TWO FROM WORKING FOR CHANGE

Another busy night. So go read these columns.

Immigrants and hate

This was fairly typical local media coverage. What the SPD apparently did not say, but any organizer could have (and perhaps had) told any local reporter who cared to ask, was that the five were not marchers, as the P-I intimated. They were self-identified Neo-Nazis, and in the context of the large number of death threats organizers had received, there is only one possible explanation for their having come to the march armed. It was march security that brought their presence to the attention of SPD.

SPD also chose not to reveal, and no local media reported, a fact announced from the rally stage: that the car incident had resulted in several injuries.

SPD was reportedly irritated with march organizers because the organizers, all of whom were non-white and most of whom were immigrants, for some reason didn't especially trust the police during the April 10 march here. So, among other things, SPD chose not to block traffic at intersections during the first two, non-downtown miles of the march route -- a decision that led directly to the car incident and injuries.

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Gouging? What gouging?

You know who you are. Yes you. The ones who are waiting for the president to do something about this gas price thing. The ones who mistook that lame BS oozing out of his “gosh, gas prices are getting high, aren't they?” press conference as sincere. When are you going to get it through your tiny little heads? He's not here to help.

Let me go through this one more time. Stay with me. It's not that complicated. The president is a Texas oilman. His father is a Texas oilman. His vice president is an oilman who shoots Texas lawyers. All the rich people he knows, his father knows and Dick Cheney knows have 30 weight running through their veins. All the people who gave him money that put him in the White House are oilmen. Does this clear anything up? Maybe a little? His major priority is to pay them back in spades, then they tell him what a good job he's doing and give him more money.

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