Unqualified Offerings

Schwenkler says my co-blogger has it all wrong.

By Thoreau
By “Freedom” I of course mean the exact opposite, because this is the era of Newspeak.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court alleges the workers were being taken to work at a U.S. air base in Iraq in 2004 when insurgents intercepted their caravan and killed them days later. A Nepali worker whose [...]

By Thoreau
Die Ministerium Fur Staatssicherheit announced some of the items found in a raid of a house where activists were staying:
At least five suspected leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee, a self-described anarchist group, were taken to the Hennepin County jail, and another was being sought, said Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher.
On Saturday afternoon, he [...]

By Thoreau
Rumors are now circulating that Sarah Palin’s infant daughter is actually her granddaughter by her eldest daughter, and that the true parentage of the baby was covered up to hide a shameful unwed pregnancy.  I’m here to set the record straight:
Michelle Obama had an affair with John McCain.  (This is the true source of [...]

By Thoreau
Greenwald has links to plenty of reports and videos from the Minneapolis raids. Apologists and useful idiots can say what they will about how the police act towards actual protesters in the streets and what behavior crosses what line, but pre-emptive arrests of journalists and activists are in a territory beyond even the [...]