The Bush Crime Family Tree

George Walker, GW's great-grandfather, set up the takeover of the Hamburg-America Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. In Germany, I.G. Farben was most famous for putting the gas in gas chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust. The Bush family was not unaware of the nature of their investment partners. They hired Allen Dulles, the future head of the CIA, to hide the funds they were making from Nazi investments and the funds they were sending to Nazi Germany, rather than divest. It was only in 1942, when the government seized Union Banking Company assets under the Trading With The Enemy Act, that George Walker and Prescott Bush stopped pumping money into Hitler's regime. (1)


Prescott Bush, the president's grandfather. According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence and US government archives, President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush. (2) On the 20th of October, the government commenced action against the company under the trading with the enemy act. (3) After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal. (4) In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate, with no press accounts about his well-concealed Nazi past.(5)




George Herbert Walker Bush, the presidents father. Bush, as director of the CIA, had funneled enormous amounts of cash to drug runners including Manuel Noriega and helped in the destabilization of Argentina. Bush utilized his own connections to help fund drug runners from Laos to Panama. Most shocking was the so-called "cocaine coup" in Bolivia in June 1980, masterminded by fugitive Nazi Klaus Barbie, "The Butcher Of Lyons." Barbie, who had been previously secreted in Latin America by the CIA, began working closely with the Argentines and used drug money to finance a neo-Nazi cabal, one that succeeded in overthrowing the government. The troops swept through the capital wearing Nazi armbands, according to former DEA agent Mike Levine. George H.W. Bush later facilitated the Iran-contra affair, employing many of the same methods: secretly selling Central American cocaine in America and weapons to Iran while using the profits to fund the contras and to overthrow democratically elected socialists in Central America.(6) as the head of the CIA and later as Vice President, toppled democratically elected regimes in South and Central America and began propping up a dictator by the name of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Although forbidden by congress to do so, he continued to sell chemical and biological weapons to Saddam even after he used them on villages of innocent civilians. A decade later The United States had to go to war against him and the Bush family again, made millions from it.

Jonathan J. Bush, the Presidents uncle. Jonathan Bush's "Pioneer Profile" in "George W. Bush's $100,000 Club" cites him as the "head" of the Riggs Investment Management Co.; "Bush’s uncle Jonathan ... founded its subsidiary, J. Bush & Co., of which he is chair. He also is an ex-chair of the New York Republican State Finance Committee. Bush credits the investors sent his way by this banker uncle as a key to his 'success' in the Texas oil industry in the early ‘80s." (17)
Jonathan J. Bush, is a top executive at Riggs Bank, which this week agreed to pay a record $25 million in civil fines for violations of law intended to thwart money laundering. Jonathan Bush, who is a major fundraiser for his nephew, was appointed in 2000 to run Riggs Investment Management Co. His association with Riggs began when he headed J. Bush & Co., a New Haven, Conn., company he created in 1970 and built to offer advice on money management. (18)

According to the 5/14/04 New York Times, Federal regulators fined the Riggs National Corporation, the parent company of Riggs Bank, $25 million yesterday for "failing to report suspicious activity, the largest penalty ever assessed against a domestic bank in connection with money laundering. The fine stems from Riggs's failure over at least the last two years to actively monitor suspect financial transfers through Saudi Arabian accounts held by the bank." The 5/14/04 Wall Street Journal reported that of particular concern, Riggs failed to monitor "tens of millions of dollars in cash withdrawals from accounts related to the Saudi Arabian embassy," including "suspicious incidents involving dozens of sequentially numbered cashier's checks and international drafts written by Saudi officials, including Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan." According to the 4/18/04 Washington Post, Saudi Prince Bandar's wife, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, "may have used a Riggs account to donate money to a charity that then gave some of it to the Sept. 11 terrorists."
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According to the nonprofit Texans for Public Justice, Jonathan Bush is the President and CEO of Riggs Investment Management - a major arm of Riggs Bank. He is also the uncle of President George W. Bush. The President "credits the investors sent his way by this banker uncle as a key to his 'success' in the Texas oil industry in the early '80s." According to Public Citizen, the uncle Jonathan was a Bush Pioneer, having raised more than $100,000 for his nephew in 2000.(19)



Neil Bush, the president's brother. Central player of the 1980'ssavings and loan scandal, he ran a savings and loan into the ground while shoveling millions of its taxpayer-backed dollars into the pockets of two deadbeat partners. Neil served as a director of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan in Denver, Colorado, from 1985 until 1988. During that time, the now-dead thrift made over $200 million in loans to Neil's two partners in JNB Exploration, Neil's abysmally unsuccessful oil company. Federal regulators determined that, while Silverado was pumping loans to Neil's two associates, Neil was completely dependent on the two men for his income. The failure of Silverado -- its closure delayed until after the 1988 election -- cost taxpayers about $1 billion. After Silverado failed, Neil started a new oil company, Apex Energy. This time, his money came from a $2.35 million loan through a Small Business Administration program. When news of this reached the press in March 1991, the SBA discovered that the companies through which the loan was approved were technically insolvent, and it gave them up to thirty months to "self-liquidate." This meant that Apex would have to repay its SBA-guaranteed loans. Neil took this as his cue to move on, and he left Apex -- and its debts -- for others to worry about. (7) update: Neil Bush made $171,370 in one day. The fact that he was a former consultant to the company whose stock he dumped is just a coincidence


Marvin Bush, the president's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family. The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down." The suite in which Marvin Bush was annually re-elected, according to public records, is located in the Watergate in space leased to the Saudi government. The company now holds shareholder meetings in space leased by the Kuwaiti government there.(8) (9) more

Jeb Bush, the president's brother. After graduating from The University of Texas, Jeb Bush served a short apprenticeship at the Venezuelan branch of Texas Commerce Bank in Caracas before settling in Miami, in 1980, to work on his father's unsuccessful primary bid against Ronald Reagan. Shortly after arriving in Miami, Jeb was hired by Cuban-American developer Armando Codina to work at his Miami development company as an agent leasing office space. A couple of years later, Jeb and Codina became business partners, and in 1985 they purchased an office building in a deal partly financed by a savings and loan that later failed.The $4.56 million loan, from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida, was granted in such a way that neither Codina's nor Bush's name appeared on the loan papers as the borrowers. A third man, J. Edward Houston, borrowed the $4.56 million from Broward and then re-lent it to the Bush partnership. When federal regulators closed Broward Savings in 1988, they found the loan, which had been secured by the Bush partnership, in default. As Jeb's father was finishing his second term as vice-president and running for the presidency, federal regulators had two options: to get Jeb Bush and his partner to repay the loan, or to foreclose on their office building. But regulators came up with a third solution. After reappraising the building, regulators decided it wasn't worth as much as was owed for it. The regulators reduced the amount owed by Bush and his partner from $4.56 million to just $500,000. The pair paid that amount and were allowed to keep their office building. Taxpayers picked up the tab for the unpaid $4 million. (10)
He also rigged an election that you may have heard about. Thousands of eligible voters were disallowed the right to vote in predominantly democratic regions. Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state - Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, both protégées of Governor Jeb Bush- ordered 57,700 "ex-felons," who are prohibited from voting by state law, to be removed from voter rolls. (In the thirty-five states where former felons can vote, roughly 90 percent vote Democratic.) A company now owned by ChoicePoint of Atlanta, was paid $4.3 million for its work, replacing a firm that charged $5,700 per year for the same service.Two of these "scrub lists," as officials called them, were distributed to counties in the months before the election with orders to remove the voters named. Together the lists comprised nearly 1 percent of Florida?s electorate and nearly 3 percent of its African-American voters. Neither DBT nor the state conducted any further research to verify the matches. DBT, which frequently is hired by the F.B.I. to conduct manhunts, originally proposed using address histories and financial records to confirm the names, but the state declined the cross-checks. (11)



George W. Bush, second appointed president of the United States.
• 1979-83: Fifty Bush family investors and friends, led by uncle Jonathan, a New York Republican Party official and an investment manager, fork over $4.7 million to set up young Bush in a company called Arbusto. It's a flop, and in 1982 gets a new name: Bush Exploration.

• 1984: Spectrum 7 Corporation, an Ohio oil exploration outfit owned by Dubya's Yalie pal William DeWitt Jr., buys out Bush Exploration, setting up young Bush as CEO at $75,000 a year and giving him 1.1 million shares of the firm's stock. Another flop. The company's fortunes soon sink, with $400,000 in losses and a debt of $3 million.

• 1986: In the nick of time, Bush and partners merge the failing Spectrum with Harken Oil, a Dallas exploration company, with a $2 million stock purchase. Bush puts up about $500,000 and gets a $120,000 annual consulting fee along with $131,250 in stock options. Harken is a small outfit, looking for oil opportunities within the U.S. Then out of the blue comes Harvard Management Corporation, an investment adviser for Harvard University's endowment portfolio. It pumps millions into the venture.

• 1990: Although Harken has no international expertise, it gets the attention of the Bahrain National Oil Company, which unexpectedly appears on the scene and bypasses big oil's Amoco and Chevron to sign a production agreement with the little Texas concern. The contract grants Harken exclusive rights to what seems to be a promising offshore area squeezed between two productive tracts owned by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Wall Street Journal speculates Bahrain was trying to cozy up to Daddy Bush, who was plotting an assault on Iraq after Saddam Hussein seized Kuwait.

Bass Enterprises Production Company finances the Bahrain drilling with $25 million, and Harvard Management raises its investment. A couple of members of the Fort Worth Bass family have places on Team 100, an elite business group contributing to the Republican National Committee.

In June, Harken drills two dry holes in Bahrain. The future looks bleak. Dubya dumps two-thirds of his Harken holdings (212,140 shares), for $848,560. He uses some of this money to buy into the Texas Rangers baseball club. This is a lot of stock to dump on the market all at once, and brokers say it was purchased by an unnamed institutional investor.

That August, Harken posts a loss of $23 million.

• January 1991: Daddy Bush attacks Iraq.

• February 1991: Dubya, as the official in charge at Harken, reports his big stock sale to the SEC—eight months late.

• April 1991: The SEC begins an investigation into Harken dealings. Chairman Richard Breeden, who had been appointed by the senior Bush and served him as an economic policy adviser, hails from Baker & Botts, a big Texas oil law firm where he was a partner. Inside the SEC, James Doty, general counsel and the official in charge of any litigation that might come out of the Harken investigation, is another alumnus of Baker & Botts. And as a private attorney, before joining the government, Doty represented the younger Bush in matters related to Dubya's ownership of the Rangers.

• 1993: The SEC ends its Harken investigation following perfunctory interviews.

The good people of Baker & Botts continued looking out for Shrub. Since 1993, Breeden, Doty, and other lawyers there have given him $182,050 for his various political campaigns, making the firm one of his biggest supporters.(12)

Upon appointment as president, Bush appoints 6 Iran-contra defendants to his staff, (13) fills the upper levels of the White house and pentagon with senior members of the PNAC (14) including his speech writer, chief advisor, secretary of defense, and vice president. Uses the terrorist attacks of 9-11 (16) to illegally invade and occupy Iraq under the false pretense of imminent threat (15) and reaps billions for Cheney's Halliburton, Rumsfeld's Bechtel, and his own family's Carlyle group.
newsweek article on Bush/Nazi connection
“Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents
Karl Rove's grandfather was Karl Heinz Roverer, the Gauleiter of Oldenburg. Roverer was Reich-Statthalter---Nazi State Party Chairman---for his region. He was also a partner and senior engineer in the Roverer Sud-Deutche Ingenieurburo A. G. engineering firm, which built the Birkenau death camp,
Still, that's ancient history. Surely bush wouldn't be repeating the actions of fascist dictators

Well said! But Berlusconi is no saint, just not as bad as the Bush family. Bush has destroyed the United States and I don't want to see Berlusconi destroy Italy, I want to move to Italy and not have the same crap there.

Giovanni, grazie e mi dispiace molto! Buona fortuna amico!

Gotta disagree with you Giovanni. Bush hasn't destroyed America but Obama or Clinton most definitely will. America today would not be recognized by it's forefathers. What is a country if it doesn't take care to protect it's borders, it's language, and culture? It's not a country at all. Obama/Hillary will give us a nanny state here in the US where the government is in everyone's lives - telling what to eat, where to go for healthcare, and taxing the 'rich' (the top 25% of earners already pay 86% of the nations taxes). What happened to the idea of freedom and personal responsibility? The US wasn't built on group-think or a sheeple mentality, it was built on the strong individual with Judeo/Christian values and his/her right to make their own way in life. To only way that Bush has contributed to the deterioration of American is by spending money like a drunken sailor and increasing the size of government. Politicians on both sides are corrupt and bigger government is never the answer.

Prescott Bush, the president's grandfather. According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence and US government archives, President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush. (2) On the 20th of October, the government commenced action against the company under the trading with the enemy act. (3) After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal. (4) In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate, with no press accounts about his well-concealed Nazi past.

I think the Bush family should sue for slander on this.

"In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush."

As someone who has spent too much time watching the History channel, the Bush 43 legacy, I suspect, will be found to be on the right side of history, especially when we look back on Clintons "holiday from history".
I think that when GWB is 80, Bill Clinton will still be rewriting his legacy as president, while his ex-wife Hillary spins her sad sad story. Todays Bush haters will still be misunderestimating the fact that in light of what happens after Jan 20 2009, George precisely identified the worlds bad guys, and his only failure will be in terms of not dealing with them with more vigor.
We will forget the fact that he spent like a Massachusetts Senator, because compared to what the next US President spends, it will look fiscally sound.

Bill Clinton Vs. George W. Bush - No contest!!!!

Jobs

Clinton added 22.7 million jobs

Bush added 3 million jobs (worst in 70 years!!!) Dio mio!!!!

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GDP growth

Clinton 3.6%

Bush 2.6%

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Unemployment

Clinton 7.3% -> 4.2%

Bush 4.2% -> 10%

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Real median household income

Clinton grew by $5,825!

Bush fell by $1,273

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Poverty rate

Clinton fell! 3.5% (6.4 million fewer people)

Bush rose!! 1.3% (5.4 million more people) What a joke!!!!!!!

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Federal Debt

Clinton surplus of $236 billion

Bush deficit of 10 trillion and growing!!!!!!! This is not funny!!!!!!!

Villa,
Since we are on the "Life in Italy" website, I will say that your post was an excellent comparison of "apples and vespas"...one you can eat and one you can ride, one tastes tart and the other makes you feel like an Italian opera singer, one will keep the doctor away and the other gets great gas mileage.

Come on Villa, your smarter than that! Statistical snapshots in time comparisons can be devised to support any side of any debate.

Cut and paste talking points from the daily KOZ doesn't "cut" it.

Capsu78 - I do think that more than identifying the world bad guys: Bush helped creating them ! Now everybody hates the US. If the US was considered the world liberator in WWI now it is at the bottom of the 'popularity' all over the world.

In any case any of the 3 remaining contenders ( 2 Democrat at this time and 1 Republican) that will win and succeed Bush will be an improvement I think.

Paolo,
I am new to this site and I don't want introduce myself by my politics. I enjoy civil discourse and am willing to discuss most any subject to the point of absurdity, but in the end, I want to be someone who might be welcomed at your dinner table and you at mine.
I don't feel as you do that more people hate as now as opposed to say 9/10/2001. I can argue that the USA has been hated by its current adversaries for more than 25 years. If Villa has "People who hated America" stats under Clinton and under Bush, now thats a statisitc I would be interested in breaking down.
What has happened since 2000 is it has become acceptable and maybe even fashionable to hate America, and if that is whats hip in the cafes of Paris and the beirgartens of Berlin and even the universities in America, so be it.

It is nice meeting you, and I hope to enjoy this "Life in Italy" community.

All I can say is, It doesn't matter with me whether you agree with me or not. If you believe the Bush crime family is not responsible for destroying America that's fine live in denial! I read Villa's statistics and they 100% accurate. I am not saying the Democrats are any better, but they tend to be more compassionate towards human and animal lives and for there well being. We now have the largest debt in American history, the Bush crime administration has taken us into an illegal war and has spent more in 7 years than all the presidents together have in the past. How could we let this Village Idiot "Bush" and the Devil "Cheney" get away with it? Well here's how, leave the country in the hands of right wing ultra conservatives with there eyes closed that's how.
You know what spend the money, leave the debt to the next 10 generations to pay for it, great legacy we have left behind to our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and beyond. I for one am moving to Italy, I just hope Berlusconi desides to retire soon, since his stupidity wants Italy to become more like America, open your eyes dude! America isn't as great as you might think. I am getting off my soap box now. Peace, G

;)Capsu78 - I do think that more than identifying the world bad guys: Bush helped creating them ! Now everybody hates the US. If the US was considered the world liberator in WWI now it is at the bottom of the 'popularity' all over the world. :D

In any case any of the 3 remaining contenders ( 2 Democrat at this time and 1 Republican) that will win and succeed Bush will be an improvement I think.:D

Molto grazie.

"All I can say is, It doesn't matter with me whether you agree with me or not. If you believe the Bush crime family is not responsible for destroying America that's fine live in denial! I read Villa's statistics and they 100% accurate. I am not saying the Democrats are any better, but they tend to be more compassionate towards human and animal lives and for there well being. We now have the largest debt in American history, the Bush crime administration has taken us into an illegal war and has spent more in 7 years than all the presidents together have in the past. How could we let this Village Idiot "Bush" and the Devil "Cheney" get away with it? Well here's how, leave the country in the hands of right wing ultra conservatives with there eyes closed that's how.
You know what spend the money, leave the debt to the next 10 generations to pay for it, great legacy we have left behind to our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and beyond. I for one am moving to Italy, I just hope Berlusconi desides to retire soon, since his stupidity wants Italy to become more like America, open your eyes dude! America isn't as great as you might think. I am getting off my soap box now." Peace, G

Thoughts:

Gotta disagree with you Giovanni. Bush hasn't destroyed America. Answer: (Bush has raped the U.S. of its' resources with an illegal war that has put us into the biggest debt ever in the history of our nation. He has spent more that the total of all other presidents combined!!

America today would not be recognized by it's forefathers. Answer: That's true because we now have torture, ill will around the world, and the dumming down of the children through Bush's "Every Child Left Behind."

What is a country if it doesn't take care to protect it's borders, Answer: (Bush is the one who wants illegals here for cheap labor and has opened our borders to mexican truck drivers.)(There is a Super Highway being built on our border which has done an end run around Congess. Look it up on the internet or listen to Lou Dobbs on CNN. Bush and the world elites are going to combine Canada, Mexico and the US in an North American Union with a new money system named the Amero. This is already here and there is no democratic president in the White House.) Where is your border there amigo?!

Obama/Hillary will give us a nanny state here in the US where the government is in everyone's lives - telling what to eat, where to go for healthcare, and taxing the 'rich' (the top 25% of earners already pay 86% of the nations taxes). Answer ( You have been brainwashed against your own interests. The top 25% of earners, Ha, you mean those who have had a big inheritance like Bush. Bush never has had a job his daddy hasn't had to pull him out of. )
What happened to the idea of freedom and personal responsibility?

The US wasn't built on group-think or a sheeple mentality, it was built on the strong individual with Judeo/Christian values Answer: The Founding Fathers were deists and warned us not to have a christian nation; read up on the FF; you will get an education.)

and his/her right to make their own way in life. Answer: Bush has contributed to the deterioration of American by spending money like a drunken sailor and increasing the size of government. (You could say that G.W. is like a Robin Hood in reverse. He robs from the poor and gives to the rich.) Politicians on both sides are corrupt and bigger government is never the answer. It's so ironic that you think Repubs give you smaller government but the truth is they give you a bigger governement.

An interesting story is what happened this past summer while dinning out at this Middle Eastern ristorante in Perugia.

I was the only non Moslem there and the only Americano.(they were all Muslems but spoke somewhat fluent Italian)(era un po tarde di notte)

Well this Muslem fellow starts in on me about how bad Bush is going on in detail all the bad things the man has done etc.

He was attacking me as if I were G.W. himself. As if I had mandated the war in Iraq. He was really getting upset and ranting and raving.

(Stavo con un po di paura per dire la verita.)

Was trying to tell him that I didn't care for G.W. either but he wasn't listening. Seemed all he cared about was that I was

an American and therefore some how responsible for the war in Iraq etc. Then the others guys came to my rescue telling the man

that I was just a simple citizen with no government ties etc.

Isn't it ironic as hell that here I am protesting against Bush with all zeal and this guy just figures that because I'm an American

I represent all Americans with a close tie to G.W. etc. etc. Like all Germans are for Hitler or all Italians are for Mussolini etc. etc.

Well, I think you would have been factually correct to point out that because of this presidents leadership, there were 9 million new, mostly muslim registered voters in Afganistan, and another 35 million new, mostly muslim registered voters in Iraq who now have the "priviledge of choice" to choose their government, and asked him which other world leader, muslim or otherwise, had a similar accomplishment on their resume.

As he prepared to behead me, I would have also pointed out that this president also wrote the largest check ever toward what should be a global goal of rescuing Africa from the ravages of AIDS, which impacts another hugh bunch of muslims (numbering into tens of millions), and asked if he would like to compare that to the checks written by other allies, particularly muslim ones, and see if, you know, they even give a crap.

Did you consider for a moment that maybe he just disliked you because you were an infidel? It may be just my observation but a fair amount of intolerance seems to be associated with the "religion of peace"...just be thankful you weren't a women trying to have a meal on her own... that would have meant real Trouble with a captal T.

The people who defended me were all Muslems.

I have been around a lot of Muslems. Spent a month
in Paris and hung around more Moslems than French.
They have treated me very well. The
average so called Christian isn't any
better than most Moslems.

99% of the Moslems I have dealt with have
not even mentioned the war in Iraq to me.

Only had this one time incident against me for being an American all the time I was in Italy.

For the past three and a half years I have watched in horror the mirror image of another Vietnam unfolding in Iraq. As of this writing over 2,700 Americans have died and nearly 20,000 have been wounded while tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, many of them women and children, have been killed. Refusing to learn from the lessons of Vietnam, our government continues to pursue a policy of deception, distortion, manipulation and denial, doing everything it can to hide from the American people its true intentions in Iraq. Sadly, the “War on Terror” has become a war of terror. Never before has this government through its outrageous provocations and violent aggressions placed the citizens of this country in such grave danger. Never have the people of this country been so threatened, never before has life and liberty been in such great peril; not in the two hundred and thirty years since our revolution have we as a people and a nation been at such a crucial turning point. These are dangerous times. A century of arrogance, brutality and aggression has come back to haunt us all. September 11th has happened. The mask has been ripped away. The lie has been exposed and this criminal government now stands naked before the world! These are provocative words, and the truth may be deeply unsettling but when will we speak the truth? When will we end this silence? How much longer will we wait before we are ready to finally admit that the murderer lives in our own house, that this government that we entrusted long ago with the sacred task of protecting life and liberty now, by it’s every reckless, unjust and immoral action threatens the lives and liberty of us all?

Have we become so complacent, so coward and intimidated by this government that we have forgotten our own revolutionary birthright of rebellion and dissent? Have we become so paralyzed by the eleventh of September that we would give up our liberty and freedom for the promise of a security that does not exist by a government that now threatens our very lives? What will it take before we finally realize the true reality of this crisis? How many more terrorist attacks, senseless wars, flag draped caskets, grieving mothers, paraplegics, amputees, stressed out sons and daughters before we finally begin to break the silence of this shameful night? Let us open up our hearts and speak in a way we have never spoken before knowing that lives now depend on it, and the very survival of our nation is now at stake. Let not our silence in this crucial moment betray us from our destiny.