Reply #32: We used to call ''Them'' ''The Establishment.'' That wasn't good, er, bad enough, either.

[Octafish]

I agree 100-percent with you, yowzayowzayowza. The problem is global and affiliating the "BF" deflects awareness from that fact. Would you agree that using such a term makes a useful and necessary first step in the process of building up a case for the whole bloody lot of "Them"?

After all, few in Corporate McPravda have feigned to say Word One about Them and what they do to We the People. W and his people launched an illegal war, for Goodness sake and ABCNNBCBSFauxNoiseNutwork continue to go along with it.

As you know, the Bush Family Evil Empire are merely the front men, albeit a corrupt group of people who use money to gain power and power to gain money, for the real powers-that-be. They are the people and organizations who profit from war, an unjust economic system and a rigged political process.

Regarding why I apply the term, the BFEE: BFEE makes a fine brand name for the corrupt systems, organizations and people. To get people's attention, we need a simple handle upon which we can hang the rest of the complicated cases against them.

For a somewhat more innocent example, nutritionists and pediatricians have reported that parents should not allow babies to associate their food with jar labels. They've found that many children who do, have come to believe their food can only be good if it comes from the jar with the baby’s smiling mug on it – Gerber, say. These babies won’t eat other foods. We see grown-ups do the same with their loyalties. (Buy GM for life has been replaced with buy Toyota and won’t buy anything else except a Lexus some day.}

Ian Fleming never imagined their kind could hijack the government of the United States and use it for their own ends. I promise to make it clear in how it pertains to the larger problem of global criminality.

Thanks also for being the inspiration for this thread. Looking back at the OP, I see I should've made that clearer. I can't blame Bush for that one.