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4771 [lbo-talk] madness in Texas: 8 years for graffiti -- rank: 72

... for what >amounted to roughly $7,300 in damage Black police showin' out for the white cop (from NWA Fuck the Police)

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Dec 17 09:34:09 PST 2009

4772 [lbo-talk] Beck & Co. really go around the bend -- rank: 72

At 05:23 PM 8/28/2009, Doug Henwood wrote: >>he was a "militant black >>nationalist" and a "communist" > >He was/is, you know. They're not making this up. > >Doug This says was not is. He's all mature now: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eva-paterson/glenn-becks-attack-on ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Fri Aug 28 17:55:52 PDT 2009

4773 [lbo-talk] Zizek: Quiet slicing of the West Bank makes abstract prayers for peace obscene -- rank: 72

... the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem, Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families (more than 50 people) from their ... Jewish settlers immediately moved into the emptied houses. Although Israeli police cited a ruling by the country's supreme court, the ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Thu Aug 20 07:05:49 PDT 2009

4774 [lbo-talk] hey, it's the *liberals* disrupting those town halls -- rank: 72

... point even using a chokehold on one of the people. Police officers on the scene did nothing to prevent the violence ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 17 09:49:31 PDT 2009

4775 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 72

... say. > > > > /jordan > > Jordan did you read the stories about the police report misrepresenting what the 911 caller said? I think you ... but Robert is also right. You wouldn't expect the police to contradict each other publically.

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Wed Aug 5 11:20:18 PDT 2009

4776 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 72

... this > particular case.  If you want to Be Concerned About Police Problems, why not > look at the Oscar Grant case?  These ... been turned into a generalized discussion of the abuse of police powers. Way back when on July 24th I said: http ...

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Author:	Left-Wing Wacko
Date:	Tue Aug 4 20:58:33 PDT 2009

4777 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 72

... that we need see this as anything other than > standard police abuse of power and the ridiculous nature of interaction that ...

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Author:	Left-Wing Wacko
Date:	Tue Aug 4 20:01:14 PDT 2009

4778 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 72

... gave it, he >> gave his Harvard ID... >> According to the police report, Professor Gates initially refused to show >> identification. >> > >        --ravi I ... good luck). However, it needs to be said again that police officers are also legally obligated to provide ID and information ...

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Author:	Left-Wing Wacko
Date:	Tue Aug 4 19:25:38 PDT 2009

4779 [lbo-talk] Watching the Cars Burn (On Ballard) -- rank: 72

At 01:51 PM 4/20/2009, Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Empire of the Sun. > > >That's the book that woke me up. Here's some "Empire revisited" from Ballard's autobiography that came out last year: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article3215270.ece From ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Apr 20 17:03:18 PDT 2009

4780 [lbo-talk] J.G. Ballard dies -- rank: 72

... camp in China. " I remember a lot of the casual brutality and beatings-up that went on " JG Ballard The author ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Apr 20 00:17:58 PDT 2009

4781 [lbo-talk] Afghan Women Protest New Law on Home Life -- rank: 72

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/world/asia/16afghan.html?th&emc=th The New York Times Afghan Women Protest New Law on Home Life By DEXTER FILKINS Published: April 15, 2009 KABUL, Afghanistan The young women stepped off the bus and moved toward the protest march just beginning on ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Thu Apr 16 03:44:00 PDT 2009

4782 [lbo-talk] Tehrik-i-Taliban: A Specious Claim and Brash Threats -- rank: 72

... Pakistan (TTP) in particular. First, on April 4, eight paramilitary police were killed in a suicide bombing against their camp in ... of the March 23 attack on the headquarters of the Police Special Branch in Islamabad. After the April 4 attack, one ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Wed Apr 8 23:04:00 PDT 2009

4783 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti responds -- rank: 72

At 08:57 AM 4/8/2009, ravi wrote: >I (we?) don't >need to answer these "what about Dahmer?", The serial killer card is a false dilemma akin to the "because the terrorists hate us and they could live next door" rationale used to ratchet up surveillance etc. In his ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Wed Apr 8 12:47:01 PDT 2009

4784 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti responds -- rank: 72

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:19:21AM -0700, Chris Doss wrote: > The elision here, I think, is the result of the ambiguity of the > discussion as it exists in this list, some of the participants in > which are talking about abolishing the prison system as it exists in > the ...

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Author:	Matt
Date:	Wed Apr 8 07:12:13 PDT 2009

4785 [lbo-talk] SEIU Stockton scab stampede! -- rank: 72

Stockton Scab Stampede! Perez Stern Saturday, April 4 A meeting at Kaiser Stockton this week ended with members calling 911 after SEIU decided to try some Labor Notes conference style invasion tactics! Here are two reports from the scene... "We had a membership scheduled for 12:30-1:30 on our ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Sat Apr 4 21:57:26 PDT 2009