the rix mix

It's perfectly alright for Fox News to post a front webpage showing a rifle pointed at the head of the President of the United States, but we sure stopped them terrorists:

5 Miami men convicted of Sears Tower attack plot
MIAMI (AP) — It took three trials, three juries and nearly three years, but federal prosecutors finally succeeded Tuesday in convicting five Miami men of plotting to start an anti-government insurrection by destroying Chicago's Sears Tower and bombing FBI offices. One man was acquitted.

When the FBI swarmed the downtrodden Liberty City neighborhood to make the arrests in June 2006, the administration of President George W. Bush hailed the case as a prime example of the Justice Department's post-Sept. 11 policy of disrupting potential terror plots in the earliest possible stages.

Yet hours of FBI recordings of terrorist talk contrasted with little concrete evidence of an evolving plot, triggering two mistrials because juries could not agree on verdicts against ringleader Narseal Batiste or five followers. One of the original seven defendants was acquitted after the first trial.

These guys are knaves & fools, & they were being guided by an FBI informant posing as "Brother Mohammed." There was some question as to how much they were stroking the Brother just to get their hands on the fifty grand he claimed to have for them.

Meanwhile, over on the far right, they're sending out all kinds of nasty code messages. At the Star-Ledger website you can hardly find a news story where anonymous commentators aren't calling for lynchings, concentration camps, mass deportations, & the total destruction of any city in Jersey & all its occupants with a substantial black or Hispanic population. The Star-Ledger, which can't even afford reporters, doesn't do anything to suspend the accounts of these nutcases, whose screennames become familiar after awhile.