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LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
I don’t understand why we don’t go after white supremacists organizations and their members with feds. There’s no love for domestic terrorists at the FBI so it’s a goddamn mystery to me why the SPLC and ADL are the only ones trying to peg these motherfuckers. It’s counter terrorism but they devote very little muscle to putting these fucks in prison. If these mother fuckers were named Ahmed or Muhammad they’d be getting perp walked. Instead you got goddamn Frontline doing more investigations than all the loving law enforcement agencies.

I seriously just don’t get it. The FBI is, generally speaking, staffed by good people who want to serve and protect the USA. There’s not white supremacy poo poo going down inside the FBI, so why the gently caress aren’t they trying to make cases on this poo poo?

loving hell.

Here’s my baby boy all wrapped up.

LtCol J. Krusinski fucked around with this message at 18:41 on May 10, 2018

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Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Some of those who work forces
Are the same that burn crosses

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

Holy loving poo poo :mad:

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
Can't even wait until he's dead before pissing on his grave. Lovely.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

Soulex posted:

Some of those who work forces
Are the same that burn crosses

Beat me to it. Was gonna just quote myself from a few pages back.

I have some cop friends irl and they are all decent people, but there are definitely a gently caress ton of white supremacists in all aspects of the leo community. It doesn't help that Jeff Sessions is currently in charge of policing in the country.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jan/17/vietnam-veterans-against-john-mccain/no-evidence-mccain-was-a-traitor

gently caress that dude

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Holy poo poo, that guy can get hosed.


Mr. Nice! posted:

Jeff Sessions is currently in charge of policing in the country.

This would explain a good chunk of it right now. And then Y'all Qaeda only got off because the prosecution managed to gently caress it up.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Soulex posted:

Some of those who work forces
Are the same that burn crosses

I can see that song being true about the DoD and State, County, and City police departments.

But the FBI? These guys have to go through an intense single scope background investigation, and they have to go through a lifestyle and counter intelligence poly. And to boot, that investigation happens every 5 years and the Poly’s are annual. You’d have to be as sneaky as a spy to be a White Supremacist and stay in the FBI. I’m not saying there aren’t racists in the FBI because there certainly are, but dues paying organized white supremacists? They’d seriously have to be the sneakiest shadiest mother fuckers to be both an Agent and a Klanner.

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


Can we give McCain an Aldrin Exception and let him straight up sock that mouthy assshole right in the kisser?

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I can see that song being true about the DoD and State, County, and City police departments.

But the FBI? These guys have to go through an intense single scope background investigation, and they have to go through a lifestyle and counter intelligence poly. And to boot, that investigation happens every 5 years and the Poly’s are annual. You’d have to be as sneaky as a spy to be a White Supremacist and stay in the FBI. I’m not saying there aren’t racists in the FBI because there certainly are, but dues paying organized white supremacists? They’d seriously have to be the sneakiest shadiest mother fuckers to be both an Agent and a Klanner.

While you're not wrong, part of the problem is when you get guys like Comey who point at things like Black Lives Matter and say that they view it with suspicion and treat it with the same disdain as they would with the Black Panther Party circa '68.

So when given a choice of either going after some white supremacist idiots that are relatively quiet on radar or a black civil rights group that due to your organizational bias you think *might* have some shady going on, you can see why most investigations steer towards those targets.


And Comey, like much of the rank and file FBI, certainly has a lot of redeeming qualities, but you've also got to acknowledge he has some pretty loving stupid views on BLM and people protesting over policing in America.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I can see that song being true about the DoD and State, County, and City police departments.

But the FBI? These guys have to go through an intense single scope background investigation, and they have to go through a lifestyle and counter intelligence poly. And to boot, that investigation happens every 5 years and the Poly’s are annual. You’d have to be as sneaky as a spy to be a White Supremacist and stay in the FBI. I’m not saying there aren’t racists in the FBI because there certainly are, but dues paying organized white supremacists? They’d seriously have to be the sneakiest shadiest mother fuckers to be both an Agent and a Klanner.

The FBI was investigating themselves for white supremacist penetration before Trump took office, and had been for years.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I don’t understand why we don’t go after white supremacists organizations and their members with feds. There’s no love for domestic terrorists at the FBI so it’s a goddamn mystery to me why the SPLC and ADL are the only ones trying to peg these motherfuckers. It’s counter terrorism but they devote very little muscle to putting these fucks in prison. If these mother fuckers were named Ahmed or Muhammad they’d be getting perp walked. Instead you got goddamn Frontline doing more investigations than all the loving law enforcement agencies.

I believe the answer is prioritization. FBI types probably feel like terrerists are the more pressing concern versus domestic terrorists, so they handwave and claim the local PDs can handle the homegrown poo poo.

I think that's the same reason why you have the NRA types and the anti-McCain types getting/staying mouthy. Defending Trump is priority #1, so all of the other debasement (lying, making up poo poo, trashing others) gets rationalized because their priorities are way out of gently caress. Ends justifying the means-type poo poo.

Bad guys don't know that they're the bad guys. They think they're the good guys!

https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Aim High, Air Force!

This same LTG (R) downplayed nuclear fallout from nuking the DPRK by saying most of the fallout would just kill North Koreans.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

mods change my name posted:

all cops must hang

edit: it will need to be sturdy rope because lol that cop is fat as gently caress

He's the ogre on the far right.



mlmp08 posted:

Aim High, Air Force!

This same LTG (R) downplayed nuclear fallout from nuking the DPRK by saying most of the fallout would just kill North Koreans.

Also,

quote:

In 2010, McInerney provided his support against the court martial of Terrence Lakin who refused to deploy to Afghanistan due to his suspicion of President Barack Obama's birthplace
also,

quote:

Tom McInerney is noted for insisting on Fox News that terrorists had flown the disappeared Malaysia Airlines 370 to Pakistan

I know, I know. Not exactly shocking that an Air Force general officer is a gigantic piece of right wing poo poo but still...

Steezo
Jun 16, 2003
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!


LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I don’t understand why we don’t go after white supremacists organizations and their members with feds. ... If these mother fuckers were named Ahmed or Muhammad they’d be getting perp walked.

9/11 on the brain. Somehow despite the prior bombing attempt finding the rest of those fucks wasn't a priority until the rear end end of 2001.

Something about a reactive bias as well. Whatever the last big threat was gets more focus. Some pre 9/11 details were missed due to a focus on finding the next Unabomber or OK City type. Pre- Homeland Security jurisdictional pissing contests about sharing info aside.

Edit: What facie said. Phone posting v slow today.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Arrath posted:

Can we give McCain an Aldrin Exception and let him straight up sock that mouthy assshole right in the kisser?

Sure

But John can't raise his arms that high.

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



MA-Horus posted:

Sure

But John can't raise his arms that high.

drat dude.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Rebel Blob posted:

Maybe you remember this video from a couple of years back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-YsSL65quM

It turns out not to be incompetence after all. A soldier was just found guilty of cutting straps before the air drop.

Holy crap :stare: Why would you do that!

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009



The thicc blue line

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

MA-Horus posted:

Sure

But John can't raise his arms that high.

bro

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

MA-Horus posted:

Sure

But John can't raise his arms that high.

gimme a low-5

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



CommieGIR posted:

Holy crap :stare: Why would you do that!

drat, only a BCD for that.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

facialimpediment posted:

I believe the answer is prioritization. FBI types probably feel like terrerists are the more pressing concern versus domestic terrorists, so they handwave and claim the local PDs can handle the homegrown poo poo.

I think that's the same reason why you have the NRA types and the anti-McCain types getting/staying mouthy. Defending Trump is priority #1, so all of the other debasement (lying, making up poo poo, trashing others) gets rationalized because their priorities are way out of gently caress. Ends justifying the means-type poo poo.

Bad guys don't know that they're the bad guys. They think they're the good guys!

https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU
I would reckon the FBI is also depending on the local PDs to report information to the state LE agencies which then interface with the JTTFs. The bit about white-supremacist infiltration of law enforcement mentioned ITT was I believe actually about the FBI concerned with local police and sheriff's departments which can be a total crapshoot.

Don't know any cops, but I remember growing up and a friend's dad was a detective who worked on homicide and counter-terrorism especially right after 9/11. Now, this guy was a racist and right-wing as all hell, but he hated skinheads and Nazis, because skinheads and Nazis tend to hate cops. But incidentally and not related to white supremacist extremism, there were nearby (rural) counties that his department didn't even want to cooperate with at all because of corruption, they worried that working with those departments on cases would contaminate their investigations. The barrels are rotten in a lot of places.

I know the FBI is interested in some of these far-right groups because [butting into thread] I spend a lot of time reading their poo poo, and they talk about getting approached by federal agents who want to interview them.

There was also one group in particular that was on the front lines in Charlottesville. This same group, while small, had terrified a bunch of colleges in Texas by driving around and putting up racist flyers in the middle of the night for months. A magazine did the state equivalent of FOIA and published emails from the campus police departments on how they were trying to respond, and there was an FBI agent in the mix of emails querying the campus departments on whether they had info on a list of names; the group's leadership -- and this was way before those same people were doxxed and outed by journalists and antifascist types, which leads me to believe the feds had pretty good intelligence.

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 20:26 on May 10, 2018

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

MA-Horus posted:

Sure

But John can't raise his arms that high.

:eyepop:

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer

CommieGIR posted:

Holy crap :stare: Why would you do that!

...Because it's cool?

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

CommieGIR posted:

Holy crap :stare: Why would you do that!

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

I get it.

I really do.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Guy on the ground got in trouble for laughing while filming it. I can see getting in trouble for posting it on social media, but laughing? Unless they're the same guy of course.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

MA-Horus posted:

Sure

But John can't raise his arms that high.

drat, I forgot that if McCain was black, cops would have to kill him twice.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
If you wouldn’t be laughing your rear end off after watching multiple hummers loving crater you aren’t someone i want to know.

Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 20:31 on May 10, 2018

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

Casimir Radon posted:

Guy on the ground got in trouble for laughing while filming it. I can see getting in trouble for posting it on social media, but laughing? Unless they're the same guy of course.

the article makes it sound like it was the same guy who filmed, laughed, posted, and cut the straps. right around the 3rd one you hear someone asking if that was all

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Mr. Nice! posted:

If you wouldn’t be laughing your rear end off after watching multiple hummers loving crater you aren’t someone i want to know.

Oh no, I'd laugh too. What's scary to me is the guy prepping the chutes purposefully cutting them. What caused that to happen.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Edit: nevermind, already posted!

To replace it, here's something from The Wire's lovely, boring cousin show that never aired.

https://twitter.com/evanperez/status/994659118362320896?s=19

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 20:35 on May 10, 2018

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


RFC2324 posted:

the article makes it sound like it was the same guy who filmed, laughed, posted, and cut the straps. right around the 3rd one you hear someone asking if that was all
He probably shouldn't have been yelling "WORLDSTAR!" over and over again.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

boop the snoot posted:

Support are vets.

When Cadet bonespurs mocked McCain and didn't even take a real drop in support among the base is when I knew he was a loving contender for the office.

Missionary Positron
Jul 6, 2004
And now for something completely different
Giuliani’s Law Firm Undercuts His Statements as They Part Ways

quote:

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, abruptly resigned from his law firm, Greenberg Traurig, the firm announced on Thursday, then promptly undercut his recent statements defending the president.

Mr. Giuliani had taken a leave of absence last month from the firm, one of the nation’s largest, to represent Mr. Trump. But the firm said in a statement that he no longer worked there.

Firm partners had chafed over Mr. Giuliani’s public comments about payments that another of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Michael D. Cohen, made to secure the silence of a pornographic film actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. The president has denied her allegations.

Mr. Giuliani suggested that such payments were common at his firm, even without the knowledge of the clients. “That was money that was paid by his lawyer, the way I would do, out of his law firm funds,” he said on Fox News. He added, “Michael would take care of things like this like I take care of this with my clients.”

The New York Times asked Greenberg Traurig about those remarks early this week. Shortly after Mr. Giuliani’s resignation was announced, the firm responded.

“We cannot speak for Mr. Giuliani with respect to what was intended by his remarks,” said a spokeswoman, Jill Perry. “Speaking for ourselves, we would not condone payments of the nature alleged to have been made or otherwise without the knowledge and direction of a client.”

the laffs just keep on coming and coming and

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

boop the snoot posted:

Support are pets.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Weed news.

Kamala Harris backs Booker bill to legalize marijuana
http://thehill.com/regulation/legislation/387101-kamala-harris-backs-booker-bill-to-legalize-marijuana

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

good dog but please use red eye remover next time

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/merkel-says-europe-can-t-count-on-u-s-military-umbrella-anymore

quote:

“It’s no longer the case that the United States will simply just protect us,” Merkel said to applause in a speech honoring French President Emmanuel Macron, who sat behind her at a prize ceremony in Aachen, Germany. “Rather, Europe needs to take its fate into its own hands. That’s the task for the future.”

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shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Adult Swim just confirmed they've contracted for 70 new episodes of Rick & Morty, not sure if any other show has ever been guaranteed pickup that far in advance

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