Comments on: In Minneapolis, Vegan = Terrorist http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:51:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: oldtree http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/comment-page-1/#comment-70415 oldtree Thu, 22 May 2008 18:38:38 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/#comment-70415 <p>and make tofurkey imports a major offense.</p> and make tofurkey imports a major offense.

]]> By: DefendOurConstitution http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/comment-page-1/#comment-70397 DefendOurConstitution Thu, 22 May 2008 17:14:06 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/#comment-70397 <p>Congress should act immediately and ban Tofu as this is a threat that could destroy our Country!</p> Congress should act immediately and ban Tofu as this is a threat that could destroy our Country!

]]> By: Nell http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/comment-page-1/#comment-70393 Nell Thu, 22 May 2008 16:54:52 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/#comment-70393 <p> I am saddened but not surprised to see the FBI following the CIA’s footprints into criminality.</p> <p>Huh? COINTELPRO was an <i>FBI</i> operation; the bureau has been criminal in this way for decades (or “was criminal” if you believe they stopped at some point; they didn’t). The CIA activities you mention were parallel, but in no way the inspiration for the FBI’s own adventures in provocateurship.</p> I am saddened but not surprised to see the FBI following the CIA’s footprints into criminality.

Huh? COINTELPRO was an FBI operation; the bureau has been criminal in this way for decades (or “was criminal” if you believe they stopped at some point; they didn’t). The CIA activities you mention were parallel, but in no way the inspiration for the FBI’s own adventures in provocateurship.

]]> By: JohnLopresti http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/comment-page-1/#comment-70390 JohnLopresti Thu, 22 May 2008 16:51:47 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/#comment-70390 <p>The post theme is interesting in several respects, and the parallel topics regarding the OIG report equally important. In the latter regard Jameel Jaffer has a helpful reading of the OIG report at ACS today, <a href="http://www.acsblog.org/guest-bloggers-see-no-evil.html" rel="nofollow">there</a>. I defer a reply to those with reputations for constitutional law expertise; I think Jaffer has found the obvious seams in the glosses in the OIG report and dangles them tantalizingly for all to see once again how politics might tend to corrupt even Mark Felt, but may not in this instance. On the “vegan” theme, in some ways it relates to my work in healthsciences recently, and occasionally some obscure reference in literature with which I work on my dayjob, actually it is a swingshift position in the evenings, has occasioned a visit to a vegan website. There tend to be some good people interested in vegetarianism, but I can imagine the thought police calling a psychologist expert witness to proclaim vegans are known to have “ideas of reference”. Times have changed since macrobiotics’ leading champion perished in Japan several decades past, perhaps from malnutrition, yet, some similar ideals seem to be part of modern lifestyle developments: consider this <a href="http://www.smallplanet.org/about_us/demlinks.php" rel="nofollow">linkpage</a> from a cookbook writer of thirty years ago. Frances Moore Lappe manages to go beyond motive, to actually working with people for betterment. I think it is fair to expect the local gendarmes and feds to scrutinize for marginal people before a political powwow, so the bagel outfits with intellectual caffeine based chatter likely will endure as much infiltration and surveillance as the meatless, eggless, and fishless. One of the benefits of politics over the past thirty years may have been raising interchanges to a more equitable level, though Republicans have a difficult time with that because of their economic priorities which usually marginalize more people than the Democratic party does.</p> The post theme is interesting in several respects, and the parallel topics regarding the OIG report equally important. In the latter regard Jameel Jaffer has a helpful reading of the OIG report at ACS today, there. I defer a reply to those with reputations for constitutional law expertise; I think Jaffer has found the obvious seams in the glosses in the OIG report and dangles them tantalizingly for all to see once again how politics might tend to corrupt even Mark Felt, but may not in this instance. On the “vegan” theme, in some ways it relates to my work in healthsciences recently, and occasionally some obscure reference in literature with which I work on my dayjob, actually it is a swingshift position in the evenings, has occasioned a visit to a vegan website. There tend to be some good people interested in vegetarianism, but I can imagine the thought police calling a psychologist expert witness to proclaim vegans are known to have “ideas of reference”. Times have changed since macrobiotics’ leading champion perished in Japan several decades past, perhaps from malnutrition, yet, some similar ideals seem to be part of modern lifestyle developments: consider this linkpage from a cookbook writer of thirty years ago. Frances Moore Lappe manages to go beyond motive, to actually working with people for betterment. I think it is fair to expect the local gendarmes and feds to scrutinize for marginal people before a political powwow, so the bagel outfits with intellectual caffeine based chatter likely will endure as much infiltration and surveillance as the meatless, eggless, and fishless. One of the benefits of politics over the past thirty years may have been raising interchanges to a more equitable level, though Republicans have a difficult time with that because of their economic priorities which usually marginalize more people than the Democratic party does.

]]> By: dosido http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/comment-page-1/#comment-70386 dosido Thu, 22 May 2008 16:16:31 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/#comment-70386 <p>I didn’t know there were so many vegans in the CIA.</p> I didn’t know there were so many vegans in the CIA.

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/comment-page-1/#comment-70379 bmaz Thu, 22 May 2008 15:25:16 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/#comment-70379 <p>Me also. Of course there was a whole lot of cow, swine or yardbird in there too.</p> Me also. Of course there was a whole lot of cow, swine or yardbird in there too.

]]> By: 4jkb4ia http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/comment-page-1/#comment-70377 4jkb4ia Thu, 22 May 2008 15:11:45 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/#comment-70377 <p>Now I have to work on this reputation at Balloon Juice.</p> Now I have to work on this reputation at Balloon Juice.

]]> By: 4jkb4ia http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/comment-page-1/#comment-70376 4jkb4ia Thu, 22 May 2008 15:03:44 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/#comment-70376 <p>Hey, I have more! I have eaten decent burritos with roasted vegetables.</p> Hey, I have more! I have eaten decent burritos with roasted vegetables.

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/comment-page-1/#comment-70375 bmaz Thu, 22 May 2008 14:55:47 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/#comment-70375 <p>I figured it was just one of those moments analogous to “Manny being Manny”….</p> I figured it was just one of those moments analogous to “Manny being Manny”….

]]> By: 4jkb4ia http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/comment-page-1/#comment-70374 4jkb4ia Thu, 22 May 2008 14:49:45 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/21/in-minneapolis-vegan-terrorist/#comment-70374 <p>(Reply to bobschacht)</p> (Reply to bobschacht)

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