New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[seemslikeadream]

By TERESA HAMPTON
Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
Jun 17, 2004, 08:47


The carefully-crafted image of George W. Bush as a bold, decisive leader is cracking under the weight of new revelations that the erratic President is indecisive, moody, paranoid and delusional.
“More and more this brings back memories of the Nixon White House,” says retired political science professor George Harleigh, who worked for President Nixon during the second presidential term that ended in resignation under fire. “I haven’t heard any reports of President Bush wondering the halls talking to portraits of dead Presidents but what I have been told is disturbing.”

Two weeks ago, Capitol Hill Blue revealed that a growing number of White House aides are concerned about the President’s mental stability. They told harrowing tales of violent mood swings, bouts with paranoia and obscene outbursts from a President who wears his religion on his sleeve.

Although supporters of President Bush dismissed the reports as “fantasies from anonymous sources,” a new book by Dr. Justin Frank, director of psychiatry at George Washington University, raises many similar questions about the President’s mental stability.

"George W. Bush is a case study in contradiction," Dr. Frank writes in Bush On The Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. "Bush is an untreated ex-alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies."

more
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4704.shtml

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1. Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides

From Capitol Hill Blue

Bush Leagues
Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
By DOUG THOMPSON
Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue
Jun 4, 2004, 06:15



President George W. Bush’s increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader’s state of mind.

In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as “enemies of the state.”

Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home.

The President's abrupt dismissal of CIA Directory George Tenet Wednesday night is, aides say, an example of how he works.

"Tenet wanted to quit last year but the President got his back up and wouldn't hear of it," says an aide. "That would have been the opportune time to make a change, not in the middle of an election campaign but when the director challenged the President during the meeting Wednesday, the President cut him off by saying 'that's it George. I cannot abide disloyalty. I want your resignation and I want it now."

more
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_4636.shtml


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic...

[seemslikeadream]

4. From todays Talking Points Memo

I'm leaning towards this as being what Marshall is talking about

(http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com ):

You may have noticed a slight down-tick in the frequency of posts of late. And that’s for a few different reasons. But a principal one is that I and several colleagues have been working on a story that, if and when it comes to fruition --- and I’m confident it shall --- should shuffle the tectonic plates under that capital city where I normally hang my hat. So that’s something to look forward to in the not too distant future.

[KAZ]

7. Agree.

It seems about the only thing that would really "shuffle the tectonic plates".

[seemslikeadream]

12. The way Josh has been talking about Plame for so long

I don't think he would use those words to describe her. I believe he's known for some time that indictments for that were coming.

Unless he's on to the goods that nail bush for treason.

[lancdem]

19. You make a good point

The fact he's so cryptic makes me think it could be something he hasn't talked about before.

[KAZ]

22. Also, this is a topic on which he has not....

... released any "tidbits". He can't, unless he really nails it down.

[leftchick]

51. when I read Marshall's comments today....

The first thing I thought about was chimpy*s 2 pills a day and his coming breakdown when the indictments hit the fan. Great post seems!

:)

[seemslikeadream]

52. I really appreciate your comments leftchick

It's hard to live without the tinfoil, just like living dangerously I guess!

It took me 2 seconds after I read Josh to put the "takin'meds" at the top of my list.

[rawstory]

55. This 'SOURCE' is a joke

I honestly believe Capitol Hill Blue makes a lot of their shit up. And where -couldn't- you find a shrink who would call Bush delusional. Some of their stories have been very dubious in the past, and it's important we take these stories with a grain of salt -- I mean, lol, Bush -is- delusional, but I think a source like this actually takes credit away from that actual fact, reinforcing the idea of a 'biased' liberal press.

[Kimber Scott]

66. Thanks. That what I was thinking. Much as I believe the man's an idiot

I'd like to see Bob Woodward or Sy Hersch report this story. Then I'd be more inclined to believe it. Wish it were true. Wish it were true. Maybe it's true, but right now, I can only believe it as far as I believe the "Kerry flipping the bird at some nut at the Viet Nam Memorial" story.

[0007]

77. I don't think we need a weather man

to tell us which way the wind is blowing.

[JoFerret]

58. Old information says

impeach him now.

[11cents]

2. I googled "George Harleigh" recently

...since he was the only named source in a previous Capitol Hill Blue story. It seems that the only political science that this "retired political science professor" has committed involves being quoted in Capitol Hill Blue and related sites.

[seemslikeadream]

6. You know I could care less if he was a dog catcher.

Fascists are in control and whatever it takes. We are in a war and its not with terrorists. Playing nice nice will not cut it.

[Southsideirish]

16. Why do you want to debunk the Capital Hill Blue article?

[11cents]

24. Oh, because I'm a NEOCON MOLE of course

I'm pointing out that these Capitol Hill Blue articles have absolutely no traceable sources except for George Harleigh, and his "qualifications" appear to be a sham. There's an absolute glut of filth on the Bush regime available. What's bad for the cause is wasting our time on palpable garbage, not debunking said garbage.

[Emboldened Chimp]

31. It's a valid point you're making

if this were coming from what appears to be a more credible source, then that would make it more difficult for the administration to brush it aside.

[glitch]

35. could be a vaccine - release true info through disreputable sources

that way they can just say, with eyes rolling, 'oh that crank stuff, what are you a conspiracy theorist like (fill in name here)' if a credible source later proves it.
Think Jim Hatfield and why Karl Rove was one of his big sources.

[Jane Austin]

33. Deep Throat wasn't a traceable source, either

This territory is too dangerous for officials to be on the record.

If they are going to get their story out, they're going to have to use people like George Harleigh.

[bobthedrummer]

60. I'd put my money on Richard Ober as being Bob Woodward's Deep

Throat.:grr:

[alfredo]

20. Google it again

I found this:
http://www.dojgov.net/Surrender_to_Government.htm

In google: says
retired Southern Illinois University political scientist George Harleigh. .

there are other sites, most seem to cater to the tin foil hatters. Chances are he exists. I'd still like to find out more about him.

[11cents]

25. Yes, exactly

This George Harleigh only shows up on tin-foil sites. His supposed qualification is being a former political science professor at a second-rate university, but the only thing he's actually *done* is be quoted at these sites.

[alfredo]

26. you don't need the sites to tell you bush

is going down hill. Seeing him on TV tells all. He looks horrible.

[11cents]

28. I agree with this.

He looks awful and his public appearances are worse and worse. He's under stress and not handling it well. We don't need to be willing dupes to sites like Capitol Hill Blue and their phony "sources" to conclude this much.

[alfredo]

41. Molly Ivins said that

bush is not good on the defensive.

[seemslikeadream]

32. Do you want to talk about Dr. Justin Frank? Trash away!

Dr. Justin Frank, director of psychiatry at George Washington University

[Media_Lies_Daily]

69. I wouldn't call a university with 34,000 students and 32 PhD programs...

..."a second-rate university".

<http://www.siu.edu/hp/aboutsiu.html>

Excerpt:

"Southern Illinois University is a multicampus university comprising two institutions, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) with a School of Medicine at Springfield and a campus in Niigata, Japan, and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE) with a School of Dental Medicine at Alton and a center in East St. Louis. The University, with an annual operating budget of over $618 million, enrolls over 34,000 students in programs from two-year technical curricula to Ph.D. programs in 32 fields including law, medicine and dental medicine."

Oh, by the way, here's a quick snapshot of SIU's Carbondale Campus' Department of Political Science:

<http://www.siu.edu/departments/cola/polysci/index.htm>

Excerpt:

"Welcome to the homepage of the Department of Political Science at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Campus.

The Department offers Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Master of Public Administration, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

Currently, 16 full-time professors teach and research in the sub-fields of International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Theory, American Politics, Public Law, and Public Administration."

As far as George Harleigh himself, he is a retired Political Science professor, and here's a little surprise for you:

<http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4704.shtml>

Excerpt:

"'More and more this brings back memories of the Nixon White House,' says retired political science professor George Harleigh, who worked for President Nixon during the second presidential term that ended in resignation under fire. 'I haven’t heard any reports of President Bush wondering the halls talking to portraits of dead Presidents but what I have been told is disturbing.'"


11cents, the lesson to be learned here is to ALWAYS do your homework before you post.

[seemslikeadream]

72. and in 1968 THE party school in the country!

Giant City. Run the buffalo off the cliff. Where is Bucky?

[0007]

39. ....and your point is?

[Beetwasher]

3. These Guys Are Really Going After Bush On This Angle

and I like it a lot.

I take them w/ a grain of salt, but I still like that they're doing this!

[ewagner]

5. Mixed emotions here

While I still think an analysis of someone from only their public statemensts is suspect, I find this article by CHB interesting because, unlike other articles, the sources are named.

CHB seems to have picked up a theme and will probably continue to play it.

[Richardo]

8. Let me adjust those thumb-screws, Mr President...

...which way tightens again?

[fob]

14. righty-tighty,

lefty-loosey!!

[Richardo]

23. I thought it was "righty-mighty comfortable"

:evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. Hey! SLAD....Unknown News has all the "Bush is crazy" articles

on one convenient page....

http://www.unknownnews.net/insanity061704.html

[seemslikeadream]

11. Thanks so much

You know that saying actors have "just spell my name right", that's how I feel. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not but the hell those vicious Theonomic Reconstructionists put Bill Clinton through can not go unanswered.

[Just Me]

15. "Theonomic Reconstructionists" *LOL*,...that's great!!!! n/t

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40. Ahmanson: bagman for Christian Reconstructionist movement

Theonomic Reconstructionism BE AFRAID BE VERY AFRAID!

The touchscreen voting machines came right from them.


http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2003/09/19/120.html

Vanishing Act

It's a shell game, with money, companies and corporate brands switching in a blur of buyouts and bogus fronts. It's a sinkhole, where mobbed-up operators, paid-off public servants, crazed Christian fascists, CIA shadow-jobbers, war-pimping arms dealers -- and presidential family members -- lie down together in the slime. It's a hacker's dream, with pork-funded, half-finished, secretly programmed computer systems installed without basic security standards by politically partisan private firms, and protected by law from public scrutiny. It's how the United States, the "world's greatest democracy," casts its votes. And it's why George W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of the United States -- no matter what the people of the United States might want.

The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players -- Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia -- with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation, coming on strong. These companies -- all of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid -- have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to complete a sweeping computerization of voting machines nationwide by the 2004 election. These glitch-riddled systems -- many using "touch-screen" technology that leaves no paper trail at all -- are almost laughably open to manipulation, according to corporate whistleblowers and computer scientists at Stanford, Johns Hopkins and other universities.

-snip-

Who's behind these private companies? It's hard to tell: The corporate lines -- even the bloodlines -- of these "competitors" are so intricately mixed. For example, at Diebold -- whose corporate chief, Wally O'Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, has publicly committed himself to "delivering" his home state's votes to Bush next year -- the election division is run by Bob Urosevich. Bob's brother, Todd, is a top executive at "rival" ES&S. The brothers were originally staked in the vote-count business by Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing "steering group" stacked with Bushist faithful.

Ahmanson is also one of the bagmen behind the extremist "Christian Reconstructionist" movement, which openly advocates a theocratic takeover of American democracy, placing the entire society under the "dominion" of "Christ the King." This "dominion" includes the death penalty for homosexuals, exclusion of citizenship for non-Christians, stoning of sinners and -- we kid you not -- slavery, "one of the most beneficent of Biblical laws."

Ahmanson also has major holdings in ES&S, whose former CEO is Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. When Hagel ran for office, his own company counted the votes; needless to say, his initial victory was reported as "an amazing upset." Hagel still has a million-dollar stake in the parent company of ES&S. In Florida, Jeb Bush's first choice for a running mate in his 1998 gubernatorial race was ES&S lobbyist Sandra Mortham, who made a mint installing the machines that counted Jeb's votes.
-snip-




Where is the military in all of this? They're checkin' the machines to see if they're secure! SAIC!

But lets tell a little more about Theonomic Reconstructionism. It is a belief that the only true authority is God's, that allegiance to biblical laws trumps that of Civic law and that the Kingdom of Heaven needs to be built here on Earth, before Jesus will come again. In addition to that, homosexuals should be put to death, women should be banned from civic office, apostates and heritics should be stoned to death and there is a great need for more Christian politicians.

Funded by billionaires such as Howard Ahmanson and the Coors and Hunt families, Reconstructionists formed think tanks such as the Chalcedon Institute and the Rutherford Institute.





Perhaps the most extreme member of the Claremont Institute is Howard F. Ahmanson Jr., who sits on the Claremont's board of directors. Ahmanson, a California multi-millionaire who inherited Home Savings of America from his father, also served for more than 20 years on the board of the Chalcedon Institute. That groups's vision statement, as posted on its Web site, proposes a return to "an explicitly Biblical system of thought and action as the exclusive basis for civilization." Chalcedon's president, Dr. Rousas J Rushdoony, is considered to be the modern patriarch of Christian Reconstructionism, a group that believes that the nation's legal system should be modeled on Biblical Old Testament law, where offenses such as blasphemy and adultery could be punished by death.

Several members of Claremont Institue have been at the forefront of right-wing political causes. Claremont Vice President Larry P Arnn is a member of the Council on National Policy, a network of Republicans that includes televangelist Pat Robertson and religious-right radio broadcaster James Dobson. The group frequently meets to plot political strategy.

[seemslikeadream]

42. Biblical law TRUMPS civil law!

Diebold, ES&S, and the Christian Reconstructionists


Chris Floyd connects some very frightening dots in the unfolding saga of black box voting.

-snip-

Who's behind these private companies? It's hard to tell: the corporate lines--even the bloodlines--of these "competitors" are so intricately mixed. For example, at Diebold--whose corporate chief, Wally O'Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, has publicly committed himself to "delivering" his home state's votes to Bush next year--the election division is run by Bob Urosevich. Bob's brother, Todd, is a top executive at "rival" ES&S. The brothers were originally staked in the vote-count business by Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing "steering group" stacked with Bushist faithful.

Ahmanson is also one of the bagmen behind the "Christian Reconstructionist" movement, an extremist faction that openly advocates a theocratic takeover of American democracy, with the imposition of strict Christian dominion, placing "the state, the school, the arts and sciences, law, economics, and every other sphere under Christ the King." This "dominion" includes the death penalty for homosexuals, exclusion of citizenship for non-Christians, stoning of sinners and--we kid you not--slavery, "one of the most beneficent of Biblical laws." As the movement's leader--and Ahmanson's fellow CNP member--R.J. Rushdoony puts it: "The Christian should therefore not fear laws in support of Christian social goals just because they interfere with personal freedom."

-snip-

edited to add link:
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd09262003.html


Handmaid's Tale=Christian Reconstructionists!


http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/atw...


...The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) for AT LEAST 10 years now. Folks, you've GOT to read this novel! It's like reading Orwell's 1984 all over again.




www.theocracywatch.org

Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell University


The significance of the involvement of Christian Reconstructionists...


...is often overlooked or misinterpreted. It is primarily in the mindset of such "true believers" as described by Eric Hoffer in his classic book by the same name.

In short, they "believe" they have the only answer, and that having the "only answer" justifies any actions in bringing their "only answer" to come to pass. They believe they are fighting against the Devil and all tactics (one would have to assume that to include rigging elections to make sure "God's" candidate got elected despite Satan's attempt to delude the vast unenlightened voting public) are acceptable in a fight against the Devil.


In 10 years they have accomplished much
The seven highest ranking Republican Senators in the U.S. Senate
Bill Frist
Mitch McConnell
Rich Santorum
Bob Bennette
Kay Bailey Hutchingson
John Kyle
George Allen
Every one of them recieved a scorecard of 100% from Christian Coalition.

Is conventional wisdom ready to believe that the Religious Right could gain control over all three branches of the federal government?

How were people representing such an extreme ideological point of view elected to the top positions in the Republican Party?

Biblical law TRUMPS civil law!


"Is conventional wisdom ready to believe that the Religious Right could gain control over all three branches of the federal government?"

And now they have control over the top companies which manufacture the electronic "voting" machines which have been shoved down our throats in violation of election law. VERY SCARY INDEED, yet I've heard not a word about this in the corporate media. Considering that the "religious" right has the agreement of maybe 20% of the population and most of those would NOT agree with the reconstructionists I think we've got a VERY big problem.




... in Hoffer's book is that the true believers are never more dangerous than when they have _almost_ attained their goals.



It gets worse. Google "Sun Myung Moon" and "Council for National Policy"

Then Google "Bill McCartney" (of the Promisekeepers) and "Council for National Policy"

These people are all in it together, and their in-your-face involvement with Moon reveals that not a single one of them is a true Christian. But, in their insatiable lust for money and power, they've co-opted and corrupted Christianity.

And the vast majority of rank and file right-wing fundamentalists are too ignorant and too indoctrinated to understand that they're nothing more than wholly expendable pawns in Brzezinski's "Grand Chessboard."


Here's a list of past-present list of officers and prominent members. it is not a complete, or up to date list.


Jack Abramhoff

Howard Ahmanson, Jr.

Thomas R. Anderson

Dr. John F.Ankerberg

Hon. Richard K. Armey

Thomas K. Armstrong

Sen. William L. Armstrong

John M. Ashbrook

Edward G. Atsinger III

Carole Baker

Theodore Baehr

William B. Ball

David Balsiger

Hon. Gary Bauer

John Beckett

Ray Berryman

Morton Blackwell

Thomas A. Bolan

Pat Boone

Richard Bott

Dr. James Bowers

Lynn Francis Bouchey

David W. Breese

Dr. William Rohl Bright

Floyd Brown

Sam Brunelli

Larry Burkett

John Commuta

Robert Cone

Peter Cook

Holland (Holly) Coors

Jeffrey Coors

Joseph Coors

Mary C. Crowley

Beverly Danielson

Sen. William Dannemeyer

Karen Davis

Cullen Davis

Arnaud deBorchgrave

Richard DeVos

Rich DeVos

Dick Dingham

Dr. James Dobson

John T. (Terry) Dolan

Arthur M. Dula

Ann Drexel

Pierre du Pont

John East

Thomas F. Ellis

Stuart Epperson

Dr. Jerry Falwell

Joseph F. Farah

Michael P. Farris

Dr. Edwin J. Feulner, Jr

Father Charles Fiore

Foster Friess

Willard Garvey

Peter B. Gemma

George F. Gilder

Dr. Duane Gish

Ronald P. Godwin

Alan Gottlieb

Robbie Gowdey

J. Peter Grace

Lt. General Daniel O. Graham

Robert Grant

Anthony Harrigan

Preston Hawkins

Jesse Helms

Thomas Hess

Rev. E.V. Hill

Jimmy Hill

Joe Hilyard

Roland Hinz

Hon. Donald P. Hodel

Rev. Melvin Hodges

Robert Holding

George Holland

John Holt

Donald R. Howard, Ph.D.

Dr. John A. Howard

Max Hugel

Herbert William Hunt

Mary Reilly Hunt

Nelson Bunker Hunt

Reed Irvine

Hon. Ernest J. Istook, Jr.

Lorena Jaeb

Kay Cole James

Gary Jarmin

Louis (Woody) Jenkins

Terry J. Jeffers

Dr. Mildred Faye Jefferson

Bob Jones III

James F. Justiss

Rep. Jack Kemp (R-NY)

Dr. D. James Kennedy

Alan Keyes

Brig. General Albion W. Knight

Dr. Robert H. Krieble

Beverly LaHaye

Dr. Timothy LaHaye

Reed Larson

Dr. Ernest Lefever

John Lenczowski

Earl Little

John Lofton

Ed Lozick

Marlin Maddoux

Marion (Mac) Magruder

Peter Marshall, Jr.

Connaught (Connie) Marshner

James Mather

Pat Matrisciana

Donald S. McAlvany

Ed McAteer

Norm McClelland

James McClure

Jim McCotter

Larry P. McDonald

Hon. Edwin Meese III

Major F. Andy Messing, Jr.

Chuck Missler

Barbara Monteith

Dr. Stanley Monteith

Dr. Raymond Moore

Sam Moore

Dr. Henry M. Morris

Don Nickles

Grover Norquist

Dr. Gary North

Lt. Col. Oliver North

Dr. Paige Patterson

Robert J. Perry

Howard Phillips

William M. Polk

Lawrence D. "Larry" Pratt

Judge Paul Pressler

Jim Price

Ed Prince

Elsa Prince

Dr. Charles E. Rice

H.L. "Bill" Richardson

Rich Riddle

Dr. "M.G." Pat Robertson

James Robinson

Kathleen Teague Rothschild

Howard J. Ruff

Rev. R. J. Rushdoony

William Rusher

Phyllis Schlafly

Lynda Scribante

Ron Seeley

Jay Sekulow

Hans Sennholz

Beurt SerVaas

Frank Shakespeare

Richard Shoff

Major General John K. Singlaub

Dr. W. Cleon Skousen

Mark Skousen

Baker Armstrong Smith

Dr. Lowell Smith

Jim R. Smith

Gerry Snyder

LaNeil Spivy

Scott Stanley, Jr.

Robert Waring Stoddard

John A. Stormer

Lt. General Gordon Sumner

Gaylord K. Swim

John H. Sununu

Dr. Lewis Tambs

The Hon. Helen Marie Taylor

Stacy Taylor

Dr. Edward Teller

Sherman E. Unkefer

Mike Valerio

Guy Vander Jagt

Richard Viguerie

Christine de Vollmer

Craig Welch

Paul Weyrich

James Whelan

John W. Whitehead

Rev. Donald Wildmon

Dr. John Wilke


Lt. General Gordon Sumner - CNP Membership Roster (1984-85; 1988; 1996; 1998)

A special assistant to the Secretary of State for Latin American affairs. Council for Inter-American Security (CIS) director and advisor; Sumner was also a board member of the International Security Council (ISC), described by Herman and O'Sullivan as the "main U.S. agency of the Moon system in the field of terrorism propaganda." An international conference organized by ISC and CAUSA was held in January 1986 in Tel Aviv; speakers included Bo Hi Pak and Arnaud de Borchgrave, the publisher of the Washington Times... The Denver-based, North-South Institute (NSI) is a non-profit arm of the Council for Inter-American Security. NSI vice president and director, Lt. General Gordon Sumner, also a CIS director as we have seen, is an officer of USBC and NSI. http://watch.pair.com/database2.html#sumner

About.com's information about Christian Reconstructionism:


We best know about this stuff! Please read!

<snip>

Its most common form, Theonomic Reconstructionism, represents one of the most extreme forms of Fundamentalist Christianity thought. The followers are attempting to peacefully convert the laws of United States so that they match those in the Hebrew Scriptures. They intend to achieve this by using the freedom of religion in the US to train a generation of children in private Christian religious schools. Later, their graduates will be charged with the responsibility of creating a new Bible-based political, religious and social order. One of the first tasks of this order will be to eliminate religious freedom. Their eventual goal is to achieve the "Kingdom of God" in which much of the world is converted to Christianity. They feel that the power of God's word will bring about this conversion. No armed force or insurrection will be needed; in fact, they believe that there will be little opposition to their plan. People will willingly accept it if it is properly presented to them.

All religions other than Christianity would be suppressed. Nonconforming Evangelical, main line and liberal Christian institutions would no longer be allowed to function. Society would revert to the laws and punishments of the Hebrew Scriptures. Any person who advocated or practiced other religious beliefs would be tried for idolatry and exterminated. Blasphemy, adultery and homosexual behavior would be criminalized; those found guilty would be executed. To our knowledge, this is the only religious movement in North America in which many of its members advocate genocide for followers of minority religions. Ralph Reed, the executive director of the conservative public policy group the Christian Coalition has criticized Reconstructionism as "an authoritarian ideology that threatens the most basic civil liberties of a free and democratic society."

<snip>

Practices:

If they gained control of the US or Canadian federal government, there would be many changes:

the use of the death penalty would be greatly expanded, when the Hebrew Scriptures' laws are reapplied. People will be executed for adultery, blasphemy, heresy, homosexual behavior, idolatry, prostitution, evil sorcery (some translations say Witchcraft), etc. Presumably that would be done by stoning people to death or burning them alive, as the Bible requires.

more...


Remember bush's CNP campaign speech that no one was allowed to hear?


The Institute for First Amendement Studies' "Freedom Writer" tried to acquire the tape of bush's speech to a CNP conference, given in late 1999. The company that records CNP proceedings sent the IFAS every tape from the conference EXCEPT for the one containing bush's speech, citing orders from the bush campaign to exclude it.

That whole episode stank to high heaven, back then, and it still stinks, today.

Here's a link to a copy of the original story by Freedom Writer (warning: this is a popup-intense site):
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/brambles/499/Bush/W_Hiding/w_hiding.h...

And here's what ABC had to say about the Council for National Policy, back in May of 2001:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/council_020501.html

Israel Neocons, Christian Reconstructionists, Tim Lahaye and his insane followers, are all in this together..and no one in the blackout whore media discusses this INSANE US foreign policy based on this delusionary drivel

http://www.iraqwar.org/Armageddonupdates.htm


Let's not forget the Christian apocalypse movement, who believe in strengthening Israel as a means of bringing about the apocalypse and rapture. These guys are the glue between the Christian reconstructionists and the Likud backers.


From the Guardian's Paul Krugman interview (from Truthout.org):

"The first three pages of Kissinger's book sent chills down my spine," Krugman writes of A World Restored, the 1957 tome by the man who would later become the unacceptable face of cynical realpolitik. Kissinger, using Napoleon as a case study - but also, Krugman believes, implicitly addressing the rise of fascism in the 1930s - describes what happens when a stable political system is confronted with a "revolutionary power": a radical group that rejects the legitimacy of the system itself.

This, Krugman believes, is precisely the situation in the U.S. today (though he is at pains to point out that he isn't comparing Bush to Hitler in moral terms). The "revolutionary power", in Kissinger's theory, rejects fundamental elements of the system it seeks to control, arguing that they are wrong in principle. For the Bush administration, according to Krugman, that includes social security; the idea of pursuing foreign policy through international institutions; and perhaps even the basic notion that political legitimacy comes from democratic elections - as opposed to, say, from God.

But worse still, Kissinger continued, nobody can quite bring themselves to believe that the revolutionary power really means to do what it claims. "Lulled by a period of stability which had seemed permanent," he wrote, "they find it nearly impossible to take at face value the assertion of the revolutionary power that it means to smash the existing framework." Exactly, says Krugman, who recallss the response to his column about Tom DeLay, the anti-evolutionist Republican leader of the House of Representatives, who claimed, bafflingly, that "nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes".

"My liberal friends said, 'I'm not interested in what some crazy guy in Congress has to say'," Krugman recalls. "But this is not some crazy guy! This guy runs Congress! There's this fundamental unwillingness to acknowledge the radicalism of the threat we're facing." But those who point out what is happening, Kissinger had already noted long ago, "are considered alarmists; those who counsel adaptation to circumstance are considered balanced and sane." ("Those who take the hard-line rightists now in power at their word are usually accused of being 'shrill', of going over the top," Krugman writes, and he has become well used to such accusations.)
more
http://truthout.org/docs_03/092803D.shtml

[Just Me]

46. I prefer assimilating information for empowerment purposes,...

,...over "being afraid". Know what I mean?

You are definitely the information-generator *smile*. An amazing talent, I might add!!!

[seemslikeadream]

49. You are soooooooo correct Just!

maybe be afraid first then get mad and then generate that information.

[area51]

67. interesting.

I heard a rumor that Kay Bailey Hutchison (aka "Pinchison" for the way she treats aides who displease her) was pro-choice.

[seemslikeadream]

73. "Cover the ground so his feet don't touch it." "That sounds crazy."

one of my favorites from your link

He doesn't want his feet on the ground and he will be at a groundbreaking ceremony.

Yesterday, a big guy, who had been fixing serious pipe leaks in the county executive's building, was on the walkway unrolling wooden storm fencing that would create an alley for Bush to walk down.

"When you get the fence up, what do you do?" he was asked.

"Cover the ground so his feet don't touch it."

"Is that true?"

"My boss told me that. If he says so, it's true."

"That sounds crazy."

"It sounds like I get paid every week," he said.



The 9/11 memorial is not up. Someday it will be a site by a pond. What happened was that Bush was coming in for this big fund-raiser. The county executive, Suozzi, a Democrat, heard about it and rushed an invitation to Bush to be at the dedication to the memorial and also to meet the 9/11 families.

There was no way for Bush to turn this down. So he appears today for a local Democrat. The county Democrats fell all over themselves to have a memorial site and the paths around it following the Secret Service regulations.

Yesterday, a big guy, who had been fixing serious pipe leaks in the county executive's building, was on the walkway unrolling wooden storm fencing that would create an alley for Bush to walk down.

"When you get the fence up, what do you do?" he was asked.

"Cover the ground so his feet don't touch it."

"Is that true?"

"My boss told me that. If he says so, it's true."

"That sounds crazy."

"It sounds like I get paid every week," he said.

Bush's day was to start with him landing in his big plane at Republic Airport. He could either drive or go by helicopter to the park. There is room to land on one of Eisenhower Park's golf fairways. But the job of building whole concrete streets from the plane to the memorial site would be extraordinarily hard, as they would have to remove the streets immediately after today in order to have the place ready for golfers in this Republican county.

Bush was to move to a couple of locations on dirty parkland. Last Thursday, the bureaucrats in charge of the park heard from the Secret Service. The word immediately ran through the halls of local government.

Not a foot touches the earth.

[ElementaryPenguin]

10. Former Bush Sr. aide says elder Bush does NOT support Iraq war!

Aide's name is John Rankin.

[Tellurian]

21. Bush I plays good cop bad cop. Just like he did in the Reagan years..

BushI is a sociopath..

[11cents]

27. Whoops! John Rankin?

CHB article describes him as a "former aide," not a former Bush Sr. aide. I googled John Rankin and George Bush; no sign that there was a John Rankin who was an aide to George HW Bush (or to Bush Jr.)

[Tellurian]

29. John Rankin is a Congressman...

"The House Committee on Un-American Activities had a host of unsavory types in its ranks (among them, Congressman John Rankin, a noted anti-Semite, and J. Parnell Thomas, who was later indicted for taking kickbacks) and a penchant for self-serving publicity (its numerous investigations of Hollywood). Nevertheless, HUAC had a legitimate purpose. Its mandate—to investigate subversive organizations—was validated by the American Communist Party."
From June 6 04

[11cents]

34. That John Rankin was a congressman a long time ago

Head of HUAC, which hasn't existed in some time. As noted, a antisemite, etc. Not an aide to Bush, Sr. I suspect the John Rankin that CHB refers to was, hmm, a nurse's aide?

[Just Me]

13. I still think he suffers from schizoaffective disorder.

Alcohol abuse/addiction is utilized by individuals suffering any number of mental distresses/disorders, whether mood or personality.

It's the shift from what appears to be manic/depressive moods swings to a delusional and paranoid state that tends to demonstrate schizoaffective. But, professionals will differ on a "diagnosis from a distance".

[Desperadoe]

17. Dr. Frank writes

................ in Bush On The Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. "Bush is an untreated ex-alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies."

Wrong! There is no such thing as an "ex-alcoholic". That's a badge that you get to keep for life. There is no cure for this disease. All you hope for is to control it and stop it from controlling you.

I suspect that alcoholism is just one of the many mental problems that Mr. Bush has.

[Tellurian]

18. It's just a shame Bush's parents didn't do right by him, and get him HELP!

These out takes are supported by republicans and democrats alike..

They all concur on Bush's mental state.


"Although supporters of President Bush dismissed the reports as “fantasies from anonymous sources,” a new book by Dr. Justin Frank, director of psychiatry at George Washington University, raises many similar questions about the President’s mental stability."

"George W. Bush is a case study in contradiction," Dr. Frank writes in Bush On The Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. "Bush is an untreated ex-alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies."

"Supporters of President Bush dismiss Frank’s book as the work of a Democrat who once headed the Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, but his work has been praised by other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School."

"Dr. Carolyn Williams, a psychoanalyst who specializes in paranoid personalities, is a registered Republican and agrees with most of Dr. Frank’s conclusions."

“I find the bulk of his analysis credible,” she said in an interview. “President Bush grew up dealing with an absent but demanding father, a tough mother and an overachieving brother. All left indelible impressions on him along with a desire to prove himself at all cost because he feels surrounded by disapproval. He behavior suggests a classic paranoid personality. Additionally, his stated belief that certain actions are 'God's Will' are symptomatic of delusional behavior.”

"Ryan Reynolds, a childhood friend of Bush, concurs."

“George wanted to please his father but never felt he measured up, especially when compared to Jeb,” Reynolds said.

[koopie57]

36. after reading this

I bet there isn't a dry eye at DU.

[Tellurian]

47. Bush's life has basically been ruined by his parents..

His mother is a narcissist and is empathetically challenged.
I see no nurturing skills there whatsoever..

His father is a strict authoritarian.
bush never stood a chance. His parents set him up for failure.

[Piperay]

53. Well...

not quite. I could 'almost' feel sorry for him except when I think of how his 'issues' have effected billions of people in the worst way. x(

[Tellurian]

63. You think he was damaged from birth?

I'm just ruminating here...

His condition, besides all the *paths and *scisms

seems to be systemically organic in origin.

Like, was Babs a purveyor of Valium or alcohol

during the gestation period?

[koopie57]

64. I think there are many people just here at DU

who have been raised in a difficult environment, by difficult parents and have survived and prospered with a lot less of every luxery and convenience * had. His main problem is being totally self-absorbed. I just can't feel sorry for the man when I think of so many people who have overcome worse childhoods than he has. He is not the first person to have a monster mom or a distant father. That happens and tough, but there are many who were able to overcome it just by their courage, smarts, and fortitude and without the opporunities given to them by their horribly, unfortunately filthy rich parents. Like I said, I'm not crying for him. He is in a situation now, where he could do wonderful things if he would get his head out of his ass. When he got in trouble, daddy bailed him out, who here when getting in trouble, got the crap kicked out of them by daddy?

[Tellurian]

70. yeah, I know...

just wanted to hear someone else say the same ding, dang, thing! B-)

[2Design]

yes no 1 sicko....and untreated alcholism and drug addiction

his behavior and that of those around him are of a very sick family. They are all enablers and do not know how sick they have become trying to uphold loyalty over reality.....tough.....

[jdj]

68. Maybe he's just a spoiled rich punk who's having a hissy

because he's not getting his way this time. It's probably the first experience that Daddy can't buy him out of.

Another possibility is that the RNC is contemplating dumping Bush and running McCain or someone in his place, and perpetuating these rumors so that they can blame "democratic treachery" for driving Bush to a nervous breakdown.

[damnraddem]

30. Yeah, sure; but what's the NEW information?

>"George W. Bush is a case study in contradiction," Dr. Frank writes in Bush On The Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. "Bush is an untreated ex-alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies."

In other words, he's a typical Republican presidential candidate?

[reprobate]

37. This may be the scariest post in a long while.

If we can quit argueing about CHB for a moment, just think about the trouble that a mentally unstable paranoid schizophrenic at the controls of gov't could cause.

Remember, he has the football. His word can launch ICBMs at whoever he hates at the moment. Or he could declare marshal law, and there ain't a thing we could do about it.

And we know from his previous actions that he IS unstable.

Folks, if he holds together thru the elections (which remains doubtful), you can be sure that if placed back in charge he will disintegrate after jan 20.

If I were a religious man I would be praying right now. This is one truly dangerous man.

[seemslikeadream]

38. Ooops - There it is!

the football.

[Tellurian]

43. If anything Congress should make his mental instability a prima facia

case for removal. The Constitution makes provisions for a president unable to serve if in ill health.

[Occulus]

48. Two words to answer that one

"President Cheney."

Yikes!!

[Tellurian]

62. President Crash Cart?

<smacks forehead> what was I thinkin?

[Minstrel Boy]

45. "The missiles are flying. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!"

Said the President, played by Martin Sheen in The Dead Zone. No Bartlett, he.

[Jackpine Radical]

59. Trust me--he's not a paranoid schizophrenic.

I've evaluated & diagnosed more than a few of those, and W doesn't make it.

Delusional Disorder is another story.

[seemslikeadream]

61. That's very true

Just because bush is "troubled" paranoid schizophrenic is not the correct diagnosis. Called by God is telling.

[radfringe]

44. here we go again....

this is getting as old as blaming clinton for everything...

attack the messenger as being partisan...

exerpt from the article:

Supporters of President Bush dismiss Frank’s book as the work of a Democrat who once headed the Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, but his work has been praised by other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School

and like GOPers aren't partisan? sheesh...

[Generator]

50. And those are his good qualites! /nt

[JoFerret]

54. I've been waiting for Frank's book

...not only for what it might tell us but also for how much it will make the Bushemo squirm.

[struggle4progress]

56. Let's not gamble by becoming over-confident!

A candidate can win the White House, even without a full deck.

[Jackpine Radical]

57. Here's a George Harleigh quote from Freeperville:

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/828312/posts

But, says political scientist George Harleigh, the weekend is another example of how access to power is bartered in Washington.


“When the average citizen comes to Washington or tries to meet with his or her Congressman in the district, they are lucky if they get any face time with their elected officials,” Harleigh says, “but a lobbyist with a checkbook can buy all the time he or she needs.”


The lavish Super Bowl weekend is raising eyebrows this time around in light of the GOP´s backdoor easing of restrictions on gifts that lawmakers can receive from special interests.


On January 7, the GOP-led House lifted the rule that had ended the practice of lobbyists funding all-expenses-paid vacations for Members of Congress, and providing them with elaborate gifts of expensive food.

[arwalden]

65. This Needs To Be On 60-Minutes

[Algomas]

71. Martial Law???

I say, Bring it On!! What a field day we will have with these clowns. It would be the best thing to happen for America. It just might wake up the slothfull and brain-dead great majority and inspire them to reclaim their domocracy.
Like I've said before:
The silver lining in this black cloud is that the policies of "Full Spectrum Dominance" are being executed by a team of "Full Spectrum Incompetents".

[glitch]

76. Agreed! best thing about bushco is they woke everyone up

If they don't fold they will lose it all. Belated welcome to DU!

[seemslikeadream]

74. Is George W. Bush insane?

Excerpt from Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President

by Justin A. Frank, M.D,

Introduction:
"Curious about George"

If one of my patients frequently said one thing and did another, I would want to know why. If I found that he often used words that hid their true meaning and affected a persona that obscured the nature of his actions, I would grow more concerned. If he presented an inflexible worldview characterized by an oversimplified distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, allies and enemies, I would question his ability to grasp reality. And if his actions revealed an unacknowledged -- even sadistic -- indifference to human suffering, wrapped in pious claims of compassion, I would worry about the safety of the people whose lives he touched.

For the past three years, I have observed with increasing alarm the inconsistencies and denials of such an individual. But he is not one of my patients. He is our president.

George W. Bush is a case study in contradiction. All of us have witnessed the affable good humor with which he charms both supporters and detractors; even those of us who disagree with his policies may find him personally likeable. As time goes on, however, the gulf between his personality and those policies -- and the style with which they are executed -- grows ever wider, raising serious questions about his behavior:
. How can someone so friendly and playful be the same person who cuts funds from government programs aiding the poor and hungry?

. How is it that our deeply religious president feels free to bomb Iraq -- and then celebrate the results with open expressions of joy?

. How can a president send American soldiers into combat under false pretenses and then proceed to joke about the deception, finding humor in the absence of weapons of mass destruction under his Oval Office desk?

. How can someone promise to protect the environment on the one hand and allow increased arsenic in the public water supply on the other? And why does he feel he can call his plan to lift logging restrictions in national forests the "Healthy" Forest Initiative?

. If the president's interpersonal skills are strong enough to earn him the reputation of being a "people person," why is he so unwilling and even unable to talk to world leaders, such as Jacques Chirac or Gerhard Schroeder, who disagree with him?

. How can the president sound so confused and yet act so decisively? And given the regularity with which he confuses fact with fantasy, how can he justify decisions based largely on his own personal suspicions with such unwavering certainty?


As a citizen, I worry about what these contradictions and inconsistencies say about the president's ability to govern; as a psychoanalyst, I'm troubled by their implications for the president's current and long-term mental health, particularly in light of certain information we know about his past. Naturally, the occasional misstatement or discrepancy between word and deed may be dismissed as politics as usual. But when the most powerful man on the planet consistently exhibits an array of multiple, serious, and untreated symptoms -- any one of which I've seen patients need years to work through -- it's certainly cause for further investigation, if not for outright alarm.

President Bush is not my patient, of course, but the discipline of applied psychoanalysis gives us a way to make as much sense of his psyche as he is likely ever to allow. At its simplest level, applied psychoanalysis means the application of psychoanalytic principles to anybody outside one's own consulting room. The tradition of psychoanalyzing public figures dates back almost as far as psychoanalysis itself; Freud based some of his most important theories on his observations of individuals he could never get onto his couch, Moses and Leonardo da Vinci most notable among them.

Indeed, if Freud were alive in the second half of the twentieth century, he might well have been recruited to offer his genius in the service of the U.S. intelligence effort. Somewhere in the bowels of the George H. W. Bush Center for Central Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, psychoanalysts are currently reviewing audio recordings, videotapes, and biographical information on dozens of contemporary world leaders, using the principles of applied psychoanalysis to develop detailed profiles for use by the CIA and the U.S. government and military. According to political psychiatrist Jerrold M. Post, M.D., who has chronicled the history of "at-a-distance leader personality assessment in support of policy," the marriage of psychoanalysis and U.S. intelligence dates back to the early 1940s, when the Office of Strategic Services commissioned two studies of Adolf Hitler. The effort was regarded as enough of a success that it was institutionalized in the 1960s, Post writes, first under the aegis of the Psychiatric Staff of the CIA's Office of Medical Services, which "led to the establishment of the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior" (CAPPB), which Post founded within the Directorate of Intelligence.

As Post reveals, CIA psychological profiles of Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin played an important role in Jimmy Carter's handling of the 1978 Camp David negotiations. And applied psychoanaly-sis continues to enjoy a privileged place in the intelligence universe.

"At the time of his confirmation hearings, Secretary of the Defense Donald Rumsfeld identified as his nightmare not understanding the intentions of dangerous adversaries," Post writes. "Accentuated by some of the recent intelligence ‘surprises,' the need to have a robust applied political psychology capability has been highlighted and increased resources are currently being applied to human intelligence and to the study of the personality and political behavior of foreign leaders, both national leaders and terrorists."

A vote of confidence from today's CIA, of course, might be described as a mixed blessing. Nevertheless, applied psychoanalysis remains a vital tool for understanding political leaders. And since one can scarcely imagine Bush Center resources being committed to a Bush son's psychological profile, this must be an independent inquiry, albeit one that is informed by the CAPPB goal as articulated by its founder, Jerrold M. Post: "to understand shaping events that influenced core attitudes, political personality, leadership and political behavior."

http://www.unknownnews.net/insanity061704.html

[seemslikeadream]

75. From lancdem in GD

lancdem (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-18-04 11:40 AM
Original message
Wayne Madsen email says Plamegate impending indictments "buzz" in DC


I've been communicating with Mr. Madsen via email since Tuesday (he's the investigative reporter who supplied info to Michael Ruppert of http://www.fromthewilderness.com ) about Plame indictments. Today, I asked him what he thought Josh Marshall was referring to as his big story.

Here's what he wrote:

"I think it is the impending indictments -- that is the buzz around DC these days."

Maybe that's why Kerry is keeping a bit of a low profile.