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Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut
blottsie writes Last month, Lamar White, Jr. set off a firestorm in Washington when a post on his personal blog revealed that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the third most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives, was a featured speaker at a white nationalist conference put on by former Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. Then someone climbed in his back yard and severed his Internet cables.
Gee, they fight for their second amendment rights but stop someone else from using their rights under the first.
"My rights are for me and me alone."
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What's the penalty for telecom sabotage in the US?
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Who the hell writes this crap? Internet cables?
Solving Unix problems since 1989...
maybe more to come. sometimes a crime is faked (Tawana Brawley?)
Can we just stop w/ the political stories?
really?
Why wait for any more details? Clearly this is all the information we need.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Clearly, this was done by the thugs at the NASA at the behest of the United State Government, in the person of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise - a Republican, of course. This just goes to show how evil and corrupt our government has become - after all, even the leadership in China would never do anything like this. Government sponsored censorship is on the rise in this country!
Wait, why is this even a story? Someone vandalized someone else's house because they didn't like something they wrote and published on the Internet?
> Grand Wizard
Who do I have to kill to get THAT in front of my name? For a hate group they sure know how to pick bitchin' titles.
Its been done before.
Hard to hold onto the 15 minutes of fame these days
Police report filed ??
That's stretching it a bit. While touring New Orleans to speak about his opposition the Stelly tax plan, he spoke once to a small EURO contingent, hours before the actual convention, not at the actual convention, one stop among many. Guilty by brief association?
http://www.snopes.com/politics...
Providing secular laws and education seems to be the key in blunting the effect of religious zealotry
We can easily identify those leaders who fight against secularism as the promoters of religious radicalism and refuse to vote for them
Wherever You Go, There You Are
It might help if you would stop permeating this lie.
http://americaswatchtower.com/2015/01/01/majority-whip-steve-scalise-did-not-speak-in-front-of-a-white-nationalist-conference-after-all/
Sounds like he may have gotten off lightly.
Except of course that it turns out that Steve Scalise never spoke at the event sponsored by David Duke. Rather he spoke at an event held by a local civic association (or neighborhood group) at the same hotel where the David Duke group would later meet on the same day.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
Just like USSR, China and North Korea does, by jailing people for having a terrorist handbook called ... "the bible"
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
If the Daily Dot is the origin of this story, the sabotage could have been done by either side. The Daily Dot has a network of "activists" in the US and Canada who have been caught false-flagging before. Laurelai Bailey, Dan Olson, Israel Galvez, Peter Coffin, David S. Gallant, and Faruk Ates were part of an operation to plant child porn on 8chan, write news stories about 8chan being a hub for pedophiles, and then cite their own news stories about their own child porn to pressure the feds and 8chan's ISP into taking them down in order to close down an 8chan discussion forum about video game journalism. The same people are friends of the infamous Zoe Quinn who harassed herself on Wizardchan (confirmed by IP address) and doxxed herself on 4chan (a friend photographed her doing it) in order to claim these websites were harassing her. The Daily Dot also blamed "Gamergate supporters" for the swatting of Devi Ever when GNAA member Eclipso, a Gamergate opponent, was tweeting about doing it as it happened. They have not updated their story with a correction.
The KKK absolutely could be behind this as well. I'm just saying they're not the only suspects and may not even be the most likely suspects.
The first people on my suspect list would be the cable company repairmen who know where to find the cables.
NeoFascists is what they are (except for the "Tea Party", who are racist neoConfederate traitors).
And did you think all fascists in the world disappeared with a *poof* (or by hanging) at the end of WWII?
Let's check with someone who speaks with more authority on fascism than any of you here, Mussolini, first fascist dictator, who liked to quote that "fascism is more properly called corporatism, since it's the merger of state and corporate power."
Quick example: Dick Cheney, for the first five years of his two terms as VP, was receiving millions in his golden parachute from Halliburton, who was awarded billions in no-bid contracts for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now we *know* that the GOP Whip is a KKK sympathizer, if not an outright member. Or, as they used to say about the other side, a "fellow traveller".
mark "you're entitled to your opinions, you are *not* entitled to your own facts"
I was more inclined to think Europe and Japan, but I suppose that having no argument leads you to just shout about them damn commies
That's ok, I guess it would suck to live with an out dated view of the world, particularly when you are trying real hard to ignore that which is plainly obvious
Wherever You Go, There You Are
You mean the hate manual that calls the genocidial, omnipotent, omniscient, sky daddy a loving father?
Someone climbed over the fence to cut his internet cables only to be gnawed on by the family's German Shepherd.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
News for turds, stuff that splatters.
I am a witness in a court case against a local city cop who has been running an illegal dumping ring with the assistance of corrupt members of the state environmental protection agency and the county cops.
I got a 2am visit from the state cops and a county cop. They said that a neighbor had his car broken into and some of my mail (stolen from my mailbox) was found in the car. They accused me of getting drunk, breaking into the neighbor's car, and accidentally leaving my mail there. After harassing me and my neighbor (also a witness) for a couple of hours they left. At no point did my neighbor accuse me of breaking into his car and everybody present knew exactly what was going on - the cops were saying "all cops are brothers, and we will break the law to protect our brothers, and we know who you two guys are".
They were really hoping one of us would get noisy or do something aggressive so they could just shoot us, of course. Because every cop knows now that they can shoot an unarmed man on camera and get away with it. Cops are above the law, just like the ultra-rich are.
Pissed me right off, I can tell you. But I stayed calm and addressed them as "Sir" so I'm still alive to testify....
No, by educating superstitious people, and marginalizing would-be theocrats like the Republican clown-show.
... "the bible""
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People tend to realize that the supernatural is imaginary if we allow them a decent education. Unfortunately a huge regressive subculture wants us to remain ignorant and reactionary, so we make stupid comments like "Just like USSR, China and North Korea does, by jailing people for having a terrorist handbook called
I'm calling bullshit on this article and here's why:
Last year Comcast came out to check my line for damage due to squirrels and sent out a 3rd party tech. The guy was super cool and a real talker, even trying to pitch a job at his work because of my tech knowledge. When we got to the part about my line he said he found extensive damage, didn't want to run another new wire, and decided it would be easier to hook me into my neighbor's spot behind me instead of a full repair job. Then I asked what he did with my neighbor's line and he told me he cut it. "Doesn't that mean they won't have internet?" I then asked. "Yep, when they get home they'll just have to make a service call too and we'll send someone else out. Keep us nice and busy." I called in a complaint to Comcast after the tech left but they blew me off, so now I'm ultra paranoid about any disruptions in my service being a lazy tech who may have cut my line too.
Is anybody surprised? Your average republican is a segregationist, homophobic, anti-science, war-mongering, christian religious fundamentalist guy, who keeps many of those views more or less private on the grounds that - well, they are worthy of the Dark Ages, and they know it. And they are in control of Congress.
Anyone who is surprised by this has the worldview of a child.
KKK, ISIS, AL QUEDA, LOL.... Different idiots with the same outlook on disagreement.
They have lynched, raped, blown up churches, intimidated etc. Why are they not considered a terrorist organization?
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
It was cut to keep the idiot of the Internet. He was just trying to stir up crap.
http://americaswatchtower.com/2015/01/01/majority-whip-steve-scalise-did-not-speak-in-front-of-a-white-nationalist-conference-after-all/
If only someone had invented a Jump to Conclusions mat, this process would be so much simpler! Instead, I'll just ask my pet rock.
or Old Overshoe or homebrew or whatever... there is always a fringe group of wackos that self-appoint themselves as avengers, just as soon as they get a little numb and it's dark enough...
those guys will eventually spill the beans to a buddy over a cold one. cops might solve a quarter of their cases that way, working their way in to being that buddy.
dating back to the original assassins, who had to get hopped up on a little hash before doing their tasks.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Really? The dailydot.com??? Next.
Christianity reformed itself in the Reformation which was not only possible but inevitable after the invention of the printing press and the revolution ushered in by German monk Martin Luther. After Luther taught that Christians had the right and duty to read Bibles themselves (rather than listening to selective excerpts read from the pulpit by a priest) and the printing press made it so anybody could afford to own one, printed in his native language rather than Latin, Christians were able to call-out and reject all the stuff that was going on that was anti-Biblical. The Bible ONLY contains refers to violence [1] as historical accounts of people doing them, [2] as instructions to specific ancient Jews to do specific things at specific times and places in the distant past (like to the King David, or Joshua, to go to war against specific evil enemies who no longer exist), [3] as predictions that certain things will happen at some future point (with NO instruction that anybody whould try to bring those events about) and [4] as "Old Testament" penalties for certain civil and moral offenses which MIGHT apply to SOME strain of modern Judaism, but which Jesus explicitly told Chrisitans they were not authorized to enforce because they (like all humans) are not free of sin themselves.
Islam's holy books have long been available in print at low cost, and the leaders of Islam have always encouraged their followers to read the text. The "radical" violent leaders of Islam fear no "Islamic Reformation" because they know that this would lead to adherents to the faith actually reading the texts and seeing that those texts DO command the subjugation or death of anybody who is not Muslim and all the other things modern people keep calling "Radical" or "Extreme". The Koran and Hadit contain broad commands to the faithful for all time and in all places to kill Jews, to conquer Christians and make them live as 2nd class citizens under Islam, and to convert (to Islam) or kill everybody else.
Any "Islamic Reformation" would make the majority of Muslims into Jihadists, just as a "Christian Reformation" made the majority of Christians so tolerant of secular people, atheists, Hindus, Buddhists,Jews, etc that Christians created a country that all these people could peaceably live together in AND where any of these people could seek and obtain political power (unlike ANY Islamic nation).
Who is this "we" you refer to that "greatly reduced the power of Christianity"? The Christians who created the US could have written the faith into the US Constitution as a requirement for office but they themselves chose not to do so. The Christians all across the western world themselves chose not to create a massive Christian empire united under Biblical law and administered by priests, in start contrast to Islamic lands where Islamic law rules and the Islamic tradition that teaches the desire to create a global Islamic Caliphate under which all the people of Earth must live. Just TRY openly carrying a Bible or a Torah in Saudi Arabia, or building a big new Baptist church in Tehran or Yemen.
I know you Christaphobes (yeah, a being a little "cheeky") feel compelled to rant against Chrsitianity and claim "all religions are the same" but doing so is an advertizement of extreme ignorance. NAZI Science was pretty toxic stuff (not just the quackery like "Phrenology" but even the serious stuff like the downed-aviator-survival stuff) but you'd NEVER say "ALL science is equally toxic" because you know that even the most-ignorant reader would see the insanity in the statement.
The first word is Ku not Klu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
He should get a wireless connection and put some high-voltage lines where the 'internet lines' were. Then just sit back and wait for the show to begin.
The group he supposedly spoke to is angry because THEY say he did NOT and they are angry that he is now trying to distnace himself as though there is something wrong with them (ha ha). THEY said that he spoke at the same place, but BEFORE their event.
I think Scalise is an awful guy (for entirely different reasons) but even I am not yet pursuaded that he is guilty of this. He appear to by a typical politician who will go and speak to any group if it means money and/or votes while knowing NOTHING about them or their issues... and then later when somebody squeals about his ties to some group he panics (because he cannot remember which groups he met with because he did not really care/pay attention in the first place) and issues and emergency apology/distancing statement. Scalise appears to have apologized for something he did not do in a frantic effort to jump out of a pot of hot water.... typical lying ignorant vile stupid moron poll-watching politician.
The "blogger" who posted that Mr. Scalise talked to a white nationalist group got the "story" from the son of the Democrat who ran against Scalise in Louisiana. They had this "info" during the campaign but didn't run it because they knew it to be a lie. Their supposed source, whom they won't name, supposedly had a photo of Scalise at the event, but oops - it got accidentally deleted! So, conveniently, there is no evidence of their libelous claim.
The blogger posted this lie in order to paint the new Republican majority as racist because Scalise he was going to be the House Majority Whip. Scalise wasn't there to talk to a white supremacist group, but spoke earlier in the day to a neighborhood association. The person who organized the EURO conference just also happened to be president of the neighborhood association and used the conference availability to set up a meeting of his neighborhood's association.
In short, this is a left-wing hit piece backed by no evidence.
These donors have a interest in making sure their man doesn't go down with the ship before he renders the services already paid for.
https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00009660&type=I
you need to remember four points:
1. It's a badly-written headline: By tradition in the US, the "leader" of a party that holds the White House is the President, and the leader of a party that does not hold the White House is the party chairman (NOT some other person in some other elected office). By any other tradition, any party that has no officals in high elected office would be "leaderless". President Obama is currently leader of the Democrats. The Green party leader is whoever its party chairman is. The GOP leader is currently Chairman Priebus; Steve Scalise is just the "House Majority Whip" (vote counter/rallyer).
2. Rank-and-file Conservatives and TEA Partiers are quite angry with the House leadership (Steve Scalise is Boehner's boy, NOT theirs) so if you do them the service of knocking-off this jerk, you do them a favor.
3. YOUR party was led in the Senate until 2010 by an actual Klansman (Bob Byrd) who nearly all important elected Democrats fawned over, and when he died they all "celebrated his life" and rammed a bill through congress for extra benefits for his kin. NEARLY EVERY elected Democrat spoke to this Klan member. Scalise only ALLEGEDLY SPOKE to such people; Nearly every Democrat in the US Senate VOTED to be led by a KLANSMAN.
4. YOUR party FOUNDED the Klan and is founding members used to be honored guests at Democrat national conventions.
There is support for this as these types are manipulative sociopaths.
There is a state congressional representative who was elected last november and won against the democratic incumbent which is unlikely, historically speaking.
This representative shot a dog with his own gun after it had attacked his daughter who had been taunting it. He was not charged with a gun crime and is known for his hot headed temper fits in the Illinois house but he was still elected.
This is what you get when you vote conservative.
If you are. Think Andrew Breitbart(R) and Michael Hastings(D).
This guy got off lucky imho.
Why do you equate gun-rights advocates with KKK members?
When your hash table only has two buckets, you either hash into bucket 'A' or you hash into bucket 'B'.
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Nice - he didn't talk to the KKK. He was in the same f#$@ing HOTEL talking to some other group!! You guys are dicks and deserve have your lines cut but some other lying and cheating a--hole.
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The funny thing here is how David Duke seems to be a poster child (strawman) for anyone wanting to smear the Republican Party. Back in 1994 I volunteered for the Louisiana Republican Party's nomination convention, and Lindsey Graham and a few other national Republicans showed up; CNN sent a crew to record it and they never interviewed Graham or the other legit contenders, they kept trying to interview David Duke who was an unregistered attendee and kept getting thrown out of the hall -- he was a better story for them than any of the actual Republicans. Same story, different time.
Closing the barn door after the cows are out? Demonstrates the typical wisdom of these people.
First, fuck anyone that is a supremacist of any bent. We're all people and all individuals. Anyone thinks that they're better because of the color of their skin or their gender or whatever is an asshole.
That said, we have no idea what happened. For all we know this guy cut his own lines because he wants to keep his name in the media or create some conspiracy theories. There are a LOT of false flags out there these days. The Occupy movement for example had a lot of people join the movement that did violent stuff that were not themselves part of occupy. They just showed up and did stuff.
There is also a lot of lying. Remember all the big news story rape allegations that pretty much all turned out to be made up?
Okay... THIS is the new normal. I don't trust anything without proof. You say your lines were cut. That sucks. But we only have your word on that. If that was a reasonable way to make decisions we'd execute people on the word of one person pointing at another and saying "he's a cannibal". No. You need an investigation and evidence and the defense needs an opportunity to pick apart your case.
Absent that... you have an allegation and the accused has the presumption of innocence.
And to conclude... fuck racists.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
You think that the south is Republican because of race? The south is Republican because it supports Christian values which the Democrats did away with; yellow dog southern Democrats went to the grave voting Democrat and talking about the coons that worked on their farms. The Christian values of family and freedom extended beyond race; the things that Democrats espouse - 1) Agnosticism and 2) Socialism would only appeal to a subset of the population that would depend on #1 or #2 -- so southern blacks and whites who work and have a Christian background would sway Republican; blacks or whites who are content to live cradle to grave on the welfare teat would then sway Democrat -- the only association with race would then be a negative dependency one.
Lie.
If he was Black they should have just sent the cops round to shoot him.
Why is this appearing on Slashdot now? Especially with such a misleading headline. The kkk ties were debunked last month. He actually spoke to the Jefferson Heights Civic Association. The kkk associated group used the same conference room later in the day. He had already left by then. And all this is from investigation done by Slate which is a super liberal news blog. http://humanevents.com/2014/12...
... and in the DRM, bind them.
"Byrd quit the KKK years before he became a Senator."
DID he??? How do you KNOW that evil rat bastard "quit" that highly secretive evil club??? He spent the rest of his life working his butt off to keep as many blacks as possible on welfare and in public housing rather than encouraging them to move up into the middle class. We're supposed to believe the word of a vile low-life evil KKK member (and NOT just a camp-follwer, or worse: a rank-and-file MEMBER, but a LEADER) when he smiles a toothy politician smile and CLAIMS he has reformed?
I was just playing by the left-wing playbook when I presumed that "once a Klansman, always a Klansman". Sorry, but I have lost count of the number of times some Republican has claimed to have reformed and left his (considerably less) sordid past behind but the left has continued to hang his bad behavior on him. Senator Vitter is a good example: he'd been with a prostitute long before becoming a Senator, had gotten "right" with his wife, his church, his community and his voters but that never stopped liberals from attacking him for it as though he was still involved in the behavior. Dick Cheney had ONE incident while hunting with a friend in which some of his buckshot hit his friend (the friend forgave him for it) but he is still presented as a reckless evil guy who shoots people in the face. Reagan acted in one movie with a monkey back in 1951 (long before he went into politics and became governor of California and then President) yet Democrats were calling him a B-actor who played with monkeys right up to the day he died. Congressman Issa was ACCUSED of some business actions that he was NEVER prosecuted for and that never stops lefties ON THIS SITE from always referring to him as a criminal and/or arsonist whenever they mantion him. Being a KKK member is far more unforgivable than ANYTHING done by any of the people I just cited.
the people that you are trying to provide cover for are pretty much the bottom of the barrel in that category.
to know that the parties basically switched in that area. Of course, you, not being all that educated, think you can BS your way around that little fact.
every body else does it defense. Pretending otherwise is stupid.
This is precisely the sort of sneaky shit the KKK does by the way. If I was this guy i'd get some home defense going on.
You should realize that you are not going to gain any sympathy by assuming that everyone else is as ignorant as you are.
https://m.facebook.com/RepealC... Strange how the cut cable has taken precedence over the claims that Neo-Nazis, the KKK, and White supremacists are threatening Lamar's life.... (Zack Kopplin is Lamar's friend & co-writter/investigation of Lamar's "Scalise Scandal" blogs.)
Education is just as bad as as climate change believers superstitiously believe that anthropomorphic global warming is real.
Only a complete idiot would care about a twenty year old story, especially when not one word of what he said was quoted. Guilt by association has never been reliable nor admissible in Court. I'm just glad no one mentioned the '50s Democrat 'Solid-South' KKK card carrying racists that read their racist beliefs into the Congressional Record. Parties and people do actually change as they learn the truth and dispel lies passed on from past generations.
Never let the truth get in the way if you are a Liberal.
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Someone sent you that pic because you're an asshole, not because you hate Bush. We all hated Bush.
If you're gonna talk about it, how about you put some numbers out there, ya know with [CITATIONS].
And I would call you a fag. Do you, in actuality, suck cock? If you do, then the moniker is appropriate. If not, then what should we call you? See that's the problem here. Everything is NOT terrorism no matter how much you want it to be. Those words have an accepted definition. Stop changing it.
Some people are willfully blind! What also fits the description is his place getting vandalized right after he pissed someone powerful off. Yeah it could have been meth heads. Hell, it IS possible aliens took the damned cable. The rest of us who don't put our heads in the sand though, can add 2 & 2, so we know what's up. He's being intimidated into shutting up. Why are you apologizing? Shillers be shillin....
Stop quoting shit you have no idea about. You fucked the meme all up. It should have read:
Now I'm not saying the Internet cable was cut by aliens but....ALIENS.
Stop drinking poo, drinkypoo.
AC, it is poor form, hypocrisy, and general douchebaggery to go around calling people you don't like stupid when you, yourself, cannot type a complete argument that isn't riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes. Doing so makes people not care what you're saying because, well, you're fucking stupid!
Dude was a KKK grand dragon and proud of it. Served until recently. For some reason this was never a concern because he was a Democrat. Lots of racism in the Democratic party. Yet they accuse Republicans of being racist even though they clearly aren't. Lincoln was a Republican. Republicans gave women the right to vote. Republicans - Eisenhower tried to give blacks the civil rights act, which LBJ defeated. LBJ only passed it, the THIRD time it came to him and only because he had to. Jim Crowe laws - all democratic. Check out Governor Wallace. And on and on. If you're a Democrat, you're a racist in my opinion.
Don't mod this as flame bait until you check. Facts hurt sometimes. Once you know the truth - mod as insightful.
Nice troll. I give it a 2/10. You know damned good and well that the Repubs and Demos flipped in the South long ago. You've likely used it in other arguments where something that happened made your team look bad. I frown on your shenanigans.
I realize that you're a Dimwit, so I'm gonna give you a pass, but not before throwing some education your way. These blogs are not ON the Internet. They are on some web server computer. They will be transferred to your computer for viewing over this "Internet" but they do not live there.
We have a two term president who belonged to a marxist black supremacist "church" for a couple of decades.
I find the right are more likely to shut down guest speakers at any venue they want access to, force firings of people who say the wrong thing (e.g. "We're shooting civilians in Iraq!") and then shun friends who aren't happy with the USA or are gay/atheist./Muslim (delete as appliccable).