I've been comparing Dubya to Nero. That is not correct. I should have
been compairing him to Caligula - Bush Sr compares favorably to
Claudius, and Jeb will play the role of Nero. Sorry for the
innaccuracies.
May 13, 2005
The Sleazy World of Jeb Bush
Miami Vice
By CHRIS FLOYD
The next president of the United States was on the road last week,
throwing red meat about "moral issues" to a baying crowd of Bushist
Party faithful while simultaneously trying to cut off medical support
for a six-year-old girl his agents had previously tried to kill.
Yes, it was Jeb Bush, governor of the ruling family's Florida
dominions, pounding the pulpit, er, podium at a Republican conclave in
Georgia. Jeb told the flock that the party must stand for "absolute
truth" something previously associated with religious cults if they
want to maintain their "ascendancy" over the nation, Associated Press
reports. "There is such a thing as right and wrong," he declared.
Whipped into a frenzy by this blazing revelation, the crowd responded
with cries for Bush to ascend to his brother's throne in 2008.
But even as Jeb basked in the bootlicking adulation, his peculiar
sense of "right and wrong" was on vivid display in a Florida
courtroom. There, his minions are fighting to stop state aid for young
Marissa Amora four years after they sought a court order to let her
die following a savage beating, the Palm Beach Post reports. What's
more, these same minions the Department of Children and Families could
have prevented the beating, which left Marissa permanently disabled.
In late 2000, as Jeb was ensuring the "ascendancy" of his brother by
among many other tricks deliberately slashing thousands of eligible
African-American voters from the rolls, Marissa was hospitalized for a
month. Doctors and nurses saw telltale signs of past beatings and
witnessed her neglectful mother abusing her in the hospital. They
pleaded for DCF to intervene. But the agency perhaps mindful of Jeb's
fierce public championing of "family values" declined to step in.
Then came the inevitable: a few weeks later, Marissa was back in the
hospital, beaten nearly to death, with severe injuries to her brain
and liver and several broken bones. Now the DCF took an interest: they
rushed to court to obtain a "Do Not Resuscitate" order for the mangled
two-year-old. For God's sake, don't let her live, the DCF told
Marisa's doctors, because she might "potentially" be left "in a
vegetative state."
But the doctors disagreed with the Bushists' expert diagnosis. And so
Marissa is still alive today brain-damaged, crippled, fed through a
stomach tube, but alert, talkative, happy, with a new foster mother.
Indeed, she would seem to be a shining example of the "culture of
life" that we hear so much about these days from certain
pulpit-pounding politicians. But to Jeb and the DCF, she's just a
"useless eater," a budgetary burden, a mistake to be flushed away.
Without state aid, her new family will sink beneath the staggering
cost of Marissa's treatment and the decent life that she's clawed back
from the hellhole Jeb left her in years ago will wither on the vine.
'Tis passing strange. After all, this is the same agency the same
governor that just fought all the way to the Supreme Court to keep the
long brain-dead Teri Schiavo existing in a very real "vegetative
state." Jeb even found himself lauded on the front page of the New
York Times for "cementing his political stature" in the case, with his
maneuvers "rooted" in a "deeply-held" religious faith "rather than in
political posturing." Yet he was perfectly willing even eager to pull
the plug on Marissa Amora, and is still trying to destroy her life.
How can this be? For one who lives solely by the "absolute truth,"
what could possibly be the difference between a crippled, abused,
neglected little black girl with no money or connections, and a nice
white woman whose case was promoted world-wide by the maniacal,
filthy-rich extremist factions that form the base of his brother's
"ascendancy"? Since we know from the highest authority that Jeb would
never stoop to mere "political posturing," the apparent hideous
hypocrisy in his behavior must forever remain an ineffable mystery,
like the Trinity, or the 2000 Florida election results.
But then, Jeb has always been the most mysterious of the Kennebunkport
Klan. Like the two Georges, he trawled murky waters indeed to make his
fortune. One of his business partners, Camilo Padrera, was indicted
for drug-dealing, gun-running and embezzlement; but the charges were
dropped when the Bush family firm the CIA told the FBI that Padrera
was their man, fronting covert ops. Padrera then worked Jeb's
Washington contacts to steal millions of federal dollars intended to
provide housing for the poor. He was convicted of fraud in 1989.
Jeb then hooked up with Miguel Recarey, an associate of Miami mob boss
Santo Trafficante Jr., Mother Jones reports. Federal investigators
called Recarey's company, IMC, "a criminal enterprise interlaced with
intelligence operations." It was in fact yet another front, this time
for the Reagan-Bush gang's illegal terrorist war in Nicaragua. Recarey
also milked Jeb's Washington connections, diverting millions of
Medicare dollars intended for needy patients into the IMF-CIA slush
fund. Recarey later fled the country to avoid fraud charges.
In yet another scam, Jeb and a partner used a frontman to wangle a
$4.5 million federal loan to buy an office building. When their shill
went belly-up, Daddy's federal government obligingly revalued the
prime Miami real estate at $500,000. Jeb and pal coughed up that chump
change --and kept the building for themselves: $4 million of pure
gravy.
Now with just one more step, this mobbed-up, money-grubbing absolutist
will have the whole world in his hands. "Right and wrong" mean nothing
to such big-time operators; power is their only truth, their only god.
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