No More Mr. Nice Guy!

The ghost of criminals past

Have you heard of Kemper Marley? You would have, if the US corporatist media was anything but a cheap whore and cheerleader for the rethug extreme right. But search The Googles on the Inner Tubes and you will come up with a very interesting story involving John McCain's ties to organized crime in Arizona.

For many years, Marley was the number one organized crime godfather in Arizona. Virtually every leading politician, DA, sheriff and police chief was on his payroll. The only minor threat to his untrammelled power was an investigative reporter named Don Bolles. In 1976 Marley had Bolles killed with a car bomb in Downtown Phoenix in broad daylight. He openly boasted to his associates of his role in ordering the hit, but was never indicted, thanks not only to having most of the prosecutors in his pocket, but also to his personal attorney - William Rehnquist! (Marley also was linked to Charles Keating of the Keating Five scandal, which McCain was in up to his eyeballs.)

The murder of Bolles led to the instigation of the Arizona Project, with his colleagues from all over the US converging on Phoenix and exposing the festering web of corruption to the long overdue light of day. The only major newspaper not involved was Bolles' own employer, the Arizona Republic, then owned by Dan Quayle's family and undoubtedly in bed with the Marley crime empire.

Kemper Marley got his start bootlegging during the Prohibition era, and became very wealthy. In 1955 he gave the Arizona Budweiser distributorship to his close friend James Hensley, who himself was a convicted felon. Hensley became immensely rich and was able to bequeath over $100 million to his daughter, Cindy. Yes, that Cindy - John McCain's second wife.

As you can see, Kemper Marley was an extremely nasty individual who makes William Ayers look like a boy scout - even if there was any real connection between Ayers and Obama, which there isn't.

The bottom line is that people who live in eight houses shouldn't throw stones. Go forth and tell everyone you know about John McCain's links to organized crime! If he won't stop lying about Barack Obama, we'll have to start telling the truth about him!