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The writings of white supremacist shooter James Von Brunn on Free Republic, and right-wing readers' positive reaction to his writings, is mirrored here for historical reference. Free Republic has taken the post down, trying to shove it down the memory hole.



Read the Google Cache of the "Arizona Sentinel" blog cut-and-paste hack job that right-wingers are claiming "proves" that Barack Obama applied to Occidental College as a foreigner. As you'll see with a quick read and the most minimal effort to find the faked sources referred to within, it's a hoax. Also a hoax, therefore, is the claim by right-wingers that the "Arizona Sentinel" is a newspaper website taken down by The Man because conspiracy theorists were TOO CLOSE to the truth! See here for a debunking of the fake "article."



Had it up to here with the silence of the Speaker of the House during years and years of U.S. Government torture? Then shout it to the highest clouds: Nancy Pelosi, Resign!

Sit down, shut up, and go home to your classified wiretap, Citizen.

A novelist could not have come up with a more twisted authoritarian justification for government power. Two Republican-appointed justices of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court threw out a lawsuit against George W. Bush’s program of wiretapping phone conversations without warrants (which the Constitution’s 4th Amendment clearly prohibits). On what basis was the lawsuit thrown out? The justices said the citizens who brought the lawsuit couldn’t demonstrate “standing;” in other words, the plaintiffs couldn’t prove they’d been wiretapped without a warrant. According to the justices, you have to be able to prove that you’ve been subject to warrantless wiretapping in order to bring a case against the government for it. But the reason that these citizens couldn’t prove they were subject to warrantless wiretapping is that the list of those who’ve been targeted is classified as a state secret. Because no citizen can show they’ve been wiretapped without a warrant, no citizen can challenge the constitutionality of the Bush administration’s actions.

This kind of circular authoritarianism belongs in Soviet kangaroo courts and novels by George Orwell. It does not belong in the United States of America.

(Source: Associated Press, July 6 2007)

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