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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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Given the state of net neutrality today, it seems to be a Senate seat.
$200 Billion in tax breaks.
They're actually tubes, not cables.
Blogs are on the internet.
...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
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?
Yeah, and now the guy's back yard is full of cats.
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...
Who the hell writes this crap? Internet cables?
I assume this is in the US. Where the cables are in the air going from the house to the utility pole, just like in 3rd world countries. They probably cut the telephone cable as well if there was one, but who would notice that?
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white-supremacist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002
So he confirmed he spoke to a group, but didn't know they were founded by Duke and didn't know they were racist. Where is the lie?
There in no religion higher than truth.
Nonsense.. Even Scalise doesn't believe that.
actually that has been debunked. He did speak to them and he's gone so far as admitted it. He also told a reporter that he's "David Duke without all the baggage"
No need to kill, you just have to put on your robe and wizard hat.
Ezekiel 23:20
Republicans do terrible things every single day. it's not hard to find an instance of wrongdoing from a party that offers nothing but theocracy and right-wing authoritarianism, so don't act like these toxic, regressive assholes are somehow being picked on. It's certainly not just a matter of "basement dwellers" "disagreeing" with evil. Why do the Republicans always claim that their evil is something to be agreed or disagreed with?
Face it, the losers who still haven't abandoned this insane, racist, far-right, deeply superstitious, reality-denying Republican party are terrible people. All the smart, well-meaning people bailed years ago when the wingnuts took over. Nixon and Reagan made huge mistakes in pandering to racists, homophobes, and superstitious people.
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.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
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....
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+
Except that he did not SPEAK to the racist group. He spoke to a neighborhood civic association...you know the types of groups which campaigning politicians speak at 5 or 6 a day? The fact that the chairman of that group was a friend of David Duke and had scheduled the David Duke group to meet at the same hotel later that day is not something you can reasonably expect either the Congressman (state legislator at the time) or his aids to know. If they had looked into the background of the civic association at whose meeting he was asked to meet, they would have discovered nothing except a normal neighborhood association. Why would they have looked into who else was meeting in that hotel later that day? My source by the way is the Times-Picayune and I gave the link further up the thread. Furthermore, I do not see any of these people fussing about President Obama associating with Al Sharpton, a much more virulent racist than David Duke (after all, I have never seen any allegations that David Duke stirred up violent protests which led to someone being killed , whereas Al Sharpton has no done it at least twice).
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
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?
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.
Uh, yeah. If he had been a Republican I would still see some a picture of him with some awful sneer or whatever (captured from a video) along with a hateful caption every single day on my facebook wall. But he was a Democrat so it's all good.
Do you have ESP?
The dude admitted he spoke to them.
That's your narrative.
Case closed.
No, he didn't. The "dude" said he didn't know the group he spoke to was a supremacist group and apologized IF they were.
The reason he didn't know is because he didn't speak to the supremacist group. He spoke to a civics group. The only connection between the two groups was that the same man rented the same room for both groups. But the meetings were 2 1/2 hours apart.
I have no idea whether the man is a white supremacist or not. But I hope I'm not gullible enough to label him as such just because a bunch of lemmings are taking it an running toward the cliff with it.
So what do you prefer to call the coax cable that carries the internet connection? "The network frobnication string"?
The "coaxial cable", or the "cable television connection".
What's particularly stupid is the claim that it took a "power tool" to cut this line. Cutting standard 75 ohm cable TV cables takes all the power of ... a knife. At worst, a pair of dikes.
Now, maybe this guy was special and the cable company used hardline into his house, but even then a simple bolt cutter would make quick work of it.
Let's see if we can summarize this tempest over this awful event. A politician organized and led a chapter of the KKK. He sent a letter to senator saying:
He was interviewed in 2001 and said:
His bigotry extended to gay rights, where he:
This Scalise guy is clearly ... oh, wait. He didn't do any of that. That's all stuff that the highly respected Senator Robert Byrd did.
So what did Scalise do that shows he has "KKK ties"? He was invited to and spoke at a conference that he didn't know was organized by someone involved with the KKK. He talked about economics. Afterwards, the KKK organizers blogged about all the useful information about slush funds he gave them, as if his intent was to teach the KKK about how to use slush funds for evil things.
Scalise no more has KKK ties than Barack Obama has KKK ties because Obama spoke at Byrd's funeral and said good things about him.
He didn't remember the exact group he spoke to, so he said he was sorry if it was affiliated with the KKK... but it turned out it was not the same group at all.
If you'd only read the original link you responded to, you would know that also.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
For those with weak reading comprehension:
1. EURO organizes a conference.
2. Knight, acting for EURO, books a hotel's conference facilities.
3. The facilities include a hospitality room, generally like a lounge.
4. Knight uses the hospitality room for other purposes, before the EURO conference starts.
5. One of those other things is a meeting for a neighborhood association.
6. Scalise spoke at that meeting, in the hospitality room.
Now make sure your tinfoil hat is on good and tight because the next step is a doozy:
7. Lamar White, Jr. asks three or four people if they've ever heard of the association in question, and they haven't.
8. Lamar White, Jr. assumes that any time a group of 3 or more people gather they must obtain government permission and get recorded on the state registry of corporations and DBAs, so he queries that database and finds nothing.
9. Lamar White, Jr. thus concludes that the whole thing was made up to hide Scalise's involvement.
Note also that step 6 involves "speaking at an event HOSTED by", but not "speaking TO a conference of".
See that "Preview" button?
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'.
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.