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Bain Capital Drenched in El Salvadorian Blood Money

Last week I wrote in my blog about the “Dream Team and Mitt Romney” and its problem in utilizing the talents of those whom I knew to be qualified to support his candidacy, despite Mitt’s personal psychological failures.  But now I understand why that particular blog had very little resonance in both the Republican and Democratic Party.  Quite frankly and rightfully so, neither party cared to comment or respond in kind. 

Clearly what I have to say is not as relevant as I might like to think which is really quite justifiable and understandable. But I thought it would be somewhat more enlightening for me to write about my activities subsequent to that particular blog. 

I then pulled out my research and notes that I had taken while I was a member of the Senior Policy Planning Staff under the Reagan Administration.  I realized that the names of the some of the  El Salvadorian oligarchs  whom I had been tasked  to ‘track’ for their ‘alleged activities’ in sponsoring the “killing squads” responsible for the deaths of 35,000 innocent civilians in a civil war that cost El Salvador 75,000 deaths were exactly the same names who had initially provided  9 million  dollars in seed money for Bain Capital. These families still live in Miami and Mitt paid a great tribute to them in a previous trip.  He had said the following, ”I owe a great deal to Americans of Latin American descent…. my partners Ricardo Poma, Miguel Duenas,  Pancho Soler, Frank Kardonski and Diego Ribadeneira.” 

My notes at the time indicated to me that these same ex-coffee barons were directly funding and supporting the Extreme Right Wing Militias who slaughtered over 35,000 Salvadorians in a Civil War that lasted from 1979-1992.  These Coffee Barons also had direct contact with a senior State Department official at the time by the now familiar name of Elliot Abrams J.D.—then Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs. The same neocon who was involved and indicted in the  Iran Contra Affair and the same individual who with his Jewish neocon associates, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, were intimately involved in planning the “stand down’ known as 9/11.  Presently,  Elliot presides comfortably at the Council On Foreign Relations at the behest of his neocon friend Richard Haass, the President of the CFR….both Abrams and Haass are advisors to the Romney campaign.

The other initial investors of Bain Capital  were:

Sir Jack Lyons, President of Jean Overseas Ltd., a Panama company , provided 2.5 million dollars. Later, Lyons was indicted on a stock fraud. 

The Crocker Family Trust from California gave close to 4.8 million dollars.

About  9million dollars came from other Latin Americans including Ecuadorians, Colombians [drug money], and Guatemala [blood money]. 

 The rest of the money came from associates at Bain Capital and Bain Consulting Group. 

So, what do I make of this discovery? Am I surprised? Clearly, I find to my dismay that whatever efforts I attempted to root out the neocons were and are a major failure. Then I realized that, like all politicians,  Mitt has no more virtue nor sin than the sociopathic panderers that politicians basically are.  It really does not matter what label we, the citizens, around the world,  might place on any self-aggrandizing individual thirsting for power rather than yearning to fight for some conviction.  In effect,  Politicians worldwide are all basically the same.  The word “compromise” is a simple substitute for ‘expediency’, ‘cowardice’, ‘ineptness’.  You pick the synonym. 

I then discovered some other notes, one written to a friend of mine in Mitt’s present campaign- warning him over a year ago ‘that Mitt had no basic values and would eventually self-destruct and bring the Republican Party down with him’.  The response was flippant but very appropriate, ”Your insight is interesting but way above my pay grade”.
Then I discovered two more notes that I had made about one month ago, warning two Liberal Democrats that Mitt was tainted with ‘blood money’.  In fear,  each responded that   he had nothing to do with the nomination of Obama.  Strange,  given the fact that each person was a major player in the Democratic Party.  I then discovered that they were afraid to use that card in case Mitt might bring up the fact that Obama had a ‘personal hit list’ in his incessant obsession with drones and their ‘collateral damage’.  Also I was aware that the Democratic Party did not want to bring up the issue of ‘blood money’ lest the present Hondurian Military Regime supported by the Obama administration also be accused of ‘killing innocent Hondurians’. 

 But a fear, especially a politicians’ fear,  is a palpable emotion.  It’s a dynamic that I have been trained to recognize, analyze and more importantly utilize.  In the case of politicians and their respective political party that personal fear is amplified multifold reflecting the candidates need for denial, distortion and lying.  All these elements are essential for creating a myth or narrative to convince the masses of voters that the candidate is beyond reproach or doubt.  Of course, this approach has less traction in the 21^st century of the internet and free access to OSINT [ Open Source Intelligence].  So the ‘actionable intelligence’ that the voter is provided with is to choose between two candidates- each with less or more virtue or substance than the other.  In short, the voting citizenry is cordoned off into an arena of farce and circus fueled by the hawkers called the ‘free press’.   

Now,  I find myself in with an interesting quandary.  Do I vote for one liar or the other? Who has lied more or less than the other? Look at Obama and his killing of Osama Bin Laden or his inability to manage a country with a large segment of unemployment and his ceaseless support of a crass oligarchy of bankers, freed from the shackles of the law.....

Or is my choice,  the Holy Sanctified,  reified,  new Elmer Gantry filled with platitudes and inane statements and a financial background replete with lies, ineptitude, greed and ‘blood money’.  It’s amazing how a spoiled Mormon born with a ‘silver spoon’ in his mouth can not equal the accomplishments of his fellow Mormons—Brent Scowcroft, the Marriotts, and Jack Anderson who truly deserve the title of Honorable Americans.  Mitt has not only brought down himself but the nefarious Republican Party. 

 So,  my decision is to wait for 2016 and hope the Republic regains some semblance of honor, certainly something less akin to an auctioneer’s bidding away our inherent freedoms, dignity and values. …on that day, I will cast my vote accordingly.