I wanted to write about a few stories that may not seem to have much in common on the surface:
– Prominent right-wing commentator and movie critic Michael Medved wants you to know that slavery really wasn’t all that bad a deal. (Next from Medved: Why rape is an effective and moral tool for controlling uppity women — hey, it’s not “genocidal”, so it’s OK, right?)
– Did you know that the only reason white people have to go to Harlem is to score drugs or hookers? Right-wing radio host John DePetro says so, so it must be true.
– When is stealing OK? When you’re stealing from brown people in the name of Homeland Security and Defending Our Nation’s Borders.
– Ooopsie! Sorry, we didn’t know those illegal-alien gang members we immigration cops pointed our guns at were actually Nassau County police detectives.
– Two Brazilian immigrants die in police custody: The American press yawns. White woman dies in police custody: OMG OMG EEEEK it’s national news!
– What really isn’t national news any more (at least not for more than a day or two), but is still very big news outside of America, as well as in West Virginia where it happened: Black woman kidnapped, raped, tortured, stabbed, and made to eat dog crap (among other things) because as one of her torturers said “That’s what we do to [racial slur] around here”.
Can you spot the common threads here?
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PW!!!!
almost zed!
tres!
Quatro?
Keep it coming PW. We’ve got to grind these folks into the ground.
Oh, let me guess PW! You aren’t talking about the R-word, are you?
ballz
Only rich white men count!
Everything must be considered from their point of view.
EPU’ed in the 80s!
Gnome de Plume @ 5
I’ve got my Dremel tools right here!
Common threads: racism, prejudice, discrimination.
Subventing philosophy: delineating Same and Other; demonization of the Other
Underlying emotions: fear and loathing
kdh22 @ 6
And the C-word, too (for Con): I was going to add a bit about France’s Sarkozy and his ruinous Grover Norquist policy of cutting taxes to run up huge debts so he has an excuse to cut social programs.
Biodun @ 11
DING DING DING!
Still holding on to my record as zed-less..someone has to do it.
If you want a horrifying view of the treatment of Hispanics/Mexicans/immigrants, watch the Spanish-language news for a while. I don’t know where they get the stories, but there is no shortage of cases of killing, maiming, whatever of ‘people whose skin is a different shade’.
I just went back and read scarecrow’s early morning post on Blackwater. All I could think of was what would have happened if instead of protecting “assets” in Iraq, they had been out in force in NOLA after Katrina, protecting “assets” there. There the assets were material, since no one cared about the people who were left behind. Blackwater and R’s (both kinds – Racist and Republican) would have had a field day with the “shoot looters on site” command that I am sure they would have been given.
Phoenix Woman @ 12
I foresee another French revolution, albeit a petit. I wish them the best.
Phoenix Woman @ 13
Biodun is the teacher’s pet ;)
add one nore- SCHIP VETOED!
Phoenix Woman @ 10
No wonder it is such a fine job :)
billjpa @ 19
add one nore- SCHIP VETOED!
beat me to it.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITI…..pstoryview
Clusterfuck’s veto sets up a battle among goopers. Do they vote to uphold the veto on an unpopular issue and give the dems a campaign issue- or do they slap their own prez in the face? Dems win either way.
From the Medved link above:
Six Inconvenient Truths (Medved’s own title for his op-ed piece):
(These six “truths” [from Medved’s op-ed] were distilled by Nicole Belle in Crooks and Liars, just so we don’t have to do it.)
rwcole @ 22
I’m not betting on the Dems to use this to their advantage just yet.
Recently, they’ve proven they could fuck up a one car funeral.
Biodun @ 11
This is how religion works. Primary religions like Christianity oppose other primary religions like Islamism. Importantly, subgroups within a primary religion are at odds with all the other subgroups – ergo, religion is predominently divisive.
rwcole @ 22
Clusterfuck’s veto sets up a battle among goopers. Do they vote to uphold the veto on an unpopular issue and give the dems a campaign issue- or do they slap their own prez in the face? Dems win either way.
No way it gets overturned in the house.
I predict no more than 60 votes to overturn in the Senate.
So how are the D’s gonna blow this opportunity – served up to them on a silver platter?
Blackwater was in NOLA. I believe the Administration was hoping for rioting and looting on a big scale, so they could test their own prvate army.
Goopers have been spending a ton of energy during the last twenty years sayin (subliminally) “Racism is dead”. Them people a hundred years ago might have been rascists- but WE aren’t and all this special treatment for minorities has got to stop”.
Sometimes it works better than others.
Goopers want to de-nut the argument that minorities deserve any special legislation to protect them from racisim.
Former President Jimmy Carter pushing the Darfur envelope.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..03/darfur/
KABKABIYA, Sudan — Former President Carter got in a shouting match Wednesday with Sudanese security services who blocked him from a town in Darfur where he was trying to meet with refugees from the ongoing conflict.
The 83-year-old Carter walked into this highly volatile pro-Sudanese government town to meet refugees too frightened to attend a scheduled meeting at a nearby compound. He was able to make it to a school where he met with one tribal representative and was preparing to go further into the town when Sudanese security officers stopped him.
“You can’t go. It’s not on the program!” the local security chief, who only gave his first name as Omar, yelled at Carter, who is in Darfur as part of a delegation of respected international figures known as “The Elders.”
“We’re going to anyway!” an angry Carter retorted as a crowd began to gather. “You don’t have the power to stop me.”
Attorney general nominee lawyered for ‘dial-a-porn’
WASHINGTON (AP) — A “dial-a-porn” service and the New York Daily News are among companies Michael Mukasey, President Bush’s choice for attorney general, has listed as former legal clients in documents turned over to senators who will decide whether to confirm him.
Responding to questions posed by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the former federal judge said he also quit a private club that refused to admit women.
The 50-page document, a routine form filled out by presidential nominees, was released Tuesday by the committee. No date has been set for Mukasey’s confirmation hearings.
Mukasey, who served as a federal judge from 1988 to 2006, listed the pornography and Daily News cases as two of the 10 “most significant litigated matters” in which he had been involved while in private practice.
In the document, the attorney general nominee said he was part of the defense team for a dial-up porn service against charges of interstate transportation of obscene materials. The case was litigated in 1987, before he was appointed to the federal bench.
Gnome de Plume @ 16
Ah, but they were (and still are, last I’d heard) in New Orleans to do those very things.
Blackwater’s role in the privatization plundering of New Orleans after Katrina is mentioned in Naomi Klein’s new book Shock Doctrine
kdh
Well, strangely enough, dems ARE winning politically. Most polls show em racking up a BIG advantage in registration and support- it seems to be GROWING..
Yeah- I know- they don’t deserve it- but it’s happening.
kathleen @ 29
This is what a real president does.
Thank you, Mister President.
That is all.
raven says
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:33 am
Attorney general nominee lawyered for ‘dial-a-porn’
WASHINGTON (AP) — A “dial-a-porn” service and the New York Daily News are among companies Michael Mukasey, President Bush’s choice for attorney general, has listed as former legal clients in documents turned over to senators who will decide whether to confirm him.
That’s funny stuff.
He should be runnin’ for prezident!
billjpa @ 19
“nore” must be short for “ignore.” As, we are the Republicans and we can ‘nore black people, brown people, poor people and children.
raven @ 30
Is this pary of the “Hollywood Values” that the Preznit was complaining about?
rwcole @ 32
I agree. I’m just pissy today ;)
Oh and fuck most of the polls.
Speaking of Medved, he’s produced a new “Improved” version of Ken Burns’ The Civil War
Latest Gallup poll:
53% of americans rate the dems favorably
only 38% rate the goopers favorably.
That’s a HUGE advantage.
Thanks Clusterfuck!
Re; The story in Nassau..badly managed?.
Were they looking for ’some-one’? (non gang related). Or, was it a practice-run? (shades of martial law).
Were the ‘boys’ from Homeland SS, employees of the Federal Government or ‘Blackwater’ types?
hackworth @ 25:
Yep. Those categories of subventing philosophy (Same and Other, demonization) and emotions (fear and loathing) operate with race, class, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, and sometimes with gender.
And sad to say: But those categories are permanent in the human condition. Their operations can be reduced but not erased.
And because I think we could use a little good news today:
Of course, the ideal is to ditch using corn for fuel (aside from the husks and stalks) and go straight to switchgrass, which is ideal for celluosic ethanol. But cutting back on water usage alone is a big step.
Badwater @ 36
Porn = good
Mukasey = not so much
raven @ 30
*giggle* *snort*
rwcole @ 32
It would be ironic if one of the legacies of Bush/Cheney was the effective end of the Republic Party.
This article reminds me of a comedy tape from years ago in which Severin Dardin is giving a lecture on Metaphysics- he says at the beginning “Some of you are here by mistake- you want Professor Gilbert’s lecture “Some positive aspects of anti- semitism”–that one’s down the hall and to your right.
Biodun @ 23
That’s just beyond reason, isn’t it? You don’t know where to start. Then you wonder if you have the stamina to write however much it might take to change the mind of such a person.
Is somebody trying to set up the grounds for another bout of slavery? Make us think that it wasn’t so bad then, so how bad would it be again? What do ‘they’ have in mind to do with the burgeoning underclass in this country? Is this piece a lot sicker than it even appears to be on the surface?
(Oh, just for the heck of it … No, Mr. Medved, the U.S. was NOT leadng the way in eradicating slavery: in the 1820s, if a slave could set foot on the deck of a British ship, he or she was automatically free from thenceforth, because there was no slavery in Great Britain. That at a time when ships jammed with slaves, most of whom were expected to die before the end of the voyage, were racing to America to fill the lust for free labor. (You want to quibble about the price of a slave at the slave market?) Just for starters.)
Oh, and by the way:
Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of Rush Limbaugh’s being booted by ESPN for being a racist jerk!
And Republicans like Bill Bennett are defending him tooth and nail!
Badwater
I don’t know if he’ll KILL the gooper party- but he’s sure wounded the hell out of it.
The worst part is that whenever a gooper candidate in a general election starts raggin on the good old gooper game plans- like tax cuts- the response will be- “Bush tried that and it fucked up the country”.
He’s not only killin the party- he’s killing their message- and that’s lethal
In regard to the soldier whose wife is in line to be deported, from the CNN.com story:
The anti-brown-immigrant people are saying this is how the laws are supposed to work. (Of course, none of them will be affected directly.)
Phoenix Woman @ 31
I remember seeing them on TV during live coverage of Katrina, Flak jackets, baseball caps, pump shotguns, and badges. They managed to get deputized at a time when no-one could get water.
Last week on a local(Phila) NPR show, they had an “expert” on Blackwater. This jouranlist seemed to be more of an apologist than investigator. I called in and asked him about their role in NOLA. He dismissed it as: they were hired by some wealthy NOLA citizens to protect their assets. While there the city deputized them and somebody paid their rate.
Bullshit. They did bouncer work and poor folk suppression.
Phoenix Woman @ 48
I bet Peyton Manning is defending him too…
UK to withdraw 500 more troops from Iraq.
Will the last brit to leave Iraq turn off the lights?
rwcole @ 49
I’m thankful my parents aren’t around to see the damage done to their party. My parents were true compassionate conservatives in a much different time, in a much different country than today’s America.
rwcole @ 53
Good one RW!
twolf1 @ 52
Well that’s disappointing.
“So are you a Reagan/Bush republican?”
Badwater @ 45
A near fatal blow was delivered to the Democratic party when LBJ embraced the civil rights movement, which cost the Dems the “solid South.” A near fatal blow is being delivered to the Republican party because W and his cohorts are ebracing naked greed and avarice. And therein lies the essential difference between the two parties.
It is especially galling to hear Republicans in the South say that they are the Party of Lincoln, and pointing to the Dems bad history on Civil Rights before 1964. The Southern Republicans, produced by Nixon’s “southern strategy” and abetted by George H.W. Bush’s “Willy Horton” campaign, are the heirs to the rascism of the “solid South.”
Kathy/Fozzetti @ 27
jayt @ 26
No way it gets overturned in the house.
I predict no more than 60 votes to overturn in the Senate.
So how are the D’s gonna blow this opportunity – served up to them on a silver platter?
when is the vote to override?
I have a few thoughts I’d like to share with my congressf*cker, Tom Davis, who thinks he’s going to win John Warner’s Senate seat next year. And a little song to sing to him.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ZZX6QtpXQ
Not much in the MSM about
Deafening Silence on Israel
While terrorism has been the most important topic of discussion in Washington since 2001, what continues to be considered an irrelevant subject to discuss is American policy toward Israel, which terrorists have used as one of their most important reasons for attacking us. Our government, academic and media institutions indoctrinate us into accepting America’s unconditional support for Israel out of the fear of getting dismissed as irrelevant or even getting branded as anti-Semite. An example is many people’s knee-jerk reaction to President Carter’s latest book on the Middle East, or the reaction by Bill Maher – the host of Real Time with Bill Maher, who is someone that I like — to Michael Scheuer, the former head of CIA’s Bin Laden Unit in a recent exchange. But as someone who has lived under Iran’s propaganda machine for almost two decades, loves this country and doesn’t want to see another terrorist act against it, I strongly believe we
should reconsider our unconditional support for Israeli policies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..66842.html
Micheal Scheuer(22 year old CIA analyst who was the head of the Bin L unit) is interviewed by Bill Maher. Worth listening to the whole interview at the link above.
From Russ: Freshman House Democrats Who Stood With Russ To End The War
Biodun @ 23
Columbus enslaved or killed the Tainos of Hispaniola based on their cooperation to become enslaved. The women were tortured and raped. Food was rationed and the slaves were worked and starved until they died.
Native Americans were the first slaves in America. They were also victims of torture, rape and genocide. When African slaves were brought in, Indians became less valuable b/c they were plentiful and didn’t cost much. The Africans were more costly.
The indians were victims of genocide.
Many African slaves were killed, but not in an effort to create genocide.
This is a blatent falsehood.
Special Credit is not warranted due to the American enslavement and genocide of millions of Native Americans.
This is a false argument. Nobody had any right to enslave anyone.
The common thread is that white women are the most important thing on earth.
rwcole @ 57
If you’re talking to me
NO!
“Bush vetoes healthcare for kids, cites concern for insurance companies’ wellbeing.”
following meme of this thread, I gather that shrub has once again demonstrated his determination to wage war against the poor and brown by vetoing the child healthcare bill. Anyone know if Congress is going to try for an override.. not sure we have the votes in the House
When all funds raised in the period were included, Clinton raised a total of $27 million in the quarter and Obama took in $20 million. While Obama topped her performance in the first two fundraising periods this year, the two are virtually even in the amount they have raised for the primaries, with Obama bringing in about $75 million for the nominating contests and Clinton about $72.5 million.
Even with the avalanche of publicity the Clintons have received, the Post-ABC News poll suggests that there is more than name recognition at work.
Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, 53 percent support Clinton, compared with 20 percent for Obama and 13 percent for former senator John Edwards (N.C.).
33 point lead nationwide for Hillary—it’s gonna take something big soon to knock her off- at this point she looks to be well on her way.
Blub @ 66
Voting next week or week after next. And, no, not enough votes in the House yet.
Per my 41:
What gets interesting is when those categories (subventing philosophy) and groups (race, class, and so on) work at cross purposes and compete against one another, as when race and class cross lines, or gender and class, or nationlity and class, and so on and so on. Then you have the possiblity of alliances across these groups, and antagonism within these groups.
I can use myself as an example: I’m African-American, yet I can say postively that I have more in common with many FDLers (whom, as as far as I can tell, are mostly white) than with, say, many African-Americans in a housing project in a US inner city. I know some would say my saying this is politically incorrect. But it’s the simple truth.
KDH
Naw- I was just imagining a good line for dem candidates to use against their opponents:
“So Mr. Manson, are you a Reagan/Bush repulican?”
Should at least create some wiggling.
kathleen @ 60
Is “Iran’s propaganda machine ” that a typo or something?
rwcole @ 67
We’ll see :)
rwcole @ 67
Pooh Pooh the national polls. It is still a dead heat here in Iowa. That is after Clinton and Obama have been running a big advertising blitz. Go Edwards!
rwcole @ 70
I get it now. Like I said, I’m a little off today…er, I mean a little more off today than usual.
Will Repubs forgo their own primaries, change their party affilation to vote in closed democratic primaries to get Hillary on the ballot?
David Ehrenstein @ 63
Not so much. We can go back to Coulter’s diatribe about how silly unmarried women have this totally stupid penchant for voting irresponsibly (eg, Democratic), until the poor dears are married off at which point they come to their senses.
Which puts the whole family values schtick in quite a different light: get those shameless hussies tied down right away so their right-thinking (ha ha I slay myself) husbands can brainwash or beat them into voting correctly. Covenant marriages anyone?
Nope, it’s all about the rich white males, who are the most important thing on the face of the earth, and their Othering of everyone else.
kdh22 @ 68
so aside from shrub’s ideological hatred of poor children and his belief that the national treasury exists only to fund Erik Prince’s bonus, why exactly did he veto this measure? This “original scope” argument just doesn’t fly.. that scope was established by the legislature, not by the executive branch.
behindthefall @ 47
The importation of slaves ended in 1807. By the 1820’s Congress had redifined slave importation as “piracy” and provided for the death penalty.
kdh22 @ 68
I heard they only need 15, though.
And why not until next week? I thought override votes usually happened right after…?
I have to sit very still and speak very quietly with regard to this SCHIP issue, or else I will split a blood vessel, I am so enraged.
And, oh, that thing about trying not to hate these people? I.Give.Up.
Blub @ 77
His expressed reason was that it was a start down the slippery slope of socialized medicine.
Thing one: All slippery slope arguments are bullshit. (Maybe not all, but close enough so that you may rely on this rule of thumb.)
Thing two: Get with the program, W. People want socialized medicine.
BigMitch @ 80
apparently ‘cept the one where shrub has 300 million people on a slippery slope to hell.
FUCK YOU, George W. Bush. FUCK.YOU.
hmmmm….that didn’t help. Think I need Zen.
“This program takes bread out of the mouths of the starvin insurance companies and puts it into the mouths of little children who are too fat already- that’s SOCIALISM”
Clusterfuck
oddmommy @ 82
yeah, zen is better :)
slippery slope arguments MUST be good- they’re so POPULAR.
Reid Feingold amendment now being presented by (((Russ))) to the Senate by Feingold on cspan2 now.
His expressed reason was that it was a start down the slippery slope of socialized medicine.
Thing one: All slippery slope arguments are bullshit. (Maybe not all, but close enough so that you may rely on this rule of thumb.)
Thing two: Get with the program, W. People want socialized medicine.
Not “socialized” – Michael Moore calls it “Christian-Values” Health Care. (or something close to that – he does work Christianity into it though).
Completely OT, but what is this? and why do I think this is a back-door to even more ‘Big Brother’ involvement/control…
H.R.2640 has passed the House with an unrecorded voice vote, and is slated to enter the Senate under a unanimous consent agreement to limit debate. This will, in effect, steamroll the passage of a bill that will serve to strip 2nd Amendment liberties away from citizens diagnosed with mental illnesses.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4410
Last week it was front page news that
violence (sic) in eyerack was down
Where is this story
http://www.philly.com/philly/n….._World.htm
Afghan violence up 30%, U.N. says
KABUL, Afghanistan – Violence in Afghanistan has surged nearly 30 percent this year and suicide bombings are inflicting a high toll on civilians, a new U.N. report says.
The report said Afghanistan was averaging 550 violent incidents a month, up from an average of 425 last year. It said three-fourths of suicide bombings were targeting international and Afghan security forces, but suicide bombers also killed 143 civilians through August. A suicide attack yesterday on a police bus in western Kabul killed 13 officers and civilians. It was the second bombing of a bus in the capital in four days.
An Associated Press count of insurgency-related deaths, meanwhile, reached 5,086 in the first nine months of this year. AP counted 4,019 deaths in all of 2006. – AP
twȝk @ 83
Better than now?
David “Mudcat” Saunders, a campaign consultant for John Edwards, is out on the campaign trail in North Country in New Hampshire…
“Who screwed us?” he asks, voice rising in incredulity. “The Clintons screwed us.” And, he adds, “Anybody that says different is delusional.”
The Clintons did it with NAFTA, and the Bubbas know it, Mudcat says. Why, it’s no wonder Hillary once sat on the board of Wal-Mart.
“The slogan of Wal-Mart is the same as what the Clintons’ policy has always been for rural America: ‘Always less,’ ” he says. (Actually, Wal-Mart’s former catchphrase was “Always low prices,” but you get Mudcat’s drift.)
jackie @ 87
as opposed to a slippery slope? :)
sorry. couldn’t resist.
Jane’s upstairs with Russ.
The economic system of early christianity is described in Acts of the Apostles—”from each according to his ability to each according to their needs”.
Early christians gave everything to the church who took care of everybody- of course they figured that Jesus was comin back in a couple of years.
Medved’s revisionist history is reminiscent of the Soviet approach. If the facts are inconvenient, change them. We have already seen a lot of this: Bush’s Vietnam years, his failures before 9/11, the rationales for invading Iraq and then staying there, the Petraeus testimony on what is happening in Iraq now, Bush’s response to Katrina, his tax policies, and on and on. I can already hear future Republican pseudo-historians talking about Bush’s vast vision, his values, and his faith hindered and sabotaged, alas, by conniving Democrats working with our enemies abroad.
New thread:
No Actually Let’s Talk About The War Now
David Ehrenstein @ 63
Heavy emphasis on “thing.”
Phoenix Woman, I have only read the last link. Can’t read the others until the OMG reaction subsides a bit. This is why I read blogs instead of the WaPo.
George Bush pushes america onto the slippery slope to fascism.
rwcole @ 83
DING! DING! DING!
oddmommy
RW has the answer to your question.
Less $$ for insurance companies.
jackie @ 40
I think it is “shades of marshall law”.
Nassau County Police are partenred with the FBI and ATF and NYS police in an extremely effective and well done Gnag task force.
Old buddies of min ein the Bureau rave about the work done in Nassau on this issue. The County Executives Office, the Nassau County Bar Association and individual County Legislators have all run programs ans seminars on gang awareness and onterdiction atin the Leg. Chamber, at the Bar Assoc. and in the High Schools. I have been a speaker on some of these panels myself and have ehlped to set up others.
The law enforecemnt professsionls on the task force are incredibale. many come out to do these programs on their own time.
The gang situation in Nassau is one of the best documented and the level of intel is among the best in the nation. Nassua doens’t merely keep intel and documentation on the over all gangs, they have gang sign and wardrobe info on individual “sets” or “cliques” within the gangs.
So, for example we have a “set” within the Bloods called , I kid you not, “Pimps in Pink” and instead f the usual red and black gang colors of the Bloods, they wear, you guessed it….
Likewise Nassau also keeps info on non affilliated gang cliques. You see gangs in America are run a lot like college fraternities. there is a “national” and then there are lcoal chapters and then sets within those chapters.
They are very sophisticated and run websites and have internal email accoutns on those websites. Hell, they even run voter registration drives. How weird is that?
Down onthe South Shore in 5 Towns (somebody point this comment out to Pach) they have a non affiliated gang clique made up of white kids called “Armani Exchange”. Rather than gang colors, per se, they have a gang uniform consisting of matching Armanoi shirts or sometimes head to toe Armani. Hey, it’s 5 Towns.
My point being there is no way that DHS could reasonably believe that they could have more or better gang intel than the LI Gang Task Force. Their abismal performance makes it clear that they didn’t even have mediocre intel.
WHat I gleaned from reading that article was that an awful lot of innocent people had their homes broken into without a judge issued warrant. And the undocumented immigrant was not even there.
This innocent people may have a Bivenscalim against DHS. I think the new Nassau Police Chief showed ancredible professionalism in withdrawing support for this assault on the Constitution and I think Tom Suozzi is showing great courage in taking on a battle with Mike Chertoff.
As for Suffolk, Steve levy ran on an anti-immigrant platform. He even tried to get his Police Officers cross designated as Specail ICE agents so everytime they arrested somebody they could “check that persons immigration staus”–shades of Hill Street Blues.
Levy’s up for re-election this cycle and clearly playing to his anti-immigration base.
Blub,
Owwwww,
LOL.
Phoenix Woman asks:
Fascism
http://www.ellensplace.net/fascism.html
- Tom
Victor and Betsy Gotbaum are a rich, very politically connected, and extremely social power couple in NYC politics. I’m guessing most of the news directors of organizations that covered Carol Gotbaum’s death dine with them.
On the raids in Nasau:
“Mr. Smith said the agency did not count up the number of homes that agents searched where they found neither gang members nor illegal immigrants, only citizens and legal residents.”
“These people are very transient,” he said of those being hunted. “They don’t stay at that location. We keep going to these different places until we find them.”
Only 6 of 96 warrants were correct! I take this and the quote from the HSS guy to mean that they feel they have the right to kick in any and all doors when they go on one of their little witch hunts. We should all be very afraid!