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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 07:46 AM
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Hartford Courant: Skull & Bones and Prescott Bush the grave robber
Heinous criminal activity and disregard for the living OR dead is a hallmark of this nefarious crime family, it appears. The rotten apples don't fall far from the diseased tree.

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Yale's Tale Of Skull Gets New Backing
May 9, 2006
By KIM MARTINEAU, Courant Staff Writer

NEW HAVEN -- A journalist has uncovered evidence that members of Yale's secretive Skull and Bones society may have robbed Geronimo's grave during World War I and brought the Apache warrior's skull and other remains back to New Haven.

The plundering of Geronimo's grave in Fort Sill, Okla., has long been rumored, but now a 1918 letter, found deep in Yale University's archives, suggests there may be some validity to the story. Both Bush presidents belonged to the elite Skull and Bones society as did their father and grandfather, Prescott Bush, who by one account participated in the alleged raid on Geronimo's grave.

Marc Wortman, a writer in New Haven, discovered the letter last fall while researching a book about pioneering World War I aviators from Yale. He immediately shared his find with the Yale Alumni Magazine where he had been an editor. The new details are published in the magazine's May/June issue.

In the letter, Skull and Bones member Winter Mead wrote that Geronimo's skull had been unearthed and spirited away to their brownstone clubhouse on High Street in New Haven nicknamed "The Tomb." Mead's report was addressed to his fellow "Bonesman" F. Trubee Davison, who helped select new followers during the war. Charles Haffner, a new initiate, or "knight," was among a small group of military officers who allegedly joined the Fort Sill raid.

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http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-skullbones0509.artmay09,0,3995631.story?coll=hc-headlines-local
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 08:05 AM
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1. Guess they didn't have to . . .
. . . spend their time in the library or working in the dormatory kitchen. Assholes.

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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 08:11 AM
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2. Bush Family Disregard for the Living and the Dead

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president

Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Saturday September 25, 2004
The Guardian

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html


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Here in Reality.com
Bush and the Spooky Cemetery Scandal Funeralgate
The Skeleton in Bush's Closet that won't go away
See Fox News: Gruesome Photos, Video Show Bodies Discarded in Woods Behind Cemetery
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41298,00.html

Here's a new chapter in an old scandal involving a Bush contributor and longtime family friend, Robert Waltrip. This time it's the desecration of dead bodies, and George W. Bush is directly linked to this scandal (as is former FEMA director Joe Allbaugh, GW's Chief of Staff while governor of Texas). According to Fox News, Waltrip's company, a cemetery company called Service Corporation International (also known as Dignity Memorial) was "recycling" graves, removing the bodies that were there originally and throwing them in the woods to use the space to house new customers at two Jewish cemeteries in Florida.
Bush's connection to the story is that he was subpoenaed in 1999 but refused to testify in a lawsuit by an ousted Texas state employee as to what his involvement was in halting an investigation into SCI's embalming practices, among other things.

This was a big Texas scandal for our president at the time, but as you will learn from this Washington Post article dated August 31, 1999, a Texas judge put everything right for then-governor Bush, just in time to campaign for the Presidency.

More:
http://www.hereinreality.com/funeralgate.htm


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FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals
Miriam Raftery

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.

Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses.

Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco subsequently inked a contract with the firm after talks between FEMA and the firm broke down. Kenyon's original deal was secured by the Department of Homeland Security.

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/FEMA_outsources_Katrina_body_count_to_firm_implicated_in_bodydumping_scan_0913.html



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George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography -
by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin

Chapter 6 -Bush in World War II

August 1988 interview with Chester Mierzejewski, another member of Bush's squadron, has raised important questions about the haste with which Bush bailed out, rather than attempting a water landing. Mierzejewski's account, which is summarized below, contradicted Bush's own version of these events, and hinted that Bush might have abandoned his two crewmembers to a horrible and needless death. The only person who has ever claimed to have seen Bush's plane get hit, and to have seen it hit the water, is Chester Mierzejewksi.

"That guy is not telling the truth," Mierzejewski said of Bush.

Mierzejewki, who is also a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, told the New York Post that he saw "a puff of smoke" come out of Bush's plane and quickly dissipate. He asserted that after that there was no more smoke visible, that Bush's "plane was never on fire" and that "no smoke came out of his cockpit when he opened his canopy to bail out." Mierzejewski stated that only one man ever got out of the Barbara II, and that was Bush himself.

"While Lt. j.g. White and J.L. Delaney are reported missing in action, it is believed that both were killed as a result of the above described action." But it is interesting to note that this report, contrary to usual standard navy practice, has no date. This should alert us to that tampering with public records, such as Bush's filings at the Securities and Exchange Commission during the 1960's, which appears to be a specialty of the Brown Brothers, Harriman/Skull and Bones network.

More:
http://www.the7thfire.com/bush6.htm
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 12:33 PM
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3. I favor a constitutional amendment FORBIDDING ANYONE with the
last name of bush*--or any relation--ever holding high offices again.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 02:54 PM
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4. I propose adding "Bush" to the list of 7 Dirty Words you can't say on TV
The word "Bush" can replace "Tits," which didn't belong on the list in the first place.

"Tits doesn't even belong on the list, you know. It's such a friendly sounding word. It sounds like a nickname. 'Hey, Tits, come here. Tits, meet Toots, Toots, Tits, Tits, Toots.' It sounds like a snack doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is, right? But I don't mean the sexist snack, I mean-- New Nabisco Tits. The new Cheese Tits, and Corn Tits and Pizza Tits, Sesame Tits Onion Tits, Tater Tits, Yeah. Betcha can't eat just one. That's true-- I usually switch off . But I mean that word does not belong on the list.
--George Carlin

More:
http://www.erenkrantz.com/Humor/SevenDirtyWords.shtml

Can we petition The FCC for a rules change?

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ArbustoBuster Donating Member (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 04:25 PM
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5. Can we raid Prescott Bush's grave and put him on trial?
It would be poetic justice, and there's even a precedent in history. It was called the Cadaver Synod, and it was the posthumous show-trial of Pope Formosus.

It sounds like I'm makin' that up, but I'm not! (Although it should be pretty obvious I'm not being serious. :) )
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 08:43 PM
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7. Let's raid press. bush's grave and give his skull to the Apaches.
They'd know what to do with it. But leave the stake through his heart.
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-09-06 05:40 PM
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6. K&R
This would not surprise me in the least. The entire family has a disregard for families and leaders from other cultures. Why would Prescott Bush care how Geronomo's descendents felt about their ancestor's grave being robbed by frat boys? Why would they care a whit about Native American "savages"?

:grr: :puke: I'm so disgusted I feel sick.

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