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Why did they murder Philip Merrill? |
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by xymphora xymphora.blogspot Entered into the database on Monday, July 10th, 2006 @ 10:44:17 MST |
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With the notable exception of Dick Cheney, the American ruling elites
don’t shoot people in the head for pleasure, if only as they wish to avoid
taking unnecessary risks. In particular, they don’t shoot those of their
own kind, with one major exception. Like any organized crime group, they keep
omerta, and punish those who breach the code of silence. The two classes of
murders are those made to look like accidents, reserved for those who are going
to be forced to testify, and the more ignominious group of murders made to look
like suicides, reserved for those who it is feared will rely on their consciences
and testify voluntarily (it is thus much more honorable to be ‘suicided’
than to be ‘accidented’). The fake suicide is always contrived to
be good enough to look like a suicide to a coroner, but, like two shots to the
head, is obviously a murder to anyone with any sense. The obviousness is part
of the warning to others that the code of silence will be enforced. Sploid describes
the ‘suicide’ of Philip
Merrill: “On Tuesday, the family claimed in a statement that the 72-year-old
Merrill was distraught over a heart condition - so he bought a shotgun, took
his beloved boat out on a sunny Saturday, tied the anchor around his feet,
took his wallet out and left it inside the boat, shot himself in the face
with a shotgun, and managed to neatly fall out of the craft and float for
11 miles and 11 days, upstream, with the anchor of a 41-foot-long sailing
vessel tied to his ankles and dozens of search-and-rescue teams scouring the
bay for his body.” If suicide were an Olympic sport, the old and ill Merrill, who managed
not only to shoot himself in the head with a shotgun but then leap off the boat,
but did so with the handicap of tying his legs up to an anchor first (and brought
a cell phone and a wallet containing a lot of money, which he considerately
left behind on the boat, on the theory that you can take it on the boat, but
you can’t take it with you), would win a Gold Medal. Obviously a murder,
with the light anchor intended to submerge the body for only a few days (they
wanted the family to have the body for a funeral). What was Merrill going to talk about that he needed to be suicided? Merrill
was President of the Export-Import Bank from 2002 until 2005. The Bank provided
trade finance
insurance to the Coalition Provisional Authority, and later
to the Interim Government of Iraq. Merrill was a True Believer
in the importance of foreign trade and foreign investment, facilitated by American
institutions like the Export-Import Bank, in reviving the Iraq economy. Instead,
much of the money provided by American taxpayers, and probably almost all of
the oil revenues from Iraq itself, were stolen. This is just now becoming an
American political
issue,
but the focus is on amounts stolen in the last year or so. The major thefts
were from the time that the Coalition Provisional Authority was in charge of
the money, the time when Merrill, who appears on all accounts to have been a
straight shooter, would have had insider knowledge. Bush used one of his famous signing statements to ensure that the Congress-mandated
inspection of corruption in Iraq would not
consider any contracts involving the Pentagon, effectively removing most of
the point from having an inspector. The major thefts were from the ‘Development
Fund for
Iraq’, set up by Paul Bremer and originally managed by the Coalition Provisional
Authority. At least nine
billion dollars
is
missing from this fund. The slush find could have been raided perfectly legally,
if not morally, by using it to fund ‘legitimate’ reconstruction
contracts to American firms. Instead, this method of lifting of money from the
Iraqi people wasn’t corrupt enough, so they simply stole it (i. e., they
didn’t even bother to pretend to be providing a service for the money
that was taken, possible because of the way in which the Coalition Provisional
Authority managed the money). As there is no effective monitoring of the specifics
of the corruption (thanks to Bush’s signing statement), people like Merrill
are the only officials who could put the blame on the friends of the Bush Administration
who walked off with the billions of dollars. Therefore,
Merrill is dead. ___________________ Read from Looking Glass News The
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