Robert Taft Beltway. Washington D.C. Capitol of the Industrial Republic of North America. Monday September 10, 2012.... 6:00am Eastern Summer Time.
I'm surprised I slept at all. I'll need every minute especially to extricate ourselves out of another fine mess.
Fine messes, official mischief and military hardware. Two things the Industrial Republic of North America makes better than anybody else in the world.
I guess it's in our history, all of our history. It dates back to long before the breakup in '35. It goes back to 1776.
1776. I think about that date a lot. When I was at school at Middlebury, we talked about that a great deal. Bringing things back together. Some of old profs up there still talked about it. But most people liked Independent Vermont.
Me? I felt like my parents. They came to New York from Hungary, escaping the pogroms. They were afraid of the Nazis and the Russian communists, but they fell under the weight of their own corruption, waste and general madness.
Those are the same things I fear happening to us.
Those who forget history are forced to repeat it. And time and time against we got caught up by our indifference, our hubris and our ignorance.
What do I have on this hard drive? Shuffle...play anything.
(Music filters through the luxury car)
Genesis, I remember this as a young staffer for the party. I'm glad they didn't put it on the restricted list. They tended to do things like that back then even with the opposition in charge..
Excuse me, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Lawrence Ari Fleischer and I have one hell of a job. I have to get a President maybe half the country doesn't like reelected.
Lord, there has to be a better way to make a living.
(Fleischer is lost in the music as the first strands of the voice of Phil Collins filter through the car.)
I mustve dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street.
Now did you read the news today
They say the dangers gone away
But I can see the fires still alight
There burning into the night.
There's too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Cant you see
This is a land of confusion.
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands were given
Use them and lets start trying
To make it a place worth living in.
Ooh superman where are you now?
When everythings gone wrong somehow..
The men of steel, the men of power
Are losing control by the hour.
This is the time
This is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go round
Tell me why, this is a land of confusion.
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands were given
Use them and lets start trying
To make it a place worth living in.
I remember long ago -
Ooh when the sun was shining
Yes and the stars were bright
All through the night
And the sound of your laughter
As I held you tight
So long ago -
I wont be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
That we know, well never keep.
Too many men
There's too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Cant you see
This is a land of confusion.
Now this is the world we live in
And these are the hands were given
Use them and lets start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for.
And these are the names were given
Stand up and lets start showing
Just where our lives are going to.
According to officials close to the White House, Vice President Richard De Vos will resign later the morning amid the allegations charged that De Vos, as the head of Amway Consolidated Industries and later as Governor of Michigan was part of a money laundering scheme with a Michigan-based private security firm, Coldwater. The head of the firm, Erik Prince has been cited by Interpol and the International Criminal Court for actions during the 1990 Border Conflict and for actions in concert with the Confederate States during their 2003 incursion of the GPUR.
The tentacles of these allegations stretch into the IRNA military and the department of defense. Documents revealed by Guardian investigative journalist Greg Palast suggests current that defense secretary Richard Perle was privy to these actions as chairman of Ohio-based LTV/Ohio Defense Industries from 1998-2002 and was part of greater plot. It is also found that one of the principal handlers in the scheme as was former President and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The report said Rumsfield, who served as Dan Quayle Secretary of Defense from 2001-2006, approved the use of private mecernary forces to torture captured GPUR troops and to intimidate civilians in invaded areas.
From all accounts, President Giuliani was not a part of the scheme, but with the election race tightening this news isn't helping.
George Stephanopoulos, BBC World Service, Washington.
I'm surprised I slept at all. I'll need every minute especially to extricate ourselves out of another fine mess.
Fine messes, official mischief and military hardware. Two things the Industrial Republic of North America makes better than anybody else in the world.
I guess it's in our history, all of our history. It dates back to long before the breakup in '35. It goes back to 1776.
1776. I think about that date a lot. When I was at school at Middlebury, we talked about that a great deal. Bringing things back together. Some of old profs up there still talked about it. But most people liked Independent Vermont.
Me? I felt like my parents. They came to New York from Hungary, escaping the pogroms. They were afraid of the Nazis and the Russian communists, but they fell under the weight of their own corruption, waste and general madness.
Those are the same things I fear happening to us.
Those who forget history are forced to repeat it. And time and time against we got caught up by our indifference, our hubris and our ignorance.
What do I have on this hard drive? Shuffle...play anything.
(Music filters through the luxury car)
Genesis, I remember this as a young staffer for the party. I'm glad they didn't put it on the restricted list. They tended to do things like that back then even with the opposition in charge..
Excuse me, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Lawrence Ari Fleischer and I have one hell of a job. I have to get a President maybe half the country doesn't like reelected.
Lord, there has to be a better way to make a living.
(Fleischer is lost in the music as the first strands of the voice of Phil Collins filter through the car.)
I mustve dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street.
"WILLKIE VOWS TO REUNITE NATION" -- New York Times headline January 20, 1937
Now did you read the news today
They say the dangers gone away
"NAZI GOVERNMENT FALLS! Hitler found dead in Berlin Bunker" -- London Times headline May 7, 1942
"STALIN OVERTHROWN. MOLOTOV LEADS EMERGENCY GOVERNMENT -- New York Times headline August 17, 1942"
But I can see the fires still alight
There burning into the night.
"We must be concerned about the negro problem in the CSA, but we must also question if its worth a second bloody conflict on North American soil" -- IRNA President Robert Taft Jr. October 15, 1948
"TAFT DEFEATS SMITH" -- Chicago Tribune headline November 3, 1948
There's too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Cant you see
This is a land of confusion.
"If we are reunite America, we have to allow the south their due course of state's rights" -- President Tom Dewey, Organization of American States conference February 20, 1955
"Mr. President, the greater cause of human rights should be far more important to free nations and free men than the hollow call of rights by those seeking to deny them." -- GPUR President Harold Stassen, in response to Dewey.
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands were given
Use them and lets start trying
To make it a place worth living in.
"We can now safely project that when all the votes are counted Henry Cabot Lodge has the electoral votes needed. Henry Cabot Lodge is President of the Industrial Republic." -- John Chancellor, NBC News election night coverage, November 8, 1960
"The Industrial Republic of North America comes from a noble tradition of freedom for all people at all times. We cannot stand on the wrong side of history in regards to the aggression of the Confederate States." -- Henry Cabot Lodge in a televised address to the nation March 16, 1961."
Ooh superman where are you now?
"IRNA FORCES CLASH WITH CONFEDERATE FORCES IN ATLANTIC"
"PRESIDENT LODGE PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR COALITION"
"STEVENSON IN UN 'TRADE TALKS, NOT TRADE WAR' -- headlines from the start of the Trade War, 1963
When everythings gone wrong somehow..
"CSA HAS THE BOMB" -- Washington Post.. August 26, 1963
"RED CHINESE A-BOMB TIBETAN TROOPS" -- Washington Post August 2, 1966
"It is regrettable to take such a course of action. It is not an action that we nor our allies wanted to take. But seeing the aggression on the part of the Chinese Communist regime, the free world had no other option." -- Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies, after the allied nuclear bombing of Wuhan, PRC.
"Be it resolved that we work to someday eradicate nuclear weapons. These weapons are too deadly for any nation to consider using. If you have future wars using these bombs, you won't have enough bulldozers to bury the bodies." -- GPUR National Defense Council Chairman Gen Dwight David Eisenhower,at the signing of the Cairns Convention on Nuclear Armaments. May 29, 1968.
The men of steel, the men of power
"The GPUR continues to flaunt the rules of international trade and goodwill. The Humphrey regime in Omaha has left us no other option but the use of force." President Spiro Agnew address to the nation on the invasion of the GPUR by the IRNA in protest of a GPUR agricultural embargo July 6, 1970
"Nelson Rockefeller has been elected President in the IRNA tonight by an overwhelming majority, and this observer prays that the gentleman from New york truly acts upon seeking a new course for his nation and their relations with the rest of the North American continent. To have the IRNA back within the family of sane nations is a welcome sight for the continent and the world." -- GPBC news anchor Walter Cronkite November 7, 1972
"PEACE, AT LAST: Rockefeller, McGovern sign peace accords." -- Kansas City Star headling on the Salina Peace Conference, July 4, 1973
"Let us not be brainwashed into making fellow North Americans enemies to placate the madness of a few." -- IRNA Vice President George Romney, speaking at the University of Nebraska.. January 25, 1974.
"That is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -- IRNA Astronaut Neil Armstrong standing on the surface of the moon during joint NASA (North American Space Agency)-Franco British Aerospatinale Apollo Project Mission, June 20, 1976
"Tonight a North American stands on the moon, backed by a Englishman, a Frenchman, and cooperation by 10 nations. Let this be the beginning of new age of peace in the world, and especially lasting peace among the free nations of North America," Nelson Rockefeller addressing the IRNA, June 20, 1976
Are losing control by the hour.
"ROMNEY ASSASSINATED IN TERRORIST ATTACK: Anti-American Maple Leaf Army Claims Reponsibility." --Detroit Free Press headline June 9, 1974
"FORD: "I hope to make George proud." -- Detriot Free Press headline. June 12, 1974
"ROCKEFELLER ROLLS TO SECOND TERM" -- New York Times headline November 2, 1976
"President Nelson Rockefeller has been shot. The President was at the United Nations special conference on global development when a lone gunman fired an automatic weapon in a group that including President Rockefeller and Confederate defector George Wallace, who had addressed to conference to continue the economic sanctions on the CSA earlier in the day.." BBC World Service correspondent Morton Dean.. October 11, 1978
"PRESIDENT FORD ASSASSINATED IN CALIFORNIA: Lone woman in custody." Washington Post headline September 22, 1979
"I do not wish to be President. I'm not running in 1980. My job is to heal to country for whomever wins," President Alphonse D'Amato, October 1, 1979
"D'AMATO WALKS OUT OF GPUR TRADE TALKS" -- Chicago Tribune headline December 9, 1979
"D'AMATO, DOLE NEARLY COME TO BLOWS" -- Topeka Capital Journal headline December 9, 1979
"The goodwill of Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney and Gerald Ford died with them unfortunately. The spirit of aggression and arrogance has returned to the IRNA, and again we will see to it that they are stung by the arrogance again." -- GPUR President Robert Dole, March 5, 1980.
"We are a nation at war, and now is to time to for us to finish the job and let the Great Plains know that their belligerence will answered by our resolve." -- Donald Rumfeld, accepting the Industrial Republican nomination for President, August 14, 1980.
"RUMSFELD RIDES WAR VOTE TO WHITE HOUSE." -- Chicago Sun Times headline November 4, 1980.
"IRNA WITHDRAWS FORCES, SUES FOR PEACE." -- Omaha-World Herald. December 13, 1981.
"We may have to consider a nuclear solution to deal with Omaha in the future." -- Memo by Vice-President Alexander Haig, January 18, 1982
"HAIG MEMO CALLS FOR NUKE STRIKE ON OMAHA." -- Dallas Morning News headline, February 14, 1982
"If that Haig's idea of a valentine, it wasn't very loving or wise. Future proof how unhinged the IRNA is," GPUR President Robert Dole, February 15, 1982.
"The Pat Brown Doctrine will be extended to the IRNA if necessary," California President. Alan Cranston, February 18, 1982
"RUMSFELD: I STAND BY AL HAIG." -- New York Times headlines February 22, 1982
"Donald Rumsfeld said he'd stand by Al Haig. Well, it looks like he'll be standing by him on the unemployment line." -- Comedian Johnny Carson's opening monologue on "The Tonight Show", November 6, 1984
"PRESIDENT GLENN: WHIP INFLATION NOW" -- Cleveland Plain Dealer headline.. March 21, 1985
"DOW DROPS 400 POINTS, Worst since '29" -- New York Times, Monday October 19, 1987
"John Glenn is a pilot and astronaut. The man knows how to fly, but for the sake of our economy, he needs to be grounded." IR/GOP Presidential nominee Pete DuPont, September 7, 1988.
"Its barely 9pm on the east coast and the party can start early. Pete DuPont has been elected President," Roger Mudd on CBS News election coverage November 8, 1988."
"Mister Mondale refuses to see reason, just like his predecessors who sought to starve our people," Pete DuPont, June 10, 1990
"When will the Industrial Republicans realize that we are making ourselves the fools of the world?" -- New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, October 30, 1990.
This is the time
This is the place
So we look for the future
"PRESIDENT BRADLEY: "IT'S TIME TO REJOIN THE WORLD." -- New York Times headline, January 20, 1993.
"Eight years of peace and economic prosperity, the IRNA should continue on the course, even if Vice-President Kemp is more to the right than Bill Bradley was. The IRNA, after wavering between an unsure center-left and a somewhat unhinged right that varies from center-right to extremes, the IRNA has finally found that vital, stable center they've lacked as a nation since Wendell Willkie.--- The Economist, September 5, 2000.
But there's not much love to go round
Tell me why, this is a land of confusion.
"There are reports of widescale voting problems and inconsistencies in Ohio at this hour, we are not sure who the President is.." -- Walter Jacobson, on CBS News election night coverage November 7, 2000
"It has been determined that the state of Ohio has been won by Republican candidate J. Danforth Quayle. He is now the President-Elect of the Industrial Republic of North America -- Report of the Special Electoral Commission of the IRNA Supreme Court. December 1, 2000
"The IRNA is a strong nation and a great nation. We should not apologize for it, we should embrace it. We should not weaken at the greater cause of freedom, we should defend it. We should not seek accommodation where it does not benefit our people or the cause of American freedom. We must put the greater cause of free enterprise and a free nation ahead of being polite." -- President Dan Quayle, January 20, 2001.
"We can no longer depend on the International Trade Conference or the United Nations to be a fair broker in North American affairs.....American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on forgetting our manifest destiny as Americans. The breakup of 1935-1936 should not have been allowed for it sold out common birthright as Americans and our rightful place in the world. Our main strategy for the 21st century is a renewal of the birthright and the building of governments of North America toward that end." A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm by Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, William Kristol, and Donald Trump, 2001.
"I'm a not any damn mood to negotiate with Dan Quayle. Back your troops up from intimidation positions on our border, or we'll go into Illinois and do to job. You people are as bad at the crackers in the CSA!" -- GPUR President Frank Keating, November 9, 2003.
"As long as the IRNA and the CSA are willing to throw their weight around, the sane nations of North America have to be willing to throw theirs," Scott Ritter, director of Foreign Intelligence-Republic of Greater California, January 4, 2004.
This is the world we live in
And these are the hands were given
Use them and lets start trying
To make it a place worth living in.
I remember long ago -
Ooh when the sun was shining
Yes and the stars were bright
All through the night
And the sound of your laughter
As I held you tight
So long ago -
"I promise to all Americans, that we will continue the proud Industrial Republican traditions of upholding personal freedom and opportunity for all Americans, and being a leader in the world," President-Elect Rudolph Giuliani, November 4, 2008
"GIULIANI'S SECRET WEAPON: How Wunderkind Ari Fleischer turned Mayor Rudy into President Rudy" Time Magazine, December 4, 2008
I wont be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
Were not just making promises"That boy doesn't understand the way the world really works. If he was in New York City, I'd have my friends in blue have a little chat with him. " Giuliani memo to Vice-President Dick De Vos in reference to GPUR President J.C. Watts before North American Trade Talks, April 16, 2009
"Can Rudy Giuliani go one day without being a complete bore?" -- Gore Vidal, special contributor to Carson Network News covering the North American Trade Talks April 25, 2009
"Stay the course, America. When you go to the polls in November remember what we've done. Rudy Giuliani to voters in Ohio, October 2010.
"WIPEOUT! CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATS TAKE CONTROL OF SENATE, HOUSE ALL TIED UP!" Newsweek Magazine, November 9, 2010.
That we know, well never keep.
Too many men
There's too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Cant you see
This is a land of confusion.
Now this is the world we live in
And these are the hands were given
Use them and lets start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for.
This is the world we live in"Throughout our history as a nation, the Industrial Republicans have found a way to hack off much of the civilized world, and we wonder why even with population, economic and military power, we aren't respected in the world. And my friends, as long you keep putting them office, you are telling them 'it's okay to treat the people like a bunch of bozos, well, good people, that just doesn't wash with the boy from Scranton, PA and it shouldn't wash with you." -- Pennsylvania Senator Joseph Biden, Constitutional Democratic Party Presidential Nominee, August 25, 2012
"The vast right-wing conspiracy has managed to undo much of the good we've be able to do, every time we put them in charge. And too often we fall for the trick out of fear or out false information. Time and time again we say as a people not this time, and then we don't win and we hear so many say "I woulda don't different, but there;s the trade issue...or I coulda done different but I'm sure about those other guys." It time to return to sanity in the Industrial Republic of North America. As my husband always tells his teams, 'There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it." The record is clear and now's the time. It's time to send Mr. Giuliani back to New York." -- Illinois Senator Hillary Rodham Riley, Constitutional Democratic Party Vice-Presidential Nominee, September 2, 2012
"This Industrial Republican regime of Quayle and now Giuliani is the most arrogant abuse of power and thuggery since Donald Rumsfeld, and that's doing something. When a government lies to a people, that is a weapon of mass destruction," Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich, Worker's Union Presidential Nominee, September 4, 2012
"What we have in Washington is a government built on crony capitalism, militarism, cynicism and the complete encroachment into our lives in opposition to our Constitution. Our rights are never given by government. a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take them all away. We must never forget this truth." -- Wisconsin senator Paul Ryan, Galtist League Presidential Nominee, September 6, 2012
And these are the names were given
Stand up and lets start showing
Just where our lives are going to.
According to officials close to the White House, Vice President Richard De Vos will resign later the morning amid the allegations charged that De Vos, as the head of Amway Consolidated Industries and later as Governor of Michigan was part of a money laundering scheme with a Michigan-based private security firm, Coldwater. The head of the firm, Erik Prince has been cited by Interpol and the International Criminal Court for actions during the 1990 Border Conflict and for actions in concert with the Confederate States during their 2003 incursion of the GPUR.
The tentacles of these allegations stretch into the IRNA military and the department of defense. Documents revealed by Guardian investigative journalist Greg Palast suggests current that defense secretary Richard Perle was privy to these actions as chairman of Ohio-based LTV/Ohio Defense Industries from 1998-2002 and was part of greater plot. It is also found that one of the principal handlers in the scheme as was former President and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The report said Rumsfield, who served as Dan Quayle Secretary of Defense from 2001-2006, approved the use of private mecernary forces to torture captured GPUR troops and to intimidate civilians in invaded areas.
From all accounts, President Giuliani was not a part of the scheme, but with the election race tightening this news isn't helping.
George Stephanopoulos, BBC World Service, Washington.
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