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●小ブッシュの弟ニールと離婚した前妻シャロンが、ブッシュ家の恥部を暴いた本を
出すそうです。この本が出ることは昨年の春に報じられていましたが、大統領選挙の
直前という絶妙のタイミングで、今月14日発売の運びになりました。
この本はブッシュ家がどのように成り上がっていき、ナチスに極秘財政支援していた
プレスコット・ブッシュ（＝小ブッシュの祖父）がどうやって政界入りしたかなど、
まさにブッシュ家の“秘部”を晒した700頁をこえる大著です。
……で、英国の『デイリー・ミラー』誌は小ブッシュと妻のローラがドラッグ好きの
若者だったことを紹介しています。そういえばクリントンも大統領選挙当時に、若い頃
にマリファナをやったことを告白させられていましたね。「マリファナを吸ったことは
たしかだけど、肺には吸い込みませんでした」とか苦しい言い訳をしていたものでした。
小ブッシュがアル中だったことは周知の事実ですが、オヤジが大統領のときにキャンプ・
デイヴィッドでコカインを決めていた……となると穏やかならざる話でしょうな。
だって、父ブッシュやその先代のレーガンは「対テロ戦争」ならぬ「コカイン根絶の
ための戦争」を宣言して、中南米の国々にテロ攻撃を続けていたわけだから。
●下記は英国『ミラー』が報じた、小ブッシュのコカイン使用の逸話――
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14609301&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=bush--took-cocaine-at-camp-david--name_page.html
(Mirror.co.uk is the online edition of The Daily Mirror, Britain's brightest tabloid newspaper.)
BUSH 'TOOK COCAINE AT CAMP DAVID'
【ブッシュは「キャンプ・デイヴィッドでコカインをキメていた」】
Sep 6 2004
【2004年９月６日】
And wife Laura liked dope, says book
【……おまけに妻のローラも麻薬が大好きだった、と新著が暴露】
By Emma Pryer
【エマ・プライヤー記者】
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GEORGE W Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David, a new book claims.
【ジョージ・Ｗ・ブッシュはキャンプ・デイヴィッドでコカインを嗅いでいた、と主張する本が現れた。】
His wife Laura also allegedly tried cannabis in her youth.
【妻のローラも若い頃にマリファナをやっていたという。】
Author Kitty Kelley says in her biography The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, that the US President first used coke at university in the mid-1960s.
【この本は『ファミリー：ブッシュ王朝の真相』という伝記で、著者のキティ・ケリー氏は現職のアメリカ大統領が60年代半ばの大学時代にコカインをやっていたと書いている。】
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【補注】日本語で綴るとこの著者は民主党ケリー候補の親族かと勘違い
しそうだが、amazon に載った同書（９月14日に米国発売）の紹介
記事によれば、下記のようにこれまで多くの有名人の伝記を書いてきた
米国の売れっ子作家だという――
「Kitty Kelley is the internationally acclaimed bestselling author of Jackie Oh!; Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star; His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra; Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography; and The Royals. The last three titles were all #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Ms. Kelley has been honored by her peers with such awards as the Outstanding Author Award from the American Society of Jouranlists and Authors, the Philip M. Stern Award, and the Medal of Merit from the Lotos Club of New York City. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, People, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her physician husband, Jonathan Zucker.
（http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385503245/）
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She quotes his former sister-in-law Sharon Bush who claims: "Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either.
【キティ氏はブッシュ大統領の義理の妹だったシャロン・ブッシュの次のような主張をそのまま引用している――「ブッシュはお父さんが大統領だったときにキャンプ・デイヴィッドでコカインをキメてたのよ、それも一度きりじゃなくね」。】
Other acquaintances allege that as a 26-year-old National Guard, Bush "liked to sneak out back for a joint or into the bathroom for a line of cocaine".
【ほかにも複数の知人の話として、ブッシュが州兵時代の26歳の時に「マリファナを吸いにこっそり抜け出したり、便所にしけ込んでコカインをキメていた」という証言を紹介している。】
Bush has admitted being an alcoholic but, asked during the 1999 election if he did drugs, he said: "I've told the American people that years ago I made some mistakes.
【ブッシュ自身もアル中だったことは認めているいるが、大統領選の闘いを始めていた1999年にドラッグ経験はあるかと訊ねられて、こう答えていた――「何年もまえに私はアメリカ国民に言いましたよ、自分も間違いはしでかしたと。」】
"I've learned from my mistakes and should I be fortunate enough to become president I will bring dignity and honour to the office."
【「だけど自分の間違いから学んだんです。もし万が一にも私が付きまくっていて大統領になれたなら、大統領として立派な名誉ある仕事をしますよ。】
Later an aide clarified his remarks saying Bush hadn't taken illegal drugs in the past 25 years.
【こうして質問にまともに答えなかったわけだが、あとで彼の補佐役がこの発言を“通訳”して「ブッシュさんは過去25年間、違法なドラッグをやったことはないですよ」と明言したのだった。】
Kelley says that the Bush family covered up scandals because of their wealth and influence. She claims George W started drinking at school and continued at Yale university to overcome shyness.
【著者のキティ・ケリー氏は、ブッシュ一族は富と影響力のおかげで、これまでさまざまなスキャンダルを隠蔽してきたと語る。彼女によれば、ジョージ・ブッシュは学生時代から酒を飲むようになり、イェール大学に進んでも“臆病”に打ち勝つために酒を飲み続けていたという。】
Former student Torbery George says in the book: "Poor Georgie. He couldn't relate to women unless he was loaded."
【学生時代の友人だったトービー・ジョージ氏はこう証言している――「ジョージは哀れなヤツでね、酔っぱらわないと女に声もかけられなかったんだ」。】
Another says: "He went out of his way to act crude. It's amazing someone you held in such low esteem later became president."
【他にもこんな証言をする人がいる――「あいつは人が変わったように粗暴になったな。だからあんなに評判の悪いヤツが、のちに大統領になったんでビックリしたよ」。】
His supporters have slammed the allegations as outrageous.
【ブッシュの支持者たちは、こうした証言を頭ごなしに否定してきた。】
The White House said: "This book appears to be filled with the same trash discredited years ago."
【ホワイトハウスの見解はこうだ――「この本は何年も前にインチキだと認定されたのと全く同じゴミ情報の塊のようですね」。】
-BILL Clinton has joked he will try to be happy about his heart bypass operation. The ex-president said on his website: "This sure isn't how we planned to spend Labor Day weekend but we're doing our best to enjoy it."
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●昨年４月、ニール・ブッシュとの離婚をきめた妻のシャロン・ブッシュが
ブッシュ家のスキャンダルを暴露本を書くというニュースが流れました。
その成果が、この『ファミリー：ブッシュ王朝の真相』として今回世に出た
わけですが、下記は当時の騒動を伝えていた記事です――
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http://politicalwire.com/archives/2003/04/16/bushs_sisterinlaw_plans_tell_all_book.html
April 16, 2003
Bush's Sister-in-law Plans Tell All Book
"Sharon Bush, the estranged wife of President George W. Bush's younger brother Neil, is planning to write a tell-all book about her two decades with the Bush family," The Observer reports. "Mrs. Bush is in the middle of a divorce battle with Neil Bush, and the fight has turned nasty on both sides." However, Mrs. Bush's "talk of a book may merely be an effort to ratchet up the pressure on Mr. Bush to give her a more generous settlement than he has offered in the past."
Meanwhile, the New York Post says Karenna Gore Schiff "just inked a deal with Miramax Books believed to be in the $200,000-plus range to do a book about unsung heroines of the 20th century in politics, civil rights, medicine, and law."
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http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/america/usa/2003/041703a.html
BUSH'S SISTER-IN-LAW TO "TELL ALL"
ABOUT THE SICKEST FAMILY IN AMERICA
April 16, 2003
W..'s Sister-in-Law Schleps Tell-All
About First Family
by Greg Sargent
Sharon Bush, the estranged wife of President George W. Bush's younger brother Neil, is planning to write a tell-all book about her two decades with the Bush family, The Observer has learned.
Ms. Bush, who lives in Texas, recently visited Manhattan to discuss her idea for the book with several publishing executives. She had a long lunch with biographer Kitty Kelley, who wrote a controversial 1991 portrait of Nancy Reagan and currently is researching her own book on the Bush family.
The two women discussed the possibility of Ms. Bush acting as an important source for Ms. Kelley in addition to writing her own book, Ms. Kelley's agent, Wayne Kabak, told The Observer. Such a turn of events could provide Ms. Kelley with invaluable inside assistance for her research on the family.
Mrs. Bush is in the middle of a divorce battle with Neil Bush, and the fight has turned nasty on both sides. The Observer has obtained a deposition given by Mr. Bush on March 4, in which he described his marriage as "broken" and "loveless."
Meanwhile, Mrs. Bush's talk of a book may merely be an effort to ratchet up the pressure on Mr. Bush to give her a more generous settlement than he has offered in the past.
Still, Mrs. Bush insists she has a good story to tell. She had a seat at the kitchen table as the family twice reached the pinnacle of American politics and power. She married Neil Bush in 1980, the year Mr. Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, was elected Vice President. During her 23-year marriage, the elder Mr. Bush and his eldest son, George W. Bush, were both elected President, while another member of the family, Jeb, was elected governor of Florida.
In her book, Ms. Bush wants to detail her disillusionment with the family. According to her associates, she has grown despondent about her treatment at the hands of the Bushes. She said family members have turned their backs on her ever since last year, when she learned that her husband wanted to end their marriage after carrying on an extramarital affair with one of Barbara Bush's former assistants.
But her disappointment with the family is only one of many subjects she wants to address, those close to her say. In her book, she has told associates, she hopes to show that the family has relentlessly managed its public image to a far greater extent than previously known
Ms. Bush's spokesman, Lou Colasuonno, a partner at the public-relations firm of Westhill Partners, confirmed that she wanted to write the book. "This will be the story of Sharon Bush's life inside one of the most powerful families in America," Mr. Colasuonno said. "She witnessed the evolution of a dynasty. She believes, and is prepared to reveal in her book, that the Bushes are far more pragmatic and calculating than has ever been seen before. She will show that the family orchestrates its public image from top to bottom. She will reveal that the family is in essence a political operation."
But one publishing executive expressed skepticism about Ms. Bush's ability to pull off the project. "I doubt that Sharon Bush would be able to deliver the goods to fill a whole book," the executive said. "She would be far more useful as a source to another future biographer than she would in her own right."
Neil and Sharon Bush are the parents of three children: Lauren, the supermodel, and teenagers Pierce and Ashley. Mr. Bush has offered his wife $1,000 a month, as well as some other assets, an offer she rejected in March.
Ms. Bush, who declined to be interviewed, is currently drawing up a book proposal and hasn't yet signed a deal with a publisher. But her idea has already stirred interest in Manhattan publishing circles. Ms. Kelley, for one, has taken a particularly keen interest in Ms. Bush's story.
"Kitty had a very long lunch with Sharon, and a great deal of information was put on the table," said Mr. Kabak, Ms. Kelley's agent at the William Morris Agency. "They talked about the possibility of Sharon writing her own book, as well as about the possibility of Sharon further cooperating with Kitty's book in the future."
At Ms. Kelley's instigation, Ms. Bush subsequently met with two top executives at William Morris to discuss her project, although the agency hasn't agreed to sign her.
While it's not yet clear if Ms. Bush will be able to offer up any explosive revelations, talk of her book plans is likely to give Karl Rove, the President's chief political adviser, something of a headache. That's because Neil Bush, the President's black-sheep brother, has gotten the family in trouble before. He played an infamous role in the catastrophic collapse of the Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association in the 1980's, costing taxpayers more than $1 billion. More recently, his plan for an educational software package for use in Florida's public schools raised questions about whether he was taking advantage of his brother Jeb's position as Governor. Now his divorce is threatening to create political complications for the family once again.
Ms. Bush, people close to her point out, has had a front-row view of the family drama for more than two decades. While Neil and Sharon Bush spent many years in Colorado, Ms. Bush has nonetheless been with the family at many gatherings at the White House, in Texas and at their vacation compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. She has witnessed many off-the-cuff conversations on everything from politics to baseball to race relations, her associates say.
In her book, sources said, Ms. Bush hopes to show that Barbara Bush has exercised a good deal more control over the family than previously revealed. She also wants to show that the relationship between the Bush brothers, as well as relations between the President and former President, have been more fraught and complex than previously known, her associates say.
Mr. Colasuonno declined to address details, but said: "This is a woman who has had some wonderful times with the Bushes and knows she's fortunate to have had a close-up view of two Presidencies. But she has seen the dark side, too. And she intends to provide a view of the family that everyone will want to read."
Spokesmen for the Bush family and the White House didn't return calls. Richard Flowers Jr., a lawyer for Neil Bush, declined comment.
Written Off
Whatever Ms. Bush's motive in pursuing plans for a book, she appears to be eager to air her disillusionment with the family. In her view, according to people close to her, the Bush family has more or less written her off, even though she sees herself as the aggrieved party. Ms. Bush likes to portray herself as a loyal and dutiful wife whose husband destroyed their marriage when he indulged in an extramarital affair..
Mr. Bush's affair with Ms. Andrews isn't in doubt; the New York Post wrote about the relationship in March. Rather than trying to conceal the affair, Mr. Bush explained, in the deposition reviewed by The Observer, that his marriage and couldn't be saved by a marriage counselor.
"I threw myself at the mercy of this counseling and havea?"have reached the conclusion that it is irresolvable, that our marriage has been broken," Mr. Bush said. "It's loveless. And there's nothing left to it. And there hasn't been for a long, long time. There's no affection. There's been very little sexual activity over the past 10 or 12 years -. Sorry if marriages fail. And I'm -I'm sorry ours is one of those."
Given the fact that the marriage had fallen apart and that her husband had been unfaithful, Ms. Bush had hoped that Barbara and the elder George Bush would lean on Neil to give her a fair settlement. She expected that the Bush clan, with its public emphasis on family values, would surely rally around her after what she saw as two decades of faithful service to the family. According to Ms. Bush's associates, she pleaded her case with Barbara Bush in several phone calls, asking the family matriarch for help in patching up the marriage and, subsequently, for help in winning a better settlement. But Barbara Bush politely but firmly rejected her pleas, the associates say.
Elizabeth Mitchell, the author of W: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty, a biography of the President published in 2000 and due out in paperback this summer, noted that Sharon Bush would be the first family insider to break the code of loyalty of the Bushes, a notoriously guarded family.
"This is significant, because members of the Bush family are always careful to avoid offering up any kind of personal insights," Ms. Mitchell said.
Indeed, other biographies of the Bush clan written by family members have tended to portray the Bush family as a goodhearted and wholesome Texas clan that is forever being sniped at by the East Coast liberal media establishment. For instance, this is how Barbara Bush, in her 1994 memoir, described Neil and Sharon's first meeting during his work on the elder Bush's Presidential campaign in 1980: "Neil had met and fallen in love with a darling young schoolteacher from New Hampshire, Sharon Smith. He not only won her vote but, thank heavens, her heart, too."
"The family's political savvy and psychological complexities are always played down, and Sharon's book could change that," Ms. Mitchell said.
Ms. Mitchell added that Sharon Bush's contribution, while perhaps likely to be short on explosive revelations, would nonetheless enrage the family. "A lot of people have gone up to the Bush family ramparts in search of real dirt and come away with nothing, so it's hard to believe that Sharon could lead us to true scandal," she said. "Still, her book would probably be a revelation to many people, and it would certainly displease the Bushes, who value loyalty above everything else."
In Ms. Mitchell's view, Ms. Bush's meeting with Kitty Kelley was of particular interest. "Kitty's book [on the Bush family] has been a big, hyped thing for several years now, but nobody knows if she has come up with the goods yet. If Sharon Bush and Kitty Kelley end up collaborating, Sharon could end up saving Kitty's project by becoming her very own Bush family Deep Throat.
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●ニール・ブッシュと妻シャロンが離婚して、ブッシュ家の恥部が晒されると
いう報道が出ると、ただちにホワイトハウスは小ブッシュ大統領の声明と
いう形で体裁の取り繕いにかかりました。これがその声明文――
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http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2003/041603.asp
For Immediate Release -Office of the Press Secretary
-April 16, 2003 -2:19 P.M. (EST)
PRESIDENT OFFERS ADVANCE CONGRATULATIONS TO SOON-TO-BE-FORMER SISTER-IN-LAW SHARON BUSH ON DECIDING TO KEEP HER FESTERING CRAP-TRAP SHUT IF SHE WANTS TO LIVE TO SEE CHRISTMAS
Statement by the President
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today, amidst my grueling schedule of delivering speeches to convince the war-flushed Joe Sixpack set that they benefit from tax cuts for Donald Trump, I wanted to take a minute to say a few words to my used-up sister-in-law Sharon, who is at this very moment entertaining the suicidal idea of profiting from a tell-all book about my proud, salt-of-the-earth family of petrochemical millionaires.
Sharon, I know you and I have never been particularly close. When our kids were growing up together, and we'd all convene in Washington or Kennebunkport for the holidays, most of the time I was much more interested in getting to the bottom of a fifth of Cuervo than listening to you prattle on about God knows whatever worthlessness you think defines you as a person. Besides, you were always so sour, like you were convinced that just because you've got that brassy bottle-blonde hair, that my mom couldn't order you to help Jeb's Mexi-bimbo wife Columba pick up Millie's messes off the lawn. But that's all in the past now, and I'm confident that you've forgiven me personally for that New Years Eve I vomited on you.
Whatever our differences may be today though, I know that you know that current GOP fund-raising literature stresses that my parents raised us Bush boys to adhere to the highest moral standards. As such, I know you realize that when my baby brother Neil dumped you and your three halfwit children to start slithering his Dockers python into my mother's personal assistant, that he was most certainly compelled to do so only by his unshakeable belief in "family values." Furthermore, I know that you accept that when Neil single-handedly wiped out the life savings of thousands of thankfully powerless blue-collar grunts by using Silverado Savings and Loan as his own personal piggy bank, that he was also driven by the same unflappable commitment to Christian decency and brotherly love that so defines my perfect bloodline.
Over the years, I know you've been unfortunately privy to many a private conversation between the superior male members of the Bush family. Indeed, whether it was doing your womanish duty as a piece of human lawn furniture, holding two bowls of pork rinds and Chee-tos while the men folk played horseshoes, or pretending to understand while we laid out plans for 21st century Muslamian genocide, I know you soaked up many of our most candid and unguarded moments not unlike an ultra-absorbent TodayR contraceptive sponge.
I remember one Thanksgiving in particular, while Marvin and dad were giving their hilarious annual blackface performance of "The Aunt Jemima and Uncle Remus Follies," I looked behind me and noticed that not only were you the only one not busting a gut, but you had this pained, weak look of liberal guilt in your eyes. Then, at the climax, as Marvin danced a crazed jitterbug while clenching the entire turkey carcass in his teeth and dad cried, "Auntie Jammie, Unkie Remus sho nuff wansa get jiggy wif yo ass!," you had the gall to avert your eyes and leave the room! I knew right then and there that you weren't cut out for the Bush league.
And so today, with my perfect family having so righteously shut you out like the cheap trash that you are, I know how tempting it might be to sit down and put pen to paper about your wholly inaccurate recollections. I know how exciting it must seem, meeting with all those fancypants diseased homo New York City publishers, and snarfing down fish eggs and champagne for lunch with Kitty Kelly. But I also know that at the end of the day, you're smarter than to surrender to the temptation of delivering a massively damaging political blow to the hand that feeds your cellulite-encrusted ass. And I know that you're smart enough to turn off the goddamned answering machine and start taking my mother's livid phone calls guaranteeing your life in exchange for your silence, with a monthly allowance thrown in that's still big enough to cover the interest on your Lord & Taylor Card balance.
It's been a long strange trip Sharon, but I want to congratulate you in advance for accepting our final offer. Neil is our family's Fredo. He is a pussy embarrassment to us, and was doubtless a terrible lay for you. But at the end of the day, the family must prevail, and that's why you must simply go away. Whether that's the "staying out of the media spotlight" kind of going away, or the "permanently vacationing inside the concrete footing of an off-shore oil rig" kind of going away, well that's up to you, sister.
Thank you, and God Bless America.
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●この本の誕生のきっかけとさえ言える、ニール・ブッシュと妻シャロンとの
離婚騒動と、その“スピンオフ”として世に出たニール・ブッシュのチャイナ・
コネクション疑惑について紹介した記事――
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http://hiddennews.cocolog-nifty.com/gloomynews/2003/12/post_8.html
12/10/2003
ブッシュ弟は女性スキャンダルで大忙し
ブッシュ大統領の実弟、ニール・ブッシュは女性スキャンダルで大忙しだ。ニール氏は元妻シャロンとの離婚裁判の中で、中国での怪しいビジネスと、アジア人売春婦とのステキな一夜について詳細に暴露されてしまった。
ニール氏は、中国の大手建設企業で、江沢民前主席の息子が経営するGrace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corpとの契約で、200万ドルを超える株券を受け取っていた。軍事的には中国と米国は敵対関係にあるが、ブッシュファミリー的には大事なパートナーのようだ。このニール氏の取引が現大統領の最新の対中国政策に影響しているかどうかは定かではない。
ニール・ブッシュ氏は離婚裁判以外でも恥部を暴露されている。元妻シャロンはロバート・アンドリュースという男性から訴えられている。ロバート氏の妻はニール氏の元愛人で、彼が養育している2歳の子供はニール氏の実子というのが訴えの内容だ。
さて、ニール氏はシャロンとの裁判に勝てるだろうか？ おそらくブッシュファミリーが最適な解決策を用意することだろう。ブッシュ大統領自身、テキサス州時代のレイプ事件をめぐり、地元の黒人女性から訴えられていたが、裁判前に原告の女性は（偶然にも！）謎の自殺を遂げているのだ。
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●上記の『暗いニュースリンク』で指摘されている「ブッシュ大統領自身、
テキサス州時代のレイプ事件をめぐり、地元の黒人女性から訴えられて
いたが、裁判前に原告の女性は（偶然にも！）謎の自殺を遂げている」
という不吉な事実についての記事――
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http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i15death.htm
NOV 16 - 30, 2003
VOL. 1 ISSUE 15
The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush
by Guest Writer
Jackson Thoreau
November 18, 2003 ? Early one Saturday afternoon in July 2003, I made a simple phone call to Margie Schoedinger, a Texas woman who filed a rape lawsuit against George W. Bush in December 2002. I expected to leave a message on a machine, so I was caught a little offguard when Schoedinger answered.
She, too, sounded somewhat surprised I had called, saying she hadn’t heard from many other reporters. But she talked to me for a few minutes about the legal action.
"I am still trying to prosecute [the lawsuit]," said Schoedinger, a 38-year-old African-American woman who lived in the Houston suburb of Missouri City. "I want to get this matter settled and go on with my life."
Well, Schoedinger hasn't gone on with her life. In fact, three months after I spoke to her, she died in an apparent suicide. And this matter remains unsettled.
When I asked her in July 2003 about the lack of media coverage, Schoedinger said she wasn't seeking publicity. She said she did not even know about a December 2002 article in the Fort Bend Star, the only U.S. mainstream media outlet that covered this story, to my knowledge. The Fort Bend reporter, LeaAnne Klentzman, said she even went to Schoedinger's home and talked to a man there, who said she could not come to door. While I reached and spoke to Schoedinger on my first attempt, maybe she wasn't ready to talk back in December.
Anyways, Schoedinger said she was surprised the case wasn't covered more because "it is true......People have to be accountable for what they do, and that's why I'm pursuing it."
To be sure, Schoedinger's accusations - which include being drugged and sexually assaulted numerous times by Bush and other men purporting to be FBI agents - are bizarre and hard for most people to believe. But her story fits in with those told by a growing number of people who say they were used as guinea pigs or whatever by members of the CIA or another U.S. agency who wanted to test out the latest mind-controlling drug or just have a strange form of release. And her death - let's just say government agents have made murders look like suicides before.
In her court petition, Schoedinger said police in Sugar Land, another Houston suburb where she said some assailants linked to Bush attempted to unsuccessfully abduct her from her car shortly before the 2000 election, refused to take a report or do anything about that incident. She filed a lawsuit against the Sugar Land department and said that in preparing its defense, Sugar Land police found out that she dated Bush as a minor. I didn't get a chance to ask Schoedinger about that tie and didn't meet her in person, but her driver's license listed her as being 5-foot-8 and weighing 125 pounds, for what that's worth.
The Fort Bend Star story quoted a Sugar Land police captain saying his department had no record of any complaints by Schoedinger. All he had to do was what I did - go to the Fort Bend County Internet site and do a simple search on Schoedinger's name in the area of civil court records. I found the lawsuit Schoedinger filed in December 2000 against Sugar Land police, and it even had numerous responses by the department's attorneys in that case.
Just wait. This story gets stranger.
When I started asking Schoedinger about certain details of the case, such as alleged surveillance at her home and if she was still legally representing herself, she politely ended our conversation. "I need to see what has been written," Schoedinger said. "I feel like it's best for me to end our conversation."
Obviously, she had learned to be careful about what she said and to whom she said it. I could understand her being leery about talking about her situation with a stranger over the phone.
But I remember being puzzled by Schoedinger’s attitude after hanging up the phone. I wondered that if she had made up such a wild story, why she didn't come up with something a little less outlandish, in which people couldn't necessarily dismiss her as a kook. I wondered why she didn't seek publicity to at least provide some form of protection. I've long learned that being as public as possible is one of your best defenses against rogue intelligence agents. But she didn't even seem to want any media to cover her story. I told several writers I knew, some of whom tried to contact Schoedinger. None succeeded, as far as I know.
I remember thinking, "I hope she doesn't wind up on the wrong side of a gun." And sure enough, in late September, Schoedinger did.
The Houston Chronicle wrote a bare-bones obituary that stated only that Schoedinger "expired" on Sept. 22, 2003, and her burial was at Houston Memorial Gardens.
I called the Harris County Medical Examiner's office, and a clerk told me the cause of death: a "suicide" by a "gunshot wound to the head." I hung up amid bombs going off in my mind.
For one, using a gun to commit suicide is predominantly executed by males, according to psychiatrists and other sources like pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. Women are more likely to overdose on drugs, although the number of gunshot suicides among women has increased in recent years.
Besides Pravda and Internet ezines - one of whom referred to Schoedinger as "deranged" - I haven't seen stories on this strange death of a woman who filed a rape lawsuit against the U.S. president and wound up dead nine months later. I can't say I'm surprised. Or even angry. I don't know what the hell to think. All I know is I was one of the last - if not the last - reporters to speak to Schoedinger, and she didn't sound "deranged" to me in July 2003. She sounded like someone who had gone through something weird and was trying to sort it out. She sounded like someone who wanted the truth to come out. And now she's dead.
If this had happened to Clinton when he was in the White House, do you think the story would have been covered non-stop on FOX, CNN and the right-wing talk shows? Do you think we'd have reporters asking Clinton and his people about this death in press conferences? Is FOX unfair and imbalanced to the point of being "deranged?"
There are some more odd twists to this case. I also found a 2002 criminal case related to Schoedinger in which Christopher Schoedinger, her husband, allegedly struck her. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to a year in jail. Christopher Schoedinger had also filed for divorce. Then since 1997, Margie Schoedinger had filed for at least five assumed business names for various ventures - including a communications firm, health and beauty business, travel agency and publishing company. Could a "deranged" person start all those businesses or even know how to file a lawsuit?
Schoedinger's lawsuit can still be viewed on the Fort Bend County site at http://ccweb.co.fort-bend.tx.us/localization/menu.asp - then go down to the bottom and click on civil court. Then type "schoedinger" in the plaintiff box and click search. You should find another lawsuit she filed against Sugar Land police, as well.
I can really understand media members being intimidated, even frightened, of the Bush administration. As I've detailed before, these are not Boy Scouts running the show. The Schoedinger death is just the latest in a string of strange ones surrounding the Bush family - Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield, Sen. Paul Wellstone, Sen. Mel Carnahan, and others that are detailed on various sites, including at http://members.boardhost.com/gwbush/msg/362.html.
For the record, I contacted Bush's media office about Schoedinger and have yet to hear back. Now that I live in the Washington, D.C., area, I can go down to the White House in person and try to get someone to speak to me about this case. As expected, I haven't had much luck with the Fort Bend County and other Texas authorities. So maybe I'll stand outside the White House, holding a sign saying, "Who killed Margie Schoedinger?" and passing out copies of my column on the case. It would make about as much sense as anything else in this matter.
For all I know, maybe Schoedinger did kill herself. Maybe she dreamed up a lot of this stuff. But I don't know, am I "deranged" to think it's weird that in this mass-media, detailed-information age, so few people are even asking any questions about how a woman who filed a rape lawsuit against the president could be dead less than a year later?
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Jackson Thoreau is an American writer and co-author of We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate White House. The updated, 120,000-word electronic book can be downloaded on his Internet site at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/ebook.html. Citizens for Legitimate Government has the earlier version at http://www.legitgov.org/we_will_not_get_over_it.html. He can be contacted at jacksonthor@yahoo.com or jacksonthor@justice.com.
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●上記の『暗いニュース・リンク』記事では、ブッシュ家の秘密を暴いた
ニール・ブッシュの元妻シャロンも、ブッシュを強姦で訴えた女性のように
“不審死”するかもしれない……という示唆していましたが、実際に、
小ブッシュの伝記を著してウサマ・ビン・ラディンとの腐れ縁を示唆した
ジャーナリストが下記のように奇妙な死に方をしています。
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http://asyura.com/sora/war3/msg/869.html
小ブッシュの伝記作家が謎の“薬物自殺”を遂げる直前に、ウサマ・ビン・ラディンと小ブッシュの商売上の腐れ縁を暴露していた
日時 2001 年 10 月 26 日 00:20:17:
●『幸運なる二世ジョージ・ブッシュの真実』は、ただでさえ数少ない小ブッシュの伝記のうち、邦訳が読める貴重な本ですが、その著者ジェイムズ・ハットフィールド氏は、小ブッシュの大統領就任から半年後の７月18日に「処方薬の過剰摂取による自殺」を遂げていました。ちなみにこの伝記がどのくらいスキャンダラスなものかは、つぎの広告からも知ることができるでしょう。
（中略）
●マスコミに報じられたハットフィールド氏の最期というのは、ハリウッドのサスペンス映画なみの奇妙なものだったようです。
●そもそも、米国大手のセントマーチンズ・プレスから同書が出版された直後に、ハットフィールド氏が「委託殺人」容疑で起訴されていたことが“発覚”して同社は７万部を回収、２万部をお蔵入りにしてしまったわけですが、発売当時はすでに2000年大統領選の前哨戦が始まっており、共和党サイドから版元へのタレコミや恫喝があった可能性は否定できない。そして、「自殺」の直前にはハットフィールド氏は「クレジットカード詐欺」の容疑がかかり、警察が逮捕のために自宅に踏み込んだらすでに「逃走」しており、結局、ホテルで死体となって発見されたとのこと。これとて、「詐欺」の件はデッチ上げの可能性だって考えられるし――本当のところはわかりませんが――マスコミ報道はこの著者の評判をおとしめるようなストーリーを書いているだ。（日本の記者クラブほどではないでしょうが、こうした情報も警察の記者発表を鵜呑みにして書いている可能性が高い。）
●「処方薬の飲み過ぎ」で「逃亡先」の「ホテル」で「自殺」した、というストーリー自体、暗殺を思わせるものですな。
●ところで、この「自殺」の直前に、ハットフィールド氏が発表した最後の原稿は、よりによってウサマ・ビン・ラディンと小ブッシュが昔ビジネスパートナーだった事実を暴いたものだったのです。
●以下に、ハットフィールド氏自身のスキャンダラスな過去をわざわざ書きたてながら、彼の「自殺」を報じた『ワシントン・ポスト』記事と、彼の最後の原稿になったウサマ・ビン・ラディンと小ブッシュの腐れ縁暴露記事、そして発禁扱いとなった小ブッシュ暴露本の出版を引き受けた小出版社による弔辞を紹介しておきます。
（以下略）
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