Ronald Reagan

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Name	Ronald Reagan
Position	Six feet under
Known for
Domestic Ignored AIDS Gave birth to the modern "family values" political base Tripled the National Deficit Foreign Funding Contras Guatemala - 200,000 deaths, systematic rape and torture Nicaragua - 30,000 deaths, systematic rape and torture

Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) is a dead ex-president whose own daughter hated him so much she posed in Playboy. He is generally regarded as the greatest president ever.

Contents 1 Early Life 1.1 Childhood 1.2 Hollywood Career 2 Governor of California 3 Presidency 3.1 Stances on Social Issues 3.1.1 AIDS 3.1.2 Homosexuality 3.1.3 Gun Control 3.2 Military Policies 3.2.1 Iran 3.2.2 Contras 3.2.2.1 Guatemala 3.2.2.2 Nicaragua 3.2.3 Star Wars 3.2.4 Reagan Doctrine 3.2.5 Afghanistan 3.3 Reaganomics 3.3.1 Trickle-Down Theory 3.3.2 Views on Labor 4 Quotes from the Reagan Administration 5 Gallery 6 See Also:

Early Life

"Destined to Greatness"

Childhood

Reagan was born in Illinois and his family later moved to Los Angeles. Despite California frequently being considered a hotbed of liberalism, they would be host to one of the craziest bastards to ever be elected to President.

Hollywood Career

Reagan starred in several box-office hits from the 1930s through the 1960s, and during his terms as President of the United States of America he would get his past life and former movie roles confused because he was senile.

Governor of California

Tried to kill protesters repeatedly, voters thanked him for it and then made him President

Presidency

Stances on Social Issues

AIDS

What's AIDS?

Homosexuality

“	Society has always regarded marital love as a sacred expression of the bond between a man and a woman. It is the means by which families are created and society itself is extended into the future. In the Judeo-Christian tradition it is the means by which husband and wife participate with God in the creation of a new human life. It is for these reasons, among others, that our society has always sought to protect this unique relationship. In part the erosion of these values has given way to a celebration of forms of expression most reject. We will resist the efforts of some to obtain government endorsement of homosexuality.	„
—Ronald Reagan, July 12, 1984

Gun Control

One of the biggest proponents of gun control especially in California and under his watch automatic weapons were banned, but don't tell any NRA members this, the Republicans are still the number one for gun!

Military Policies

Reagan single-handedly sent the national debt to never before seen levels because of rampant military spending.

Iran

Supposedly, in exchange for hostages in the Iran Hostage Crisis, he made a deal to sell them guns in exchange for the hostages. He used this money to fund right-wing contras in Central America who used the money to commit genocide with a body count of over 220,000, creating the Iran-Contra Affair.

Contras

Reagan referred to the Contras as Freedom Fighters and Founding Fathers and strived to fund them despite the violence and torture they performed in the name of defeating communism. Hundreds of thousands of people lay dead in their wake. Reagan supported an "any means necessary" war against leftism in Central America.

George H. W. Bush, Reagan's vice president, pardoned 11 out of 14 men involved.

Guatemala

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• 1981-82 - The CIA was confirming Guatemalan government massacres, even as Reagan was moving to loosen the military aid ban.
• June 1981- Reagan permitted Guatemala's army to buy $3.2 million in military trucks and jeeps.
• February 1982 - CIA reported "The commanding officers of the units involved have been instructed to destroy all towns and villages which are cooperating with the Guerrilla Army of the Poor [known as the EGP] and eliminate all sources of resistance."
• March 1982 - Gen. Rios Montt seized power. An avowed fundamentalist Christian, Reagan hailed Rios Montt as "a man of great personal integrity."
• Dec. 4, 1982 - After meeting with Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, Reagan declared that Rios Montt's government had been "getting a bum rap."
• Jan. 7, 1983 - Reagan lifted the ban on military aid to Guatemala and authorized the sale of $6 million in military hardware.
• March 17, 1983 - AP: "[Children were] thrown into burning homes. They are thrown in the air and speared with bayonets. We heard many, many stories of children being picked up by the ankles and swung against poles so their heads are destroyed."
• June 12, 1983 - Special envoy Richard B. Stone praised "positive changes" in Rios Montt's government.

	About 200,000 peasants killed Based on a review of about 20 percent of the dead, the panel blamed the army for 93 percent, leftist guerrillas for 3 percent. 4 percent were unresolved. The army routinely engaged in torture and rape. "The rape of women, during torture or before being murdered, was a common practice".

See Also: Guatemala: Memory of Silence full report

	“   The Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) registered a total of 42,275 victims, including men, women and children. Of these, 23,671 were victims of arbitrary execution and 6,159 were victims of forced disappearance. Eighty-three percent of fully identified victims were Mayan and seventeen percent were Latino. Combining this data with the results of other studies of political violence in Guatemala, the CEH estimates that the number of persons killed or disappeared as a result of the fratricidal confrontation reached a total of over 200,000.   „   —Guatemala: Memory of Silence   “   The CEH’s investigation has revealed that approximately a quarter of the direct victims of human rights violations and acts of violence were women. They were killed, tortured and raped, sometimes because of their ideals and political or social participation, sometimes in massacres or other indiscriminate actions.   „   —Guatemala: Memory of Silence   “   The CEH is aware of hundreds of cases in which civilians were forced by the Army, at gun point, to rape women, torture, mutilate corpses and kill. This extreme cruelty was used by the State to cause social disintegration   „   —Guatemala: Memory of Silence   “   The CEH’s investigation has demonstrated that the rape of women, during torture or before being murdered, was a common practice aimed at destroying one of the most intimate and vulnerable aspects of the individual’s dignity. The majority of rape victims were Mayan women. Those who survived the crime still suffer profound trauma as a result of this aggression, and the communities themselves were deeply offended by this practice.   „   —Guatemala: Memory of Silence   “   These massacres and the so-called scorched earth operations, as planned by the State, resulted in the complete extermination of many Mayan communities, along with their homes, cattle, crops and other elements essential to survival. The CEH registered 626 massacres attributable to these forces.   „   —Guatemala: Memory of Silence   “   Acts such as the killing of defenseless children, often by beating them against walls or throwing them alive into pits where the corpses of adults were later thrown; the amputation of limbs; the impaling of victims; the killing of persons by covering them in petrol and burning them alive; the extraction, in the presence of others, of the viscera of victims who were still alive; the confinement of people who had been mortally tortured, in agony for days; the opening of the wombs of pregnant women, and other similarly atrocious acts, were not only actions of extreme cruelty against the victims, but also morally degraded the perpetrators and those who inspired, ordered or tolerated these actions.   „   —Guatemala: Memory of Silence Previous Quote  |  Next Quote

Nicaragua

Similar to Guatemala, 30,000 estimated slaughtered.

"They took out their knives and stuck them under his fingernails. After they took his fingernails off, then they broke his elbows. Afterwards they gouged out his eyes. Then they took their bayonets and made all sorts of slices in his skin all around his chest, arms, and legs. They then took his hair off and the skin of his scalp. When they saw there was nothing left to do with him, they threw gasoline on him and burned him. The next day they started the same thing with a 13 year old girl. They did more or less the same, but they did other things to her too. First, she was utilized, raped by all the officers. They stripped her and threw her in a small room, they went in one by one. Afterwards they took her out tied and blindfolded. Then they began the same mutilating, pulling her fingernails out and cutting off her fingers, breaking her arms, gouging out her eyes and all they did to the other fellow. They cut her legs and stuck an iron rod into her womb. Rosa had her breasts cut off. Then they cut into her chest and took out her heart. The men had their arms broken and their testicles cut off and their eyes poked out. They were then killed by slitting their throats and pulling the tongue out through the slit."

These are but two of the hundreds of documented eyewitness accounts of the kind of brutal and sadistic rapes, sodomies, kidnappings, tortures and murders committed by the Contra forces in Nicaragua in the 1980's — Contras that were clothed, fed and armed by the illegal efforts of Oliver North. Terror, you see, is most effective and intimidating when viewed publicly. In all, over 30,000 civilians were killed in Nicaragua by the Contras, mostly peasants, rural doctors and health care workers, teachers, clergy, and civil administrators trying to afford social services to the poorest in the land.

- Dr. John Bomar, A Catholic Lay Minister, U.S. Citizen

Star Wars

Began the Strategic Defense Initiative (more commonly called Star Wars) to shoot down Soviet missiles from space with lasers. It would have enabled the US to use nuclear missiles while shielding itself from retaliation.

Reagan Doctrine

After the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut killed nearly 300 servicemen, Reagan vowed to let the world know such acts of terror would not be tolerated and would be met with swift vengeance. He boldly withdrew the rest of the US forces in Beirut and thus emboldened America's enemies for decades to come.

Afghanistan

Funded Muhjadeen to displace those pesky Soviets, once the Russians were displaced, they threw away the Muhjadeen away like a used condom who then split into the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Also with the lack of government and Reagan not interested in restoring peace to the region, the area devolved as Radical Muslims took the region.

"To watch the courageous Afghan freedom fighters battle modern arsenals with simple hand-held weapons is an inspiration to those who love freedom. Their courage teaches us a great lesson—that there are things in this world worth defending. To the Afghan people, I say on behalf of all Americans that we admire your heroism, your devotion to freedom, and your relentless struggle against your oppressors." - Reagan March 21, 1983 [1]

Reaganomics

Trickle-Down Theory

During his presidency, Reagan advocated Trickle-down economics economic policies that ultimately benefited the wealthiest people in the nation, because the idea he sold to America was that the wealthy are naturally generous. Poor white people still voted for him too.

Views on Labor

Reagan created the modern-day view of labor by Republican politicians. It began when he fired 13,000 air-traffic control workers who were on strike, sending the signal that employers don't need to have an obligation to their employees. They were on strike because of the 5-day, 40-hour work week of an extremely-high-stress job; they wanted a 4-day, 32-hour work week. It would have cost $770 million dollars, at a time when the business was making $30 billion-a-year.

Quotes from the Reagan Administration

“   [AIDS is] nature's revenge on gay men.   „   —Pat Buchanan, Reagan's communications director, 1983   “   because transmission of AIDS was understood to be primarily in the homosexual population and in those who abused intravenous drugs." The president's advisers, Koop said, "took the stand, 'They are only getting what they justly deserve.'   „   —Dr. Koop, Reagan's surgeon general, explaining why nothing was done

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Gallery

Reagan points to a chart with no numbers

Proof He fixed the economy.

Remembering Reagan

His daughter's Playboy cover

See Also:

• Lasers
• Trickle-down economics