VI. Grabbing a Senate Seat with a Little Help from his Trilateral Friends 227OBAMA PATRON JAMES CROWN
OF GENERAL DYNAMICS AND J.P. MORGAN
Obama now began to receive more open support from the highest levels of the US ruling elite. It
will be recalled that Thomas Ayers had been a member of the board of directors of General
Dynamics. With the elder Ayers now ailing, Obama began to receive support from another member
of the General Dynamics board, the Chicago tycoon James Crown. James Crown is a close relative
of the late Colonel Henry Crown, who had become the majority stockholder in General Dynamics
back in 1959. Crown, currently one of Obama’s main backers, began giving the neophyte politician
advice:
As Mr. Obama moved closer to running, he paid a visit to James S. Crown and his father,
Lester, billionaire investors who presided over a sprawling Chicago business dynasty and
prominent leaders in the Jewish community. As the meeting ended, the younger Mr. Crown
said, his father — who is “fairly hawkish” about Israel’s security — was noncommittal about
Mr. Obama. But, James Crown said, “I pulled him down to my office, and I said, ‘Hey, look, I
think you should run, and I want you to win.’ (Jo Becker and Christopher Drew, “Pragmatic
Politics, Forged on the South Side,” New York Times, May 11, 2008.)OBAMA A PUPPET OF GENERAL DYNAMICS, MERCHANTS OF DEATH
The Crown family were a pillar of the US industrial-military-financier complex. As we read in
the open-source literature,
James S. Crown is ... is president of Henry Crown and Company, a private investment
company. He is a director of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., General Dynamics and Sara Lee as well
as being the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the University of Chicago. A member of
Chicago’s Crown family, James’ father is billionaire Lester Crown. He earned his BA from
Hampshire College in 1976 and his law degree from Stanford in 1980. It is believed his family
holds ownership in the following companies: CC Industries, Inc.; General Dynamics Corp.
(Resources Group); Material Service Corp.; Freeman United Coal Mining Co.; Freeman Energy
Corp.; Century-America LLC; Century Steel LLC; Tishman Speyer Crown Equities; Industrial
Insurance Agency, Inc.; Aspen Skiing Co. (Colorado); Citation Oil & Gas Corp.; Crown
Theatres, LP; Chicago Sweeteners, Inc.; Eltek, ASA; Great Dane Trailers L.P.; Van Vlissingen
& Co.; V & V Food Products, Inc.; Lakewood Homes, Inc.; Lennar Chicago; Crown Golf
Properties; Wireless One Network; Active Screw & Fastener, L.P.; Plasco, Inc.; Crown
Community Development; Ojai Resort Management (California); Bush Hog, LLC; Woodard,
LLC.^88
The lesson is clear: Obama is anything but an insurgent; he is the carefully tended puppet of the
highest levels of finance capital and the military-industrial complex. Watch for General Dynamics
(currently the sixth largest defense contractor in the world) to take the inside track in Pentagon
contracts under a future Obama regime! Maybe Obama will decide that the US needs more nuclear
submarines, since that is the specialty of General Dynamics’ Electric Boat division.
THE CORRUPTION CROWN: A SWEETHEART MORTGAGE FOR THE OBAMAS
At the end of June 2008, a scandal emerged around the fact that Democratic senators had been
receiving sweetheart mortgages with extraordinarily low interest rates from lenders like the