Freedom of Speech

The Michigan Daily reports that the Ku Klux Klan is backing the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. The MCRI is the group in Michigan who is petitioning to get a ban on racial bias in admissions and hiring policies (aka Affirmative Action). Fortunately, the MCRI does not see this as a blessing, and has denounced the KKK as being a racially discriminatory group as well. They equate the KKK with BAMN, and while they can't stop the KKK from supporting them, they don't agree with everything they do. This still provides much fodder for the liberals (i.e. BAMN) who are regularly bent over tables and fucked by the racial minorities for benefits. An editorial in the Daily, while being a general reaction of revenge for not getting in the championship, shows another example of this fucking, only on a not-so political agenda.

On another freedom of speech note, Salon.com reported last week on government profiling of anti-war protesters. While some of you conservatives may not agree with the protesters, you probably agree that they shouldn't be stopped. Freedom of speech and the right to assemble is at stake here when if you try to do so, you get profiled by the government and searched as a terrorist. The government has given responses to the effect of "well, we've been doing this on a low-key note since 1980, after Cointelpro was discovered." But, police infiltration of the groups and other such investigations and subpoenas have been dealt out for this. However, due to outrage, an internal investigation will happen, but only by members of the the groups participating in the profiling. Government needs to back the fuck off.