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FBI plots another fake terrorist attack, arrests some incompetent fool

without FBI entrapment: retarded man arrested for dumping manure

 

Here’s the best description yet of the FBI obsession with creating and then imprisoning looney people who would never had the slightest chance of bombing anything without the FBI.

I guess being the FBI means you never have to say you’re sorry for entrapment.

It’s good that they do this because the private prison industry is getting tired of paying legislators bribes to pass more laws to put more people in prison for victimless crimes. Meanwhile, ignoring all so called white collar crime, which only steals billions from citizens every year. Thank you, again, the fake Justice Department created by President George W. Bush.

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Who’s behind the healthcare protests? Follow the money.

moneyA couple more entries into the field:
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Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is led by health care entrepreneur Rick Scott, the co-founder of Solantic urgent care walk-in centers, which he’s spread across Florida and is looking to expand…Scott left his job as CEO of the Columbia/HCA hospitals during a federal Medicare fraud probe in 1997 that led to a historic $1.7 billion settlement.

Earlier this year, Conservatives for Patients Rights (CPR), an anti-health care reform group led by the disgraced former CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Rick Scott, began running a commercial attacking the British health care system. The TV ad runs through “tragic stories” of British citizens who it portrays as being against government-run health care such as the National Health Service (NHS).Now, the Daily Mail is reporting that two of the women featured in the commercial say they were “duped” into appearing in CPR’s ad campaign:

Furious Kate Spall and Katie Brickell claim that their views on the NHS have been misrepresented by a free market campaign group opposed to Mr Obama’s reforms in a bid to discredit the UK system. […]

Ms Spall and Ms Brickell both agreed to appear in a documentary on healthcare reform. But neither knew that the footage would be used as part of a TV advertising campaign carried on US networks.

The Daily Mail article goes on to note that both Spall and Brickell actually support government-run health care and were advocating for reforms within the NHS, not for its abolition.
–ThinkProgress

FreedomWorks, which has been advocating against the overhaul but has not launched TV ads, is chaired by Dick Armey, the former Republican majority leader of the House of Representatives from Texas.

But also noteworthy are the group’s other backers and board members. They include billionaire flat-tax proponent and former GOP presidential candidate Steve Forbes; Richard J. Stephenson, who founded Cancer Treatment Centers of America, which offers alternative as well as standard therapies, sometimes not covered by insurance; and Frank M. Sands, Sr., chief executive officer of an investment management firm whose offerings include a Healthcare Leaders portfolio.

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Could we have some healthcare reform legislation, please?

Geez. 75% of Americans want this done, with a good public option.
Oh, I forgot, lobbyists and Congressholes already have great health insurance.congress

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