Blogger Who Faulted CBS Documents Is Conservative Activist (AKA. Freeper)

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON — It was the first public allegation that CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush's National Guard service — a highly technical explanation posted within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and font styles.

But it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought. Instead, it was the work of Harry W. MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Times has found.

The identity of "Buckhead," a blogger known previously only by his screen name on the site freerepublic.com and lifted to folk hero status in the conservative blogosphere since last week's posting, is likely to fuel speculation among Democrats that the efforts to discredit the CBS memos were engineered by Republicans eager to undermine reports that Bush received preferential treatment in the National Guard more than 30 years ago.

Republican officials have denied any involvement among those debunking the CBS story.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-091704buckhead_lat,1,494535.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[WLKjr]

1. I call bullshit!

freeper got busted.

[mbperrin]

5. Now let's make sure the bust gets out!

Going to the mailing list of some misguided souls.........

[AlCzervik]

2. Here he is

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:5qIVQ0ysjEQJ:www.wcsr.com/FSL5CS/Lawyers/lawyers1450.asp+Harry+MacDougald&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[WLKjr]

3. He looks like a squirley pos

doesn't he? Looks like he was bullied a lot on the playground as a child and no he thinks he needs to get even. Poor bastard

[AlCzervik]

4. Who ever specualated that he was a member of the federalist society was

dead on, i think it was Grasswire.

[Name removed]

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[johnfunk]

22. Squirrel Boy MacDookey

[Carolab]

31. His e-mail address is there

Let's all congratulate him on his expertise

[sadiesworld]

7. Looser.

:kick:

[AlCzervik]

8. I just read the whole article, what a dick

here is a snip:
"I attended a meeting on Tuesday to organize lawyers for Bush-Cheney in my state to monitor and, if necessary, litigate election issues," he told fellow "freepers" in a Buckhead posting last month.

As a lawyer, MacDougald has represented government waste whistle-blowers and has challenged affirmative action laws that give racial and ethnic minorities preferences in higher education.

He is not a big financial contributor to political causes, having donated $250 to the Georgia Republican Party in 2002, when Christian Coalition founder Ralph Reed was chairman. Reed is now a senior strategist for the Bush campaign.

Associates of MacDougald scoff at the notion that he was doing anything but acting alone when he offered his observations about the CBS memos.

[The_Casual_Observer]

28. He is either a cheap bastard or not very sucessful.

[Career Prole]

9. "Significant Cases"

Duckworth v. Whisenant, et. al., U.S.D.C. N.D. Ga., Obtained defense verdicts for three officers in 8 day bench trial of excessive force claims, limited verdict against DeKalb County to $500.

Alford v. Osei-Kwasi, 203 Ga.App. 716, 418 S.E.2d 79 (1992). Successfully defended jail officer who used a taser on a six month pregnant inmate.

Work for Southeastern Legal Foundation

Drafted petition to disbar William Jefferson Clinton filed by L. Lynn Hogue.

Drafted amicus briefs in the 11th Circuit for SLF in Johnson v. UGA, regarding constitutionality of affirmative action in college admissions, Gratz v. Bollinger a 6th Circuit affirmative action in law school admissions case, Washington Post Co. v. FreeRepublic.com, a First Amendment and copyright fair use case, and Utah v. North Carolina, a Supreme Court case involving the propriety of certain statistical methods in the apportionment count of the 2000 census. Actively involved on the plaintiffs’ side in McConnell, et al., v. FEC, et al., in the District of Columbia, an omnibus challenge to the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.

Oh...and never been laid. Not even once.

[starroute]

27. Southeastern Legal Foundation is Scaife-funded

See http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2000/disbar.html

Any time Scaife's name comes up, you know you've got trouble.

MacDougald is also linked to Ken Starr -- both through the Southeastern Legal Foundation and by their having worked together on a challenge to the Campaign Finance Reform Act.

In othe words, MacDougald is part of the same old Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy -- the one that tried to bring down Bill Clinton, was involved in smearing John McCain in 2000, and is now organizing the SwiftBoat Liars.

[UpInArms]

36. and per his bio

Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, 1985-present

They have been indoctrinating and creating an entire cadre of right-wing attorneys in the mold of Renquist et al for years

http://www.fed-soc.org/

http://www.fed-soc.org/ourpurpose.htm

Law schools and the legal profession are currently strongly dominated by a form of orthodox liberal ideology which advocates a centralized and uniform society. While some members of the academic community have dissented from these views, by and large they are taught simultaneously with (and indeed as if they were) the law.

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.

The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities. This entails reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law. It also requires restoring the recognition of the importance of these norms among lawyers, judges, and law professors.

In working to achieve these goals, the Society has created a conservative and libertarian intellectual network that extends to all levels of the legal community.

[Sophree]

47. "Ends justify the means"

Scaife and the VRWC are "Ends justify the means" people.

I would not put ANYTHING past them and it's not surprising that MacDougald/Buckhead is a part of it.

[bobbyboucher]

10. Check this:

Alford v. Osei-Kwasi, 203 Ga.App. 716, 418 S.E.2d 79 (1992). Successfully defended jail officer who used a taser on a six month pregnant inmate.

Nice.

[a_random_joel]

11. A TRIAL LAWYER!!!

Oh the irony!!!

Wonder if he's gay to boot...

[saigon68]

12. He's their TRIAL LAWYER

You Know the ones who represent HALLIBURTON and the ones who represent MANAGEMENT TO BUST UNIONS

That kind of TRIAL LAWYER.

Not the one who represents an innocent child who had its arm cut off by some big Corporation's Defective Product

[EST]

13. Oh, the world, she am a-changing...

(from a song by Pinhead Earl)

[Zorra]

14. So the media picks up comments from a completely unqualified moran

who has no expertise in typography, who was keying smack in a blog, and makes major news out of it almost instantaneously?

And the little moran turns out to be a conservative activist?

This means that there are, in all probability, only two possible scenarios: Either the memos are genuine, and this controversy is a load of crap, or MacDougal was part of a set-up by Rove or some other republican slimebag.

[KittyWampus]

20. If Memos Genuine- Rove Had Heads Up Thus Enabling Smear To Be Ready

If Memos Forged- Rove did it and had smear ready.

[scarletlib]

35. CBS did ask White House for its comments

prior to airing the program. So I think it is fair to say that KKKarl did have a "heads up" that this was coming out.

[dansolo]

46. Could this guy be forced to testify?

The Republicans in Congress were pushing hard for an investigation of CBS. Since this guy has been identified, and admits he was the source for the initial forgery claims, he would be a logical witness if Congress did have hearings. If he was alerted to the documents before the airing of 60 minutes, he can be compelled to reveal his source under oath. I'd love to see this guy rot in jail for a contempt charge if he refuses.

[Qutzupalotl]

55. Could he be disbarred for commiting libel?

He basically accuses people of fabricating documents, when he fabricated his expertise. That's fraud, right? Then hurled accusations without the slightest evidence.

Old typewriters couldn't do proportional spacing? Umm, yes they could. Old typewriters couldn't do superscripts? Yes, they could. Knox even specifically said hers could too.

"Times New Roman or Palatino"?!
:wtf:

Neither one. Typewriter.

[rawstory]

15. RAW STORY reported this Aug. 9; Both sources are conservatives, actually

But we're banned from posting our stuff in LBN, so we're sorry we couldn't get the story to you. Actually both of them are conservative activists:

***

By John Byrne | Raw Story Editor

<snip>

The source of his story, Cybercast News Service, is a well-known conservative ‘news’ machine headed by L. Brent Bozell III, who also serves as the head of the Conservative Victory Committee. CNS News was founded in 1988 to combat the “ liberal bias in many news outlets”.

Unlike Rupert Murdoch, whose empire includes the conservative television outlet Fox News, Bozell is not simply to be the leader of a conservative media company (the Media Research Center is also under his control); he has campaigned aggressively for conservative candidates, including Pat Buchanan. He is the nephew of conservative columnist William Buckley, and the son of Brent Bozell, Jr., who assisted Barry Goldwater with the writing of Conscience of a Conservative.

The Media Research Center, along with Bozell, took part in the drive to eradicate PBS.

Here’s a quick statement from his online autbiography.

Mr. Bozell also serves as Executive Director of the Conservative Victory Committee (CVC). An independent multi-candidate political action committee, the CVC has helped to elect dozens of conservative candidates over the past ten years. He has also served as National Finance Chairman for the Buchanan for President campaign, and Finance Director and later President of the National Conservative Political Action Committee.

His other ‘news source’ is a conservative blogger, who sits on the board of directors for a conservative thinktank.

Powerline blog is associated with the Twin Cities Northern Alliance Radio Network, a loose association of self-avowed conservative radio shows and blogs based in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The author, Scott Johnson is an attorney based in St. Paul who is associated and has written extensively for the Center of the American Experiment, “Minnesota’s Conservative Thinktank.”

He has published such papers as “The Truth about Income Inequality,” which claims that income inequality has not increased in America in recent years. Rather to the contrary, Johnson claims “these stories have been based, almost universally, on biased analyses which manipulate and distort the underlying economic facts.”

Johnson is employed as an attorney for the Claremont Institute, a conservative institution in Claremont, CA whose mission is “to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.”

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=291

[OKNancy]

19. Harry W. MacDougald

is not mentioned in your article, which at least on my browser is partially blocked by the calendar on the left.

[Eloriel]

44. You should post your stuff in GD instead of not at all

I actually understand both sides of this "disagreement." But post your stuff in GD -- that seems to be the more active forum anyway.

[devilgrrl]

16. When in doubt - just make shit up.

Rule #1 in the GOP playbook.

[Name removed]

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[Dulcinea]

18. From Google:

Harry W. MacDougald
One Atlantic Center
Suite 3500
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30309

[grasswire]

25. Are you nuts?

Nobody needs to go about trying to get this guy fired from his law firm. Geez. That's what FREEPERS do!

We just want to know who he is. And now we do. And if a connection turns up showing that Buckhead had instructions from the WH, he'll be exposed by the LA Times.

[jmowreader]

38. There's no way we'd get him fired from his law firm

When you consider what he works for, if we sent this shit to his bosses they'd name him employee of the month.

Let's see:

1. Karl Rove is tied to the Swiftboat liars.
2. This guy is tied to Kenneth Starr.
3. Does anyone have any proven links between Kenneth Starr and Karl Rove--which would demonstrate a channel between Rove and this guy--or directly from this guy to Rove?

Trust me: Rove's slimy little fingers are on this shit whether it's real or not.

[starroute]

49. Rove/Starr links are indirect but telling

You can find the links in coverage of the SwiftBoat controversy. Rove was just far enough away from the key players to maintain plausible deniability -- and yet his name comes up again and again. Merrie Spaeth is a key linking figure between the Bush White House on one hand and the Starr/Scaife axis on the other.


"Few voters probably know of Spaeth's role in the escalating controversy, but her name is being increasingly offered as evidence of complicity by Bush's chief adviser, Karl Rove, and a network of his most dependable Texas Republicans. And over her varied career, rough-and-tumble politics are nothing new.

"In this case, she said, her time and effort are donated. The Swift Boat Veterans' leaders met in her office for 12 hours or so to plan their initial assault. One of Spaeth's roles was to recommend a private investigator to gather information from other veterans who served with Kerry. Some veterans contacted by the investigator, Tom Rupprath of Rockwall, Texas, said their stories were distorted to make Kerry look bad.

"The Swift Boat Veterans have been bankrolled largely by $200,000 from Bob Perry, a conservative Houston businessman and top Republican donor. Perry is a longtime friend of Bush strategist Karl Rove and John O'Neill, the former law partner of Spaeth's husband, Tex Lezar, who died in January."

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/special_packages/election2004/voters_guide/9462212.htm?1c


"Spaeth's partisanship runs still deeper, as does her history of handling difficult P.R. cases for Republicans. In 1998, for example, she coached Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel, to prepare him for his testimony urging the impeachment of President Clinton before the House Judiciary Committee. She even reviewed videotapes of his previous television appearances to give him pointers about his delivery and demeanor.

"The man responsible for arranging her advice to Starr was another old friend of her late husband's, Theodore Olson, who was counsel to the right-wing American Spectator when it acted as a front for the dirty-tricks campaign against Clinton known as the Arkansas Project; he is now the solicitor general in the Bush Justice Department. (Olson also happens to be the godfather of Spaeth's daughter.)

"In 2000, Spaeth participated in the most subterranean episode of the Republican primary contest when a shadowy group billed as 'Republicans for Clean Ai'" produced television ads falsely attacking the environmental record of Sen. John McCain in California, New York and Ohio.

"While the identity of those funding the supposedly 'independent' ads was carefully hidden, reporters soon learned that Republicans for Clean Air was simply Sam Wyly -- a big Bush contributor and beneficiary of Bush administration decisions in Texas -- and his brother, Charles, another Bush 'Pioneer' contributor."

http://www.ginonapoli.com/textdocs/conason_swiftBoatLies_0807_2004.htm


"Spaeth At First Denied Making Multiple Visits to White House—Later Corected Her Story. 'When asked if she had ever visited the White House during Mr. Bush's tenure, Ms. Spaeth initially said that she had been there only once, in 2002, when Kenneth Starr gave her a personal tour. But this week Ms. Spaeth acknowledged that she had spent an hour in the Old Executive Office Building, part of the White House complex, in the spring of 2003, giving Mr. Bush's chief economic adviser, Stephen Friedman, public speaking advice. Asked if it was possible that she had worked with other administration officials, Ms. Spaeth said, "The answer is 'no,' unless you refresh my memory'.' {NYT, 8/20/04}"

http://www.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/082104_swift_b.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

21. He's also a member of the Fulton County Board of Elections

I wonder if his freeping activities would be a legal or ethical conflict with his position in overseeing local elections?


http://valhalla.iscg.net/news/item.php?keyid=7825&page=1&category=23&scategory=0

In October, the Fulton County Elections Board sent Cox a letter that asked pointed questions about the security of Georgia´s voting machines. The state´s largest county uses 2,975 machines. Harry MacDougald, a Republican board member, wrote the letter after hearing about Rubin´s report.

Cox wrote a six-page response explaining the procedures in place to ensure the machines cannot be manipulated.

The Fulton board replied Dec. 1, telling Cox she had alleviated members´ concerns.

"I feel reasonably comfortable," MacDougald said recently. "There´s always a theoretical possibility . That can never be excluded, regardless of the voting technology. But the measures that were previously in place, with the new measures and technical fixes that are being made, bring the issue within a reasonable degree of security."

[starroute]

30. Cathy Cox is somebody the BBV people keep freaking out about

Here's a DU article from a couple of months back:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/06/11_diebold.html

"Georgia's Secretary of State, Cathy Cox, could easily be considered the official Poster Girl for Diebold Election Systems, Inc.

"Her photo appears on their website alongside a glowing quotation praising them to the skies. She also loaned them the Georgia State Seal, for that 'official' look. And she is defending the statewide implementation of Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting machines, more commonly known as touch screen voting, in the face of overwhelming evidence of security flaws and unreliable performance."


In this case, I doubt that MacDougald was being anything other than naive in being willing to accept her word without question on the voting machines. But it is a little funny to see her name come up in this context.

[Ridiculous Bill]

23. buckhead

i can only presume reporters are en route to ask buckhead to prove his knowledge of typing arcana. i hope this story has legs. way to go la times

[Name removed]

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[emulatorloo]

42. Go research IBM selectrics. Anybody who worked in an office in the 70s

knows exactly what you could do with them, and you could do a lot. Furthermore, they know that you and Buckhead are making stuff up to muddy the water.

wilkipedia

<The ability to change fonts, combined with the neat regular appearance of the typed page, was revolutionary and marked the beginning of desktop publishing. Later models with selective pitch and built-in correcting tape carried the trend even further. Any typist could produce a polished manuscript. By 1966, a full typesetting version with justification and proportional spacing was released.>

more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter

[peacetalksforall]

24. Ignore

[johnnyrocket]

26. That's suspicious! I'm telling you the memos where planted

by Rove operatives to take down CBS.

[IndianaGreen]

29. The documents are forgeries regardless of who the blogger is

and Dan Rather and CBS News are stonewalling.

[Carolab]

32. I think there's a typo

in the screen name...There's a "B" where there should have been an "F"

[DeepModem Mom]

34. Let's CONTACT and thank this reporter, [email protected], and...

the LA Times --

National News comment form:

http://www.latimes.com/services/site/la-comment-dcbureau,0,4392320.htmlstory

[spooked]

37. Harry has a vicious streak...look at this letter he wrote

http://politicalvine.com/letters/lettersview.asp?c=3469

Maybe Trent Got Mr. MacDougald's Letter...

Sunday, December 22, 2002

(PV Notes: The following letter was submitted to the RNC earlier this week and is being reprinted with author permission.)

Trent Lott must resign as majority leader. I have been voting Republican and giving money and been active in the Party for many years. I have always been appalled by Trent Lott, and have always thought of him has as an unctuous, gutless, spineless, craven helmet-haired weasel of the first order. He surrenders to the enemy more than the French. He is a doormat for Daschle, and was a knee-pad wearing accessory after the fact for his secret crush, Bill Clinton.

He is a vacuous, vapid ignoramus. He is the author of Lott's Doctrine of Preemptive Capitulation. Except, of course, when he is sticking it to his own party. Then he is willing to burn down the Senate in order to preserve his sinecure and the perquisites of his office. He is a disgusting rodent of a man but is really much more of a Nancy Boy than a man.

Rather than letting him gratify his ego lust by hanging on to the Senate Majority Leadership, may I suggest just paying someone to walk around behind him calling him "Leader" every few minutes in a room full of mirrors, and throwing in a life-time supply of Aqua Net hairspray? He would be equally happy, and we would all be a lot better off.

The latest imbroglio is just more more good reason this pathetic loser, this pale pint-size knock-off of a genuine leader, has to be removed from the leadership. He has got us so far off message we need a trip planner and a telescope to find it again. He has gladly capitulated to a constellation of race-hustling poverty pimps in an repellent effort to hang on at all costs.

Get rid of this weasel or go down in flames with him.

Harry W. MacDougald
Atlanta, GA

[Obamarama]

41. Sounds like this guy is wound just a little too tight....

Maybe all that hate bottled up in him will lead to a case of spontaneous combustion.

[cal04]

39. Seattle Times Story

"Buckhead," who said CBS memos were forged, is a GOP-linked attorney
It was the first public allegation that CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush's National Guard service — a highly technical explanation posted within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and font styles.
But it did not come from an expert in typography or typewriter history as some first thought. Instead, it was the work of Harry MacDougald, an Atlanta lawyer with strong ties to conservative Republican causes and who helped draft the petition urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to disbar President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Los Angeles Times has found.

The identity of "Buckhead," a blogger known previously only by his screen name on the Web site freerepublic.com and lifted to folk-hero status in the conservative blogosphere since last week's posting, is likely to fuel speculation among Democrats that the efforts to discredit the CBS memos were engineered by Republicans eager to undermine reports that Bush received preferential treatment in the National Guard more than 30 years ago. Republican officials have denied involvement among those debunking the CBS story.

Reached by telephone yesterday, MacDougald, 46, confirmed that he is Buckhead but declined to answer questions about his political background or how he knew so much about the CBS documents so quickly.
"You can ask the questions, but I'm not going to answer them," he said. "I'm just going to stick to doing no interviews."

Until he was identified by piecing together information from his postings over the past two years, MacDougald had taken pains to remain in the shadows — saying the credit for challenging CBS should remain with the blogosphere as a whole and not one individual. MacDougald is a lawyer in the Atlanta office of the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and is affiliated with two prominent conservative legal groups, the Federalist Society and the Southeastern Legal Foundation, where he serves on the legal-advisory board.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002039080_buckhead18.html

[biblio]

40. Another Macdougald Connection

The Freeper story got picked up very quickly by "Powerline" which credited "Elizabeth Macdougald" for alerting them to Buckhead's Freep post. So Harry writes the critique, Liz gets the word out, and voila, instant media event.

[spooked]

45. very interesting

do you have a link?

[SayitAintSo]

43. EVEN IF ROVE PLANTED THEM....

I think it was a good thing ... it got the story out, lots of news coverage, more than it would have otherwise. I think if they (ROVE) did it - it backfired big time ....CBS may take a hit but Bush's credibility has taken a bigger one... CBS ....collateral damage ... they will recover ...

[KayLaw]

48. I knew it

When I read yesterday that the Republicans didn't want an investigation after all. I think Rove knew the AWOL story was coming out and there was nothing he could do about it. He had someone fax the fakes to CBS, has MacDougald get the story of fake documents started on the internet, and suddenly the story isn't about Bush's past at all - it's about that horrid John Kerry - out of desperation - sending phony documents about poor little Dubya to CBS, and Dan Rather dutifully reporting the lies. MacDougald's big mistake was not waiting long enough before posting all that information.

There needs to be an investigation for sure. These people are just plain evil. Can you imagine scheming against a war hero?

[johnfunk]

50. McDougald ethics breach? I wonder if, in the process of posting "facts"...

... that were clearly not vetted -- and that turned out to be outright lies (i.e. superscript "th" did not exist on typewriters of the period when in fact they did) -- Buckhead violated the ethics code of the Georgia Bar Association.

Y'know, lawyers have been disbarred for far less...

Any legal experts out there who can address the issue?

[mirandapriestly]

51. oops

I'm so embarrassed I didn't see this and I was posting it in other places on the site. so much for my debut. good article

[johnfunk]

53. Welcome Miranda.

I dated a Miranda in college, but she was far from priestly (pardon the pun)...

[johnfunk]

52. The "Elves": They're BAAAAAAAACK!

Buckhead watchers should take a look at the article just poated to Editor and Publisher, particularly this:

Suspicions that MacDougald may have been tipped off have arisen because his quick comments on typography seemed to go far beyond his reputed expertise. He wrote that the memos purportedly written in the early 1970s by the late Lt. Col Jerry B. Killian were "in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman....The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software and personal computers," MacDougald wrote. "They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts."

Interestingly, Lambert at Corrente picked up on this same 'graf, and has three points worth reiterating:

(1) the quickness of FBuckhead's response, (2) his typographic comments were lies, as we've repeatedly demonstrated (take the PC magazine tests).

Gee, it's almost like the Republicans think they're in a war, and have pre-positioned the material for their campaign, isn't it? That's what enables rapid response, after all. (If only they could fight real wars so well. Oh, wait...)

And now (3) the source of the typographic lies was a Republican operative. A classic case of the winger meme transmittal from the fringe to the mainstream, per Orcinus (in his essential "Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism.")

Yep -- the "elves" are back.

[johnfunk]

54. KICK

So... what SHOULD we do about this Buckhead thug? Anyone?

[starroute]

56. More on Southeastern Legal Foundation

I've been Googling them like crazy and posting the results at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x837236

Southeastern Legal played a major role in the attacks on Bill Clinton, worked to destroy Cynthia McKinney, and has ties to Bob Barr (former president and current member of the legal advisory board) and Newt Gingrich (close friend of former president Matthew Glavin.)

They're also notorious for pursuing an explicitly racist agenda and are suspected of aiming to overturn the 1965 Civil Rights Act.

Please check out the links -- this is bigger than just the matter of Buckhead.