New Wave Conservative Activists Arrested & Charged in Louisiana

The Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland was busted about seven years ago for harboring machine guns.

Karen:

Interesting story! I noticed that two of the perps had Irish surnames. Are there any other sources for this story?

I'm very interested in Irish "civil rights" violations . . . always have been  especially in light of the fact that I've hung out in a lot of NYC Irish bars in my day.With a name like Rory, no doubt, I was accepted as part of the crowd and I didn't have to make any effort whatsoever to be part of the "crowd". 

ERIN GO BRAGH

ACORN was exonerated of any illegal actions in several reports in 2009, contrary to the talking points continually parroted by Right Wing conservatives.

One such report was issued in December 2009 by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.

The Right Wing and Conservatives have long targeted ACORN due to its work in often impoverished, low to moderate income neighborhoods in urban communities. 

An excerpt from an article on James O'Keefe, the trespassing arrests and his involvement in the ACORN incident when he posed as a pimp:

Although the voter fraud never materialized, the stories planted during the election season yielded a bountiful crop of misinformation. Particularly troubling was the mainstream news media's unwitting complicity in the conservative campaign to frame ACORN. For example, 80.3 percent of the print and broadcast stories about ACORN's alleged voter fraud failed to mention that ACORN itself was reporting voter-registration irregularities to authorities, as required by law.

I've got to agree with Roy, here, Karen. Ideologues are ideologues no matter what their political stripes. And every ideological movement has its share of lunatics that are willing to sacrifice their  very core of being--indeed their entire existence--for the cause.

Indeed, ideologues will sacrifice their homes, families, all human decency, and so on and so forth, simply for a fleeting, emotionally driven, and oh-so-trend-worthy cause.

An actual invasion by an invading enemy force with guns blaring,  bombs dropping, etc. is one thing. That is real no doubt . . . and cannot be denied or refuted by any objective means no matter what the stretch and what the ideological spin!

But the ideologues, however, are consumed in their own purely subjective and, often times, imaginary world. And by all present-day psychological standards and means testing, they are mentally ill.

Karen: To think "outside the box" comes from within and no external force can ever effect that evolution. Only intelligent,  sensitive, cognitive, and mentally and emotionally stable human beings can ever rise to the level of "thinking outside the box".