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To: combjelly who wrote (588580)	10/5/2010 2:03:34 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1577893

"Times Square attempted bomber Faisal Shahzad gets life sentence By Associated Press \| Tuesday, October 5, 2010 \| bostonherald.com \| Northeast Photo Photo by AP (File) NEW YORK — The Pakistani immigrant who tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison, a mandatory penalty that left him defiant as ever and the judge who sentenced him determined to send a message to anyone who might want to follow in his path. Faisal Shahzad came to court to tell Americans he felt no remorse about his May 1 bombing attempt, and he sparred with U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum. Cedarbaum said her sentence was very important "to protect the public from further crimes of this defendant and others who would seek to follow him." Shahzad, 31, defended his attempt to kill Americans. During his statement before sentencing, Cedarbaum cut him off at one point to ask if he had sworn allegiance to the United States when the Pakistan-born Shahzad became a citizen last year. "I did swear but I did not mean it," Shahzad said. "So you took a false oath," the judge told him. Shahzad was arrested two days after a bomb in the back of a sport utility vehicle fizzled with a mere sputter of smoke, drawing the attention of a street vendor who alerted police." bostonherald.com

To: combjelly who wrote (588580)	11/10/2010 8:50:49 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577893

There are quite a few links to that point on this thread. But I'll post a few more - "Leaders of the country's largest civil rights organization accused tea party activists on Tuesday of tolerating bigotry" msnbc.msn.com Among the charges listed in the resolution, submitted by the group’s Kansas City chapter, is that the movement “displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically.” It references the Capitol Hill incident in March, in which several black members of Congress alleged they were called racial epithets by passing Tea Party protesters. “We need to realize it’s really not about limited government,” said Anita Russell, head of the Kansas City NAACP, of the resolution. nationalreview.com And directly from the NAACP report - "Tea Party organizations have given platforms to anti-Semites, racists, and bigots. Further, hard-core white nationalists have been attracted to these protests, looking for potential recruits and hoping to push these (white) protestors towards a more self-conscious and ideological white supremacy." "Both ResistNet and Tea Party Patriots, the two largest networks, harbor long-time anti-immigrant nativists and racists" naacp.3cdn.net The report presents efforts to control or push out racism as occurring after, and as a response to the report, implying that significant efforts to prevent the hijacking of protests by racists, or any other group with a different agenda, had not been standard practice before the NAACP's resolution. More generally the NAACP exaggerated the presence of racists at the protests, and their connections to the tea party movements or organizations, making them look far more significant they actually where. They even went so far as to present unfounded allegations as if they where solid evidence of racism. (They also present being against illegal immigration and/or against immigration in general as being the same as racism, and they present supporting the repeal of the 17th amendment as racist. --------- But when the (real in this case, rather than falsely aleged) racist comments are from the other side the NAACP isn't quite so quick to make an issue of it - "The now-defunct Leftish magazine Emerge depicted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a lawn jockey. Why did the NAACP not scream “racism” when Justice Thomas’ detractors went beyond criticizing his decisions and instead deployed one of the hoariest racial stereotypes against Thomas?" humanevents.com