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Ung Pirat, or ‘Young Pirate’, is the youth organization associated with the Swedish pirate party. Yesterday it was a big day for the group, getting 1,325,744 Swedish Krona (Approx €121,900, or $161,700 US) from the national board for youth affairs. The amount is based on a membership count of around 1280 members, but with current membership of around 4,872, next years amount should be even greater.

-http://torrentfreak.com/young-pirates-get-government-funding-090117/

Giving money to terrorists! Well I never!

Paging Lt. Columbo

Ok, so we see how the nets - broadcast and broadband - are going to wallow tomorrow:



as they will go hogwild over this crime story as McCain Campaign talking point:

Woman Attacked At ATM, Assailant Scratches Letter Into Her Face
Woman Robbed, Attacked With Knife At Bloomfield ATM
...
Police spokeswoman Diane Richard said the robber took $60 from Todd, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.
...
Todd declined to comment to the Tribune. Friends said she is in Pittsburgh volunteering for the McCain-Palin campaign.

Richard said the woman refused medical treatment after the assault, which happened outside the view of the bank's surveillance cameras.

-- WTAE TV

Now color me cynical, but doesn't anyone wonder why the robber scratched the "B" backwards?

Like it was done in, say, a mirror?

Or does the Pittsburgh press routinely print all their photos in reverse?

Update:

Police: Campaign Worker Admits Making Up Story
Source: KDKA Police sources tell KDKA that a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.

Well, that was fast...

McHate

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From the SoCal Crime Map /Mean Streets

The flyers were made to look authentic correspondence from McDonalds, and stated that due to a string of robberies, African American customers are now required to pay an additional fee of $1.50 per transaction. Police were trying to get fingerprints off the fliers to see if they could identify the suspects.

I have to wonder, hate crime or just unfunny political prank?

As the "flyers were made to look authentic," isn't this actually an attack on McDonald's?

The flyers make McDonald's look A) racist or B) ridiculous or C) both, but don't actually say anything at all about African-Americans, save that they are being targetted by a faux racial price profile.

Perhaps this is a failed attempt at irony from someone pissed off about the "string of roberries," said person may even be a "cracker" -

BUT

Making a tasteless joke isn't the same thing as making a racial attack, is it?

And what about free speech issues? Do they not apply to anonymous attempts at LULZ?

Is there something I am missing?

Were the flyers downloaded from WWW.WHITEPOWERPRANKS.NET or somesuch?

Because calling this a Hate Crime, I just don't get.

And if it is one, how soon before The Mans starts hauling in every punk rock band that has a tasteless flyer?

Why, I designed a poster for my buddies' punk band back in my onbnoxious High School days that deployed Nick Utt's famous "Vietnam Napalm" photo with the tagline:

"Everybody Comes Running to See The Incredible Smerphuckers."

Tasteless? Yes.

Racist? No. At least my 17 year old self sure hopes not.

And so Hate Crime?

I say thee nay!

Uh, what was my point again?

Oh yeah - so which is it - "flyers" or "fliers?"

Return of Hooverville

What if there was a Depression and Nobody Told?

Tent Cities - 21st Century Hoovervilles - springing up outside Los Angeles to no media notice.

I live there, and the first I hear about is on the BBC?

Good thing we have Consolidated Media, Inc. running the show...
lying and obfuscation are much more efficient now.

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