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Right Wing Scam Artists and MIA/POW Politics
Ted Sampley
he is only the best known. All the fools who go along with everything Rolling Thunder puts forward as reality are poor souls who have been brainwashed
The right wing politics of MIA/POW issues. I haven't posted about this stuff in a while. There are probably people here who are unschooled in this stuff.
Ted Sampley
he is only the best known. All the fools who go along with everything Rolling Thunder puts forward as reality are poor souls who have been brainwashed
The right wing politics of MIA/POW issues. I haven't posted about this stuff in a while. There are probably people here who are unschooled in this stuff.
Ms. Keating, while she was a reporter for the Washington Times, was convinced that live American POWs remained in Vietnam. As time went on and she became more and more acquainted with the issue, she discovered the facts of the charlatans who take advantage of MIA families and who flim-flam the public, as well as discovering that the US government could have done a better job of managing the issue.
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Documents filed with the court revealed the extent to which Sampley had made use of the statue and, indeed, of the entire POW issue.
The material showed that he had created a self-contained financial network that revolved around POWs and MIAs. One of Sampley's companies, Red Hawk, manufactured the POW T-shirts and sold them to his nonprofit Homecoming II, which in turn sold them at the vigil booth. Although Sampley could say he was destitute, with only one personal bank account containing $ 1 00, the organizations were quite healthy. His reported earnings from the cash-only T-shirt concession amounted to nearly $2 million over three years.
The cash flow was 7 abundant. In August 1991 alone, Homecoming II wrote ten checks to Red Hawk, totaling more than $18,000. Some of the checks were written on the same day or only a few days apart.
Ted Sampley was one of those energetic souls who seemed less like a mortal being and more like an immutable force of nature. He was immensely entertaining. He was appalling. He was charming. He was despicable. He was the embodiment of the Native American coyote myth: the Trickster. His antics on the POW/MIA issue were so outrageous that when I wrote Prisoners of Hope: Exploiting the POW/MIA Myth in America, I devoted an entire chapter to Sampley. I christened the chapter - and Sampley - The Merry Prankster. Susan Katz Keating: Ted Sampley: The Merry Prankster Remembered