47) So, from where I sat in Montana, spending time with the frightened victims of WCOTC thugs, someone who was defending their ability to use the levers of the legal system essentially was defending their “right” to deprive other people, vulnerable people, of theirs.pic.twitter.com/5S09BieOKB
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58) Also, note how Greenwald bandies the phrase “guilt by association” to describe Matt Hale’s culpability in the rampage. Many of Glenn’s critics will become accustomed to hearing the same phrase, abused in exactly the same fashion, in the years ahead.pic.twitter.com/2JL0m2aRGZ
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59) He was also interviewed for an August 2000 Los Angeles Times piece describing how civil-rights groups were using civil courts to bankrupt hate groups. Greenwald was quoted thus: http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/22/news/mn-8425 …pic.twitter.com/m9GEiPYflD
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60) There are a number of issues here WRT Greenwald's truthfulness. First, in fact, it shortly emerged that not only had Hale just given Smith his group’s top award, he had spent 16 hours on the phone with Smith in the two weeks before the rampage. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-07-25/news/9907250249_1_hale-supremacist-young-man …
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61) Even more significant is Greenwald’s view that the standard tactics used by the SPLC and other civil-rights groups to bankrupt hate groups that actively deprive minorities of their civil rights (both via advocacy and action) via the civil process is “an abuse of the courts.”
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Important context for his subsequent attacks on the SPLC, and cheering of the legal threat used to take down their piece on the fascist creep.http://newpol.org/content/inside-look-how-prorussia-trolls-got-splc-censor-commie …
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FWIW, I was intimately involved in that clusterfuck.
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@ggreenwald decries abridging the violent Nazis’ rights to spew hate against Jews Blacks Asians and others but labels odious and repugnant the Jews Blacks and Asians who dare to assert their rights to oppose such violence and hate?! -
yup - you got it.
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Why are you like this,
@ggreenwald ?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That's how, despite your feelings to the contrary, I'm certain he's a white supremacist. He wasn't just doing his job.
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