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Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 07:19:36 AM MST
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Today we might be seeing the start of the New McCarthyism is the House of Representatives. Homeland Security Committee Chair Peter King will convene the first of what he intends to be series of investigative panels on the supposed radicalization of Muslim Americans.
Rep. King, who represents a Long Island, New York district has been on of the most vocal of the Right-wingers shouting that we can not trust our citizens who happen to practice the religion of Islam because some of their coreligionists attacked the United States on 9/11 and have tried to do so again since.
When Sen. McCarthy kicked off his witch hunt for Communists it was along similar lines. First it was implications that there were people who would not help root out Communist infiltrators, then it moved on to accusations of people who were more than sympathetic to the Communists goals and finally it became a guilt by association hunt where just knowing Communists was enough to make you unemployable and semi-treasonous.
Today Rep King (R-Islamophobe) will be trying to bolster his claim that there most Muslim communities in this nation are not cooperating with law enforcement. Will he do it by calling expert law men from around the nation who've had these problems? Not even one. He has consistently refused to name the sources of those claims (maybe it is because the voice in his head only claim to be a Marshal?)
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Wed Feb 09, 2011 at 07:35:45 AM MST
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It has been a fun thing to shout "Speaker Boehner where are the jobs?" on the blogs and in real life, but the question is starting to become more than rhetorical. The Republicans spent most of 2010 talking smack and outright lies about jobs. You all know the story, they claimed, loudly and constantly, that the stimulus program did not create a single job (a flat lie) while at the same time going to ribbon cutting ceremonies for projects that were going to be built with stimulus money.
They've called everything "Job Killing" from the ACA to the trying to assure the safety of deep water drilling rigs before we had even started to clean up the Gulf of Mexico. It was all about how regulation of any kind was killing jobs. It was all about how if we did not make sure that millionaires and billionaires keep their undeserved Bush era tax cuts that there could not be "certainty" in the market and jobs could not be created.
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Fri Oct 22, 2010 at 06:00:25 AM MST
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Sometimes it worthwhile to examine the language we use and what it really means. English, as it is spoken in the United States, is wonderfully malleable and thus common words can be open to interpretation. However there are some words that should be clear in their meaning, bigotry being one.
My parents were Liberals with a capital L. They both came from places and times when the N word could be used and nothing would be thought of it. This was anathema to them, and they were not going to pass this kind of thing down to their children. The rule in our house was that you could hate someone, but you could only do it if you knew them personally and they had done you wrong. There would be no painting with a broad brush, no assumptions put on one person because of the actions of another person like them.
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Wed Mar 31, 2010 at 06:49:38 AM MST
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It is nearly impossible to calculate the level of damage that the criminal Bush Administration did to our concepts of civil liberties and protections. The main reason for this is the furtive nature in which they made decisions and implemented them. An excellent example of this is a prison program you have never heard of.
In to Federal prisons, one in Terra Haute, Indiana and other in Marion Illinois an experimental program was started in 2006. This program is called the Communications Management Units (CMU) . These special units are pretty damned Orwellian. Unlike other prisoners, people in the CMU's have all their calls and mail monitored (with the exception of contact with their attorneys) . That might be acceptable if it were all that went on, the CMU's also require that all face to face conversations be conducted in English, so they can also be monitored. To add insult to injury there is no touching of visitors, even spouses and minor children.
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