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Welk 'In Memoriam' voor Ronald Reagan ?
Greg Palast - 07.06.2004 13:55
In Chaguitillo, all night long, the farmers stayed awake to guard their kids from attack from Reagan's Contra terrorists. The farmers weren't even Sandinistas, those 'Commies' that our cracked-brained President told us were 'only a 48-hour drive from Texas.'
Forwarded in full agreement with Greg Palast:
KILLER, COWARD, CONMAN - GOOD RIDDANCE, RONNIE REAGAN
MORE PROOF ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
Sunday, June 6, 2004 - by Greg Palast
You're not going to like this.
You shouldn't speak ill of the dead.
But in this case, someone's got to.
Ronald Reagan was a conman.
Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.
In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough, though hungry, except for one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis.
People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald Reagan, big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo on medicine to Nicaragua because he didn't like the government that the people there had elected.
Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's lungs filled up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed that B-movie grin while they buried the mother of three.
And when Hezbollah terrorists struck and murdered hundreds of American marines in their sleep in Lebanon, the TV warrior ran away like a whipped dog ... then turned around and invaded Grenada.
That little Club Med war was a murderous PR stunt so Ronnie could hold parades for gunning down Cubans building an airport.
I remember Nancy, a skull and crossbones prancing around in designer dresses, some of the "gifts" that flowed to the Reagans -- from hats to million-dollar homes -- from cronies well compensated with government loot.
It used to be called bribery.
And all the while, Grandpa grinned, the grandfather who bleated on about "family values" but didn't bother to see his own grandchildren.
The New York Times today, in its canned obit, wrote that Reagan projected, "faith in small town America" and "old-time values."
"Values" my ass. It was union busting and a declaration of war on the poor and anyone who couldn't buy designer dresses.
It was the New Meanness, bringing starvation back to America so that every millionaire could get another million.
"Small town" values? From the movie star of the Pacific Palisades, the Malibu mogul?
I want to throw up. ( Me too / HR )
And all the while, in the White House basement, as his brain boiled away, his last conscious act was to condone a coup d'etat against our elected Congress.
Reagan's Defense Secretary Casper the Ghost Weinberger with the crazed Colonel, Ollie North, plotted to give guns to the Monster
of the Mideast, Ayatolla Khomeini.
Reagan's boys called Jimmy Carter a weanie and a wuss although Carter wouldn't give an inch to the Ayatolla. Reagan, with that film-fantasy tough-guy con in front of cameras, went begging like a coward cockroach to
Khomeini pleading on bended knee for the release of our hostages.
Ollie North flew into Iran with a birthday cake for the maniac mullah - no kidding --in the shape of a key.
The key to Ronnie's heart.
Then the Reagan roaches mixed their cowardice with crime: taking cash from the hostage-takers to buy guns for the "contras" - the drug-runners of Nicaragua posing as freedom fighters.
I remember as a student in Berkeley the words screeching out of the bullhorn, "The Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan, hereby orders this demonstration to disburse" ... and then came the teargas and the truncheons. And all the while, that fang-hiding grin from the Gipper.
In Chaguitillo, all night long, the farmers stayed awake to guard their kids from attack from Reagan's Contra terrorists. The farmers weren't even Sandinistas, those 'Commies' that our cracked-brained President told us were 'only a 48-hour drive from Texas.'
What the hell would they want with Texas, anyway?
Nevertheless, the farmers, and their families, were Ronnie's targets.
In the deserted darkness of Chaguitillo, a TV blared. Weirdly, it was that third-rate gangster movie, "Brother Rat." Starring Ronald Reagan.
Well, my friends, you can rest easier tonight: the Rat is dead.
Killer, coward, conman. Ronald Reagan, good-bye and good riddance.
Greg Palast is author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Henk R: The undersigned fully agrees with Greg Palast, and thinks it's disgusting again to see and hear the rewriting of history concerning one of it's biggest crooks.
Reagan's obituary: 'Journalism' again at one of it's global low water marks...
Because this is my experience too:
War Crimes and Double Standards
(of Ronald Reagan and the press)
Robert Parry:  http://tinyurl.com/39rqa
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/2rvub
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/2ujbl
The Netherlands
fpf (at) chello.nl
The Dutch author worked for 4 decades for international media as foreign correspondent,
of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East.
Seeing that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !
Evil triumphs when good men, women and journalists remain silent
Help the troops come home: we need them to fight our 'governments'.
http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
HR
See also: http://tinyurl.com/2rvub
or: http://tinyurl.com/39rqa
 Website: http://www.GregPalast.com
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| Read more about: media | | supplements | | | some supplements were deleted from this article, see policy | | Re: In memoriam + media Newspeak | HR - 07.06.2004 14:45
Het is uitermate jammer dat de media in nederland o langzaam leren, en dat de amerikaans/israelische oogkleppen het zicht nog steeds zo kwalijk belemmeren.
De situatie zoals die nu is :
The international news agencies can absolutely not be trusted.
The international media and Ronald Reagan's obituary.
FPF-07-6-2004 - It's shown again - like every day - that the industry
running the mainstream media - has - thanks to collaborating 'journalists' - worked on a disgusting piece of rewriting history again.
Take for instance one of the best american journalists - Greg Palast - and see how his critical and objective article on Ronald Reagan is
distributed:
Google's News Search lists this afternoon three Palast items.
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ytj2o
Covering Reagan's death the 'Google News Search' turns up
Thirteentousand mostly distorting and uncritical items:
Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2v7gj
Confirming that the industry media think that they are the message...
We must take back the media !
Henk Ruyssenaars
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/2ujbl
The Netherlands
 fpf@chello.nl
The Dutch author worked for 4 decades for international media as foreign correspondent,
of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East.
Seeing that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !
Evil triumphs when good men, women and journalists remain silent
Help the troops come home: we need them to fight our 'governments'.
http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
HR
Website: http://tinyurl.com/2rvub
| | Tear down this wall! | Sander - 07.06.2004 15:24
Ik herinner me vooral deze:
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
Nog wat quotes:
“Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way.”
"A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."
"[The Democrats] say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith.… My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view."
"The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism; it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written."
Officiele condoleancesite
http://www.ronaldreaganmemorial.com/
DUTCH COURAGE
http://www.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=70
The Reagan of History
http://www.nationalreview.com/owens/owens200406051832.asp
De Arabieren zijn niet in rouw
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20040606/ap_on_re_eu/reagan_world
Al-Reuters, ook geen fans
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040605/ts_nm/people_reagan_personality_dc
De Democraten zinken laag
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1725944
Reagan's Evil Empire Speech
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/filmmore/reference/primary/evil.html
Reagan quotes, zeker net zo leuk voor de non-fans
http://www.rightwingnews.com/quotes/reagan.php
http://www.rightwingnews.com/quotes/reagan2.php
| | De 'fans' van Reagan | Henk Ruyssenaars - 07.06.2004 16:00
Op deze site wordt melding mekaat van mogelijke 'fans' van Reagan:
mocht het inderdaad zo zijn dat er denkende mensen rondlopen die ook maar één goed woord over hebben voor het criminele bewind van Reagan, dan komt daar echt geen enkele hersencel aan te pas...
Wat erg dat het zover is gekomen met zovelen...
War Crimes and Double Standards
(of Ronald Reagan and the press)
Robert Parry: http://tinyurl.com/39rqa
Lees en leer s.v.p. - dat blijkt broodnodig voor die 'fans'...
Henk Ruyssenaars
 E-Mail: fpf@chello.nl
Website: http://tinyurl.com/2rvub
| | Afghanistan | Algebra - 07.06.2004 16:59
De vrijheidstrijders in Afghanistan zijn door Ronald Raegon opgezet. Via Bin Laden financiërde hij de vrijheidstrijders die tegen de Russen moesten vechten. De vrijheidstrijders van Reagan waren alleen anders, ze verkrachten, plunderden eigendommen, vernielden huizen en maakten Afghanistan tot de grootste drugsproducent. De vrijheidstrijders gaven ook onderdak aan allerlei terroristen. Na 1992 gingen ze zich opsplitsen in verschillende groepen. Daaruit kwamen ook de Taliban voort.
| | Osama Bin Laden en Saddam Hussein bewapend | M02 - 07.06.2004 20:53
Reagan In Peace
Reagan was onder meer verantwoordelijk voor het bewapenen van Osama Bin Laden en Saddam Hussein... Lees verder het (engelstalige) artikel met veel links op indymedia.org
Website: http://indymedia.org/nl/2004/06/111211.shtml
| | Correctie | Sander - 08.06.2004 09:10
De wapens van Iraq waren afkomstig van USSR, France, China. De VS komen pas op de elfde plaats (met landen als Denemarken en Egypte voor zich) met ongeveeer 1% van de wapenleveranties aan Irak voor de eerste Golfoorlog.
http://projects.sipri.se/armstrade/Trnd_Ind_IRQ_Imps_73-02.pdf
| | Reacties op Reagan in de eighties | Sander - 12.06.2004 09:12
WHAT THEY SAID: In honor of president Reagan's funeral, here's a useful corrective to the notion that his legacy was always celebrated. Today, almost everyone concedes his historical significance. But that wasn't what was said at the time. Here's a smattering of commentary from the 1980s.
"A few years from now, I believe, Reaganism will seem a weird and improbable memory, a strange interlude of national hallucination, rather as the McCarthyism of the early 1950s and the youth rebellion of the late 1960s appear to us today." - Arthur "Always Wrong" Schlesinger, Washington Post, May 1, 1988.
"I wonder how many people, reading about the [Evil Empire'] speech or seeing bits on television, really noticed its outrageous character… Primitive: that is the only word for it. … What is the world to think when the greatest of powers is led by a man who applies to the most difficult human problem a simplistic theology – one in fact rejected by most theologians?... What must the leaders of Western Europe think of such a speech? They look to the head of the alliance for rhetoric that can persuade them and their constituents. What they get from Ronald Reagan is a mirror image of crude Soviet rhetoric. And it is more than rhetoric: everyone must sense that. The real Ronald Reagan was speaking in Orlando. The exaggeration and the simplicities are there not only in the rhetoric but in the process by which he makes decisions." - Anthony Lewis, New York Times, March 10, 1983
"Something like the speech to the evangelicals is not presidential, it's not something a president should say. If the Russians are infinitely evil and we are infinitely good, then the logical first step is a nuclear first strike. Words like that frighten the American public and antagonize the Soviets. What good is that?" - Rick Hertzberg, New Yorker macher, quoted in the Washington Post, March 29, 1983.
"President Reagan has substituted a mindless militarism for a foreign policy, rattling arms from El Salvador to Saudi Arabia, frightening our friends from Japan to West Germany. He proposes a 50 percent increase in ‘defense expenditures.’ Much of it will be dissipated in the self-defeating spiral of an open-ended nuclear-arms race that poses a greater threat to our own internal and external security than all the Communist propaganda that ever emanated from Moscow. Already, the cost of Reagan policies is devastating to our country in economic strength, in diplomatic influence, in national security, in moral stature." -- John B. Oakes, former senior editor, New York Times, November 1, 1981.
"All evidence indicates that the Reagan administration has abandoned both containment and détente for a very different objective: destroying the Soviet Union as a world power and possibly even its Communist system. [This is a] potentially fatal form of Sovietphobia… a pathological rather than a healthy response to the Soviet Union." — Princeton Professor Stephen Cohen, 1983.
"'We've really got to start talking,' says George Ball, undersecretary of state in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. 'The fact is we've let these fellows get away with murder, and the situation now is much too serious for that.' To ideological men like Ronald Reagan, new information is only useful if it confirms old prejudices. Though he is shrewd enough to bend and budge under pressure (hence, for example, his abandonment of old positions on Taiwan), in his heart Reagan knows he has always been right about the nature of the world, of communism, of America's proper role." - Robert Kaiser, Washington Post, October 30, 1983.
"Are we rushing headlong into the next step of those 40 years of progressions by which we do something then they do something, by which we pretend that we're going to build this and it will somehow strengthen our deterrent then they do it, and low and behold, the next thing we know is, the President of the United States is addressing the nation saying, ‘My fellow Americans, I hate to tell you this, but the Soviet Union is deploying more of these, and we have to respond, and I'm asking the Congress for more money in order to respond.’ Star Wars is guaranteed to do that, and it's guaranteed to threaten the heavens -- the one line we haven't yet crossed with weaponry: the heavens." – Senator John Kerry, on SDI, the program that brought the evil empire to its knees, August 5, 1986.
"In his distaste for bilateral efforts to manage the superpower rivalry and his instinctive predilection for unilateral ones, Reagan is counting on American technological and economic predominance to prevail in the end. The most striking, and questionable, theme in his star wars speech was his apparent belief that the U.S. could mobilize its scientific community and its economic resources in quest of an impenetrable antiballistic-missile shield over the entire nation without triggering perilously destabilizing countermeasures, both offensive and defensive, on the part of the U.S.S.R. Reagan's views notwithstanding, there is little reason to hope that the many handicaps of the Soviet economy will be decisively advantageous to the U.S. in the long run, allowing the U.S. to ‘beat’ the U.S.S.R. in an arms race." -- Strobe Talbott, Time, April 18, 1983.
"Ronald Reagan came to Europe to persuade people that he is not the shallow, nuclear cowboy of certain unkind assessments. Said White House spokesman David Gergen, on the eve of departure, ‘Some in Europe do not know or understand him.’ But now that the president has been among them for over a week, Europeans may think they got him right the first time. In Rome, he made a stab at identifying himself as a ‘pilgrim for peace.’ But by the time he got to London he had reverted to type as a cold warrior. And yesterday in Bonn, he reiterated his commitment to ‘peace through strength’ – which is fancy talk for continuing the nuclear arms race." - Mary McGrory, Washington Post, June 10, 1982.
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