What if?..
What if those NY terror suspects had been White?
A federal law enforcement official described the plot as “aspirational” — meaning that the suspects wanted to do something but had no weapons or explosives — and described the operation as a sting with a cooperator within the group.
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid of Colorado announced his decision not to pursue the case of the white-supremacists who were caught trying to kill Barack Obama in Denver. He called their plot "more aspirational than operational".
It is a pattern of letting rightwingers get off easily.
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What if Adam Lambert had won American Idol?
Ya, what if a highly favored conservative Christian surprisingly lost to a gay (or even speculated gay) contestant on a TV show? I think we know what would happen given when a rightwing Christian homophobe who was not favored lost a TV contest, the rightwingers had a fit.
A federal law enforcement official described the plot as “aspirational” — meaning that the suspects wanted to do something but had no weapons or explosives — and described the operation as a sting with a cooperator within the group.
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid of Colorado announced his decision not to pursue the case of the white-supremacists who were caught trying to kill Barack Obama in Denver. He called their plot "more aspirational than operational".
It is a pattern of letting rightwingers get off easily.
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What if Adam Lambert had won American Idol?
Ya, what if a highly favored conservative Christian surprisingly lost to a gay (or even speculated gay) contestant on a TV show? I think we know what would happen given when a rightwing Christian homophobe who was not favored lost a TV contest, the rightwingers had a fit.
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