Another question I wanted to ask, and this has to do with the article that I wrote over
the weekend on Saturday that I published over at HartmannReport.com, is why are we amazed by Qanon
when the republican party was transformed by a psychotic child murderer?
Literally this is the title of the piece that I published on May 8th, on Saturday over at
hartmannreport.com is Americans must repudiate the connection between a child murderer, Reaganism,
and Trumpism. And i mean the the the seeds of this american brutality all grew out of
iron iran's writing not all but largely today and you know the libertarian party of course
was started as a scam by by a real estate industry lobbying group as a way to justify their idea that
they should not be regulated real estate you know should not be taxed or regulated so they can make
more money but then comes i iran right and donald trump was asked in 2015 by usa today's kirsten
powers his favorite book and his favorite book he said was the fountainhead this is a book by
iron rand in which a young woman gets raped and then decides she liked being likes being raped
uh trump said it relates to beauty business life and inner emotions that book relates to everything
uh paul ryan was requiring everybody on his staff to read it for example
and and trump says i identify with howard roark he's the novelist's protagonist right
who designs skyscrapers and rages against the establishment in fact he was so upset with the
government doing things that he literally used dynamite to blow up a public housing project
because we don't we don't need no stinking public housing projects but the hero of iron rand
was this guy by the name it's just in in her journals in fact she lays it out
the hero of her of her uh uh her her life of violence life was this man but named william
edward hickman he lived in los angeles during the roaring 20s 10 days before christmas in 1927
hickman kidnapped from the mount vernon valley junior high school the daughter of perry parker he
was a wealthy businessman her name was marion a 12 year old girl marion parker kidnapped her held her
for ransom he wanted 1500 bucks which is a year's salary back then and uh after two days his dad her
dad said okay fine i'll pay you but by that point in time he had already murdered this little girl
and he he told paper and i i lay it out i i is parts but they're just so gruesome i don't want
to read on the air but he talked about how he just couldn't help himself he just had to kill
her he had to strangle her and then he had to cut her throat and drain her blood into the sink and
then cut her body up into pieces and then when he went out to meet her father who was going to
pay the ransom he took a shotgun and he had just her torso and her head with her eyes sewed open
so it looked like she was alive in the back seat of his car and her father comes out and leaves the
fifteen hundred dollars in a satchel on the on the ground and hickman's got the shotgun on him
and then hickman kicks this dead body these pieces of this dead body of this
guy's daughter out on the street and drives off and and dad falls to his knees sobbing
so that's who we're talking about he was the most notorious criminal of the nineteen twenties
of the roaring twenties according to the los angeles times they called him they said it
was the most horrible crime of the twenties but to iron rand this guy was a hero she said
that hickman is quote the ideal man that she based the fountainhead donald trump's favorite novel on
she said her his statement that i am like the state what is good for me is right resonated
deeply with her this is what she wrote in her diary iron rand she said hickman is the best and
strongest expression of a real man's psychology i've ever heard this is the monster who hacked
up a 12 year old girl right um she she said the first thing this is during his trial she said the
first thing that impresses me about the case is the ferocious rage of the whole society against
one man she said this is iron writing in her diaries about you know hickman she said it is
not the crime alone that has raised the fury of public hatred is the case of daring challenge to
society see he was unrepentant he was quite proud of what he did is the amazing picture of a man
with no regard whatsoever for all the society holds sacred with a consciousness all his own
thus she said the media turned a brilliant unusual exceptional boy into a purposeless monster
she was writing a book at the time it was uh it was uh
and its hero was a little boy named or a young man named danny renahan and in her notes on that
book she wrote the model for the for renahan is hickman he would be her ideal man he was born with
the spirit of argon and the nature of a medieval feudal lord imperious impatient uncompromising
untameable intolerant unadaptable passionate intensely proud superior to the mob and extreme
extremist no respect for anyone or anything that was iron rand's hero that she based her novels on
at least two of them and she is the hero that the republican party bases its policies
of thoughtful intelligent greed greed is good greed will drive things greed is the
power behind capitalism don't you know this is what the GOP is all about