Neil Bush, the Rev. Moon, Paraguay and the U.S. Dept. of Education
The 'greatest weirdest Bush Conspiracy'
Neil Bush's trip to Paraguay is all the more interesting when considered against the backdrop of what columnist
Ken Layne called the "greatest weirdest Bush Conspiracy."
In a recent piece headlined "The Bushes and the Moons," Layne wrote:
The story goes like this: George W. Bush and/or George H.W. Bush bought hundreds of thousands of acres in
Paraguay, adjoining a similar spread owned by the Unification Church's Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Both massive parcels
are hidden within a remote South American wilderness atop the world's biggest freshwater aquifer adjoining a
secret U.S. military airbase. Oh, and there's a special non-extradition law to protect the Bush/Moon families
as they enjoy their old age and run drug/weapons smuggling rings, safe from American justice. And they'll own
all the drinking water in the world, or something.
Ignite's COW
At home, Neil Bush is best known for his 1980s involvement in the Silverado Savings and Loan debacle, which cost
taxpayers more than $1 billion; the lurid details of a messy divorce from Sharon Bush, his wife of 23 years; and
his mother Barbara Bush's shameless demand that her contribution to a Hurricane Katrina relief foundation,
working with those who had to be relocated to Texas, be used by local schools to acquire Ignite! products.
Ignite sells what it calls a "Curriculum on Wheels (COW)," a cart-mounted video projector and hard drive loaded
with video content to help teach math, social studies, and science, which costs about $3,800, not including
yearly costs for licensing the content, eSchool News pointed out.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, had called
for the inquiry. According to eSchool News, "CREW contends school districts are using federal dollars
inappropriately to purchase technology from" Bush's Austin, Texas-based company. CREW also claimed that "there
is no proof the company's products are effective and claim[ed] that schools in at least three states are using
the products mainly as a result of political considerations."
Ignite! Learning's president, Ken Leonard, issued a statement denying the group's allegations:
"While Ignite! Learning welcomes accountability for ensuring that public school expenditures are in compliance
with appropriation guidelines, Ignite! Learning has no knowledge of any customer that has procured our
curriculum solutions through means which are other than completely ethical.
According to a CREW press release, "Ignite also has a program called Adopt-a-Cow in which corporations buy the
equipment and donate it to schools or to charities supporting school districts. An Ignite spokesman said seven
Cows were donated last year to the Fund for Public Schools in New York City."
CREW also "obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act request showing that the Katy Independent
School District west of Houston used $250,000 in state and federal Hurricane Katrina relief money last year to
buy the Curriculum on Wheels."
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Picture as Neil Bush and Nicanor Duarte
Paraguayan Nicanor Duarte (L) meets Neil Bush (R), younger brother of US President George W. Bush, and South
Korean Hyun Jin Moon (C), third son of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, at the presidential palace in
Asuncion, on February 28, 2008. Bush is in Paraguay with a delegation of the Federation for Universal Peace,
headed by South Korean reverend Sun Myung Moon.