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Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut

Posted by timothy on from the coud-be-coincidence dept.

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.

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  1. Censorship? by gcnaddict · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Censorship? by B1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I think this is more about intimidation than censorship.

      By cutting his cable, they may be silencing him temporarily, but more importantly they are sending him a message. "We know where you live."

    2. Re:Censorship? by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Indeed. Even the blogger who had his lines cut is (surprisingly) calm about it. He says:

      "It might not be the Klan or the white nationalists, it could just be a random person who found my address and didn't like what I was posting," he said. "I understand my address is public record. If someone wants to find where you live, they can find where you live, no matter who you are. I'm really not intimidated by that."

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    3. Re:Censorship? by SternisheFan · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Back when my email address was listed with my /. name I posted an anti-Bush comment, got sent a creepy picture of an old tombstone. Intimidation has always been a favorite tactic of bullying types.

    4. Re:Censorship? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      >> progressives are a great deal more curious about the world around them, while conservatives already know how everything
      >
      > I'm sure you'd like to believe this, but it isn't true. There are introspective people from all walks and everywhere on the spectrum,

      What you wrote is true in the binary sense, but it does not address the numbers of such people. It is part of the definition of conservatism to be satisified with the status quo and conversely, progressivism has a central tenant that change is necessary. And while there are certainly conservatives who believe change is necessary, that very fact makes them less conservative than those who think progress is unnecessary.

  2. Re:Steve Scalise did NOT speak to KKK group by dywolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The hypocrisy is thick alright.
    About as thick as that pile of BS you just spouted.

    The dude admitted he spoke to them.
    That's your narrative.
    Case closed.

    As for Robert Byrd, he repeatedly said he quit and left, and repeatedly apologized for the year he was a member, and repeatedly spoke against discrimination and in favor or tolerance. Yes, you got him: he started a local chapter and though it was a good thing, for about a year. And then spent the rest of his life apologizing for and denouncing it.

    But as you said, the narrative has been set, and the facts don't matter.
    The only think you left out is that you were speaking about yourself.

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  3. Re:His ties to the KKK? by orgelspieler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's David fucking Duke. You can't be a politician from Louisiana and NOT know who he is. How do you go speak at a group and not do even a little bit of research on what they stand for? He may not be a neo-Nazi, but he's completely ignorant when it comes to political appearances. How does a guy like that make it to a leadership position in the Republican party?