Tell Us Again Which Party Hates America & Loves Terrorists

The Greedy Ol' Party. How could we forget?

Former Michigan Republican Rep. Mark Deli Siljander was sentenced to prison on Wednesday for his work with a Missouri-based charity purportedly tied to terrorist groups.

“I stand before you broken in so many ways,” he told the court prior to sentencing, reports the Kansas City Star. “I did something wrong. I mistreated the system I believed in, and I mistreated my family and friends.”

Siljander, who left office in 1987, was sentenced to 366 days in prison for acting as an unregistered foreign agent and obstruction of justice. He had admitted to receiving payments from the Islamic American Relief Agency in return for lobbying for their removal from a Senate Finance Committee list of organizations tied to foreign terrorist groups.

He also admitted that he lied to federal authorities when they originally asked about the payments, which he claimed were to help him write a book.

Elected in 1980, Siljander first made a name for himself as an outspoken social conservative. He lost a primary to Fred Upton, now the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, in 1986.

Siljander described himself as a “poster boy for Jerry Falwell” who decided to devote himself to fixing “cultural misunderstandings” in a 2007 interview with Urban Tulsa Weekly. That effort led him to start studying the Quran to find common ground between Christians and Muslims.

Couldn't even get ecumenical do-gooding happening right, had to make a buck on it too.