"The Monster of Monticello" is a most unflattering, nonfictional account of our third president as being "a creepy, brutal hypocrite."11 He bought, kept, cruelly punished and sold his slaves (at least 85 slaves to pay for wine, art and other luxury goods) and "advocated harsh, almost barbaric, punishments for slaves and free blacks."12 Even his own mistress remained a slave. He also excelled as a warrior-in-chief, presiding over battles with the Native Americans, the Barbary War, and in military battles against Spain.
The Real Legacy of President Harry Truman
Not much more truth needs to be revealed about the first inhuman being in the world to order the unnecessary dropping of atomic bombs on two populous cities, killing and maiming millions. Here is one survivor's account of what happened to some of her schoolmates not so lucky as her: "Some fell to the ground and their stomachs already expanded full, burst and organs fell out. Others had skin falling off them and others still were carrying limbs. And one in particular was carrying their eyeballs in their hand."13 The bombs didn't need to be dropped.14Japan was prepared to surrender, but not on Truman's unreasonable conditions. Six of America's seven five star WWII admirals and generals said the atomic bombs were either militarily unnecessary or morally reprehensible or both.15 Unfortunately, they did not override their president. He fiendishly dropped the bombs to scare the Soviet Union which, as everyone ought to know, escalated into the military budget busting, nation wide scare (e.g. the mania for bomb shelters) and saber rattling Cold War. Not to be outdone by himself, he sent over 36,000 UA military to their graves during the Korean War.
The Real Legacy of President Dwight Eisenhower
Notable figures, including America's presidents, begin to think about and start fashioning their legacies while they are still alive. In his farewell address to the Nation warning about its military/industrial complex, Ike masterfully implanted his legacy in the minds of the gullible and unthinking public. It is probably the most duplicitous, dishonest, disingenuous, hypocritical speech a national leader has ever made. Here, after all, was the very man who presided over that very complex. What else can we discredit him for as a warrior-in-chief? Ike rained havoc and death, with the goading of his sinister Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, in Iran, Guatemala, Laos, and the Congo where, on Ike's orders, the democratically elected governments of those sovereign countries were toppled by the CIA, countless lives were lost, and to this day bloodshed continues. And, along with Dulles, Ike introduced the world to the doctrine of massive retaliation, bringing America to the brink of nuclear war with China.16 To Ike's credit, he was one of the generals objecting to the nuclear bombing.
There you have it. The spun legacies of five admired US presidents who were in reality five psychopathic, surrogate murderers (Einstein called war an act of murder). But not just five. The other 37 are simply replicas in their own time.
Beyond Spinning to National and International Control
Power can be thought of as the capacity to control natural resources such as people, oil, gold; and unnatural resources such as deadly weapons. Obviously, the power elite have the most of that capacity in America, if not also in the world. Less obvious, America's presidents have constrained power. It is not constrained as it should be by the Constitution and the American people but by the rest of the power elite and not in a positive way.
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