21 U.S.C. § 843(b)
• Quammen, Gary Lynn, WI, 1976 Misapplication of bank funds, 18 U.S.C. § 656
• Raymond, Robert Ronal, CT, 1972 Conspiracy to manufacture, receive,possess, and sell firearms silencers, 18 U.S.C. § 371
• Rushing, Elizabeth Hogg, GA, 1978 Misapplication of bank funds, 18 U.S.C. § 656
50 U.S.C. Appendix § 462(a)
• Smith, Roy Aaron, TX, 1982 Misprision of a felony, 18 U.S.C. § 4
• Smunk, Diane Dorothea, SD, 1984 Embezzlement by Government employee, 18 U.S.C. § 641
• Stathakis, Thomas Peter, 1976 Selling and delivering firearms to out-of-state resident and falsifying firearms records, 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(b)(3), 922(m), and 924(a)
• Vacanti, Kathleen, CA, 1979 Conspiracy to defraud the United States by obtaining payment of false claims, presenting false claims to the United States, forging a writing, and also aiding and abetting,
18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 286, 287, and 495
• White, Pupi, MO, 1985 Making false statement on United States passport application,
18 U.S.C. § 911
• Wicker, Charles Coleman, MO, 1975 Conspiracy to conduct illegal gambling business,
18 U.S.C. § 371
• Woods, Roderick Douglas, MS, 1982 Misappropriation of bank funds and aiding and abetting,
18 U.S.C. §§ 656 and 2
Over the next 7 years, the Clintons made 12 more blanket pardons which pardoned hundreds more felons of every description. One might be inclined to wonder how one got on the Clintons' Pardon List. No one knows, but there would appear to be a common characteristic of those pardoned and that is the ability to pay for a Presidential Pardon and/or be in a position to offer further evidence which could embarrass the Clinton crime machine. Known "Pardon" costs ranged from $400,000 paid to Hillary's brother to Marc Rich's requirement to pay a $100 million dollar fine as a condition of his pardon.
Where does one go except "with the flow" when there is nothing but "evil" from which to choose? In the past, Americans have thought they had a choice between the "lesser of the evils" in choosing their government. Now there is nothing available to choose except "evil and eviler". But, is our condition of having only evils from which to choose, truly a condition of poor education and loss of moral guidance for our nation or are the political and financial "elites" purposely "guiding" our nation into the oblivion of evil?
It has been said that people get the government they deserve. So do we Americans deserve a government that kills its own people? Here, I do not imply anything about our government and the fantasy of 9/11 that it has created to explain away the laws of physics, engineering and thermodynamics and the deaths of 2784 Americans. Neither do I imply that the Iraq War and the totally hypothetical "War on Terror" are figments of governmental imagination. I state without fear of contradiction that the American government has killed over 3900 of its own soldiers and wounded another 30,000 using the 935 proven lies that its officials created to take this country into a second war with Iraq that has killed one million Iraqis, displaced another four million and destroyed the entire infrastructure of that country. The American government has engineered a war that will stretch into eternity – or at least to the end of our democratic government – which ever comes first.
So, the questions become, "Is the American government basically so corrupt that killing one million 'imaginary foes' is to be seen as a product of "its" corruption or should these murdered millions be charged to the American people who stood by and allowed it to happen? Should these murdered "1,003,900" be seen as victims of the American government or only the victims of a "retarded wannabe tyrant" who is to be viewed as only one-twentieth as "bad" as Joseph Stalin? Are these murdered 1,003,900 PEOPLE the victims of a country gone bad or are they the victims of an isolated 536 representatives of the American people who have been purchased by a foreign government and are doing the bidding of their masters?" (One should note that out of a total of 537 representatives of the American people – 535 from the Senate and House of Representatives and two from the White House - only 536 are being considered as being "tainted").
No matter how one answers the questions, the answers are not "pretty" - even when viewed through the eyes of a "blinded" American people. The American people or an out of control American government, "Who is responsible?", that is the question. If the answer is government, then we are being governed by a fascist regime. If the answer is the people, then we can be said to be a terrorist nation whose government is doing its bidding. Which way would you like it, people?
When should these questions have first been asked – in 1492 or 1620 or 1812 or 1914 or 1941 or in the year 2000? Did Columbus start the present cycle or was it started by the Pilgrims who came to this land to escape oppression? Should the casual observer of history have been surprised to see the starving Pilgrims, who came to these shores and who were given food by the native Indians, begin robbing the Indians three weeks after their arrival in the New World? Did exploitation/robbery by Americans stop in 1621 or did it stop with the "War To End All Wars" or has it ever stopped?
The bitter irony of answering such questions is that not only did 911 kill 2784 Americans, but it marked the end to critical thinking in America. Oh yes, there is a minority of Americans who have asked questions about 911 that can never be answered truthfully by our government, but they have been marginalized by the political elite and the propaganda arms of our intelligence services to the point where the "question askers" are the ones to be hunted down, not the perpetrators.
The 911 fantasy supplied a perpetrator who was soon forgotten and "theoretically" left to amuse himself with his cell phone (and no charger) in a cave in Afghanistan while our military was pressed into the far more important task of "freeing Iraqi oil" from its rightful owners and raising the world price of oil to $100 per barrel where the international oil companies said it should be.
Besides, who could quarrel with a trade where the Iraqis got the "purple finger" and the oil companies got the "oil". In addition to the obvious advantages of such "free trade," our government was able to "mercenary" the war and double the profits of the war for the private sector. By "creative" deployments and the hiring of such mercenary service companies as Halliburton/KBR, "Blackwater Security"and Bechtel, our government was able to blunt the objections to the war by the folks at home which had led to the downfall of the Viet Nam War. (There are now as many contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan as there are deployed American troops. The difference is the amount of money each of them draws).
Instead of objecting to the war, people at home expressed their patriotism right where it meant most - with a "Support our Troops" magnetic ribbon RIGHT OVER THE GAS TANKS OF THEIR SUV's. Yes, some of these families had to drive to the cemetery to bury a loved one killed in Iraq, but they were as helpless to "change things" as the rest of us. In fact, most of them thought/think we are fighting terrorists "over there so we won't have to fight them over here". Little do they know that the Iraqi insurgency, with its death squads and ethnic cleansing, is being directed and supported from Langley, the Pentagon and Tel Aviv. When these nests of vipers decide it is time for the Middle Eastern terrorists to visit us here in the United States, they will be here (again?).
Nolan K. Anderson may be reached at nkanders@bellsouth.net ).
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