So I was hanging out on Main Street when a billionaire friend stopped by..

[TomInTib]

She had just gotten off the phone with the White House and she was totally pissed off.

A little background on my friend:
She was born in Persia, educated in Switzerland and England, and is a true Citizen of the World in every regard.
Her family was very much involved with the regime of the Shah and very successful in global commerce.
When Khomeini came to power, everyone in her family fled except for her because her husband (a nuclear physicist) had altered her passport and identification papers and left the country with his secretary.
When my friend got to the airport in Tehran she was immediately arrested and thrown into prison. And there she stayed until her father, who was in Belgium, was able to get in touch with Mehdi Bazargan, the acting Prime Minister.
Bazargan showed up at the prison, demanded her release, took her to the airport and put her on a plane to Paris.
She lost everything she had, tens of millions of dollars.
But she has more than made up for those losses.

So I am sitting at my usual perch on our town's little Main Street. Several of us (and all here would be greatly surprised at the makeup of our little group) meet there daily to solve the problems of the World. Obviously, we aren't doing an adequate job.

Here comes my friend and she is roiling boiling pissed off. I have never seen her angry, she is coolly unflappable.
But the Qana bombings have pushed her over the edge.
She has no dog in the fight, a total realist with incredible insight on Middle Eastern affairs.
So she called the White House. Knowing her like I do, I am sure she spoke to someone in the office of the Prez or Vice. She is not the kind to call a switchboard and has access to people at every level of any government that counts on a global level. Her husband's obit was a full page in the NY Times, if that makes my point any clearer.

I could go on and on, but I won't.

Here is the punch line:
She vowed to dedicate the rest of her life making sure that Bush, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Feith, et al, have nothing but misery for the rest of their lives after leaving office. She intends to insure that they will never be able to travel outside the States and she plans on funding a full-court press on the World Stage and Courts.

I have never heard her utter a political statement in all the time I have known her.
And now this.

Also, I have known many powerful, wealthy, and tough people in my life.
Of all of them, she is the last person I would want gunning for my ass.

[shireen]

1. is she hiring?! n/t

[Nickster]

4. No kidding. I'd sign on for that mission in a heartbeat. n/t

[gulfcoastliberal]

2. A member of the Naraghi clan?

I dated one of em.

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. I kinda hope this

is a true story. :)

[TomInTib]

6. Oh, it is true.

I only wish I could go into more detail.

[bleever]

13. I know this town.

Named after sharks.

Scorpions in the dry hills.

The kind of town, where if a reporter gets a local's reaction to some occurrence, he responds by laughing and saying, "Oh, I don't want my name in the newspaper."

Money? Don't ask.


This is the part where I should say I feel sorry for the Bush cabal. But I can't.

:)

[TomInTib]

14. Good take, bleever.

Really good.

[graywarrior]

7. Me, too.

[TomInTib]

8. It's true, graywarrior

I live in one of the wealthiest communities on the planet.

And I wish I could have gone into more detail.

[graywarrior]

10. Somehow, I do believe you.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. When Dear Leader starts losing the billionaires...

You know his ass is sooooooo grass.

[rug]

9. Bush or no Bush, I'm not linking arms with billionaires.

Especially ones who thrived under the Shah.

[TomInTib]

11. Yeah, who needs George Soros? nt

[rug]

12. If he is indeed needed, we've lost.

[lonestarnot]

15. deleted post

[TomInTib]

16. Are you serious?

I was afraid that when I posted this that I would get some sort of accusatory flame about wealthy people.
But I would have never guessed it would have come from you.

Yeah, I know a lot of wealthy people.

On a regular, daily basis, I doubt that I interact with anyone (except maybe at the grocery store)worth less than a few million dollars.
Does that make me evil?

Tom

[lonestarnot]

17. Tom in Tib.

I didn't see who you were when I posted. I shouldn't have dissed you, but I do disdain richies. You should know that from my posts. LOL Sorry if I offended you. Peace!

[TomInTib]

21. No apology needed..

it's a big ol' world, lonestarnot.

And it is all relative.

We are all in this together.

[lonestarnot]

22. Absolutely in this together.

:hug:

[zalinda]

19. Not evil..............

but, maybe a very valuable asset to those of us who are small business people looking for investors. LOL Maybe you shouldn't have outed yourself.

zalinda

[conflictgirl]

18. If the people with big money are against the Bush cabal, that's big news

Since from my perspective, the only groups of people the Bush admin have done anything for are fundamentalists and the uber-wealthy.

My gut reaction was initially a little negative or something at the word "billionaire" but I got over it and realized it's a very good thing whenever anyone decides they've had enough of these sociopaths in office. And because money does unfortunately equal power, especially in this society, when people with large amounts of money take a side, they have the ability to put more financial muscle behind their beliefs.

[kineneb]

20. more importantly, the Iranian-American community

in CA, most of who are fairly well off (I will include my parents in that group). If the Little Emperor and the Evil Dickster are losing their hearts and minds, than the regime's ass is grass. No, my parents are not billionares, or even millionares, but some of their friends, shall we say, are not hurting.

These were people who worked for the Shah and came here to avoid being imprisoned or executed. Many of them were able to bring out some of their money, but not much. They voted for the asshat Little Emperor. If they are turning against him, jolly good. Little Brother did vote for GWB, but doesn't say too much to me about it anymore...if he does, I get to suggest "Sign up, or shut up, they are taking recruits up to age 42 now, Little Brother."

[TomInTib]

24. Amen..

When those vehemently anti-Carter types turn, all is lost for the current group of bastards.

[blogslut]

23. it's always the quiet ones

and i'm not kidding.

[TomInTib]

25. Bingo..

my friend has remained silent on the political scene.

And now she will be shouting.

[GreenTea]

26. Hope it's not tiburon.

[TomInTib]

28. It is....

Do you think they will bomb us?

[Ino]

27. I have my fingers crossed!

Now, if she could go one step further...

It's my fondest wish that, if not imprisoned, BushCo will never be able to travel outside the walls of their homes without suffering acute embarrassment and public scorn... no "senior statesmen" interviews on talk shows, no lecture circuit, no respected ambassadorships, no private sector positions, no parties, nothing. A total public shunning.

I wish you could say more! I latch onto any rays of hope!

[eleny]

29. K&R I like the way she thinks