Political Quick Hits: May 27th Edition

Here’s your weekly quick look at few developing stories in the political arena:

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Justin Burkhardt

Opinion: Threats of Violence Could Mean The Loss of Liberty by Davey D

check out this powerful commentary by Davey D. jacked from his blog.

This is coming on the heels of the racial epithets being hurled at Black congressmen like John Lewis and anti gay epithets hurled at lawmakers like Barney Frank. Right now we’re spending a lot of time looking over our backs at Muslims and people from the Middle East as possible terrorists. The way things are going now, we need to be looking in the Mid-west, down south and back East for some of the terrorists right here in the good ole US of A.

I wonder if they’re gonna start doing all the profiling that many of us have been subjected to. I wonder if we’re gonna start hearing the word terrorists used to describe those who dare threaten Congress over the passage of a bill. At the same time, lawmakers have at their disposal the Patriot Act and other laws that allow for secret surveillance.

I wonder if those laws will be enacted and misused while searching for the culprits who made death threats. I get the feeling that there is some real concern going on, but I am also thinking of Naomi Kline’s ‘Shock Doctrine’. I’m paying close attention at the moves made behind the moves. While folks are shocked at the brazenness of Tea Party types and nut cases threatening Congress people over a Health care Bill, what moves will be made to overcompensate? Will laws be tightened or will there be a push to create total chaos-a race or class war of sorts? Pay close attention because this ride is just beginning. Once we start talking about Immigration Reform, that’s when it’s really gonna get ugly.

-Davey D-

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The Editor

One of the Worst (Muslim) Weeks Ever

Peace peeps. If you thought my blog on my experiences observing and partaking in the November elections in Maine was provocative, my latest musings on WireTapMag.org around the Fort Hood killings, the death of DC sniper-John Allen Muhammad and the trial of alleged “mastermind” of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (“Who’s Afraid of the ‘Muslim Boogeyman?’”) is sure to raise those stakes.

Check it out over at Wiretap!

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Joshua Fahiym Ratcliffe