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To: puborectalis who wrote (713166)	5/4/2013 12:53:02 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578965

Nitwit. Reinhart & Rogoff have been debunked.

To: puborectalis who wrote (713166)	5/4/2013 1:12:08 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578965

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the attack on the Family Research Center Liberal Group Cited in Terrorism Case ................................................ By Jeffrey Lord on 5.2.13 spectator.org Leo Johnson, a black man, has never received an apology from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Not a word. Which is passing strange for a group that proclaims itself to be “a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.” Johnson, the African-American building manager and security guard for the Family Research Council (FRC) was shot and wounded last August 15 by an angry gay activist, Floyd Corkins. Corkins was angry over the FRC’s support for heterosexual marriage. Researching the group on the Internet, he found that the website for the left-wing activist SPLC had listed the FRC as a “hate group.” The FRC was listed in this fashion, says the group’s president, Tony Perkins, merely because the conservative group supported marriage between a man and a woman. That is not the reason for the listing, counter-claims the SPLC’s Senior Fellow Mark Potok. We’ll get to this in a moment. But first — the facts of the attack on the FRC by Floyd Corkins. In a U.S. Government “Sentencing Memorandum” filed on April 19 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Corkins’ intent to commit mass murder, beginning with Leo Johnson, is chillingly detailed. So too is the alarming role of the Southern Poverty Law Center described in a case that marks the first domestic terrorism charge ever made in Washington, D.C. Corkins, who pled guilty in February to an “Act of Terrorism while Armed (Count IV), Assault with Intent to Kill while Armed as to Mr. Johnson (Count II), and Interstate Transportation of a Firearm and Ammunition (Count I),” was scheduled to be sentenced the other week. Abruptly he had his moment of truth pushed back until later this month — a curious coincidence since the day of his April sentencing just happened to coincide with the news of the Boston Marathon terror attack dominating the media. The requested penalty: 45 years in prison. To read the Sentencing Memorandum is not only to understand just how close the nation’s capital came to mass murder in the name of left-wing politics. It opens the entire can of worms that has become the Southern Poverty Law Center itself. Raising questions about the American Left and their historic dependence on violence, the manipulation of both history and language, and the insidious influence in both the U.S. government itself as well as the liberal media of what is increasingly seen — even by some on the Left — as a powerful special interest group running what one liberal called a “fraud.” Financed in part by money “earned” by investments in swindler Bernie Madoff’s infamous Ponzi schemes. Let’s begin with the events of August 15. Here is the outline as written up in the Examiner: Corkins appeared at the FRC’s Chinatown office on Aug. 15 armed with 9mm handgun. He reportedly told Security Guard Leo Johnson, “I don’t like your politics” and fired the gun after Johnson refused to let him in. Johnson was wounded in the arm, but still managed to wrestle the gun away from Corkins, who was subsequently arrested. Now let’s shift to the Sentencing Memorandum, beginning with Corkins’ direct answers when questioned by the FBI. (Here’s a brief video.) Recall as well that the incident took place not long after the kerfuffle over the fast food chain Chick-fil-A, in which the company chairman had said he believed in traditional marriage. That once-upon-a-time completely uncontroversial statement launched a flurry of protests from the Left, which in turn produced a stunning backlash of support for Chick-fil-A. Thousands showed up at the chain’s restaurants across the country to buy Chick-fil-A sandwiches as a show of support for traditional marriage. Understanding that, here’s the Corkins transcript: FBI Agent: [W]hat was your intention… You’re… a political activist you said? Page: 1 2 3 > Last ›