tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188832792024-03-12T19:46:40.708-05:00Nikki's NestSilence = Acceptance. We must never be silent when it comes to racism, bigotry, discrimination, or the right-wing agenda.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger838125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-77763381399635346992011-05-26T16:57:00.000-05:002011-05-26T16:57:56.190-05:00Old Habits Die Hard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhaTX9BULrTRw8FAdhEsFzg2bZ2WlUrxv8JLxmNpeG1MK3zdyUVzbRac0xvm6Uzr1UjeSwAZBroNNohsyJnCLxBLP3gcbgn3XHIQg0SQoBDdXD_Ad2Y_WvkWCP7EjFes7uU2Vo/s1600/bertollini.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhaTX9BULrTRw8FAdhEsFzg2bZ2WlUrxv8JLxmNpeG1MK3zdyUVzbRac0xvm6Uzr1UjeSwAZBroNNohsyJnCLxBLP3gcbgn3XHIQg0SQoBDdXD_Ad2Y_WvkWCP7EjFes7uU2Vo/s320/bertollini.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A blast from the past, it seems that 41 months in a Federal prison didn't make a big enough impression on this 71-year-old Aryan Nations benefactor.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Richard Bertollini made the down-payment on Richard Butler's old Aryan Nation's compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho years ago. An ordained Christian Identity minister, Bertollini played a major role in Butler's group.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">After three-and-half years in prison on a firearm's charge, he decided to get a fresh start - sort of. </span></strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/05/25/idaho-anti-semite-resurfaces-in-new-mexico-with-new-name-but-same-propaganda/">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/05/25/idaho-anti-semite-resurfaces-in-new-mexico-with-new-name-but-same-propaganda/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-69645761887341800152011-05-26T16:31:00.000-05:002011-05-26T16:31:41.821-05:00Wave Bye-Bye, Ron<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTzFDdVnliKSFTzzorm-pP24KYTsb02HtcYeKRPYRSdEZ7E15DywQ8ZyGQn4iO6_pfvLg0VLgVNs-sDta3F8PFEJVyRX1bKwrnhMgKqqHX-7WKffKizei1TNKtBCzQvGA0w2r8/s1600/ronedwards.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTzFDdVnliKSFTzzorm-pP24KYTsb02HtcYeKRPYRSdEZ7E15DywQ8ZyGQn4iO6_pfvLg0VLgVNs-sDta3F8PFEJVyRX1bKwrnhMgKqqHX-7WKffKizei1TNKtBCzQvGA0w2r8/s200/ronedwards.jpg" width="183" /></a></div>The halls of justice may not be perfect - but karma is! After his Klan group severely beat a Latino teen at a county fair in 2006, Ron Edwards was ordered to pay $2.5 million in damages only to have the judgement overturned and the case hanging in the breeze. But, there will be no such luck on the the four year sentence just handed down today.<br />
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Of course, according to Edwards, he's just being persecuted because he's a racist lunatic who just so happened to get caught trafficking methamphetamine. No one really understands him, right? Oh, well, a prison diet and a few years in a cage will fix him right up! Not!<br />
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It seems that Travis Ricci, the cocky little Vinlander who featured himself as some kind of ethnic cleansing badass will be finding out just how badassed he isn't.<br />
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against the worker.<br />
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Up through the other day, Wisconsin people had one of the most liberating programs of benefits<br />
that should be a model for most of America, the richest country in the world where no one should have<br />
to worry about who is going to take care of them if they get ill so that they wouldn't be a burden to others,<br />
and that they will be able to look forward to a level of security in their old age.<br />
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Now, a consortium of right wing interests has effectively unraveled these hard-earned rights virtually overnight by taking action without proper notification of all government officials and democrats on the Executive Boards, in violation of the Law, to limit worker rights to organize a planned decision by special interests to erode worker benefits into the future at a time of increasing uncertainty and job loss.<br />
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We are the people of Wisconsin.<br />
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If they lose their rights, as surely as night follows day, so will the rest of us.<br />
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For this is a concerted action to end Unions in America so that only the corporations and the powerful will set the rules that will eventually impact ever living American worker.<br />
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We must see that this doesn't happen because if the Unions are destroyed, there will be no counter-weight to the Republican Hard-liners who will be able to employ Citizen United monies to run rough-shod over any attempts at fair play and balance in future elections.<br />
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They will acquire the power to do as they like, maintain the status quo, pollute the airs and water, and neglect the infrastructure while building their own power bases. Eventually, it will prove impossible for any American to live under such rule and we will all revolt or surrender to slavery, which is not in the American character! But we can head off this eventuality by coming together now to support the American labor unions and the rights of every American.<br />
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We must not adapt Chamberlain's policies that assume everything will work itself out. It will not! We need to step up to the plate now and declare our support for everything that Wisconsin stands for to keep America democratic and serving the best interests of its people.<br />
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In Solidarity, we cannot forget the abuses of March 9th.<br />
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And we must go forward together and in solidarity to do what needs to be done to maintain our democracy and the rights of people intact to preserve our great system.<br />
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Together, brothers and sisters, to forge the next hundred years of peace and security and protection for all!<br />
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Please spread this message around.<br />
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And let's not forget Wisconsin!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-34800845426354804362011-03-01T12:00:00.000-06:002011-03-01T12:00:41.753-06:00U.S. Asks to Destroy Guns Owned by Blogger in Prison for Threats to Judges<strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Some people just never learn anything from their experiences. I don't believe that you can't teach an old dog new tricks - but, in this case, there may be some credence to the adage. Hal Turner --- still blowin' and goin'.</span></strong><br />
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Federal prosecutors told a judge they want to destroy four firearms, including a Mossberg 12- gauge shotgun, owned by Hal Turner, the Internet radio host and blogger sentenced to 33 months in prison for threatening the lives of three U.S. appeals-court judges. <br />
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U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter Brooklyn, New York, ordered the weapons returned to someone of Turner’s “designation who is licensed to have them” when he imposed the sentence Dec. 21. Turner asked that they go to his mother. <br />
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In a court filing today, prosecutors asked Walter to reconsider his order, in part because e-mails show it appears Turner plans to pursue judicial and law-enforcement officials after he’s released from prison. <br />
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“The government requests permission to destroy the firearms, rather than turn them over to Turner’s mother, and to compensate Turner for their fair market value,” prosecutors wrote in the filing. <br />
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Turner, 48, was convicted in August of threatening the judges because of their ruling upholding a gun ban. A jury found him guilty of a single count of threatening in Internet postings to assault and murder the three Chicago-based appeals judges. That was the only count he faced. Two previous trials ended in hung juries. Turner has appealed his conviction. <br />
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In addition to the shotgun, the government seized three semiautomatic handguns: a Sig Sauer Model P-229.40, a Star Firestar 9mm and a Walther PPK .380, according to the court filing. <br />
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Ronald G. Russo, a lawyer for Turner at Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP in Manhattan, didn’t immediately return a call for comment. <br />
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Turner told his mother in a Feb. 2 e-mail, written from prison, that “when I get out, I’m gonna go after some ‘problems’ and take care of them in a manner that will be horrific,” according to the filing. He made similar threats to his mother and an unidentified family member in other e-mails, prosecutors said. <br />
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In another Feb. 2 e-mail, Turner asked two unidentified family members to send him the personal information such as home addresses on “all the key members in my case,” including prosecutors and other judicial and law-enforcement officials, he had bought from an Internet site called Intelius, according to the court filing. <br />
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“Turner has expressed his plans for the future, some of which appear to be violent, in e-mails to his mother -- the very person whom Turner has designated to receive the firearms, and Turner has taken steps to receive personal information about the judicial and law-enforcement individuals involved in his case,” prosecutors wrote. <br />
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Lawyers from U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s office in Chicago prosecuted Turner, with Assistant U.S. Attorneys Diane MacArthur and William Ridgway handling the trial. MacArthur signed today’s court filing. <br />
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Turner’s case was moved from Illinois to Brooklyn to ensure a fair trial. Two earlier trials in Brooklyn ended with hung juries in March 2010 and December 2009. Walter is a senior judge in federal court in Shreveport, Louisiana. <br />
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Prosecutors said Turner, of North Bergen, New Jersey, threatened judges Frank Easterbrook, Richard Posner and William Bauer because of their June 2009 ruling upholding handgun bans in Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois. A lower court previously dismissed a legal challenge to the ordinances by the National Rifle Association. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the handgun bans on June 28. <br />
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“Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed,” Turner wrote in a Web posting. “Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions.” Turner also posted the judges’ names, photographs and work addresses, and a map of their courthouse. <br />
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Turner has already served about 13 months of his sentence, before and after being convicted. <br />
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The case is U.S. v. Turner, 09-cr-00650, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), and Turner’s appeal is U.S. v. Turner, 11-196, Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Manhattan). <br />
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To contact the reporter on this story: Thom Weidlich in Brooklyn, New York, federal court at tweidlich@bloomberg.net.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-12682035400960818612011-02-22T14:27:00.000-06:002011-02-22T14:27:14.475-06:00DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Declaration of Human Rights</u></span></strong><br />
by Lee Burkett on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 12:31pm<br />
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It is time for us, the People of Earth, without benefit of government or sovereigns, to declare our right to live on Earth, in peace, with abundance for all, in accordance with the following declaration of Human rights.<br />
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It is a Human right to live in a clean environment, to expect that the air, the water and the land is free from poisons, toxins and substances that are known to cause harm to living beings, and to have free access to same.<br />
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It is a Human right to have food, to expect that this most basic of human needs is available to all, and that it be unadulterated, free from substances or alterations that may cause harm to living beings, and to have free access to same.<br />
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It is a Human right to have shelter from the elements, and to have free access to same.<br />
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It is Human right to have benefit of medicine and health care, and to have free access to same.<br />
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It is a Human right to work, as a means of providing a living, and to expect that such work creates a livable wage, and to have free access to same.<br />
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It is Human right to believe and to worship in any way, so long as that belief or worship does not infringe on the Human rights of another, and to have free access to same.<br />
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It is Human right to live without fear of being killed by Armies foreign or Domestic.<br />
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It is a Human right to expect justice, and to expect that any and all laws reflect the equality of all Humans, and to have free access to same.<br />
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It is a Human right to love another Human being, and to express that love in any way so long as that love or it's expression does not infringe on the Human rights of another, and to have freedom to do so.<br />
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It is Human right to live without fear of being killed by Armies foreign or Domestic.<br />
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We, the People of Earth, do so declare.<br />
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Henceforth, any government, sovereign, corporate interest, private interest, group or individual guilty of with holding, delaying or denying Human rights to any nation, group or individual shall be guilty of Crimes Against Humanity, and subject to justice in a Court of Humanity, to face punishment as the People of Earth deem appropriate.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-42254625701972731972011-02-03T16:46:00.000-06:002011-02-03T16:46:23.560-06:00Arizona and The neo-Nazi's Breeding Domestic Terrorists<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Bombs, bullets, and insanity really don't mix well, but it seems that Arizona and the neo-Nazi element both have more than their share of all three. Breeding domestic terrorists appears to come easy these days.</strong></span><br />
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The indictment alleges that Harbin unlawfully transported one of the devices. He was pulled over by law enforcement while driving his pickup truck on January 14 in Apache Junction. Dennis K. Burke, U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, told ABC15 News that “Jeffrey Harbin built these IEDs in such a away as to maximize human carnage.” If found guilty, Harbin faces up to 10 years in prison for each count and the possibility of a $250,000 fine.<br />
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Neo-Nazi sympathizer and former NSM member J.T. Ready [2], currently one of Arizona’s most visible self-appointed border patrollers, claimed that he personally recruited Harbin into the NSM, but that he himself is no longer a member of the group. When asked by ABC15 News in Phoenix if he knew what Harbin was planning to do with the bombs, Ready replied that things are still under investigation, and that the reporter “would have to talk to the feds and see what their official statement is…but I will say that domestic terrorism is real.” An NSM spokesman contacted ABC15 News reporter Christopher Sign and informed him that Jeffrey Harbin was “no longer with” the NSM.<br />
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Jeffrey isn’t the only Harbin to be involved in the neo-Nazi movement. Jeffrey Harbin is the son of Jerry Harbin [3], who has been active in white nationalist causes for years. In 1999, the senior Harbin was listed as the Phoenix contact for a new chapter of the racist Council of Conservative Citizens [4] in the Citizen Informer, the group’s newspaper. The CofCC, which evolved directly from the pro-segregation White Citizens Councils of the Jim Crow South, has referred to African Americans as “a retrograde species of humanity.”<br />
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In 2001, Jerry Harbin became the coordinator for the Phoenix chapter of the National Alliance [5] (NA), at that time one of the most dangerous and best-organized neo-Nazi groups in the country. Harbin’s chapter was active through 2005, when it switched to a chapter of National Vanguard (NV). In 2006, Harbin showed up [6] at the neo-Nazi Winterfest in Phoenix, which was hosted by the wife of Jesse Curnow, Arizona Coordinator for the white supremacist Nationalist Coalition [7]. By 2007, Harbin was no longer with NV, and instead turned his attention to other, perhaps more benign activities, like being the adjutant and choir director of the Phoenix camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans [8].<br />
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Repeated calls to Jerry Harbin for comment were not answered.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-57848113302573043172011-02-03T16:31:00.000-06:002011-02-03T16:31:43.281-06:00Insanity Begets Insanity<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>And the insanity continues. This just goes to prove that in the neo-Nazi realm there is no loyalty...but, there is lots of insanity. Timothy Bland turned own his own and threatened not only the wife of a comrade - but their child. Insanity begets insanity and the insane attract others who are mad.</strong></span><br />
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Timothy Bland, who pleaded guilty last year to threatening the wife of jailed neo-Nazi leader Bill White, was sentenced today to five years' probation.<br />
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Bland, 46, a Baltimore resident whose lawyer said he was a mentally ill follower of Bill White's online racist rants, told U.S. District Judge James Turk he was unaware of his actions when he phoned Meghan White.<br />
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"I feel terrible about what I did," Bland said. "I allowed someone to push me and prod me over a 2 1/2-year period until I lost control."<br />
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Defense lawyer Jim Crawford of Baltimore said Bland has a long history of mental illness and has been diagnosed as bipolar.<br />
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Federal sentencing guidelines suggested at least a year in prison. Crawford asked for probation, noting that Bland's mother, who financially supports him, has stage 4 breast cancer. Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Hogeboom said he didn't object as long as strict controls were placed on Bland's activities.<br />
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Turk prohibited Bland from drinking alcohol and said he will be monitored by the federal probation office for five years.<br />
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Bland phoned Meghan White in December 2009, two days after a federal jury in Roanoke found Bill White guilty of four charges related to threatening people.<br />
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Bland told Meghan White he was coming to Roanoke to kill her and her infant daughter. He called back several times to say he was getting closer to the city, and finally that he had arrived and was getting a motel room. Bland also text messaged his victim a picture of his genitals, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office said.<br />
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The calls terrified Meghan White, who soon took her daughter and moved in with relatives. She said she didn't know Bland and didn't think her husband did either.<br />
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Crawford said Bland was "prime game" to be recruited by Bill White and followed White's racist proclamations online. Hogeboom said that in Bill White's trial, Bland was summoned as a prosecution witness to testify that he was willing to act on White's threats against minorities.<br />
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Bland was never actually called to the stand in White's trial. Meghan White was a potential defense witness. She also wasn't called to testify.<br />
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It was after Bland returned from the trial to Baltimore that he telephoned Meghan White.<br />
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Crawford said Bland feared retribution from Bill White or members of the American National Socialist Workers Party, the group White claimed to command.<br />
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After Bill White's trial, Bland told his lawyer he received phone calls from people connected to the group. He began drinking heavily, Crawford said, and when he called Meghan White, he was "clearly inebriated, clearly psychotic in many ways, clearly delusional."<br />
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The same night he threatened Meghan White, he called police in Baltimore to say that he was a former member of a Nazi group and that people were trying to kill him.<br />
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"Bland's vile, hateful threats directly caused the victim in this case real distress," U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy said today in a statement. "Anyone who tries to intimidate or frighten another person by using the telephone, the internet, the U.S. mail, or any other instrumentality of interstate commerce will be prosecuted in this district."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-59255575152937029582011-02-03T16:07:00.001-06:002011-02-03T16:13:17.895-06:00Another neo-Nazi Circus Clown Bite The Dust...<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>For the next few articles - let's talk insanity in the racist realm. I mean...look at this nutjob. Some of us remember him from his earlier NSM days when they paraded him around as some sort of rare find that would draw intelligent and articulate individuals into their neo-Nazi circus. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.cliffviewpilot.com/bergen/2065-neo-nazi-from-ridgewood-charged-with-threatening-ny-head-of-anti-defamation-league">Neo-Nazi leader from Ridgewood charged with threatening New York Anti-Defamation League director </a></span><br />
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The New Jersey State Police Central Security Unit began investigating Jacques Pluss, 57, of Heights Road, after the ADL turned over emailed threats to Abraham Foxman, Acting NJSP Major Gerald Lewis told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.<br />
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“As part of our investigation, we found that he has ties to neo-Nazi organizations, and that he frequently visited neo-Nazi websites,“ Lewis told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. <br />
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At 6:30 a.m., the Troop B SWAT team -- armed with a search warrant -- descended on the apartment, along with detectives from the CSU, cyber crimes and K9 units, investigators from the Division of Criminal Justice, and Ridgewood police.<br />
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Jacques Pluss (courtesy NJSP)custody “for investigative purposes pertaining to possible weapons offenses,” Lewis said. <a href="http://www.cliffviewpilot.com/bergen/2065-neo-nazi-from-ridgewood-charged-with-threatening-ny-head-of-anti-defamation-league">Continued here...</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-70427337890146650882011-01-06T19:04:00.000-06:002011-01-06T19:04:52.352-06:00Another Chapter Finished...<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>You can't just DO what you want. You can't just SAY anything. With rights comes responsibility. Bill White gave up some very precious moments with his wife and daughter proving that being an irresponsible asshole is costly. Being a Nazi has consequences.</strong></span><br />
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Just two weeks before his scheduled release, William A. White was convicted of soliciting violence.<br />
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A neo-Nazi whose online rants struck fear in Roanoke and across the country was convicted of using his website to solicit violence Wednesday, just two weeks before his scheduled release from prison.<br />
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William A. White was found guilty of encouraging harm to the foreman of a Chicago jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist in 2004. The verdict came on the third day of a trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago.<br />
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White, 33, the leader of a Roanoke-based white supremacy group, has been serving a 2½-year sentence following his convictions last year in Roanoke of threatening a bank employee in Missouri, a university administrator in Delaware and a group of apartment tenants in Virginia Beach.<br />
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Instead of a scheduled Jan. 18 release date, White now faces up to 10 more years in prison.<br />
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Defense attorneys had argued that even as bellicose bigot, White was entitled to free-speech protection.<br />
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But the all-white jury, which was granted anonymity to protect its members from possible harm or harassment by neo-Nazi sympathizers, rejected that argument after three hours of deliberation.<br />
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"While freedom of speech is among our most cherished rights, the First Amendment does not protect anyone who intends to induce others to kill or injure," U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said after the verdict.<br />
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White -- once described as one of the loudest voices in America's neo-Nazi movement -- was charged with soliciting violence with an online post to overthrow.com, a website that served as the megaphone for his racist views.<br />
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Mark Hoffman, the foreman of a Chicago jury that convicted white supremacist Matthew Hale in an unrelated case in 2004, testified this week that he was dismayed to learn, four years later, that White had posted his name, address and telephone number to the website.<br />
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The post identified Hoffman as the "gay anti-racist" juror who played a key role in convicting Hale of soliciting the murder of a Chicago judge who ruled against him in a civil case. Hale is serving a 40-year prison sentence.<br />
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Hoffman testified that within minutes, be began to receive hateful text and phone messages, some of them including racial and ethnic slurs. <br />
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Neither the post nor the responses it generated contained direct threats. Prosecutors argued that White's words amounted to an invitation to harm the juror -- especially when taken in context with other missives that appeared on overthrow.com.<br />
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The jury was told of numerous posts: White's call to lynch six black youths at the center of a civil rights demonstration in Jena, La.; his delight over the slayings of two family members of a Chicago judge; his opinion that a Canadian civil rights lawyer should "be drug out into the street and shot;" and his own growing urges to "kill, kill, kill."<br />
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Defense attorney Nishay Sanan said prosecutors succeeded in scaring the jury into convicting his client.<br />
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In fact, jurors asked that all spectators and reporters be removed from the courtroom before they delivered the verdict. They also asked to be allowed to leave from an alternate courthouse exit. Judge Lynn Adelman declined to clear the courtroom, but ordered that jurors be escorted safely from the building.<br />
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"The verdict was based on fear and not the law," Sanan said. "This is a sad day for the First Amendment."<br />
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Prosecutors said there was more to the case than just inflammatory rhetoric. They cited the testimony of two former members of White's organization, the American National Socialists Workers Party.<br />
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Mike Burks and Phil Anderson told the jury about letters they received from White within days of his arrest in October 2008, which came shortly after his post targeting the Chicago juror.<br />
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White instructed Burks and Anderson to make sure no harm came to the juror at the hands of white supremacists. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Ferrara, who prosecuted the case with Hogan, said the letters suggested a plan had already been set in motion.<br />
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"Why would he want to ask these people to stand down if they were not asked to stand up in the first place?" Ferrara said.<br />
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As in his previous cases, White did not testify or present evidence.<br />
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White, who moved to Roanoke seven years ago to start a rental home business, has been called "possibly the loudest and most obnoxious neo-Nazi leader in America" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups.<br />
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Both White's business and his hate group have dissolved since his arrest.<br />
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No sentencing date has been scheduled. Although the maximum punishment is 10 years, sentencing guidelines will likely call for a lesser term. Sanan said he will ask that White be released on bond after Jan. 18, the end of his sentence on the Roanoke charges.<br />
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A bond hearing would give prosecutors another chance to argue that White is a danger, a theme they have sounded consistently.<br />
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White's writings may well have encouraged violence by at least one of his followers in a case cited by the indictment, which takes 12 pages to recount some of his diatribes.<br />
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In 2007, Eric Hunt -- identified by White on overthrow.com as "a fan of this website" -- was convicted of assaulting Elie Wiesel, an internationally known Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel laureate.<br />
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In commenting about the case, White included Wiesel's address "in case anyone was looking for him."<br />
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"Insofar as my views may have played a role in motivating Mr. Hunt, I can only say that I hope to inspire a hundred more white young people to sacrifice themselves for our collective racial whole. The only thing more noble than sacrifice is victory.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/11/15-5">White House Says Child Soldiers Are Ok, if They Fight Terrorists</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">by Michelle Chen</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The phenomenon of child soldiers, like genocide, slavery and torture, seems like one of those crimes that no nation could legitimately defend. Yet the Obama administration just decided to leave countless kids stranded on some of the world’s bloodiest battlegrounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The administration stunned human rights groups last month by sidestepping a commitment to help countries curb the military exploitation of children. Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy reported that President Obama issued a presidential memorandum granting waivers from the Child Soldiers Prevention Act to four countries: Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Yemen. The memo instructed Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that it is in our “national interest” to continue extending military aid to those countries, despite their failure to comply with the rules Congress passed and George W. Bush signed in 2008. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">According to the Christian Science Monitor, Crowley argued, “These countries have put the right policies in place… but are struggling to correctly implement them.” The New York Times reported that administration spokespeople also cited the countries’ crucial role in global counter-terrorism efforts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Strategically granting certain countries a pass on child rights reflects Washington’s warped attitude toward the global human rights regime. The U.S. has failed to ratify, or simply ignored, numerous human rights protocols, and our ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child has languished. Human Rights Watch points out, “Only the United States and Somalia, which has no functioning national government, have failed to ratify the treaty.” (Although we did ratify two optional protocols in 2002, relating to child soldiers and other forms of exploitation.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Somalia, by the way, is one of just two countries that the White House allowed to be sanctioned under the 2008 law; the second was Burma. Presumably this is because Somalia is not receiving direct military funding, reports the Monitor. Yet the U.S. continues to support Somali government forces as they fight Islamic insurgents—with the help of a large force of child soldiers. (To their credit, Somalia has at least promised the U.N. they”ll stop arming kids eventually, according to the Washington Post).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Maybe you could argue that the U.S. is so “advanced” it needn’t bother with rules about children’s rights to education and whatnot. Obama’s waivers might be seen as realpolitik in areas like Yemen, whose military we support as part of our sprawling counter-terrorism operations. But the bottom line is that the administration has carved out an exception to a law intended to ethically guide the flow of U.S. aid money around the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In 2006 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) registered 59 children in detention during 16 visits to five places of detention or internment controlled by the USA or the UK in Iraq. US soldiers stationed at the detention centres and former detainees described abuses against child detainees, including the rape of a 15-year-old boy at Abu Ghraib, Iraq, forced nudity, stress positions, beating and the use of dogs. Following US troop increases in Iraq in early 2007, US military arrests of children there rose from an average of 25 per month in 2006 to an average of 100 per month. Military officials reported that 828 were children held at Camp Cropper by mid-September, including children as young as 11. A 17-year-old was reportedly strangled by a fellow detainee in early 2007. In August 2007 the USA opened Dar al-Hikmah, a non-residential facility intended to provide education services to 600 detainees aged 11-17 pending release or transfer to Iraqi custody. US military officials excluded an estimated 100 children from participation in the program, apparently on the grounds that they were “extremists” and “beyond redemption”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Omar Khadr, the young Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay, remains trapped in a Kafkaesque quasi-judicial system without regard to the fact that he was a child when captured. Rights advocates like Monia Mazigh in Ottowa have called for Khadr to be recognized as a child soldier, but the administration seems to think securing a conviction in Kangaroo Court takes precedence over international law. And because Khadr, like the other Gitmo prisoners, is identified with that faceless dark horde the U.S. has branded “terrorists,” Americans aren’t even inclined to see him as a human being, let alone as a juvenile soldier deserving of sympathy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So America’s hypocrisy on children in war has many layers. Obama condemns the practice in theory, then undermines federal law by issuing waivers for our partners in Africa and the Middle East. And of course, Washington sees no problem with punishing child soldiers as adults when they’re aligned with the terrorists who are bent on destroying America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">UN Treaties alone obviously won’t demobilize all the world’s child soldiers, but their main role is to put down a legal placeholder. And it’s that moral guidepost that the U.S. undermines every time it waives parallel U.S. laws based on the “national interest.”</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Yesterday<strong><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">, Frank Rich, a columnist for the New York Times, wrote an opinion piece dealing with one of the biggest problems that we are currently faced with in this country and one that is grabbing a lot of headline attention - the Bush Tax Cuts and the corporate gurus who are really running this country.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;">As it appears that President Obama is waffling yet again in an effort to appease the right-wing elements of Congress, and signaling some sort of "compromise" on extending these tax cuts, many of us are becoming more and more incensed by his wishy-washy, mamby-pamby performance. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Frank Rich, questions who, then, will stand up against those who represent the upper echelon of the out-of-control economic ladder:</span></strong><br />
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<blockquote><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>The wealthy Americans we should worry about instead are the ones who implicitly won the election — those who take far more from America than they give back. They were not on the ballot, and most of them are not household names. Unlike Whitman and the other defeated self-financing candidates, they are all but certain to cash in on the Nov. 2 results. There’s no one in Washington in either party with the fortitude to try to stop them from grabbing anything that’s not nailed down. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><strong>The Americans I’m talking about are not just those shadowy anonymous corporate campaign contributors who flooded this campaign. No less triumphant were those individuals at the apex of the economic pyramid — the superrich who have gotten spectacularly richer over the last four decades while their fellow citizens either treaded water or lost ground. The top 1 percent of American earners took in 23.5 percent of the nation’s pretax income in 2007 — up from less than 9 percent in 1976. During the boom years of 2002 to 2007, that top 1 percent’s pretax income increased an extraordinary 10 percent every year. But the boom proved an exclusive affair: in that same period, the median income for non-elderly American households went down and the poverty rate rose. </strong></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>A LITTLE MESSED UP ISN'T IT?</strong></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-42275284077729284392010-11-13T12:37:00.000-06:002010-11-13T12:37:47.966-06:00HE'S....BACK...hopefully not for long<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Dirk Wüstenhagen)</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/a-small-fraction-a-man65077">A Small Fraction of a Man</a></span><br />
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Saturday 13 November 2010<br />
by: William Rivers Pitt<br />
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George W. Bush was all over my television this past week, all over the newspapers, and the feelings inspired by his sudden reappearance are almost beyond my capacity to describe. There was the story about his hearty approval of waterboarding. There was the story that had him contemplating dropping Dick Cheney from the administration. There was the story that had him describing himself as a "dissenter" on the Iraq invasion. He did interviews, and excerpts of his new book dribbled out, and it was all too much to endure.<br />
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This is the guy, I thought to myself when I saw his face or heard his voice. This is the guy.<br />
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This is the guy who took a massive Clinton administration budget surplus and gave it away to his friends at the top of the tax bracket, a move that laid the groundwork for our current economic calamity.<br />
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This is the guy who breezed past a pointed warning about Osama bin Laden, terrorism and airplanes on August 8, 2001, because he was on vacation and couldn't be bothered.<br />
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This is the guy who parlayed that massive failure into a constant goad of fear to be wielded with impunity against the people he purported to lead. Plastic sheeting and duct tape, anthrax under your pillow, and of course, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.<br />
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This is the guy who, not even a month after the Towers came down, looked into a television camera and said, "We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates."<br />
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Oh yes, this is the guy who stood before the American people in January of 2003 and proclaimed that Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile biological weapons labs, uranium from Niger for use in a "robust" nuclear weapons programs, and that Iraq enjoyed connections to al Qaeda that led directly to the attacks of September 11.<br />
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This was the guy who presided over the outing of a deep-cover CIA agent after her husband had the temerity to call him a liar in the public prints. That agent was running a network for the purpose of thwarting any person or group that might try to deliver weapons of mass destruction to terrorists.<br />
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This is the guy who strutted like a bantam rooster under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished," bragging about the end of a war that was to grind on for seven more years, and grinds on even to this day, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.<br />
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This is the guy who said "Bring it on" and put a target on the backs of tens of thousands of US troops. This is the guy who is personally responsible for the death and injury of hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings. The body count from his administration is breathtaking in size and scope.<br />
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This is the guy who allowed the intelligence services of this nation to violate the Constitutional rights of its citizens in a way never seen before.<br />
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This is the guy who turned the entire world against America after that same world embraced us so completely after September 11. World leaders could not stand to be in the same room with him, and openly mocked him, thus humiliating us all.<br />
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This is the guy who literally fiddled while Hurricane Katrina devoured the city of New Orleans.<br />
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This guy actually said he considered dropping Cheney from the administration? It would be comic if it were not so pointedly fraudulent. Cheney ran the government, ran roughshod over every right he found meddlesome, and Bush sat by and let him do it with that same simpering smirk on his face.<br />
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This is the guy who set stem cell research back more than a decade because of his overarching fealty to "snowflake babies" over living, breathing, suffering people.<br />
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This is the guy who unleashed all the horrors of the torture chamber because the lawyers said it was OK. If the president does it, it's not illegal, right? Nixon came up with that line, but this is the guy who took it farther than it has ever been taken before.<br />
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This is the guy, and now he's back on my television again, and it makes me want to eat my own teeth. I endured him for eight long, brutal years, and have often thought since that no matter how bad things get - and they have, indeed, gotten pretty damned bad - I don't have to endure his face or his voice or his abject serial failures anymore.<br />
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But now he's back, and it is like returning to a nightmare.<br />
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I don't know what this George W. Bush Reputation Rehabilitation Tour will actually accomplish in the end. The same 20% of the country that kept his approval ratings from slipping into single digits - said group now being known as the "Tea Party" - will go out and buy his book. They will lap up his mealy-mouthed pabulum like cats into the cream, and some of our "mainstream" commentators will try to shoehorn the idea that he is missed into the national conversation.<br />
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He is not. George W. Bush was, and likely will forever be, the single worst American president in the nation's history. To outstrip his remarkable record of failure, criminality and disgrace, a future president will have to personally cause the Earth to crash into the sun.<br />
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All I can do for now is avoid the TV, stay away from the newspapers, and pray to God on High that this small fraction of a man will soon retreat back into the ignominy from which he has emerged. There is no salvaging him, and thanks to him, there may be no salvaging America in his aftermath.<br />
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We are all children of this bastard fool now. The least he can do is stay in the shadows where he belongs, while we toil and sweat to repair what he wroughtUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-19194122217121084782010-11-08T16:55:00.000-06:002010-11-08T16:55:30.648-06:00Nooses Are A No-No - Goodbye DanielDepartment of Justice<br />
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Office of Public Affairs<br />
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br />
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Monday, November 8, 2010<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Oregon Man Sentenced for Threatening Lima, Ohio, Civil Rights Leader by Mailing Noose</span></strong><br />
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</tbody></table> WASHINGTON - Daniel Lee Jones, a Portland, Ore., white supremacist, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and three years supervised release for threatening the president of the Lima, Ohio, chapter of the NAACP by mailing him a noose. Jones entered a guilty plea on May 17, 2010, to using the U.S. Postal Service to send a threatening communication.<br />
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In the plea agreement, Jones admitted to mailing F.M. Jason Upthegrove a hangman’s noose, which arrived at Mr. Upthegrove’s home on or about Feb. 14, 2008. Jones stated in the plea agreement that he mailed the hangman’s noose in order to convey a threat to Mr. Upthegrove because he was an African-American who publicly advocated for better police services for African-Americans in Lima, Ohio. The indictment indicated that Mr. Upthegrove also spoke out in the media against Jones’s white supremacist group’s mailing of hate flyers related to the shooting of an African American woman by a member of the Lima Police Department.<br />
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"A noose, an unmistakable symbol of hatred in this nation, was used by this defendant as a threat of violence aimed at silencing a civil rights advocate," said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division. "The Department of Justice will vigorously prosecute those who use threats of violence to attempt to silence proponents of racial equality."<br />
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"We will not tolerate those who use threats of violence, such as by mailing a noose, to intimidate individuals who are advocating for racial equality," said U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Steven M. Dettelbach.<br />
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The case was investigated by Special Agent Brian Russ of the FBI, and the prosecution was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Bauer from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Special Legal Counsel Barry Kowalski and Trial Attorney Shan Patel from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-20809065846912157182010-11-03T18:33:00.001-05:002010-11-03T18:44:01.524-05:00An Open Letter To The White Right On The Occasion of Your Recent Successful Temper Tantrum<blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmWx3E3VsMKHgBcYJTUxIMQSuDdbJ0MsKJNhcm5VCCZpM72MjiOk3sX6LWoMLrIYzXkPHl9oFE05ElWebNtqscqP4CaOAkmyxSB-zoHzBLyO0mwPrSO1zhlHQW_Wk91YSUE3g/s1600/tim-wise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><strong><span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmWx3E3VsMKHgBcYJTUxIMQSuDdbJ0MsKJNhcm5VCCZpM72MjiOk3sX6LWoMLrIYzXkPHl9oFE05ElWebNtqscqP4CaOAkmyxSB-zoHzBLyO0mwPrSO1zhlHQW_Wk91YSUE3g/s200/tim-wise.jpg" width="166" /></span></strong></a></div><span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>An Open Letter to the White Right, On the Occasion of Your Recent, Successful Temper Tantrum </strong></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>By Tim Wise</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://timwise,org/"><strong>Posted on November 3, 2010 </strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>For all y’all rich folks, enjoy that champagne, or whatever fancy ass Scotch you drink.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever shitty ass beer you favor.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Whatever the case, and whatever your economic station, know this…</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>You need to drink up.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And quickly.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And heavily.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Because your time is limited.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Real damned limited.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>So party while you can, but mind the increasingly loud clock ticking away in the corners of your consciousness.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>The clock that reminds you how little time you and yours have left.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Not much more now.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tick, tock.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tick, tock.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tick.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tock.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>I know, you think you’ve taken “your country back” with this election — and of course you have always thought it was yours for the taking, cuz that’s what we white folks are bred to believe, that it’s ours, and how dare anyone else say otherwise — but you are wrong.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>You have won a small battle in a larger war the meaning of which you do not remotely understand.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>‘Cuz there is nothing even slightly original about you.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>There have always been those who wanted to take the country back.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>There were those who, in past years, wanted to take the country back to a time of enslavement and indentured servitude.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>But they lost.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when children could be made to work in mines and factories, when workers had no legal rights to speak of, when the skies in every major city were heavy with industrial soot that would gather on sidewalks and windowsills like volcanic ash.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>But they lost.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when women could not vote, or attend any but a few colleges, or get loans in their own names, or start their own businesses.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>But they lost.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when blacks “had no rights that the white man was bound to respect,” – this being the official opinion of the Supreme Court before those awful days of judicial activism, now decried by the likes of you – and when people of color could legally be kept from voting solely because of race, or holding certain jobs, or living in certain neighborhoods, or run out of other towns altogether when the sun would go down, or be strung up from trees.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>But they lost.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And you will lose.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>So make a note of it.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tweet it to yourself.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Put it on your Facebook wall and leave it there so you’ll remember that I told you so.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>It is coming, and soon.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>This isn’t hubris. It isn’t ideology. It is not wishful thinking.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>It is math.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Not even advanced math. Just simple, basic, like 3rd grade math.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>The kind of math that proves how your kind — mostly older white folks beholden to an absurd, inaccurate, nostalgic fantasy of what America used to be like — are dying.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>You’re like the bad guy in every horror movie ever made, who gets shot five times, or stabbed ten, or blown up twice, and who will eventually pass — even if it takes four sequels to make it happen — but who in the meantime keeps coming back around, grabbing at our ankles as we walk by, we having been mistakenly convinced that you were finally dead this time.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Fair enough, and have at it. But remember how this movie ends.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Our ankles survive.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>You do not.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Michael Meyers, Freddie Kreuger, Jason, and that asshole husband in that movie with Julia Roberts who tracks her down after she runs away and changes her identity–they are all done. Even that crazy fucker in Saw is about to be finished off for good. Granted, he’s gonna be popping out in some 3-D shit to scare the kiddies, so he isn’t going quietly. But he’s going, as all bad guys eventually do.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And in the pantheon of American history, old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Fine, keep it up. It doesn’t matter.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Because you’re on the endangered list.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And unlike, say, the bald eagle or some exotic species of muskrat, you are not worth saving.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>In forty years or so, maybe fewer, there won’t be any more white people around who actually remember that Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Opie-Taylor-Down-at-the-Fishing Hole cornpone bullshit that you hold so near and dear to your heart.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any more white folks around who actually remember them, and so therefore, we’ll be able to teach about them accurately and honestly, without hurting your precious feelings, or those of the so-called “greatest generation” — a bunch whose white members were by and large a gaggle of miscreants who helped save the world from fascism only to return home and oppose the ending of it here, by doing nothing to lift a finger on behalf of the civil rights struggle.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>So to hell with you and all who revere you.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>By then, half the country will be black or brown. And there is nothing you can do about it.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Nothing, Senõr Tancredo.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Nothing, Senõra Angle, or Senõra Brewer, or Senõr Beck.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Loy tiene muy mal, hijo de Puta.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And by then you will have gone all in as a white nationalist movement — hell you’ve all but done that now — thus guaranteeing that the folks of color, and even a decent size minority of us white folks will be able to crush you, election after election, from the Presidency on down to the 8th grade student council.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Like I said, this shit is math, baby. And numbers don’t lie.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bottom line, this too shall pass.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>So enjoy your tax cuts a while longer.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Go buy whatever you people buy when your taxes get cut: a new car or two, a bigger house, an island. Whatever.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Go back to trading your derivatives, engaging in rampant financial speculation that produces nothing of value, that turns the whole world into your personal casino. Whatever.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Play your hand, and for the love of God play it big. Real big. As in, shoot for the moon big. As in, try to privatize Social Security, and health care, and everything else. Whatever.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>At least that way everyone will be able to see what you’re really about.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>We’ve been trying to tell them, but nothing beats seeing it with your own eyes, so “Go big or go home,” Bubba.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>“Git ‘er Done.”</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>“Cowboy up,” or whatever other stupid-ass catch phrase strikes your fancy.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Just promise you’ll do more than talk this time.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Please, or as one of your celluloid heroes might put it, “make my day.”</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Do whatever you gotta do, but remember that those who are the victims of your greed and indifference take the long view.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>They know, but you do not, that justice is not for the sprinters, but rather for the long distance runners who will be hitting their second wind, right about the time that you collapse from exhaustion.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>They are like the tortoise to your hare.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>They are like the San Francisco Giants, to your New York Yankees: a bunch that loses year after year after year, until they finally win.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>You have had this confidence before, remember?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>You thought you had secured your position permanently after the overthrow of reconstruction in the wake of the civil war, after the elimination of the New Deal, after the Reagan revolution, after the Republican electoral victory of 1994. And yet, they who refuse to die are still here.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Because those who have lived on the margins, who have been abused, maligned, targeted by austerity measures and budget cuts, subjected to racism, classism, sexism, straight supremacy and every other form of oppression always know more about their abusers than the abusers know about their victims.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>They have to study you, to pay careful attention, to adjust their body armor accordingly, and to memorize your sleep patterns.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>You, on the other hand, need know nothing whatsoever about them. And this, will surely prove fatal to you in the end. For it means you will not know their resolve. Will not fear it, as you should.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>It means you will take their greatest strength — perseverance — and make of it a weakness, called losing.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>But what you forget, or more to the point never knew, is that those who lose know how to lose, which is to say they know how to lose with dignity.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And those who suffer know how to suffer, which is to say they know how to survive: a skill that is in short supply amid the likes of you.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>You, who could not survive the thought of minimal health care reform, or financial regulation, or a marginal tax rate equal to that which you paid just 10 years earlier, perhaps are under the illusion that everyone is as weak as you, as soft as you, as akin to petulant children as you are, as unable to cope with the smallest setback, the slightest challenge to the way you think your country should look and feel, and operate.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>But, surprise…they are not.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And they know how to regroup, and plot, and plan, and they are planning even now — we are — your destruction.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And I do not mean by that your physical destruction. We don’t play those games. We’re not into the whole “Second Amendment remedies, militia, armed resistance” bullshit that your side fetishizes, cuz, see, we don’t have to be. We don’t need guns.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>We just have to be patient.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And wait for your hearts to stop beating.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And stop they will.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And for some of you, real damned soon, truth be told.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Do you hear it?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>The sound of your empire dying? Your nation, as you knew it, ending, permanently?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Because I do, and the sound of its demise is beautiful.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>So know this.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>If you thought this election was payback for 2008, remember…</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Payback, thy name is…</strong></span><br />
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</span></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-58226683465938356072010-10-21T11:18:00.000-05:002010-10-21T11:18:51.921-05:00Tea Parties - Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Militia Impulse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcVBAU9EYno5kAUT_YMkPwH2hhchsV9KA2fHqAOKSJVCTjp6Xv3hJkQTR8fxXfJ8-nMP0SBaJ6WPqpQvUs9CT7PkcM67XIMBFqzrEVo2jvynbu2RRRftjepUUo86pK6suhBWeR/s1600/teaandracism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcVBAU9EYno5kAUT_YMkPwH2hhchsV9KA2fHqAOKSJVCTjp6Xv3hJkQTR8fxXfJ8-nMP0SBaJ6WPqpQvUs9CT7PkcM67XIMBFqzrEVo2jvynbu2RRRftjepUUo86pK6suhBWeR/s320/teaandracism.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="itemAuthor"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Written by </span></strong><a href="http://www.teapartynationalism.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=user&id=62:dburghartlzeskind&Itemid=279"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">D. Burghart & L. Zeskind</span></strong></a></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This section of the Special Report compiles opinion polling data, documents significant examples of racist vitriol on the part of Tea Party leaders, shows incidents where well-known anti-Semites and white supremacists have been given a platform by Tea Partiers, and analyzes the attempt by white nationalist organizations to find new recruits in Tea Party ranks.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tea Party leaders have bristled at any mention of the racism, Christian nationalism and white supremacy that is a part of their movement. In several notable instances, people of color have been prominently put forward as speakers or entertainers at Tea Party rallies, as if to say: look, this is a racially diverse movement that wants to add more color to its ranks. Prominent among these few individuals has been Lloyd Marcus, previously mentioned in this report as a paid consultant of Tea Party Express.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Nevertheless, Confederate battle flags, signs that read “America is a Christian nation,” and racist caricatures of President Obama have been an undeniable presence at Tea Party events in both local communities and in Washington, D.C. The venom (and spittle) directed at African-American Congressmen during the health care debate carried an unmistakably racist message. It is not the contention of this report that all Tea Partiers are consciously racist. The evidence presented, however, speaks for itself.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tea Party leaders have promoted and provided a platform to known racists and anti-Semites on multiple occasions. Dale Robertson, the chairman of the 1776 who displayed the infamous “n****r sign,” for example, brought Martin “Red” Beckman on as a guest to the Tea Party Radio hour that he co-hosts with Washington state talk show host Dr. Laurie Roth. Beckman has been known for over twenty-five years for his anti-Semitic writings and his defense of militias. In 1994, Beckman was evicted from his property in Montana by the IRS for refusing to pay taxes. He now resides in southwestern Washington State.[199]</span></strong><br />
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Neo-Nazi leader William A. White, serving prison time for racially motivated threats, lost a civil lawsuit brought by five women victimized by his diatribes and, along with the American Nazi Party, must pay them $545,000, a federal jury decided Friday.<br />
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The jury of seven white men held White liable for compensatory damages of $265,000 and the American National Socialist Workers' Party for $280,000.<br />
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As the commander of a now-defunct neo-Nazi organization in Roanoke, White became so angry when he learned of the lawsuit that he fired off letters to the women with racial epithets.<br />
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Annette Reddick testified that she no longer lets her 10-year-old grandson outside to play or ride his bike alone.<br />
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<strong>The "Millionaire Nazi" may just have to downsize. After all of his time in prison, attorney's fees, court costs, and now a civil suit, Bill White might very well find himself on the dole. Of course, this trust-fund sociopath might still be able to tap Mom & Dad for another hand-out. That is...until he takes them to the poor house with him. Karma bites, Bill.</strong><br />
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Neo-Nazi leader William A. White, already serving prison time for making racially-motivated threats, is now facing the possibility of financial punishment.<br />
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In a civil trial that began today in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, a group of black tenants from a Virginia Beach apartment complex is claiming that White harassed them in May 2007 after learning of a discrimination lawsuit they had filed against their white landlord.<br />
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As the leader of the Roanoke-based American National Socialist Workers Party, White sent the tenants letters adorned with swastikas and addressed to "Whiney Section 8 N-----."<br />
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Following a rant about blacks on welfare, White concluded: "You may get one over on your landlord this time, and you may not. But know that the white community has noticed you, and we know that you are and never will be anything more than a dirty parasite — and that our patience with you and the government that coddles you runs thin."<br />
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After hearing testimony about White’s actions in December, a federal jury convicted him of threatening several residents with the intent of intimidating them into dropping their lawsuit.<br />
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White, 33, is serving a 2½-year prison term for that and two other threats. He also faces charges in Chicago of encouraging violence against the foreman of a jury the convicted a fellow white supremacist, a charge that was dismissed on free-speech grounds and later reinstated on appeal.<br />
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The civil trial that began today is scheduled to last three days. The plaintiffs are seeking an unspecified amount in damages.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-56240401380520250332010-08-13T17:35:00.001-05:002010-08-13T17:35:27.743-05:003rd Time A Charm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaq5l9gNkNmlpnuxIGBr9hINvv2zt0TAeIwcj9o2cj6JLt7Y4s9Tg6H4xrmMKNaNr-VJegE1g-Ia9IVILGVXKsaCyM7vPP7YAt14Mkf1bJtodqX153HJDoKr7FPUp94ygIWmzW/s1600/ht.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaq5l9gNkNmlpnuxIGBr9hINvv2zt0TAeIwcj9o2cj6JLt7Y4s9Tg6H4xrmMKNaNr-VJegE1g-Ia9IVILGVXKsaCyM7vPP7YAt14Mkf1bJtodqX153HJDoKr7FPUp94ygIWmzW/s320/ht.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TURNER CONVICTED</span></strong></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hal Turner was convicted today after only a two-hour jury deliberation.</span></strong></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><blockquote><blockquote><strong><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turner's mom and teenage son gasped and sobbed as the jury found the Internet shock jock guilty of a single charge of threatening to murder the judges - a charge that carries up to 10 years in prison. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An ashen-faced Turner stripped off his tie and belt and handed his wallet to a clerk before he was led out of the courtroom in downtown Brooklyn.</span></strong><br />
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<blockquote><blockquote>Read more: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/08/13/2010-08-13_conservative_internet_shock_jock_harold_hal_turner_convicted_of_threatening_to_k.html#ixzz0wWnUkZpq">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/08/13/2010-08-13_conservative_internet_shock_jock_harold_hal_turner_convicted_of_threatening_to_k.html#ixzz0wWnUkZpq</a></blockquote><br />
</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18883279.post-28513157249182506132010-08-10T17:50:00.001-05:002010-08-10T17:51:22.858-05:00Is The Third Time A Charm?<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLM-jGNgF4PnOJtfUlBTySUayNRKJ7GOWiz-uUvgAPkLgrujHqdgRKwuHass8AzgZXY441LmQ-basakTOlLqzQDDMd62ZN0AoXx60ToGmcZYwN_6-uZAUDy-NVT3Le7YqA5dm0/s1600/hal.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" mx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLM-jGNgF4PnOJtfUlBTySUayNRKJ7GOWiz-uUvgAPkLgrujHqdgRKwuHass8AzgZXY441LmQ-basakTOlLqzQDDMd62ZN0AoXx60ToGmcZYwN_6-uZAUDy-NVT3Le7YqA5dm0/s320/hal.gif" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Well, the third time is usually a charm. Let's see what the prosecution does with this one. One thing is for certain - they really want to put poor little Hal behind bars badly. I just wonder how much all of this has cost the taxpayers and just what will happen if the jury gets hung for a third time.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tuesday, August 10, 2010 </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Last updated: Tuesday August 10, 2010, 1:01 PM</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">BY PETER J. SAMPSON</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Jury selection got underway this morning in a </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">federal courtroom in Brooklyn where Hal </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Turner, the ultra-right-wing shock jock and </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">former FBI informant, is facing his third trial </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">on charges of threatening to assault or </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">murder three appellate judges last year.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">A pool of 45 residents from Brooklyn, </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Queens, Staten Island and Long Island were </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">summoned before U.S. District Judge Donald </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">E. Walter who expects to seat a jury of 14 by </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Among the prospective jurors were school </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">teachers, a supermarket worker, an engineer, </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">a university dean and an assistant to the </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">chairman of Barnes and Noble.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The jurors were preliminarily asked about </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">how they get their news, how they use the </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">internet, whether they harbor any feelings </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">about the Justice Department and FBI that </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">would prevent them from being fair to both </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">sides, and if they have any close friends or </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">relatives who are judges.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Other questions of a more private nature </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">were explored by the judge and attorneys </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">A federal prosecutor will deliver the </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">government’s opening statement later this </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">afternoon and the trial will then recess until </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Turner’s two previous trials, in December </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">and March, ended in mistrial after jurors </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">failed to reach a unanimous verdict.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The 48-year-old North Bergen resident is </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">charged with a single count of threatening t</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">hree Chicago-based judges from the 7th U.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">S. Circuit Court of Appeals after writing on </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">his blog in June 2009 that they “deserved to </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">be killed” for upholding local gun-control </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So...this Hardy character has this whole love/hate relationship going with me. He sends me messages being all cozy and sweet and crazy then he sets up a blog where he rants about the government, goes on tirades about law-enforcement, threatens me and anyone else who calls him out, boasts about offing his girlfriend and getting away with it, offers to sell her autopsy photos to people on line and praises the killer who was responsible for the deaths of three Pittsburgh police officers. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Yep...he's definitely at the top of my squirrel list. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Last year he finally got arrested again on weapons charges. They say it's because he posted a picture of himself online holding a gun so they checked it out and found a small arsenal - they really don't like it when crazy people have weapons. But...I got a feeling that it had a lot more to do with the online bloggers who brought his outrageous behavior to the attention of those who are in charge. Wanna bet?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Hardy Lloyd, 32, pleaded guilty April 12 to the charge. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Defense attorney John Knorr argued for a lighter sentence but said Lloyd should spend some more time in confinement because he suffers from Asperger's syndrome and only recently started functioning on a 10th-grade level.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Lloyd's illness "is marked by failure to recognize, in truly adolescent fashion, the consequences of his action," Knorr said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Consequently, he needs to be incarcerated to see why it was wrong to stockpile 10 firearms and ammunition while on probation and to continue treatment, Knorr argued.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Knorr asked U.S. District Judge Gustave Diamond to consider a sentence of three months in a halfway house or community confinement center and three months on home detention. Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Picking argued for a sentence of 24 to 30 months -- within federal guidelines -- because Lloyd continues to be a danger to himself and others.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Lloyd declined to speak on his own behalf.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Anthony Mastroianni, a therapist who has been treating Lloyd for 10 years, told Diamond that Lloyd was under his treatment when he fatally shot his girlfriend, Lori Hann, 41, on Aug. 3, 2004, in Squirrel Hill.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Lloyd claimed self-defense and an Allegheny County jury acquitted him in 2006 of homicide charges but convicted him of carrying a firearm without a license. As a convicted felon, he cannot legally possess a firearm.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">In April 2009, the FBI started investigating Lloyd's website because he posted a message praising Richard Poplawski. The Stanton Heights man is awaiting trial on charges he fatally shot three Pittsburgh police officers who responded to a domestic call at his home on April 4, 2009.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">The investigation turned up a blog entry in which Lloyd talked about his shotgun. During a search of Lloyd's home, agents found 10 firearms as well as white supremacist literature and Nazi propaganda booklets. Lloyd was on probation from his 2006 conviction of the firearm charge. He is scheduled to be sentenced on the probation violation in September before Common Pleas Judge Lawrence J. O'Toole.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Picking said that stockpiling weapons and exhorting others to commit violence shortly after the police officers were killed show Lloyd remains a danger to himself and others. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Diamond agreed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">"He had a small arsenal of weapons of various calibers and types. He had ammo for all those weapons," the judge said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Diamond also sentenced Lloyd to three years of probation. During his incarceration and probation, Lloyd is not allowed to host a website.</span></blockquote><strong>Now, the subject of Asperger's Syndrome emerges every time Hardy gets himself in trouble. That really pisses me off. As a teen, Hardy's father would follow him around tearing down the racist fliers that Hardy was nailing to poles and generally cleaning up Hardy's messes. When Hardy shot Lori Hahn, a big deal was made about his "condition." I've worked with many kids who had Asperger's, and every single one of them have learned to cope and to function in society without killing anyone. </strong><br />
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<strong>While Hardy might have been in therapy for the last 10 years, I have dealt with him off and on for at least 8 of those 10 years. I'm here to tell you that Hardy Lloyd DOES know about consequences - and his intellectual functioning is far above most tenth graders I have known. Of course, when daddy is a well-to-do doctor, I guess sociopathy can be explained as anything he wants it to be.</strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2