Finally the Feds Crack Down on Right-Wing Terrorists

The Republican Reich (2000-2006) made it abundantly clear that right-wingers are degenerate traitors. America will never be safe until we've driven them out.

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Why did the feds take so long?

They had more important fish to fry.

July 23, 2009

TUCSON, AZ—A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment against James A. Marshall, 63, and Karen S. Marshall, 56, both of Green Valley, Ariz., for Conspiracy to Commit Fraudulent Voting and Fraudulent Voting. The indictment alleges that the Marshalls voted in more than one state during the November 2008 U.S. Presidential election.

The pair will receive a summons to appear for an arraignment on the charges in U.S. District Court in Tucson, on August 6, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Marshall.

The indictment alleges that James and Karen Marshall voted in both Kansas and Arizona, by way of early ballot, for the November 2008 general election. According to the indictment, the Marshalls represented that they were residents of Arizona on the Arizona early ballot application, and, around the same time, also represented they were residents of Kansas on the Kansas early ballot application. As a result of their representations, the Marshalls received ballots from both Arizona and Kansas. The Marshalls returned their Arizona ballots after signing a sworn statement that they reside in Arizona, and had not voted "and will not vote in this election in any other state during the calender year of this sffidavit...."

After voting in Arizona, the Marshalls then returned their Kansas ballots and affirmed that they were legal residents of Kansas.
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The couple were well-known Republicans in a rural county and had moved to a suburb of Phoenix, to a swank subdivision where their house was a block from the private golf course. The Freepers went wild over this one, certain that the feds had uncovered ACORN up to dirty tricks. As usual, it was just two of their own.

Kansas has gone "D" but once since 1936 (for Johnson, 1964) and Arizona voted for Truman in '48 and Clinton won in '96. Kansas hasn't elected a Democratic senator since 1932.

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The FBI were informed that a man had repeatedly put superglue into the locks of a Kansas City clinic, and there was videotape of the guy. The feds were given his license number. A quick check would have revealed that he had been convicted of transporting mostly assembled bombs and had illegal weapons, though the conviction had been overturned on appeal.

They took no action.

Sounds like 9/11, all over again.

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Tom Metzgar made that televised assertion decades ago and it is just as relevant today.

Several years ago, while on a trip to Washington.D.C., I saw a local news program segment about a weekend outing by people who called themselves the "Good Old Boy Network". They represented local police around the region as well as the entire alphabet of federal law enforcement agencies in D.C. It was a white only weekend that culminated, on Saturday night, with a cross lighting.

You wonder why it took so long to catch Mahon. I wonder that the case was investigated AT ALL.

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The very sad fact is the "white separatists" have deluded themselves and are ignorant! They assume that their "white skin" gives them an automatic up in the world! They are upset and angry by what they feel is "minorities getting a leg up over them", when the truth is they have been deluded! Even if all minorities were to leave "America" they still would not be any better off than they were before! Why, because it is not "race" but "CLASS & their own ignorance of that truth" that separates them! They are very useful to the oligarchs because of it! Much like the elite slave-holders in early America got the poor whites on their side by appealing to their whiteness, these people have bought the line, not recognizing that they are not in the club, because they do not have the "money to be in the club"! The FBI won't do too much too them because they too have their own legacy via J. Edgar Hoover and Cointelpro!

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Extremists of any stripe are potentially dangerous, whether rightwing or leftwing. They are the minority.

This Homeland Security report talks about bombing and arson (where people could potentially be killed, whether intentional or not), as well as cyber attacks that cost companies money (equaling lost jobs) -
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With more news about sending troops into Afghanistan, anti-war groups from left and right will surely rise up.

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Are dead white supremacists.

I wish Abraham Lincoln had had a nuclear weapon to finish off the confederacy. Today these confederacy holdouts wouldn't exist. They would be as peace loving as the Japanese are today.

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In 2004, during the Bush administration, I am sure tracking white supremacist terrorists was not at the top of the priority list. With the changing political climate, I imagine the priorities have been rearranged.

As for the lack of publicity, in criminal prosecutions, that is often a good thing. It diminishes the whole pre-trial publicity problem. So, as long as law enforcement has been scrupulous in building a solid case, there will likely be a much better chance of conviction and meaningful prison sentences.

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But still woefully short of what SHOULD be done.
As long as we're on the subject of right-wing crazies, what's happening with the investigation and prosecution of the bush terror machine? My guess would be not a goddam thing. As usual, the big fish swim away.

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"Feds Crack Down on Right-Wing Terrorists"
What evidence for a crackdown is there?
The federal government IS right-wing terrorism.
This weak, delusional writing is what prompted me to stop reading Mother Jones years ago.
Best Wishes.

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This is a bit off topic, sorry.

There have already been three attempts against President Obama's life not widely known because it would only 'inspire' more crazy 'patriots'.

Beck et al are breeding hate and spreading poison in our society.

GLENN BECK ET AL ARE THE TERRORISTS!

Including the wretched miserable fucking racist bastards posting their shitty ass racist republican talking points among us on Alternet.

Freedom of speech! BAH! They are hate and fear mongering!

And they want our President DEAD.

And just imagine the riots and destruction that will surely come to our country if that aweful day should ever come. The terrorists don't care.

May God have mercy on their pathetic souls.

And please excuse my vulgar language but under the circumstances it is suitable, at least IMO. I became a democrat watching black people being mowed down with water hoses on tv as a kid during the civil rights movement. The same sorts that did that want this president dead.

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