Ben Stein: I Don't Feel for Felt

[gilliam]

Just a few more thoughts on the events of the day:

Now, we read that Mark Felt’s family and Mark Felt put out their story solely to make money off it. So, this makes the family’s karma even more unnerving. The father, patriarch, Mark, took out his anger and frustration for being passed over at the FBI, by ruining the career of the peacemaker, Richard Nixon. So, he condemned a whole subcontinent to genocide and slavery and poverty to please his own wounded vanity. (Maybe his nickname should be “sour grapes” and not “deep throat” because he has as much in common with that fox as with a porn star.) And, blood will tell, as the old saying goes: his posterity is now dragging out his old body and putting it on display to make money. (Have you noticed how Mark Felt looks like one of those old Nazi war criminals they find in Bolivia or Paraguay? That same, haunted, hunted look combined with a glee at what he has managed to get away with so far? )

And it gets worse: it’s been reported that Mark Felt is at least part Jewish. The reason this is worse is that at the same time that Mark Felt was betraying Richard Nixon, Nixon was saving Eretz Israel. It is a terrifying chapter in betrayal and ingratitude. If he even knows what shame is, I wonder if he felt a moment’s shame as he tortured the man who brought security and salvation to the land of so many of his and my fellow Jews. Somehow, as I look at his demented face, I doubt it.

Third, correct me if I am wrong about this, but isn’t it a crime not only to dispense classified information but also to receive classified information? Why wasn’t anyone ever prosecuted about this? Is there a statute of limitations?

Finally, there is a lot of debate about whether or not Mark Felt was a hero. Obviously, I don’t think so. I think the hero was Richard Nixon, fighting for peace even as he was being horribly mistreated and crucified just for his fight for peace. But there was and is a bigger story here. Frankly, Nixon is no longer alive. If he was a hero, he is a deceased hero. Bob Woodward is no one’s idea of a hero. A super businessman and accomplished writer, but no hero. Mark Felt is only Richard Ben-Veniste’s hero. But there are major heroes out there every day. There are 140,000 of them in Iraq and about 15,000 in Afghanistan, at lethal risk every minute of every day. There are a million more ready to go. There are millions of family members of these heroes. Can we possibly, possibly, conceivably forget them? Somehow, I think we have. The lead news stories are almost never about them. The story is about Michael Jackson or about Mark Felt. This is desperately wrong, and I do mean desperately. I am going to write a lot more about this Monday, but in the meantime, let’s remember there’s a war on, and the best and bravest of our nation are dying every day – to protect a great nation, but one which seems lately to have forgotten even what the nation is all about.

spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8255

 

[Lorarose]

I’ve been reading about this for a couple of days now.
My impression is that Mark Felt stayed silent out of a sense of shame. One can only feel shame when one feels regret about past actions.

Now that he is becoming senile…I think he is being used by his own daughter as a moneymaking machine.
She seems very excited to have learned about her father’s identity and she sees dollar signs.

It really is sad to watch this story unfold.

 

[deb1]

Yes, I believe that the family admits that they are hoping to make money off their father’s story. SOmeone correct me if I am wrong.

 

[David_Paul]

Waiting for somone to connect Mark Felt with Jack Ruby.

 

[mommy]

deb1:

Yes, I believe that the family admits that they are hoping to make money off their father’s story. SOmeone correct me if I am wrong.

That’s what I’ve seen on the news as well. That once the family found out, they urged him to come forward so they could make some $$ off of it. Of course Bob Woodward already had the book written, just waiting for the man to die to reveal his identity (that was their agreement If I remember correctly). So he’s going to make good cash off of it. And of course, we’re fighting watergate all over again in the news.

 

[Lizzie]

David_Paul:

Waiting for somone to connect Mark Felt with Jack Ruby.

In one way or another both were involved with actions to take down anti-communist presidents.

 

[David_Paul]

Too many coincidences.

Four serious anticommunists: JFK, RFK, Nixon and Pope John Paul II.

Two shot dead, one wounded and the fourth destroyed by Mark Felt and others.

Add in Joe McCarthy too–best friends with the first rhree. He was ruined as well (McArthur, Forrestal and Patton all met tragic ends too).

See that the Marcus Wolf’s Stasi planned the hit on JPII? The Bulgarians were the cut-outs.

Lots of Stasi money floated around the USA in the 60s and 70s.

 

[Lizzie]

David_Paul:

Too many coincidences.

Four serious anticommunists: JFK, RFK, Nixon and Pope John Paul II.

Two shot dead, one wounded and the fourth destroyed by Mark Felt and others.

Add in Joe McCarthy too–best friends with the first rhree. He was ruined as well (McArthur, Forrestal and Patton all met tragic ends too).

See that the Marcus Wolf’s Stasi planned the hit on JPII? The Bulgarians were the cut-outs.

Lots of Stasi money floated around the USA in the 60s and 70s.

You are right.

 

[Digitonomy]

David_Paul:

Too many coincidences.

Four serious anticommunists: JFK, RFK, Nixon and Pope John Paul II.

Two shot dead, one wounded and the fourth destroyed by Mark Felt and others.

Add in Joe McCarthy too–best friends with the first rhree. He was ruined as well (McArthur, Forrestal and Patton all met tragic ends too).

See that the Marcus Wolf’s Stasi planned the hit on JPII? The Bulgarians were the cut-outs.

Lots of Stasi money floated around the USA in the 60s and 70s.

Poor Gerald Ford. Is he some kind of stooge for Moscow, that he didn’t make the cut?

And, there’s also Ronnie’s assassination attempt, Ted Kennedy’s aspirations for higher office were ruined, John Kennedy Jr died in a mysterious plane accident, George Wallace crippled in an assassination attempt, Ross Perot’s political career ended in shambles, and the assassination of Malcolm X.

Too many coincidences.

 

[Lizzie]

Digitonomy:

Poor Gerald Ford. Is he some kind of stooge for Moscow, that he didn’t make the cut?.

etc.etc.

Much of the chaos of those times had its beginnings in 1848. Karl Marx published his manifesto and his followers instigated the Revolutions of 1848.

Marxists assasinated two Russian Tsars and almost killed another. After killing Tsar Alexander 11 who had freed the serfs and infuriated the Russian peoples, these anarchistic Marxists poured into this country and England in the 1880s where they continued their anti-Christian illegalities.

One may say that Moscow called the shots but, in fact, Moscow was funded by folks here and in England.

This is the history of the Ochs/Sultzberger family who own the New York Times who dictate what is ‘acceptable’ news and many others.

Did you know that the mother of the NYTs Adolph Ochs, Bertha Levy Ochs, fled here to escape arrest for her actions in the Marxist 1848 revolution in Germany? This fact is quoted in an official bio of the NYT called “The Trust” by Tifft and Jones(page 8).

Anarchists/Bolsheviks/Communists and their red-diaper babies have long been active in this country trying to overthrow our civilization and morality. This is well documented if one is willing to do research.