Meet the Republican Who Will Challenge Bush
by
Paul Krassner

    Although the facts about the Bush-family/Nazi connections have been whirling around in cyberspace for the past few years, a 33-year veteran reporter named John Buchanan first broke the story in print. And now, he'll be running against George W. in the New Hampshire Republican primary on January 27, 2004.
    In January 2003, Buchanan got involved in the anti-Iraq-war movement and started researching the war profiteering of the Bush administration by way of such companies as the Carlyle Group, Engineered Support Systems, Bio-Port, Halliburton, Bechtel, Wackenhut - the Bush-Cheney cabal - which ultimately led to a screenplay called Project Clear-Vision, taken from the name of an actual CIA anthrax-biowarfare project that violated an international treaty Richard Nixon signed in 1972.
    "The plot of the script," he told me, "was that the German principals of Bayer AG, which came out of I.G. Farben after WW II, blackmailed Daddy Bush with the 'Nazi past' of the family into allowing the anthrax letters to happen so Cipro sales could save Bayer US from bankruptcy. I got a really hot-shot young Turk agent in Hollywood who told me on September 2 that he could get a lot of money for the script if I could 'prove' the Nazi past as a journalist and publish the documentation. So, technically speaking, motivated more by sheer greed than patriotism, I set out to sell a movie script for millions of dollars by landing a huge scoop."
    He spent a few days at the National Archives and the Library of Congress, where he found "smoking gun" information in the personal papers of Averell Harriman, only to learn that the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, CNN - even his hometown paper, the Miami Herald - all refused to acknowledge the documentation of his historic discovery. He ended up in the fortnightly New Hampshire Gazette, the oldest paper in America, founded in 1756. After his first article appeared in the Gazette on Friday, October 10, more than 60 Web sites around the globe picked up the story over that first weekend.
      The Internet postings generated hundreds of e-mails and phone calls, including Associated Press. AP Washington reporter Jonathan Salant went to the archives under Buchanan's direction and reconfirmed the documents, but then, in Buchanan's words, "misreported them in a watered down, inexplicably erroneous story that ran all over the world the weekend of October 17-19" - in the Moscow Times, the (London) Guardian, Hindustan Times, Sydney Morning Herald, the Jerusalem Post and, in the U.S., Newsday, Washington Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Kansas City Star, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, among others.
    "Meanwhile," says Buchanan, "the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC and CNN, not to mention the Miami Herald (whose official response to the AP story was to send the police to my apartment as a 'suspected terrorist sympathizer') stonewalled and still refused to look at the documents. After that, Joe Conason - to everyone's shock - wrote a column in the New York Observer in which he dismissed my story as a 'smear' against George W. Bush. That set off a backlash that culminated in a Sunday Doonesbury 'Bush-Nazi?' cartoon that turned the scoop into pop culture. Finally, presidential historian and Daddy Bush official biographer Herbert Parmet came to my rescue in November 2003 with a major essay at the History News Network at George Mason University."
    I asked Buchanan how his decision to run for president came about.
    "It wasn't my decision. My own friends and peers would have laughed - as they did. Nevertheless, I was literally drafted by a living legend - John McConnell, the 88-year-old founder of Earth Day, whose friends included 33 Nobel laureates and former UN Secretary General U Thant. McConnell called me on October 13 after he read my first Gazette article online, and told me he thought I was 'the kind of person who can change the world.' I didn't even know who he was in that first call, which lasted over an hour. Then, after I found out who he was, we talked some more and agreed to form a new political party based on a policy of peace, justice and care of the planet.
    "A week later, as I was writing a platform, a group that included a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent and a Muslim author agreed that I should run - but as a 'Republican,' head-on against Bush, as 'the truth candidate.' I agreed, on the condition that I would not be a politician, but a working journalist whose ideas and claims have grown out of a long career of writing about government, politics, business, the arts - you name it. So, I have a unique perspective, in that I have nothing to lose and only have one responsibility, which is to tell the truth in response to every question I get."
    His platform is Quixotically idealistic: (1) End the corporate reign in this country by getting corporations out of politics and government entirely; (2) end war profiteering by former government officials and Washington insiders, which leads to billions of dollars in secret profits that are banked offshore, without scrutiny; (3) reform the media. His campaign manager is David Kubiak, a Democrat who won the New Hampshire primary for vice president in 2000.
    "Even though you'll be running as a Republican," I said, "and it's a given that you won't win, do you expect, ironically enough, to help the Democrats defeat Bush by exposing his lies?"
    "I submit that, based on the unreported facts, he is guilty of treason because of the sinister and long-standing relationship he and his family have with the Saudis and the bin Laden family, both via the Carlyle Group and prior to that via Bush's Texas oil ventures in the '70s. I am running for president as a grand experiment to see whether the truth matters any more in this country - and whether we can deal with it if it can be gotten out for open debate in a presidential election cycle.
    "I am going to focus on 9/11 and how Bush & Co. have exploited it purely for financial gain - and name the businesses and what they've made to date. We are talking in the billions of dollars being skimmed off by insiders like Halliburton. I will show that. I will raise the serious issue of unanswered questions about 9/11 and the ongoing cover-up. I am now supported by Ellen Mariani, the 9/11 widow who is suing Bush under the RICO statute.
    "My question now is, 'Can a common citizen, armed with the truth and good ideas, get any attention at all in a presidential primary without the traditional political advantages of money and organization?' To put it mildly, it is a journey into unknown territory. I intend to fight like a son-of-a-bitch to win. That means getting 10% of the vote in New Hampshire, which earns me one delegate. Then I'll go to the Republican Convention and try to shut it down, aided by some surprising and well-organized institutional supporters.
    "The real reason I'm running is to raise the question, 'Who owns the government, them (the white corporate elite) or us (we the people)?' If it is us, then we face a big challenge in terms of demonstrating that peacefully and legally under the Constitution. If it's 'them,' then we should face up to that and accept the consequences. The real question, of course, is do people even really care at this point, having been lulled into silence (and a failure to even vote) by their material comforts?"
    Buchanan is getting on ballots in other states, including Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Texas. At the College Convention in New Hampshire on January 7, he received a major ovation and is now considered the front runner of the fringe candidates.
 
 

Paul Krassner can be reached at www.paulkrassner.com

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     "Our own freedom and growth have never been the final goal of the American dream. We were never meant to be an oasis of liberty and abundance in a worldwide desert of disappointed dreams. Our Nation was created to help strike away the chains of ignorance and misery and tyranny wherever they keep man less than God means him to be...
   "We are committed to help those seeking to strengthen their own independence, and to work most closely with those governments dedicated to the welfare of all of their people. We seek not fidelity to an iron faith, but a diversity of belief as varied as man himself. We seek not to extend the power of America but the progress of humanity. We seek not to dominate others but to strengthen the freedom of all people...
    "For ourselves we seek neither praise nor blame, neither gratitude nor obedience. We seek peace. We seek freedom. We seek to enrich the life of man. For that is the world in which we will flourish and that is the world that we mean for all men to ultimately have.
    "We do not intend to live in the midst of abundance, isolated from neighbors and nature, confined by blighted cities and bleak suburbs, stunted by a poverty of learning and an emptiness of leisure.
   "This kind of society will not flower spontaneously from swelling riches and surging power. I propose that we begin a program in education to ensure every American child the fullest development of his mind and skills.
    "I propose that we begin a massive attack on crippling and killing diseases. I propose that we launch a national effort to make the American city a better and a more stimulating place to live. I propose that we increase the beauty of America and end the poisoning of our rivers and the air that we breathe. I propose that we carry out a new program to develop regions of our country that are now suffering from distress and depression. I propose that we make new efforts to control and prevent crime and delinquency. I propose that we eliminate every remaining obstacle to the right and the opportunity to vote. I propose that we honor and support the achievements of thought and the creations of art. I propose that we make an all-out campaign against waste and inefficiency.
    "A President does not shape a new and personal vision of America. He collects it from the scattered hopes of the American past. It existed when the first settlers saw the coast of a new world, and when the first pioneers moved westward. It has guided us every step of the way."
- Lyndon Johnson: State of the Union speech, 1965 -

John Buchanan is running against Bush as a Republican candidate in New Hampshire. Aside from "An End to the 9/11 Cover-Up" and "Restoration of America's Freedom, Security and Democracy," Buchanan has chosen me as his Drug Czar - so vote for him or I'll cut off your Darvon supply.
 

Fake Ad of the Week

Quiz of the Week

Whose God is More Vicious? Is it the fictional Moslem god called "Allah" or the real Christian God of the Holy Bible? 

a) Poke yourself in the eye with a fork.
b) Check out Madonna's entire book Sex online.

It's not an MP3, it's in Real Audio, it's Willie Nelson's new song done at a Dennis Kucinich rally, and don't call me a hippie or I'll call you a crook.

       "Only one person in the entire world has been convicted of anything connected to the attacks of 9/11. Very few people have ever heard of Mounir el-Motassadeq who was arrested in Germany in November 2001 and, according to a December 16 Wall Street Journal report, convicted this year as an accessory to 3,066 murders. His conviction is about to be overturned solely as a result of the failure of a related German prosecution. That case failed recently because the US refused to produce a key witness who might have offered exonerating testimony, Ramzi bin al-Shibh.
   "Bin al-Shibh, reportedly captured in Pakistan a year to the day after the attacks, has been elevated to the status of principal planner in the 9/11 legend. Like one of the other alleged key planners, Khalid Shaikh Muhammad (KSM), he has yet to make a single public appearance while reams of convenient confessions from him and KSM are released by the US government to support its insupportable version of events. Bin al-Shibh is reportedly being held at Guantanamo, outside the reach of media, lawyers and the Constitution. The credibility risk to the US government, as it spins a tangled web of conflicting data, is that at some point, in order to maintain any credibility at all, it will have to produce real and verifiable statements from those it holds in custody. It must produce the witnesses themselves, and in the flesh."
- Michael C. Ruppert: 2004 -- The Year of the Law and of Living Dangerously -

You're far more likely to choke on a piece of steak than get Mad Cow disease.

ABC news pulled its reporter off the Kucinich campaign after he pissed off Ted Koppel during the presidential debate.

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said God has told him President Bush will be re-elected in a landslide in November. God, busy fixing the Oscar race for Best Actress this year, was unavailable for comment. 

Federal Racketeering charges have been filed against Bush, Ashcroft and Health Secretary Thompson for violating their oath of office, failing to uphold the Constitution, and engaging in acts of treason.
 

"Ever thought about holding your breath and swimming under water for hours at a stretch like a whale? Or sprinting like a cheetah for 12 minutes, without breathing even once! Its no Sci-fi movie script or dream. The concept is very much real and might come true some day in the future. Scripted by scientists, Robert A. Freitas and Christopher J. Phoenix, it involves changing the very essence of life - replacing the blood coursing through your arteries and veins with over 500 trillion oxygen and nutrients carrying nanobots."
- Benoy George: Nanobots For You -

"We're standing on the threshold of a liberating and exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man's consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the universe." 
- Marshall McLuhan -

"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up."
- Henry David Thoreau: Walden -

"[R]eligious freedom should be universal as a fundamental part of American policy. Currently, our policy is to use military force on some bad guys -- and reward other bad guys with our money and business even when they are doing the same nasty things. Saddam kills or locks up Shiite Muslim leaders and that's NOT OK. Viet leaders kill or lock up Buddhist leaders and that IS OK. What kind of message does that send -- Asians are not as important as repressed Arabs/Iraqis? Crime pays as long as you give us the business?"
- Michael Fjetland -

"Be unremitting in the doing of good deeds. Do them with all your might and by every possible means."
- Tirukkural 4:33-34 -

"A gaffe in Washington is when you tell the truth and the Washington establishment thinks you shouldn't have."
- Howard Dean -

"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
- John F. Kennedy: Nov. 12, 1963 -

    "French irritation over US controls on transatlantic flights was reinforced yesterday when the interior ministry revealed that American intelligence based its suspicions on passengers' surnames only.  This led to a child with a name similar to a Tunisian terrorist, a Welsh insurance agent and an elderly Chinese woman restaurant owner being questioned by counter-terrorist police when several flights from Paris to the US were canceled shortly before Christmas.
    "Three other 'suspects' who were questioned were French citizens with Arab-sounding names.
    "All the suspects' names, supplied by the US, were found merely to be homonyms - similar in sound or spelling to those of wanted al-Qaida activists."
- Paul Webster and Owen Bowcott: Terror suspect turned out to be a Welsh insurance agent -

     "Nine months after the demise of Saddam Hussein's regime and his feared mukhabarat (intelligence) operatives, Iraq is to get a secret police force again - courtesy of Washington.
    "The Bush administration is to fund the new agency in the latest initiative to root out Ba'athist regime loyalists behind the continuing insurgency in parts of Iraq.
    "The force will cost up to $3 billion (1.8 billion) over the next three years in money allocated from the same part of the federal budget that finances the Central Intelligence Agency.
    "Former CIA officials compare the operation to the Phoenix programme in Vietnam, which was launched in 1967. That programme sought to destroy the civilian infrastructure supporting the Vietcong through assassinations and abductions secretly authorized by Washington."
- Julian Coman: CIA plans new secret police to fight Iraq terrorism -

"The families of senior Iraqis captured by the US since the fall of Saddam have complained that their relatives had been wrongly identified as important regime members and that some had been tortured in custody." 
- Families dispute ID of 'most wanted' -

"The early worm gets eaten by the bird."
- Xarvon, Alien Investigator -

    "The Southern Solstice has passed, and with it the deadline for 9/11 families to file their claims with the 'Feinberg Fund,' as it has come to be known. Of an official death toll of 2976, claims have been filed by for 2,851. The claim involves signing off on any future litigation against the government, the airlines, the airports or any security firms.
    "One hundred and twenty-five claims remain outstanding, but little has been written about any of these families. Where is the coverage of those insisting on finding out what really happened on that day before they sign away their 'claims?'" 
- Nine hundred and Eleven Missing Pieces  What don't we know, and why dont we know it? -

    "Washington's hawks have sent a public manifesto to President George Bush demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style military blockade of North Korea backed by planning for a pre-emptive strike on its nuclear sites.
    "The manifesto, which was sent on Tuesday, is presented as a 'manual for victory' in the war on terrorism. It also calls for Saudi Arabia and France to be treated not as allies but as rivals and possibly enemies."
- David Rennie: Hawks demand an end to all evil, and maybe France, too -

    "What is national security? This Administration defines national security as sending our young men and women around the world to wage war on country after country--none of them strong enough to threaten us. I define national security as making sure every American has health care, employment, decent housing, a clean environment. I define national security as taking care of our people who are losing jobs, taking care of our senior citizens, taking care of our children.
    "Our current military budget is $400 billion a year, the largest in our history, larger even than when we were in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. And now we will be spending an additional $87 billion for the war in Iraq. At the same time, we are told that the government has cut funds for health care, education, the environment, and even school lunches for children. Most shocking of all is the cut, in billions of dollars, for veterans' benefits.
    "If I became President, I would immediately begin to use the great wealth of our nation to provide those things, which represent true security."
- Howard Zinn: The Logic of Withdrawal (imaginary speech for whichever candidate emerges as Democratic Party nominee for President)-

"What could ultimately be one of the final battles to expose the fraud of the federal income tax is scheduled to commence Monday morning in Fort Worth when Bedford Texas business owner Dick Simkanin goes on trial for a second time, facing 35 counts of federal tax related charges. His first trial in November ended in a mistrial when the jurors voted 11-1 to acquit him of failing to withhold employment taxes from his employees' paychecks."
- Titanic Tax Trial Begins Monday -

"The Bush administration's total disregard for international law and treaties has put us on a perilous path. Clinton's agreement with North Korea ended their nuclear weapons program in exchange for access to oil. After Bush cut their oil supply and started his axis of evil rhetoric, North Korea resumed developing nukes and warned that they, too, can use preemptive attacks against perceived enemies, just like Bush's lawless attack of Iraq."
- Thomas P. Krise: Bush leads U.S. to dark ages -

    "Last year, the Congress of the United States violated the First Amendment to the Constitution by passing the 'McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act.' Within that law is a provision making it unlawful for individual citizens to purchase television and radio advertising within 60 days of a federal election. The only persons allowed to make such purchases are candidates for office. 
    "Such a restriction upon free speech is a clear violation of the First Amendment prohibition forbidding the government from 'abrading the freedom of speech.' Each member of Congress who voted for this law, violated his Oath of Office under 5 U.S.C. 3331 to 'support the Constitution.'
    "By enacting this law, the incumbents in Congress assured they would no longer have to answer for their voting records because 'issue-advocacy ads' and 'voting record ads' cannot be run by those wishing to shed light on what the rascals have been up to.
   "President George W. Bush, violated the Constitution and his Oath of Office  under Article II Section I of the Constitution by signing this Bill into law."
- Hal Turner: Overthrowing the United States Federal Government: Sadly, an Idea Whose Time Has Come - 

"The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than that to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for a worse, unless the people have sense, spirit, and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against tyranny; against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many." 
- John Adams, Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787 -

"Don't get agitated! Agitate!" 
- Pip Wilson -

"Hatred can be the greatest stumbling block to the development of compassion and happiness. If you can learn to develop patience and tolerance towards your enemies, then everything becomes much easier your compassion towards all others begins to flow naturally."
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama -

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein -

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