According to a Missouri fusion center, these kids might be terrorists.When Mike Ferguson got a late-night alert about a report linking the Libertarian Party to domestic terrorism he thought it was the work of an overzealous blogger with bad information and a penchant for conspiracy. An official publication distributed to Missouri law enforcement agencies associating his party's 2008 presidential candidate, Bob Barr, with violent extremists? Surely not.
Well, the leaked memo from a fusion center
Bob Barr = Not a terrorist after allNo sooner did I finish writing about the controversy surrounding a Fusion Center report linking Libertarians to extremist groups, the issue has apparently been resolved. According to a new release from the Missouri Libertarian Party this morning, the director of the Department of Public Safety issued a contrite statement apologizing for the political group's inclusion in a law enforcement backgrounder on militant separatists. Read the statement after the jump.
We are all hippies now: Look, the simple fact is that when actual U.S. suburbs, as seen in the horrible embarrassment to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,American Beauty, begin experiencing drug-related violence by Mexican gangs, you are totally allowed to say that U.S. drug policy is broken without being this guy:
I tried to find a picture of what you do look like when you criticize the current reactionary U.S. drug enforcement regime, but apparently nobody is selling a "Bo
If you're interested in some bold political debate on the pros and cons of using massive government intelligence programs to run surveillance on people whose political candidates will
Just because Bob Barr wants you to live in fear doesn't make him a terroristnever get more than 2 percent of the vote, you might want to pop over to the KY3's political notebook, specifically here and here. They've got some fantastic video and coverage of Wednesday's hearings on the Missouri Infor