- 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 6-year-old girl his agents had previously tried to
kill.
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- 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, The 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 2-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."
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- 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.
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- 'Tis passing strange. After all, this is the same agency
-- and the same governor -- that just fought all the way to the Supreme
Court to keep the long-brain-dead Terri 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 "deep"
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.
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- 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 worldwide 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.
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- 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 Padreda, 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
Padreda was their man, fronting covert ops. Padreda 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 his pal coughed up that chump
change -- and kept the building for themselves, receiving $4 million of
pure gravy.
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- 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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