On Nov 7, 2012, at 8:14 AM, c b (counterfactualist bullshitter?) wrote:
"...as if it wouldn't have gotten ten times worse if Romney had been elected."
When, in his entire life, did Romney ever treat a black man or woman even a tenth as badly as Saadiq Long and his mother are *right now* being mistreated by your dorkie off-white comrade?
> Shane Mage
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> "Giggles"
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> Still giggling?
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>
> ^^^^^^^
> CB: LMAO . Obama won !
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> U have quite a dorkie white person's conception of white supremacy, if
> you think the below means Angela Davis has lost her mind in supporting
> Obama's re-election; as if it wouldn't have gotten ten times worse if
> Romney had been elected.
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> ^^^^^^
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> "In April of this year, Saadiq Long, a 43-year-old African-American
> Muslim who now lives in Qatar, purchased a ticket on KLM Airlines to
> travel to Oklahoma, the state where he grew up. Long, a 10-year
> veteran of the US Air Force, had learned that the congestive heart
> failure from which his mother suffers had worsened, and she was eager
> to see her son. He had last seen his mother and siblings more than a
> decade ago, when he returned to the US in 2001, and spent months
> saving the money to purchase the ticket and arranging to be away from
> work. The day before he was to travel, a KLM representative called
> Long and informed him that the airlines could not allow him to board
> the flight. That, she explained, was because the US Department of
> Homeland Security (DHS) had placed Long on its "no-fly list", which
> bars him from flying into his own country.
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> Long has now spent the last six months trying to find out why he was
> placed on this list and what he can do to get off of it. He has had no
> success, unable to obtain even the most basic information about what
> caused his own government to deprive him of this right to travel.
>
> (Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian, 5/11)
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> http://gu.com/p/3btaf/em
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