Anyone ever seen Jack Abramoff's propaganda puff piece "Red Scorpion"?

[Initech]

I'm not kidding - he actually made a movie. And it spawned a sequel:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098180/

[illinoisprogressive]

1. My son did and said it was a riot. Really stupid.

[tridim]

2. I think I may have just connected the dots from Abramoff to Gannon

Exhibit 1:


Exhibit 2: (Is that Abramoff in the background?)


Nearly all of the other production stills are homo-erotic.
http://www.gmrmedia.com/dolph/gallery/redscorpion.html

Now, if we only had that damn WH guest list.

[Clark2008]

8. Is that Dolph Lungren - or whatever his name was?

A flash-in-the-Schwarzenegger-pan from the 80s?

[ck4829]

3. Yes, and it was totally ridiculous.

[Initech]

5. Worth a rental?

[ck4829]

6. I wouldn't recommend it

Two thumbs down, no, I'm putting my whole arms down.

[Phrogman]

4. My Brother is one of the co-stars in Red Scorpion 2

He played the role of "Billy Ryan" in that flick.
I asked him if he ever got to meet casino Jack, but he never gave me an answer.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I remember the clip from the PBS documentary.

I can't remember the quote from the movie, but it was a great bad line.

Ah, found it.

Colonel Zayas: Are you out of your mind?

Lt. Nikolai: No. Just out of bullets.

[bigluckyfeet]

10. I see Jack Also Has a Brother on the Movie

Producer(s): Paul Erickson , Jack Abramoff , Robert Abramoff

[ftr23532]

9. interesting fun fact: The movie was a project of South Africa's apartheid government

From http://www.harpers.org/sb-the-making-of-a-lobbyist.html">Harpers:

The Making of a Lobbyist
Jack Abramoff's start in South Africa
Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006. By Ken Silverstein.
Sources

Before Jack Abramoff was sentenced on charges of fraud in the purchase of SunCruz Casinos, his friends sent character references to the court to show the kindler, gentler Abramoff—a man who would get you a drink of water or help you look for a lost hamster, a basically good person who lost his moral compass after getting caught up in the high-stakes world of Washington lobbying. But Abramoff's career in apartheid South Africa shows that he never had a moral compass at all.

David Margolick's recent Vanity Fair profile of Jack Abramoff omits a key part of the story, whitewashing Abramoff's past service on behalf of South Africa's apartheid government. Margolick wrote that in the mid-1980s Abramoff went into “show business” and produced Red Scorpion, “an anti-Communist parable filmed in Namibia” starring the muscle-bound Dolph Lundgren. But saying that Abramoff was in show business is like describing Jeffrey Dahmer as a man who “dabbled in nouvelle cuisine.” Red Scorpion was not simply a sloppy piece of propaganda; it was a project of South African military intelligence, and Abramoff, according to my sources, was a willing asset of the apartheid government.

It started when Abramoff, as Chairman of the College Republican National Committee, visited South Africa in 1983. There, he came to know Russel Crystal, a South African intelligence asset who headed a government-funded student front group. Presumably, it was Crystal who in 1986 brought Abramoff in as the first chairman of the International Freedom Foundation (IFF)—a seemingly independent right-wing group headquartered in Washington, D.C., that was effectively run from Johannesburg and given the code name “Pacman” by South African intelligence. I spoke to a source who was intimately familiar with the IFF and the key players behind it, and who asked not to be identified. “The South Africans needed front men,” he told me. “Abramoff was identified early on as an ambitious, up-and-coming American conservative who could be useful.
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And for those interested, here are some shows related to the SunCruz Casinos, the murder of Gus Boulis, and its ties to 9/11:
http://www.spitfirelist.com/f516.html">FTR#516—Interview with Daniel Hopsicker About the Venice Cover-up> http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=15609">Audio Here
http://www.spitfirelist.com/f528.html">FTR#528—Interview with Daniel Hopsicker about the Murder of Gus Boulis http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=21450">Audio Here
http://www.spitfirelist.com/f542.html">FTR#542—Interview with Daniel Hopsicker Catching Up with “The Boys” in Florida http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=18523">Audio Here
http://www.spitfirelist.com/f546.html">FTR#546—Barry and the Milieu—An Interview with Daniel Hopsicker http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=18832">Audio Here

Enjoy!