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Let's welcome Ollie North to da 'burgh
by Mike
Tuesday, Apr. 01, 2003 at 8:32 PM
FAUX News Pundit/ Felon Lt. Col. Oliver North will be presented the Hance Award, April 24, 6:00 PM at the Omni William Penn Hotel.
Key Iran-Contra figure, and voice of Common Sense radio, as well as FAUX News flag-waver and embedded propagandist, will be paying a vist to our fine city.North will be presented with the Hance Award, named for the founder of the St. Barnabas Charitable Foundation at a $200 a plate dinner.
We get our share of war criminals, but a war criminal who works for FAUX is too good to pass up. North also glorifies protecting corporate intersets by the US armed forces with his Freedom Alliance. He is not only a piece of the war machine, he is a piece of the propaganda machine, and he is not welcome here.
Come to the Omni William Penn Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh (across the street from the federal building) the reception and silent auction start at 6:00, dinner and the ceremony at 7:00.
Oh, man...
by Sam
Tuesday, Apr. 01, 2003 at 9:58 PM
We definitely can't pass this opportunity up.
Vacated
by Prodigal Yunzer
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 1:22 AM
His ENTIRE trial was vacated. So not only is he not a criminal, technically he was never even charged. Look it up.
It didn't even have to go to the Supreme Court. It was vacated ten minutes after it was heard on appeal.
it must be so
by jwg
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 4:02 AM
so a powerful white guy in washington was let go without a trial....
he MUST be innocent then. No one in washington ever twists the truth for personal gain, or to help their friends...
and seriously, it's y_i_nzer, the word is yinz, not yunz, but this is just a pet peeve of mine
White guys?
by Jackel
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 7:59 AM
What do you have against white guys? Look, I'm not white but I know just as many hispanics and blacks that get special treatment and I know just as many whites who go down for crimes. You guys scream discrimination at the drop of a pin but then you focus on the "white" guys who get special treatment. Are you as dumb as you sound or is this just the way you try to fit in? Why don't you focus on the problems and not the color of people's skin. That's what MLK tried to drive home but most of you brainless radical idiots have turned it upside down.
no it's not that
by jwg
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 8:05 AM
in fact, I am a white guy, doesn't mean I don't see this shit go down all the time, and until wasshington is not mostly rich, mostly white guys who don't give a shit about anything than other rich white guys, then we'll never have a representative government.
jwg has a right
by CalTechGuy
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 8:25 AM
Look guys. jwg has a point. Washington doesn't give a rats ass about anyone who doesn't contribute tons of $ to their campaigns. It's not representative at all but just an old boys' club.
seriously
by jwg
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 8:27 AM
I'm proud to be a social misfit, the status-quo breeds complacency and complacency kills. But honestly, would one of you to stop concentrating on the name-calling and tell me how i'm "sucking on the publics teet?"
I'd like to know, since both of you understand me so well.
No more off-topic comments, please
by an IMC editor
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 9:00 AM
Can we please keep the comments on topic and free of namecalling? This post was about Ollie North coming to Pittsburgh, remember?
Could we have some editorial consistency PLEASE
by S.Odamninsane
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 9:07 AM
You guys removed all of my comments ... ALL OF WHICH WERE ON TOPIC. I am sorry if you don't like the truth (Being a social misfit does breed lice, and it is far more costly to use children as munitions then to just buy a few missiles). But you are a hypocrit. On at least four other strings you have been calling that Rich Mackin fella all sorts of names and making statements that are not supported by any facts, but you didnt do anything to censor that the we you have censored me. I will bet that the double standard will not weigh in your favor when Rich Mackin sues you for slander.
HE Had a Trial
by Prodigal Yunzer
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 9:24 AM
There's this thing called the INTERNET where you can perhaps elevate your accusations from gratuitous assertions to wild ass exaggerations with the use of a little research. That would be a welcome step towards rational discourse. And rational discourse is the international currency of peace is it not?
Ollie had a trial. We paid for it, and it made all the wrong people happy. Then when a panel of real judges examined it, they saw plainly what everyone already knew: Ollie was granted blanket immunity and every bit of evidence against him came from his immunized testimony. So the trial was what leftists like to call a "show trial" in that a conviction was good for nothing ,except to label Ollie in a slanderous and tyrannical way.
But it was YOUR trial, damn it. You leftists aren't real big on consistent application of your elevated principles. But count on me to remind you of it at every opportunity.
The Liberal Internet
by S.Odamninsane
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 9:37 AM
Indy Media is to the Internet what Talk Radio is to drive-time. Except Indy Media doesn't provide the higher level of discoursed that comes with a talkshow host.
hey
by Evan N
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 at 6:07 PM
then go listen to talk radio instead.
For this Ollie North thing, i'll most definately be there. Lets work on some concrete plans so we can start informing people.
Take it Back
by Prodigal Yunzer
Friday, Apr. 04, 2003 at 2:02 AM
Ollie did get Arab sheiks to contribute money to pay for the Contras. He did sic them on the Sandinistas. It did work, and the Sandinistas lost every subsequent non rigged election that was held. It was against the will of the US Congress, who were elbowing each other out of the way in order to have their pictures taken with Danny Ortega, the next Castro. Politics is show business for ugly people, as they say. The Contras did wage guerilla war, and they did skin some Sandies alive next to roaring campfires. But he's not a felon. Technically, he has not even been accused of a felony. His rap sheet is blank, because his entire legal proceeding was vacated. Look it up, then take it back. I don't blame you for hating the man who was the chief tactician of the battle your side lost to spread socialism in Central America, but fair is fair.
Take the crack?
by -
Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2003 at 12:09 PM
Ollie helped intorduce crack cocaine to the west coast, to fund the contras, gave money to the Israelis to give missles to Iran, so they would release hostages to embarrass Carter (who needed no help) during the 1980 election. Hezbollah was not thrilled with the arrangement and went to the media. North was given immunity for not ratting on his bosses, so he would rat on his bosses. He invoked the Nuremberg defense. Ran for Congress, and now has a cushy job with his master's voice at FAUX. Regardless of the outcome of the illegitimate courts he is a felon, by their standards.
CRACK of yer Ass
by Prodigal Yunzer
Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2003 at 10:17 PM
There was no such thing as CRACK in 1980 to 1984. There was freebasing, which isn't the same thing. Seriously, the nutty notions that you people embrace as truth must keep you awake at nights!
coccaine
by me
Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2003 at 6:42 PM
crack is coccaine Prodigal. And yes, Oliver North was responsible for the spread of drugs into the inner cities. That's one of the reasons for the Vietnam war and the Latin American guerilla wars.... drugs make the rich get rich and the poor stay poor!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You Youngsters: Weak Acid, Strong Pot
by Prodigal Yunzer
Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2003 at 8:21 PM
Crack is NOT cocaine. IT is cocaine that is converted by heat with other chemicals which will go unmentioned lest I be accused of conspiracy to manufacture into a smokable rock. Powdered cocaine is the plant alkaloid of coca leaves. When you turn it into crack you get ten times the volume, and smoking is a faster blood gas metabolic process than snorting.
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