Death of Ronald Reagan

[Kurai Tsuki]

I can find no good reason why I should mourn a person with such a presidential record; Bombing Beirut, Lebanon.
Invading Granada.
Bombing Libya, killing dozens of civilians and Quaddafi’s adopted daughter.
Cutting corporate taxes and at the same time funding for schools and other public services, forcing schools to turn to corporate sponsorship for the first time. Coencidentally, this was when Channel One was brought into poorly-funded schools as a way to market products to students.
Funding contras in Nicaragua.
Invading Panama to remove Noriega, a U.S. backed leader, because he defied an order from Washington.

[Iepilei]

For a man who survived a gunshot, colon cancer, and alzheimers - all I can say is it's ABOUT DAMN TIME.

[Kurai Tsuki]

Yes, what cruel fate that the gunshot did not kill him.

[Commie Girl]

:lol:

[Guerilla22]

Don't forget funding the right-winged dictatorship of Rios Mont in Guatemala, who's regime slauthered hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Ronald Regan was nothing less than a murderer. He had alztheimer's when he was in office. IT'S ABOUT TIME HE BIT THE DUST!

[Sean Reynolds]

Remember, Reagan was also the one that ignored the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s because it was a 'fag disease'. Just imagine if Reagan would have addressed the issue of AIDS; it probably wouldn't be as wide spread today.

Oh, can't forget the time he closed the mental hospital. Or how Reagnomics fucked the minorities in this country. Remember the large trade deficits? Or the stock market crash (black Tuesday)? Yeah, his legacy is something big alright.....a big pile of shit.

He should have died long ago.

[Red Skyscraper]

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[Red Guard]

I have absolutely no sympathy for this terrorist bastard. He was one of the biggest criminals in history who was responsible for countless numbers of innocent deaths worldwide. Hopefully other criminals like Kissinger and Thatcher will soon follow.

[refuse_resist]

I was at a protest today when I received the news from one of the people making a speech that Reagan had passed away this morning and a lot of people started cheering :lol:

Seriously, why should anyone mourn this scumbags death? On the other board I posted on people were getting so pissed at me for what I said about him and that I'm glad he died, oh well.

[Salvador Allende]

do not forget about Reagan aiding his buddy Saddam Hussein.

[Palmares]

A sad day for the conservative right. It was funny when a reporter asked this friend or some guy who liked the dead conservative fuck about whether Reagan was responsible for the widening gap of the rich and poor in the US. His reply evaded the question, simply stating historians can argue this, or that.

Bah! Good riddance to the Thatcher fuck buddy!

[dark fairy]

I guess it's good because i know if i were to ever reach that age i'd want to just shoot myself but damn i guess hehe is about all i have to say :)

[The Feral Underclass]

ding dong the witch is dead!!!

[Hate Is Art]

I don't really know much about the guy, but good riddins to bad rubbish!

[The idealist]

From what I hear about this guy, his colon cancer was a bit of a joke.

"An ass in pain for a pain in the ass." or vice versa

[RED CHARO]

When I was a child growing up in Nicaragua, I thought he was GREEN!!!!!!!!
I'm watching the Today show haveing a special tribute to him....... I feal sick!

[Kurai Tsuki]

Originally posted by Digital [email protected] 6 2004, 07:29 AM
I don't really know much about the guy, but good riddins to bad rubbish!
He was America's Margeret Thatcher.

[gaf]

one less texas cowboy!

[truthaddict11]

Originally posted by The Anarchist [email protected] 6 2004, 01:54 AM
ding dong the witch is dead!!!
which old witch?

[h&s]

Bah! Good riddance to the Thatcher fuck buddy!
Not long now before we can dance on her grave too...!
(and I know a lot of people who want to!)

[refuse_resist]

Originally posted by RED [email protected] 6 2004, 03:16 PM
When I was a child growing up in Nicaragua, I thought he was GREEN!!!!!!!!
I'm watching the Today show haveing a special tribute to him....... I feal sick!
Yeah, I'm pretty sick of it myself! Ever since yesterday and the day before, all the news does is talk about him constantly.

[Red Skyscraper]

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[DaCuBaN]

Ever since yesterday and the day before, all the news does is talk about him constantly

Then you're watching the wrong news station. The only reason I found out was it was stuck on the end of a BBC broadcast, and I haven't seen it mentioned since.

the US always has been immersed in the 'good guy bad guy' culture - hero worshiping

It serves you right :P

[Marxist in Nebraska]

I did not shed a tear when I heard Reagan had died. Good riddance.

The wave of mushy tributes in all of the corporate media have me nauseated.

Someone above said "one less Texas cowboy." Reagan was a B-Movie Star who hailed from California. I think he made at least one Western, because I have seen old photos with him in a cowboy hat.

Because no one has posted it yet, I'll attach Greg Palast's take on Reagan's passing to the end of my post.

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KILLER, COWARD, CONMAN -
GOOD RIDDANCE, RONNIE REAGAN
MORE PROOF ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG
Sunday, June 6, 2004
by Greg Palast


You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But
in this case, someone's got to.

Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer.

In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua
named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough, though hungry, except for
one surly young man. His wife had just died of tuberculosis.

People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald Reagan,
big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo on medicine to
Nicaragua because he didn't like the government that the people there
had elected.

Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's lungs filled
up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed that B-movie grin while
they buried the mother of three.

And when Hezbollah terrorists struck and murdered hundreds of American
marines in their sleep in Lebanon, the TV warrior ran away like a
whipped dog ... then turned around and invaded Grenada. That little Club Med
war was a murderous PR stunt so Ronnie could hold parades for gunning
down Cubans building an airport.

I remember Nancy, a skull and crossbones prancing around in designer
dresses, some of the "gifts" that flowed to the Reagans -- from hats to
million-dollar homes -- from cronies well compensated with government
loot. It used to be called bribery.

And all the while, Grandpa grinned, the grandfather who bleated on
about "family values" but didn't bother to see his own grandchildren.

The New York Times today, in its canned obit, wrote that Reagan
projected, "faith in small town America" and "old-time values." "Values" my
ass. It was union busting and a declaration of war on the poor and anyone
who couldn't buy designer dresses. It was the New Meanness, bringing
starvation back to America so that every millionaire could get another
million.

"Small town" values? From the movie star of the Pacific Palisades, the
Malibu mogul? I want to throw up.

And all the while, in the White House basement, as his brain boiled
away, his last conscious act was to condone a coup d'etat against our
elected Congress. Reagan's Defense Secretary Casper the Ghost Weinberger
with the crazed Colonel, Ollie North, plotted to give guns to the Monster
of the Mideast, Ayatolla Khomeini.

Reagan's boys called Jimmy Carter a weanie and a wuss although Carter
wouldn't give an inch to the Ayatolla. Reagan, with that film-fantasy
tough-guy con in front of cameras, went begging like a coward cockroach
to Khomeini pleading on bended knee for the release of our hostages.

Ollie North flew into Iran with a birthday cake for the maniac mullah
-- no kidding --in the shape of a key. The key to Ronnie's heart.

Then the Reagan roaches mixed their cowardice with crime: taking cash
from the hostage-takers to buy guns for the "contras" - the drug-runners
of Nicaragua posing as freedom fighters.

I remember as a student in Berkeley the words screeching out of the
bullhorn, "The Governor of the State of California, Ronald Reagan, hereby
orders this demonstration to disburse" ... and then came the teargas
and the truncheons. And all the while, that fang-hiding grin from the
Gipper.

In Chaguitillo, all night long, the farmers stayed awake to guard their
kids from attack from Reagan's Contra terrorists. The farmers weren't
even Sandinistas, those 'Commies' that our cracked-brained President
told us were 'only a 48-hour drive from Texas.' What the hell would they
want with Texas, anyway?

Nevertheless, the farmers, and their families, were Ronnie's targets.

In the deserted darkness of Chaguitillo, a TV blared. Weirdly, it was
that third-rate gangster movie, "Brother Rat." Starring Ronald Reagan.

Well, my friends, you can rest easier tonight: the Rat is dead.

Killer, coward, conman. Ronald Reagan, good-bye and good riddance.



Greg Palast is author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best
Democracy Money Can Buy. www.GregPalast.com

[Commie Girl]

That was excellent! Thanks Marxist!

[Edward Penishands]

Don't forget the death squads in El Salvador and the oligarchy in Chile, Honduras and South Africa etc. were all supported through the 1980s by Ronald McDonald Reagan!

[Kurai Tsuki]

This thread seems to be becoming a sort of Reagan Reality thread, keep the facts coming ^_^ And for a great souce, check the the works of the father of all American-truth information, William Blum :rolleyes:

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[praxis1966]

Let's also not forget that the U$'s war against the aboriginal peoples of Peru (along with massive funding for that bastard Fujimori) and the underclasses of Columbia began in ernest under Reagan. Nearly every atrocity that occured in Latin America over the last 20 years can in some way be traced back to the Reagan-Bush administration. Yet, for some reason the popular press in Amerikkka has a way of glossing over the misdeads of recently dead presidents. I direct your attention to the memorial ceremonies that occured when Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon died. Thousands morned his death (for reasons which still mistify me), not to mention that Reagan, Bush Senior, Carter, and then-President Clinton attended his funeral. It all is almost too astounding to believe.

[refuse_resist]

Originally posted by [email protected] 7 2004, 08:51 PM

Ever since yesterday and the day before, all the news does is talk about him constantly

Then you're watching the wrong news station. The only reason I found out was it was stuck on the end of a BBC broadcast, and I haven't seen it mentioned since.

the US always has been immersed in the 'good guy bad guy' culture - hero worshiping

It serves you right :P
Just about everywhere here they have the flags raised at half staff and this Friday is supposed to be a national day of mourning for him. Thousands of people are visiting this war criminals coffin and paying their respects for someone who doesn't deserve any kind of respect at all.

But yeah, the whole "hero" and "villain" thing is very common here. What sucks is how so many people still feed into it.

[Commie Girl]

And it seems that once you have been the President, you are called "Mr. President" for life....? What is that about?

Seems like the U$ version of a Monarchy! :P