- It's worse than we thought. Not only is Rep. Cynthia
McKinney, D-Ga., possibly a delusional paranoiac, but she has lots of company
as well as admirers, not only among America's poor 'n oppressed -- her
beloved constituents -- but among certain anti-American individuals and
organizations abroad, also known as terrorists.
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- The enemy, indeed, is within.
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- I dislike revisiting a topic so soon -- I wrote a column
a few days ago about McKinney's loony charge that George Bush knew about
the 9-11 terrorist attacks in advance. By her assertion, Bush effectively
is guilty of mass murder and collusion with the enemy, all because he and
his pals stood to gain monetarily through defense-related investments.
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- While I'm still confident that most Americans can readily
spot a fool, there are enough "folks," to borrow a Bush euphemism,
who think she's right to warrant a worried second glance. As one of her
defenders wrote me:
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- "Some clear-eyed citizens see this woman as an astute
observer of the national scene, and as one who has bravely stepped forward
to voice the opinion of millions of us who have been denied a voice since
President Bush's selection."
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- Which is to say, the terrorists don't have to win. They've
got us working for them. We're the sleep-walking damsel who keeps opening
the dadgum basement door even as the audience screams: "No, don't
do it. Don't do it!"
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- We know McKinney is in the basement, working her curious
magic on the clueless, but we keep tolerating her anyway. My guess is that
McKinney has enjoyed immunity from close scrutiny owing to a sense that
she's harmless. She's cute and has a big smile, couldn't hurt a flea. She's
black, which means people give her a pass lest they be perceived as racist.
She's got a bizarrely gerrymandered district that ensures her race-based
longevity regardless of qualifications.
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- And she's got people from Decatur to Ramallah believing
that Bush not only knew about 9-11, but also was behind it. Another e-mailer,
a Holy Land tour coordinator with 25 years experience in the Middle East,
said she had just spoken with a friend in Ramallah, who regurgitated McKinney's
conspiracy theory. She wrote:
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- "If you see 'Cynth,' kindly tell her that Arab TV
networks appreciate her comments for they now have the needed 'proof' that
their paranoia is rational."
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- We've got serious problems, and we need serious people,
as fictional President Andrew Shepherd said in The American President.
And we no longer can afford to tolerate people like McKinney who should
never be taken seriously. Can we stifle her? Nope. Can we impeach her,
as I half-jokingly suggested in the previous column? Unlikely.
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- But we can and should investigate her as passionately
as she demands we investigate Bush's "involvement" in the 9-11
terrorist attacks. We might begin with her campaign contributions, available
for public viewing on the Web site of The Center for Responsive Politics,
a non-profit, non-partisan group that follows the money. (http://www.open
secrets.org/indivs/cgi-win/indivsprofile.exe?H2GA11016)
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- There you'll find names such as Abdurahman Alamoudi,
founder and former executive director of the American Muslim Council, who
donated to McKinney during the 1999-2000 election cycle. Alamoudi who?
Let's roll the tape, provided by the Southeastern Legal Foundation, an
Atlanta-based constitutional law firm and policy center that's calling
for a congressional investigation of McKinney.
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- Here's Alamoudi at an October 2000 protest of U.S. policies
in the Middle East:
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- "I have been labeled by the media in New York as
being a supporter of Hamas. Anybody [sic] supporters of Hamas here?"
he asked a cheering crowd. "Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters
of Hamas. . . . I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah."
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- Hamas and Hezbollah are both on the State Department's
official list of terrorist organizations. None of which is to suggest that
Cynthia McKinney is a terrorist, or a terrorist sympathizer, or even a
socialist rabble-rouser who despises her own country. On the other hand,
using McKinney's own talent for inferential dot-connecting, she just might
be.
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- Kathleen Parker can be reached at kparker@orlandosentinel.com
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edpparker21042102apr21.column
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- Comment
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- From Paul Walker
4-21-2
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- Frau Parker Is Bucking for Propaganda Minister of the
Forth Reich
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- Comment
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- Armando Shapiro
4-21-2
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- Jeff,
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- Man, this woman is a classic character assassin pit viper
and if she isn't working for some alphabet group, they should get her signed
up fast.
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- There are many classic devices in her text, including
the standard technique of calling someone a batch of names and disparaging
them via some transparent disclaimer. Example: "None of which is to
suggest that Cynthia McKinney is a terrorist, or a terrorist sympathizer,
or even a socialist rabble-rouser who despises her own country."
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- Mamma mia, in 'The World According To Kathleeeeeen',
anyone critical or suspicious of the government's 911 story is a terrosist
or terrorist sympathizer. "None of this is to suggest, Mz Parker is
a fascist intrument of disinformation out to do a big-time demolition of
Rep McKinney."
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- Comment
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- FromAmerican Patriot Friends Network
<APFN@apfn.org>
4-21-2
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- Some info on Parker:
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- Kathleen Parker
- kparker@kparker.com
- c/o The Orlando Sentinel
- 633 North Orange Avenue
- Orlando, FL 32801
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- I get lots of it (boxes) and most likely will not respond
to you individually. I simply can't. Please do not confuse my failure to
reply with neglect or a lack of appreciation. I read all, eventually, and
greatly appreciate your taking time to write. http://www.kparker.com/about/aboutframeset.html
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- "Parker is director of the School of Written Expression
at the Buckley School of Public Speaking and Persuasion." http://www.buckleyschool.com/Heritage/heritage.html
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- 4/19/02
- From: kparker1
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- This is ridiculous, you guys. I teach a one-day writing
seminar at the Buckley School. As for funding, puleez. I get paid by newspapers,
that's it. You really should try to avoid drawing broad conclusions from
a few anecdotal snippets. Cheers,
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- Kathleen Parker
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- FRIENDS: http://www.kparker.com/friends/friendsframeset.html
http://www.kparker.com/friends/graphics/jewishworld.gif
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- Comment
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- Mrs Smith Goes to Washington
From Anonymous
4-21-1
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- Maybe Kathleen Parker could play Ed Arnold's old role
as corrupt newspaper tycoon in the remake of Mrs Smith Goes to Washington.
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- Before writing her next column on McKinney, she may want
to rent the Capra classic and watch it again a few times.
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- Or maybe she just needs a vacation. Let's give her one.
Let's send her for a two-week vacation to the 1000 Islands. Two weeks on
every island.
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- Comment
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- McKinney,
- McShminney/To Kathleen Parker
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- From
Tom Dark
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- Never mind Cynthia McKinney. It looks like you could
write about anything at all and still come off as some kind of nut case...
what are you, the love-child Rush Limbaugh doesn't like to talk about?
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- Tom Dark
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- cc: quite a few
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- Comment
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- From JoEllen Wheelock
- 4-21-2
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- Jeff,
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- Perhaps Ms. Parker is somewhat displaced from the anti-communist
McCarthy witch-hunt in the eary fifties, or in another context, and if
Ms. McKinney were white and protesting KKK linchings in the not so far
away past of the Southern US, she would be calling Ms. McKinney a "nigger
lover". Or going back even further she could be one of Susanna Martin's
accusers in one of the Salem witchcraft trials, which resulted in Susanna's
being successfully burned to a crisp at the stake.
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- Every generation offers an opportunity for people like
Ms. Parker to rile up public opinion for an angry cause. What is going
on here? Why such interest in avoiding an investigation? Why resort to
these kinds of tactics? Why this insistence on sacrificing social and administrative
introspection in the name of what? Anger? Revenge? Fear? Would an official
investigation endanger national security? Well, how? Why? Stamping upon
the reputations of anyone who might focus on an issue that questions official
doctrine, yes doctrine, is inquisitorial to say the least.
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- Has freedom of speech, which I always believed included
freedom of thought and the freedom to question, been redefined as "Freedom
of speech as long as you don't mind being crucified by the Holy Inquisition
of the American Media if you question that vile smelling masticated and
pre-digested slop that they broadcast as news". Of course it does
imply freedom to attack, which Ms.Parker has very freely exercised, using
the now fashionable hit-hard-below-the-belt punching style. As you can
see here, it is really quite simple. And where does all this lead us? Well,
no where really, so maybe we should stop bickering, investigate down to
the last ounce of concrete dust and get on with finding a solution to this
mess instead of razing the world with our military might before we have
something that will stand up in our courts and our collective conscience.
I am afraid that those who think they are pulling the media strings are
going to be very disappointed when they realize that they have very highly
underestimated John and Jane Doe's ability to inform themselves and to
see through the webs of deceit.
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- Come come now, did they really think we were so stupid?
Maybe overly complacent, but certainly not stupid. And from what I can
see, that complacency is now coming to an end.
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- JoEllen Wheelock
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- From Mike
4-21-2
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- Jeff...
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- Man oh man, the fascists are gettin' antsy it would seem...
Ms. McKinney has certainly struck a nerve.
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- Propaganda schills like Parker are in full damage control
mode...in fact, I haven't seen such a concerted effort for quite some time.
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- I guess we know what that means...Rep. McKinney hit the
nail square on.
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- Now we just have to support and protect her...both physically
and spiritually.
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- thanks, as always, for all your great work...
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- Mike
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- Comment
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- From Sam Lacey
- 4-21-2
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- Hi Jeff, I sent this letter to Kathleen Parker at the
Orlando Sentinel,in response to your posted article.
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- Dear Ms.Parker,
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- After reading your column in the Orlando Sentinel concerning
Rep. Cynthia McKinney's statements on the events of 911, I had to respond.
I am no "minion" and I am no "loony". I am not even
a constituent of Rep. McKinney. I am just an American citizen who tends
to agree with Rep.McKinney that there are some strange, indeed baffling
inconsistencies concerning the attacks on 911.
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- Why, if I may ask, is there a need on the part of high
profile writers in the media, to question the mental sanity, reputation,
and integrity of any American who doesn't buy the party line on this issue?
Rep.McKinney may be serving the people of Georgia in her district,but she
does have the right to question as an American citizen. (free speech...remember?)
Delusional Paranoic? Good one. And your statement about Rep. McKinney's
"beloved constituents, the poor and opressed.." Guess they should
stay in their place as well. Quite frankly, Ms.Parker, you are beginning
to sound like someone who is ranting. I certainly support YOUR opinion
and for it to be widely circulated, but I am certain I would not hear Rep.McKinney
ask for your dismissal for such a gross personal attack.
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- An appropriate comment comes from Walter Lippman, an
American journalist, who said "The news and truth are not the same
thing" or Martin Luther King, another rabble-rouser, whose followers
were poor and oppressed. "Our lives begin to end, the day we become
silent about things that matter."
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- Sincerely,
Sam Lacey
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- Comment
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- From Charles Potnar
- 4-21-2
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- Here is a text of a letter I wrote to Kathleen Parker
in response to her page on "McKinney's Minions"at your website...
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- I read your article in the Sentinel. 4/21. "Mckinney's
Minions"? Ever stop to think how one little woman can draw up an army
of supporters, "minions" if you must, in a heartbeat? Might it
be that she is voicing the questions that sit in the hearts of millions
of Americans, unanswered by the muddled, inconsistent pronouncements and
policy directives of the White House? "There's evidence for a possible
attack on banks in the northeast, but don't be afraid to go to the bank".
Well, that's reassuring.
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- Contrary to the idea that Mckinney is gathering together
"mindless minions" is the notion that Americans do their homework
and are aware of connections between the Bush family and the Bin Laden
family, who worked jointly on some construction projects in the Muddled
East. Lots of folks know that Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban were on our
payroll up until last summer. Many of us are aware of the connections between
energy policies crafted by the Energy Department and the influence of Enron
executives who were called in to consult on such matters, an area of inquiry
continually blocked by Vice President Cheney's consistant refusal to testify
on any of these matters.
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- Lots of us are also aware that the Bush/Cheney appointed
head of the Securities and Exchange commision is an ex Enron top exec.
Any wonder the commision's policies allowed Enron to engage in overseas
transactions that laundered out the debt on their books? Many of us question
the allocation of hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to the Defense
Department and other areas designated "top secret" without any
attempt to justify the outcomes of such expenditures. Shh. It's a secret.
Just sit there and watch Fox news. "Loose lips sink ships".
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- We are not children. Simple pronouncements such as "they
hate our freedoms, that's why" are not going to satisfy us when our
sons and daughters come back in body bags. When someone steps up to the
plate with the hard questions, they're going to get support. It doesn't
matter if it is a little dark woman, a farmer, a bricklayer or a busdriver,
they too will have a groundswell of Americans who share these questions.
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- When you call intelligent people "minions",
you are fast digging yourself a pretty big hole with a pretty big shovel,
young lady.
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- Good luck to you and thanks for allowing me to share.
Got any idea why the U.S. is such a pariah on the world scene?
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- From Anonymous
4-22-2
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- I just have one reply for the transparent Ms. Parker:
I can smell your fear through my keyboard and I can sense it from your
words. The stronger the put-down the greater the fear. Yes, Ms. Parker,
the dimension Rep. McKinney works from is one born out of sincerity and
a remarkable courage that lights up the darkness for many once asleep.
There are many followers and that is what terrorizes you.
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- The sleeping giant of truth has awoken and grows forth.
It is strong and brave...and full of direction to get this world back on
the right track of oneness! You, Ms. Spinmeister, have your work cut out
for you. Personally I think you should quit while you're ahead...
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- Are you really that ignorant Ms. Parker?
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- From Lee
werbob@mindspring.com
4-22-2
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- Dear Ms. Parker,
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- How are you my dense little journalist? Per your latest
article:
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- "McKinney's Minions March To A Different Drummer
Indeed"
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- You have learned nothing. You are no student of history.
You are a sheep...simply, and ignorantly, following the party line.
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- Just one point..explain just one point, like: Why all
the insider trading before the incident? How come so many 'put' options
on the airlines involved? Want more...I got plenty...from *MANY* sources
you would recognize.
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- There are so many questions. Have you thought about any
of these? Have you no original thought? Are you totally closed off? Instead
of making stupid personal attacks, why don't you do your homework and write
something that dismisses her points one by one...instead of these shallow
blanket statements. Here's a small example of your lack of journalistic
investigation. You said:
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- "We know McKinney is in the basement, working her
curious magic on the clueless, but we keep tolerating her anyway. My guess
is that McKinney has enjoyed immunity from close scrutiny owing to a sense
that she's harmless."
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- I'm sorry..."in the basement"??? A very intellectual
statement. That is so pathetic...are you the office joke???? You are so
clever with your words, but are you really trying to help?
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- Can you explain what "magic" she is using?
And what kind of Nazi "close scrutiny" do you prefer...torture
or just camera surveillance?
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- And what will you do when you are done being "tolerant"?
You are one dumb bunny. Open your closed, repressed little mind.
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- You also said so brilliantly:
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- "None of which is to suggest that Cynthia McKinney
is a terrorist, or a terrorist sympathizer, or even a socialist rabble-rouser
who despises her own country. On the other hand, using McKinney's own talent
for inferential dot-connecting, she just might be. "
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- Wow...big accusations there...you must have proof! Anything
more than simple rambling? Did you write a social column last???? No more
journalistic skill than that???? Your family must be embarrassed.
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- Perhaps some of your makeup budget could go to some books.
Start with David Icke and then read Jim Marrs. I dare you to read the available
data!!!
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- You must still be studying the magic bullet that killed
Kennedy!
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- You are a sad writer...your management should think about
sending you back through high school...perhaps then you might have a bit
of your own thinking available again. What happened to you???
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- Care to read the feedback from some of the poor saps
you describe being manipulated by Rep. McKinney? Please do.
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- http://www.rense.com/general24/min.htm
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- You belong serving fries and shakes...it goes with your
apparent I.Q. level. You are an idiot with a public voice...such a crime
to let the stupid get published.
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- I'm very angry that unqualified people like you get published.
If you truly cared for the US, you would look into these points.
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