TX Money, Oil, Bankrupcy, Murder, Fundie-ism----and Shrub

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So the A&E network was running an "American Justice" episode rehashing the T. Cullen DAVIS trials, regarding the shootings of his divorcing wife, her boyfriend, her daughter, etc. At the end he was acquitted, went bankrupt, went Fundie.

The DAVIS story was old news, but with DU eyes and ears, the words "Texas millionaire, bankruptcy, oil, born again" add up to Shrub. So I proceeded to Google "Cullen Davis Bush" and by magic dots connect:

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http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/cohen_24_4.htm

.... James Robison

To try to understand President Bush, we cannot help but scrutinize Robison. Now sixty years old, Robison is the product of the rape of a forty-year-old woman who tried but was unable to secure an abortion. After a hard-scrabble childhood, Robison rose in Southern Baptist circles. As a young man, he became a big draw on the revival circuit. ....

In 1982, Robison befriended Texas millionaire T. Cullen Davis. Davis had been acquitted of the murder of his wife’s lover and his stepdaughter in 1977. In 1979, Davis was acquitted again, this time of attempting to procure the murder for hire of fifteen people, including the judge who had presided in his divorce case. Davis owned over one million dollars worth of Asian religious art treasures made of jade, ivory, and gold. He wanted to contribute them to Robison’s ministry. Robison opined that the objects were idols and had to be destroyed in obedience to Deuteronomy 7:25.6 Davis and Robison broke the art objects to pieces with hammers and dumped the shards into a lake. ....

http://www.freepress.org/journal.php?strFunc=display&strID=147&strJournal=20

Bush moons America
by Bob Fitrakis
April 1, 2000

Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush — the son of former CIA Director George Herbert Walker Bush — found himself in trouble and faltering after his New Hampshire defeat to Senator John McCain. A shadowy, secretive and spooky network centered around right wing religious organizations and causes rushed to his rescue in South Carolina.

At the crux of this network is the Council for National Policy (CNP) founded in 1981 by the Rev. Tim LaHaye and T. Cullen Davis, members of the ultra-right John Birch Society with financial backing from Nelson Bunker Hunt. Currently, the clandestine CNP has over 500 members and serves as the Who’s Who network of the United States’ right wing. At the center of the CNP, with a seemingly endless supply of questionable cash, is self-proclaimed Messiah and mind control cult leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon. ....

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cnp.php

Council for National Policy

Acronym/Code: CNP

Updated: 9/89

Categories:

Political

Background:

According to one source, the CNP was formed in 1981 by Texas millionaires Nelson Bunker Hunt, Herbert Hunt, and T. Cullen Davis. (5) A second source reports that it was formed by Richard Viguerie to rival the Council on Foreign Relations. (8,26) The council is composed of politically powerful, wealthy individuals. It intentionally maintains a very low profile. (3,5) One of the conditions of membership is not to reveal the names of other members or the substance of the group's meetings. (9)

The CNP bills itself as being the Council on Foreign Policy for the Right. (9) But, its importance does not lie in producing and promoting an ultra-conservative foreign policy agenda, many of its affiliates already do that. It is considered by its members as a network that encompasses the entire spectrum of right-wing politics. (3) It provides a "safe" place for representatives of a wide range of ultra-conservative, anticommunist, pro-military organizations--including the executive branch of the White House--to discuss and promote their programs. (3) ....

The right wing rode the crest of glory and power in the early years of the Reagan administration. The Iran-Contra scandal, coupled with the moral fall of the religious right, have had a devastating effect on its wellbeing. According to investigative reporter, Sidney Blumenthal, the right is bankrupt. (9) ....

Representing the New Right and neoconservatives are: ... .... ...Cullen Davis, vice pres of Kendavis Industries Intl ....

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