Comments on: Hyperventilating

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 03:04:33 +0000

You have an unsourced allegation of grafitti from a paper that has less than stellar record for accuracy of late and that is proof positive?

Many organizations that have done good work in the past become more about keeping themselves in existence than about the work they originally did. This surprises you? Do they still do some good work? Yes. But hyperventilating and getting funds is what it becomes all too often.

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:13:39 +0000

If the military will flush any such offenders out- and will do so early, as you say, then why was Aryan Nation graffiti found in Baghdad?

Full disclosure here: it has been almost ten years since I got a phone # the SPLC whom I phoned to get the name of a consumer fraud attorney. I needed someone to handle a deposition for me in the eastern half of the US. The attorney to whom they referred me was absolutely excellent and, in that deposition, broke the case open for me [I was David to a corporate Goliath on the other side]. It was a relief to find an attorney who clearly cared about right and wrong, and who also gave me a break on the usual fee. That is my only experience with the SPLC, but it sure was enough that I bristle at the knee-jerk idea that this organization just operates on the basis of ’spin’.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:53:43 +0000

Donna,

Please see Dan Riehl’s post. It has more info on the expert quoted. In which the allegation is that they are allowing street gang members in.

I fully believe the military will flush any such offenders out – and will do so early.

I also believe that any single issue group becomes more about fundraising than about the real issue over time. Witness the ACLU, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the NRA, AARP and any other of the alphabet soup of single issue pressure groups. To raise more funds you have to get people excited, to do that, you have to spin.

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:40:03 +0000

I remembered asking you in another post comment whether you thought our military recruitment drive might be allowing ones in who lower the professionalism of our military, as had been stated about the British military. So, when I saw this article which describes some ‘hate’ groups using our military for ‘training’, I came here to see whether you had any second thoughts about my earlier question, which question was posed to you out of a genuine concern, but without any knowledge of the specifics listed in this article.

I have to tell you, Gaius, I am disappointed that you just sort of deflected and ignored the actual content of this news article by choosing to just issue several snide comments about the groups who have done the reporting. Doesn’t the CONTENT of the news article deserves even a tad of serious comment by those who care about the future of our military?

By: AMERICAN FUTURE - Trying to make sense of a world in turmoil » Errata

AMERICAN FUTURE - Trying to make sense of a world in turmoil » Errata — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:35:22 +0000

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By: Gaius

Gaius — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:58:34 +0000

They spin one yarn one day, spin another that negates the first one the next.

By: Neo

Neo — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:56:23 +0000

I don’t think that this story, straight from the press release of SPLC, will dispel the notion that large numbers of minorities are being sent to their deaths in Iraq.

Bookmark this story for the next rant by John Conyers or Al Sharpton.

I wonder if the Muslim Brotherhood is also sending their “soldiers” into the military ?

By: Outside The Beltway | OTB

Outside The Beltway | OTB — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:45:31 +0000

Hate Groups Infiltrating U.S. Military?…

The U.S. military is being infiltrated by white supremicists asserts a group that makes its living stirring up racial fears.

Adecade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in…