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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.
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...
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"
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....
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.