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WA****NGTON (AP) - Rep. Tom Lantos (R-CA) of California, the only Holocaust
survivor ever to serve in Congress, died early Monday morning, his
spokeswoman said.
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The Lies of Tom Lantos
The Republican Bela Lugosi of the House
By WAYNE MADSEN
He is a fake, a phony and a complete fraud. He constantly stresses his
victimhood: first as a Holocaust survivor in Nazi-run Hungary and then as
a
refugee when the Communists took power. He fancies himself as the leading
human rights specialist on Capitol Hill. In fact, this odious so-called
Democrat is a master of deception and propaganda and a wallower in corrupt
campaign money.
Meet California Congressman Tom Lantos. The Gollum-like Lantos has
launched
his latest string of invectives at France, Germany, and Belgium. He said
"the failure of these three states to honor their commitments is beneath
contempt" and that he is "particularly disgusted by the blind
intransigence
and utter ingratitude" of America's three NATO allies.
Lantos, who represents California's 12th District (San Mateo), has a
history
of just plain lying and intimidating others in order to push his sordid
agenda.
He once told Clinton White House security chief Craig Livingstone, who was
testifying before a House committee on the so-called "Travelgate" matter,
that he should think about committing suicide. Lantos, who sounds a lot
like
Bela Lugosi, told the beleaguered aide, "At least Admiral Boorda had the
decency to commit suicide," a reprehensible reference to the tragic
suicide
of the Chief of Naval Operations.
And who can forget the last time Lantos ****lled for a Bush war on Iraq? On
October 10, 1990, Lantos, who laughably chaired the Congressional Human
Rights Caucus, held a meeting during which a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who
only went by the name Nayirah told a sobbing hearing room that as a
volunteer for a Kuwait hospital she personally witnessed Iraqi soldiers
yank
new born babies from their incubators, steal the incubators, and leave the
infants on the cold floors to die. Lantos, it turns out, was in on a
little
scam he cooked up with Citizens for a Free Kuwait and an entity Lantos
chaired called the Congressional Human Rights Foundation. In fact, both
organizations were rump entities set up by the public relations firm Hill
and Knowlton, the same company that is now ****lling for the Saudis to fend
off all criticism of Osama bin Laden's true paymasters.
Lantos, the consummate prevaricator, said that poor Nayirah's last name
had
to be kept confidential or otherwise her family in Kuwait might face
reprisals from Iraqi occupiers. Nice try, but soon it was revealed that
Nayirah's actual last name was Al Sabah and that she was the daughter of
Kuwait's ambassador to the United States. But the disinformation soon
caught
on. George H. W. Bush traveled around the country condemning the Brute of
Baghdad for throwing newborn babies on to the floors of Kuwaiti hospitals.
Sup****t for Bush's war skyrocketed as a result.
Now, as another President Bush hones his plans to control Iraq through
pro-consul and fellow Texan, General Tommy Franks, Lantos is bleating
forth
more disinformation about the "treacherous" French, Germans, and Belgians
for not jumping into Bush's lap in the same manner as Britain's Tony Blair
and Australia's John Howard.
Lantos' venomous brand of politics has earned him scorn from many of his
House colleagues, especially those in the Congressional Black Caucus.
Always
quick to accuse those who don't stand with Israel of being anti-Semitic,
Lantos is intolerant of African-American members who have accused the
international diamond industry of responsibility for a large share of
Africa's bloody civil wars and torment. Lantos has, in some cases, made no
secret of his disdain for people of color who dare question his competency
to lord over human rights issues from his Capitol Hill perch. The
relation****p between Lantos and Hill and Knowlton, the agents of past
brutal
dictator****ps in Indonesia and Turkey, makes Lantos's congressional
monopoly
on human rights advocacy an outrageous fraud.
In 1992, high tech entrepreneur Glenn Tenney challenged Lantos in the
Democratic primary. Although Lantos is well-known for his arrogance in
Wa****ngton, Tenney and his sup****ters pointed out that this haughtiness
extended to the constituents of the 12th District as well. But Lantos, who
is propped up partly with the infusion of campaign funds from
mob-controlled
unions at San Francisco International Air****t, remained invulnerable to
the
challenge.
Although Lantos's biography says he is the only Holocaust survivor to have
ever served in Congress, it glosses over the fact that his wife, also a
Holocaust survivor, and two daughters left the Jewish faith and are
practicing Mormons. And it is also a well-known fact that the Latter Day
Saints Church remains a prime backer of the Republican Party and George W.
Bush. Nonetheless, Lantos was quick to hurl his hackneyed anti-Semitism
charges at his two last challengers, Republican Michael Moloney, who
favored
cutting off all U.S. aid to Israel and Libertarian Maad Abu Ghazalah, a
Palestinian refugee from the West Bank, who called for a more even-handed
American foreign policy in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
As eloquent Democrats like West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd and Wisconsin
Senator Russ Feingold call into question Bush's Iraq adventure and his
creeping totalitarianism at home, Lantos, to coin a phrase, remains, as
always, "beneath contempt."
Wayne Madsen is a Wa****ngton, DC-based investigative journalist and
columnist. He wrote the introduction to Forbidden Truth.
Madsen can be reached at: WMadsen777@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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