Tea Party!

[MadImmortalMan]

Eeeeww. 

Protesters Stage Tax Day Crap Session on the Steps of the IRS Building

A group of at least 30 protesters dropped their pants and defecated on the steps of the IRS building in Washington D.C. today in an apparent protest of the US policy to bailout large financial institutions. Onlookers who witnessed the event said that it took only about 30 seconds to complete and was carried out with military like precision.

Most participants appeared to be men and quickly disappeared on foot and into awaiting vehicles at the scene. Witnesses describe them as wearing regular clothes with no marking or slogans of any kind. Minutes after the protest firefighters arrived to remove the neat and uniformly spaced piles of feces from the steps and it quickly became business as usual at the scene with no arrests being made.

Today, April 15th, marks the day when taxpayers are required to file their 2008 tax returns, and the day is looked upon with much anxiety and dread for most citizens. This year is especially noteworthy because of the large Federal bailouts given to major banks that have swelled the Deficit and resulted in a large and growing movement of angry taxpayers that have gathered across the country in National Tax Day Tea Parties being held in major cities.

[citizen k]

DHS issued report on extremism despite concerns
By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer   

WASHINGTON – Civil liberties officials at the Homeland Security Department did not agree with some of the language in a controversial report on right-wing extremists, but the agency issued the report anyway.
The intelligence assessment issued to law enforcement last week said some military veterans could be susceptible to extremist recruiters or commit lone acts of violence. That prompted angry reactions from some lawmakers and veterans' groups.
Homeland Security spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said the report was issued before officials resolved problems raised by the agency's civil rights division. Kudwa would not specify what language raised the concerns.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the report Thursday, but she said the definition of right-wing extremism that was included in a footnote should be changed.
In the report, right-wing extremism was defined as hate-motivated groups and movements, such as hatred of certain religions, racial or ethnic groups. "It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the report said.
"If there's one part of that report I would rewrite, in the word-smithing, Washington-ese that goes on after the fact, it would be that footnote," Napolitano said Thursday on Fox News.
The same definition was included in the agency's March 26 report on domestic extremism. Both reports were marked "For Official Use Only."
The report on right-wing extremists cites the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by military veteran Timothy McVeigh as one instance of a veteran becoming a domestic terrorist.
Several lawmakers, the American Legion and Vets for Freedom took offense to the intelligence review. The Veterans of Foreign Wars defended it as an assessment, not an accusation.
Napolitano said, "We do not mean to suggest that veterans as a whole are at risk of becoming violent extremists."
She also said: "I apologize for that offense. It was certainly not intended."
The top Republican on the House intelligence committee, Michigan's Pete Hoekstra, has asked the director of national intelligence's ombudsman to investigate the Homeland Security report for "unsubstantiated conclusions and political bias."
The senior Democrat of the House committee with oversight of the department said the report raises privacy and civil liberty issues. "This report appears to have blurred the line between violent belief, which is constitutionally protected, and violent action, which is not," Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., wrote in a letter to Napolitano.
The department's definition of left-wing extremism in the March 26 report includes a reference to violence, stating these groups that embrace anticapitalist, communist or socialist beliefs seek "to bring about change through violent revolution rather than through established political processes."
These reports are part of the department's routine analysis of intelligence information to give to law enforcement agencies guidance on possible security threats.
In February, the department issued a similar warning about possible cyber attacks from left wing extremists. In September, the agency reported that right-wing extremists over the past five years had used the immigration debate as a recruiting tool.
Since September, the agency issued several reports on individual foreign and domestic extremist groups such as al-Qaida and Hammerskin Nation, a skinhead organization. The Hammerskin assessment said many of the group's members received military training and fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The latest report has turned into a "political football," said Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif. Harman, who chairs a House subcommittee on intelligence and information sharing, said the report could have been written more artfully, but added that "it was a well-intended effort to describe to law enforcement what things to look for."
"If the result is to dumb down intelligence products that could prevent the next attack to the homeland, we will all lose," she said.
(This version CORRECTS to show that DHS would not specify which language raised concerns.)

[Razgovory]

Eeeeww. 

Protesters Stage Tax Day Crap Session on the Steps of the IRS Building

A group of at least 30 protesters dropped their pants and defecated on the steps of the IRS building in Washington D.C. today in an apparent protest of the US policy to bailout large financial institutions. Onlookers who witnessed the event said that it took only about 30 seconds to complete and was carried out with military like precision.

Most participants appeared to be men and quickly disappeared on foot and into awaiting vehicles at the scene. Witnesses describe them as wearing regular clothes with no marking or slogans of any kind. Minutes after the protest firefighters arrived to remove the neat and uniformly spaced piles of feces from the steps and it quickly became business as usual at the scene with no arrests being made.

Today, April 15th, marks the day when taxpayers are required to file their 2008 tax returns, and the day is looked upon with much anxiety and dread for most citizens. This year is especially noteworthy because of the large Federal bailouts given to major banks that have swelled the Deficit and resulted in a large and growing movement of angry taxpayers that have gathered across the country in National Tax Day Tea Parties being held in major cities.

This must be those "regular people" we keep hearing about.

[garbon]

I can understand that.  But we're not talking about discontent or anything like that, we're talking about stuff like what MP linked to, the nutty stuff.  The stuff that's verging on the crypto-Muslim (10% still think he's Muslim, after all), Bill Ayres ghost writing for him and birth certificate nonsense.

People are generally discontent when the spout nutty political stuff.

[garbon]

Eeeeww. 

Gross.

[garbon]

This must be those "regular people" we keep hearing about.

I thought those were the extremists that the DHS was right to warn us about.

[Sheilbh]

People are generally discontent when the spout nutty political stuff.

You're right, of course.  But I meant to describe a scale from discontented and a bit unhappy, pissed off - like Berkut, or you.  At the other end is the nuttiness.

[garbon]

You're right, of course.  But I meant to describe a scale from discontented and a bit unhappy, pissed off - like Berkut, or you.  At the other end is the nuttiness.

They were just waiting for their turn.

[citizen k]

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_id_aryan_nations.html Last updated April 18, 2009 12:48 p.m. PT
Aryan Nations recruiting again in N. Idaho
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS         

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- The Aryan Nations has returned to northern Idaho with what it is calling a "world headquarters" and is recruiting new members.
Coeur d'Alene resident Jerald O'Brien is one of the leaders of the white supremacist group and said he expects membership to grow due to the election of President Barack Obama.
He told The Spokesman-Review that the president is the "greatest recruiting tool ever" and that "like-minded individuals will respond and seek membership."
Residents of a Coeur d'Alene subdivision on Friday found recruitment fliers on their lawns and O'Brien said a lot more fliers will be distributed. He said the group has "several handfuls" of members in the city.
The fliers show a young girl asking her father "Why did those dark men take mommy away?"
But many in the region reject the group.
"I saw Aryan Nations and put it in the trash," said Garvin Jones. "What's wrong with these people? Give me a break. I bet if you went back in their family history, not one is 100 percent white."
The newspaper reported most of the people interviewed in the neighborhood that received the fliers declined to give their names out of fear of retribution.
The Aryan Nations had a compound in northern Idaho until 2000, when the group lost a $6.3 million civil judgment in favor of two people who sued after being attacked by Aryan Nations' members.
The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations has fought the Aryan Nations for decades and is offering its services to anyone threatened or harassed by the group.
"It's bound to be a small group of people trying once again to bring hate into the community," said Tony Stewart, a spokesman for the task force. "They don't have anywhere to operate from except a post office box."
O'Brien said the group has a location, but it's "membership privileged information only."
O'Brien, who has a large swastika tattoo on his scalp, said he lives in a home on the east side of the city where he regularly flies two white supremacist flags.
The newspaper reported that its files show O'Brien marching in a neo-Nazi parade in Coeur d'Alene in July 2004 and joining in a skinhead rally that drew eight people outside the Spokane County courthouse in Spokane, Wash., in June 2007.
O'Brien said he and Michael Lombard have taken over the group following longtime leader Richard Butler, who died in 2004.
The fliers are signed "Aryan Nations, Church of Jesus Christ Christian," and O'Brien and Lombard on the group's Web site are listed as "pastors."
In a routine assessment of domestic security that was sent to U.S. law enforcement agencies last week, the Homeland Security Department warned that right-wing extremists could use the bad state of the U.S. economy and the election of the country's first black president to recruit members.
At least two residents who received the fliers called the Coeur d'Alene Police Department. Sgt. Christie Wood said no investigation is planned because distribution of the fliers is protected free speech.
But she said it's a crime to harass anyone based on race and such incidents should be reported.
In other Idaho incidents following Obama's election, a man in the northern Idaho town of Vay erected a sign advertising a "free public hanging" of the then president-elect and several other political figures.
Also, second- and third-graders on a school bus chanted "Assassinate Obama" after the historic Nov. 4 presidential election, prompting Rexburg Mayor Shawn Larsen to issue a public apology for the children in his eastern Idaho city.

[Martinus]

I'd suggest sending the National Guard to burn something in Idaho but I am not sure if there is anything worth burning there.

[MadImmortalMan]

Why put that story in this thread? 

[MadBurgerMaker]

I'd suggest sending the National Guard to burn something in Idaho but I am not sure if there is anything worth burning there.

The guy who killed my little kitten lives in Idaho.  Burn the whole place.  Build a wall around it first though so no one can get out.

[Admiral Yi]

Why put that story in this thread? 

Anti-Obama nuts.

[Razgovory]

I'd suggest sending the National Guard to burn something in Idaho but I am not sure if there is anything worth burning there.

Moscow is there.

[Razgovory]

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_Marine_arrested_at_Logan_International_Airport_for_possessing_bomb_making_material

Justin Reed, 22, a corporal in the United States Marines has been arrested at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts after security personnel found a gun along with bomb making material inside his checked-in luggage.

According to Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Reed had traveled on a flight from Las Vegas, Nevada and was on a layover before he continued on to Charlotte, North Carolina. The discovery was made after his luggage was mistakenly routed to the baggage claim instead of his plane to N.C..

Inside his checked-in luggage, authorities found a fully loaded semi-automatic handgun, a loaded magazine with extra ammunition, a fully armed grenade, bomb making materials which included military fuses, electronic boxes and switches, and model rocket engines. The TSA says that it is allowed to have a gun in your checked luggage, so long as it is declared at the gate before checking it in, something Reed did not do.

Reed was arrested for possession of a concealed weapon and unlawful possession of a "infernal machine," says the Boston Globe. He is being held on US$50,000 bail and will be in court on Tuesday. It is not yet known why Reed was in possession of the items and an investigation is ongoing.

Reed is stationed at Camp Lejeune, located in N.C..

Huh.