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GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION:
A WHISTLEBLOWER'S PERSPECTIVE

How to win a lawful Mutiny and frag all your commanding officers by filing criminal charges for stealing NATO stockpiles and arming Iran and Iraq, then get promoted to Pentagon by SecDef Dick Cheney during Iran-Contra

by John Lee
Pirate News TV
© your income tax dollars at the White House

If You Want to Play with the Big Boys
You Have to Know How to Play the Game

How to Frag Your Commanding Officers
and Win Promotion to Pentagon

by Tami Lee and John Lee

Order copies of the exact text (with minor redactions of names of witnesses) of the 600-pages of Affidavits of Probable Cause for Criminal Complaints filed with USAF Inspector Generals and US Congress by Tami Lee and John Lee from Pirate News Productions. Self-published by photocopy in exact format as original correspondence. Available to the public beginning in July 2005.

Bonus: Form Letter by SSgt Tami Lee that she used to resign from Tennessee Army National Guard, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Knoxville, Tennessee. How to "unvolunteer" from the all-volunteer army before scheduled separation date, before deployment to active duty.

Click link for a personal message from TSgt Tami Lee (requires Flash player).

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"If your career is on the line and you know you're XXXXXX, $100 is a cheap price to pay."
-TSgt Tami Lee, USAF (retired), Tennessee Army National Guard, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (resigned), August 9, 2005

"4-star General Kevin P. Byrnes got fired from command today, for his 'unspecified personal conduct'. I wonder if whoever filed those complaints read our website? Yeah, $150 is cheap self-help legal advice. I flew all the way from England to Washington DC, just to talk to a lawyer who refused to help us. No civil lawyer is allowed to tell a client about filing criminal charges, due to "ethics rules", and may result in the lawyer arrested for "extortion" to gain unfair advantage in a civil trial. You would have to hire a private lawyer specifically to address your desire to file criminal charges with a grand jury or magistrate, and that lawyer may represent you as a 'special prosecutor" in that situation. Or you can do it yourself pro se, for free."
-John Lee, Lee Paralegal Investigations, former investigator for Lt. Colonel J.D. Lee, USAF Reserves, at Lee, Lee & Lee attorneys, executive producer, Pirate News TV, August 9, 2005


EMERGENCY ALERT TO ALL US TROOPS
ALARM RED THIS IS NOT A DRILL

"Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran. In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The “meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’” according to one of Hersh’s sources. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. HERSH: 'There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans.'" [Except in Pentagon's Operation Northwoods, the Israli attack on USS Liberty, NATO's Operation Gladio, Operation 9/11, Operation Wildfires, and Operation Katrina]
—Think Progress, To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them, July 31, 2008

"Congressman John Olver (D-MA) is deeply concerned whether we will actually have an election in November '08, as he believes this administration will likely strike Iran from the air, declare a national emergency, and cancel the '08 elections. He thinks impeachment is a futile waste of legislative energy, will be harmful of democratic '08 victories, and further tighten the "gridlock" he has complained of for the past few decades."
—Ralph Nader attorney at law and presidential candidate in 2000, 2004, 2008, threatened with arrest by George W Bush during the 2000 presidential debates, Ralph Nader quotes Rep John Olver that Cheney will start Iran War and declare martial law if Bush and Cheney impeached -- Iran Attack, Election Suspension, Martial Law in the Cards? -- Cheney determined to strike in US with WMD this summer; only impeachment and removal, or a general strike, can stop him -- Pirate News Commentary: Call their bluff and impeach, and raise them a SWAT raid on the White House (John Lee at Pirate News was Ralph Nader's chauffeur who personally handed Nader VHS copies of 9/11 Road To Tyranny and Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove)

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, heh heh heh, just so long as I'm the dictator, heh heh heh."
Lt George Bush Jr, final president of USA, convicted awol draft deserter and convicted drunk driver, after his Security & Prosperity Partnership merger of USA with Communist Mexico and Communist Canada (a member of the 53-nation British Commonwealth owned by Bushes' 19th cousin (3rd removed) the German Queen of England, birthplace of the Communist Manifesto). The 2008 "presidential" selections will merely appoint the preapproved US Territory governor for the North American Union (a corporate subdivision of the British Empire aka New World Order global slave plantation)


"On the evening of February 1, two dozen American officials gathered in a spacious conference room at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. The time had come to make the public case for war against Iraq. For six hours that Saturday, the men and women of the Bush administration argued about what Secretary of State [Jew] Colin Powell should--and should not--say at the United Nations Security Council four days later. Not all the secret intelligence about Saddam Hussein's misdeeds, they found, stood up to close scrutiny. At one point during the rehearsal, Powell tossed several pages in the air. 'I'm not reading this,' he declared. 'This is bullshit.' Just how good was America's intelligence on Iraq? Seven weeks after the end of the war, no hard evidence has been turned up on the ground to support the charge that Iraq posed an imminent threat to U.S. national security--no chemical weapons in the field, no Scud missiles in the western desert, no biological agents. [Jewish] Vice President Cheney's office played a major role in the secret debates and pressed for the toughest critique of Saddam's regime, administration officials say. The first draft of Powell's speech was written by Cheney's staff and the National Security Council. Days before the team first gathered at the CIA, a group of officials assembled in the White House Situation Room to hear Cheney's chief of staff, [Jew] Lewis 'Scooter' Libby [indicted in October 2005 for felony perjury and obstruction of justice by a federal grand jury in Chicago investigating treason by Cheney], lay out an indictment of the Iraqi regime--'a Chinese menu' of charges, one participant recalls, that Powell might use in his U.N. speech. Not everyone in the administration was impressed, however. 'It was over the top and ran the gamut from al Qaeda to human rights to weapons of mass destruction," says a senior official. 'They were unsubstantiated assertions, in my view.'"
-Bruce B. Auster, Mark Mazzetti and Edward T. Pound, Agence France-Presse, "Truth and Consequences New questions about U.S. intelligence regarding Iraq's weapons of mass terror," June 9, 2003

Firing Line With Janis Karpinski
Host: Janis Karpinski
Call-in Number: 800-313-9443
Time: Saturday, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm CST
Republic Broadcasting Network

"I had been hesitant to speak out before because this [Bush] Administration is so vindictive. But now I will ... Anybody who confronts this Administration or [Jew Sir Donald] Rumsfeld [Knight of the British Empire] or the Pentagon with a true assessment, they find themselves either out of a job, out of their positions, fired, relieved or chastised. Their career comes to an end. The most pronounced difference was when [Jewish General] Miller came to visit. He came right after Rumsfeld's visit ... And he said that he was going to use a template from Guantánamo Bay to 'Gitm-oize' the operations out at Abu Ghraib. General Sanchez said, 'No, absolutely not. You are not to discuss this with anyone.' And I should have known then, and I know that Sanchez was hopeful for a four-star promotion even then, in January of 2004. And I thought it had probably most to do with the election coming up in November 2004, and that this could really move the Administration out of the White House if it was exploited. So naively, I just thought, you know, they're going to let this investigation go and they're going to handle it the way it should be handled. It's really a good old boys' network. Come hell or high water, they're going to maintain the status quo. There were a lot of contractors - US contractors exclusively - who realized they could make a lot of money in Iraq. I saw corruption like I've never seen before - millions of dollars just being pocketed by contractors. Everything was on a cash basis at that time. You take a request down - literally, you take a request to the Finance Office. If the Pay Officer recognized your face and you were asking for $450,000 to pay a contractor for work, they would pay you in cash: $450,000. Out of control. The Chief of the Army Reserves sent me a letter warning me - warning me - about speaking about Abu Ghraib, and that everything was still under investigation. Then I got a letter saying that he understands that I'm writing a book and I should submit the transcript for review. And my lawyer responded simply by telling him that I was a private citizen and I don't fall under the same requirements, which he had to acknowledge, because that's true. I'm not ignorant, and I'm not going to reveal any classified information in anything I write, but I don't need to, because the truth is the truth, and it doesn't have to be classified. It is definitely staggering, but the truth is the truth."
-Jewish Colonel Janis Karpinski (demoted from Brigadier General), US Army Reserves, commander Abu Ghraib Torture Death Camp, Jewish Professor Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, executive vice president of the National Lawyers Guild, executive committee of the American Association of Jurists, t r u t h o u t, Bellaciao, "Abu Ghraib General Karpinski: Rumsfeld authorized abuse," August 3, 2005 (London Guardian, "One of them made cuts in my penis. I was in agony," August 2, 2005)

"Ha! I guess she didn't have any XXXXX."
-Tami Lee, August 29, 2005

Gen Karpinski, host of Firing Line on RBN Radio Network

John Lee grills General Janis Karpinski, the commander of Abu Ghraib torture palace, about 9/11 treason, Operation NORTHWOODS, Communist invasion of USA and the current US Civil War, filing criminal charges against Jewish General Miller, Sir Donald Rumsfeld Jewish Knight of the British Empire, Jewish president George Bush Jr. Karpinski was demoted to colonel then forcibly retired, as fall gal for the Bush Kabal. Plus the undercover torture tape of five Tennessee cops now living in prison

VP Dick Cheney says Bin Laden innocent on 9/11 - "So we've never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming." March 29, 2006 audio by WhiteHouse.gov

Usama Bin Laden says Usama Bin Laden innocent on 9/11 - "I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks." CNN, "Bin Laden says he wasn't behind attacks," Sept 17, 2001

Successful Mutiny Redux or SOP? Cheney, er, GW Bush fires USAF chief of staff and Secretary of the USAF

Missing Nukes: Treason of the Highest Order

USAF refuse illegal orders to nuke Iran in 2007

USAF refuse to nuke Iran in 2007 - B52 pilots and weapons loading crew assassinated

Kennebunkport Warning and the Rogue B-52 - USAF says NO to another 9/11 Inside Job

Kennebunkport Warning and Cheney's False Flag Attack on Iran and USA

Cheney cultivates Commander-In-Chief Cult - Dick Cheney signed a Congressional Minority Report during Iran-Contra hearings and trials, demaning a narcoterror dictatorship for USA

Cheney and Jr Bush sign secret contract with Satan for CIA torture

Cheney and Bushes sign secret human sacrifice contract with Satan - Presidential human sacrifice cult and homosexual nudist compound at Bohemian Grove

US Navy False Flag nuking of Japan for Japanese Govt - Ghost in the Shell SAG 2nd Gig Episodes 25 & 26 - "An American nuclear sub is holding position off the coast of Okinawa. It looks like it's planning to launch a nuclear strike. They're opening the hatch on the sub. They could launch any minute now! This type of missile goes all the way to the stratosphere... which means they don't want it tracked back to them. Even if they clean up the radiation, the blast will take out all the troops in Nagasaki. They're crazy! Isn't there anything we can do to stop it? What if we sent the visual feed all over the world? There's no point. Pictures don't prove anything anymore. An image from an unknown source, showing up at a convenient time... no one would take it seriously."

Martial Law - Extreme PNTV interview of General, er, Colonel Janis Karpinski, commander of Abu Ghraib Death Camp and talk radio host at RBNlive.com, discussing Tami Lee filing criminal charges against her entire chain of command, and why Karpinski did not. Also, undercover audio of US copsters torturing a US citizen in USA, to force him to "voluntarily" sign a civil slave contract. What's so funny is how the average slave caves in at the tiniest hint of pressure, and signs a driver license slave contract, vehicle registration slave contract, traffic citation slave contract, Social Security slave contract, 1040 slave contract, military enlistment contract, military "discipline" contract, etc, all of which waiver all Constitutional rights in exchange for "voluntary" civil slave contract. This torture tape should be used by all US Special Forces and high school students as a perfect example of how to resist interrogation by Police State Death Squads. Music by Inner Circle, Team 13 and Counter Coup

Stanford Prison Experiment - Dr Philip Zimbardo's infamous psychology test was failed by 100% of ordinary college students, who went insane after a mere 36 hours of jailhouse simulation. Even the professor refused to stop the experiment after 1 week, until a collegue convinced him otherwise. Dr Zimbaro's modern Lucifer Effect and his Hero Project

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Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik spices up F-111 supersonic swing-wing bombers at RAF Upper Heyford, England, and Land of Oz. Guest appearances by Lancair's 450mph homebuilt jet-prop and the World's Fastest Piston-Engine Production Plane, and Desert Storm Troopers Georges Bush, Tricky Dick Cheney and Ronnie "Just Shoot Me George" Reagan. Youtube mirror

"It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus insure secrecy. He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance."
—Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"If we do go to war, psychological operations are going to be absolutely a critical, critical part of any campaign that we must get involved in."
-General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

     US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie: "I have direct instructions from President Bush to improve our relations with Iraq. We have considerable sympathy for your quest for higher oil prices, the immediate cause of your confrontation with Kuwait. We can see that you have deployed massive numbers of troops in the south. Normally that would be none of our business."
     President Saddam Hussein: "As you know, for years now I have made every effort to reach a settlement on our dispute with Kuwait. There is to be a meeting in two days; I am prepared to give negotiations only this one more brief chance. (pause) When we (the Iraqis) meet (with the Kuwaitis) and we see there is hope, then nothing will happen. But if we are unable to find a solution, then it will be natural that Iraq will not accept death."
     Glaspie: "We have no opinion on your Arab - Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960's, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America."
     President Saddam Hussein: (smiles)

-Videotaped meeting between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and US Ambassador April Glaspie, July 25, 1990 (Eight days before the August 2, 1990 Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait)

     Journalist 2: "You knew Saddam was going to invade (Kuwait) but you didn't warn him not to. You didn't tell him America would defend Kuwait. You told him the opposite - that America was not associated with Kuwait."
     Journalist 1: "You encouraged this aggression - his invasion. What were you thinking?"
     US Ambassador Glaspie: "Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take all of Kuwait."

-US Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq, September 2, 1990

"Gen Michael Dugan, former Air Force chief of staff, once expressed his frustration over the Air Force's inability to educate its forces on doctrine. Dugan noted that if someone questioned an Army officer on his doctrine, he or she could quote chapter and verse from Army doctrine. Asked the same question, an Air Force officer could tell you when the bar opened at the Officers' Club. Dugan went on to assert that the Air Force was producing what were, in effect, "illiterate truck drivers.'
—Col Dennis M. Drew, USAF, Retired, AEROSPACE POWER, "INVENTING A DOCTRINE PROCESS"

"Former Air Force chief of staff Gen Michael Dugan once commented to me that the Air Force is producing a generation of illiterate truck drivers. He worried that officers who aspire to senior leadership positions know a great deal about airplanes and precious little about airpower. They can skillfully talk with their hands about air tactics but are ill prepared to think with their heads about air strategy. For 20 years I have watched the crème de la crème of the Air Force officer corps come to Air University's Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) and Air War College (AWC). For the most part, these officers have been appallingly ignorant of the bedrock foundation of airpower thinking, virtually oblivious to airpower theory and its development, and without any appreciation of airpower history and its meaning."
—Colonel Dennise Drew, USAF Retired, "EDUCATING AIR FORCE OFFICERS," Aerospace Power Journal, Summer 1997

"I fired him [General Douglas MacArthur] because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President. That's the answer to that. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son-of-a-bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail."
—President Harry S. Truman, quoted by Merle Miller, from Plain Speaking

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not rally behind it."
-General Douglas MacArthur

"These militia covenants were voluntary associations, explicitly founded to defend a way of life. Most agreed to elect their officers by majority vote, and to be bound by 'equal laws' of their own making. Professional soldiers smiled indulgently at the sight of the New England militia on its training days. They laughed contemptuously at the awkward drill, hooted the clumsy marching, and howled with laughter at the bizarre Yankee custom of saluting an officer by discharging a blank-loaded musket at his feet."
—David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride

"A military flag is a flag that resembles the regular flag of the United States, escept that it has a yellow fringe, bordered on three sides."
—President Dwight Eisenhower, General, Supreme Commander Allied Forces during World War II, White House Executive Order No. 10834, August 21, 1959 (describing the only "United States" flag displayed in all courtrooms in USA)

Rule 916
(d) - Obedience to orders.

It is a defense to any offense that the accused was acting pursuant to orders unless the accused knew the orders to be unlawful or a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known the orders to be unlawful.
     (k) Lack of mental responsibility.
     (C) Determination.
The issue of mental responsibility shall not be considered as an interlocutory question.
     (l) Not defenses generally.
     (1) Ignorance or mistake of law.
Ignorance or mistake of law, including general orders or regulations, ordinarily is not a defense.
Discussion
On the other hand, reliance on the advice of counsel that a certain course of conduct is legal is not, of itself, a defense.
-Manual for Courts Martial, Uniform Code of Military Justice

Rule 307. Preferral of charges
     (a) Who may prefer charges.
Any person subject to the code may prefer charges.
     (b) How charges are preferred; oath.
A person who prefers charges must:
     (1) Sign the charges and specifications under oath before a commissioned officer of the armed forces authorized to administer oaths; and
     (2) State that the signer has personal knowledge of or has investigated the matters set forth in the charges and specifications and that they are true in fa t to the best of that person ’s knowledge and belief.
     (c) How to allege offenses.
     (1) In general.
The format of charge and specification is used to allege violations of the code.
     ( 2 ) Charge .
A charge states t h e article of the code, law of war, or local penal law of an occupied territory which the accused is alleged to have violated.
     (3) Specification.
A specification is a plain, concise, and definite statement of the essential facts constituting the offense charged. A specification is sufficient if it alleges every element of the charged offense expressly or by necessary implication. No particular format is required.
-Manual for Courts Martial

NEWSFLASH: Vice President Dick Cheney IMPEACHED - House Resolution 333 - Pirate News TV scoops ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox


Over 2,500 years ago in China, Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War. His concepts are required reading in the major military war colleges around the world, as well as in America's top business management schools, and his book is still available in most bookstores. Sun Tzu earned his first job as army general by beheading two of his king's concubines for giggling during their first military formation, thus murdering his own "troops" (slaves), with full permission of the king (owner of the slave plantation). His theories of government (and business) mind-control (slavery) are used against billions of people every day, not just in Communist China (granted America's Most-Favored Trade Status to export all manufacturing jobs from USA at taxpayer expense).

Another incident, this time involving personal experience with military corruption, can perhaps give a citizen insight into the inner workings of a government bureaucracy. Hopefully, this information can benefit government employees who witness ongoing government corruption (in any type of jurisdiction), and wish to learn how to improve upon the system. Non-government citizens can also benefit by learning that it is not necessary to cave in to government corruption out of fear and incomprehension, sacrificing everything that is important to them.

As mentioned previously, my wife was also in the Air Force, in food service and wartime readiness management (aircrash recovery, mortuary affairs, NATO stockpiles, etc.), at US Air Force base RAF Upper Heyford, "United" Kingdom (Great Britain). She was responsible for writing military contracts for civilian contractors as Chief of Quality Assurance, and for managing European Wartime Readiness Materiel (WRM) storehouses. Her rank was Technical Sergeant, E-6. She had received awards and decorations such as: Commendation Medal, Superior Performance Award, 3rd Air Force Technician of the Year, squadron NCO of the Year, member of Outstanding Unit Award--Best in USAF, member of squadron Hennessy Award, member of squadron Excellent rating NATO TAC EVAL, squadron NCO of the quarter, team member Readiness Rodeo--placed third in USAF, Stripes for Exceptional Performers promotion, Civilian Employee of the Year working part-time at the Officers' Club, and Distinguished Graduate at the NCO Academy.

Military Propaganda
military motorsports

By this time, I had separated from the Air Force, and was pursuing my semipro motorsport career full time. We had settled down in England, had bought our first home, and were really enjoying our lives. My wife was also on my pit crew, and we also received much assistance from various volunteers, some of whom had extensive experience with professional teams, but who were helping us out between jobs. Although ours was a low budget operation, we were on TV almost every race, were receiving much press coverage, including feature articles, in such military publications as The Stars & Stripes, AIRMAN and The Guardian. We were traveling all over the country in pursuit of racing the world's best and brightest (England is a relatively small country--we had a dozen race tracks within a four hour drive of our home). I felt that I was on my way to achieving my dream of earning a living as a professional racing driver, racing against the top drivers from twenty-five nations from five continents.

The Services Squadron was hit by a drug purge from the base commander. Fifteen enlisted members had their careers destroyed during the investigation. Yet the drug dealer was not disciplined in any way; no jail time, no demotion, not discharged. In return for his entrapping his friends, he was given a clean record and a transfer to his base of preference (without telling the next base that he was a drug dealer). The squadron commander was fired, allegedly for allowing the squadron to be overrun with illegal drugs. A "green" squadron commander was brought in, to straighten out the "troublemakers," i.e., the remaining squadron members who had not purchased illegal drugs from the sting operation.

However, my wife's career took a sudden turn for the worse when her new squadron commander, a former basic military training instructor, attempted to prosecute her with false charges of accepting bribes and blackmarketeering. This was possibly done as a reprisal for her proceeding with a highly publicized interracial military rape trial many years before. (She had been raped at knifepoint by a coworker, and she required an armed guard to protect her from death threats. Her commander had access to these personnel files.) Greed, racism and professional jealousy led him to overstep his authority, forcing us into conducting our own investigation into his criminal behaviors. It was an act of self-defense. My wife chose to pursue her professional complaints up the chain of command.

The unlawful reprisals against my wife were again escalating, including her being classified "Detrimental to the Air Force if assignment continued overseas." The NCOIC (NCO in charge) at the base personnel office advised her: "Your commander has made his feelings quite clear about getting rid of you, reasons I will not go into. It's your decision to make, but if you stay here you could be separated as a Staff Sergeant, instead of a Tech Sergeant. . . . That could happen if you stay [here]."

Upon consulting with the Area Defense Counsel, she was legally advised: "Cut the crap about the . . . 6th Amendment, it does not apply to you! You keep spouting off about your rights. Well, you do not have them since you are a member of the USAF and these rights guaranteed under the Constitution do not apply to you or your situation. You gave up these rights when you enlisted in the service. You took an oath to obey your superior officers. You do what they tell you to do! Get the idea of rights . . . out of your head. You really sound ridiculous . . . . Remember, you are not a civilian--these rights do not apply to you at all! . . . Maybe you are seen as the troublemaker. . . . You really have stirred up a lot of people on this base. . . . You know, I've seen Master Sergeants demoted for less than what you've done. . . . If you are not careful it could turn around and slap you in the face! . . . As for the squadron commander slandering your character (Threat communicating; Article 134, Manual for Courts-Martial U.S; false allegations of bribery, blackmarketeering and prostitution), they can do and say as they like. For example, if I think someone is an asshole and I tell someone else that's allright. . . . You need to take a serious look at your future."

Ultimately, we filed complaints in the USA against that atttorney for violating the Code of Professional Responsibility. I 1 I 2

Eventually, she confronted the wing inspector general, the second highest-ranking officer on the base. The colonel illegally threatened her: "If you persist in your complaints, your career will suffer as a result, and that you will no longer be respected, should you persist in sending your complaints off the base. . . . You think that your commander is a scumbag, and you are just trying to get him fired, aren't you? If your intent is to get your commander fired, it will never happen. He is a very powerful man on this base. Maybe you are the problem!" That was just the beginning of a long fight to keep my wife out of military prison, and to salvage her previously meteoric career.

With a family full of lawyers and a lifetime full of strange but true stories of cases, I had a gut feeling to not trust the legal system to "do the right thing". In the military, even petty allegations can destroy a strong career and send an NCO to prison. I 1

We learned firsthand about government self-investigation. Top military commanders, accused of committing criminal acts, manipulated the entire law enforcement establishment, including the judge advocate general corps (JAG -- a fancy term for military lawyer). They controlled the careers of cops, investigators, prosecutors, defense counsel, judges and juries. And they could even write their own congressional investigative reports through the I.G.'s office. They had government trained assassins just a phone call away, for what some Special Forces call an "internal swipe." Obviously, the commanders felt unencumbered by legal restrictions that normally applied to the rest of military members.

Perhaps not unlike the corrupt local governments in many areas in the United States.

At that point we learned how to bypass a corrupt bureaucratic system, motivated by our desire for survival. The "Achilles heel" of a corrupt government official is ironically his own corruption. And the more corrupt he is, the easier it is to find incriminating evidence. The dirtier they are, the more dirt you find, and, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

We eventually gathered evidence of fifteen separate military criminal laws violated by her squadron commander (including constant violation of top-secret security procedures, a DWI arrest and cover-up--after the commander nearly ran a British Ministry of Defense officer off the road, and for accepting contractor bribes), plus other charges against her other wing and base commanders, including the wing inspector general, and reported them to proper authorities in outside agencies on 28 August 1989. Base commanders had been using the squadron commander to defraud multimillion-dollar government contract funds, with my wife forced to rewrite the contracts. The WRM accounts were also being pilfered. These WRM supplies were needed should NATO ever be overrun by non-nuclear Soviet Pact forces.

The base contracting commander warned, "This is so illegal. We're all going to jail." Civilian contractors had been forced out of work for alleged poor performance. New contracts were awarded at several times the expense of the old contracts. Then the dining halls were permanently closed, one day after the new contract was awarded, and the funds reallocated to fly more jet bomber sorties. My wife became a government whistleblower, reporting Fraud, Waste and Abuse of taxpayer funds to bipartisan members of both Congress and the White House, including (former) Congressman Toby Roth (R), Wisconsin, (then) Senator Al Gore (later President Bill Clinton's second in command and candidate for the presidency in 2000), (then) Senator Jim Sasser (ambassador to China for President Bill Clinton, who lived through a terrorist attack in retaliation for the US intentionally bombing the Chinese embassy in Bosnia). Her report was 400 pages long, and included government financial documents and sworn testimony from many equally concerned military members and civilian government employees.

10 UCMJ 1034

No person may restrict a member of the armed forces in communicating with a Member of Congress or an Inspector General. . . . No person may take (or threaten to take) an unfavorable personnel action, or withhold (or threaten to withhold) a favorable personnel action, as a reprisal against a member of the armed forces for making . . . a communication to a Member of Congress or an Inspector General. . . . A communication . . . [is one that] makes a complaint or discloses information that the member reasonably believes constitutes evidence of a violation of law or regulation; or mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial or specific danger to public health or safety."

At approximately the time period of an impending investigation, a government VIP luxury airliner landed on the base. The top-ranking commanders lined up to greet the dignitaries, as is the custom. One of the civilians departed the luxury aircraft and walked up to the wing commander, who is the highest-ranking commander on the base. Instead of greeting him with a salute or handshake, he grabbed him by the collar and hissed, "So these are those leather jackets the Congress is paying [pilots] for." This incident was observed by a Master Sergeant who had been detailed to carry the VIPs' luggage. The dignitaries then boarded their luxury motorcoach (bus) for their drive to the embassy in London. Note that Central Intelligence Agensy (CIA) staff operate out of US embassies and are often tasked with investigations on military bases, including stateside bases.

The Third Air Force Resource Advisor, also based in England, investigated the squadron commander and base Inspector General in January of 1990. The investigating colonel agreed that the reprisals had taken place, but that he "didn't want to get involved." He told her, "Your commander says that you have been here too long and seen too much. There are two types of personnel associated with your complaints. The ones who do not support you outnumber the ones who do support what you are doing. The problem is that the one who is supporting you happens to be a member of Congress. . . . Your complaints are getting too much attention from Washington."

Soon after the 3rd A.F. I.G. investigator departed, the commander-in-chief of USAFE, General Mike Dugan, arrived at the base and visited the intelligence section in the high-security nuclear alert bunker, across the hall from my wife's dining facility (she had been removed from her contracting and wartime readiness jobs). She was ordered to wait there, with her squadron commander (who had refused to visit her and her facility for over a year), for a visit from the USAFE commander. After several hours, General Dugan stormed out of Intel, without visiting my wife's facility.

In May of 1990, we received the 3rd A.F. I.G.'s findings, as reported to Congress. The I.G. findings were fraudulent. My wife and I co-wrote a rebuttal to the report, titled Corruption of the Inspectors General Complaints Program, United States Air Forces in Europe. The report was 150 pages long, and included official documentation to rebut the 3rd Air Force I.G.'s findings, and forwarded it to the Congress in July of 1990.

Eventually, the wing commander was promoted to brigadier general and given the job of Inspector General for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). He was then tasked with conducting the reinvestigation into my wife's allegations of lying to Congress by the Third Air Force I.G. We assumed that this promotion and assignment was intentionally done by General Dugan to cover up for his USAFE command.

The commander of USAFE, Gen Michael Dugan" target=_window>General Mike Dugan, was soon promoted by president George Bush Sr. to Chief of Staff for the Air Force, around May of 1990. My wife and I realized that obviously General Dugan had promoted the wing commander to USAFE I.G. in order to cover up the serious allegations she had made regarding commanders and I.G.s under his command. We despaired that now General Dugan was so powerful that nothing would be ever be done to resolve any of the problems occurring daily in her squadron.

On August 1, 1990, Iraqi armed forces invaded Kuwait. The White House had just donated another $1-billion of illegal weapons (lying to Congress and violating Congressional law), and had military maneuvers scheduled with Iraq the week of the invasion. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq April Gallispie had just advised President Saddam Hussein on videotape that: "I have direct instruction from the President to seek better relations with Iraq. . . . We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait." The President's public opinion polls had been dropping from the Iran-Contra scandals (with an election approaching), and Congress was considering saving taxpayer's money on the "peace dividend" after the end of the Cold War against Communism (and was currently analyzing the White House's budget proposal).

During Operation Desert Storm, my wife set up a dining facility for a Contingency Support Hospital in England at RAF Little Rissington. 5,000 U.S. forces were airlifted to the reactivated base, in expectation of many thousands of U.S. casualties from the war.

In his book, The Commanders, Bob Woodward (editor of the Washington Post) wrote: "[Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin] Powell. . . heard a report on CNN about statements Air Force Chief of Staff General Michael Dugan had made about the plans for war against Iraq. The report, based on a story published that morning in the Washington Post, sounded weird. . . . Under the headline, "U.S. to Rely on Air Strikes if War Erupts," Powell read: 'The Joint Chiefs of Staff have concluded that U.S. military air power--including a massive bombing campaign against Baghdad that specifically targets Iraqi President Saddam Hussein - is the only effective option to force Iraqi forces from Kuwait if war erupts, according to Air Force chief of staff Gen. Michael J. Dugan.' With mounting surprise and alarm, Powell read that Dugan said the other chiefs as well as General Swartzkopf shared Dugan's view that 'air power is the only answer that's available to our country' to avoid a bloody land war that would destroy Kuwait." [Secretary of Defense Dick] Cheney said the comments were so extreme that he might find it necessary to relieve General Dugan. 'Do you have a problem with that?' Cheney asked. No, [President George] Bush said, whatever Cheney wanted to do, he would have Bush's support. . . . Cheney thought long and hard. Policing the four-stars was part of his ongoing job managing the building. . . . Cheney told Dugan he would have to relieve him of his responsibilities as Air Force chief. . . . Neither the Secretary of the Air Force, Donald Rice, nor General Swartzkopf had been consulted on the decision." General Dugan was fired six months after taking command of the USAF -- the first member of the Joint Chiefs to ever get the axe.

Bob Woodward, with help from Carl Bernstein, co-wrote All the President's Men, which eventually became a myth-making movie starring Robert Redford. This book was credited with starting the downfall of President Richard Nixon in the aftermath of the illegal Watergate burglaries. Mr. Woodward had formerly been a Navy lieutenant whose job had been briefing the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, and relaying their communications to General Alexander Haig, who was the president's White House chief of staff during the Vietnam War, according to Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, in their book Silent Coup.

Gen McPeak gets promoted

General Merrill McPeak was promoted to become the new Air Force Chief of Staff. During his Senate confirmation hearing, General McPeak promised that: "We will not cut corners. Period. There is going to be no lack of integrity among the senior officers of the Air Force, that is all there is to it. We are going to do business in a straightforward, honest, businesslike way."

The November 1990 issue of TIG Brief included an article by Lieutenant General Hosmer about the I.G Complaint Program and the Fraud, Waste and Abuse Prevention Program. General Hosmer wrote: "Commanders . . . let's get the message out! . . . And I'm not talking about spending time with 'problem' people--I'm talking about spending time on good Air Force people who just happen to have a problem."

The final Inspector General investigation was conducted in December of 1990, by a team sent from Norton AFB, California (USAF I.G. H.Q.). The senior Colonel admitted: "You should never have received those [I.G.] findings." The Colonel stated that the squadron commander had been relieved on command on 1 December 1990, and given a job as bartender at the Officers' Club. Upon being asked whether there had been any positive changes in the squadron, my wife replied, "Yes, people are a lot more motivated in the squadron, and they are happier."

My wife gathered more witnesses to testify to that, in self-defense. I co-wrote another 200-page report, in September of 1991, and mailed it to additional bipartisan members of Congress, as well as to the White House, titled, Impotence of the Inspectors General Complaints Program, United States Air Force. We wrote: "It's very good that the Air Force adopts 'integrity' as its new buzz word. The TIG Brief has even defined it so that everyone will know what it means. Unfortunately, integrity doesn't stand a chance when confronted with 'command influence.'"

A full page article in the Air Force Inspector General magazine, TIG Brief, titled "Where Has the Integrity Gone," dated July 1991, discussed my wife's situation:

"This investigation resulted from an NCO's third congressional inquiry letter in which the complainant rebutted numerous answers to the previous two inquiries. The Air Force investigators reviewed 70 allegations. Of these, 10 were substantiated and 22 were partially substantiated. . . . Was something wrong with the way in which this case was handled? You bet - a lack of integrity. Webster's Third New International Dictionary's definition of integrity includes 'avoidance of deception, expediency, artificiality, or shallowness of any kind.'"

In the same issue of TIG Brief, the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Merrill A. McPeak wrote (with a smug smile on his face, or what passes for a smile on a general): "The Inspector General performs an essential function. He provides that crucial second opinion that gives commanders at all levels confidence that things are being done right. He also raises warning signs when things are going wrong. . . . The I.G.'s principle customer is the commander. . . . The I.G. system, helping commander to identify problems and solve them, uncovering better ideas and sharing them, ensuring that we know where we stand, for better or worse."

In another issue of TIG Brief, Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, writes: "I can tell you that democracy is not an easy form of government for military professionals. We subordinate ourselves totally to the will of the people and their elected representatives. We are subjected to civilian leaders and all manner of congressional oversight committees composed of both experts and amateurs who demand accountability from us and who question every request and all our needs. Yes, democracy is, for a military professional, hard. . . . But, in the final analysis, no matter how tough democracy is, it is a magnificent system!"

In Howard Means' book, Colin Powell, Soldier/Statesman - Statesman /Soldier, Marybel Batier, who had been interviewed for "The Commanders" says that "Bob Woodward was about eighty-percent accurate at any point of that book." General Powell had been quoted on C-Span's American Profile series: "There's no better fight in town than testifying before Congress. . . . It's kind of like the old story out of 'The Godfather' - 'nothing personal, just business' as they throw the wire around your neck." General Dugan is not mentioned anywhere in this book, despite the historical significance of the first member of the Joint Chiefs to ever be fired.

Defunct RAF Upper Heyford Guardian

RAF Upper Heyford Guardian

My wife's squadron commander was fired, and given the job of bartender at the officer's club. She eventually held simultaneous positions as dining facility manager, First Sergeant and Squadron Superintendent, still as an E-6. She was offered a job working for the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, which she declined in order to take early retirement.

A sign in the waiting room of the base legal office (Staff Judge Advocate General (JAG)), where witnesses lined up before testifying to the I.G. investigative team warned: "If you want to play with the big boys, you have to know how to play the game." The USAFE I.G. investigation was also a whitewash of my wife's very serious allegations. In fact, it was more like an interrogation.

Prior to my wife's retirement, I co-wrote another 200-page report to bipartisan members of Congress, as well as to the White House, titled, Failure of the Inspectors General Complaints Program, Equal Employment Opportunity Program, Uniform Code of Military Justice, and Censorship in the Department of the Air Force, explaining her disillusionment with the U.S. military.

Congressional oversight, utilizing its General Accounting Office, resulted in a significant savings to the Pentagon food service budget. To realize this savings merely required the military to follow its current regulations as written, instead of abusing and misappropriating civilian contract funds.

England as US aircraft carrier - Col Venkus wrote that his pilots on the raid were prescribed "GO PILLS" - In 2002 "GO PILLS" of dextroamphetamine (the original "SPEED" now prescribed for Attention Deficit Disorder) were forced upon USAF pilots in Afganistan and resulted in a Friendly Fire massacre of 40 people at a wedding party. See USAF publication PERFORMANCE MAINTENANCE During Continuous Flight Operations, A GUIDE FOR FLIGHT SURGEONS. In just one month, 4 US Army soldiers at Fort Bragg slaughtered their wives, 2 killed themselves, and 1 wife was forced to kill her husband in self defense, after the Special Forces returned from Afganistan, where they were ordered to kill innocent women and children. In Desert Storm, GO-PAK drugs were given to soldiers

In the Air Force alone, one billion dollars a year is spent on food allowances, supposedly for military members utilizing off base housing. Yet 57% of dormitory residents (who were also given the allowance) were considered questionable, according to a Pentagon memo written after the investigations (dated July 1992), and distributed to all bases ordering "field commanders must turn this situation around." Of course, the American taxpayer never saw the benefit of this savings, since the Pentagon merely used it in some other manner. I 1 I 2

Colonel Robert Venkus, vice-wing commander and inspector general of RAF Lakenheath, in England, writes in his book Raid on Qaddafi: "I found myself chosen to become Lakenheath's 'lady in waiting.' Both naive and ambitious, I began to think that promotion to flag rank was a possibility. This is known as having 'stars in your eyes.' Given a strong foothold, it can readily cloud the most objective judgment and cause the reassessment of long-held views on honesty and integrity. In other words, officers can reach a state where they will consider doing almost anything in order to be promoted to general."

General Norman Swartzkopf, commander of the Allied forces in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, writes in his autobiography, It Doesn't Take a Hero: "Our new captain was an alcoholic. . . . Some of the men had had enough and reported to the Army inspector general that their commander had been drunk on duty. But [the battle-group commander, Lieutenant Colonel] Brummitt did not want the inspector general meddling in battle-group affairs, and the lieutenant colonel he appointed as investigating officer subverted the investigation by giving the captain the names of the kids who'd offered to testify. The captain called them in, one at a time, and made sure they were so scared that they denied having seen anything. The investigation was dropped. I was in the office when headquarters telephoned the captain with the news he was in the clear. He was laughing! At first I was stunned and then I was mad as hell. Something inside me snapped. I called the investigating officer and asked for an appointment. 'What's this about?' he said. 'I need to talk to you about an incident that occurred in my company.' 'Are you sure you want to do this?' 'Yes, sir. I feel it's my duty.' I knew I was jumping the chain of command, and when I walked into the lieutenant colonel's office I was scared. He said, 'Lieutenant, I want to tell you something. The single most important value in the Airborne is loyalty to your commanders. That's loyalty no matter what. Any attempt to undermine their authority of your superiors will be viewed in the most dire light by all of us in this headquarters. Now, what is it you wanted to talk to me about?' I said, 'Sir, I don't want to talk to you about anything.' I walked out thinking, 'You and your Airborne can go to hell.'"

Making waves

Airman

General Swartzkopf only gives one sentence in his book to his fellow commander in Desert Shield, General Mike Dugan. With help from the president, General Dugan retired on a $75,000 per year pension, rather than the $50,000 he was originally entitled to. (About half the retirement pay of disgraced Los Angeles police chief Darrel Gates.)

Joel Bainerman writes in The Crimes of a President: "Although it never made its way into the mainstream press, the alternative press--the Nation, the Village Voice, the Progressive, and In These Times--has given extensive coverage to 'Operation Demevand.' . . . [T]his was a White House operation to sell massive amounts of arms to Iran, covertly and illegally. Barbara Honegger, in her book 'October Surprise,' gave one of the earliest reports on the massive arms sales from the U.S. to Iran. Although many of sources remained anonymous, she has to be given a lot of credit for investigating a secret agenda that up to then had been virtually undetected. Her sources told her arms shipments began in 1981 [when the 52 embassy hostages were released during the presidential inauguration], and by 1986 had more than $15 billion worth of arms had been redirected to Iran [as reward for holding the hostages until the president could be embarrassed and defeated in the 1980 election]. She quotes Richard Muller, a former colonel in the Marine Reserves, as claiming that secret NATO military supplies stored in Reforger stores throughout Europe were being drawn down and sold to Iran, as well as to rebel forces in Angola, Afghanistan and Central America. The proceeds went to the Pentagon's 'black budget' for covert activities. . . . Why would the U.S. knowingly leave itself unable to defend itself against a conventional attack from Warsaw Pact countries?"

Loss of these WRM inventories would require that NATO respond with a nuclear retaliation on Western European soil, killing millions of people, if not instigating World War 3. Mr. Bainerman writes: "One of her sources, who was a former CIA official stationed in Germany. . . . [explained:] It was exactly that intention," and the allies did not know because they were given false inventories. In fact, my squadron superintendent confessed to me that our war plans had already been drawn up to include first strike retaliation with nuclear weapons dropped on our allies throughout Europe. The superintendent was very upset by this, since he knew the reality that once given the order, our squadron would load the nuclear bombs without question. If anyone had attempted to prevent the loading of the bombs, the cops had their orders to shoot us. No other scenario existed, since the stockpiles of conventional weapons had been sold for a profit. The superintendent was soon relieved from his position allegedly for low performance of his troops during nuclear weapons drills--his replacement was much less hands-on.

Iran wasn't the only nation supplied with weapons during Iran-Contra, which was actually Iran-Iraq-Contra. The White House , run by Sir George Bush Sr Knight of the BRITISH Empire, also armed Saddam Hussein and Iraq, immediately prior to the premeditated Gulf War #1, DURING Gulf War #1, after Gulf War #1 (Dick Cheney's Haliburton no-bid contracts bypassed the ban on WMDs), and DURING Gulf War #2 (while Haliburton sold contaminated water to US troops). This is exactly what Uncle scam did during World War 2, Korean War and Vietnam Wars - arming the enemy to prolong the war-profiteering and population reduction. During Gulf War #1, FBI raided BNL Bank in Atlanta, for arming Iraq with billions of dollars of free weapons, in violation of US law. BNL Bank was run by Sir Heinz "Henry" Kissinger Knight of the BRITISH Empire. Was Iraq's Exocet missile attack against USS Stark, killing over 30 soldiers, a result of illegal orders from the Sr Bush White House to sink a US ship, just like LBJ illegally ordered Israel to sink USS Liberty? Was the attack on the Stark a Beta Test to see if at least some of the Iraqi troops would be willing to fight against their own ally, USA? As LBJ told his admirals, "I want that goddamned ship to go to the bottom!" This treason was straight out of the Operation NORTHWOODS playbook - the White House hiring enemy soldiers to attack and kill US military soldiers, in order to "justify" war and invasion. Israel and the White House claimed the attack on Liberty was an "accident", but even Israeli soldiers have confessed they knew it was a US ship but follwed their illegal orders to continue the attack. The Stark attack was also claimed to be an "accident", just like it was an "accident" that US ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, told Saddam Hussein to go ahead an invade Kuwait, starting a 15-year war that has genocided 2.6-million Iraqis and 200,000 US soldiers, so far. It also appears that Israeli snipers are shooting US soldiers in Iraq, and bombing US soldiers with "IEDs", to blame the Iraqis and prolong the war-profiteering.

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander during World War II, explained that: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who are cold and who are not fed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its workers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." It also raises everybody's taxes a tremendous amount. The US taxpayer invests more on military spending than the combined net profits of all American corporations.

Ike also warned the American people:

"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
—President General Dwight Eisenhower, farewell adress to the nation on live TV

Munitions are not the only profiteering during warfare. Many members of the White House staff, including the president, George Bush Sr., signed waivers regarding their conflict of interest in waging war against a fellow business competitor, since they owned millions of dollars in oil company stock. A twentyish Bush Sr. got his start in the oil business with a million dollar gift from his father, Wall Street lawyer Prescott Bush (involved with a company busted for dealing with Nazis and violating the Trading With The Enemy Act during World War II), to start an offshore business named Zapata Oil (alleged in The Nation as Bush's first job as spy for the CIA, and a prelude to Bush's job as CIA director in the 1970s). A war would not only help eliminate a business competitor but would also drive up the price of American oil even though Arab oil accounts for a mere 3% of oil consumption in America. Allegedly, American troops were ordered to "defend" flaming Kuwaiti oil wells from American firefighters, apparently in order to drive up the price of oil thanks to news media coverage of the smoking environmental disaster. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney was worth approximately $40-million thanks to his ownership of oil stock. In 2000, during the presidential campaign of George Bush Jr and vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney, oil prices suddenly rose sky high. A criminal antitrust investigation by the Bill Clinton and Al Gore Justice Department resulted in an equally sudden drop in oil prices.

When it comes to military employment, is father like son? Bush Jr. apparently rarely showed up for work in his cushy Vietnam War job as stateside National Guard pilot. Bush Sr., allegedly shot down during battle, tells inconsistent stories as to why he survived and his crew did not. Did multimillionaire teenager Bush Sr. actually see combat that day, or was a CIA-type cover story concocted to create a wartime myth for a CIA/intelligence agency messiah? Was he being shielded and groomed for bigger and better things than a mere Purple Heart? This apparent "memory loss" was reported by The Nation and many other publications, but never by the mainstream news media. If Bush Sr. really did almost become a POW, how did he have the heart, along with president Ronald Reagan and secretary of state James Baker, to allegedly turn down Vietnam's offer in 1981 to return their living POWs if paid the $3-billion in war reparations agreed to by corrupt president Richard Nixon? Billionaire Reform Party candidate Ross Perot wrote that was why he ran against Bush Sr. for the presidency in 1988, sabotaging the Republican vote so Bill Clinton would win. As for Bush Jr.'s alleged arrest for cocaine use, perhaps he takes after then vice president Bush Sr.'s alleged arrest for DUI -- along with one of his mistresses -- after a car crash, according to former first lady Nancy Reagan. Reagan hated Bush Sr. for running against her husaband and then within one year taking control of the presidency after her husband was shot by an assassin -- an assassin who's brother was due to have dinner with a son of Bush Sr. Not Bush Jr, but Neil Bush, of the billion-dollar Silverado Savings and Loan bankruptcy infame.

Today, it is generally accepted by historians that America had never been threatened by Communist forces, that the entire Cold War was merely an excuse for trillions of dollars of taxpayer debt--much of it enriching the high-tech industries (and their executives) with Pentagon contracts. Fighting wooden aircraft and other fake weapons of mass delusion would not prove profitable to the powers that be. Many gvernment whistleblowers allege that warfare is merely a tool for the aristocracy to control and manipulate world populations for their profit. Those in true power rarely wage war against each other, lest they risk personal destruction. Instead, they cooperate for mutual benefit, lying to the public, alleging to the public that they need to pay for another expensive war against the latest converted enemy. In other words, selling off NATO stockpiles did not place America or Europe at risk, because the powers that be had decided decades before that there would never be a World War 3. Since only the people at the top knew this, the weapons had to be sold off secretly, in preparation for America's, and Europe's, next contrived 15-year "war," Operation Desert Storm, a war involving a Desert Retreat and nearly daily bombardment ten years later to "finish" the job president Bush Sr. and Defense Secretary Cheney started. Not even the Vietnam War lasted that long, officially.

Dr. Stoney Merriman

Dr. Stoney Merriman

These are the same military commanders in charge during the Iran-Contra guns-for-drugs "Drug War" that nearly started a major American war in the early years of the Reagan/Bush Sr. White House that resulted in numerous criminal convictions and the expulsion of the US ambassador to Costa Rica for alleged drug trafficing. (The ambassador's deposition was organized by my father, an ex-Air Force officer, former president of a state Constitutional Convention and former president of the American Trial Lawyers Association, on behalf of the Christic Institute's infamously sabotaged RICO civil lawsuit, Avirgan v. Hull, 125 F.R.D. 185; 125 F.R.D. 189; 691 F.Supp. 1357; 705 F.Supp. 1544; 932 F.2d 1572. [Discovery denied to the civil plaintiffs of National Security grounds, certiori denied by US Supreme Court, but many criminal convictions of White House National Security officials, later pardoned by defeated president George Bush, the week before turning over the keys to president-elect Bill Clinton.] He is currently embroiled in a multibillion dollar lawsuit in the tobacco wars.)

These Drug War commanders also were in the loop while US soldiers allegedly guarded the Mafia in the Mediterranean and protected cocaine plantations in South America, and according to Colonel Venkus, sent pilots to bomb Libya under the prescribed influence of crystal meth[amphetamine, an ADD prescription medicine for improving attention and "intelligence"], cocaine [prescription medication for dental pain with side effect of anti-depressant] and heroin [morphine, prescription medication for pain with side effect of anti-depressant] ("a/pac") -- the better to kill 40 sleeping civilians without tired thinking, slow reactions, pain of injury, disabling fear or emotional conscience. (However, it does nothing for remorse after the fact, and many combat veterans must resort to self-prescribed drug "addictions" and/or permanent "nightmares" by souls seeking amends.)

Bush's CIA and Iran-Contra bombed Flight 103 and Pan Am out of business

Pan Am 103

Allegedly, Libya retaliated in 1988 for this raid by bombing Pan Am flighF 103 and putting that corporation into bankruptcy, although Pan Am's investigation found that US government employees dealing drugs for the White House did the dirty deed. Acccording to Dr. Stoney Merriman, former Public Affairs Chief of the US Marine Corps at the Pentagon and a former editor the the Carthage, Tennessee newspaper in Vice President Al Gore's hometown, US Special Forces ground troops intercepted and protected Colonel Quaddafi in order to prevent his injury during the bombing of his home. The US soldiers were also tasked with protecting any other dignitaries visiting Quaddafi. Merriman wrote a Tennessee gangster's fun loving biography, Midnight Moonshine Rondeveus, before the retired Master Gunnery Sargeant's premature demise from brain cancer.

These commanders had no qualms about sending 17-year-old female soldiers fresh out of boot camp (American slaves) to die in Somalian battle and allegedly ordered the explosion of food shipments sent to starving Africans. It's too bad American news media corporations refuse to actually cover American wars, since accurate investigation reveals a fascinating subject. Often it takes hundreds of years for personal stories to be declassified and fit for reporting to the American public, as revealed by the recent publication of Paul Revere's terrorist exploits.

Reagan Chief of Staff Howard Baker and Dr. Stoney Merriman with University of Tenn freshmen - Baker's "The Firm" alleged to be John Grisham's model for his Hollywood Mafia law firm in Memphis TN starring Tom Cruise

UT Daily Beacon, April 13, 1977

Why would anyone choose integrity, when corruption appears simpler and more profitable? I will give you one word--sanity! I believe that a person who makes this choice will enjoy life more, and ultimately be more successful. Choosing integrity is not the safe route, because doing what's right is pretty tough sometimes. Being true to one's self, however, allows living life to the fullest, instead of getting sidetracked into a world of deception.

That government corruption ordeal, which involved nearly 1,000 pages of self-published congressional complaints and supporting official documentation, as well as personal investigation, was hard work. We even endured being followed by radio-equipped military officers and an anonymous tape-recorded death threat. At the time, we did not realize we had landed in the middle of a battle between the Congress and the White House, CIA and Pentagon.

Why did we fight so hard, instead of just transfering out? Because my wife wanted to salvage her career, and I helped her because I wanted to go racing in England, the world center for "road racing," and nobody was going to illegally stop me. The stress was unbelievable, similar to what combat must feel like. We were butting heads with professional killers, who not only loved their jobs, but were in love with their jobs. But what the heck, you only go around once. That's what they never could understand -- our backs were against the wall, and it turned into a successful mutiny. We had sworn affidavits from a dozen other NCO's and government civilian employees who were equally appalled and mistreated. We even found witnesses who observed the conspiracy of her commander making up false criminal charges, and then laughing about them.

We stood up for our legal rights as spelled out in the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Unfortunately, our rights only exist when we fight for them.

Citizens trust their government with their lives, and hope to get their dollars' worth from their taxes. Occasionally, they get less than perfect results. Is it any wonder some citizens respond with cynicism?

While in the armed forces, I learned that it is incredibly easy to let a government control what I think by controlling what information I see, hear and read. Top Secret intelligence briefings do not tell the whole story, and are unverifiable as to their alleged accuracy. Not until many years later did the realization that the nation had been conned sink in. I also learned that my personal success, in all parts of life, was dependent upon me thinking for myself, which depended on me remaining open-minded to as many sources of information as possible before jumping to a conclusion. I learned that the good guys cannot be distinguished from the bad guys, regardless of employer or rank, without a one-on-one appraisal. Yet I also learned how to create fear in a corrupt government employee, and how to use a bureaucracy to full advantage. I hoped that I would never again need to deal with such garbage again.

Of course, such was not the case. Yet a good education can often prove useful in life, provided lessons are not ignored or forgotten, and provided it doesn't kill you.


Within 12 months of retirement, Tami Lee survived 4 heart attacks at age 32, and many other serious symptoms, as a result of sabotaged vaccinations in preparation for her standby deployment as Readiness NCO to Gulf War #1, in addition to her exposure to radioactive nuclear weapons and jet-engine exhaust. Veterans Administration, with 4,000 trial lawyers under illegal orders from White House and Congress, embezzeled Tami Lee's retirement pension, as perpetrated against 95% of all disabled-retired veterans. This contagious disease also resulted in John Lee's eventual disability, and that claim has been pending for seven years in the corrupt Social Security Administration's Administrative Courts, and on appeal to US District Court. After her retirement from USAF, Tami Lee joined Tennessee Army National Guard as a SSgt, then resigned her enlistment by simply writing a single Letter of Resignation.

NOTICE: We are trying to locate Sgt Mark Jenkins, formerly at RAF Upper Heyford, 20th Tactical Fighter Wing, 520 AGS / 20th MMS Weapons Loading, who immediately became disabled with Gulf War Syndrome aquired in Turkey. Anyone with knowledge of Mark Jenkins or SSgt Gary Burnett should contact John Lee ASAP.

If You Want to Play with the Big Boys
You Have to Know How to Play the Game

How to Frag Your Commanding Officers
and Win Promotion to Pentagon

by Tami Lee and John Lee

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Bonus: Form Letter by SSgt Tami Lee that she used to resign from Tennessee Army National Guard, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Knoxville, Tennessee. How to "unvolunteer" from the all-volunteer army before scheduled separation date, before deployment to active duty.

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"If your career is on the line and you know you're XXXXXX, $100 is a cheap price to pay."
-TSgt Tami Lee, USAF (retired), Tennessee Army National Guard, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (resigned), August 9, 2005

"4-star General Kevin P. Byrnes got fired from command today, for his 'unspecified personal conduct'. I wonder if whoever filed those complaints read our website? Yeah, $150 is cheap self-help legal advice. I flew all the way from England to Washington DC, just to talk to a lawyer who refused to help us. No civil lawyer is allowed to tell a client about filing criminal charges, due to "ethics rules", and may result in the lawyer arrested for "extortion" to gain unfair advantage in a civil trial. You would have to hire a private lawyer specifically to address your desire to file criminal charges with a grand jury or magistrate, and that lawyer may represent you as a 'special prosecutor" in that situation. Or you can do it yourself pro se, for free."
-John Lee, Lee Paralegal Investigations, former investigator for Lt. Colonel J.D. Lee, USAF Reserves, at Lee, Lee & Lee attorneys, executive producer, Pirate News TV, August 9, 2005

"But with what mandate? Is Cheney‘s challenge to show the flag, to show the administration cares about the suffering and wants to smarten up the relief effort and thereby lower the heat on President Bush? Is Cheney‘s challenge to chop off heads? Will Dick Cheney be the butcher who lops off some bureaucrat heads, starting with FEMA Director Michael Brown, and thereby reforge the federal relief effort? Is Cheney‘s challenge to take charge personally of the reconstruction? Will the most powerful vice president in American history become the man who ramrods the rise of the new South and with it a legacy that could promote a draft for a Cheney presidency? The question is a big one. Is Cheney charging down South to serve as President Bush‘s executioner or full-fledged viceroy?"
-Chris Matthews, MSNBC, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Sept. 8, 2005

TSgt. Tami Lee refused a bribe from
"The Most-Powerful Vice President in American History"

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."
—Sir Donald Rumsfeld, Jewish Knight of the British Empire who sold WMDs to Saddam Hussein, US Secretary of Defense, CBS News, January 2002, re $4.5-trillion is looted Pentagon CAFR pension funds by George Bush Jr/Sr White House narcoterror gang


Letter of Resignation from National Guard NCO Enlistment Contract

Officers have a lifetime contract unless they resign

TO: Mr. Jernikan, CW3, HQ, ANG Starc Personnel
SUBJ: Request for Incompatible Occupation Discharge Waiver
FROM: HHT SPT 278th ACR (SSG Lee)
     I, SSG Tami Lee, am requesting immediate release from the HHT SPT 278th ACR, Mess Section, by means of an Incompatible Occupation Discharge Waiver. I am currently filling the E-7 FSS slot which can be filled immediately by the other E-6 whom is double slotted in the Mess Section.
     My guard commitment is conflicting with my extremely demanding restarant management responsibilities and progression. Previously, I felt it necessary to resign my position as General Manager with the Krystal Company due to severe conflicts over attending AT 94.
     I've worked extremely hard to establish a reputation within the food service community after 14 years of active duty in the Air Force. My attendance at work is critical for future promotions. I cannot afford to be passed over for a promotion because I am behind in my training and voluntarily decided to attend camp/IDT. My civilian job must have priority over my ANG position.
     I've truly enjoyed the time I've spent in the unit, however, at this time I must dedicate 100% of my efforts towards my civilian position if I am going to progress with the company. Your support in approving this request is greatly appreciated.
     Thank you for your support.

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278th TANG deployed to Iraq in Gulf War #2, made famous by one of its soldiers asking SecDef Sir Donald Rumsfeld Knight of the British Empire why US soldiers must dig in trash heaps for steel plate to add armor to their plastic HumVees. Cancer patients and 70-year-old retirees were also drafted against their will by the Bush Jr./Cheney (Sir Bush Sr. Knight of the British Empire) White House. 55% of soldiers were killed or disabled from Gulf War #1. Military medical doctors estimate 95% of soldiers will be killed or disabled from Gulf War #2, due to overdose from nuclear radiation and sabotaged vaccines.... Thanks to this letter, SSgt Tami Lee was instantly released from her enlistment contract, and was not drafted into suicidal slavery in Gulf War #2.

TRANCE Formation of America

By Cathy O'Brien
Trance-Formation.com

Uncle Bob was a pilot in Air Force intelligence and boasted he worked for the Vatican, and was also a commercial pornographer, producing kiddie porn for the Michigan Mafia, which looped back to Mafia porn king and US Representative, and unelected US president, Jerry Ford (born/aka Leslie Lynch King Jr [a Jewish name]). My father also was involved in drug sales.

My father was caught sending kiddie porn through the US mail - a beastiality film of me with my Uncle Sam's boxer dog. Uncle Bob, implicated in manuafacturing the porn, informed my father of a US Government Defense Intelligence Agency TOP SECRET Project - Project Monarch. Monarch was recruiting multigenerational incest abused children with Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD/DID) for its mind-control studies. I was a 'prime candidate' a 'CHOSEN ONE'. My father seized the opporunity for immunity from prosecution. In the midst of this pandemonium, Jerry Ford arrived at our house. Ford went inside to seal my fate....

Dick Cheney, then White House chief of staff to President Ford, later secretary of defense to president George Bush Sr, member of Council on Foreign Relations Corporation (CFR), was Wyoming's only congressman. Cheney was the reason my family traveled to Wyoming where I endured yet another form of brutality, his version of 'The Most Dangerous Game', or human hunting.

A Most Dangerous Game was devised to condition military personnel in survival and combat maneuvers. Yet it was used on me and other slaves as a means of conditioning the mind that there was no place to hide, as well as to traumatize the victim for programming. The primary theme was being stripped naked and turned loose in the wilderness while being hunted by men and dogs. It was only a matter of time until I was caught, repeatedly raped, and tortured.

Dick Cheney had an addiction to the thrill of the sport. He was obsessed with traumatizing mind-control victims, as well as to satisfy his own perverse sexual kinks. My introlduction to the game occurred upon arrival at the hunting lodge near Greybull, Wyoming, and it physically and psychologically devastated me. I stood naked in his hunting lodge office after being hunted down and caught. Cheney was talking as he paced around me, 'I could stuff you and mount you like a jackolope and call you a two legged dear. Or I could stuff you with this (he unzipped his pants to reveal his oversized penis) right down your throat, and then mount you. Which do you prefer?'

'You don't get a choice anyway, I make up your mind for you. That's why you're here. For me to make you a mind, and make you mine/mind. You lost your mind a long time ago. Now I'm going to give you one. Just like the Wizard of Oz [AUStralia] gave Scarecrow a brain, the Yellow Brick Road led you here to me.'

Cheney's face turned red with rage. He was on me in an instant, slamming my back into the wall with one arm across my chest and his hand on my throat choking me while applying pressure to the coratid artery in my neck with his thumb. His eyes bulged and he spit as he growled, 'If you don't mind me, I will kill you. I could kill you - Kill you - with my bare hands. You're not the first and you won't be the last. I'll kill you any time I goddamn well please.' He flung me on the cot-type bed and finished taking out his rage on me sexually....

George Bush Sr stood up and took my 6-year-old daughter Kelly by the hand. 'C'mon. Let me show you the Neighborhood.' Kelly became violently ill after her induction into George Bush's 'Neighborhood', and from every sexual encounter she had with him thereafter. She ran 106-degree temperatures, vomited and endured immobilizing headaches for three days, as evidence of high-voltage trauma and scarring burns. Her rectum usually bled for a day or two after Bush sexually abused her. My own mind-control victimization rendered me unable to protect her. Seeing my own child in such horrible condition drove my own wedge of insanity deeper, until our rescure by Mark Phillips in 1988.

Like his ultra-secret Pentagon Bunkhouse, use of leather was in abundance. Heroin, Bush's drug of choice, was in abundance, and Cheney joined him in using it. The smorgasborg of drugs included opium, cocaine, and Wonderland Wafers (MDMHA-XYC aka Ecstacy). I had seen Cheney stumbling drunk before, but this was the only time I saw him use heroin. Kelly too, was subjected to the drugs.

Bush attempted to sell Cheney on pedophilia through graphic descriptions of sex with Kelly. Both were sexaully aroused from drugs and anticipation. Cheney demonstrated to Bush why he did not have sex with kids by exposing himself to Kelly and saying 'Come here'. Kelly reeled back in horror and said 'No!' which made them both laugh. Bush got up and took Kelly to the bedroom....

'Well, Kitten,' Ronald Reagan said to me, 'this is your death sentence. You'll go out in a blaze of glory.' I had heard about death by fire from everyone involved in 'free trade' through Mexico, of our nation's children for drugs. I had witnessed the criminal foundations of NAFTA, which in turn could threaten the foundation of the New World Order should these secrets ever be revealed. 'Free Trade' included drugs and white slavery. It routed traumatized, robotic, mind-controlled children to Saudi Arabia, while building weapons stockpiles in Nicaragua and Iraq. I was nearly 'used up' anyway, and recording my death via 'snuff film' was agreed upon as proof to Mexican president de la Madrid and other leaders at risk, that I had indeed been silenced by death.

See also:

VIDEO DOWNLOADS: TRANCE Formation of America, and VP Cheney's Most Dangerous Game shoots Republican trial lawyer Harry Whittington in the face

VIDEO DOWNLOADS: US presidents worshipping Satan at Bohemian Grove

see also:

  • Ghosts in the Machine
    Where World War 2 and British Motorsports Collide
    by John Lee
  • DUI Civil War: The Military Commander
    Wing commander of Tennessee Air National Guard spends 30 days in Loony Bin.
    Medical patient jailed by Homeland Security KGB without trial, no bail, $1-Million fine, and risk of Life Sentence on Death Row - Dry-drunk driving, Diabetes Syndrome, Gulf War Syndrome and AIDS bioweapon genocides on trial (with patented cures)
    by John Lee
  • Gulf War Babylon
    More details of the patented cure for AIDS biowar - HIV bioweapon was injected into African-Americans at RAF Upper Heyford
    by John Lee
  • September 911 Surprise: The Website
    President George Bush Jr. sued under RICO Act for perping the terrorist massacres on September 11, 2001, as seen on Japanese TV on 9-11-2004
    by John Lee
  • September 911 Surprise: The Shockumentary Miniseries
    Pirate News TV's first video production, an historical account of the 911 Terrorist Massacres. Original Music Soundtrack by John Lee and Counter Coup. Winner Best Music Video at Los Angeles Music Awards. By John Lee and Pirate News TV
  • Hidden Wars of Desert Storm - 1990 Operation DESERT SHIELD and 1991 OPERATION DESERT STORM. Exposes the White House and US State Department's hidden agenda in the Gulf as well as the Pentagon's use of radioactive ammunitions made of radioactive uranium 238. This metal is 1.5 times denser than lead, and becomes white-hot and sharpens itself on impact with another metal. To this day, no armored plate can resist such an impact. Tanks burn inside-out like cotton-balls when the dart of fire penetrates and exits them. At impact, between a quarter and a third of the shell vaporizes into fine dust and gas that causes both heavy-metal poisoning and irradiation to anyone nearby for thousands of years. Three hundred tons of U-238 were spread over Kuwait and Southern Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. According to a US Department of Defense survey, more than 436,000 US troops have entered contaminated battlefields. The troops received no prior warning or handling instructions, most certainly because the Pentagon feared triggering outrage and panic. Disabled officers, disabled pilots and disabled soldiers describe horrific symptoms of sabotaged vaccines, denial of medical treament, and denial of disability pensions. Today, almost a third of the 700,000 US military personnel who served in the Gulf have filed for disability and 10,000 have already died (sic: 200,000 US dead by 2006). By Hiddenwars.com
  • Beyond Treason - 50,000 US troops genocided and 500,000 US troops disabled by Gulf War Syndrome of sabotaged vaccines gene-spliced with the bioweaponized HIV/AIDS virus, "depleted" uranium bullets, bombs and tanks is radioactive for 45-Billion years with Gamma Rays, X-Rays Beta particles and Alpha particles, and made-in-USA chemicals Weapons of Mass Destruction - DU dust in the human body results in the same radiation exposure as a medical X-Ray EVERY SECOND for the rest of your short life - Free DVD for US soldiers and veterans - By GulfWarVets.com and ThePowerHour.com
  • Origin of Aids - US patents for HIV/AIDS virus by order of US Congress and Communist Chinese Dr at Pentagon. By Dr Len Horowitz at HealingCelebrations.com
  • Vaccinations - The Hidden Truth from Oz - 15 speakers, including 5 medical doctors, plus researchers, parents and a registered dog breeder reveal the true, well documented answers to: Was it vaccines that saved us? Do vaccines prevent or cause diseases? Can statistics be misleading? What poisons do vaccinations contain? What damage are vaccines causing? Are childhood diseases really "deadly"? Why does vaccination continue? What are our rights? Can damage be evaluated and countered? What is the true key to immunity? Presents orthodox medical research. Fully informs in just 90 mins. Nothing is safe from the vaccine invasion, not even our genes. They shot first, we asked questions later. Now we know...
  • Beyond Treason - 89 minute film presents comprehensive documentation from United States Government archives of a massive cover-up, including military and civilian experimentation, dating back over 60 years. Some believe these illnesses are caused by exposure to depleted uranium munitions used on the battlefield. Others believe chemical and biological exposures are the prime suspect. While yet an even larger group argue that experimental vaccines given to our troops, without their knowledge or consent, may have lead to the demise of many of these soldiers. A growing number of scientists and respected experts in their fields have been