Another Republican Indicted

[marincounty]

A former Republican member of Congress was indicted for money laundering, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.
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WASHINGTON -- A former Republican member of Congress from Michigan was indicted Wednesday in connection with his work for a U.S.-based Islamic relief organization that allegedly supported a prominent Afghan warlord.

Mark D. Siljander, 56, a Washington lobbyist who served in the House from 1981 to 1987, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice in a multicount indictment by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo.
Federal officials said Siljander was hired in 2004 by the Islamic American Relief Agency of Columbia, Mo., after the group had been listed among organizations banned from receiving government contracts because of concern that the organizations supported international terrorism
Siljander was charged with conspiring to engage in money laundering by transferring stolen USAID funds, and obstructing justice by lying to a federal grand jury and making false statements to FBI agents, officials said.
The new, expanded indictment alleges that the group funneled some $130,000 to bank accounts in Pakistan "purportedly for an orphanage" that was housed in buildings controlled by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Hekmatyar is founder of Hezb-i-Islami, a militia allied with the Taliban. The U.S. government put Hekmatyar on a list of global terrorists in 2003, making it illegal to support him or his interests.

Siljander, a favorite of religious conservatives, declared war on abortion, pornography, the Equal Rights Amendment and school busing.
He later was appointed a public delegate to the United Nations by President Reagan.

Another criminal Republican, what a suprise.

 

[Farang]

Score one for your team!

 

[Rainsford]

Sounds like he would fit in perfectly with the extremists, actually. He's a religious conservative who's extremely opposed to minor social issues he personally views as immoral, but has no problem supporting folks who kill people. I bet Osama isn't a big fan of pornography or equal rights either.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Sounds like he would fit in perfectly with the extremists, actually. He's a religious conservative who's extremely opposed to minor social issues he personally views as immoral, but has no problem supporting folks who kill people. I bet Osama isn't a big fan of pornography or equal rights either.

Yeah, well I don't take the word of any guy who thinks eternity with 72 inept virgins is paradise. Clearly never been laid.

 

[Jaskalas]

Our government practices cannibalism all the time. This should come as no surprise that they once again eat their own, but to think of this as one man or one party would be sheer stupidity. Washington and its people are corrupt and that is why handing them more money and more power over this nation is the stupidest thing of all.

I recite to you:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ? That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ? That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Fitting no? These men do not deserve to control us, stupid enough though we may be, to keep electing them.

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Sounds like he would fit in perfectly with the extremists, actually. He's a religious conservative who's extremely opposed to minor social issues he personally views as immoral, but has no problem supporting folks who kill people. I bet Osama isn't a big fan of pornography or equal rights either.

Yeah, well I don't take the word of any guy who thinks eternity with 72 inept virgins is paradise. Clearly never been laid.

The fantasy of 72 virgins is obviously not about sex, it's about power. Men who want satisfying sex for its own sake aren't going to go with some girl who doesn't know what she's doing, but if you're a guy who's insecure in his masculinity...you can't take the chance that the girl will be more experienced and take charge in bed, now can you? Plus, if you're terrible at sex, a virgin won't be able to tell the difference. So you can get your rocks off without anyone shredding the feeble sense of masculine self-worth you have. And I suspect more than a few terrorists have self-confidence problems...especially where women are concerned.

 

[marincounty]

Originally posted by: Jaskalas
Our government practices cannibalism all the time. This should come as no surprise that they once again eat their own, but to think of this as one man or one party would be sheer stupidity. Washington and its people are corrupt and that is why handing them more money and more power over this nation is the stupidest thing of all.

I recite to you:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ? That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ? That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Fitting no? These men do not deserve to control us, stupid enough though we may be, to keep electing them.

But when it comes to controlling women's bodies, controlling pornography, controlling personal drug and alcohol use, spying on our email and phone calls, spying on dissident groups, and corruption, one party stands alone. The Republican party.

 

[Noobtastic]

YES!

Now if only they'd nail Keith Ellison...

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: Noobtastic
YES!

Now if only they'd nail Keith Ellison...

For...?