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[APJ] American Politics Journal | March 1, 2006 -- Why

Scooter Libby Is Toast and Karl Rove Will Provide the Butter

 

American Politics Journal

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March 1, 2006

 

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Why Scooter Libby Is Toast and Karl Rove Will Provide the Butter... and

why no one connected with John Fund can get life insurance

By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

 

March 1, 2006 /howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com via apj.us/

 

Scooter Libby made a mistake.

 

He thought he was a NeoCon Insider.

 

It was a natural mistake for him to have made, his business cards, the

perks, the deference, the salary, and the access to power, all spell

out

Insider using the usual formula for such. But he was wrong and will now

 

find himself tossed off the back of the Sleigh of State into the gaping

 

maws of righteous indignation, there to serve his ultimate purpose,

scapegoat and distraction.

 

The NeoCons waste nothing, not even their hapless tools, that is their

environmental policy.

 

Your standing and importance in the NeoCon world depend not on where

you

graduated college, in Scooter's case Columbia University, or on your

overt title or what you do in the administration, that is mostly window

 

dressing. What matters is how important you are to the inner workings

of

the NeoCon Cabal. No one who came on board after 1999 is really an

insider. The insiders earned that status far earlier; Insiders do the

work you can't afford to have known. Therefore no matter what they must

 

be protected.

 

Scooter's knowledge about the actions taken by this administration can

all be parsed as missteps by those at his level. The very visibility he

 

was allowed and his connection to so many events points not to his

importance but to his expandability. Those in this administration who

know themselves to have been brought on board after 2000 who also

participated in questionable activities should be contacting their

attorneys and working on building up funds for their defense.

 

The real NeoCon Insiders are political operatives placed in media,

politics, and in prominent places in the larger cultural frame.

 

What you do as a political operative in carrying out the covert

machinations of the Plan, that is what matters; that is what determines

 

your expendability factor. Real insiders do not have to worry about

being tossed off the back of the sleigh. For them, anything is possible

 

in terms of defense. They know too much for it to be otherwise.

 

This group is relatively small in number. What they did to earn that

status goes to such questions as the shape and direction of policy for

the last 10 years, the make up of the legion of pundits, the various

'sources' for leaks, and other points that, if considered, help the

onlooker see the reality behind the political front presented by this

Administration today.

 

One of the best examples of this is John Fund. He is carrying his

weight

as a political operative; he is not expendable though occasionally he

is

forced to spend time on the side lines for bad behavior.

 

The internal structure of the NeoCon world means the need to know is

based on what the individual will be doing for the Plan. This

correlates

with their routine inclusion on insider information. Fund has been

'briefed' with confidential information since 2000 and before then with

 

their internal plans, which he helped formulate. He is briefed because

as a first level operative he handles what is most sensitive to them.

 

When the NeoCons transferred their cabal into positions within

government and the media they assigned duties to those operatives they

knew they could trust. Newbies were used but not trusted with the most

sensitive activities. For NeoCons trust takes a long time.

 

Fund, they knew they could trust. He had been one of them for nearly

twenty years by then. He worked hard to make himself useful, suggesting

 

many major appointments for this administration, providing names of

individuals who would bring 'cover' for what the administration

intended

to do. He wrote the book they intended to use to stifle comment on the

election fraud they had already planned, and providing presence useful

to them ideologically, though that is now slipping.

 

Instead of looking at the administration and thinking in terms of the

normal chains of command superimpose on that the driving need of this

administration to manipulate public opinion while bolting into position

 

the means to ensure they cannot be displaced.

 

The Alito confirmation demonstrated that Congress is iced; the Supreme

Court is frozen; and at this point in time the electoral process is

known to be owned by the NeoCons, thanks to Diebold and manipulation

within various states.

 

Examine Fund's role as a political operative. You start to see how this

 

was accomplished.

 

Fund was a nerd from Live Oak, California who dreamed of power. He was

recruited by Robert Novak and placed at the Wall Street Journal in

1983.

His qualifications are that there is nothing he will not do as well as

his facility to use the rhetoric of the freedom movement to justify

policies useful to NeoCons. His problematic personal history kept him

from the position of speech writer for Bush in 2000. He is useful and

protected but even then the Bush administration understood his

potential

liabilities.

 

Many of those serving in positions similar to Scooter's in this

administration were suggested by Fund. He had started his political

career as a Libertarian and was familiar with most of the players from

that movement. That movement provided the policy that allowed the

adoption of law that decoupled costs from accountability. In this way

government has increased its real income. Look at services provided by

government; notice how these are being cut back while taxes continue to

 

rise. This puts money into the pockets of the NeoCons and the friends

they appoint. Their costs are lowered; their income increased. Those

funds were then redirected into such adventures as the War in Iraq.

 

>From our National Parks to Social Services policy has been used to

convert 'service' to profit centers that generated even more profits

while the costs are borne increasingly by ordinary Americans through

fees. What the Ports Deal tells you is that even this may not be

enough;

soon you may see a for sale sign in front of Yosemite and the Statue of

 

Liberty.

 

Check out the action in any of the vast array of agencies and bureaus

we

entrust to provide services; talk to the victims and activists who are

struggling against the system that is eating them alive. Every day

their

numbers grow.

 

The direction of American policy for privatization, outsourcing, and

deregulation, all of which originated in libertarian think tanks such

as

Cato Institute in Washington D. C. and Reason Foundation in Los

Angeles,

were intended originally to allow the individual American more choices

and so lower costs. Instead government keeps exacting taxes while the

individual pays privately for services formerly funded through

government.

 

John Fund put these players together for their mutual profit. Notice

the

large donors to each of these two think tanks. Koch Industries is run

by

Charles and David Koch, two men who have profited along with

Halliburton

from such expensive fiascoes as Vietnam and now in Iraq. The story of

how what we once called 'the freedom movement' was subverted has a long

 

history. That conversion stole the hope in which thousands of activists

 

invested their lives. The means by which it was accomplished were

devious, revealing amazing foresight.

 

These oil men connect neatly to the same people who took over the

United

Nations and the Environmental Movement. The motivation was always the

burnishing of the bottom line and protecting profits.

 

The Austrian economics that originally prevailed at Cato through the

presence of the eminent economist, Murry Rothbard, was replaced by

Utility Theory. Utility Theory allows for the manipulation of economic

factors for the 'good of the many.' Rothbard's Austrian viewpoint

rejected manipulation. Rothbard was a founder of Cato. He is no longer

even mentioned in their history. He was purged by Ed Crane, Cato

President, and Charles Koch, their only donor at that point, in 1981.

(see contemporary newsletter on line at the von Mises Institute.) At

the

time it was a mystery to all of us in the movement. We assumed it was a

 

personality conflict.

 

But the logic of the action is clear given the present train of events

 

John Fund is a dear friend of Cato. He occupies a seat of honor

whenever

he attends one of their events for which he is comped, as is

appropriate

for one who has done so much in their cause. Those who work for Cato

have profited largely from their conversion of freedom.

 

In 2000 Fund was given an even more important trust by the NeoCons

inner

circle; to write a book that would allow him to speak as an authority

on

the issue of electoral fraud. His comments on that subject are

calculated to sow division among those who are working for reform. This

 

kind of disinformation campaign has been duplicated many times, both by

 

him and by other NeoCon political operatives. But John Fund has

arguably

carried more weight and done more than any other single operative to

advance the NeoCon agenda.

 

Do a Google search on his name and note the specific subjects he takes

up and writes about. He anticipates the action frequently, placing

specious arguments then adopted by those who respect his authority and

power.

 

John Fund was the essential component in constructing the

justifications

for this and for building defenses against criticism in advance. To do

that he needed to know what was going to come down. Hence, briefings.

 

And despite the fact he was fired from the Wall Street Journal

editorial

staff in 2002 he continues to be billed as 'their man.' How many on

line

journalists get such briefings? How do I know he is being briefed? He

said so.

 

Yesterday he appeared on MSNBC's Scarborough Country and the transcript

 

for that show contains the following:

 

> FUND: Joe...

> CROWLEY: ... there are so many things in this war on

> terror that we cannot control. Look, if a terrorist

> is—is—is intent on committing an act of terror against

> the United States, they will do whatever they can to

> try to find a way to do that.

> FUND: Joe...

> CROWLEY: I am saying that, because there are so many

> things we can't control in this war, why give up an

> area that we can control?

> FUND: Joe, one of the saddest things...

> SCARBOROUGH: John Fund.

> FUND: One of the saddest things in this whole debate has

> been the things we can't talk about. It is certainly

> true, the United Arab Emirates had a spotty record

> regarding terrorism before 9/11. Since 9/11, when

> George Bush said, you're either for—with us or you are

> against us, the United Arab Emirates has decided, they

> are with us. There are things—and I got a security

> briefing on this today—there are things the United Arab

> Emirates has done to support the war on terrorism that

> are brave, that have put that government at risk, that

> we can't talk about, and our government can't talk

> about, because it would only mean more terrorist

> attacks on the United Arab Emirates. So, they are

> silent. They can't speak for themselves. I am not pro-

> Arab. I am not Muslim, but I am pro-common sense. Let's

> have the 45-day review, and let's have this debate after

> the 45 days, when we actually have all the information

> and all the facts.

> SCARBOROUGH: All right. Thank you so much, John Fund. I

> usually agree with you. Tonight, I don't.

 

How many of you receive a briefing from the administration routinely?

Fund is not a reporter assigned to the White House. He is not directly

employed by the Wall Street Journal. Ask yourself why he has received

these briefings for at least six years. The answers to questions are

often unpalatable but important.

 

My own involvement in this story is of long standing. I had doubts and

questions about John Fund from the time I noted he was using me to

place

rumors in the early months of the Clinton Administration. Not that I

liked Clinton but neither do I like being used for someone's dirty

work.

I was then well involved in the National Federation of Republican

Women.

I had known John since before he was hired as Executive Director for

the

Libertarian Party of California in 1981. I was then Southern California

 

Vice Chairman. Unlike Fund, I was always a volunteer whose focus was

not

on personal profit but on changes I wanted to leave my children. My

family has a long history as champions for freedom.

 

It is always, perhaps, the personal, that forces us to accept the

unpalatable. Events drove that message home for me.

 

My daughter, Morgan Pillsbury, told me she had been battered by John

Fund while they were living together. I believe her. I saw the physical

 

evidence. I am a witness, the only witness. That should have been

handled as is mandated by law in New York. The deviations from what is

normal procedure began to awaken me to the reality of this

administration.

 

I was determined to see justice done. After a good many years the law

suit Morgan filed is now wending its way through the system and a

hearing is scheduled for this spring.

 

Two days ago I discovered evidence I was being stalked. Both my counsel

 

and I agreed the timing was more than a little coincidental.

 

Earlier today I prepared and placed with my counsel a declaration of

what I intend to say when called to testify. It is well to be prepared.

 

The evidence I discovered is also in his hands.

 

Why am I being stalked? What do I know that concerns the NeoCons except

 

that John Fund lied about a simple case of domestic violence? Sometimes

 

you don't see what is significant. But over the past years I have been

privy to things that never appeared in the media. I am not sure which

item is of the most concern to them. I think about the train of events

sometimes and wonder. John is, I came to realize, a tangle of truths

and

falsehoods; any inquiry will doubtless produce something the NeoCons

cannot risk becoming known. Having watched the NeoCons for years I have

 

no illusions about just how ruthless they can be. Contributing to No

Child Left Behind did not give me a get out of jail free card. I do not

 

anticipate having tea at the White House with Laura again.

 

Protecting John Fund appears to be more important than anyone,

certainly

I, had realized.

 

John has acted as a spy for the NeoCons, pointing out the

vulnerabilities of those who were committed to the freedom movement,

working to widen the chasms of distrust between all Americans, placing

disinformation, attacking under pretense of politics and ideology, and

accepting all of the benefits he so earned. He has championed an

undeclared war on our freedoms; a conversion of our lives and wealth to

 

their profit.

 

As a side note, many people will be surprised to learn that John Does

not live in tony Georgetown digs. John lives in a pigsty of a bachelor

pad in Jersey City (one might be led to believe his Bible is The

Bachelor Home Companion by P. J. O'Rourke) but seems to be able to

conceal a large amount of his personal wealth.

 

Morgan commented about the papers she had to clean up and sent many on

to me. My counsel now has those, too.

 

Most Americans do not yet realize that a war is being waged -- not

against Iraq but against each of us. It is not the Republican Party

that

is charge in this administration but a small cadre who seized executive

 

branch power and converted it to their own uses. Most Republicans are

experiencing a deer-in-the-headlights moment right now. Their Party has

 

been hijacked, their president has been hijacked, and they do not know

what to do. I remain a registered Republican working for an effective

coalition.

 

The attack on us and on our rights has hardly begun. You don't go to

the

trouble of setting up this degree of control without having made plans

to use it.

 

That is where we are today. The NeoCons have garnered tremendous power

and wealth, but we can still win.

 

Solutions exist. Those include getting off all of the grids, energy,

being only the first. The NeoCons want a system that provides them with

 

an income and control in perpetuity. We need to turn off the faucets.

 

Getting out of debt; paying off your mortgage, working to strengthen

your local organizations and charities that provide the social services

 

we all may well need, these are also essential. Prepare to become

active

in and for your own community. Finally affirm the rights of all

Americans under the Constitution by ratifying the Equal Rights

Amendment. It was that wrong step that allowed all later compromises

that converted our inherent rights to privileges meted out by

government.

 

The means exist to fight back by moving outside the NeoCon game plan.

 

We have choices as we move towards a different vision for America.

Families, individuals, communities, and towns, that is medium for

governance envisioned by our founders; people directly controlling

their

own lives and acting in charity and good will towards those around

them.

Some day we may look back and see this as a wake up call that returned

us to that vision.

 

Don't allow yourself to be distracted by the pseudo drama of Scooter

Libby. He was never a player, just wolf bait.

 

Now I am going to see if I can increase the level of my life insurance.

 

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Melinda Pillsbury-Foster is a prominent libertarian activist, author,

poet, commentator, and critic of Neoconservative theory and policy.

She is chairperson of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation. Bookmark her

blog at http://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com/

 

 

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Why Scooter Libby Is Toast and Karl Rove Will Provide the Butter... ©

2006 Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

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