Money buys Tiahrt's elections

From Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner

One of the problems with US democracy is the huge amount of corporate dollars that go to candidates who run for office. Those who take these large contributions are on TV all the time. Candidates who go for small contributions from the common people rarely get their message out, so they can’t win.Those who do win have an obligation to make sure the contribution of a major corporation gets a return on their investment. That amounts to buying a candidate’s votes on issues such as environmental regulations.In an article in The Wichita Eagle Todd Tiahrt and Jerry Moran have raised $18 million over their careers, and much of that is from big business. While they seem to stand the same on the issues, they have different business interests. Agricultural interests more heavily support Moran; aerospace companies and Koch Industries have heavily backed Tiahrt.A look at Tiahrt's backers gives us a look at his politics. Koch Industries has given five times more money to Tiahrt than Moran. It ranks at the top of the corporate contributors to Tiahrt since 1994 with $318,653.This has inspired Tiahrt to support Koch Industries right to pollute the environment and ignore scientific data that the company contributes to such problems as climate change.According to The Wichita Eagle; Koch is the second-highest corporate contributor to Moran's career at $61,800, followed by the American Farm Bureau ($55,999), the Farm Credit Council ($55,300) and the American Bankers Association, ($54,000).Heavy support from bankers means people who are having trouble financing their homes better not look to Moran for help. He’s on the banker’s side. He owes them.Tiahrt has drawn support from the defence industry. He is a member of a subcommittee that controls Pentagon spending. He became one of the subjects of an ethics probe over earmarks to campaign contributors. The House Ethics Committee cleared him. But that’s not the end of it. The case has been forwarded to the Justice Department by the Office of Congressional Ethics.This explains why Tiahrt is such a hawk when it came to supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as appropriating funds to such countries as the Philippines where there are insurgencies. Tiahrt is supporting his financial interests.Both candidates owe a lot to the corporations that support them. Although all the corporate donors told The Wichita Eagle they like the values of the candidates, what they really want is favors and votes to keep government regulations off their backs.

Senate candidate Todd Tiahrt doesn’t believe in constitutional rights

From Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner-Steve Otto

A new ad by Todd Tiahrt makes it clear he does not have any faith in the constitution of this country. He has his favourite lackey Gracia Burnham, a self-serving hypocrite who has profited by her own husbands death, and who wrote a book on it called In the Presence of My Enemies about her time as a captive by Moslem rebels in the Philippines. She is trying to save Tiahrt’s slimy campaign for the senate seat vacated by Sam Brownback. Tiahrt has so for failed to get the support of thinking Kansans and has a poor showing in the polls. .
Burnham and Tiahrt seem to agree that constitutional rights for foreign terrorist or unnecessary. So why have them for American serial killers? Are they any less dangerous than terrorists?
The whole idea seems to be those terrorists are not Americans therefore they are not as human as those who just happen to live or be born here in the US. This is plain old racism once again.
Why have a constitution and its protections if we don’t use it. Is it OK to put an innocent, wrongly convicted man or woman to death just to feel safe? If we believe in the constitution we should follow it and not just when it serves our needs.

Racism rears its ugly head.

The Debate between Tiahrt and Moran is heating up

The following is a fake ad paid for by no-one!

Jerry Moran:

Todd Tiahrt has lied about me. He said I’ve worked with politicians of the other party to get things done about jobs and healthcare. That’s a lie. I have blocked every attempt at Obama’s attempt to fix the economy.

Tiahrt accused me of caring about poor people, especially children, over the need for health care. Wrong again. I’ve supported the rights of insurance companies 100 % of the time.

Tiahrt accused me of concern over the environment. I’ve supported some of the dirtiest air and water in the country.

On immigration reform, I’m an old fashion bigot and don’t let Tiahrt tell you otherwise.

No one is a bigger-self-centered ass-hole than I am and that includes Todd Tiahrt.

When it comes to being a political asshole, I’m the bigger man. All Tiahrt can do is lie.

I’m Jerry Moran and I approve this message.

" I'm the sleaziest bastard and I can prove it."

Palin endorses the bimbo Tiahrt in Kansas

From Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner

Not long ago Sarah Palin endorsed Todd Tiahrt in his Republican Primary Senate bid against Jerry Moran. Tiahrt was quite proud and that is not surprising. Both Tiahrt and Palin rely on the appeal to the less educated people.
Their followers are largely the type of people who scoff at scientists who tell them about global warming and other environmental policy disasters. Tiahrt’s and Palin’s followers hide their heads in the sand. She even tried to blame the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on environmentalists.
Tiahrt’s latest ads show him bragging that he is getting heavy support from Tea Party members. By now many of us see the core of the Tea Party as fringe elements out of control. They talk of armed uprisings against Washington. They support agressive wars such as Iraq. They are against any health care reform that would require them to help the less fortunate. They have accused President Barack Obama of being a Communist, Nazi and of destroying this country. They are largely out for number 1 (themselves). That’s pretty much the Tiahrt philosophy, “take care of number one.”
Tiahrt has used hot button issues such as abortion, to get support of the religious right and collects record numbers campaign contributions. He has used his office for making himself rich, at the taxpayer’s expense. Palin has profited from the ignorance of a segment of the population and Tiahrt has relied on the same crowd. They are meant for each other.

Open letter from the Raj Goyle campaign

Dear Friends,

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. And on June 19th, 2010… poor Tony Hayward did, too. If you’re like Raj Goyle, you probably saw it on TV: Tony “I Want My Life Back” Hayward, the disgraced CEO of British Petroleum, blissfully racing his yacht last Saturday in the open waters of Great Britain. While here in America, millions of barrels of oil continued to spew from Hayward’s deepwater well into the closed waters of our Gulf of Mexico. When Raj saw Hayward helming his yacht, he went ballistic. Are you kidding me?!? Where’s the accountability? Who does this guy think he is? As the momentum continues building in Raj Goyle’s campaign for Congress, you won’t find the accountability with his Republican opponents here in the 4th District of Kansas. Not even close. Raj Goyle needs your help now to keep the momentum going! Donate $500, $250, or $100 online at

http://www.goyleforcongress.com/.

The GOP frontrunner is self-funding multi-millionaire oil tycoon Wink Hartman. Sailing just behind Hartman is Club for Growth favorite Mike Pompeo. You don’t hear a peep out of either of them. Not when Tony Hayward went yachting. Or when Republican Congressman Joe Barton of Texas issued his nationally-televised apology to the BP CEO earlier last week. There isn’t a single Kansan who believes apologies are in order for Hayward and BP as they wreak havoc on America’s economy. So the silence from Hartman and Pompeo is deafening… but it shouldn’t be surprising. Hartman made his multi-millions as an oil company CEO. Now Republican Wink Hartman is using those millions to run for Congress – when he isn’t busy flying private planes back and forth to his residence in Florida, of course. Hartman probably saw Hayward on TV and got a bad case of yacht envy. And GOPer Mike Pompeo? Like you read, he’s backed by the Club for Growth – a shadowy Washington special interest group, funded by Wall Street bankers and their lobbyists who might as well call themselves the Club for Greed. If Hartman or Pompeo get any wind in their sails, they’ll steer Congress the exact same direction guys like Tony Hayward poster boy. Go to

www.goyleforcongress.com

and donate ASAP before our fundraising deadline of June 30th – every contribution – $500, $250, $100 or even $50 – will go toward demanding accountability in are headed. Raj Goyle won’t let that happen. But Raj needs your help right now to beat the multi-millionaire oil tycoon and “Club for Greed” Washington! Sincerely,

Kiel Brunner

Campaign Manager

Record earmarks and related campaign contributions for Tiahrt

From
Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner

For years I’ve kept track of US Representative Todd Tiahrt, Republican from Kansas, and his finances. The fact that he is conservative and supported by the religious right is not as important as the contention that he has used his office for his own personal gain.
It’s not really exaggerating to say that he seems to vote in favor of businesses that have contributed heavily to his re-election campaigns. He makes good money and has wonderful perks. For example, he spends taxpayer’s money to fund vacations for him and his family to Hawaii and Europe. He can justify taking the trips by attending business meetings by aircraft companies. But is he justified in taking his wife and kids at the taxpayer’s expense?
Then there is Koch industry. He gets more money from them than any other politician. In return he opposes any regulations on pollution that Koch might produce. Tiahrt has been given a zero by almost every serious environmental group.
Other bloggers have also noted Tiahrt’s contributions. According to Forward Kansas
Tiahrt raised roughly $19,750 from PMA’s PAC and employees from 2003 through 2008, according to figures compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, and According to an analysis by Congressional Quarterly and Taxpayers for Common Sense, Tiahrt secured $5 million in earmarks to PMA clients in 2007, and with others helped secure $2 million.
However the latest news for Tiahrt comes from Steve Kraske, writing for the Kansas City Star. He reports that Tiahrt helped dole out nearly $24 million in earmarks this year to private companies, school districts and universities in Kansas.
He also writes “A new study has found that individuals and political committees tied to those special-interest groups made more than $46,000 in campaign donations to Tiahrt — the second-highest total among all members of Congress.”
"It's related to building the economy in Kansas," Tiahrt said of earmarks, which call for federal money to be spent on specific projects, usually in a lawmaker's home district. "I feel like the people of Kansas sent me to Washington to try to do something about their problems. One of them is the tough economy."
As the August 3 primary nears, Tiahrt’s earmarks are becoming a real liability in his Senate race against US Representative Jerry Moran. Moran is making this a major issue of his campaign.

Brownback investigated by Congressional Ethics

As the primary elections grow closer, it appears we may lose Todd Tiahrt. But not to worry. I will simply change the name of this site a little and cover the other idiot politicians conservative people keep electing to miss-represent us.

Another Kansas Republican is under investigation for ethics violations. He may be running for governor of Kansas, but Senator Sam Brownback, Republican, is being investigated by the Office of Congressional Ethics for possibly receiving an improper gift in the form of below-market rent during his stay in the C-Street House.
The C-Street House is already a controversy in itself. It is infamous for being headquarters to an ultra-secret society of high powered politicians calling themselves “The Family”. C-Street recently made national news for its use of Congressional interns as servants and its relationship to admitted adulterers Senator John Ensign, Republican from Nevada and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, Republican.
According to the Associated Press;

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington - CREW for short - cites news reports that say House members and some senators have paid below-market rents to live in a house on C Street SE that is owned by a Christian prayer group known as the Fellowship. CREW wants the House and Senate ethics committees to determine whether the monthly rent, reported to be around $950, is below the market value. If so, CREW says, the discount could amount to an illegal gift.

Other Kansas politicians have also stayed there including Todd Tiahrt who gave examples of men who he believed understood the way power should be wielded, (Adolf ) Hitler, Pol Pot, Osama bin Laden and (VI)Lenin. Also Brownback has been called into question over his relationship with Lou Engle, a homophobic extremist who in 1999 applauded Uganda’s President Yowerie Museveni when he declared that Uganda’s homosexuals should be rounded up and imprisoned. Engle is the founder of TheCall and he is known for his antigay, sexual purity obsessed mass prayer rallies.
Once again we see the moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party and their hypocritical “family values.”

Elections are the same all over

From Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner:

In Kansas, our primary is not until August. But the political ads are popping up everywhere. The amazing this is how much they all sound alike:
“I’m the pro-life pro-family candidate.” “I’m a leading conservative in the senate (or house).” “Congress is out of touch with the American people.” “I plan to take back our government.”
So who isn’t all of those things? Nothing they have said is new. They all claim to be open to new ideas. Yet they campaign on old ideas. And who are they taking the government back for?
A lot of people are already getting sick of seeing Wink Hartman campaign TV Ads. The ads run every hour on most TV stations, Hartman tries hard to look like a serious business leader who is “just like you” and wants common sense solutions to the problems in Washington. “I’m not a career politician,” he said in a recent ad.Some simple questions come to mind with this guy immediately. How many of us have an arena named after us? Hartman does. Were is all that money coming from for all of those ads? The TV is saturated with them and they are not cheap. If he is against spending money so much, why is he spending an exorbitant amount for these ads? If he’s not a career politician why is he paying more in advertising than this job will pay him?
These politicians just assume we are all pro-life. But at a gathered for a memorial for abortion Dr. George Tiller on Memorial Day, Kari Ann Rinker, had a lot to say in favour of legal abortions.“This is not just a choice issue,” Rinker said. “This is a medical issue, an issue of women’s safety. It is a need.”
The real wild card in all of this is the Tea Party. What do they really stand for? There members have pushed for everything from an armed insurrection to ending the department of education and ending social security. Is all of this really in the best interest of the American people?
Rep. Todd Tiahrt was the nimble brain representative of the US House to introduce Sarah Palin to a Wichita crowd a few months ago. She is known for her slogan “drill baby drill,” as a cry for deregulating the drilling of off shore oil wells. After the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, who takes such a stance serious today?

The Tiahrt and Moran campaign—what’s the difference?

From Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner

What do two candidates for the Republican nomination do to win over voters when their opponent is really selling the same old slop? They nit pick over meaningless fodder such as who raised taxes, or who raised them the most, or who saved voters the most on their taxes. This has been the case with the campaign between Rep. Todd Tiahrt and Rep. Jerry Moran, in their bid for Republican nominee to replace U.S. Senator Sam Brownback.
According to The Wichita Eagle:

Senate candidate Todd Tiahrt's campaign accused fellow Kansas Republican hopeful Jerry Moran on Wednesday of trying to hide past votes to raise taxes, while Moran's campaign labeled Tiahrt's tactics as desperate.
The two congressmen sparred over a television ad from Tiahrt attacking Moran on tax votes. The ad began airing Tuesday in what appeared to be a light rotation in the Topeka, Wichita and Kansas City markets.
Both Tiahrt and Moran have portrayed themselves as fiscal conservatives, favoring lower taxes and less spending by the federal government. They're vying for the seat held by U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, a Republican who's running for governor. The primary is Aug. 3.

The reality is that these are pro-business politicians who will use their seat to vote against government regulations and to make sure their business friends get everything they want. They don’t have much to offer the public other than lowering taxes a tiny amount to convince gullible voters that they are trying to save them money and make their lives easier.
As for hot button issues such as abortion, gay marriage and gun control, there positions are the same. Therefore it is important for them to find ways to look different from each other and provide a contrast.
There really isn’t much difference between Tiahrt and Moran. Kansas Republicans all say about the same thing and they haven’t had any candidates with new ideas for a long time. It’s the same old same old.

It is my belief that Moran is not as sleazy and has more credibility as an honest politician, but even that isn’t really much.

Tiahrt and Moran argue polls, ignore substance

Once again The Wichita Eagle presents both Rep. Todd Tiahrt and Jerry Moran, arguing about polling.

Moran’s campaign released a poll last week showing him leading Tiahrt by 26 points. Tiahrt’s campaign responded that the poll wasn’t legitimate. “We have known from multiple reports that the Moran campaign has been conducting a push poll,”

They argue who is the most conservative and who is ahead in the polls, but we can be assured they will not argue anything of substance. Who gets the most money from Kock Industries? Where do their campaign contributions come from and who how much will they owe all of these people before they can spend any time worrying about their constituents? But don’t look for answers. Just expect a lot of meaningless commercials and the usual campaign rhetoric. Also there will be the usual “bandwagon,” “stacked deck” “just plain folks” and other obvious forms of propaganda.

Yes we are already sick of Wink Hartman ads

A lot of people are already getting sick of seeing Wink Hartman campaign TV Ads. Just recently the PrairiePopulistsAndProgressives.net posted an article; “Anyone Else Sick of the Wink Hartman Campaign Ads?”

The answer for a lot of us is YES. The ads run every hour on most TV stations and they are designed to drive a deep divide between the conservative Republican majority and the liberal minority.

Wink tries hard to look like a serious business leader who is “just like you” and wants common sense solutions to the problems in Washington. “I’m not a career politicians,” he said in recent ad.
Some simple questions come to mind with this guy immediately. How many of us have an arena named after us. Hartman does. Were is all the money coming from for all of those ads. The TV is saturated with them and they are not cheap. If he is against spending money so much, why is he spending an exorbitant amount for these ads?
Then there is the message itself. There is nothing new about it. Anyone who is over 25 has heard this all before. It’s straight off the Republican Party’s platform. What’s most interesting is his insistence that all the government had to do was get off the backs of small businesses and the economy would be up and running by now.
While many of us would agree that small businesses are not treated well in these modern times, it is extremely simplistic to claim that the present Democratic government (“all those liberals who are ruining the country”) created the economic slump (remember it started during George W. Bush’s administration) and the simple solution is to free up small businesses and quit spending money. It’s all so simple. It’s also a bunch of crap. Liberals have run the country before and they have run it during times of prosperity. Remember the John F. Kennedy era? Hartman acts as if this is the first time a liberal has ever been in the White House. None of these conservatives will admit that our bloated military budget simply never gets discussed when it comes to tax, spend and borrowing by the government.
No serious political scientist is going to believe that one simple solution can end a very complicated economic recession. It’s just not that simple to the more educated voter.
Hartman is trying to fill the seat vacated by Todd Tiahrt. Given that religious fundamentalists have kept him in office all these years, even though he is one of Kansas’ most corrupted politician, shows that Hartman has a winning chance.
For those of us who see through his phoney populism, it is important for us to ask who is paying for all these ads and who is this man going to really represent besides his constituents. Will he just sell his votes to the highest bidder as Tiahrt did? This is the question we need to keep raising.

Tiahrt introduced Sarah Palin

Rep. Todd Tiahrt was the nimble brain representative of the US House to introduce Sarah Palin Sunday night. She is quite popular with the poorly educated. She drew a crowd of several thousand Sunday Night, but never filled the new stadium or even came close.
The event was a fundraiser for the Bethel Life School associated with the fundamentalist preacher of hate Terry Fox. “Palin also paid tribute to Kansas political leaders Dwight Eisenhower, Bob Dole and Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, who introduced her. Pat Boone played Tiahrt up pointing out he’s won 8 terms, even though he didn’t mention that the first few were by the skin of his teeth. Boone said that Tiahrt went to college and studied aircraft. He should have spent some of his time learning about politics, since he isn’t fit for the job.
Tiahrt has aligned himself with one of the most conservative simpletons on the campaign trail in years. Hopefully he will lose his bid for Senate and we will be rid of him for good.

We finally have an ethics probe on the lawmakers at the C Street House

Todd Tiahrt was one of many Kansas lawmakers who stayed at the C Street house. According to an Associate Press Update by Eyewitness News:

“Ethics Probe Asked on Lawmakers at C Street House

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By The Associated Press/Updated by Eyewitness NewsWASHINGTON (AP) - A government watchdog group says it has filed ethics complaints against lawmakers who have rented rooms in a controversial Capitol Hill townhouse.
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington - CREW for short - cites news reports that say House members and some senators have paid below-market rents to live in a house on C Street SE that is owned by a Christian prayer group known as the Fellowship. CREW wants the House and Senate ethics committees to determine whether the monthly rent, reported to be around $950, is below the market value. If so, CREW says, the discount could amount to an illegal gift.
A spokesman for one resident of the house named in CREW's complaint, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, said the rent covers a furnished room and shared bathroom. It does not include meals, housekeeping in his room or parking and is therefore in line with market prices.”

Some lawmakers named in the complaint did not respond to calls for comment, including Republican Sens. Sam Brownback, and Rep. Jerry Moran, R, both of Kansas.Earlier this week another group called Clergy VOICE asked the IRS to investigate the tax implications of accepting lodging at the C Street house.
Here's a statement from Brownback spokesperson Brian Hart:


"Brownback lives with his wife and kids in Topeka and commutes to Washington to vote in the Senate. When he is in DC, he stays at a condo that he bought in 2003. He stayed in the group house for less than a year several years ago after his place burned down and before he found his current apartment. The complaint is baseless, a quick Craigslist search shows that the rent is on par with the market." – Brian Hart

Moran spokesperson Lindsey Trent sent Eyewitness News the following response.
"Congressman Moran lives in Hays, Kansas with his family and commutes to Washington DC during the week. When he must be in Washington, where he advocates for common sense Kansas principles, he rents a small room in a house near his office, paying market rent." - Lindsey Trent.

Todd Tiahrt admires Pol Pot

Although the last post was my personal ad for my book, this is a reminder that Todd Tiahrt has taken an interest of such men as Pol Pot and their ability to us political power;

"The Rachel Maddow Show: Christian Conservatism's Shadowy Secret Society"

By Heather Friday

I was listening to the Thom Hartmann show the other day, and Thom was interviewing an author that caught my attention. Little wonder since the topic was "Is there a secret society of Christian crazies and is Mark Sanford a member?".
That author was Jeff Sharlet and after listening to to Hartmann interview, I wondered if anyone in the main stream media would put him on the air. Of course, Rachel Maddow, who seems to be getting all of the best guests lately-- or at least when the "news" hasn't been canceled all week for Michael Jackson's death and she mysteriously ends up taking vacation the same week-- ended up being the first one to have him on.
Sharlet is the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. Scary, scary stuff for any of us that don't like the idea of our government being run by creepy, extremist, right wing Christain fundamentalists.
Sharlet also wrote a piece for Rolling Stone on Sam Brownback which is well worth the read back in 2006 titled God's Senator: Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback.
Maddow: As part of the research for the book, Jeff lived among the family and saw many of its actions first hand. [...] What is C-Street? I know it's a house on C Street in Washington. How is it part of the family?
Sharlet: Well, the C-Street house is actually a former convent and now it's registered as a church and it's run by The Family and used by them to provide housing for six to eight congressmen at any given time, and to provide spiritual counseling for these congressmen.
Which all sounds fine so far, but what makes it a little bit different than other Christian conservative organizations, two things, you said that it's secretive. Indeed the leader of the group describes, he says, the more invisible you can make your organization, the more influence it will have. And the other things is the nature of the influence they want to have.
I got to sit in on one of these spiritual counseling sessions between the leader of the family and Congressman Todd Tiahrt when I visited the C-Street House, I actually met Sen. Ensign there. As the leader of The Family was counseling Congressman Tiahrt, he had this very standard issue, bill of issues related to the Christian right. He said you've got to have a bigger vision of what we're talking about here. He called it Jesus plus nothing.
He said it's sort of a totalitarian idea of Christianity and he gave as examples men who he believed understood the way power should be wielded. He actually gave as examples, Hitler, Pol Pot, Osama bin Laden and Lenin.
Maddow: Wow. When I read your book, The Family, when it first came out in hardback, my notes on um, I write notes in the flyleaf about what I was thinking about. And my notes about it, I went back and looked, were that it was essentially to promote, it saw its role as promoting American power, world wide, unfettered capitalism with no unions, no programs to help poor people, all with this idea that godly powerful rich men should get as many resources as possible personally, and they should just privately help everyone else. That is the impression that I was left with. Was I close?
Sharlet: That's dead on the money. The family began, it's the oldest Christian conservative organization in Washington and it goes back seventy years. And the founder believed that god gave him a new revelation saying that Christianity had gotten it wrong for two thousand years and that what most people think of as Christianity, as being about, you know, helping the weak and the poor and the meek and the down and out, he believes god came to him one night in April in 1935 and said what Christianity should really be about is building more power for the already powerful. And that these powerful men who were chosen by god can then if they want to dispense blessings to the rest of us, through a kind of trickle-down fundamentalism.
Maddow: Well do you see a connection between that large sort of power theology and the fact that neither John Ensign or Mark Sanford for that matter, who's also affiliated with the group, aren't quitting despite these scandals. Is there something about this type of theology that tells these guys, hey don't worry about the affair, you know, big picture, you're good, stay where you are, it's important for you to stay in power?
Sharlet: Yeah, no, I think actually Gov. Sanford made it very clear when he cited King David as an example of the reason why he wasn't going to be resigning office and that struck a bell with me because I, the King David story, the core teaching of The Family, when I first heard it, I was living with The Family.

Summer read—I Am Pol Pot

Summer is coming and that means summer reading….I Am Pol Pot….
We all know what the press reported about the Communist Revolution in Cambodia, but what did things look like from the inside? Finally there is a story that gives the reader a feel for those who made up the Communist Party of Kampuchea. This is a fictional biography tries to interpret Pol Pot and see how things may have looked to the rulers who planned and executed Democratic Kampuchea in what is now Cambodia. The book contains quotes from the Black Papers, one of the few books ever released by Democratic Kampuchea. It is also based on many of the records from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge).

This book can be ordered from Amazon.com. Just click on Amazon.com to order or view more of the book.