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Traficant Speaks!

Brian Doherty | 4.22.2003 1:36 AM

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For those who have missed the colorful congressman since he went to jail, check out this purported letter from him. Prison hasn't changed him a bit, God bless 'im.

[Link courtesy of Thomas D. Walls III]

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Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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  1. Billy Oblivion   22 years ago

    It's good he's in a place where he can be watched 24x7.

    I wonder if he hears voices from god, or wears a tinfoil lined hat to keep the alien voices away.

  2. John Tabin   22 years ago

    Libertarian litmus test:

    A) "We need respectable politicians, instead of the embarrassing crackpots who make up the LP."

    B) "If only we had Jim Trafficant in our corner! He's awesome!"

  3. geophile   22 years ago

    He's so friggin' guilty it hurts.

  4. amr   22 years ago

    Does anyone have Traficant's prison address? I think he'll get a Christmas card from me this year.

    But to compare this guy to Chomsky? Chomsky's lies are much worse because they have the air of credibility to them due to his being a professor? Traficant's just a crackpot who was lucky enough to get elected to Congress and probably stayed there due to a noncompetitive district. (Speaking from guesses, not knowledge of the specifics.) Once the "D" was pulled from his name on the ballot, he lost. Or maybe it was just because he was in prison.

  5. Harry Tuttle   22 years ago

    Yeah, but, what did his hair have to say? Or did it get it's own cell?

  6. geophile   22 years ago

    James, didn't you forget to post anonymously?

    Harry, thta brings to mind images of that Simpsons halloween episode, with the mind-controlling hair transplant...

  7. Billy Oblivion   22 years ago

    Geophile: He was trying to be clever. The James T link points to a "stop prison rape" web site.

    He (the poster) is probably pissed off because once Traficant was removed from office by the little white mice in their little white coats his paycheck dried up, and he's had to go to work for a living. It really sucks working the graveyard shift at the local stop-n-rob doesn't it?

  8. Gary Gunnels   22 years ago

    Why exactly do people get so exercised over Traficant?

  9. Eric   22 years ago

    Not bad. But for me, nothing will beat the time when Traficant assailed his opponents for hating him because he (in his own words) looked as if he cut his hair with a weed-whacker.

  10. Thomas D. Walls   22 years ago

    The populist nut Traficant may sound like a broken record, even from jail (this does sound like him), but he is very adept at pointing out IRS abuses, how horrible Janet Reno was, etc.

    Well, a broken record is right at least twice a year.

    Tom

  11. geophile   22 years ago

    Oh damn, I didn't get the joke at first. Now they've removed the post. Fascists. I was wondering where REASON's censorship threshold was. Profanity should be tolerated here. In light of the post's fecetiousness, it was relevant to the topic.

  12. James T.   22 years ago

    I know you're sprung geophillic, sprung on my love towel! But you must wait your turn *tongues geophillic's pee hole as his pre-cum drips out all the while pumping lil' Billy O:P*

  13. James T.   22 years ago

    You can watch Tom & Gary, but you'll never know my Powahhhh !

  14. Croesus   22 years ago

    This is getting stupid.

  15. geophile   22 years ago

    Not sure what he means by "love towel," but that picture of the New York Linux Users Group he linked to is genuinely hilarious.

  16. Silly Detractor   22 years ago

    Don't miss this great tribute to Traficant:

    CafeShops.com/freetraficant

  17. Douglas Fletcher   22 years ago

    Wasn't Traficant from Youngstown? I've never met a sane person from there yet.

  18. Snow Robert   21 years ago

    EMAIL: draime2000@yahoo.com
    IP: 62.213.67.122
    URL: http://www.enlargement-for-penis.com
    DATE: 01/26/2004 03:38:44
    A little nothing goes a long, long way.

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