Red Scorpion

Drawing on today's Abramoff story, shouldn't he be put away just for bringing this into the world?

At the same time, Abramoff dabbled as a Hollywood producer, shepherding an anticommunist movie, "Red Scorpion," starring Dolph Lundgren, filmed in Namibia, which was then ruled by South Africa. Actors in the film said they saw South African soldiers on the set. When the film was released in 1989, anti-apartheid groups demonstrated at the theaters. The movie ran into financial difficulty during and after production, but Abramoff produced a sequel, "Red Scorpion 2."

By the way, Abramoff didn't just produce it, he wrote it.

The article is full of little nuggets like this, showing exactly how power can spring up in so many forms in the desperate search for cash. Abramoff was working for the Pakistani military at one point. Susan Ralston, now Rove's personal secretary, used to work for him. He had Congressional wives on the payroll. He funded a sniper school for Israelis in the West Bank though a foundation supposed to give money to inner city kids. He had a slush fund set up as a nonprofit where he was taking money from Sudan, Malaysia, and others. He bought a cruise line of gambling ships from a guy who turned up dead (gangland-style) a couple months later. One man arrested in that case was an associate of the Gambino crime family.

The guy was bad news. And he was hooked into every Republican politician in Washington.