From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part 6,  LURE TO WAR: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait [Stockwell]
Followup-To:  alt.conspiracy
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords:  LURE TO WAR: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait
Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! 
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:42:00 GMT

        I made the following transcript from a tape recording 
        of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station
               WBAI-FM (99.5)
               505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
               New York, NY 10018       (212) 279-0707

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                        (continuation)
JOHN STOCKWELL:
Now again, I'm moving pretty fast. In other lectures I go into  
that in considerable detail. But getting into the 1980s, we had a
constant conditioning, militarizing, and destabilizing under the
Reagan Revolution. We spent TWO-AND-A-HALF TRILLION DOLLARS,
according to our Government, on the largest military buildup in  
any peacetime period in history; perhaps, arguably, the largest 
military buildup in all of history. Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan, the
great orator, was selling this program to the American People by
focusing our paranoid attention on Nicaragua. He spent more time
talking about his Contra program in Nicaragua than any other aspect
of his presidency. He told us that America is feeling great again.
He railed at the Evil Empire. He said there's a Russian base in
Nicaragua -- in our own back yard. He said the Soviets are flying
airplanes in this hemisphere for the first time in all of history.
Of course, that wasn't true.  Aeroflot has been flying out since
World War II. But this is rhetoric!  He hammered away. And the 
truth had nothing whatsoever to do with it.  He said it was a
two-day drive from Managua to Arlington, Texas. He said it was
closer from Managua to Houston than it was from Houston to Maine. 
He said it was a two-hour flight from Managua to San Diego.      
You could almost see the fighter-bombers sizzling up there to bomb
San Diego. He said there will be a million communists coming up
across our borders from the south. Ollie North actually 
volunteered, according to Pat Buchanan, to be put in command of  
the forces that would fight off the million communists as they  
came up from Central America through Mexico to invade this country.

Meanwhile, in 1988, President Bush, George Bush, my old boss,
inherited the presidency. He won the election. He also inherited 
big political problems and economic problems because he had been
vice-president under Ronald Reagan. And he inherited a four-and-a-
half trillion dollar debt.  Now, in the `70s, we had been the 
richest country in the world -- a creditor nation. In the middle of
the `80s, under this policy of big spending on credit, we crossed
the line and became a debtor nation for the first time since World
War One. The debt was run up to four-and-a-half trillion dollars,
the largest debt in the history of the World. And it is double-
compounding, effectively, with the interest and with the continuing
deficit. So you can look for it to jump to ten trillion and twenty
trillion dollars, and NOBODY has the faintest idea of what, in fact,
will happen to this thing, or what can be done with this thing.

Bush inherited a situation .... What I'm saying, by the way, is very
simply this: President Reagan -- great irony -- President Reagan 
and Vice-President George Bush, and then President George Bush, 
SOLD OUT the United States in the production of arms. They rendered
this country into a condition where other people control our
economic future. And again, the irony is that they sold it   
through patriotism and making us feel great again.

George Bush inherited a situation in which the People were waking
up. They were realizing the debt and feeling this ominous burden
that we're going to have, which we'll pass on to our children.
They were also realizing (even TIME Magazine published discussions
on the decade of greed of the `80s, under Reagan and Bush) that the
People's pockets had been picked. There has been a MASSIVE shift of
wealth from the poor and middle-classes to the ultra-rich, in this
period of time. The ultra-rich:  for example, their taxes were cut
from seventy percent to thirty-two percent. And President Reagan
called it a tax cut. But for the poor -- the bottom half of the
society -- it was a tax increase of five percent.                  

This is the key to understanding the S&L Crisis. The bankers
encouraged irresponsibility. And remember, TWO HUNDRED officials in
the Reagan Administration were forced to resign under the threat of
trial -- criminal proceedings for their corruption. And some of 
them were prosecuted and, in fact, jailed. And this irresponsibility
trickled down into the savings and loan industry, which the CIA was
using to launder its money into Central America and to launder drug
money into its programs. And the result, of course, is that they
were BLOWING our money. We invested our money, and they would blow
it,  steal it,  declare bankruptcy,  open up another S&L.  And this
became the norm until eventually they collapsed the industry.    
The bankers, the CIA, the Mafia and Neil Bush, George Bush's son:
all involved in this great scandal, this massive bilking of the
American People.

And now they're telling us that this is what George Bush inherited,
and that what we need to do is ..... They are NOT (the bankers, and
George Bush and his cohorts) they are NOT going to pay that money
back!  But they say WE can't afford to lose the Public trust in the
banking industry, so WE have to recondition the industry with five
hundred billion to ONE TRILLION DOLLARS! And they're going to make
the PEOPLE pay for it. And it was the PEOPLE whose money was stolen
by these thieves to begin with!  And they are NOT putting them in jail!

You know, when I see this thing, I say: "Where is the scream?"   
You know:  "Huh?"  How will it restore my confidence in the
banking industry to take MY money to replace what the thieves
stole to begin with while they're proceeding to do it some more.

Meanwhile, because we couldn't afford everything [all this
Government larceny], they made a religion out of cutting every
social service that they could. Ronald Reagan bragged that he had
cut a thousand social services. George Bush's first statement,
when he took the Presidency, is that he would cut a thousand more.

How many people saw the movie LEAN ON ME ? Joe Clark, the principal,
you know, with the baseball bat, holding children off the third
story of the school building, locking the fire doors, intimidating
people, berating people. It closes with the woman on welfare, and 
the students are cheering him, the hero, for breaking the law and
brutalizing them. And they're calling the woman on welfare, who's
been organizing to try to get a sane principle ... they call her 
"the witch," the "welfare witch." And she's laughed at and scorned
and she sneaks off.  The real Joe Clark was had to dinner at
the White House. And this movie was shown in the White House. And
Reagan advocates it, because the message that it's floating out to
the society is: "Do it for yourself. Don't depend on the Government
because the Government won't give you the money.  Be independent.
Be proud. Don't ask the Government to build schools and give you
good principals, and stuff like that."
                      (to be continued)
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        The America Public is evidently in dire need of the truth, 
        for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies instead of the 
        bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People,
        then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism.

        So, please post the episodes of this ongoing series to 
        computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places,
        both on and off campus. The need for concerned people, alerting
        their neighbors to overshadowing dangers, still exists, as it 
        did in the era of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as
        society itself.
      
             John DiNardo


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