All in the Family:Poppy Bush's Failed Assassination of Reagan & the Hinckley - Lennon Connection

This is a story containing both facts and revelant theories that point sadly to direct U.S. Government's,specifically at the planning and direction of George HW Bush, involvement in the murder of John Lennon and the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan,where such events occured just months apart.The failure of Reagan's assassinaton attempt to bring about Bush's desired goal didn't derail his plan of actions it only changed the course somewhat.

Although both incidents appear to be completely unrelated as far as motive goes, there does run a common thread between them. Here is a disturbing yet plausible look inside a dark period in American culture where I try to piece together the truth that is hidden underneath government coverups during the Bush Senior tenure to control ex-movie star actor turned actor puppet,President Ronald Reagan.


Why John Lennon?


John Lennon was considered a radical antiwar activist who took part in protests with members of both the White & Black Panther Party's circa 1971-72.Nixon,fearing Lennon's activities would cost him the 1972 election, ordered FBI director J.Edgar Hoover to wire tap John & Yoko's phones and to have them followed everywhere they went to scare Lennon into stopping his activism.

A memo from J.Edgar Hoover proves this reality:
April 10, 1972 memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover to the FBI's New York office, Hoover orders his agents to "...promptly initiate discrete efforts to locate subject [Lennon] and remain aware of his activities and movements".

In 1972 Republican President Nixon were very anxious and aggravated by the escalation in John Lennon's anti Government activism as the year grew older. The CIA had discovered that John was personally funding radical Chicago 7 member Rennie Davis's plans to disrupt the National Republican Convention in San Diego, California.


Again,in1972,the U.S. Government tried to use an old pot possession conviction to have Lennon deported to the UK. The charge led him to court deportation proceedings held by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.And in July of 1973, the INS ordered John Lennon to leave U.S. in 60 days based on his past drug misdemeanor conviction(1968,Cannabis aka marijuana)The legalities of the case went on for 2 years until the deportation order was overturned in the U.S. courts in Oct. 1975. Lennon was subsequently issued his green card in 1977. This was detailed in the excellent documentary "The U.S. vs. John Lennon", which airs on VH-1 Classic frequently.


When Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as president on 19 January 1977, Lennon and Ono attended the Inaugural Ball and heavily supported President Carter's election campaign.The year prior George HW Bush was the director of the CIA under Gerald Ford but upon Carter's inaugeration, he chose to replace Bush with Stansfield Turner,who later gave notable testimony to Congress revealing much of the extent of the MKULTRA program.More about Bush's CIA connections below with commentary from a name known as Bo Gritz.


In 1980, John Lennon made a remarkable musical comeback with the LP "Starting Over".The timing would be a curse for Lennon, as a team of paranoid war mongering right wing administrators would be back in the White House.By Nov. the Republicans returned to power with the November election of ex-California Governor Ronald Reagan and VP George HW Bush ,whom was was ironically bitterly defeated by Reagan in the NRP race for Presidential nomination but that didn't stop Reagan from asking Bush to run as his VP, much to Nancy Reagan's disapproval.


Fenton Bresler,author of 'Who Killed John Lennon'? wrote "Lennon, the politically most active rock star of his generation was shot dead outside his own home by a killer who was merely a tool, a human gun used and controlled by others to destroy a uniquely powerful radical figure who was likely to prove a rallying point for mass opposition to the policies soon to be implemented... by the new United States government headed by the Republicans.Bresler speculates that Chapman was a "Manchurian Candidate," brainwashed and pre-programmed to kill on command. When the moment had arrived, Chapman received his signal and performed his task.To get Lennon's attention, Chapman yelled "hey Mr.Lennon". The oddity? The Secret Service,FBI,and CIA had always referred to John as "Mr.Lennon". What kind of so called fanatic would call him "Mr. Lennon"? It would either be "John" or "Lennon", not "Mr." My point? This anamolity points toward CIA brainwashing even more so.Case in point, watch this 1992 interview with Chapman,where he appears robotic and stoic.He explains hearing a voice at the time of the shooting in his head say "do it, do it,do it,do it" over and over and says he got into a combat stance.This is classic CIA MK ULTRA all the way.



The Bush Family affair with John W. Hinckley Sr., connections to World Vision, and his failure to murder Ronald Reagan


John W. Hinckley Sr., was also the president of the board for World Vision & the father of John Hinckley Jr., who was later charged with the attempted assassination of Reagan.It get's stranger. Hinckley senior helped finance Bush Senior's Presidential campaign earlier that year and Bush's son & younger brother of W., Neil Bush, was friends with Scott Hinckley ,the brother of John Hinckley jr. Scott and Neil were scheduled to have dinner together the night after the assassination attempt on Reagan.Of course with Hinckley senior being the President of World Vision, his son attended this missionary camp with Mark David Chapman. Bush and his CIA workings, was well educated on the use of MK-Ultra CIA brainwashing techniques to set up Manchurian candidates.

    World Vision,which was an evangelical order & missionary network , was often front a for the CIA. They performed espionage work for the CIA in Southeast Asia while Operation Phoenix (the murderous project that left 40,000 people dead) was in full effect. In Honduras, they maintained a presence at CIA contra recruiting camps in the war against the Sandinistas.World Vision was also connected to the Jonestown Guyana massacre where they developed a scheme to repopulate Jonestown with CIA-linked mercenaries from Laos. Laos, of course, was where the CIA was running its "secret war" during Vietnam, which for the most part was a smokescreen for a widespread opium trafficking operation.

James Gordon "Bo" Gritz, the legendary Special Forces Vet,author and researcher had this to say:


"I don't believe it is coincidence that John Hinkley, Sr. was more than a good friend to George Bush. I'm convinced that architects of Bush's "New World Order" considered Reagan too much of a risk to their plan. Reagan's own words betray a plot of assassination: "I knew I'd been hurt, but I thought that I'd been hurt by the Secret Service man landing on me in the car, and I was, I must say, it was the most paralyzing pain. I've described it as if someone had hit you with a hammer, but that sensation, it seemed to me, came after I was in the car, and so I thought that maybe his gun or something had broken a rib. I sat up on the seat, and the pain wouldn't go away, and suddenly I found I was coughing up blood!" The President 's car roared away with Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr on top of him.James Brady, Reagan's Press Secretary, sustained a wound to his head and was transported to George Washington Hospital five-minutes AFTER Reagan left, but oddly enough, Reagan arrived at the same hospital 15-minutes AFTER Brady. The Secret Service said they "Got Lost." The truth is that they initially headed for Bethesda Naval Hospital -- where dead Presidents, like JFK, go. When Reagan didn't die, the plan was changed. The car was turned around and drove to GW Hospital".


"Bo" Gritz continues:

"There was no obvious wound and the medical staff thought President Reagan was experiencing a heart attack -- twice they lost his pulse as he fought for life. Finally, a nurse spotted a tiny wound beneath his arm pit, but even after three X-rays, they couldn't locate a projectile. Finally, a doctor's probe located a tiny sliver in the lung. It had deflected off the seventh-rib, collapsed the lung and lodged one-quarter inch from the aorta. It turned out to be a razor-edged flechette which the doctor described as "flat and thin as a dime." I recognize the missile as belonging to a CO2 charged pistol that is lethal when fired in contact with a target. For ranges from more than a few feet, out to 50-feet, silent bullets fired by conventional weapons were used. Suppressed weapons were employed for greater ranges (.22 for short-range, 9mm at mid-range and various rifle rounds out to 2000-yards when using a .50 caliber BMG). I voted twice for Ronald Reagan because as a Hollywood actor he had a developed mentality that good was supposed to triumph over evil. Until 30 March 1981, Reagan had only played at being shot. I realization that he was meant to die, tempered his enthusiasm to the point where George H. Bush actually called the shots for eight-years, plus the next four-years he actually served as President (1989-1993)".


"Before you close your mind to the possibility that George H. Bush could/would be part of such a dastardly scheme, remember that four years before he was Reagan's running-mate, Bush was DCI (Director of the Central Intelligence Agency) under Gerald Ford -- not his first CIA position. In a letter dated 29 November 1963 to Director Intelligence Research, Department of State, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote: "An informant who has furnished reliable information in the past and who is close to a small pro-Castro group in Miami has advised that the assassination of the president may result in strong repressive measures being taken against them." The letter ends: "The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963 by Mr. W.T. Forsyth of this Bureau." Colonel Fletcher Prouty stated that, in his capacity of liaison between the Pentagon and CIA in 1961, he personally "sanitized" two freighters named "Barbara" and "Houston" for use in the Bay of Pigs invasion, code named "Zapata" -- the same name as George Bush's oil company at the time."



Decades of Failure drove Bush Senior to achieve his goal as a New World Order Hegemony Hawk



George HW Bush,while he was a very successful oil man and a brief employee with the CIA in the early 1960's, was an amazing political failure thru out the 1960's when he lost both attempts for a Senate seat.Nixon,who had a political affinity for Bush,appointed him as chairman of the RNC from 1973-74 after he had previously given Bush a postition as Ambassador to the UN (1970-72).


It was Bush who then was appointed to do Nixon's dirty work by forcing him Bush to go around the world and do damage control speeches on behalf of Nixon when rumors started spilling out about his possible involvement in the Watergate scandal.Of course since Nixon was subsequently found guilty in his involvement in the scandal, you can say that Bush's damage control tour was a
total act of futility.

As noted earlier,in 1976,when Bush's political career was tarnished (seemingly forever),Gerald Ford made Bush CIA director which didn't last long.In the following year he became director of the CFR. But by 1979 Bush was back on the campaign trail and vying for a Presidential nomination & in 1980 he was able to go all the way to face off against Reagan for the Republican nomination,only to lose a bitter fight, as noted at the top of this article. Reagan felt sorry for the loser Bush and made him his VP. Nancy Reagan viewed Bush as a sneaky distrustful,creep & begged her husband to NOT choose him as the VP- and she said so in her biography many many years later.Maybe this was the ultimate example of how every man should listen to the intuition of his wife.


When you think about the bitterness that Bush now had inside of him and his ties to all the above I mentioned, it is NOT inconvievable that Bush was behind the attempted assassination of Reagan so he himself could take over the reigns of the Presidency that he has longed for many years.Of course his dream came true in 1988/89 and to celebrate, he decided to have a war in the Gulf of Iraq. The running commonality in all these conspiracies are staggering and they usually include too many coincidences.But,lest we not be naive.George HW Bush ran the majority of Reagan's eight year tenure as President of the United States.The puppet Reagan had his strings pulled by Bush, and although he eventually went unscathed by the Iran-Contra affair,it was his position as POTUS that covered the dastardly deeds of VP Bush.In my opinion, Bush senior was behind the assassination of Lennon and the attempted assassination of Reagan.





Sources:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/top08.pdf

http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/HinckleyAndBush.htm

http://www.bogritz.com/lookingglass.html

http://www.nathanielblumberg.com/bush.htm

http://www.john-lennon.com/whokilledjohnlennon.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Gritz

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-05-14/politics/31694782_1_watergate-cia-secrets

http://theamericanchronicle.blogspot.com/2012/02/did-bush-assassinate-reagan.html

THE ULTIMATE TRUTH ABOUT OSAMA BIN LADEN

BIN LADEN's CIA CONNECTION:
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BBC: Osama bin Laden was CIA agent & Al-Qaeda Never Existed - Invented by CIA


http://newsone.com/1205745/cia-osama-bin-laden-al-qaeda/



The CIA met Bin Laden while undergoing treatment at an American Hospital in July 2001 in Dubai but did NOT arrest him.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html



CBS's Good Morning America learns that Bin Laden is CIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGXVic15ho



FBI Whistleblower says Bin Laden Worked for U.S./CIA Right Up Until 9/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWbyZSnHFkc


 
Hillary Clinton admits the CIA/U.S. Created Al-Qaeda and are still funding,arming,and supporting them in Syria Right now

http://youtu.be/kzQ2KZWfjgs



BIN LADEN'S DIALYSIS,KIDNEY FAILURE & REPORTS OF HIS DEATH IN DEC. 2001
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December 2001 Fox News Report: Bin Laden Already Dead

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html



CBS Dan Rather & other news sources: Bin Laden Hospitalized in July 2001 & Sept. 10th,2001


http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO311A.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/28/eveningnews/main325887.shtml




Pakistani President: Osama Bin Laden is dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrHZb1mYV6M
 
 


2001: Pakistan Officials and Media Report Bin Laden is Dead


http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ekAxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kQ4EAAAAIBAJ&dq&pg=5240%2C657115



Top US Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/04/top-us-government-insider-bin-laden-died-in-2001-911-a-false-flag/




Nov.2002 ~ CBS 60 Minutes Andy Rooney Commentary on his belief that Bin Laden is Dead


http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z3pAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d1YMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2497,2301285




FAKE VIDEO AND AUDIO RELEASES OF BIN LADEN STATEMENTS:
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The video in 2001 where he allegedly confessed to 9/11,was a complete fake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41UAnkQARFs&feature=related


February 12, 2003:Another Dubious Bin Laden (AUDIO) tape Comes when the US needed it the most

http://codshit.blogspot.com/2003/02/another-dubious-bin-laden-tape-comes.html





The video was in 2007 was a STILL only, which was proven to be fake:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Osama_bin_Laden_video
 


Fake AUDIO tape addressed allegedly by Bin Laden to France last on Oct.27th,2010.I guess video camera technology is outdating these people as well:


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/world/europe/28osama.html




Who is behind the fake Osama Bin Laden tapes?Meet Zionist Rita Katz
http://theempress999.livejournal.com/18587.html



NO EVIDENCE THAT BIN LADEN WAS BEHIND THE 9/11 ATTACKS:
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FBI says, it has “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11” & leaves him off of the FBI's Most Wanted List for the attacks

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13664.htm
 


Former CIA official Milt Bearden talks about Bin Ladens non-existent involvement in 911 and how the CIA trained Usama Bin Laden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn61PJQGCUo


 Dick Cheney says Bin Laden Innocent on 9/11


http://tomakemoneyfromhome.com/blog/?p=49617


 SEPTEMBER 17TH,2001 CNN REPORT - Osama Bin Laden says he wasn't behind attacks:

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/



Bin Laden repeatedly denied any responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. On September 28, 2001, he was interviewed by the Karachi Ummat, an Urdu language newspaper.WORTH READING!

http://empirestrikesblack.com/2011/05/2001-interview-mad-man-bin-laden-warns-of-us-military-industrial-complex-seeking-new-enemy-for-post-soviet-expansion-denies-911-involvement/


Bush: Truly not concerned about Osama Bin Laden



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o





The goal has never been to get Bin Laden." —General Richard Myers, US Joint Chiefs of Staff

http://www.opednews.com/Diary/General-Richard-Myers--Th-by-Saman-Mohammadi-110228-480.html





MAY 1ST,2011 & THEREAFTER
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PRESIDENT OBAMA ANNOUNCES: BIN LADEN STILL DEAD

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/01/president-obama-announces-bin-laden-still-dead/




Osama bin Laden's Body Buried at Sea



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/02/501364/main20058795.shtml

 



9/11 VICTIM'S FAMILY WANTS TO SEE PHOTO PROOF OF BIN LADENS DEATH -MAY 3RD, 2011:

‎"It's been kind of strange, the burial at sea, the very fast DNA…I mean,did this really happen or was this all concocted somehow? It would be reassuring in some sense if the photos were released." ~Abigail Carter,whose husband Arron was killed in the WTC on 9/11

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4837382



President Obama: I won't release Bin Laden Death photos


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20059739-503544.html



Why Was bin Laden Buried at Sea So Quickly?

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/05/02/why-was-bin-laden-buried-at-sea-so-quickly/#ixzz1LP4KuYvS




Ben Swann's Reality Check:Hillary Clinton admits the CIA/U.S. Created Al-Qaeda and are still funding,arming,and supporting them in Syria Right Now
http://youtu.be/kzQ2KZWfjgs




OTHER
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Al Qaeda: A CIA Database | Not A Terrorist Group

http://truth11.com/2011/05/13/al-qaeda-a-cia-database-not-a-terrorist-group/




Debunk the myth of Al Qaeda

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0523/p11s02-coop.html

NO EVIDENCE THAT BIN LADEN WAS BEHIND THE 9/11 ATTACKS

FBI says, it has “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11” & leaves him off of the FBI's Most Wanted List for the attacks

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13664.htm



The US Justice Department Lacks Evidence To Indict Bin Laden For 9/11 Attacks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhGC9kYNuOY



Former CIA official Milt Bearden talks about Bin Ladens non-existent involvement in 911 and how the CIA trained Usama Bin Laden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn61PJQGCUo


"We've never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming." —Dick Cheney, "Interview of the Vice President by Tony Snow", March 29, 2006

www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060329-2.html


 

Bush: Truly not concerned about Osama Bin Laden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o



"The goal has never been to get Bin Laden." —Gen. Richard Myers, US Joint Chiefs of Staff

http://www.opednews.com/Diary/General-Richard-Myers--Th-by-Saman-Mohammadi-110228-480.html

2,000 MILES TO TEA & THEATRE - Part Two

  
       NYC --Started in NYC for the Joe's Pub show.A line formed for the 6pm
door opening.That is where we met many of our familiar Who friends for the first
time. Pete Townshend walks thru the front dooor & brushes Mike on theway in
(Mike was just getting thru the door after presenting his ticket).Pete says
"excuse me" and looks Mike right in the eyes and Mike says "hello Pete",and then
Pete says "hello" back - with this warm smile on his face.I was ahead of Mike and
Pete had pushed his way past me but I didn't know it was him at the time since I
saw him from the back.It wasn't until Mike told me he was shouting at me to get
my attention, but it was too loud in there to hear him. In hindsight, Idid recall
that the gentleman was Pete because I recognized his arse!I mean his walk. :)
The show itself was great.Thanks to Joyce,we have a table on the stage
practically. ("Give me a drink boy wash my feet")...and that'swhat we did for
Pete! Rob got Pete stains!! We all got Pete stains!I loved hearing Pete perform
"Blue,Red & Grey", "Greyhound Girl",and "Let's See Action".



But for me, oneof the best moments washearing Rachel sing my favorite Rachel song, "Happy to be Sad".It was totally unexpected and her beautiful voice is even better to hear live. We all loved Floyd Vance and Martha and her horsey outfit. Both so incredibly talented as well.Our table was next to George and Duke (I believe they were at he same table). George looked like a cool mod with his mod-like sunglasses and the way he dresses.And of course, Sean Duke Cassidy is THE MOD from SF! And of course Max is THE THE MOD.WE ARE THE MODS,WEARE THE MODS, WE ARE WE ARE THE MODS!!!



-Thank you so much Joyce for arranging our stays at those
gorgeous hotels..the Hilton and the Affinia. What great atmosphere's and locations
for both,especially the Affinia. My favorite hotel so far.Iam glad this one
didn't have a minibar,phewwwww.Lesson learned! Always those magical Who moments
with you Joyce :)


- The Stout pre-show parties and meeting all the great Who
friends!Thanks to Jason Hare and whomever else were in charge of the Who videos
on all those big screens. Most of the names we met are below. The last night,
Magik shows up! I finally get drunk with you Billy,hahaha! A really cool looking
bar.Huge place, beautiful place.Ilike it better than the Molly Wee's Pub from
the past tours.-First night at MSG......there was a ticket fiasco but ALOT of
people ended up being in similar situations.They all got resolved and lessons
were learned .I never sweated any of it...I was "getting on" and enjoying
somep reshow pints for a change. You can't change the situation so you just feel
confidant it will all work out - and it all did! It's a sad reminder of how many
people are out there scamming and ripping us fans off to make a buck. We all
wanted to find these guys and do a clockwork orange on them. George hung out at
the box office for hourstrying to make up for all of our losses, thus never
getting a chance to join the preshow party.Thanks for doing that George..and
Oz.


The show was great but the overall audience reaction was not.Seemed to be more
corporate types on the floor this first night for somereason.I still loved the
energy from the guys and the new songs continued to blow me away.There was this
one guy to my left who looked to be around Pete's age wearing a suit, silver hair
and glasses.I decided to high five him and he went for it. Many many times.The high
fives were so stingingly hard from this guy...even in my numbed-to-a-thumb
overdubbed state....my hands were actually sore for the rest of the night.I could
hardly hold my beers.But the iceddown beers helped heal the pain,Hahahahahaha!!
If he was one of those corporate guys...he was one of the true Who fans from the
way he wase enjoying the show. He should of gotten his business partners arses
out of their chairs though.The review for this show is short,I know. The Boston
show and the 2nd MSG show was "the" shows for me! But they all were awesome.

-
WHO'S NEXT plays at BB King's as part of the AFTER SHOW PARTY and a big crowd is
there for the show.They are "on" as usual.J ust great.After there show, everyone
splits their time between Faces and the Irish pub and than onto a late night
diner.2nd MSG Show -As mentioned above, the preshow gathering is again at the
coollooking STOUT bar with the Who being played on the big screens
again.-Spending the Who's 2nd Msg show with Joyce,Meg,and Mike..from the2nd row
on Pete's side! Thanks Meg for all you did to get us those tix.It was great
meeting and hanging with you. High fiving you Joyce during
a Who show was awesome! I was just so afraid of spilling my beer on you..I had to
be careful not to give anyone around us a beer shower.What a great view.It was
massively loud , the way I like it. Lauri and us making Who eye contact and
Who fists salutes often during the show.We loved every minute of it.

The MSG crowdthis 2nd night was way more into it!-Just before the lights went down Mike
yelled high to Bobby Pridden,and Bobby turned and smiled and then the lights
suddenly went out and you could see Bobby quickly turn his attention back to
his controller board.What a way to distract the sound engineer Mike,lol.Just
kidding. :)


-Mike points at some guy in the photo pit at this 2nd msg show
andsays to me."That photographer looks just like Jason Hare". And Iagreed.About
10 minutes later I see this stranger's face when heturns around for a moment and
I realize it IS Jason,lol. I tell Mike this and he says "No, it is not". Finally,
Jason turns around again and this time smiles and waves at us and Mike says
"wow,it is Jason".WOW, you lucky dude Jason!!!!


-We all file out of the Gardenand down the corridor when all of a sudden some sort of version of "LOVE REIGNO'ER ME" occurs.I mean, he is one of us and does love us all, right? So, then you can say that his message was one of love.Luckily that LOVE did not reign on
us. But the arc and the smile were all part of the special effects.It was a beer
chest but it was NO beer coming down- that for sure.Hate to say it, but it has to be added to the Who story hall of fame,lol.The security guys could of easily been "dicks" too. Matter of fact,I
think when they brought him backstage, he thought he was being led to a backstage
party -hahahaha! In a flash, you were already sitting in Faces and Names on your
third drink? How did you do it? lol.



-Roger's voice to me sounds just great despite some negative thoughts from others (but just a few and we all have our ownopinions).I just think that in the mix of it all, you really can't hear the off notes.You can on the DVD's at times which is natural.It's all part of anatural progression, but it's still all progressed well if you ask me .At his age
with six million screams under his belt, we and Roger himself are lucky he's singing at all.Pete's windmills spitfire strumming,chording,& overallplaying is more ferocious than ever. Not too many leaps but the "few" leaps he
does have been coming at unexpected times and he's doing more ofthe scissor kicks facing the audience than I've seen before, which has been surprisingly cool. Fewer jumps, but placed at precise times..makes it just as special than ever before. The singing,playing,energy,enjoyment,etc from the whole band has just been incredible.



The last night, we spend most of the night at Faces and Names hanging with everyone...including Simon and Bobby Pridden.A cool way to end this trip.We put in our share of time at the Irish Pub for old time sakes these past several days too.Loved hanging with THE Eddie Ryan,Lauri,Mason,Lauren,Steph, Sara &Tommy,GG, Jason Hare, Diane & Bob,Seth,Brian Lynch,Kevin's fromMaine and Vermont,Rick from Maine,Barry,Alan,
Charles and hisdaughter,the McMullen's, Brian Cady,Keets, Duke, Barry,JeffW.,Cynthia,Bill Canell and his brother,the rest of the band.George L.and Mark Fintz, Sheridan, Matt,Lisa & Ron, Happy Jack,Joe L., Jeff House,Max the Mod (great having you hang out in a room a bit!),ScottS chrade,Magik and so on! I know names have been left out,there weres o many friends there. I mean, we all know the Faces & Names! We allmissed you TRISH!!!p.s.- Thank you to everyone who took pictures.Joyce,George,Ozzie,Mikeand so on.So far I have seen
some great ones from George! Lookingfoward to see many many more!           

2,000 MILES TO TEA & THEATRE:THE WHO 2006 TOUR ROAD TRIP

2,000 MILES TO TEA & THEATRE

Memorable moments in Boston and NYC! Not in any such order or continuity...-On the road again! Drove from South Florida again.Mike,Rob and myself.We leave at 9:30am on Sept. 13th and arrive into NYC (after a 7 hourstop over in Maryland) at around 2:30pm on Sept. 14th. Back in theNew York groove.We meet up with Joyce & Meg at the Union Square Inn Hotel in the East Village, which is close to where Joe's Pub is.More on the Joe's Pub show under the NYC section below.


BOSTON-
The day after Joe's Pub show - Joyce,Meg,Oz,& Eddie Ryan join the three of us and ride to Boston.Joyce checks us into the Hilton Hotel. Scott Pilam arrives from Logan Airport and joins us.A night off hanging out in beautiful Boston - mainly at the Quincy Market area - the day before the show. Met some great fans.- We meet the amazing Ryan brothers on this off night. The "other" Ed and John from SLC,Utah.Some of the most amazing stories ever heard!
Swimming with Roger! That one was the best. Forrest Who Gump moments.We hung out at CHEERS and in front of the Black Rose bar just having a great time in a happening college town on a weekend night and the weather was perfect. Charles from Denver showed up! I didn't expect tos ee you that night - so what a surprise. And Charles brought his daughter for her first Who show.How great is that!

Show day arrives on September 16th. Preshow at the Harps bar across from the arena. We arrived there about 5pm. I couldn't believe how many recognizeable faces showed up in Boston. Was happy to see Jeff House show up after there was some initial doubt he would. Glad you could make it to the show.



-Mike and Rob talking live on a popular Boston rock radio station(100.7 WZLX) before the Boston show at Harps was one of the best moments of the trip! A station DJ (the popular Chuck Nolan) was there with his crew promoting the radion station & the show with a great preshow party. The bar was packed from the front to the back.The DJ came up to Mike,Rob,and I with a microphone. Mike explains how we drove from Miami to Boston & NYC and how we've done this many times & also explains how he was told by his boss that he cannot miss work for the next 6 months when he gets back. The DJ laughed. Rob injected some funny comments, the funniest being something like "We are so committed, that we all should be committed". Meaning to a mental health facility for our insanity of driving so far to see THE WHO. Insanity is fun, if that's the way's it's done!




Hours later at a concession stand inside the arena, I overhear these parents who were with their kids talking about how they drove from D.C. I proceeded to tell them how we drove from Miami. They said to me with excitement in their voices: "Was that you on the radio telling that driving story from Miami"?! . And I pointed at Mike and said "yes,there he is"! Along with Rob, it was their 2 minutes of Boston radio fame! The couple bursted out laughing andhigh fiving Mike & I! lol.What a small Who world! It's a small who world after all!
- At the Boston show (4th row on Pino's side), Pino was playing forScott Pilam,Ozzie,Mike and I after he spotted all four of us cheering him on, bowing to him,etc. As Ozzie said earlier in a post - Pino turned right at us - and played for just a us. He did so for more than a few moments! It was a hilight for sure. Pino had a huge smile on his face and appeared so very appreciative of ourattention.Likewise!-The energy of both the band and the audience - together - was unbelievable in Boston.I could not stop looking around at the whole audience reaction from the top levels on down to the floor area.





LISTENING TO YOU....I GET EXCITEMENT AT YOUR FEET!!
-The new songs are the hilight for me and alot of us.The mini operaand "Black Widow Eyes" are my favorites.I didn't learn what "Tea & Theatre" was about until literally aftert he final msg show was over.I look foward to listening and feelingthat song at the next show (Sunrise) knowing the lyrics a little better. I still need to sit down and listen to this one and absorb the words. Now starting to realize that this new WHO CD/ALBUM will end up being a classic..for the music and the emotional content.They are turning out being perfect for the stage, at least to my ears and several others I have spoken to about them.
-Pete's massive spit shower spray in Boston, as he crouched down to machine gun down some of you who were sitting over there. No one who was over there could confirm to me that they had received some "Petestains". I believe he showered the back of a security dude . Gunned down in a hail of fog nozzled venomous drool!!Hahaaha!! :) That punk attitude at age 61..it remains. That is what we love about Pete. The passion,compassion,the anger,the love, the energy...it's all still there! Brian Lynch will get the Fog nozzle reference.


After the show we ended up at CHEERS again (since Harps became a dance club after
9pm) with much of the same crowd, including another raucous and fun night with
the Ryan brothers and their stories. Back at the hotel ----Mike was having a
mildly intoxicated related problem of not being able to slide the hotel key into
the door slot successfully (at around 3am). Ozzie then held the door shut to
frustrate Mike even more(we hear Mike screaming "the light on the door knob is
turning green...wtf!?"



- I think he figured it out by then - but why won't the door open?).I
video'd the whole funny incident! Oz let's go of the door and Mike falls against
& thru the door Three Stooges style and tumbles over the bed once he made it
into the room! lol!! Ofcourse, Mike embellished the prop fall but it was all
good and fun!- Someone called Guest Services asking if they could speak
toMr.Hilton. "We need more towels,food,and the services of Miss ParisHilton
please"? Rob, did you make that call? What happens in Hilton, stays in
Hilton.



-Oz's elderly woman impression when Rob was on the phone with his Mom in
the hotel room was funny as heck. Rob's Mom kept asking Rob whothe lady in the
room was that she was hearing in the background. Rob comes back with "Mom,that's
my friend Ozzie". It seemed to tie in a little with Mike's funny impression of
Leon from the movie "Dog Day Afternoon". Another classic moment of the boys
being boys.Or was itthe Leon's being the Leon's?But how sweet was this.We sang
happy birthday to Rob's Mom!- I can't quit you!!! Funniest quote of the whole
trip - just in the sense of the context of how it was being said and why! Ozzie
and then Rob, both going on and on with this. Basically a message fo rmaster
Pete! We all may have thought about trying but Pete can't quit us either. Get
the joke? Get the message?! :)

A 12 Point Summary of a Post-Gaddafi Coup:Destablizing a Region

1)An EGYPTIAN American (Coptic Christian) film maker in California, a past U.S. Federal government informant, is commissioned to make a shoddy rush job propaganda short film which IS NOT a trailer to a full length film


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/nakoula-cooperation-756920


http://theweek.com/article/index/233263/does-the-movie-that-provoked-the-libyan-slayings-even-exist





2)The EGYPTIAN based Muslim Brotherhood who are a CIA tool whom Obama has embraced, admitted to calling for these more aggressive protests,even though the claim was for "peaceful" protests


http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/muslim-brotherhood-is-a-tool-of-cia/


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec12/protests2_09-14.html




3)Arab Spring protests were already in existence since Dec.2010.The recent protests were not difficult to stir up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring




4)Chris Stevens was friends with Ghaddafi who he reportedly had a good working relationship with

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/obamas_new_libya.html




5)Chris Stevens was not going along with what the U.S. Govt wanted in Libya and that was more destablization in the region
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/obamas_new_libya.html




6)What usually happens to people who don't go along with the U.S./NWO/Israel agenda?
(No links needed here )



7) The U.S. was warned a week before the attacks and did NOTHING to increase security for Stevens and the consulate.The warnings were not 48 hours prior but a week as I just mentioned,which I wrote in my blog.I need to correct that.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/12/Report-Egyptian-Intelligence-Anticipated-Attacks-on-US-Embassy-as-Early-as-Sept-4






8)The Chinese signed oil contracts with Libya in March 2012.On April 29th ,Libya’s oil minister Shokri Ghanem , who made deal to sell oil to Sinopec and Petrochina, was found murdered in Vienna.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/01/china-libya-oil-idUSL4E8E113820120301


http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2113528,00.html





9) A circulated photo of journalist Andrew Malone posing beside Ghaddafi's deceased body is purposely miscaptioned as being Chris Stevens.I viewed Malone's website myself and article where there are several photos of Malone NOT posing but just observing Ghadaffi's body.That was NOT a thumbs up he was doing but just the camera catching his hand in a transitional movement

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052777/Gaddafi-dead-body-picture-Libyas-gruesome-tourist-attraction.html






10) Chris Stevens would of never mocked Ghaddafi like those vile U.S. troops did at Abhu Ghraib

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/obamas_new_libya.html





11)The U.S. are supplying and supporting Al Qaeda rebels who they commissioned to kill Ghaddafi and continue to propagate lies that they liberated the Libyan people.The U.S. continue to supply and commission these AQ rebels in Syria and other regions.They'll use them for anything including the continuous goal to destablize Libya and the entire region

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feFwa8hrJtQ

http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2012/09/president-obama-why-is-the-u-s-supporting-al-qaeda-in-syria-2481080.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-backed-terrorists-murder-us-own-ambassador-in-libya.html




12) Six months after China signs oil deals with Libya and after an oil minister is murdered,the U.S. does a false flag attack at a consulate where OIL CONTRACTS go missing.


http://www.legitgov.org/Oil-contracts-gone-missing-consulate-Benghazi

Why the Libya False Flag Attack was a U.S. Power Grab

 
Most of us heard the reports from the mainstream media news.Unidentified armed men stormed the grounds overnight amid uproar among Muslims over a film produced in the US said to insult the Prophet Muhammad.They shot at buildings and threw handmade bombs into the compound. U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens, and three others died including two Navy Seals.Condolences to the families of these fallen officials. Protesters against the film also attacked the US embassy in Cairo and the Muslim Brotherhood ordered protests across the region in up to a dozen other countries.Who was behind the attacks? As usual myself and others have received criticism for suggesting this was another false flag attack perpetrated by the U.S. Government.So I gathered information that many of us have known since the Libya coup of 2011 and new details from this latest incident.

 

First we must always remember Gen. Clark's
revelation about the Wolfowitz secret he let out


Gen. Wesley Clark's admission about a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran."The source who showed Clark the memo was neocon hawk Paul Wolfowitz. "So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper and he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" (meaning the Secretary of Defense's office)today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?"He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"

 

Al Qaeda,the Muslim Brotherhood,and the CIA
 (Attack and Protests staged by the U.S. Govt)


Al-Qaeda has been used by the US to create many disturbances, fake revolutions and false flag attacks.The embassy in Benghazi is located near a courthouse wherein the al-Qaeda flag was flown in a display of control in Libya after the US government-sponsored Oct. 2011 murder of Muammar Gaddafi.Just two days before the murder of Gaddafi, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton staged an unannounced visit to Tripoli on a heavily armed military aircraft. While there, she issued a demand that Gaddafi be brought in “dead or alive”.

           This past week,the U.S. and CIA sponsored Muslim Brotherhood called for protests against America all across the Middle East region.The Muslim Brotherhood,whom's U.S.-CIA seeds sprouted into Al Qaeda, received both overt and covert support from Washington;The original leader of the MB,Said Ramadan,was recruited as an asset by the CIA.Formerly a high-ranking Middle East expert at the Defense Intelligence Agency Lang considers al-Qaeda to be “a descendent of the Brotherhood.It is also well known that the CIA has various strategic relationships with the Muslim Brotherhood.Robert Baer, a retired CIA case officer who was right in the thick of things in the Middle East and Central Asia during his 21 year career as a spy. In Sleeping with the Devil, a book he wrote after quitting the CIA Baer explains how the United States “made common cause with the Brothers” and used them “to do our dirty work in Yemen, Afghanistan,Syria and plenty of other places”. On late Thursday the Muslim Brotherhood cancelled nationwide protests.Seems somewhat odd that , to the layperson, that such a  condemned terrorist group would cancel demonstrations amidst the anger still simmering in the region.But with any kind of research and knowledge as stated in this article,you'll know who staged the protests and who called them off.Yes,the U.S. and the CIA.

 

 

Oil contracts 'gone missing' from consulate in Benghazi


 

The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach. American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be confidential. Sensitive oil contracts and documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the "safe house" in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack. Some of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts.

           On the issue of oil,in March of 2012,China's top two state oil firms have agreed to lift a total of about 140,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Libya under term deals set to raise China's crude purchases from the North African exporter after supply disruptions last year.Then in April 29 ,Libya’s ex-oil minister Shokri Ghanem , who made deal to sell oil to Sinopec and Petrochina, was found dead in Vienna, and an autopsy showed he drowned.From the deal with China, it seems the Pro China Group is dominating Libya. “In an interview on Fox News,Donald Trump discussed the Middle East, starting out with the war in Iraq, then moving on to U.S. air strikes in Libya.“You know in the old days, when you won a war, to the victor belongs the spoils. You kept it,” Trump said. “We win a war, and we hand it over to some people we don’t know and we leave.”“And we lose the contracts to China,” interjected one of the Fox anchors.“Yes, China is one,” Trump agreed. “By the way, Libya supplies the oil for China. We get no oil from Libya. What are we doing?” As we can see, the U.S. is working on getting control of that oil,or the majority of it.How will this play out with China? Russia? We will see.


America 'was warned of embassy attack but did nothing.More about who were behind the attack


According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted. House Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee stated that there is evidence that this was a “well-armed, well-coordinated event. It had both indirect and direct fire, and it had military maneuvers that were all part of this very organized attack.”

        Again,this points toward the same U.S./CIA backed Al-Qaeda forces whom President Obama admitted has been used in Syria.One witness to the mob scene in Libya said some of the gunmen attacking the U.S. installation had identified themselves as members of Ansar al-Shariah, which represents al-Qaida in Yemen, Libya and Syria.The al-Qaida offshoot released a statement denying its members were behind the deadly attack today, but a man identified as a leader of the Ansar brigade told Al Jazeera the group indeed took part in the Benghazi attack.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed the attack in Libya on a “small and savage group,” not the government or people of Libya.Yet,the U.S. sent in two warships and the marines and U.S./CIA backed protests (again,aka the Muslim Brotherhood)were orchestrated all across the region.Questions that were asked about the nature of U.S. support for the revolutions in Egypt and Libya, including reports the U.S.-aided rebels that toppled Muammar Gadhafi’s regime in Libya consisted of al-Qaida and jihad groups,had remained.But it's clear that the U.S. provided direct assistance, including weapons and finances, to the Libyan rebels.As mentioned above, the Obama administration is currently aiding the rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria amid widespread reports that al-Qaida jihadists are included in the ranks of the Free Syrian Army.During the revolution against Gadhafi’s regime, the U.S. finally admitted to directly arming the rebel groups.

 

Propaganda anti-Islamic film made in the U.S.
and the 11th anniv. of 9/11.(UPDATE:The film maker
is apparently a Federal government informant)


There is something that doesn't set well with many about this movie and the timing.This is a 13 min youtube video that's been up since July.But how is it that an outrage and uprising occurs on the 11th anniv. of 9/11? The answer is obvious.The powers at play here are the same ones that were behind the 9/11 attacks. The story about who produced the movie has changed. First the person was Jewish now he's Coptic Christian.Without going into too much detail, it is now already known that the film maker's name,as reported by the mainstream media, has changed several times and remains a mystery.One thing is certain,the ms media is now trying to tie the Coptic Christian issue in with Egypt which does nothing to explain why the film maker was initially identified as an Israel Jewish American.“The United States government had absolutely nothing to do with this video,” Clinton said before a meeting with the foreign minister of Morocco at the State Department. “We absolutely reject its content and message.”“To us, to me personally, this video is disgusting and reprehensible,” Ms. Clinton said. “It appears to have a deeply cynical purpose: to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage.” Did those words by Hillary Clinton sound earnest to you?

UPDATE:The film maker is apparently a Federal government informant



In remarks stressing that the U.S. government had “absolutely nothing to do with” the anti-Islam film that has touched off violence in the Middle East, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday sought to quash Arab concerns that the “disgusting and reprehensible” movie was somehow produced or condoned by American officials.However, Clinton’s attempt to distance the U.S. from “Innocence of Muslims” and, by extension, its felonious producer may be complicated by the revelation that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula became a government informant after his 2009 arrest for bank fraud.(source:The Smoking Gun website).
Though many key documents from the U.S. District Court case remain sealed, a June 2010 sentencing transcript provides an account of Nakoula’s cooperation with federal investigators in Los Angeles (and how his prison sentence was reduced as a result).


 

Sources:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/nakoula-cooperation-756920

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4280650,00.html

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/muslim-brotherhood-calls-for-more-protests-against-america/

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/01/cold-war-holy-warrior

http://www.legitgov.org/Oil-contracts-gone-missing-consulate-Benghazi

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/us-was-warned-of-libya-embassy-attack-but-did-nothing-16210837.html

 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/us-was-warned-of-libya-embassy-attack-but-did-nothing-16210837.html#ixzz26QZ3zj9d

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/251167-CIA-Mossad-handiwork-Mystery-deepens-over-US-video-that-triggered-diplomatic-crisis-in-Egypt-and-Libya

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/251173-8-Shocking-Truths-the-War-on-Terror-and-the-Global-Financial-War-Have-in-Common

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0912/There-may-be-no-anti-Islamic-movie-at-all#.UFIeFukR10A.facebook

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/0912/Libya-attack-Who-s-behind-the-inflammatory-YouTube-video

Taking a Stand Against the Policies of Zionism

No one can nor should ignore the importance of a recent book by Peter Beinart,
a Jewish American born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Jewish immigrants, called "Crisis of Zionism".

The book is a brutally honest critique of Zionism from inside Zionism.Beinart believes that the threat of Israel's existence comes from within.Policies of self implosion by hawkish leaders of Israel such as the far right wing tyrant Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister,Ehud Barak.Policies that are devastating for Israelis, Americans, and of course Palestinians.

Peter is saying things that are blindingly obvious to anyone who has spent even a week in the Palestinian territories.A sadly typical scene of a tiny young boy crying out for his father, who was being dragged away by Israeli soldiers for the "crime" of trying to take back some of the water that settlers had stolen from his village.Settlements steal vast quantities of Palestinian water in order to turn their illegal settlements into lush outposts with watered lawns and swimming pools and turn the surrounding Palestinian villages into deserts with terrible health problems. Children are regularly hospitalized after drinking contaminated water because they can't afford to buy back their own clean water from Israel's water company, Mekorot, and Israel won't give them permits to build new wells.

Palestinian parents are regularly ripped from their children on the flimsiest pretenses, often beaten in front of their children and taken away for months or even years with no charge or trial.


For many Palestinian children their childhood is lived under a cloak of fear, and the threat of violence and abuse at the hands of an armed force that stalks the streets of their homeland. In the eleven years since 2000, Israeli forces have killed “1,471”  children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the bulk of which are aged between 13 and 17 years old. The children of Gaza have been and continue to be at greater risk, with almost a thousand murdered in the last twelve years, on the streets of their city, on their way to and from school, whilst playing with friends, shopping for their family or simply relaxing in their homes. Most are shot randomly, indiscriminately, or killed as a result of Israeli air and ground attacks. Around 50 were taken prematurely from their families by unexploded ordnance.


Palestinian children living in the West Bank and the Gaza strip under the illegal Israeli occupation are subjected to brutal treatment, illegal imprisonment, torture and intimidation by the Israeli security forces. Defence for Children International states “a pattern of systematic ill-treatment of Palestinian children emerges, from their report ‘Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted’ much of which amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as defined in the UN Convention against Torture, and in some cases, torture – both of which are absolutely prohibited.” Since 1967 Palestinian children as well as adults have been subjected to Israeli Military Law, a legal system based on prejudice and short on justice. In the time since this emergence system was instigated 726,000 Palestinians have been arrested and detained. The numbers of children arrested and taken from their homes is shocking. “In the past 11 years alone, around 7,500 children, some as young as 12 years, are estimated to have been detained, interrogated, and imprisoned within this ‘system. This averages out at between 500-700 children per year, or nearly two children, each and every day.”


In 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu's father,Benzion Netanyahu , put his position this way to Maariv News:

"The Jews and the Arabs are like two goats facing each other on a narrow bridge. One must jump into the river." "What does the Arab's jump mean?" asked the interviewer, trying to decipher the metaphor. Netanyahu explained: "That they won't be able to face the war with us, which will include withholding food from Arab cities, preventing education, terminating electrical power and more. They won't be able to exist and they will run away from here."

For those that have been in the dark ,ignorant or naive,the situation in Gaza and the West Bank makes more sense, doesn't it? It's a conscious relentless assault on the lives of Palestinians to shamelessly immiserate them to such an extent that they flee.

Beinart's message is saying this is not the mindset he wants to pass on to his children and the children of Israel. And he's in a unique position to say it because he comes from deep within establishment Zionism. Despite his sincerity , the usual suspects are slandering him and trying to shut him down with all their usual might. But the success of his book and the firestorm of coverage only underscores the groundbreaking nature of this important work, and the undeniable resonance of his obvious message.It's long past time Israel's leaders learned the real lesson of the Holocaust.The lesson is not: "It's all good as long as I got mine."We are all human whom deserve freedom and peace.Injustice anywhere threatens and diminishes us all.

While the organized, conservative Jewish associations in the United States, AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, along with Orthodox Jews and evangelical Christian groups, declare that "Judea and Samaria" must be part of Israel, they ignore the fact that permanently occupying the West Bank and the Palestinians there, without citizenship or the right to vote, will be comparable to the former apartheid regime of South Africa, and the dream of a democratic Jewish state will be impossible to achieve. Its pledge when it was created in 1948 promised "complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex."The present Israeli leadership and the conservative Jewish organizations in America vehemently oppose the implications of that pledge.

Like a majority of Israelis and Americans,including myself, Beinart believes that it is depleting, degrading and dangerous for Israel to oversee the lives of millions of stateless Palestinians, and also like a majority of Israelis, he thinks the solution is the creation of a Palestinian state.There can never be a democratic Jewish state as long as the Israeli government and conservative American organizations refuse the two-state solution.Israel has no future as a Jewish democracy if it perpetually resists the creation of a Palestine state in the West Bank.



http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=19190

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/books/review/the-crisis-of-zionism-by-peter-beinart.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/peter-beinart-israel_n_1616738.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Beinart

What if We All Just Walked Away?

This is an August 2012 excerpt of an interview/discussion between Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley and actor John Cusack on President Obama's,who is a self proclaimed Constitutionl Law Professor himself (he has at least studied and lectured on such),obliteration of the Constitution.

The spotlight being on the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without a trial (NDAA) and even worse, the power to assassinate U.S. citizens overseas, aka Obama's 'kill list'.


CUSACK: I was just thinking about all this stuff and thought maybe we’d see what we can do to bring civil liberties and these issues back into the debate for the next couple of months.

TURLEY: I think that’s great.


CUSACK: (In reference to Obama)I don’t know how you can believe in the Constitution and violate it that much.


TURLEY: We have this huge apparatus of the legal system, this huge court system, and all of it has become discretionary because the president can go ahead and kill U.S. citizens if he feels that it’s simply inconvenient or impractical to bring them to justice.

CUSACK: Or if Obama decides that he wants to be lenient and just throw them in jail for the rest of their life without trial, he can do that, right?

TURLEY: Well, you’ve got Guantanamo Bay if you’re accused of being an enemy combatant. There is the concept in law that the lesser is included in the greater.

So if the president can kill me when I’m in London, then the lesser of that greater is that he could also hold me, presumably, without having any court involvement. It’d be a little bizarre that he could kill me but if he held me he’d have to turn me over to the court system.

CUSACK: Yeah. We’re getting into kind of Kafka territory. You know, with Bush I always felt like you were at one of those rides in an amusement park where the floor kept dropping and you kept kind of falling. But I think what Obama’s done is we’ve really hit the bottom as far as civil liberties go.

TURLEY: Yet people have greeted this erosion of civil liberties with this collective yawn.

CUSACK: (reflecting back to 2008 when he voted for Obama) Yeah.And so then it gets down to the question, “Well, are you going to vote for Obama?” And I say, “Well, I don’t really know. I couldn’t really vote for Hillary Clinton because of her Iraq War vote.” Because I felt like that was a line, a Rubicon line –

TURLEY: Right.

CUSACK: — a Rubicon line that I couldn’t cross, right? I don’t know how to bring myself to vote for a constitutional law professor, or even a constitutional realist, who throws away due process and claims the authority that the executive branch can assassinate American citizens. I just don’t know if I can bring myself to do it.

 I would think we’d be better putting our energies into local and state politics,occupy Wall Street and organizations and movements outside the system, not national politics, not personalities. Not stadium rock politics. Not brands. That’s the only thing I can think of. What would you say?

TURLEY: Well, the question, I think, that people have got to ask themselves when they get into that booth is not what Obama has become, but what have we become? That is, what’s left of our values if we vote for a person that we believe has shielded war crimes or violated due process or implemented authoritarian powers. It’s not enough to say, “Yeah, he did all those things, but I really like what he did with the National Park System.”

CUSACK: Yeah, or that he did a good job with the auto bailout.

TURLEY: Right. I think that people have to accept that they own this decision, that they can walk away. I realize that this is a tough decision for people but maybe, if enough people walked away, we could finally galvanize people into action to make serious changes. We have to recognize that our political system is fundamentally broken, it’s unresponsive.

For the entire interview,click here:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/john-cusack-jonathan-turley-on-obamas-constitution.html#J0vrEDiOlUkeDmjy.99


“The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.” ~Winston Churchill.