From Volume 2, Issue Number 32 of Electronic Intelligence Weekly, Published Aug. 12, 2003

Tom Delay: How the Texas Bum Became a Top Fascist
by Anton Chaitkin

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) visited Israel in late July, to destroy the U.S. "Road Map" plan for Mideast peace and promote all-out war. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stayed in Israel to confer with DeLay, putting off Sharon's own scheduled trip to Washington to meet with President Bush. Informed sources report that DeLay told Sharon not to take seriously what the President or Secretary of State Colin Powell would say, that DeLay and his allies had them under control. To various Israeli groups, DeLay used "end-times" rhetoric, called for new arms shipments, and ruled out a Palestinian state. He declared, "There is no middle ground, no moderated position worth taking," and demanded war "until the last terrorist on Earth is in a cell or a cemetery."

Tom DeLay controls the U.S. House of Representatives. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is spoken of as his puppet. The coercion through DeLay's huge election-funding PACs, the bullwhip he displays slaveowner-style, as an emblem of intimidating Congress, and his rise from the obscurity of a pest-control business, have given him the nickname "Terminator." (Some call him derisively "Messiah," for his Christian Zionism; he seems to have amalgamated the two concepts.) His power makes him a lynchpin of the Cheney-Rumsfeld-Ashcroft global fascist agenda. - The Bum and Beelzebub -

When he was first elected to Congress in 1984, Tom DeLay was just a boozing, partying, whoring thug. By his own account, he had "eight, 10, 12 martinis a night at receptions and fundraisers." This personal deterioration, against a background of family members' failure and alcoholism, left him mentally vulnerable to an elite, satanic power-cult. Exposed in the March 2003, issue of Harper's magazine, this secretive group works under cover of Christian themes and is known variously as "The Fellowship" and "The Family." To men whose lives are collapsing, their pitch is, Do our bidding and we will give you earthly power. Say you love Jesus and He will forgive any crimes you commit for the power structure we serve. Their admitted models for secrecy and loyalty are Napoleon, Hitler, and Stalin, the "Jesus" overlay notwithstanding.

Founded in the 1940s by Anglo-Dutch intelligence operatives, The Fellowship serves the Cheney faction as a political-religious management team surrounding President Bush and other weak minds. The apocalyptic rightist Kansas Senator Sam Brownback resided for years in the cult's C Street premises in Washington, D.C., as do several other members of Congress today. (The group runs the famous Washington Prayer Breakfasts.)

Representative Frank Wolf (R-Va) reportedly did the initial capture of DeLay in 1985, making the freshman Congressman weep at the futility of his life. Charles Colson evidently became DeLay's manager within The Fellowship. Colson himself had been psychologically grabbed at the point he was indicted for his role as the "hatchetman" in the Nixon Watergate scandal. The cult created through Colson the Prison Fellowship Ministries, which they now run under Colson's name throughout America's prison systems. In the flagship unit in Tom DeLay's home district, Texas has given the cult full-time control over many prison inmates. Dutifully, Tom DeLay now teaches a class series at his home church in the theology of Chuck Colson! - Casino Jack and the Death Squads -

The next step on DeLay's road to power was his coupling with Jack Abramoff. Jack's ties to top Nazis (despite being Jewish), assassins, and the Mafia would prepare DeLay for the limelight he entered with the 1994 conservative sweep of Congress.

Jack Abramoff is known as a leading lobbyist in such fields as sweatshops and casino gambling, and as Tom DeLay's financial angel, the chief "fixer" and fundraiser for the PACs by which DeLay wields power in the GOP.

In Washington as national chairman of the College Republicans (1981-84), Abramoff jumped into many ultra-right covert-action projects: the cocaine-running Nicaraguan Contras, the opium-funded Afghani Mujahideen (spawning al-Qaeda), and the British imperial gun-drug-gambling circuits controlling the South African apartheid regime. Abramoff chaired Oliver North's Citizens for America.

Abramoff led the U.S. end of the International Freedom Foundation (IFF), a covert U.S.-British-Israeli propaganda and purported assassination bureau for the South African military. IFF supervisor and co-founder, the spy Craig Williamson, was accused in 1996 in South African courtroom testimony of having carried out the assassination of Swedish Premier Olof Palme (Palme was reportedly investigating South African/East German gun-running). Williamson was alleged to have run the 1985 gunning-down, in London, of a Seychelles Islands opposition figure. From Abramoff's IFF office, Williamson surveillance teams were also tailing someone tied to that 1985 victim.

Abramoff produced a 1989 propaganda film, "Red Scorpion," for the South African regime. The IFF and Abramoff worked with the World Anti-Communist League, the post-World War II set of old Nazi operatives, death squad leaders, and anti-Semites.

Jack Abramoff was introduced to Tom DeLay by South African rightist Rabbi Daniel Lapin, whom Abramoff sponsors for Lapin's cultivated ties with Pat Robertson (an African imperial investor) and the U.S. Christian Zionists. And Abramoff's fanaticism for the Israeli ultra-right has been joined by DeLay.

There are big payoffs.

Congress in June 2000 passed a DeLay-supported bill giving chunks of land to the Choctaw Indians, in connection with casino gambling. DeLay has led the swing of Indian casino operators and their campaign contributions over to the Republicans, while the gambling tribes have paid DeLay's go-between, Abramoff, uncounted millions—$10 million from the Choctaws alone.

Abramoff has also secured vast sums for himself, DeLay, and their PACs by promoting slave labor in the Marianas Islands. Abramoff has been the official representative of the infamous Pacific garment sweatshops. DeLay runs Congressional strongarming to keep the lucrative nightmare conditions in that U.S.-run commonwealth. - Miami Hit—'Unsolved' -

Abramoff and his partner, Gambino/Gotti-linked Adam Kidan, bought SunCruz, America's largest fleet of seagoing casino gambling ships. But the seller, Gus Boulis, complained Abramoff had bilked him and actually not delivered the $23 million due. On Feb. 6, 2001, two cars boxed in Boulis's car in an ally and he was shot to death.

Former DeLay aide Mike Scanlon, spokesman for the SunCruz operation, told reporters, "I do think it's a bit premature to follow a storyline about how a Washington lobbyist fellow, like Jack, now finds himself in this tumultuous world of murder for hire.... Abramoff and his partners can expect to be contacted soon by homicide detectives, seeking clues as they sift through the complex business dealings between Boulis and his casino antagonists."

The murder is still unsolved. But after bad publicity, Abramoff turned over his 35% SunCruz share to the murdered man's estate.

Abramoff also had to abandon a planned $100-million junk bond offering which was to have expanded the floating casinos into Tom DeLay's Marianas Islands paradise.

But the born-again former bum has been riding high. In mid-September 2000, DeLay flew 30 lobbyists to Las Vegas, Abramoff's world of casinos, for a round-the-clock party weekend. The highlight: a lobbyist poured champagne on Tom's daughter Danielle, the weekend hostess, while she was in the hot tub.

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