Bush obtained new driver's license # in 1995

[9215]

In Hatfield's book "Fortunate Son" there is a footnote on a 1995 purging of Bush's driving record in Texas.

"Although Texas requires renewal of a driver's license every four years on one's birthday, Bush obtained a new number (a nine digit 000000005) on March 31, 1995 as a renewal instead of on his birthday, July 6, which the texas Department of Motor Vehicles called "highly unusual". Online Journal correspondents Bev Conover and Linda L. Starr also noted in their investigation that in Texas, "every infraction of the law--from a parking ticket to homicide--appears on you Texas Driver's License Detail. It was publicly reported that George W. shot and killed a protected species while bird hunting in 1994 and paid a fin of $130 on September 2,1994. That is the sort of thing that gets listed on a Texas Driver's License Detail, bu it doesn't show up on George W's because when he received a new license in March 1995, the record of paying the fine--along with anything else that was cited--was deleted with his old license number". Ironically, the Texas Department of Public Safety (which issues state driver's licenses is headed by James Byrne Francis, Jr. one the governor's closest friends and fundraisers. " (Fortunate Son, Hatfield. page 303)

[Soloflecks]

1. Surprise, surprise, surprise!

As Gomer Pyle would exclaim. What else can I say. I wonder how many people total it has taken to "remake" GW.

[NoPasaran]

3. All that trouble

And he's still a dipshit.

[arcane1]

2. but, did Bush lose money in a 20-year-old land deal?

if not, I'm not interested... unless you can prove he got a blow job, once...

so ends arcane1's republican impression. Thank you, I'll be here all week :)

[ComerPerro]

7. In the end, that is all that matters

Lose money in a land deal, or get a blowjob from someone who isn't your wife.

Otherwise, commit all the crimes you want. Nobody cares.

[Gman]

4. "Fortunate Son" should be the go to reference for the November election

Everything in that book is an issue ad.

[SoCalDem]

5. The problem is.. the guy is dead

and when the book first came out, he was slimed bigtime and discredited with the "mainstream media"..

[9215]

6. and his book was pulled from bookstore shelves and destroyed.

Below is an excerpt from the Forward section of a book 'Fortunate Son',by Bush family biographer J.H. Hatfield. This book was stripped from bookshelves back in Nov. 1999 and the publisher, 'St. Martin's Press', burned 70,000 copies after recieving alot of pressure from 'Poppy' and son. The following occured beginning on Oct. 19, 1999 as reported by Hatfield:

"...Approximately 104,000 copies of my new biography. 'Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President, had been printed and 87, 933 copies had been shipped to bookstores after St. Martin's publicity director, John Murphy, boasted that The New York Times was running a front page story on the book in their Sunday, October 17 edition. In addition, Murphy claimed that he had arranged for me to be interviewed on the Today Show in a two part segment to be aired the following Monday and Tuesday. When both promotional efforts for the new book failed to materialize, St. Martin's executives panicked.

At the meeting, they urged me to violate my journalistic principles and confidentiality agreements with the three sources quoted the book's controversial Afterword and provide their names to various news agencies in hopes of advancing publicity for Fortunate Son, a request I refused outright.


Murphy, whose reputation was on the line, was instructed by the other publishing company executives to call in all of his 'markers' in the media in order to publicize Fortunate Son and sensationalize the Afterward's allegations that George W. Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972, but had his record expunged after his father arranged for him to perform community service.

Murphy faxed a two-page press release to various news agencies, but he quickly found himself running into a virtual news blackout and lack of media coverage of publication of my new biography of the Texas governor. St. Martin's publicists were told repeatedly "off the record" by news agencies that the Bush presidential campaign was putting pressure on the media, telling reporters that if they covered Fortunate Son, they would find themselves "sitting in folding chairs" outside the press room when Bush got to the White House.

My editor, Barry Neville, and other St. Martin's executives once again desperately urged me to provide the names of my three confidential sources in increments to various reporters while fielding telephone calls in Neviille's office throughout Monday and Tuesday, October 18 and 19, in a an effort to "get the press worked up for the book", but I steadily declined...."

The forward does go on to explain how the book was pulled from the shelves and the flap in the press over censorship:

"Online Journal's Linda L. Starr claimed: 'Censorhsip is not done in this country, complete with book burnings and shreddings. This is America, not Nazi Germany."

[kentuck]

8. Same thing they did in Denver to his military records....

if the truth ever comes out....

[9215]

9. Hatfield predicted the use of aircraft as missiles BEFORE 9/11 and

shortly before he died.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?
By James Hatfield

Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

July 3, 2001-There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too. A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April. German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target-his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October. According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives. Why would Osama bi Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner? I knew that bombshell would whip your heads around. So here's the straight scoop, folks.

In June 1977, Dubya formed his own drilling company, Arbusto Energy ("arbusto" means "bush" in Spanish), in Midland, Texas. Like his father before him, Dubya founded his oil business with the financial backing of investors, including James R. Bath, a Houston businessman whom Dubya apparently first met when they were in the same Texas Air National Guard unit. (Interestingly, both Dubya and Bath were both suspended from flying in August and September 1972, respectively, for "failure to accomplish annual medical examination.")