Former Congressman Mark Siljander Indicted for Money Laundering and Supporting Terrorism
Former U.S. Representative Mark Siljander, who served during the Reagan administration, has been indicted for money laundering and other offenses by the FBI. The FBI press release detailing the charges against Siljander and others claims that Siljander played several roles in diverting U.S. aid money to terrorists identified as such by the U.S. Government, as well as being hired to help obtain the removal of an organization from a U.S. Government list of organizations suspected of supporting international terrorism.
So what you’re telling me then, is that while the past few years have been full of Republicans saying Democrats are for terror, and the country is safer with Republicans in charge, and Democrats are weak on stopping Islamic radicalism… After all that, we come to find out that one of their own has been part of a known terrorist fund-raising ring?
Did I understand that correctly?
I guess when they aren’t hooking up with high-class DC prostitutes, cruising for sex in airport bathrooms, hitting on high-school boys, molesting pages… some Republicans like to sprinkle a little bit of supporting terrorists in there, for flavor.
Unreal. And this is supposed to be the conservative, pro-family, America-first-and-eff-the-rest party, isn’t it?
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Court: MSNBC Can Bar Kucinich
How are these tactics even constitutional? How is it that a candidate for a position as important as the President of the United States of America has to fight the media instead of having real discussions about real things.
They are basically inaugurating any winner of any poll, anywhere. Then they are proven wrong and simply switch gears to jump behind the next frontrunner. They are jumping on every little itsy bitsy soundbyte and blurb of everyone but the candidates with real ideas and plans, who want to discuss policy instead of feel good and rhetoric. They are excluding legitimate candidates from the public forum.
Yes, Kucinich is polling low. No, he hasn’t been able to raise funds at the levels of the other candidates… And it is a snowball effect. Every time Kucinich is excluded, it decreases his viability exponentially. We have seen that all it takes is the tiniest soundbyte to swing a poll, primary or caucus a few points and the mainstream media is inexplicably terrified of someone throwing a monkey wrench in their forgone conclusions.
So I ask: Why bother? Why participate in the media circus that equates to a weekly political superbowl? How has something as essential to the way this country is supposed to work, at its basic level been taken over by advertising money and windbag pundits?
The real winners here are the networks that are making a mint on advertising money, and destroying our democracy in the process.
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It looks like Dreamhost has accidentally billed thousands of dollars to thousands of customers this morning.
To make it worse, the flippant response that basically sums up to “oopsies, teehee!:” included a picture of the guy that screwed up.
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