spiritual wickness in high places

[FranklinSpenceGOP sleepers]

go ahead touch my martial law monkey


The following story is so incredibly outlandish that even those who hold the Bush family in utter contempt still have an visceral instinct to reject it out-of-hand. It is a tale of the forbidden desires percolating in the deepest, most atavistic realms of the unconscious, far beyond the pale of civilization and good taste, thoroughly violating every cherished norm of polite society and human decency. To dismiss it without any meaningful attempt to critically assess its potential empirical reality, however, would be to discount numerous first-hand testimonials and second-hand investigations by duly constituted figures of authority.

The story could be a populist moral panic symptomatic of the economic and social dislocation of the American working and middle class over the last two to three decades. It could be iatrogenically created by agents of the panoptic bureaucratic nation-state, such as social workers, law enforcement officers, and legislators, as a means of consolidating their power or advancing their careers. It could also be true. Without a doubt, it is entirely plausible within the context of American intelligence activity since World War II.

The Franklin Community Federal Credit Union case encompasses financial fraud, money laundering, drug running, and child prostitution, as well as a mix of criminal and commercial satanism that harkens back to the Le Voisin affair in France in the 1680s. The Le Voisin affair, which resulted in the first investigation of satanism using something resembling modern police techniques, is itself part of a larger pattern in which fringe groups perform functions "that society finds must be forbidden and disapproved, yet finds necessary and useful. They can spread terror in the segments of the population that the society wishes to suppress, and perform activities that the official morality does not allow, which people nevertheless demand (such as gambling, drug sales, pornography, abortion, and prostitution)."

This certainly seems to be the general niche that Franklin Federal Community Credit Union director Lawrence A. “Larry” King fell into, consistent with the wholesale privatization of formerly public intelligence functions during the Reagan-Bush administration. His meteoric rise to wealth, power, and fame began when he was taken under the wing of the political and business elite of Omaha, which commands national power disproportionate to the small size of Nebraska by virtue of hosting such important industry leaders as Berkshire Hathaway, Union Pacific, Con Agra, and Mutual of Omaha. King made the most of this valuable entre to become the leader of a humble neighborhood credit union that claimed $2.6 million in deposits, and soon, a rapidly rising star in national Republican politics.

After his credit union was raided and shut down on Friday, November 4, 1988 (a mere four days before George Bush was elected President) by the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Internal Revenue Service, and National Credit Union Administration, a secret second set of books were discovered which recorded deposits totaling $38 million.

Of this sum, only $4 million could be accounted for in the civil suit brought by the National Credit Union Administration. The remaining $34 million could conceivably have been lost through fraud and embezzlement. In light of King’s probable intelligence connections (through William Casey, Max Hugel, Oliver North, and others) and the well-documented connection between the intelligence community and collapse of the Bank of Commerce and Credit International and the savings and loan industry , however, it seems likely that at least some of it went to fund covert activities.
Within weeks of the credit union's closure, the unicameral Nebraska legislature established a special investigative committee to look into the missing funds. Unexpectedly, it soon found itself receiving testimony from numerous teenagers and young adults who said that they had been child prostitutes, and from social workers and state child-care administrators backing up those charges. They all accused King of running a child prostitution ring for the political and business elite of Omaha and the nation, especially Republicans. Shortly after, two New York Times articles in December of 1988 broadly outlined the accusations of sexual and physical abuse, child prostitution, child pornography, money laundering, and drugs.

King’s illicit work was not restricted to Omaha, but involved arranging child prostitution parties at cities across the nation, including Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. Many of the Omaha foster youth testified before the Franklin Committee that they traveled with King in private planes to attend political events, after which they were used as prostitutes at sex parties.

Although Bush's name surfaced repeatedly in the course of the Nebraska scandal, it didn’t make it into print until July 1989, in an editorial in Omaha's leading daily newspaper: “One child, who has been under psychiatric care, is said to believe she saw George Bush at one of King's parties.” While this may have been the first allegation in print associating Bush with the scandal, it was not the first one tying him to child prostitution. As early as 1985, Eulice Lisa Washington, a foster child of Barbara Webb (Larry King’s cousin) and her husband (Franklin Credit Union board member Jarrett Webb) made similar allegations to social workers and law enforcement personnel, specifically naming George Bush as in attendance at such parties at least twice. A March 25, 1986 report from Boy's Town child welfare officer Julie Walters recorded Lisa saying that she had first met Bush at the 1984 Republican convention and later at a private party in Washington, D.C. hosted by King. The Franklin Committee report cited similar allegations from Lisa that she and 15-20 (mostly black) boys were taken by King to another party in Chicago in September or October of 1984 at which Bush was present: "She stated she saw George Bush pay King money, and that Bush left the party with a nineteen year old black boy named Brent. . . . (She) indicated that she knew George Bush due to the fact that he had been in political campaigns and also she had observed a picture of Bush with Larry King at Larry King's house in Omaha."

In December 1990, a Washington County, Nebraska judge dismissed all charges against Lisa's foster parents, the Webbs. The foster care specialists and social service workers who debriefed Lisa and other eye witnesses all vouched for the authenticity of their stories, even the part about Bush, and included the Walters report in the Foster Care Review Board's official report to the Franklin Committee and law enforcement authorities. As Lisa’s sometime foster parent put it: “This was long before he was president. It seems like there were more exciting people to ‘lie’ about if that's what they were doing.”<br>
It was not merely physical and sexual abuse, child prostitution, and child pornography that the foster children were subjected to. They also seem to have been forced into involvement with satanic ritual abuse and murder as well. Members of King’s stable “charged him with participation in at least one satanic ritual murder of a child several years ago.”

It was King’s capacity as an organizer of private sex parties across the country, however, that caused the story to circulate throughout the international media. Magazines like Avvenimenti of Italy, Pronto of Barcelona (the highest circulation weekly in Spain, with 4.5 million readers), and Inside News of Australia took the New York Times' scandal charges a step further. They reported definitively that King pimped a nation-wide child prostitution ring servicing both Republican and Democratic political and business elites. Pronto wrote that the scandal "appears to directly implicate politicos of the state of Nebraska and Washington, D.C. who are very close to the White House and George Bush himself.”

[stonefruit]

In Washington, D.C., King seems to have partnered in homosexual and child prostitution with insider lobbyist Craig Spence, a Republican powerbroker widely known for his lavish parties, well-attended by the upper echelons of power. On July 29, 1989, the Washington Times published the banner front page headline “Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush: ‘Call boys’ took midnight tour of White House.” The expose was documented by credit card vouchers and gave Spence a leading role. Later Washington Times articles reported that President Bush tracked the burgeoning scandal closely.

As the scandal began to die down, Bush had managed to avoid giving any press conferences on the topic. When Spence was asked who had facilitated his late night tour of the White House, he “hinted that the tours were arranged by ‘top level’ persons, including Donald Gregg, national security advisor to Vice President Bush.” Weeks later, Spence was found dead in a New York City hotel room of a gunshot wound. It was ruled a suicide. Although Gregg denied any connection to Spence, Spence had sponsored a dinner in his honor in the spring of 1989 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown. The Bush administration carefully tracked publicly circulated reports about the scandal.

King was indicted on May 19, 1989 on forty counts related to the collapse of the credit union. When he prepared to approach Bush for help by purchasing a ticket to a fundraising event Bush was scheduled to attend in Omaha in early 1990, U.S. Magistrate Richard Kopf abruptly ordered King to undergo psychiatric evaluation at a federal facility in Springfield, Missouri. King was whisked away by the Secret Service while buying flowers on February 17, 1990, before he could attend the event.

Another death as convenient as that of Spence occurred on July 11, 1990, when the small plane of Gary Caradori, a retired state police investigator hired by the Nebraska Senate as chief investigator for the case, piloted by himself, blew up in mid-air, killing him and his eight year old son. The appendix of DeCamp’s volume also lists an additional fourteen suspicious deaths.

Three years after the scandal broke, it was apparently still sensitive enough to require ongoing damage control, perhaps because the 1992 presidential campaign was heating up and about to head into the primary season. The December 1991 edition of Gentleman’s Quarterly ran a long article “viewed by many political observers in Nebraska as an attempt to refute the charges which would not die, despite the termination of all official inquiries.” The story cavalierly dismissed the “vile stew of child abuse, prostitution, money-laundering and drug-trafficking” by categorically asserting that “it turned out the whole thing had been fabricated.”

In the classic tradition of the limited hang-out, the article admitted that embezzlement and homosexuality took place but that “no children were ever involved in this case.” In fact the “only child even mentioned was a 9-year-old boy, whom the least reliable of Caradori's witnesses claimed to have seen in the company of George Bush at one of Larry King's Washington parties.” Apparently the journalist didn't consider the numerous other adolescents and preadolescents involved in the case to be "children," even though they were minors at the time of the alleged incidents. One informant for the piece, Steve Bowman, was quoted as saying "We do have some credible witnesses who say that ‘Yes, George Bush does have a problem.’"

A preponderance of evidence suggests that Larry King was 1) a funding conduit for covert operations, 2) an elite pimp for the rich and powerful through his connections with Boys Town, Girls Club, and local foster parents, and 3) aware and tolerant of a satanist faction among his suppliers of child prostitutes, in order to have access to especially compliant ones to satisfy the most depraved wishes of his clients and – possibly – to provide intelligence operations with assets suffering from disassociative identity disorder. This will facilitate their use for extremely sensitive operations requiring the highest level of deniability.

[stonefruit]

There are areas of overlap between modern-day satanism and post-World War II intelligence activities, particularly in the areas of mind control. MK Ultra and other CIA projects like Artichoke, Bluebird, Pandora, MK-Delta, MK-Naomi, MK-Action, and MK-Search were not science fiction. Although covert, highly sensitive, and often outside of standard bureaucratic oversight protocols, these programs did exist. They left enough of a paper trail to prove that they ruined hundreds if not thousands of lives in the name of “national security.”<br>Perhaps the most useful question in initiating a critical analysis of a story as shocking as Bush’s involvement in more depraved elements of the Franklin Federal Community Credit Union scandal is "cui bono?" – "who benefits?" Who benefits from the circulation of such salacious stories implicating George H.W. Bush? It is interesting to note that Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times took such an active role in promoting the story in a major, agenda-setting media market. It may have been because of Bush's equivocal support for Moon's priority notion that P.O.W.-M.I.A.s still existed in large numbers in Vietnam well after the end of that conflict. Bush was also a quintessential representative of the relatively "liberal" Northeastern international finance capital-oriented wing of the Republican party. Their willingness to trade with and invest in communist countries was another source of contention for Moon, as it was for the John Birch Society and its ilk as well. These conservative groups saw the “liberal” wing as selling out American sovereignty to an international banking elite working to take over the United States by absorbing it into a godless world socialist government administered by the United Nations.

The Birchers represent an idiosyncratic fusion of reactionary, libertarian, and populist elements within the "Cowboys," the Sunbelt economic and political elite that have been battling with the "Yankees" for supremacy since World War II. Clearly, the last two generations of Bushes have been trying mightily to mobilize the resources and allegiance of both the Cowboys and the Yankees by attempting to identify and ingratiate themselves with both camps.

Many establishment Republicans have also been jealous of Bush's patrician background and seemingly effortless rise to power through a succession of appointed positions. They were frustrated at what they saw as his failure to pay his dues, by working his way up through the party ranks. Then, of course, there were also Democrats and radicals of the right and left, any number of whom would have salivated at the prospect of the fall of such a nationally prominent mainstream Republican.

The controversy of Bush’s involvement with the Franklin credit union scandal differs from that of the red Studebaker not in magnitude but in kind. As such, it requires a far different analysis if life writing is to be used effectively as a form of social critique. Plainly put, this story is tacky and disturbing. It is also fraught with implications most people would rather not confront. Somehow the death of millions of innocent people through war and covert operations our tax dollars pay for is sane and acceptable, but the idea that a sitting Vice President may have been a pedophile is insane and totally beyond the realm of possibility. Nevertheless, a documentary record does exist and it can be interrogated, as distasteful and morally exhausting as it that may be.

Although I chose this single episode for the purposes of clarity and simplicity, there does exist a literature that discusses Bush’s pedophilia in other contexts (to say nothing of the perennial Beltway scuttlebutt of his having had a long-term affair with his secretary Jennifer Fitzgerald). Likewise, there also exists a huge variety of court cases and other empirical evidence pointing to the pervasive use of child prostitutes by elites worldwide. This makes it an ideal test case for conspiranoiac analysis because, in spite of voluminous evidence, it is still shut out of mainstream discourse - and emphatically rejected by (almost) everyone who nevertheless manages to come to contact with such narratives.

Why? Certainly because it is so distasteful. In the modern era, notions of taste and manners are central to our conception of ourselves as human beings distinct from the rest of the animal world. But it is not only propriety that causes such stories to be rejected so vehemently. It is also because of the implications they raise. As inured as we are to the plainly psychotic idea of modern war as a solution to political conflicts, the idea of breaking the bond of trust and dependence a child has with adults in such a manner is far, far more shocking to most. It implies that there is virtually no act of violence, depravity, or ignorance a child molester would not be capable of. When such a figure of evil is in a position of grave authority (let alone being packaged as a paragon of human decency and “family values”), it is all the more disturbing.

It would shatter the very foundations of conventional reality to admit that someone entrusted with the collective welfare of millions of people could commit such perversions. For most people, every other comforting aspect of the conventional wisdom would tumble in turn upon making such an admission to themselves. So rather than confront the empirical evidence in a critical, deliberative fashion, they would rather simply continue to take it on faith that their leaders have their best interests at heart.

It may very well be that this seemingly bottomless capacity for incredulity by the masses regarding elite behavior is one of the major engines behind the phenomena of elite deviance. Already conditioned to being above the law and unrestrained by personal responsibility by virtue of wealth and privilege, they may be perfectly aware that even their most shocking behavior will be not only protected by the “law enforcement” apparatus of the nation-state they control, but will be totally rejected as implausible by public opinion in the unlikely event that limited episodes escape into the broader public consciousness. This could be seen as a kind of corollary of Goebbel’s “theory of the big lie.” Certainly, in his personal appetites and in his policy decisions, Bush has exhibited a repeated sense of the cocksurety typical of someone who was tapped as a “made man” in a crime family early on in life - and rose to be the Don.

[Moses]

Bush Sr. is a very nasty man. And he has been running a privatized, renegade, ex-CIA, ex-military, mercenary network on behalf of oil interests and political interests starting in the 80s.

As everyone knows, this included running drugs, and dealing w/ drug trafficers, and probably sex-trafficers, too, I would think.

In terms of his own conduct, I have never heard anything more than that he was a sadistic philanderer, of the Country Club type, regarding the other people's wives and women he bedded as trophies to be bragged about. (very good credible sources on this). So he is a sleezy man.

But why Moon would go after him-- it could be an FBI thing? That is, the far-right types associated w/ the FBI? Moon doesn't associate himself w/ any wholesome types, so I can't imagine it was any entity promoting the good of the country. Who was managing editor in '89?