Clarence Thomas reported a wealth of gifts, including a corporate jet ride to the Bohemian Grove.

[Octafish]

I hope there's no statute of limitation on influence-peddling.



Strike up the band and join in as the in-crowd hails Moloch-n-Mammon.

Justice Thomas reported a wealth of gifts

In the last six years he has accepted free items valued at $42,200, the most on the high court.

Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
December 31, 2004

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts since joining the high court, including $1,200 worth of tires, valuable historical items and a $5,000 personal check to help pay a relative's education expenses.

SNIP...

He also took a free trip aboard a private jet to the exclusive Bohemian Grove club in Northern California -- arranged by a wealthy Texas real estate investor who helped run an advocacy group that filed briefs with the Supreme Court.

Those and other gifts were disclosed by Thomas under a 1978 federal ethics law that requires high-ranking government officials, including the nine Supreme Court justices, to file a report each year that lists gifts, money and other items they have received.

Thomas has reported accepting much more valuable gifts than his Supreme Court colleagues over the last six years, according to their disclosure forms on file at the court.

CONTINUED...

http://articles.latimes.com/2004/dec/31/nation/na-gifts31

I wonder if the dude's favorite color is green? His robes should be.

[rfranklin]

1. "show me the money!"

His favorite movie line.

[Octafish]

7. Ronnie Reagan's microphone cost a lot of money.

The Media is the Mess.

And it's loud.

[joeybee12]

2. He needs to go...he's an intellectual midget and a crook...knr

[Octafish]

8. He should one day be making license plates.

Until then, he should be at hard labor making little rocks out of big ones.

A Perjurer on the US Supreme Court

[Ishoutandscream2]

3. And yet, there he still sits

Maybe he needs to put his penis on Twitter. Nah, he's a Republican, so he gets a free pass.

[Octafish]

10. About Corporate McPravda...

Three Things Every American Should Know About Corporate McPravda

[alsame]

18. Octafish, please make this another OP. It's very valuable info and

I'm afraid it will be missed in this thread.

k&r

[SpiralHawk]

4. About Bohemian Grove, What Would Jesus do?

Is the Bohemian Grove a Republicon Family Values Christian gathering? Sure sounds like a Plutocratic Occult Cabal to your average American.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. lotsa dems been there, too

http://americansagainstnwo.tripod.com/id14.html

Danny Glover??????????????????????????????????///

dunno about that site.

I do know that everybody else on there (didn't read the whole thing) has been there. they told me

[SpiralHawk]

13. Faux Dems with Republicon Family Values

Indeed. Such entities exist.

[Gabi Hayes]

19. you got no argument from me there. carter had a chance, but he got the sh*t knocked

out of him by his own party and the media before he was even sworn in

ever read Liberty Under Seige, by Walter Karp?

here:

Liberty Under Siege
by Walter Karp
Franklin Square Press, 1988, paper




THE REACTION IS LAUNCHED p6

They had the best of reasons for dismay. The interventionist system had been the political establishment's single most powerful prop. It had imposed upon the country an iron discipline. With the "national security" of the country perpetually at hazard, "loyalty" to the national leadership had become the citizens' chief virtue, servility the new patriotism. Dissent was deemed guilty until it proved itself innocent of weakening the country. "Perhaps it is a universal truth,' James Madison had written to Jefferson in 1798, "that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." The interventionist system had amply attested to that truth, for it was used for three decades to justify repression, to justify official secrecy, to justify tapped telephones, police spies and agent-provocateurs. The system justified unchecked and overwhelming executive power; it inspired American Presidents to claim the power to wage war at will under their inherent authority as Commander-in-Chief, a claim without the slightest constitutional foundation. p6

Senator J. William Fulbright, in 1969 was frantically warning the Senate that "our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship." p19

"I felt I was taking office at a time when Americans desired a return to first principles on the part of their government." The thought occurs to President-elect Jimmy Carter as he sifts, in his methodical way, through all the Inaugural addresses ever delivered. The awakened democracy is exacting, all too exacting, and has almost cost Carter the election. When independent voters began seeing the tribune of the people rushing around the country embracing Democratic Party leaders, they had deserted his banner almost en masse.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Walter_Karp/Reaction_Launched_LUS.html

[Gabi Hayes]

20. dupe...computer glitch

[Octafish]

11. Read my lips...

...no nude axes needed to make millionaires into billionaires.

[Democrats_win]

5. Maybe he thinks he's a religion.

They don't pay taxes but do collect government money. They get free stuff from rich people. The only difference is, that religion ALWAYS speaks when they're at the Supreme Court.

[Octafish]

12. Excellent point...People with big egos sometimes consider themselves a deity.

And that's OK, because they ARE deities. I just want them to remember everyone else is, too.

[leveymg]

6. It's the $800,000 in spousal income he DIDN'T report that's the real problem. In fact, it's a crime

That's why there are reporting requirements for federal Judges. It reveals possible conflicts of interest. But, Clarence thought he was above such things and the public has no right to know.

Indict Clarence Thomas

[Octafish]

15. Unbelievable! Ginni's a genuine patriotic founder of the Tea Party...

Justice Thomas’s wife Virginia Thomas now a lobbyist

It's sad when Congressmen who ask about conflicts of interest all of a sudden have to resign and stuff.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Octafish.

[Octafish]

16. You are most welcome, Uncle Joe!

You may also enjoy: Clarence Thomas, BFEE

Experts who actually post something about the crook agree: Clarence Thomas is old school, from the Teapot Dome Academy.

[thelordofhell]

17. Makes you wonder how many "gifts" his wife took

We'll never know since he doesn't even report his wife's income.

[mod mom]

21. Even when exposed in a mainstream paper like the LA Times, he gets a pass.

:mad: