Is Dick Cheney the Real Manchurian Candidate?
If you haven’t seen the Manchurian Candidate, originally filmed in 1962, and then remade recently starring Denzel Washington, don’t bother! You’ve already seen the real life version happening for the last 5 years in our nation’s capitol. Here’s a recap of the movie.
A massive global conglomerate called Manchuria International, kidnaps a group of soldiers (one of which is the son of a famous politician), drills implants into their brains, sticks tracking devices into their backs, and brainwashes them all to say that the politician’s son is a war hero and deserves the metal of honor. So now Manchuria International has a brainwashed, brain-implanted, decorated war hero from a political family. The war hero’s mother is also in on this, allowing her son to be tortured and brainwashed all in the name of political power and a incestual infatuation. Manchuria and the mother get the war hero the vice-presidential nomination along side the presidential favorite for the U.S. elections. The whole premise of the plot is that as soon as the war hero is elected to office, Manchuria International will have a brainwashed vice-president in office and basically be able to manipulate the US government to their economic advantage, meaning billions possibly trillions of dollars in profits.
John Frankenheimer wrote the Manchurian Candidate in 1962 at the height of the arms race. The Cuban missile crisis had just been resolved, and the US was investing heavily in defense. I can only imagine the things Frankenheimer was thinking as the plot unraveled in his head. They probably went something like this: ‘What if one of these large government contractors infiltrated the White House with a company advocate? They’d get rich from the massive amounts of government spending. No…but that’s not realistic enough…the American public would never knowingly allow that to happen. ...But if he was brainwashed and implanted with a chip in his brain, the company could remotely control him, and neither the American public nor the candidate would ever know. …But how would they have a sure chance of getting him into the White House? ….First of all, he can’t have any affiliation with the company. …Second, he’s probably got to be a war hero. The american public would only vote for someone who has a history of serving our country. Thirdly, he’ll have to be young, good looking, and from a famous political family… kind of like the Kennedy’s. …Ok, so now we have a brainwashed, war-hero, from a famous political family, he’ll get the vice-presidential nomination, and then once they win, we’ll assassinate the president, and the company will have complete control over the government. Yeah sure, the brainwashing and the assassination sound a little extreme, but it’s way more believable than say if an ex-leader of the company walked in and became vice-president. I think I’ll call it “The Manchurian Candidate”.
Mr. Frankenheimer, you should have called the movie “The Halliburton Candidate”. Except for the brainwashing and the assassination, you’d be right on. You see, one of the largest U.S. government contractors, Halliburton, now has one of their ex-leaders in the White House as Vice-President. His name is Dick Cheney. The American people knew about his affiliation with Halliburton, and even though the majority of Americans voted for the other party, he still got into office. He hasn’t been brainwashed and doesn’t have a chip in his brain, but was probably seduced with the promise of personal wealth and power. Dick Cheney is not a war hero. In fact, he avoided the Vietnam draft and never saw service. He’s not from a famous political family, not young, and not good looking (Although beauty IS in the eye of the beholder. I’d say he’s pretty darn evil looking). And there’s no need to assassinate the president, because either the president is a complete pushover or he’s in cahoots with Cheney.
Sounds pretty amazing, huh? John Frankenheimer thought the only way you could justify putting a vice-president in office was through some elaborate scheme involving brain implants and incestual mothers. But modern history has and continues to show us that Mr. Frankenheimer could have made his plot a lot simpler.
Cheney has said over and over that he has no financial ties to Halliburton. That is blatant bologna! Dick Cheney receives 100’s of thousands of dollars in deferred compensation, and last I check owned 433,333 stock options in Halliburton, which trades at over $70.00 a share. And that’s just what we see! He has a vested interest in the company, and we can only speculate at how many millions or billions of dollars he’s gaining from the favors he affords to Halliburton.
Cheney has also said that Halliburton and its subsidiaries (which are numerous) receive no special treatment or favors. This is also bologna! Just do an internet search on something like Dick Cheney Halliburton. Read through the countless sites documenting known facts on the wartime spoils Halliburton and its subsidiaries receive. Uncontested government contracts, unjustified projects, missing money, overcharged bills to the government, no accountability for anything it does: the list will go on and on. The truth is, Halliburton is a war-mongering company. They make 100’s of billions of dollars of uncontested profit when our country is at war. They lobby for war, they bribe for war, and infiltrate our government all the way to the top in order to instigate war.
The sad thing about it all is that our system supports it. The corruption, the death, and the thievery of our country’s commonwealth is done right in front of us, and it’s legal. There is no way anyone can possibly justify a truly democratic country having a vice-president with such strong economic ties to a company like Halliburton. In fact, it should be law that if a politician has any economic connections, he/she is either not eligible for office or the implicated company is not eligible for any government contracts or incentives. You’d end up having Halliburton paying Cheney not to run for office. Laws and policies would be decided based on what the people want, not what the companies with the most money want. Isn’t there a word for that? Oh yeah….democracy.
So… Is Dick Cheney the real Manchurian Candidate? Or should we say The Halliburton Candidate? You bet he is.
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