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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeriously, the Republican Party is a Criminal Enterprise.
When the Democrats take power again, and let's hope we do, we'll need a Congressional Commission to investigate the massive amount of crimes committed. We'll be prosecuting these thugs for years.
VOTE. Our future depends on it, because if we don't win, it done. Our democracy is lost. Resist in any way you can. Stay strong. Remember, they're all COWARDS, especially Donald.
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Emile
(41,685 posts)to be weak on crime.
Ferrets are Cool
(22,676 posts)
GiqueCee
(3,752 posts)... as having metastasized into a terrorist organization. Watch ICE in action and tell me I'm wrong. Der Republican Party is a Titan Arum* that is finally blooming. Here, use this barf bag.
* A giant plant native to Southeast Asia, also know as the Corpse Flower because it stinks that much.
Kid Berwyn
(23,915 posts)They can call themselves Republicans, MAGA or Guardians Of Pedophiles: They are accessories, aiding and abetting Trump — Putin’s puppet in his destruction of the U.S. Constitution, history, treasury and People.
Joinfortmill
(20,742 posts)Kid Berwyn
(23,915 posts)This brave professor:
The Bush Family: A Continuing Criminal Enterprise?
Gary W. Potter, PhD.
Professor, Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University
The S&Ls, the Mob and the Bushs
During the 1980's hundred of Savings and Loan Banks failed. Those bank failures cost U.S. taxpayers over $500 billion to cover federally insured losses, and much more to investigate the bank failures (Pizzo, Fricker, and Muolo, 1989; Brewton, 1992; Johnston, 1990). More than 75% of the Savings and Loan insolvencies where directly linked to serious and often criminal misconduct by senior financial insiders (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305). In fact, less than 10 percent of bank failures are related to economic conditions, the rest are caused by mismanagement or criminal conduct (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305).
A good example of the Savings and Loan failures can be found in the activities of Mario Renda, a Savings and Loan insider who often worked in close collaboration with organized crime (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 123-126;302). Renda served as a middle man in arranging about $5 billion a year in deposits into 130 Savings and Loans, all of which failed (Kwitny, 1992: 27). Many of these deposits were made contingent on an agreement that the Savings and Loan involved would lend money to borrowers recommended by Renda, many of whom were organized crime figures or people entirely unknown to the banking institution involved (Kwitny, 1992: 27).
SNIP...
Prescott Bush: The Yakuza’s Frontman
Finally, and perhaps most seriously, the Bush family pioneered the practice which has now become commonplace of collaboration between corporate and organized criminals. Prescott Bush, uncle of the current President and brother of the former President, played a key role in helping the Japanese Yakuza extend their financial and real estate holdings to the United States. In 1989, Prescott Bush made arrangements for a front company for Japanese organized crime groups to buy into two U.S. corporations and to make a sizeable real investment in the U.S. (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). West Tsusho, a Japanese corporation, was identified by Japanese police officials as a front company for one of that country’s largest organized crime syndicates. Prescott Bush was paid a fee of $500,000 for his help in negotiating West Tsusho’s purchase of controlling interest in Assets Management, a U.S. corporation (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Bush also assisted the Japanese mob in investing in Quantam Access, a U.S. software company, which was ultimately taken over by the Japanese (Helm, 1991b: 10; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Both companies ultimately went into bankruptcy (Isikoff, 1992: A1; Moses, 1992).
George Bush Sr.: Shutting Down the Organize Crime Strike Forces
Despite assessments from senior law enforcement officers and experts on organized crime that efforts to control organized crime would be crippled, in December 1989, the administration of George Bush, Sr. abolished all 14 regional organized crime strike forces (McAlister, 1989: A 21; Struck out, 1990). The organized crime strike had been created as independent entities so they would not be subject to political influences or bureaucratic wrangling within federal law enforcement. In the two decades of their operation the strike forces had secured convictions of major organized crime figures in several U.S. cities (Struck out, 1990). It is at the very least curious to note that the federal strike force in Miami had been responsible for indicting Miguel Recarey, the man for whom Jeb Bush had intervened with regulators. Organized crime strike forces had similarly indicted Mario Renda, the organized crime liaison to the S& L’s, as well as several other key figures in the Savings and Loan Fiasco (Pizzo, Fricker, and Mulolo, 1989: 112, 120-123, 303, 337).
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Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20040504191846/https://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
Original link (busted): http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
... and DU, of course! From 2014:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10024939450
IbogaProject
(5,748 posts)He raised 50 million Reich Marks which funded Hitler's rise to power. Then Prescot Bush (different than the Yakuza one above) helped launder Nazi assets through a bank in Holland. He got one share in Thyssen worth 750K in 1952 when the assets came out of holding. That got the Bushes started in Texas. Also the GOP brought in about 70 to 80,000 German families right at the start of 1953. I had a teacher frim that cohort who got to be a Senate page that spring at ahe 16, his dad had been admiral of the flag ship of the Nazi German Navy. Of course he wasent a Nazi just a wealthy loyal German, as if that is any difference. Many of those S&L swindles was their spawn loose innthe 80s after they had grown up.
Kid Berwyn
(23,915 posts)John Loftus, a former US Assistant Attorney, wrote the book on the Prescott Bush-NAZI axis of profit:
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
Know your BFEE: Merchants of Death
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3743890
lonely bird
(2,859 posts)Also, I have been calling the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society terrorist groups.
MayReasonRule
(4,082 posts)
oasis
(53,504 posts)
KS Toronado
(23,553 posts)We know they cheat and will in the midterms. So what's the best ways to combat their cheating?
I'm thinking "live exit polls" every minute a polling location is open for voting we have people who will ask
everyone leaving "Did you vote D or R for Senator & Rep?" Any other suggestions?
Joinfortmill
(20,742 posts)
wnylib
(25,487 posts)I would, because you don't know who is asking or why.
KS Toronado
(23,553 posts)just prior to asking them, could hand them something they could fill out in private and insert
in a ballot type box. 
Fil1957
(642 posts)To find it, you had to do some digging, investigative reporting, etc.
Nowadays it's rampant and in your face. And all you have to do to find out about it is read the headlines, since they have no shame or morals and could care less if they break the law in public.
When I was much younger I believed that Republicans believed in the rule of law. Didn't agree much with their policies, but when it came down to it, I believed they were generally law abiding. That may have been true 30 years ago, but it sure ain't true today.
With a few notable exceptions they have become a criminal organization that will stop at nothing to turn the U.S. into a neo feudal theocratic dictatorship,
Blue Full Moon
(3,345 posts)They have always been. Since the collapse of the Whigs.
chouchou
(3,020 posts)That's nothing new. It's always been that way. Look at the dumb/Stupid people they push.
Reagan..Nixon...Trump? Give me a break....Laughable stupid..
wnylib
(25,487 posts)could get votes while a group of operators ran the show behind the scenes. Now they are in the open somewhat. Most people still don't know who is behind the senile creep in the WH.
LymphocyteLover
(9,662 posts)popsdenver
(2,046 posts)People just weren't paying attention........regretfully
THE perfect book title for a book about the past 46+ years would be: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT
highplainsdem
(61,197 posts)federal money and other assets.
Ponietz
(4,242 posts)Next cycle, their “SPEECH”, i.e., money, goes to the Democrat furthest to the right, who claims it’s time to move forward and put the past behind us. We’ve had this shit since Nixon, but it metastasized after Citizen’s United. It won’t end until we’ve reenacted our own version of Bastille day.
dalton99a
(93,250 posts)
Clouds Passing
(7,680 posts)wnylib
(25,487 posts)Sometimes they cooperate among themselves. Other times, they fight each other like crime family syndicates over their turfs.
MayReasonRule
(4,082 posts)
popsdenver
(2,046 posts)When Hillary, during the 2016 campaign debate, said: "THERE IS A GIANT RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY"
And the fact that even most dems laughed at her????????? They all thought she was just being RADICAL left wing, and off the rails.........You all aren't laughing now, are you?????????
Joinfortmill
(20,742 posts)I watched her Benghazi hearing testimony. They were ruthless, absolutely relentless in their questioning of her. She was magnificent. Be prepared for another amazing testimony.
wnylib
(25,487 posts)popsdenver
(2,046 posts)Mis-remembered,
wnylib
(25,487 posts)you did not misremember. There were people in 2016 who brought up that comment of hers from the past to say that she was right. Perhaps that is what you recall.
popsdenver
(2,046 posts)but I seem to distinctly remember her saying it on stage during the 2016 debates.
Doesn't really matter.........she had it "WIRED".................
I don't even want to think how much different things would be if she had won, along with the Dems controlling the House and Senate..........(No small wonder why Putin helped the Republicans, immensely, in preventing that)
wnylib
(25,487 posts)The RW crime party would have hounded her mercilessly throughout her term, but with a Dem Congress, she would have had their backing, at least.
ffr
(23,348 posts)Fixed.
There's part of your answer.
What we need from democratic leadership should we regain majorities is the same intestinal fortitude from them as Mike Johnson has shown. Return the rule of law, no holds barred.
Blue Owl
(58,769 posts)Binding Lady Liberty while a bunch of thugs and rapists and pedophiles have their way with her
S/V Loner
(9,514 posts)without the complicity of the GOP. None of it!
CaptainTruth
(8,136 posts)...the crimes of the previous administration.
I absolutely love Obama but I'm still not happy that he & Democrats chose to "look forward" & ignore the crimes (war crimes) of the Bush administration.
I can't help but think that in some way contributed to the mess we're in now, it showed Republicans that they could "get away with it" & Democrats wouldn't hold them responsible.
wnylib
(25,487 posts)He had his hands full preventing the recession from becoming a depression, and securing health care for Americans.
popsdenver
(2,046 posts)Looking forward, not back, happened countless times before Obama..........
1980 election, 2000 election, 2004 election, and 2016 election to name a few...........While The Nation Slept............
CaptainTruth
(8,136 posts)Bush/Cheney was an especially egregious example.
popsdenver
(2,046 posts)"And the band played on"
the_liberal_grandpa
(283 posts)The republican party is dead.
Joinfortmill
(20,742 posts)popsdenver
(2,046 posts)of the Old Guard Republican Party, before it got hijacked......IKE even warned the nation...........
Tesha
(21,120 posts)Punish the bad guys and there will be fewer bad guys to fight