http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/political-convictions/Content?oid=14397498 Comments On: Political Convictions? by Brendan Kiley en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Mahhn]]> Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:31:15 -0700 The Stranger
And you want us to believe you because you're right. "Here, drink this kool-aid", you say...

Regarding the actual article, which no one seems to actually care about... If they were so innocent, why not simply state that instead of "refusing to take part". That's a pretty pointless statement.

If they're so persecuted, why are they allowed free access to the internet and access to all their assets and donations. I mean, are you claiming they're elite hackers who smuggle the internet out of solitary, or are you continuing the wonderful duality of "the government is a secret illuminati that runs complex mind-altering plots... yet is completely incompetent and can't manage to do anything correctly"? And this makes sense to you?

Do you not understand the hypocrisy of advocating questioning of the government (usually some fraction of the government that happens to think differently than you) but not your own sources? Question EVERYTHING. Don't somehow believe you are a prophet with the intuition to weed truth from lies. You're not smarter than the "majority". Being brainwashed by the minority doesn't make you clever or original; at best it makes for wry humor, like avoiding the pitfall but tripping on the banana peel.

If the government really COULD run the conspiracies that seem to be dreamed up some places, how is it that YOU somehow discovered it, can talk freely about it without fear of retribution, and can publicly spread this message? That's the grand irony of this article. If they really were the political martyrs they claimed to be, they'd have closed the hearings, seized their assets, and avoided these articles.
Posted by therhyno]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:48:57 -0700 The Stranger Posted by TerminalWords]]> Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:52:08 -0700 The Stranger Posted by wiley37]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:15:09 -0700 The Stranger
I think the cops should be arresting the gangster banksters who brought down our entire economy not a few window breakers.

And, 9/11 truth has not been told and needs to be. Sibel Edmonds, Boiling Frogs dot org, a witness that the U.S. KNEW what was happening before 9/11 and that Osama Bin Laden was named as CIA operative in those documents at that time.
Posted by survivorthriver]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:05:44 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:06:16 -0700 The Stranger
At the same time, I'm not fooled by the argument that anarchists are all warm and fuzzy but just misunderstood or unfairly maligned. In 1989, my younger sister showed me a few copies of an anarchist newsletter that was circulating in her high school. The newsletter made repeated suggestions that anarchists rise up and kill the police. They had published names of specific officers with their home addresses. There are some definite whackadoodles within the anarchist community, so I don't blame the locals for wanting some investigation into the property damage.
Posted by Diagoras]]> Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:40:20 -0700 The Stranger Can't we just take away all their filthy money?
Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:28:01 -0700 The Stranger
I bet as FBI agents, with assault rifles drawn, smashed through her front door with a battering ram, Plante's first thoughts were, "Thank god for Obama! Think what would happen with a Republican in the White House."

Posted by Fire Aim Ready]]> Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:35:37 -0700 The Stranger
*Reads an article about people being arrested for possessing left-wing literature*

*Interprets this as evidence that left-wingers are the ones trying to control what you read*

*Never realizes how stupid this is, even in all the time it takes him to shit out his paragraph, hit submit, and hit confirm*

Who could expect anything less from a right-winger?
Posted by Bonefish]]> Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:57:33 -0700 The Stranger Your insecurity is showing
Posted by jtripper22]]> Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:25:36 -0700 The Stranger Posted by You idiots]]> Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:26:07 -0700 The Stranger
Committee Against Political Repression
http://nopoliticalrepression.wordpress.c…

if you want to get more involved!
Posted by Jared Smith]]> Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:42:09 -0700 The Stranger @41, repete,

Negative, sonny wonni, and neither is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…

You need to do three things, sonny wonny:

(1) learn how to do a forensic audit, then perform such an audit on (2) the League of Conservation Voters and the Nature Conservancy, and (3) do some research on the full history of the ACLU -- might find your sorry butt enlightened, for a change!

http://www.globalresearch.ca/coverStoryP…

Posted by sgt_doom]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:14:00 -0700 The Stranger
The FBI should go after real criminals like the guy in aurora that purchased 6,000 rounds of assault rifle ammo online. Don't tell me the feds aren't monitoring that.
Posted by younggods]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:41:58 -0700 The Stranger
The next time an abortionist gets shot, do we get to arrest my conservative, anti-choice uncle and search his house for Anne Coulter books?
Posted by Bonefish]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:58:32 -0700 The Stranger
This is just a remnant of Red Scare from the Cold War, and the sooner it's dropped the better.
Posted by Bonefish]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:49:40 -0700 The Stranger Posted by repete]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:22:33 -0700 The Stranger
I find it interesting that you think the police refraining from arresting the leaders of a 'movement' over the actions of its followers is somehow evidence of police misconduct. Seems more like they have acted with discretion, and are only responding so forcefully now because an armed group smashed up downtown in an attempt to cause a riot.
Posted by giffy]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:52:46 -0700 The Stranger Obama Raids --- like the vile Palmer Raids in the second decade of the 20th century --- the preemptive arrests are meant to curtail active citizen involvement in the political process and strike fear in the hearts of ordinary Americans, an already apathetic bunch!

When the Palmer Raids began, they were solely about halting growing political power: there had been many hundreds of successful elections throughout American won by the Socialist Party --- the banksters were shaking and quaking in their booties.

In the present, once again they dispatch their jack booted thugs to accost and rough up the citizen-activists!

It is fitting that Kiley mentions both the National Lawyers Guild and the ACLU. The ACLU originally was formed in response to the vile Palmer Raids of yesteryear, and the National Lawyers Guild was created in response to the ACLU's embracing the obscene Joe McCarthy and his McCarthyism --- the ACLU kicked out those attorneys most concerned with human rights and civil rights, those attorneys with real integrity, who went on to form their National Lawyers Guild!

Many suspect the ACLU to be a Wall Street false front organization to this very day. Sure, they occasionally take on an important case, but all too often they have ignored the monumental cases of the day!

Those preemptive arrests began under the Bush administration and have been extended and expanded under Obama --- that hopeless changeling!

Whether it's the obvious fascist, the draft-dodging and tax-dodging Willard Mitt Romney, or the more subtle fascist who pays lip service to Gay and women's issues --- anyone voting for fascism in 2012 is clearly repudiating America.

That is why the honest American citizen will be voting for Jill Stein in 2012.

Posted by sgt_doom]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:18:41 -0700 The Stranger
There may have been weak or trumped up probable cause in this case, and the items in the subpoena may have been generally worthless as evidence, but it doesn't mean the police have a blank check to search random houses for anarchist literature. It means some prosecutor convinced a judge to sign a search warrant for those things specifically at Plante's house.
Posted by madcap]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:39:39 -0700 The Stranger
Were you hoping to goad him into slugging a girl on camera? Did it occur to you that the officer decided that their actions didn't pose a risk and one cop trying to confront a "group of disordely people" for jaywalking would just run the risk of escalating things beyond what a single cop could contain?

Meanwhile, an organize march is likely to be seeking to obstruct traffic, rather than get across the street, creating an ongoing situation, and there is likely to be more than one cop present.
Posted by madcap]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:34:50 -0700 The Stranger
The "anarchist" violence is a convenient method of making any anti-establishment demonstrations of any kind look scary to the mainstream. Instead of reporting a march with union and parent groups, say, the media can report dramtic violence by mysterious individuals using surprisingly great footage.

This grand jury harassment shtick is just another version of the mass arrests for obstruction law enforcement has done in the past. Part of the show.

Posted by cracked]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:27:55 -0700 The Stranger
Our police are our most dangerous public servants. They deserve extra scrutiny. When they attempt to hide their actions from us, we should pay even closer attention.
Posted by Phil M]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:16:54 -0700 The Stranger
Our police are our most dangerous public servants. They deserve extra scrutiny. When they attempt to hide their actions from us, we should pay even closer attention.
Posted by Phil M]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:01:58 -0700 The Stranger