[Note]: Inflammatory Diary title changed. - MB.
She's lost ten in a row, and the numbers have been brutal. It's time for Hillary to stand down, for the good of the nation. A quick trip through history will explain why.
Fifty years ago, the main domestic problem America faced was La Costa Nostra:
The same pattern of organized crime found in large metropolitan areas exists in the medium-size cities with similar evidence of official sanction or protection. In some cases the protection is obtained by the payment of bribes to public officials, often on a regular basis pursuant to a carefully conceived system. In other cases, the racketeering ele- ments make substantial contributions to political campaigns of officials who can be relied upon to tolerate their activities. Sometimes these contributions will support a whole slate of officers in more than one political party, giving the racketeers virtual control of the governing body. Democracy vanishes in a captive community because the ordinary citizen for practical purposes has nothing to say about his Government. In many cities, large and small, there is evidence of active and often controlling participation by former bootleggers, gangsters, and hoodlums in the political affairs of the community.
Report, U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce (the "Kefauver Committee"), Aug 31, 1951.
The Mafia model demonstrated that, if you control the judicial and prosecutorial arms of government, you control the government. The Bush syndicate has elevated this to an art form. Appointing judges with bizarre personal peccadilloes (such as cross-dressing closet bisexual Judge Robert Somma, ’Ryan Johnson, Judge Quits After DUI Bust: Fed Jurist Reportedly in Drag When Stopped, BostonHerald.com, Feb. 16, 2008, and our sexually libertine Judge Edward Nottingham, See, Fernando Quintero, Judge's Ex-Wife Told Not To Talk: FBI Wants Silence On His Alleged Visits To Site With Porn Links, Rocky Mountain News, Aug. 14, 2007, reprinted at knowyourcourts.com (Adult Friend Finder is a "swingers’" site -- where extramarital encounters are arranged)), that the regime obtains exclusive knowledge of through extensive background checks and illegal surveillance of Internet activity, is an effective way of ensuring fealty to the regime. Think about it: How many judges would like their wives to know things like that, much less, the litigants who appear before them?
With judges and prosecutors in their pockets, the Bush syndicate can strike out at anyone who doesn't play ball. For example, former Qwest CEO Joseph P. Nacchio claimed that "the NSA approached Qwest more than six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks ... [suggesting] that the Bush administration was seeking to enlist telecommunications firms in programs without court oversight before the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon." When Macho Nacchio refused to play ball, the Bush syndicate proceeded to make refried beans of him. Carrie Johnson, Nacchio Guilty of Insider Trading: Former Qwest Chief to Appeal, Washington Post, Apr. 20, 2007 at D-1.
Glenn Greenwald explains the FISA gold rush:
The cooperation between the various military/intelligence branches of the Federal Gov- ernment -- particularly the Pentagon and the NSA -- and the private telecommunications corporations is extraordinary and endless. They really are, in every respect, virtually indistinguishable. The Federal Government has its hands dug deeply into the entire ostensibly "private" telecommunications infrastructure and, in return, the nation's tele- coms are recipients of enormous amounts of revenues by virtue of turning themselves into branches of the Federal Government.
There simply is no separation between these corporations and the military and intelli- gence agencies of the Federal Government. They meet and plan and agree so frequently, and at such high levels, that they practically form a consortium. Just in Nacchio's limited and redacted disclosures, there are descriptions of numerous pre-9/11 meetings between the largest telecoms and multiple Bush national security officials, including Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden and counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke.
The top telecom officials are devoting substantial amounts of their energy to working on highly classified telecom projects with the Bush administration, including projects to develop whole new joint networks and ensure unfettered governmental access to those networks. Before joining the administration as its Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell spearheaded the efforts on behalf of telecoms to massively increase the cooperation between the Federal Government and the telecom industry.
The private/public distinction here has eroded almost completely. There is no governmental oversight or regulation of these companies. Quite the contrary, they work in secret and in tandem -- as one consortium -- with no oversight at all.
And contrary to the indescribably moronic claim by Fred Hiatt yesterday that telecoms were acting as "patriotic corporate citizens" when they turned over to the Bush admini- stration full access to their customers's calls and other data, the Nacchio documents leave no doubt that these telecoms were viciously competing with one another for the right to cooperate with the Federal Government -- long before 9/11 -- because they were hungry for the multi-billion dollar contracts for this work.
Glenn Greenwald, Telecom amnesty would forever foreclose investigation of vital issues, Salon, Oct. 15, 2007.
Would Nacchio have been prosecuted, had he had the good sense to join forces with the Syndicate? Probably not. We all know how well inside trader George Bush and little brother Neil were treated by the federales. And guess who presided over Nacchio's trial? That's right: None other than Judge Naughty-Ham. Surprise, surprise!
As Jim "Riddler" Carrey said in a Batman movie, "If knowledge is power, than a god am I." With control of the oil rackets and access to virtually everything you say and do, Bandar Bush and the gang have a complete stranglehold on the Republic. Elections are easy to fix. The corporate media locks out inves- tigative journalism, as they owe their oligopolistic power to friendly relations with the Bush syndicate. And even though it appeared to all that he was dead in the water, John McCain suddenly arose like a phoenix from Phoenix. They have anointed their next figurehead.
If McCain is elected, the greatest train robbery in history will have been successfully accomplished: a trillion dollars or more, lifted from the wallets of average Americans. And indeed, our very liberty may well be threatened. We need an Attorney General who will follow the trail wherever it leads, and we will never get there if Hillary is allowed to tear the Party asunder on the altar of her insatiable blonde ambition.
John Edwards had enough grace and good sense to step aside for the good of the nation, because he understands that it's not only about him. I call on Hillary and her supporters to follow suit.