OPINION ¥ OH SPIRITS OF THE SKULL AWD BONES DELIVER. STORIES OF &LL CLINTON'S Youth fuu i n d i sc ret/ons to tHe Public. whilst / CLOUDlNCj THEiR/V^in/^5 to i m own/ misdeeds ] 'S k \ tUTUjp: KBth NOT ApPlH [ nf Q Ugg. IRAN l CONTRA . IK*J fNftM ft ?<. H Bush doublespeak cuts to bone Write Angles Pal Malach It's about trust Well, actually it's about trust and taxes. Tho t h eme of t ho Bush/Quayie campaign has evolved Into a character assas sination of Democratic presi dential candidate Bill Clinton "My opponent, 1 like to call him Gov. Doublespeak," Bush has said, "needs to come clean with the American people.” And Bush should k no w about not coming clean He has lied to the American people about how much he know about Manuel Noriega's drug dealing Ho lied to the Ameri can people about being in "the loop" of Iran/Contra And his administration is currently in volved in allegations that it covered up a banking scandal that led to U S dollars being used to arm Saddam Hussein The press has done its liosl to cover these stories and dig for some semblance of truth On the down side, the media have also admitted spending considerable resources proving that no woman besides his wife has slept with George Bush (go figure) All the while these fine jour nalists have been hounding the bedroom trail, a character issue that could have a oral offoct on our nation'll leader has all hut been Ignored. It’s called Skull and Bonus. During his junior year at Yale University, George Bush was "tupped'' to be a member of the school's elite secret society. Af ter an Initiation that involved laying in a coffin naked und re vealing his adolescent sex life, the future president was hon ored as one of that year's cho sen 15. Because it is a secret society, little is known about Skull and Bones Most people (including journalists) huve always as sumed the club is just a secre tive good-old-boys' club for hast Coast WASPs. There has never been any substantial proof offered that Skull and Bones is anything but an innocent little clurT yvTTn IT few odd rituals. Of course, no ono has aver proven the harm lessness of the group either. The point should he made that if The New V'orA Times and 'The Washington Test have spent considerable resources finding out who slept with whom, you would expect the organizations to look into a club whose membership boasts the president, the CIA director, the country's loaders in hank ing and industry and numerous .senators, congressmen, journal ists and publishers Other than Ix-ing rich, white members of America's aristoc racy, what kind of bonds and allegiances do these men have to each other? Mow far would they go to scratch each other's backs, ns it were? Those are _____ In the I’osi article. [cllow Bonesman William Connolly Jr characterized mnmbtirs as "siand(ing) together. 1 .*> broth ers under the skin. (It is) thn greatest allegiance in tho world " Hush has stoadfastly rnfusnd to discuss Skull and Bonos Ho refused to discuss it for Wood ward's I'lHH article, saying ho "didn't know that (he) could contribute anything to it " It wasn't until Bush was cornered on an airplane by /:'.squ/re writ nr Kon Rosenbaum that he It milly admitted he even a member "The amazing thing is that we don't even tiring the ques tion up," Bunch said "We don’t ask that of Bush, and it _ should lie a the kinds of questions that bother researchers like Dr Ralph Bunch, a |x» iitical sci ence profes sor at Port land State University. "The real question is, since II s a secret organization, what relationship do Doncsmen have to each other that would bo Inappropriate for a public figure'" Bunch said “What kind of commitment does George Bush make to his fellow Bonosmon that he's sworn to uphold their inton^ls'" In an article written for The Washington Tost during the lttHH election. Republican und Yale graduate Bob Woodward reported: "Throughout his life Bush has forged a series of strong allegiances that have been critically imjKirtanl to him personally, and to his rise. In deed, friends and associates from every phase of his life agreed that relationships with other people have always boon much more important to Bush than political ideas, policy preferences or any abstract po litical concern." This is a pretty strong state ment made about a man who is sworn to uphold the interests of a country full of people he's never met, people who certain i y uwll i 1,1' 1 hi.'- *. 1 i ■ r: i cratic class. Stand(ing) together, 15 brothers under the skin. (It is) the greatest allegiance in the world.’ William Connelly Jr, Skull ana Bones member public (|urs llon," T hero is ulso lho Is sun nl wh.it the agenda of Skull .1 n if Bonos is Bunch sonms to bollovt) it's just a fraler n.il i lub with strong ties h o I w o o n members Other researchers believe the agenda of Skull and Hones is much more sinister I he idea is that Skull and Bones is an or ganization bent on developing one governing body of white males to rule the world It's easy to laugh at this con spiracy theory. Hut remember, all knowledge of Skull and Bones is highly speculative. Few facts are known about the group. The idea that it is sim ply an "old Ixjys' dub" is en tirely as assumed as the con spiracy theory Wouldn't it lx nice to lx; able to laugh at the people who believe Skull and Bones' agenda is to set up a "New World Order" (a quote from Bones founder General William Huntington Russell) out of knowledge of facts, rath er than a blind assumption? 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