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Mike Stark
Mike Stark is an creative opportunist and entrepreneurial activist with a personality disorder that regularly compels him to confront and shame bad guys. George Allen, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and...oh, yeah...Bill O'Reilly...and many others have spent nights lying awake wishing Stark hadn't been born.
When Stark isn't pissing off the right-wing uglies, he's probably playing with one of his two young children or sitting in a law school classroom.
I received an email last Thursday afternoon; a friend wrote to tell me someone had created a group on Barack Obama’s website for the purposes of asking him to oppose the FISA legislation pending in the Senate.
Several months ago, Obama promised that he would support the filibuster of any legislation that granted immunity to telcos that illegally wiretapped American’s communications at the behest of Alberto Gonzalez and Dick Cheney.
Just last week, Obama flip-flopped and sold the Constitution for 30 shekels. With the primary over, he’s apparently made the calculation that he can afford to betray the people that supported him at least partially based on the premise that he’d stand up to the old politics of fear and false choices. He decided that he was going to support the current package of legislation that not only offers telco immunity, but grants unprecedented authority to the executive by removing critical checks and balances.
We have a lot of crazy people running around America, and the internet encourages the craziness and the hatred. Hatred in this country is ratcheted up now, a hundred times… more than it was ten years ago, because of the internet, which provides haters with sanctuary, and encourages them. Because other haters can say “Oh yeah, you’re just like me, you’re not alone.”
So it used to be that there were isolated nuts like the killer of John Lennon, the killer of Martin Luther King… Now these people, just like child molesters, can get comfort from the internet, so all people in the public eye are in danger.
Last week, Justice Antonin Scalia was given an award at the University of Virginia. Scalia was a founder of the Federalist Society; while he was at the school, he spoke at a lunch for UVa Fed. Soc. members.
Guess what? I’m a member. I went.
When he was done speaking, I was able to chat him up a little bit. And, what do you know? It looks like this lil’ ol’ blogger scooped 60 Minutes Leslie Stahl.
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