Fred Thompson: Registered Foreign Agent, 20-Year Lobbyist, S&L Criminal

David Zephyr

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Wed May-30-07 11:35 PM
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Fred Thompson: Registered Foreign Agent, 20-Year Lobbyist, S&L Criminal

Fred Thompson: Registered Foreign Agent, Career Lobbyist (20 Years), Key Player in the historical $150 Billion 1980's Banking Crime and the corporate media's "All American Guy".

Please help spread the word early on about Fred Thompson. Will you? I think that he's the candidate that Karl Rove will be helping out in '08.

It's important that folks know that this new darling of the Republican Party, who they hail as a "man of the people" spent more than half of his adult career as a paid lobbyist in Washington. One of the hallmarks of Fred Thompson's career as a lobbyist was his work to secure the Savings & Loan DeRegulation Act.

Yeah, that's his greatest contribution to this country: the savings and loan catastrophe. Wikipedia describes that fiasco this way: it was "the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance and larceny of all time. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around USD$150 billion, about $125 billion of which was consequently and directly subsidized by the U.S. government, which contributed to the large budget deficits of the early 1990s. The concomitant slowdown in the finance industry and the real estate market may have been a contributing cause of the 1990-1991 economic recession."

Every taxpayer took a huge hit because of Mr. Thompson's greedy lobbying efforts, which by the way, also financially benefited a very sleezy Senator from Arizona, John McCain, who barely escaped criminal indictment by the skin of his teeth.

Now $150 Billion seems to me, even after all these years, to still be a hell of a lot of money. How much did Fred take from the Fed? What was Thompson's total take?

And why is it that Fred Thompson still gets a hallway pass on his nefarious, dirty career as a lobbyist for twenty years. T-w-e-n-t-y Y-e-a-r-s!

Putting his adult "working" career in perspective (Fred hates work, by the way): Those twenty years of boozing and schmoozing politicians to do the biddings of his clients far dwarfs his time as an on-again/off again actor and product huckster in television commercials. Those twenty years dwarf his time as an elected official as well.

The corporate political talking heads and pundits that smugly question the "experience" of Barack Obama in droned cadence every chance they can sure turn a blind eye to the only real "experience" that Fred Thompson has really ever had: bribing public officials for special favors for his corporate and foreign employers.

Oh, and did I mention that Fred Thompson, that "all American who poses in a pick-up truck" also was an official "registered foreign agent" operating here for years, as well. Somehow, I doubt that Mr. Thompson passed out the checks to his purchased lawmakers from a pick-up. Do you?

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Fred has now had to ask his own son, Daniel, to step down from his shell political action committee that was little more than a legal framework created so Thompson continue to extort his corporate buddies into providing his son a "living". Like the true crook that he is, Fred Thompson has quietly kept his P.A.C. active for years since leaving politics to keep those funds still coming in. By the way, Fred's P.A.C. only gave out $66,000 while his son got raked in over $178,000 for himself.

The corporate media has "clued us in" as to when we will know that Fred is serious about running: when he hits the road in his "red pick up truck" in his new role "acting" as a man of the people.

What a farce! Fredd will need to slip out of one of his many fine tuxedoes and into his stage "farm duds", as he slips out of one of his many luxury cars and into his "old pick-up truck". It reminds me of Mr. Haney and his truck from Green Acres and we sold what a huckster he was!

Tell your friends about Fred Thompson, will you?