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Iains BS: The Alternative Facts Thread (282* d) RE: BS: The Alternative Facts Thread 17 Feb 17


Although the thread was started to keep tabs on Trump and his behaviour, is it not also of interest to analyse the actions of those who would seem to be engineering a coup against him. It is all very well to rail against the man but surely the significant factor to be considered is the damage it is doing to the office of the POTUS.
A majority elected him for better for worse yet persons and organisations are hiding in the shadows determined to destroy him.
That is not a happy place for a democracy to be.
It is also significant that quotes can be found from Washington to JFK about hidden movers and shakers; A few are below:-many others can be found.
"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks." – John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832) and U.S. Senator, from a speech given on May 27, 1836

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."— Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography,

"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings… Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe… no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only saythat the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent… For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed." — John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, from a speech delivered to the American Newspaper Publishers Association on April 27, 1961

This warning was further articulated by President Eisenhower in his farewell speech to the Nation, with warning about the military industrial complex. Since then it has further morphed with well established lobbyists blackmailing and cajoling the arms of government to bend to their will.
Time to ask who pays the Piper, the Electorate or the puppet masters?

I find it hard to believe these various quotes were conjured into being without having some substance.


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