Thatcher heads for the US after court drama

Karyn Maughan
January 13 2005 at 03:09PM

Sir Mark Thatcher is expected to leave South Africa for the United States within the next few days, sentenced to a R3-million fine for his involvement in the Equatorial Guinea coup plot.

The fine - and a four-year suspended jail term - was imposed in the Cape High Court on Thursday after a plea deal with Scorpions prosecutors.

The formalisation of the agreement in the High Court on Thursday was marked by drama.

Police received anonymous threats before the hearing, and a Canadian protester shouted "shame, shame, shame" as Thatcher and Scorpions representatives entered the court.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20050113132533427C949088

DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ALERT! As a convicted felon, how is Thatcher allowed to enter the US? Anyone with a UK passport and so much as a drinking/driving fine to their name is barred from entering the US.....

supposed to have their US visa revoked?

Isn't overthrowing governments one of the things terra-ists do?

Picking up a check from the Oily Guys for expenses (and fines paid) incurred on their behalf, perhaps?

at the Riggs Bank, maybe with some help from General Pinochet's dodgy $$$$$$$$$$$s?

Or was it from the Jeff Skilling/Ken Lay fighting fund, with some extra offshore funds from Larry Sliverstein?

these people are crisco coated teflon, nothing sticks.

the excrement hit the ventilating device, as I recall. Marc must've had a job offer there after his little exercise in coup-building?

i'm guessing his coup backers wanted him to stay close.

Does Thatcher swim?

so expect a pre-emptive strike on toronto and then off to Cuba!

Once again, life imitates art and neocons imitate comedians! :wow:

I suppose after funning implements of revolution into Canada, Marc will look forward to sunny Cuba, rum and good ci-gars. ;)

Re-write!

more coup plotter.

On edit: Cuba just discovered oil so maybe he could be of use there as well. Does he speak Spanish?

"Go, and do not attempt to overthrow any more governments for at least four years".

Fair is fair.

but fair's fair, Thatcher shouldn't be allowed back in.

UNLESS of course, uncle Jonathan Bush - ceo of Riggs Bank subsidiary, can personally vouch for him once again, like he did to get him off the Texas racketeering/corruption charges way back in '96 that eased the slimebag out of the US and into Johannesburg in the first place...

And doesn't the Carlyle Group along with Halliburton run things here?

and his cohorts at Carlyle? Or is there some quid pro quo going on about that "suicide" of Cliff Baxter that immediately shut down the paper trail?

How the hell could Marky otherwise enter the US if he's got a criminal record, regardless of his wife and kids being in Texas?

we're 99% percent on the 'bees and honey'. If only David Kelly and Cliff Baxter could speak from out yonder, LOL! Lord Hutton took care of Davey baby!