The Miami 7 and the renewal of the Voting Rights Act.

[Cyrano]

My, my, what a coincidence. The 1964 Voting Rights Act expires next year. A renewal vote was scheduled for Wednesday and it seemed sure to pass. But a small group of Republican congressmen stalled it and it's now on hold. The purpose of the act was/is to ensure minorities access to the voting box and bury things like poll taxes and literacy tests.

Suddenly, the government tells us that a handful of black guys in Miami want to blow up the Sears Tower. Hmmm, let's see. No money, no guns, no explosives and probably no knowledge of how to blow up a tree house. But lo and behold, out of nowhere comes an Al Qaeda operative to buy them boots and get them cash.

With zero proof in hand, I'd bet everything I own that these two things have Karl Rove's fingerprints all over them. The reaction Karl desires from the public is: "Damn black terrorists. They want to blow up our country and vote here too?"

When will everyone understand that Bush/Cheney/Rove & Co. live in a bottomless sewer.

[fasttense]

1. Good point. Make the blacks the new terrorists

and ensure their voting rights are ignored. God, I hate republicans.

[Olney Blue]

2. How did the FBI discover these guys? Was it entrapment?

There is so much to this "investigation" that bothers me.

[FloridaPat]

3. The thing about Blacks is they are usually members of the

Black Muslim Faith. Didn't catch much details - too much gov't propaganda. But everyone was sure quick to get them in the Muslim fanatic camp.

I think we need some reports on the Christian fanatic camps - those US terrorists that are nutty too. Funny how they're not called terrorists or have been arrested and held as enemy combatents. The gov't knows where they are.

[annabanana]

4. "The thing about Blacks "?

"they are usually members of the Black Muslim Faith"?

You are saying what the press seems to be promoting? Right?

Please clarify that you don't believe this.

[Hugin]

6. There are two points of propaganda I've heard propagated in this story...

It was originally reported that they were a "Christian group"... A
fact which was summarily and quickly silenced.

and

The Corporate Media has been sure to mention that they were "Against
the Iraqi War" in every propaganda bulletin they've issued.

[FloridaPat]

7. Yes, let me clarify. If a Black joins the Muslim Faith it's usually as

a Black Mulsim, which is an American version of the Faith. It was a big thing back in the 1970's. Haven't heard to much about it lately. I do believe they were the ones that got the idea for the Million Black Men March a few years ago. And from what I just read, they weren't even Muslims, but a sect of Christianity.


http://www.cair.com/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=2196&theType=NR

"MEDIA ASKED NOT TO CALL MIAMI TERROR SUSPECTS 'MUSLIMS'
Sect trains 'through the bible,' worships in 'temple,' not mosque

(WASHINGTON, DC, 6/23/06) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on media professionals not to refer to seven terror suspects arrested in Miami as "Muslims."

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said media reports indicate that the suspects are part of a sect called "Seas of David."

When asked by CNN why group members refer to themselves as "soldiers," "Brother Corey" said: "Because we study and we train through the bible, not only physical -- not only physical, but mentally." Group members also worship in a "temple," not in an Islamic mosque."

[Hugin]

5. Maybe you're correct...

I was surprised it wasn't illegal aliens.

My rule of thumb is... If it breaks on Fox News or if it leads
on Fox News it's propaganda.

This whole thing from the Voting Rights Act on down to the Miami 7
reeks of racism.

Can't Rove win an election the old fashioned way?