Politically Disturbing? Moi?

This blog got a mention at the Not Happy John website today, but with a warning: "Don't look if you don't want to be deeply politically disturbed."

I guess the warning is merited because I suggested that the CIA might be behind the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta yesterday (see below). So let me make my meaning clear. I don't believe the CIA was behind the bombing, but I think any serious analysis today should keep an open mind on this issue. Unless you're already nodding in agreement, you'd probably have to read this entire blog to understand why I say that. So let me just throw in a few facts to get your brain thinking:

1. G.W. Bush's father was head of the CIA before becoming President. He was probably a CIA agent since at least 1960.

2. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were both part of the Nixon administration. Both controversially avoided criticism during the Church Committee enquiries, which uncovered disturbing evidence of illegal CIA activities including torture, bombing campaigns in Italy and Iran, and of course the conspiracy theorists' favourite MK-Ultra mind-control project.

3. Before WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt issued a warning:

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power... Among us today, a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing."

That "concentration of private power" included George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, who was later convicted by the US government under the Trading with the Enemy Act.

4. In 1980, when Ronald Reagan was campaigning against George Bush Snr for the Republican Party ballot, Reagan's camp ran an advertisement which claimed:

"A coalition of multinational corporate executives, big-city bankers, and hungry power brokers... want to give you George Bush... their purpose is to control the American government."

Was this "coalition" ultimately successful in their goal? We don't know, but it certainly looks that way.