molson_golden2002 Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070309/ts_al...Af58tkJKNbMWM0F I'll bet she raises the money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orton's Arm Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 To me the article is more scary than funny. If Bill Gates, for example, chose to buy this woman's books, think of the leverage he could exert on our government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 To me the article is more scary than funny. If Bill Gates, for example, chose to buy this woman's books, think of the leverage he could exert on our government. Yeah, God forbid we should have the obscenely wealthy exercising undue influence on the federal government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molson_golden2002 Posted March 15, 2007 Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 To me the article is more scary than funny. If Bill Gates, for example, chose to buy this woman's books, think of the leverage he could exert on our government. Your post reminded me of this, not that endorse or condemn the argument: http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/jfx.htm Anyone looking through the old tales of hookers and mobsters in Seymour Hersh's new JFK book, Dark Side of Camelot will come to some interesting new information. Hersh reports that members of the security operation for General Dynamics broke into the apartment of Judith Exner Campbell in August 1962. According to Hersh, they used whatever they found there to black mail JFK into making a controversial award of the TFX (Tactical Experimental Fighter) plane development to General Dynamics. (The TFX later evolved into the F-111) Hersh claims all this became known because the FBI spied on the General Dynamics spies. Such private covert ops as a tool of corporate control grew from practices like those of former Senator George Smathers, interviewed by the ABC television program based on Hersh's book. In the 1950s, Smather's law firm hired guards from a subsidiary of the security services apparatus of his friend George Wackenhut. The guards worked at the nuclear-bomb site in Nevada and Cape Canaveral, despite federal prohibition against such an arrangement between government and private police. The private group Wackenhut still supplies security to the US-owned Area 51. Steamshovel examines this issue in the book NASA, Nazis and JFK (click Steamshovel book cover above), and also makes available The Torbitt Document Supplement, with a longer article on Smathers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orton's Arm Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Yeah, God forbid we should have the obscenely wealthy exercising undue influence on the federal government. As bad as the situation is already, this could easily make it worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orton's Arm Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Your post reminded me of this, not that endorse or condemn the argument: http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/jfx.htm Anyone looking through the old tales of hookers and mobsters in Seymour Hersh's new JFK book, Dark Side of Camelot will come to some interesting new information. Hersh reports that members of the security operation for General Dynamics broke into the apartment of Judith Exner Campbell in August 1962. According to Hersh, they used whatever they found there to black mail JFK into making a controversial award of the TFX (Tactical Experimental Fighter) plane development to General Dynamics. (The TFX later evolved into the F-111) Hersh claims all this became known because the FBI spied on the General Dynamics spies. Such private covert ops as a tool of corporate control grew from practices like those of former Senator George Smathers, interviewed by the ABC television program based on Hersh's book. In the 1950s, Smather's law firm hired guards from a subsidiary of the security services apparatus of his friend George Wackenhut. The guards worked at the nuclear-bomb site in Nevada and Cape Canaveral, despite federal prohibition against such an arrangement between government and private police. The private group Wackenhut still supplies security to the US-owned Area 51. Steamshovel examines this issue in the book NASA, Nazis and JFK (click Steamshovel book cover above), and also makes available The Torbitt Document Supplement, with a longer article on Smathers. That material is displeasing without being surprising. Our style of government is a little too open to avoid resisting this kind of pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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