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With regard to Farhad, I haven’t received a response from the FBI or Barack Obama but I did send another letter to a different organization: the ACLU. Last year, he listed a federal judge and an important figure in the Illinois ACLU on a card as “outlaws” and so I’ve contacted the ACLU about it to find out more. I will contact the judge’s office tomorrow. My best guess is that the judge has something to do with whatever ruling came down during the divorce, but we’ll see. (I haven’t got a clue why he was furious with the ACLU.) I will say this: that man is really dedicated to this madness as he is out there just about everyday and has been for years.

Speaking of dedication, the NAACP is supposed to be dedicated to the advancement of colored people, not the continuation of crime, right? The NAACP is not supposed to be about protecting criminals, is it? It’s about advancing colored people, and so I fail to see why they’re standing up for Michael Vick. He’s an awful man — a drug user, an animal abuser, and an idiot. He isn’t even good at Quarterbacking!

Listen. Minorities of all kinds need to stop protecting the worst among them because they share a color. You think I have something nice to say about Hugo Chavez because he’s Venezuelan? I haven’t even got nice things to say about a family member of mine who I think is a bad man, let alone other people who I share nothing with except for a country that’s in my family’s history but not my personal future. I just don’t get it — if you’re going to argue, “Innocent until proven guilty, leave the man alone!” then be consistent when a white man commits a hate crime or a terrorist is caught. More importantly, people should understand that they are not obligated to shill, and defending someone just to defend them doesn’t make you honorable or consistent: it degrades your organization and your people. Understand, also, that you are not a Judge, you are not on the Jury. You are in the court of public opinion, and in that less objective, less time-consuming court, Michael Vick is plainly guilty, as he will be when the law goes through all the motions.

Let’s not pretend.

In more political news, Barack Obama is out trying to establish a reputation for toughness and in so doing, he’s fighting a losing battle while damaging foreign policy. He says, I would strike in Pakistan, with or without consent from Musharref! and that’s the kind of talk that drives anyone who understands Pakistan crazy. If we struck inside Pakistan without permission — or, worse, overtly — we’d destabilize the entire region and lose our double-agent in the Middle East. It’s an absurd bit of tough talk that’s only meant to create a perception, and for such he should be ashamed.

I would like to know who told him that Democratic primary voters want to hear “I will destabilize the Middle East,” because I can promise you they don’t want to hear that, and I imagine the Clinton campaign, if not the Edwards camp too, to be hard at work at establishing Barack as a renegade. If he survives the early primaries, anyway.

Finally, I’d like to mention Ted Stevens. He is the Senator from Alaska who last year threatened to resign from the Senate if his Bridge To Nowhere weren’t built. He is currently facing a corruption investigation by the FBI and his home was raided. Further, he has former aides lining up to squeal on him.

I’ll bet he wishes he’d resigned.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 7:23 pm and is filed under Outside Retort (Current Affairs).