BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter

Fred Hampton — slain state chairman of the Black Panthers party that urged followers to “off the pigs” — would join the parade of Chicagoans afforded honorary street designations, under an ordinance advanced Monday that outraged the police union.

Hampton and fellow Panther leader Mark Clark were gunned down by Chicago Police officers working under Cook County State’s Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan in an infamous December 1969 raid at Hampton’s apartment that ultimately cost Hanrahan his job.

But it was the violence that Hampton and the Panthers advocated against police officers that stuck in the craw of Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue.

Finish reading at: Cop: ‘You’ve got to be kidding’

Join Cindy Sheehan, Camilo Mejia, Kathy Kelly, and students who’ve fought repression and won at Berkeley, SFSU, CCNY, HCC, GMU, Kent State, Hampton, and Madison, in supporting…

NATIONAL WEEK OF CAMPUS ACTION Week of March 13-17 www.campusantiwar.net

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If you scroll through endorsees, you’ll find: DAHR JAMAIL, independent journalist reporting from Iraq. He’s a close friend of Jill Carroll.

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/

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Little Sheet Head

Harry bin Potter

Open wide and say Aaaaaaaaaa-llah

Future Yale Undergraduate

ALL YOUR TABLECLOTH ARE BELONG TO ALLAH!

From: Free Republic

By Maxim Kniazkov

Special to Insight

LAREDO, Texas – This border area is one of the least publicized international crisis zones. More Americans have been kidnapped just in this area than in all of Iraq by Islamic terrorists.

Finish Reading at: Insight Magazine

It is late Sunday morning, and streets in Nuevo Laredo’s commercial district remain eerily empty. As many as 176 people were killed in the city last year amid a turf war between drug cartels. (Photo by Maxim Kniazkov)

Supreme Court Backs Abortion Protesters

By TONI LOCY
Associated Press Writer

The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to abortion clinics in a two-decade-old legal fight over abortion protests, ruling that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to ban demonstrations.
Anti-abortion groups brought the appeal after the 7th Circuit had asked a trial judge to determine whether a nationwide injunction could be supported by charges that protesters had made threats of violence absent a connection with robbery or extortion.

The 8-0 decision ends a case that the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had kept alive despite a 2003 decision by the high court that lifted a nationwide injunction on anti-abortion groups led by Joseph Scheidler and others.

Writing for the majority, Justice Stephen Breyer said Congress did not intend to create “a freestanding physical violence offense” in the federal extortion law known as the Hobbs Act.

Social activists and the AFL-CIO had sided with anti-abortion groups in arguing that similar lawsuits and injunctions could be used to thwart their efforts to change public policy or agitate for better wages and working conditions.
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So basically, you can harass, protest, and physically stand in someone’s way from entering an abortion clinic. (Hamper business if you will). The same people who call this a victory, think it’s wrong for the Muslim’s to want to impose Sharia Law? Talk about hypocritical.

When the postulating pious start heeding their own doctines, ALL of them and not just selective adherence… so will I.

A bad idea bred of good intentions.

BY CHRISTINE ROSEN

In 1927, physicians at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded in Lynchburg sterilized a young woman named Carrie Buck. Although doctors at state institutions across the country had performed sterilizations before, Carrie’s case was unusual. Her sterilization had received the imprimatur of the U.S. Supreme Court. In Buck v. Bell, the court upheld the state of Virginia’s right to sterilize, forcibly, so-called feeble-minded individuals. “It is better for all the world,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote for the majority, “if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.” Holmes concluded: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

Finish reading at: Opinion Journal (Wall Street Journal) ^

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Governor Rod Blagojevich have teamed up to push legislation designed to thwart plans by a major hunting/fishing retailer to open a superstore in suburban Chicago. The bill, HB4693, would make it nearly impossible for any law-abiding entity to engage in the lawful retail sale of firearms in the state.

Cabela’s, based in Sidney, NE, recently announced plans to build a destination superstore in northwest suburban Hoffman Estates. The store would employ 400 people and feature a wide variety of gear to meet the needs of every outdoor sportsman. Of course, the retail sale of firearms would be a major component of the store’s business.

Finish reading at: Cabela’s Targeted by Latest Daley/Blagojevich Gun Control Scheme
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The type of firearms that Cabelas sells would be primarily black-powder weapons for hunting and historical reenactments. They are the guns our forefathers used to wrest liberty from tyrants like…Mayor Daley. Weapons that were good enough for American Minutemen, settlers, and the troops of Lincoln’s army.

Of course when the residents of Chicago finally decide to rid themselves of their oppressors, they’ll have to do it with sticks and stones (or maybe tar and feathers).

So say The Two Malcontents whose First Amendment rights are insured by the Second Amendment.

The Two Malcontents shop at: www.cabelas.com

By David French

The sad example of Penn State. More>

Excerpt:
In other words, if a student shows “contempt” for, say, Islamic fascism, or same-sex “marriage,” that student is subject to punishment. And, just to show that, at Penn State, intolerance is no laughing matter, students can also be punished if they engage in “unwelcome banter,” or even “teasing or jokes” that depict a member of a “protected class” in a “stereotypical or demeaning manner.”

By DiscoverTheNetworks.org

Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron, onetime member of the Black Panthers, frequently inveighs against “white” influence. More>

By Stanley Crouch
NYDailyNews

One of the most repulsively fascinating facts about contemporary black popular culture is how it continues to reach fresh lows. It finds new ways of leaping all fences that would bar it from falling into a bottomless pit of tastelessness. All of the insults and burdens of minstrelsy have been bested by black comedians and rappers who have made stupidity, hedonism, pimping, misogyny, pornography and violence their stock in trade.

One defense of this amoral sense of life and culture is that black people didn’t invent any of it, so why shouldn’t they, like the white people, be able to make big money from it? As one imbecilic black man in television said to me, “I ain’t hating on these brothers. All they are doing is dealing with a market the same way that the white people do. This is capitalism and they’re responding to a market. You know the old saying, ‘Whatever the market will bear.’ ”

Now we find that comedian Damon Wayans has spent the past 14 months trying to copyright the N-word with “iggas” instead of “iggers.” He wants to put it on apparel and whatnot. So far, he has not been successful but one can imagine young American kids wearing that word emblazoned on clothes and listening to rap “songs” in which the N-word frequently appears, in conjunction with “bitches” and “hos,” among other denigrations.

Of course, there is a defense. One Hollywood Negro said that “Damon is no fool. He might be pulling a Brer Rabbit move that would mean that he would take control of the word and make everyone pay to use it.”

I responded rappers and others would merely put the cost in the budget. The Hollywood guy agreed.

However this comes out, it is further proof of how remarkably decadent our moment is. On the one hand, opportunistic numbskulls use the rhetoric of free speech and the liberal arts to justify the thick presence of misogyny and insult in their material, meaning that constantly referring to women as bitches and hos is an expression of their artistry and their freedom of speech. So is the constant screaming of the N-word.

Now we have a comedian attempting to copyright the N-word so that everyone who uses it will have to pay him for the right. I guess that takes its place right next to John Singleton, Spike Lee and Will Smith supporting the dehumanizing “Hustle & Flow.” In the world of entertainment, the siren call of the commercial, however hollow and denigrating, seems impossible for many to resist, a fact that transcends all ethnic, sexual and religious distinctions.

When Essence magazine began a campaign against the prevalence of misogyny and insult in rap material, literally hundreds of thousands voiced their approval. This proved that this product is disgusting to millions of black women and their supporters. Unfortunately, the most important movement in popular culture since the emergence of rap itself floundered. Essence let the campaign fizzle after editor Diane Weathers, who shaped the magazine’s response to popular muck, left the magazine.

If Damon Wayans wins his quest for ownership of the N-word, one wonders to whom - if any - he will have to answer.
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Stanley Crouch is a columnist, novelist, essayist, critic and television commentator. He has served since 1987 as an artistic consultant at Lincoln Center and is a co-founder of the department known as Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 1993, he received both the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a MacArthur Foundation grant. He is now working on a biography of Charlie Parker. Email: mailto:scrouch@edit.nydailynews.com

A Phila. animal-rights group calls its tactics free speech. U.S. prosecutors say it incited violence.

The members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, a proudly radical animal-rights group based in Philadelphia, acknowledge that many of their tactics can be obnoxious.

Excerpt:
“The activists regularly posted personal information about Huntingdon employees, including home addresses, home phone numbers, the names of their children - even where their children went to school.”

Finish reading at: Philadelphia Inquirer ^
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Fuck with my children… I’ll shoot ya!
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In a related story:
— “. . . and a little child shall lead them”. Well, not such a little child: Laurie Pycroft is 16, taking a year off before his A levels to brood over his computer. He brooded well. He has a long-held interest in science, and as a small child lost a grandfather whose life had been prolonged by medical advance. Laurie lives near Oxford, and became aware of the “animal rights” campaign of intimidation against the building of a new research centre. So he decided to do something about it. On Saturday — Glory be!…
One kid’s blast against bigotry (Animal Rights Terrorists)

Mahmoud Maawad, Egyptian student at the University of Memphis arrested last year by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, was planning or participating in a potential terror attack inside the United States. “He entered the U.S. at New York City from Egypt in 1998, and his visitor’s visa expired in 1999. He lived in Olive Branch, Mississippi, for an unknown length of time before moving to the address near the University of Memphis campus last summer.

Maawad’s case is one of two Joint Terrorism Task Force cases in Memphis involving Muslims in Memphis. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee has said that anti-terrorism is its top priority. The other case involves Rafat Mawlawi, a U.S. citizen with dual citizenship in Syria. He was arrested last April after federal agents searched his home and found illegal guns and jihadist videos. He pleaded guilty in January to weapons and immigration charges and is being held pending sentencing. source

Finish reading at: Tennessee Terrorists and Sham Marriage Mischief…

From: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
From: http://righttruth.typepad.com

(CBS4) AURORA, Colo.

The family of a Russian immigrant told CBS4 on Monday they were devastated but proud after learning that their only son died in combat in Iraq.

Dimitri Muscat, 21, was in his second tour in Iraq when he was killed. He was only 12 when he arrived in the United States, but his family said he quickly felt at home and wanted to defend the country he loved.

Finish reading at: CBS 4 Denver ^

TDL GAMING NEWS: U.N. THEMED FIRST PERSON SHOOTER TO BE RELEASED

SAN JOSE, CA (A.P.)- Gaming giant Electronic Arts has announced that it will release an innovative first person shooter video game with a United Nations peacekeeper theme.

The game, entitled “Call of Dookie: Observing Genocide”, will feature a varitey of missions that will be based on real-life United Nations peacekeeping operations in the Balkans and Africa during the 1990s.

The player begins Call of Dookie as a Pakistani Peacekeeper during U.N. Operations in Somalia, where he will be able to do nothing as U.S. Army Rangers are surrounded and nearly massacred by thousands of Somalis in Mogadishu.

Later missions include those of Belgian Peacekeepers in Rwanda. In these missions, the player will shy away and watch as thousands of innocent people are butchered right in front of his eyes.

Perhaps the most graphically spectacular part of the game is where the gamer is asked to play as a Dutch Peacekeeper in Bosnia. Here, the player is given the real-life task of assuring civilian refugees of their saftey, and then abandoning them and running away as they are captured and summarily executed by Serbian forces.

An integrated online gameplay engine with hundreds of dedicated servers will allow purchasers of Call of Dookie to compile and track gameplay statisitics, thus allowing for players to gain rank over time.
Higher echelon missions will allow the advanced player to do nothing in a large office at U.N. Headquarters in New York. Still other missions will challenge the player to steal as much money as he can, or try to secure payoffs to the player’s computer-generated family members in complex and corrupt international schemes.

If the player is corrupt and ineffectual enough, he may eventually achieve the goal of the game: to be elected U.N. Secretary General.

Call of Dookie: Observing Genocide is due to be released this summer. Plans are already in the works for a sister game which will reportedly be entitled “E.U. Warrior: Just Let the Americans Do It”.
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Camp Casey and Germany
Cindy Sheehan

February 27, 2006

I have been invited to speak to the European Union Parliament in March in Strasbourg, France. My message will be one of peace and non-violent unity against the out of control murderous and disastrous policies of the Bush Administration. I wrote extensively about meeting with other world leaders in my article, “Friends don’t let Friends Commit War Crimes.”

My message to the EU will focus on “we the people” forcing the leaders of all countries to work diplomatically and peacefully to solve problems. It is time we reach across artificial borders of lines drawn on a map to forge bonds of love and friendship with all members of humanity no matter what color, religion, language group or nationality that other person is. Killing other members of the human race is barbaric and abhorrent and should never be used to solve conflicts. This is so important with the current beating of the war drums against Iran, and we must not let off the President of Iran for his inflammatory and non-peaceful statements. The wonderful and innocent citizens of Iran don’t deserve the fate that the undeserving citizens of Iraq received and are receiving on a daily basis still.

In the frenzy and excitement of my trip to France and Germany, some well meaning pacifists in the area have scheduled me to set up a Camp Casey outside of Landsthul, Germany, in front of the military hospital. I won’t agree to do that.

continued [21073] [ 28-feb-2006 02:36 ECT ]

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Check out Cindy Sheehan’s and Jill Carroll’s pals at:http://www.uruknet.info/
and
http://www.albasrah.net/

The United States of America is drifting away from capitalism and its free-market foundations toward a gutless brand of socialism. Yet unlike the tyrannical dictators who ruled communist nations in the 20th Century, congressional liberals lack the guts to tell the public their true intentions. Those intentions are motivated by the Marxist philosophy of “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” Instead of conducting a deadly revolution, liberals are waging their war on capitalism through public policy, assaults on our free-market system and socialistic rhetoric.

Finish reading at: townhall.com ^

In the 1970s and 1980s there were several indications about Saddam Hussein’s development of the WMD programs (biological, chemical and nuclear). The Israeli attack on the Iraqi French-made Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 slowed down the progress of the Iraq’s nuclear weapons program but the biological and chemical WMDs were highly developed, due to the Soviet assistance, Iraqi scientists and a sophisticated system of procurement, organized by the Iraqi Intelligence in Western Europe and in other parts of the World.

Finish reading at: Canada Free Press ^

A top Iraqi official tells ABC News that he believes Jill Carroll is alive and that he believes she will be released, even though the latest deadline for the kidnapped journalist has passed with no news of her fate. Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabur al Zubaidi said he knew who had abducted the 28-year-old freelance journalist. "We know his name and address, and we are following up on him as well as the Americans," Zubaidi said. "I think she is still alive." The minister said the problem was that authorities don’t know where Carroll is being held, and that the original kidnappers may have sold her to a more radical group. U.S ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad told ABC News that he also believed Carroll was alive. "We do believe that she is in fact alive," Khalilzad said on "Good Morning America." "I have discussed the issue with the interior minister. As I said, we will work as hard as we can to get her released. She clearly is in a dangerous situation, but we’re working hard with the Iraqis and others to get her released. That’s what we’re working for." Source [ABC] ______________ What a fucking farce! We wait with bated breath…

Common sense dictates that it is unwise to fund those who want to do you harm. It makes no sense to buy bullets for a gun that will be shot at you. In fact, it wouldn’t be out of line to say that funding those who have declared you are the enemy, for any reason, is a pretty stupid move. In light of this bit of logic, why is the United States, or any other free nation for that matter, still mulling the possibility of funding a Hamas-led Palestinian government?

Finish reading at: therant.us

Excerpt:
“Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last week Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard when it became clear he would lose a no-confidence vote held by politically correct faculty members furious at his efforts to allow ROTC on campus, his opposition to a drive to have Harvard divest itself of corporate investments in Israel, and his efforts to make professors work harder. Now Yale is giving a first-class education to an erstwhile high official in one of the most evil regimes of the latter half of the 20th century–the government that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.”

Finish reading at:Opinion Journal ^

Original story A Talib in Luce Hall
A freshman at Yale was once the Taliban’s chief spokesman abroad.

Multi-Day Event, Beginning March 15, come when you can and stay as long as you can - we are taking over the White House until they leave. Torture, Occupation, Genocide - Must End Now.

Wednesday, March 15th 2006
Washington, DC USA

TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE BY STORM - Stop Genocide, Torture and Occupation

For Nat Turner, For Martin and Coretta, For all the Torture and Assassination in Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti and many others - We will not allow the Slave Holders that Still Prevail in this Country to Rule us any longer. Imprisonment and torture based on race, religion, resources or region is no different than the slavery we sought to abolish years ago. The Administration is Criminal and if they will not step down, we must storm in.

We are calling on all Member Nations of the U.N., All Representatives and Justices in the World Court and International Criminal Courts, all soldiers and CIA agents and government officials who have been blackmailed by the dictators to incarcerate Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. The Political Cooperative will put a new government in place that is comprised of people from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and all the organizations that have finally made us aware of the truth of the savage practices and illegal policies of our government in assassinating our own officials as well as people throughout the world who oppose their criminal activity. We need all of you to save U.S. citizens and Global Victims from their ongoing criminal activity. We are calling on the military, police, citizens and religious organizations to stand with us and help us to bring democracy back to the United States and by doing so, free the world from the wrath, occupation, theft, torture, blackmail and assassination by the Criminals in the United States Government. What they have done all over the world is much worse than what Saddam Hussein has done, so why are they not in jail too? They have admitted to international and national crimes, so why have they not been taken to Court too?

Location: White House, Washington DC 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC 20500
Contact:Darrow Boggianoadmin@politicalcooperative.org
415.409.2611

Sponsored By:
We are requesting participation from all members of the United Nations, PFAW, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Code Pink, police, soldiers, ACLU, CIA, NSA and International Courts of Justice/World Court.
http://www.politicalcooperative.org/
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The link below is an excellent source for information on these anti-American/terrorist groups. Are these crazy fuckers actually advocating or going to attempt a coup d’état on the American government? Well, at least they are nice enough to announce the date they are coming; gives us time to tidy up a bit before the over-throw.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/default.asp

27 February 2006
Mira Serrill-Robins

Cross a motorcycle with a small car, and you get a new kind of hybrid — the three-wheeler.

Auto makers — even some big ones, like Daimler-Chrysler’s (DCX ) Mercedes-Benz — have been developing car-motorcycle hybrids and other three-wheeled vehicles for years. But what’s different now is that some of these concepts, such as the Volkswagen GX3 unveiled this month at the Los Angeles Auto Show, could actually make it to the marketplace (see BW Online, 1/12/06, “Concept Cars Are Getting Real”). And the GX3, backed by VW’s global distribution capability, would stand a chance to develop a niche market.

Three-wheeled vehicles of one kind or another are quite common in the developing world, and were familiar sights in European countries as recently as 20 years ago. In emerging markets, three-wheel vehicles are basically large mopeds, according to Sam Fiorani, forecast manager of research firm AutomotiveCompass.

The concept of three-wheelers is, in fact, as old as the modern car itself: The first gas-fueled car as we know it today, patented in 1886 by Karl Benz, had only three wheels. The jet-powered Spirit of America three-wheeler recorded a time of 566.27 mph in 1964. Three-wheeled and other small vehicles rose in popularity in Europe when the 1956 Suez crisis made gas prices soar.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com

BAGHDAD: Iraqi newspapers inciting violence will be suspended and their journalists arrested, Defence Minister Saadun Al Dulaimi said yesterday, unveiling a new security plan for the violence-wracked country.

“This is a warning to media working in Iraq,” he said in a press conference.
Finish reading at: AFP ^

Or read this article and a great follow-up of MSM war lies at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1586101/posts

By BERNARD SCHOENBURG
POLITICAL WRITER

Gov. Rod Blagojevich named to his hate crimes commission a representative of the Nation of Islam, even though its leader, Louis Farrakhan, has been accused of anti-Semitic, anti-white and anti-gay speech.

Sister Claudette Marie Muhammad, chief of protocol for the Nation of Islam, is among appointees to The Governor’s Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes.

Another member of the commission, Lonnie Nasatir, Midwest regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, said having a representative of the Nation of Islam on the commission raises eyebrows. The ADL has Farrakhan quotations on its Web site, www.ADL.org, under the heading “extremism.”

“I’m not judging her,” Nasatir said Thursday. “All I can judge is the institution from which she is being sent. That’s a cause for concern, I think, on a commission to eradicate hate and discrimination.”

Cheryle Jackson, the governor’s deputy chief of staff for communication, said the appointment in August of Muhammad to the unpaid position stands.

“The governor appointed people … who share the goal of the commission: to eliminate hate crimes and discrimination wherever it exists,” Jackson said. “These people represent many different communities: black and white, gay and lesbian, Jewish and Islamic. In order for the commission to truly achieve its mission, it must be inclusive, not exclusive, and respectfully and constructively bring together people of different backgrounds and voices to solve our differences.”

Nasatir said the ADL, which is designed to fight anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry and racism, led the movement to get states to enact legislation to combat hate crimes. He said Muhammad invited him and other members of the commission to Farrakhan’s Saviours’ Day 2006 speech, which will be on Sunday at the United Center in Chicago.

Saying that at such events in past years Farrakhan has “spewed out some of his hateful rhetoric,” Nasatir said he didn’t think the invitation was worthy of a response.

But another commission member, Rick Garcia, public policy director of Equality Illinois, a statewide gay civil rights organization, said he plans to attend the speech.

“I know that he has said things in the past that have been offensive to some groups of people - gays, in particular to Jews,” said Garcia, who is Roman Catholic and lives in Chicago. “But I think that the invitation from the Nation of Islam to Jews and to gays may be a step in the right direction. I took it as such.”

He said Farrakhan had invited gay people to participate in a recent march on Washington.

“Minister Farrakhan may be softening his harshness toward Jews and gays,” Garcia said. “The proof is in the pudding. If I’m sitting there and there’s a tirade against Jews or against gays or against Mexicans or against anybody, then I’ll have a completely different opinion.”

Garcia also said that he has gotten along “beautifully” with Muhammad.

“I have to say that Sister Muhammad has expressed the very best of what this commission is about,” Garcia said, citing her admonition that “Jews and Muslims, gays and everybody … have to learn how to work with one another and respect one another.”

According to the ADL, it was at last year’s Saviours’ Day speech that Farrakhan linked Jews and the slave trade.

“Listen, Jewish people don’t have no hands that are free of the blood of us,” Farrakhan said at the Feb. 27 speech. “They owned slave ships, they bought and sold us. They raped and robbed us.”

Two years earlier at the Chicago speech, he discussed homosexuality, according to the ADL, saying, “All of a sudden in the night clubs, they started having transvestite shows, drag queens. … Scripture say no liar, no adulterer, no effeminate will get in the kingdom.”

The ADL also quotes Farrakhan statements about Hurricane Katrina, which led to flooding in New Orleans after a levee ruptured.

“I heard from a very reliable source that under that levee there was a 25-foot hole, which suggested that it may have been blown up, so that the water would destroy the black part of town, and where the whites lived, it would be dry,” Farrakhan said at a shelter for Katrina victims in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 12.

“FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) is too white to represent us, and so is the Red Cross,” he said in Houston on Sept. 9.

An Associated Press story from Feb. 28, 1994, quotes Farrakhan as saying that God created whites for a special, evil purpose.

“Your history is written in the blood of the human family,” he said of whites. “It comes out of you like a web comes out of a spider.”

According to that story, Farrakhan at the time ridiculed the notion that he is racist or anti-Semitic but told thousands of his followers that Caucasians, Jews and Roman Catholics have a long history of oppressing blacks.

Farrakhan has led a series of popular national events, including the Million Man March, in 1995. It was billed as a day of reconciliation and atonement.

Muhammad could not be reached, and a man at the Nation of Islam Center in Chicago late Thursday referred a call to the office of The Final Call, the newspaper of the Nation of Islam. The newspaper offices were closed Thursday evening.

The state’s hate crimes commission has 26 members, including Attorney General Lisa Madigan; state Sen. Carol Ronen, D-Chicago; and state Reps. Robin Kelly, D-Matteson, and Larry McKeon, D-Chicago. It is chaired by the Rev. Willie Barrow, a member of the Rainbow/PUSH coalition board. Although there was a similar commission in the past, Blagojevich formed the current one with an executive order issued Aug. 29.

bernard.schoenburg@sj-r.com.

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