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Manipulating MLK Day

Postby American Dream » Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:01 pm

http://www.counterpunch.org/libby01192009.html

Manipulating MLK Day

By KENNETH LIBBY




"On January 19th, Barack and I will join thousands of people across the country for an extraordinary day of service," begins the e-mail from Michelle Obama. "Whatever service activity you organize or take part in -- cleaning up a park, giving blood, volunteering at a homeless shelter, or mentoring at-risk youth -- you can help start this important journey." We're likely to hear more calls to service under the Obama administration, a New Democratic plan for reviving America.

The Democrats have become just as adept at using message control as their Republican counterparts. This call to service is a warm-up for the call for "universal citizen service," an idea laid out in The Plan, Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed's blueprint for changing America. "Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They'll be asked to report for basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear, or conventional attack." Not quite a draft, but the authors admit it will expose more young Americans to the prospect of military service, hopefully boosting enlistment.

More importantly, universal citizen service instills the fear of terrorist attacks into the minds of every young American, particularly those at an age where radicalism and the potential for change burn most strongly in our culture; absent a critical voice, the centrist political parties face little real opposition. The threat of terrorist attacks has been used by both parties to justify illegal spying, the attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as other Middle Eastern countries, and the military build-up since the beginning of the Cold War. "The U.S. military is an extraordinary example of differences giving way to national purpose," claim the authors, barely masking the neoconservative foreign affairs agenda underlying the New Democratic agenda.

The call to service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is stark evidence of the New Democrat's cunning manipulation of the American narrative. Towards the end of his all-too-short life, King focused on the economic conditions of the poor and on American foreign affairs. Reflecting on the toll of Vietnam, King was "increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such." Our current wars abroad and economic system attack the same segment of society - those below the Democratically-acceptable middle-class, largely non-white, and particularly those in poverty (including 20% of our nation's children). "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death," King keenly articulated in his "Beyond Vietnam" speech in 1967. Our military budget will breach $1 trillion this year, the largest defense budget on record. Obama has given little indication of reducing the military budget, closing our 700 bases in over 100 countries, or quickly withdrawing American troops occupying foreign countries - all actions that would reduce the motivation of terrorist while freeing up funding for badly-needed social services. In 2009, the federal government will provide more money for nuclear weapons than our primary education system.

We're asked to give our time in honor of an American Civil Rights leader while the incoming administration hands out billions to the corporate elite guiding our broken economic system. We're asked to give blood while allowing for-profit entities to run our healthcare system. We're asked to volunteer at a homeless shelter while Obama breaks his campaign pledge to repeal Bush's obscene tax cuts for the wealthy. We're asked to mentor at-risk youth while seeing no indication of the economic changes needed to address poverty.

The call to service provides a day for the liberal bourgeoisie to feint compassion while reinforcing their dominance. Our nation's foreign affairs follow the same logic, offering help only when it serves our own interest. In typical American fashion, the day of service offers the most meagre assistance while giving the dominant classes the feeling of "giving back." It is far more powerful to make changes that would allow others to stand on their own feet instead of offering a temporary hand.



Kenneth Libby is a graduate student and student-teacher in the Portland Public Schools. He can be reached at KennethLibby06@GMail.com
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Postby ninakat » Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:42 pm

Amen Kenneth Libby.
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Postby §ê¢rꆧ » Mon Jan 19, 2009 5:10 pm

I'm sending this one around. Good article.
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Postby Col. Quisp » Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:19 pm

The call to service provides a day for the liberal bourgeoisie to feint compassion while reinforcing their dominance.


School marm alert: I think he meant to say "feign" or maybe he meant to say "feint" --
v.tr.
1. To deceive with a feint.
2. To make a deceptive show of.

OK, I"m picking nits.

Otherwise, a great article. What good can we do in one day anyway?

It is obviously a precursor to the mandatory citizen service planned by Rahmbo and company.
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Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:14 pm

See the front of the NYTimes today? More negroes for war, baby!

Big photo of yesterday's concert crowd at the Lincoln Memorial with a photo underneath of Obama and the famous seated Lincoln statue.

The adjacent headline-
"MORE AMERICANS
JOINING MILITARY
AS JOBS DWINDLE
---------------------
RECRUITERS MEET GOALS
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Drop in Iraq Violence
and New G.I. Bill Are
Seen as Factors"


CIA-Time has a glossy $11 special magazine about President Lincoln out on the supermarket check-out racks.

Why? Because black military recruiting is down over 40% since 2000 so the hype about a black president is being used to push American Civil War memes like-
"American war achieves freedom for people of color. So sign your ass up."

HA.
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civilian service vs military service

Postby over13 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:57 am

Here are the recruiting stats released from the Dept. of Defense for Nov:
Jan 18 2009
The Department of Defense has announced its recruiting statistics for the active and reserve components for December 2008 (the third month of Fiscal Year 2009). A "Fiscal Year" runs from October through September.

All of the active duty branchesbranches met or exceeded their recruiting goals for the month.
Active Duty Recruiting Statistics for Nov 2008:

Army – 860 accessions with a goal of 750; 115 percent
Navy – 2,306 accessions with a goal of 2,306; 100 percent
Marine Corps – 2,392 accessions with a goal of 2,116; 113 percent
Air Force – 2,967 accessions with a goal of 2,967; 100 percent
On the Reserve side, all six of the reserve componants met or exceeded their recruiting goals.

Reserve Recruiting Statistics for Nov 2008:

Army National Guard – 6,607 accessions with a goal of 4,625; 143 percent
Army Reserve – 3,335 accessions with a goal of 2,973; 112 percent
Navy Reserve – 538 accessions with a goal of 538; 100 percent
Marine Corps Reserve – 582 accessions with a goal of 582; 100 percent
Air National Guard – 803 accessions with a goal of 722; 111 percent
Air Force Reserve – 701 accessions with a goal of 685; 102 percent


(http://usmilitary.about.com/od/2009recr ... cember.htm)

Boy do these look like fudged numbers.
but let me diverge from the topic a bit-since promoting a national service program (which some think may funnel towards military)
provokes thoughts of government manipulation.
I have to say that I was a federal employee of the Civilian Conservation Corps back in the Carter years.
I had a pregnant girlfriend,hair down to my nipples, and no prospects for employment outside of dishwashing
or the "Log Boat" lottery(unloading logs off boats) in Olympia Washington. So I ended up in the unemployment office
and applied for a position with the CCC-where my long hair worked to my advantage since the position I applied for
was working sometimes on Indian Reservations and Federal Land. There i was 19, visiting fish farms and hatcheries
with other basically un-employable learning to do my job and helping a mandated program keep track of fish catch, build
fish ladders, count fish (you don't want to open a bag of fish and look for tags), paint boats etc.
This was an awesome job and reflecting back thirty years later, it truly built character in me where a job as dishwasher or otherwise
menial labor(or military service) would have just been another job to get fired from.

So, I feel that a Civilian Corps can be a good thing. Carrying a gun or flying a fighter plane, or swabbing the deck of a warship is not my style, and I'm sure it's not the style of many of our obese schoolkids these days. But I can see good in a Civilian government program
that works on American soil. I don't have a problem with requiring people (Youth etc)to do some sort of civil service if it's not truly menial tasks(like in cool hand luke) that could be assigned to folks like prisoners or ex-guantanamen.

I know I'm disregarding the fact that someone (likely evil) controls the Military and would likely control a civilian corps- but my feeling is that we are always going to have a military - so why not offer options outside of Military service to our prospective unemployable youth in a current world of massive unemployment.

If the Military is the ONLY option to get a job- kids(whatever color they are) will take that option when trying to be responsible.
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MLK Hijacking

Postby MinM » Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:52 pm


Can Glen Beck Top This? - The Education Forum
Jim DiEugenio wrote:The reason I bring this up is that I see Beck's flim flammery as a way of hijacking what King and the sixties stood for. I have written about this previously in my essay "The Posthumous Assassination of John F. Kennedy". As I wrote there, its not enough to kill the guy, you have to then discredit or hijack what he stood for. Therefore you then confuse or lose what he stood for. I think Beck's demonstration is an extension of that. Unless you really believe that neither he nor anyone on his staff knew the significance of August 28th or King's great speech--which many, including myself, see as the high point of American progressivism after FDR.

So now, a great man's greatest moment becomes part of Rupert Murdoch's culture war.

This is what has happened to America.

And who is there to call this out? Colbert and Stewart. Which tells you all you need to know about today's MSM.

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Re: Manipulating MLK Day

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:14 pm

Thank You, Glenn Beck!

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

This weekend brings us the August 28 anniversary of the March on Washington back in 1963. It was when Martin Luther King delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech from the Lincoln Memorial. At least 250,000 people, 75-80 per cent black, rallied in the Mall. Each year the anniversary rolls around, you’ll hear plenty of high-flown strophes from prominent progressives, black and white, evoking Dr. King’s dream of racial justice and equality. Barack Obama’s speechwriters are, no doubt, polishing just such a commentary by their boss.

In terms of political energy, the event is as inert as Labor Day, itself just around the corner at the start of September.

But this year brings welcome relief from such pietism. The premier anniversary celebration of the March has been hijacked by the right-wing commentator, Glenn Beck. The prime speaker will be Sarah Palin, the Tea Party’s pinup girl and as unlikely as any woman in Alaska ever to have had a pinup of MLK on her dorm wall. To have the March on Washington honored by Beck and Palin is as shocking to liberal America as installing Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern slave states in the Civil War, next to Lincoln in the Memorial – an insertion which will no doubt be approved by Congress, and endorsed by Obama in the interests of bipartisanship, just as soon as the 14th Amendment is repealed.

Beck admits that when he scheduled a rally in Washington on August 28 to boost his new book, The Plan, and strut his stuff to the Tea Party masses, he had no idea it was the anniversary of the March. But he swiftly turned ignorance into opportunity. He’s now saying that’s he is working “to finish the job” that was at the heart of the 1963 March on Washington and King’s vision.

Beck claims the ideas of Dr. King have been corrupted and that he will resurrect the true King. As part of this mission, Beck is trying to separate Dr. King from social justice and limit King to advocacy of individual Christian salvation. According to Dedrick Muhammad of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, writing on this site last week, D.C., “Beck has even reached out to distant relatives of Dr. King, like Dr. King’s niece. After questioning her several times he gets her to say that King was not about social justice or government redistribution of the wealth.”

From the left comes the angry response that King was, indeed, committed to the need to redistribute wealth in order to advance a juster nation and was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968, in the course of a visit to black city workers on strike.

If Beck’s hijacking provokes some honesty among the left in general about King and about black leadership today, then Beck will have performed a useful service. Too late now to organize the obvious, a huge counter demonstration to call Beck to accounts and run him and Palin off. The left is too weak for that, having now given up gluten which has given us leavened bread for 5,000 years.

The March of 1963 was actually called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It wasn’t King’s idea, but that of A. Philip Randolph who had planned a similar march in 1941. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference was only one of five main sponsoring groups. Some of these saw the march’s purpose as not high-flown talk about dreams but as harsh reproof of President John Kennedy. They accused him dragging his feet on giving legislative heft to the civil rights movement that has moved into high gear three years earlier. Julian Bond’s speech denouncing Kennedy’s weakness was famously censored by the March’s organizers.

King’s political career was heading into crisis. Three years later, in 1967, he was booed by blacks at a rally in Chicago. He recalled later what he thought that night: ”I had preached to them about my dream. I had lectured to them about the not-too-distant day when they would have freedom ‘all, here and now.’ I had urged them to have faith in America and in white society. Their hopes had soared. They were now booing because they had felt we were unable to deliver on our promises…. They were now hostile because they were watching the dream they had so readily accepted turn into a nightmare.”

It was one thing to force a chain restaurant in Greensboro, North Carolina, to allow blacks sit at a previously Whites Only counter; it was quite another to attack the racism embedded in the American system so savagely excoriated by the greatest American black revolutionary of the 1960s, Malcolm X, who was assassinated in 1965.

Beck, to a certain extent, has it right. In 1963 King was on the same tack as another man professing confidence in the American system to engender justice out of an innate, individually virtuous moral tropism to do the right thing -- Barack Obama in 2008. King was wrong then, just like Obama is two generations later. It’s a matter of class war, not individual character traits.
King moved to the left in the mid-60s. He had to. In Riverside Church in New York, a year before his death he gave a far more powerful speech than 1963’s “I have a dream” address. He called the U.S. government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today… A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. …[T]rue compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar... it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
This was a far cry from what White Power wanted from King, which was the soft rhetorical pillow on which all Dreamers could lay their heads: MLK’s 1963 dream that “we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.”

On August 28, 2010,, forty-seven years after the March for Jobs and Freedom, America has plunged into the vortex of long-term mass unemployment. No jobs, particularly for young blacks.
So much for jobs. What about freedom?

Thirty years ago, fewer than 350,000 people were held in prisons and jails in the United States. Today, the number of prisoners in the United States exceeds 2,000,000. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics concludes that the chance of a black male born in 2001 of going to jail is 32 per cent, or 1 in three. Black boys are five times as likely as white boys to go to jail. Former prisoners are permanently relocated on society’s margins, these days some 5 million of them, denied the right to vote in most states. Professor Michelle Alexander, in her book The New Jim Crow argues convincingly that we have a purposeful system of mass incarceration, with blacks as the prime victims.
Today, in this fearful crisis there is no effective black leadership, starting with President Obama who has marvelously has fulfilled his function as political sedater of black aspirations, starting with the promotion of his own success story. “Yes, we can.” Oh, no they can’t. It’s not in the Master Plan. Black politicians are well aware that most of their black constituents will stay with Obama till the end, whatever he does. So most of them remain quiet – and yield the stage to an opportunist like Beck, flanked by Ms. Palin. Malcom X, who called the 1963 March on Washington “a picnic” and “a circus,” would have had a good laugh about that.

The Left and Iraq: Snatching Defeat
from the Jaws of Victory

“The US isn't withdrawing from Iraq at all – it's rebranding the occupation… What is abundantly clear is that the US , whose embassy in Baghdad is now the size of Vatican City , has no intention of letting go of Iraq any time soon.” So declared Seumas Milne of The (UK) Guardian on August 4.
Milne is not alone among writers on the left arguing that even though most Americans think it’s all over, They say that Uncle Sam still effectively occupies Iraq, still rules the roost there. They gesture at 50,000 US troops in 94 military bases, "advising" and training the Iraqi army, "providing security" and carrying out "counter-terrorism" missions. Outside US government forces there is what Jeremy Scahill calls the "coming surge" of contractors in Iraq , swelling up from the present 100,000. Hillary Clinton wants to increase the number of military contractors working for the state department alone from 2,700 to 7,000. Of these contractors 11,000 are armed mercenaries, mostly "third country nationals, typically from the developing world. “The advantage of an outsourced occupation,” Milne writes, “ is clearly that someone other than US soldiers can do the dying to maintain control of Iraq.

“Can Iraq now be regarded as a tolerably secure outpost of the American system in the Middle East ?” Tariq Ali asked in the New Left Review earlier this year. He answered himself judiciously,“They have reason to exult, and reason to doubt.”, but the thrust of his analysis depicts Iraq as still the pawn of the American Empire., with a “predominantly Shia army—some 250,000 strong—… trained and armed to the teeth to deal with any resurgence of the resistance,” all this with “ the blessing of the saintly Sistani’s smile”

The bottom line, as drawn by Milne and Ali is oil . Milne gestures to the “dozen 20-year contracts to run Iraq's biggest oil fields that were handed out last year to foreign companies”.

Is it really true that though the US troop presence has dropped by 120,000 in less than a year, Iraq is as much under Uncle Sam’s imperial jackboot as it was in, say, 2004, even though now no US troops patrol the streets? If Iraq’s political affairs are under US control, how come the U.S. Embassy—deployed in its Vatican City-size compound, (mostly as vacant as a foreclosed subdivision in Riverside, California and planned in the same phase of megalomania) cannot knock Iraqi heads together and bid them form a government? Those 50,000 troops broiling in their costly bases are scarcely a decisive factor in Iraq’s internal affairs; nor are the private contractors.

Is a Shi’a-dominated government really to America’s taste and nothing more than its pawn? It was Sistani who forced the elections of 2005, calling Bush on his pledge of free elections, thus downsizing the excessive representation of the Sunni – who boycotted the election anyway. And if all this was a devious ploy to break “the Iraqi resistance” how come the United States constantly invokes the menace of Iran and decries its influence in Iraq?

The “Iraqi resistance” invoked in worshipful tones by Tariq Ali, as opposed to his ironic “saintly” reserved for Sistani, means, in his perspective, the Sunni. But if the Sunni ever had a strategy beyond a strictly sectarian agenda, it was scarcely advanced by blowing up Shi’a pilgrims and their shrines and setting off bombs in market places. If Moqtada al Sadr has been side-lined by the US and its supposed creature, Sistani, why has he been described as the “kingmaker” since his success in the parliamentary election this past March.?

As for the contractors, those sinister Third World mercenaries should not be oversold, unless the Shiites are supposed to quail before ill-paid Peruvians, Ugandan cops and the like., who will now be supposedly handing down orders to the Iraqi government. This takes a very imperial, and contemptuous attitude towards the capabilities of the Iraqi people.

If this really was a “war for oil,” it scarcely went well for the United States.

Run your eye down the list of contracts the Iraqi government awarded in June and December 2009. Prominent is Russia’s Lukoil, which, in partnership with Norway’s Statoil, won the rights to West Qurna Phase Two, a 12.9 billion–barrel supergiant oilfield. Other successful bidders for fixed-term contracts included Russia’s Gazprom and Malaysia’s Petronas. Only two US-based oil companies came away with contracts: ExxonMobil partnered with Royal Dutch Shell on a contract for West Qurna Phase One (8.7 billion barrels in reserves); and Occidental shares a contract in the Zubair field (4 billion barrels), in company with Italy’s ENI and South Korea’s Kogas. The huge Rumaila field (17 billion barrels) yielded a contract for BP and the China National Petroleum Company, and Royal Dutch Shell split the 12.6 billion–barrel Majnoon field with Petronas, 60-40.

Throughout the two auctions there were frequent bleats from the oil companies at the harsh terms imposed by the auctioneers representing Iraq, as this vignette from Reuters about the bidding on the northern Najmah field suggests: “Sonangol also won the nearby 900-million-barrel Najmah oilfield in Nineveh.… Again, the Angolan firm had to cut its price and accept a fee of $6 per barrel, less than the $8.50 it had sought. ‘We are expecting a little bit higher. Can you go a little bit higher?’ Sonangol’s exploration manager Paulino Jeronimo asked Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani to spontaneous applause from other oil executives. Shahristani said, ‘No.’”

So either the all powerful US government was unable to fix the auctions to its liking, or the all powerful US-based oil companies mostly decided the profit margins weren’t sufficiently tempting. Either way, “the war for oil” doesn’t look in very good shape.

Milne advances the odd idea that with the (entirely imaginary) US “control” of Iraqi oil “the global oil price could be slashed and the grip of recalcitrant Opec states broken.” In fact, the last thing the majors want is to cut world oil prices.” Ask BP.

Milne and Ali are being naive and credulous in taking at face value US officials declaring that they are not wholly withdrawing and they will still be in business in Iraq for the foreseeable future. The reason for saying this is that they don't want to see their influence go wholly to zilch. They therefore have to maintain -- and are dutifully echoed on the left - that their power in Iraq is only a little affected by reduction of troop numbers from 150,000 to less than a quarter of that number.

The US line on this is in one sense sensible: In Iran many Iranians saw the hidden hand of Britain behind developments long after the Brits' real power had faded almost to nothing. In the case of the US in Iraq it is easy to sell this when the right and left agree that US too powerful to have suffered a defeat.

The American right tried to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by claiming that “the surge” – a pr ploy by General David Petraeus to mask US withdrawal – was a military success, rather than the Sunni abandoning “national resistance” and throwing in their lot with the Americans. The left – or the substantial slice of it hewing to the Milne/Ali line – snatches defeat from the jaws of a victory over America’s plans for Iraq by proclaiming that America has successfully established what Milne calls “a new form of outsourced semi-colonial regime to maintain its grip on the country and region.” Iraq is in ruins – always the default consequence of American imperial endeavors. The left should report this, but also hammer home the message that in terms of its proclaimed objectives the US onslaught on Iraq was a strategic and military disaster. That’s the lesson to bring home.
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Re: Manipulating MLK Day

Postby Nordic » Sat Aug 28, 2010 3:31 am

I saw Beck has finally done it. If somebody shot MLK somebody DEFINITELY needs to shoot Beck at this point. If he wants to be like MLK, let him.

I really wish somebody would put an end to this bullshit. Just take him out BOOM.

What a disgrace to the human race this piece of excrement is. I'm embarrassed to be human now because of him.
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Re: Manipulating MLK Day

Postby undead » Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:35 am

If Beck’s hijacking provokes some honesty among the left in general about King and about black leadership today, then Beck will have performed a useful service. Too late now to organize the obvious, a huge counter demonstration to call Beck to accounts and run him and Palin off. The left is too weak for that, having now given up gluten which has given us leavened bread for 5,000 years.


I have to point out the clueless bias against supposedly "weak" elements. As if trying to avoid industrial foods, that rot the body from the inside out, makes a person weak. The truth is that the American working class has been drugged into apathetic submission by the contaminated food and water supplies. Besides that, you have the atrocious educational system force feeding them lies and crippling their ability to think critically. So the majority of them don't have a clue how the political system works, don't want to know the details, and wouldn't have the energy to resist if they knew what the problem was. So when the mass media leads them to blame Muslims and Mexicans, does this really surprise anyone?

Cockburn might have a clue about this if he spent any significant amount of time in close proximity to the people who live on industrial foods. But he doesn't because his role as an erudite liberal critic precludes doing something productive or offering a positive alternative. He's just there to make smart-sounding comments about people like Glen Beck. Except he isn't that smart, because it is liberals like him that are giving up gluten. Working people can't afford the luxury of untainted food in times like these. That he identifies his own privileged set as "The Left" shows how out of touch he is.
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Re: Manipulating MLK Day

Postby IanEye » Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:59 am

Nordic wrote:I really wish somebody would put an end to this bullshit. Just take him out BOOM.


Hey, Nordic?

Go fuck yourself.

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Re: Manipulating MLK Day

Postby barracuda » Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:33 am

Hey, Ian?

Please refrain from directing obscenities towards other board members in the body of your post.
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Re: Manipulating MLK Day

Postby norton ash » Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:00 pm

Do we blithely accept the suggestion that someone should shoot Glen Beck?

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Re: Manipulating MLK Day

Postby barracuda » Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:07 pm

I'm not requesting that anyone should wander around in a state of blitheness. Myself, I would be happy if Mr. Beck would get a severe head cold for a number of weeks, that dastardly bastard.
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Re: Manipulating MLK Day

Postby Nordic » Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:19 pm

IanEye wrote:
Nordic wrote:I really wish somebody would put an end to this bullshit. Just take him out BOOM.


Hey, Nordic?

Go fuck yourself.

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