The Bush Family's Bad Latin Real Estate Investment
By Dave Lindorff
Back in late 2006, it was widely reported in the Latin American media that President Bush, or perhaps his old man, had bought a 100,000-acre farm in a remote area of Paraguay.
What struck people at the time was the choice of country. Paraguay, of course, has gained a certain Club Med status among the world's villains and criminal elements as the place to go when the law's on your tail. The country, ruled for six decades by the dictatorial and fascist Colorado Party of Gen. Alfredo Stroesser, an almost cartoon charicature of a Latin American dictator, has no extradition treaty with any nation.
That's why it has long harbored aging Nazis, bank robbers, and a string of ousted or retired Latin American dictators and their assistants over the years.
Given that President Bush, once he leaves office on January 20, 2009, will no longer have the diplomatic immunity conferred upon heads of state, or the Constitutional protection against indictment by domestic prosecutors, it makes sense that he would be looking for a safe haven from the long arm of the law.
After all, they guy is guilty of a huge laundry list of international crimes, from the Crime Against Peace and Conspiracy against Peace in the UN Charter, to Geneva Convention violations like approval of torture of prisoners, collective punishment of civilians, the killing of children and child soldiers, the failure to protect occupied citizens, the use of banned weapons, etc., etc., and also of domestic crimes, ranging from political use of government employees, conspiracy, treason, lying to federal officials, defrauding Congress, etc.
No wonder he wants to do what Klaus Barbie, Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann did, and hole up in Paraguay.
Only trouble is, Paraguay may not be such a safe haven for long.
Last month, a former Roman Catholic Bishop with leftist, populist tendencies, Fernando Lugo, surprised almost everyone in Paraguay, and no doubt President Bush, by winning the national presidential election, ousting the Colorado Party for the first time in 61 years. There is talk that among other things, Lugo is thinking of returning Paraguay to the community of nations, by signing some of those extradition agreements.
If he does that Bush may be stuck having to hide behind his rump squad of Secret Service agents down at the Crawford Ranch, hoping they can keep the process servers from Brattleboro and Marlboro, VT, with their war crimes arrest warrants, at bay.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist and columnist. His latest book is "The Case for Impeachment" (St. Martin's Press, 2006 and now available in paperback edition). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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Karma's a bitch for war criminals, huh?
I can see it now...
The entire Bush administration and all their worthless and complicit hangers on will move to Crawford, wall off the ranch (kind of like they're walling off Sadr City), and try to declare themselves an independent sovereign country with no extradition treaty.
Sounds crazy, I know, but no more crazy than these idiots thinking they could get away with torture by getting a note from some DOJ ass-kissing flunkie,
or...
their apparent belief that videotape of them telling lie after lie after lie self-destructs after a few seconds like those tapes used to on the old Mission Impossible TV show,
or...
the idea that the Pretender-in-Chief would be taken seriously by anybody with a clue when he said recently that our economy was slow "because we built too many houses,"
or...
(feel free to add any examples of true Bushco insanity you can come up with - there's plenty to choose from)
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Hehe , that one tickled me old funny bone John ;-D
If poor Bush still has a mortgage in Paraguay, ... maybe he'll have to foreclose while he's payin' off the weddin' in Crawford. Even if he paid it off, not many buyers these days... Yep, Kharma's a bitch! :-D
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Who's Wall Is It...?
Why wall himself in, when he can just stay where he is and wall in the rest of us?
"bush’s Third Term"
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---The Bikemessenger
truth is stranger than fiction
I just wonder how low can we go? Our elected officials are letting us down, big time. This is a charade. God or no God this crap has just got to stop!
Get a life! America!
EW
IMPEACH!!!
PARAGUAY
'YES'!!! I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE PARAGUAY SITUATION AND AM THRILLED! THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I'VE HEARD SINCE HE TOOK ('ROBBED') OFFICE!!!!
Paraguay - War Criminals Not Welcome
Perhaps their new President, while considering those extradition treaties, might also announce, far and wide, that war criminals are not welcome in Paraguay.
At that moment the "For Sale-Cheap" signs would sprout up on that 100,000 acre Bush Ranch.
No place left to hide, the Hague would make an announcement, "he's welcome here".
Guarani Aquifer, one of the largest underground water reserves
The more perfidious intent of the fascists in the Bush crime family cabals purchasing 100,000 acre's in Paraguay is the exclusive intent on marauding the Guarani Aquifer, one of the largest underground water reserves on earth, and exploiting and profiteering wantonly from control of Paraquays underground water resources.
Hopefully, Fernando Lugo will restore extradition treaties with other nations who will prevent the fascists in the Bush crime family cabals from commandeering, exploiting, and profiteering from Paraguays natural, (precious actually) water resources.
"Deliver us from evil!"
Guarani Aquifer reference?
Here's a reference and there is even a nice map of the Guarani Aquifer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_Aquifer HUGE, isn't it?!
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Aquifer lies beneath the land?
The land, I've heard, lies atop one of the world's few remaining untouched large aquifers. (citation needed.) Take that for what you will, but that sounds like a wise purchase to me.
No,No,NO! This is bad.
No,No,NO! This is bad. Because to avoid prosecution without Paraguay, Bush has to stay in power or get the next President to pardon him. I doubt that even McCain would be that dumb--the backlash that would ensue would be dozens of times worse than what Ford had to endure--so the logical conclusion is that Bush must stay in office. To do so, he would merely have to create a disturbance--say by attacking Iran right before the election--then declare martial law and cancel the election. Voila! No prosecution!
Re: The Bush Family's Bad Latin Real Estate Investment
Dave, I've looked at the U.S. State Dept. page and found that the U.S. and Paraguay signed an extradition treaty in 2001. If the president signs these treaties, then Shrub would know that Paraguay would not be safe.
-- Jim
Of course, thousands of
Of course, thousands of acres in Paraguay would make a great spot for a drug-smuggling airport. The Bush family has been involved in cocaine smuggling for years; Poppy was in charge of the CIA when it added coke smuggling from South America to its heroin smuggling from Southeast Asia. A place in Paraguay that would earn them hundreds of millions, and with the de facto immunity given by Bushco's friends in government, could make W's retirement very lucrative. I wouldn't put it past them. At all.
Airport?!
Yes, and as 'luck' would have it, a type of airport already exists there, it's called the U.S. Mariscal Estigarribia Military Base and is located just a few miles from the reported Bush property. The U.S. Military has had a series of 'exercises' there in the recent past. Runways large enough to accommodate C-5 aircraft and facilities that can house 16,000 troops! This is an excellent article by Benjamin Dangl: http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/431/1/
Here is a Google map of the airport: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
(if that fails type in "Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay")
Did anyone mention that Poppy Bush is also rumored to have purchased 173,000 acres there AND that his good buddy, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon has purchased 1,482,600 also in the Northern Region of Paraguay called the Chaco? http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif240.html
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The citizens of Brattleboro
The citizens of Brattleboro and Marlboro are some of the most heavily armed in the country. I'd say bush is headed to prison!