SP Times: Dirt and the diplomat - Penile pumps, Sexual Abuse and Diplomats

[Coexist]

Please read the entire article - it is a fascinating look into Straight, and shows how money alone purchased an Ambassadorship.

ST PETERSBURG - It's hardly an even fight. In one corner, Mel Sembler: shopping center developer, former finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, former ambassador to Italy and Australia. Friend of President Bush and his father. In the other corner, Richard Bradbury: molested by a fireman at age 11, unemployed, target of lawsuits for failure to make rent and credit card payments. Just turned 41, lives with his parents.

The wealthy, politically connected developer has it all over the jobless guy who can't remember the last time he paid his taxes. Except for this intangible: Bradbury is on a mission. And he's obsessed.

For 10 years he combed through the garbage outside Sembler's home on Treasure Island, meticulously cataloging little treasures he discovered, including documents with the ambassador's seal and presidential schedules complete with aircraft tail numbers.

Three years ago, Bradbury's garbage runs hit what for him was the mother lode: Sembler's discarded penile pump.

much, much, more...

[Warpy]

1. What an incredible story

about a right wing boot camp for normal teenagers caught doing normal teenager mischief turned sadistic pedophile ring. If anyone needs to be investigated to death, it's Sembler.

The sanctimonious and corrupt right might want to rethink a few things. The most dangerous people in the world are those with nothing left to lose.

I wish they had a link or address to contribute to Bradbury. I'd be writing the check right now.

[Coexist]

2. they are a sick lot, are they not.

This was front page stuff.



This press alone is better than the trial.