A bunch of academics got together at Berkely, believe it or not to discuss the social ramifications of the new Tea Party Movement. http://www.slate.com/id/2272097/

You know sociologists as well as a good portion of academics specializing in psychology really enjoy algebra:

Macro-Micro Model of Participation in Political Action: The Tea Party and Cognitive Biases in Information Consumption and Processing. Hypotheses were tested using qualitative data obtained from interviews with two groups: protest participants from various Tea Party protests (protesting group, N-15) and non-protesting Tea Party "supporters" (supporting group, N=3). Results show that strongly held pre-existing beliefs (particularly economic and political individualist ideology) heavily impacted levels of dissatisfaction with government policy and choices of information consumed.

I love it when academics or pundits start discussing ‘class warfare’ because class warfare—to my mind—goes on in every urban center over the entire globe. I just saw a some foreign expert on Fareed today who noted that about 500 million people are ‘doing all right’ around this third rock from the sun and about 6 billion aint doin so good.

But what I get sick of hearing is bullshit from some damn pundit discussing this brand new phenomena of the Tea Party.

The fact is, in my humble opinion that this country has been at war with itself since its inception. There were as many Loyalists and Revolutionaries in the colonies back in the latter half of the 18^th century.

We always refer to the Civil War as being a conflict involving brother against brother, but it was the same four score and seven years prior to the Battle of Gettysburg. Witness the fact that Ben Franklin’s own son was a Loyalist governor of one of the colonies who continued to side with the Brits.

There is a new book out taking another look at Watergate; which is always fun as far as I am concerned.

There certainly are good arguments for seeing Richard Nixon as a pretty good president as well as other arguments that he was a war mongering corporate oligarchist.

But it really cannot be disputed that Tricky Dick was a felon who really needed a pardon from President Ford, whether he deserved it or not.

Then in 1972, Anderson unearthed a blockbuster story: a memo written by a lobbyist proving that Nixon had intervened in a giant antitrust case involving ITT, a telecommunications conglomerate, in exchange for ITT donating $400,000 to his re-election campaign. Another Nixon scandal erupted. In the middle of the hullabaloo, Charles Colson, a top White House aide (who in his current bio refers to himself as Nixon's "hatchet man"), met with E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA officer who had become a Nixon dirty trickster, working as part of the secret "Plumbers" unit that would soon be caught breaking into the Watergate. According to Hunt, Colson told him that Nixon was enraged by Anderson and that the reporter had to be killed in what should look like an accident.

To pull off this job, Colson recruited G. Gordon Liddy, who had recently joined the Nixon campaign as an operative. As Hunt and Liddy have acknowledged, the two trailed Anderson. They sought advice from a CIA physician who had been involved in the agency's efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro. The duo considered various plots: placing poison in medicine Anderson was taking, placing LSD on the steering wheel of Anderson's car (in the hope he would start tripping and crash his vehicle), staging a fake mugging in which Anderson would be fatally knifed. But before any plan was hatched, according to Hunt, Colson told him to call off the hit.

As Feldstein notes in his book, some Nixon aides have questioned whether the murder plot occurred—despite the fact that Hunt and Liddy in later years publicly discussed it in great detail. Hunt believed that the order to kill Anderson came directly from the president. Colson, who after serving prison time for a Watergate-related charge founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, has always claimed that he and Nixon had nothing to do with this lethal conspiracy.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/nixon-jack-anderson-mark-feldstein

These individuals who were part and parcel of the Nixon Administration were ruthless criminals; murderers; thieves; perjurers; burglars and flat out terrorists. And Liddy likes to brag about it.

I saw some panel discussion on CSPAN years ago and Liddy was talking about the felonies he committed during his four year stint in prison following his conviction for the Watergate Burglary (which was probably one of the smaller felonies that man ever committed.)  In prison he was committing felonies and he bragged about it in his book and in interviews.

And it is so easy to find instances, after review of even a small portion of the three million incarcerated slaves we have in our prisons, where convicts never perpetrated one percent of the evil that was perpetrated by people like Hunt and Liddy and  Sturgis and a slue of other members of the Nixon Administration.

And a lot of the younger members of that administration like Rummy and Cheney went on to perpetrate even more heinous felonies over the following thirty years following the demise of Tricky Dicky.

Now the more informed, and that would be the majority of this site’s readership,probably already know this but in 2007 E. Howard Hunt’s son released an audio tape of a death bed confession given to him from his father.

Now Hunt was an octogenarian when he died and dementia does kind of settle in over the years. At least that has been my personal experience. But this audio tape that has been replayed on the radio within the last month and is available all over the web is really disheartening for those who think we live in a democratic/republic.  The tape relates information that HAS NEVER BEEN REPEATED ON MSM; at least on cable.

On his deathbed early in this century, Hunt confessed that he knew of plans by rogue CIA agents to assassinate Kennedy, but claimed he decided against becoming a conspirator.  Hunt’s son—St. John Hunt—recently disclosed that his mother told him his dad was in Dallas “on business” on November 22, 1963.

This is nuts. He has LBJ conspiring to kill JFK.

But this information concerning the conspiracy to kill Jack Anderson is really something to behold. AND OF COURSE LIDDY BRAGS ABOUT IT!!!

There are terrorists in prison right now, with or without trials, who completed fewer steps toward a conspiracy—within the definition provided by law—than Hunt and Liddy and those people will never see the light of day; ever!!!

Here are some more links for those that are not versed in these matters or have simply forgotten over the decades like I have:

http://www.crimemagazine.com/nixon%E2%80%99s-plot-assassinate-jack-anderson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy

Watch video: http://www.ufodigest.com/video/jfk-assassination-e-howard-hunts-confession-video

http://www.ufodigest.com/article/jfk-assassination-e-howard-hunts-confession

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sturgis

Now, I personally think it is a waste of time to research the Kennedy Assassination again. Bugliosi spent a couple of years doing that as have others and as far as I am concerned I don’t care anymore.

So what is my point?

There is a real war going on in this country whether we like it or not. And when we see people like Karl Rove it helps to understand that this man learned everything he knows when he campaigned for Nixon under the tutelage of Donald Segretti.

And I do not see how you can properly understand what has taken place in this country over the last three decades without a full understanding that many of the most important actors in this creation of our corporate oligarchy started their careers in the Nixon Administration.

And to these people, like cheney and rummy and rove, the gloves were off as they say in the sport of boxing. There are no rules, there are no laws, there are no moral standards, there are no religious tenets…all bets are off as far as playing fair goes in the election process.

And of course, we are all fully aware that the election process never ends.

When you understand that Jack Anderson had the facts on Tricky Dicky going back twenty years before Watergate, I think you have a better idea of how politics works in this country.

ITT needs to get out of criminal prosecution for felonies committed by its officers, so they just donate $400,000.00 to CREEP.

Some other asshole corporation needs a break so they make a loan to Nixon’s brother and the D. A. in charge of investigating it drops all charges.

And thirty years later Rove gets seven or more D.A.'s fired because they refused to prosecute democrats for crimes that had never been committed or at least proven.

I already did a long blog on Governor Perry who just this year he set up an innovation fund with taxpayer’s money in Texas and every one of the beneficiaries of that fund contributed to his campaign for reelection in Texas on what looks like a percentage basis. Kind of a political tithing was at work.

In one of these links, Hunt swears he advised President Nixon about how dangerous Liddy was and Tricky Dicky told him that he realized that Liddy was Hitler but ‘he is our Hitler.’

It does not take a genius, or someone with ‘special access’, or someone with a lot of money to discover some of the thousands of sins committed by our government.

Hell you can google: Nixon is a crook…and  find enough materials to read on a daily basis for an entire year.

You can substitute Cheney for Nixon, or Rummy for Nixon or Rove for Nixon and receive similar results.

The information is right there.

And I am stuck listening to morons on the Sunday News Programs spending hours telling me that if the repubs get more votes, they might take over one or both Houses of Congress next week.

And these experts waste the viewers time when the largest attempts at bribery along with the most severe extortion attempts in the history of this country are taking place that will have quite an adverse affect upon our elections eight days hence.

The end.