Showing posts with label cover ups. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cover ups. Show all posts

Friday, January 15, 2010

Truth and Consequences: 'A Conspiracy of Rich Men'

by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

Every criminal thinks he will get away with it. Every criminal hides the truth. Every criminal has a cover story. 911 is Bush's 'cover story'. Inexplicably, Bush critics are called 'conspiracy theorists' when, in fact, it was Bush who put forward an absurd theory for which the FBI has said there is no no hard evidence.

Now --let's get this straight: the media allows Bush to indulge a stupid theory and even promotes it. But if you should try it, even liberals and progressives who should know better will call you a 'conspiracy theorist'.

The 'official' conspiracy theory of 911 is an absurd and ridiculous fabrication believed only by idiots, a bullshit cover story designed to shock, awe and confuse.

It did this with its sheer audacity and vainglorious hubris. We should not be surprised, nor shocked, nor awed! Every criminal lies about his crime. We should have expected no less, nor more from Bush --a common liar, a common criminal.

There is historical precedent for Dick Cheney's meeting with Bush's financial supporters. A good description of that precedent is found in the work of St. Thomas More who wrote of what he called a 'conspiracy of rich men'. More's description of a 'conspiracy of rich men' presages Hitler's infamous meeting in which he 'closed' a deal with I.G. Farben, Thyssen, Krupp et al. Hitler would wage wars from which his sponsors would benefit if they would 'pony up', if they would finance and support his rise to dictatorship.
For the first time—in the last relatively free election Germany was to have—the Nazi Party now could employ all the vast resources of the government to win votes. Goebbels was jubilant. "Now it will be easy," he wrote in his diary on February 3, "to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal.

We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda. [note: this is clearly a reference to a 'planned' Reichstag Fire, Hitlers' 911!]

And this time, naturally, there is no lack of money."(2)

The big businessmen, pleased with the new government that was going to put the organized workers in their place and leave management to run its business as it wished, were asked to cough up. This they agreed to do at a meeting on February 20 at Goering's Reichstag President's Palace, at which Dr. Schacht acted as host and Goering and Hitler laid down the line to a couple of dozen of Germany's leading magnates, including Krupp von Bohlen, who had become an enthusiastic Nazi overnight, Bosch and Schnitzler of I. G. Farben, and Voegler, head of the United Steel Works. The record of this secret meeting has been preserved.

Hitler began a long speech with a sop to the industrialists. "Private enterprise," he said, "cannot be maintained in the age of democracy; it is conceivable only if the people have a sound idea of authority and personality ... All the worldly goods we possess we owe to the struggle of the chosen . . . We must not forget that all the benefits of culture must be introduced more or less with an iron fist." He promised the businessmen that he would "eliminate" the Marxists and restore the Wehrmacht (the latter was of special interest to such industries as Krupp, United Steel and I. G. Farben, which stood to gain the most from rearmament). "Now we stand before the last election," Hitler concluded, and he promised his listeners that "regardless of the outcome, there will be no retreat." If he did not win, he would stay in power "by other means . . . with other weapons." Goering, talking more to the immediate point, stressed the necessity of "financial sacrifices" which "surely would be much easier for industry to bear if it realized that the election of March fifth will surely be the last one for the next ten years, probably even for the next hundred years."

All this was made clear enough to the assembled industrialists and they responded with enthusiasm to the promise of the end of the infernal elections, of democracy and disarmament. Krupp, the munitions king, who, according to Thyssen, had urged Hindenburg on January 29 not to appoint Hitler, jumped up and expressed to the Chancellor the "gratitude" of the businessmen "for having given us such a clear picture." Dr. Schacht then passed the hat. "I collected three million marks," he recalled at Nuremberg.(3)

--William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Nazification of Germany: 1933–34
Hitler began his war on the cheap, clearly hoping to make it all up with war booty. Bush hoped to and did seize the oil fields of Iraq. It was a priority. Nazis are said to have paid 'subsistence wages' for big projects --the autobahn, new public buildings, the grand visions of Albert Speer, most which were never realized. Much is made of the money borrowed from Swiss banking houses. Many historians claim the Wehrmacht was but a shell despite its reputation. Panzer divisions were mechanized, the infantry walked. But, if we are to believe the memoirs of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's money problems had been solved by his industrial and American financiers.

It was Krupp who told the meeting: "Pony up!", pledging himself a million marks to prime the pump. American industrialists --led by Henry Ford --did their part for the Nazi cause. [See: Henry Ford and the Nazis; Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler; Hitler and the rise of the Nazis] By July 1942 'incriminating information' had filtered back to Washington from Ford of France; it was all about Ford's active and financial support for Herr Hitler's war of aggression against the nations of Europe. Not surprisingly, the information was buried, as Fox et al bury anti-Bush information today.

Those who benefit most from 'conspiracies' are motivated to convince you that 'conspiracies do not exist'. But --the fact is no one acting alone is capable of achieving much. Certainly, one person cannot wage 'aggressive war'. One person could not have pulled off 911. It's even difficult for one person to hold up a 7-11. While he discounts 'outrageous conspiracy theories', Bush would have you believe one: the official conspiracy theory of 911!

If 'conspiracies' did not exist, then why has the US Supreme Court handed down so many cases defining them and applying to them the laws of these United States? And why are there so many US laws having to do with 'conspiracies' if 'conspiracies' did not exist?
I can perceive nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of the commonwealth.

They invent and devise all means and crafts, first how to keep safely, without fear of losing, that they have unjustly gathered together, and next how to hire and abuse the work and labour of the poor for as little money as may be. These devices, when the rich men have decreed to be kept and observed for the commonwealth’s sake, that is to say for the wealth also of the poor people, then they be made laws.But these most wicked and vicious men, when they have by their insatiable covetousness divided among themselves all those things, which would have sufficed all men, yet how far be they from the wealth and felicity of the Utopian commonwealth? Out of the which, in that all the desire of money with the use of thereof is utterly secluded and banished, how great a heap of cares is cut away! How great an occasion of wickedness and mischief is plucked up by the roots!

--Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), Utopia, Of the Religions in Utopia

The fascist domination of American life and debate is possible because people have 'bought into' the pernicious notion of 'corporate personhood'. This notion facilitates More's 'conspiracy of rich men'. Mere legal abstractions are absurdly accorded rights that, by right, belong only to real, living, flesh and blood people. Corporations are given license to lie about misdeeds, incompetence and corporate criminality, literally, a 'conspiracy of rich men: the Tea Baggers and idiots who have bought into it; and the GOP consultants, firms, and focus groups who dreamed it all up.

It's all top down, dishonest, disingenuous --symptoms of a failed but criminal organization: the GOP which represents and seeks to enrich the a ruling one percent. They are he beneficiaries of GOP tax cuts since Ronald Reagan's infamous tax cut of 1982. Initially, the top 20 percent benefited as charts dating to the beginning of the Clinton administration indicate. Though Clinton succeeded in reversing the trend, much of the groundwork was still in place by the time Bush Jr assumed the White House. Today, as a result, just one percent of all Americans were enriched. The official stats are available from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The story is there for anyone desiring to get at the truth about the criminality of the GOP.

We cannot rely upon the likes of FOX, indeed, any network or media conglomerate to expose this hoax. Fox actively promotes it. And if the other so-called MSM are not overtly supporting, they give it free air time worth billions of dollars.

The NWO means different things to different people. As a result, very little written about it is meaningful or significant. Hitler had in mind a world dominated by the Third Reich. But recent use of the term does not necessarily mean Nazism. In some cases, it may be worse. Muddying the waters are the "Illuminati Conspiracy' theorists which get mixed with with other theories about Jesuits, international bankers and Jews. Who can sort all this stuff out?

There was, in fact, an Illuminati in Europe at the time of the 'Enlightenment'. How the term came to be associated with an obvious and criminal conspiracy like the Skull and Bones, I will never know. I do know this: SCOTUS, Federal Law, numerous lesser courts, a saint (St. Thomas More) and numerous state laws, ordinances and regulations all recognize the fact that crimes not involving conspiracies tend to be petty --simple theft, robbery, mugging etc. Real crimes --like those perped by Enron upon the state of California --are simply impossible for one person working alone. The sheer scale of such crimes require a conspiracy. The genocide of Jews by Hitler's Third Reich 'required' the bureaucracy of the Third Reich. The minutes of Heydrich's meeting at Wannsee are a testament to the coordinated planning required to pull off the murder of millions of people. One person --a lone gunman in a depository window --cannot contemplate or 'pull off' such a crime.

The Director Stanly Kubrick must surely have believed in the Illuminati. 'Eyes Wide Shut' with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman was Kubrick's take on the effect that an evil and kooky cult might have on individuals. Religious folk would say of 'members' that they had 'sold their souls'. Is that not what church people themselves have done? In psychological terms, such persons will have compromised their integrity, fracturing the 'personality'. Are there such groups, in fact? Probably! But the thing to be remembered is this: they have NO POWER but the power that is given them by their victims.

With regard to politics, the Skull and Bones is such a group and that they exist is a fact. They have no power but the monies that have been bequeathed them by wealthy Yale alumni and the oaths required of their pledges. This combination is most powerful when the initiate is a believer.

Now --I took an oath once! I pledged an honorary fraternity at University. But the oath I took was to 'integrity', 'scholarship' and the 'pursuit of truth'. I am very, very comfortable with that oath as I believe it to be the basis for a better and more egalitarian world in which individual rights are respected within the framework of a more egalitarian state which respects all peoples and all races. That oath is enough to make me an outlaw among the cultist GOP inclined.

Monday, August 18, 2008

How Bush's 'Official Conspiracy Theory of 911" Covers Up the Crimes of Mass Murder and High Treason

To Bush administration chagrin and despite its best efforts to cover up the crime of 911, various independent investigations and courageous web warriors continue to expose Bush's lies about 911.

A culprit, a fiendish cabal inside our own government, may yet be exposed to be mass murderers as well as war criminals, traitors, subversives, mass murderers and torturers. Bush's 'official conspiracy theory' is full of holes. It's a cover story!
If the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated or at least deliberately allowed by the Bush- Cheney administration and the Pentagon, then the motivation to cover up this murderous and treasonous act would be unlimited. No expenditure of time and money would be considered too great."
--Professor David Ray Griffin [4]The True Story of 9/11: Part IV
Thus --Professor Griffen addresses the compelling motivation behind the Bush administration's cover up, cover story, a scripted program of lies, felony obstruction of justice, and mass deception with regard to 911.
    1. The 'official theory' that three airliners caused fires hot enough to bring down the Twin Towers of the WTC and damaged the Pentagon is a bald-faced lie. It can be demonstrated right now that the Bush crime syndicate had the three ingredients that must be proven in an indictment accusing them of mass murder and high treason: method, motive and opportunity! The Bush gang had all three. Due to the heavily reinforced steel construction of the WTC --including Building 7 --it is clear: airplanes and fires did not cause the towers to crash! 'Officialdom' denied the very presence of a core. The very first 'official conspiracy' was a documentary rolled out on PBS within weeks of the 911 attacks. It showed an animation in which there was absolutely no core whatsoever.
      The 911 Commission claimed that "the [WTC] core was hollow. Look at the construction photo to the right! Does that look hollow to you? Bluntly: the 911 Commission report is a bald-face lie. The core is fully visible as the construction photo above shows, as the video, likewise, proves conclusively! The official conspiracy theories would have us believe that soft-bodied aluminum airliners penetrated 9 feet of concrete and 4 rows of 4-ft-square steel girders. We are expected to believe that soft-bodied aluminum airliners penetrated the steel outside girders and the two rounds of 47.4 ft wide steel that made up the inside core!What the 911 Commission Report would have you believe could not have happened and didn't happen! The 911 Commission expects us to believe that the 'core' didn't even exist. The 911 Commission lied to you! The problem with 'pancaking' --the first 'official theory' to bite the dust --was that it was based upon the lie that 'the core was hollow'. Watch the following video, paying attention to the dense steel construction. I dare say, a 757 might have bounced off or gotten chewed to bits, shredded on its way 'in'. In any case, the damage to the building would have been slight! It would not have eventually brought about the collapse of any building in the WTC. The building would have survived relatively unscathed and, as we in fact have seen on countless videos, the fires --never hot enough to have melted steel --cooled considerably and within seconds the fires were spent, black smoke bellowing from 'content'. Unlike a 'controlled demolition', the dinky, spent fires would never have brought the towers to the ground.
    2. It didn't happen! In some 10,000 pages in 43 volumes, the NIST completely missed the point! In some 10,000 pages in 43 volumes, the NIST called 'irrelevant' the existence of 'molten steel' at WTC. By so doing, the NIST is left with no credible explanation for the fall of the towers! And the NIST thinks you are stupid!!! Fact is, until 911, no steel reinforced building had ever collapsed from fire. And never will! That kerosene fires have never and will never melt steel to collapse is an inconvenient fact that the Bush official conspiracy theorist would prefer you just forget about! Unless steel melted, the Twin Towers of the WTC remain standing. NIST doesn't even address the only cause that would have brought them down.In fact, The blueprints, unlike those of any other publicly funded building, have been withheld from public view since the 9/11 attacks without explanation and were even unavailable for viewing by the team of engineers from the American Society of Civil Engineers, who were assembled to investigate the collapses by FEMA, until they had signed legal documents which bound them to secrecy and demanded that they never use the information against the buildings' owners as part of a lawsuit. 911reseach.wtc7.net , which has been investigating 9/11 for years exposed the fatal holes in the NIST 'fairy tale'.
      The detailed architectural drawings make clear what official reports have apparently attempted to hide: that the Twin Towers had massive core columns, and those columns ran most of the height of each Tower before transitioning to columns with smaller cross-sections.

      Both of the government-sponsored engineering studies of the Twin Towers' "collapses" -- FEMA's and NIST's -- are highly misleading about the core structures. Neither Report discloses dimensions for core columns -- dimensions that are clearly evident in the architectural drawings. Both Reports use a variety of techniques seemingly designed to minimize the strength of the cores or to conceal their structural role entirely.
      FEMA, in its explanation of the collapses, stated:
      As the floors collapsed, this left tall freestanding portions of the exterior wall and possibly central core columns. As the unsupported height of these freestanding exterior wall elements increased, they buckled at the bolted column splice connections, and also collapsed.
      --911reseach.wtc7.net
      The NIST report defies the laws of physics and the 911 Commission report is disowned by its own co-chairs!

      The much maligned 911 truth movement has won this debate!

      Bush partisans are left with teeth-gnashing, name-calling, propaganda and bald-faced lies. They don't have shit!
    3. The NIST didn't 'prove' anything. The report cited a meaningless 'computer model' but --significantly --refused to release the 'model' or verifiable data conforming to the 'real world', in other worlds, the world of verifiable science. They know it's pure crap and that's why they won't release it. They wish to avoid further embarrassment and humiliation.
      Counter-intuitively, the NIST cites "widely-dislodged fireproofing" as a primary cause for collapse! My challenge to NIST: please cite a single instance in which a steel framed building of any size collapsed due to 'fireproofing' failure. In any case, I don't believe the fire-proofing failed. Rather --the fire-proofing succeeded. The fires were in fact spent when the towers collapsed due to some other cause, like, say, controlled demolition.In fact, some of the experts cited by the NIST refute the NIST's own conclusions:
      Thomas Eagar, an MIT professor of materials engineering who supports the official theory, says that the impact of the airplanes would not have been significant, because “the number of columns lost on the initial impact was not large and the loads were shifted to remaining columns in this highly redundant structure”

      NIST, Eagar and Musso, 2001, pp. 8-11 .
      Professor Astaneh-Asl of University of California summed it up: 'The impact [of the plane] did nothing to this building.’ [Original source:CNN News, Oct 5, 2001']. Simply --if the steel columns did not melt, then there was no collapse. If there was no collapse as a result of fire or crash damage, then the collapse of the Twin Towers was a controlled demolition, pure and simple. 'Fireproofing' is a red herring dependent upon the failure of the American school system to teach elementary science. It is on this point that we find evidence of deliberate omissions, if not outright lies, on the part of the NIST.
      Mister Sunder might soon find himself in even greater trouble, to be precise, amidst a revision of NIST`s report explaining the collapse of the Twins. Reasons for reconsideration of this report were given by an anonymous person this year, sharing a part of the original WTC complex blueprints with the public. These blueprints reveal that NIST`s report has covered up, hidden and/or altered information linked with construction features of the collapsed buildings in order to make their theory even more probable.

      “Popular Mechanics” stands apart from sources that are often quoted in favor of the “official conspiracy”, which a part of the American public refers to, in spite of an obvious fact that this is a well field that shows not so probable working hypothesis as irrefutable and acknowledged scientific evidence/facts. Wikipedia does the exact same thing (to be precise, a tiny group of zealous Wiki authors), taking for granted the debris and fire hypothesis, regardless of the fact text authors argue about it, and they have been harshly arguing for years now.

      Controlled implosion

      In 2006, on Dutch TV, a show was screened in which an explosives expert Danny Jowenko confirms what everyone who saw the building number 7 implosion saw with their own eyes. Without knowing that it is a skyscraper that collapsed on September 11, Jowenko was asked to give his expert opinion. You can see his honest assessment here.
      We have come to an irrefutable fact; WTC 7 was overthrown by a controlled implosion. The building disappeared in a free fall, in only 6.5 seconds. It is extremely easy to find details linked with this “most probable of hypotheses” online. The only problem is that an honest answer opens a whole lot of new, equally honest, very serious and extremely worrying questions that deserve a new and truly independent inquest of events that occurred on September 11, an inquest that will reveal the actual perpetrators of the greatest crime of modern history.

      --Javno World, WTC 7 Defying the Laws of Physics
    4. There is not a shred of evidence to support Bush's official conspiracy theory of 911.
    5. As FBI Director Robert Mueller had said, there is no evidence to connect the 'said' 19 'hijackers' with the events of 911. Indeed, many of the 'hijackers' were interviewed by the BBC after they were said to have died in the attacks.

      Those who assert must prove. Bush asserted a theory in which the 19 hijackers crashed US buildings all died. Show me the bodies! Show me a valid and verifiable autopsy report. There are, in fact, NO arab names on the 'official' autopsy report. While there is no verifiable evidence to support the absurd Bush version of this capital crime of mass murder, there is, however, probable cause to indict George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleeza Rice for the crimes of mass murder and treason. Let Cheney give his side of the story --under oath --to a federal grand jury!
    6. Bush Lied to the American People about the motives of alleged 9/11 Terrorists' Bush has never told the truth about 911. It is to be expected that Bush/Cheney designs on middle east oil are opposed. It is middle eastern oil; it is not the property of the US. It's their oil, their resources, their nation --not ours! When Bush expects you to believe bullshit like "...they jest hate ire freedoms!" he insults your intelligence. Are you willing to be fooled by a dumb fuck who has trouble walking while chewing gum?

      If, indeed, 'terrorists' hated us for our Democratic institutions, they have won! Thanks to Bush, free elections free of fraud, habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, due process of law guaranteed us in the Constitution are no longer operative, rescinded by Bush with fraud, decrees and/or unconstitutional signing statements. Bush has accomplished what no 'terrorist' could have ever done. He has destroyed 'our freedoms' which Bush says the terrorists 'hated'!
    Bush's opposition to the creation of the 911 Commission, his orders to destroy evidence at the Pentagon and at 'ground zero', his interference with the 911 Commission, his ongoing cover up are not the actions of an innocent man. Had Bush wanted the truth out, he would have supported a complete, fair, and impartial investigation. There are no hijacker names on the pathologists report released in response to an FOIA request. There is, therefore, no evidence that Hanjour's remains were autopsied, no evidence that his remains were recovered or buried in Arlington National Cemetary. More to the point, there is absolutely no evidence that Hani Hanjour was at any time on any flight connected with 911. The Washington Post even reported that Hanjour was not on Flight 77 because he did not have a ticket. It's hard to imagine skinny Hanjour forcing his way on board and having done so, taking over the controls with force and a boxcutter!
A 757 airliner is a civilian craft, not a nuclear powered craft. It does not carry a nuclear war head or hardened nose cone. Had a 757 crashed the Pentagon there would have been no need to order decontamination procedures. No such procedures were carried out in New York, but were carried out at the Pentagon. Clearly, 'officials' knew at the time that a civilian airliner had not crashed the Pentagon. The only scenario that fully explains the necessity of decontamination procedures is that of a military craft crashing into the Pentagon. It is my belief that that is what happened in fact. Don't try to tell me that such procedures are just routine. They were not routine in New York and were not carried out!

A set of related facts are explained by 'theories' which must, of necessity, explain every relevant fact. Theories inconsistent with proven facts must be discarded as false. Bush's theory explains nothing and is inconsistent with established science. By contrast, a technology called 'Global Hawk may very well explain the seemingly inexplicable events of 911 and, at the same time, point an accusing finger.
The Global Hawk is operated by remote control. The US, in fact, outfitted an aircraft with Global Hawk technology and flew it without a pilot from California to Australia by remote control. No Arab hijackers were required! The Global Hawk, moreover, would have had no problems with the maneuver credited to Hanjour but which experienced pilots say is impossible in a 757.
It's not enough that the Bush administration actively covered up evidence even as it sought to quash every investigation of 911, Bush and Condoleeza Rice would lie about the event after the fact, specifically, both Bush and Condo stated that the crashing of airliners into buildings could not have been foreseen, were not foreseen. [Bush: No evidence that US could avoid 9/11] Bush lied! And so did Condo Rice:
Today's Sydney Morning Herald prints an extract from Shenon's book which provides further details about Rice's incompetence. "Emails from the National Security Council's counter-terrorism director, Richard Clarke, showed that he had bombarded Rice with messages about terrorist threats" before 9/11, Shenon writes.
In fact, just such a 'scenario' was the basis for security when Bush attended the G8 Summit in Italy, July 23, 2001 [See: "Italy: Bush Targeted at G8." New York Newsday 19 Sept 2001, unsigned; "Extremists 'Planned Genoa Attack on Bush'", BBC News, 27 Sept 2001]. Secondly, Dick Cheney supervised precisely that scenario on the very day that it happened in fact --a highly improbable coincidence' that would repeat later in Britain on 7/7. Cheney supervised what are called 'exercises' within a bunker --the Presidential Emergency Operations Center --located under the White House. There is damning testimony against Cheney from former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta who contradicts 9/11 Commission Report's Account of Dick Cheney's timetable.

The Probable Cause to Charge Dick Cheney With Mass Murder, Terrorism, and High Treason

That's not all. Cheney had already been put in charge of a 'domestic terrorism study group' [See: 911 Coincidences], a clever cover from which to commit high treason and mass murder.

Since those events, the Bush administration has worked overtly, assiduously to quash and interfere with every effort to investigate fully the events of 911.
# Scot J. Paltrow, "Government Accounts of 9/11 Reveal Gaps, Inconsistencies. Questions Arise About Who Put Nation on High Alert; A Threat to Air Force One? Panel Assembles Timeline," --Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2004.

Condoleezza Rice, "9/11: For The Record," Washington Times, March 22, 2004: "Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack airplanes to try to free US-held terrorists." Also see "Promoting Icon Condi" in the August 4, 2003, Daily Howler.

--National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States - SourceWatch
Rice's statements were bald faced lies and only the guilty try to cover up their crimes.
If the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated or at least deliberately allowed by the Bush- Cheney administration and the Pentagon, then the motivation to cover up this murderous and treasonous act would be unlimited. No expenditure of time and money would be considered too great."
--Professor David Ray Griffin [4], The True Story of 9/11: Part IV
Our 'government' thus declared war on the people of the United States and wages it! As Che would have put it: the peace is already considered to be broken. Thomas Jefferson would have already declared 'our' independence of a cabal that has, in effect, already destroyed the 'legitimate' government of the United States.
Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

--Article III, US Constitution
The word treason covers the more egregious acts of betrayal or disloyalty to a sovereign or nation. Under the US Constitution and, in Britain by common law, sovereignty resides with the people themselves. What had been called the "United States" no longer exists. It was, in fact, overthrown in Bush's coup d'etat, and since that time systematically subverted and dismantled by Bush and his gang of treasonous usurpers. Accomplices who must certainly stand trial with Bush and Cheney will include Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, and various Pentagon brass.