In a ruling today from the bought-and-paid for SCOTUS, aka the Scalia Bandits, the Super Supremes ruled with the 1600 Crew and against Holocaust Survivors. The case, which was ruled on today is a defeat for the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco, which last year had ruled in favor of the Holocaust Survivors.

Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the 1600 Crew took the side of the Insurance Companies with the argument that California was interfering in Foreign Policy by having a law on the books that required insurers who want to do business in California research and make available information about companies that once sold insurance to Holocaust victims/their families/survivors, if they were related to the present day company. Disclosure seems to have been the thrust of the law, not Foreign Policy. But as with all things Smirk-related, there's a twist...

Leading Nazi industrialists secretly owned the bank at that time, Loftus said, and were moving money into it through a second bank in Holland even after the United States declared war on Germany. The bank was liquidated in 1951, Loftus said, and Bush's grandfather and great-grandfather received $1.5 million from the bank as part of that dissolution.

"That's where the Bush family fortune came from: It came from the Third Reich," Loftus said. Loftus made his remarks during a speech as part of the Sarasota Reading Festival. The author of "Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis and the Swiss Banks," Loftus documented the Swiss bank accounts that harbored funds confiscated from Holocaust victims and the participation of Italian priests in smuggling Nazi war criminals to safe haven in Canada, Central and South America and the United States after the war.

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That money flows into American politics today, he said, from "a series of multinational corporations behaving like pirates. They don't care about ideology; they care about money." Loftus' speech left many in tears.

"I am absolutely shocked," said Nancy Krauss of Punta Gorda. "I wish this would have come out before the election. My husband voted for Bush. I don't think he would have voted for him if he would have known."

Do you suppose that he had little Dubya on his knee one day and said "Junior, if ya ever get the chance to put it to 'em...don't hesitate, they tried to dry up my cash flow, damn Roosevelt and his damn Crew. Take'em down...destroy their memory, trash their legacy, now go play with Muffy and Buffy, there's a good little WASP".

Maybe not. But it sure looks like payback time to me...

"President Bush has the legal and moral responsibility to ensure that these heirs do not continue to be victimized by insurance company secrecy," Garamendi said in a statement.

Rep. Mark Foley, a Republican from Florida, said the ruling showed the need for Congress to adopt legislation.

"The time for talking is over. It's time Congress rights this horrible wrong," he said in a statement. "Holocaust survivors and their families are being denied what is rightfully theirs.