Wanna Know Who Made Racism ''Acceptable Again'' in the good ol' USA?
This guy:
In 1980, Reagan declared his candidacy in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the "community" where three Civil Rights marchers were murdered in cold blood.
Reagan, White As Snow
by Alec Dubro
www.tompaine.com/, May 13, 2007
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Domestically, he opposed every legislative remedy for African Americans, betraying a meanness of spirit and an open racism. As Sidney Blumenthal wrote in The Guardian in 2003:
Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (calling it "humiliating to the South"
, and ran for governor of California in 1966 promising to wipe the Fair Housing Act off the books. "If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house," he said, "he has a right to do so." After the Republican convention in 1980, Reagan traveled to the county fair in Neshoba, Mississippi, where, in 1964, three Freedom Riders had been slain by the Ku Klux Klan. Before an all-white crowd of tens of thousands, Reagan declared: "I believe in states' rights."
It's hard to believe now, but in 1965, a higher percentage of congressional Republicans voted for the Voting Rights Act than Democrats. Reagan, then, wasn't following party tradition; he was making a grab for the white racist vote-and it worked. Southern Democrats abandoned the party en masse for one more welcoming to white supremacy. No wonder so many loved, and still love, the man: He validated people's whiteness.
It's true that Reagan knew enough to occasionally disguise his racism. He appointed Samuel Pierce to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where Pierce presided over the halving of housing subsidies. No matter. Reagan couldn't remember the man's name. Once, at a reception for the nation's mayors, he greeted Pierce with a '"Hello, Mr. Mayor." Despite this, a few black conservatives, such as Armstrong Williams, were willing to validate him as someone who knew better than the "civil rights establishment" what was good for African Americans.
But it was in foreign affairs that he showed that he could rise above mere opportunism and flaunt his racism for all the world to see. He was the best friend that South Africa's apartheid government had in the developed world.
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/Reagan_WhiteAsSnow.html
When President, he allowed his staff to refer to the slain civil rights leader as "Martin Lucifer Coon."
Anybody wonder who he meant when he conflated "food-stamps, vodka, Cadillacs, and welfare queens"?
Anybody wonder why the United States has rotted from the head down?
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The late Detroit Mayor Coleman Young's appellation for Ronald Reagan.
Which, I thought, was honestly refreshing for a sitting mayor. The original Pruneface of popular culture was a Dick Tracy villain, a businessman-cum-NAZI agent, which sounds like the same guy, as well.
Drug Fallout
by Alfred McCoy
Progressive magazine, August 1997
Throughout the forty years of the Cold War, the CIA joined with urban gangsters and rural warlords, many of them major drug dealers, to mount covert operations against communists around the globe. In one of history's accidents, the Iron Curtain fell along the border of the Asian opium zone, which stretches across 5,000 miles of mountains from Turkey to Thailand. In Burma during the 1950s, in Laos during the 1970s, and in Afghanistan during the 1980s, the CIA allied with highland warlords to mobilize tribal armies against the Soviet Union and China.
In each of these covert wars, Agency assets-local informants-used their alliance with the CIA to become major drug lords, expanding local opium production and shipping heroin to international markets, the United States included. Instead of stopping this drug dealing, the Agency tolerated it and, when necessary, blocked investigations. Since ruthless drug lords made effective anti-communist allies and opium amplified their power, CIA agents mounting delicate operations on their own, half a world from home, had no reason to complain. For the drug lords, it was an ideal arrangement. The CIA's major covert operations-often lasting a decade-provided them with de facto immunity within enforcement-free zones.
In Laos in the 1960s, the CIA battled local communists with a secret army of 30,000 Hmong-a tough highland tribe whose only cash crop was opium. A handful of CIA agents relied on tribal leaders to provide troops and Lao generals to protect their cover. When Hmong officers loaded opium on the ClA's proprietary carrier Air America, the Agency did nothing. And when the Lao army's commander, General Ouane Rattikone, opened what was probably the world's largest heroin laboratory, the Agency again failed to act.
"The past involvement of many of these officers in drugs is well known," the ClA's Inspector General said in a still-classified 1972 report, "yet their goodwill . . . considerably facilitates the military activities of Agency-supported irregulars."
Indeed, the CIA had a detailed know ledge of drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle-that remote, rugged corner of Southeast Asia where Burma, Thailand, and Laos converge. In June 1971, The New York Times published extracts from an other CIA report identifying twenty-one opium refineries in the Golden Triangle and stating that the "most important are located in the areas around Tachilek, Burma; Ban Houei Sai and Nam Keung in Laos; and Mae Salong in Thailand." Three of these areas were controlled by CIA allies: Nam Keung by the chief of CIA mercenaries for northwestern Laos; Ban Houei Sai by the commander of the Royal Lao Army; and Mae Salong by the Nationalist Chinese forces who had fought for the Agency in Burma. The CIA stated that the Ban Houei Sai laboratory, which was owned by General Ouane, was ' believed capable of processing 100 kilos of raw opium per day," or 3.6 tons of heroin a year-a vast output considering the total yearly U.S. consumption of heroin was then less than ten tons.
By 1971, 34 percent of all U.S. soldiers in South Vietnam were heroin addicts, according to a White House survey. There were more American heroin addicts in South Vietnam than in the entire United States-largely supplied from heroin laboratories operated by CIA allies, though the White House failed to acknowledge that unpleasant fact. Since there was no indigenous local market, Asian drug lords started shipping Golden Triangle heroin not consumed by the GIs to the United States, where it soon won a significant share of the illicit market.
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIAdrug_fallout.html
Odd how know the CIA, NSA and the rest of the secret government are gaining power to protect their secrets while simultaneously authorized to spy on American citizens, the famous We the People who are supposed to be their bosses. So, that'd be one way of thinking ahead.
DUer Th1onein turned me on to: Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Prepared the stage for brains like Karl Rove.
But in his racist mind, I think he thought he did.
https://books.google.com/books?id=RLRzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA102&dq=lee+atwater+and+the+destruction+of+black+music&hl=en&sa=X&ei=J2uEVd6WJcSyoQSew4CYBg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Atwater's) first act was to organize an inaugural party that he told the media, without any irony, would be 'the Woodstock of rhythm and blues."
"...When Lee Atwater played the blues, he frowned, pursed his lips, and jutted his chin forward. He got on his knees and fell back like a believer catching the spirit. He exploded into a manic dance that ended in James Brown splits. He screamed and made that grimacing smile. If it all looked like something you might have seen before, maybe it was--Atwater playing Michael J. Fox playing Marty McFly playing his parents' desegregated 1955 high school dance in Back to the Future."
"This neocon boogie made perfect sense. Reaganites had tried to evoke imperialist nostalgia--transfiguring the memory of the thing destroyed into beautiful, romantic delusion. Native American author David Treuer called the performance 'kill the Indians, then copy them.' Ishmael Reed summed up the performance in a word: 'Blackface.'"
Poppy was a figurehead.
George Bush Takes Charge: The Uses of ‘Counter-Terrorism’
By Christopher Simpson
Covert Action Quarterly 58
A paper trail of declassified documents from the Reagan‑Bush era yields valuable information on how counter‑terrorism provided a powerful mechanism for solidifying Bush's power base and launching a broad range of national security initiatives.
During the Reagan years, George Bush used "crisis management" and "counter‑terrorism" as vehicles for running key parts of the clandestine side of the US government.
Bush proved especially adept at plausible denial. Some measure of his skill in avoiding responsibility can be taken from the fact that even after the Iran‑Contra affair blew the Reagan administration apart, Bush went on to become the "foreign policy president," while CIA Director William Casey, by then conveniently dead, took most of the blame for a number of covert foreign policy debacles that Bush had set in motion.
The trail of National Security Decision Directives (NSDDS) left by the Reagan administration begins to tell the story. True, much remains classified, and still more was never committed to paper in the first place. Even so, the main picture is clear: As vice president, George Bush was at the center of secret wars, political murders, and America's convoluted oil politics in the Middle East.
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Reagan and the NSC also used NSDDs to settle conflicts among security agencies over bureaucratic turf and lines of command. It is through that prism that we see the first glimmers of Vice President Bush's role in clandestine operations during the 1980s.
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NSDD 159. MANAGEMENT OF U.S. COVERT OPERATIONS, (TOP SECRET/VEIL‑SENSITIVE), JAN. 18,1985
The Reagan administration's commitment to significantly expand covert operations had been clear since before the 1980 election. How such operations were actually to be managed from day to day, however, was considerably less certain. The management problem became particularly knotty owing to legal requirements to notify congressional intelligence oversight committees of covert operations, on the one hand, and the tacitly accepted presidential mandate to deceive those same committees concerning sensitive operations such as the Contra war in Nicaragua, on the other.
[font color="green"]The solution attempted in NSDD 159 was to establish a small coordinating committee headed by Vice President George Bush through which all information concerning US covert operations was to be funneled. The order also established a category of top secret information known as Veil, to be used exclusively for managing records pertaining to covert operations.
The system was designed to keep circulation of written records to an absolute minimum while at the same time ensuring that the vice president retained the ability to coordinate US covert operations with the administration's overt diplomacy and propaganda.
Only eight copies of NSDD 159 were created. The existence of the vice president's committee was itself highly classified.[/font color] The directive became public as a result of the criminal prosecutions of Oliver North, John Poindexter, and others involved in the Iran‑Contra affair, hence the designation "Exhibit A" running up the left side of the document.
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CovertAction Quarterly no 58 Fall 1996 pp31-40.
For those wondering why the Rich keep getting Richer.
he was a decent human being. No doubt.
Our student newspaper kept us apprised of what was happening in the States, and I remember well how Reagan was viewed by people like me.
I'm a proud boomer, and I never fell for his crap. The tragedy was, we moved to the States Oct 1980, in time to see him win against Carter. 
She wasn't saying the origin was with Taft/Roosevelt, just that it was a pivotal moment in the split between more progressive Republicans and those that are in power now.
In terms of the royalism (interesting that FDR referred to his enemies as "economic royalists" , many in those Gilded Age families you mention and their ilk were all gaga over the aristocrats and monarchy in England and Europe. Twain satirized that tendency pretty well in Connecticut Yankee, imo.
Former U.S. Secret Service Agent Abraham BOLDEN was the first African American Secret Service agent to serve in the White House, personally appointed and literally hand-picked by President John F. Kennedy to the White House detail. Agent Abraham Bolden reported overt racism by his fellow agents and outright hostility toward the "n------loving president," quoting fellow Secret Service agents on the JFK detail.
In addition to enduring all manner of personal indignities, he was concerned at the lack of professionalism in those assigned to protect the president and reported his concerns. He was told, "OK. Thanks" by his superiors. When the problems weren't addressed, Bolden requested transfer back to the Secret Service office in Chicago.
Abraham Bolden speaks at JFK Lancer.
The story of a man who told the truth:
After 45 Years, a Civil Rights Hero Waits for Justice
Thom Hartmann
June 12, 2009 11:52 AM
A great miscarriage of justice has kept most Americas from learning about a Civil Rights pioneer who worked with President John F. Kennedy. But there is finally a way for citizens to not only right that wrong, but bring closure to the most tragic chapter of American presidential history.
After an outstanding career in law enforcement, Abraham Bolden was appointed by JFK to be the first African American presidential Secret Service agent, where he served with distinction. He was part of the Secret Service effort that prevented JFK's assassination in Chicago, three weeks before Dallas. But Bolden was framed by the Mafia and arrested on the very day he went to Washington to tell the Warren Commission staff about the Chicago attempt against JFK.
Bolden was sentenced to six years in prison, despite glaring problems with his prosecution. His arrest resulted from accusations by two criminals Bolden had sent to prison. In Bolden's first trial, an apparently biased judge told the jury that Bolden was guilty, even before they began their deliberations. Though granted a new trial because of that, the same problematic judge was assigned to oversee Bolden's second trial, which resulted in his conviction. Later, the main witness against Bolden admitted committing perjury against him. A key member of the prosecution even took the fifth when asked about the perjury. Yet Bolden's appeals were denied, and he had to serve hard time in prison, and today is considered a convicted felon.
After the release of four million pages of JFK assassination files in the 1990s, it became clear that Bolden -- and the official secrecy surrounding the Chicago attempt against JFK -- were due to National Security concerns about Cuba, that were unknown to Bolden, the press, Congress, and the public not just in 1963, but for the next four decades.
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Abraham Bolden paid a heavy price for trying to tell the truth about events involving the man he was sworn to protect -- JFK -- that became mired in National Security concerns. Bolden still lives in Chicago, and has never given up trying to clear his name.
Will Abraham Bolden live to finally see the justice so long denied to him?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/after-45-years-a-civil-ri_b_213834.html
After the assassination, he went to Washington on his own dime and reported what he saw to the Warren Commission. For his trouble -- and despite an exemplary record as a Brinks detective, Illinois State Trooper, and Secret Service agent -- Bolden was framed by the government using a paid informant's admitted perjury and spent a long time in prison. The government also drugged him and put him into psychiatric hospitals.His real crime was telling the truth.
Americans know the Truth: the country hasn't been the same since Nov. 22, 1963, from matters of peace and prosperity to justice and equality. President Kennedy kept the nation out of Vietnam and started toward the moon. Imagine what the New Frontier could have become for us today? Certainly would not be a time where "money trumps peace."
Sick people. 
Republicans in response.
Nixon's "Southern Strategy" build on to that racism and racist tension.
Reagan's "Welfare Queen" was simply an extension of the Southern Strategy-Lee Atwater politics that has forever transformed politics. Atwater's apprentice was KKKarl Rove. Racism/race is the underlying Rovian tactic that gets Republicans (and many white Democrats) to vote against their best interest. (Read "What's the Matter With Kansas" by Tom Frank! Required reading, along with V.O. Key's work and Earle and Merle Black's "Southern Politics" .
Race is central in every aspect of political, social and economic lives.
The problem I have with Democrats is their unwillingness (or refusal) to see racism in ALL forms, not just explicit.
It was the "Reagan Democrats" that we lost and that Hillary Clinton's campaign, husband and surrogates played to in 2007-2008 with her dog whistle racism. This is one of the reasons why I can never support HRC in 2016. She never apologized for her race politics, so I will never forgive her.
But let's not get it twisted, either. White Democrats of ALL ideological persuasions (including LIBERALS) can be just as racist.
I was gonna raise holy Hell if you had given any other answer ! 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan%27s_Neshoba_County_Fair_%22states%27_rights%22_speech
BTW, thanks for the excerpts from Bell's book. Will be looking for a copy.
and disenfranchised, the most vulnerable groups and populations in the United States.
African-Americans, women, the LGBT community (who could forget his administration's despicable, treacherous, and deliberate inaction on AIDS?), the poor and working class in general - all suffered disproportionately under Reagan's Presidency.
He was a lot like that other asshole, Richard Nixon, only more "charismatic" and smoother and "warmer" in his conning salesmanship act, and he amazingly is held up as a model of "making Americans feel good about themselves."
Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist.
by Adam Serwer
msnbc.com, April 11, 2014
Editor’s note: Readers may find some language included to be offensive.
Lyndon Johnson said the word “nigger” a lot.
In Senate cloakrooms and staff meetings, Johnson was practically a connoisseur of the word. According to Johnson biographer Robert Caro, Johnson would calibrate his pronunciations by region, using “nigra” with some southern legislators and “negra” with others. Discussing civil rights legislation with men like Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, who committed most of his life to defending white supremacy, he’d simply call it “the nigger bill.”
Then in 1957, Johnson would help get the “nigger bill” passed, known to most as the Civil Rights Act of 1957. With the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the segregationists would go to their graves knowing the cause they’d given their lives to had been betrayed, Frank Underwood style, by a man they believed to be one of their own. When Caro asked segregationist Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge how he felt when Johnson, signing the Civil Rights Act, said ”we shall overcome,” Talmadge said “sick.”
The Civil Rights Act made it possible for Johnson to smash Jim Crow. The Voting Rights Act made the U.S. government accountable to its black citizens and a true democracy for the first time. Johnson lifted racist immigration restrictions designed to preserve a white majority – and by extension white supremacy. He forced FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, then more concerned with “communists” and civil rights activists, to turn his attention to crushing the Ku Klux Klan. Though the Fair Housing Act never fulfilled its promise to end residential segregation, it was another part of a massive effort to live up to the ideals America’s founders only halfheartedly believed in – a record surpassed only by Abraham Lincoln.
So it would be tempting, on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, as Johnson is being celebrated by no less than four living presidents, to dismiss Johnson’s racism as mere code-switching – a clever ploy from an uncompromising racial egalitarian whose idealism was matched only by his political ruthlessness.
But that wouldn’t be true. Johnson was a man of his time, and bore those flaws as surely as he sought to lead the country past them. For two decades in Congress he was a reliable member of the Southern bloc, helping to stonewall civil rights legislation. As Caro recalls, Johnson spent the late 1940s railing against the “hordes of barbaric yellow dwarves” in East Asia. Buying into the stereotype that blacks were afraid of snakes (who isn’t afraid of snakes?) he’d drive to gas stations with one in his trunk and try to trick black attendants into opening it. Once, Caro writes, the stunt nearly ended with him being beaten with a tire iron.
Nor was it the kind of immature, frat-boy racism that Johnson eventually jettisoned. Even as president, Johnson’s interpersonal relationships with blacks were marred by his prejudice. As longtime Jet correspondent Simeon Booker wrote in his memoir Shocks the Conscience, early in his presidency, Johnson once lectured Booker after he authored a critical article for Jet Magazine, telling Booker he should “thank” Johnson for all he’d done for black people. In Flawed Giant, Johnson biographer Robert Dallek writes that Johnson explained his decision to nominate Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court rather than a less famous black judge by saying, “when I appoint a nigger to the bench, I want everybody to know he’s a nigger.”
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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism
You don't have to be a Liberal Democrat or even intelligent to see that executive leadership changed for the worse after President Kennedy.
Kennebunkport, Maine, July 30, 1983.
Wallace and his third wife, the former Lisa Taylor, meet with Vice President George Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton at a lobster bake at Bush's residence at Kennebunkport, Maine, July 30, 1983. The third Mrs. Wallace, whom the governor married in 1981, was 30 years his junior and half of a country-western singing duo, Mona and Lisa, who had performed during his campaign in 1968.
CREDIT: AP/Birmingham Post / SOURCE: http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/george-wallace/13/
George Wallace did all he could to oppose President Kennedy and his administration's policy to integrate public schools, including the University of Alabama.
Something else important to know: Wallace’s running mate in 1968 was Gen. Curtis LeMay, who exhibited insubordination to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
There's this ding-dong effort to rename every damn high school and interchange and airport and building and freeway and freeway overpass and every damn square of sidewalk and every fucking soda straw in America after ronald reagan.
If I had time on my hands, I'd be tempted to follow along after them and UNDO what they just did. I want my Simi Valley Freeway BACK! I want Washington National Airport BACK! I want that bastard's name WIPED OFF wherever it's blighted.
Just as "all roads lead to Rome," according to the cliche, then "all this shit leads to reagan." "All crimes lead to reagan." "All idiocy leads to reagan." "All racism leads to reagan." "All bigotry leads to reagan." "All extremism leads to reagan." "All cheapskate-ism leads to reagan." "All pennywise/pound-foolish leads to reagan." "All irrationality leads to reagan." "All inequality leads to reagan." "All sanctimoniousness leads to reagan." "All phony piety leads to reagan." "All intolerance leads to reagan." "All injustice leads to reagan." Certainly "all trickle-down leads to reagan."
Hmmmm.... I gotta work on this one. I KNOW there's a meme in there. Just gotta find the catchiest one. Has to be catchy so it's memorable. We need a new battle-cry.
But just consider for a moment. How many ills is our nation sick with now?
- Economic (trickle-down and the so-called "laffer curve" - ever read David Stockman's book - his former budget director who wound up exposing what a phonied-up canard it was - with his references to the "magic asterisk" and the "rosy scenario" they plugged in, instead, as they were trying, IN VAIN, to make the numbers work. And they couldn't. So they smoke-screened and snake-oiled through it and sold it like a bill o' goods and fooled EVERYBODY);
- Racial (this, just for one example. But - anybody remember the speech Nancy gave to a large gathering of fawning followers in Chicago, and happily noted "all these beautiful white faces" she saw in the crowd. AND lee atwater!!!!!! lee atwater!!!!!!!! Need I say more?);
- Religious extremism (the rise of jerry falwell's so-called "Moral Majority" and the "Christian" CONservatives, ralph reed's so-called "Christian Coalition);
- Tax-cuts-for-the-rich-and-everybody-else-can-just-pound-sand (one of the nicknames for his administration was "Millionaires on Parade" ;
- Sneaky-ass foreign policy that propped up all kinds of vile "right"-wingers overseas (but, but, but, they were anti-COMMIE so that made them somehow GOOD!!!!!!! - helllooooo arms-for-hostages and negotiating with terrorists and Iran-Contra!);
- Sneaky-ass closet advisors who held all the power and influence OFF-THE-BOOKS (they called his tycoon/millionaire-industrialist inner-circle the "Kitchen Cabinet" FULL of foxes just dying to get their hands on the henhouse guard-duty schedule);
- Anti-environment (helllllooooooooo james watt and justin "let's just save 100 acres of redwoods - for the kids" dart - one of reagan's most infamous "Kitchen Cabinet" members, btw);
- Phony military muscle-flexing (started with the bullshit "invasion" of Grenada);
- Amped up war on drugs (Nancy needed a PR makeover from her haughty, imperious cold-fish "Queen Nancy" image, America shoulda "just said no" to that) and all the extreme and demographically-lopsided incarceration levels we now see in our prisons;
- Poverty and screwing the social safety net (HE was the one who INITIATED the myth of the "welfare queen" and of course she was black);
- The rise of hate radio (broadcast deregulation started in the latter half of HIS administration;
- Wall Street out of control (financial deregulation started during HIS administration - let the foxes guard the henhouses! Gummnt BAAAAAD;
- Overall general hatred and institutional destruction of the gummnt ("get the gummnt OFF YER BACK" - that was one of his many catchy slogans, like this cutie-patootie: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" ;
Shit.
Literally, every ill that is thoroughly sickening America that I can think of, just off the bat, EVERY SINGLE ONE, routes directly back to ronald reagan. He was the DREAM candidate of the far-wrong, that knew its policies and preferences were anathema to much of America but they wanted 'em ANYWAY, and they figured the secret to success was all in the PACKAGING. And how they might be able to sell America on it, thereby hoodwinking America into embracing it - because it just SOUNDED SO DAMN GOOD! He made it SOUND SOOOOOOoooooo good. So acceptable. So all-American! So patriotic! So Godly! So Bible-y! Every anti-social, greedy, hate-filled, chip-on-their-shoulder, self-entitled asshole found refuge under the magnanimously protective wing of ronald reagan. All the Great American Vermin flocked to him because he became their savior. He made it okay, even COOL and swagger-y and rootin' tootin' Wild West Dirty-Harry-meets-Captain-America-y ("Go Ahead, Make My Day" - THAT was one of his favorite quotes, too) to feel as they did. He made it okay. He made it glamorous! And Hollywood-y, even! And all red-blooded ALL-AMERICAN! Hell, he even played FOOTBALL in school!!!! Heroic WW2 veteran USA-USA-USA!!! (My ass. So he enlisted. So what? He stayed home where it was safe and wore his country's uniform making recruiting films.)
FUCKER. He was absolutely, unquestionably, beyond the shadow of ANY doubt the WORST thing that happened to this country in the entire length of the 20th Century. Worse than the Great Depression - because his policies revisited all that, reworked the understanding of it, and began systematically to tear down the safeguards instituted by FDR's New Deal (which reagan hated) that would only lead to MORE economic depressions. Worse than Pearl Harbor - because of the American adventurism, imperialism, interference in other nations' affairs and sovereignty, reckless exports of industrial and business piracy and assorted build-up-the-military muscle-flexing and the birth of the idea of "American Exceptionalism" that led directly to the multiple foreign policy messes WE face NOW. Including 9/11.
FUCKER. There aren't enough "fuck-you's" that can be said that cover what he deserves to have pelted on him. I want his name wiped off the face of the earth and buried. Where it belongs. Wrap it in the "stars 'n' bars".
I hate ronald reagan with the burning fire of a thousand suns. He bastardized love of country, and love of God. He WAS "the Great Satan." Wrapped in an adorable, amiable, harmless, disarming, and totally dear crooked smile and crinkly-eyed chuckling and the perfect, well-tested-for-effective-manipulation sloganeering, delivered with Busby Berkeley staging, red-white-&-blue backdrops, 100-foot-long American flags, dancing girls, baton twirlers, fireworks, marching-bands and other assorted phony-ass showbizmanship.
GOD I hate ronald reagan.
Outstanding post and info, calimary.
Stockman, of all people, pointed out just how much Reaganomics has done to destroy the middle class and the American Dream.
[font size="6"][font color="green"]7/8 of ALL WEALTH in Human History created since 1981.[/font color][/font size]
Pruneface's budget guru David Stockman must've added up all the GDP and estimated the stuff from the middle ages. Whatever. His real point is that most of THAT has ended up in the pockets of the greedhead plutocrats' pockets.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7009217n&tag=related;photovideo
"In 1985, the top five percent of the households, wealthiest five percent, had net worth of $8 trillion, which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five percent have net worth of $40 trillion," he explained. "The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980." -- David Stockman
SOURCE: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/28/60minutes/main6999906_page4.shtml
THE RICHEST TIMES IN HUMAN HISTORY and thanks to Red Ink Ronnie and his Buy Partisan ideological offspring, there now are 2.5 million homeless kids in America.
And they absolutely HATE President Kennedy and liberal Democrats with a passion, taking his name OFF everything they could, including Cape Kennedy.
NIXON/BFEE refused to commission Apollo 11 as 'The John F. Kennedy.'
Pat Moynihan and a whole lot of people on both sides of the aisle thought it was a great idea. Nixon and his creeps did not.
(Blogger Machodoc) Came across an interesting tidbit at the Archives yesterday, specifically in Kissinger's National Security space files.
It seems that in early summer 1969 Bill Moyers, after reading an article in Newsday, wrote Pat Moynihan to ask if he could convice President Nixon to christen the Apollo XI the "John F. Kennedy". Moynihan agreed, sent a memo to up the chain of command, where before it finally reached the White House received a couple of additional endorsements.
On June 12 the proposal reached John Ehrlichman's desk, and in a memo to H. R. Haldeman, wrote: "Unlike Daniel P. Moynihan, I can see no advantage to the President to commission the Apollo 11 moon shot the "John F. Kennedy." We would win neither friends in Congress no votes in 1972 and would only become pawns in the press's game of perpetuating the name of JFK. Fall prey to this and the next step will be renaming the moon because NBC thinks it would be a good idea."
The next day, in a memo to his boss, Haldeman, Steve Bull agreed, an in his memo said that "we have gone far enough in "Kennedyizing" such ventures."
In the action box at the bottom of the page, in the space recommending the action be abandoned is Haldeman's "H", with a note in strong handwriting and double underlined, "positively!!"
SOURCE:
http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000980.html
"Houston. Tranquility Base here. The John F. Kennedy has landed."
Thank you for grokking, calimary, how much more of our nation's official history has been distorted by the decrepit hands and evil hearts of Nixon, Pruneface and the War Party.
I always wanted to write an article with that title. Ronnie gained fame talking about welfare queens driving around Harlem in Cadillacs and ended his second term raving about the nations of the world uniting against an invasion from outer space. His whole career is like a 1950s Sci-fi 'B' movie.
Back in the day, I did title a whole series of my Samizdat political emails: 'Pissing on Ronnie's Grave" I ended up having to prune my email list when people accused me of being too hard on Reagan.
Ronald Reagan on Native Americans
(link at bottom of post no longer works)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1776149
Ronald Wilson Reagan
^666^
Now I need another shower.
That is disgusting beyond words. And it was said in 1988?
And would have almost certainly been impeached, if not for his cowardly resignation. Unfortunately, Ford pardoned him, and then Reagan and both George Bushes were never held accountable for their crimes. Iran-Contra alone should have been enough to send both Reagan and Bush Sr. out of office and into prison for a very long time.
Incidentally, one of Nixon's biggest defenders during Watergate? Yup, Reagan.
BUSH PARDONS WEINBERGER, FIVE OTHERS TIED TO IRAN-CONTRA
Calls Weinberger "true American patriot"
By Dian McDonald
USIA White House Correspondent, Dec. 24, 1992
Washington -- President Bush December 24 granted pardons to former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five other individuals for their conduct related to the Iran-Contra affair.
Bush said Weinberger -- who had been scheduled to go on trial in Washington January 5 on charges related to Iran-Contra -- was a "true American patriot," who had served with "distinction" in a series of public positions since the late 1960s.
"I am pardoning him not just out of compassion or to spare a 75-year-old patriot the torment of lengthy and costly legal proceedings, but to make it possible for him to receive the honor he deserves for his extraordinary service to our country," Bush said in a proclamation granting executive clemency.
The president also pardoned five other persons who already had pleaded guilty or had been indicted or convicted in connection with the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages investigation. They were Elliott Abrams, a former assistant secretary of state for Inter-American affairs; former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane; and Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers, and Clair George, all former employees of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Explaining those pardons, Bush said the "common denominator of their motivation -- whether their actions were right or wrong -- was patriotism." They did not profit or seek to profit from their conduct, Bush said, adding that all five "have already paid a price -- in depleted savings, lost careers, anguished families -- grossly disproportionate to any misdeeds or errors of judgment they may have committed."
Asked about the pardons at a news conference in Little Rock, Arkansas, later in the day, President-elect Clinton said he did not have all the details on the matter and would withhold comment until he had had a chance to study the president's statement and related information.
However, Clinton said he was concerned "by any action which sends a signal that, if you work for the government, you're above the law, or that not telling the truth to Congress under oath is somehow less serious than not telling the truth to some other body under oath."
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[font color="red"]Bush said the prosecutions of the persons he was pardoning on Christmas Eve represent "what I believe is a profoundly troubling development in the political and legal climate of our country: the criminalization of policy differences."[/font color]
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http://fas.org/news/iran/1992/921224-260039.htm
Crooked veep would never have become president -- and he never could've pardon Cap Weinberger and the rest of the BFEE pack. He never would've lied America into war on Iraq in 1991 and his idiot son Smirko never would've re-invaded it in 2003. And no one would even be thinking Jebthro in '16!
That's good company to be in.
That Geritol Monkeyskull coulda majored in The Method.
A Fresh Look
Nazis and the Republican Party
by Carla Binion
EXCERPT...
Journalist Martin A. Lee, has written for The Nation, Rolling Stone, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. In THE BEAST REAWAKENS, Lee confirms that during both the Reagan and Bush years, the Republican Party's ethnic outreach arm recruited members from the Nazi émigré network.
Lee says that the Republican Party's ethnic outreach division had an outspoken hatred of President Jimmy Carter's Office of Special Investigations (OSI), an organization dedicated to tracking down and prosecuting Nazi war collaborators who entered this country illegally. Former Republican Pat Buchanan attacked Carter's OSI after it deported a few suspected Nazi war criminals.
According to Lee, public relations man Harold Keith Thompson was principal U.S. point man for the postwar Nazi support network known as die Spinne, or the Spider. In the late 40s and early 50s, Thompson worked as the chief North American representative for the remaining National Socialist German Worker's Party and the SS. Lee writes that the wealthy Thompson gave generously to Republican candidates Senator Jesse Helms and would-be senator Oliver North. Thompson's money gained him membership in the GOP's Presidential Legion of Merit. Lee says Thompson also "received numerous thank-you letters from the Republican National Committee." Those letters are now in the Hoover Institute Special Collections Library.
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http://www.bartcop.com/nazigop.htm
Great to read you!
It's embarrassing that so many see him as the great American.
Arrrrgh!
Also, not to get too far afield here, this Jeffrey Sterling whistleblowing on the CIA case is disgusting ..
Jeff Stein ?@SpyTalker: Moving story about the vicious prosecution of Jeffrey Sterling.
Although it's not totally analogous to the Abraham Bolden case .. there are some parallels.
