Where is the outrage over the fact that Fred Thompson worked defending terrorists who were responsible for the deaths of 270 mostly American (189 USA) innocent lives. Bill Clinton getting a blow job in the White House or John Edwards getting an expensive haircut is supposed to attract my attention yet I'm told to forget this scum bags unacceptable greedy behavior. What if a Democratic candidate had done this it would be all over the so called liberal fucking media. Why is this bastard getting a free fucking pass. Fred Thompson is a morally repugnant bottom-feeding slug who sell his soul for a dime. No wonder big Fred Thompson is calling for Osama Bin Laden to get a fair good old Fred is probably wanting to get his greedy paws on some of that huge Bin Laden fortune if he fails to win his bid for the White House.
Prior to 9/11 the world’s most extensive mass murder investigation was started soon after Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed over the town of Lockerbie in Scotland on the night of December 21, 1988 resulting in the deaths of 270 deaths. 2 Libyan nationals were charged. It was as an act of revenge for the bombing of Libya by the USA in April 1986. Although 9/11 surpassed it Lockerbie in scale remains the worst terrorist attack in Europe in terms of loss of life. A Swiss electronics firm that made the bomb admitted they had sold twenty to Libya and two Libyans were eventually charged and one later convicted the same ones that Fred Thompson was paid to worked for. The GOP faithful stooges are always attacking John Edwards for being a so called greedy trial lawyer but at least he never represented 2 terrorists who slaughtered 270 innocent people on their way home to spend Christmas in America with their families. 8 CIA operatives were also killed in the terrorist action and one of our oldest and largest national airlines (Pan Am) went the way of the dinosaur leaving thousands of mostly Americans out of work. But good old Fred profited on the tragedy since his firm was paid nearly a million dollars in tainted blood money for advising terrorists.
Thompson is Gadaffi's HouseBoy
That American law firms would represent two men indicted for killing 270 people in one of the most horrible terrorist attacks of all time--an attack, essentially, on America--was a scandal even at the time. Jay Leno expressed his disgust on the Tonight Show. A family member of one of the victims, Susan Cohen, said of a former State Department lawyer who accepted work from the Libyans (though subsequently withdrew in the furor),"I think this is treason.... [he] is going to work for a terrorist country that has American blood on its hands. It's disgusting."Several prominent lobbyists, including Tommy Boggs, turned down overtures to work for Libya on the case, despite offers of a reported $1.5 million retainer. Vicki Reggie Kennedy, wife of Ted, actually resigned a partnership in her law firm over its decision to represent Libya, even though--as far as I can tell--she was never asked to do any work on the case.
But not good ol' Fred. Not go along to get along, take a dollar where you find it Fred. A couple dozen hours lobbying for abortion rights? Why not? A few more spent helping defend two men accused of a heinous act of terrorism? Heck, if it wasn't Fred, it'd just be someone else, right?
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The Lockerbie Memorial Cairn Arlington National Cemetery
On 21 December 1988, a cowardly act of terrorism blew PanAm's Clipper Maid of the Seas out of the sky over Scotland. Flight PA103, en route from London to New York, carried 259 men, women and children, their bags heavy with Christmas presents for those awaiting their homecoming. As the blazing wreckage fell on Lockerbie, it claimed the lives of 11 residents, bringing the death toll to 270 people.
The town of Lockerbie later shipped 270 blocks of locally quarried sandstone to America. Each block of the distinctive reddish stone represented a life lost in the disaster. The task of building these blocks into a memorial was undertaken by Frank Klein. A builder from New Jersey, whose daughter Patricia had been on PA103, Frank moved to Washington DC with some of his workers, and over several months lovingly erected the cairn that now stands in a secluded part of Section 1 in Arlington National Cemetery.
The Lockerbie Memorial Cairn was unveiled by Bill Clinton, the President of the United States. Among those attending the ceremony were the families of those killed, residents of Lockerbie, American and Scottish police officers, and many more for whom the horrors of those dark December days in Scotland will never fade.
In a quiet corner of Lockerbie's cemetery is a Garden of Remembrance. It is lovingly tended by local people, who have adopted those victims buried there, vowing always to visit the graves on behalf of their families. 3000 miles away, relatives gather every December at Arlington, where the names of their loved ones are engraved into the marble base of the Lockerbie Memorial Cairn - a unique and powerful tribute to such a devastating loss.
I've been called a traitor and an Al Qaeda sympathizer simply because I wanted fair trials for the people being held at Guantanamo yet now they support this guy what a bunch of God damn hypocrites. One of the two suspects ,Fred Thompson worked for Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, who was later convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison in Scotland the other Abdel Basset Ali was found not guilty however both had been on the FBI list of 'Ten Most Wanted Fugitives' for a decade.I guess as long as you claim to be against abortion nothing else matters to these evil motherfuckers in GOP.
The people who support this fool should be banned from voting maybe even sent into exile for being to dumb check out his typical Religious Right followers.
Fred Thompson satisfies the primitive lizard-brain craving for a President only because he talks and acts like a president.
"He looks presidential,"said Jeff Cardwell, 47, a Conservative Christian hardware retailer. "He talks about going back to the basics. Putting God first in our country. I think he's the person everybody looks to as being the true conservative of GOP."
Mr. Thompson has said he makes no apologies for his legal and lobbying work, emphasizing in one online essay that every person, no matter how unpopular, is entitled to representation and that lawyers’ work on behalf of a client is no indication of their own personal views.
Asked about Mr. Thompson’s participation in the Libya case, James Kreindler, a lawyer who represents 130 of the victims’ families, said: "Pan Am 103 was really an attack on the United States, so while some families understood the concept that everyone deserves a defense, a number were offended and angered that American lawyers were willing to earn fees by doing anything to help this pariah nation or the two bombing suspects."
When I found out that Fred Thompson had worked for the bloodthirsty Right wing Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet the Conservatives in GOP said nothing after all they still believe or want to believe that Pinochet was just killing communists when in fact he was murdering Social Democrats but heck to GOP as long as someone kills anyone left of center they are a hero. Now they say nothing at GOP after we find out Thompson had also worked for the Socialist Anti-Western Colonel Muammar al-Gadaffi who was our sworn enemy at the time President Reagan maintained that Libya was linked to world terrorism and the USA shot down Libyan fighter planes over the Gulf of Sirte in 1981. In 1986 the Americans imposed an economic embargo on Libya and in April of that year an unsuccessful attempt was made by the USA to kill Gadaffi by bombing Tripoli and Benghazi.
But think about it the Religious Right has a lot in common with Colonel Gadaffi at least they did in the early years because his first act as a 27 year old dictator after he overthrew the pro-Western King, Idris, in 1969 was to ride into a westernized nightclub on a white horse shooting a pistol in the air and declaring that alcohol sales were banned in Libya. However the love affair ended in 1977 when Gadaffi made Libya a Socialist People's Republic and began to expel Western military personnel and impose restrictions on the country's oil industry dealings with the West. He also became secularized so in the eyes of groups like Al Qaeda he made serious errors - having no Islamic credentials; un-Islamic female guards and refusing to back Iraq .
They claim to be the party of family values yet they have Senators engaging in all kinds of sexual misconduct outside the family. They claim to be the party that will protect America the best from terrorism yet they want to nominate a man who made money defending terrorists who killed our fellow citizens. I hope the 270 ghosts of Lockerbie haunt him every night for the rest of his fucking life. This man defends terrorists and GOP wants us to think he will defend us from terrorism what a fucking joke. He sold his soul for cash. I recall Bruce Cutler being forced to resign as John Gotti’s defense attorney when he was called House Council for the Gambino family well at least he wasn't House council for Terrorists like Fred Thompson. I agree that they deserved a fair trial but he had a choice and he took blood money while others didn't. Let's not let this go away they never give us a break on anything no matter how small of issue it is. The families and friends of the American victims of the Pan Am bombing came together in their grief while this man profited by aiding the ones who murdered their loved ones.