Reply #38: Thanks for the plaudit Octafish! [View All]

Bad luck about how things turned out in your Michigan job but sounds like that cloud certainly had a silver lining.... And thanks for the Motown invite - me and mine (we have six kids!) sometimes cross the pond and it would be a pleasure to meet up and swap some journalistic notes. I will certainly inbox you when we next make a trip.

Meanwhile, don't give up on that investigative angle. This BCCI business merely confirms how alleged conspiracy 'theories' often turn out to be conspiracy facts such as conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, conspiracy to gag witnesses judges and juries, conspiracy to committ mass murder, invade foreign countries, bribe foreign politicians, etc etc etc. That's why asshole's state visit to the UK this month is going to be such a wonderfully commemorative event for those of us who don't forget that it's almost 40 years since they shot JFK.

There's a lot more on this BCCI stuff that I'd like to post but feel constrained to keep a low profile about because the really juicy bits are sub-judice until the January High Court hearing. Mostly it concerns the direct link to Enron and Ken Lay's gang.

However, here's one snippet that really must be aired and anyone able to unravel this further will get a pretty damned good picture of just how corrupt and monumentally stupid the BFEE really is:

The journalist/author Peter Truell - that name is a pseudonym for a poacher turned gamekeeper turned poacher. After the disappearance/murder of John Hillbery's woman accomplice in 1986 that I cited above, 'Truell' was found to have laundered some of the $350 million from the UK to Texas via carribean offshore scam companies, where it ended up in the coffers of the Enron Founding Fathers (the ones that must have gone over to the US on the Titanic and not the Mayflower.....)

Ever wondered how Enron could have really gotten such a massive black hole in their accounts that needed so much patching over with scam outfits and creative accounting?

The rightful owners of the UK property portfolio went to court in the US, sued, won and got their assets back. Much of this was kept out of the public domain because evidence overlapped with Bob Morgenthau's criminal proceedings when he busted BCCI in New York, and also formed part of a criminal investigation in the UK. Upshot of this in the UK was that Thatcher was given an ultimatum and was booted out of office. She had been directly responsible for Hillbery's woman accomplice's death.

She did a partial immunity deal. First she tried claiming priviledge as a former prime minister but then agreed to a deal to name the rest of the money laundering gang, handing over vital documents that would have otherwise have got buried in obscure civil service bureacracy. Among those documents were birth, marriage and death certificates, passport applications, travel visas, duplicates and forgeries, other i.d. documentation such as social security records, tax returns, bank statements, health records etc. These relate directly to Bush 1 and Bush 2 and some others of their so called nuclear family. It is hardly any wonder that when Pinochet subsequently got busted in London and held for extradition on a Spanish prosecutor's warrant application, Thatcher went hotfoot to his housedetention pad, oozing chummy sympathy and spitting venom at 'socialist forces'.....

I guess asshole has not been exactly forthcoming to the US electorate either in his campaigns to get elected as Texas governor, nor in 2000 - when he must have thought that if no one had put him on the spot pre-Texas then Poppy must have ensured the slate was clean for him to have a clear run to the White House.

The most pertinent questions the media could have asked him relate to his own fecundity: did he sow some wild oats in his youth perhaps - maybe in the UK??? Does he have family ties that he's a bit, errr, shy to mention in public??? And could there be positive proof that like begets like, both in terms of personality, character and inclination? If they ever discover a gene for criminality, stupidity and arrogance, they'll know who to name it after!

It may be hard to gag inconvenient issue when running for public office, but money usually works pretty well in the end. It can buy time, sanitised records and convenient memory lapses. Where it falls short is when inconvenient issue themselves have issue - with the same megalomanical ambitions of world domination, empire building and public priviledge. What is needed in such cases is a staunch Poodle to run a PR campaign of such massive bullshit and spin that a new romantic icon is born for joe public to lap up. Then a dynastic mythology takes over from media campaigns until another fairytale wedding can be concocted, thus paving the way for yet another war against terra with some 'unsuspecting, oil-sodden towelheads ready for a beating'.

Roll on November 19th! The Brits are preparing a magic carpet for the prez and his first lady, the likes of which he ain't ever ridden.
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