U.S. media still REFUSES to mention
Bush sexual assault lawsuit that Texas woman continues to pursue
Copyright 2003 By
Jackson Thoreau
OpEdNews.com
A
Texas woman continues to pursue a lawsuit she filed last December against
George W. Bush alleging that the White House inhabitant sexually assaulted
her.
Contacted
by phone at her home in mid-July by this writer, plaintiff Margie Denise
Schoedinger said I was one of the first media members to attempt to
contact her about the case. In case you’re counting, that’s more than
seven months after she filed the legal brief in a Fort Bend County court.
“I
am still trying to prosecute [the lawsuit],” said Schoedinger, a
38-year-old African-American woman who lives in the Houston suburb of
Missouri City. “I haven’t had a court date set, yet….I want to get
this matter settled and go on with my life.”
I
must say at this point that I’ve been a journalist for mostly mainstream
publications for more than 20 years. In my time, I’ve dealt with my fair
share of crackpots, probably more than my fair share. I’ve been around
the block a few times – and have survived so far.
But
Schoedinger didn’t sound like the average crackpot. She sounded
intelligent, articulate, soft-spoken, and yeah, even honest over the
phone, for whatever that’s worth. I know many people who sound honest
– like a certain White House occupant at times – are really not. But
my point is that Schoedinger didn’t sound like she was on drugs,
although being drugged by federal agents is part of her lawsuit.
Anyways,
I could only unearth one U.S. mainstream newspaper that has mentioned the
lawsuit - a December 2002 story by the Texas-based Fort Bend Star.
And that paper even later ran a nasty letter by a reader recommending it
fire the reporter for simply doing her job and covering the story.
Not
even scandal sheets like the National Enquirer will report on this
lawsuit, to my knowledge, although they cover the latest allegations about
Clinton and other Democrats. Hell, I once read a story in one of those
scandal sheets that said Clinton was dating a woman with three breasts.
And they can’t find the space to mention a sexual assault lawsuit
against our latest White House occupant?
If
Schoedinger had filed a lawsuit against Clinton, do you think the story
would be at least mentioned in every U.S. media outlet from Maine to
Hawaii to Alaska to Florida? I’d bet my mortgage on it. Can you say
mainstream media double standard, once again?
Look
at the way the national and local U.S. media has run with the sexual
assault allegation against NBA star Kobe Bryant. The 19-year-old woman who
alleges that Bryant assaulted her in June did not even go to the trouble
and expense of filing a lawsuit. She just reported it to police, who
actually arrested Bryant without filing any charges.
The
story ran on the national news for numerous days. Bryant, who denied the
charge in published reports, is not known as being politically active, and
a Federal Elections Commission search did not reveal any contributions to
political candidates. But his coach, Phil Jackson, has given money to
several Democratic candidates, including Bill Bradley, who he played with
in the NBA.
Could that link to Democrats, as well as Bryant’s
African-American background, be why the mainstream media pounds this
Bryant assault allegation into the ground before the facts are clear, and
ignores allegations filed in a public court case against the Caucasian
Republican Bush? More on that question later.
When
I asked about the lack of media coverage, Schoedinger said she wasn’t
seeking publicity. She did not even know about the Fort Bend Star
story, although that article said the paper tried to contact her [funny, I
had no problem reaching and speaking to Schoedinger on my first attempt].
She said she was surprised the case wasn’t covered more because “it is
true……People have to be accountable for what they do, and that’s why
I’m pursuing it.”
To
be sure, Schoedinger’s accusations – which include being drugged and
assaulted numerous times by Bush and men purporting to be FBI agents - are
bizarre enough and hard for the average, television-media-brainwashed
drone to believe. But to those of us who search beyond our
conventional media and go places relatively few dare, her story could be
true. Who the hell besides Schoedinger and Bush and a few others really
knows?
Strange
things have occurred in human history, probably stranger than we can
imagine. The U.S. government – like most governments – contains its
share of evil bastards who would think nothing of doing more than assaults
to people. These are people without consciences, without caring about any
cosmic, karmic principle that you reap what you sow.
I’ve
learned about too many strange deaths and mind-control experiments and sex
orgies that the CIA and other parties play around with to know that they
occur. Each one I hear about makes me madder and more determined to do something
to stop the madness. My contribution is to keep trying to expose these
bastards’ evil deeds to the light of day, to side with the
truth-and-justice seekers, even if we are sorely overmatched, even if we
are laughed at and discredited in an attempt to divert attention from what’s
really going on. Evil bastards hate the light – they like to operate in
the dark, behind the scenes.
One
of my favorite movies is one that many critics raked over the coals as too
shallow and corny and unbelievable to the point of making them vomit. But
I don’t give a damn what such critics think. Amazing Grace and Chuck
[1987] starred former NBA player Alex English as a pro hoopster who quit
and joined a protest by a Little League baseball player to rid the world
of all nuclear weapons.
Many
people believe that will never happen, especially now with Bush-Cheney in
control, coming up with “smaller” nuclear weapons, space weapons and
lies to develop and use them like the kind they told to justify killing
some 10,000 innocent Iraqi civilians – not to mention the war combatants
on both sides - earlier this year. But that’s not the point. The point
of movies like Amazing Grace and Chuck is to show us what a
different way of life would be like and give us some ideas on how to begin
the process of getting there. The point is to give us some hope.
Yes,
with Ted Turner as an executive consultant, the movie was preachy. You may
be laughing now, thinking, you tough-sounding, cussing, hard-ass
reporter/writer enjoyed a sappy movie like that? I guess there still is
that other Gemini side to me, a more optimistic side that likes to dream
big, even if that dream seems unreachable. Like many people, I’m not a
simple, one-dimensional human being.
The
movie had some good ideas on how to reach the masses to really make a dent
– namely through our modern-day gladiators who find their social
consciences and really listen to what kids think. In real life, English is
a cool guy who actually supports the views of his character on the issue
of nuclear disarmament. When someone told his character ridding the world
of such weapons was unrealistic, he didn’t try to overwhelm them with
numbers and frightening scenarios. He simply said, “Maybe so, but wouldn’t
it be nice?”
English’s
character knew how to operate in the light, to disarm critics, to reach
people. He also knew how to be tough, to stand up to the evil nuclear
weapons barons. After personally threatening one, English’s plane was
blown apart. But his spirit lived on and kept inspiring others to keep
working towards the seemingly unreachable goal - just as the spirits of
JFK and RFK and MLK and Wellstone and the others our real-life evil
bastards assassinate live on in those of us who choose to keep remembering
them and keep working for the principles for which they stood and fought.
As
a freshman reporter for my junior college newspaper in 1978, I met a
witness of the John F. Kennedy assassination who saw the president’s
head explode a few feet in front of him. He was convinced Lee Harvey
Oswald did not act alone. That meeting propelled me to an investigation
that has yet to stop.
As
a senior for my college paper in 1981, I took a phone call from a
representative of a D.C. CIA watchdog organization. He said Steve Gorman,
one of my college’s political science professors, worked for the CIA and
used some of his students for such research. I didn’t hang up on him. By
then, I had read too many books, interviewed too many people, thought too
much on the topic of government skullduggery and conspiracy to not follow
through here.
I
confronted Gorman, who denied doing any work for the CIA or using his
students, as expected. But I sensed an underlying uneasiness – he was
too casual, almost joking in his denial. Further research showed Gorman
was a member of the Latin American Studies Association, which has ties to
the CIA. He also had lived in and researched four Latin American countries
– Peru, Ecuador, British Honduras and Mexico - in which the CIA did its
dirty work.
Still,
I didn’t think I had enough for a story then. I pretty much forgot about
it until a couple of years later when I read a short story on Gorman’s
weird death.
He
had been run over by a train in the middle of nowhere early one morning.
A
bomb exploded in my mind, and they have yet to stop exploding.
So
what does the above have to do with Schoedinger’s lawsuit against Bush?
There is a method to my madness here. If you read through Schoedinger’s
briefs on the surface without knowing much about how “intelligence”
and other government agencies really work, you might laugh at her
allegations that Bush was behind a campaign to harass her into committing
suicide to cover up the sexual assaults he allegedly committed. But if you
knew the level of harassment that Bush and his minions committed against,
say, J.H. Hatfield, author of an explosive bio on Bush who supposedly
committed suicide in 2001 shortly after the book’s publication, you
might not laugh so loudly.
If
I was to coldly do a just-the-facts news story on this lawsuit and not
give you some personal anecdotes like the strange Gorman death that leads
me to believe there might be more to this than meets the eye, you might
not give this story much thought. You might just think, man, there are a
lot of wackos out there. So I’m breaking some of the rules I learned
back in j-school and inserting my personal experiences and observations
here. I’ve never enjoyed writing those impersonal articles, anyways.
This is more my style.
In her court petition, Schoedinger said police in
Sugar Land, another Houston suburb where she said some assailants linked
to Bush attempted to unsuccessfully abduct her from her car shortly before
the 2000 election, refused to take a report or do anything about that
incident. She filed a lawsuit against the Sugar Land department and said
that in preparing its defense, Sugar Land police found out that she dated
Bush as a minor. I didn’t get a chance to ask Schoedinger about that tie
and didn’t meet her in person, but her driver’s license lists her as
being 5-foot-8 and weighing 125 pounds, for what that’s worth.
The
Fort Bend Star story quoted a Sugar Land police captain saying his
department had no record of any complaints by Schoedinger. All he had to
do was what I did – go to the Fort Bend County Internet site and do a
simple search on Schoedinger’s name in the area of civil court records.
I found the lawsuit Schoedinger filed in December 2000 against Sugar Land
police, and it even had numerous responses by the department’s attorneys
in that case.
So
someone in that department knew about Schoedinger.
Somebody
is lying.
And
something strange is going on here.
When
I started asking Schoedinger about certain details on the case, such as
alleged surveillance at her home and if she was still legally representing
herself, she politely ended our conversation. “I need to see what has
been written,” Schoedinger said. “I feel like it’s best for me to
end our conversation.”
Obviously, she had learned to be careful about what
she said and to whom she said it. I could understand her being leery about
talking about her situation with a stranger over the phone.
But
some media members besides me and the Fort Bend Star need to
attempt to talk to Schoedinger and investigate this situation. Hello, Houston
Chronicle? Hello, 60 Minutes? Hello, 20/20? Hello, Washington
Post? Hell, hello, Geraldo Rivera and Jerry Springer?
Do your jobs. Please.
Remember
how much you played up Monica Lewinsky’s blow jobs and Paula Jones’
sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton in the 1990s, while ignoring or
downplaying extramarital activities by the hypocritical Republicans who
served on Clinton’s impeachment committee like Henry Hyde and Bob Barr?
Remember how much you covered Gennifer Flowers’ affair allegations –
which did not even include a lawsuit – against Clinton, while ignoring
or downplaying affair allegations against more prominent Republicans like
Newt Gingrich and Bush Jr.? [The GWB one was by a 39-year-old Texas woman,
Tammy Phillips, a former stripper who was quoted in the National
Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in
1999. I have yet to track her down. There are just too many Republican
mistresses and not enough hours in the day.]
Remember how much you covered Democrat Gary
Condit and Chandra Levy, while ignoring or downplaying the allegations of
extramarital affairs committed by Republicans Jeb Bush and Joe
Scarborough, who even resigned from Congress and was rewarded with his own
MSNBC show? Remember how you reporters staked out Democrat Gary Hart to
catch him with a woman who was not his wife and end his presidential
ambitions, and downplayed or ignored allegations of affairs committed by
Republicans Reagan, Bush Sr. and others?
Quick now, has anyone
heard of Randy Ankeney? He was a rising star in Colorado Republican
circles until he was arrested in 2001 and accused of trying to have sex
with a 13-year-old girl he met through the Internet. Police said he even
warned the girl he’d ruin her life if she told anyone. Does that sound
familiar? That’s how many of these Republicans keep their affairs quiet
– they threaten a bunch of people. Another 17-year-old girl said Ankeney
sexually assaulted her while working on a political campaign. Last year,
he pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault of a child.
What about Republican hypocrite John
Fund, who was moved to the Wall Street Journal’s Internet magazine after
reports came out that he impregnated the daughter of an old girlfriend and
then the supposed anti-abortion-supporter looked the other way when she
aborted his child? Does Republican Marty Glickman, one of those rabid dog
conservative talk radio commentators in Florida who was arrested in 2001
and charged with giving drugs and money to underage girls in exchange for
sex, ring a bell?
How about Parker J. Bena, a Virginia
Republican activist who proudly cast one of his state’s electoral vote
for Bush in 2000, being indicted for possessing child pornography in 2001?
Anyone hear of Kevin T. Coan, a Republican director of the St. Louis
Election
Board who was charged
with trying to solicit sex from a 14-year-old girl in cyberspace? Or
Virginia Republican activist Richard Delgaudio who was sentenced to two
years probation in 2003 after pleading guilty to a child pornography
charge?
Then there is Philip
Giordano, the former Republican mayor of Waterbury, Conn., who was
recently sentenced to 37 years in prison for soliciting sex with underaged
girls and violating their civil rights. It’s more likely you’ve heard
of him since this case has received ample media coverage unlike most of
the other sex stories involving Republicans. Another case that got some
attention was Beverly Russell, a leader in the Republican-based Christian
Coalition and Pat Robertson’s former presidential campaign who allegedly
molested children-drowner Susan Smith.
Supposedly, it is
relatively common among Religious Right nuts to read sexual material under
the guise of knowing what’s in it so they can keep it from their
children. Yeah, right, the fucking hypocrites. Many Religious Rightists
also believe a man can have sex with his wife anytime he pleases, whether
she wants to or not. Some would call that rape, but I’m sure these nuts
have another word for it.
What about Bill Thomas, Bob Livingston,
Dick Armey, Dan Burton, Charles Canady, J.C. Watts, Helen Chenoweth, Sue
Myrick, Ken Calvert, John Peterson, Dan Crane, Donald Lukens, Jim Gilmore,
Scott McInnis and Arlan Stangeland – all Republican politicians accused
of various sexual misdeeds? Most of these hypocrites attacked Clinton for
his affairs and expressed outrage when people put a microscope on their
private sexual lives.
For details on their cases, as well as
some on various Democrats – I’m not by any means excusing Democrats,
just pointing out the hypocrisy of many Republicans and mistaken belief of
many people that mostly Democratic politicians commit affairs - go to
Comedy on Tap’s excellent compilation at http://www.comedyontap.com/features/congress.html.
Connie Cook Smith has also detailed other such Republicans, such as
Katrina Leung, a California Republican fund-raiser who sold secrets to the
Chinese while working as an FBI informant and reportedly had extramarital
affairs with two FBI agents, on her blog at http://www.conniescomments.blogspot.com.
I’m sure if you asked the average
person who was most likely to have had an affair, [a] Democrat Gary Condit,
or [b] Republican Sue Myrick, Condit would be the overwhelming choice. But
the correct choice is [c] all of the above.
So c’mon, mainstream media. At least make
an effort to balance the scales.
Here’s your chance.
I’ll even help you on finding Schoedinger’s contact information. Go to
http://ccweb.co.fort-bend.tx.us/imgcache/CCCIVIL217038-1-7.pdf.
Read all the way to the last page. Call her. Call Bush. Call the Sugar
Land police. Call the FBI. Mention Schoedinger’s name and make them
squirm some.
For the record, I
contacted Bush’s media office and have yet to hear back. That’s fine.
I don’t really want to speak to those lying bastards, anymore than they
want to speak to me. I just want them out of the White House.
Media members, do your
god-damn jobs, like you did when Clinton was legitimately in the White
House.
Or are you too damn
intimidated, too afraid of you and your family being harassed by CIA-Mafia
spooks? [That’s a legitimate concern. Remember that classic line in War’s
song, “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” I know you’re working for the
CIA – They wouldn’t have you in the Mafia. A lot of truth there.]
Too afraid of losing your jobs and prestige and White House dinner
invitations when Bush and Co. dry up your political sources? Too afraid of
losing your jobs and prestige when the big Bush-supporting bosses upstairs
come down hard on your ass for covering another Bush scandal? Or do you
just not want to deal with all those hateful phone calls, emails and
letters by conservatives who blindly believe Bush and Co. are the second
coming of Christ, when they are really more like the anti-Christ?
Oh I know a few of you
do your jobs. More of you are following the Iraqi war lies trail. That’s
good. But get on these Republican sex scandals, as well. Show the American
people that Republicans commit just about as many dirty sexual deeds as
Democrats. Help get these Republican Religious Right hypocrites who chirp
about morals, honor and dignity while their actions speak otherwise off
their god-damn high horses.
Schoedinger’s
allegations, which include possible assaults against Schoedinger’s
husband while they were drugged and possibly losing a child Bush might
have fathered, may turn out to be figments of an overactive imagination or
exaggerated claims. But they need to be investigated and aired with the
same zeal as the allegations against Clinton when he was in the White
House. That is only fair.
Sure, I hope this
story helps lead to Bush’s defeat in 2004. I’d like to see anyone who
committed a crime be brought to justice, but I’d also like to see this
case hurt Bush. I’m open about my motives, unlike many conservatives who
said they supported prying into Clinton’s private life because it was a
matter of “justice.” Those were civil legal actions brought on by
partisan Republican conservatives. Gimme a fucking break.
I want to see Bush and
Cheney fall because, if not, they will continue their idiotic, selfish
plans to use the American military to dominate the world. It’s weird
that many Americans can stomach a president lying about military matters
and saying stupid things like “Bring ‘em on,” although they end up
causing more deaths, pain and suffering as the Iraqi quagmire is doing.
But lying about having an extramarital affair? That’s another matter.
Anyways, the
Schoedinger case is about more than a private alleged affair – it’s
about alleged crimes, cover-ups and harassment campaigns. Some say her
story is typical of the treatment inflicted on CIA mind-controlled slaves,
of which there are more than most people realize. Remember that Bush is a
member of the secret order of Skull and Bones, an exclusive Yale-based
club for the elite that practices weird, Satanic-like, sexual initiations
and ceremonies. Such strange sexual ceremonies are used as blackmail to
guarantee Skull and Boners do what the power elite wants [there are even
rumors that Bush has had sexual relations with a male Skull and Boner],
just as some elitists are alleged to commit unspeakable sexual trauma on
their kids to assure obedience. Several books document these practices,
including TranceFormation of America by Cathy O’Brien and Mark
Phillips [http://www.trance-formation.org].
The bottom line is
that Schoedinger’s lawsuit deserves much more investigation than it’s
received in the last few months. Maybe we need a liberal legal firm to
represent Schoedinger, like the conservative Rutherford Institute
supported Paula Jones. Hello, ACLU? Hello, NAACP? Schoedinger is also
alleging race-based discrimination. Maybe then, it will get some national
coverage.
If you can send a link
to this story or this entire essay to your local or national media outlet
or any other place you think might be interested in it, by all means, do
it. The universe, the cosmic forces of good, will thank you. Yes, I
operate from a spiritual perspective, as well as political. You have to
when you do this kind of work. Even the most evil bastards have the
potential to recognize somewhere inside them that I might, just might, be
right about this metaphysical, reap-what-you-sow, karmic philosophy, and
they might face dire consequences in their afterlives if they continue on
their present courses. [Yes, I believe in God, just not the way most in
organized religion do.]
Do I really think this Schoedinger case will
help defeat Bush in 2004? With the ability to fix elections through
electronic voting machines that leave no paper trails and other means, and
the inability of many Americans to get news from more sources than TV,
maybe not.
But like Alex English’s
character said in Amazing Grace and Chuck, wouldn’t it be nice?
Jackson
Thoreau is an American writer and co-author of We Will Not Get Over It:
Restoring a Legitimate White House. The updated, 120,000-word
electronic book can be downloaded on his Internet site at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/ebook.html.
Citizens for Legitimate Government has the earlier version at http://www.legitgov.org/we_will_not_get_over_it.html.
Thoreau can be emailed at jacksonthor@justice.com
or jacksonthor@yahoo.com.
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