"War On Terror" my ass!

[Plaid Adder]

I'm sorry, but I'm extremely angry, and there's just going to be some ranting done.

Yesterday a federal judge named Joan Lefkow came home to find that her husband and mother had been murdered. The police refuse to speculate, but it does not take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that there's probably a connection between the fact that her family was just murdered and the fact that Lefkow was on Matthew Hale's hit list after ruling against his white supremacist group (on a fucking *copyright* lawsuit) and after Hale got put away for trying to have her rubbed out.

Liza knows Lefkow slightly because she has appeared before her a couple times and because one of the other lawyers in her firm lives in her neighborhood. She is very upset, of course. I don't know Lefkow personally, but I've got enough imagination to know how fast I would lose my mind if I came home to a similar spectacle.

But it's OK, because we're winning the war on terror, right?

BULLSHIT! All that CRAP that we had to put up with in the USA PATRIOT Act because it was supposed to protect us from terrorism somehow didn't stop a bunch of white supremacist assholes in Chicago from putting out a hit on a federal judge's family. We can now send 'enemy combatants' whose real names we're not even sure we know to Guantanamo for years on end to be abused six ways from Sunday, but that isn't going to protect us from THIS kind of terrorism, is it? Neither will all the bullshit we're now doing to try to control immigration into this country, nor will the clampdown on student visas, nor will hundreds of the other stupid security tricks that thsi administration has pulled since 9/11. Because apparently, only Muslims, Arabs, and non-Americans are dangerous. Anyone who's a white man and and American citizen must be A-OK!

None of this bullshit was ever about security, people. There is no security. It's just there to allow the government to control the people they want to control and let run amok the people they want to let run amok.

Now I don't necessarily blame the government for not protecting poor Judge Lefkow any better. You can't protect everyone from everything; I keep saying that. But it just GALLS me that in a country that uses "security" to justify destroying every last goddamn civil liberty we have, shit like this is still going on.

ARGH!

The Plaid Adder

[rkc3]

1. And the last time I checked, these groups were responsible for

some good old homegrown acts of terrorism. But then again, taking a few homophobes and xenophobes out of circulation in the US would shrink the right's base of voters.

[HughBeaumont]

2. I'm waiting for this so-called "War on Terr" to actually START!!

[Cleita]

3. You hit on my favorite rant, White Supremists.

These people are nothing more than white gang bangers who say they are Christians and doing what the Bible says. They feel they are above the law and don't have to obey it. They mostly support themselves with petty crimes. But they also maintain compounds of gun toting Bubbas who have no problem murdering anyone who is gay, Jewish, Catholic, non-white or just disagrees with them. They don't end up in prison half as fast as minority inner city gang bangers. Also, many communities tolerate them because they are white.

We need to pressure our local law enforcement to focus on the criminal activities of these churches to run them out of business. However, I wouldn't want anyone's family to be murdered because of it, but something needs to be done or you will be seeing more and more of this because what was once a regional phenomenon has spread like a cancer around the country.

[KharmaTrain]

4. Big Time Shock In Chicago...

Thanks for your posting...and from one in the Chicago area...spot on.

I was born at Edgewater Hospital and spent my early years in the Rogers Park area where one of Matthew Hale's "disciples" went on a shooting spree; killing a black basketball coach and leading to a "Bonnie & Clyde" chase across the Midwest.

They just had the CPD news conference and, while it's easy to draw the connection to Hale, I ask that the investigators go about gathering evidence with little outside distraction so if a link is found, this time this scum bucket won't get away. This goon has hidden under the blanket of right wing fundie groups for years and has created more terror in this area than any Al Queda with box cutters could.

The white supremists and ultra right wing groups are flourishing under this regime where young white males are more susceptible to joining thanks to the bad economy and poisonous partisan and segregated atmosphere it thrives in. The "Nation Security" and "Patriot" is warped with a cross and whipped to a frenzy.

My hopes are the CPD cracks this case wide open and the Federal court here in Chicago gets to expose this syndicate like they did with the mafia and other dens of corruption.

My deepest sympathies to the Judge and her family and friends...this story is a major shock in a city that doesn't rattle that easily.

[mattclearing]

5. That's a war on actual terrorism you're referring to.

The Bushes aren't interested in stopping terrorism.

Only in feeding the flames, both here and abroad.