Ronald Reagan
"We have never interfered in the internal government of a country and have no intention of doing so, never have had any thought of that kind." ----Ronald Reagan, 1982
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See: Nicaragua
Quotes
Within months of taking office, Reagan pardoned W. Mark Felt and Edward S.
Miller, the only FBI officials convicted of COINTELPRO crimes. His congressional
allies publicly honored these criminals and praised their work. The President
continually revived the tired old Red Scare, adding a new "terrorist" bogeyman,
while Attorney General Meese campaigned to narrow the scope of the Bill of
Rights and limit judicial review of the constitutionality of government action.
[1999] WAR AT HOME by Brian Glick
Before the election of 1960, a group within the Christian Right plotted to kill John Kennedy in Van Nuys, California while he was still a candidate. The group was a meld of anti-Castro Cubans, Minutemen and home-grown nazis. Some were sought by Jim Garrison, following his arrest of Clay Shaw, for testimony before the New Orleans grand jury. When Garrison forwarded extradition papers for Edgar Eugene Bradley, a member of the group, Governor Ronald Reagan refused to sign them. [1984] The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination by Mae Brussell
Throughout the 1880s we were forced to carry out numerous activities dealing with the drug industry, pornography, and prostitution. In 1983 Senator Byrd acted in the capacity of a pimp and prostituted me to then-President Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan is an actor and the smoke and mirrors illusion he created certainly fooled many people into believing that our country was still ours when in fact we were rapidly losing control as our country was being sold out into the NWO. It was Ronald Reagan who--I heard him say to then prime minister of Canada Brian Mulrooney (who's also very much involved in this NWO effort) that he believed the only way to world peace is through mind control of the masses. Sex, Lies, and Mind Control by Cathy O'Brien
Getting back to President Reagan. He really did say that `you can always call
cruise missiles back'.... Now, you can call back a B-52, and you can call back a
submarine, but a cruise missile is different.... When it lands, it goes boom!.
And I would prefer that the man with the finger on the button could understand
the difference. This is the man that calls the MX a peace-maker. This is the man
who's gone on television and told us that nuclear war could be winnable. This is
the man who's gone on television and proposed that we might want to drop
demonstration [atom] bombs in Europe to show people that we're serious people.
This is the man who likens the Contras to the moral equivalents of our own
founding fathers. This is the man who says South Africa is making progress on
racial equality. This is the man who says that the Sandinistas are hunting down
and hounding and persecuting Jews in Nicaragua. And the Jewish leaders go on TV
the next day in this country and say there are 5 Jewish families in Nicaragua,
and they're not having any problems at all. This is the man who says that
they're financing their revolution by smuggling drugs into the U.S. And the DEA
says, `It ain't true, it's president Reagan's Contras that are doing it'....
[When Reagan was governor of California, Reagan] said `If there has to be a
bloodbath then let's get it over with'. Now you have to think about this a
minute. A leader of the U.S. seriously proposing a bloodbath of our own youth.
There was an outcry of the press, so 3 days later he said it again to make sure
no one had misunderstood him.
Read. You have to read to inform yourselves. Read The Book of Quotes [12]. Read
On Reagan: The Man and the Presidency [3] by Ronnie Dugger. It gets heavy.
Dugger concludes in his last chapter that President Reagan has a fixation on
Armageddon. The Village Voice 18 months ago published an article citing the 11
times that President Reagan publicly has talked about the fact that we are all
living out Armageddon today....
[Reagan] has Jerry Falwell into the White House. This is the man that preaches
that we should get on our knees and beg for God to send the rapture down. Hell's
fires on earth so the chosen can go up on high and all the other people can burn
in hell's fires on earth. President Reagan sees himself as playing the role of
the greatest leader of all times forever. Leading us into Armageddon. As he goes
out at the end of his long life, we'll all go out with him....
[1987 Lecture] THE SECRET
WARS OF THE CIA: by John Stockwell
And then there was "the Soviet threat." For years, President Reagan said that
in Nicaragua we had the Soviets and Cubans in our own backyard. He said there
were Russians flying airplanes in this hemisphere meaning into Nicaragua-for the
first time in all of history. And like much of what Reagan said-he was never a
stickler for accuracy-this was not true. Aeroflot had been flying into Canada,
into Mexico, into Latin America, into New York City, for 30 or 40 years on a
daily basis, not to mention flying in and out of Cuba continuously.
In the end, the Nicaraguan operation was a bittersweet success for Ronald
Reagan. He swore, and failed in this promise, that the Sandinistas would be out
of office before he was (after his second term ending in 1989). The Sandinistas
were eventually ousted, but under President Bush's watch, after Reagan had
retired. Meanwhile, Reagan had seen his presidency virtually destroyed in the
Iran/contra scandal of 1986.
Moreover, President Reagan had failed in his broader goal. He campaigned his
way into office in 1980 by advocating war in many of his speeches. He had
assured the nation during and after the 1960s that he would have managed the
Vietnam War differently. He promised to restore the nation's confidence in its
ability to wage war and win. After the invasion of Grenada in October 1983, his
constituents sported bumper stickers proclaiming "Nicaragua Next ". "America
Feeling Great Again" became the slogan of his 1984 presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, the National Guard rehearsed constantly for the invasion of
Nicaragua. By the fall of 1986, many respected observers in Washington believed
that the date for the invasion had been set for February 1987. There were many
indicators. The Pentagon was stirring.
Then, in October 1986, the Iran/contra scandal struck. The Reagan
administration suffered a number of serious blows: the downing of the Hasenfus
plane over Nicaragua, exposure of illegal arms sales to Iran which had held
Americans hostage off and on since the Carter presidency, and quite possibly a
decision by the nation's non-political financial managers that an invasion of
Nicaragua would have disastrous repercussions throughout Latin America.
President Reagan was effectively crippled. He may narrowly have escaped
impeachment. Certainly, he no longer had the clout to sell a war to the nation
and to a reluctant military establishment. Secret Third World Wars
by John Stockwell