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Homeland Security Freudian Slip
by Robert Lederman
Sometimes the truth has a way of coming out in the most embarrassing and
unexpected ways. If the President's newly created Office of Homeland Security
sounds to you a bit reminiscent of propaganda from Nazi Germany, you're not
alone in that suspicion.
According to the Washington Times (one of President Bush's strongest
defenders among U.S. newspapers-see below), Texas Homeland Security chief
David Dewhurst claims it was an error when an ad he commissioned in support
of the Office of Homeland Security featured a Nazi Luftwaffle officer.
Was this a bizarre mistake, a Freudian slip or a rare moment of candor from
the Bush administration? Considering that Bush s grandfathers made their
fortune on Wall Street managing banks and shipping companies the U.S.
government seized in 1942 as fronts for the Nazis, it may have been all three.
Former President Bush had his own embarrassing moments involving Nazis,
including one that almost lost him the Presidency when a number of former SS
officers were found to be high-ranking operatives in his Presidential
campaign. Nor has GW been free of Nazi taint.
The right-wing think tank he claims is second only to the bible in its
influence on his ideas, the Manhattan Institute, has numerous links to
eugenics, Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. Its founder, former CIA chief William
Casey, helped bring thousands of former SS officers to the U.S. following
WWII.
For numerous articles links and documentation on the Bush-Nazi connection see
http://baltech.org/lederman/
WASHINGTON TIMES
October 29, 2001
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011029-24603150.htm
Political ad is uniformly embarrassing
By Hugh Aynesworth
DALLAS Texas homeland security chief David Dewhurst wanted Texans to feel
confident in these trying times and as a Republican candidate for lieutenant
governor wanted Texans to know he was taking his new anti-terrorism job
seriously.
So he purchased a full-color, four-page advertisement in Texas Monthly
magazine a few days ago.
The ad layout has received far more comment than any similar effort in recent
history but perhaps for all the wrong reasons.
In the ad, a military officer is depicted standing in front of an unfurled
American flag, with the caption, "As chairman of the Governor's Task Force on
Homeland Security, David Dewhurst encourages you to support President Bush
and the brave men and woman of our Armed Forces as they fight to eliminate
terrorism and work to restore confidence in our economy."
Within hours of the magazine's hitting the streets last week, the Dewhurst
campaign became inundated with calls some angry, some joking informing the
state land commissioner that the officer in the photograph was not an
American general, but was clearly a German Luftwaffe officer complete with
military decorations, insignias and a name tag bearing the German flag.
Early in the week, a stunned Mr. Dewhurst, 56, conceded he had examined the
ad "a couple times" before OK'ing it but later he and his staff placed blame
on the advertising agency that prepared the ad.
"When I had asked for a picture of an American soldier against the flag," he
said Friday, "our graphics consultant made a mistake. The ad agency and the
graphics consultant won't be doing further work for us."
Predictably, Democrats jumped all over the situation not only making fun of
the faux pas, but complaining that Mr. Dewhurst was using his new assignment
as home security head for political advantage.
"The ink wasn't dry yet on the appointment when he was sending out political
brochure copy to the print shop," said Kelly Fero, who is directing a
coordinated state Democratic campaign.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry named Mr. Dewhurst to coordinate the state's
anti-terrorism efforts earlier this month.
"It's pretty scary that the man Rick Perry has put in charge of homeland
security doesn't know the difference between an Air Force uniform and a
German uniform," snapped Democrat state Chairwoman Molly Beth Malcolm at an
Austin party meeting Saturday.
Friday, with strong backing from Mr. Perry, Mr. Dewhurst defended his
political ad saying maybe he should not have stressed his new role, but
solidly standing behind his expressed sentiments of supporting the president
and the armed forces.
"If I had it do to over again," said the former Houston businessman and
one-time Air Force officer and CIA agent, "I would have said the same words.
I might not have said 'as chairman of the Governor's Task Force on Homeland
Security.'"
Mr. Dewhurst said that at political gatherings people asked him about
security issues and that he intended to continue to mention his state task
force assignment. "Not in a way that politicizes what I'm doing for the
state," he added. "I make a point of saying: 'All right, we've stopped
talking about politics. We're going to talk about a state issue, and let me
tell you what my thoughts are.'
"I didn't find anything out of the ordinary about saying 'Here's what I'm
doing; here's what makes me qualified to lead you,'" said Mr. Dewhurst.
BOSTON GLOBE 4/23/2001
TRIUMPHS, TROUBLES SHAPE GENERATIONS
PRESCOTT BUSH PAVED MODERATE PATH FOR SON AND GRANDSON;
WOUNDED BY FRIEND'S BETRAYAL, HE PUT HIGH PRICE ON LOYALTY
Author: By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff Date: 04/23/2001 Page: A1 Section:
National/Foreign
AN AMERICAN DYNASTY
Prescott Bush was surely aghast at a sensational article the New York Herald
Tribune splashed on its front page in July 1942.
"Hitler's Angel Has 3 Million in US Bank," read the headline above a story
reporting that Adolf Hitler's financier had stowed the fortune in Union
Banking Corp., possibly to be held for "Nazi bigwigs."
Bush knew all about the New York bank: He was one of its seven directors. If
the Nazi tie became known, it would be a potential "embarrassment," Bush and
his partners at Brown Brothers Harriman worried, explaining to government
regulators that their position was merely an unpaid courtesy for a client.
The situation grew more serious when the government seized Union's assets
under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the sort of action that could have
ruined Bush's political dreams.
"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich." -John Loftus, former US
Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator and President of the Florida
Holocaust Museum quoted in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000
http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115
4/14/1990 New York Times quotes President George Bush as stating, "Lets
forgive the Nazi war criminals."
http://www.jewishxpress.com/nazisinbushs1988campaing/
Philadelphia Inquirer 9/10/98 David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one of
several with possible Nazi links," 9/10/98; Washington Post articles by Jack
Anderson on Nixon/Nazi connection Nov 1971 including Nixon Appears a Little
Soft on Nazis; GOP's Open Door, Who's Coming In? Washington Post 9/21/71 by
Peter Baestrup, The Secret War Against the Jews, by John Loftus and Russ
Bellant's, Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party.
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Homeland Security Freudian Slip
by Robert Lederman
Sometimes the truth has a way of coming out in the most embarrassing and unexpected ways. If the President's newly created Office of Homeland Security sounds to you a bit reminiscent of propaganda from Nazi Germany, you're not alone in that suspicion.
According to the Washington Times (one of President Bush's strongest defenders among U.S. newspapers-see below), Texas Homeland Security chief David Dewhurst claims it was an error when an ad he commissioned in support of the Office of Homeland Security featured a Nazi Luftwaffle officer.
Was this a bizarre mistake, a Freudian slip or a rare moment of candor from the Bush administration? Considering that Bush s grandfathers made their fortune on Wall Street managing banks and shipping companies the U.S. government seized in 1942 as fronts for the Nazis, it may have been all three.
Former President Bush had his own embarrassing moments involving Nazis, including one that almost lost him the Presidency when a number of former SS officers were found to be high-ranking operatives in his Presidential campaign. Nor has GW been free of Nazi taint.
The right-wing think tank he claims is second only to the bible in its influence on his ideas, the Manhattan Institute, has numerous links to eugenics, Nazis and Nazi sympathizers. Its founder, former CIA chief William Casey, helped bring thousands of former SS officers to the U.S. following WWII.
For numerous articles links and documentation on the Bush-Nazi connection see http://baltech.org/lederman/
WASHINGTON TIMES
October 29, 2001
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011029-24603150.htm
Political ad is uniformly embarrassing
By Hugh Aynesworth
DALLAS Texas homeland security chief David Dewhurst wanted Texans to feel confident in these trying times and as a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor wanted Texans to know he was taking his new anti-terrorism job seriously.
So he purchased a full-color, four-page advertisement in Texas Monthly magazine a few days ago.
The ad layout has received far more comment than any similar effort in recent history but perhaps for all the wrong reasons.
In the ad, a military officer is depicted standing in front of an unfurled American flag, with the caption, "As chairman of the Governor's Task Force on Homeland Security, David Dewhurst encourages you to support President Bush and the brave men and woman of our Armed Forces as they fight to eliminate terrorism and work to restore confidence in our economy."
Within hours of the magazine's hitting the streets last week, the Dewhurst campaign became inundated with calls some angry, some joking informing the state land commissioner that the officer in the photograph was not an American general, but was clearly a German Luftwaffe officer complete with military decorations, insignias and a name tag bearing the German flag.
Early in the week, a stunned Mr. Dewhurst, 56, conceded he had examined the ad "a couple times" before OK'ing it but later he and his staff placed blame on the advertising agency that prepared the ad.
"When I had asked for a picture of an American soldier against the flag," he said Friday, "our graphics consultant made a mistake. The ad agency and the graphics consultant won't be doing further work for us."
Predictably, Democrats jumped all over the situation not only making fun of the faux pas, but complaining that Mr. Dewhurst was using his new assignment as home security head for political advantage.
"The ink wasn't dry yet on the appointment when he was sending out political brochure copy to the print shop," said Kelly Fero, who is directing a coordinated state Democratic campaign.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry named Mr. Dewhurst to coordinate the state's anti-terrorism efforts earlier this month.
"It's pretty scary that the man Rick Perry has put in charge of homeland security doesn't know the difference between an Air Force uniform and a German uniform," snapped Democrat state Chairwoman Molly Beth Malcolm at an Austin party meeting Saturday.
Friday, with strong backing from Mr. Perry, Mr. Dewhurst defended his political ad saying maybe he should not have stressed his new role, but solidly standing behind his expressed sentiments of supporting the president and the armed forces.
"If I had it do to over again," said the former Houston businessman and one-time Air Force officer and CIA agent, "I would have said the same words. I might not have said 'as chairman of the Governor's Task Force on Homeland Security.'"
Mr. Dewhurst said that at political gatherings people asked him about security issues and that he intended to continue to mention his state task force assignment. "Not in a way that politicizes what I'm doing for the state," he added. "I make a point of saying: 'All right, we've stopped talking about politics. We're going to talk about a state issue, and let me tell you what my thoughts are.'
"I didn't find anything out of the ordinary about saying 'Here's what I'm doing; here's what makes me qualified to lead you,'" said Mr. Dewhurst.
BOSTON GLOBE 4/23/2001
TRIUMPHS, TROUBLES SHAPE GENERATIONS
PRESCOTT BUSH PAVED MODERATE PATH FOR SON AND GRANDSON;
WOUNDED BY FRIEND'S BETRAYAL, HE PUT HIGH PRICE ON LOYALTY
Author: By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff Date: 04/23/2001 Page: A1 Section: National/Foreign
AN AMERICAN DYNASTY
Prescott Bush was surely aghast at a sensational article the New York Herald Tribune splashed on its front page in July 1942.
"Hitler's Angel Has 3 Million in US Bank," read the headline above a story reporting that Adolf Hitler's financier had stowed the fortune in Union Banking Corp., possibly to be held for "Nazi bigwigs."
Bush knew all about the New York bank: He was one of its seven directors. If the Nazi tie became known, it would be a potential "embarrassment," Bush and his partners at Brown Brothers Harriman worried, explaining to government regulators that their position was merely an unpaid courtesy for a client. The situation grew more serious when the government seized Union's assets under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the sort of action that could have ruined Bush's political dreams.
"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich." -John Loftus, former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator and President of the Florida Holocaust Museum quoted in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000 http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115
4/14/1990 New York Times quotes President George Bush as stating, "Lets forgive the Nazi war criminals."
http://www.jewishxpress.com/nazisinbushs1988campaing/
Philadelphia Inquirer 9/10/98 David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one of several with possible Nazi links," 9/10/98; Washington Post articles by Jack Anderson on Nixon/Nazi connection Nov 1971 including Nixon Appears a Little Soft on Nazis; GOP's Open Door, Who's Coming In? Washington Post 9/21/71 by Peter Baestrup, The Secret War Against the Jews, by John Loftus and Russ Bellant's, Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party.
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