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RONALD REAGAN WAS A MASS MURDERER

Posted 36 months ago|25 comments|538 views
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John Scott Ridgway
Chicago, IL
People need to read the book Cocaine Politics, based on Sen. John Kerry's TRUTH COMMISSION into the mass murders instigated by the CONTRAS. Congress cut off funds for Reagan's dirty war after hearing about these CIA trained thugs. The slaughter of activist priests and nuns was what finally woke the aware up in the United States. Tens of thousands of people were murdered, and millions were terrorized in Nicaragua and El Salvador (as well as around the world).

The same cabal of criminals who backed this heinous crime against humanity came to power with the Bushes... the same family that backed the Nazi's, and was behind a conspiracy to assassinate Pres. Roosevelt and make the states Nazi... Tortured, murdered, and kidnapped their way across the globe, acting on the asinine, nationalistic assumption that only Americans matter. With the addition of the recent revelation that Cheney was operating a death squad with no oversight (including the cheerleader they used to get votes, Little **** Bush.

The cult of personality that has built up around this guy is a form of mass hysteria, the same personality worship that one sees with Hollywood stars (which he was, and this base of people who already worshiped him as a holy icon of Hollywood, was merely expanded, through the use of Reagan's remarkable ability to play a real politician.

The United States is the joke of the world because of our short memory, and easy ability to be brain washed by the right wing cabal.

Really, people... Wake the f up.
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36 months ago: Move to the U.S.S.R.! I forgot...
No more U.S.S.R. because of Reagan.
WmTHawk
WmTHawk
Rapid City, SD
36 months ago: The "gipper" was really the ripper, who enriched the wealthy Americans who cast him into office, and in the instant ripped off the poor, indigent low-income citizens who were barely making it all along. Then Bush took his lead and tried the same thing, casting more gloom and despair for most Americans, which is why he and his war-mongering cohorts have been ripped of their power. Amen...
JAK Gladney
JAK Gladney
Saint Albans, WV
36 months ago: There was a movement to place a "Reagan memorial" in each of the 50 states, and to replace FDR on the dime with Reagan. I've never understood the cult of Reagan, or the prolonged period of public mourning following Reagan's death. Union busting, drug smuggling, gun running, AIDS-denying, terrorism in the third world, --all part of "the Reagan legacy." Time rehabilitates all incompetents and criminals.
John Scott Ridgway
John Scott Ridgway
Chicago, IL
36 months ago: My response to the cypress gang is this... read a few books, your ignorance is showing.
John Scott Ridgway
John Scott Ridgway
Chicago, IL
36 months ago: I am not mad at Reagen, I actually hate him. Do you support the 50 thousand people he had killed by the Contra's? Do you actually think we should re-write history because someone died of a horrible disease? Do you even think about what you write at all, or does the mere act of putting words in sentence seem like they make it true?

As far as forgiving Reagan, that would be rather denigrating to all the people he 'disappeared' when he was president. They may have been 'ghetto snipes' and 'latios' to you, but to me, but to a sane person with a view of that thing we call History, not to mention ethic...believe they deserved more of a life than Reagan the murderer.

Why does no one who comes to any of my sites and disses me ever even read up on the topic? Because their opinions would not hold water, or because an actual debate is beyond them. I have fifteen years of university under my belt, so I am hardly a desktop pundit. I have written three books and count among my fans Barack Obama and Bono.
John Scott Ridgway
John Scott Ridgway
Chicago, IL
36 months ago: Man, I just woke up... and really screwed up a paragraph of that comment... I want to also add, do not take this personally. I have written some very dum things two in my 25 year career as a professional writer.
36 months ago: All of this is too funny. It isn't us that need to read your works. It seems you might need to read them using a different set of glasses. If you don't want slanted comments you shouldn't write slanted articles.


36 months ago: By the way. Siempre is a liberal. It's just that he is open minded. He has no problem standing his ground on core values. Don't take our replies personal. That reply is also slanted. Batting a thousand on this one. I figured since your filled with so much hate you might as well hate me also. Just add me to your hit list. No skin off my nose.
John Scott Ridgway
John Scott Ridgway
Chicago, IL
36 months ago: My article shows my opinion on actual facts. IF you feel like you need to add your opinion, how about using some actual facts?
John Scott Ridgway
John Scott Ridgway
Chicago, IL
36 months ago: Also, Cocaine Politics is not my book. It was written by one of the most respected journalists in the business. I understand that people like you will never read my books. That tells me I am doing something right.
36 months ago: Your correct. Your article shows your opinion. That is what it is... your opinion. Your welcome to have an opinion...don't get personal when someone disagrees.

Degrading opponents to your opinions, based on how you slant the information, is not going to increase your readership base.

Good thing Reagan is dead. Try making statements like these about a living president and see how long it takes before your investigated by the Secret Service.
John Scott Ridgway
John Scott Ridgway
Chicago, IL
36 months ago: Everything is personal.... I do not get personal unless people leave comments that are stabs at me. I am not going to sit by and let that pass. I majored in military intelligence, and have plenty of dealings with various agencies in the government. And I think you will find my opinion on this matter is not exclusively mine.

My saying I am glad reagan is dead is lot less of a sin than Cheney sending out death squads, and no one is investigating him for subverting the military checks and balances to run his own personal death squad. The world would be better off without such evil, obviously...

How many times do I have to ask you guys to confront the intelligence I am writing about, IRAN CONTA, rather than just attacking me? You are such a hypocrite, man...
John Scott Ridgway
John Scott Ridgway
Chicago, IL
36 months ago: You're first comment was a personal attack on me. I fight back, fool.
36 months ago: Do you know when to stop?

Have you noticed that RR pulled this post for the listings?

If you think my first comment was a personal attack on you your wrong. It was indeed an attack on this post.

JAK Gladney
JAK Gladney
Saint Albans, WV
36 months ago: It's really not about "hating" Reagan--it's about adding some sense of perspective to the historical record, which is strangely fawning on a pretty unexceptional presidency.

The fact that he suffered from a "debilitating" condition at the end of his life is enough to merit simple human empathy (a quality most Reagan policy lacked, btw)--it isn't grounds for canonization. And given the last Reagan-adoring regime's contempt for all things science--like the research that could end a lot of families' suffering--I wonder if Reagan's fanbase learned anything constructive from his suffering.
John Scott Ridgway
John Scott Ridgway
Chicago, IL
36 months ago: Thank you.... my reaction in words was meant to counter an overwhelming wave of amnesia in this country, which is dangerously happening again by letting Cheney off the hook for having a private death squad. Obama wants us to look forward and forget the past, which is a classic example of the old maxim -- he who forgets history is doomed to repeat it. A lot of people lost their outrage somewhere.... not me. As an artist, I like to stay in touch with all of my emotions; I refuse to slowly amputate parts of myself until I am thinking and acting like a good little serf.

I guess to see the people who are saying I am a communist for being disgusted by Ronald Reagen just raises my hackles. He labels me something I am not, and then dismisses me. This is a classic tactic in black psy-op's. He may have been joking, but if you deconstruct what he wrote actually conveys.... He called me something I am not and dismissed me. Half the time, people do not even really mean what they write... they mean something else -- you made me angry, so I am angry at you is classic kill the messenger.
36 months ago: Hey everyone! The "He" is "the cypress gang". Sorry I pissed you off. But, with that said, I have not heard from you that your sorry for pissing on my foot. Call it a wash for today. Don't try to redirect my comments as "classic tactics in black-ops". They are in fact my own thought process and to imply that I am a government agent is only making you look more like a nut. I have on a regular basis questioned the "govenment" as a whole/group. I have no problem questioning policies and structure. You however crossed the line when you started on individuals. That is indeed the true difference.
John Scott Ridgway
John Scott Ridgway
Chicago, IL
36 months ago: Look, I can see I will not be welcomed here.... so, fine. Keep your insular little community that does not allow for dissent. That's the ameriklan way... enjoy your delusions.
36 months ago: Your wrong John. Everyone is welcome here. Just so you know. I would and could let almost everything you were writing go until you started into the realm of attacking someone that is dead. You don't have to agree with anyone. That is expected. But, I felt I had to draw the line. Maybe it is just me (wouldn't be the first time) but I thought it was over the edge. Sorry.
JAK Gladney
JAK Gladney
Saint Albans, WV
36 months ago: We fight battles in the past tense every day, and it's important to challenge the conventional wisdom lest it become accepted fact. As Napoleon said, "History is a lie agreed upon."

In my short lifetime (33 yrs.) I've seen Reagan go from an affable Cold War relic, generally admired for his political savvy if not much else, to something of a cultural icon. Recent polls had Reagan's presidency ranked above that of both Washington and Lincoln. Can we agree that regardless of what you think of Reagan, he's not more important to this country's narrative as "the father of his country" or the man who guided us through the Civil War? So how on earth do so many people reach this verdict on the Reagan presidency? Nostalgia? Ignorance of Reagan's public record, and apparently everything that preceded it?

We mourned Reagan's death, very publicly, for almost a month. Mother Teresa didn't get that kind of send-off. There has to be some sense of proportion in the historical record. This isn't ancient Rome--we don't deify our leaders upon their death and erase the more monstrous aspects of their term, no matter how affable or grandfatherly they seemed.

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