Jack Abramoff's White Man's Burden: Sleazy Lobbyist Worked for Apartheid

[in_cog_ni_to]

This is UNFREAKIN'BELIVABLE! You have to read this. You will NOT believe it. It's VERY long, but a real eye opener. Abramoff ....ANTI-Mandela!


February 20, 2006


Jack Abramoff's White Man's Burden: How The Sleazy Lobbyist Worked for Apartheid

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION

By Danny Schechter
Mediachannel.org

Picture the scene.

It was a quiet night in June 1985 in the equatorial heat of Jamba, a small town in the heartland of Angola, the oil and diamond rich African nation that was divided by a bloody civil war for 30 years. Jamba at the time was a base for Jonas’ Savimbi’s Unita movement, a tribal secessionist army bizarrely funded, at the same time, by Communist China and the CIA.

A top-secret meeting was then underway between Savimbi and his boosters led by a young American Republican activist, none other than Jack Abramoff, a man who could bring down the current GOP Administration. He was there representing an organization he founded, the International Freedom Foundation. Abramoff, and others disguised their identities. His code name was "Pacman."<snip>


<snip>Still to come are images of Abramoff on his African "liberation" safari taking up the white man’s burden in the name of discrediting Nelson Mandela. The African National Congress leader’s freedom was demanded by millions at the time, with the exception of politicians like then Congressman Dick Cheney who voted against a Congressional resolution calling for Mandela’s release from prison. (Cheney also opposed overturning Ronald Reagan’s ban on sanctions against South Africa, a ban Jack Abramoff personally worked in Hollywood to support as a Pretoria funded agent.)

Don’t you think there must be a photo somewhere of young Jack with South Africa’s apartheid-era President, P.W. "The Crocodile" Botha. Putting those two presidential trophy shots side by side, Botha on one side, Bush on the other, will complete this connection between the ongoing fight for truth and racial justice and the Bush Administration’s commitment to "Abramoff Family Values" (AFW) designed to enrich "just us." (The LA Times has since reported that Abramoff considered Karl Rove a friend.)<snip>

you can read the rest here:
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/02/con06067.html

It's a very long piece, but worth the read.

[laheina]

1. I cannot help but to be amazed at the depravity

of Abe and his ilk.

I also don't understand why Rove wouldn't have been his "buddy." They were both involved with the leadership of the Young Republicans at about the same time. They have the same circle of friends from that organization.

[cantstandbush]

17. Nothing to be amazed about. All of Israel and their US dual citizenship

operatives in our government worked for Apartheid. Even selling (or giving) S. Africa weapons training.

[laheina]

22. I'm going to have to do some research on this topic.

Thanks for the good info. :hi:

[entanglement]

23. Yeah, but point that out and the ADL crowd will scream 'anti-semite'

and call you a Nazi, among other things. Go figure. :eyes:

[Binka]

2. IMHO Abramoff Financed Thatcher's Attempted Coup In New Guinea

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20051006&articleId=1047


Interesting that when Jack first went to SA in the 80s guess who paid for the trip....Rev Moon. I lost my link but will look later today. These assholes have been playing this game since they killed JFK.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. 'guess who paid for the trip....Rev Moon'

Rev Moon is involved...why am I not surprised? I've started asking myself what HAVEN'T these slimeballs been involved in????

[Binka]

4. Moon Funded The Young RePukes

Abramoff, Reed, Norquist, & Rove all got money from Rev moon. This web is woven quite tight. Which is a nice feature when it begins to unravel.....

[SpiralHawk]

5. "Messiah" Moon and the Republican "Christians"

are as thick as thieves

Follow the links, and weep, O America

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon.html


Newly released Justice Department files show how the Reagan-Bush administrations cited the Constitution to protect Rev. Sun Myung Moon from investigation as a foreign agent -- while using his organization to spy on American critics of Reagan policies. Moon apparently earned his political protection the old-fashioned way: he bought it with lots of money. (12/22/97)

[Karenina]

6. Want some crowns wit dat?

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. LOOK where they are! The Dirksen Senate Office Building!!

G-d help us.

[Binka]

8. That Old Crusty Scrotum Face John Warner Set That Up! Treason!

Dirksen took shits bigger than Rev moon!

[SpiralHawk]

10. Yes, and Republican Congressmen were there to witness and worship

The self-proclaimed "Second Coming of Christ" who has so much a payola-packed influence on the Republican culture of corruption

Some Repubs are on their knees for this

[LuCifer]

9. Let's not forget his dealings in Saipan and Marianas Islands

Advice to people who aren't pale: WATCH OUT FOR THIS GUY...

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. Forced abortions and child labor camps....HUGE cover up!

I wonder if the people will ever learn the truth about these rat bastards? Delay? Abramoff? BUSH?....They were all involved in the Saipan and Marianas Islands crap. When will the corporate media tell the people?

[Binka]

12. Why Do You Think * Is Always Going Off On The Sex Trade Tangent

During speeches? Because like a serial killer he likes to talk about things he is proud of. Again. Again. And Again.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. I know. Remember when he went before the UN and gave that speech and out

of NOWHERE he started talking about "child sex trade" ......OUT OF LEFT FIELD! It had NOTHING to do with anything else he was talking about and for some reason he just had to throw in that little sex trade warning. Hindsight truly IS 20/20. Now it all makes sense. HE'S INVOLVED IN IT.

[Binka]

19. As Soon As He Started That I Said To Self "OOPS Cats Out Of The Bag"

Sex, drugs, human beings, oil, ports, EVERYTHING is a commodity for these bastards to steal and then sell.

[tgnyc]

21. Amateur 60-second commercial on the topic:

www.intelligencesquad.com/id134.html

(#2)

[Orangeone]

14. Not suprising

I've heard that he sent a lot of money to arm the Israeli settlers. It's all about the "settler" mentality.

[1932]

15. Cheney was pro-apartheid, as article notes.

Voted against SA censure, among other things. Probably voted in favor of every bill that would make the companies exploiting SA blacks wealthier and more powerful, and was secretly thrilled that political instability created a police state that required the purchase of expensive weapons.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. YES...Cheney was pro-apartheid. That's also mentioned in this article.

rat bastards...ALL OF THEM.

[Binka]

18. Cheney Was Against MLK Having A Holiday He Is KKK In And Out!

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. And he's the VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

SICK! Just SICK!