
[1] URL to
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http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
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In the "with the exact phrase" box, enter
`
Reality Check
`
In the "Return only messages where the author is"
box, enter
`
Jerry Aspar
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Click on "Google Search."
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[2]
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/11/AR2006041101053_pf.html
`
[3]
`
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/715
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</pre>

A Bu$hfire Of Lies

<pre>
POLITICAL ESSAYS
A Bu$hfire Of Lies
`
`
Monday, April 10, 2006
Washington Post
Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi -
Jordanian Painted As Foreign Threat To
Iraq's Stability
`
"The U.S. military is conducting a propa-
ganda campaign to magnify the role of the
leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to
internal military documents and officers
familiar with the program."
`
`
Background.
`
There is a real global, top-down terrorist
organization:
`
THE SUPERPOWER.
`
There is a fake global, top-down terrorist
organization:
`
"al-Qaeda."
`
When it comes to the truly wordwide re-
sistance to The Superpower, the rule is:
`
There are many mansions in the house of
the Lord.
`
A detail.
`
Some of the folks who wish to resist The
Superpower are susceptible to its psywar
tsunami, and –gee whiz– pretend to be
a part of "al-Qaeda."
`
OK, moving on…
`
`
"The military's propaganda program
largely has been aimed at Iraqis, but
seems [?] to have spilled over into the
U.S. media.
`
"One briefing slide about U.S. "strategic
communications"[= psywar tsunami] in
Iraq, prepared for…the top U.S. com-
mander in Iraq, describes the "home
audience" as one of six major targets
…."
`
"…other sections of the briefings indi-
cate that there were direct military
efforts to use the U.S. media to affect
views of the war.
`
"One slide in the same briefing…noted
that a 'selective leak' about Zarqawi
was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York
Times reporter based in Baghdad.
`
"Filkins's resulting article, about a letter
supposedly [!] written by Zarqawi and
boasting of suicide attacks in Iraq, ran on
the Times front page on Feb. 9, 2004."
`
The Post comments on the smoking gun:
`
"Leaks to reporters from U.S. officials in
Iraq are common, but official evidence of
a propaganda operation using an Ameri-
can reporter is rare."
`
But for that reason, all the more valuable.
`
But official evidence of wholesale lying is
not wanting.
`
Listen to a fellow who in 2003 was a com-
mander of a "US military psyops unit in
Iraq":
`
"It is ingrained in U.S.: You don't psyop
Americans. We just don't do it."
`
The same fellow is "now director of a new
project…that focuses on 'trans-regional'
media issues":
`
"There's always going to be a certain
amount of bleed-over [= psyoping Ameri-
cans] with the global information environ-
ment."
`
Gee whiz!!
`
`
`
`
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/09/AR2006040900890_pf.html
`
there's also:
`
Monday, April 10, 2006
Reuters
Military denies it hyped Zarqawi threat
`
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/10/AR2006041000491_pf.html
`
and if you're really into it:
`
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Associated Press
Al-Qaeda Arranges Most Suicide Blasts In
Iraq, U.S. Says
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/10/AR2006041001471_pf.html
`
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</pre>

Why DeLay Did Not Delay – Part 2

<pre>
POLITICAL ESSAYS
Why DeLay Did Not Delay – Part 2
`
`
Friday April 7, 2006
Houston Chronicle [1]
DeLay can get pension as soon as he
resigns – He is eligible for $67,000 a
year, which would be unaffected by
state convictions
`
State convictions?
`
"His pension would be unaffected by any
conviction on the campaign finance char-
ges he faces in Travis County [TX]
`
"or any charges rising from the congres-
sional lobbying scandal in which two of his
former aides, and former ally and lobbyist
…Abramoff, have pleaded guilty."
`
"DeLay also will be eligible to participate in
the health plan available to all federal re-
tirees."
`
Sounds great!
`
Two questions, though.
`
Will federal charges be limited only to the
present congressional lobbying scandal?
`
Are convicted traitors eligible for federal
retirees' benefits?
`
Why do you ask *those* questions?
`
`
From my Saturday February 25, 2006
"Abramoff Legerdemain" essay [2]:
`
{start}
`
…a February 23d Boston Globe newsstory
…indicates [Abramoff] may have served a
leader whose legerdemain resulted in a
major military defeat for The Superpower
on September 11, 2001.
`
"A subpoena in the case,…says the US gov-
ernment is seeking information on Abramoff-
related activities with 'any department, min-
istry, or office holder or agent of the Russian
government.'"
`
"The subpoena seeks information about ties
between Abramoff-related groups and a
Moscow energy giant that is called Naftasib,
a major supplier to the Russian military."
`
"Senior Naftasib executives helped arrange
a trip Abramoff took to Moscow in 1997 with
…Tom DeLay, a longtime Abramoff friend."
`
1997?  That's b-e-f-o-r-e 2001.
`
"…a key connection between Abramoff and
Russia is an obscure Dutch firm called Voor
Huisen.

"Voor Huisen was one of Abramoff's biggest
clients, paying $2.1 million in lobbying fees
to Abramoff and his partners from 2001 to
2004….
`
"…there has been no explanation as to why
the company had paid such large fees…."
`
"…several of Abramoff's former partners…
said…they were told the Dutch company
was connected to Naftasib executives."
`
"…reports that Abramoff filed said he lob-
bied for Voor Huisen  on matters ranging
`
from aviation safety [!]
`
to disaster preparedness [!!]
`
to unspecified issues 'pertaining to defense
and security.' [!!!]."
`
"In addition to being a lobbyist, Abramoff
registered in 1999 as a foreign agent."
`
1999?  That's b-e-f-o-r-e 2001.
`
{end}
`
`
`
`
[1]
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/3774753.html
`
or
`
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/politics/3774753
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[2]
`
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/694
`
February 23, 2006
Boston Globe
Abramoff ties to Russians probed
`
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/02/23/abramoff_ties_to_russians_probed?mode=PF
`
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</pre>

Images And Reality – Part 7

<pre>
POLITICAL ESSAYS
Images And Reality – Part 7
`
`
Friday, April 7, 2006
Associated Press [1]
Cost to Remove 12M Illegal Immigrants
Huge
`
At first Nazi talk made a good impression.
`
Likewise…
`
"Rep. James Sensenbrenner,…author of
a get-tough immigration bill, said the
government has no intention of trying to
deport 12 million people.
`
"'Nobody is seriously proposing that, be-
cause that will require a massive infiltra-
tion of law enforcement officials and will
disrupt the economy,'…Sensenbrenner
…told CBS' 'Face the Nation' this week."
`
But Nazi deeds exposed their evil heart.
`
Likewise…
`
"But [Sensenbrenner's] bill and several
others would make living in the United
States illegally a felony.  And felons with-
out legal immigration status are subject
to deportation."
`
And "massive infiltation of law enforce-
ment officials" is already underway.

"In 2004, the Department of Homeland
Security deported about 200,000 people;
an additional 1,035,000 returned to their
countries of origin when caught by fed-
eral authorities, according to the Office
of Immigration Statistics."
`
`
Excerpts from my "Images And Reality  -
Part 6" essay [2]:
`
{start}
`
After Germany invaded and occupied
Western Poland, part of the territory
was incorporated outright into, duh,
Greater Germany; and the rest of the
territory, the larger part, was made
into a catch-all called the Government
General –ruled by a Nazi overlord.
`
"Transformation of the Government
General into a German space…pre-
supposed a decision about the popula-
tion…."
`
`                 *  *  *
`
"…the Poles…should be split up into
three categories:
`
"1. Those who can be Germanized as
time goes on.
`
"2. Those who are valuable as labor-
ers (arbeitspolitisch) and therefore
may remain in the [River] Vistula
space.
`
"3. Those who are out of question
for German interests and therefore
are to be removed from the Vistula
space."
`
"That last category…comprised 2 to 3
million Poles."
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Back to the AP newsstory, quoting
a spokesperson of the Federation for
American Immigration Reform:
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"Once we get their numbers down, cut in
half say, or three quarters, what you do
with those that remain, that's something
we can figure out.
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"It becomes a more manageable problem.
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"Three million is obviously better than 12
million."
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The spokesperson said "military bases
could be converted to detention centers"
to begin with.
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This is how I concluded my essay:
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As to [the 2 to 3 million Poles]…"radical
measures can not be avoided (werden
Radikalmittel nicht zu vermeiden sein)."
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The Superpower's Body Snatchers will
have no difficulty at all with
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THE TRANSLATION.
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[1]
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/07/AR2006040701029_pf.html
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[2]
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/728
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My essay drew upon pages 180-182 of–
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Max Weinreich
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Hitler's Professors: The Part Of Scholar-
ship In Germany's Crimes Against The
Jewish People
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Yiddish Scientific Institute – YIVO
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1946
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293 pages
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