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.
Ron Paul supporters, goldbugs and people wearing JFK T-shirts amassed on the lawn between Liberty Memorial and Union Station to protest the Federal Reserve Bank on Saturday.End the Fed rallies took place in Kansas City and other cities where the Fed operates banks. The Kansas City protesters brought signs blasting various aspects of the U.S. financial system, including the government's $54 trillion deficit.Working without the benefit of the media apparatus that promoted the tea-bag parties, the
Here's the video of the Liberty Restoration Project getting bounced from Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's office. The "end the Fed" crowd wanted a meeting with the governor to talk about the Missouri Information Analysis Center report on the "The Modern Militia Movement," which listed Ron Paul supporters and those who oppose abortion, the federal income tax and illegal immigration as potential threats to homeland security. Instead, they met Capitol security, who showed them the door.
The woman on the
Al FrankenThere are a few things that the majority of us can agree on. Among those things: Rape is bad. Gang rape is really fucking bad. Employers that try to get their employees to sign away their rights to sue if they're raped by co-workers? Fucking EVIL. Minnesota Sen. Al Franken introduced an amendment that would have kept the Pentagon from awarding defense contracts to employers that force their employees agree not to sue them if they are raped by co-workers.Franken was doing this all be
