Thursday, August 25, 2005
Political and financial entrepreneurship by the Christian RightA new Lou Dubose article shows a side of the Christian Right that it's important for regular people to know about: Senatorial Courtesy: Will John McCain Let Republican Perps Walk? by Lou Dubose Texas Observer 08/26/05 issue (accessed 08/25/05).It's actually part of an article on the famous "straight-talker" John McCain and his willingness (or lack thereof) to investigate the corruption of the Republican Party. I discuss other aspects of the article in this post at Old Hickory's Weblog: That Maverick McCain strikes again 08/25/05. One of the characters in the article is Ralph Reed, the lobbyist, Georgia politician and former baby-faced director of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, one of the main organizations of the Christian Right. Reed, it seems, used funds from Indian tribes that ran casinos to assist anti-gambling initiatives in states where other tribes had or wanted to set up competing casinos. It reminded me of the old saying in Mississippi that anti-alcohol measures were typically driven by Baptist preachers and bootleggers. Check it out to see how the present-day coalition of Christian Right anti-gambling activists and Indian casino interests do it now. In his concluding paragraphs, Dubose writes:
The flim-flam operation produced by the combination of the Christian Right with the robber barons and war profiteers of the Republican Party has to be one of the great scams of all time. At the end of the online article is the text of a sidebar about Abramoff's providing "high-tech military hardware" to an "Israeli paramilitary organizer" who "ran a sniper school in the ultra-orthodox [Israeli] settlement of Beitar Illit." ("End Times Tax Accounting") Dubose also writes: Like American End Times Christians who believe the 9/11 attack is an augur of the second coming of Christ, Abramoff's End Times Israeli Jews believe the 9/11 attack anticipates the coming of the Messiah. | +Save/Share | | |
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