McCain Fundraiser Oversaw Payments To Terrorist Group

Carl H. Lindner Jr., the billionaire Cincinnati businessman, was CEO of Chiquita Brands International from 1984 to 2001, and remained on the company's board of directors until May 2002. Beginning under his tenure, Chiquita executives paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia...

Following a Justice Department indictment last year, Chiquita admitted to illegally funding the paramilitaries and agreed to pay a $25 million fine. Chiquita's payments to the AUC began in 1997 and lasted seven years; roughly half of the funds came after the group was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department in 2001.

"We believe they saved people's lives," a Chiquita spokesman told Time magazine last year, alleging that the company was simply trying to avoid violence against their employees.

Sounds like McCain will have to kick this guy to the curb.

The laughing liberal wrote:

Sounds like McCain will have to kick this guy to the curb.

why ? he is a typical Republican operative

So now this turns into slapstick with McCain once again falling on his ass after stepping on a banana peel. We should really be more afraid of inept clowns out of costume.

It is ridiculous to believe that McCain or Obama are responsible for the past actions of their fund raisers or for the business dealings of these mega businessmen. These people are not advisors. They are supporters of "The Party".

This is just a typical attempt by the Huff & Puff Post to defame McCain while ignoring the domestic terrorist ties of Obama and giving the false impression that McCain's fund raisers have less integrity than Obama's.

In commedia del arte the "old man" character is known as the "senex," which is what McTaint is; he's too old to be the braggart Captaino, or the young lover -- and not knowledgeable enough to be the blathering, "doctor," ... oh, well he's kind of like zany Harpo Marx at his best, and best when he keeps his mouth shut -- the Pentagon is already running their campaign for him: he's their next napping grandpa...

McCain has losts of ties to terrorist groups, they are all connected by his advisors Davis and Black, that's why they are so confident they are get a terrorist attempt on american soil, b/c they can have their friends do this for them. You scratch my back, I'll scatch yours! And people are actually taking up for this crook! I'm not surprised at all, i'm more surprised that the media is finally putting this out there. They've been keeping all these dealings on the down low!

WHAT'S THE PROBLEM NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT MCSAME FUNDING TERRORIST? OR THEM GIVING HIM MONEY FOR HIS CAMPAIGN?

McCain Backer's Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia

He his top advisor Charlie Black is lobbying them everyday!

The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

Carl H. Lindner Jr., the billionaire Cincinnati businessman, was CEO of Chiquita Brands International from 1984 to 2001, and remained on the company's board of directors until May 2002. Beginning under his tenure, Chiquita executives paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym AUC), which is described by George Washington University's National Security Archive as an "illegal right-wing anti-guerrilla group tied to many of the country's most notorious civilian massacres."

Following a Justice Department indictment last year, Chiquita admitted to illegally funding the paramilitaries and agreed to pay a $25 million fine. Chiquita's payments to the AUC began in 1997 and lasted seven years; roughly half of the funds came after the group was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department in 2001.

According to the Justice Department, the payments "were reviewed and approved by senior executives" of Chiquita, who knew by no later than September 2000 "that the AUC was a violent, paramilitary organization."

Late last week, Lindner co-hosted a $25,000-per-person fundraiser for McCain and the Republican Party in the wealthy Indian Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The event raised about $2 million; Lindner also serves on McCain's Ohio Victory Team.

While Lindner was CEO of Chiquita, the company began sending money to the AUC through its shipping subsidiary Banadex. A report by the Organization of American States states that Banadex also engaged in arms trafficking, helping to deliver 3,000 Nicaraguan AK-47 rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition to the AUC in 2001. According to federal prosecutors, when company officials realized the arrangement was illegal, they switched to making the payments in cash.

Nothing like promoting free trade who cares if McSame friend helped cocaine exporters

Chiquita has been working with the CIA for over 50 years. they pay groups like AUC to terrorize their own wmployees so they don't have to pay them. At the same time they have been trading in arms and drugs all over Central America in co-operation with the CIA. How do you think the CIA financed those guns they illegally sold to Iran and the Contras. These are all Bush's conections that have been put in charge of McCains campaigne. And you wonder why they call him McSame

216 Elite wrote:

<quoted text>ahhhhh.....Hey listen white boy.....Change your headline to "Proud to be a reciever of stolen property"....hahahahaha!!
This isn't your country boy! You euro savages roamed the world stealing, murdering, and enslaving, and you pro-claimed this your land, then you fought off more of your EVIL white brethren the british empire, who tried to MAKE IT THEIRS, hahahahahahaha......hey i consider you mofos were like two robbers in a bank, and you all are fighting over what you stole, and one kills the other, and then proclaims that he is sovereign.....hahahahahaha....
HOLD UP...THOUGH....What happened to the native americans?.... you know those people that were HERE BEFORE YOU CAME.....LOL....Are they all of sudden not there, did they dissapear? Are we making those people up?
You know the ones that are so portrayed in history and known as warriors, so i guess they don't exist huh? LMAO....Just like the BANK don't exist too huh?? LOL
So we going to celebrate the fighting over stolen land...hmmmmm...i say we term it
"The Family Feud Of July" hahahahaha...
GTFOH!!
Black And Proud Forever

Attention elite punkass...you could be white. Your spew might as well be that which flows from lily white Euro-Socialists who disdain Capitalism, America, individuality, freedom, etc.
Obviously you are a crybaby chump who could care less about the American Indian, slaves, etc....You use their blood, sweat and tears so you can, "takes what you can get." Based on your hate and racist butt spew you'd sell you own mother.
Here's more bad news for you and your ilk who share the same ideology...you are cowards. You are cowards because you do not have the guts to stand up to the black trash who dis your country, you do not have the guts to fight for this country and you mask your cowardliness with jive, BS and hate which rivals that of the KKK.
You are a punk therefore you are a slave to you own despicable environment...You are a broken fool with no spine who laid down and allowed some two-bit America hating homie the clown to take a poop in your ear; you even wiped his behind.
You gutless wonder are a slave to a damn bunch of clowns...You are on your knees and you allow them to spit on the legacy of each and every American who pulled the wagon without any contribution whatsoever from you; a pathetic self-serving slacker who whines and moans like a snot-nosed twit.
Those you fear in your circle would pee on you if you did not pee on America. That fact makes you nothing more than gutless lowlife trash...take that to the bank.

Stuipd Citizens wrote:

WHAT'S THE PROBLEM NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT MCSAME FUNDING TERRORIST? OR THEM GIVING HIM MONEY FOR HIS CAMPAIGN?
McCain Backer's Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia
He his top advisor Charlie Black is lobbying them everyday!
The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.
Carl H. Lindner Jr., the billionaire Cincinnati businessman, was CEO of Chiquita Brands International from 1984 to 2001, and remained on the company's board of directors until May 2002. Beginning under his tenure, Chiquita executives paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym AUC), which is described by George Washington University's National Security Archive as an "illegal right-wing anti-guerrilla group tied to many of the country's most notorious civilian massacres."
Following a Justice Department indictment last year, Chiquita admitted to illegally funding the paramilitaries and agreed to pay a $25 million fine. Chiquita's payments to the AUC began in 1997 and lasted seven years; roughly half of the funds came after the group was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department in 2001.
According to the Justice Department, the payments "were reviewed and approved by senior executives" of Chiquita, who knew by no later than September 2000 "that the AUC was a violent, paramilitary organization."
Late last week, Lindner co-hosted a $25,000-per-person fundraiser for McCain and the Republican Party in the wealthy Indian Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The event raised about $2 million; Lindner also serves on McCain's Ohio Victory Team.
While Lindner was CEO of Chiquita, the company began sending money to the AUC through its shipping subsidiary Banadex. A report by the Organization of American States states that Banadex also engaged in arms trafficking, helping to deliver 3,000 Nicaraguan AK-47 rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition to the AUC in 2001. According to federal prosecutors, when company officials realized the arrangement was illegal, they switched to making the payments in cash.

You'd think the above was a secret agent engaged in covert jungle operations in a smoke filled bar in Colombia...News for you agent nitwit, no smoking gun...Has less criminal value than the McCain's wife's cookie receipe...It's back to the decoder ring for you, Marxist douche bag.

Americans worry Obama will be Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Louis Farrakhan, Father Phleger, Tony Resko, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Benedict Arnold, Judas, A Tyrant, A Dictator, Terrorist Appeaser, An insult to our Troops and last but not least...an Obamanation.

Chiquita, Top Banana in the Banana Republics. The story of how to befriend your extortionist for mutual profit. What does it take to harvest bananas? About 100 machetes and a dozen AK47s. What is the motto at Chiquita always,“WE ARE BANANAS”?? When the CIA uses one of their “Business Assets” in Central American who do you suppose they use? And who do you suppose they have been using ever since George HW was the head of the CIA in the middle 70s?.

For those trusting McSame, I have a bridge to sell you.

Interesting post.

I used to know a guy that was an Airborne Ranger and involved in the invasion of Panama. He told me that they came across cocaine fields there that were smack in the middle of Chiquita banana plantations and Imperial Sugar cane fields.

Obama returned the 300 k that Rezko had raised for him, ya think McCain will return the money raised by this guy? I doubt it.

Larry,

Independent TX voter

swampmudd wrote:

Chiquita has been working with the CIA for over 50 years. they pay groups like AUC to terrorize their own wmployees so they don't have to pay them. At the same time they have been trading in arms and drugs all over Central America in co-operation with the CIA. How do you think the CIA financed those guns they illegally sold to Iran and the Contras. These are all Bush's conections that have been put in charge of McCains campaigne. And you wonder why they call him McSame

John, you spam the same off-topic shite over and over again in all kinds of threads and never acknowledge when stuff gets debunked.

Are you a paid worker for the McCain campaign or something?

Larry,
Independent TX voter

JohnInLa wrote:

Americans worry Obama will be Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Louis Farrakhan, Father Phleger, Tony Resko, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Benedict Arnold, Judas, A Tyrant, A Dictator, Terrorist Appeaser, An insult to our Troops and last but not least...an Obamanation.

JohnInLa wrote:

<quoted text>You'd think the above was a secret agent engaged in covert jungle operations in a smoke filled bar in Colombia...News for you agent nitwit, no smoking gun...Has less criminal value than the McCain's wife's cookie receipe...It's back to the decoder ring for you, Marxist douche bag.

YEA I'd say that too if My candidate was hanging out with scraface getting paid and paying for another terrorist attack on US soil to help him win the campaign LOL your a dirt bag just like your corrupt candidate.. ALL THAT crap you spew IS NOTHING, they are small pea's compared the likes of these criminals that finance McCain's campaign.

McCain, who is currently visiting Colombia to promote free trade, has described FARC as "one of the worst" terrorist groups and accused his opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, of being unwilling to support Colombian President Uribe's anti-terrorist efforts"

Wonder why Obama won't support president Scarface Uribe.

Lets take a look at Uribe:

http://cbrayton.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/coro...

http://www.narconews.com/Issue51/article3036....

http://colombiaherald.wordpress.com/2007/04/2...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7029389.s...

Why would Obama support a drug king-pin???? Heck, I am surprised that Chiquita Brands International did not deduct the payments and arms shipments as a business expense under the cost center "controlling Bargaining Unit/Union activities".

No. I do not feel complicit in the KNOWN FUNDING OF TERRORISTS that John McCain's CO-FUNDRAISING CHAIR ENGAGED IN.

No. I do not feel complicit in McCain's association WITH A KNOWN FUNDER OF TERRORISTS, WHILE MCCAIN THEN PROCEEDS TO WAX ON ABOUT TERRORISM IN COLOMBIA, and USES THE KNOWN FUNDER OF TERRORISTS AS ONE OF HIS CHIEF FUND-RAISERS!!!

Can you say I - N - T - E - G - R - I - T - Y?

E - T - H - I - C - S ?

H - O - N - O - R?

Larry wrote:

Interesting post.
I used to know a guy that was an Airborne Ranger and involved in the invasion of Panama. He told me that they came across cocaine fields there that were smack in the middle of Chiquita banana plantations and Imperial Sugar cane fields.
Obama returned the 300 k that Rezko had raised for him, ya think McCain will return the money raised by this guy? I doubt it.
Larry,
Independent TX voter
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its funny that you mention panama,because thats where john mccain was born,but his grand daddy and papa were in the military and supposively the us govt said it was us soil at the time lol and thats insane

If this guy was supporting Sen. Obama, Fox News would have interupted the second comming of Christ to "break" the story. There's definitely a double standard in this election. Sen. Obama AND his wife have had every second of their lifes used against them, while Sen. McCain hasn't been put on blast nearly as much.

What if it was Obama was the one that left his dying first wife for a younger, more attractive heirest?

He'd be showvenist terrorist pig.

What if it was Obama who wouldn't release his military records?

He'd be hiding his undercover work with Al Queda.

What if it was Obama who finished almost dead last in his graduating class?

He was too busy reading the Quaran instead of text books.

What if it was Michelle who wouldn't release her tax returns?

She would be getting money from anti-American Islamic terrorist to support Sen. Obama's campaign.